Baa, Humbug!
Dec. 21st, 2006 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianBwahaha! I nuked a Battering Ram to death!
This afternoon was sort of Errands Day for the Deathgnome. Worked on my crafting for a bit (cooking, in the main), then hopped a chocobo to Jeuno, and then to Bastok. See, my fishing had yielded up a lot of rusty buckets, which go to a guy named Foss over in Bastok Markets at 300 gil for five. That and the 200 gil I can get for a treant bulb from this one lady in the Markets didn't exactly pay off the amount I'd spent on cooking, but what're you gonna do? Every little helps. So anyway, after Bastok came San d'Oria - I had some moat carp to drop off with this one guy in Port San d'Oria at 10 gil apiece and of course, checking up on and feeding my chocobo. Busy little Deathgnome. I really need to go farming again, both with my mule and while levelling up White Mage.
Anyway, the plan was to ride out to Valkurm Dunes and get that impression of the stone monument there, hop a ferry to Mhaura, fish off the Mhaura docks for awhile and then warp back to Windy, but as I was riding, what should I bump into but the evil bugger of a Battering Ram that kicked my arse last time. And I figured, there it is, and it's supposed to be easy prey, and if I hit it with the Area of Effect spells, I should be able to off it before it kills me. And whaddya know? Aeroga, Waterga, Stonega, and then Thunder to finish it off, and I wound up with one dead Battering Ram, 41 XP, an earth crystal and a ram horn, which should sell well at the Windy AH. So yay for me! I'd have preferred a lanolin cube, since that's something I need for a quest, but what the hell. It's all helpful, particularly if my bay leaves, Kazham peppers and boiled crayfish don't sell. I hope they do sell, though - they go for a fair bit, and I'm starting to feel slightly skint, with under 3k gil at my disposal. Still, I suppose things are a bit slow at the moment, given the whole event crap ... but then again, you'd have thought that this would mean people were sitting around crafting while waiting for that godsforsaken Twinkling Treant to pop near the dhalmel farm. Stupid event.
Trying to decide what crafts I should up next. While I know a lot of my LS is waiting for me to level so they can get various rank missions and other quests done with my help, it's not like they don't have BLMs to do that with, and I'm not about to go out there with, as a for-instance, substandard armour and no up-to-date spells. So I'm looking to raise some gil. Cooking's a good one, given that I'm nearly at lvl 8 with that one and getting to the point where I can slice Bastore sardines for bait (finally might get my money's worth out of those damn things, as they sell for less than I spend on bait to catch 'em). On the other hand, making my own jewellery might be useful, so there's always Goldsmithing. I was also interested in pursuing Alchemy, but I can't really afford the materials. Of course, same goes for Goldsmithing, but what're you gonna do? And of course, I could really do with getting my Fishing up, not that it's very lucrative right now, with me with my cheap-arse rod.
So I think what I'm going to do now is go back to FFXI, hop a chocobo over to Buburimu Peninsula and see what's guarding the Stone Monument there. If there's nothing, yay - I get an impression of it, warp back, grab another chocobo (expensive? Yes. Safe? Also yes) and hop a ferry to Selbina, doing my fishing and otherwise whiling away my time before I get to Selbina to trade my clay tablet for gil. Then I ferry back, still fishing, warp back to Windy, farm Giant Bees and Yagudo for awhile, then slice up some sardines, sell the bait, and contemplate getting the stone monument impression from Valkurm Dunes. By then, there'll probably be parties in the area, so if I get in over my head ... "Player calls for help!" Anything to stay out of the starter cities with that bloody event going on!
In other news, there is no other news. I'm bored and counting the days 'til Christmas. I also wish I was feeling better, but there's not much I can say or do about that one, and I'm fed up with complaining about it.
This afternoon was sort of Errands Day for the Deathgnome. Worked on my crafting for a bit (cooking, in the main), then hopped a chocobo to Jeuno, and then to Bastok. See, my fishing had yielded up a lot of rusty buckets, which go to a guy named Foss over in Bastok Markets at 300 gil for five. That and the 200 gil I can get for a treant bulb from this one lady in the Markets didn't exactly pay off the amount I'd spent on cooking, but what're you gonna do? Every little helps. So anyway, after Bastok came San d'Oria - I had some moat carp to drop off with this one guy in Port San d'Oria at 10 gil apiece and of course, checking up on and feeding my chocobo. Busy little Deathgnome. I really need to go farming again, both with my mule and while levelling up White Mage.
Anyway, the plan was to ride out to Valkurm Dunes and get that impression of the stone monument there, hop a ferry to Mhaura, fish off the Mhaura docks for awhile and then warp back to Windy, but as I was riding, what should I bump into but the evil bugger of a Battering Ram that kicked my arse last time. And I figured, there it is, and it's supposed to be easy prey, and if I hit it with the Area of Effect spells, I should be able to off it before it kills me. And whaddya know? Aeroga, Waterga, Stonega, and then Thunder to finish it off, and I wound up with one dead Battering Ram, 41 XP, an earth crystal and a ram horn, which should sell well at the Windy AH. So yay for me! I'd have preferred a lanolin cube, since that's something I need for a quest, but what the hell. It's all helpful, particularly if my bay leaves, Kazham peppers and boiled crayfish don't sell. I hope they do sell, though - they go for a fair bit, and I'm starting to feel slightly skint, with under 3k gil at my disposal. Still, I suppose things are a bit slow at the moment, given the whole event crap ... but then again, you'd have thought that this would mean people were sitting around crafting while waiting for that godsforsaken Twinkling Treant to pop near the dhalmel farm. Stupid event.
Trying to decide what crafts I should up next. While I know a lot of my LS is waiting for me to level so they can get various rank missions and other quests done with my help, it's not like they don't have BLMs to do that with, and I'm not about to go out there with, as a for-instance, substandard armour and no up-to-date spells. So I'm looking to raise some gil. Cooking's a good one, given that I'm nearly at lvl 8 with that one and getting to the point where I can slice Bastore sardines for bait (finally might get my money's worth out of those damn things, as they sell for less than I spend on bait to catch 'em). On the other hand, making my own jewellery might be useful, so there's always Goldsmithing. I was also interested in pursuing Alchemy, but I can't really afford the materials. Of course, same goes for Goldsmithing, but what're you gonna do? And of course, I could really do with getting my Fishing up, not that it's very lucrative right now, with me with my cheap-arse rod.
So I think what I'm going to do now is go back to FFXI, hop a chocobo over to Buburimu Peninsula and see what's guarding the Stone Monument there. If there's nothing, yay - I get an impression of it, warp back, grab another chocobo (expensive? Yes. Safe? Also yes) and hop a ferry to Selbina, doing my fishing and otherwise whiling away my time before I get to Selbina to trade my clay tablet for gil. Then I ferry back, still fishing, warp back to Windy, farm Giant Bees and Yagudo for awhile, then slice up some sardines, sell the bait, and contemplate getting the stone monument impression from Valkurm Dunes. By then, there'll probably be parties in the area, so if I get in over my head ... "Player calls for help!" Anything to stay out of the starter cities with that bloody event going on!
In other news, there is no other news. I'm bored and counting the days 'til Christmas. I also wish I was feeling better, but there's not much I can say or do about that one, and I'm fed up with complaining about it.