Preparing for the New Year

Well, its 4am on Christmas day and for the life of me I can't sleep at this hour. So I thought it was best for me to post another blog entry^^


Things slowed down alot for me over the holiday break and it was pretty much needed. I got some time to go out and get my holiday shopping done, finish some minor projects I had for school, and best of all had time to finish all the little things I wanted to do ingame for the longest while. The most notable thing ingame I did was the chance to get together with everyone in the social. Helping with missions, NMs, assault, you name it. There was never a dull moment and that is probably what I'm thankful about this shell.


Gear is something I need to work on by the new year. For quite some time now, I have been trying to bring my Warrior out of retirement (using it mostly for Nyzule) however I am starting to see its potential in the general area of melee DDing. Great Axe skill is a bitch to cap out I tell you lol. All in all, I think I'll have that finished in a few days, which will seriously pump out good numbers when I get the right gear for it. With my Nyzule static pumping out pieces at a remarkable rate, my eyes are set on the Askar head and body for my normal meriting pieces. I have been saving up gil here and there for my heca body, however the osode has been holding down for me on the Steel Cyclone build. I have talked with several HNM shells that are still doing Fafnir for the Heca Hat and personally I find it cheaper just to buy the damn thing than to go through the whole mess of participating in HNM events. The rest of the needed gear will be coming from ZNMs, something that I know the social shell will be getting into in mid-January.


Dynamis, for the most part, seems to be the highest priority at the moment. With the New Year starting, there are several goals I want to give out for that shell. Highest priority on my list is to get the leadership centered again as well as the members so that we're on the same page for alot of things. Since alot of people are finishing up their first 5/5 on their relic, I'm planning to go another cycle for the 2nd 5/5 set for them until I switch gears heavily into CoP and Tavnasia. Perfecting Dynamis strategies is another thing I want to do, that way we can go through a zone for maximum efficiency. The last thing on my mind in this field is probably going to finish Skeletor's relic. Personally, and this is just my opinion, having something like that is a sign of accomplishment for the shell and a trophy. I know by the time he finishes the T. shell part, him and I are gonna farm like crazy to get that last stage done fast.


Umm...other then that things are quite boring lol. Got nothing else on my mind about FFXI. Most of my spare time now I have been playing Starcraft getting ready for the next tournament when I go back to Korea. In addition, I have been saving up money for buying a house up in the hills of Newcastle, so with some help from my Parents I can bunker down there for the rest of my graduate school years.


Anyways, Happy Holidays to everyone, hope you all are having fun!