Yesterday was another of those strangely productive days, they're becoming quite frequent. Here's to hoping they continue, eh? The breakdown follows.
In the wee early hours, a few of us helped Gigie get her missing Moldavite Earring. I managed to score Thunder IV for my BLM in the process and someone got a map (Rodie, I think). In attendance were myself, Gigie (duh), Pesh, Thaedan, and Rodie.
I arose from my sarcophagus around 10am, and set about working on macros and gear builds. After about 4-5hrs of testing and research, I FINALLY managed to get my damned BLU/THF macros set up and functional. Meanwhile Chaosity and I had been discussing NM's and their crappy drop rates when the conversation happened upon Blizzaga III. Apparently she still lacked it and the drop rate from Doom Warlocks was complete ass. Coincidentally, my BLM will need this spell, and many of the other spells they drop, and since I needed to beta-test my /thf gear builds in the field, I suggested we go beat up a few.
We trekked to Gustav Tunnel, along with Redthorne, and started tearing into the target mobs. We were killing them at a decent clip, but nothing was dropping other than bone chips. Then Redthorne saw something while he was testing his "1337 MGS skillz" -- an NM. Taxim, who had the potential to drop some savory stuff, including the long-sought Blizzaga III for Chaosity. We pounded on him for a bit, and until now I was getting pretty consistent 1.1k-1.55k Cannonballs with my build and spell set, so I decided to give Taxim a little taste. WHAM! 1.3k Cannonball. \o/ EPIC VICTORY! Ha! The following Warlock took a 1573 Cannonball to the FACE. Got a nice screen grab of Redthorne exclaiming, and I quote, "omg Bard wtf" -- priceless. I digress, Taxim was a selfish bitch, and only dropped Blizzaga II for my BLM. One of the following Warlocks finally gave up the goods and dropped Chaosity's spell, and Redthorne earned his 4th merit point and recapped exp on his PLD. All in all, a most triumphant run. Next time, we're bringing Don Peshcorleone, so his Treasure Hunter trait can make them an offer they can't refuse...
Speaking of which, Pesh-face managed to freak out with merits in Campaign, capping his Triple Attack category earlier in the day, and getting to level 2 with his Critical Hit Rate later on that night. Congrats you crazy damn Sicilian!
Next it's Limbus time. We were doing Proto-Omega and I was hoping for some serious "drops" [read: chest pops] so I can actually get my first piece of Homam gear for my BLU. The run went smoothly, and the chest yielded hands and feet! Both pieces I'd like to have, but my original plan was to only bid if head or feet popped. So that's what I did. Bid on feet for 17 points. Now I get to save up for another piece and pray for free lot on any of them (Homam head). On another note, I feel REALLY bad for Miroku, who originally was the bid leader for the hands, then when Rioka told him to lot it, he lost power and disconnected. Pesh was then the leader for bid, but the hands ended up auto-lotting to Redthorne -- who already had them. o.O NOT GOOD. That was a problem with everyone not passing coins and armor in time, since they were scrambling around hoping Miro would return.
Finally, Feiht, Gigie, Slight and I hit Castle Oztroja for some farming/levelling NPC Fellow action. Turns out Tzee Xicu the Manifest was up, and we kicked his bird-bag Yagudo ass all over the place. Drops included Daylight Dagger and misc other stuff, but nothing really noteworthy. During the farming I managed to get a nice Aero III and Aeroga II scroll for my BLM.
To summarize: macros and gear builds, Aero III, Aeroga II, Blizzaga II, Thunder IV and Homam Gambieras acquired for myself, Chaosity finally got her Blizzaga III, Redthorne got a merit and gear he can't use through another's calamity, Pesh zerg'd his merit categories, and fun was had all the way around. Great success!
08 July 2008
24 June 2008
Plethora of Elations and Disasters
Yeah, it's been a while, sue me. I'll attempt to be chronological, but if it's not, or if I leave something out... meh.
ITEM: Obtained Shaman's Cloak and Stonega II for my BLM with the help of Rodie and Nedavia. Thanks you two. :3
ITEM: Serena passed away June 5th, 2008 while I was on vacation. This is a very sore subject for me, so I won't go into it, as it's not at all game related (but this blog is).
ITEM: Managed to get my Black Mage to 43, kicking and screaming. Actually this is a devilishly fun job, which I solo'd and duo'd with Thaedan. 1-24 subbed Blue Mage, then sub Ninja for dual wield and Utsusemi shadows. We found some impressive camps, then at around 41, it just died. Literally there were zero camps that delivered the amount of experience we desired. So we broke off and tried soloing. I've no idea where Thaedan's at with his, but mine's 43, and I think I found a camp we can duo at once more. I'll have to discuss this with him soon.
ITEM: After the update, my Assimilation merits were uncapped (I was 3/3). I took a break from levelling (read: being frustrated at) Black Mage to recap and ding'd 10 merits in 4 days. Not at all bad, and a 4xBLU, RDM, BRD rocks hard at my favorite Nyzul Imp camp. Thanks go out to Don Peshcorleone (Pesh), Armonde, Bethany, Rodie, and Sekundes for the awesome 4th day party.
ITEM: SoulPiratesElite has been reformed as WorshipTheFloor. There have been issues, we've pissed off a few we never expected to, we FAILED to scare off the people we'd rather NOT continue to participate, and our inaugural run was... pathetic. The shell's a different color, the rules have been tightened up, yet people lose their minds despite it being the SAME shell and officers. Yeah, okay, whatever. Time will tell if it was worth it or not. Still... we've got a really nice web presence and the forums are very professional. Robnar's done a bang-up job overall, well done.
ITEM: The current trend for both my 75 jobs to be FAR under the exp cap, "FAR" is defined [by me] to be under 40k, is completely unacceptable. Yesterday had TWO really good point, which was outside the game. Everything else was shit. The details: I find a potential solo camp, turns out it's an even better duo camp, for Black Mage. Earned a decent bit of exp duoing with some random BLM that showed up, then lost ALL of it trying to solo at the SAME camp after he left. Logged out. Logged back in later, went to Castle Oz for some NPC fellow levelling fun, and was raped by 6 Yagudos. Ate a HP and logged. Afterward I noticed my BLU was below 40k exp and logged out completely pissed off (and I still am, to the point where I just don't want to bother playing).
I think this about covers the activities from my last post until 1hr ago. I need to take a few weeks off from this game and everyone/everything associated with it. Games are meant to be recreational, but this is more like work, and the rub is I'm PAYING for this completely absence of fun. NOT A GOOD THING. Perhaps I should fire up Okami again and forget FFXI exists for a bit... like last time. Problem is, before I had ZERO responsibilities/obligations. Now, I'm a senior officer in a renewed Dynamis linkshell AND an active participant in a Limbus linkshell.
I'll figure something out. I always do...
ITEM: Obtained Shaman's Cloak and Stonega II for my BLM with the help of Rodie and Nedavia. Thanks you two. :3
ITEM: Serena passed away June 5th, 2008 while I was on vacation. This is a very sore subject for me, so I won't go into it, as it's not at all game related (but this blog is).
ITEM: Managed to get my Black Mage to 43, kicking and screaming. Actually this is a devilishly fun job, which I solo'd and duo'd with Thaedan. 1-24 subbed Blue Mage, then sub Ninja for dual wield and Utsusemi shadows. We found some impressive camps, then at around 41, it just died. Literally there were zero camps that delivered the amount of experience we desired. So we broke off and tried soloing. I've no idea where Thaedan's at with his, but mine's 43, and I think I found a camp we can duo at once more. I'll have to discuss this with him soon.
ITEM: After the update, my Assimilation merits were uncapped (I was 3/3). I took a break from levelling (read: being frustrated at) Black Mage to recap and ding'd 10 merits in 4 days. Not at all bad, and a 4xBLU, RDM, BRD rocks hard at my favorite Nyzul Imp camp. Thanks go out to Don Peshcorleone (Pesh), Armonde, Bethany, Rodie, and Sekundes for the awesome 4th day party.
ITEM: SoulPiratesElite has been reformed as WorshipTheFloor. There have been issues, we've pissed off a few we never expected to, we FAILED to scare off the people we'd rather NOT continue to participate, and our inaugural run was... pathetic. The shell's a different color, the rules have been tightened up, yet people lose their minds despite it being the SAME shell and officers. Yeah, okay, whatever. Time will tell if it was worth it or not. Still... we've got a really nice web presence and the forums are very professional. Robnar's done a bang-up job overall, well done.
ITEM: The current trend for both my 75 jobs to be FAR under the exp cap, "FAR" is defined [by me] to be under 40k, is completely unacceptable. Yesterday had TWO really good point, which was outside the game. Everything else was shit. The details: I find a potential solo camp, turns out it's an even better duo camp, for Black Mage. Earned a decent bit of exp duoing with some random BLM that showed up, then lost ALL of it trying to solo at the SAME camp after he left. Logged out. Logged back in later, went to Castle Oz for some NPC fellow levelling fun, and was raped by 6 Yagudos. Ate a HP and logged. Afterward I noticed my BLU was below 40k exp and logged out completely pissed off (and I still am, to the point where I just don't want to bother playing).
I think this about covers the activities from my last post until 1hr ago. I need to take a few weeks off from this game and everyone/everything associated with it. Games are meant to be recreational, but this is more like work, and the rub is I'm PAYING for this completely absence of fun. NOT A GOOD THING. Perhaps I should fire up Okami again and forget FFXI exists for a bit... like last time. Problem is, before I had ZERO responsibilities/obligations. Now, I'm a senior officer in a renewed Dynamis linkshell AND an active participant in a Limbus linkshell.
I'll figure something out. I always do...
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