Wow, it has been a long time

I was actually going to post last week, and got sidetracked on the way. Figures doesn't it.
The new level sync system is so much fun. I have had the joy of being in parties with members of my ls. That has been so great. It has been months since I partied so I have been very rusty with the macros keys, but it was starting to get a bit easier. I have leveled rdm to 33 and whm to 31. Now, I am back to some gil issues. Farming and harvesting. I need to buy spells, and I am sure equipment and armour will be necessary upgrades soon. My baron's siao set has been servicing my well, but I'm not sure how much farther I can get with it on those two jobs. I will have to do some more research. In the mean time, blm is still much to low, and I need to focus in it. I have also done a bit of work on dnc, thf, war, and mnk, unlocked paladin. I have increased my gobbie bag to 50 slots which is such a relief after having 35 for so long. It has come in very useful for harvesting and farming lately.
I just found a place that I printed up a couple of maps of the Jungles, hoping I can find my way around them soon, they are a pain in the neck. YUCK!

Level 30 reached

It seems like it took for ever, but I now have rdm to level 30. I thought for sure it was going to take longer, but with some good parties and time to play this week, I made it at last. I still struggle with targeting the wrong mob at times. I keep getting told to use the macro, but other sites suggest that is not good when beasts have been slept because a spell will target that mob. I don't know it is so confusing. :)
So on to the adventure of unlocking advanced jobs. There are so many I would love to try. I will work on the ones I think I can unlock on my own and go from there.
I guess this means more leveling war since I have not done it much. :(

teleport successes.

This week I made it to level 17 with the blackmage job. It was hard. Last week my level did not budge, between a very slow party, and dying plenty solo, I thought I would never make it. Yesterday I did. So now I have warp. YES!
I also did the Qufim supply run, so now I can warp out there, and back to windy if needed. That makes life much easier until I can get the Kazahm keys.

Also last week, admidst the frustration of not leveling, I took a day off and leveled with Noelie and Cevout. He is working on his subjob so we all put on level one jobs and partied together. Talk about fun beating up all kinds of crazy stuff. I leveled monk to 6. So slowly I am getting different jobs leveled up. Watching Noelie play pld, makes me that it could be fun to play.

What have I been doing?

Lots, and thinking about this blog. I realized that to log every quest and mission completed would be a huge, and I mean huge undertaking. so I think I am going to stop that catalogue. I do know the my philosophy on the game is to have balance. To work on quests as much as possible to encourage the growth of fame, to earn gil, and get many items. To level smart, not so fast that I can't figure out what I am doing. Level jobs that work together to help in learning how to do jobs effectively. I think as a redmage that is a good plan. Since Redmage uses both white and black magic, it helps to have the two jobs leveling close together, it keeps me fresh. I am still somewhat frustrated with the whole power level thing, so I am trying to do my best to learn my job under gimped circumstances. All the complaining about people can be lead directly to this type of play, but everyone it seems to do it, either want power levels, or are being power levels. It would be okay if they would let a white mage and the tank continue to learn their jobs, but they do all the curing, and they don't want the tank to take the hate from the mob. It is frustrating, and the system is what is breaking the system of play. :)

Anyway, I have finished the quest the rumor, and have leveled blm to 15, last night I leveled whm to 19. My goal is to get these two jobs to 20, I think I would like to get whm to 25 so I can get raise, then I can start to feel of some use to others around me. :)
Then I can also start leveling rdm again.
I can say after finishing The Rumor, and getting drain, I really love that spell. It is soooooo cool. I don't know how some blm live without it. It is worth the effort of the quest. Easy enough if you can get someone to help you with it. I think the hardest thing with it is getting to Sandy, and getting your fame up. That was a pain in the neck, but most people seem to buy their fame, and really don't work the different quests that are available. I prefer to keep my hard earned gil and use it for crafting and buying armor as I need it.
That is what I have been doing. I have been lonely, I really don't have anyone to play with, so that gets boring from time to time. I enjoy that game, but the loneliness of not having a friend in game the same level is rather sad.

long time in Sandy

I have spent the past several days, it feels like forever in San d'Oria. Can I say I hate that city. The music droans on and on with no relief. I am thankful for the forays outside the city to the wonderful pastoral music there.
Today I just managed to get my fame up to level 3, so now I can head to Selbina or somewhere to level up WHM then on to Bastok to work on a quest I started in Windy, then to Windy so I can keep working on that quest, and start the mission so I can get the quest to do the drain scroll so I can start leveling the BLM. So much to do?

Today's update, Peninsula and Mauhra

Today I attained level 20. With the help of the Empress band that is! I was beginning to think I was never going to get there. I got my cooking skills up to level 20, I made a separate run to Mauhra to by a Regen scroll, which I will need as soon as I hit level 21. I am also looking for gravity and enaero.
I was in a party of two today, and we managed a skill chain somehow. IT was amazing when I finally saw one at work, talk about cool!

I also finished Mission 2.2 A testing time yesterday. I did not have a chocobo license so I had to run to Taronghi canyon to kill the beasts. Even if you do have a chocobo license I would suggest getting a warp scroll and setting your home point in Windhurst Waters as suggested. First it gets you there very quickly so you have more time to kill enemies. In this quest the more the merrier. Just go after easy prey or lower, nothing else. The idea here is speed. I did not use my spells much, just to cure or add enspells to my weapon. That seemed to help. I also did way too much running around. If you could have somone tele you to the crag of Mea, that can also help. If you are a lower level, it might be wise to go with a power level so you are safe, and can keep you healed in the mission. I think that would work really well in the long run. When you are done, warp back to home point with your scroll or by benefit of a friendly BLM and you are done. Very easy, nothing to this quest, just be sure where you are going first.


So here is the cooking recipe to go from level 20 to 22
1 Fire crystal
1 popoto
1 selbina butter

I only broke 4 crystals out of about 34 crystals, and lost 2 butter and 2 popoto.
pretty good return, with only having to buy the popoto's, I saved the butter from previous synthesis, and had plenty of crystals from farming.

Current levels are
20 Redmage 10 Blackmage
Dagger 25
Staff 18
Shield 37
Sword 55
Club 21
Archery 8
Evasion 51
Parrying 18

Magic
Enhancing 26
Elemental 47
Healing 17
Enfeebling 58
Dark 19

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.

Here is a list of what cooking recipes I started with thanks to Noelie's help. (She sent me lots of eggs)

Hard Boiled Eggs
Fire Crystal
1x Lizzard eggs
1x distilled H2o. You can find cheap H2o at the restaurant in Windhurst Waters close to the cooking guild.

Once you advance your cooking level close to 4, you can start to use bird eggs to make these to get to level 6.

Then to orange juice,
Water crystal
4x saruta oranges. You can buy these cheaply at a merchant standing near the gate in Waters.
Orange juice does not stack, so I have tried selling them, giving them to mages, and using them as I have been out working on quests and missions. When you get to level 8 you can make the Salmon Sub to pass the guild test, then continue with the orange juice to level 10.


Salmon Sub
earth crystal
1x crying mustard
1x apple vinegar
1x black bread
1x La theine Cabbage
1x smoked salmon
1x Mithran tomato

After level 10

Slice of sardines. I joined the fishing guild, bought a cheap pole and some bait. One of the tips at another place said to buy and expensive kit, I did that, and lost it on my first try fishing. If you have not fished before buy inexpensive bait and practice. I was able to catch all my fish to level this off, and also harvest wind crystals off of bees, and bats. If you are too high a level to get good points, just work on a job that is low level to do this. I was able to do this without buying anything but the pole and bait. If you are in Windurst you can catch the bastore sardines right of the dock there by the fishing guild. Then go sell your food as bait at the action house.

wind crystal
bastore sardine x1


Next I started to do roasted mushrooms, this can be easily done if someone is willing to harvest the mushrooms for you. They are rather expensive to buy. I also lost lots of crystals until I hit level 13, so you might want to level something else first. Once I started to not loose so much I was able to stack and sell these at the auction house.

fire crystal
What ever mushroom x2.
(sleepshroom, danceshroom, woozyshroom.)

Next I think I can try to catch some moat carp, and try that before I go to butter.

That is about all I have for today.