…Starts past old ground, does it not? Still, in only an hour or so of playing on launch day, I’m already kicking and punching at the same level (notwithstanding relative EXP curves) I left off in FFXIV. And honestly, it’s hard to imagine returning to that uninspired drudgery, much less the aimless grinding of the legacy game, when this has lore. Look, up in the sky! It’s Superman …and me!
暗悪 健太 (9:00:09 AM): Flight, Bruce Lee/Ryu fighting abilities
暗悪 健太 (9:00:19 AM): And some power that lets me control beautiful women
暗悪 健太 (9:00:25 AM): = Mental powers
jaeworkim (9:00:29 AM): …
jaeworkim (9:00:36 AM): please add that to your blog
As my faithful reader will attest, I’m just not one for screenshotting; in fact, it could be I lack a trigger finger for any sort of photography whatsoever. Capture with my memory, I’ve been telling myself, and imprint the experiences upon my soul, which will of course do a whole lot of good once it’s all been demagnetized by dementia. Lesser case in point: the Scarecrow instance was far more difficult than I remembered from beta, but one last go at it reminded me the crowded sewer leading up to the boss fight was indeed a comical hark back to the Atari reset switch (where the groove was more there than in the game, and I’d hit it even when unnecessary), and I hadn’t actually leveled up elsewhere beforehand. I ought to have preserved the moment the good professor went down right as I did to his band of cronies, luckily awarding his arrest with ~15/100 durability left on my gear. Oh, and afterward a flamer with wings shouted a compliment for my otherwise bland Mad Max-inspired getup, but I hadn’t yet figured out to press the Start button to bring up the chat menu, so I rudely walked off and teleported away.
Probably the last I’ll ever see of FFXI, after I check the latest lotto numbers:
Level 15 now, and still soloing, so I’ve been back and forth between Gotham and Metropolis holding off the boss fights for as long as there’s EXP from the lead-up quests. Trigon was a PITA, but only because he and his daughter throws each of the Titans at you, and naturally Nightwing is more effective against you than with. And lucky me, choosing flight, Zazzala was easy enough to punch in the air. Though she might have benefited from the oversexed artwork from Morrison’s JLA.
…And in my feeble attempt to make one or two, I applied to just about the only league on the server with a website, but in keeping with my Larry David-like petulance, am so turned off by their logo that I had to propose another—
“S” is most prominent [as their name is “Solidarity”], of course, but Batman’s ears are there, as is Wonder Woman’s bus—um, “W”. Oh, and if you’re understandably not in tune with my artistic sensibilities, no worries, I’ll reserve my copyright on it in case I ever come back [because the wife’s pregnant] and start a league called SuicideThe wife being pregnant isn’t certain, but as I learned last time, it provides an excellent excuse from commitment to online life. As if I really needed one?SquadSurvivors or something.
The reason I still can’t bring myself to cancel my S/E account: FFXIV, which will probably look like the upgrade it should’ve been by the time it goes P2P.
Seems the ability to dodge bullets was one of my iconic powers, after all. Latest patch brought with it an AH, but it seems to work like eBay, wait and all, rather than FF’s “Buy It Now”. Seeing the potential for incremental gains in Might may be tempting, but I think I’ll save the purse for repairs, knowing what little difference stats make and not whether the items are just an instance away. So it’s back to drawing. I moved him over next to Static in honor of Dwayne McDuffie.
The league might as well be the whole server, as low as the population’s been post-post-update, so I went ahead with the idea I’ve been entertaining of creating a character on the villains’ side. I’d already decided with my go-to colors; it was just a matter of selecting from the available starting costume pieces.
I’d blow through most of those NQ sodas my first long night on what I’d learn was a two-part mission, but after noticing the glowing chest at the entrance to T.O. Morrow’s always dropped a Supreme, the alt pretty much lost its value. My fifth attempt (and third solo) would produce my first purple item of the game.
Not that I’ll ever do all those quests again or try for even a single of the same random drops to re-roll on a more populated server (read: not dead), but it was fun as an exercise …or is it? I wonder if the name Emma Peel is available?
Got back into the game for the few nights or so (including the two I just AH’d) that it took to collect the ten tablets of the Great Ten for the Raiden hat:
Hey look, I still play this game! Seriously, not many can say that anymore, what with the “hack” downtime and the lack of anything new to do after it came back, but sorry 남재, Mortal Kombat won’t let me screenshot.
This is their idea of progress? No, I don’t think I’m going back there.
Saw a lot of this during my first raids, since I ran around like a headless chicken and didn’t know what to avoid. Wait, I still do that. I just avoid everything.
And as much as I hate not being able just to up and punch and kick the bad guys (even when most bosses in any game one-shot you if you get close enough), last week I got an epic bow, which at +20 dps my blue claws or whatever, makes Martial Arts a hobby. Now if only there was a way to beef up Mental.老婆 is up every night with 犀利人妻, once until 3:30am, at which ungodly hour of course I was just logging off after a run of Hard Alerts. Such is a working marriage. Last night I only got the guys together for Ra’s and Ace Chemicals, and while that arguably more useful mask which I had stupidly needed on before and lost didn’t drop again, I did manage to beat two other lotters on this rarer item:
Should’ve screenshotted it, but last night I ran ‘troller in Outer, my first time at it (other than when I accidentally switched roles last week—and still came out on top), and more than doubled one of our officer’s dedicated alts, as well as coming in a close third behind the dps-er not 83-pt. Echo. Power Out was 350 or 380K, Damage Out over 200. Of course it helped that I had meteors to TK, but either others tag-team power-regen in a more balanced way, or I focused on the work and my partner just didn’t, even if I am paying more attention to drops for styles and neglecting to keep Menace up. I also have to remember that Grandeur and Bastion are usable when controlled. And to watch out for hate. It’s not as valuable a position on the team as healing, nor as hard to come by in this game, but at least I can better qualify for Watchtower shouts. Oh, and figure out how to keep Flurry Shot after respecing back, unless I pull 2 more skill points outta my ass.
Only took five months, but I finally managed to fill every slot with purples:
—Of course, it’s mainly rot Controller gear, and I’d just as soon swap in the Swamp Thing trinket, but nonetheless an accomplishment I couldn’t conceive of before leaguing it up. Sadly, the game is going the way of Free Realms, and 老婆 expects me to be as bored as she is on nights she isn’t occupied with Glee concerts or shoe-shopping, so I might have to bid my buddies farewell for now.
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