User:Morwyne

What's a Morwyne?
Morwyne is a character on Lakshmi sever that has been in existence for a little over three years now. It is the recreation of a character previously found on the Fairy server under the name 'Namarie', both beginning as Elvaan female Warrior allied with the nation of San d'Oria. The person driving Morwyne is an interesting character herself (hi). I spend my time on Morwyne mostly exploring new jobs and new ways of playing her current ones, camping little random NMs I haven't gotten around to, but mostly just using the game as another tool to stay in touch with my long-distance boyfriend, 'Shurikenger' &hearts; &hearts; &hearts; and other real-life friends who got me interested in FFXI. Oh and, despite appearances, I also have a full time job I go to every day :P

Job Levels
I started out as a sword and board Warrior on her way to unlocking Paladin. I tanked for 75 levels to discover that my real passion was not for swinging a sword, but for magic. Being Elvaan has never once held me back, and I've achieved a lot since finding my niche. Now that I've run out of mage jobs to level, I'm looking at what I can do as a melee DD. I'm not necessarily after Maat's Cap or anything like that - I just have some sort of ADD that makes me go crazy if I can't do something different every day. No matter how many jobs I level, though, White Mage will always be my #1 favorite.

Mission Status
Once in a while, I like to take a break from grinding XP and do some missions. I absolutely love the story lines and how different things like AF quests, rank missions, avatar battles, etc. all tie into each other. One of the most memorable experiences for me in playing this game was my CoP static. We broke the record on almost all of the BC fights and fought our way to Sea amongst the earliest groups on the server to achieve that goal. It was such a fun time, I almost wish I could go back and do it over again (then I think about the endless barrage of cutscenes across all of Vana'diel and am glad it's done :P).

San d'Oria: Rank 10 Windurst: Rank 10 Bastok: Rank 10 Rise of the Zilart: Complete Chains of Promathia: Complete Treasures of Aht Urhgan: AUM33, Sentinels' Honor

Divine Might: Complete Storms of Fate: Complete Apocalypse Nigh: Complete

Crafting
I fail at crafting - I seriously do. I've genuinely tried it several times over the past several years, starting with the cheap and easy Cooking and moving on to different things, but due to inventory space and patience, I always end up throwing in the towel. My strategy now is just to make as many crafter friends as possible ^^;

End-game
There aren't many Impossible to Gauge! mobs that I haven't helped kill. Aside from a couple of unsuccessful attempts at Bahamut (version 2), I have amassed quite a collection of titles to be proud of thanks to being in awesome end-game linkshells since venturing onto that scene when I finsished leveling WHM.

Recently, I've chosen to go commando without a linkshell and just play mercenary for old friends because, although I still love the big fights and respect most of the people whom I've fought beside, I have a really low tolerance for idiots and would rather make my own in-game schedule of events for now. I find that the longer I spend in an end-game shell - whether it be with an immature group or even a friendly mature one - the more seriously I start taking the game and the less fun I have after a while, and that's something I'd like to avoid. It is JUST A GAME afterall - the game is a passtime when I have nothing better to worry about, so obviously I don't want it to be the source of any additional stress.

I still enjoy attending Dynamis regularly to be in that teamwork environment without a huge time committment. I have to say again, the majority of the people I've been raiding with on Lakshmi over the past several years have been awesome - all three of my previous HNM shells, my previos Limbus shells and my Dynamis shell have a lot of members in common, so I'm not missing much social interaction by abstaining from the HNM scene. I may go back to HNM one day - I miss fighting wyrms and jailers and stuff - but at the same time it frustrates me that these things never pop during my available play time and I end up missing out on a lot due to work/sleep.

I'll list my AF2 for my own organizational purpose, but also because I'm still jazzed that in a little over a year I've gone from the girl with months of Dynamis experience and no AF2 to show for it to a very fortunate girl with many rewards received (or maybe just a girl with some unpopular jobs).

White Mage: Cleric's Cap (San d'Oria), Cleric's Duckbills (Windurst), Cleric's Pantaloons (Jeuno), Cleric's Briault (Beaucedine), Cleric's Mitts (Xarcabard), Cleric's Belt (Qufim)

Paladin: Valor Gauntlets (San d'Oria), Valor Coronet (Bastok), Valor Leggings (Windurst), Valor Breeches (Beaucedine), Valor Surcoat (Xarcabard)

Dragoon: Wyrm Greaves (San d'Oria), Wyrm Brais (Bastok), Wyrm Finger Gauntlets +1 (Jeuno/Buburimu), Wyrm Armet (Xarcabard), Wyrm Belt (Buburimu)

Bard: Bard's Cuffs (Bastok), Bard's Slippers (Jeuno), Bard's Justacorps (Beaucedine), Bard's Cannions (Xarcabard), Bard's Cape (Valkurm)

Summoner: Summoner's Pigaches (San d'Oria), Summoner's Bracers (Bastok), Summoner's Doublet (Beaucedine)

Ranger: Scout's Beret (Jeuno), Scout's Belt (Buburimu)

Black Mage: Sorcerer's Tonban (Bastok)

Merit Points
With so many jobs leveled it's very difficult for me to decide how to prioritize my merits. I've gotten a fair number of merit points, but it doesn't seem like many when I start plugging them into the different categories. Here's a projection of what I'm going for and how far I've gotten:

As you can see, I still have a looooong way to go ^^;