I bow to thee: Xamertaru --==75 White mage==--

Today my closest and most beloved Final fanatsy fiend...err...friend attained the pinnacle of achievement by reaching the long-awaited 75!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!

I can't wait to grind out all those merits with you Xamer and finally etch ourselves a place in decent end-game orientated ls that deserves out quirky and awesome skills! I can't think of anyone who has dedicated more time, advice and support to everyone in game and out and who is more deserving.

Kudos! Kudos! Kudos!

Success! 2-5 Ancient Vows: Completed!

ALL RIGHT~!~!~!

So after a VERY shaky start I can officially announce that I have passed 2-5 and am now upto 3-5 "Darkness Named" aka Diabolos fight :D

After not being able to sleep all last night I finally resigned myself to the fact that sleep just wasn't on the cards for me due to my excitement. So At 1am I started up FF and decided to do the Choco exp quest while I waite duntil 3am for the static to log in. But at about 2:30am I relaised daylight savings had ended the same day it had begun for us and instead of it being 3am...it was now a 5am gathering time Y.Y Unfortunately our designated Ninja (Froce>> must now die) did not even show up!! GRR >:D time wasters

So as 5am rolled around so did the other members. Unfortunately we were 7/6 with a spare *terrible* RDM and we headed off into riverine to farm 2 scales after tracking down a spare Ninja(and wasting 3 hours!). Unfortunately we must have farmed for upwards of an hour with no drops and we were well and truly pissed by then, add onto that about 3 total wipes from constant linking/agro from the true sight Hippos.

Eventually we made it to the Monarch Linn and proceeded in with very little planning...which led to the only wipe of the day (things looking better). We re-evaluated our kiting directions and we tried again. IT WAS VERY CLOSE! As the first one dropped the other Smn (Odjaru) surrendered his to the melee as he attempted Astral Flow. Unfortunately almost as soon as the second was at 50% I was Thundaga'd and picked off leaving a very angry hungry untamed mammet to take care of. By the time the second was felled myself and a Rng were down and out still, thank god for the speedy Whm who got me back up and into the fight so I could Astral Flow us to victory!

So next Monday is Diabolos! Wish me luck xo!!!!

P:S >> here are some non-spoiler piccies for you to enjoy!

Summoning Magic hits 100!

Tiny achievment today ^^

Was awaiting static formation in Riverine and decided to cast Carbuncle for Healing Ruby and voila... I ding 100 for summoning skill. I was pretty happy, albeit my lvl cap @ 47 is actually 144 >.> Can only hope with the recent patch I hit cap soon enough and continue to max it out.

Currently accessing Riverine for 2-5 fight...wish me luck xo

In an effort to power Warrior to 37 Ive been seeking invites all week with very little action (seems to be a MASSIVE lack of tanks in the 20's atm) and have started seeing exp quests as a fast alternative. So for the past 2 weeks I have undertaken the Sandy <> Bastok choco quest for the Dragon Chronicles and decided to solo the Crawlers Nest escort quest for the elusive memoirs.....After about attempt #8 I finally won last night!! weee! Pretty happy with my score too!


So this coupled with the approx. 700 xp I got from the choco quest means I should be taking in an extra 2000+ exp/week towards my less enjoyable jobs :P

Just a few more sexy CoP 2-5 piccies!!

Perhaps the most exciting thing however since my last post was my recent addition to a CoP static named OnebyOne headed by Narnia. I was sought out by Shintaro last week as he knew I had SMN beyond 40 and asked if I was keen to progress, to which I gave an estatic "OMFGYESPRZZZZ!!!"

So we set a time to attempt 2-5 which was Sunday 2pm est US, or 4am Monday morning for me @.@.....However, my determinantion to finally get Diabolos and sea pushed me on. So like clockwork we all gathered together in jeuno at 4am and headed to Tavnazia. It took us approximately an hour to get ready and make our way to the displacement entrance to Riverine site #A01.

We progressed through the zone and luckily collected 2 Dragon Scales on the first 2 dragons we encountered! :D From there it was a simple "follow-the-leader" to the entrance of the arena and there we prepared to meet our biggest mission challenge thus far. The setup was Smn/whm (me), Whm/Blm (Syano), Rng/Nin (Narnia), Rng/NIn (Shintaro), Nin/War (Tiaarin) and Rdm/Whm (Arwin). We basically attempted about 5 times before calling it quits for the day >.>

We came very close 3 of those times killing 1 of the Mammets early on, however our method was for me to kite and Arwin (the Rdm/whm) kiting the second one with Bind > gravity > running like hell! while the third was hit with the melee. However, she admitted (after the 2nd wipe -.-) that she had never kited before and couldnt handle it as her darkness skill was way below the cap and therefore gravity/bind rarely stuck!

After initial furious and heated complaints between the rest of us in /tells we decided to try again with the method of one of the Rangers assisting her kite by gaining hate when her HP was dipping, and the resulting cures would regain hate onto her allowing her to continue kiting. However, the RDM decided this meant she could be slack and just stand still and melee which led to another wipe. As soon as she fell I would have to kite 2 mammets which unfortunately wouldnt last long as Carby was falling faster then I could recast.



We re-scheduled until the same time next week for round 2. However, as I logged in at 4am Narnia announced 2 of the members had RL arrangements and we would re-schedule to Monday morning of the Oct. 30th....thus also allowing time for the RDM to be dropped in replace for another SMN.

So this week saw the Harvest Festival kick in to full swing with a quite exciting storyline this time around I might add. Unlike the last event where it was simply trading endless sweets to the now highly probably obese ghasts and ghouls, you actually ahd to follow 'evil' witches around the starting cities in an effort to discover why they are trapped in limbo.

The rewards, as usual were quite meager, but the Coven Hat was still a nifty addition to my friday night clubbing ensemble :P

The past prizes were still around and insanely easy to acquire so I passed them over and decided to make a few $$ while afk and was suprised to find I sold the $12000 of treats I bought for just over $70000 by jacking the prices in my bazaar for a few hours while i waited for the CoP static!!! Overall, im a happy widdle ghoul!!

This week I finally took the time and started the motions of getting Vivid saddled up for riding. I found the dirty hankerchief ont he longest walk after mnay attempts on the lower runs and eventually took her out for her first run!

She was overall pretty slow but i wasnt shocked as her Strength and endurance were quite low at this point (currently she has 'a bit deficient' for both! :D)

Last week I was bored of the dunes exp grind and after Isa mentioning a quest he was doing in Gobby HQ I decided I'd come say Hi, alas he was gone by the time I arrived so I decided to introduce good ol' Hagun to the faces of some Gobblish friends r(',')r in an attempt to acquire the Movalopolos map, one of the evry last I still need to acquire.

However, on the way out of nowhere I see an unusual site, the lowly NM Maighdean Uaine and thought what the hell and gave it a whack..


Thankfully it wasn't a total waste of a Kasha and I scored me a wicked new accesory to flash to all the dunes dustmites :P


Except, the map was never found as of course the darn chest was in an impossibly hard location, so with my nw bling-bling I headed back to the dunes to whoop some lizzy ass!!!

So although I promised an update, the ever increasing Uni load has taken its toll this past 3 weeks and I havent had a chance. So this will be a massive update!!

Lately I've been considering meriting like mad to get Samurai maxxed ot in Gkt. and Str as well as gain the newer JA's like Overwhelm. Alas, all I ahve for sub is THF37 and never took War beyond 19. So I decided it was about time I made myself more useful (and inturn more appealing to parties) by taking War to 37.

However, I have no sub for War which meant me grinding Ninja to 18. So alas I finally started the grind to the dunes...

I finally got to 18 in about 5 days and am now currently trying to exp War (currently 22) as the invites are VERY slow in this lvl range atm, and doing a search of Qufim Island I noticed that 24/40 ppl in the zone were blatant gilsellers with very simlar names, and 1 group even had NO subjobs -.-....

However, as Xam knows I recieved an invite from one of these gilseller parties last week, which I didnt realise until all fo them had the same linkshell...and the penny finally dropped when out of nowhere w ehad 4...yes 4 PLs! Y.Y

So its all GOGO War atm and will be until I hit 37, from where I will most likely take Nin > 37 also as it seems to be the latest trend in ToAU missions/quests.

Well it's been an incredibly long week....

This week saw me undertake and complete numerous reports which would have sent anyone nuts. Thankfully for me, knowing the end is just around the corner I soldiered on and made it through intact..more or less :s

Stay tuned for more info this week when I have time!

With officially 35 days until I am pens down on my degree I have been swamped with final semester reports, seminars, projects, interviews and the relentless dread of exam study. With graduation not until April, I wil have to wait until then to be deemed Mr. Timothy James Martin Bsc.

Still quite a scary thought to relaise the last four years of back-breaking labour (which I reluctantly paid to endure) and mind-numbing (which comes free with the package deal!) study is finally climaxing to me becoming qualified to get a 'real' respectable job outside of retail. I must admit, however, knowing that in just 1 mere month I'll be free to sleep in till whenever, lie on the beaches of god-knows-where, save monies to disappear... will all become all to real. The set routine of classes, laboratories, tutorials and field trips will all come to an end. Which in all reality will be for the very first time since I started school 16 very long years ago.

To have a degree in anything is a huge accomplishment everyone keeps telling me, but too me i'm very blessed that what I studied, is something that's very true too my heart. To those who don't know what I studied: I completed a Bachelor of Science - Double Major Sustainable Resource Management and Marine Biology degree at The University of Newcastle in NSW Australia (2002-2006).

Living in the dry, arid and relentless heat of the South Australian outback for the majority of my childhood fostered an enormous fascination for the sea and all its complex inhabitants and interactions with the terrestrial environments we know. So being accepted into this degree was more "OMG what fun!" then anything else.

... but so it ends... with me having NO idea where I'm headed. Only knowing that in 2 months time I start my volunteer work at The Australian Museum in the inner Sydney city working in the actual specimen identification and sorting laboratories and will hopefully acquire a full time paid position. Working at the museum will also expose me to the current studies being undertaken both at home and abroad and will allow me to build a solid network with all the respectable international marine scientists. This will allow many more oppurtunitues for career progression and interntaional travel!


So I just wanted to let you know how I'm going, both RL friends/family as well as my extended FF family. I hope you are all well,a nd I'm expecting many fun times (many drunken frolicks) once my final exam concludes at 3:55 pm of November 15th!!!

Cheers, Tim.

P.S: here's the link to my university site >> http://www.newcastle.edu.au/
or, more specifically my campus on the Central Coast >> http://www.ccc.newcastle.edu.au

In preperation to levelling warrior as my second sub for samurai end-game I realised I had no subjob for warrior to take to 37...which meant getting ninja to 18+....eek.

I had to undergo the Tonko and Utsusemi quests in Sea Serpent grotto today and met a very friendly Sahagin who gave me directions...


TO MY DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!.................or not >.> (75SAM FTW!!!!1111)

So over the past few days ive levelled it to 10 finally and have parked Asta in the dunes for what will be undoubtably living hell and unbarable torture as I try to make the progress of lvl 10-18!


Wish me luck!

Well Helllllooooooo!!!

Last night Chris and I went to the Panic! @ The Disco concert in Sydney which went off! It was a totally sold out gig at the massive Hordern pavillion at Fox studios! We actually got there waaay early (like 3pm) even thought he show didnt officially start till 9:30pm that night.




So we decided to go see a movie >>> "The Devil Wears Prada" with Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway (spl?) and it was FANTASTIC!!!! The best movie i've seen this year!

Essays are going....slow >.> but I shall see you all again real soon!

Just wanted to post this pic of me and my partner Chris since I havent had any photos available of him and I together. This one was taken a while back but is still my favourite by far~!



Love you Chrissy!

Just wanted to share this pic I just took in the jungle during double fire weather...the pic just dosent do it justice! The sky would go so red and the entire zone was fire red and occasionally red lightning dashed the sky hitting in the distance. was awe inspiring! Best weather effects ever!

Last Wednesday Xamer and I were bored and I was whining about how I was still a BCNM virgin busting to spend my 300+ seals! So we decided what the hell, lets try the BCNM20: Shooting fish!

We geared up as Summoner duo and headed to the burning circle and entered! Was VERY easy and we won w/out a problem! Managed a pretty average score with a nice Mannequin head to start my collection off on the road to building my very own!! :D

Thanks heaps Xam!!!

Just a quick update for the past few days that ive missed....

Poor Vivid got sick after being exhibited to the public and was injured ><; I hope this dosent affect her too much and I fed her some grass and she was fine again the next day too finally win her third competition against the three NPC guys and thier chocobo!