Not quite back in action
It's not a constant pace… but at least I'm producing things on a regular basis now. I'll admit that my obsession of FF-XI seems to be slacking off a bit. I'm also not a player who is obsessed with gaining experience. When I sit down to play a game, I want to enjoy it. And the way they've designed the game makes it rather difficult to play solo past level 12-14 depending on your job. The catch is that I like playing solo or in a duo even. The past few days Harry and I have come to take of the hobby of hunting “Berry Grubs” in Rolanberry Fields. Just the two of us, not looking to gain EXP, but rather in hopes of fattening our wallets. On the plus side, this crazy catterpillars tend to dish out minute amounts of EXP, about 12-22 a pop. Oddly enough I've gained more experience points relaxing and having fun then I've had attempting to do hardcore leveling in a place known as Garliage Citadel, I like to call it a festering hell-hole. I've had 2 parties and earned about 1500exp and lost just as much from dying due to the stupidity of not my own party, but due to others. To me this not fun.
I have come to rather avoid partying in FF-XI now. Everyone has a job, and if a party is built right and everyone does their job things SHOULD go well. There are unforeseeable mishaps that can occur, and I can look past these with relative ease. But I've been attempting to party with my Samurai (Level13), and every party I've entered thus far is full of over-eager newbies. To be honest, I hate calling people newbies. I find it to be rude and degrading because you put yourself above someone else simply based on the fact they haven't played as much as you, but I digress. When I was a newbie, I irritated the living hell out of any party I was in by asking ASSLOADS of questions about the game. And I got answers, and I followed them to the word. And as far as I've been told, I'm awesome at doing my job in a party. My Black Mage never fails to lay on the hurt, and my White Mage rarely fails to keep the hurt down. I think I've had maybe 5 people die on my watch. Which is stunningly good number.
And here's where I hate partying now-a-days. I'll get into a party, and they just do what they think they are supposed to do. I try to offer advice, and it gets spit back in my face. I don't mind partying with newbies, but I want newbies like I was. Willing to learn through the help of others. When I first starting playing, it seemed to me that most people were willing to lend a hand if possible. Now you need to offer some sort of payment for assisstance to get anybody to do anything for you. It's sad really.
There are lots of things about this game that drive me to the brink of insanity. Bad parties, people who hunt Notorius Monsters to make quick cash, travelling, high level players hunting low level monsters to get items to sell and “stealing” exp from low level players, the fact that I need a party to honestly level up quick, and so on. Despite all this, I still have fun. I can get around the parties (sometimes), I can make traveling overly easy to bear as well. It's the other people that play game that have begun to make it less enjoyable. Thankfully my Linkshell is uber-awesome, everyone knows how to play, and we're all crazy. If it weren't for this tiny hand full of players, and 3 peeps I befriended early on I might have quit by now due to sheer frustration. But so long as I'm having fun… I'll keep playing. But since I'm not so obsessed anymore I try and find time to do my sketches, write my rants, and hopefully get somes ideas for comics. So with all hope, it looks like I'll be able to get back to working on the site without causing withdrawl from not playing FF-XI. Be happy.
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