User:Althena

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I've been playing FFXI since its NA launch in October of 2003.

I've spent a good deal of my career soloing and duoing my XP because I didn't care for the parties I was in early in the game... So I ended up being a DRG/RDM. It took forever, but it was fun. I did party for missions and study party dynamics in the forums though. Recently, I've started partying again, and it seems that most of the people playing these days are a lot nicer and less bitchy than I remember. I am currently leveling SAM.

Every time I think I've found the craft for me, something ends up happening that changes my mind... it's an endless problem with me.

I gardened until my real life schedule made it unreliable and the prices of Tree Cuttings and Tree Saplings became too high, and the price of elemental ores for me to want to risk it any longer. Then I took up Leathercraft but after a while, I realized that there are very few cash items in it. I later started Chocobo Digging and Goldsmithing, and things were looking up. an A10 digger can get all the items that a goldsmith will ever need, including everything needed for the level 74 elemental ring series... but when I was still an A45 digger they changed the digging system, and now it could take another year and a half or more to hit A10, so I gave up on that. I took up Fishing for about the fourth or fifth time and tried to level it up while leveling up Cooking. I capped cooking at 60, while working on getting Raw Fish Handling and growing my own rice, but the price of sushi has gone down tremendously of late, and it looks like that also isn't a very good craft to uncap.

The only craft that ever made me decent money was Gardening back in the day, but I just don't have the time to do it right now. Maybe one day I'll find my perfect craft... Until then, the search continues.

GP Items I currently have: Tanning, Shaded Spectacles, Sheeting, Chainwork, Clockmaking , Lumberjack, Raw Fish Handling, Patissier.

My current SAM wishlist: Byrnie, another Victory Ring, Triumph Earring  x2, Spelunker's Hat, Optical Hat, Swift Belt, Shinimusha Hara-Ate, Praefectus's Gloves (Higher rank needed.), Brutal Earring, AF Armor, Relic Armor, Kyudogi