Let me start off this post by replying to Brian and his misinterpretation of what I meant by "SMN burn". I did not mean you get 5 SMNs and a COR and just go fight mobs. I actually meant an Astral Flow party using Level Sync. Without Level Sync this idea would be almost impossible because you would need everyone to be 10-14.
How this works:
Find a level sync target that is between 10 and 14 (or even 15) and get a few SMNs and a leecher or 2 depending on your set up. The usual set up is a level 12 target with 3 SMNs and 2 exp leeches. Then the big part is having 2 or 3 of the people with access to a level 75 RDM or PLD/RDM to pull the entire zone of Korroloka Tunnel. RDM works best because you are less likely to get interupted but I have yet to die from interuption. Usually you have one pull the mobs down the middle while the other pulls the mobs up top. Once you get as many mobs in the zone as you possibly can together you get them in a very close spot. There is a way to transfer mobs from one person to the other by curing and then resting but there have been times where I have gotten stuck resting and ended up dying because I couldn't move from there being so many mobs on me. Getting locked has only happened to me twice so we still transfer mobs to Screamin so the RDM can do an extra pull of mobs.
Anyways, once all the mobs are together one of the pullers picks a big mob, usually a Sea Monk or a Giant and starts spamming spells on it to gain a lot of hate and calls for help. This will be the target of all Astral Flows, or more specifically Diamond Dusts, because there will be very little hate gained by the SMN but the mob will still be targeting the puller. Once the mob is selected you have someone in the party engage the CFH mob so the SMNs can just assist that person for the target. Then there is a 3 or 4 SMN rotation of about 10 seconds apart of Diamond Dusts. Since you are Level Syncing so low, if you don't level between DDs you can pop 1 Hi-Ether and have enough MP to summon Shiva again and DD again, easily allowing you to get off 3 DDs per person and basically killing all 100+ mobs. This normally gets us about 30-35k per pull and takes about an hour total for the pull and killing all the mobs and using the extra 3 people in the party to use their COR 2hr to reset the 2hrs of the SMNs so you can rinse and repeat. On a really good pull you can get up to about 40k with a good COR exp roll and a low enough level sync.
Using this method I have easily gained over 200k worth of exp and finished my SMN off doing so. When I first discovered SMN burns I was a level 44 SMN and am now a 67 SMN. Not to mention I was also able to leech my BST from 55 to 60 last night as well greatly lowering the time I will need to spend getting to 66 on the rest of my jobs.
PLD I was able to just get into a really good party that I had to leave earlier than I would've liked for a SMN burn party. :D But I did get my PLD to 58, giving me another piece of AF to wear and 1 less piece of extra gear I need to have. I am having some fun with PLD because I'm definitely getting a better idea for hate control as a tank just by knowing how much enmity my abilities get me and doing certain things to keep hate on myself.
I know this feels a little like I'm cheating to get my Maat's Cap but I know these parties won't last because we'll run out of sync targets eventually. I also realize that my time with FFXI will be slowing down once my girlfriend moves home this weekend so I won't be able to dedicate the time like I can now, so I want to get in as much as I can before then. After this weekend it will be a real struggle to get the rest of my jobs to 66 because of my time constraints. It will also stink for events since I won't know when I will be able to make them or not because it will all depend on the woman saying she wants to spend time with me that night or not. Stupid RL getting in the way of my goals for Dynamis, Salvage and Maat's Cap.
Quote of the Day:
Hellbunny: What job are you leeching, PLD?
Me: Guess again.
Hellbunny: PLD?
Me: lol, I'll give you a hint.
(I charm a mob)
Hellbunny: BST, good choice.
Showing posts with label Level Sync. Show all posts
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
YOWSA!!!
I FINALLY had a great night again. My internet stayed on, my power stayed on, my cable stayed on, and I even got a great party! I got 6 total levels last night, 5 on my SAM and 1 on my DRK. There is the most amazing leveling place at lower levels that I have ever been around. At one point I was doing 22k/hr with my ring on, but when my ring wore off I was doing a steady 17k+/hr, not to mention we had a chain 18 at one point. I have decided that I need to stay there as much as possible until I can hit the mid 50s and do the puks or colibri in AU to avoid the exp cap and get some more ISP to go after Khroma Ore, but it would be easier to stick with PLing in that spot because of the lower level mobs to make it easier on the PL.
But I mean I probably got about 40k exp last night in that 1 party because I am about 1k from 52 on SAM now also. Then after me using my exp scrolls on MNK to finish that to 50 I can use them to get my SAM quickly to 52 and then I'd probably just keep using them on BST. Oh this is going gloriously again ... THANKFULLY!
Right now I need to be averaging about 3.5 levels per day which is definitely doable if I can stick with doing that exp in my new camp. :D I mean if I can be doing even just 50k/day there I will be FLYING through levels like its nothing. I also just calculated that if I can average 50k/day I can have Maat's Cap done in 60 days... 2 MONTHS!!! This is not including AF gathering and skilling up from lack of higher level exping, but this would be a HUGE jump in the right direction. I would actually put me about a month ahead of schedule which I should be able to easily catch up in that month with gear and skilling up no problem even with my gf being home for most of December. WOO HOO!!!
Man, this is so exciting I just got completely pumped about leveling again which is great because I was starting to get a little disinterested in it lately from just overall being in a bad mood and not having any luck. Now that I know about this spot I can easily get parties there for that or if I really wanted I could go solo/duo my way even further than that just by level syncing with someone at 41 or 42 and turning it into a great exp spot again! My only reservation about ALWAYS level syncing down there is that there is still an experience cap below 51 so I still have a higher potential exp gain 51+ but I think as long as I could consistently hit good parties there I will stick with it as much as I can. This should also convince Khrone to level more jobs to 37 so he can blitz through that area with me and possibly even get it them to 45 or so by duoing.
Ok, enough excitement for now and I need to get some more work done anyways. Goal for today: I think I will make my goal for today 45 on DRK. Its a lofty goal of 7 levels, but with my DRK being good at this camp from 37 to 41 and then being able to grab Khrone's NIN after that from 37 to 41 I should easily be able to hit 45 just tonight. Here is to hoping!
Quote of the Day:
I've gotten 90k exp already today and I only need about 30k. Lets get this done in the next 2 hours.
- Aguaa, when he was talking about the camp we were at last night
But I mean I probably got about 40k exp last night in that 1 party because I am about 1k from 52 on SAM now also. Then after me using my exp scrolls on MNK to finish that to 50 I can use them to get my SAM quickly to 52 and then I'd probably just keep using them on BST. Oh this is going gloriously again ... THANKFULLY!
Right now I need to be averaging about 3.5 levels per day which is definitely doable if I can stick with doing that exp in my new camp. :D I mean if I can be doing even just 50k/day there I will be FLYING through levels like its nothing. I also just calculated that if I can average 50k/day I can have Maat's Cap done in 60 days... 2 MONTHS!!! This is not including AF gathering and skilling up from lack of higher level exping, but this would be a HUGE jump in the right direction. I would actually put me about a month ahead of schedule which I should be able to easily catch up in that month with gear and skilling up no problem even with my gf being home for most of December. WOO HOO!!!
Man, this is so exciting I just got completely pumped about leveling again which is great because I was starting to get a little disinterested in it lately from just overall being in a bad mood and not having any luck. Now that I know about this spot I can easily get parties there for that or if I really wanted I could go solo/duo my way even further than that just by level syncing with someone at 41 or 42 and turning it into a great exp spot again! My only reservation about ALWAYS level syncing down there is that there is still an experience cap below 51 so I still have a higher potential exp gain 51+ but I think as long as I could consistently hit good parties there I will stick with it as much as I can. This should also convince Khrone to level more jobs to 37 so he can blitz through that area with me and possibly even get it them to 45 or so by duoing.
Ok, enough excitement for now and I need to get some more work done anyways. Goal for today: I think I will make my goal for today 45 on DRK. Its a lofty goal of 7 levels, but with my DRK being good at this camp from 37 to 41 and then being able to grab Khrone's NIN after that from 37 to 41 I should easily be able to hit 45 just tonight. Here is to hoping!
Quote of the Day:
I've gotten 90k exp already today and I only need about 30k. Lets get this done in the next 2 hours.
- Aguaa, when he was talking about the camp we were at last night
Monday, September 15, 2008
Karma is a Whore
I knew this time would come when my leveling streek would come to a screeching halt. This weekend my gf was with me like literally 90% of it. So I barely got any chance to even log on. Then yesterday I actually had a few hours between seeing her and me going over to her house to watch some football.
So here I am, online, looking for a party in Crawler's Nest soloing T crawlers. Exp isn't great but I have my exp ring on so I have to try and finish that off before it wears. I kill enough to finish off the ring so I'm happy while still looking for a party in CN. Finally with much luck I get a party just around the corner from where I was soloing, HURRAY! I get there, its a level sync'd party but unlike every other party I've been in, these people were only holding the level 42s down to 40 which was simply fantastic. Now I didn't have to worry about leveling too soon so I popped my ring after about 3 mobs. We were rolling pretty well and I didn't even have Screamin by us because we were doing so well. After a few more mobs we hit a spot where a beetle popped on us and the one mage got aggro and was having problems sleeping it so I brought Screamin over to save the day, no biggie. Well, this is where Karma is faaaaaaaaannntastic. I heal up the people to save them, lock hate pretty well onto Screamin and then BAM! my power goes out. Now it only went out for about 10 seconds so I'm sitting there thinking, ok, I can live with it just going out like that and just needing to restart my computer. 30 seconds into restarting my computer, BAM! power is out for good. At approximately 5:30PM on Sunday my power was out, and at 11:30PM on Sunday ... my power was STILL out. That's when I packed up a change of clothes and went to my parents' house.
Sadly there wasn't much I could do with just my character without a PL because it was so late and it would probably take me about 2 hours just to be lucky enough to GET a party. Instead I decided to just log on as Screamin and walk around CN for a bit and just chat with some friends that were online, namely Ara and ... drum roll please ..... ARCKK!!! Yes, Arckk is back again! I believe he has been following Ara in the quit and come back trend, rinse and repeat. I guess his Non-Profit Organization that he had a grant for finally ended because the company that was backing it got restructured so it was a pain to work with them and keep the grant alive. So now he's back to just work and school. Hopefully we'll be able to see more of him back on in the game again and hopefully see Disdain come back more, and then if I'm really lucky Hybrid will come back too since he seemingly lost interest in the game temporarily due to some personal stuff.
So here I am sitting with my own little posse of part time players. The ideas begin to spin around my head again .... Limbus, Nyzul Isle, Assault, ZNM, yadda yadda yadda. If only I could get these guys to play more like myself or even as much as Khrone does I would be exstatic because then we really could make a good little group. I mean I'd have a PLD, WHM, RDM, BRD, MNK, and a few of those can be very flexible on jobs. Ugh, but sadly I still have my goals of Maat's Cap. So much to do and not enough time to do it all in!
And going back to the the Ara/Arckk trend of quitting and coming back. Ara believes he has finally decided to call it quits. Hats off to ya chap for doing something that I just cannot do. Without being able to do any sports because of me needing to rest my knee I have nothing to keep me busy then besides spending oodles of money on PS3 and Wii games. I look at FFXI not only as a good time but a good investment. Yes I realize I've spent tons of money and time on this game, but look at how much fun I have at $13 a month. That's like 1 new video game every 5 months. With the time I would spend on that new video game I'm sure it wouldn't last me 5 months which is why I believe that FFXI is actually an investment into my "fun" time. I mean if I broke it down into how much I'm spending per hour I'm on the game ... I'm probably paying pennies per hour. (assuming 60 hours per month, which is an underestimate, and $13 a month, I am paying about $0.0036 an hour playing this game, so FRACTIONS of a cent per hour) Now don't get me wrong, I know Ara is going to read this, but I'm not trying to sway him of coming back again once his account is done. This is merely me stating why I play this game. I remember the 10 days I was without internet a few months ago ... I spent over $600 buying a Wii and a couple of games and spending time with that. Don't get me wrong, I love my Wii and I'm glad I have it, but when I'm missing my internet for 10 days and I go on a spending spree like that, its just not smart. Alright, enough explaining why I play this game. Hopefully when I get home tonight I will be able to log on and get some stuff done in game ... like finishing off my exp ring, AGAIN!
Weekly goal: MNK 44 by the time I help my gf move down to school this coming weekend.
Quote of the Day:
Could it be, are you actually back?!?!?!?!
- me talking about seeing Arckk back online for the first time
So here I am, online, looking for a party in Crawler's Nest soloing T crawlers. Exp isn't great but I have my exp ring on so I have to try and finish that off before it wears. I kill enough to finish off the ring so I'm happy while still looking for a party in CN. Finally with much luck I get a party just around the corner from where I was soloing, HURRAY! I get there, its a level sync'd party but unlike every other party I've been in, these people were only holding the level 42s down to 40 which was simply fantastic. Now I didn't have to worry about leveling too soon so I popped my ring after about 3 mobs. We were rolling pretty well and I didn't even have Screamin by us because we were doing so well. After a few more mobs we hit a spot where a beetle popped on us and the one mage got aggro and was having problems sleeping it so I brought Screamin over to save the day, no biggie. Well, this is where Karma is faaaaaaaaannntastic. I heal up the people to save them, lock hate pretty well onto Screamin and then BAM! my power goes out. Now it only went out for about 10 seconds so I'm sitting there thinking, ok, I can live with it just going out like that and just needing to restart my computer. 30 seconds into restarting my computer, BAM! power is out for good. At approximately 5:30PM on Sunday my power was out, and at 11:30PM on Sunday ... my power was STILL out. That's when I packed up a change of clothes and went to my parents' house.
Sadly there wasn't much I could do with just my character without a PL because it was so late and it would probably take me about 2 hours just to be lucky enough to GET a party. Instead I decided to just log on as Screamin and walk around CN for a bit and just chat with some friends that were online, namely Ara and ... drum roll please ..... ARCKK!!! Yes, Arckk is back again! I believe he has been following Ara in the quit and come back trend, rinse and repeat. I guess his Non-Profit Organization that he had a grant for finally ended because the company that was backing it got restructured so it was a pain to work with them and keep the grant alive. So now he's back to just work and school. Hopefully we'll be able to see more of him back on in the game again and hopefully see Disdain come back more, and then if I'm really lucky Hybrid will come back too since he seemingly lost interest in the game temporarily due to some personal stuff.
So here I am sitting with my own little posse of part time players. The ideas begin to spin around my head again .... Limbus, Nyzul Isle, Assault, ZNM, yadda yadda yadda. If only I could get these guys to play more like myself or even as much as Khrone does I would be exstatic because then we really could make a good little group. I mean I'd have a PLD, WHM, RDM, BRD, MNK, and a few of those can be very flexible on jobs. Ugh, but sadly I still have my goals of Maat's Cap. So much to do and not enough time to do it all in!
And going back to the the Ara/Arckk trend of quitting and coming back. Ara believes he has finally decided to call it quits. Hats off to ya chap for doing something that I just cannot do. Without being able to do any sports because of me needing to rest my knee I have nothing to keep me busy then besides spending oodles of money on PS3 and Wii games. I look at FFXI not only as a good time but a good investment. Yes I realize I've spent tons of money and time on this game, but look at how much fun I have at $13 a month. That's like 1 new video game every 5 months. With the time I would spend on that new video game I'm sure it wouldn't last me 5 months which is why I believe that FFXI is actually an investment into my "fun" time. I mean if I broke it down into how much I'm spending per hour I'm on the game ... I'm probably paying pennies per hour. (assuming 60 hours per month, which is an underestimate, and $13 a month, I am paying about $0.0036 an hour playing this game, so FRACTIONS of a cent per hour) Now don't get me wrong, I know Ara is going to read this, but I'm not trying to sway him of coming back again once his account is done. This is merely me stating why I play this game. I remember the 10 days I was without internet a few months ago ... I spent over $600 buying a Wii and a couple of games and spending time with that. Don't get me wrong, I love my Wii and I'm glad I have it, but when I'm missing my internet for 10 days and I go on a spending spree like that, its just not smart. Alright, enough explaining why I play this game. Hopefully when I get home tonight I will be able to log on and get some stuff done in game ... like finishing off my exp ring, AGAIN!
Weekly goal: MNK 44 by the time I help my gf move down to school this coming weekend.
Quote of the Day:
Could it be, are you actually back?!?!?!?!
- me talking about seeing Arckk back online for the first time
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Suck on my Level Sync
Ok, I'm REALLY not a fan of Level Sync. I'm still hoping that one day people will realize what Level Sync was actually meant for instead of trying to bring all your friends back to the dunes. I love exping as much as the next person, but I've leveled 17 jobs through the dunes ... count it ... 17 jobs! Valkurm has lost all its pizzaz for me, I'm sorry.
I also didn't really make any friends last night either. I was in a decent party with a few 75s ... in Valkurm. Yeah, STUPIDO!!!! But the exp wasn't bad, we were killing pretty fast and what not. So I meant to send a message to my "LS" which only had 1 other person on at the time, go HacTao, but instead I sent this to my party, "I really wish I would've come level sync with you :/" Needless to say the lively conversations that were going on in the party ceased and they were probably talking about me in their LS chat. Whatever, whoeve brings a couple 75s to Level Sync in the dunes is obviously a tard because it is TOTALLY WORTHLESS!!!!!! Me level syncing down from 40 was worthless. "Exp is exp" is what the guy told me, so I agreed, then I realized "Valkurm is still valkurm". Yeah, just bitter about the whole Level Sync thing now.
But on a brighter note my MNK is 41 ... yay...
Quote of the Day:
"Exp is exp"
- Sesshomaru
I also didn't really make any friends last night either. I was in a decent party with a few 75s ... in Valkurm. Yeah, STUPIDO!!!! But the exp wasn't bad, we were killing pretty fast and what not. So I meant to send a message to my "LS" which only had 1 other person on at the time, go HacTao, but instead I sent this to my party, "I really wish I would've come level sync with you :/" Needless to say the lively conversations that were going on in the party ceased and they were probably talking about me in their LS chat. Whatever, whoeve brings a couple 75s to Level Sync in the dunes is obviously a tard because it is TOTALLY WORTHLESS!!!!!! Me level syncing down from 40 was worthless. "Exp is exp" is what the guy told me, so I agreed, then I realized "Valkurm is still valkurm". Yeah, just bitter about the whole Level Sync thing now.
But on a brighter note my MNK is 41 ... yay...
Quote of the Day:
"Exp is exp"
- Sesshomaru
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Step 1 Goal Achieved!
Step 1 is now complete in my grand scheme of my glorious hat! I just have to be sure that I don't let up on my goals. I really need to keep myself focused on this because I see so much going on around me that I'm "missing out on" but I feel like I am actually getting something just as good done.
Like last night Sush was bugging me to join his Sky LS and that I have an open invitation whenever I want to join them. Which would really be great because they actually get stuff accomplished in Sky and do really well on the gods. They also go through a lot of pop sets and kill a lot of the gods weekly. Its just that it would really take away from my goals right now. I mean some of that gear would be AMAZING when I get to end game with some of these jobs, but I need to get the jobs there first. I think I will still hold off as long as I possibly can because I really want to get most of my jobs to 66 before thinking about end game again. After I get a bunch to 66 I can start working on getting gear for them end game while working on finishing off the last job or 2.
Last night was also my first experience with Level Sync, and to be honest I was a little underwhelmed. I synced up with my brother's SMN at 21 with my MNK at 38. First off, whenever the level sync person levels, EVERYONE loses TP. (No biggie) Second, my level 15 knuckles added more to my attack than my level 32 knuckles. (Kind of annoying when I realized that) Thirdly, when I hit 40 and threw on my Brown Belt ... my Purple Belt still added more STR than my Brown Belt and I essentrially ditched all the hast bonus on it which is what makes it good. I can understand them bringing down the strength of the uber end game gear but when there isn't really a big difference between some of the gear why cut off all the extras of it. Essentially you are saying "Hey! We're saving you inventory space by scaling back your higher level gear when you want to!" but they left out the fact that even gear that isn't that great at that level will still probably be better than the scaled down version of even the best higher level gear. Now I didn't do any full testing with say O Kote or Republic Subligar, but I'm assuming it is really cut apart too. And O Kote becomes that much worse because the EVA-5 still holds strong even at level 1. This probably makes the O Kote at level 20 about an ATT+5 and EVA-5 piece of gear (if you're lucky). Again, I'm not as amazed with this as I thought I would be.
Not to mention that when I was actually trying to find a party, there were like 7 parties in Qufim Island. This is going to really stress the lower level exp areas until people realize it is still better to join parties with people around your level. That way you can still keep the added effects of your level 39 Haste boots, or you level 34 O Kote, or your level 33 P Charm, or keep your elemental Ni wheel at 40. I think it will just have to sink in to people that dropping to level 15 isn't going to be the answer to trying to exp your way through the grind of the 60s. I mean you can get higher chains and more exp per hour at some of those higher camps anyways. Again, I think it'll just take some time for people to realize what Level Sync is actually good for and not go overboard with it.
Now that I am a full 10 days ahead of schedule I have to try and keep ahead of schedule and keep exping whenever I possibly can because I know later on down the road I AM going to fall behind for one reason or another. So in the spirit of keeping myself ahead of the game I will try to use these next 10 days to get myself from 40 to 50 on MNK. That way I can be 10 levels closer to finishing my next tier goal before I was even planning on starting it. I am really hoping that I am overestimating getting all 8 of jobs under 50 to 50. I had given myself 1 full month to get every Maat's job to 50 (Oct 19th), but if I can hit MNK to 50 before that month even starts that will be a huge gain for myself. If I can get MNK to 50 before the 19th I will have to do approximately 2.5 levels a day for a month to hit my goal which is REALLY easy. With having my weekends open now I could probably crank out a full 10 levels in 1 weekend let alone in 5 days. If I got really lucky I might even be able to get 2 jobs to 50 in 1 weekend (Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday). I guess this second tier goal is all about OBLITTERATING the end date so I can get started that much sooner on the last tier goal of 66. It will also give me time to do all of my AF for all of my jobs ... which I am REALLY not looking forward to. I mean I will have THF at 50 by then so I could just take that out and have Screamin solo all the mobs so I'd have that TH2 to work with making life easier, but that is still a TON of coffer keys and quests to do. 30 coffer keys and 28 quests. BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!! Granted that does include finishing my WAR AF which I don't plan on doing (so total that I will do is 27 coffers and 27 quests). Anyways, that will just have to be where I stand for now with AF and all that junk because I will probably take a full week or two to just complete it all.
As for current short term goals, I will be saying ... level 45 by the end of Saturday. If my gf doesn't stay over tonight or tomorrow night I should be able to make about 42 or 43 and should be able to finish off the last 2 or 3 levels on Friday after work or Saturday when I might hopefully possibly have a break from her in the afternoon. Now a lot will lay on parties because there is not much I can do as far as soloing since all solo camps at this level are elementals. Maybe at 44/45 I could run out to Cape Terrigan and see what kind of damage I can do there, but I will have to try that when I get there.
Quote of the Day:
"Step 1 done in the grand scheme of my Maat's Cap glory!"
- me of course :P
Like last night Sush was bugging me to join his Sky LS and that I have an open invitation whenever I want to join them. Which would really be great because they actually get stuff accomplished in Sky and do really well on the gods. They also go through a lot of pop sets and kill a lot of the gods weekly. Its just that it would really take away from my goals right now. I mean some of that gear would be AMAZING when I get to end game with some of these jobs, but I need to get the jobs there first. I think I will still hold off as long as I possibly can because I really want to get most of my jobs to 66 before thinking about end game again. After I get a bunch to 66 I can start working on getting gear for them end game while working on finishing off the last job or 2.
Last night was also my first experience with Level Sync, and to be honest I was a little underwhelmed. I synced up with my brother's SMN at 21 with my MNK at 38. First off, whenever the level sync person levels, EVERYONE loses TP. (No biggie) Second, my level 15 knuckles added more to my attack than my level 32 knuckles. (Kind of annoying when I realized that) Thirdly, when I hit 40 and threw on my Brown Belt ... my Purple Belt still added more STR than my Brown Belt and I essentrially ditched all the hast bonus on it which is what makes it good. I can understand them bringing down the strength of the uber end game gear but when there isn't really a big difference between some of the gear why cut off all the extras of it. Essentially you are saying "Hey! We're saving you inventory space by scaling back your higher level gear when you want to!" but they left out the fact that even gear that isn't that great at that level will still probably be better than the scaled down version of even the best higher level gear. Now I didn't do any full testing with say O Kote or Republic Subligar, but I'm assuming it is really cut apart too. And O Kote becomes that much worse because the EVA-5 still holds strong even at level 1. This probably makes the O Kote at level 20 about an ATT+5 and EVA-5 piece of gear (if you're lucky). Again, I'm not as amazed with this as I thought I would be.
Not to mention that when I was actually trying to find a party, there were like 7 parties in Qufim Island. This is going to really stress the lower level exp areas until people realize it is still better to join parties with people around your level. That way you can still keep the added effects of your level 39 Haste boots, or you level 34 O Kote, or your level 33 P Charm, or keep your elemental Ni wheel at 40. I think it will just have to sink in to people that dropping to level 15 isn't going to be the answer to trying to exp your way through the grind of the 60s. I mean you can get higher chains and more exp per hour at some of those higher camps anyways. Again, I think it'll just take some time for people to realize what Level Sync is actually good for and not go overboard with it.
Now that I am a full 10 days ahead of schedule I have to try and keep ahead of schedule and keep exping whenever I possibly can because I know later on down the road I AM going to fall behind for one reason or another. So in the spirit of keeping myself ahead of the game I will try to use these next 10 days to get myself from 40 to 50 on MNK. That way I can be 10 levels closer to finishing my next tier goal before I was even planning on starting it. I am really hoping that I am overestimating getting all 8 of jobs under 50 to 50. I had given myself 1 full month to get every Maat's job to 50 (Oct 19th), but if I can hit MNK to 50 before that month even starts that will be a huge gain for myself. If I can get MNK to 50 before the 19th I will have to do approximately 2.5 levels a day for a month to hit my goal which is REALLY easy. With having my weekends open now I could probably crank out a full 10 levels in 1 weekend let alone in 5 days. If I got really lucky I might even be able to get 2 jobs to 50 in 1 weekend (Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday). I guess this second tier goal is all about OBLITTERATING the end date so I can get started that much sooner on the last tier goal of 66. It will also give me time to do all of my AF for all of my jobs ... which I am REALLY not looking forward to. I mean I will have THF at 50 by then so I could just take that out and have Screamin solo all the mobs so I'd have that TH2 to work with making life easier, but that is still a TON of coffer keys and quests to do. 30 coffer keys and 28 quests. BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!! Granted that does include finishing my WAR AF which I don't plan on doing (so total that I will do is 27 coffers and 27 quests). Anyways, that will just have to be where I stand for now with AF and all that junk because I will probably take a full week or two to just complete it all.
As for current short term goals, I will be saying ... level 45 by the end of Saturday. If my gf doesn't stay over tonight or tomorrow night I should be able to make about 42 or 43 and should be able to finish off the last 2 or 3 levels on Friday after work or Saturday when I might hopefully possibly have a break from her in the afternoon. Now a lot will lay on parties because there is not much I can do as far as soloing since all solo camps at this level are elementals. Maybe at 44/45 I could run out to Cape Terrigan and see what kind of damage I can do there, but I will have to try that when I get there.
Quote of the Day:
"Step 1 done in the grand scheme of my Maat's Cap glory!"
- me of course :P
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