Too busy to bother…

Ah, summer. Crazy freak storms, 2 months of flooding, followed by 3 months of drought. Unreal humidity and heat…Why do I still live here again? Ugh.

Right…game stuff. Well me first! Got Hauteclaire, finally. The drop rate on that thing really sucks. Only a few more to get and then we can abandon it forever. Having Abu out there is freaking awesome, so many claims that mule has got for us… The only picture I could find of it was when I put on basic pretty gears to go see Dain finish his Yoichi.

PEW PEW PEW

One-handed greatsword, gotta love it. Speaking of relics, Lappie’s Amano was also finished recently…we managed to get most of our relic holders out for the screenshot.

ALL HAIL DYNAMIS

You’ll just have to pretend you can see LDS’s Apoc and Yoichi in that shot…

I get to tank lots of stuff now. My macros and gear are very nearly complete, and I’m comfortable solo tanking most things. My one obstacle really is my low base HP. I idle in more HP gear than our Hume tanks do, but I am still lower than them. I’m afraid to go all-out HP build and give up things like shield skill or refresh. It’s not a HUGE problem, I can’t take as many “oh shit” hits as Budo or Em, and I don’t always live through Citadel Buster…but otherwise I’m as sturdy as any other tank. And much MUCH cuter.

Fear me!

Random AWESOME tawu screenshot

After seeing Yekim’s mog house and his AWESOME SPARKLY EGG, I knew I had to have one. Thankfully the event moogles were selling them this Easter so I nabbed one and got Souji to make me a pretty table (that looks like a cake). Isn’t it purty?!

Sometimes I just sit in my house and stare at it. Really, I do. It’s mesmerizing. @_@

The linkshell is doing just fine. Still progressing steadily with new relics, still kicking butt and taking names whenever we feel like it. Still crushing other linkshells’ hopes and dreams…*cough* We recently decided to try Dynamis Lord on our own, since LN members were getting bored with it. Easy as pie! Should have figured but…hey you never know. Got 2 of the ToAU gods titles so our super secret mystery Mythic upgrader is making good progress. Really nothing groundbreaking to report. Just the standard day-to-day goings-on of HalfBarrel.

They didn't really AFK...but it would have been fun if they did!!

Oh, got a Cleric’s Belt just this week. Also have a kickass HP build for Devotion…only 100hp less than LDS’s HP build but I’m working on fixing that! Been pulling out the old RDM a bit more lately too. Funny, I’m just not that great at it. Oh I do fine as a supporting mage but I could never pull a dynamis or kite some NM while the ally recovered like some of our other RDMs do. Nope, I’m perfectly content to play my other jobs.

The forums are pretty well complete now. I’ve actually considered joining a community site’s dev team just so I have something interesting to do with my skillzzzz. I’m always looking for a new challenge in website building. Maybe I’ll learn a new language. ASP.NET seems to be pretty popular.