So wow I don't know what to say I haven't updated in forever. I don't know when the last time I posted was and too lazy to look up what it was about. I am pretty sure that since last post I have got quite a few pieces for my BLM that I am very proud of. Selenian Cap, though I do want to do fight again so I can change some stats on it. Goliard cuffs which are actually arguably better than the coveted zenith mitts though they lack the mp and have 1 lower MAB the Magic Accuracy more than makes up for it in my opinion.
Also I bought both the Witch Sash and Ixion Cape. The Witch sash replaced my penitent's rope. It has the same MND and INT but I lose the enmity - 4. Which isn't a good thing but I also gain 2 more magic accuracy and magic critical hit rate +2%. Though it rarely proc's even with the 10% on my selenian cap as well. (Which is why I want to change stats on the cap) The Ixion Cape is an upgrade for both my solitaire cape and my rainbow cape. (I decided to forgo the Prism Cape on my quest to get this). It has the most INT and MND combined on any one cape and also adds 20 hp and - 2 enmity.
Lastly I traded in my Suppa for an Abyssal earring which is a great gives me an extra INT point while nuking as well as extra dark magic skill for my aspir and drain macro's. I am very happy we were able to do Divine Might to get this done and even picked up some new earrings for a few first timers. I want to say Congratulations and Thank You to all who attended and made it possible.
I also have to thank and say good bye to one of the coolest people I've met playing FFXI. Mrpiddlex. You may remember him from our adventure with the evil demon "Brothers". Even though you have logged out for your last time your Legacy is one that will forever be a part of Vana'diel. I want to wish you the best of luck in your career and I rest easy knowing that at least a small group of the youth of america are in good hands. I want to thank you again for helping to make my dreams of Ixion's Cape a reality for me.
I am currently working on getting SAM to 75. I am 70 now and only a little over 5k tnl. At the same time I am trying to attain new medals in the past. My hate of campaign is finally coming back to bite me in the ass. I lost many medals over the last year and it is going to be a long time before I can get some of the gear I want for both SAM and BLM because of that.
Onto my pipe dream SE have dubbed Mythic Weapons. I actually have now defeated Odin. Leaving only one salvage boss and the three beastman leaders in the first quest on attaining my mythic. Still before I want to attempt getting help with the beastman leaders I need to complete ToAU. Currently we are doing Altana missions which have a great story and I am greatly looking forward to the conclusion (though it's not in the game yet). Though Itaz has promised me ToAU will be next for our group!
Sorry this is going to be a pretty long post. Unfortunately today had another dash in both my attempts to complete a Salvage piece and obtaining my mythic. The salvage boss run was canceled and unfortunately (I don't think it was on purpose but was still upseting) salvage didn't happen at all. I have a feeling it was due to the way the posts and lsmes were worded but oh well shit happens.
Then Tinnin was a disaster today. I am not sure what went wrong but we just didn't seem to have enough support for the tanks or something because they kept dying. Eventually this lead to Tinnin completely raping our whole alliance. Dashing my hopes for a trophy and all other drops for the ls. Tinnin has been a very upsetting experience for me and I think quite a few others feel the same. We've spent months getting to the point where we could pop him and with the 4 pop items we had we only seen the drops off of 1 of them.
I'm sure we will get to him again but it was still bad for morale to see all that hard work go down the drain. I also spent a lot of time today getting merits. I put my first 2 upgrades into elemental magic and put my second upgrade into lightning potency. I still have 2 merit point left and need one more before I decide where to spend it.
I also did a few ODS runs a while back and did more today. I had held the record before we went today, and we beat the record several times today and beat it one final time again on my orb. So once again my name is on the record with a time of 1 minute and 14 seconds. Unfortunately setting records didn't carry over into luck with drops. Nothing but junk for all. A couple people got the newly no longer trash warwolf belt but still it wasn't enough to be worth splitting between the 5 of us.
Tybo and I have pretty regularly going to both the Brother's and Sheep in Antlion's Clothing ENM's. We've got both done pretty well. We've got a couple good drops from both of them but still haven't seen the highest priced items from either. (The Hagun and the Hedgehog Bomb.) When the Hagun finally does drop I am wanting to give Tybo half it's worth so I can keep it for my SAM. After the purchase of the Ixion Cape I am still 500k short of the half-priced Hagun. Though if it drops before that I am sure Tybo would float me the rest.
I'm sure there is a lot of stuff I missed but there is no way I can remember everything I've done since my last post. Hopefully I will remember to post more often though. Thanks for reading and I'll see you in game.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Eh
Been a while since my last update. Haven't done a whole lot recently besides the normal farming and crafting. Ok Maybe that's a bit untrue. I have been leveling woodworking on my Sandy Mule. Have 58 Woodworking on the little taru at the moment. Funny thing is I've actually made a few gil while skilling up. I make plenty of gil with Alchemy on my main but not too much of it was while skilling up.
I've got myself to the first BC of the new add-on. Surprisingly enough I am actually really enjoying the story. The quests are still tedious like ACP but they seem to fit the story better at least.
I got the Dynamis-Beaucedine win today. Lost RNG feet lot.
Tried to do Weapons Augment quest. Failed twice but was fun anyway. First time I've got to play with Eve and Zaan since they've been back. Was fun to play with some of the Blue members I normally don't see (except sundays) due to my work schedule. We plan to try again next Monday with a new strategy we came up with for North Gustaberg [S].
Lost yet another rank for WotG. I just don't have the drive to do campaign. I want to test SAM/DNC again though now that I am 69 SAM. Oh yea got 69 SAM. A good way into level if I remember right.
Got 2 pop sets for Genbu while farming with ls mates. Tybo also came out and helped on his SMN. I told him he should just join Blue already >_>. But he still has endgame gear to get and Blue isn't an Endgame ls. Still he should have honorary membership or something. lol. He's told me several times that he likes everyone from Blue that he has met. Blue seems to like him as well (as far as I can tell)
Well that's about all for now. Catch you later.
I've got myself to the first BC of the new add-on. Surprisingly enough I am actually really enjoying the story. The quests are still tedious like ACP but they seem to fit the story better at least.
I got the Dynamis-Beaucedine win today. Lost RNG feet lot.
Tried to do Weapons Augment quest. Failed twice but was fun anyway. First time I've got to play with Eve and Zaan since they've been back. Was fun to play with some of the Blue members I normally don't see (except sundays) due to my work schedule. We plan to try again next Monday with a new strategy we came up with for North Gustaberg [S].
Lost yet another rank for WotG. I just don't have the drive to do campaign. I want to test SAM/DNC again though now that I am 69 SAM. Oh yea got 69 SAM. A good way into level if I remember right.
Got 2 pop sets for Genbu while farming with ls mates. Tybo also came out and helped on his SMN. I told him he should just join Blue already >_>. But he still has endgame gear to get and Blue isn't an Endgame ls. Still he should have honorary membership or something. lol. He's told me several times that he likes everyone from Blue that he has met. Blue seems to like him as well (as far as I can tell)
Well that's about all for now. Catch you later.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Pipe Dreams
So today I joined my first Einherjar run. Was actually quite fun. It is early though and from what I was told I barely made it today since it is an open ls and it's first come first serve. So now I need to wake up even earlier on Sundays. Oh well 2 years from now when I get my mythic it will all be worth it. Until the following week when ffxi dies because of ffxiv. Still having a goal this big in this game really is keeping me playing right now. That and how much I love playing BLM.
Right now I need to finish up the ToAU storyline to get captain and get started on the first quest. Which is to kill 8 NM's. Well all you need is to have got the title at one point. So I am actually already 3/8 for the NM's. So I have Odin, Amored Chariot (last salvage boss for Blue to beat), and the Three Beastman Kings. The Beastman NM's are by far going to be the most difficult to do. The Einherjar ls I joined has already beat Odin so it's a matter of time before I fight him. The Salvage boss isn't a worry either. Eventually we will need a drop from it and I have full confidence Blue can take it down.
Getting people to do the other NM's is gonna be more difficult. While they do drop a few good items it's really only 1 a piece. It's also a hassle to do and out of the way but eventually I will figure something out. Then from there I need to gather 100k Therion Ichor from einherjar. Which as of today I am 1440/100,000. Still I should get that eventually without too much trouble. I am also about 22,000/150,000 for Nyzul tokens which also shouldn't be a big deal since I do that as well. Recording assualts all over again will suck but it can be done.
The big one is gonna be the 30k Alexandrite from Salvage. While I do Salvage the drops for Alexandrite are horrible. Even being the smallest amount of items to collect I am gonna cry myself to sleep every night when I start to collect them. Right now I am at 140/30,000 for alexandrite. That's after over a year of doing Salvage.
After that it's time to collect all 3 trophies from the Tier IV ZNM's which isn't going to be an easy task but since I also do ZNM's weekly it should happen eventually.
Anyway, after Einherjar I joined up with Itaz, Yev and Lp to do assaults. Piddle posted he couldn't attend and Lan is MIA for the second week in a row. So we ended up doing a couple runs for Assaults Lp needed and a couple farming runs. So no Nyzul for us again this week. Which is fine I still need points for a couple items and so I can keep up with salvage. I really do want to do some Nyzul soon though so I hope Lan is ok and comes back soon.
After a break it was time for Salvage. We decided that even though we were low on people we would try the boss anyway. Unfortunately we ran out of time right as we got to the boss. We should have had it but we messed up a couple times which wasted time. Also Itaz and Yev had a couple ill-timed d/c's. It was a little unnerving but I thing we should be able to take in on next week with no problem learning from this weeks mistakes.
Then it was ZNM time. All I can say is I hate this NM. The first fight took a long time. We ended up kiting it due to some d/c's and deaths. I actually think the straight tanking would have been the better method if we would have had a few more DD's. The tanks just had to hold the mob for way too long since we only had 2 BLM's and a BLU, I think, for DD's at first. And as a BLM I was holding back a lot to try and make sure I caught anything I needed to stun. Though since a lot of normal damage dealers were on other jobs that when we realized we needed more damage to hurry up the run we had to convert to kiting since we didn't have the jobs to support straight tanking anymore.
The kiting method was very frustrating for me as BLM. It seemed like over 60% of my nukes were interupted because it went out of range. Also for a good portion of the fights I barely even saw the mob. I'd stand in one place waitng for it to come back around and waiting for a over a minute sometimes it seemed then eventually went to look for it. Of course when I finally did go looking for it it was rarely in the direction I headed. Eventually on the last fight I just stayed in one spot the entire fight and only moved when I got hate.
It was still very annoying but a bit less stressful. Still when the mob got to about 5% and I couldn't get a single nuke off I felt like screaming. I think I might bring up next week that maybe the PLD could stop kiting when it gets that low so the BLM's can just finish it off. It was pretty ridiculous. But enough of my ranting.
As for drops no Nagerling dropped. Which btw is the coolest looking Great Sword in the game. Some yellow pants dropped which Itaz got. Two pairs on Enkidu's Mittens dropped. I won the lot on the first pair but then decided to pass them to Zisen. I am really hoping to get my Skadi's completed soon in which case I doubt I'll ever use the mittens again. Plus I don't think Zisen had really got anything from ZNM yet even though he has been to a few runs and Lp's used his character for runs before as well. But another pair dropped and this time I decided to lot again and this time try and get them. I have them now so my Ranger actually has a decent pair of gloves now until I get my Skadi's hands completed.
But wow this has almost become a book. I need to finish up some cutscenes for ZM's on tuesday so I am just gonna say goodbye here.
Right now I need to finish up the ToAU storyline to get captain and get started on the first quest. Which is to kill 8 NM's. Well all you need is to have got the title at one point. So I am actually already 3/8 for the NM's. So I have Odin, Amored Chariot (last salvage boss for Blue to beat), and the Three Beastman Kings. The Beastman NM's are by far going to be the most difficult to do. The Einherjar ls I joined has already beat Odin so it's a matter of time before I fight him. The Salvage boss isn't a worry either. Eventually we will need a drop from it and I have full confidence Blue can take it down.
Getting people to do the other NM's is gonna be more difficult. While they do drop a few good items it's really only 1 a piece. It's also a hassle to do and out of the way but eventually I will figure something out. Then from there I need to gather 100k Therion Ichor from einherjar. Which as of today I am 1440/100,000. Still I should get that eventually without too much trouble. I am also about 22,000/150,000 for Nyzul tokens which also shouldn't be a big deal since I do that as well. Recording assualts all over again will suck but it can be done.
The big one is gonna be the 30k Alexandrite from Salvage. While I do Salvage the drops for Alexandrite are horrible. Even being the smallest amount of items to collect I am gonna cry myself to sleep every night when I start to collect them. Right now I am at 140/30,000 for alexandrite. That's after over a year of doing Salvage.
After that it's time to collect all 3 trophies from the Tier IV ZNM's which isn't going to be an easy task but since I also do ZNM's weekly it should happen eventually.
Anyway, after Einherjar I joined up with Itaz, Yev and Lp to do assaults. Piddle posted he couldn't attend and Lan is MIA for the second week in a row. So we ended up doing a couple runs for Assaults Lp needed and a couple farming runs. So no Nyzul for us again this week. Which is fine I still need points for a couple items and so I can keep up with salvage. I really do want to do some Nyzul soon though so I hope Lan is ok and comes back soon.
After a break it was time for Salvage. We decided that even though we were low on people we would try the boss anyway. Unfortunately we ran out of time right as we got to the boss. We should have had it but we messed up a couple times which wasted time. Also Itaz and Yev had a couple ill-timed d/c's. It was a little unnerving but I thing we should be able to take in on next week with no problem learning from this weeks mistakes.
Then it was ZNM time. All I can say is I hate this NM. The first fight took a long time. We ended up kiting it due to some d/c's and deaths. I actually think the straight tanking would have been the better method if we would have had a few more DD's. The tanks just had to hold the mob for way too long since we only had 2 BLM's and a BLU, I think, for DD's at first. And as a BLM I was holding back a lot to try and make sure I caught anything I needed to stun. Though since a lot of normal damage dealers were on other jobs that when we realized we needed more damage to hurry up the run we had to convert to kiting since we didn't have the jobs to support straight tanking anymore.
The kiting method was very frustrating for me as BLM. It seemed like over 60% of my nukes were interupted because it went out of range. Also for a good portion of the fights I barely even saw the mob. I'd stand in one place waitng for it to come back around and waiting for a over a minute sometimes it seemed then eventually went to look for it. Of course when I finally did go looking for it it was rarely in the direction I headed. Eventually on the last fight I just stayed in one spot the entire fight and only moved when I got hate.
It was still very annoying but a bit less stressful. Still when the mob got to about 5% and I couldn't get a single nuke off I felt like screaming. I think I might bring up next week that maybe the PLD could stop kiting when it gets that low so the BLM's can just finish it off. It was pretty ridiculous. But enough of my ranting.
As for drops no Nagerling dropped. Which btw is the coolest looking Great Sword in the game. Some yellow pants dropped which Itaz got. Two pairs on Enkidu's Mittens dropped. I won the lot on the first pair but then decided to pass them to Zisen. I am really hoping to get my Skadi's completed soon in which case I doubt I'll ever use the mittens again. Plus I don't think Zisen had really got anything from ZNM yet even though he has been to a few runs and Lp's used his character for runs before as well. But another pair dropped and this time I decided to lot again and this time try and get them. I have them now so my Ranger actually has a decent pair of gloves now until I get my Skadi's hands completed.
But wow this has almost become a book. I need to finish up some cutscenes for ZM's on tuesday so I am just gonna say goodbye here.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Jailbreak
So I've been trying to make a lot of gil recently and I am almost up to a mil. Problem is every time I go to try and spend it all the items I want for BLM are overpriced or there are none in stock. Eventually I will probably end up paying the inflated prices but at the moment I'm not up for it.
Piddle and I finally got our groove back (just call me Stella) and after 3 weeks of failure we once again proved our supremacy against the Tauri. This time a dragon bone dropped which is actually less rewarding than the eltoro leathers we were getting before. Oh well 3.5k exp towards capping my BLM and once again winning was worth every lost second of sleep.
Woke up at 7 am Sunday and couldn't get back to sleep at first. Did some more crafting and gathered some zeni up so I could grab 2 pops for ZNM later. Got back to sleep around 9:30 am and set my alarm for 11 am for assaults. Didn't wake back up until 11:30 and couldn't really wake myself up until 11:50. By that time I had prolonged the event long enough that Itaz and Yev had logged hate on their parents. Lan was still mia so we still ended up doing Regular assaults instead of nyzul. Which I was actually happy about since I needed the points.
We cleared 2 assaults for Lp and farmed points another run. We also lost a tag to a poorly timed d/c. The 3 who had 5 tags went on for another farming run (I had apparently forgot to get my 5th).
Then we went on to salvage and had to change from a boss run to farming run. As usual nothing dropped even though it was the zone where they "increased" the drop rates.
After it was time for ZNM first pop was a bit hectic and quite a few people kicked the bucket. After that all was well until the bastard decided to one shot me. Nothing besides trophies dropped the entire run. Which was incredibly lame since we still have 4 people declared on those shoes. I brought along 1 pop at first then got the go ahead to run back to town to get a second pop item. I am glad that I will be able to pop both of the 2/3 mamool ja tier 3 ZNM's we have left. Which means in two weeks I will should have all the seals to buy a pop for our first Tier 4 ZNM. I only have to get 6k zeni now.
After ZNM I took a break and once I got back on Tybo was finally on and I was able to convince him to go on an adventure to rescue a qiqirn so I could finally get my haste turban. They experience actually turned out a lot easier than I had expected. We farmed a key in the Woodlands fighting trolls on our BLM's. Two Freeze II's and a couple Blizzard IV's topped of with a drain took care of them so they were fairly easy fights. It wasn't long before we got a key. I went and switched to RNG so I could use widescan to locate my prisoner. I found the mouse and we traveled to him and Tybo had to sleep a couple true sight Wamoura's.
After that I made it to the prison cells and was able to set the mouse free as Tybo slept the troll. We unfortunately didn't have a spare key to save the galka who was locked in the same room. We waved good bye to him as Tybo escaped us. After that I waited 1 game day for the return of my mouse and finally received my long awaited Walahra Turban.
Anyway that's all I have to share tonight which is a good thing since that was getting a bit long. Later all.
Piddle and I finally got our groove back (just call me Stella) and after 3 weeks of failure we once again proved our supremacy against the Tauri. This time a dragon bone dropped which is actually less rewarding than the eltoro leathers we were getting before. Oh well 3.5k exp towards capping my BLM and once again winning was worth every lost second of sleep.
Woke up at 7 am Sunday and couldn't get back to sleep at first. Did some more crafting and gathered some zeni up so I could grab 2 pops for ZNM later. Got back to sleep around 9:30 am and set my alarm for 11 am for assaults. Didn't wake back up until 11:30 and couldn't really wake myself up until 11:50. By that time I had prolonged the event long enough that Itaz and Yev had logged hate on their parents. Lan was still mia so we still ended up doing Regular assaults instead of nyzul. Which I was actually happy about since I needed the points.
We cleared 2 assaults for Lp and farmed points another run. We also lost a tag to a poorly timed d/c. The 3 who had 5 tags went on for another farming run (I had apparently forgot to get my 5th).
Then we went on to salvage and had to change from a boss run to farming run. As usual nothing dropped even though it was the zone where they "increased" the drop rates.
After it was time for ZNM first pop was a bit hectic and quite a few people kicked the bucket. After that all was well until the bastard decided to one shot me. Nothing besides trophies dropped the entire run. Which was incredibly lame since we still have 4 people declared on those shoes. I brought along 1 pop at first then got the go ahead to run back to town to get a second pop item. I am glad that I will be able to pop both of the 2/3 mamool ja tier 3 ZNM's we have left. Which means in two weeks I will should have all the seals to buy a pop for our first Tier 4 ZNM. I only have to get 6k zeni now.
After ZNM I took a break and once I got back on Tybo was finally on and I was able to convince him to go on an adventure to rescue a qiqirn so I could finally get my haste turban. They experience actually turned out a lot easier than I had expected. We farmed a key in the Woodlands fighting trolls on our BLM's. Two Freeze II's and a couple Blizzard IV's topped of with a drain took care of them so they were fairly easy fights. It wasn't long before we got a key. I went and switched to RNG so I could use widescan to locate my prisoner. I found the mouse and we traveled to him and Tybo had to sleep a couple true sight Wamoura's.
After that I made it to the prison cells and was able to set the mouse free as Tybo slept the troll. We unfortunately didn't have a spare key to save the galka who was locked in the same room. We waved good bye to him as Tybo escaped us. After that I waited 1 game day for the return of my mouse and finally received my long awaited Walahra Turban.
Anyway that's all I have to share tonight which is a good thing since that was getting a bit long. Later all.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
New Gear
So I picked up a couple new items today. First off probably the item I am most proud of the Rajas Ring.
Next is a Neptune's Staff which makes 6/7 for the HQ stave's I want to own.
Really I won't get all that much use out of this staff except when I solo since a lot of the time I try to use the lowest nuke I can that I think will finish off the mob. It's kind of a fun game to play but also can be a deadly one depending on what mobs I am playing with. This leaves me with only the Terra's Staff to collect. Still maybe it's just the white box that attracts me so much since I am well past the major 3 and Auster's which is also extremely useful for BLM. Vulcan's was a combo pack since the extra STR is good for RNG/SAM and it is the next highest nuke after Blizzard and Thunder. Neptune's and Terra's are for the most part pointless yet I wouldn't feel my BLM was complete without them.
Also against my inventories protest I also picked up a Light Staff while I was at it since against my will I am in fact sometimes forced to use cure spells.
Well time to craft a bit more until I fall to sleep.
Next is a Neptune's Staff which makes 6/7 for the HQ stave's I want to own.
Really I won't get all that much use out of this staff except when I solo since a lot of the time I try to use the lowest nuke I can that I think will finish off the mob. It's kind of a fun game to play but also can be a deadly one depending on what mobs I am playing with. This leaves me with only the Terra's Staff to collect. Still maybe it's just the white box that attracts me so much since I am well past the major 3 and Auster's which is also extremely useful for BLM. Vulcan's was a combo pack since the extra STR is good for RNG/SAM and it is the next highest nuke after Blizzard and Thunder. Neptune's and Terra's are for the most part pointless yet I wouldn't feel my BLM was complete without them.
Also against my inventories protest I also picked up a Light Staff while I was at it since against my will I am in fact sometimes forced to use cure spells.
Well time to craft a bit more until I fall to sleep.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Woodworker Strike Hits Home
Not sure when the strike happened but I wish it would end. No there isn't really a stike as far as I know. It is annoying that I haven't been able to buy a stack of demon arrow quivers in the past 3 weeks due to there not being a single one every time I check the AH. No not one up there that I refuse to pay that much for, NONE! Side note not a single Kabura Arrow either which I use for my Sidewinders and other lesser weapon skills when requested. This is very annoying because I do get asked to go on RNG to many events where BLM isn't the best option. Arrows are one of the biggest factors in damage for a Ranger and having to buy Scorpion arrows would make me gimper than my RNG already is.
As time rolls on my gear for RNG is getting slightly better though piece by piece. This past Sunday by some miracle I got my hands on a Kappa Necklace which gives me a nice +8 ranged attack when I don't need to use that slot for ranged accuracy. It also gives Recycle and Ninja Tool Expertise while in salvage which will help save me gil if I get my neck piece unlocked during the run. I am sure other pieces await my Ranger in the future but I try not to dwell on it.
The reason I was looking for arrows today was because after the Pot fight for CoP we decided to continue the nights event and move on to Promathia! I was asked to switch from BLM to RNG since Promathia can put up both a Magical and Physical Shield (seperately) so it is best to have both types of damage. As for the fight itself I don't know quite what to say. Well maybe I do, I died, a lot. I was disappointed that at the end of the fight only Yevna was left standing from our group and Prishe was the one who stomped Promathia's face in as we all laid ko'd on the ground.
Still, a win is a win, right? >_< Anyway at some point tomorrow I get to finish up some cutscenes and collect my Rajas ring. Tamas would really be nice as well but I would only use it for one job and Rajas would be used on the 3 other jobs I want to have at 75.
Sunday I missed out on a Tomoe again, this time because I had to go to a dinner for Father's Day. Like I told Itaz I am not that worried about it, eventually I will get another shot at it and if not it's just an imaginary weapon in a game. We did another Genbu monday, got a lot of drops this time but still no Zenith Mitts to be found.
Saturday night Piddle and I did another Brothers ENM and for second week in a row we failed. Not sure what is going on. I plan for revenge this coming saturday but I'm not sure but it might be the last time Piddle is going to be able to go. So either I have to find another BLM to go with or give up on that endeavor.
I think that's about all for now, except that I want to thank everyone who participated and helped with CoP in any way. I am so amazingly glad to finally get to see the story unfold until the very end. Thank you.
As time rolls on my gear for RNG is getting slightly better though piece by piece. This past Sunday by some miracle I got my hands on a Kappa Necklace which gives me a nice +8 ranged attack when I don't need to use that slot for ranged accuracy. It also gives Recycle and Ninja Tool Expertise while in salvage which will help save me gil if I get my neck piece unlocked during the run. I am sure other pieces await my Ranger in the future but I try not to dwell on it.
The reason I was looking for arrows today was because after the Pot fight for CoP we decided to continue the nights event and move on to Promathia! I was asked to switch from BLM to RNG since Promathia can put up both a Magical and Physical Shield (seperately) so it is best to have both types of damage. As for the fight itself I don't know quite what to say. Well maybe I do, I died, a lot. I was disappointed that at the end of the fight only Yevna was left standing from our group and Prishe was the one who stomped Promathia's face in as we all laid ko'd on the ground.
Still, a win is a win, right? >_< Anyway at some point tomorrow I get to finish up some cutscenes and collect my Rajas ring. Tamas would really be nice as well but I would only use it for one job and Rajas would be used on the 3 other jobs I want to have at 75.
Sunday I missed out on a Tomoe again, this time because I had to go to a dinner for Father's Day. Like I told Itaz I am not that worried about it, eventually I will get another shot at it and if not it's just an imaginary weapon in a game. We did another Genbu monday, got a lot of drops this time but still no Zenith Mitts to be found.
Saturday night Piddle and I did another Brothers ENM and for second week in a row we failed. Not sure what is going on. I plan for revenge this coming saturday but I'm not sure but it might be the last time Piddle is going to be able to go. So either I have to find another BLM to go with or give up on that endeavor.
I think that's about all for now, except that I want to thank everyone who participated and helped with CoP in any way. I am so amazingly glad to finally get to see the story unfold until the very end. Thank you.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Holy gear batman
Friday night after I posted I got into an EXP party with Itaz, Lp and Little on SAM. It was a pretty decent exp party at first until Little had to go to sleep and I replaced him with a THF because the RDM who was going to replace him backed out. The THF just wasn't very good and it really makes me sad everytime I see it because thieves like that are the reason it would take me hours to get an invite on THF.
Still we putted along and I was able to deal with it since I still had LP and Itaz with me in the group. After a while Lp got sleepy too and we decided to disband the party. I ended up about 9k exp until 68. We had synced the party to 48 and Lp was on DRG and I was on SAM. I was the top DD until the sync'd member hit 49 and Lp got Penta Thrust. That weaponskill is simply amazing which is the reason why when I fight birds on SAM I usually use a polearm.
After that I am not sure what I did. Probably more farming or crafting. Didn't spend much time on the game Saturday. Went and played CoD 4 and Infamous over at my friends house all night. Made it online today for Assaults and ended up waiting until around 11:30 am to start. Which was fine I was just playing around in Pankration until we started anyway. Got three of the assaults done that Lp needed since he only had 3 tags. Actually got all 3 done no problems which surprised me since all 3 are pretty much luck based except maybe Double Agent. Then Piddle, Lan and I did Apkallu Breeding x2 for points.
At that point I was almost passing out. I began switching gear to RNG to get ready for salvage and I guess at that point I actually did pass out because next thing I know I wake up it's 4:58 pm and they have already entered. I was less than half switched in between RNG and BLM and had a bunch of /tell's /poke'ing me to wake up. Sound was all the way up too so I just must have been exhausted from everything this week.
I ended up going back to Sleep and woke back up again late for ZNM. At least with ZNM I could join part way through though. I geared back up on BLM and headed out to the ruins without saying anything (I was embarrased already by sleeping through salvage, especially since main reason we are doing boss is for me). I arrived and the mob was ~40% and I got an invite and helped finish off the mob. Oracle's Gloves dropped and I was told to lot them. I refused since I showed up late to the battle and didn't feel like I had done anything to deserve them at that point.
After that we fought 2 more Armed Gears and another pair of gloves dropped. I felt a little more comfortable and decided that I would lot them this time. To be honest though I still feel bad about getting them but oh well. Afterward I decided to go farm organs with Piddle in sea. On my way there I stopped at the Auction House and picked up a pair of Igqira Lappa's. A cool quarter mil and they were mine. With those and the gloves my enfeebling magic gear now boosts my skill by a whopping 43 points.
My goals for my enfeebling magic set are an Altruistic Cape (+5) and to upgrade my Spider Torque into an Enfeebling Torque which will give me (+2). A more long term goal is to start doing Limbus and to upgrade my Wizard's Coat into the +1 version for another extra 2 skill points. Right now with my merits and gear I am sitting @ 277 enfeebling skill.
So we ended up in sea and I followed Piddle around as we talked to the black hole npc guys until one of them finally coughed up the map. By the time we were done getting map Tybodn had come up to join us in our organ farming. By the time Piddle had to go I think we had got him 2 Aern organs and myself I had got 2 tissues. After he left Tybo and I moved on to flowers and he said he would would help me out with map. We kind of did a run at both at the same time and basically went through the same thing we will be doing to get through CoP on Tuesday.
It took us a while to get through it but that was mostly because we were fighting flowers along the way. Unfortunately no organs dropped and only one more tissue dropped. It seems like it might take me quite a while to get my relaxing earring. Though I did get my map and now know how to lead our group through the area for our CoP static so it wasn't a complete waste.
Oh actually I did do something Saturday. Piddle and I failed the Brothers ENM for the first time. I think it was a combination of bad luck and an underestimation of how important both of us being /rdm was. I had forgot to change support jobs and Piddle was already sleepy when we started. >.< Still next week we should go back to our normal routine. I am fairly sure the lose was just a fluke.
Anyway this has become a really long entry and I need to farm zeni for Armed Gears next week.
Still we putted along and I was able to deal with it since I still had LP and Itaz with me in the group. After a while Lp got sleepy too and we decided to disband the party. I ended up about 9k exp until 68. We had synced the party to 48 and Lp was on DRG and I was on SAM. I was the top DD until the sync'd member hit 49 and Lp got Penta Thrust. That weaponskill is simply amazing which is the reason why when I fight birds on SAM I usually use a polearm.
After that I am not sure what I did. Probably more farming or crafting. Didn't spend much time on the game Saturday. Went and played CoD 4 and Infamous over at my friends house all night. Made it online today for Assaults and ended up waiting until around 11:30 am to start. Which was fine I was just playing around in Pankration until we started anyway. Got three of the assaults done that Lp needed since he only had 3 tags. Actually got all 3 done no problems which surprised me since all 3 are pretty much luck based except maybe Double Agent. Then Piddle, Lan and I did Apkallu Breeding x2 for points.
At that point I was almost passing out. I began switching gear to RNG to get ready for salvage and I guess at that point I actually did pass out because next thing I know I wake up it's 4:58 pm and they have already entered. I was less than half switched in between RNG and BLM and had a bunch of /tell's /poke'ing me to wake up. Sound was all the way up too so I just must have been exhausted from everything this week.
I ended up going back to Sleep and woke back up again late for ZNM. At least with ZNM I could join part way through though. I geared back up on BLM and headed out to the ruins without saying anything (I was embarrased already by sleeping through salvage, especially since main reason we are doing boss is for me). I arrived and the mob was ~40% and I got an invite and helped finish off the mob. Oracle's Gloves dropped and I was told to lot them. I refused since I showed up late to the battle and didn't feel like I had done anything to deserve them at that point.
After that we fought 2 more Armed Gears and another pair of gloves dropped. I felt a little more comfortable and decided that I would lot them this time. To be honest though I still feel bad about getting them but oh well. Afterward I decided to go farm organs with Piddle in sea. On my way there I stopped at the Auction House and picked up a pair of Igqira Lappa's. A cool quarter mil and they were mine. With those and the gloves my enfeebling magic gear now boosts my skill by a whopping 43 points.
My goals for my enfeebling magic set are an Altruistic Cape (+5) and to upgrade my Spider Torque into an Enfeebling Torque which will give me (+2). A more long term goal is to start doing Limbus and to upgrade my Wizard's Coat into the +1 version for another extra 2 skill points. Right now with my merits and gear I am sitting @ 277 enfeebling skill.
So we ended up in sea and I followed Piddle around as we talked to the black hole npc guys until one of them finally coughed up the map. By the time we were done getting map Tybodn had come up to join us in our organ farming. By the time Piddle had to go I think we had got him 2 Aern organs and myself I had got 2 tissues. After he left Tybo and I moved on to flowers and he said he would would help me out with map. We kind of did a run at both at the same time and basically went through the same thing we will be doing to get through CoP on Tuesday.
It took us a while to get through it but that was mostly because we were fighting flowers along the way. Unfortunately no organs dropped and only one more tissue dropped. It seems like it might take me quite a while to get my relaxing earring. Though I did get my map and now know how to lead our group through the area for our CoP static so it wasn't a complete waste.
Oh actually I did do something Saturday. Piddle and I failed the Brothers ENM for the first time. I think it was a combination of bad luck and an underestimation of how important both of us being /rdm was. I had forgot to change support jobs and Piddle was already sleepy when we started. >.< Still next week we should go back to our normal routine. I am fairly sure the lose was just a fluke.
Anyway this has become a really long entry and I need to farm zeni for Armed Gears next week.
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