A group of us from the linkshell, had a lot of fun last night. Firstly 9 of us did Salvage and we did a SSR run. We’d done another BR run over the weekend and once again didn’t see any NMs /sigh. Last night we killed Hammerblow (no drop), Dekka (no drop), GG (no drop) [...]
Things have been going really well since my last update. We did 2 Odins, both of which dropped Wbodies. But, at least they went to people who actually had them wishlisted. We claimed a random Nidhogg which dropped an Ebody for Knightro. I solo popped Ix'DRK and lost animosity because I waited too long to click the ???. I then got animosity back on the next kill and we proceeded to watch Ix'DRK reraise like 5 million times over the next 2 hours. Fun times.
We've gotten quite a few 35s in Salvage. Raistlinratt finally completed Morrigan Robe and Ares Legs, Corrderio got Skadi Legs, Sashimiaru (who lives in Mt. Z) mined up enough Khroma to complete her Marduk's Jubbah, Yvan got an Usu Head for his level 30-something MNK, and I'm sure there are a lot of other pieces that I cannot even remember.
We were on an Ultima rotation, the road to which was somewhat chaotic. There were some bumps along the road with lotting chips and then an upper Temenos run where someone aggro'd Carbuncle with only 2 of the elementals dead elevating Carbuncle to ass-kicking status. We still managed to bang out the win, though.
Ultima itself was rather uneventful. The fight was rather smooth other than seeing Barnesy trying to be slick by sneaking in a Gekko before a CB and ended up catching it with his face.
Drops were pretty good at Head, Body, and Legs. The head could have been something better, but it's hard to complain with a Body and Legs in the pool. Arc got Legs, Fievel got Head, and I got Legs.
In Salvage we've been hitting SSR and Zhay pretty hard. Morrigan Legs continue to elude us, both in 25 and 35 form. We continue to get stuff we don't need, such as Yvan's Usu Head, but also stuff that is nice to see such as Corr's Skadi Legs. The 6f frog finally put out for me:
With these next 2 pieces of gear, I believe I'm finally at the point where Wubby has all the RDM gear that Xerlic had at the time of ban. Off the top of my head, the only thing I'm missing are Novio Earring and Altruistic Cape. And honestly, I think Merciful Cape is more useful for RDM than Altruistic Cape. :x
The past week or two have been all about RDM. I posted my gearsets on BG, and while it stroked my ego to receive complements, I was also glad to hear criticisms and possible improvements. On original Xerlic, I never really micromanaged that well. I mainly concerned myself with stats and such, and never took that much note of things like my Max HP/MP and wearing damage reduction gear in slots that don't have a relevant piece of gear for a certain spell. My first goal is to get a set of Darksteel +1 for my PDR set. They rarely pop on AH, so I'm having Rubicant craft them for me (thanks!). Gonna start on the harness (currently 0/8) and work my way down. I'm not sure if I'll bother with Merman's for MDR since coral is a lot more expensive than darksteel and I'm not really into RDM tanking, but we'll see. I really want to get better at RDM soling, and there are several solos that I'd like to try out just for the hell of it: Charybdis, VV, Faust, etc.
Zub was throwing together some Nyzul runs, so I decided to tag along since my runic disc was at level 95 for at least half a year and getting the key was just something I've been putting off. Unfortunately, someone else had already asked to host the run on DRK to force scythe to drop on 100, and I needed a windslicer for SAM. As luck would have it, the GKT dropped off of the floor 100 boss.
I had moved my other 75 RDM acct onto Seraph a few weeks ago to help me farm Aern organs, but stupid me forgot to check if he had Sea (of course he didn't). But, at least now I got some use out of him by making skillchains to break Nyzul weapons. I got his sword skill from 25 to 165, too lol.
Lastly, Mog Bonanza. I didn't make out too well this year....
Samurai's fun. Camped Mee Deggi a few times and joyously got Impact Knuckles, however, I camped Quu Domi and I'm 1/1. I'm 52SAM as of today, and luckily I haven't gotten any really nasty parties.
Hume F hold daggers so stupidly.
There is a character named Ducc who was in my party on Sunday night. He was ok, but wouldn't take any advice. He "dances" all the time for money (dancing was funny when it first came out), and liked to use Raiden Thrust even though we (new recruit Mathai and his ladyfriend Kaehlan) kept telling him to use Double Thrust, but I guess he was too much of an idiot to listen. However, the WAR tank was really good (I forgot his name, unfortunately), and he said he was going to take up PLD. It's nice to see people take the game seriously and voke the mob as it is coming to camp instead of letting me get whacked a few times.
Fortunately, Sensesfail is a 75SAM so if I have any SAM specific questions, I can always go to him. Nycon and I will be sharing the Shinimusha Haidate (TP+6 Samurai Pants). If he ever chooses to level SAM, I always have DRG on the backburner, so it's all right.
Now that I'm looking at these screenshots, they look a bit jaggedy.
Maybe it's because I am an adult and I can't deal with frivolous things anymore, but I think that the Linkshell Community Website is not very user-friendly. I only log in once every three months and I can never remember how to do anything except view the Linkshell that I most likely am not in anymore.
Is there a more beloved symbol of spring in Vana’diel than the Windurstian cherry tree?
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Did Dynamis – Bastok tonight and got the best run so far.
6 One Byne Bills
Argute Pants! <3
and I was also lucky enough to snag these …
Free lot roll on Corsair Feet!
Plus we got the win with minimal deaths, I only died 3 times and surprisingly enough we only got hit with Breakga once. [...]
Just a short note. I officially relogged in after about an 11 month absence. And lo and behold who do I run into as I zone into Bastok Mines? Zephiris! (on her mule that is). Since no one was in LiberiFatali at the time, Zephiris invited me into Shibby. Saw some familiar faces again. Eckardt, however, ran right past me without a wave (he claims it's because I'm too short and the computer didn't draw me in). I also said hi again to Fullen, Hypnotizd, Demesis, and Blaire. Not sure who else is playing, but looking forward to seeing. Also I heard about some of the updates. Synergy!?!? Gardeners banned and then reinstated (I wonder if I would have been banned if I was actively playing at the time). Not too many job updates, although the ranger ones are fun (now I don't have to do velocity shot every dang 5 minutes, still need an auto attack cause my fingers get sore). I was telling Eckardt that I didn't have a Blau for my THF. Then I reread my earlier posts and realized, I actually do have one. My bank account is still relatively healthy. I think I have about 7-8 mil on all my different characters. Going to work on finally getting Alchemy to 100 on Brin, I'm somewhere at 99.x. Then getting goldsmithing to 60 (at 58) on Verrick. It was funny. I couldn't remember how to get to places. How to even lot on treasure. Or how to start a party. It's amazing what you forget. Well I'm sure I'll have fun again. Also heard about FFXIV.
I remember back for the first Super Bowl Sunday for our LS. We'd just started a couple months earlier and since our only event was Dynamis and we go on Sundays, I figured we'd get almost no turnout for a Dynamis that coincided with the Super Bowl, so we decided to cancel our Dynamis for that Sunday. This action was met with all sorts of "ZOMG no Dynamis, WAT?" responses, because guess what? Not everyone watches the Super Bowl?! Yes, it's a crazy concept, but ever since then we've still held events on Super Bowl Sunday although usually in a toned down manner.
Yesterday, we had a good turnout for our Wing 3 Einherjar, but about 13-14 minutes into the run I noticed we were almost done with our 2nd wave of mobs, so I called Chair Dude or King Behemoth boss. I've noticed that when you get those bosses, you tend to get just a bit more time cause they can be bitches. At present, the KB boss is the only one we've never beaten... but luckily we've only had 2 serious attempts at it. So! The 3rd wave of mobs pops and don't you know ... KB Boss. Sigh! We cleared the Marids that popped along side it and gave it our best shot on the boss, but we failed.
Afterwards, the exodus to Super Bowl parties occurred and the rest of us gathered for Dynamis-Bastok. It seemed to make sense to combine our once a month city Dynamis with a day that many people would be absent. Overall the run went great. Normally, we'd get a full clear but we timed out as we were clearing the repops on the way to the Mog House. Amazingly, wanted AF2 dropped including 2 RDM, 3 BLM, and 2 SAM. Topped off with 11 Wootz that sold for 200k each and 428 coins, it was a good run.
Sarameya! It'd been awhile since our last Sarameyas, but we had 3 pops collected and we TP burned them all with little to no issue... in fact, I don't think anyone even died on the 2nd or 3rd ones. It was a great showing after the slop we put forth at Tinnin last week.
In addition to the smoothness of the kills, we were rewarded with some good drops as well! I only screenshotted the best one... which was on Deuteu's pop; the 2nd kill:
Aw snap, that's some Hachiryu Haidate right there! Also, our 2nd trigger of the night. We sold the first one for 5mil to a JP that's upgrading Burtang! The 2nd went to us and now we're 2/3 toward popping Pandemonium Warden. >.> Not sure if that will ever happen, but we're gonna have to come across a Tyger's Tail before we need to worry about it anyway.
In addition, we got an Aurum Armet, two Oracle's Robes, and a Pachipachio. All told, nice gil for the LS and nice gears for LS peeps ... my definition of a great event!
Other Stuff: Went to Sky for the 1st time in over 2 months on Thursday. Farmed up some triggers and then popped 4 Suzaku. We picked up 3 N.Feet of them, which is awesome due to the fact that it's our most wanted non-Kirin drop. (Yes, we're mostly capped on Haidates... only new members need them). On the bad side, I won't talk about our split off group wiping to Brigandish Blade ... oshi-, I just did!
WAR got to level 64 with some FoV, an XP party, and some XP scrolls from quests. That's a 2 level bump since last week, which is ahead of my self-imposed one level a week pace! I need to focus some time on farming though. I need 3 pieces of gear above anything for my WAR to be pretty tight when it hits 75 ... Aurum Sabatons (Dusk Ledelsens in the meantime), Fortitude Torque (P.Amulet in the meantime), and Warrior's Stone. 2/3 of those items are dropped via pop NMs, so I need to get to work on the requisite farming to obtain their pop items. Ugh!
Nothing else to report aside from two straight Salvage runs that didn't drop any 35s. Yay Salvage!
When your friends in your linkshell ask for help killing some new NMs, naturally you may want to help them. New fights, new challenges… what could go wrong? I mean, how could you resist that cute taru face smiling up at you??
Resist. Seriously. Or at least until you’ve done more research than we have [...]
Not much has been going on… Got RDM to 61 which is nice. Took a little bit of a break for now, until I get a little bit more free time and until I collect all the scrolls I need. Just have one left, Water III, which I can get off of the Sapphire Quadavs [...]
So, with that, how did this week go?? SMN 32 PLD 41 SAM 42 CoP to 5-2 and we're going in for that on Monday. About halfway up the Superior Private rank situation -- damn thing timed out on us seconds before we had another win too.
I received word today that a dear friend of mine has passed away last night of congestive heart failure. He was in my static that I had for quite a while, and was the main reason Kauri, Kinkykitty and I migrated to the Ifrit server in the first place. Many times after a static party [...]
I think I've figured out why this game is able to keep drawing me in. It's the wonderfully entertaining and immersive world history. I'm completely serious, there's something about this world that feels entirely genuine in a way that very few games have been able to do. While I can't quite tell what exactly it is that makes this world so compelling, it has done a damn fine job of it. The number of games I've played over the years that have been able to pull this off can probably be counted on one hand. FFXI is a slightly different flavor, but it's still up there.
Last night I went exploring and learned a lot about Vanadiel while completing the quest to get the map for Crawler's Nest. For instance: did you know that long ago the Tarutaru were planning to use their magic to conquer the world? Yeah, all those sweet innocent little faces are hiding a secret desire to enslave the world. I knew there was a reason I didn't trust them.
It was a lot of fun having an excuse to go exploring all night long. I actually ended up running into my friend right as he was logging in for the night. Turns out he needed to do the quest as well, so rather than leave him hanging we went back and got him all of the monuments I had done the night before. We pretty much spent the entire night running all over the world, on foot, on chocobo or simply having me teleport us around. Some of the scenery was truly spectacular, and I was glad to have someone to share it with. All told the quest took five hours from start to finish and it probably would have taken even longer if we hadn't been helping each other out.
Adventure:
From Mediocre Mage
Our journey took us to the familiar shores of Gustaberg.
From Mediocre Mage
We spent a lot of time running through the Dunes back to Selbina to get more clay. Why the mayor couldn't just give us a bunch to start with I don't know.
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Mohan contemplates erasing the evidence of the Tarutaru plan for world domination.
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After finding the last monument we decided to celebrate with some fireworks before collapsing in our moghouses after a long night of exploration and adventure.
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So its been over a month since we had any new information on FFXIV, and I’m thoroughly bored of scavenging online for any possible information. On the bright side I did end up getting a new computer! Its beautiful!
So.. in the meantime…
I think I will be looking forward to a game that I [...]
So sleepy right now but so happy. As of 2/5/2010 I've finally dinged 75 NIN. I think that job has become my newest love. I've been working so hard on trying to get the right gear for it. I'm hoping that Byakko gives me some nice kitty pants soon. And earning towards my Perdu Blade slowly but surely. The party I dinged in was fun especially because my boyfriend who was my guru for NIN got to be there with me. Working on his SAM of course. So I finally have my 3rd 75. And im debating on whether I should get to work on merits now that I've procrastinated them for so long, or if I should just campaign them out. Because to be honest I absoutely hate most merit parties. Unless its with friends, or I have something to entertain myself with, I get so bored and after like an hour im ready to go. I can't play like some who can sit there for hours on end meriting.
I also got my Dryad's Staff finally for WHM. Soon as I can get a copy of the SS my friend took, ima post it up. It was my first nm I did on NIN so I was pretty proud myself. Of course was only 74 lol. Soon as I dinged 75 tho it was like I broke NIN in by going after the Dunes Boot NM and then heading to Savage Blade WSNM. And of course some pages in Terrigan to end the night. I can't wait til I get more haste gear. Im addicted to it now lol.
The new icon for my blog is a picture a good friend mine from the game drew. Her name is Nekonaoko and she drew a picture of me and my boyfriend's character together as a Christmas present. Im trying to steal his Ninja gear :X.
Must go pass out now as im tired from lvling. And craving hot wings. Just had to post to celebrate my 3rd 75.
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YAY! I got a lot of stuff done this week in Vana’diel.
- Completed ZM12 so I now I have access to Sky.
- Completed Promyvion Mea and Dem
- Did a ENM Battle
- Unlocked SAM and BLU
- Leveled BLU to 10 and got a bunch of Blue Magic
- Opened Nyzul Isle upto floor 5
There’s a lot of [...]
I pretty much spent the day on Qufim Island because it the was the only place I could get a party after seeking for 2 days as DRG. So after that I checked the AH and noticed Cream Pies were out of stock and the price was 13K a stack. So I went to do [...]
Nowhere actually! I just stopped playing MMOs. And started to draw again. And taking care of my other sites.
So, you’re asking: where are all those things ?
My Tumblelog
Deviantart
Twitter
Steam
The only games I’m playing right now are Team Fortress 2 and L4d 1/2 ! (Yes, apparently I switched to the FPS darkside)
FFXI and Aion were fun, but [...]
I purchased another SH+1 to replace the one i gave to my friend.
A failed swift belt run allowed me to get a Rapp Harness to drop. The Haste +4 is really helpful on Shadows. Now that i have swift belt as well i gained 6% haste for my thf.
Tried to get on the FFXIclopedia wiki tonight... Got two malware warnings on the first two pages I tried to visit tonight, and was able to safely back out. Someone actually going after the FFXI Net community? Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people, if so... ON EDIT: Upon a closer look, it sounds like someone has decided to get into wikia itself, as about 100 wikia domains, according to the Google Safe Search page I was able to put up, have been apparently hit. Perhaps malware on the ads or something?
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9th Feb 2010
