If you have ever worn this combo:
That is, crimson legs + goliard feet…
…You are a fashion nightmare. STOP IT.
And actually, looking at that specific picture, that Morrigan’s Robe doesn’t exactly add anything either.
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This is my bird, Kikuichimonji:
He is my pride and joy. I bred and raised him for racing. His stats are: Strength: SS He is, through and through, a racing bird. When equipped with a Speed Apple, he wins most races… Except for C1 races and the Passhow Swamptrot. It’s not like he’s placing Second or Third in a C1 race. He goes from placing first in a C2 to not placing. That means I’m out 10,000 gil on top of 74 chocobucks. There’s very little I can do besides change his item, and anything that’s not a Speed Apple isn’t worth using at all. If I had not maxed out his Strength or Endurance, then I could equip a different saddle on him to improve his stats, but because I maxed out his racing stats (since, y’know, he’s a fucking racing bird) there’s really nothing I can do about it. And don’t get me fucking started on the Swamptrot… Hey look, the sheep and the rabbit each use Sheep Charge and Wild Carrot three times. That’s totally cool and fair. Just another example of, “Hey, look, I did everything right. Oh well, too bad for me!” First of all, I’d like to thank the dipshit who has decided to take this time, with the influx of khroma ore after Bonanza, to skill-up his smithing skill to 100 and keeping the price of said ore at 500k, rather than try and let the market crash for a little while so everybody benefits. You are a very valuable member of this game, and I hope that your myopia and impatience (while not unexpected) continue to serve you well. Anyway. If there is a time in which how awful I am at the endgame has shown itself, it has been upgrading this Ares Body. I got the pieces back in October/Novemberish. I didn’t seriously start trying to upgrade this body until January. It’s now February. I have four ingots, with materials for two more ready to be made. Obtaining gil has always been difficult. My strategy before (and had worked well) was to play the market, namely buy things low, and sell things high. This is how I was able to fund assorted PLD pieces and most of my WAR gear. However, age has taken its toll on this game. Through repeated bouts of inflation and stagnation, all the gil in this game has been more or less consolidated into two groups: HNMLSes and RMTs (at least on Hades). Through my own myopia, I burned most of the HNMLS bridges a few years back since I didn’t want to be a part of that corrupt, insidious nonsense of ePenis waving and faux elitist bullshit. I hadn’t expected for them to simply just start fucking selling everything that dropped, but I guess everyone wants a fucking relic weapon. And RMT is, well, RMT. It just cheapens the victory. Plus I’m poor and can’t afford to throw that kind of money around. So I joined a sky merc linkshell. Again. Because I never fucking learn ever. After about two weeks of piss-poor payouts and remembering how much I hate sky, that didn’t last. Spending twelve hours a week to MAYBE get a million gil wasn’t even close to worth it. I could spend those twelve hours mining Zhayolm. Getting two khroma ore in those twelve hours would actually meet the best expectations in mercing a sky linkshell. Oh, and thanks to the other linkshells selling Haidate for 3.5m, forcing us to meet that price to stay competitive. You’re cool people. What my Dyna linkshell hit roughly on Dyna-Tav over the weekend. 18 Hornets Total AF/-1 gained: DRK Hat x2, DRK body, WAR legs. I honestly don’t know if that’s a decent amount of mobs hit. It feels like it is. Especially when you can only bring 18 people for two hours, and there was an unfortunate wipe towards the end. What I do know: It’s a bit fucking tiresome doing DynaTav over and over again to barely get any -1. It’s also really stupid to put a megaboss in a zone that does absolutely nothing upon a kill. Alpha male nerd rage chokes this game from ever progressing, since if you ever give a complement or acknowledge something, it translates into showing weakness and you have to be alpha male at all times. You can’t ever really demonstrate to people that -x- works. If you ever want to convince anyone of anything, you have to have Ph.Ds, with degrees in astrophysics and quantitative analysis, show with graphs and charts how -x- is better than -y-. And then you have to post it everywhere and anywhere multiple times, before players start to realize -x- works. But it’s even the simple shit that I notice sometimes. You would be shocked at how many rangers I’m seeing not use Camouflage since it’s been updated. And Square-Enix has flat out told us what the updated Camouflage does. Short of things like Hastega II and Refreshga II, the playerbase doesn’t ever really give a shit. It’s kind of sad. I haven’t been leaving many comments lately… I’ll try and fix that. |
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