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.

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.

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.

Looking toward the sky

So again I have been slacking. Piddle and I have pretty much made our first adventure into a weekly farming run. Haven't got anything great yet but still we get 3500 exp each time plus a little gil. We plan on going again tomorrow night.

Our CoP group beat Tenzen this week. Was a really easy fight. I was able to go /SAM which was cool but still I wish it was more challenging. Since it was so easy though we were able to get it done quickly (once meph awoke from his power nap). This allowed us to move on and run around in sky to fight some NM Aerns for 8-1. Got our Tavnazian Rings finally and on our way to finishing up CoP and getting our other rings.

Been going up to sky a couple times a week to farm pop items for Genbu. So far we have 2 pop sets and an extra water. We are planning on fighting Genbu twice on monday unless we can come up with another Gem from Zip. I really appreciate everyone helping on the newly 75 BLM's by farming pops and fighting Genbu. Really glad that our linkshell comes together for things like this. Only wish that we had enough people to do other gods as well but I'll settle for Genbu.

I was bored one night and was farming lightning clusters on Qufim Island. Itaz gave me an >_> and reccomended I go to sky and farm them there and get exp and seals while I was at it. So I geared up on BLM and headed out there. Got lost a little lost and then Itaz came to lead me. By the time he got there I had started to find my way. Fought one while he was there to make sure I would be fine. Was no problem so he logged out.

I ended up farming there for quite a bit. Got about 20 clusters or so and would have got more but I was only messing around so wasn't fighting as many as I could. After a while my friend Stan logged in and I went out to west saruta [S] to fight elemental pets with him on BLM. We messed around out there until Tybo got on.

They had planned a merit party ahead of time and I decided to join in. It wasn't the best exp because we were all DD's except for Stan on RDM. Not the ideal set up for a meripo in my opinion but still we made due and got about 12k/hr. Still the nice thing about the party was it being a full party of friends making it more enjoyable than a simple PUG meripo.

Went on a Mercury crafting frenzy with all the clusters I got. Wasn't a lot on AH so I actually ended up putting a few stacks up which netted me some extra gil over the npc price I normally get. Either way its a profit but nice to get that extra bit. Fought Intulo once while I was out in bibiki bay. Got a Curaga Earring which I can npc for ~5k.

I ended up spending my merits on Enfeebling Magic so now I am 2/8. So now these are what my BLM Merit goals look like.

MP: 2/8
INT: 1/5
Enfeebling Magic: 2/8
Elemental Magic: 0/8
Lightning Potency: 1/5
Ice Potency: 1/5
Freeze II: 1/5
Burst II: 0/5

Still a long way to go but I am gradually creeping along.

I fell back to my slump

Yes I know I promised regular posts and you got them for a while. I just have been busy. We finished up the last part of Three Paths. It was an amazingly simple fight. Later on Piddle helped me with the next fight which we duo'd as blm/rdm and war/nin. It was pretty easy as well. We also did the Brothers fight again. Was a lot smoother and barely took us anytime at all once we got into the BC. Only thing that dropped was leather again. I decided to let Piddle have it since I got the first one.

I did a bunch of other little stuff around Vana'diel but not all of it is worth going into detail. I actually had fun in MMM for once which was good. I had really lost all interest in it for a while. Uncapped is a lot more fun and though it's still not my favorite thing to do, I am sure I could be convinced to do it again. KSNM run went decent enough. Just really weird BC fight that seems completely random to a certain degree.

Then we did the Ultima and Omega fight for CoP last night. It was an incredibly tough fight but it is my favorite so far. It's the only one that has really given our group a challenge so it was exciting to test our limits and still to come out ahead. Now according to Itaz my goal is to get SAM to 75 within two weeks which will be our next BC fight.