Day #516 Recap

Current Game(s): Final Fantasy X-2, Final Fantasy XI

Current Play Time(Final Fantasy X-2): 77:11(+)
Current Play Time(Final Fantasy XI): 53:18 (+)
Total Play Time - 1,149:03 (+)

Current Game Overs(FF X-2) - 4
Current Deaths(FF XI) - 21
Total Game Overs: 67

Where I Currently Am(FF X-2): Chapter 5, cleaning up a couple loose ends, and then Via Infinito (89% Complete, Bestiary 78% Complete)

Where I Currently Am(FF XI): Windurst Mission 4-1!!!!!  Current Levels are RDM 55/THF 27

Stuff Did Today (FF X-2): Caught some chocobos and sent them out into the world. I did this alot... until finally I opened up a new cave in the chocobo stable. I then sent out a couple more to find a new cave in the Mi'ihen Highroad as well as a new digging area in Bikanel.

Stuff Did Today (FF XI): Started off in Xarcabard, both levelling to 55 as well as collecting the 3 pieces of Frigicite I needed to raise my level cap again. They were guarded by some seriously difficult beasts... but really I could aggro them, have my trust guys take aggro and just run, get the frigicite and run away... cheap I know, but who cares.

Next, I went looking for a new place to level. I head into the Altana desert, and found some okay levelling spots and picked up some outpost warps and a city home point as well. However, I realized that the best levelling spots for me were going to be heading into Aht'Urgan


Status & Notes: 

Oh boy, could I have screwed up the Chocobo stuff anymore in X-2? Well, I guess I could've... but still I screwed it up pretty bad. I... forgot, you were supposed to not level them up until after you send them out... you do the silly 3 Level 1s, then 3 level 2s... yeah, well I was more worried about making sure I had enough level 5s... luckily, I only had to throw out some chocobos and catch new ones twice... and I did get it done at the end...

Oh, another little error that cost me like 40 minutes... I forgot you can only catch chocobos with Gysahl Greens... yeah, the nutritive greens don't do squat, and in fact, any chocobos you find will just run away if you don't have any Gysahl Greens in your inventory... fun stuff.

Most of what I did in X-2 today was... running. There's a lot of distance between the frigicite pieces in Xarcabard... and then a lot of running to get from Bastok into the Altana Desert. Now, the next thing I want to do is get to Aht'Urgan because there's some good levelling areas. Of course, there's some quests I need to undertake to get there. The first ones allow you to sign up for the mercenary groups there and open up some cheap warp points... then I have to head to a few dungeons and farm some rare drops off level 30ish monsters... shouldn't be all that tough, and I can get a couple little prequests done too for Windurst 4-1.

Planning on doing some more X-2 today as well. Really, I want to clear out the Amazing Chocobo dungeon as well as the Mi'ihen Highroad dungeon. There will be 1 or 2 monsters I can catch after doing this... so I'll probably do that really quickly. I may also drop into the Deep Farplane to unlock a couple more catchable monsters. After this, it'll be time to start Via Infinito.