So got on this morning and we got to assaults earlier than usual. First up we got me floor 1-5. It was offered that we climb twice but I am in no hurry to climb the floors. Second run we did boss and no gear drop but we got PLD sword for Itaz so not all was lost. After second run I let Val take my place. They did a couple more runs and I tried to take a nap before work. Unfortunately I was unable to sleep. I came back and went on a Apkallu Breeding farming run. Only 600 points away from Chiv chain for SAM.
I was going to buy one and replace it the following weekbut Yev offered to do another apkallu breeding tomorrow so I decided to just wait. I went to work it sucked. Then I came home and started gearing up SAM. A little while later Tybo got home and fired up Team Speak. We mauled over some options. He was in SSG and went to check our farming camp. It was taken so we decided on plan b. Lesser Colibri and beg Acina to come along on DNC to make sure we don't die. At first we went to the Thickets as usual but there was a DRG there solo'ing.
We went to the Woodlands and picked an open camp. It happened to also be the camp for a nm that happened to drop an earring I wanted for SAM when I hit 70. Eventually the NM popped. The 3 of us didn't have the right jobs to take down the nm plus we had bands up. I mentioned it was up in ls chat. Then Lp decided he wanted to try to solo it. He came out on NIN/DNC and gave it one hell of a shot on the first try. But unfortunately he went down. He then came back to try again. The three of us continued to get exp while he again took down the mob.
This time was different though. He killed the mamool. It was pretty bad ass to be honest. Are bands burned up and Ace headed back to whitegate as Tybo and I stayed to watch. He whooped on that poor bird and I invited Lp so that Tybo could get some TH on the mob. It dropped the earring and Lp was nice enough to let me have it after all his hard work. I am very much in debt to Lp. I definately owe him something. Not sure what I can do to repay him after the earring and the Phalanx spell.
After that it was time for bed for Tybo and Ace. I did a /sea and checked out Bibiki Bay. Completely empty. So I geared up BLM and went to the AH. Bought myself a strap that I should have had 2 levels ago. Then I also bought a Penitent's Rope. 400k >.< but oh well it is a very nice piece of gear. But now I am back down to less than 300k. Oh well. Still need my Jupiter's staff and a few other pieces that I would like to have as well. Picked up some more mercury fishy's on my way to the camp.
Got started and everything was going great and was getting 7k+ an hour. Eventually other started showing up apparently wanting my camp but they eventually left. A chharacter named Tinywind showed up and asked to join me. He said he only had 30 minutes. I wasn't too excited about it (I was getting 300+ exp per kill and was capping out at 420 exp on chain #4) but I decided to be a nice guy and I let him join. The exp dropped per kill but it was going fast enough that I wasn't losing much exp/hr.
Though until this point I hadn't died. Then I died. Was my own fault but still couldn't help to think this /random person threw me out of my groove. No more deaths while he was in the party and like he said he only stayed for a short time. But like I said by now I was out of my groove and I died 3 more times in a fairly short amount of time. Apparently the goddess Altana thought I had it too easy for most my experience towards my next level because I struggled very hard to get the last 3k. I ended up using the last charge of my rr earring. Then dying again. I really think the last part of this level was the most I struggled. Not sure as to the reason why.
But eventually I did get my level. 63 BLM now! Only 12 more levels to go. It's hard to imagine how close I am to having multiple jobs to 75. And even crazier to think that SAM isn't far behind @ 61 and THF isn't far behind that @ 59. Anyway I really should get some sleep.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Crazze's Blog - Now with Moar BLM Post!
Got 62 BLM last night then went and skilled up. Got Enfeebling Magic capped got a skill or two on elemental and dark. Also attacked fortifications while waiting for actually mobs in Rolanberry Fields [S]. Got up to 85 staff skill. Not bad considering most of that was afk time.
Then it was 9 am or so in the morning next thing I know and I see Yev say hi. My reaction was of course. Holy shit. I should go to sleep. I then continued to skill up. Not long after though I decided that sleep was a must. Went to bed then woke up and went to work.
Logged on after and went back to skilling up. After a while got dark and elemental capped as well. Then went afk and spent a bunch of time looking at new motherboards and CPU's. Found out it would cost me about $300 and I could have a pretty amped up PC compared to what I have now.
Anyway realized I should get ready for tomorrow and checked gardening on all my mules. Then headed to jeuno to deal with the AH. Put a bunch of stuff on the AH and repriced Ni. That's about all for tonight.
Then it was 9 am or so in the morning next thing I know and I see Yev say hi. My reaction was of course. Holy shit. I should go to sleep. I then continued to skill up. Not long after though I decided that sleep was a must. Went to bed then woke up and went to work.
Logged on after and went back to skilling up. After a while got dark and elemental capped as well. Then went afk and spent a bunch of time looking at new motherboards and CPU's. Found out it would cost me about $300 and I could have a pretty amped up PC compared to what I have now.
Anyway realized I should get ready for tomorrow and checked gardening on all my mules. Then headed to jeuno to deal with the AH. Put a bunch of stuff on the AH and repriced Ni. That's about all for tonight.
Friday, March 20, 2009
I should be sleeping.
Yet I am not. I went on 3 more Under Observation runs tonight. First two were with Yevna and Itazura as usual. We got a Ni on one run but the rest were junk. Then Itaz decided he was too close to empty on his seal reserve. So Yevna asked if Valenia would join us. He decided to come along on BLU. The first run was a bit sketchy but on the second run Val was able to kill his Eye creature quite a bit faster than I.
Still it was a bit scary at times due to breakga and firaga due to Val having to be close to the boss nm. It was still not a very big issue. We completed all three runs without any deaths and got another Ni spell. So should be another ~200k in a week or so due to the high volume of Ni spells on the market. I still prefer NINx2 and RDM but it is nice to know from experience that BLU is a very viable substitute for a NIN.
After that I muled my NIN gear away and jumped on BLM. I headed out to bibiki bay. I decided to pick up some jellyfish to make mercury at a later time. Headed to the north camp and start in. I camped there for a while and got quite a bit of exp. I had popped a band and was getting 500+ a kill. I can't imagine what the exp would look like with an Anniversary ring. Still I did not like this camp as much as the south one and died a couple times due to odd patterns of the rabbits.
Also one time I didn't even link with the goblin and the rabbit just went bat shit and double attacked on every round. Even with blink up I couldn't get a sleep off. Died again. Eventually after one of my /sea's I seen the other camp had opened up. I moved down to the South camp. Again after camping there for a while I would have to say this is my favorite camp of the 3. Eventually for some reason I decided to try a new strategy. Gravity > Water III > Sleep > Freeze. Seemed to be a lot more reliable than my last strategy and didn't even need blink. Though I still used it most of the time for saftey.
But yea it is way too early in the morning. I am only 1.8k tnl but I can't stay up for it. Oh well at least tomorrow I get to look forward to a level up. This time I really will need to go skill up in Campaign battles. Been uncapped for a while now. Anyways I need to sleep before work.
Still it was a bit scary at times due to breakga and firaga due to Val having to be close to the boss nm. It was still not a very big issue. We completed all three runs without any deaths and got another Ni spell. So should be another ~200k in a week or so due to the high volume of Ni spells on the market. I still prefer NINx2 and RDM but it is nice to know from experience that BLU is a very viable substitute for a NIN.
After that I muled my NIN gear away and jumped on BLM. I headed out to bibiki bay. I decided to pick up some jellyfish to make mercury at a later time. Headed to the north camp and start in. I camped there for a while and got quite a bit of exp. I had popped a band and was getting 500+ a kill. I can't imagine what the exp would look like with an Anniversary ring. Still I did not like this camp as much as the south one and died a couple times due to odd patterns of the rabbits.
Also one time I didn't even link with the goblin and the rabbit just went bat shit and double attacked on every round. Even with blink up I couldn't get a sleep off. Died again. Eventually after one of my /sea's I seen the other camp had opened up. I moved down to the South camp. Again after camping there for a while I would have to say this is my favorite camp of the 3. Eventually for some reason I decided to try a new strategy. Gravity > Water III > Sleep > Freeze. Seemed to be a lot more reliable than my last strategy and didn't even need blink. Though I still used it most of the time for saftey.
But yea it is way too early in the morning. I am only 1.8k tnl but I can't stay up for it. Oh well at least tomorrow I get to look forward to a level up. This time I really will need to go skill up in Campaign battles. Been uncapped for a while now. Anyways I need to sleep before work.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Back in Black.....Mage
So logged on tonight. Got on TeamSpeak as usual. Tybo said him and Ace were going to go duo on THF and DNC again. I asked if I could come along and then geared up SAM. One piece of gear just felt wrong though. The Scorpion Harness. Yes a great piece of gear but as SAM there is a better piece. Yes ding ding we have a winner. Haubergeon. I recently accumulated some wealth due to some luck in a bcnm which I mentioned in a previous post. So I decided to go to the Auction House to get myself one. 300k gone >.<. Oh well it was a much needed piece.
Bought it and set out to fight some Lesser Colibri. We all popped our exp bands and fought on until our dedications wore and it was bed time for the married couple. Only took 45 minutes for the bands to wear so overall some great exp/hr for a trio. I thought the evasion - 20 on the Hauby was going to be a big factor so I brought my SH with me just in case. Turned out it wasn't as bad as I thought. I did get hit more but Ace was able to keep me a live with no issues.
So I told myself and you readers that I would get on BLM tonight. So this time, I actually did. Bought a couple Genious Ring's. 130k a piece >.< Was looking at Penitent's Rope as well but it wasn't on the AH and it has risen a great deal in cost over the last week. So after the purchases I made my way out to Bibiki Bay. I had searched the area before hand and there were a BLM and a BLU already occupying the 2 camps. So I went to to my trusty BLM solo guide and found out there was a third camp. Got there parked myself and got started. I was a little rusty at first. It is no longer possible for me to one-shot pets anymore since I am not tarutaru and do not have ungodly gear.
So I started with Blink > Blizzard II > Sleep > Freeze. Sometimes that killed the rabbits but every once in a while I had to add a drain or water. Was getting decent exp but some bad calls on the pulls got me killed 3 times within a very close amount of time. I kept at it though and also kept doing a /sea. After a while one of the other camps opened up. I decided to test it out. Was a far more safe camp and the little bunny was a lot more predictible in it's path to me. Had no problems and continued with my previous method. This bunnies seemed a little tougher though and it seemed like more often I would have to cast a drain after my freeze.
I decided to switch out Blizzard II for Thunder II. Seemed to work a bit better. Still no deaths at this camp so overall I was having a better time and could relax a bit more. Then I dinged 61. Yep two jobs @ 61 now. I got a 1k buffer and figured I would start this post and go in between and get a bit more of a buffer every once in a while but not really worry about chaining or how much exp I was getting. The fates did not smile upon me though. First time I switched back to FF I wasn't paying attention enough and thought the Goblin had it's back turned when it did not. By the time I noticed it was too late. I tried to interupt my casting but Thunder II went off disregarding my pleas.
I had blink up though and got lucky even with the goblin and it's pet on me I managed to get off warp and sent myslef back to windy. So I got luck and and still have a 1k~ buffer. Yet now it is time to mule back to NIN for round two of Under Observation. I hope we strike gold again I still need a Jupiter's Staff which I wish I would have bought sooner. It was below or @ 500k when I was first looking at it. Now it is 650k. It seems to be a common trend with a lot of the BLM gear. Seems a lot of new BLM's are rising in level.
Well I only need 250k more >.< . Trying to level 3 jobs at once is not easy on the wallet. I guess THF might need to go on the back burner again for a while. Really too bad but can't blame me for saving the best for last. I am really digging BLM again and I am not sure why I put it down for so long. At the same time though I've been enjoying SAM a lot and unlike THF I don't mind pick ups for it. Maybe every once in a while I will still get to bring my THF out but for the most part it is once again suspended in time.
Just so everyone understands how much I hate doing that to THF. I have never muled my THF gear and it won't ever happen. I am ready to jump on THF any moment. I am Clark Kent and THF is my Superman.
Anyway. Again with the tangents. I think next time I go out on BLM I might get some exp and after a while put up my flag. Then add to my /seacom Black Mage exp party no thanks. You can have this! SAM. Might work might not who knows. Since each are the same level though it just might.
Okay yes I am putting of muling by continuing to write after I said I was going to mule. Sue me. Bleh. Fine. I'm going.
Bought it and set out to fight some Lesser Colibri. We all popped our exp bands and fought on until our dedications wore and it was bed time for the married couple. Only took 45 minutes for the bands to wear so overall some great exp/hr for a trio. I thought the evasion - 20 on the Hauby was going to be a big factor so I brought my SH with me just in case. Turned out it wasn't as bad as I thought. I did get hit more but Ace was able to keep me a live with no issues.
So I told myself and you readers that I would get on BLM tonight. So this time, I actually did. Bought a couple Genious Ring's. 130k a piece >.< Was looking at Penitent's Rope as well but it wasn't on the AH and it has risen a great deal in cost over the last week. So after the purchases I made my way out to Bibiki Bay. I had searched the area before hand and there were a BLM and a BLU already occupying the 2 camps. So I went to to my trusty BLM solo guide and found out there was a third camp. Got there parked myself and got started. I was a little rusty at first. It is no longer possible for me to one-shot pets anymore since I am not tarutaru and do not have ungodly gear.
So I started with Blink > Blizzard II > Sleep > Freeze. Sometimes that killed the rabbits but every once in a while I had to add a drain or water. Was getting decent exp but some bad calls on the pulls got me killed 3 times within a very close amount of time. I kept at it though and also kept doing a /sea. After a while one of the other camps opened up. I decided to test it out. Was a far more safe camp and the little bunny was a lot more predictible in it's path to me. Had no problems and continued with my previous method. This bunnies seemed a little tougher though and it seemed like more often I would have to cast a drain after my freeze.
I decided to switch out Blizzard II for Thunder II. Seemed to work a bit better. Still no deaths at this camp so overall I was having a better time and could relax a bit more. Then I dinged 61. Yep two jobs @ 61 now. I got a 1k buffer and figured I would start this post and go in between and get a bit more of a buffer every once in a while but not really worry about chaining or how much exp I was getting. The fates did not smile upon me though. First time I switched back to FF I wasn't paying attention enough and thought the Goblin had it's back turned when it did not. By the time I noticed it was too late. I tried to interupt my casting but Thunder II went off disregarding my pleas.
I had blink up though and got lucky even with the goblin and it's pet on me I managed to get off warp and sent myslef back to windy. So I got luck and and still have a 1k~ buffer. Yet now it is time to mule back to NIN for round two of Under Observation. I hope we strike gold again I still need a Jupiter's Staff which I wish I would have bought sooner. It was below or @ 500k when I was first looking at it. Now it is 650k. It seems to be a common trend with a lot of the BLM gear. Seems a lot of new BLM's are rising in level.
Well I only need 250k more >.< . Trying to level 3 jobs at once is not easy on the wallet. I guess THF might need to go on the back burner again for a while. Really too bad but can't blame me for saving the best for last. I am really digging BLM again and I am not sure why I put it down for so long. At the same time though I've been enjoying SAM a lot and unlike THF I don't mind pick ups for it. Maybe every once in a while I will still get to bring my THF out but for the most part it is once again suspended in time.
Just so everyone understands how much I hate doing that to THF. I have never muled my THF gear and it won't ever happen. I am ready to jump on THF any moment. I am Clark Kent and THF is my Superman.
Anyway. Again with the tangents. I think next time I go out on BLM I might get some exp and after a while put up my flag. Then add to my /seacom Black Mage exp party no thanks. You can have this! SAM. Might work might not who knows. Since each are the same level though it just might.
Okay yes I am putting of muling by continuing to write after I said I was going to mule. Sue me. Bleh. Fine. I'm going.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
CoP - And so it begins...
So I to prepare for our new late night CoP static last night I bought a 4 stacks of light crystals and went to town on some distilled waters. Made 4 stacks plus 10. Cost per stack was 2880 and figured I would supply any who needed for the mission @ cost. It actually took me all day to make use four stacks because I took a muscle relaxer and for the live of me couldn't stay awake. Eventually I headed to Tav and logged out ready to go.
Luckily I had enough gear from all my other jobs to gear ninja pretty decently for 40 cap and didn't need to mule. Also Monday we just did Under Observation so I had all my ninja tools as well. Speaking of which we got both a utsusemi: ni and a Peacock Charm. So that pretty much averages us out to maybe 50k a run. Seriously we were owed this. lol. Anyway back to the matter at hand.
I logged out for a while to take a break once I made it to where I thought we were going to spend the night doing a CoP mission. Logged back on and decided to go mess around at test my skills as a Ninja since it had been a while since I played it other than Under Observation which for those of you that don't know the strategy, it is nothing like how a normal Ninja should act. So I solo a fish no issues ok let's try a slime. Slower fight of course but still doing ok. Then I get a /wave from Itaz. Sweet things are going to get started soon. He makes macros for white mage and tosses me a a couple cures.
This point I figure people will show up soon so to expidite the process I pull up the map and refresh my memory on how to get to the minotaur and start making my way to the whereabouts of the the afore mentioned beast. (The minotaur has a draw in ability that allows one person to make the trip and everyone else can wait at the entrance.) Celess joins our party as I am half way to the the location. Then I notice it party chat. Kc wait!. Um.. Ok.
Oh by the way Celess is the one that needed this mission and is the person we are currently trying to catch up to Kyzuf which in turn will catch up to me. Then the 3 of us will in turn catch up to Laa and complete CoP.
I go off on a lot of tangents when I write in my blog. Oh well. So back to the story. "Wait!" So I wait as Celess explains why SE should stop support for the ps2. I'm kidding I'm kidding. Please don't hurt me Yev. I think your one of the few people that read this thing anyway. But apparently the mission didn't register on his ps2 but did on the pc. So we did not have to do 2-3. Everyone kind of starts to think they are off the hook and can do more pleasant things with their night than CoP. Haha wrong. Well Lp got off the hook. But the others were not so lucky. I sprang into action and informed everyone that like or not we were doing Mammets instead.
Grumbles insued yet everyone came along. Itaz had to mule off of WHM and back to NIN which he was on the day before. I really felt bad but not much I could do to help that. Besides not forcing everyone onward. Where's the fun in that? Laa also had to mule to BLM but was a much quicker process for him since his gear probably wasn't spread over a multitude of characters as Itaz later told me his WHM gear had been so made muling a difficult process.
The rest of us were still ready to go on the jobs we had already had geared up. Celess got all of the CS's done. So while we waited for Itaz we decided to go farm some scales. We needed two. It tooks us two mobs to get that. Slightly un heard of. So with that done we waited for Itaz. By that time he was done muling and not far off. Once he arrived we headed to the BC area. Unfortunately for some reason Celess didn't make it through one of the portals so a giant scale was wasted. At the same time Laa d/c'd.
It was mildly annoying that we had to go get another scale but shit happens it's part of the MMO world. To my suprise the 3rd Firedrake fought that night also drops a scale. 3/3 is just ridiculous but I won't argue. It helped out time wise tremendously. Anyway Laa logged back in and we started our trek to Monarch Linn. Then Itaz d/c's. Someone mentions that he is going to get aggro and die when he logs back in. I hoped not. Then Itaz logs back in catches aggro and dies right in front of us. I wasn't sure what to do I froze up and I kept hoping he would use mijin and explode hisself as not to lose any experience.
Yet it didn't happen and we watched him die. = (
He reraised up and we continued on our trip. Made it to Monarch Linn w/o issue and Itaz explained the strategy and then we proceeded to follow through with it as most Blue events do. We kept the core facts then improvised as situations occured. Overall I think we did a great job a few deaths but no exp loss in CoP BCNM's so yay for that. I almost made it through without a death but on the last mob I ran out of shihei and had to use a toolbag. Then watch it change to DRG. First thing that popped into my head was hurry lock it there. So I did. Unfortunately this also happens to lock my ability to do anything for a short period of time. Long enough though to watch my hp drop to 0.
Still everyone else was able to hold on and defeated the last mob. Then everyone were free to go. Yet I roped in Celess and Kyzuf to stay up and get some more missions done. We climbed the mountain killed a some overgrown weeds and watched as Celess traveled all over vana'diel to finish getting cs's.
Then it was time for chip farming. It was late already and I knew we shouldn't go without a healer. Yet it is me and I do have this thing for doing the oppisite thing of what my brain tells me to do. So we go. I inform Celess that if we go down a floor we most likely are going to end up headed back to our HP unwillingly. Apparently Celess is as crazy as I am because I get done saying this then he follows me down the hole. When will people learn? Don't do as I do, do as I say. Otherwise I will likely get you killed. We actually did defeat quite a few beasties but as I knew would happened we ended up hitting the cement.
Still overall a very acomplished night. So next week the most we will have to do is farm a chip before Diabolos but I have faith that will get done before hand as well. Anyway I should go to sleep. I did sleep all day but I still need rest before I work later today. Oh and I am still hoping to get on BLM soon. I really think tomorrow's the night.
EDIT: 40k short of being a millionaire again. Which will last until less than an hour after I log in tomorrow most likely. Also I forgot to mention I npc'd the Holy Water and made a slight profit so not all was lost =). Also lightened the blog up a little and hopefully made it easier to read.
Luckily I had enough gear from all my other jobs to gear ninja pretty decently for 40 cap and didn't need to mule. Also Monday we just did Under Observation so I had all my ninja tools as well. Speaking of which we got both a utsusemi: ni and a Peacock Charm. So that pretty much averages us out to maybe 50k a run. Seriously we were owed this. lol. Anyway back to the matter at hand.
I logged out for a while to take a break once I made it to where I thought we were going to spend the night doing a CoP mission. Logged back on and decided to go mess around at test my skills as a Ninja since it had been a while since I played it other than Under Observation which for those of you that don't know the strategy, it is nothing like how a normal Ninja should act. So I solo a fish no issues ok let's try a slime. Slower fight of course but still doing ok. Then I get a /wave from Itaz. Sweet things are going to get started soon. He makes macros for white mage and tosses me a a couple cures.
This point I figure people will show up soon so to expidite the process I pull up the map and refresh my memory on how to get to the minotaur and start making my way to the whereabouts of the the afore mentioned beast. (The minotaur has a draw in ability that allows one person to make the trip and everyone else can wait at the entrance.) Celess joins our party as I am half way to the the location. Then I notice it party chat. Kc wait!. Um.. Ok.
Oh by the way Celess is the one that needed this mission and is the person we are currently trying to catch up to Kyzuf which in turn will catch up to me. Then the 3 of us will in turn catch up to Laa and complete CoP.
I go off on a lot of tangents when I write in my blog. Oh well. So back to the story. "Wait!" So I wait as Celess explains why SE should stop support for the ps2. I'm kidding I'm kidding. Please don't hurt me Yev. I think your one of the few people that read this thing anyway. But apparently the mission didn't register on his ps2 but did on the pc. So we did not have to do 2-3. Everyone kind of starts to think they are off the hook and can do more pleasant things with their night than CoP. Haha wrong. Well Lp got off the hook. But the others were not so lucky. I sprang into action and informed everyone that like or not we were doing Mammets instead.
Grumbles insued yet everyone came along. Itaz had to mule off of WHM and back to NIN which he was on the day before. I really felt bad but not much I could do to help that. Besides not forcing everyone onward. Where's the fun in that? Laa also had to mule to BLM but was a much quicker process for him since his gear probably wasn't spread over a multitude of characters as Itaz later told me his WHM gear had been so made muling a difficult process.
The rest of us were still ready to go on the jobs we had already had geared up. Celess got all of the CS's done. So while we waited for Itaz we decided to go farm some scales. We needed two. It tooks us two mobs to get that. Slightly un heard of. So with that done we waited for Itaz. By that time he was done muling and not far off. Once he arrived we headed to the BC area. Unfortunately for some reason Celess didn't make it through one of the portals so a giant scale was wasted. At the same time Laa d/c'd.
It was mildly annoying that we had to go get another scale but shit happens it's part of the MMO world. To my suprise the 3rd Firedrake fought that night also drops a scale. 3/3 is just ridiculous but I won't argue. It helped out time wise tremendously. Anyway Laa logged back in and we started our trek to Monarch Linn. Then Itaz d/c's. Someone mentions that he is going to get aggro and die when he logs back in. I hoped not. Then Itaz logs back in catches aggro and dies right in front of us. I wasn't sure what to do I froze up and I kept hoping he would use mijin and explode hisself as not to lose any experience.
Yet it didn't happen and we watched him die. = (
He reraised up and we continued on our trip. Made it to Monarch Linn w/o issue and Itaz explained the strategy and then we proceeded to follow through with it as most Blue events do. We kept the core facts then improvised as situations occured. Overall I think we did a great job a few deaths but no exp loss in CoP BCNM's so yay for that. I almost made it through without a death but on the last mob I ran out of shihei and had to use a toolbag. Then watch it change to DRG. First thing that popped into my head was hurry lock it there. So I did. Unfortunately this also happens to lock my ability to do anything for a short period of time. Long enough though to watch my hp drop to 0.
Still everyone else was able to hold on and defeated the last mob. Then everyone were free to go. Yet I roped in Celess and Kyzuf to stay up and get some more missions done. We climbed the mountain killed a some overgrown weeds and watched as Celess traveled all over vana'diel to finish getting cs's.
Then it was time for chip farming. It was late already and I knew we shouldn't go without a healer. Yet it is me and I do have this thing for doing the oppisite thing of what my brain tells me to do. So we go. I inform Celess that if we go down a floor we most likely are going to end up headed back to our HP unwillingly. Apparently Celess is as crazy as I am because I get done saying this then he follows me down the hole. When will people learn? Don't do as I do, do as I say. Otherwise I will likely get you killed. We actually did defeat quite a few beasties but as I knew would happened we ended up hitting the cement.
Still overall a very acomplished night. So next week the most we will have to do is farm a chip before Diabolos but I have faith that will get done before hand as well. Anyway I should go to sleep. I did sleep all day but I still need rest before I work later today. Oh and I am still hoping to get on BLM soon. I really think tomorrow's the night.
EDIT: 40k short of being a millionaire again. Which will last until less than an hour after I log in tomorrow most likely. Also I forgot to mention I npc'd the Holy Water and made a slight profit so not all was lost =). Also lightened the blog up a little and hopefully made it easier to read.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Keeping up to date.
So this may be a record for me 3 posts in 2 days. After the failure of my first party yesterday I was able to get another party. The set up was PLD DNC DRK SAM BRD RDM. Great set up and was destined to be a great party. Or so I thought. Don't get me wrong everyone did a great job and I think it was mostly my recent parties with Lesser Colibri that ruined my views on the party. It was in no means a horrid party like my last one just sort of mediocre.
We ended up fighting Defoliator's in the Subterrane. I believe I started out just barely into 59 SAM. The kills were just too slow to get really great exp. I am not sure how we could have got more DMG without losing the DNC which in turn would have lost us the healing power needed. I think that maybe at 59 it's just an awkward level for exp. I know there a quite a few levels like that in this game. Still everyone did there jobs and did them well. After the last party I was in I was just grateful for that.
Anyway I ended the party with about ~900 tnl which is fine I'm not one of those people that just needs to make everyone stay until they level. I don't even think I mentioned I was so close to leveling.
After that I went with Tybo to SSG and we farmed a little bit. The area past the Gold Door where we usually farmed was swamped with people. So we ended up just messing around a bit behind the Mythril Door. We got a couple coffers killed a couple nm's and made a few gil. Nothing like we usually do in there but oh well. At that point I wasn't sure if I could get someone to work for me even though I was sick so I decided to take a nap before I might have to go to work.
Fortunately I got a call later that someone would cover my shift. (Note to self: Do something nice for co-worker) Anyway woke up later and logged back in. Got on Teamspeak and Tybo was on and said he had plans for us tonight. I knew before the end of the night he was going to get me killed. Actually the first part of his plans involved Nyzul but since I already have a perma I was unable to go to that. So I have a few hours to kill before the next part of his plans kicked in.
I put up my flag and put in a /seacom saying level sync 59+ and other various comments. So not too much later I get a invite. A level synce party @ 58. Annoyed but still wanting to get exp I agreed. I figured Sekkanoki could wait a little longer. So we started of trying to fight Lesser Colibri. The exp per kill was a bit low so we decided to head to fight some Puks. Puks are also weak to piercing which is great for a SAM who has recently picked up a polearm. So had fun killing those for a couple hours. Got myself 60 SAM and only 6kish to 61. Still no Sekkanoki but oh well.
Party ended and it was time for Tybo's plan part 2 which I was actually able to attend. We got to climb a mountain. Yep ENM in Boneyard Gully. We did the one for Blau Dolch which we've done a couple times before. Went off without a hitch but got lame drops. Got 3k experience which capped my exp on RNG from what I had lost in Dynamis. Though that was only 2k exp. Was the second time that before the run I forgot I sahould switch to limit points mode but oh well. Capped exp and only lost 1k exp out of it.
After we got done with that we were bored and Tybo came up with plan part 3 on the fly. Code Named Get Crazze Dead. It worked ^_^. We decided to duo some lesser colibri me on SAM so I could use sekkanoki finally and him on THF. At first we tried me /dnc him /nin. Worked at first then we both ended up lying flat on the grass. So plan part 3 chapter two we switched sub I took /nin he got on /dnc. This time he ended up flat on his back as I snuck away to whitegate through the tower.
So /dnc was just not going to work. So we both got on /nin. This actually worked. We had to rest between fights to be on the safe side but at least now we were gaining exp instead of losing it. So we do this for a while and then Acina shows up on her DNC. Wow how that got the ball rolling. Now the exp picked up quite a bit. Tybo noticed a THF level 60 standed next to us seeking and decided to ask him to join. He accepted and the four of us ended up in a 4 man group getting 7k/per hour. Not too shabby.
I got my 6k exp tnl + some and got my SAM to 61. Amemet Mantle +1. Oh yea.
I have to say I still don't enjoy playing DNC but I their capabilities are amazing. Anyway I am staring at my moogle writing this so time to decide my course of action for the rest of the night. Sleep hopefully not too far in the future. Seeing as how I have a big day of Assaults, Salvage and ZNM tomorrow. So happy I finally have a Sunday off ^_^.
We ended up fighting Defoliator's in the Subterrane. I believe I started out just barely into 59 SAM. The kills were just too slow to get really great exp. I am not sure how we could have got more DMG without losing the DNC which in turn would have lost us the healing power needed. I think that maybe at 59 it's just an awkward level for exp. I know there a quite a few levels like that in this game. Still everyone did there jobs and did them well. After the last party I was in I was just grateful for that.
Anyway I ended the party with about ~900 tnl which is fine I'm not one of those people that just needs to make everyone stay until they level. I don't even think I mentioned I was so close to leveling.
After that I went with Tybo to SSG and we farmed a little bit. The area past the Gold Door where we usually farmed was swamped with people. So we ended up just messing around a bit behind the Mythril Door. We got a couple coffers killed a couple nm's and made a few gil. Nothing like we usually do in there but oh well. At that point I wasn't sure if I could get someone to work for me even though I was sick so I decided to take a nap before I might have to go to work.
Fortunately I got a call later that someone would cover my shift. (Note to self: Do something nice for co-worker) Anyway woke up later and logged back in. Got on Teamspeak and Tybo was on and said he had plans for us tonight. I knew before the end of the night he was going to get me killed. Actually the first part of his plans involved Nyzul but since I already have a perma I was unable to go to that. So I have a few hours to kill before the next part of his plans kicked in.
I put up my flag and put in a /seacom saying level sync 59+ and other various comments. So not too much later I get a invite. A level synce party @ 58. Annoyed but still wanting to get exp I agreed. I figured Sekkanoki could wait a little longer. So we started of trying to fight Lesser Colibri. The exp per kill was a bit low so we decided to head to fight some Puks. Puks are also weak to piercing which is great for a SAM who has recently picked up a polearm. So had fun killing those for a couple hours. Got myself 60 SAM and only 6kish to 61. Still no Sekkanoki but oh well.
Party ended and it was time for Tybo's plan part 2 which I was actually able to attend. We got to climb a mountain. Yep ENM in Boneyard Gully. We did the one for Blau Dolch which we've done a couple times before. Went off without a hitch but got lame drops. Got 3k experience which capped my exp on RNG from what I had lost in Dynamis. Though that was only 2k exp. Was the second time that before the run I forgot I sahould switch to limit points mode but oh well. Capped exp and only lost 1k exp out of it.
After we got done with that we were bored and Tybo came up with plan part 3 on the fly. Code Named Get Crazze Dead. It worked ^_^. We decided to duo some lesser colibri me on SAM so I could use sekkanoki finally and him on THF. At first we tried me /dnc him /nin. Worked at first then we both ended up lying flat on the grass. So plan part 3 chapter two we switched sub I took /nin he got on /dnc. This time he ended up flat on his back as I snuck away to whitegate through the tower.
So /dnc was just not going to work. So we both got on /nin. This actually worked. We had to rest between fights to be on the safe side but at least now we were gaining exp instead of losing it. So we do this for a while and then Acina shows up on her DNC. Wow how that got the ball rolling. Now the exp picked up quite a bit. Tybo noticed a THF level 60 standed next to us seeking and decided to ask him to join. He accepted and the four of us ended up in a 4 man group getting 7k/per hour. Not too shabby.
I got my 6k exp tnl + some and got my SAM to 61. Amemet Mantle +1. Oh yea.
I have to say I still don't enjoy playing DNC but I their capabilities are amazing. Anyway I am staring at my moogle writing this so time to decide my course of action for the rest of the night. Sleep hopefully not too far in the future. Seeing as how I have a big day of Assaults, Salvage and ZNM tomorrow. So happy I finally have a Sunday off ^_^.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
So...
I thought that was a good ending for the last post so I decided to stop there. Problem is I haven't posted in a while so I have some stuff I would like to talk about. So... result two posts in a row.
Dynamis-Bastok. Was my first ever dynamis. Was very interesting. I had a lot of fun even though I couldn't type for most of the adventure. The group of people I went with all seemed decent enough. They are a new shell so things were a little slow. I woke up early so that I could go before work. Apparently they went in late on monday and couldn't go until later thursday. Yet no one changed the /lsmes. Annoying but doable. Then I waited around until then. Still people were scattered through out vana'diel. So we ended up entering an hour and a half late. Oh the joy. Once we got in everything seemed to go well. I had a lot of fun. We wiped once. (while I was there) I had to leave early due to work. Though it seemed like they didn't make it too much farther after I left.
I saw quite a few pieces of relic drop. Also two Wootz ore's. Which I got to lot on since bastok has no RNG relic. The ls has no point system. Which I actually like. Either you are there for the run or not. All the runs have sponsers which get the first 100 piece and all the singles. Which I don't know if that's standard or not but I don't care about currency anyway. All other 100's are lotted by someone and then gil from them are split between the money lotters. I didn't come up with the rules and I see a few flaws in them but hey they seem to work decent enough.
Other than that I have been in a few ls parties lately. All of which have been very fun. I loved getting to party on THF. I think my THF will become a ls party only job. That might change once I get the assasin trait but I'm not sure.
SAM has been a lot of fun too. I am more flexible about parties with SAM unless they are like the party I just mentioned in my previous entry. Yet due to level sync I am slowly getting farther and farther behind in my skills. It doesn't help that I am now trying to get polearm up to cap as well for when I fight birds.
Anyways I am sick and starting to ramble again.
So...
Hope you enjoyed and hopefully next week I will be talking about BLM once again.
Dynamis-Bastok. Was my first ever dynamis. Was very interesting. I had a lot of fun even though I couldn't type for most of the adventure. The group of people I went with all seemed decent enough. They are a new shell so things were a little slow. I woke up early so that I could go before work. Apparently they went in late on monday and couldn't go until later thursday. Yet no one changed the /lsmes. Annoying but doable. Then I waited around until then. Still people were scattered through out vana'diel. So we ended up entering an hour and a half late. Oh the joy. Once we got in everything seemed to go well. I had a lot of fun. We wiped once. (while I was there) I had to leave early due to work. Though it seemed like they didn't make it too much farther after I left.
I saw quite a few pieces of relic drop. Also two Wootz ore's. Which I got to lot on since bastok has no RNG relic. The ls has no point system. Which I actually like. Either you are there for the run or not. All the runs have sponsers which get the first 100 piece and all the singles. Which I don't know if that's standard or not but I don't care about currency anyway. All other 100's are lotted by someone and then gil from them are split between the money lotters. I didn't come up with the rules and I see a few flaws in them but hey they seem to work decent enough.
Other than that I have been in a few ls parties lately. All of which have been very fun. I loved getting to party on THF. I think my THF will become a ls party only job. That might change once I get the assasin trait but I'm not sure.
SAM has been a lot of fun too. I am more flexible about parties with SAM unless they are like the party I just mentioned in my previous entry. Yet due to level sync I am slowly getting farther and farther behind in my skills. It doesn't help that I am now trying to get polearm up to cap as well for when I fight birds.
Anyways I am sick and starting to ramble again.
So...
Hope you enjoyed and hopefully next week I will be talking about BLM once again.
I'd rather stare at my moogle.
Ok so apparently I am that guy. So I haven't been on BLM in quite a while. I think I might go back to it this coming week though. I've been leveling Samurai and Thief lately. Both are currently 59. Been loving playing those jobs and it's nice to have a party sometimes. Although I do enjoy solo company is always nice.
But this party I just had. Wow. Such a horrid party. After 30 minutes I couldn't take it any longer. The party was on SAM by the way. Was a level sync party @ 55. So I get there, wow a lot of dd's here. /sea all party. /Sigh. NIN MNK DRK THF SAM(me) BLM. You have to be kidding me. Ok well it's 4 am I should at least give them a chance. Then I see a PL. Ok fine I guess that explains the one mage a little. A little.
Both the MNK and DRK are /war so I figure they already have a first voke or they would say something. Eh wrong. I proceed to engage and watch the thf trick attack viper bite the NIN for ~50 dmg. What the hell is wrong with people? Does he really think that's helping? So I mention something in party chat and ask if they need first voke. They ignore me. Thf keeps pulling and I continue to watch him TAVB the NIN. Finally after a fight I say, "Stop!".
As soon as I did this the NIN (also party leader, and from what I gathered the PL) Side note. Being a tank and PL same time not a great idea imo unless you are very skilled. Especially not NIN which really needs full focus. Anyway as soon as I said "Stop!" the NIN says 1st provoke SAM. So they weren't ignoring me completely just mostly. Good to know. But after that everything gets a bit better. Except for the fact that even with the THF now SATAVB'ing the NIN, the NIN still loses hate way too easily.
To be honest the THF was trying so I'm not going to take it out on them. Once after we established I would voke first I saw them SATA Hide VB the NIN towards the end of the fight. Which is annoying but I asked for them to save TP for the start of the fight and after that they did.
Still the camp was in the most ridiculous spot, NIN wasn't getting haste from anyone and wasn't keeping shadows up. I finally got fed up with the sub-par exp and asked the party leader(NIN) that it wasn't working out for me and could he please find me a replacement. I got silence back. sent another tell. Nothing. So ok he's dual boxing maybe he missed it. Another tell. Nothing. /stare. Hmmm a tell I guess if you want a reply you need to stare at the person you wish to speak with. Anyway he says ok. So I plan to stick around. THF pulls I voke. Then so does the NIN. Ok so I may have overreacted but it was the final straw. I disbanded and headed back to whitegate. Where I am currently sitting in my mog house seeking.
So yea maybe I overreacted. Or maybe you just had to be in the party to realize how horrid it was. But for me a party in Wajaom with dune syndrome was not going to cut it.
I'd rather stare at my moogle. (Or write in my under used blog)
But this party I just had. Wow. Such a horrid party. After 30 minutes I couldn't take it any longer. The party was on SAM by the way. Was a level sync party @ 55. So I get there, wow a lot of dd's here. /sea all party. /Sigh. NIN MNK DRK THF SAM(me) BLM. You have to be kidding me. Ok well it's 4 am I should at least give them a chance. Then I see a PL. Ok fine I guess that explains the one mage a little. A little.
Both the MNK and DRK are /war so I figure they already have a first voke or they would say something. Eh wrong. I proceed to engage and watch the thf trick attack viper bite the NIN for ~50 dmg. What the hell is wrong with people? Does he really think that's helping? So I mention something in party chat and ask if they need first voke. They ignore me. Thf keeps pulling and I continue to watch him TAVB the NIN. Finally after a fight I say, "Stop!".
As soon as I did this the NIN (also party leader, and from what I gathered the PL) Side note. Being a tank and PL same time not a great idea imo unless you are very skilled. Especially not NIN which really needs full focus. Anyway as soon as I said "Stop!" the NIN says 1st provoke SAM. So they weren't ignoring me completely just mostly. Good to know. But after that everything gets a bit better. Except for the fact that even with the THF now SATAVB'ing the NIN, the NIN still loses hate way too easily.
To be honest the THF was trying so I'm not going to take it out on them. Once after we established I would voke first I saw them SATA Hide VB the NIN towards the end of the fight. Which is annoying but I asked for them to save TP for the start of the fight and after that they did.
Still the camp was in the most ridiculous spot, NIN wasn't getting haste from anyone and wasn't keeping shadows up. I finally got fed up with the sub-par exp and asked the party leader(NIN) that it wasn't working out for me and could he please find me a replacement. I got silence back. sent another tell. Nothing. So ok he's dual boxing maybe he missed it. Another tell. Nothing. /stare. Hmmm a tell I guess if you want a reply you need to stare at the person you wish to speak with. Anyway he says ok. So I plan to stick around. THF pulls I voke. Then so does the NIN. Ok so I may have overreacted but it was the final straw. I disbanded and headed back to whitegate. Where I am currently sitting in my mog house seeking.
So yea maybe I overreacted. Or maybe you just had to be in the party to realize how horrid it was. But for me a party in Wajaom with dune syndrome was not going to cut it.
I'd rather stare at my moogle. (Or write in my under used blog)
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