Quests completed, Other areas

Selbina

Elder Memories

Quests Completed Bastok, Windhurst, San d'Oria, Jeuno

This is going to be an ongoing list of the quests I complete. I will use the labels to find it easy that way.

Windhurst Waters

In A Pickle
Say it With Flowers
Hat in Hand
Making Headlines
Food for thought
Glyph Hanger
Teacher's Pet
A Crisis in the Making
A Pose by Anyother Name

Windhurst Walls

The Post man Always KO's Twice (R)
Mandragora Mad(R)
Star Struck
Flower Child

Windhurst Port

Something Fishy
Truth, Justice and the Onion Way
Know One's Onions
Inspectors Gadget

Windhurst Woods

Creepy Crawlies (R)
Paying Lip Service
Mihgo's Amigo(R) norg fame*
Lure of the Wild Cat
The Amazin' Scorpio
Chocobilious

Bastok Mines

The Siren's Tears (R)
Groceries

Bastok Port

Beauty and the Galka
A Lady's Heart
Lure of the Wildcat
Welcome to Bastok


San d' Oria

A Sentry's Peril
Rosel the Armorer
Father and Son
The Trader in the Forest
The Brugaire Consortium
Growing Flowers
The Merchants Bidding
Starting a Flame
Fear of the Dark (R)
A taste for meat
Exit the Gambler
Lufets Lake Salt
Undying Flames
The Pickpocket
Sleepless nights
The Waters of the Cheval
The seamstress
The Vicasques' Sermon
Gates to Paradise
flyers for Regina
The dismayed Customer


Jeuno

Chocobo Wounds 9/12/07
Pretty Little Things 9/12/07

Macros settings

Okay I have done a couple (more than that actually) macros settings.

Here are the first two
/ma "Cure"
/equip ring1 "Tranquility Ring"
/equip ring2 "Tranquility Ring"


/ma "Dia"
/equip ring1 "Tranquility Ring"
/equip ring2 "Tranquility Ring"
/wait 6
/ma "Paralyze"

/ma "Bind"
/equip ring1 "Eremite's Ring"
/equip ring2 "Eremite's Ring"
/wait 6
/ma "Poison"

/ma "Stone"
/equip ring1 "Eremite's Ring"
/equip ring2 "Eremite's Ring"
/wait 6
/ma "Aero"

That is just a few I have set up. I am trying to keep any combined spells of the same type of magic to minimize the equipment change. I am sure I should just have them one spell at a time, but the enfeebles I am trying to keep together more. Since Red Mage is good with Enfeebles they are my most important, and I am trying to read up on which ones are used the most. I am sure I should sit down and make a party set, and a solo set. Some people use White magic spells, enfeebling on one palet, and Nuking spells on another one too. I am not sure I am so good a scrolling through my macros, since I have trouble with the cure macros working in party fights even. If someone can tell me how to target when engaged with the enemy let me know. The best I could come up with is I need to not be fighting but standing farther back.

Pictures of my characters

Kendwawendwa Mule #2







Silverangel Mule #1







Sofiana my Main Character

Just a small update

Not much has changed other than leveling my subjobs and I will start to work on some more quests tonight.
I have also been trying to do lots of reading on the red mage job. I am also still very, very interested in leveling my mule to a good white mage. I think that could be fun, but in time. I still want to get much of what I am doing figured out. Which means lots, and lots, and lots of reading.
Today I have learned,
Good Food for Red mage
1 Sweet Rice Cakes
2. Pies
3. Crimson jelly
And snacks and juices.
5 Rice Dumpling

Learning more about macros settings and how to put equipment changes with the spells being cast. When I get some written that work, I will post them here. I will always take suggestions on using macros effectively.

Subjob advancement and Steelfleece Baldarich

Playing Thursday night I managed to complete the Subjob quest. I got into a party made of all Melee experts with a Pl, I was the only mage in the party. I often felt rather useless as I watched the guys fight while I was trying to heal, and then be out of commission because I was poisoned. I really, really hated not having a white mage that could cure me from that. Still in just a short amount of time, I moved from level 16 to 18. Most of the attacks were bringing in 200 + experience points.
After the party disbanded, Raji, Bones, Melpomne, and Amberly came to help me finish my subjob quest. One our way Bones somehow managed to agro a big, and I mean a big beast called a
Steelfleece Baldarich.
It was huge! I am sure the four of them could have taken the thing on, but since they were with two of us low level people they were afraid it could have killed the two of us, and we would have had to relevel back to 18.
Bones managed to get us transported out of there and then safely back to get the item we needed to get our subjob. (We had picked up another player that needed help completing the quest as well.)
Needless to say it provided some rather entertaining game play.

frustration abounds

yes I am frustrated. I had a whm yelling at me last night, I could not ever seem to keep member parties healed, and just like a completely dumb rdm. Maybe I am trying to learn so fast, all I want to do is do this job well, and right. I have found another good site though! Much better than some others I have looked at. Gives me more hope.

Skill Levels as of Today

Sofiana's Job is Redmage now at 16
Dagger- 12
Club- 12
Shield- 20
Evasion- 41
Parrying-13
Archery- 3
Sword- 48

Magic levels
Enhancing- 16
Elemental- 26
Healing- 11
Enfeebling- 48
Dark- 12

Cooking 20
Fishing 1

Red Mage Party? I don't think I like it!

I was in a Party last night that had 4 red mages, 1 black mage, 1 warrior, in the end we ended up with 3 red mages and the 1 black mage. The first group had a blm that thought he could take a goblin on his own if the rest of us just kept curing her and protecting her. Duh! Not! I had seen a goblin take nearly and entire party and this one killed me when she decided to abandon the party. We may be redmages, but we all only have so much MP and we would run out of that by the time she thought she could get that goblin down.

We filled the spot with a very good redmage, but we were so out of balance, I found I would be casting the same spells. At one point I was trying to cure the party, but the lag on the computer was so bad that I could not seem to manage curing and we lost a party member in the battle. That was very frustrating. I could not get my macros to work correctly again, and with the lag, I could not target and check party members fast enough. grrrr. I hope I get better at this soon. I did make it to level 16 but lost my signet shortly there after. So perhaps today I can take the time to get Sofiana back to Bastok, then next week back to the dunes.

More updates

So I have spent the past few days in Bastok, selling things, and making lots and lots of Butter. I am saving it up to be able to make pie dough down the road. I filled up Silverangels safe so much I had to start a new mule just have a place to do more things. Her name is Kendwawendwa, and is a little Taru. So I shipped stuff to her, and she is also auctioning off stuff, and will be the place to store my excess weapons and armor, that the kids and I can use.

I still like Noelie's method of cooking, there are so many different guides out there, but her method for me makes the most sense.
I told her she should write it up. Many people seem to want to just do it to make money, but they still are not smart. Come on, sell the Butter you made, to just have to buy or make more when it comes time to make pies!

Butter Recipe
Ice Crystal x1
Selbina milk x1
Rock salt x1

makes 4 sticks of butter, HQ will eventually make more.

Today, Squirre helped me get the key items to be able to transport to different areas. Talk about nice of him. I want help, but I also want to learn, so I am unsure how much help to ask for when I am learning.

3rd Party

Okay so I get into a new party yesterday, the first without a pl, which is good in learning your job, but tough in the fact that our poor Tank could not take the damage, and our whm could not keep up, and I could not manage to help her out much. It makes me frustrated that I am so slow but I am coming up with ideas to help. I have to do some more research on macros settings and see if I can get better at reacting quickly when I am stumbling through my macros and how to get it to work.

On a kind note, members of my linkshell have been helping me out. Now they are going to craft me some items. I can not get over the kindness that some people have for a new person like me. Not just in taking time to help me level, return to base safely, and now this. If they are like this in game, it tells me what they are like in life.

2nd party

I managed to get into a second party last night. It was not quite as efficient as the first one I was in, but much better as far as picking the fight.
We had a summoner in the group so that was very fun to watch.
I was KO on my way to meet the party, so I lost the lvl I had obtained, I did get it back. I was not able to level to 15, but Fantone, and Bones from the linkshell I am in, came to help me a bit after. Michael came home shortly there after so I had to stop playing.
I will try again tonight. Hopefully I will get some done before I lose my signet.

1st party experience

My sister Noelie got me to the dunes to join a party. Needless to say it was very interesting, but I learned a couple of things that I hope to help other red mages in the future.
1. In a party setting, use Dia over Bio.
2. Try not to use the elemental spells, they are ineffective. At least on crabs. :)

Watch what the puller is doing, if he grabs too tough of a mob, you may have to back off to help cure the white mage in the group.

Try your best to get your macro settings to work. That for me was the hardest thing to do. For some reason I could not scroll between my different party members to use the cure spell. Something I have to practice more some how.