Semi-productive couple of nights. The main thing is that I acquired my beloved DRK Job. And in a subversion, I'm currently leveling PLD instead.

But yeah, the previous night I scoured the Gustaberg region looking for the Palborough Mines and when I finally found them, I wandered around there endlessly until I finally found Zeid with the help of a guide. Since I got such a late start, I called it quits after that.

Tonight I finished off a few quests in Bastok so I could clear up my inventory. Sold some items that didn't succeed at the auction as well. I have one more item there, but it looks like competition is tough, and while I went for a lower price, a lot of other have followed suit, so I don't expect to have this item sold.

With all that said and done, I thew on a FFUnion playlist of various FF facts and spent most of the night killing the 100 enemies with the Chaosbringer so I can earn my DRK Job. Learned a lot of FF trivia, and learned to really hate this weapon due to it's painfully slow Delay time of 666. It was like my WAR had to have a contractual cigarette break between swings. But, despite the tedium, and the annoyance that I get to do it all again for another quest to get an upgrade, I did like the idea of the quest. Especially since it thematically tied back into FFIV in some ways. Souleater/Dark Wave was a neat AoE spell, but it;s damage was only good for taking out small mobs of enemies. Likewise, the fastest way to level the Chaosbringer is to farm the weak enemies right outside the walls of the different nations. At least the next hundred will also be during me leveling DRK up.

But with all that said, I realized I never finished the DRG quest, and since I am an FFIV fanboy, I figure i should unlock that class before I give DRK a proper run. But in the meantime, I want to level up PLD to 40ish. I may need to see if I an find another good weapon for the class though. I picked up an Inferno Great Sword not long ago, but I sort of want to keep the class with a shield, so I may look to see if I can find another regular sword, because the Tuck sword I currently have feel like a wet noodle that was fine when I was trolling things as a RDM and had magic to fall back on, but I sort of want to actually damage things as a PLD. I may also switch my sub class from WAR back to MNK to get Counter. Shame Provoke is a WAR Job skill, because it would be great to combine the skill with MNK's counter and PLD's stats.

Anyway, it looks like I'm heading back to Windhurst real fast before I finish my business in Bastok. Also, I know I fling around a lot of San d'Oria slander in this thread, but the one thing I will say about the place is that environmentally, it would be the area I would live in because I like trees and I can't stand the heat, so Windhurst's outback prairie vibe and Bastok's rocky desert may not be for me. Honestly, I'm still wondering how Jueno survives without going bankrupt from food exports because it seems to be located in the middle of some wasteland. I've also been wondering about the large bone like structures found throughout the lands, and while I am sure I will learn along the way, I can't help but wonder if they are the remains of one of Vana'diel's gods? I wonder because FFXII's Ivalice has a myth that the land is literally a god that is bound for all eternity and that the various races and creatures of Ivalice were created to destroy and break down his body piece by piece for all eternity. And since XI and XII actually shared a lot of the same development team, I wouldn't be surprised if the idea was used twice.