Ok. Well.

In light of the 99 cap, an ambitious taru's only resolve is to go out and level these fucking subs.

Warrior - Check
Dark Knight  (eh same gear as WAR anyway) - Check
Samurai - Check
Ninja - Check

The only things left on the list are RDM, BLM, BLU, COR, DNC, SCH, RNG, BST. I guess RDM and SCH are higher priority ones. At least it gives me something to do in game other than HNM lameness.

The bane of our Einherjar existence has been the King Behemoth Wing 3 boss, Dendainsonne.  Until recently, we'd not gotten him all that much.  But lately, he seems to be popping up every other time we enter a Wing 3 zone.  Well, we got him again yesterday ... but this time we had our handy-dandy can of 'Dendainsonne be GONE!'



Just a couple of sprays will eliminate your Dendainsonne problems until your next Wing 3, guaranteed!  Hahaha!

All joking aside, we did finally take down this boss.  I've said all along that healers are the key to beating it.  We've tried so many strategies in the past, but we just TP burned it this time with mages keeping everyone alive for the most part.  I tagged it with a 2nd Feint and then it died about 15-20 seconds later, so it was about a 2:20 minute fight.  It got off 3-4 Meteors and did the normal annoying AoE Stun move, but somehow we withstood it all and won.  

I'm not ready to say we'll beat it every time, but at least we know it can be done.  And with that, we've beaten every boss in Einherjar now.  This guy and Chair Dude just once each, but we still know we can kill them.  All that said, we're in line for our first 2 week Odin in a looooooooong time. 

Sky:
I don't talk about Sky much here, considering we only go 1-2 times a month at most, but we went this past Saturday and it was like a buffet of NMs.  All of the time spawn NMs were up when we got there and we managed to kill Brigandish Blade, Despot, and Steam Cleaner as well.  Nothing special there, but we did it all in a matter of about 90 minutes which was pretty cool.  We wrapped up with a couple of Seiryu and a Suzaku.  We're building up toward more Kirin fights again soon!

Other Stuff:
Sea was sea last week, and Jailers didn't drop jack.  We were going to do a JoL as well, but it got late so that's on hold until next time.  At least we're sitting on a pop so we can do whatever we want and be sure that JoL will get done next time. 

Dynamis-Xarcabard was failtastic.  Only 2 wanted AF2 dropped, at least one of them was THF since 9 people declared it for the run.  >.>  We may never fulfill all those drops, but at least need one less now.

On the personal front, I got my WAR to level 69 which means I'm coming down the home stretch.  My main concern now is skilling up Great Axe.  I think it's sitting around level 61 cap which isn't too hot.  I'll need to FoV on WAR or skill up GAX on DRK at some point.  ; ;  I still need Fortitude Torque, Warrior's Stone, and Aurum Sabatons for my Warrior ... and still making no progress towards them.  D:   Oh well.

The main reason I've not been making progress on them is that I've been spending my free time working on the Add-on missions.  Last night I spent 3 hours or so running around for all the early MKD quests.  It should all pay off in the end with an Anwig Salade that will easily surpass my current Weapon Skill options on both RNG and COR.

ummm yeah, so I haven't updated this in forever since I quit the game, but I plan on finishing all the posts I never put up and all the images (like of my sam hitting 75 and etc).
see ya soon.

I know this scene has been used to death but this so beautifully expresses what some people have felt recently and is hilarious at the same time… And just for Mac

This weekend was a lot better than they’ve been in a while.  I spent a few evenings off game last week just chilling, catching up with household stuff, ‘Being Human’ and various books and other games. I needed a break and I think I still need to make room for less time online so there [...]

Yeah, I dropped my Rajas Ring again. I figure with the level cap increase coming in a few short months it’s time for me to start focusing upon a few choice jobs (mainly BLM, but a couple others are in mind). It’ll be bout a month before their able to fish up the [...]

Things like not-75 BCNMs that are the sole source of Refresh people aren't doing much anymore, so I've been waiting two days to snag myself a Refresh scroll to be able to continue leveling Red Mage to 49. I could try to put together a BCNM40 run myself, but people seem to be "Kraken Club onry" and only spam that shitty BCNM60. (I even checked to see if anyone reported getting a Refresh scroll from the keys from the addon scenarios, but alas none have been reported.)

Besides level capped BCNMs there's also things that only come from the Ashu Talif Assault missions. The PUP Automaton attachments I don't have are almost entirely from that BCNM. They're all in the 1,000,000 gil price range and super rare. Several are really useful too. (Haste+%, Magic Acc+X(or+%?), less overloads, etc.) There's Rare/Ex Haste+3% pants from it too that are quite nice for the jobs left off Byakko's/Homam.

Stuff like this Square-Enix should really address as the game is getting older.

Octave Club

When the level cap is 80 for three or four months the Octave Club is going to be on par with the Kraken. Levels 88 and 96 too, but those aren't final caps. Just something random I thought of and wanted to mention. (I don't have either club or a desire to camp them/spam that BCNM.)

The HFS series will continue as I find more news from VanaFest to go HFS about. :)
So, this week:
CoP: Promathia WIN -- Rajas Ring GET
Zilart continuance from Sky this Monday, eventually leading to Bahamut V.1 and "The Last Verse".
Nyzul disc finally upgraded to 30 in helping some other LS members Super Climb 16-30 (3/3 - the 26-30 win came with under 30 seconds left. One of the LS members won a Denali at the 20 fight. Congrats.
Whoever made the Boneyard Gully and Bearclaw Pinnacle BC entrances must've really hated life!
SAM 54 -- soon to be 55.
DNC merits: Under 90K now to full. Then cap DNC, then Laila and I need to have a talk in Qu'Bia Arena.
New hobby: Cycling FoV page 1 in Ro'Maeve to finally replenish some Tabs and use the FoV NM (Kulili) battle in Xarcabard to level MNK to 65.
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Couple of comments I have to make on some rants:
First, about the one about Ro'Maeve: I don't think it's personal to me until I speak up. I just think that a lot of players actively attempt to block other players for the same reason many hate this jump of the level cap to 99: They want to be the Big Kahuna.
Second, about the level cap jump: One thought, in the form of a question... Do you think this is Square-Enix' clue to actually get people to select ONE JOB to be elite at, rather than be 75 in all 20 jobs??
Just a thought there...

First off, my apologies to Agent Nothing for not replying anytime sooner.  I don’t make signature images anymore (lack the time and drive), but Agent Nothing does some awesome work.  Do check them out. Anyhow, there’s been a lot of things I’ve been wanting to do but (as mentioned earlier) I lack the drive and time [...]

With the June Version Update the level cap is being raised to 80. So, I'm getting some subjob leveling out of the way now so I can work on mains later. I started with Red Mage. It's useful for both Black Mage and Scholar as a subjob and being able to Convert will be pretty awesome.

I have run into one problem though: I can't find a damned Refresh scroll. They're only 6k gil, but there's only one up on the AH at a time it seems and always snatched up immediately. It's like trying to get Raise II and Reraise II scrolls from when I leveled Scholar all over again. I'm not such a huge jackass that I'd join a post-41 party and not have Refresh, so that means I'd have to suffer through more 37 capped East Ronfaure [S] EXP. Or solo. With a Shield, Phalanx, and Stoneskin I do a pretty good brickwall impression, but good god is it slow. Kind of like Dancer. They can't kill me, but I can't kill the mob quickly either. Ugh.

Aside from that annoying setback, there's not much else I need to level before June. My /WAR will be gimped at 80 as it's only 37, but /WAR doesn't really get anything new at 40. I also rarely get to /WAR as Monk and I don't do much as Ninja that I'd be better /WAR than /DNC or /DRK. Speaking of /DRK it's in the same boat as /WAR. I don't use it much and it gets nothing of interest at level 40. Some new Absorb spells and Bio II...both of which suck subbed. I could not bother with either and I don't think anyone would notice or care.

Dancer as a subjob does get some new goodies at 40, the Reverse Flourish and Stutter Step. Stutter Step is pretty useless as it lowers magic evasion. Reverse Flourish gives you TP back in exchange for Finishing Moves. Better than not having it, I guess. Not that amazing or potentially interesting as things that will become available with a higher level cap (Haste Samba).

Subbed White Mage I get the feeling is going to be one of those jobs which has it's subbed JAs restricted. I can't see Square-Enix giving fully powered Aflatus JAs. It's mostly interesting because it gives subbed Haste. Being able to AoE Haste as Scholar could be quite useful. No Magic Atk. Bonus trait of course means that it'll tip Scholar fully into a healer/buffer role to have Haste available.

Anyone else started leveling subjobs?

Each weekend the Player Achievement post is created for adventurers to share their successes in Vana’diel with the rest of the community. To participate simply make a comment to this post and tell us what you’ve accomplished while playing this past week. Comments will be chosen at random and read during the Player Achievement segment [...]

It’s been some time since I’ve done any work to my sidebar plugin. This update consolidates my install file and widget file into 1 so you don’t have to worry about having to activate 2 separate files in the plugin area. Also, the jobs backend has gotten a make over. I’ve made it to where [...]

Episode 194: VanaFest 2010 Live Coverage Audio from the live broadcast presented by Limit Break Radio and Pet Food Alpha! 3/5/10 3:23:25 Download audio file (Episode194.mp3) We’d like to take the time to once again thank the over 550 people who listened to the live stream, participated in VanaChat, and called in via Skype. We had a great time doing [...]

Disclaimer: I drafted this entry almost year ago (4/23/2009) when I still play Final Fantasy 11 and was leveling Bone crafting on my mule, this was my route to get to 100 and might (not) a little outdated So instead of let it rot in my draft box I decide to publish it. [...]

They do exist! Summoner's Horns, that is. In about four years of Dynamis I'd never seen one drop until tonight! The NM finally put out.

Congratulations to Jacinda on her pointy SMN thingy!

Well, not really.

I mean for one thing other than Dynamis Epic/NeedsMoarRelics and |DaFunk| don't even do the same events. So, there's not much rivalry there. But I did get this rather funny, Engrishy, private message to my user account on |DaFunk|'s forum (from a spambot not from somebody in DF).For the uninitiated, "Security Tool" is some malware that does things like create fake blue screens of death (in the wrong resolution, color depth, and refresh rate...it's embarrassingly stupid), auto-closes Task Manager, and generally fucks up your PC. I removed it from my parent's computer a few days ago, and thought it was funny to see its creators have forum crawling spambots.

Should you find your own PC infected, check out this Youtube video which shows how to remove it. And don't type in and visit the URL in that screenshot, obviously.

Ok, so Eruntalo and me are really making progress. We made it to Rank 5 Bastok (Barf!). We are still leveling BLU so we can duo the mission 5-1. We did a little BLU duo. Then kind of started soloing. I got 49 BLU but then in the glory FF fasion I deleveled. So I went to go to the sand land again. Did pretty good and I would be lying if I didn't get upset and then Sickle Slash them back lol.

Recap!

Darkcow (BLU): 48-49
Bastok Rank - 4
Bastok Rank - 5


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Mistakenly complained to a new 'friend' of mine about Nycon (who's absolutely perfect in every way (^^;;) ). He proceeded to tell me that Nycon wasn't worth it, that he controls my every move, and he treats me like dirt, and I deserve much better. I guess they didn't take the hint when I removed them from my Facebook friend list and blocked them. I waited for them to log on to blist them in game.
This is a /tell he sent me from his mule in game. At first, I was joking around



oh noezzzz.
For anyone reading this on Quetzalcoatl, this is Parnthelegend who jumped server and came back with a new name. He and his significant other are total freaks who think that after six days, I would much rather sabotage a two year relationship with a six day friendship.


Not really sure what the hell is going on with pullers nowadays. I have the cutest pull macro with a pleasant «call11» macro and a cute little ゆ. However, as of late, many pullers think that they don't need to warn the party that a mob is coming. They also don't need to have a brain when doing asinine things like instead of saying BRB, just resting after a fight.




This falls under the cute category.
Seeking for merit party


Nycon and I lotted the same lot on two different crystals.




Tanking on SAM

Party set up was SAM SAM DRG WHM SCH RNG. WHM constantly pulled hate with Curaga (1). Can't do much with no spells and an Amnesia'd Provoke!


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A few days ago, I was helping someone skill up their GK up on the top floor of Oztroja. The Yagudo used Parry, so I dispelled it. Instead, I dispelled Protect. I dispelled again, and took off Shell, and then finally, Parry.



Uhh... what mobs pop up there that can cast protect and shell? I thought only NIN, BRD, BLM, and MNK were the only Yagudos up here?

I just did a quick trawl through wiki, after a discussion prompted me to think about it on Alla. This is just a whistle stop tour of existing stuff that each of these sub jobs have at 49. If you don’t already have it, does anyone else think there’s a serious chance that /RDM may be [...]

Been a relatively lackluster few weeks here. That is, until the last week! RDM was moving well, until the last 3 or 4 parties really pissed me off lol. I understand that RDM can do a lot, jack of all trades and all, but when you’re RDM and is there with no other support it’s hard [...]

Oh, playing the game is so much fun when it's clear that there are people who would much rather never allow you to progress, cock-block your sorry ass, and then claim to have a character so "leet" enough to "embarrass" you out of the game when you call these sorry Internet warriors out on their shit.
Well, more fun in that regard tonight: Ro'Maeve, the weapon FoV, and a looming and starting Besieged got a lot of these fucking lol-cats started.
So here I am in Ro'Maeve, and it's clear from the get-go that these fuckers are going to clean every Ominous Weapon out once they know I'm on page 1. One claims to be doing weaponskill points for his friend, but when I call him out on his cockblocking, he goes into full BluGartr QQ-LOL mode.
All this with the clock ticking on a Besieged, and, more than likely (thankfully not, but only due to Siren's awesomeness at Besieged dispatching the Mamool Ja in about 25 minutes or so), costing me at least one FoV run, if not the one I'm on on top of it.
Look, I'm not dumb. You don't want anyone to progress in this game but YOU. That's why people like Keichan and Medicinebox take what I say here somewhat personally -- because they are a strong minority in this game. They progress, but try to do so in ways that don't obstruct others.
I try to be nice (mostly because people do not want the violent alternative), but when I see this type of deliberate obstructionist behavior, it makes me wonder. And, since griefing is legal, apparently -- as long as enough people do it to claim control over a zone (which see the Astral Burn bullshit that is bannable if they read their own damned rules -- I hope to whatever deity you ascribe to that the "accuracy is reduced with more mobs in the area of effect of Astral Flow" applies to more than just Odin!)...
And then this jackalope (along with his friends, now LOLing the whole mess), threatens to not only hate on DRG/DNC (you think I trust people to give the random heal in this game? What planet do you think I got dropped on my head on??), but bring his DRG on to "embarrass me".
Go fuck yourself up the ass, bitch. Chances are you only got your shit because you either bought it or botted it. You can't embarrass me without getting me banned, moron.
How much of an idiot is this guy? Oh, let's see -- when I tell him what is up, he doesn't choose to take into account that the FoV run I was on was instituted several hours (game days) before -- when I had to log off so my roommate could come in and work tonight on her Net project.
But he's more leet than I am, so I have to STFU and GTFO.
And "no one can be this stupid", jackass?? TRY ME!

One of the more controversial subjects about the events at VanaFest last Sunday was the announcement that, in fact, Square-Enix was obligated to reduce the number of servers by a factor of 1/4, from 32 to 24.
Again, for those keeping score, there were 16 "safe" servers, 8 servers being merged into, and 8 servers being merged out of existence into the previous 8, due to low character traffic.
Fairy goes to Sylph.Kujata goes to Valefor.Remora goes to Leviathan. (Poor Remora.)Midgardsomr goes to Quetzacotl (or however they are spelled)Hades goes to CerebrusSeraph goes to BismarckGaruda goes to Lakshmiand Pandemonium goes to Asura. (Yuck for Pandy.)
and all this happens at the next update this month.
Gyogi, on my linkshell, says this is a signal of a failing game.
He's right!
HOWEVER...
This needed to be done. It was clear, as I have said at least once directly on the blog, that many parts of this game were becoming abjectly unplayable during the week (like Campaign, for example), and that there was probably going to have to be some server consolidation.
But EIGHT servers, *without* a Third-Party Program banhammer with it??
Makes you wonder how many they'd have to yank if they did ban all the App users...
But there was one other thing that they said by juxtaposition (and, no, I don't mean the LBR little troublemaker) that I found interesting...
The person reporting on the Special Task Force added the server merges on the end of the RMT report -- appearing to infer that RMT was the only thing supporting 32 servers on FFXI - once the STF got rid of a lot of the RMT (hardy har har har...), they basically found out that, without loss of generality (and of great gain to the playability on some of the servers), they could dump 8 servers already!
Makes you wonder how many more are going to be dumped, say, June.
That said: It had to be done. You're not going to have many people playing high-end content if there's nobody doing the likes of Campaign and the like.

Sure, you might point out that I haven't finished the quest to get one yet, but lots of people did...can we get our Adventuring Fellows leveled up more with the increased level cap? I'm kind of tempted to finish the quest and level one as a Haste/Curebot would be pretty handy to have available, but Square-Enix seems to have forgotten about them.