So this is a big, random, congrats to my Limbus shell, Shenanigans, for finally breaking the drought and getting not one but *2* Homam Corazza’s off of Omega in the last two runs, after not seeing *ANY* for over a year!

This is also how the Random Number Generator of FFXI is making plays to suck me back in. “Oh look Etain, Omega’s Hearts really do exist! Come back and play again and I’m sure one will drop for you once you’re eligible to lot!”

I will not fall for your evil trickery! I know as soon as I start attending again, and hit the magic number to lot on boss drops that all of a sudden it will be nothing but hands, feet, and hats again! I have you figured out!

(But I am so weak, oh good lord…)

In other drop news… I’ve gotten a big fat goose egg the last few weeks off raid stuffs. I think I used up all my luck snagging 2 pieces of Tier 8 gear from Vault of Archavon (and 1 piece of PvP gear, rawr~). I got brought along on a Naxx-25 Monday night, rolled on the few 3 or so things that would have been an upgrade for me, and did not win one roll. Including the token for my god damn Tier 7.5 hat (aside from the fact it’s a pretty glowy halo, it’s a significant improvement over what I’m currently wearing on my Discipline set. I’ve lost the roll for either the t.7 or t.7.5 about 4 times now. I’m starting to get annoyed D:<). I rolled on a ring, a pair of boots, and the token and every time my roll was painful. PAINFUL. My good friend got the shit pimped out of him though, since he was the only one who really needed any plate tanking stuff. I have to say though, it was mildly irritating to watch him roll a 1, no one else roll against him, and the loot just rain down from the heavens for him (love ‘ya Kad, XD hehehe).

Ah well. Tonight is Ulduar-10 (in theory anyway… who knows if we’ll have enough people…), so if all goes well, maybe Flame Leviathan will be nice to me. :< Tomorrow I got invited to an Ulduar-25… I can only hope as Shadow and not Discipline… so perhaps I’ll get lucky there, too. We’ll see.

I’m not going to hold my breath though. Do we need to be reminded of the last time I got hopeful for drops? I didn’t think so.

So first things first. Last week’s goals and how I fared:

Druid to 75.

Achieved! I actually surpassed this, and got her to 76 on Saturday. I was bleary-eyed by the time I finished, but only have 4 more levels to go! Besides, I had way too much fun ganking Horde cloth-wearers (and a stray Paladin) along the way on Saturday! XD

Midsummer Festival Achievements on my Priest.

Achieved! Blew through them all the day I posted this goal, made ~700 gold from collecting fires, only to be rewarded with all the fires being reset on Tuesday! Free money FTW!

Do a full week of Argent Tournament dailies on my Priest without missing a day!

Failed. D: I missed two days. ._.; However, I got enough to snag my Darnassus Tabard so gonna save for the pets next, then *maybe* save for the Hippogryph. We’ll see.

Powerlevel my Druid’s Herbalism to ~300ish.

Failed. D: I got it to 150. Was gonna try to push it to 300 yesterday, but kinda burned out. x_x

Soo… this week’s goals!

- Druid to at least 77. Hitting 77 means Cold-Weather Flying, which means being able to fly in Northrend *and* finally able to start Argent Tourney dailies on my Druid!

- 300 Herbalism on my Druid. I will do it. I swear.

- Save as close to 5000 gold as I can for Esa’s Epic flying. I have about 2000 gold saved up now, but half of that will disappear to pay for Cold-Weather Flying. If I suck it up and re-do the Midsummer fires on Binya, and do them on Esa as well, I should have a nice chunk banked. We’ll see! (I may have to resort to offering my Tailoring and/or Alchemy services in Trade chat. D: )

- Do either Ulduar-10 or 25 this week, and Naxx-25. I need Valor Emblems for 1 more PvP piece, and I’d like to bank some more Conquest Emblems and maybe *sigh* PUG it as a healer to try to upgrade some of my Discipline gear. We’ll see how that goes though. :X

Onto other things…

I was reading up on the new add-on scenario coming out for FFXI this weekend, A Moogle Kupo d’Etat, and I think I might suck up and buy it. :O The screenies look funny as hell, and I like a funny storyline every now and again. :3 Plus the rewards aren’t bad, which also have me seriously contemplating buying A Crystalline Prophecy and blowing through it for the body for my THF. Am I that crazy? Sometimes yes, yes I am.

So, now that my work schedule here in the real world has returned to that of a normal person and not some nocturnal zombie like I usually am, I have about 3-4 extra hours before raid times to play with. Much as I’ve (unsuccessfully) done in the past with FFXI, I think I want to set some goals for the week!

- Druid to 75. I hit 74 last night thanks to some help from my close friend, and I’m about ~25% on my way to 75. 75 is a goal for me because I can finally use the two Alchemy trinkets I can make for myself- Mighty Alchemist Stone for mah kitty set, and Mercurial Alchemist Stone for mah boomkin set. Besides, once I hit 75, I’m that much closer to 77 which means then I can buy Cold-Weather Flying and finally start flying around Northrend!

- Midsummer Festival Achievements on my Priest. The summer festival started yesterday in WoW, and with it a list of achievements I’d like to knock out for an eventual Violet Proto-Drake (assuming it’s still around by the time I finish up the Children’s Week stuff next year). On top of that, there’s the chance to score two companion pets (which, if I can get both, would put me at 62/75 on the way to my Little Fawn’s Salt Lick), so I’d really like to try to knock them out as soon as possible. Plus… I just like holiday events in MMO’s for some reason. Summerfest in FFXI is one of my favorites as well.

- Do a full week of Argent Tournament dailies on my Priest without missing a day! Aside from needing the money (need 6000 gold to get my Duid epic’d out for flying by 77!), I need to suck it up and collect Champion’s Seals to get my hippogryph done so I can start buying a new companion pet every 8 days (1 day of dailies = 5 seals, the companion pets cost 40 seals), plus after that I wanted to get myself the Darnassus Tabard. So yeah. It’ll be nice whenever 3.2 goes live, since there’ll be more Champion Seal-rewarding dailies… but also more stuff to spend my seals on! D:

- Powerlevel my Druid’s Herbalism to ~300ish. I did it on Binya in about 2 weeks, but that’s because I was doing it here and there. I’d really like to get Esa’s up to Northrend-friendly levels to try to get it to 450 as soon as I can, so I can start banking some money and powerlevelling Binya’s replacement profession to 450 (once Esa gets 450 Herbalism, I’m going to drop Herbalism on Binya and pick up wither Inscription or Jewelcrafting… just haven’t decided which yet).

Sooo… that’s my plan for the week. We’ll see this time next week how much I actually achieved. They’re not *too* crazy, so hopefully I can get all 4 of them done… or at the very least, 2 out of the 4.

Debating about what to do with my FFXI account again. I played for like… 2 days. Falc keeps trying to get me to play again (but he wants me to gear up either my WHM or RDM and play with him… I’m kind of tired of being everyone’s healing bitch, to be quite honest) but I’m just… not feeling it. Next month is Summerfest, one of my favorite in-game holidays (I love the yukatas and goldfish scooping… and I may be crazy but I really enjoy the music in the towns and fireworks :3), and I sort of want to maybe do the event for it, but I dunno. Like I said, I already shelled out $12.95 to play for 2 days… don’t know if I want to do that again, honestly. We’ll see, I suppose. :<

Yes yes, I know I was promising for like, the last 4 months that I was going to do a minor overhaul of the website. The reason I didn’t do it was… okay, I was lazy. I needed to download and reinstall AltanaView (after completely reinstalling FFXI) and needed to re-find and install the WoW Modelviewer. Even then, I wasn’t sure where I was going to go with the redesign.

Then a few days ago, I had an epiphany about a new subtitle-y thing. Then BAM. Inspiration. (Which is usually how it works with me.)

So there you go. A Bardlet’s Tale: Between Two Worlds. My blog is now FFXI and WoW friendly, officially. :3

Of course, when FFXIV comes out, I’ll have to do another revamp… XD

When you do things like solo heal the last ~40% of Sapphiron with the 2 other healers dead on the floor, and you end with less than 1k mana and no one else dead… it does not make a good case for being let off the hook as a healer and getting to go DPS instead.

*sigh*