Cap on Hold

Now that I've hit and surpassed my level 66 goal for SAM I am putting Maat's Cap on hold. Guess that means its still blitz to 75 for SAM time. So all free time in FFXI will still remain devoted to SAM and hopefully just exping in the East Ron [S] bird camp since I have discovered that basically no camp can really compare to it pre-merit parties.

I am getting more and more excited about getting SAM to 75 though because it will be exciting to have a job to really be a strong DD as opposed to my kinda gimp WAR. Even when my SAM hits 75 I will still have a lot of work to do on it merit wise though. As of right now I can't put any merits into anything worthwhile for SAM except more STR merits but I swore off STR merits until I got at least a good number of merits into my other jobs that I use more, like BLM, RDM, or BRD. I'll get back to merits later though. For SAM I am really thinking about trying to get an Air Tank now to so I can get me a pair of Rutter Sabatons. This would be a huge upgrade for my SAM because as of right now I'm just weapon skilling in my Fuma Kyahan which is totally worthless. As of right now I don't think there are any other pieces of gear I want because most will become worthless by the time I am not level syncing anymore. I will probably end up level syncing to 37 or to 55 because of the great exp that you can get at the bird camps at those levels, really nothing else can compare. So really the Fourth Haube Set is totally worthless for me since there are better pieces in the 70s with the exception of Rutter Sabatons at 67.

Now getting back to merits, which normally I would just say look at the merits sheet on my google docs but none of you have access besides Khrone and Disdain, I think I will lay out the merits I want.

1) RDM: Ice Magic Accuracy - 5 merits til complete
2) SAM: GK skill - at least a few before moving on to some others
3) SAM: Store TP - 5 which would take me to cap on this
4) SAM: Overwhelm - 3 because after that the increase drops from 5% to 2%
5) SAM: Meditate - 5
6) SAM: Shikikoyo - 1 just to have it for now
7) SAM: Blade Bash - 1 just to have it for now
8) RDM: Convert - 3 (maybe 4)
9/10) BRD: Minuet/Madrigal - 4/3 keep raising which ever is cheaper to raise next
11) SAM: GK skill - til capped
12) SAM: Overwhelm - 2 ... capped
LAST) STR - til capped

Making this list has brought me to some conclusions, WAR and BLM are not going to be merited anymore unless necessary. I really have no drive to do either of them right now and if I leave WAR alone that means I don't have to spend the gil on uncursing my Heca gear for now unless I decide to break out like a DD BRD or something. This kind of gives me a refreshing look on what I actually want to do because it really knocked 2 jobs out that I wasn't really looking forward to meriting anyways.

As far as gear for my SAM I think I will leave that to tomorrow and possibly the next day because I may lay it all out for TPing and then WSing. Hehe, even though I really want to start putting that together right now.

Tonight I have early basketball so when I get back I will try to throw together an exp party and crank out another level on SAM I suppose. Also, knowing that I'm not really pressured into being on time every night and staying until the end in sky anymore is rather a good feeling because then I could spend a little more of the early time leveling SAM and then coming up and doing sky a little late.

Quote of the Day:
dance4 @ 55
- me while Disdain, Khrone, and I were on vent waiting for a people to get ready for MG ... yeah, we had a kick line and hopefully tonight I will remember to post the pic on here