Ares's Cuirass

  I have finally recieved my Ares's body. I am extremely happy about recieving such a useful and rare equipment. I have many people to thanks for this. Tajoker and Animan really helped me out financially, Novalox and Bugsbunny's leadership in salvage also deserves recognition. 

  With this new body piece, I will need to change my DRK and WAR set up in order to perform at my full potential. I also need to buy equipment I have sold in order to fund the Ares's Cuirass. Therefore, many changes are still to come and I am looking forward to them. 

Farewell THF!

  I respect every person and their respective jobs and I also respect their love and dedication to those jobs. When I first created my character, I chose Thief as it's primary job. It was a struggle to get to level 30. Once I did, I decided to unlock Dark Knight because the concept of a destructive knight of darkness caught my attention more than another or Primary or Advanced job. Soon after I leveled DRK to 75, I felt that I owed some respects to THF because it help me start out and understand the game as I leveled it. I soon found myself with a level 75 THF. I enjoyed leveling THF much more than I enjoyed DRK. However, I had a huge attachment to my DRK. 

  As I got involved in endgame, My THF was of great use. I helped others get the items they need via the THF "Treasure Hunter" abilities, I attended events on THF to get items for DRK, and I used my THF to gather items and materials to sell for profit. Although my THF was very busy, my DRK received most of the rewards and equipment. My DRK grew but my THF did not. At this point it was clear that I was much more stronger and useful as a Dark Knight.

  Although I felt stronger on DRK, linkshell leaders found my THF to be more useful whenever they needed the Treasure Hunter ability. Nearly 90% of End-Game events required me to attend as THF. At this point I started to dislike THF, I felt used and weak. I had no other purpose but to attack monsters to activate that Treasure Hunter ability that has hindered my power as a player. 

  At this point, I became furious whenever I was asked to come THF to End-Game events. As a result I leveled a job similar to DRK but held more popularity, Warrior. Although my warrior grew just as powerful as my beloved DRK, it did not prove to be a solution to my THF dilemma. This made me hate my THF.... the job that helped me experience FFXI as a rookie. I had so much hate for this job, that I took immediate action and I was going to make sure this action solved my problem.

  My THF is no longer leveled to be useful in End-Game. I spent an entire night allowing monsters to kill me so my THF would loose experience and ultimately level down. Many respected this decision, others hated me for it. As it stands now, I am happy. I get to evenly attend events on the two jobs I love. I was so relieved about the thought of never being THF again that I leveled a new job, Paladin. Although new and undergeared, my PLD is growing. In time my three jobs will achieve great things, but for now I must bid farewell to my thf. A job I truely hate.

  

Homam (can I have it?)

Yesterday I attended the 8th Proto-Omega run in which I have gained nothing. During the bidding process, I did win the bid for Homam hands, but I only won the bid because my competition who has nearly three times as much points as I do decided to be nice. Having this once in a life time chance of getting homam, Two Head pieces and a body piece dropped. This is clearly telling me that my Dark Knight and Paladin have a rather small chance of improving to the best of their abilities. I am clearly incredibly furious on how everyone is moving forward while I get left behind, for those like myself who are looking for homam, they have a much more greater chance than I do.




On a lighter side, I am getting relatively close to Ares's Cuirass(Body). I am now 200,000g away from my 9th Imperial Wootz Ingot out of the 12 needed. I must thank Tajoker who gave me a huge donation of 4,300,000g the day he decided to quit the game. When I started investing into ingots, I did feel like I was going to recieve some type of help to achieve my goal, but I did not think it would be at the cost of loosing a friend in the game. Before he logged off for the final time, I gave Tajoker my Deathbringer, The very same Great Sword I used to unlock my favorite job. Clearly, a little bit of me dies with him.