Well well well, what have we here?! Oh, nothing much. Just the typical update planned. A couple changes here and there. A new zone or two. A couple new NMs. A few job changes. Same ol', same ol'....
Oh what's that?
Oh would you people please stfu about them adding Odin and Alexander as SMN avatars. You people have been going on and on AND ON about that for YEARS. It hasn't happened yet and it will never happen. So just knock it off already.
Same goes for those "Walk of Echos" maps. Haven't those maps been hidden on our machines for like half a decade now? What makes you think they'll ever actually let us go there?
PUP-whutwhut?? \o/
Level 99... seriously? You make me lol. All JAs, JTs, spells, gear, subjobs, etc... is all aimed at having 75 as the highest level for us. If SE ever decided to let us get higher than 75, people are gonna be doing single-party Kirin burns. Quit foolin yourself. It's not gonna happen.
New merits? Psshha, right. And monkeys might fly out of my butt.
WotG missions coming to an end? hahayeahright. As if THAT will ever happen. SE is gonna keep us thinking we're closer and closer to the end of those missions for the next 3 years. Don't hold your breath.
Augment Relic/Mythic weapons? 80 augments all at the same time too eh? Wow. Now you're just REALLY in your own little dreamworld, huh?
3 new add-ons huh? Wait wait wait, lemme guess... this time you'll get new Feet, Hands and Back piece for completing them! :rolleyes:
Combining servers? gfy. I'll quit before being forced off of Hades!!!
Why are you looking at me as if I'm the one sniffing glue? You're clearly the delusional one here.
Wait....
...
You mean SE really posted that themselves? On purpose? I totally thought someone just hacked their website and added that in. Or maybe it was just some whacked-out, Vana/Japanese-calendar version of an April Fools' Day prank. ... SeRiOuSlY?!?!
\o/
But yeah. In all seriousness, I'm pumped about... well.... about just about everything in this announcement. Now I think I'm definitely gonna finish PUP off and not just leave it hangin around the mid 40s. MNK, of course, is still gonna be my main focus and will be the first (and possibly only) job up to 99. Salvage will hopefully still be our group's highest priority, but I guess I will understand if people want to quit because it turns out there's better gear available now. (but it'll still make me /cry)
A couple things kinda make me cringe over this announcement, like:
- a lot of difficult NMs are gonna be so easy to take down now if we can go up another 24 levels; does that mean they're gonna raise the difficulty of those NMs now too? or are they just going to level-cap us to 75 whenever we fight them?
- the grind from 75 - 99 is gonna be.... well, it just might be unbearable. considering 63 is the halfway point between 1 and 75, that means 75 might only be the halfway point between 1 and 99. (XP-wise)
- some of these job changes kind of worry me... like, are they gonna start bumping spells up higher to be able to learn/cast? (Raise for RDM is 38... are they gonna raise it up to level 50 now, so you still can't cast it if you are /RDM?)
Whatev. Like Treu always tells me about FFXIV: no point in worrying about it until they actually give us specifics.
In other news, a co-worker just started off playing FFXI again. (He quit a couple years ago, and there have been PLENTY of changes since he left, not even counting the new changes that were just recently announced.) He's a new Taru in Windy. He said he logged on this weekend and Windy was basically empty except for a couple fishing-bots. lol We're gonna have to see if we can PL him pretty quick tonight and maybe even get him into an Astral Flow party to hurry him along. Try to get him up to at least a point where he can be self-sufficient for a while until he gets a job up to 75 and can join us in end-game stuff.
[UPDATE]
In hindsight, I should have named this post "It's the end of the world as we know it". I initially opted for the opening line to "99 Red balloons" though, in reference to the new level limit... and that the world, as we know it, is gonna change.
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Always do everything you ask of those you command
Well, lately it has finally occurred to me that, no matter how much I deny it or try to ignore it, I am most definitely a commanding leader in Relentless Sky LS. lol
I started off just joining this LS (back when it was called lolFail) just to get a few much-needed pieces for sky gear. I had heard that this LS was spamming sky like madmen, so I'd be able to get it quickly. 9 days after joining, I had already gotten my D Body!
I kept sticking with it, going up to sky for 5 hours a night, 4 nights per week, because I needed Byakko's Haidate and the gil to pay back everyone I had borrowed gil from. After a while, it seemed like the leader (Sush at that time) was getting burned-out from the administration side of running an LS, so I did what I could to help him out. I began taking attendance every night. I kept track of what items dropped from what gods. What items were sold, and to whom. What items could be sold on the AH to go towards the weekly payouts.
Oh yeah, weekly payouts back then were also given to anyone who attended sky and obtained ... what was it... 15 points? Basically, you needed to be up there for 2 full nights. (The rule was later adjusted because too many people were abusing the system. They'd show up for a Kirin burn, which might take an hour out of their evening, but they'd still obtain 5 points.)
Well, long-story short ("too late"), I've still been going up to sky basically every single night, for the entire night. My attendance and experience have put me in a position of leadership. A position I did not want to take up, but it has none-the-less been forced-upon me. If I quit, I have no doubts the whole LS will crumble within a week or two, because no one else is up there as often as I am and no one seems to have the patience and diligence I have to take meticulous notes and attendance.
I actually WANT to quit this LS sometime soon (it takes up too much of my time... and it's SUMMER damnit!), but before I do that, I want to make sure someone can take up the reigns of what I have been doing all this time. I really don't want the bad karma of being the reason for the destruction of what once was a great sky LS. Shiiga recently gave me admin access to the DKP, so now I am taking attendance, keeping track of drops, and keeping track of points. Lilmama keeps track of who has what pop items, selling gil items on the AH, and contacting/collecting from sky-gear buyers.
ok, now I'm just blabbering on about nothing... /sigh
I need sleep.
This will be continued in a later post...
I started off just joining this LS (back when it was called lolFail) just to get a few much-needed pieces for sky gear. I had heard that this LS was spamming sky like madmen, so I'd be able to get it quickly. 9 days after joining, I had already gotten my D Body!
I kept sticking with it, going up to sky for 5 hours a night, 4 nights per week, because I needed Byakko's Haidate and the gil to pay back everyone I had borrowed gil from. After a while, it seemed like the leader (Sush at that time) was getting burned-out from the administration side of running an LS, so I did what I could to help him out. I began taking attendance every night. I kept track of what items dropped from what gods. What items were sold, and to whom. What items could be sold on the AH to go towards the weekly payouts.
Oh yeah, weekly payouts back then were also given to anyone who attended sky and obtained ... what was it... 15 points? Basically, you needed to be up there for 2 full nights. (The rule was later adjusted because too many people were abusing the system. They'd show up for a Kirin burn, which might take an hour out of their evening, but they'd still obtain 5 points.)
Well, long-story short ("too late"), I've still been going up to sky basically every single night, for the entire night. My attendance and experience have put me in a position of leadership. A position I did not want to take up, but it has none-the-less been forced-upon me. If I quit, I have no doubts the whole LS will crumble within a week or two, because no one else is up there as often as I am and no one seems to have the patience and diligence I have to take meticulous notes and attendance.
I actually WANT to quit this LS sometime soon (it takes up too much of my time... and it's SUMMER damnit!), but before I do that, I want to make sure someone can take up the reigns of what I have been doing all this time. I really don't want the bad karma of being the reason for the destruction of what once was a great sky LS. Shiiga recently gave me admin access to the DKP, so now I am taking attendance, keeping track of drops, and keeping track of points. Lilmama keeps track of who has what pop items, selling gil items on the AH, and contacting/collecting from sky-gear buyers.
ok, now I'm just blabbering on about nothing... /sigh
I need sleep.
This will be continued in a later post...
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
I bathe in their blood
And no, I don't look red from leveling my RDM lately...
[ For some quick/somewhat-disturbing humor: http://www.explosm.net/comics/1636/ ]
I think I'm finally done leveling my Red Mage!
I FINALLY hit 34 last night (I just haven't had much time to spend on getting RDM from 20 up to 34 lately), which means I can now cast Stoneskin and proceed with increasing my Guard skill. (MNK/RDM ftw?)
Well... I might not be COMPLETELY done with RDM just yet... because I think there was SOME reason for me to possibly want to get it up to 35. (Fast Cast II?? whatev.) I'll eventually be taking it up to 75. Eventually. It still won't be for a long long time though. Not til after SAM and SMN are there first.
{sky} has been keeping me busy lately (as always) but at least I'm finding time to spend on other important things... like CoP missions! I've already made it up to the 3-5 fight, which we will hopefully be doing tonight, assuming Sana and Nomar are online at a decent hour and aren't too busy. Otherwise I'll be heading off to {Dynamis - San d'Oria} with HellsBells and then off to start using /RDM.
I can only imagine that progressing through PMs will be easier and easier as we go along because I've had people constantly asking to join our group when we catch up to them. (someone is at 5-1, someone else at 5-2, someone else at 5-3, etc...) Oh goodie! Maybe I'll actually get to complete this!
The AH site shows that I have been making some progress in achievement points... and yet I'm getting ranked lower and lower each day on our server. WTF Mate? I still can never tell if this means that more people are signing up on the AH site or if more people are just progressing faster than I have been. /cry
Whatev. I'm happy with the progress I've made lately. :)
Other random progress I've made over the past few weeks include finally capping-off my Counter merits (5/5) and leveling PUP up to 30. And yes, soloing PUP is hella easier than trying to solo RDM... and a lot more {fun}! Those lil automatons are pretty smart, knowing when to cast Silence or finish off a skillchain, etc.... I also have another 6 merit points to dump into something tonight... which will more-than-likely be STR, taking it up to 2/5. I COULD get 1 merit in 2 other MNK Group 2 areas... but I figure STR would probably be a better choice for me at this point because it can still help out with other jobs (ie. SAM) and I don't really need those other Group 2 merits. They'd be nice to have to better my MNK and might possibly be a little helpful in Salvage if we ever start back up again... but I think I'm gonna stick with STR and THEN maybe into those other areas, because my next STR will cost me 9 merit points. ugh!
Treu and I have also been discussing possibly starting to get a gruop together for Salvage runs again. And after hearing last night that Lilmama now has all 3 items for her Marduk Feet (still needs crafting items) I think I'm really wanting to start up Salvage again. I crave Usu so badly, it hurts sometimes. /cry
We have a few people in mind that we are going to ask to join us. Some we really would like to have; some we will take just because we know they are good people that have jobs that we'd need and they wouldn't try to screw us over (ie. get their gear and then split). We're aiming to maybe start up our runs again in a couple weeks, but obviously that depends on everyone's schedule.
We'll see. We'll see.
[ For some quick/somewhat-disturbing humor: http://www.explosm.net/comics/1636/ ]
I think I'm finally done leveling my Red Mage!
I FINALLY hit 34 last night (I just haven't had much time to spend on getting RDM from 20 up to 34 lately), which means I can now cast Stoneskin and proceed with increasing my Guard skill. (MNK/RDM ftw?)
Well... I might not be COMPLETELY done with RDM just yet... because I think there was SOME reason for me to possibly want to get it up to 35. (Fast Cast II?? whatev.) I'll eventually be taking it up to 75. Eventually. It still won't be for a long long time though. Not til after SAM and SMN are there first.
{sky} has been keeping me busy lately (as always) but at least I'm finding time to spend on other important things... like CoP missions! I've already made it up to the 3-5 fight, which we will hopefully be doing tonight, assuming Sana and Nomar are online at a decent hour and aren't too busy. Otherwise I'll be heading off to {Dynamis - San d'Oria} with HellsBells and then off to start using /RDM.
I can only imagine that progressing through PMs will be easier and easier as we go along because I've had people constantly asking to join our group when we catch up to them. (someone is at 5-1, someone else at 5-2, someone else at 5-3, etc...) Oh goodie! Maybe I'll actually get to complete this!
The AH site shows that I have been making some progress in achievement points... and yet I'm getting ranked lower and lower each day on our server. WTF Mate? I still can never tell if this means that more people are signing up on the AH site or if more people are just progressing faster than I have been. /cry
Whatev. I'm happy with the progress I've made lately. :)
Other random progress I've made over the past few weeks include finally capping-off my Counter merits (5/5) and leveling PUP up to 30. And yes, soloing PUP is hella easier than trying to solo RDM... and a lot more {fun}! Those lil automatons are pretty smart, knowing when to cast Silence or finish off a skillchain, etc.... I also have another 6 merit points to dump into something tonight... which will more-than-likely be STR, taking it up to 2/5. I COULD get 1 merit in 2 other MNK Group 2 areas... but I figure STR would probably be a better choice for me at this point because it can still help out with other jobs (ie. SAM) and I don't really need those other Group 2 merits. They'd be nice to have to better my MNK and might possibly be a little helpful in Salvage if we ever start back up again... but I think I'm gonna stick with STR and THEN maybe into those other areas, because my next STR will cost me 9 merit points. ugh!
Treu and I have also been discussing possibly starting to get a gruop together for Salvage runs again. And after hearing last night that Lilmama now has all 3 items for her Marduk Feet (still needs crafting items) I think I'm really wanting to start up Salvage again. I crave Usu so badly, it hurts sometimes. /cry
We have a few people in mind that we are going to ask to join us. Some we really would like to have; some we will take just because we know they are good people that have jobs that we'd need and they wouldn't try to screw us over (ie. get their gear and then split). We're aiming to maybe start up our runs again in a couple weeks, but obviously that depends on everyone's schedule.
We'll see. We'll see.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
I served five years in the Republican Guard
So, I've read (multiple times) what Genome has written on the subject. I've also seen ElmerThePointy's YouTube video. All really good stuff and I'd be COMPLETELY lost without it. I'm pretty sure I understand what needs to be done here:
(1) aim for mobs at a level around ({your guard skill} / 3)
(2) wear as much EVA- and Guard+ gear as possible
There's not much more to it than that. Right?
So at skill level 82 I should be aiming for mob level 27 or so. (82/3 = 27.333...)
Well, after spending the majority of this weekend trying to level my Guard skill, I think I have come to the conclusion that either (a) SE has changed something regarding guard skill-up with this latest update a week or two ago [HIGHLY doubtful] or (b) I am screwed because I waited too long to level my Guarding skill.
My situation: I'm a 75 MNK. My Guarding skill is REALLY low (85). My Evasion skill is capped (256). My Counter Rate is fully meritted (5/5).
My gear: I'm wearing very little gear and no weapon (so the mobs last longer). Total of EVA-19 and Guard+10. (Something weird to note: the gear makes my combat skills now say Guarding=95 and Evasion=256. Why would the gear make a modification to one skill but not the other?)
My camps/attempts:
(1) Fort Karugo-Narugo [S] fighting Lycopodiums (Mandragoras lvl 22-25): 45 minutes and 0 skill-ups. I figured they were a little too low leveled so I moved on.
(2) Sauromugue Champaign [S] fighting Lycopodiums (Mandragoras lvl 28-32): over 90 minutes and 0 skill-ups. I figured maybe with the guard+ gear I should aim for higher levels still, but according to your posts it's only the base-skill level that makes a difference.
(3) a few other areas were attempted with various mobs at an appropriate level (jungle, etc...) but all of those were completely unsuccessful as well.
(4) Bibiki Bay fighting Alraunes (Mandragoras lvl 37-40): 6 hours and a total of only about 2.5 skill-ups. Skill-ups were 0.1s, 0.2s and 0.3s. (Which seems like just the perfect range for me to be getting them frequently, no?) I also got 0.8 of it all in a span of about 3 minutes. (Very beginning of 2/29/1071, Watersday, Full Moon (100%)... if that makes any kind of difference to anyone researching when it's best to get skill-ups.) The rest of the skill-ups were spread out and probably 45-60 minutes in between. /sigh
My method: (Same as I've seen/read.) I'd pull about 8-10 mandys and run near a wall or onto the pier to get them to line-up properly, then aim myself at (a) something in the distance (which just got annoying because I'd have to reposition frequently if the mob moved) or (b) one of the mandys that was slightly off to the side, then angle myself so I'm facing the rest of the group, but the targeted one was just ever-so-slightly "unable to be seen" so that I was engaged but not actively killing anything. I could get a group to last around 30-40 minutes until they would start dying off from my counters or until I started getting worried about my health from lack of TP (I was /DNC for Curing Waltz II).
So... Am I doing something wrong? Or am I just screwed because my other defensive skills/abilities are just too high? (Guard can't proc unless EVA and counter are bypassed.) They were missing a LOT but I'm pretty sure Guard was procing fairly often; I wouldn't necessarily see the animation, but they would consistently hit me for 10-22... and then sometimes (25% of the time perhaps?) they would only hit me for 5.
Am I just going to have to go level PUP and slowly build my guard on that job? (because my EVA will be capped MUCH lower) Or maybe just go find a character to borrow to {Level Sync} myself down to force my EVA down too??
I'm kiiiiiiinda getting frustrated here. Especially when I read that other people are getting 22 levels in a matter of 3 hours. /sigh
Suggestions: {Yes, please.}
(1) aim for mobs at a level around ({your guard skill} / 3)
(2) wear as much EVA- and Guard+ gear as possible
There's not much more to it than that. Right?
So at skill level 82 I should be aiming for mob level 27 or so. (82/3 = 27.333...)
Well, after spending the majority of this weekend trying to level my Guard skill, I think I have come to the conclusion that either (a) SE has changed something regarding guard skill-up with this latest update a week or two ago [HIGHLY doubtful] or (b) I am screwed because I waited too long to level my Guarding skill.
My situation: I'm a 75 MNK. My Guarding skill is REALLY low (85). My Evasion skill is capped (256). My Counter Rate is fully meritted (5/5).
My gear: I'm wearing very little gear and no weapon (so the mobs last longer). Total of EVA-19 and Guard+10. (Something weird to note: the gear makes my combat skills now say Guarding=95 and Evasion=256. Why would the gear make a modification to one skill but not the other?)
My camps/attempts:
(1) Fort Karugo-Narugo [S] fighting Lycopodiums (Mandragoras lvl 22-25): 45 minutes and 0 skill-ups. I figured they were a little too low leveled so I moved on.
(2) Sauromugue Champaign [S] fighting Lycopodiums (Mandragoras lvl 28-32): over 90 minutes and 0 skill-ups. I figured maybe with the guard+ gear I should aim for higher levels still, but according to your posts it's only the base-skill level that makes a difference.
(3) a few other areas were attempted with various mobs at an appropriate level (jungle, etc...) but all of those were completely unsuccessful as well.
(4) Bibiki Bay fighting Alraunes (Mandragoras lvl 37-40): 6 hours and a total of only about 2.5 skill-ups. Skill-ups were 0.1s, 0.2s and 0.3s. (Which seems like just the perfect range for me to be getting them frequently, no?) I also got 0.8 of it all in a span of about 3 minutes. (Very beginning of 2/29/1071, Watersday, Full Moon (100%)... if that makes any kind of difference to anyone researching when it's best to get skill-ups.) The rest of the skill-ups were spread out and probably 45-60 minutes in between. /sigh
My method: (Same as I've seen/read.) I'd pull about 8-10 mandys and run near a wall or onto the pier to get them to line-up properly, then aim myself at (a) something in the distance (which just got annoying because I'd have to reposition frequently if the mob moved) or (b) one of the mandys that was slightly off to the side, then angle myself so I'm facing the rest of the group, but the targeted one was just ever-so-slightly "unable to be seen" so that I was engaged but not actively killing anything. I could get a group to last around 30-40 minutes until they would start dying off from my counters or until I started getting worried about my health from lack of TP (I was /DNC for Curing Waltz II).
So... Am I doing something wrong? Or am I just screwed because my other defensive skills/abilities are just too high? (Guard can't proc unless EVA and counter are bypassed.) They were missing a LOT but I'm pretty sure Guard was procing fairly often; I wouldn't necessarily see the animation, but they would consistently hit me for 10-22... and then sometimes (25% of the time perhaps?) they would only hit me for 5.
Am I just going to have to go level PUP and slowly build my guard on that job? (because my EVA will be capped MUCH lower) Or maybe just go find a character to borrow to {Level Sync} myself down to force my EVA down too??
I'm kiiiiiiinda getting frustrated here. Especially when I read that other people are getting 22 levels in a matter of 3 hours. /sigh
Suggestions: {Yes, please.}
Thursday, March 12, 2009
A Very Merry Unbirthday to Me!
Today, March 12th, is my first unbirthday after obtaining the ripe old age of... um... 25. Yeah. 25. Again. For like the 8th time.
It turns out I really didn't take as much of a break from FFXI as I had anticipated. But in the past week or two, I have actually gotten quite a bit accomplished!
Our good buddy Hybrid has recently discovered, from the character Finalfantasyxi, the Buburimu Astral Flow burn camp and has gone completely, if you pardon the expression, ape-shit crazy over there. He must have gotten something like 12 levels in 2 days with SMN burn parties. It's nutso! So, of course, I want a piece of this action too, so I had to go unlock my COR (which didn't take very long at all). Well, in order for them to let me into the party, they basically said I needed to bring a job that they could all Level Sync down to... so, basically, I'm not really making any progress on the jobs I really want to level, but at least I got to experience the camp a few times.
So, the trick works like this:
(1) You have a PL aggro basically half the mobs in Buburimu. In our case, I was running Screamin as PLD75/RDM37 (for max defense, phalanx, etc...). I even had to take off his W Legs because I was outrunning and de-aggro-ing [is that a word?!] basically everything. The party just sits down near the entrance of Mhaura and waits for 10 or 15 minutes while the PL pulls everything. The route I typically took was just heading southeast and then zig-zag my way north up the coastline until I got about 2/3rds of the way to the top of the map. Then I'd start zig-zagging my way back southwest towards the camp. Pulling all of the mobs is actually pretty simple; you just need to provoke 1 of each type of mob that links (birds, goblins, dhalmels, crawlers, etc...) at the beginning and then everything else will follow. The only real tough part is just making sure you don't outrun all of the mobs and deaggro any.
(2) Once you have the desired number of mobs (preferably 40-50) just run back to the camp and stand still while all of the mobs start putting the smack-down on the PL. Now, you need to make sure your party has at 3 SMNs and are level synched down to 15. Once everyone is ready, the SMNs {Astral Flow} and {Blood Pact: Ward} twice. This should basically take out all of the mobs and give everyone in the party a boat-load of xp. It typically jumps your level 15 character up to level 18. NOTE: If noone in the party has a job at level 15, you can still Level Sync down to say level 13 and still use the same tactic, but just pull a smaller batch of mobs.
(3) Now that everyone has gotten their xp, and 3 of your party members have used their 2-hour, head into Mhaura and have the other 3 members job-change to COR. If the CORs use their 2-hour and hit a 5 or a 6, all of your party members' timers are reset, including their 2-hour timers! Huzzah!
(4) Have someone job-change to another level 15 job.
(5) Rinse and repeat.
Using this technique I progressed to BLM 17, SCH 17, PUP 18, THF 23 and SMN 25. I also leveled my BRD up to 12 in the hopes of hitting up this camp in the near future. All-in-all, it's a quick and easy way for people to get xp... but sometimes the amount of time it takes just sitting around waiting for the pull or the time it takes to get a COR to get lucky and reset your 2-hours just takes a little longer than I would like. You probably still end up only making no more than 10k xp per hour so you might just be better off in a normal camp. Oh wait, that means getting a party together in the Dunes... nevermind.
Besides that burn camp, I also hit up the East Ronfaure [S] bird camp and got my SAM up to 49... which makes me a happy panda.
Mog Locker - now expanded to 80!
Gobbie Bag - quest VII completed, so my inventory is now at 65!
ToAU Missions - progressed up to Puppet In Peril.
Zilart Mission - completed Divine Might and got my earring (Bushi)... not that I'm gonna use it for a while, since my SAM is still only at 49. /sigh
CoP Missions - I FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY got {Promyvion - Dem} done and began CoP Chapter 2. My WAR also leveled up to 41 while beating the boss. hehe nice.
Sky - Seiryu finally decided to drop a D Head for me. Byakko and Kirin however still decided to be stingy that night and not drop my much-needed D Legs and Osode. I was first in line for those items that night too. ; ; oh wells... now i'm back down to 3rd or something cuz I don't outside farm like some of the other members of Relentless.
Salvage - I got my first 35 piece (Usukane legs - Hikazu Hakama) from our Arrapago Remnants run! And I think this is actually the first 35 piece our Salvage LS has obtained. I so happy! :)
Relentless - Our newly-reformed sky LS also got our first payout. It was actually 2 weeks worth of payout, but it turned out to be something like 1.2 million gil per person. VERY nice. I really hope we can keep this up.
It turns out I really didn't take as much of a break from FFXI as I had anticipated. But in the past week or two, I have actually gotten quite a bit accomplished!
Our good buddy Hybrid has recently discovered, from the character Finalfantasyxi, the Buburimu Astral Flow burn camp and has gone completely, if you pardon the expression, ape-shit crazy over there. He must have gotten something like 12 levels in 2 days with SMN burn parties. It's nutso! So, of course, I want a piece of this action too, so I had to go unlock my COR (which didn't take very long at all). Well, in order for them to let me into the party, they basically said I needed to bring a job that they could all Level Sync down to... so, basically, I'm not really making any progress on the jobs I really want to level, but at least I got to experience the camp a few times.
So, the trick works like this:
(1) You have a PL aggro basically half the mobs in Buburimu. In our case, I was running Screamin as PLD75/RDM37 (for max defense, phalanx, etc...). I even had to take off his W Legs because I was outrunning and de-aggro-ing [is that a word?!] basically everything. The party just sits down near the entrance of Mhaura and waits for 10 or 15 minutes while the PL pulls everything. The route I typically took was just heading southeast and then zig-zag my way north up the coastline until I got about 2/3rds of the way to the top of the map. Then I'd start zig-zagging my way back southwest towards the camp. Pulling all of the mobs is actually pretty simple; you just need to provoke 1 of each type of mob that links (birds, goblins, dhalmels, crawlers, etc...) at the beginning and then everything else will follow. The only real tough part is just making sure you don't outrun all of the mobs and deaggro any.
(2) Once you have the desired number of mobs (preferably 40-50) just run back to the camp and stand still while all of the mobs start putting the smack-down on the PL. Now, you need to make sure your party has at 3 SMNs and are level synched down to 15. Once everyone is ready, the SMNs {Astral Flow} and {Blood Pact: Ward} twice. This should basically take out all of the mobs and give everyone in the party a boat-load of xp. It typically jumps your level 15 character up to level 18. NOTE: If noone in the party has a job at level 15, you can still Level Sync down to say level 13 and still use the same tactic, but just pull a smaller batch of mobs.
(3) Now that everyone has gotten their xp, and 3 of your party members have used their 2-hour, head into Mhaura and have the other 3 members job-change to COR. If the CORs use their 2-hour and hit a 5 or a 6, all of your party members' timers are reset, including their 2-hour timers! Huzzah!
(4) Have someone job-change to another level 15 job.
(5) Rinse and repeat.
Using this technique I progressed to BLM 17, SCH 17, PUP 18, THF 23 and SMN 25. I also leveled my BRD up to 12 in the hopes of hitting up this camp in the near future. All-in-all, it's a quick and easy way for people to get xp... but sometimes the amount of time it takes just sitting around waiting for the pull or the time it takes to get a COR to get lucky and reset your 2-hours just takes a little longer than I would like. You probably still end up only making no more than 10k xp per hour so you might just be better off in a normal camp. Oh wait, that means getting a party together in the Dunes... nevermind.
Besides that burn camp, I also hit up the East Ronfaure [S] bird camp and got my SAM up to 49... which makes me a happy panda.
Mog Locker - now expanded to 80!
Gobbie Bag - quest VII completed, so my inventory is now at 65!
ToAU Missions - progressed up to Puppet In Peril.
Zilart Mission - completed Divine Might and got my earring (Bushi)... not that I'm gonna use it for a while, since my SAM is still only at 49. /sigh
CoP Missions - I FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY got {Promyvion - Dem} done and began CoP Chapter 2. My WAR also leveled up to 41 while beating the boss. hehe nice.
Sky - Seiryu finally decided to drop a D Head for me. Byakko and Kirin however still decided to be stingy that night and not drop my much-needed D Legs and Osode. I was first in line for those items that night too. ; ; oh wells... now i'm back down to 3rd or something cuz I don't outside farm like some of the other members of Relentless.
Salvage - I got my first 35 piece (Usukane legs - Hikazu Hakama) from our Arrapago Remnants run! And I think this is actually the first 35 piece our Salvage LS has obtained. I so happy! :)
Relentless - Our newly-reformed sky LS also got our first payout. It was actually 2 weeks worth of payout, but it turned out to be something like 1.2 million gil per person. VERY nice. I really hope we can keep this up.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Re-elect Mayor Goldie Wilson. "Progress" is his middle-name!
Progress Progress Progress Progress Progress
(1) Expanded Mog Locker to 70
(2) Merit: Kick Attacks 4/5
(3) Merit: Counter 2/5
(4) LolFail payout from last week: over 600k! (I can almost TASTE that Blackbelt. It's actually within sight now that payouts are this huge.)
(5) Dynamis - Beaucidine: My first Icelands run. Got the clear! Got PUP Body (free dropped to me) and then inadvertently started a fairly large, and somewhat awkward, argument between several LS members as to how "I now had to level PUP since I have an AFv2 piece now" (yeah, I was totally kidding) and some ppl laughed and some ppl took offense and how PUPs have to take all this crap from non-PUPs and they don't know how it's a sweet sweet job and blah blah blah... After my "i gotta level it now" comment, I pretty much just stfu cuz I think a couple ppl actually got mad over it. lol
(6) Sky: we sold a couple items already for this week :)
(7) Salvage: YUS! We finally got a linkpearl set up (GigidyGigidy, and coincidentally it's the same color yellow as my HellsBells pearl), got our members together (Khrone, Treubond, Ratman, Hybridkiller, Hulcalan, Drayco, Caol, Mactatus), discussed jobs, times (Tuesday 10pm, Thursday 10pm, Sunday 3pm), some rules, yadda yadda yadda. Yes, Salvage is actually happening! w000000000000000t!!!
In summary: closer to capped merits; closer to blackbelt; closer to Usu gear. My long-term goals in this game are happening!
(1) Expanded Mog Locker to 70
(2) Merit: Kick Attacks 4/5
(3) Merit: Counter 2/5
(4) LolFail payout from last week: over 600k! (I can almost TASTE that Blackbelt. It's actually within sight now that payouts are this huge.)
(5) Dynamis - Beaucidine: My first Icelands run. Got the clear! Got PUP Body (free dropped to me) and then inadvertently started a fairly large, and somewhat awkward, argument between several LS members as to how "I now had to level PUP since I have an AFv2 piece now" (yeah, I was totally kidding) and some ppl laughed and some ppl took offense and how PUPs have to take all this crap from non-PUPs and they don't know how it's a sweet sweet job and blah blah blah... After my "i gotta level it now" comment, I pretty much just stfu cuz I think a couple ppl actually got mad over it. lol
(6) Sky: we sold a couple items already for this week :)
(7) Salvage: YUS! We finally got a linkpearl set up (GigidyGigidy, and coincidentally it's the same color yellow as my HellsBells pearl), got our members together (Khrone, Treubond, Ratman, Hybridkiller, Hulcalan, Drayco, Caol, Mactatus), discussed jobs, times (Tuesday 10pm, Thursday 10pm, Sunday 3pm), some rules, yadda yadda yadda. Yes, Salvage is actually happening! w000000000000000t!!!
In summary: closer to capped merits; closer to blackbelt; closer to Usu gear. My long-term goals in this game are happening!
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
It's going to be easy... like peeling a turtle.
The past couple nights haven't been bad at all. LolSky has killed a bunch more gods and gotten some really nice drops. Last night, after Hybrid got his Haidate, we still had another Byakko to do and I was next in line already! ... But, again, no luck for me. Haidate didn't drop... and then later that night when Xzavier came back online I realized he's still ahead of me so, oh wellz. That's twice I've been up for the next haidate drop and it just didn't come.
We actually wiped to the 2nd Kirin we did last night. I guess it was the fault of a couple of our newer guys (WHM? BRD? COR?), but I'm glad noone seemed overly-pissed about it. I'm not exactly sure what went wrong actually, other than "we didn't kill Kirin fast enough". lol
Since I got back from my little winter break/vacation I haven't really been able to concentrate much at work. My head keeps floating back to ffxi (yeah yeah, "so what's new?") and what I can do OUTSIDE of the game to make it better for us IN game. For example: I've been reading up a bunch more on the capabilities of Google Docs and for a while I was actually considering basically re-writing the entire DKP site using Google Spreadsheets as the database and Google Forms and Gadgets as the interface. lol After looking a little harder at the FreeDKP site though, I reconsidered and now think I'll just make suggestions to them to enhance their app a bit.
I also updated my LolFail Tracking Google spreasheet. I added in a Stats tab which is just a copy-and-paste of the Stats page from the DKP. I then used VLOOKUP() to grab the point values from that new page. This will make it a TON easier for me to update those point values. I can just copy-and-paste and then switch back to the Waiting List and maybe do a little reordering and that's it. I used to have to look up each individual name separately and update the values, and I would frequently overlook a name or two or might have a typo here and there... It's all good now though. :)
Now if only I could find some time to do a little extra sky farming to bump me into the lead... oh, and maybe find some time for some sleep too. lol (of the past 3 nights, I haven't gotten any more than 3 hours of sleep per night. no naps either!)
Oh, and after sky last night, Hybrid asked if I still need a Swift Belt (which I do). So I guess me, him, Treu and Screamin will need to look into planning a Swift Belt run sometime in the near future, cuz I think we all need it. But then again, I can't do that til I beat PM4-2 so I can get into the zone. /sigh
We actually wiped to the 2nd Kirin we did last night. I guess it was the fault of a couple of our newer guys (WHM? BRD? COR?), but I'm glad noone seemed overly-pissed about it. I'm not exactly sure what went wrong actually, other than "we didn't kill Kirin fast enough". lol
Since I got back from my little winter break/vacation I haven't really been able to concentrate much at work. My head keeps floating back to ffxi (yeah yeah, "so what's new?") and what I can do OUTSIDE of the game to make it better for us IN game. For example: I've been reading up a bunch more on the capabilities of Google Docs and for a while I was actually considering basically re-writing the entire DKP site using Google Spreadsheets as the database and Google Forms and Gadgets as the interface. lol After looking a little harder at the FreeDKP site though, I reconsidered and now think I'll just make suggestions to them to enhance their app a bit.
I also updated my LolFail Tracking Google spreasheet. I added in a Stats tab which is just a copy-and-paste of the Stats page from the DKP. I then used VLOOKUP() to grab the point values from that new page. This will make it a TON easier for me to update those point values. I can just copy-and-paste and then switch back to the Waiting List and maybe do a little reordering and that's it. I used to have to look up each individual name separately and update the values, and I would frequently overlook a name or two or might have a typo here and there... It's all good now though. :)
Now if only I could find some time to do a little extra sky farming to bump me into the lead... oh, and maybe find some time for some sleep too. lol (of the past 3 nights, I haven't gotten any more than 3 hours of sleep per night. no naps either!)
Oh, and after sky last night, Hybrid asked if I still need a Swift Belt (which I do). So I guess me, him, Treu and Screamin will need to look into planning a Swift Belt run sometime in the near future, cuz I think we all need it. But then again, I can't do that til I beat PM4-2 so I can get into the zone. /sigh
Thursday, December 18, 2008
My Spoon is too Big
So as usual, there is a ton of stuff I want/need to get done in game, and there just aren't enough hours in the day and days in the week for me to do any of it.
I need more/better gear NOW if we are going to finally start up our Salvage group. But some of the items I need require me to complete CoP and ZM and ToAU.... I also need to start cranking out Assaults just so I have enough Assault Points to get IN to Salvage. heh, not to mention the fact that I still need to finish that last fight or 2 so I can actually ACCESS Salvage. lol
And yet, I can't really work on any of that stuff right now because I need to focus pretty much all of my time in-game into LolFail and {sky}. I NEED more LS points so I can get my Byakko's Haidate sooner (I think I'm actually up to like 3rd or 4th in line by now!). I don't want to just do what some people seem to be doing and show up ONLY for God-runs. Yes, it seems like it's the most efficient way to get points per time spent in sky... but we still need to farm those damn pop items so we can actually FIGHT these gods. (ie. we ALWAYS need more Despots and Dios) I want to keep showing up, ON TIME, every night so that other people don't get discouraged and start dropping out. The past few evenings, we seem to have fewer and fewer people up there with us. Tuesday night we only had 12 people show up the entire evening. /sigh
But Haidate is the one single major item I REALLY need, ASAP. After that, I'll still be more than happy to keep coming up to sky to farm and kill gods (cuz I'd still like to have my Shura Head and Legs) but at least I won't feel like crap if I miss out on an evening because I'm trying to get Promy-Dem done, or am in a merit party, or am running a couple assaults, etc....
But whateva. It's not like this is something new. I've known I have a TON to do for ... heh, pretty much since I started a year and a half ago. XD
On to other things...
So, I was in Dynamis - Jeuno with HellsBells again last night. We were cruisin along, gettin drops left-and-right (as usual) but the drops apparently were just crap because people kepts groaning at every AFv2 drop and I think only 1 or 2 items were actually lotted on. I'm pretty sure we had 4 THF feet and 3 BLM feet drop and NOONE wanted them. lol Man, I really hope this keeps up with other jobs that I plan to eventually level. ANY free AFv2 would be sweet.
But on a sour-note, we ended up NOT clearing the city. WTH HB? That's 2 cities not cleared in the past 2 weeks. These guys are usually pretty sweet when it comes to rolling thru the cities, but last night there were just a few things that seemed off. Like, we had our 1st, 2nd and 3rd assists determined before we entered... and yet once our main assist went down, we all wipe because all melee are just standing around waiting to assist someone... and the 2nd and 3rds are just standing there with their thumbs up their butts like the rest of us. Don't agree to be an /assist if you don't know how to do the job! Apparently the puller screwed up a little on the boss too, cuz we were overwhelmed at the AH at the end of the run. (But then again, Jeuno is apparently kinda rough on the Boss pull. At least it was for AN... wait, did I just compare these guys to AN?!? I'm sooooo sorry. It'll never happen again.) I think I was the last man standing (well, the last one standing that DIDN'T manage to find a good hiding spot) and I was about to just drop my hourglass since we had already been given the 10-minute warning, but ppl were saying "don't drop glass!" "we can recover" blah blah blah... so I stayed and died along with everyone else.... And then AFTER I die they say "oh well. nvm. no time. let's just timeout and get R3s...."
/sigh
Jackasses.
Well, next time I see that we are about to wipe so close to the end, I'm just gonna leave. Hell, there was no point in me staying really anyways. I already have the city clear, and it's not like a MNK is of any use against the boss. Why were ppl telling me not to drop my hourglass? :-/
What else. What else. . .
Well, last night I got asked to join the HellsBells Einherjar group. They wanted me to come right after Dynamis, but I was just too tired, so they asked me to come on their next run on Sunday @6:30pm. I guess I'll try it out. It only takes like 30 mnutes (so I guess maybe an hour total of my time if you include the time it takes to get out there, etc...). I'd like to at least experience Einherjar, eventhough I really don't want/need anything from there. It'd be a nice change of pace to do something different from just sky and Dynamis, which is basically ALL I've done over the past couple months. Plus, you know, assuming we get the clears, I can show off a few more Titles on my AH page. And getting an Odin win would help me out in my quest to... ok, help me out in my fantasies of getting that Monk Mythic weapon. lol
I also did a bunch more reading up on Einherjar and Mythic weapons today.
The gist of what I've read for Einherjar: you need to come prepared (food, poison pots, eyedrops, whatever...); you should expect to wipe; when you DO wipe, die in a cluster; and apparently abjuration drops are pretty infrequent... like, so infrequent, I don't think any have dropped to HB in the past couple weeks. (then again, I have no real idea how often they have been doing these runs over the past few weeks...)
The gist of what I've read for Mythic weapons: they are like 10 times harder to get than relic weapons (already knew that tho); a lot of the weapons aren't really as good as they were expected to be (only a few jobs seem like it would really be worth the effort, and MNK is one of them); and the aftermath's don't work like people expected them to be.
The big problem with the aftermaths is that when it says "Aftermath: Increases Acc./Att. Occasionally attacks twice" what they actually mean is "Aftermath Level 1: Increases Acc. --- Aftermath Level 2: Increases Att. --- Aftermath Level 3: Occasoinally attacks twice". You can activate the various levels of aftermaths by doing the following:
1. build up at least 100% TP and WS - This activates level 1 AM.
2. build up at least 200% TP and WS - This activates level 2 AM.
3. build up 300% TP and WS - This activates level 3 AM.
So, basically the AM that they tell you isn't quite true; you need to build up to gaining the full AM. "But wait! There's MORE!" The AMs only last a certain amount of time. Level 1 lasts 60 seconds, level 2, 90 seconds and level 3 120 seconds. So, basically you only have a minute and a half to build up 300 TP oterhwise you're never getting that level 3 AM. "But wait! There's MORE!" On top of that, you also cannot "renew" level 2 or level 3, meaning that: say you have level 2 AM and you are about to time-out (85 seconds have passed) and only have 215% TP, you decide to WS before time runs out and before you hit 300% TP... you just get kicked back down to level 1 AM again. So, I guess if you plan on maximizing your AM, you really need to pay attention to the clock; you don't want to kick off level 3 too soon!
I need more/better gear NOW if we are going to finally start up our Salvage group. But some of the items I need require me to complete CoP and ZM and ToAU.... I also need to start cranking out Assaults just so I have enough Assault Points to get IN to Salvage. heh, not to mention the fact that I still need to finish that last fight or 2 so I can actually ACCESS Salvage. lol
And yet, I can't really work on any of that stuff right now because I need to focus pretty much all of my time in-game into LolFail and {sky}. I NEED more LS points so I can get my Byakko's Haidate sooner (I think I'm actually up to like 3rd or 4th in line by now!). I don't want to just do what some people seem to be doing and show up ONLY for God-runs. Yes, it seems like it's the most efficient way to get points per time spent in sky... but we still need to farm those damn pop items so we can actually FIGHT these gods. (ie. we ALWAYS need more Despots and Dios) I want to keep showing up, ON TIME, every night so that other people don't get discouraged and start dropping out. The past few evenings, we seem to have fewer and fewer people up there with us. Tuesday night we only had 12 people show up the entire evening. /sigh
But Haidate is the one single major item I REALLY need, ASAP. After that, I'll still be more than happy to keep coming up to sky to farm and kill gods (cuz I'd still like to have my Shura Head and Legs) but at least I won't feel like crap if I miss out on an evening because I'm trying to get Promy-Dem done, or am in a merit party, or am running a couple assaults, etc....
But whateva. It's not like this is something new. I've known I have a TON to do for ... heh, pretty much since I started a year and a half ago. XD
On to other things...
So, I was in Dynamis - Jeuno with HellsBells again last night. We were cruisin along, gettin drops left-and-right (as usual) but the drops apparently were just crap because people kepts groaning at every AFv2 drop and I think only 1 or 2 items were actually lotted on. I'm pretty sure we had 4 THF feet and 3 BLM feet drop and NOONE wanted them. lol Man, I really hope this keeps up with other jobs that I plan to eventually level. ANY free AFv2 would be sweet.
But on a sour-note, we ended up NOT clearing the city. WTH HB? That's 2 cities not cleared in the past 2 weeks. These guys are usually pretty sweet when it comes to rolling thru the cities, but last night there were just a few things that seemed off. Like, we had our 1st, 2nd and 3rd assists determined before we entered... and yet once our main assist went down, we all wipe because all melee are just standing around waiting to assist someone... and the 2nd and 3rds are just standing there with their thumbs up their butts like the rest of us. Don't agree to be an /assist if you don't know how to do the job! Apparently the puller screwed up a little on the boss too, cuz we were overwhelmed at the AH at the end of the run. (But then again, Jeuno is apparently kinda rough on the Boss pull. At least it was for AN... wait, did I just compare these guys to AN?!? I'm sooooo sorry. It'll never happen again.) I think I was the last man standing (well, the last one standing that DIDN'T manage to find a good hiding spot) and I was about to just drop my hourglass since we had already been given the 10-minute warning, but ppl were saying "don't drop glass!" "we can recover" blah blah blah... so I stayed and died along with everyone else.... And then AFTER I die they say "oh well. nvm. no time. let's just timeout and get R3s...."
/sigh
Jackasses.
Well, next time I see that we are about to wipe so close to the end, I'm just gonna leave. Hell, there was no point in me staying really anyways. I already have the city clear, and it's not like a MNK is of any use against the boss. Why were ppl telling me not to drop my hourglass? :-/
What else. What else. . .
Well, last night I got asked to join the HellsBells Einherjar group. They wanted me to come right after Dynamis, but I was just too tired, so they asked me to come on their next run on Sunday @6:30pm. I guess I'll try it out. It only takes like 30 mnutes (so I guess maybe an hour total of my time if you include the time it takes to get out there, etc...). I'd like to at least experience Einherjar, eventhough I really don't want/need anything from there. It'd be a nice change of pace to do something different from just sky and Dynamis, which is basically ALL I've done over the past couple months. Plus, you know, assuming we get the clears, I can show off a few more Titles on my AH page. And getting an Odin win would help me out in my quest to... ok, help me out in my fantasies of getting that Monk Mythic weapon. lol
I also did a bunch more reading up on Einherjar and Mythic weapons today.
The gist of what I've read for Einherjar: you need to come prepared (food, poison pots, eyedrops, whatever...); you should expect to wipe; when you DO wipe, die in a cluster; and apparently abjuration drops are pretty infrequent... like, so infrequent, I don't think any have dropped to HB in the past couple weeks. (then again, I have no real idea how often they have been doing these runs over the past few weeks...)
The gist of what I've read for Mythic weapons: they are like 10 times harder to get than relic weapons (already knew that tho); a lot of the weapons aren't really as good as they were expected to be (only a few jobs seem like it would really be worth the effort, and MNK is one of them); and the aftermath's don't work like people expected them to be.
The big problem with the aftermaths is that when it says "Aftermath: Increases Acc./Att. Occasionally attacks twice" what they actually mean is "Aftermath Level 1: Increases Acc. --- Aftermath Level 2: Increases Att. --- Aftermath Level 3: Occasoinally attacks twice". You can activate the various levels of aftermaths by doing the following:
1. build up at least 100% TP and WS - This activates level 1 AM.
2. build up at least 200% TP and WS - This activates level 2 AM.
3. build up 300% TP and WS - This activates level 3 AM.
So, basically the AM that they tell you isn't quite true; you need to build up to gaining the full AM. "But wait! There's MORE!" The AMs only last a certain amount of time. Level 1 lasts 60 seconds, level 2, 90 seconds and level 3 120 seconds. So, basically you only have a minute and a half to build up 300 TP oterhwise you're never getting that level 3 AM. "But wait! There's MORE!" On top of that, you also cannot "renew" level 2 or level 3, meaning that: say you have level 2 AM and you are about to time-out (85 seconds have passed) and only have 215% TP, you decide to WS before time runs out and before you hit 300% TP... you just get kicked back down to level 1 AM again. So, I guess if you plan on maximizing your AM, you really need to pay attention to the clock; you don't want to kick off level 3 too soon!
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