I have officially crossed the threshold of 1 million exp to go. I have somewhere around 900k exp to truck through before I get to make myself very good friends with the old man and his ugly mug.
Working on PLD has still been my focus because its not quite 66 yet. I need a little under 30k before I'm done with PLD for good. This is a job I really have no intentions of taking to 75 since Screamin is well geared already. Besides, I would have more fun finishing off some other jobs instead I think. PLD has been pretty fun but I've gotten to the point where its starting to get boring. Last night was a good change of pace though because we weren't just doing birds like every other party, we actually were doing Mount Z and crawlers. It was still good exp of over 8k/hr so I couldn't complain. Just after I dinged 65 and threw on the Shield Torque I swiped off of Screamin we ended up disbanding though. One exciting I do have to admit though is I do enjoy seeing all the skill ups I have been getting. Parrying, shield, and divine have all been going up at a good pace for how much I use each of them. Of course parrying is going way slower than shield and divine because we all know how tough it is to skill up parrying, but shield and divine are almost 200 which is pretty good for where I am. Its a pity I only have 1 more level of having a chance for shield and divine skill because I will probably never skill shield again and divine magic I will need for my WHM Maat fight.
Something I am looking forward to is getting back to some Astral Flow parties because that will be some quick exp to be able to finish off at least BST and maybe make some good progress on THF. I have been discovering I have less and less of a desire to level THF at all because there is a lot of gear that just doesn't cross over much and its not really fun until 60 with Assassin. Maybe if I get THF to 60 using burn parties I will dump the rest of my burn party exp into like RNG to save myself some gil, but I think I will have more fun with RNG than I would with THF because RNG gets better invites and can REALLY drop some good damage at those levels. The biggest problem with RNG will be how much gil I'm going to have to sink into it. Arrows and bolts alone are going to be rough, but the fact that E Bow is 55 and pretty much the best bow for RNGs is a back breaking expense. E Bow is sitting at about 3.5M right now which takes out over half of my current gil. Yeah, ouch...
Another topic I wanted to touch on is crafting. I have been trying out fishing for profit using Screamin's fishing and my crafting but it hasn't been working out as well as I hoped because people are stupid and throwing away profit. I sell something for 18k a stack, and people undercut it for less than it was selling for previously... RETARDS. There is one thing about undercutting it for maybe 1k less, but when you undercut by 3k you're just literally throwing away 3k of profit. Then on something like RR hairpins. They were steadily selling for 50k per pin, now all of a sudden they dropped to 45k. Why would you sell them for 5k less per synth. This just boggles my mind because people are trying to turn a quick profit so fast, they are missing out on profit that they should be making! Stupid people always amaze me. So right now all of my gil flow that I was counting on has pretty much come to a crashing halt because of undercutters. I refuse to sell my items for less than they are actually worth. Since I'm not hurting for inventory space right now I don't mind sitting on a lot of gil worth of items just so I can be sure I turn the good profit I should be later on down the road.
Basically, I need to find a consistent gil flow right now because I am going to need it very soon. There are also some gear pieces I wouldn't mind upgrading to because they would be boosts to some of my more fun 75s. As of right now I don't feel I have enough gil to dump into those fluff items because I still want to sit on enough of a nest egg to be able to dump into salvage gear if I ever get going on that.
Quote of the Day:
Possible new name of the sky shell that I use as my social: PenXVClub
- I can be creative sometimes
Showing posts with label Bonecraft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bonecraft. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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
Monday, December 8, 2008
Close Calls
This weekend was for the most part a total bust on getting things accomplished. I pretty much sat infront of my computer the entire weekend and really didn't get anything done. I got 1 more merit point, .5 more skill on BC taking me to 71.9, and then did some more sky last night. This has just been an unmotivated weekend I guess.
It was a weekend of close calls because I got 71.9 on Bonecrafting but couldn't get to 72 because some butt munch was trying to hike up the prices to at least 4k above what they were and I won't pay the hiked up price and I hope no one else does too since that is a 10% price raise (if its even only 4k higher). As far as my guild point item, I ALMOST did it this weekend. I had the web page up and new what item I had to get and knew I could easily do it, but for some retarded reason never actually did it. Then there was last night with me almost getting my next shot at haidate since a dio dropped on basically the 1st mob last night. We could've easily done the 2xKirin we did and go do Byakko and get my kitty pants ... but we didn't.
This leaves me still 1st in line for Byakko's Haidate and only 1 pop set to work off of. On the bright side we did get 2xD Body from the first Kirin last night and 1 N. Body that should've gone to Sush but he had passed out so we went w/o him. Suxorz for him! Tonight though I'm going to get my kitty pants because Byakko is going to be a good putty tat and ... give me Haidate. (Yes, I paused before finishing that sentence because I had to go through about 3 ways of saying it with a double entendre first. lol) Then once I get those pants I burn the rest of my points where ever I can!!!! MUAHAHAHA
I'm so excited to get Haidate out of the way so I can get some other gear to maybe actually upgrade my WAR or prepare for my SAM which I am leveling next. Now sky is starting to get exciting again because I don't just have 1 piece to look forward to, I have about 6 pieces to look forward to after Haidate. The only real 2 big pieces to get after haidate are D Body and N Body. I may try to pick up a D Body soon since there is almost no line anymore. SO EXCITED!
Tonight will be sky at its usual time, but we are also planning a Promyvion-Dem run for Khrone and Ramoth since they need their promies still. We did Mea for them this weekend and Khrone already has Holla done so that would mean when we finish Dem tonight he'll be in Lufaise Meadows. Sadly, if we were to try to keep Ramoth on track though too we'd have to do another Holla run for him. We shall see how this pans out though because maybe we can get Vayla (Xandrah) into the mix for some of these runs to try to make a little static for them for CoP.
Quote of the Day:
Close only counts in Horse shoes and hand grenades.
- I have no clue :P
It was a weekend of close calls because I got 71.9 on Bonecrafting but couldn't get to 72 because some butt munch was trying to hike up the prices to at least 4k above what they were and I won't pay the hiked up price and I hope no one else does too since that is a 10% price raise (if its even only 4k higher). As far as my guild point item, I ALMOST did it this weekend. I had the web page up and new what item I had to get and knew I could easily do it, but for some retarded reason never actually did it. Then there was last night with me almost getting my next shot at haidate since a dio dropped on basically the 1st mob last night. We could've easily done the 2xKirin we did and go do Byakko and get my kitty pants ... but we didn't.
This leaves me still 1st in line for Byakko's Haidate and only 1 pop set to work off of. On the bright side we did get 2xD Body from the first Kirin last night and 1 N. Body that should've gone to Sush but he had passed out so we went w/o him. Suxorz for him! Tonight though I'm going to get my kitty pants because Byakko is going to be a good putty tat and ... give me Haidate. (Yes, I paused before finishing that sentence because I had to go through about 3 ways of saying it with a double entendre first. lol) Then once I get those pants I burn the rest of my points where ever I can!!!! MUAHAHAHA
I'm so excited to get Haidate out of the way so I can get some other gear to maybe actually upgrade my WAR or prepare for my SAM which I am leveling next. Now sky is starting to get exciting again because I don't just have 1 piece to look forward to, I have about 6 pieces to look forward to after Haidate. The only real 2 big pieces to get after haidate are D Body and N Body. I may try to pick up a D Body soon since there is almost no line anymore. SO EXCITED!
Tonight will be sky at its usual time, but we are also planning a Promyvion-Dem run for Khrone and Ramoth since they need their promies still. We did Mea for them this weekend and Khrone already has Holla done so that would mean when we finish Dem tonight he'll be in Lufaise Meadows. Sadly, if we were to try to keep Ramoth on track though too we'd have to do another Holla run for him. We shall see how this pans out though because maybe we can get Vayla (Xandrah) into the mix for some of these runs to try to make a little static for them for CoP.
Quote of the Day:
Close only counts in Horse shoes and hand grenades.
- I have no clue :P
Friday, November 28, 2008
Bye Bye 69...
Yeah, it was apparently a one day affair since I'm now 70 Bonecraft. It was quite painless to hit 70 because I was almost exactly breaking even so there was no harm no foul as I could still try to fish up more Shall Shells on Screamin.
Oh, that reminds me, I found some Rogue Rigs on the AH so I snagged 2 of them. That was really nice because that meant I could get back to fishing and making myself some lovely gil. What else was really sweet was last night I hit 3 out of 4 HQ2s in a row, which meant 15k in the bag in a manner of about 1 minute! I still have yet to get a full stack of Black Pearls but I have over 2 stacks of Pearls which is good for me. The problem is I don't know if I should sell these or hold on to them and craft them on my way to 80 BC. My biggest draw back right now is that Coral Fragments are 15k A PIECE!!! I mean, I understand I'm going to be losing some gil until I can actually craft the RR pins but this is pretty retarded the amount that I would be sinking in gil.
Now that I got completely sidetracked on what I was writing I guess I will just close this entry up. Probably planning on resting a lot this weekend as I don't really feel too well so fishing and meriting could be in the game plan. Hopefully I can get a bunch more shall shells to make myself some decent gil to fall back on.
Quote of the Day:
I'm too lazy to find or think of one, so go find one yourself...
Oh, that reminds me, I found some Rogue Rigs on the AH so I snagged 2 of them. That was really nice because that meant I could get back to fishing and making myself some lovely gil. What else was really sweet was last night I hit 3 out of 4 HQ2s in a row, which meant 15k in the bag in a manner of about 1 minute! I still have yet to get a full stack of Black Pearls but I have over 2 stacks of Pearls which is good for me. The problem is I don't know if I should sell these or hold on to them and craft them on my way to 80 BC. My biggest draw back right now is that Coral Fragments are 15k A PIECE!!! I mean, I understand I'm going to be losing some gil until I can actually craft the RR pins but this is pretty retarded the amount that I would be sinking in gil.
Now that I got completely sidetracked on what I was writing I guess I will just close this entry up. Probably planning on resting a lot this weekend as I don't really feel too well so fishing and meriting could be in the game plan. Hopefully I can get a bunch more shall shells to make myself some decent gil to fall back on.
Quote of the Day:
I'm too lazy to find or think of one, so go find one yourself...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
69!!!
That is, I got 69 on Bonecraft last night. It was actually really easy to get and I'm pretty sure I was breaking even just NPCing my result. I could actually finish off to 70 on the same synth which I think I may do now since its really simple. Getting the extra level on Bonecraft will also help me HQ Shall Shells which I am going to be trying to do for gil. I have about 5 stacks of them sitting on Screamin right now from when I was leveling his Fishing which I was doing again last night.
Which brings me to more bad news, I broke the line and lost the Robber Rig. That is the best way of catching Shall Shells in Bubu and now I can't find ANY for sale. I actually put up on ffxiah.com that I wanted 2x Robber Rigs just as a back up. Hopefully I can find someone that will be willing to sell me one because that is going to be my money maker while I skill up Screamin's Fishing skill. Argh, its just so frustrating that as soon as I skilled up my Bonecraft to the T3 HQ level I lose my rig to GET the shall shells ... pisses me off. DAMN YOU GAME!!!!
Fishing and synthing would be perfect for this weekend too because my gf is in town which leaves me just about no time for meriting or getting anything else done. This is where crafting can really get nice because it takes very little time and I can actually get other RL stuff done in the process. Now I just have to figure out what my next synth will be after hitting 70. Maybe I will get back to crafting the materials for RR Hairpins. This also means I should get back to getting more guild points for my BC skill+ items. Bleh, so much to do and no time to do it in.
As far as sky went, we got a bunch more pop items but didn't do any gods. Tonight they are going to try for Kirin but I doubt they will have the people and as I'm one of the BRDs it will probably be a problem. Hopefully they just do more farming tonight so next week we can do like 3 days in a row of Kirins and lots of lesser gods. I'm really more looking forward to lesser gods because there is a lot of junk gear I'd like from them.
I suppose my only real goal for this extended weekend will be merit a little more, craft, and try to jump in on a couple nyzul isle runs to try and snag some gear.
Quote of the Day:
Sush: Are you 18?
Lux: No.
Sush: Are you 14?
Treu (in say): I saw that question comin
Lux: Yes, I am 14.
- then the conversation got a lot funnier after that but I'll just leave it there lol
Which brings me to more bad news, I broke the line and lost the Robber Rig. That is the best way of catching Shall Shells in Bubu and now I can't find ANY for sale. I actually put up on ffxiah.com that I wanted 2x Robber Rigs just as a back up. Hopefully I can find someone that will be willing to sell me one because that is going to be my money maker while I skill up Screamin's Fishing skill. Argh, its just so frustrating that as soon as I skilled up my Bonecraft to the T3 HQ level I lose my rig to GET the shall shells ... pisses me off. DAMN YOU GAME!!!!
Fishing and synthing would be perfect for this weekend too because my gf is in town which leaves me just about no time for meriting or getting anything else done. This is where crafting can really get nice because it takes very little time and I can actually get other RL stuff done in the process. Now I just have to figure out what my next synth will be after hitting 70. Maybe I will get back to crafting the materials for RR Hairpins. This also means I should get back to getting more guild points for my BC skill+ items. Bleh, so much to do and no time to do it in.
As far as sky went, we got a bunch more pop items but didn't do any gods. Tonight they are going to try for Kirin but I doubt they will have the people and as I'm one of the BRDs it will probably be a problem. Hopefully they just do more farming tonight so next week we can do like 3 days in a row of Kirins and lots of lesser gods. I'm really more looking forward to lesser gods because there is a lot of junk gear I'd like from them.
I suppose my only real goal for this extended weekend will be merit a little more, craft, and try to jump in on a couple nyzul isle runs to try and snag some gear.
Quote of the Day:
Sush: Are you 18?
Lux: No.
Sush: Are you 14?
Treu (in say): I saw that question comin
Lux: Yes, I am 14.
- then the conversation got a lot funnier after that but I'll just leave it there lol
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