Haven’t really had an awful lot to post about, or at least, no real compulsion to write this week. Not entirely sure why, although it has been an overall slow gaming week for me.
Dark Knight – 62
Paladin – 40
Samurai – 40
About to hit 63DRK with the party I’m in now, and I’m looking at many, many countless hours beating up Steelshells for both my scythe and polearm. I’m rather concerned about leveling SAM honestly, because skilling up great katana enough for the fight can only be done as SAM, and not NIN. I hate asking for help, and I know I’m going to need to to get the GK capped.
On the LOTRO side of things, we’ve pushed our hobbit duo into 40, and in my overall downtime (such as when seeking for a party), I’ve pushed my Lossoth reputation on Polecat just under half way through Ally. 15k more rep and I’ll have the furry pony I’ve been wanting for the past year and a half almost.
I’m still on a quest to find a “fitting kinship”. Since we started LOTRO two years ago, we’ve been in four or five kinships, all of which were always on the teetering edge of just plain dying due to inactivity. Our Dunder Mifflin kinship included into that count. Our last kinship even just almost ninja transfered off to Windfola because Brandywine was “too laggy”. I’m currently virtually test driving two kinships at once right now. One I’ve been in for the past few weeks , and it’s a guild that spans multiple MMOs. Actually took a week and a half of logging in daily trying and hoping to see one of the officers log in to invite my other characters in, as most the officer core seems to primarily play the other games, leaving LOTRO rather barren. I mean, they are a very nice group of people, and it’s an 18+ only guild meaning I can cuss and make dirty jokes to my heart’s content… but it just ties into I don’t play MMOs to be playing solo. So last night while doing my Lossoth repeatables on Polecat, I was invited to the exact opposite extreme, a kinship of 1500 members… and considering to me only 100+ is exceedingly large, I’d be lying if I said this kinship didn’t already greatly overwhelm me. My shyness sense is tingling like mad.
I’m still holding to my promise of not exploring Mines of Moria without David with me, so I’ve been trying to debate what I’ll do with Polecat once Lossoth is maxed out… as I’m really unsure at this point. Debating if it’d be worth the effort to grind rep in another faction, and I know I can always continue working on grinding out the deeds Polecat needs. Sigh… I just want to /wrist it all appears so boring. I long to see instances, party, explore, meet new people… all of which, David has limited me doing.
Hope to have my Maat’s Cap within a few weeks too, and unsure what I’ll do in FFXI after that as well.
I’m too bored for my own good I suppose.
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Was thinking of starting FFXI up again, just for Dyna, but I think I would get bored very quickly. Have you and David thought about trying Aion out?
I’ve played the beta and its seems pretty cool so far, more or less a updated WOW with pretty graphics. It should be fully released by the end of the month.
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Kris Reply:
September 11th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Oh… forgot to mention that… dynamis has also been canceled for the past two runs due to only 10 people showing up. /mumble
We’ve had multiple people mention AION to us, along with a dozen other MMOs and none are peaking our interest. It boils down to time and money constraints, and that unless the game is totally free… we won’t even seriously consider it. David’s a bit interested in XIV, and it hasn’t peaked much of mine at all. Spending $30-50×2 plus subscription fees for a game there’s no guarantee we’ll be playing for more than three months isn’t worth the cost. Plus, I also cannot discredit and throw away five odd years worth of work in FFXI like that.
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Anthony Reply:
September 11th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Yea I can understand the cost with the games, Jen doesn’t have an interest in Aion, if she did we probably wouldn’t get it, because of the combined cost.
If I do come back, I’ll server jump to join your Dyna, will be on ikas so BLM powa!
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Kris Reply:
September 11th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
I’m still in the same Dyna LS I was in two years ago with Mon/Thurs runs. The one you joined for like two or three runs then quit :p
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Anthony Reply:
September 11th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Coolio!
So has attendance been a big issue lately?
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Kris Reply:
September 11th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Due to a number of people finally getting jobs and school starting back up… it’s only been a big issue the past few weeks. Did a couple 13-15 man runs as a result. Did manage to clear Windurst with only 13.
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