Below are the 6 most recent journal entries recorded in Jattou's LiveJournal:

Friday, July 28th, 2006
4:54 am	lol......... Two of the items below came yesterday, hint: the Shinai(kendo stick) is 3 years old. That's all for now lol... (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, July 24th, 2006
9:56 am	>_> I still have this? I got reminded about the existence of this thing by a friend while talking on AIM, she hadn't updated hers in forever either so we both decided to. I've been my usual semi-bored self in FFXI, between Fafnir camps and Dynamis not much seems to go on anymore. The new expansion gave me some amusement tho...  ...I didn't think I could take that much damage. A few weeks ago we happened to claim Nidhogg for the first time in...literal months I think, was good to beat on him again and we got the usual drops(trans: NOT E.BODY) so now Cett has something to wear when he eats that massive 1000 exp buffer he has into 75. Also should be noted Cett is the only NA PLD on Kujata who has WAR 75 as well as a Defending Ring and Shadow Mantle, still dies like a champ. >_> Also there was an amusing part of the fight where Nidhogg used his "Break Attack Cap" move. Always a good laugh when one of your tanks gets 2-shotted. Did Dynamis-Glacier during the middle of my two weeks off, and finally after a year... I see WAR AFv2 drop. Then at the lake NMs the usual happened, always fun. I died and was double weakened at some point, went AFK in a safe spot and came back we had apparently wiped with 10 mins on the timer, so I promptly tossed my glass. >_> I used most of my vacation to exp my brains out on WAR, it's easier than it sounds because burn parties can get boring after the 4th or 5th hour. >.> But it paid off and I got 2 STR merits, 1 HP and finally recapped WAR specific merits since the bastardized patch that raised the cap on me. Avienda and I had been stuck in CoP forever so taking advantage of my two weeks of nothing but free time, we mobilized for Sea access. Snoll was fun... first try and we wiped at 3%, I blame Avi for not landing Dia II and he blames me for missing a Sidewinder. Second try we pretty much raped it and celebrated by passing the hell out since it was like... 3 a.m. and we'd been awake for 13-14 hours. A few days later Secksi rounded up some help for Airship BC and we amazingly went 1/1 on it by deciding midway through our "dry run" that we were doing alright for a win. Amazingly I neglected to take an SS of anything but this. Note: I fsckin' <3 that Haubergeon .dat. Afterwards it was a mad dash to see how fast we could wrestle people together for the 3 NM fights and, ofcourse, Tenzen. Soon as I got to Sea my first priority was to get the hell out of it and back to Jeuno... Not bad considering I spent like 3-4 months gathering those... At some point in the middle of all this I did the Bugboy ENM with some LS mates, and was astounded at the Mob AI for Bugboy. Behold! The real surprise is that he lived. KB is unkillable on his WAR it seems, I have never seen him die on it... if only his DRK were the same. I also vaguely remember doing an Unstable Cluster run, which I was excited about since I've had the tar since the last run when it dropped and people fled like rats on a sinking ship. I'm gathering that Me+CoP Forced Pop NM = 100% drop if it's my spawn... time to test this theory on swift belts. Random chat log screens kgo! Avi <3 Limbus. Jackie being....Jackie, think the response time was about .5 seconds... Temil is awesome lol. Ok, that feels like enough for now. D: Current Mood: anxious (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, March 12th, 2006
6:18 pm	I blame all but myself... The night I got booted off FFXI for no reason, I installed WoW, I blame it for me not updating this since. I play on Kel'Thuzad with Tsai and a couple of his friends who play(ed) FFXI, it's a fun game but aesthetically it's a joke compared to FFXI since everything is so colorful and disproportionate. I play Warrior... again >_> and it's fun, I can pretty much kill anything 3-4 levels above me solo, and I can take on 2 mobs my level at the same time. I'm like... level 22.75 >.> could have gotten 23 today, but, it was day 8 or something for Behemoth so KB was overdue. Last window pops are the best, and since Fafnir started within an hour of KB... we had to really rape it after claim. I passed the E.legs for KB, since he has wanted them for a long time and I have Haidate so I'd never wear em unless I leveled DRK or BST. I got what I really wanted today tho, the title! Earlier last week we had Dynamis-Sandy, and it was the roughest Dynamis I've been to in a long time... I think we had too many people coming as 2nd/3rd/4th jobs than we had planned on... Anyway, after one of the many wipes we had (yes, wipes, plural!) I got raised and found Tsai. That's also a fine example of how friggin' awesome his buffer is, he dings 74 every time he dies now. In the Dragon's Aery now, the NA shells on my server are trying a new system to cut back on MPKs and cries of "botting fuckers" by having officers from each shell /random before going to DA, highest /random gets to camp against the Japanese. In 4(?) nights, we've won twice now and from what I hear every night the Japanese have claimed since we started this. Lastly, the most unexpected skill up, ever. Back to the Dragon now, maybe passing out after since I've been awake all day and have work within 3 hours of the last window. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
2:12 am	Yay! I got booted! Fun weekend lol... Saturday I messed around all day exp'ing my SAM some more and later got asked if I wanted to tank an ENM on NIN, so I figured why not since I had lost 4000 exp on my first few attempts solo'ing the Kasha NM. After running to the top of the Range, we dropped and somehow only myself and Jaiden made it on the ledge. I got my item but realized I had no silent oils so I capitalized on them having to tractor/raise by OP'ing to Bastok for the 2 stacks in my MH. After getting back up top we killed a few mobs for Mylaa who was 400 tnm so she would actually get the full exp from the ENM, and then Jaiden says this... Bold statement, no? Yea we had a good laugh at that one. After the ENM Mylaa asked if anyone wanted to go farm SSG for Siren Hairs, Zeek and I volunteered and ran around the grotto looking for the NMs. We got lucky and Zuug was up so we claimed and killed it easy also getting a hair to drop which I thank Zeek for having TH4. We camped Novv for about 2 hours, and the CGF got claim sadly, so we left and I wandered around for hours until I found some friends leveling by the outpost in Yhutunaga(sp? idk >.>) so I sat down and thought it a good photo op. I think I was awake til sometime around 3 pm the Sunday, I slept til 1:30 am because I didn't even put my alarms on. When I woke up I got on my NIN and wanted to exp for w/e odd reason, given I pretty much solo'd NIN from 74 to 75 in Bibiki on Dhalmels, so I got a PT made with a BRD friend and we went to sky with a regular setup (NIN, WAR, SAM, BLM, WHM, BRD) still managing to nomad the main entrance quite well. I was actually pretty impressed by my damage output, since despite having alot of good(note: really fucking awesome) NIN gear, I never bothered to do anything but solo and tank HNMs with it. That one surprised the hell out of me, and I thought it was a fluke, then I do another... Oo; (no idea why this one got resized but oh well lol) Later on I exp'd my WAR with Renze and Ixx, and got like.. 3 more merits before Mylaa asked if I was free to tank Zip/Olla and a Genbu for her, so we got Renze his last merit for the day and I swapped in all my NIN gear.... again. I run up, still on Hedgehog Pie the whole time I'm tanking Zip, and it was pretty easy honestly, and I <333333 Bahloo's TH because it made Ushikirimaru drop for me so now my SAM doesn't need anything from 71-75. Afterwards we did Water which dropped in 2 kills, and I got a merit point off Olla's 2nd stage lol, so we headed to Genbu island and while gathering I got bored and by proxy really dizzy running around the ???. The whole fight was pretty much a joke, like Genbu usually is, and we had fun doing it. I passed out again after D2 and woke up like 2 hours ago in time to help Quikk do Xolotl, which is always fun. Went well for most of the fight, I had to get Quikk to voke it off me so I could tank the adds because I opened with Rampage. While standing a good distance away I saw Knightblade get charmed, which is always good since he had Ridill out. You'd figure since he just exp'd recently that he'd have some form of a buffer by now. Anyway, after that I saw charm again, but this time Quikk was too... I guess my Rampage left a bad taste in Xolololotl's mouth. We got a leet Fire Xtal! (I think, I saw jack shit drop so I wasn't paying attention to exactly what it was) and I got R3'd » D2'd » asked to help friends do Unstable Cluster, so I go to my MH and I start R0'ing, been staring at the "Checking Playonline Viewer Version..." screen for about an hour now. =| (Comment on this)
Friday, February 24th, 2006
10:32 pm	I'm lazy, you wanna fight about it? Been a good week, can't bitch I guess. First, I pwnt the AH on a joke bid. Hauberk is still around 8 mil so I saved 2 mil + ingredients. Then I pwnt the Tachi: Kasha NM soro. Then I promptly pwnt myself. (I was wearing Acc+ gear and didn't stack SA... /fail) Rest of the week I just messed around, finally beat Diabolos like the slacker I am, got til TAU is released to finish CoP (not really but I want it done by then so I'm not *really* behind). So friday rolls around and we have 2 Kirins lined up, I'm excited ofc, because I know I'm next in line for an Osode and everything goes pretty damn well. Run, from my lots. Also got Pole and W.legs to drop, not bad consindering last Kirin dropped the Pole onry. Still killing the second one as we speak, I whiffed Ground Strike with SV'd Etudes because he turned when I hit SA. :( BUT! I got 0.1 GSD skill! Second Attempt did 1000ish and no Double Attack. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
7:05 am	Boredom often leads me to online journals... That dapper fellow would be Jattou, my ingame self and very much the culmination of the past 1.8 years of my life that I have devoted towards him. I would be lying if i said I didn't take a great deal of pride in Jattou, but I'd also be lying if I said I was content with him as is. I am (to be frank) a tweak freak, my greatest joy in this game can be derived from an endless cycle of statistics and numbers which add up to produce the results I look for when I change my gear in any way shape or form. I honestly don't know when, exactly, that I became this way but I do know that since it happened I have started enjoying the game somewhat more if only for zealous ideal that I wish to create the "Perfect" warrior. It does sound rather... aloof, to profess that I wish to make my character the perfect example of the class I play, but it's not something I expect to accomplish tomorrow either (or even this year for that matter). It's a lofty goal, but what's life without challenges? My LS is TheOutspoken, formerly just Outspoken but in a recent move to eliminate errant pearls it was decided as easier to break the old shell than to have an officer "camp" for people to log on only to be booted (since to my understanding, some people who were being "removed" were rarely ever on to be booted in the first place). We're well known on our server for being the first NA shell to kill every "current" HNM save the one's in Sea, EchoesOfEternity had done alot before we had but they broke over a year ago and their track record stops with Zilart pretty much. I spent the better part of the past year trying to get into OS, even after they closed apps for a time I waited, and my patience rewarded me with a pearl in June'05. My experience with Endgame was fairly limited before joining OS, I did well to prove this in my first month by doing the typical stupid new guy things - logging in the pit of Dragon's Aery before maintenance and then logging on to Fafnir chewing on my head, going to sky raids as war/nin at level 73 and not eating sushi so I could barely hit, etc. I did well to embarass myself a few times, but since joining I have become a rather dominating force in the shell, of the warriors we have it surprises me to find I am often viewed as 2nd to Renze (our shellholder, decked out w/ Adaman, God Gear, Hecatomb, Ridill, Joyeuse, Maxed Merits, etc), tho I view it as more of a tie between myself and Zues for 2nd (he has Ridill and usually does about 2-3% more damage than me in exp, but I have a few things he doesn't so it evens out). Suppose that's enough for now, peace. Current Mood: relaxed (1 Comment |Comment on this)