Long time no see

Oh well... these days I have millions of things to do, so why not add to my burden as well a couple of blog posts? ^,^
Let's do it, for the fun of it!

I am in the process of renewing the blog layout, mainly because in these Abyssea days my interests are quite shifted from the old ones.
I still adore Dancer and Redmage of course but somehow I can't play them too much and they're not anymore my only jobs at 75 (lol) - 99 any-more.

In my personal arsenal of favourite we could see the appearance of two wonderful jobs:

Scholar and Corsair - I should also mention Black Mage but it's quite redundant since everybody has Black Mage these days.
While spending only little time speaking about Corsair - which is my job of choice to gear up and become wonderful in it - because it's self evident what a wonderful job it is (not to mention the coolest AF in game and being a pirate), I should probably spend a bit of time into talking about Scholar.
Have you ever played it? Coming from a BLM history with a decent geared setup, I was surprised and even slightly shocked to see how versatile and efficient this job is.
With powerful nukes (I was almost nuking as much as my BLM, I couldn't believe my eyes) and very good MP efficiency due to Refresh and Sublimation, I found SCH intriguing to play... but I honestly think I underestimated it.
If you put it a small Elemental Seal available every minute, together with AOE Cures and -na spells, I am still baffled that SCH is not on the most used job ever.
I don't know the reason for that, I suspect is simply because most of the time we meet average players and certainly an average SCH can't in any way beat an average BLM...
but still the job survivability and general MP efficiency both in Light and Dark Arts makes me very happy that I choosed it as a new job to explore and try out.

I understand it might not be helpful in Abyssea - thanks SE for that horrible proc system - but it can be very useful in VW where, with the right gear, can easily proc all the not -ga spells, help cure via wonderful Regen and top it up with Helixes.

After all this consideration I did a new Nyzul run which went kinda ok but it could have been much better - mainly probably due to my inexpertise with the job as a primary healer.
So I read all night about SCH and I found Kaeko blog - which I completely missed in the old days (but I am sure you all know who we are speaking of).
Although the info there is quite old - SCH recieved -na and Refresh and Haste Kaeko! :) - it made me really eager to try SCH out a lot more.
I like this job and I like the fact is actually challenging to play - very much like Dancer when it came out when nobody knew what it was capable of and I had to exp to 75 via solo or Campaign lol.

So welcome back to me again to FFXI obsession.
Not sure where this will lead but, hey I will keep on track as long as it is fun! <3

Walk of Echoes

It might be good to update the blog while waiting to Walk of Echoes #9 to be ready.
Summoner rules there and it's nice to be one finally. One has the impression to actually be useful.

It's one minute and everybody is buffing. Let's go to fight!

- Update -

Fought and won. Only japanese players seem to be still interested in WoE.

Anyway this is just a quick reminder to say that yes I am still around, I am still playing.
Working on COR +2 and BLM +2 armors.

Doing a lot of quests and missions and in dire need of Nyzul Isle floor 100.
Drop me a line if you're on Cerberus and fancy some mission fun :)

More updates to come for the next weeks. Promised.

Square Enix total failure

We all know that Square Enix customer service is not the best, we all know that their account/polID handling has always been quite disappointing.

So it will come with no surprise the fact that, for some mysterious reasons, my character and my content ID are gone and at the moment I cannot play.

The issue started earlier this week when I tried to do the transfer in order to obtain the staff of 1 week warp. The Square Enix account refused to be linked citing the fact the billing cycle was yet to start and suggest to wait next month.

I contacted promptly the Support and they told me it's a known problem and that I should be a able to transfer in a couple of day or the beginning of august.

I waited a few day more, knowing that I should wait for next month - effectively losing the possibility to have the item but never-mind.

It came then august and I tried to do the transfer but the system prompted me with the fact that I had to pay outstanding fees (what fees since I paid july already?) . Never-mind then, let's pay this fees.

After paying the fees I did the transfer, reactivated the account and the characters and also bought some crysta to pay for august.

Imagine my surprise when - after all this - I tried to log in and I got the message

You have no Content ID for FFXI. Pleas obtain a new Content ID or reactivate a cancelled one in order to play the game and/or to use the Playonline service

Of course my sudden reaction - beside the rage -was to contact SE Support. Which I did through the chat system. The wait was almost 4 hours... every 20 or 30 minutes after being in queue, the chat would close in my face saying that there was no available agent.

After maybe the fifth or sixth time I tried to access the chat, finally I could speak with an agent.

He told me that this is a known problem and that nothing could be done. He didn't even apologize and he closed the chat on me before I could ask him further questions about this problem.

After spending like 4/5 hours of my time waiting for this lousy answer, I was a bit frustrated so I pick up the phone and I called Square Enix US to see what I should do.

Again I stayed on the phone waiting for an agent to answer me 1:38 minutes but then I gave up, I was sleepy and tired and very angry - not the best state in which to call a customer service.

Today I woke up and my crysta balance was billed for the month of august, but yet there is no content ID to play even if the account is activated and the characters are active too.

I can't even post in the forums due to the fact that I don't have anymore a content ID and characters to post with.

Something that should have been smooth and simple became as usual a nightmare.

Thank you again Square Enix for your wonderful Service.

Please, my dear friends out there, pray for me. I have a terrible feeling this won't go very well :(

Long time no see

Ok, let's face it, it's time to come back.

Although I never really left, the last post is quite a long time ago.
A lot of things to say but also a lot of time for it. I just want to let you know that I am indeed back and I am still trying to find my way, always lost wherever I go.

There's so much to discuss reall - Abyssea, the new armors, my BLM - but for the moment I will keep it short.
FFXI is still a wonderful game and I am glad I am back.
This time might be for good!
:)

Oh, still got no time

Not there is much to tell.
Actually I'm trying to exp SMN and is doing pretty good, even if I don't have anymore all the time I had when I was studing.

I guess there's a time for everything, a time for gaming, a time for working, a time for life.

I choose long time ago a path and I'm trying to follow it straightforwardly, even if I must say I'm not sure it's the best one nor is safe for me to follow.
I endure.

I'll play a litte bit more, trying to reach 75 finally with a SMN without Diabolos becaus even if I play since 2003 I always wanted to finish first Zilart then CoP and now there's even more to finish and I don't have anymore time.

Too much stories maybe? Yes, it's possible.
Or maybe I still value too much just the sake of travelling, exploring (like yesterday I found a spot in Crawler's Nest... it was so beautiful and I've never been there, how's possible?) and questing.

I don't need anything else for the moment.

I've got plans about merits and maybe SCH to 75 but it's just a silly plan.
I know I won't have time to do everything I would like to do and that's the harsh truth.

It's sad, I know, but that won't keep me from dancing. Always.

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Exciting newsss!

New dresses, new moves, new Dancers Powers!
How can I resist all this?
Sadly in these long weeks, I was working a lot and my internet connection was down.
I had to change two rooms because London is not being nice with me, even if I love her greatly...

But every now and again I'm having a peek on what's happening on FFXI, even if I'm off for major causes ; ; so I saw it's time to log in for a few times, just to see how the things are going.
Expect me on Fairy soon, just for a short visit I'm afraid... better than nothing though.
Ahaha

Ah.
I miss so much Vana'diel.
Sooo much.

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Oh la la

It's with big pleasure that we announce that this humble blog has become part of the Playonline Community Sites.
Sadly a big connection problem kept this Dancer from dance for you for a long, long time.
And things will not become better since work is keeping me a lot busy.

But, don't despair!
In the next two month I will play very little, but I will try to keep you updated with news and gossips as much as possible and eventually this period will end and I will be able to play a bit more.

In the meanwhile enjoy all the sites you find on the links section, because a lot of them are very valuable and will make your Journey in Vana'diel a lot easier!

Yours truly
Binahel
the silly Dancer

Mission accomplished

In the end Absolute Virtue was saved. Not due to my poor efforts, to be true...
but at least the mighty King of Aern is "mighty" again. Or sort of.
To commemorate the event I made a button:




Muahahahah...
Ah, button speaking... check this thread. After a long period of laziness I finally decided to make use of my far superior (LOL) photosho skills and I make a handful of buttons like this one:



There is plenty of options for you to enjoy in the thread, plus if you want I can make a special button for you (but be patient because I have a lot of requests... usually take 4 days for a pin to be ready, more if submerged by requests)...
So don't be lazy and go there and check / ask / whatever.
The jobs ones are now the official usable avatars of Blue Gartr muahahah


I'm working on the races ones now, and then I will be back to make requests for everyone!
Enjoy. And if you like them, send me some cookies!


Remember DNC exp has priority though! bwahahah

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And it happened, eventually

I'm sure you already know, the news is spreading all over Vana'diel carried by the goblins...
Absolute Virtue, formerly the last Boss, the Unbeaten Monster of Promathia, ultimately find his end.
Across all the globe, the poor creature is hunted and zerged like anything else.
No more wondering how he can be defeated, no more strategies to be found, no more questions... now the answer is only one: bring a lot of Dark Knights, a lot of Kraken Clubs and go to zerg like hell.

Yes friends, I know. It's sad to hear that the one unbeaten Beast now collapse in the front of the might of a single weapon, a weapon we know is usually in the hands of the ones who dwell in illicit traffics of gil or money.
It's doubly sad then that the once might Aern, now is simply killed with raw power, not requiring anymore a bit of strategy!

Once again raw power win against brain usage.
Embrace your weapons then, and go else to find something suitable.
Vana'diel once again kneels to the ones who wants everything now.



I know friends, these are dark times.
But we still have some hope for the future, not everything is lost!
Help me and Absolute Virtue in the fight of the Zerg method...
Let's spread you this badge on every FFXI forum.
And let them know you're against this mighty beast extinction!
Let's fight for Vana'diel future ecosystem!



(Save it and host it on Imageshack or photobucket. PLIZ. Don't use this!)

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Not far from here, but not close too

Don't worry friends! Binahel is not vanished from the Vana'diel world.
She's just a bit busy!

This (cat) moved two months ago in London and life it though here!
The main problem is finding a job, while the second one is finding nice people and new friends!
I've been told that moving to a foreign country is challenging and indeed it is, expecially if you're not 100% perfect with the country language!
But my engRish is slowly improving and in a matter of no time I will be a socialite/fashion-victim londoneer and even the locals will not be able to find I'm a foreigner
MUAHAHHA





So, updates on FFXI activities:

• Due to the long time I passed offline, I choose to move back to Fairi for a while. I really miss my Hades friends, but I will stay here for a little longer, since it was my old server and I want to see how things are here. To be true, Hades is actually a bit better, but looks like Fairy is a bit more active, especially in the LS activities! I will see what happens and keep you updated. I left my RDM on Hades though, her name is Dunizel, so we can stay in contact!
  Thanks to the moving I met a lot of old friend, last but not least one of the few people that knows since my first days as THF in Windurst (LOL ages ago).
  I got a picture with them and I send them a lot of kisses, hoping to see them again soon!
  
  
• Dancer is slowly but wonderfully growing, hope I will be 75 in a matter of few months!
  Tell me if you want to exp! I'm super cute and super pro! (LOL that's a lie actually. But I'm really cute in my AF DNC! Really!)
• Can't wait for the new udpate which will bring us a new exp method AND the most important thing of all: THE POSSIBILITY TO CHANGE HAIR STYLE!
  FInally I will get rid of that old hairstyle and I wll have a new one (still have to decide wich one, though... any idea?)

That's pretty everything for now! I will keep you updated on my quest for work and DNC75 heheh
Cheers mates (as they say here!)

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Fashion is the way

Beside cookies, my other passion is fashion.
Inspired by this magazine



(a wonderful Japanese magazine depicting the best fashion tips for Tarutarus with the quest required to obtain them) I thought I will start today a fashion guide for the FFXI people!
Being a fashionist is not an easy way, at all. It's difficult and time consuming and of course a gil sinker... but it's fashion, as it should be!

So, let's start:



In the first frame we can see a Monk.
Being a monk doesn't allow you to wear such an ugly combination of pieces. A male, expecially a hume, should never, and I say NEVER, wear that harnesses, except in party (Party is a peculiar situation where fashion style can be suspended for Exp reasons °_°) or you will be the at people's mercy. Please have a look at the new equip and I'm sure you will find something more appropriate than bare legs!
Being Galka and Red Mage is a problem.
But not always, as you can see in the second frame. Taken in the Far Eastern capital, this pic is of a famous Galka of the server (Hades) and he's showing a big fashion sense. Goliard is a piece of absolute perfection, matched only by Morrigan, and adding the Duelist Chapeaux is a wonderful fashion idea, and also almost the only headgear a Red Mage should wear. So, fellow RedMages, start NOW your career of fashionist and do a lot of Dynamis, fighting one of the lowest drop of the Dynamis area! Good luck!

The third Frame is me as a Summoner.
This combination of pieces is horrible, but being Campaign is forgivable, since while fighting we can forgive if the equipment is not aesthetically perfect. Almost.
As a Summoner, I know, you have such a little pieces for your body. But why not Vermillion or the AFv1 or v2? Almost everything is better then cheap body! So don't be lazy and go exp or farm!
Your fashion sense will grow a lot fighting trash mobs for a better purpose: to be perfect!

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Oh my!

A lot of new things to do, a lot of old things to set up before I can start this new life.
In the meanwhile I'm having fun with the new update SE gave us few days ago.
I would like to mention the absence of any real Dancer thingy, but since I found the new Missions and the new contents really nice, I guess I will not say a word about it.
We Dancer are still waiting for merits and AFv2 but looks like we will wait a lot for that two.

The new storyline is very very nice. Finally something I can enjoy even if I don't have a whole party of uberFriends to help me.
I was very very angry about COP, not for the fact they were difficult (I do really like challenges) but due to the fact they were "impossible" without a proper group. Looks like SE learned a lot from that distant mistake and it's giving us something that we can enjoy even if on a casual player basis.

When I will be finished with moving (somewhere in September, I believe) I will finally leave the lines of casual players, but since then I'm wondering what this game has to give to people who don't have time to play it properly.
I saw that the new relics are, of course, a big effort to do. And it sounds fine. I'm not the kind of people who need the ultimate weapon to be happy... even if I hoped for something different... and how things looks like for now, the new relics are even more difficult to have than the old ones.


BUT
let's change subject! The FFXI Blog world is full of people speaking of the update and the new items, I leave you to their capable minds!
Me is a Dancer, the silly Dancer, so I give up on complaining and I try to unravel the mysteries  of Vana'diel


Will this be the future that awaits our beloved Windurst? Will we be able to save it from it's future of horror and despair?
What we saw after fighting the battle of La Vaule, is just a vision or an ineluctable that we will have to fight to avoid destruction?



And what this little dancer hide? Is what she claims to be? Another pawn in the scheme of the Royal Feline? Is the cat good or evil?
And, finally, the ultimate question: where are the Champions of the Dawn and what's their place in all this events?

We can't know for sure!
And while waiting, we enjoy a bit of Campaign fun!

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I do believe she's a real Mithra!
*___*
Meow Meow Meeeeow

Days of intensity

These were days of intense and rewarding exp.
Beside the boring exp parties I found, I was able to make a lot of nice exp session with a variety of different job combination. Almost in every combination the healer had to sit and watch, due to my super power cures muahahahah


Here you can see me fighting a pink bird with another DNC in party. Wich was a lot less lazy then me and cured a lot! Good lady! ^^
So party after party finally I got my reward:



FULL DANCER ARTIFACT ARMOR! l33t

It's unbelievable cute, I know!
Expecially the shoes, with a little cute red ribbon and a green heart!

But with levels went not only the AF but also
DANCING EDGE
I know, I know, maybe for you this is nothing! BUT you must remember me that I was a Bard, and then a Red Mage and I never ever got Dancing Edge nor I did in any way significant damage to exp mobs.
So, with the help of a couple of flourish, I'm able to do a solo skillchain and that's thrilling for me, beside the fact the damage output is not bad at all


A small toke compared to proper DD jobs, but since this is my first melee job, i'm more then happy with this: my very first Dancing Edge!
Now I will study how this ws work and maybe I will be able to collect some equipment to make it stronger!

Then, running like a chocobo (Chocobo Jig ftw) in the streets of our beloved Windurst, I made an unexpected encounter:

Sylbianna the silly scholar! She was fishing and after some chitchat and a dozen of emote, I had to wave goodbye because it was too late for me!
Happy to see you again Sylbichan! <3

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Guess who's back

A lot of things are changing in my life... some are for good, other for bad. But the changes are a force to reckon with so I follow the wave and I see where it leads me.

I started to play again, and nothing really interesting happened, so I'm merely posting a pic to  celebrate the most funny and fast party I ever had with DNC: a 100% Mithra party!


As you can see, it's a Mithra feast, and we were soo fast that the WHM had almost nothing to do except letting the dog out.
For Altana! We had a very competent Thief, a lovely DRK and I'm really starting to thing that DNC make the difference in a party. I'm now in the same level range that my SMN and I can clearly see that as Dancer I'm making this mythical difference (more or less as much I'm doing it as a BRD)! muahahahah
It's overwhelmingly funny and I hope I will be 60 soon, to wear my full AF!
For now I'm a proud owner and wearer of the magical:



A red rose shines on my head.
Yeaaaaah!

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I'm still here

Wokr is keeping me busy.
But I'm still here lurking the forums and reading the blogs!
°—°)
You will not get rid of me so easily!

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Even if I'm back

It's not only work wich is keeping me away from beloved FFXI.
I've got a project, for the near future. I want to go to London for a while, a long while if I will be able, a little while if things will not start properly.
I don't have any particular expectation, beside the possibility of doing shopping in Camden Town.
Muahahahah

By the way, be ready.
Binahel will be back soon, before it's time to move to London I will have a few weeks of tight work and little free time I will invest in exping Dancer.

I want to spread the pink of Dancers everywhere in Vana'diel.
I was a bard, I know good stories. I will now dance in front of the fire once the stories are finished.

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Due to a severe virus infection I will not able to play for a while, since my computer is kinda stuck and I will have to fix it properly.
I hope I've not been hacked
;_;

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A virtual tour in my humble Mog

Everything started right here, in a normal sunny day of our beloved Windurst.
Suddengly Moggles popped everywhere and told us it was time to go to hunt for eggs!
I couldn't say no, as you know I like events too much to miss one of them!
So I took my festival suits and I venture out to the gate to see what the moogles want me to do.
What I saw was a terryfing mess of bodies, fighting alongside to reach the poor overhelmed Moogle...



The invasion started right under my eyes and I couldn't do anything but watching helplessly the poor moogle abused by the maddened people looking for eggs (I thought that everyone knew that moogles don't hatch eggs, but looks like I was wrong).

After a lot of exchanges anda few cheap buys (meh I hate people who sell eggs, but I think I will have to too, since I'm so broke that 10k would be something more than welcome) I get finally my reward for the day




A lovely new useless but cute thingy to put on top of my bookshelf. Isn't it adorable?
Tomorrow I will try for another object and then I will be done!

But since I was there in my Mog, with my Mooggle chatting how much Vanadielers are rude when time of events coms, I thought: why not show to everyone my little humble nice Mog House?
Yeah!
So here it goes.
This are all pieces I collected in a lot of years of play. Someone has attached old memories, someone was a gift and someone I bought on the AH when I was if not rich at least wealthy.
O_O

Let's start with bookshelves. As you can see I like to read! And I like silly lamps and christmas tree (wich is there because I'm too lazy to move it and the moogle is too lazy to).
I have a complete collection of History of Vana'diel, plus a few rare books on the places I like (Uggalepih Temple, Altepa and Quicksand and so on...)



right near the bookshelves there is a replica of the Windurst planetarium. I like it, but I must admit it's too huge and I could use that space for something better. But being broke makes necessary to do what we can with what we have. Hence is the planetarium wich was, I tell you, a gift (= for free)!






Just after that panel you can see my bed. It's comfortable but pretty ugly, I know. I had a really better bed but it was larger and richer and I had to sell it because it was full of memories I didn't want to sleep with any given day. Near the bed a bookholder, since I like to read in bed until I fall asleep and the Moogle turn off the fire (with a mini version of blizzard!).



Here there is my favourite pieces: personal things, perfumes and also a little blue box that contains my only r . It's a story I will not tell here or in the near future, but that's the most precious thing I have and it makes me a bit sad when I open it, but also happy because brings me good memories togheter with bad ones.
I should find a better accomodation, like some eastern furniture. But they are damn expensive!



Last but not least the living section, where I eat and play with fishes and where I also put my clothes!
You can see me in all my Yukata splendor for a final "wave" to you, my immaginary visitor!






And at the end, finally, I was able to "see" Sylbianna online! We couldn't meet because I couldn't move from Windy and she was stuck in Bastok.
But we talked a bit and she told me I'm a good Dancer! Muahahahah




So, to show my power, I did a bit of motion near the egg-addicted crowd.
And I stroke a pose or two!




That was a kinda normal Binahel day: full of nothing really usefull, but funny!

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Here it comes

The day we DNCs waited it's arrived
AF is here!

Sadly work is keeping me seriously busy and I will not be able to level in the few next days.
But the Tiara is so near I can feel it on my soft read hair!

In the meanwhile, please enjoy all the KI and BG whines about haste nerf and SCH tierIV nukes.
Lolvey.
They will keep you occupied while till I will be back!

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