Adventurer Appreciation 2011!

It's that time of year again in FFXI! The Adventurer Appreciation Campaign is on, where you can get a new Anniversary Ring, called Novennial Rings this year, and a spiffy new outfit.

The female clothing would be so much prettier if the boots weren't so... ugly. I'd grab a screenshot of the guy armor, but the only male characters I ever see wearing it are Galkas... and who wants a screenshot of that. *Shudders*

And I thought DNC was bad. Now I look like a cocktail waitress.

And with this you get to take on a stupid mini quest that has you running all over Vana'diel to harvest, mine, and log for Key Items. SE sure loves this crap, don't they. But hey, you get free money (100 gil to 10,000) every 3 days, 9 times. At least we have free city warps with Kupowers for this.

The rings are so lackluster now. Since last year, EXP has gotten OVER NINETHOUSAND (had to be done) times easier. Don't get me wrong though, still happy to use it to get jobs to 30 quicker to leech Abyssea parties!

Last year this was gone in 2 days max. Think I got this last week.

And since with each Adventurer Appreciation campaign comes with Moogles to tell you some of your statistics... here's mine!

I talk and die a lot. I wonder if the two are connected...

Ah-ah-FUATH! Bless you!

It's been a while since I've been annoyed at a monster so badly. Ok, not really I'm annoyed very easily. I was just annoyed at Lusca last post....

DANCE, FUATH, DANCE! And more importantly, kill us all.

Ok, we never actually successfully killed her. She's a super accurate bitch with a high rate of ensilence. And to top it all off she likes casting lots of AoE spells and also the move shown above that resets hate... Overall she's not a fun mob without a WHM. A MNK countertanking would probably be best bet here... oh well, at least we tried.

Yeah... we never did actually win. If you couldn't guess.

And to wrap up, the stupidity of some chests in Abyssea

Really? That big box for a fucking spool of thread? Also obviously not from Fuath.

I always rage at these chests. Just like at no boots. T_T

VNMs are stupid.

So yesterday we were planning to do a bunch of Lusca, but after two of them, VNMs decided to be a bitch and refused to upgrade to tier2. Oh wait, when are they not? I don't know, I rather enjoy seeing the VNMs jump through walls and climb up mountains in seconds while I take 10 minutes to walk around, by which time they'll have jumped back over.

However, here is Lusca.

Should I absorb melee or magic?! IDK MYBFFJILL?

I freaking hate this mob. It's stupid easy to kill but it randomly uses two different TP moves to switch from absorbing melee or magic. And usually it'll stay stuck on melee absorb when I'm the main source of magic damage and of course BLM/BRD for triggers. Annoying piece of...

Loving the drops they added to his loot pool though. And in general.

Oh hey, look at those drops, I think I can deal with the annoyance. =D

Note to self: unload timestamp.

Oh yeah, let me check out that chest!

Yesterday SE posted some Details on Next Week's Version Update and I have to say it seems pretty awesome. Click on that link to see the whole list!

Event Related:

• Something about Voidwatch. Is anyone even doing these? I know I haven't.
  

• Oh man, now when you enter the Chocobo Circuit from Port Jeuno... you'll be able to move to the OTHER AREAS OF JEUNO. Holy shit. Now I don't have to give that mithra a flower. Maybe I'm missing something but I don't see the point of this. They are moving the synergy furnaces there, might be related, but still don't understand it.

Battle Related:
This section is just full of awesome in my opinion.

• The game will remember the last atmas you used. Hurray less time going through 8 pages of atmas to get two at the end! I would have much preferred different sets, but hey we can't always get what we want and this is still amazing if you're frequently on the same job.

• They're adding more ??? for most of the higher tier force pop notorious monsters (NM) in Abyssea. Not having to fight to pop your one Carabosse for an hour is nice. Wonder if it's going to be three in the same area or spread out a bit. There would be so much lag if they were all together and three things were being fought at once.

• Also they're adding key items from the time pop NMs in Misareaux, Vunkerl, and Attohwa to gold chests. I think this is totally awesome. I'd rather push my luck and do some amber light farming then try and claim against 20 other people. (Sadly, on some days this is only slightly exaggerated.)

Now if only they'd do something about VNMs....even just two tier 3 spawns once would be awesome :(


And completely unrelated but there is a significant lack of photos/videos. So here's an adorably awesome Russian Kitten.

KITTY NEEDS HIS FIX

I want one, but one that doesn't wanna smoke. :(