I think I'm going to rename my RNG: iPwn. RNG is just so rediculously powerful against birds I can't believe it. Records were meant to be broken and my 1660+ Sidewinder yesterday definitely broke my latest record.
Its great when a PLD has to work to keep hate off of me and I'm not even spamming arrows. The one PLD did a good job of keeping hate for the most part. I wasn't able to spam arrows but I could regularly shoot and not get hate unless I got a few crit hits in or WS too soon. The next PLD blew chunks because I would shoot 2 arrows and then have hate. That party only lasted a little while though, thankfully. Then I ended the night with the best tank of them all, a NIN in Caedarva Mire. This guy was so good, he didn't need to spam provoke or any ninjitsu to keep hate ... oh wait, that's because he rarely had hate. He was so terrible I would lose 3 shadows before he would even provoke the mob. Then to top it all off, he just says out of the blue, "oh, I gotta go, thanks bye". Which was ok with me because I was ok with not shooting anymore arrows in a 5k/hr party.
I'm getting more and more excited about finishing RNG off because then all I get to do is just merit and HNM. I have no plans of leveling another job to 75 any time soon. There are enough jobs that I have to choose from that are plenty helpful. The biggest problem will be meriting and gearing them all to a respectable level. Inventory is going to be an issue considering I'm going to have 8 jobs at 75 and all will be geared pretty well except WAR which I only plan on having gear for but never really using. SAM and RNG will probably be my main 2 DD jobs with MNK and WAR decently geared. RDM, BLM, and BRD are all pretty well geared right now for me and SMN is decently geared but just really needs the Fey weapon to be where I'd be happy with it. Wow, 4 DD and 4 mage jobs, I swear I didn't even plan that. lol
On a side topic, I'm also looking forward to getting back to HNM camping because that will allow for me to do some other things, like play FF1! Disdain has been playing that in his free time and been having fun with it so I think I want to go through and play the old fun games like I used to again. They were hella fun back in the day and I've gone back to play some of the other games like FF3 but never beat it because I got side tracked with FFXI stuff again. The good thing about this is that I can be playing FFXI AND playing other FF games and still technically be doing stuff in both.
Tonight I don't have anything except Einherjar so I'm hoping to get to 72 tonight on RNG, or maybe merit some more. There is also the possibility of me doing CoP with Khrone tonight to try and get him through 4-2. If we can get him through that I will be very happy because that puts him 1 step closer to Disdain and 1 step closer to both of them finish CoP! Of course now that I have these hopeful plans laid out my gf is going to come over and take up 75% of my night. lol
Quote of the Day:
This ranger is doing over 200 per shot!
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mt >.>
- some guy complimenting me by accident on my normal shots on birds :D
Monday, February 15, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Pew Pew
RNG is FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN. But there is a pretty big draw back, shooting arrows. And after about 1.5 levels I've used almost a full stack of scorpion quivers, that's almost 1200 arrows! Other than that it was a good night.
The best part of the whole night was that I logged on and Vaniel sends me a tell asking if I want to party with him and Papao. So the party consists of 3xRNG, PLD, SAM (Khrone), and DRG (Swifman), and we just ROCKED out with our extra PLs. I'm talking damage was recockulous with sidewinder spam by 3 RNG. Then with the DRG and a Soboro SAM working it we were pretty consistently hitting a chain 6 but then would have to run too far to get that chain 7+.
Sadly I had to leave after an hour and a half for volleyball only to come back and find that Vaniel and one of the other guys were still there exping. Except now they had 2xRNG, COR, BRD, PLD, and RDM. The RDM wasn't doing anything and neither was Van on PLD because the 2 RNG were destroying the mobs so fast with their 1800+ sidewinders. Van told me later they hit like chain 14 at one point before they finished. Then my party that I had gotten, with my flag down mind you, went over there and hit chain 6 once but had a crappy bard that couldn't keep songs up. Luckily that party ended pretty quickly.
This is when more hotness started because Disdain had just logged on and wanted some exp on his 62DNC which we decided to sync to. Now we were rolling with RDM, PLD, DNC, 3xRNG but then Pap got sick of RNG and swapped to SAM. Still we rocked out some really good exp and I got to 69 baby! Good place to finish off eh? Ba-dum-PSH! Now I only need 20k until my RNG because very sexy with O Hat, Maat's Cap and Scout's Belt.
I'm really kind of excited about RNG now. To be honest I'm way more excited than I thought I would be to be shooting away my gil. The gil really isn't that horrible right now though because I'm just using Scorpion Arrows and getting some good usage out of them, plus 1200 arrows only cost about 25k. When you think about it, its really not terrible unless I'm upgrading my arrows to Demon arrows or Bodkin arrows which are like twice that. And of course something that I don't think of until after the fact is swapping arrows when WSing. Like use Scorpion arrows to TP with and Demon arrows to WS with since swapping those don't make you lose TP. Hopefully I remember to change that tonight in my macros. Quick note on the macros too is RNG is now macro set 19.
Too bad tonight I have stuff from 7-9 and then maybe sneak into dynamis after that unless my gf comes over. In all, my gaming tonight will probably be limited but I'm happy with jumping 2 levels on RNG just yesterday. Talk about getting things accomplished! Maybe tonight I can get some more done and crank out another level so I can get more good gear.
Quote of the Day:
BOOM HEADSHOT
- me after doing an 1100+ WS on a bird :D
The best part of the whole night was that I logged on and Vaniel sends me a tell asking if I want to party with him and Papao. So the party consists of 3xRNG, PLD, SAM (Khrone), and DRG (Swifman), and we just ROCKED out with our extra PLs. I'm talking damage was recockulous with sidewinder spam by 3 RNG. Then with the DRG and a Soboro SAM working it we were pretty consistently hitting a chain 6 but then would have to run too far to get that chain 7+.
Sadly I had to leave after an hour and a half for volleyball only to come back and find that Vaniel and one of the other guys were still there exping. Except now they had 2xRNG, COR, BRD, PLD, and RDM. The RDM wasn't doing anything and neither was Van on PLD because the 2 RNG were destroying the mobs so fast with their 1800+ sidewinders. Van told me later they hit like chain 14 at one point before they finished. Then my party that I had gotten, with my flag down mind you, went over there and hit chain 6 once but had a crappy bard that couldn't keep songs up. Luckily that party ended pretty quickly.
This is when more hotness started because Disdain had just logged on and wanted some exp on his 62DNC which we decided to sync to. Now we were rolling with RDM, PLD, DNC, 3xRNG but then Pap got sick of RNG and swapped to SAM. Still we rocked out some really good exp and I got to 69 baby! Good place to finish off eh? Ba-dum-PSH! Now I only need 20k until my RNG because very sexy with O Hat, Maat's Cap and Scout's Belt.
I'm really kind of excited about RNG now. To be honest I'm way more excited than I thought I would be to be shooting away my gil. The gil really isn't that horrible right now though because I'm just using Scorpion Arrows and getting some good usage out of them, plus 1200 arrows only cost about 25k. When you think about it, its really not terrible unless I'm upgrading my arrows to Demon arrows or Bodkin arrows which are like twice that. And of course something that I don't think of until after the fact is swapping arrows when WSing. Like use Scorpion arrows to TP with and Demon arrows to WS with since swapping those don't make you lose TP. Hopefully I remember to change that tonight in my macros. Quick note on the macros too is RNG is now macro set 19.
Too bad tonight I have stuff from 7-9 and then maybe sneak into dynamis after that unless my gf comes over. In all, my gaming tonight will probably be limited but I'm happy with jumping 2 levels on RNG just yesterday. Talk about getting things accomplished! Maybe tonight I can get some more done and crank out another level so I can get more good gear.
Quote of the Day:
BOOM HEADSHOT
- me after doing an 1100+ WS on a bird :D
Monday, February 8, 2010
#7
Job #7 to 75 is now done. I finished MNK in an about 2k exp campaign battle which left me with about 1.8k buffer. This is something I will have to fix eventually but its a great feeling to be able to throw on that extra 10% haste and the brutal earring. My damage output in campaign should really be able to jump up now and get me more exp to get a buffer with. Campaign will now be strictly for getting a buffer as I can now go merit on 7 different 75 jobs. Well, really 5 because WAR is pretty much retired and SMN would be kinda hard to get a real merit party with unless I was doing a pet burn.
Now that I have MNK technically out of the way I am looking at merits. My top merits in basically the order I want to get them in:
1) Minuet (5/5)
2) Madrigal (5/5)
3) Troubador (5/5)
4) GK (8/8)
5) H2H (6/8)
6) Archery (6/8)
7) Overwhelm (5/5)
8) Meditate (5/5)
9) Shikikoyo (1/5)
10) Blade Bash (1/5)
11) Phalanx 2 (5/5)
12) STR (5/5)
Those are my top 12 I suppose. A few are interchangeable on how I feel at the specific time. Like I may switch around Meditate and Overwhelm or maybe move Troubador to #1, but for the most part that is the job order I want to work on. H2H and Archery are in the air too on where they go but I figured I'd throw them in while I was working on combat skills.
Well, I guess I should mention why Archery is even in there. RNG is my next job to 75. Yeah, I know, its like I have a death wish or something. Again, to be more productive and helpful to HNM I want to have another good DD that is widely used and RNG fits that bill for things like Ixion and Odin. I mean can you really say an LS has too many RNG, its like you can never have enough BLM or BRD. RNG is going to be a pain with literally shooting my gil away but I have quite a bit of gil right now so I don't feel too bad about spending some. The biggest problem I'm going to have of course is skilling up while level syncing. My archery as it is is under leveled so I definitely will not be using any expensive arrows until that is fully skilled up.
And I got totally sidetracked for like 2 or 3 hours and here I am trying to figure out where I left off. How about I just stop then for today instead, sounds good.
Quote of the Day:
/blist add Hanzow
- do it, you will be better off
Now that I have MNK technically out of the way I am looking at merits. My top merits in basically the order I want to get them in:
1) Minuet (5/5)
2) Madrigal (5/5)
3) Troubador (5/5)
4) GK (8/8)
5) H2H (6/8)
6) Archery (6/8)
7) Overwhelm (5/5)
8) Meditate (5/5)
9) Shikikoyo (1/5)
10) Blade Bash (1/5)
11) Phalanx 2 (5/5)
12) STR (5/5)
Those are my top 12 I suppose. A few are interchangeable on how I feel at the specific time. Like I may switch around Meditate and Overwhelm or maybe move Troubador to #1, but for the most part that is the job order I want to work on. H2H and Archery are in the air too on where they go but I figured I'd throw them in while I was working on combat skills.
Well, I guess I should mention why Archery is even in there. RNG is my next job to 75. Yeah, I know, its like I have a death wish or something. Again, to be more productive and helpful to HNM I want to have another good DD that is widely used and RNG fits that bill for things like Ixion and Odin. I mean can you really say an LS has too many RNG, its like you can never have enough BLM or BRD. RNG is going to be a pain with literally shooting my gil away but I have quite a bit of gil right now so I don't feel too bad about spending some. The biggest problem I'm going to have of course is skilling up while level syncing. My archery as it is is under leveled so I definitely will not be using any expensive arrows until that is fully skilled up.
And I got totally sidetracked for like 2 or 3 hours and here I am trying to figure out where I left off. How about I just stop then for today instead, sounds good.
Quote of the Day:
/blist add Hanzow
- do it, you will be better off
Monday, February 1, 2010
Slaughterhouse
One really big update and another semi cool one. Big one: Congratulations to Khrone on getting his Adamantoise Egg and in turn finishing his Black Belt!!! That is huge because that really boosts his MNK and can really help him out in salvage... and yes he's a bastard for having a salvage group.
Semi cool update: Slaughterhouse is a pimpin Campaign Op. Not only can you get a basically guaranteed 361 exp from it, you can also get anyone else in your part 361 exp also. I've gotten about 8 or 9k exp from doing that Campaign Op from Treu, Screamin, and Khrone now. That has been a quarter of me getting from 74 to 75 and all faster than doing campaign battles! Sadly that still means I can only do this once a week and use my 7 ops tags all at once. On the plus side it is faster than just sitting around hoping for a party and constantly doing campaign battles and averaging like 2 or 3k an hour. The only plus side to the campaign battles is that I can make a little bit of gil and get merits on Screamin at the same time.
Thinking of Screamin, I need to make a little bit of a plan on what I want to do with his merits now. I have been getting more for him but don't really have anything that is jumping out at me to merit on him. What are some good things to merit on PLD or MNK? (as those are the two jobs I use the most for him) I already capped Chivalry for him which is very nice because a 10 minute recast on that is very helpful especially when PLing or doing campaign battles because a PLD can run out of MP pretty quickly against some of those mobs. Well, ideas are welcome!
Quick update, I also spent my first chunk of points on a pair of Herme's Sandals! 15 points for about 900k ain't too shabby especially when I'm using MNK right now and the movement speed +12% is very nice for getting around.
Quote of the Day:
I don't read squiggle squiggle.
- Khrone last night when auto translate was translating very strangely for him
Semi cool update: Slaughterhouse is a pimpin Campaign Op. Not only can you get a basically guaranteed 361 exp from it, you can also get anyone else in your part 361 exp also. I've gotten about 8 or 9k exp from doing that Campaign Op from Treu, Screamin, and Khrone now. That has been a quarter of me getting from 74 to 75 and all faster than doing campaign battles! Sadly that still means I can only do this once a week and use my 7 ops tags all at once. On the plus side it is faster than just sitting around hoping for a party and constantly doing campaign battles and averaging like 2 or 3k an hour. The only plus side to the campaign battles is that I can make a little bit of gil and get merits on Screamin at the same time.
Thinking of Screamin, I need to make a little bit of a plan on what I want to do with his merits now. I have been getting more for him but don't really have anything that is jumping out at me to merit on him. What are some good things to merit on PLD or MNK? (as those are the two jobs I use the most for him) I already capped Chivalry for him which is very nice because a 10 minute recast on that is very helpful especially when PLing or doing campaign battles because a PLD can run out of MP pretty quickly against some of those mobs. Well, ideas are welcome!
Quick update, I also spent my first chunk of points on a pair of Herme's Sandals! 15 points for about 900k ain't too shabby especially when I'm using MNK right now and the movement speed +12% is very nice for getting around.
Quote of the Day:
I don't read squiggle squiggle.
- Khrone last night when auto translate was translating very strangely for him
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