One year later… and I’m still here, bitches!
Apr 19th
I think it’s funny that I have to reset the password each time I come here, but anyway.
It’s been almost ONE YEAR since I last posted on my blog… I know, right? I’m always at guildwork, so writing on the blog may be a little redunctant (sp).
Girl, I still play FFXI, believe it or not. I know this game is old, can be extremely boring, but I still like playing. Nowadays everything is reduced to gear hunting, there’s absolutely no adventure whatsoever. There’s still this new thing I haven’t tried it, Provenence. But I never saw a shout for it so I keep doing my own thing.
Well, last time I was here I had just became a BLU! So I’ve been a Blue Mage for 1 year now, huh. But things have changed girl, oh they did. Let me put it in topics.
- I’m rich now. Yes, after all these years I can finally lay rest to my whore shoes because the streets of Port San d’Oria never saw me strolling again for some cash.
- I’m now a Goldsmith. Yes bitch, I make rings and earrings and that type of fancy stuff! I remember my good ol’ mentor Stormic, when I first started the game, told me these wonderful stories about how the goldsmiths used to be la crème de la crème of society and I always thought: “one day I will level goldsmithing”. Well, it happened. Today I sit at level 96 because I’m leveling it slowly, making money instead of burning money. But with all the gears and furniture it puts me above the 100 cap. As much as crafting doesn’t give that much money nowadays, I guess it was a natural thing to do, I mean, how many players you know that been on Vanadiel that long and never leveled a craft?
- I’m also a Synergyst. I leveled Synergy to 80 also, to go along with Goldsmithing and be able to do some new shinies.
- I’m a Spice Girl! After a long time trying to fit in different LS, we’ve finally made our own and named it SpiceGirls, which I personally think it’s the best name ever, not only because I invented, but because it just is. It’s a low man (low girl?) linkshell that consists of 5 people, and we’ve accomplished a lot. Nowadays we’re just social and it’s a place to hang out.
- I’m now a NIN, DNC, SMN! Besides being a RDM, THF, WHM, BLM, COR and BLU, I’ve leveled another 3 jobs the past year. SMN I leveled because we needed one for PD zerging, which was pretty useful. NIN was because I needed a red proc soloing job in Abyssea and DNC, well it was only because I WANTED TO BE A PRETTY GIRL.
- Twashtar 90, Kannagi and Armageddon 85! As much as empyreans doesn’t mean anything, it still is a considerable change for the job using them. I’ve finally fineshed my Twashtar, which I was going for years ago, and made a Kannagi and an Armageddon recently. I’m also in the process of finishing up Almace, but that’s it! I don’t wanna do anymore empyreans anytime soon!
- Most memorable moment of the past year would be getting W.Legs finally. Again, long ago when I was teeny weeny RDM I always dreamed of getting one, and when I finally got it, it was from a double drop! It was one of those days you get really happy and a feeling of accomplishment when playing this game.
Guess I’ll see you around in 2013.
Where’s my cake?
May 21st
Bitch, where’s my cake? What, didn’t you know this blog completed 1 year of existence on May 5th? Of course you didn’t. Of course you let me celebrate on my own by eating a cake while sobbing and crying in the kitchen in the dark and then throwing the whole damn plate and the cake on the wall in an acess of rage. Damn, I had so much fun that night!
Well, speaking of celebration, it’s FFXI 9th year anniversary! And that marks 9 years of our godamn lives spent on this game. That surely deserves a celebration. Cheers!
Below my stats from this year (left) and last year (right). About the KO stats, I blame it on the abyssea death warps.
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Listen to me, bitches, cause I have something to say.
Apr 23rd
Well, I just want to throw this out there:
PEOPLE WHO SHOUT IN PORT JEUNO ARE IDIOTS. AND FUCK YOU FOR SHOUTING IN JEUNO,
Ok, now. Girlfriend, roll back a joint, put your feet up in the air cause I have some news! No, I’m not talking about the british royal wedding or the fact that Lindsay Lohan is trying to hoax the jury saying she’s a christian, NOOO! That’s too much of a substantial and intelectual subject for me to talk about, so I’m gonna be talking about what I do best: ME ON FFXI.
You know what? I am now a Blue Mage.
Oh, come on now, Sandra. It’s not because I leveled my BLU in 3 partys, doesn’t have a single spell, no idea what Burst and Chain Affinity are that I’m not a Blue Mage! You bitch! I’m like every other bandwagon BLUs that’s out there! We parade around, wearing our shiny AF3+1/2, telling everyone that wearing Homam is considered a fashion faux pas, but forgetting the fact that the ones wearing it are the ones who know their shit. And it’s better for me to be whoring out as a BLU than being a….. PUP. And I look smoking hot.
Seriously now. I never even imagined I would level up BLU someday. I always wanted to be a NIN, a DNC or a SMN. Because they are cool but they were so underrated. Now that Abyssea has turned the tables, the PLD, COR, RDM, RNG, DRK, SAM, DRG (pretty much the crème de la crème of meripos) 
joined hands and marched to join PUP in the land of oblivion, leaving BRD hanging by a thread into social relevancy. While others jobs like MNK, WHM, BLU, NIN, BLM, DNC and THF stepped up their games and are showing us how it’s done. But yes, now that BLU has a purpose and since we can’t do stuff with more than 4 people, I said to myself: “I’m going to save the day and become a BLU!”. And so I did.
I ended up level 19 with only 1 spell: Mettalicbody (aka Stoneskin for those who don’t know jackshit about BLU – like me). From there on, I started on working on spells. When I saw the spell chart my eyes popped like whenever I see a black guy naked: I was so impressed on how big it was! Oh my! And all the endless possibilities of custom mading your own character it’s so overwhelming. For the record, when I was leveling RDM I rocked a sword and STR gear till a party went ballistic because I didn’t have Refresh and no clue what backline curing was. That was me trying to play BLU on RDM, I guess.
After a while I said: FUCK IT, like I always do. So I just burned the goddamn job up so I could learn spells faster. Seriously, if you wanna level BLU, just bring it to 30, burn it and go hunt spells later when your BLU magic skill is acceptable. The hunting down spells part is kinda bittersweet: we love to hate it. But it’s an intense course to WHMs lik
e myself. You start knowing all the monster abilities by heart and know exactly what debuff they cause, so you can be a better WHM. 2 for the price of 1, bitches!
What I liked most about it was that I revisited a lot of areas in the game. Like a tourist, I took a picture in some zones I’ve been to. And as I speak, I’m 133/145 spells! BLU is a very cool job and I’m loving it. Guess the next time I’ll have to reset the password on my own website to log in, it’ll be to talk about me being on a new job. Maybe NIN?
All the cool kids are doing it!
Mar 8th
And of course it’s not sex! This is a FF blog, not a blog about what regular, happy, social magnets, healthier people do in their free time. What are you thinking? Anyway. You heard the words spreading the streets in Port San d’Oria? Wait, what? No one goes there anymore? Well, I do! Where do you think I find schmucks to get my business going? And the dirty alleys are free, baby!
Well, everyone is at Guildwork. And personally I’d rather tweet than blog. So if you care for updates you can find me there.
I don’t have much to talk about. Other than doing upgrading AFs and doing Trials of the Magian, what’s there to talk about? About the drama, I really am not giving a fuck about anything.
Maybe I should hop servers.
Feb 16th
When me and Milhouse started the game, we shared an account. Since we had no idea what to expect on a MMORPG, we didn’t have a clue on the concept of servers. So I started off in Hades, and he in Bahamut. Soon we realized the error, because we could help each other by sending items to each other if we were on the same server, etc.
But, unlike myself, Milhouse found himself a lot of brazilians playing on Bahamut. They even had a shell! While I was left all alone in a Belgium/Netherlands shell for about 6 months. I only had Stormic, which I consider pretty much my mentor in this game, to guide me through the dangers of Valkurm Dunes, Jugner Forest and Battalia Downs. Eventually, I dwelled into end game content and met some people which are pretty much long time friends on the game.
After a while we transfered Milhouse’s character to Hades, which would become my lvl75 mule. You may ask: “Why didn’t YOU transfered?”. Well, because I had spent so many hours on dynamis shell and didn’t want to lose the points (horrible times). So he started off a new tarutaru character that he is today, on Hades.
Long story short, Hades merged into Cerberus. I had to change my name. And all my friends left. Xorn, which was the last one standing, just quit. Now it’s just me and Milhouse. So, why stay in Cerberus, I wonder. I could easily start doing events with Immortality but 1: their schedule starts at midnight for me, so no-no. And 2: do we actually need a shell to accomplish anything we want? I don’t think so. A trio with the right set of jobs can pretty much do anything with skill and time. I have no plans of doing Pandemonium Warden or Absolute Virtue whatsoever. I just wanna have fun.
So I just realized: maybe I should hop to Bahamut, bring along Milhouse with me, and off to a new start! Sounds fun, don’t you think? The only BAD part is that to hop servers one needs to pay 25 bucks. In our case, €75 for all 3 characters cause our POL is european. So which would fork me… R$170 for this little adventure. Hmm… thats expensive. But still, it’s something to consider.
I wonder if Bahamut is ready for such grace and charm.
Facebook for FFXI players!
Feb 7th
A friend showed me this website that is relatively new, but I think it has lots of potential. I’m talking about Guildwork, which is a social network for MMORPG players. I pretty much think it’t the “Facebook of FFXI”. Except it is more fun.
At first it can be a little complicated but once you get the hang of it it’s really cool to see what titles, gears and other stuff your friends are getting. The problem is, I don’t have that much friends on the game, but I like seeing what people are up to. Hence the free publicity.
It’s really well made too. So if you’re a reader of this blog (I know you’re out there!), add me there, cause I’m probably be updating more stuff there than on this blog.
Shinryu and Lilith couldn’t handle my beauty and charm.
Jan 31st
So. About two weeks ago I wrote about my current goals in Final Fantasy XI since I started playing back. I pretty much completed them.
One day I logged in, changed to WHM/RNG and went to Abyssea Grauberg in the hopes of finding someone killing Raja, the last Caturae I needed. You may find this strategy of mine silly, but I got a few bosses kill doing that or just stumbling upon a party killing and charming my way into the clear. Anyway, when I warped back to Jeuno I see a shout for Raja. Upon killing it, I finally had access to Shinryu!
Of course the wyrm wasn’t match for us 4 (Xorn, Warhola and Milhouse – my static). So I got away with the clear, the Twilight Belt, Twilight Torque, Twilight Cape and the Atma. Just want the Cloak and Dagger now.
We’ve been doing a lot a stuff lately. I don’t stand around for one second when my homeboys are online. We just go, get shit done, get incredible drops and the best part of all – DRAMA FREE. I’m so happy that we don’t need a fucking 18 person linkshell to do anything. I could put a huge list of gear we got, but I’m only going to highlight the fact that I have all the 6 jewels for Treasure Hunter 5 and only 2 seals to upgrade to af3+1. Lol.
On other news, yesterday I saw a shout for Wing of the Goddess Missions. I’ve always been a mission freak, when I started the game all I wanted to do was missions. I loved CoP, it was a real challenge. And Wotg being the only storyline to finish, I just had to. Not to mention the best cutscenes from the game came in this expansion.
It’s really strange now to go on an BCNM with no Atmas or Cruor Buffs. But on the other hand, you have all the shiny new gear from Abyssea. I must say, the last 2 fights were so ridiculously easy it wasn’t even funny. Lilith is far beyond of being a real super boss. You can’t deny that Divine Might, Alexander and Promathia had amazing themes and battlefields at their time. While Lilith battle is set in the Walk of Echoes, which is a super awesome area, it failed to deliever any kind of excitement. Well, at least for me.
Our setup was SMNx2, BST, RNG, WHM and COR (me). You all know that when I hop to COR I just do rolls and nothing else cause my .xml fails and I just can’t hit shit when shooting. Oh ya, the WHM had to leave fight and put “away” status while we were inside the BCNM. We managed to finish off both forms of Lilith by throwing pets on her. And that’s it. No healers, no nukes, no SAMs, PLDs, MNKs. Just pets on her. Pretty underwhelming for a Last Boss, I must stay.
I didn’t retrieve my reward yet, but will probably be the Refresh earring. Some people might think: “another shit reward”, but I like to look at the bright side. It’s the best idle earring for a mage, right?
Rediscovering the joy of playing FFXI.
Jan 27th
I’m totally into FFXI all over again. And I think the main reason is because now I have so many things to do. Before I took a break, I usually didn’t do anything else other than logging in and waiting for the LS to start the event. Now I don’t need that anymore.
I don’t exactly recall when I made my comeback, but I think it was this past weekend. And from there, I’m only in need of doing Raja for gaining access do Shinryu and his goodies, and Razed Ruin atma for THF. Killed the other 7 bosses I was missing (had done Briareus and Kukulchan before hiatus) and done all the caturaes except for that big meanie in Grauberg. I’m sitting currently at 330 stones and about 1 million cruor. I dunno if the cruor is gonna be enough for brewing Shinryu and getting all the things I want from it but what I do know is that I have enough time to do so.
I’m doing stuff with my friends. And the best part is that they’re cool, no drama involved and we get shit done. And we get gear also. So there’s nothing to complain about. And it’s just 4 people.
I don’t have any other news than that or to list all the cool gear and atmas I’ve got. I miss all the friends that went to the grave – Dan, Nyb, Deadfly, Zareen, Stormic. Still getting used to it.
I’m putting all the stuff I got this week behind the jump if you wanna know what I’ve been up to. If you don’t care, than just don’t read it 
Now I’m just another cheap bitch.
Jan 19th
Did the sun look specially bright this morning? Did you hear hummingbirds whistling and gently gliding the air towards the rainbow? Did every person on the streets opened up a way through the crowd so you felt like the hot bitch strolling through the corridor in highschool? Wake up, bitches, that’s all because I’m back!
Well, I’m sure you don’t give a fuck about my holidays drinking cocktails in Antigua and Barbuda with a huge black guy holding a palmtree leaf or my sex escapades with underage transexuals in Thailand, but I’m sure you would love to know what I did in game, don’t ya?
I decided to play FFXI again when I’m bored enough. And so I did. All my macros are fucked up (what happened to windower?), BlinkMeNot is broke. And it seems every fucking person is like miles away from where I left. I mean… Do you know that scene from Bridget Jones where she’s invited for a party and she goes dressed up as a Playboy Bunny feeling hot and sexy, thinking its a costume party, and when she gets there everyone is all suited up? That’s how I felt when I came back to the game.
Caturae? Shinryu? VV RR TT or whateverthefuck atmas? Bitch, my favourite atma is AA – Alcoholic Anonymous. And what’s up with Monk being the new Samurai and White Mage being the new Red Mage? And that little FoV thingy on Abyssea?
I ain’t complaining! You see, it still amazes me watching a THF and a WHM duoing Byakko. I’m easily amused. Those who took their pants in front of me know that. But boooooooooy, how many changes! I feel completely noobish! Heck, I’m even following Xorn’s and Milhouse’s orders so you know how bad the situation is.
But I didn’t return full force, no. I just log in for a couple of hours and then I’m done. I can’t take it anymore. But now I realize I have somethings to do, like:
- Kill Caturae for Shinryu (currently 2 down)
- Kill Shinryu for that abyssite.
- Kill the bosses so I can infuse the 3rd atma.
- Do job emote quests! (I love them)
- Finish WoTG.
- Farm seals like crazy.
- Get the VV-RR-ZZ-KK-WHATEVER atmas
Dang. So much to do it’s even discouraging.
And you know what’s sad? Is that anyone who’s starting up at this game is thrown out in this world that has completely been turned upside down. They won’t see the party at the Dunes. The pirates at the boat. The thrill of getting into Tavnazia and its level-capped zones fo CoP. Or whatever thing that made you and me like this game in the first place. I know, Abyssea is good. But it’s not the game I fell in love for.
See you later, Vanadiel.
Oct 28th
I really wasn’t gonna post about this but I felt like doing it. It’s been a while now that I don’t play, I think about a month. For someone who was logging on every single day and spending 4 hours on this game I think that’s pretty much of an accomplishment!
Like I said before, I started playing Final Fantasy XIII (not my favourite), and I had a lot of fun. More fun than I was getting on FFXI anyway. And now that I’m done with FF13, I considered going back to the game, but every time I feel lazy to do so. Watching my boyfriend, who still plays, every day into abyssea makes me wanna stay away even more. The game itself is reduced to abyssea and we all know abyssea takes time. Whether is exp, NM or event, you know you gonna spend at least 3 hours in it. Heck, my 2 LS take way too long to gather. Like 1h30 just to gather.
So ya! That’s it! I’m gonna cancel my ID before November and see what I’ll do. I’m really in the mood to play FF7 again! And I feel good for not having the NEED to log every single day at 11 again. Maybe I’ll log on again tomorrow, or maybe next week, but for now…
See you later, Vanadiel.
