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Noky’s FFXI Journal #2

Day #2 of my adventures was not nearly as exciting. I restarted because I wanted to be a Tarutaru. I've had second thoughts that maybe I should've been an Elvaan but they are occasionally questionable. Tarutarus never fail to disappoint.

So, I managed to get back to level 5 as a WHM and level 5 BLM as of last night. The eventual goal is to settle on RDM with my skills already leveled up.

With this first photoset, I spent a lot of time back in Zehrun Mines. After awhile of not getting anymore Zehrun Soot (a gil quest item), I decided to move outside where I began getting experience and crystals at a much faster rate. Man, I feel like the mines was a complete waste comparatively. Thanks to the mines however, I have a little extra income and I grabbed some extra spells and gear. Now, I'm ready to start lowbie adventures in pretty much any job.

As all my jobs are level 5 or lower, I'm stuck battling monsters just outside of Bastok in South Gustaberg. Once I graduate to Valkrum Dunes, things aren't going to get that much exciting but I remember that once I approached twenty (18+), the environments were pretty cool. Jueno was quite the experience.

I'm trying to take a plethora of screens as I play. Right now I'm soloing so it's easy to remember to grab a shot and fool around. Chances are I won't have as many snaps when I hit level 12 but we can all hope they keep flowing. Picasa sucks so managing a photo-blog seems oddly difficult. I wanted to have a folder within a folder and Picasa doesn't like that. Oh well, all the FFXI pictures will be grouped together. I don't want to litter the main directory with 120123 folders of FFXI Journal posts (Of course now that I've said something it'll probably end up that I stop making FFXI posts and move on to something else).

Noky’s FFXI Journal: The Magnificent Return

It's been awhile since I've posted. I have a huge backlog of topics, some of which are now irrelelvant, to post. I'll get to that but I decided, this time, I'm gonna keep a journal of my MMO exploits.

I've played FFXI twice before in the past and I never got past level 30. I can't guarantee I will this time but I'm going to try at least.

I have a couple of friends joining me at the start and hopefully, I'll make it to the end!

I forgot to take pictures for this entry but whatever, I'll make up for it in the second entry.

This is the perfect time to start playing because classes are wrapping up and finals are right around the corner. Go me for actively trying to screw up my academic and professional future!

Anyway, I played for about 3-4 hours at night and in to the morning. I've started on Asura as a Hume White Mage and reached level 5. Not much progress but I feel like it was something.

After logging for the night, I've come to realization that I want to play a Tarutaru. I think Humes look the coolest but I've played a Hume both times in the past (with a sprinkle of Galka) and I've started in Bastok both times as well. To make things simple, we started in Bastok once more but I kinda want to change things up.

Seeing as I always play White Mage and always play Hume and always start in Bastok, I'm going to play a Taru this time and go for one of the melee classes (I'm thinking Warrior to start). However, Taru suck at physical jobs without proper equipment so I'm going to go ahead and actually start off as a white mage as usual for the intial leveling (black mage was gracefully taken by one of my comrades). I expect to play (a lot) more than them so I'll probably level all of my initial jobs to level 10 and farm with thief/monk/beastmaster to fund my warrior exploits. The idea is to primarily be a warrior while keeping white mage up to snuff in case we need to start a party and have no healers.

I doubt I'll have much time tomorrow (and for most of the week actually) but we'll see what happens.