Bah!

Black Mage:56 White Mage:51 Warrior:56 Thief:64

It was dead dull boring day today. I went to Crawler's Nest as WAR/BLM in an effort to skill up my WAR's GAX and AXE and STF skills and I really tested out my abilities to sub BLM. I started by casting Ice Spikes, since the crawlers are weak to ice. Then I tried casting Bind Bio and Poison among others. I did this because on my hike out there I tested using spells on mobs to see which would work best. On easy mobs the Bind Bio Poison then Choke strategy was working really well. Once inside though I found that the crawlers just brushed aside my low level Bind. So instead I casted Ice Spikes Blind then Rasp. This worked out best I think since it maximized my ability to evade hits in between me casting Drain to up my hit points.

Overall, it worked out ok I guess. I got my AXE skill up from 60 to 95 and moved my GAX skill from 85 to 95. I hate being so far behind in skill though!! Where in the hell am I gonna get a cool 100 points of skill and for two weapons?!!

Later I tried bringing a Nest Beetle to the entrance so that I could skill up. It worked out for a while cuz when it was almost dead I would just zone and rest outside and when I came back he was at full HP again. I got him on purpose because he didn't aggro others so most people just passed it while on their way. But then one time a party just walked in and hacked it up. I can't blame them I guess since they probably didn't know that it was a non-aggro mob. It was kind of disheartening though because I had to pull it from clear out at the Nest Beetle camp which was quite a ways away. I wasn't about to pull back another one. Sometimes though, it was really pounding the hits on me though and I found myself close to dying several times. Skill ups were working though true enough but as the .3s turned into .1s in the end I just felt light years away from having my weapons up to par. I was not gonna be getting any more skillups unless I fought harder mobs and the harder mobs were gonna kill me. Bah!

The rest of the day was a waste. I walked back to Jueno changed to THF and went out to farm what I needed to finish a stack of Silk Threads which I got from killing the Worker Crawlers I killed before doing the Nest Beetle, but man that took friggin forever!! That last Silk Thread must have taken me a full half hour for it to drop!! I just got disgusted. Bah!

Later I put my flag up and lfg but I really wasn't in the mood to party and didn't get an invite anyway. Bah!

Plus, I got reminded of Uchipu's Escort Quest tonight so in anticipation for the quest I take the airship over to Bastok to open it and "Smack!" I didn't have enough fame. So all afternoon I am hanging around the house not going out cuz I wanted to be sure I was here for the quest and now I am not able to go. Baahhhhhh!!

This day was crap.