What goes through their minds?

I wonder what goes through the minds of other people sometimes.

Yesterday, just as I came out of Promyvion-Dem as RDM67/NIN33 (not on /anon) , with nothing but Lv.30- gears, some dude /check'ed me and started to send me /tell's.

Unholyangel>> y u not got the ochudes cote or w/e it is?
>>Unholyangel : pardon? who are you?
Unholyangel>> just lookin at ur wares
Unholyangel>> just wonderein y u aint got those gloves that r like 2mil
>>Unholyangel : >_>? 1. I don't have 2 mil
>>Unholyangel : 2. RDM cannot use Ochiudo's Kote.
Unholyangel>> o im srry just say the hairpin & the boots
>>Unholyangel : 3. That's Lv.33, not usable in [Promyvion - Dem]
Unholyangel>> my bad srry ; ;

How could someone interested enough in Ochiudo's Kote to know its price missed the fact that only MNK, NIN, and SAM can use it? Plus, he checked out my hands slot, so he must have noticed I was using Battle Gloves, which NIN and SAM cannot use--but I couldn't have been a MNK since I was wielding dual Centurion Swords. >_>

The "hairpin" he referred to was the Empress Hairpin, by the way--rare/ex; no way to "purchase" one. Leaping Boots aside, I had nothing which marked me as a possible Rich Player. (Those boots were a gift from a friend who left FFXI.)

Maybe just a not-so-clued gil buyer? Who knows?

Control Freaks

Quoting ShaunB @ ffxi.allakhazam.com:

my girlfriend is stil new but about to hit lv 40 i've spent quite a bit of gil on her character but willing to spend some more so when i let her go into xp she'll be able to convert and be able to have as close to 1:1 as she can

He think he's kind, and has done everything for her. Heck, she'd be nothing without him, he believes. Probably has no clue he's a control freak. "What? FFXI is for exploring? Nah, I'll tell you when you can do what--I know what's good for you, baby."

This is the personality of wifebeater, isn't it? Even FFXI is no haven from these real life monsters. Perhaps they are the normal ones, and we are the freaks?

Reading those words gives me the chills. And, there are more like him. They all believe they are kind at heart, too. Sincerely so.

Kind enough to hurt with words and fists. Kind enough, to kill.

The mis-adventure of a not so great solo'er

I don't like solo'ing much. Even on BST, I liked duo'ing much better--in fact, I once made a friend go duo'ing with my BST/WHM as WHM/BST. However, my main is RDM64, if I have anything that could be called a main, which is supposedly a great solo job in hands of a capable player. I'm no such player.

My RDM macros are not solo friendly--just about every spell switch weapon, and some switch in stuff with extremely low defense. My last sword upgrade was to Lv.55. I don't even own a dagger over Lv.34, unless you count Minstrel's Dagger. Heck, I type all my spells when I want to keep TP, since I've never bothered to organize my spell list.

* * *

Instead of leveling to RDM Lv.65 like I should, I spent most of the night just wandering about Tavnazian Safehold first, and then Misareaux Coast. In doing so, I accidentally spawned Bloody Coffin, a Lv.50 NM crab with very high resistance to physical and magical damages.

It was a long fight.

Started OK; sleep'ed it, buffed, then debuffed. Took a quick glance on Wiki and saw level "50-52", and decided to stright melee it. ("I'm 12-14 levels above; what can go wrong?")

Once I figured out it cast spells, I just silenced it. Its HP went down slowly; sword strikes were doing high single digits, enspells were around 4 per proc, and it was fairly resistant to Drain. However, it did seem doable, especially since Aspir worked ok.

Halfway through, it started to go hyper on me; must have gotten a haste through while I was busy with other stuff. Things became a bit hurried--it landed a Bio II, and I ran low on MP.

I bind it and gravitied it, then moved away for Convert. Rebuffed, redebuffed--then it all went downhill.

The bloody Bloody Coffin became resistent to silence, and paralyze started to wear off fast. Because I didn't want to lose TP, I was typing all the spells by hand (macros all have staves switches), and I had a hard time keeping up with all its nasty tricks and fast fading enfeebs. Worse, it was landing Paralyze and slipping Ice Spikes through, so I was paralyzed a lot. >_<;

When it had just about 3% of life left, I realized that my Protect and Shell have dropped, along with most of my buffs. Bio II was on me, and I have about 40% HP and dangerously low MP--with Refresh nearly gone. Quick check showed that Convert was nearly three min away. Ouch.

Popped up Protect II, then the Bio II on me and a crit hit ate away my poor Stoneskin. Tried to silence it, and it resisted. My HP was low, and going down fast--my time was running out.

Cure IV'ed myself, Gravity'ed it, Bio (I), and started to kite it. Refresh run out. Not enough MP to recast. Convert still over two min away. Not good. Not good at all.

Run away... but to where? (At least the Bio II on me worn off.) There's only so much room, since I've already moved past the exit from the coast area. Luckily, it kept stopping to cast spells (and not Bio II). It had just a sliver of life left, but I was down to 476 HP and 12 MP.

So, I ran toward it.

Started to cast a Poison on it... figured I'll take him to my grave, if I can.

It noticed that I'm in range, and started casting--Ice Spikes. I landed my Poison, and turned tail to run away again.

~10 seconds passed by...

"Bloody Coffin falls to the ground."

7 MP left.

I lived.

* * *

I took a moment to breath, then dumbly checked my convert timer again; still over a minute.

That, was not an easy fight for this RDM64...

Hello?!

Hello?! Anyone out there? Hopefully not.

Just in case, though:

Don't read this; there's nothing interesting here, nor will there ever be.

Move along. Nothing to see.