Chronicles of a Sleepy Rabite

As indicated by the screenshot a few days ago, I hit White Mage 75 on Saturday and it really hasn’t sunk in. I know there’s not much difference between 73 and 75 apart from two levels and Reraise III, but it’s a huge achievement for me to finally get there.

Now what?

My new love is Scholar (SCH). SCH is one of the two new expansion jobs (along with Dancer), and we unlocked it practically the night we got WotG.

Now, keep in mind that I loathe BLM (to the point where it’s STILL 19) and I have RDM at a whopping 7 (though if I remember right, I was levelling it because I was pissed). SCH combines the power of a WHM and a BLM without making them a RDM (they’re squishy and suck at enfeebles).

So I start levelling solo and I hate it with a passion, bitching in /l the whole time. Seriously, I had zero access to spells, and I felt like a very gimp WAR with my tiny little knife and taking 45 seconds to kill a rabbit.

As it went on, though, I started getting more and more spells. At level 10, I got Light Arts and Dark Arts, which only served to confuse my tiny little mind. That’s when Sky and I started duoing (him with DNC), and things started becoming fun.

10-12 was fun. 12-15 was a little painful, mostly because the only Field of Valor (little kill quests that you can do once per hour that give you extra exp.) we could do involved killing 8 birds… over… and over… and over… But we FLEW through 15-20, and I’m happily wearing gear that I only used to wear for BCNM20s.

… on that note, what was I thinking two years ago? Ithan-Yuran was wearing Evasion gear, for pity’s sake. I bought Baron’s Cuffs last night (30k, ow) and Mage’s Slacks (10k), and I’m on the lookout for some Mage’s sandals (10k) because I can’t justify Baron’s Pigaches (65k!) for the same stats. Besides, the entire Baron’s set makes me look poofy.

I’m having some money issues, however. I’d broken 500k Saturday night, and I spent Sunday making pie (spent 100k on ingredients) only to see the price TANK like crazy. (22k/stack Melon Pie +1 went down to 9k!). I’m holding onto stuff and biding my time; the undercutters are going to eventually ruin themselves, and that’s when I’ll step in with my 15-17k/stack pie. I’m just below my comfort zone with money right now…

I’m having trouble with Campaign Ops. Despite doing them and only failing once, the campaign officer won’t promote me. I normally wouldn’t care, but I need to rank up in order to get the Recall spells. Sky has a theory that I need to do them every day (I’d been stockpiling and doing them later), so I’ll try that… if that doesn’t work, though, I’ll have to do Campaign (ulp).

I might get BLM up to 20 (ugh) just so I can stow away my < 20 gear and to make things easier for myself.

I made a list of "things I want to do" on FFXIclopedia, and you can see it here.

Current Mood: Blah

I know it might not be a big deal for some, but…

I cried for about 15 minutes until we got an add and I had to snap out of it in a hurry. But I got teary-eyed this afternoon when I got limit points instead of EXP…

Unfortunately, when I dinged, I found that my dreams of having 1000 MP were dashed by…

I… um… fixed that. >.>

Current Mood: Okay