Day #517 Recap

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

Current Play Time(Final Fantasy X-2): 85:49
Current Play Time(Final Fantasy XI): 53:18 (+)
Total Play Time - 1,157:41 (+)

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, Monster Arena Part 4! (89% Complete, Bestiary 79% Complete)

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

Stuff Did Today (FF X-2): Went into the mage of the new dungeon in the Chocobo Ranch, and found a mazy place based on elevation. Killed a big Chocobo Eater and looted the place, then found the Amazing Chocobo... yay...

Next, I headed to Mi'ihen where a warp to a new cave was. Inside, we could blow things up! In fact we had to... we had to bomb walls to progress through... the place was filled with bugs by the way... bugs that drop bombs... yup, you heard me right. We made it to the end and fought the king bug, and got a garment grid for our troubles... meh... oh yeah, also a bunch of new monsters unlocked in the arena... so we caught them... and started levelling them up. I also took a little detour under Besaid Temple, where we quickly took out Dark Shiva and unlokced even more monsters in the arena...

Put that 2x EXP garment grid and the AP Egg to use!

Stuff Did Today (FF XI): Began by circling the four towns finding anyone and everyone interested in joining the mercenaries of Aht-Urgan, getting some membership cards in the process. I then headed out to Beadeaux and Castle Oztroja to get some special rare drops from lowish level enemies as requested by the Tenshodo. In return for these items as well as an item I randomly picked up in Davoi earlier, I got a boarding pass for Aht'Urgan!

Upon making it to Aht'Urgan, I headed to the nearest jungle and found the enemies to be a bit harder than I was hoping for... so I asked around, and found what I hope to be a good place to try tomorrow...


Status & Notes: 

Can't say this was the greatest day I've had in FF XI. There was a lot of running around, and I did unlock my path to Aht'Urgan which will be useful, however, apparently, a little more down the line... I was told there's some good levelling spots in the Crawler's Nest, so I'm going to try that out... gotta get to 60, and then there'll be some more quests for me to do.

Over in X-2, we had the two side dungeons in the game. The Chocobo dungeon actually has some interesting stuff, like the AP egg, and really, if you have a map, it isn't that bad... the Mi'ihen dungeon, though... yikes. There really is nothing of value here other than the garment grid. It is a bit of a pain wandering around there finding the exact locations of the walls to bomb, even if you have a map. Thankfully, you can farm up some bombs a bit in the arena, so you can fight less bugs... really trying to keep my levels low so I can get as many fiend tales as possible and still have Via Infinito to go through.