Christmas Break Update

Wow, so what have I been up to recently?

Christmas break, and I’m not touching Masspspectrometry until January 2nd!  I’ve been levelling DNC like crazy! Lv.37 -> lv.54 during the christmas break. The Dagger merits are getting used! I’ll come back later with a picture, when I’m not looking too retarded in my mismatch outfitaru!

We did Einherjar yesterday. Only tier 1. Didn’t really clear, we finished off the Manticore boss, but remained was 2 Dark Elementals when we pinged out. We knew something was fishy when we got into the zone and the only mobs there was Dark Elementals and the Manticore boss. Seems like Sage Sundi forgot to mention that they were gonna implemend a new update into Einherjar! Mass PING outs!

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Hilarious, LOL ensued, followed by panic and frustration!

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Nuking gear

Like I mentioned earlier, I’ve been thinking of upgrading my equipment for SCH, since I lack a nuking setup (and detest it!), don’t even have all the IV nukes yet, (I’m a poor taru!).

So after reviewing  http://kanican.livejournal.com/34049.html#cutid3 I’ve come to the, very brief, hysteria that I can manage the gear and get some decent nuking gear on my Taru!

Main	Elemental Staves (need)	Potency +15%, Hidden MACC
Ranged	Sweet Sachet	INT +2
Head	Argute Morterboard	Skill +7
Body	Scholar’s Gown +1 (need)	INT +3, Skill +15
Hands	Genie Gages (need)	Skill +8
Legs	Mahatma Slops (need)	INT +8
Feet	Goliard Clogs	INT +4, MACC +2
Back	Merciful Cape (need)	Skill +5
Waist	Argute Belt (need)	INT +5, MACC +2
Neck	Elemental Torque (need)	Skill +7
Ear 1	Elemental Earring (need)	Skill +3
Ear 2	Moldavite Earring	MAB +5
Ring 1	Tamas Ring	INT +5
Ring 2	Snow Ring (need)	INT +5

So I need: All HQ elemental staves (except Terra’s Staff), which I use for Elegy on BRD.
What I need to be dropped is Synthesis Materials for SCH body, Argute Belt, Merciful Cape

Need to be bought is:

Snow Ring ~ 300k
Elemental Earring ~ 550k
Elemental Torque ~ 160k
Mahatma Slops ~ 280k
Genie Gages ~ 150k
Aquilo’s Staff ~ 130k
Jupiter’s Staff ~ 550k

Total: 2 120 000G /sigh

Set Bonus would be:

INT +32
Skill +45
M.acc +4
M.atk +5

Granting a Tarutaru SCH/RDM without Elemental Magic Merit nor INT merits, this would grant Skill 301 and INT 109

Anyone with any BLM or SCH experience that could tell how this would fair against HNMs?

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-Enmity Gear

Main	Light Staff	Cure Potency +10% , +1 MND
Sub	Staff Strap	-2 Enmity
Ranged	White Tathlum	-2 Enmity
Head	Argute Mortarboard	Fast Cast, +5 MND
Body	Goliard Saio	-5 Enmity, +5% Haste, +5 Conserve  MP
Hands	Scholar’s Bracers +1	-3 Enmity, +5 MND
Legs	Mahatma Slops	-4 Enmity , +8 MND
Feet	Scholar’s Loafers	-2 Enmity, Fast Cast
Back	Errant Cape	-5 Enmity
Waist	Penitent’s Rope	-3 Enmity, +5 MND
Neck	Benign Necklace	-2 Enmity
Ear 1	Novia Earring	-7 Enmity
Ear 2	Delta Earring	-3 Enmity
Ring 1	Tamas Ring	-3 Enmity , +5 MND
Ring 2	Trooper’s Ring	-4 Enmity

This is a tweaked version of the one that Kanican gave out! Total is -45 enmity -5 enmity from merits equals to -50 enmity.

Scholar drop in Dynamis! ^^

Got a nifty gift from zEUs today!

The Argute Mortarboard! They give new spectacles too!

I’ve also decided to pimp out my SCH! It’s a really fun job to play! I’m going to start maximizing the -enmity gear it has for curing etc. Following that SCH-buddha that I read on LiveJournal, forgot their name! >.<)b

Real life stuff, not so much in-game stuff…

Went to see Happy-Go-Lucky with Martin last night, he’s a good friend, I’ve finally understood that, we’re nothing more than friends, which is good, since in the dark, ambient movie settings, I could actually make out his wrinkles, and he kind of looked old…

The movie was great, had an infectious laughter, but I’d rather watched something else, what upset me was the taxi driver, his cynicism really upset and put me in a bad mood. I felt sorry for him. :/

I’m still thinking of leaving zEUs, but still haven’t found the right moment to tell them yet… it feels like I’m betraying them somehow, which is not the way to go. I’d miss so many people as well… all the tarus in the LS I’ve kind of bonded with… well, that’s probably it…

Merged RL with FFXI blog!

	Tony’s boyfriend checklist
Name: Robin	Duration: Never happened, in my mind? 4 weeks
Occupation: PhD student	Where we met: Masspectrometry Course
	Beginner Level
____	Can say “I love you”
____	Isn’t hiding another boyfriend.
____	Thinks kissing is sexy
√	Has a glowy smile
√	Is at least marginally sensitive
√	Will probably remember my name the next morning
	Intermediate Level
____	Can say “I love you” without my saying it first
____	Likes me enough to tell me I’m special
√	Trusts me enough to tell me I’m wrong
____	Teases me when I need it but knows when to stop
____	Pursues making me laugh as a hobby
√	Pretends to like the same things I do even when he doesn’t
____	Misses me when we’re apart
____	Isn’t afraid to fight with me
____	Allows to drive him crazy
____	Would rather do nothing with me than something by himself
____	Can fall asleep in my lap while I study — and still call it a date.
	Top-of-the-line level
____	Can say “I love you” with his eyes
____	Never lies (except to spare my feelings)
____	Doesn’t worry about losing me because he knows he can’t.
____	Forgets there was a time when we didn’t know eachother.
____	Kisses me for no good reason
____	Celebrates my faults
____	Sighs when I hold him
____	Lets me have a time-off when I need it.

I like him so much, a lot really, but I don’t know what to do? Some say that I should take the initiative and talk to him? But I’m not someone like that, but on the other hand, what do I have to lose? Except maybe my dignity? And self respect? *sigh*

A friend sent me a quote today from The Sandman…

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up a whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…

You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ or ‘how very perceptive’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart.

It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love.”
- The character “Rose Walker” in The Sandman

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FFXI update?

Oh right, I’m pretty much getting bored with it. Not much happening, thinking of returning to Phoenix. But I don’t know how to break it out for the linkshell, they recently funded me a Jubbah, and I haven’t really been active enough to think that I’ve compensated for it, and I don’t want to leave it on bad terms. :/

I think two new updates has been since I was on. SCH merit category 1 and 2. I don’t really know what to say about them, they don’t seem that good to be honest – the Relic for SCH body looks pretty nice though. Enhanced Sublimation?

Keryu lent me his new tuxedo. I think I look super charming in it!