So my conspiracy theory is still in full-effect.
It's as if there are LS members, SE, Mother Nature and Byakko himself (yes, I'm counting him as a separate entity from both SE and Mother Nature) all are trying their hardest to prevent me from getting my Byakko's Haidate. {/sigh}
It's been about 4 or 5 weeks since I took first place in line for haidate and random shit keeps happening to prevent me from actually getting it. First there was people screwing up their jobs (or just Byakko deciding to not give me any love) which caused us to wipe to Byakko. Then came Christmas/New Years time where the LS decided to take a break for one week (and then I was out in Vegas the following week) so some people did a bunch of outside farming and overtook me. The week we come back, we do 5 Byakko's, 1 was a failure, and only 2 haidate drop which go to the guys who overtook me. And then there's this week where we only get 2 Byakko's done, which results in only 1 haidate to drop but it goes to a buyer. We still apparently have like 3 popsets out there somewhere but people keep leaving early, or not getting online a night that we plan on killing a Byakkko, or DCing because of the horrible weather lately (On a side-note: it is currently -9 degrees here in Cleveland, Ohio and yet it's 45 degrees in Anchorage, Alaska. Oh, and apparently they might hit record highs today in Los Angeles, California today too.)
...
Well, I now have like 230 LS points or something and the next person behind me that even MAY want haidate (cuz everyone else already has it) is like 80 points behind. So, now I KNOW I'm in the clear and noone is gonna overtake me in points. (Well, unless someone decides to be a dick about it and go buy 2 full Kirin popsets or something.) Yesterday I was actually considering something crazy. Like, if 2 or 3 people did not show up last night and I knew we were going to be doing a Kirin and then a Byakko, I would try to lot on both Osode and Haidate. Even after the 70 point drop from Osode, I'd STILL be in the lead for Haidate by a fair margin... but that's just crazy talk; I don't really wanna push my luck.
I just REALLY want my haidate. pleaseohpleaseohplease...
After that, Osode, Dryadic Abjurations, Aquarian Abjurations, etc... that's all just icing on the cake. And I should easily be able to pick all of that stuff up just cuz I'll be sticking around with this LS for a long time, strictly for the weekly cash payouts. This week we made over 8mil from sales and random gil drops. Altho this will probably be split among 25-30 people, it'll still be worth it in the long-run to have this constant flow of gil. Well, I'll be sticking around also cuz I kinda like helping out some of the n00bs; I feel like I'm finally giving back to make up for all the help that Treu, Disdain, Hybrid, etc... have given me over the past year and a half. Altho giving directions thru {sky} while trying to farm for water AND take attendance is kinda difficult. lol
Well, on a bright note: at least Treubond and Hybridkiller have been getting gear outta this LS. Apparently they have had HORRIBLE luck with their other sky LSs in the past. Treu managed to pick up a couple items this week (N Feet and D Head) and Hybrid got his Haidate and W Legs (which promptly became Blood Cuisses, rather than the typical Crimson Cuisses) within the past week or so.
Hopefully next week fortune will shine upon me and I'll be able to start pickin up my desired gear as well. ... And hell, I might even go BUY a damn Byakko popset or two if I have to! :D
Friday, January 16, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Powerthirst
Hey, do you wanna feel so MP-er-ific? Try Powerthirst. MP drinks for Taru who need gratuitous amounts of MP. With all new flavors like SHOCKOLATE! Chocolate MP, it’s like adding chocolate to an electrical storm. Sound the alarm, you’re gonna have uncomfortable amounts of MP.
What’s that? You want strawberry? Well how about RAWBERRY!? Made with lightning, REAL LIGHTNING! Summoning ( AHHHH! ). You’ll be good at it. It’s a magic drink for Taru. Taragic. These aren't your typical Galka puns, these are mana puns. Turbopuns.
Science, MP, science, MP, electrolyes, turbolytes, powerlytes, yagudo acolytes, more lights than your tiny legless body has room for. You’ll be so fast, mother nature will be like, "Sloooooowwww dooowwwwnn." And you'll be like, "Fuck you!" and kick her in the face with your W legs.
You'll have so much MP, MP ( AHHHH! ) just casting all the time. Power casting, power enfeebling, power enhancing, power sweeping, power dating, power eating, power laughing, power spawning babies. You’ll have so many babies! 400 babies!!!
Give Shockolate to your babies and they’ll be good at soloing RDM/PUP. Make your babies cast abnormally fast. They’ll cast as much as Niyah. People will watch them casting and think they’re Niyah. They’ll cast as fast as Niyah, in a party with other Taru, and it’ll be a tie, and they’ll get deported back to Winduuuurrrrrst.
Hey, go with the sure thing. Don’t gamble on your MP (snake eyes!). Try Powerthirst, the MP that will make you ( AHHHH! ) enhance ( AHHHH! ).
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
Monday, January 5, 2009
Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
Wondrous spectacles abound!
SEE: HellsBells (aaaaalllllllllmost) clear another Tier III Einherjar!
SEE: HellsBells completely clear Dynamis - Bastok!
SEE: HellsBells get 30 (yes, THIRTY!) AFv2 drops in a single run!
SEE: Everyone and their mother get BLM AFv2 Legs!
SEE: Hitler on ice! (Wait... that's from somewhere else....)
SEE: LolFail get back-to-back Dios... and then 3 more!
SEE: Khrone get no love... /cry
Yes, 'twas a spectacular evening to be back and gaming. For everyone else but me. Well, I guess I still got participation points for everything. /shrug
HellsBells - Einherjar:
Summary: Wing III - Brunhilde's Chamber went off fairly well. No major mishaps. But we just plain ran out of time at the end. We had the boss down to around 50% when our lamps wore. Another minute or two and we would have had it.
Optimist: A little more experience doing Einherjar runs. An extra LS participation point.
Pessimist: Didn't get the clear, which means I think we need to do this one again before we can do an Odin. (meh. I still need a Wing I and Wing II feather anyways.)
HellsBells - Dynamis:
Summary: Dynamis - Bastok was unlike any other dynamis run I have ever done. I honestly think we cleared the whole zone with about 30 seconds left before timing out.
Optimist: 30 AFv2, a 100 currency piece, and 16 ores dropped. Not too shabby. Notable drops: 7 BLM, 4 SAM, 4 THF. And I got an extra LS participation point. And several gil items too.
Pessimist: None of that AFv2 went to me. What was crazy was, plenty of the freedrops managed to go to the same 2 or 3 people all evening. I woulda liked some of the action on those 4 SAM hands or 2 MNK feet... but whateva.
LolFail - Sky:
Summary: Sky farming was apparently very successful. Supposedly we picked up 5 dios, 2 waters, and a bunch of season stones.
Optimist: More pop-items means more gods means more points and more likelihood I'll be getting my god-gear sooner. And I got a bunch of LS participation points. (a few of us did some outside farming afterwards.)
Pessimist: While I was away on vacation (spent several days around New Years Eve in Las Vegas) a couple people overtook me and I am no longer in 1st place for Byakko's Haidate. As a a matter of fact, I'm down to 5th in line now. /sigh
SEE: Khrone put the barrel of a gun in his mouth....
SEE: HellsBells (aaaaalllllllllmost) clear another Tier III Einherjar!
SEE: HellsBells completely clear Dynamis - Bastok!
SEE: HellsBells get 30 (yes, THIRTY!) AFv2 drops in a single run!
SEE: Everyone and their mother get BLM AFv2 Legs!
SEE: Hitler on ice! (Wait... that's from somewhere else....)
SEE: LolFail get back-to-back Dios... and then 3 more!
SEE: Khrone get no love... /cry
Yes, 'twas a spectacular evening to be back and gaming. For everyone else but me. Well, I guess I still got participation points for everything. /shrug
HellsBells - Einherjar:
Summary: Wing III - Brunhilde's Chamber went off fairly well. No major mishaps. But we just plain ran out of time at the end. We had the boss down to around 50% when our lamps wore. Another minute or two and we would have had it.
Optimist: A little more experience doing Einherjar runs. An extra LS participation point.
Pessimist: Didn't get the clear, which means I think we need to do this one again before we can do an Odin. (meh. I still need a Wing I and Wing II feather anyways.)
HellsBells - Dynamis:
Summary: Dynamis - Bastok was unlike any other dynamis run I have ever done. I honestly think we cleared the whole zone with about 30 seconds left before timing out.
Optimist: 30 AFv2, a 100 currency piece, and 16 ores dropped. Not too shabby. Notable drops: 7 BLM, 4 SAM, 4 THF. And I got an extra LS participation point. And several gil items too.
Pessimist: None of that AFv2 went to me. What was crazy was, plenty of the freedrops managed to go to the same 2 or 3 people all evening. I woulda liked some of the action on those 4 SAM hands or 2 MNK feet... but whateva.
LolFail - Sky:
Summary: Sky farming was apparently very successful. Supposedly we picked up 5 dios, 2 waters, and a bunch of season stones.
Optimist: More pop-items means more gods means more points and more likelihood I'll be getting my god-gear sooner. And I got a bunch of LS participation points. (a few of us did some outside farming afterwards.)
Pessimist: While I was away on vacation (spent several days around New Years Eve in Las Vegas) a couple people overtook me and I am no longer in 1st place for Byakko's Haidate. As a a matter of fact, I'm down to 5th in line now. /sigh
SEE: Khrone put the barrel of a gun in his mouth....
Monday, December 22, 2008
The first thing at Christmas that's such a pain to me...
is fin-ding a freak-ing par-ty.
...
Some kind of exciting stuff for me goin on lately. First up, was setting up Ventrilo (server and client) on my desktop. I haven't tested out the server yet, but it seems simple enough to get running. I've connected to Treu's server, but unfortunately we couldn't really test anything out because neither of us have a microphone. lol I DID use it with HellsBells at an event on Sunday; again, no mic, but it was still helpful to be able to hear ppl talk about what the game plan was and not have to wait to read what they typed 2 minutes after they wanted to get something done.
What I actually did with HellsBells on Sunday was NOT our normal Dynamis run. I went with them on my first Einherjar run. (Wing III: Gerhilde's Chamber) As most runs with these guys, it seemed like a cake-walk and we cleared it with 7 minutes to spare and 0 deaths. Well, 0 deaths for ME; I think a couple people may have died once or twice, but nothing major. I definitely plan on doing more Einherjar with these guys. Not that I really want/need any of the drops from here; I'd just like to experience something different for a bit and also get that Odin clear just to show off the Title in my AH page. lol
In other news, I finally got my DNC up to 30 using xp scrolls. only 7 more levels til I'm done with getting it up to full subjob status! Woo hoo! Another SJ will soon be out of the way!
Last night I got up to sky a little early for our normal farming... and then realize that pretty much noone else was planning on coming up. We had 4 or 5 DDs show up but no mages, so we weren't daring enough to head down to farm some waters or anything. A couple of us ended up just killing some Flamingos for like an hour or so, which at least capped-out my buffer again (so it's not like it was completely worthless).
While we were up there, I was also trying to compare my damage on my Destroyers with Larva's damage. For the most-part, it looked like I was doing just as much damage as he was so I think my Destroyers are finally broken... but I honestly don't know how to actually confirm that. Oh well. I'll still hold on to those Indra Katars for a little bit more in case the Destroyers aren't broken yet by the time we do our next gods... but whateva.
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Some kind of exciting stuff for me goin on lately. First up, was setting up Ventrilo (server and client) on my desktop. I haven't tested out the server yet, but it seems simple enough to get running. I've connected to Treu's server, but unfortunately we couldn't really test anything out because neither of us have a microphone. lol I DID use it with HellsBells at an event on Sunday; again, no mic, but it was still helpful to be able to hear ppl talk about what the game plan was and not have to wait to read what they typed 2 minutes after they wanted to get something done.
What I actually did with HellsBells on Sunday was NOT our normal Dynamis run. I went with them on my first Einherjar run. (Wing III: Gerhilde's Chamber) As most runs with these guys, it seemed like a cake-walk and we cleared it with 7 minutes to spare and 0 deaths. Well, 0 deaths for ME; I think a couple people may have died once or twice, but nothing major. I definitely plan on doing more Einherjar with these guys. Not that I really want/need any of the drops from here; I'd just like to experience something different for a bit and also get that Odin clear just to show off the Title in my AH page. lol
In other news, I finally got my DNC up to 30 using xp scrolls. only 7 more levels til I'm done with getting it up to full subjob status! Woo hoo! Another SJ will soon be out of the way!
Last night I got up to sky a little early for our normal farming... and then realize that pretty much noone else was planning on coming up. We had 4 or 5 DDs show up but no mages, so we weren't daring enough to head down to farm some waters or anything. A couple of us ended up just killing some Flamingos for like an hour or so, which at least capped-out my buffer again (so it's not like it was completely worthless).
While we were up there, I was also trying to compare my damage on my Destroyers with Larva's damage. For the most-part, it looked like I was doing just as much damage as he was so I think my Destroyers are finally broken... but I honestly don't know how to actually confirm that. Oh well. I'll still hold on to those Indra Katars for a little bit more in case the Destroyers aren't broken yet by the time we do our next gods... but whateva.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Holy priceless collection of Etruscan snoods!
ok, so the title of this post really doesn't have anything to do with anything IN the post, but it's late and I really couldn't come-up-with/find a quote that explained my surprise for the happenings of this evening.
I guess I could have just used a non-quote and gone with something like "Man, Treu's gonna be pissed that his gf kept him from gaming tonight." (well, actually that IS a quote... from me... said in LS chat earlier tonight. lol)
So, I get up to {sky} around 7:00 tonight and just kinda camp out at Despot while I take a nap. (Figured I might as well get up to sky early and not have to worry about rushing up there at 9:50... and might as well camp out the ToD for Despot too.) So I get the ToD... yay. Everthough we didn't go after him tonight.
Well, it's REALLY late and just to make a long story short, we beat Olla, Suzaku, Mother Globe, Kirin, Seiryu, Genbu, Byakko, Byakko again, and then Kirin again. Yeah, so if you're keeping track of points... that's 15 points. So anyone that shoed up on time tonight and stayed til the end... got their 15 points they need to take a slice of our LS payout for the week. :-P heh, whatever. I'm just glad we had the ppl to DO all of these gods tonight.
We got a Haidate from the 1st Byakko we did, which was sold to Cyrel for 4,948,000 gil (woo hoo!) When it came time to do the 2nd Byakko, Drayco said he'd pass for now... and Niyah wasn't there... and Xzavier wasn't there... so... um.. wth?... are you f-ing serious?! ... no.. quit toying with me... SERiOusLY?! _I'M_ up for the next Haidate?!?!?!?! (/em pees himself with joy.) So, we start taking out Byakko again and everything's running smoothly... and then the unexpected happens: one of the monks we have swapping in-and-out of the alliance to Boost and Chi Blast ends up pulling hate, and so when he drops from the pt, noone else can attack. :-P This somehow just screwed EVERYTHING up and we practically wipe. (at this point I'm having flashbacks of this exact thing happening to Treu when it was his turn for Haidate. lol) Well, this time, we actually recovered... but still no Haidate for Khrone. oh wellz. At least we still got the kill and a couple other drops.
Well, we ran from 10:00pm til 4:15am so... it's time for some sleep for me. Damn, i'm glad i got that nap in for a couple hours earlier tonight; i have to be awake in like 1.5 hours. XD
I guess I could have just used a non-quote and gone with something like "Man, Treu's gonna be pissed that his gf kept him from gaming tonight." (well, actually that IS a quote... from me... said in LS chat earlier tonight. lol)
So, I get up to {sky} around 7:00 tonight and just kinda camp out at Despot while I take a nap. (Figured I might as well get up to sky early and not have to worry about rushing up there at 9:50... and might as well camp out the ToD for Despot too.) So I get the ToD... yay. Everthough we didn't go after him tonight.
Well, it's REALLY late and just to make a long story short, we beat Olla, Suzaku, Mother Globe, Kirin, Seiryu, Genbu, Byakko, Byakko again, and then Kirin again. Yeah, so if you're keeping track of points... that's 15 points. So anyone that shoed up on time tonight and stayed til the end... got their 15 points they need to take a slice of our LS payout for the week. :-P heh, whatever. I'm just glad we had the ppl to DO all of these gods tonight.
We got a Haidate from the 1st Byakko we did, which was sold to Cyrel for 4,948,000 gil (woo hoo!) When it came time to do the 2nd Byakko, Drayco said he'd pass for now... and Niyah wasn't there... and Xzavier wasn't there... so... um.. wth?... are you f-ing serious?! ... no.. quit toying with me... SERiOusLY?! _I'M_ up for the next Haidate?!?!?!?! (/em pees himself with joy.) So, we start taking out Byakko again and everything's running smoothly... and then the unexpected happens: one of the monks we have swapping in-and-out of the alliance to Boost and Chi Blast ends up pulling hate, and so when he drops from the pt, noone else can attack. :-P This somehow just screwed EVERYTHING up and we practically wipe. (at this point I'm having flashbacks of this exact thing happening to Treu when it was his turn for Haidate. lol) Well, this time, we actually recovered... but still no Haidate for Khrone. oh wellz. At least we still got the kill and a couple other drops.
Well, we ran from 10:00pm til 4:15am so... it's time for some sleep for me. Damn, i'm glad i got that nap in for a couple hours earlier tonight; i have to be awake in like 1.5 hours. XD
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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