Hello, sorry, I've been quite busy in the past two weeks.
I had begun college classes for Hospitality and Event Planning, but then, due to various reasons, decided to switch to Programming.
Long story short, I felt quite uncomfortable in my hospitality classes since it seemed like everyone there was very outgoing and we were told that we shouldn't be in this class if we aren't a "people person."
I am not a people person and I am incredibly shy and introverted (and anxious!).
So, I decided to switch to Programming instead, which is honestly probably a better fit for me anyway due to my computer background.
So, we'll see how this goes. Hopefully, this will be my last major swap, and I can just get through with this. It's just a certificate course, so it's not like it's a huge time commitment.
This all hinges on if I get a decent grade on my computer skills accuplacer tomorrow though. Which I'm extremely nervous about. I've never actually had a computer class; everything I know about computers I learned from my dad or I taught myself. I just hope it's enough. It'll be discouraging to have a basic computer skills class blocking my way to the good stuff.
I'm particularly nervous since I haven't taken a test in...oh my goodness, 6 years. My high school wasn't traditional and we didn't have tests. And my animation school also didn't have tests. Well, that's suddenly more nerve-wracking.
Sorry, just venting a bit. I'm a nervous wreck.
Oh well, the cure for nervousness is playing Mass Effect, so I'll happily go do that. I'm doing a new playthrough this week and I'm about in the middle of ME2 right now. Just did the Collector Ship, and I'm off to complete loyalty missions before Reaper IFF. I really need to get around to getting the ME2 DLC. I have all the ME3 DLC (Citadel is the best thing ever), but I've never gotten around to getting the ME2 ones. I've watched my boyfriend do parts of Shadow Broker, but that's about it. I need to get it. Maybe I'll ask him for it for my birthday / Christmas.
Monday, September 14, 2015
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Take that Garuda!
Guess who just completed the hard mode versions of Ifrit, Garuda, and Titan?!
ME.
If you had told me a couple months ago that I'd beat Garuda hard mode I would not have believed you at all.
But I did it!
And more impressively, my DF group got through Titan HM with zero wipes, although I'm not as proud personally of that one. I am proud of my group though.To be honest, I felt like dead weight in Titan HM because the Astrologian was amazing and pretty much solo healed the whole thing! She left me nothing to do! Well, that's a lie I guess I helped a bit during the AoEs and with keeping the tank up, but it didn't feel impressive. I hope she got a whole ton of commendations! I know she got mine. :)
More importantly, this all means I can continue in the main story questline to the "Before the Fall" questlines, meaning that I am on the precipice of the expansion content now!
And that Astrologian has totally inspired me to make one as soon as possible, so I'm excited.
ME.
If you had told me a couple months ago that I'd beat Garuda hard mode I would not have believed you at all.
But I did it!
And more impressively, my DF group got through Titan HM with zero wipes, although I'm not as proud personally of that one. I am proud of my group though.To be honest, I felt like dead weight in Titan HM because the Astrologian was amazing and pretty much solo healed the whole thing! She left me nothing to do! Well, that's a lie I guess I helped a bit during the AoEs and with keeping the tank up, but it didn't feel impressive. I hope she got a whole ton of commendations! I know she got mine. :)
More importantly, this all means I can continue in the main story questline to the "Before the Fall" questlines, meaning that I am on the precipice of the expansion content now!
And that Astrologian has totally inspired me to make one as soon as possible, so I'm excited.
Friday, September 4, 2015
Huge update on my FFXIV playing!
I am now level 50 (actually, 51 now, sorry, I'm late on the announcement)!
I am also about half-way or so through the level 50 personal story stuff. The Crystal Braves were just formed about one quest ago.
Healing is still going well, or at least I think so. It's difficult to tell if I'm doing well or not in these 8-person groups with another healer. I sometimes can't tell if I'm helping at all, or if I'm just deadweight. I hope I am helping and doing my job correctly, and I just am too nervous about it to tell! These past three Primal fights have been kind of rough, you see. King Moggle Mog is so confusing. I read guides beforehand, but I was so confused by all the different moogles, and once I got into the fight I got killed by something (still not sure what. I swear I was one-shotted, but I was the only who died...), but I felt like I was healing okay up until that point. Leviathan was fine, although I was a little more stressed out than usual because our tanks were arguing, and there is a serious lack of guides out there for Leviathan. I don't care that he's apparently so easy that I shouldn't need a guide, I need a guide because otherwise I get incredibly anxious. And then Ramuh was a big bunch of I-have-no-idea-what's-going-on-even-though-I-read-three-guides. I didn't die though, so that's good!
Also, has anyone else noticed that out of all the dungeons, Toto-Rak appears to have the highest chance of something going horribly, horribly wrong? I swear I haven't had groups wipe on any other dungeon as much as Toto-Rak. I mean, I was warned about Brayflox and Stone Vigil, but I have yet to wipe on those nearly as often as I do on Toto-Rak. The majority of the time I can get through Brayflox and Stone Vigil without someone dying, but I cannot say the same for Toto-Rak. And it doesn't ever appear to be the fault of my healing abilities because all the wipes we've had were completely out of my control. I'm talking people standing in the green poison puddles during the final boss, tanks running headfirst into the Fleshy Pods and then keep running ahead so I can't Esuna/Heal them, DPS pulling things, DPS accidentally pulling things and then running waaaay away from the rest of the group where I cannot safely take care of them and the tank, etc. Don't even get me started on ranged DPS standing in melee range of enemies that do poison AoEs, or the serious lack of picking up adds during the final fight.
And then, there was a lancer I was in a group with earlier today. You know how in the final boss room there are fleshy pods all around the room, and you're supposed to get rid of them with ranged attacks so no one accidentally runs into them / gets pushed into them? Yeah, those. Well, this lancer ran around the room purposefully running straight into each group of them. There was absolutely no way I could have saved him. He was dead before I could even recognize that damage was being taken. That one was impressive, and I'll give him credit: He did take care of about two groups of those things, and we did end up beating the boss. He just didn't get to participate in the boss because you can't Raise in battle at that level.
Really though, what is it about Toto-Rak that people can't seem to grasp? I don't have any trouble with groups in any other dungeon. Is it just because it's kind of the first one that's more mechanic-heavy and has AoE poison? Is it the Fleshy Pods? I just don't understand.
Well regardless, my character's name is Ayame Miyumi and I'm on Adamantoise. I'm happy to heal dungeons if I'm needed, just don't ask me for directions in those dungeons because I have no sense of direction. That's one of the reasons I like playing as a healer; I don't have to know where I'm going because my job is to follow the tank around :)
I am also about half-way or so through the level 50 personal story stuff. The Crystal Braves were just formed about one quest ago.
Healing is still going well, or at least I think so. It's difficult to tell if I'm doing well or not in these 8-person groups with another healer. I sometimes can't tell if I'm helping at all, or if I'm just deadweight. I hope I am helping and doing my job correctly, and I just am too nervous about it to tell! These past three Primal fights have been kind of rough, you see. King Moggle Mog is so confusing. I read guides beforehand, but I was so confused by all the different moogles, and once I got into the fight I got killed by something (still not sure what. I swear I was one-shotted, but I was the only who died...), but I felt like I was healing okay up until that point. Leviathan was fine, although I was a little more stressed out than usual because our tanks were arguing, and there is a serious lack of guides out there for Leviathan. I don't care that he's apparently so easy that I shouldn't need a guide, I need a guide because otherwise I get incredibly anxious. And then Ramuh was a big bunch of I-have-no-idea-what's-going-on-even-though-I-read-three-guides. I didn't die though, so that's good!
Also, has anyone else noticed that out of all the dungeons, Toto-Rak appears to have the highest chance of something going horribly, horribly wrong? I swear I haven't had groups wipe on any other dungeon as much as Toto-Rak. I mean, I was warned about Brayflox and Stone Vigil, but I have yet to wipe on those nearly as often as I do on Toto-Rak. The majority of the time I can get through Brayflox and Stone Vigil without someone dying, but I cannot say the same for Toto-Rak. And it doesn't ever appear to be the fault of my healing abilities because all the wipes we've had were completely out of my control. I'm talking people standing in the green poison puddles during the final boss, tanks running headfirst into the Fleshy Pods and then keep running ahead so I can't Esuna/Heal them, DPS pulling things, DPS accidentally pulling things and then running waaaay away from the rest of the group where I cannot safely take care of them and the tank, etc. Don't even get me started on ranged DPS standing in melee range of enemies that do poison AoEs, or the serious lack of picking up adds during the final fight.
And then, there was a lancer I was in a group with earlier today. You know how in the final boss room there are fleshy pods all around the room, and you're supposed to get rid of them with ranged attacks so no one accidentally runs into them / gets pushed into them? Yeah, those. Well, this lancer ran around the room purposefully running straight into each group of them. There was absolutely no way I could have saved him. He was dead before I could even recognize that damage was being taken. That one was impressive, and I'll give him credit: He did take care of about two groups of those things, and we did end up beating the boss. He just didn't get to participate in the boss because you can't Raise in battle at that level.
Really though, what is it about Toto-Rak that people can't seem to grasp? I don't have any trouble with groups in any other dungeon. Is it just because it's kind of the first one that's more mechanic-heavy and has AoE poison? Is it the Fleshy Pods? I just don't understand.
Well regardless, my character's name is Ayame Miyumi and I'm on Adamantoise. I'm happy to heal dungeons if I'm needed, just don't ask me for directions in those dungeons because I have no sense of direction. That's one of the reasons I like playing as a healer; I don't have to know where I'm going because my job is to follow the tank around :)
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Playing FFXIV again! Hopefully
To celebrate my first successful day of non-online college (major in hospitality with a specialization in event planning), I've got myself a month subscription to my beloved FFXIV!
Yesterday it wasn't working at all though. I suspected my father was taking up more than his fair share of bandwidth with his ultra-graphics World of Warcraft raiding (plus he also has the settings set to prioritize his system over everyone else in the house's). I was able to get onto my game, and I queued for Sastasha just to get my feet wet in healing again, only to have it lag immensely and I actually got booted out of the game twice. I felt so bad. I hate failing people that I'm playing with like that. And, well, that wasn't happening before.
So, today I messed with my FFXIV settings, and managed to double my FPS from 20 to 40! Whoo. I hate my laptop.
But, how I had to double it is that I had to lower or turn off every graphical setting, and set my resolution to 1280x768. So, my game looks terrible, but at least I have double the FPS.
Maaaaybe, I can actually get through a dungeon now?
Edit: Everything's working great this way. No lag at all, in fact, less lag than I've ever had. Stressful duty roulettes today, for someone who hasn't played in over a month, though. Nice calm Sastasha run first, and then I get Ifrit and Titan right in a row. Everything's gone flawlessly thus far though. I just hope I don't get Brayflox, Stone Vigil, or Garuda next though. -_-
Edit 2: I just got Garuda twice in a row through roulette. I understand why Primals have to be in roulette (because otherwise no one would ever find a group for them when they do that quest), but I wish that they at least wouldn't show up when everyone in the group entered through roulette. I don't mind doing Garuda if someone in the group actually needs to do the fight, but if no one actually needs the fight, then why place us in there? It gets us no experience or loot, so it's just kind of a waste of time for leveling roulette. And I'll stress again that I don't mind doing it if someone actually needs the primal. But both groups were random roulette players that didn't need the kill.
Also, I never want to do Garuda twice in a row ever again. The fights went flawlessly, but I feel like I'm going to pee my pants whenever Garuda pops up. Bad memories.
Hey, but at least I'm back to my previous healing ability now! So much for easing myself into it!
Yesterday it wasn't working at all though. I suspected my father was taking up more than his fair share of bandwidth with his ultra-graphics World of Warcraft raiding (plus he also has the settings set to prioritize his system over everyone else in the house's). I was able to get onto my game, and I queued for Sastasha just to get my feet wet in healing again, only to have it lag immensely and I actually got booted out of the game twice. I felt so bad. I hate failing people that I'm playing with like that. And, well, that wasn't happening before.
So, today I messed with my FFXIV settings, and managed to double my FPS from 20 to 40! Whoo. I hate my laptop.
But, how I had to double it is that I had to lower or turn off every graphical setting, and set my resolution to 1280x768. So, my game looks terrible, but at least I have double the FPS.
Maaaaybe, I can actually get through a dungeon now?
Edit: Everything's working great this way. No lag at all, in fact, less lag than I've ever had. Stressful duty roulettes today, for someone who hasn't played in over a month, though. Nice calm Sastasha run first, and then I get Ifrit and Titan right in a row. Everything's gone flawlessly thus far though. I just hope I don't get Brayflox, Stone Vigil, or Garuda next though. -_-
Edit 2: I just got Garuda twice in a row through roulette. I understand why Primals have to be in roulette (because otherwise no one would ever find a group for them when they do that quest), but I wish that they at least wouldn't show up when everyone in the group entered through roulette. I don't mind doing Garuda if someone in the group actually needs to do the fight, but if no one actually needs the fight, then why place us in there? It gets us no experience or loot, so it's just kind of a waste of time for leveling roulette. And I'll stress again that I don't mind doing it if someone actually needs the primal. But both groups were random roulette players that didn't need the kill.
Also, I never want to do Garuda twice in a row ever again. The fights went flawlessly, but I feel like I'm going to pee my pants whenever Garuda pops up. Bad memories.
Hey, but at least I'm back to my previous healing ability now! So much for easing myself into it!
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