So I’ve been very silent on the blog as of late.  I’d like to blame it on the holidays.  Christmas and New Years were busy — I went out of town, and I didn’t have as much opportunity to log into FFXI.

However, I’ve been completely absent from the game.

I lack a desire to play FFXI currently.  Perhaps I’ll get out of this funk, but as I look at it, FFXI has turned into a game I’m no longer interested in.

I do have a purpose — a couple in fact.  Hitting 75 on Paladin, and to get that damnable Iron Ram armor from campaign.  The problem is, hitting 75 on Paladin, for the most part, means doing it via level synch since most people don’t want to fight things that require a tank at the upper levels.   Likewise, getting the Iron Ram armor means endless time in Campaign raising the next 100K Allied Notes for the remaing bits.

I have little desire to do either.

Level synch parties are wonderful sometimes, but I really want to be able to skill-up my sword and shield.  To do that, I need to go after things that (A) are close to my true level, and (B) going to try to hit me back.  Putting parties together or simply finding ones that are willing to be anything but TP burn have become just this side of impossible.  TP burns are difficult for Paladin’s to compete in against Dragoons, Samurai, Warriors in terms of DD, and they do nothing to advance ones shield skill since the objects is to not get hit at all.

Campaign is a nice diversion, but I’ve grown quite tired of it having gotten my first 100K allied notes (and two pieces of Iron Ram armor).  It offers nothing new, and frankly is more of a grind than standard XP.

Then there’s the latest updates.  On paper they’re good, but the implimentation has given FFXI a slightly different flavor that doesn’t sit well with me.  The game is longer allows me to enter a state of suspended disbelief.

Perhaps a break will let me get more excited about advancing, until then, I think I stay out and catch up on reading, programming, and generally doing all the things I suspended to play the game.

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