Twinkle Toes. Money Woes. Medal Glows. Friend Mambo… with Doughnuts.

02 Aug 2010 3 Comments

by Mineeva in Campaign, Farming, jobs, Leveling Tags: campaign, dancer, dnc, final fantasy xi, gil, gil making, Leveling

Good day, fair denizens of Vana’diel!

I hope this past month was a fine one for adventurin’ for you.

I took another wee break; contemplating my next hair-brained scheme to rack in the gilz. Though my plan to exploit Taru went slightly awry (who knew they were protected by Child Labour Laws? O.o), I came up with another plan that might work just as well AND earn me a pretty penny:

NM Hunting.

The idea never crossed my mind before, as I was perfectly happy killing Bees and Crawlers for Honey and Silk threads. But then I thought it might be worth a shot. After all, I did run into quite a few NMs on my many travels and managed to procure their most valuable drops when I fought them. I got a nice lil’ list of NMs that I was interested in taking down, grabbed my lvl 30 THF and ran out the door!

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Um… well… it didn’t all go according to plan… yet. But I’m sure it will if I stick with it long enough. Guess it wouldn’t hurt if I went to lvl my THF to at least 45 for TH2.  :3

Duke: "King me!" Me: "Pelte Me!" Duke: "KING ME!" Me: "PELTE ME! O.o"

I decided to stay close to home and tackle some of the more notable NMs in East Sarutabaruta. Unfortunately Spiny Spipi wasn’t available for public appearances and Duke Decapod was getting his claws done… and was fashionably late as a result. But hey, at least he showed up. So I smacked him, he went down… and…

Nothin’.

Nadda.

Zip.

Zilch.

Da Big Goose Egg.

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU…

Tried to fight him again a bit later. This time, he dropped a Pelte! SCORE! If this sells, that’ll be a sweet 10K in meh pockets ^_^

They’ll Be Dancin’ In the Streets…

With the Level Cap increase comes new Sub Job opportunities. I’ve always wondered how Dancer would fair as a sub for Red Mage, and thought that this would be an ideal time to find out. Course, my Dancer was only Level 20, so I had to take it out for a spin. Bucky wanted to level his SAM to 30s so that we can go on to the Jungles, so he came with me to the Dunes and Synced down.

It went really well. There were a couple of times where Bucky died/almost

I am Prima Ballerina! Watch me Twirl! <3

died, but that’s only because he went fishing for a mob and stood there fighting it instead of bringing it back to our Oasis camp. Oh, and he forgot to Check them, so he ended up biting more than he could chew. LOL.

I ended up gaining a couple of levels before calling it a night. A couple of days later I did some soloing, and it went fairly well too. I plan to go back, but there was one thing that I had to take care of first…

Doughnuts Bring People Together, one RDM at a Time

The other day I got off my duff and headed to the past to do some Campaign. I only had about 5 days left before my current Ribbon expired, and I certainly didn’t want to start digressing. I had already made some effort toward a promotion, so I figured I didn’t have that much to go. As I was waiting by the Campaign Arbiter, an Elvaan RDM named Hkxcaliber ran up and stood next to me. After a while,  he checked me and told in via Tell, “nice gear.”

Honestly, I thought he was being a smarty pants, since I knew my gear’s… a lil’ sub-par I decided to check him and replied “I give your gear two thumbs up.” (since it was, indeed, good gear… I wants his Penitent Rope o.o) From there our conversation went from gear, to evil twins (he thought I invited him to a SMN burn the other day, which would be impossible since I hadn’t been on in a few days and have never SMN burn ever), to discovering that doughnuts solves the world’s problems.

The man is clearly wise beyond his years After a while we decided to do Campaign together We headed to West Sarutabaruta (I don’t have access to Castle Zvahl yet, which was our only other option). Well… there were many Tarus and Mithras running about, but no Campaign. We stayed there for a good 10 minutes before heading back and choosing a new locale.

There was one about to start in Vunkerl Inlet. Party Time! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

So we got there, grabbed some Tags, buffed ourselves and others… and waited. Then came the Orcs… 2 different groups… and an über-Gnoll. OMFG. Did I mention it was Lightening Weather and there was a Thunder Elemental wandering about?

Sunday, Bloody Sunday...

It was a massacre. Bodies left and right. A full wipe in less than 5 minutes. It was bad.

Soon, more folks showed up and joined in the madness. They managed to distract the Beastmen long enough for the rest of us to Reraise and get other folks up. Shortly after everyone was on their feet, a message came up saying that the Orcs erected a turret near the fortification… Oh good. Few minutes later, the Orcs retreated. YAYS! But then…

“A Campaign Battle has begun.”

Another one!? FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU…

This one went much smoother since we had more people around to help this time. When it was all said and done, HK and I warped back to Windy. I had a chat with the Campaign Evaluator… and I gots a new medal!

I’m now the proud owner of an Allied Ribbon of Glory §§§§. Things are looking up

Well, that’s all for now. I’ll let you know how the NM hunts go… and of course of all other misadventures.

That’s all for now. And remember:

The world is made of… love and peace!… and doughnuts! :3

Shootin' the breeze with fellow RDM Hkexcalibur

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