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.

Chocobo Trainer

I finished the quest for the Chocobo license yesterday and also managed to skill up to level 21. I got into one horrible party and one very good party so I was able to learn a bit of my job better. It is going slowly, and my sis keeps telling me that I am doing fine. Still I have this horrible feeling that if someone dies it is my fault. Perhaps I could have cured them faster. I seem to make so many mistakes but I guess that is part of what learning is all about. :)

Super Model

Okay, I finally finished the Quest a Pose by any other Name.
I activated it awhile ago, but because I was a redmage below level 8 and I did not want to buy a tunic at the time, I put it off until I could get one. Finished it today.
The biggest tip is to make sure you have the item with you that you will need to wear. It is different by job, so look it up to see. For mages you need the basic tunic. I also unequiped all weapons before I changed into the tunic.
You talk to Angelina, then wait and talk to her again, she will tell you what to wear and then change into it. If you change into it too fast, before the second conversation you deactivate the quest, and you have to start all over, by zoning.
Then wait a few seconds, change into the tunic, and talk to her again. Place the painting in your moghouse. I don't know what the key item is for, but I am sure it comes into play sometime.

Chocobilious Completed

Okay, so I did this easy quest today. I actually tried it the hard way because I am still trying to level my RDM and I figure this is a good way to get a few points. I could have kicked myself because I was out there yesterday, and I had a sprig of Papaka grass but had to get rid of it to keep a couple of other items I needed. Do you think I can get one, off of any Dhalmel I killed. Not for the life of me. It did not help that everytime I was healing someone would come along and knock off one of my targets. GRRRR! So when poltergiests finally got me, after I was attacked by a Goblin Tinker, I was a goner and went back to my homepoint. I headed to the auction house, bought a sprig of papaka grass and finished the quest.

Mission and quest completed

I finished the mission "Lost for Words", and the quest "The Amazing Scorpian, thanks to the help of Bones for my linkshell. I never would have made it through the Shakarami maze alive. In fact I did die, but that was when he had to check the map. When he came back, I was a goner. :) In retrospect I should have had taken the prism powder and I probably would have been okay for that couple of minutes or so. :)
He was amazed at how much Hate I pull from Goblins, I am saying, yeah, they love me. I am sure it is because I am just a little weak adventurer always trying to go to places just that much too tough for me. ha, ha.

So it was exciting, took a bit longer than normal but life is good.

Now I have to study what to do next. Since my husband is home for a couple of days with the long weekend, no more play time other than to do gardening in my mog house.

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.