So, despite my almost unintelligible post about the skills of retail shops in my area, I got WotG at GameStop last Friday (yes...Black Friday...at the mall. /die). It took almost no time at all to install, but the update took forever! Darkk and I had agreed to explore new areas together, so even though he got his copy a few hours before me, he was stuck on 56k at his parents house and took like 8 hours to update his copy - so I had to wait even more, lol.

New areas are kinda boring really, same old zones, just less faded and not full of ruined buildings. It's a huge pain in the ass getting from one place to another, there's no chocobos or teleporting or anything (<3 Kiddos for Gaiters!). After unlocking all the maws, it's way easier to just warp back to the present, travel to where you need to be, and then take a closer Maw back.

Unlocking the new jobs was incredibly easy, especially considering the job quests for the ToAU expansion (I still haven't unlocked COR!). Dancer was just a lot of running around - it's kind of confusing when you're trying to do a quest and can't tell whether you're supposed to talk to the person in the past or the present, because you read the walkthrough too fast and don't pay attention :(. Scholar was more running around because I didn't want to pay 40k for a stack of vellum, had to go to CN[S] to trade rolanberries for'em. Then I almost forgot to go as BLM to use 2hour, lol. I wonder why BRD 2hour wouldn't work, isn't that also a continuous form of energy? Our songs are more potent or whatever for like three minutes! BLM/RDM/BLU are only for like 30 seconds! Oh wellz.

My friend Anthony quit a couple days ago, I guess I wasn't really surprised because he hasn't really been playing much for months. Damn WoW for sucking away all my friends! However, I was kinda surprised when he offered me his account - which I took, lol. Spent the past couple days trying to organize his inventory and clean up his mules so I wouldn't feel bad about deleting them. I have a separate account that is just three mules, no real characters, so I wanted to remake mules on Anthy's account - didn't want to pay for three accounts! Finally moved all my crap and some of Anthy's leftover crap onto the new mules, got'em all the Jeuno, got'em Tenshodo and ToAU access, and now trying to decide whether or not I actually want to take them to Whitegate, lol.

I'm not just abusing his account for mules, though. I used Anthy's BRD to PL my DNC to 10, it only took a few hours, mostly took longer because I started falling asleep from boredom. Not exactly a stellar gaming experience at lower levels, let me tell ya. Attack, Dance, repeat. I got my first dance at level 5...and it got old about halfway into it. Don't get me wrong, it's cute as hell - but it just got really repetitive.

Anyway that's it for my wall of text post, sorry I didn't post any pics - too lazy to upload and link any.