Trials & Tribulations

It is with deep regret that at this present moment, due to not having a job at the present moment, I am having to temporarily cancel my account. I hope to have a job here soon, though if 3 months elapses, there is a grave possibility that my days on Asura are numbered.

The post I had pending to post, I will still post and that will be all that there is as of now. I hope that I manage to get a job really soon so I can resume my game play. I wish you all the best and hope to see you all really soon.

If you are able spare any funding to help my family and myself get back on our feet, you are free and welcome to donate using the following button.

-Demonicpagan

It’s been a few days since this happened, but now that I have time to say something about it and even up to it since the time travel does a number on me especially for the amount of time I was there, but I saw a HUGE, I mean HUGE gold chest!!!! I don’t remember what was in it, but it was HUGE!!!! See for yourself!

Not only did we have a few of those huge chests, but for the first time we got a lot, I mean a lot of time extensions… thus why I’ve been a bit nauseated for the past few days and unable to write this.

I’ve also managed to get two out of the eight elemental obis I’ve been farming organs for. I have my fire and thunder one. I’d rather have had my ice one first, but I don’t have the needed organs yet. I’ve already gone about and grabbed all the silver obis I’d need. I’m going to purchase my colored stones when I have the necessary organs to trade in for other obis.

Also, it has (from my prospective) been made clear to me that I should just mind my own business and not do anything flirtatious (which is just who I am, so a part of me has been killed) when it comes to Hisakata. Story of my life…

Guess I’m just not allowed to be interested in anyone. I’ll just continue to venture through Vana’diel by myself as I’ve continued to do since I started adventuring. Guess there just isn’t anyone for me. I’m gonna retire to my Moghouse and just talk to the only person that will keep my company, though they only talk to me when I need to check my delivery box or change jobs, my Moogle.

Organ farming, yeah, it’s as dreadful as it sounds. Especially when most of it is done solo, like I have been doing for quite some time now. Today, I have managed to get the 20 Phaubo (or shark) organs I needed. It has been the only organ I have managed to get a complete set of at this moment. Out of all the organs I need to collect, there is one that I won’t be able to do on my own and having someone willing enough to assist me will be the difficult part.

Aerns are the enemies in which I am talking about. The reason why I say I can’t solo them is due to the fact that (1) I don’t know what kind of job they are until AFTER I initiate the attack on them and (2) they have a nasty habit of reraising themselves after they have been defeated once already. The fact that they reraise makes it difficult on me as a mage to take them down a second time because I have typically used all or most of my mana to take them down the first time. Having to do that again when I don’t have sublimation full or convert ready to give me a boost in my mana pool will make it difficult to get them down a second time. Now if I were to have a second mage with me, say a black mage, or even a red mage would suffice, assist me, things would go smoothly. I just don’t see anyone I now going out of their way to help me in this regard.

Here is what I still have left to farm to this date:

• 15 Xzomit (squid) organs
• 12 Aern organs
• 9 Luminian tissues
• 14 Hpemde (gold fish) organs

Once I get all these organs, I still have to shell out gil to get the silver obis I need and gil to purchase the needed color stone. Not looking forward to shelling out all this gil ….

Why, oh why, do things have to be so excruciatingly difficult for me …..

I’ve been putting this off for some time now due to my first defeat when I was a mere level 70 Scholar. I figured now that I’ve got more than enough experience behind me, I’d finish up and graduate. I was almost bested, but as always, my Blizzard IV spell came through for me. I was hoping that this fight would have been over in a single spell, but I forgot that I lose my subjob which helps me in some of my INT so my nuking wasn’t as high as I had thought them to be.

Demonicpagan casts Stone IV.
Gunther takes 351 points of damage.

Demonicpagan casts Thunder IV.
Gunther takes 399 points of damage.

Demonicpagan casts Blizzard IV.
Gunther takes 373 points of damage.

But hey, I’m not complaining with a win.

You can check out the fight below.

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**REMINDER: This is written from an in game prospectus***

First up, I’ve now obtained my Teal Slops from my last Abyssea run. I’ll need to save up some more cruor to work on obtaining my hat, hands, and feet. I must say, having my Teal Saio worn during my magic casts made me quite the adversary for the birds we were fighting. Seemed like every time I had cast Blizzard IV, the birds would turn their attention to me and off our PLD tank. Of course after I had the enmity, the tank wouldn’t be able to get it off of me until it was dead. It’s really going to be interesting to see how much enmity I pull on our next run considering I’ll be wearing two pieces of the teal set versus just one. I wouldn’t be surprised if I find myself dead a few times.

Next up, I’ve completed up to floor 10 of Nyzul Isle now. I only have 90 more floors to climb. I don’t know when my next run will be, hopefully soon. The run I had was smooth, only 1 floor with lamp activation which we were having some minor difficulties trying to figure out who was at a lamp and who wasn’t. Amazingly enough despite this, we managed to get the lamps activated in the proper order. Rest of the floors were eliminating all enemies on the floor or eliminating 1 specific enemy on the floor which are easy.

Now on to the real reason for this post.

It’s been some time since I’ve had anyone to call “mine” in Vana’diel. Ineyeri doesn’t communicate with me anymore and seems to be doing very much her own thing now (whatever that may be). So, again, I’m alone. Hisakata reminded me that she’s missing her love, so that makes me even more sad. I wish I had someone to adventure with and help me do things that I need done like my Trials, missions for the past, missions for Promathia so I can complete Zilart as well. Hell, someone to help me farm my organs for my Elemental Obis would be nice. Instead, I’m left doing this all on my own. Why?

I am still forever dreaming to have someone to marry and be my companion. I just wish the incredible people I’ve ventured with weren’t (1) already taken by someone, (2) would take more of an interest in me … I dunno. I am just rambling on.

I’ll just continue to sit in Lower Jueno just pondering about my misadventures and how life just sucks at the present moment in Vana’diel.

Today has been a good day for me, I have my first of five pieces to the Teal Saio set. With 5,000 cruor, I bought the Teal Saio body piece which is a nice nuking piece for my scholar. This allows me to just use my Argute Gown for what it’s meant to be used for. I was able to get this from Abyssea today as we had a very nice run. Had some cruor chests pop as well as 1 gold chest that dropped Water V, Foe Requiem VII, and Baramnesra. A couple of those would have been useful to me if I had the jobs leveled high enough and right now, that isn’t exactly a priority for me. The spell I really want doesn’t drop in the zone we’ve been spending our time. There is still a lot left to explore and experiment with before we progress to the other two abyssean zones.

I’m planning on grabbing my second piece of armor after our next run which will be the Teal Slops to replace my Jet Seraweels. I think after such, I’ll go back to farming in Sea as I still have a lot of organs to finish farming for my elemental obis. Then it’s just a matter of trading things in the Tavnazian Safehold to get them. Maybe I can coax someone out there to help me farm so it’s not so boring, though I do love the atmosphere down there.

Another thing I still have left to finish working on is my Trials. I’m at a bit of a standstill on them due to not being able to pop these tier two Voidwalker Notorious Monsters (VNMs). This is why you still see IN PROGRESS for Erebus. I don’t plan on seeing if anyone can help me unless I can pop them myself. My clear abyssite is taking forever to change into a colorful abyssite and I have no idea why. I’ve killed a bunch of tier ones and to no avail, has it changed. If anyone one of my readers on Asura would like to assist me in this matter, I’ll greatly take you up on it. Just send me a /tell.

I can’t forget to mention about yesterday and what I did after my dynamis – San d’Oria run, I went to Qufim Island and PL’ed Hisakata’s party. (YES! THAT’S RIGHT! SHE LEFT LOWER JUENO!) I figured since I needed to skill up my Healing Magic, that PLing her party was a viable option. It also allowed me to spend some time with her since I really like spending time with her (though it seems she enjoys giving me a hard time and making it seem that she takes no interest in what I do). It was interesting that today while I was in Abyssea she was in Aht Urhgan Whitegate looking for a party to level her black mage job in, though I don’t think that ever happened. Sadly, she disappeared without saying anything, now I’m hurt by that. I’m sure it wasn’t intentional though.

I’m going to finish this post off with images of the gear I’m looking at getting for the Teal Saio set. I’ll post more of my adventures later once I figure out what I want to do instead of standing in Whitegate.

Teal Chapeau

Teal Saio

Teal Cuffs

Teal Slops

Teal Pigaches

Well, I was going to work on a sword for my Red Mage job, then a new area opened up and the level cap increased to 80, which has sparked my interest in another weapon; this one for my Scholar job. I am currently working on an empyreal weapon that is equipable when I reach level 80 (which I am currently 36.1k tnl). This weapon’s name is Hvergelmir.

I have a long path ahead of me, I just got past the very first trial, now I’m working on my second. I still have 8 more ahead of me to do. The following list below will be what I will use to update my progress through the trials to this weapon.

• Trial 776: Teporingo x3 – DONE
• Trial 777: Valkurm Emperor x3 – DONE
• Trial 778: Hyakume x3 – DONE
• Trial 779: Gloomanita x4 – DONE
• Trial 780: Mischievous Micholas x4 – DONE
• Trial 781: Cactuar Cantautor x4 – DONE
• Trial 782: Erebus x6 – IN PROGRESS
• Trial 783: Skuld x6
• Trial 1646: Chesma x8
• Trial 1647: 50 Kukulkan’s Fang

That’s the entire list, I better get back to the “Dunes” to work some more on VE. I’ll keep you updated!

So today I’ve been chatting with a new found friend I made during Beseiged one day as some mobs were attacking Al Zhabi and for the past few days, she has lost absolute interest in doing any adventuring?!!?!? How is that remotely possible? It wasn’t long ago that the Nomad Moogle that stands by Maat in Ru’Lude Gardens gave us adventurers a level cap quest to advance our skills to level 80. In doing so, we had to present him with 5 kindred seals and show him 3 unused merits.

I have done this of course, so all I have been doing to make my way towards level 80, slowly, has been campaign battles. Now this adventurer, Hisakata, a wonderful Mythra, just seems to be bored. She’s advanced to level 76 on their black mage job, but hasn’t been interested in taking it any farther. Wish I knew what made it so boring for them. I’ve tried anything I could think of to spark some interest, but, nope, nothing is working. As it is, as I’m writing this, she is more interested in PLing people out in the “Dunes”, than to advance their skill as a black mage.

Yeah, I admit, there are times it is just a drag to go out there and spend endless hours gaining that experience, but the thrill of doing stupid stuff in things that won’t draw down your experience levels and cussing yourself out for doing it, to me, makes it all worth while. Nothing more fun than going out committing suicide in something that doesn’t draw down that experience level and getting rewarded for it when it’s all over. Yeah, I’m talking about doing campaign battles. Having someone with you in a party while doing this makes it even more fun, because you have someone to share the laugh with or just plain get aggravated with you because of the stuff you are doing.

Well, I must cut this short, I just saw that some Yagudo’s are attacking in Sauromugue Champaign. I might be from San d’Oria right now in the past, but my loyalty is always Windurst.