To start off, I got my WHM up to 57. I now have Raise 2, Reraise 2, and Shellra 3, which puts me at all the spells I need until 61. Well, there are the 3 recall spells at 57 but as I don't even have the crystals for those I don't really see a point in getting them. It was nice to be able to level my WHM with Disdain too because I haven't gotten to hang out with him in a while in game. The party I had with him was pretty sweet and required very little work by myself including not having to PL which is always splendid.
Being over 50 always means AF though. I must admit the WHM AF so far has been pretty easy because of some friends helping me out. Vaniel's friend needed some help with a ZM fight so I went out and dual boxed 2 fights to help him out and then he came to help me out with my AF body fight. The fight ended up being pretty easy considering it was tough dualboxing on my PS3 and my PC (waaaaaaaaay easier with the laptop + desktop). So now all I have to do to finish my WHM AF is go beat Dark Spark and turn in the flame. I even have my char all set up to just OP out to Xarc and do it so I can cross off another AF set from my list.
I guess I should mention I got dicked out of Byakko's Haidate for Screamin by 1 point. Now I'm probably going to have to wait another week or so before I can get it. At least I should almost definitely get it this coming week, or maybe even tonight if I'm super lucky. Then last night I couldn't go to Dynamis and missed out on Duelist's Tabard. This has been one CRAPPY week for me. Hopefully next week turns out better... Ugh, and I just realized this week isn't even over yet.......................................................
Quote of the Day:
Frau Blücher: I am Frau Blücher. [horses whinny]
- Young Frankenstein
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Clericfication
You'll understand the title in a second. I so funny, I make myself laugh.
Cleric: I leveled my WHM last night. Only got 1 level on it but hey, a level is a level and it brings me ever so slightly closer to my eventual goal.
Clericfication: My blog entry today about leveling WHM and a clarification about yesterday's post. SEE!!! HILARIOUS!!! Yeah...
Anyways, about yesterday's post. Yes, I have my Haidate, but Screamin doesn't. You know what its like to try to get sky items for 2 chars??? I hate sky as it is now because it is soooooooo annoying and I've been doing is for soooooooooo long. I literally have everything I could want for Treubond because I never plan on leveling PLD and the ONLY piece that I don't have from sky right now is M Head. Why would I take PLD to 75 when I already have a very well geared PLD at 75? The big reason I want to get Haidate is because whenever I use Screamin as a DD I throw him on MNK and that is really the last piece he is missing, besides a Black Belt of course. Once I get Haidate for Screamin that would be W Legs and Haidate that I've gotten for him which is MORE than one person should ever have to endure in sky. lol
I am kinda excited to be done with sky, its something nice to look forward to. :-) Then I can concentrate on leveling and having fun and not having to worry about going to sky EVERY friggin night. It is really starting to burn me out again. Sky is taking me to the point where I don't really want to do end game for a while again. Dynamis I can handle because I barely make half the runs as it is. Now that summer is rolling around now I will have troubles making it to Wednesdays AT ALL let alone late because of Volleyball. Bleh, I'm just not meant to get stuff from dynamis...
Maybe I just need to find a nice limbus shell that I can make it to all the time so I don't have to worry about anything else. Ugh, this has always been my problem with end game, time consumption. It puts such a strain on my RL that I don't have time to do everything that I want to in game and out of it. Ok, this isn't going anywhere so I'm just gonna stop whining. Peace...
Quote of the Day:
This forest is for me, so quiet, green and free.
Ju-hey ju-hey ju-hey ju-hey, so quiet, green and free.
- don't ask... me saying "soooooooo" in my blog put this song right back into my head
Cleric: I leveled my WHM last night. Only got 1 level on it but hey, a level is a level and it brings me ever so slightly closer to my eventual goal.
Clericfication: My blog entry today about leveling WHM and a clarification about yesterday's post. SEE!!! HILARIOUS!!! Yeah...
Anyways, about yesterday's post. Yes, I have my Haidate, but Screamin doesn't. You know what its like to try to get sky items for 2 chars??? I hate sky as it is now because it is soooooooo annoying and I've been doing is for soooooooooo long. I literally have everything I could want for Treubond because I never plan on leveling PLD and the ONLY piece that I don't have from sky right now is M Head. Why would I take PLD to 75 when I already have a very well geared PLD at 75? The big reason I want to get Haidate is because whenever I use Screamin as a DD I throw him on MNK and that is really the last piece he is missing, besides a Black Belt of course. Once I get Haidate for Screamin that would be W Legs and Haidate that I've gotten for him which is MORE than one person should ever have to endure in sky. lol
I am kinda excited to be done with sky, its something nice to look forward to. :-) Then I can concentrate on leveling and having fun and not having to worry about going to sky EVERY friggin night. It is really starting to burn me out again. Sky is taking me to the point where I don't really want to do end game for a while again. Dynamis I can handle because I barely make half the runs as it is. Now that summer is rolling around now I will have troubles making it to Wednesdays AT ALL let alone late because of Volleyball. Bleh, I'm just not meant to get stuff from dynamis...
Maybe I just need to find a nice limbus shell that I can make it to all the time so I don't have to worry about anything else. Ugh, this has always been my problem with end game, time consumption. It puts such a strain on my RL that I don't have time to do everything that I want to in game and out of it. Ok, this isn't going anywhere so I'm just gonna stop whining. Peace...
Quote of the Day:
This forest is for me, so quiet, green and free.
Ju-hey ju-hey ju-hey ju-hey, so quiet, green and free.
- don't ask... me saying "soooooooo" in my blog put this song right back into my head
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
My First ZNMs
I would like to start this off by saying that I have still never taken a picture for Zeni nor do I even know how to get the camera or the plates to take pictures with. That being said, I have had some good luck in the past 2 days with ZNMs.
Monday I was really sore from sun burn, so bad that it has woken me up about 7 times over the past 3 nights. With the sun burn making me so uncomfortable I figured sitting at work would just make things worse and stress me out, so the obvious decision was to stay home ... and game. I slept all morning, which felt fantastic by the way, and then I tried getting online in the afternoon and maybe exping WHM. Sadly it took about 4 hours before I finally got my internet to let me log in to FFXI and then when I logged on Mac told me he was doing some ZNMs. I figured what the heck, I don't have anything else to do so I'd go. We ended up doing about 4 pops of the Iriz Ima (Marid type mob) which drops Avocat Pigaches. At the end of it all, we got Mac his pair that he needed and a pair for myself. FYI Avocat Pigaches are Enfeebling Magic +3 which are amazing for my RDM and BLM now. :D
Then yesterday I was hoping to get some Sea NMs done with Mac but when we geared up and got ready to go there was a group doing the Ix DRK so he said he was gonna go pop Chigre instead. Again I figured I would go and take a shot at the MACC+2 ring. I also wanted to see how some of these mobs are done so I could potentially make some gil off of them later on or even just kill them for friends that would want items from these later on. On the last try the MACC+2 ring dropped and I guess everyone already had it except me so I got that. :D I haven't even had a chance to redo my macros yet because I had to run up to sky.
Some other good news that is sky related, I'm next for Haidate, and I don't mean next in line for the LS, I mean I am next and don't have to wait for a buyer. Once I get a Byakko's Haidate for Screamin I'm definitely taking a break from sky, my health is really suffering right now. I haven't been sleeping well enough or long enough and it is really starting to bring me down. Now they also have the possibility of double payout which means a bigger slice of the pie if you hit over 75% attendance for the week. It is actually a good idea I think because it is an incentive for people to come more often that don't really need items anymore. An idea that actually keeps the older members with tons of points around and continues to allow people with less points to still get a payout but still save points for items.
Anyways, I better be getting the Haidate tomorrow night or I'm gonna freak out. Then I can relax some and take a nice long break from sky and work on WHM at my leisure. Ok, I'm starting to repeat myself so I'll just peace out.
Quote of the Day:
Sissy!!!
- a girl I've known all my life called me that for taking a day off of work because of my sun burn ; ;
Monday I was really sore from sun burn, so bad that it has woken me up about 7 times over the past 3 nights. With the sun burn making me so uncomfortable I figured sitting at work would just make things worse and stress me out, so the obvious decision was to stay home ... and game. I slept all morning, which felt fantastic by the way, and then I tried getting online in the afternoon and maybe exping WHM. Sadly it took about 4 hours before I finally got my internet to let me log in to FFXI and then when I logged on Mac told me he was doing some ZNMs. I figured what the heck, I don't have anything else to do so I'd go. We ended up doing about 4 pops of the Iriz Ima (Marid type mob) which drops Avocat Pigaches. At the end of it all, we got Mac his pair that he needed and a pair for myself. FYI Avocat Pigaches are Enfeebling Magic +3 which are amazing for my RDM and BLM now. :D
Then yesterday I was hoping to get some Sea NMs done with Mac but when we geared up and got ready to go there was a group doing the Ix DRK so he said he was gonna go pop Chigre instead. Again I figured I would go and take a shot at the MACC+2 ring. I also wanted to see how some of these mobs are done so I could potentially make some gil off of them later on or even just kill them for friends that would want items from these later on. On the last try the MACC+2 ring dropped and I guess everyone already had it except me so I got that. :D I haven't even had a chance to redo my macros yet because I had to run up to sky.
Some other good news that is sky related, I'm next for Haidate, and I don't mean next in line for the LS, I mean I am next and don't have to wait for a buyer. Once I get a Byakko's Haidate for Screamin I'm definitely taking a break from sky, my health is really suffering right now. I haven't been sleeping well enough or long enough and it is really starting to bring me down. Now they also have the possibility of double payout which means a bigger slice of the pie if you hit over 75% attendance for the week. It is actually a good idea I think because it is an incentive for people to come more often that don't really need items anymore. An idea that actually keeps the older members with tons of points around and continues to allow people with less points to still get a payout but still save points for items.
Anyways, I better be getting the Haidate tomorrow night or I'm gonna freak out. Then I can relax some and take a nice long break from sky and work on WHM at my leisure. Ok, I'm starting to repeat myself so I'll just peace out.
Quote of the Day:
Sissy!!!
- a girl I've known all my life called me that for taking a day off of work because of my sun burn ; ;
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Karma
After one purely crappy day at work yesterday I had a pretty bad experience getting online. I got a party on WHM that was total trash but did net me 1 level on WHM. To prove what kind of trash this party was I was meleeing on WHM and at times was pulling hate ... SERIOUSLY PEOPLE?!?!?!
Once I decided to leave that party someone died almost immediately from stupidity which I got a chuckle out of. Then I was hoping to go farm some Sea capes with Mac, but he ended up spending the whole time doing BCNMs with Sush and Veng. So I decided to head up to whitegate and search for some shouts. Mind you this had been a totally crappy day and they only thing holding me afloat at this time was playing Secret of Mana on my Wii, which I honestly must say I'm having a lot of fun playing even though it is a relatively easy game, thus far. But I digress... Sitting in Whitegate is oh so fun especially seeing crappy shouts. Alas, I find a shout that I could be interested in, a floor 60 Nyzul Isle shout. I figure what they heck, I've got nothin better to do. Join the party and everyone puts up their search comments and this was the result: 5xAskar and me for Goliard. Needless to say I liked my odds of getting those cuffs. Not gonna lie, we were getting pretty screwed on our way up through the floors and then hit the boss and its Khimara, my least favorite boss. Once we put him down I nearly had a heartattack ... Goliard Cuffs dropped!!!!!1111ONEONEONE Yes, now I have 2 pieces of Nyzul Isle gear and both of them came from runs with Daunte. There was just one draw back, I had to change my RDM macros again from what I had just changed them to. The plus side though is that I have a new nuking and enfeebling piece for RDM and I believe BLM too and Morrigan Cuffs are no longer a high priority item for me. :D
Right about there is where kicked off again because it was a super slow night up in Sky. Sat around for maybe 2 full hours not doing anything in sky through out the night, but I did get to play some more Secret of Mana. lol At one point I got sick of waiting for instructions from the leaders so I started telling people what to do and pulling mobs and prepping for Ulli and such ... fun stuff. Oh, and they want to change the rules again for upping payout cost to 40 and making Sky mandatory so turning this into a all-or-nothing sky shell and I have a feeling there will be quite a few of us that will be peacing out at that point. I just can't take the drama or the lack of efficiency anymore, and its really starting to effect my work work. So when they do a big change in points I will be doing a big change in LSs as well and finding myself a new home to make some friends or just hang by myself and get stuff done that I want to. Anyways, the stress is piling up from this LS and I really shouldn't bother with it anymore because its literally not worth my health to fight it.
Quote of the Day:
We need to talk about your time schedule and specifically when you come in to work.
- my boss to me this morning because I came in a lot later than I should've ... AGAIN
Once I decided to leave that party someone died almost immediately from stupidity which I got a chuckle out of. Then I was hoping to go farm some Sea capes with Mac, but he ended up spending the whole time doing BCNMs with Sush and Veng. So I decided to head up to whitegate and search for some shouts. Mind you this had been a totally crappy day and they only thing holding me afloat at this time was playing Secret of Mana on my Wii, which I honestly must say I'm having a lot of fun playing even though it is a relatively easy game, thus far. But I digress... Sitting in Whitegate is oh so fun especially seeing crappy shouts. Alas, I find a shout that I could be interested in, a floor 60 Nyzul Isle shout. I figure what they heck, I've got nothin better to do. Join the party and everyone puts up their search comments and this was the result: 5xAskar and me for Goliard. Needless to say I liked my odds of getting those cuffs. Not gonna lie, we were getting pretty screwed on our way up through the floors and then hit the boss and its Khimara, my least favorite boss. Once we put him down I nearly had a heartattack ... Goliard Cuffs dropped!!!!!1111ONEONEONE Yes, now I have 2 pieces of Nyzul Isle gear and both of them came from runs with Daunte. There was just one draw back, I had to change my RDM macros again from what I had just changed them to. The plus side though is that I have a new nuking and enfeebling piece for RDM and I believe BLM too and Morrigan Cuffs are no longer a high priority item for me. :D
Right about there is where kicked off again because it was a super slow night up in Sky. Sat around for maybe 2 full hours not doing anything in sky through out the night, but I did get to play some more Secret of Mana. lol At one point I got sick of waiting for instructions from the leaders so I started telling people what to do and pulling mobs and prepping for Ulli and such ... fun stuff. Oh, and they want to change the rules again for upping payout cost to 40 and making Sky mandatory so turning this into a all-or-nothing sky shell and I have a feeling there will be quite a few of us that will be peacing out at that point. I just can't take the drama or the lack of efficiency anymore, and its really starting to effect my work work. So when they do a big change in points I will be doing a big change in LSs as well and finding myself a new home to make some friends or just hang by myself and get stuff done that I want to. Anyways, the stress is piling up from this LS and I really shouldn't bother with it anymore because its literally not worth my health to fight it.
Quote of the Day:
We need to talk about your time schedule and specifically when you come in to work.
- my boss to me this morning because I came in a lot later than I should've ... AGAIN
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
DARKwing Duck
DRK is done! It was very painful towards the end because I just couldn't get a good party to save my life. I ended up making a few parties with Disdain to finish myself off and get his DNC to 51 or 52. We did pretty well considering I was dual box tanking the one party with Screamin on PLD and me on DRK. But hey, I'm done with DRK and I can sell off some of this expensive gear ... w00t!
Now my big issue is with what job next. I want to do WHM next because I know it'll be kind of painful and I need to get a painful job out of the way. The biggest issue right now is I have no clue how hard it will be to find parties on WHM. I am hoping that it will be pretty easy because the 3 big problems while leveling are always finding a tank, a healer, and HOPEFULLY a refresher. But I'm banking on the fact that I will be in the minority of people leveling a healing job so I can get quit and good invites to parties. Here's to hoping!
So here come some more update in sky rules ... fun! They say they are changing the rules and possibly booting people because of bad attendance. The only thing is that I could be one of those fun fun people that get booted because I only show enough for payout because I don't NEED anything else in sky except stuff for Screamin which I'm not going to kill myself over. I am kind of getting fed up with people changing the rules before thinking it through and asking the LS before just changing it. To a certain extent I'm hoping they boot me because then I can just completely concentrate on stuff I wanna do instead of sky, like exping jobs like a slave again.
I also have an open invite to Exion's Salvage LS because they need a RDM but the problem right now is that I can't make the Wednesday runs because of Dynamis with HellsBells. If Shortbus did more (or ANY) icelands Dynamis I wouldn't worry about HellsBells anymore but since they don't I'm still gonna stick with HB. It feels like I'm trapped again because I want to do all this extra stuff but I'm so stuck with everything. Dynamis, Salvage, and Sky are all crossing over and I can't decide my priorities, even though obviously Sky is at the bottom of that list. Bah, I need something to go well right now so I can settle down and get a set schedule of events I want to do and need to do to get myself where I want to be in game.
Quote of the Day:
I ain't quitting when my gf graduates. I may cut back on time but she won't make me quit.
- me of course
Now my big issue is with what job next. I want to do WHM next because I know it'll be kind of painful and I need to get a painful job out of the way. The biggest issue right now is I have no clue how hard it will be to find parties on WHM. I am hoping that it will be pretty easy because the 3 big problems while leveling are always finding a tank, a healer, and HOPEFULLY a refresher. But I'm banking on the fact that I will be in the minority of people leveling a healing job so I can get quit and good invites to parties. Here's to hoping!
So here come some more update in sky rules ... fun! They say they are changing the rules and possibly booting people because of bad attendance. The only thing is that I could be one of those fun fun people that get booted because I only show enough for payout because I don't NEED anything else in sky except stuff for Screamin which I'm not going to kill myself over. I am kind of getting fed up with people changing the rules before thinking it through and asking the LS before just changing it. To a certain extent I'm hoping they boot me because then I can just completely concentrate on stuff I wanna do instead of sky, like exping jobs like a slave again.
I also have an open invite to Exion's Salvage LS because they need a RDM but the problem right now is that I can't make the Wednesday runs because of Dynamis with HellsBells. If Shortbus did more (or ANY) icelands Dynamis I wouldn't worry about HellsBells anymore but since they don't I'm still gonna stick with HB. It feels like I'm trapped again because I want to do all this extra stuff but I'm so stuck with everything. Dynamis, Salvage, and Sky are all crossing over and I can't decide my priorities, even though obviously Sky is at the bottom of that list. Bah, I need something to go well right now so I can settle down and get a set schedule of events I want to do and need to do to get myself where I want to be in game.
Quote of the Day:
I ain't quitting when my gf graduates. I may cut back on time but she won't make me quit.
- me of course
Thursday, April 9, 2009
It Is Official
This was a trashy update.
- The new NMs from FoV are for the augments, of the about 30 augments I've heard about only 1 was even decent, but yet it is totally random what you get.
- WHM updates still have potential to be the best thing in this update.
- Salvage updates I won't know about until I experience them, but just hearing about Mad Bomber makes me happy.
- RDM .... junk.
- SMN, haven't heard anything about yet, but doubt it'll be that good.
- Campaign updates, fortification fight for 15 minutes netted 28xp... TOTAL WASTE OF TIME! (glad it wasn't me that did this)
- Gobbiebags 9 and 10 are probably around 300k each, sounds like I'll be waiting for the prices to come down...
That's it really from this update, and nothing is all that grand. Oh yeah, I guess they broke a bunch of PUP stuff and then also some of the new add-on missions are screwing up too. Great testing there SE, way to make sure your product is good before throwing it out there.
On a side note, I ordered the Mog Satchel last night ... I mean the Security Token and I registered for my SE account today. So I'm all set up and ready to rumble with 70 new inventory spots as soon as I can register the token. :D
Quote of the Day:
Leave me alone people!
- me today because I have been super busy all day answering people's questions and fixing their scripts
- The new NMs from FoV are for the augments, of the about 30 augments I've heard about only 1 was even decent, but yet it is totally random what you get.
- WHM updates still have potential to be the best thing in this update.
- Salvage updates I won't know about until I experience them, but just hearing about Mad Bomber makes me happy.
- RDM .... junk.
- SMN, haven't heard anything about yet, but doubt it'll be that good.
- Campaign updates, fortification fight for 15 minutes netted 28xp... TOTAL WASTE OF TIME! (glad it wasn't me that did this)
- Gobbiebags 9 and 10 are probably around 300k each, sounds like I'll be waiting for the prices to come down...
That's it really from this update, and nothing is all that grand. Oh yeah, I guess they broke a bunch of PUP stuff and then also some of the new add-on missions are screwing up too. Great testing there SE, way to make sure your product is good before throwing it out there.
On a side note, I ordered the Mog Satchel last night ... I mean the Security Token and I registered for my SE account today. So I'm all set up and ready to rumble with 70 new inventory spots as soon as I can register the token. :D
Quote of the Day:
Leave me alone people!
- me today because I have been super busy all day answering people's questions and fixing their scripts
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Under 2M Exp To Go
A few things I want to get out before I go into the update notes. I got 64 DRK and I'm now under 2M exp until Maat's Cap. That sounds like a TON of exp, which it is, but its not too bad. That's only like 200 hours of exp at an average of 10k/hr. So if I get some uber exp parties that is like 100 hours of exp... ugh. Realistically speaking I'm probably looking at about 150-175 hours of actually exping before I can even start beating Maat on all of these jobs. If I put in 3 hours of exp every day for the next 58.3 days I would be able to start smacking Maat down. Man, this hat better be sooooooooooo worth it.
On to the Update:
- New missions, but doesn't sound like you get anything yet ... yay....
- MMM updates, could be some cool new gear, but I doubt it'll be anything worth spending all that time figuring MMM out to actually get.
- FoV update, more zones, again, not all that amazing because they still won't have it in the zones that I would be leveling in so nothing for me.
- FoV update, new NMs fought by using your points, has potential.
- New NM Campaign mobs, sounds cool and finally something else to do with my Allied Notes.
- Salvage: Mad Bomber always pops now (w00t), SSR should have more drops now from certain NMs (w00t).
- WHM abilities, looks like WHM is actually useful again and now I need to level it!
- RDM abilities, what a waste .... serioiusly, this was a waste of development time.
- SMN update, maybe the group 2 merits won't be junk now!
- New weapons and armor ... yay? Have to wait on this one...
- Augmented items, again have to wait and hear about this but sounds like it could be awesome.
- Gobbiebags 9 and 10, HAZZAH!!!!
- Mannequin storage upgrade, now I can trash like 3 bahuts because they just upped my mannequin's storage by 21 spots.... w .... t .... f .....
- Delkfutt Key is now a key item instead of a key, this only took like 5 years to figure out >.>
- You can now get your seals back from the storage guy ... I don't see a purpose in this considering you can't trade or sell them and you can ONLY give them to that guy. Maybe there is a point for this in a future update?
- Mog Satchel if you buy the token which I plan to, inventory +70-80 AWEEEESOME!!!!
- Add-On, again you need to purchase but it sounds like there are more rewards in these add-ons then just those 3 body pieces ... bonus!
All in all, not so much to look forward to in this update unless you are spending an extra $20 for the satchel ... I mean the security token and the "add-on" expansion. A couple more possibilities for NM fights are cool but it all depends on what they drop to see if they are even worthwhile to waste my time on.
FYI: just saw all the items that have been released with this update ... a whole bunch of junk. Good job SE!
Quote of the Day:
Did you sleep well? I did; I'm 12 hours closer to death! Now, let me waste even more time by talking to you about my childhood. The Romulans cloned you to create me, then stuck me in the dilithium mines and abused me for years. This is why I now seek to bring glory to the Romulan Empire by ... Sweet Mother of God, I can't believe I'm in this shitty movie. I need a new agent.
- http://www.stardestroyer.net/Nemesis/Pictorial-1.html if you've ever watched Star Trek Nemesis you will think this summary is HILARIOUS, and if you haven't, you will still think this is HILARIOUS!!! lol
On to the Update:
- New missions, but doesn't sound like you get anything yet ... yay....
- MMM updates, could be some cool new gear, but I doubt it'll be anything worth spending all that time figuring MMM out to actually get.
- FoV update, more zones, again, not all that amazing because they still won't have it in the zones that I would be leveling in so nothing for me.
- FoV update, new NMs fought by using your points, has potential.
- New NM Campaign mobs, sounds cool and finally something else to do with my Allied Notes.
- Salvage: Mad Bomber always pops now (w00t), SSR should have more drops now from certain NMs (w00t).
- WHM abilities, looks like WHM is actually useful again and now I need to level it!
- RDM abilities, what a waste .... serioiusly, this was a waste of development time.
- SMN update, maybe the group 2 merits won't be junk now!
- New weapons and armor ... yay? Have to wait on this one...
- Augmented items, again have to wait and hear about this but sounds like it could be awesome.
- Gobbiebags 9 and 10, HAZZAH!!!!
- Mannequin storage upgrade, now I can trash like 3 bahuts because they just upped my mannequin's storage by 21 spots.... w .... t .... f .....
- Delkfutt Key is now a key item instead of a key, this only took like 5 years to figure out >.>
- You can now get your seals back from the storage guy ... I don't see a purpose in this considering you can't trade or sell them and you can ONLY give them to that guy. Maybe there is a point for this in a future update?
- Mog Satchel if you buy the token which I plan to, inventory +70-80 AWEEEESOME!!!!
- Add-On, again you need to purchase but it sounds like there are more rewards in these add-ons then just those 3 body pieces ... bonus!
All in all, not so much to look forward to in this update unless you are spending an extra $20 for the satchel ... I mean the security token and the "add-on" expansion. A couple more possibilities for NM fights are cool but it all depends on what they drop to see if they are even worthwhile to waste my time on.
FYI: just saw all the items that have been released with this update ... a whole bunch of junk. Good job SE!
Quote of the Day:
Did you sleep well? I did; I'm 12 hours closer to death! Now, let me waste even more time by talking to you about my childhood. The Romulans cloned you to create me, then stuck me in the dilithium mines and abused me for years. This is why I now seek to bring glory to the Romulan Empire by ... Sweet Mother of God, I can't believe I'm in this shitty movie. I need a new agent.
- http://www.stardestroyer.net/Nemesis/Pictorial-1.html if you've ever watched Star Trek Nemesis you will think this summary is HILARIOUS, and if you haven't, you will still think this is HILARIOUS!!! lol
Friday, April 3, 2009
Thoughts on RDM
This post is going to be strictly on RDM and my thoughts about how I should gear it and how I have it geared.
I'll start with MND spells (Paralyze, Slow, Stoneskin, and possibly Silence):
As of now I have no MND macro'd in to anything except stoneskin. The only reason I macro in MND for stoneskin is because I wanted to hit the cap on how much damage stoneskin absorbs. As for the other spells I really need to rethink my macros since MND really plays a big role in paralyze and slow, but I'm not so sure how much in silence. Right now I don't have any sort of enfeebling magic skill+ head piece so I should definitely be macroing in my Yigit Turban for MND+5, and not to mention the Yigit Gages for an extra MND+5. As of right now my macros need an overhaul since there is so much I am lacking. I mean for my back, waist, hands, feet, rings, earrings, head, and legs I still just use MP+ gear instead of any sort of MND build. Here is what my macros should be looking like:
Staff: Elemental Staff
Head: Yigit Turban (+5)
Neck: Enfeebling Torque (because I should probably upgrade this)
Body: AF (enfeeb+)
Hands: Yigit Gages (+5)
Back: Rainbow Cape (+3)
Waist: Penitent's Rope (+5)
Legs: Jet Seraweels (+7)
Feet: Duelist Boots (+4)
So over what I wear now that would be an additional 25 MND (would be more but I usually wear my Duelist Boots). That is a HUGE upgrade over what I use now. So I guess one of my little projects for this weekend will be to redo my macros for RDM so I'm not some super gimp RDM. What's funny is I think I was doing more enfeebles with INT+ gear than with MND+. lol
INT spells (Bind, Gravity, Blind, and Sleep):
For these spells I am not as worried about, but I still need to add more in. Here is what the set should look like:
Staff: Elemental Staff
Head: AF+1 hat (+5)
Neck: Enfeebling Torque
Body: AF body
Hands: Yigit Gages (+5)
Back: Rainbow Cape (+3)
Waist: Penitent's Rope (+5)
Legs: Jet Seraweels (+7)
Feet: Yigit Crackows (+3)
So this set for right now is an additional 23 INT over what I currently use since I almost always wear my AF+1 hat. Again, this is a HUGE upgrade to what I usually do which would actually help out my RDM.
On a similar note, I think I may upgrade my legs from Jet Seraweels to Mahatma Slops because right now there is only a 100k difference in the price with 1 more INT and MND and the same amount of enmity down. This would be an upgrade for my BLM as well for nuking so I think I am willing to spend the extra 100k for an upgrade that helps out more than 1 job. The reason I hadn't done this sooner was because the difference in the price of the 2 pieces of gear was about 200-300k previously and I didn't feel it was worth that much to me.
Now for gear I would really like that would be upgrades:
Duelist Chapeau (Enfeeb+ and Refresh)
Morrigan Coronal (MACC and INT and MND)
Morrigan Cuffs (MACC)
Goliard Cuffs (MACC to land Enfeebs)
Nashira Seraweels (Enfeeb+ and MACC and Haste)
Morrigan Slops (INT+10 and MND+10)
Goliard Clogs (MACC with MND and INT bonuses)
Morrigan Pigaches (MND+10 INT+3 but the MACC could be more useful)
I mean there is more gear that I would like like and Enfeebling Earring or an Omega Ring or Duelist's Tabard or MND+ rings and earrings but I just don't have the gil nor the inventory to deal with some of it. The stuff listed above would just be good stuff to be able to get because of how awesome it would be to both my BLM and RDM.
So that about summarizes it for today I guess. I was a small guide to what I need to be doing and what I should be working towards to be all that I can. For today .... that is all.
I'll start with MND spells (Paralyze, Slow, Stoneskin, and possibly Silence):
As of now I have no MND macro'd in to anything except stoneskin. The only reason I macro in MND for stoneskin is because I wanted to hit the cap on how much damage stoneskin absorbs. As for the other spells I really need to rethink my macros since MND really plays a big role in paralyze and slow, but I'm not so sure how much in silence. Right now I don't have any sort of enfeebling magic skill+ head piece so I should definitely be macroing in my Yigit Turban for MND+5, and not to mention the Yigit Gages for an extra MND+5. As of right now my macros need an overhaul since there is so much I am lacking. I mean for my back, waist, hands, feet, rings, earrings, head, and legs I still just use MP+ gear instead of any sort of MND build. Here is what my macros should be looking like:
Staff: Elemental Staff
Head: Yigit Turban (+5)
Neck: Enfeebling Torque (because I should probably upgrade this)
Body: AF (enfeeb+)
Hands: Yigit Gages (+5)
Back: Rainbow Cape (+3)
Waist: Penitent's Rope (+5)
Legs: Jet Seraweels (+7)
Feet: Duelist Boots (+4)
So over what I wear now that would be an additional 25 MND (would be more but I usually wear my Duelist Boots). That is a HUGE upgrade over what I use now. So I guess one of my little projects for this weekend will be to redo my macros for RDM so I'm not some super gimp RDM. What's funny is I think I was doing more enfeebles with INT+ gear than with MND+. lol
INT spells (Bind, Gravity, Blind, and Sleep):
For these spells I am not as worried about, but I still need to add more in. Here is what the set should look like:
Staff: Elemental Staff
Head: AF+1 hat (+5)
Neck: Enfeebling Torque
Body: AF body
Hands: Yigit Gages (+5)
Back: Rainbow Cape (+3)
Waist: Penitent's Rope (+5)
Legs: Jet Seraweels (+7)
Feet: Yigit Crackows (+3)
So this set for right now is an additional 23 INT over what I currently use since I almost always wear my AF+1 hat. Again, this is a HUGE upgrade to what I usually do which would actually help out my RDM.
On a similar note, I think I may upgrade my legs from Jet Seraweels to Mahatma Slops because right now there is only a 100k difference in the price with 1 more INT and MND and the same amount of enmity down. This would be an upgrade for my BLM as well for nuking so I think I am willing to spend the extra 100k for an upgrade that helps out more than 1 job. The reason I hadn't done this sooner was because the difference in the price of the 2 pieces of gear was about 200-300k previously and I didn't feel it was worth that much to me.
Now for gear I would really like that would be upgrades:
Duelist Chapeau (Enfeeb+ and Refresh)
Morrigan Coronal (MACC and INT and MND)
Morrigan Cuffs (MACC)
Goliard Cuffs (MACC to land Enfeebs)
Nashira Seraweels (Enfeeb+ and MACC and Haste)
Morrigan Slops (INT+10 and MND+10)
Goliard Clogs (MACC with MND and INT bonuses)
Morrigan Pigaches (MND+10 INT+3 but the MACC could be more useful)
I mean there is more gear that I would like like and Enfeebling Earring or an Omega Ring or Duelist's Tabard or MND+ rings and earrings but I just don't have the gil nor the inventory to deal with some of it. The stuff listed above would just be good stuff to be able to get because of how awesome it would be to both my BLM and RDM.
So that about summarizes it for today I guess. I was a small guide to what I need to be doing and what I should be working towards to be all that I can. For today .... that is all.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
1000 Levels
I would like to thank all the little people for my 1000th level. Here's to you cracked out exp guy who doesn't want to do anything except work his butt off to try to get an in game item that has no bearing on your real life but will spend copius amounts of time working towards it. So crack open that Bud Light Mr. Exp Whore and drink to your levels.
Last night I was in a refreshingly great exp party. In the party was brd, cor, rdm, nin, drg and me as drk and we ROCKED! With my ring on we were sitting at about 30k/hr which I have never seen before. Once my ring wore we were still sitting at about 20k/hr but we kept running out of colibri to kill which was kind of disappointing. If we would have been able to be at the Ley point by ourselves we could've easily been constantly chaining because we were hitting chain 7s then running out of mobs.
What else was nice is that we had all people that knew what they were doing! 3 people were working towards Maat's Cap, including myself, and then one guy Mori who has Maat's Cap. What else is funny is that Mori actually remembered me from a party we had like 4 years ago because it was so awesome it was hard to forget. It was great flying through mobs with that party because I could basically unload on the mobs and not worry too much about dying. The party was so nice I got my DRK to 61 which is exactly my 1000th level.
Besides exp I got my Bonecraft up to 74 doin Marid Arrowheads. I think I'm going to take the Marid Arrowheads to about 76 then start going through the components for RR hairpins since they are such a big gil maker right now. RR hairpins are about 50k and as long as I don't break a synth and lose items I would make around 10k per pin, if not more and I shouldn't break too much since I'm so close to cap now.
Something else I did a lot of was talking to Mac about duoing stuff as RDM/RDM or RDM/BLM. We are thinking about duoing DRG, DRK, and MNK Aerns in sea which would get us some nice capes aaaaaaaaand allow us to make some gil by selling the Deeds that those mobs drop. Mac was also talking about duoing Jailer of Fortitude which I don't think would be too tough and maybe get us some more pop items and maybe torques. Both of these I am actually very excited about because it will beef up my gear some more and hopefully it'll be my new income after I am done with sky.
I wasn't really going to get into it too much in this post but I have a feeling tomorrow I will sit down and make a post about something Mac and I were talking about how MND really helps out RDM with their debuffs but how Enfeebling Magic skill is way more important to have before you can concentrate on MND. I just wanted to mention this here because that way if I forget maybe Khrone will remind me at work tomorrow to make this post or I probably will forget because my rememberory is just that awesome.
This evening I decided I'm actually going to go to basketball since 2 of my 3 volleyball leagues are over and I need more exercise or I'm gonna become a fatty. I just have to be careful of my knee and not to overdo it. Sadly this means that I won't have as much time as I would like to exp my DRK or maybe go to sky. Hopefully that will still leave me enough time to go exp or get something done that I want including some Nyzul Isle to upgrade my mage gear some. But Nyzul will be included in my post tomorrow about RDM and gear.
Quote of the Day:
It is great to be in a party where everyone knows what to do .... and does it well!
- me during my party last night
Last night I was in a refreshingly great exp party. In the party was brd, cor, rdm, nin, drg and me as drk and we ROCKED! With my ring on we were sitting at about 30k/hr which I have never seen before. Once my ring wore we were still sitting at about 20k/hr but we kept running out of colibri to kill which was kind of disappointing. If we would have been able to be at the Ley point by ourselves we could've easily been constantly chaining because we were hitting chain 7s then running out of mobs.
What else was nice is that we had all people that knew what they were doing! 3 people were working towards Maat's Cap, including myself, and then one guy Mori who has Maat's Cap. What else is funny is that Mori actually remembered me from a party we had like 4 years ago because it was so awesome it was hard to forget. It was great flying through mobs with that party because I could basically unload on the mobs and not worry too much about dying. The party was so nice I got my DRK to 61 which is exactly my 1000th level.
Besides exp I got my Bonecraft up to 74 doin Marid Arrowheads. I think I'm going to take the Marid Arrowheads to about 76 then start going through the components for RR hairpins since they are such a big gil maker right now. RR hairpins are about 50k and as long as I don't break a synth and lose items I would make around 10k per pin, if not more and I shouldn't break too much since I'm so close to cap now.
Something else I did a lot of was talking to Mac about duoing stuff as RDM/RDM or RDM/BLM. We are thinking about duoing DRG, DRK, and MNK Aerns in sea which would get us some nice capes aaaaaaaaand allow us to make some gil by selling the Deeds that those mobs drop. Mac was also talking about duoing Jailer of Fortitude which I don't think would be too tough and maybe get us some more pop items and maybe torques. Both of these I am actually very excited about because it will beef up my gear some more and hopefully it'll be my new income after I am done with sky.
I wasn't really going to get into it too much in this post but I have a feeling tomorrow I will sit down and make a post about something Mac and I were talking about how MND really helps out RDM with their debuffs but how Enfeebling Magic skill is way more important to have before you can concentrate on MND. I just wanted to mention this here because that way if I forget maybe Khrone will remind me at work tomorrow to make this post or I probably will forget because my rememberory is just that awesome.
This evening I decided I'm actually going to go to basketball since 2 of my 3 volleyball leagues are over and I need more exercise or I'm gonna become a fatty. I just have to be careful of my knee and not to overdo it. Sadly this means that I won't have as much time as I would like to exp my DRK or maybe go to sky. Hopefully that will still leave me enough time to go exp or get something done that I want including some Nyzul Isle to upgrade my mage gear some. But Nyzul will be included in my post tomorrow about RDM and gear.
Quote of the Day:
It is great to be in a party where everyone knows what to do .... and does it well!
- me during my party last night
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