… on the upside…
I got my third merit into Slow II for Red Mage. I’ll need another 5 merit points to get it to level 4. When that happens, my Red Mage will be re-capped on merits again. From there, it will be another twenty merits (or 200,000 experience points) to re-cap Bard merits and for Dragoon… I just lost count. ^^; I’m debating whether to go 5/5 Angon, 4/5 Deep Breathing, and possibly 1/5 Empathy or go 5/5 Angon and 5/5 Deep Breathing.
*sigh* Decisions, decisions…
With KillingIfrit.com getting an updated forum code, one of the first things I did since it seemed fun to do was update my “About Me” page right away found here.
The old forums never had that feature, so I decided to put something about myself in it.
Two things that surprised me tonight:
It’s rare for me to receive compliments in this game. I don’t ask of it and don’t require it, but it’s nice to hear them sometimes.
The first picture is someone complimenting my BRD and RDM. Knowing how humble I can be, I never consider any of my jobs something I’m ever really good at, or something I’m very well geared in. I just play it like they should be played, and I do so to the best of my ability. Lately, I’ve been playing BRD too often, and I’v already stopped complaining about bringing another job instead. I’m slowly getting used to coming BRD, and have been doing so for the past two years already; well, three years if counting Relics LS. Even seeing the second comment about my DRG suprised me. There are better, well-equipped DRGs in my LS and outside of it. I don’t consider mine that well-equipped….
I do wish I could play my other jobs though. I leveled RDM and DRG for a reason– because I enjoyed them and had fun leveling them. It’s why I decided to take DNC to 75 next after DRG instead of WAR. It felt unique, interesting, and much more enjoyable than any other job I leveled so far. My 66 WAR felt too redundant, and my WHM and SCH felt like I was leveling RDM again without the Refresh. I love my RDM, but I would love to see something new at the very least.
I worry many times when it comes to lotting an item. If I lot something for my DRG or RDM, will my LS mates frown upon it? Will they say in LS chat, “This person doesn’t even play that job often, why should that person lot on that item?” Will they do that to me?
I’m like every other player in this game, probably less selfish and greedy than some, that wants to gear up their jobs they have leveled to the best possible. In my LS, nothing LS, I have asked very little and seldomly never ask anything. I go to Sky events and haven’t gotten anything more than a Kirin’s Osode. I’m already done in Sky unless I level another job to 75. Yet, I still go.
The only other items I ask so far is Altruistic Cape for RDM and Love Torque for DRG. But, will it be fair for me to ask for them seeing I rarely bring RDM and DRG to events? Would it be fair to my LS mates? Will they hate me for lotting on them?
Those thoughts run through my head every time I do an event in any LS I am in now, even with my current one.
I’ve already postponed upgrading my Relic Horn and decided to use the money I got from selling the Stage 2-to-Stage 3 currencies to gear up my RDM a little better and to level Smithing.
I wonder if I should even bring another job to 75 now after Dancer is finished. Will I even be allowed to bring that job to LS events?
I play the game to have fun and to spend time with the friends I have. Gear comes second and even third or last to me. If the gear I want drops and I am allowed to lot it, I will lot it. But, why bring another job to 75 if I can’t even play it as often as I’d like to?
I don’t want an LS dictate to me what job I should and should not play as. I want to play the jobs that I know I enjoy playing as.
And, for that, I am happy that a sackholder let me stay on DRG for the entire time in Sky farming tonight.
I miss my DRG, and I miss playing it often. I’d be more motivated to gear it up if I could play it more. The same applies to my RDM.
Currently, I have this thought now: “Why bother spending the time and money gearing up a job I know I will rarely play it at 75?”
Because I enjoy those jobs most.