So, breaking out the coding shoes after such a long break, I’ve decided to slim down some options on WITT to try and get a fully functional version out.
The idea of linking abilities and whatnot is going to be on hold for awhile. At least until wowhead adds an xml sheet for all of them. ;) (Not a big fan of having to parse through web pages for info. :x)
Anyhow, GERMAN!
[Alcors Sonnenschneide]
I’m going to brush up the language selection stuff a bit more, work on the options panel, get the xml parser finished again, and that leaves all new features/fixes done. The big issue is that it still doesn’t work for some people. Leaving me to one of two possible ideas: a. cURL isn’t enabled on their servers, or b. the plugin load order is screwy.
I’m going to try and get some research done on both of those issues this week.. Hopefully. Internet still is crapping out on me… Haven’t got to play WoW in a week. ;)
I’ll never get my shaman to 70. -_-’
*random*
Anyone out there wanna Brawl? My usual brawl buddies are all occupied. :P
So, most of my hosting issues are smoothed out; well, most, I still have a couple. But besides that, the past week has been somewhat interesting!
First off, Derian poked me quite a bit on Thanksgiving to get around to doing something. What was that something? Windurst 9-2. Well, since I had been needing to actually finish getting Rank 10, I agreed and we proceeded to find people to go. We pulled together 5 people who needed the mission, and Caita gladly helped us with our plight. But one of the members was still on 9-1, which seriously took too long. Sadly, a few hours after we planned to have start, we were all on the 9-2 mission, got the verses and were all ready for the BC! Now the BC… Is stupidly easy. Our setup for this was as follows: 75NIN, 75THF, 75WHM, 75WHM, 75BLM, 75 SAM. For the first part of the BC we just slept the Cardians and killed them in order of PLD > RDM > BLM > WHM. (Or I believe that was the order; it does not matter since they were ridiculously easy.) We held the WHM alive for a bit for our WHMs to heal up, but they did not need long and we were ready to move on! So, the next part, we let the NPC decide which to fight, and he chose the manticore, which gave Derian the wyvern to kite/tank. We made short work of both of them, and watched a rather nifty cut scene. Then we took a brisk walk through Sarutabaruta and arrived in Windurst; quickly making our way to Heaven’s Tower to get the last cut scenes, and our coveted rank up. A few minutes later, I was awarded with Rank 10, 100,000 gil and a Windurstian Flag.
I think it goes great on my wall…
A few days later, Berrie, Caita, Vagus and I decided we would go spelunking in Phomiuna Aqueducts and maybe, just maybe end up with some panties? Well, needless to say, fun times were had by all and we had a very good night that night. Plus I walked away with two new fashionable pieces of armor.
Very happy to get both of them, since they’re both going to my new jobs in which I’ve decided to take a liking. Hopefully I’ll be able to wear them soon, since BRD has kind of been slow leveling for me lately. I managed to go from 13 to 30 in two days, but then nearly a week lately I’ve only managed a measly 34… But I can’t blame anyone, Auronku has been working on his final projects, Grim’s been working, Caita’s been working and learning, and I’ve been lazy. Well, not lazy, more like allocating my time into non-productive things, like my DS or my Wii.
Which I’ll say it now, Twilight Princess is amazing. Beautiful graphics, and the music takes me back to some of the older Zelda games. But as for any Zelda game lately, the first 2-3 hours of it drive me insane with the constant “HAAY L1NK! HEEARZ UR 5W()R|)!! ZMOG U N33D 2 LRN HOW 2 YOOS EET!” Yep, I really hate the first couple hours… All in all, I’m having fun, I need to play it more, I really want to do so too.
But back to XI! I broke up my WAR the other day also, and leveled with Berrie and Vagus again. Fun times were had by all, or at least me; I can’t read minds yet.
We ended up camping in Caedarva Mire @ G-10 through the Dvucca Isle Staging Point, near the entrance to Alzadeel Undersea Ruins. As you can tell we fought fomor, and they actually were very easy. They fell pretty fast, and gave decent experience. (200+ on chain 5s at Lv68) They use the same TP moves as any of the fomor from CoP areas, so you don’t have to expect anything crazy. But they do aggro to job abilities and weapon skills, which did cause us quite a few links, but they were easily disposed.
And through all the panic and mayhem of said party…
Finally, I got off my lazy ass and skilled up my great axe! It’s not completely capped, but I did manage to hit these fomor without much trouble. (about 30-40acc + sushi) With the exception of when I had accuracy down from one of the TP moves, but that can be erased so it’s not a big deal.
After that party, we took another adventure into the Aqueducts again, this time it was for Caita’s mission. The minotaur was a piece of cake, so easy that I think Berrie and Caita had fallen asleep…
Also, I did some more of ToAU story too! I’m just working on finishing up the latest patch’s story before the next one hits us in a couple weeks. But, from what I’ve gotten so far, the storyline keeps drawing me into it. I’m curious to find out where SE does next.
Also, Aphmau is cute.
After a few years of being homesick, and since Caita was thinking about doing it already. I decided to move myself back to the republic.
It feels good to be back in the cold, dingy Bastok… Somehow, I missed it. Maybe it was the snooty San d’Orians that made me want to come home, or the cheery-weery Tarutarus that drove me insane. I don’t know, but it sure does feel nice to be Bastokan once more.
And finally, in my never ending quest to help Caita with CoP, we ventured into Riverne Site – #A01. We knew we had to get two Giant Scales to be able to make it to the BC area, so we tried farming on a few different occasions, and we realized that these wyvern are stingy!
They were practically throwing some body parts at us, except the aforementioned parts. A few hours later would render us with two scales though, and a one way ticket to the BC!
So, after poking around my friends list, I pulled Zim back into the world of Vana’diel to help us with our plight. Making our setup: NIN/WAR, NIN/WAR, NIN/WAR, WHM/BLM, WHM/BLM, WHM/BLM. Yep, 3NIN, 3WHM. Supposedly one of the best setups there was for this fight. And we were pretty confident as we used our Samberrie Fisher skills to make it to the BC, where we decided on our strategy; Berrie and I would kite two of the Mammets, with Martigan and Caita healing us, while Vagus and Zim would fight the third.
Things pretty much went as planned, except I swear mine was BLM two-thirds of the time and kept spamming -ga magic, which kept kitting Berrie. Maybe I just suck at kiting, who knows? Anyhow, Vagus killed his off eventually, and I brought mine. We killed that one easily, and then we all assaulted Berrie’s poor Mammet; giving us the win! We all then quickly dispersed, and went our separate ways, planning for Diabolos… Congratulation Caita!
That’s all I got for now,
-Cheers.
So, yesterday I went up to EB Games, and acquired one (1) Wii gaming console. After talking to the legendary JJ for a bit, then proceeded to drive home at more than normal speeds.
After getting it home, I eagerly set it up, and realized just how small the system is in size. Three DVD cases. Seriously. But after getting it set up, and the sensor bar in place on top my TV, I started to officially play with my Wii.
It took some slight getting use to, and hell, I’m still not even all with it yet. Fun is the word that comes to my mind though, from the little bit I did get to play…
I quickly got upset that sometime stole my Wavebird for my GameCube so I wasn’t able to play any of my GC games or some of the Virtual Console titles (which require the Retro/GameCube controllers to play.) So, a little annoyied, I put down my wiimote and walked away.
From what Phil played of Zelda though, it looks amazing. I can’t wait to actually play it myself, but I’m incredibly back logged on all my gaming as it is, so I don’t know when I’ll be getting to it… Plus, I’m really liking FFIII for my DS.
