So it’s been over a month since I last updated on FFXI. >_>
A lot more has happened than I thought did. And being in college, half of my stuff (screenshots) are on my desktop at home, and the other half is here on my laptop (from where I am writing this).
Lets see… Well, on 11/12 I got my first subligar piece (THF), and traded it in for a new harness!
And, on 11/20 (8 days later), I bought a new grip (as the old one I had wasn’t good enough for me :p).
I had an image of it, but for some reason Photoshop decided to save the photo but not put anything into it (0 KB file). Strange. Anyway, the Pole Strap gives +2% Double Attack rate.
That’s it for new gear (that I can remember), the only big thing I was up to this month was leveling. I got Thief up to level 69 (party rate plummeted, so I’ve stopped for awhile), and have now taken up Scholar, which is level 20.
Scholar is a lot like RDM. At these low levels, I do a lot of main healing, and some nuking on the side. It’s not very exiting at the moment (probably because I’ve been having nothing but bad luck with leveling), but hopefully it’ll get cooler later on. Having more stratagems will be nice, I’m 5 levels away from the -50% cast time one. For those who don’t know, Stratagems are abilities that Scholar uses to enhance the next magic spell they cast. At level 10, you get one that will halve the MP cost of the next spell, at level 25 you get one that will decrease cast time by 50%, and there are two more after that.
Scholar will be a neat subjob in some ways. Using it as a subjob for BLM will be nice, as it will increase my Elemental, Dark and Enfeebling magic at the same time, decrease MP of spells, and decrease casting time as well. However, with /SCH, I will lose my ability to buff (no blink, stoneskin, etc). Using it as a subjob for RDM would also be cool, but I lose WHM specific spells (such as erase), so I’m not sure if I’ll be using SCH as a subjob for anything.
As for College, it’s gotten pretty hectic. Teachers are trying to cram what they haven’t taught us yet into class, and assigning a lot more homework than what was previously given. If only College got easier as time went on, not harder. 
There’s now only two more weeks remaining in the semester. Next week is the last academic week, and the week after that is final exams (except for the Monday of that week, for some weird reason that has to do with the way classes were scheduled). My exam times are nice, two on Wednesday and one on Thursday. Uhoh, looking at this, it seems I have two final exams on Thursday at the same time. >_> Guess I’ll have to go speak to my advisor telling him how I can’t be at my Math and Freshman orientation at the same time. Baw!
One last thing, FoxyTunes (a plugin for Firefox that lets me control my music player while I browse) put a little button in the WYSIWYG editor (what I use to make this post), which allows me to insert what I’m listening to while I’m writing it. Pretty cool. :3
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Now playing: Muse - Take a Bow
via FoxyTunes
