#8 75 Job: RNG!!! I know, its awesome, I got my 8th 75 job and 2 days later ..... "the new level cap will be 99". ZOMGWTFBBG!!!!!!! I'm furious about this because me and all of these other people that went through the grind of getting these jobs up and getting Maat's Cap ... wow.
You spend 6 or 7 years playing a game and then out of the blue they completely change the whole thing. I really hope they don't screw this whole game up. A few people I have talked to have already been talking about quitting when the level cap goes up depending on how they do it, myself included. It is so frustrating to have put all this time into the game just to find out you weren't really going to max like you have been doing for literally years. Vanderbilt and I were talking about this last night too and he was saying that even at first he was really pissed about it but now doesn't really care, which is the same boat I'm in. Spend so much time grinding out exp and then WHAM! you aren't done yet. The only advantage I can see to this is that there will be more opportunities for exping, if I even want to anymore. ... enough about this....
Now that RNG is 75 though I have the need for A WHOLE LOT of merits. Last night I got a total of about 11 merits between a merit party and 2 SMN burns. Sadly 10 of those merits went into Troubador which most people will never see my BRD use, but my BRD needs to be better at HNMs for ES Elegy. I did throw 1 merit into Archery just for giggles. My next merits are going to be spread throughout my jobs to where ever I can build them up the fastest now. Like throwing a merit here or there into H2H or Archery or Madrigal or Minuet, whatever makes my character better, faster.
Bleh, better, merits, makes me wonder if I'll even still be playing this game in a month or 2. Imagine all the free time I'd have....
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
iPwn
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
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
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, October 5, 2009
Maat's Cap
BOOM BABY!!! Maat's Cap of blue loserhood is mine! It was a long drawn out journey but in the end was a fun run.
RNG was the last fight I had to do and it took me 2 tries because I screwed up the first time, but learned from my screw up. The first fight went: Velocity Shot > Slug Shot > Shadowbind > Barrage > Sharpshot > shoot > Slug Shot > shoot > I Wing > die. Bold is what I think I did wrong, go figure that die is bold right? Now a few realizations I made, Sharpshot lasts a minute so basically I shouldn't waste time using it during the fight as it will only last about 30-45 seconds. Also, I realized that I used Shadowbind in the wrong spot and I took an extra shot in there that I really shouldn't have.
After planning a little more out, my second fight went more like this (although maybe not exactly as I have to check my log to be 100%): Velocity Shot > Sharpshot > Slug Shot > Barrage > shoot > Shadowbind > Vile Elixir > shoot again (because I didn't have 100% TP) > Slug Shot > EES. I ended up not even using an Icarus Wing which saved me 10k in that fight which I am happy about.
Once I got out of the fight I put on my Ducal Something Ring and warped to Jeuno and strode back to Maat and obtained my Maat's Cap at approximately 8:55PM on October 4th, 2009. GO ME!!!! I took screen shots of everything Maat said just so I can have it saved for later, but I will be cutting out the "Obtained: Maat's Cap" and putting that in my sigs from now on. Sadly this brings to an end a very long term goal that I have been working towards for over a year now. Now that Maat's Cap is over and done with I think I need to find myself a new long term goal.
After speaking with the few people that were still wearing a HellsBells pearl last night I think I will be aiming to get SCH up some and maybe finishing off another job or 2 to 75. I can also spend more time concentrating on my crafting as that has been pretty stagnant for a long time. I would at least like to get my Bonecraft to 80, get my BC apron, and start actually skilling up my leathercraft as that is the main sub-craft for BC. Glad I still have PLENTY to do in game. lol
Now for the perfect timing of me finishing Maat's Cap, I was also accepted into DaFunk. This will fill up my time with actually having events for me to attend. Sadly these events will be sporadic because HNM times will be constantly changing, but this will give me access to getting the higher end gear that I really want like Dalmatica or Ace's Helm. Let us see where this journey will take me.
Quote of the Day:
Obtained: Maat's Cap
RNG was the last fight I had to do and it took me 2 tries because I screwed up the first time, but learned from my screw up. The first fight went: Velocity Shot > Slug Shot > Shadowbind > Barrage > Sharpshot > shoot > Slug Shot > shoot > I Wing > die. Bold is what I think I did wrong, go figure that die is bold right? Now a few realizations I made, Sharpshot lasts a minute so basically I shouldn't waste time using it during the fight as it will only last about 30-45 seconds. Also, I realized that I used Shadowbind in the wrong spot and I took an extra shot in there that I really shouldn't have.
After planning a little more out, my second fight went more like this (although maybe not exactly as I have to check my log to be 100%): Velocity Shot > Sharpshot > Slug Shot > Barrage > shoot > Shadowbind > Vile Elixir > shoot again (because I didn't have 100% TP) > Slug Shot > EES. I ended up not even using an Icarus Wing which saved me 10k in that fight which I am happy about.
Once I got out of the fight I put on my Ducal Something Ring and warped to Jeuno and strode back to Maat and obtained my Maat's Cap at approximately 8:55PM on October 4th, 2009. GO ME!!!! I took screen shots of everything Maat said just so I can have it saved for later, but I will be cutting out the "Obtained: Maat's Cap" and putting that in my sigs from now on. Sadly this brings to an end a very long term goal that I have been working towards for over a year now. Now that Maat's Cap is over and done with I think I need to find myself a new long term goal.
After speaking with the few people that were still wearing a HellsBells pearl last night I think I will be aiming to get SCH up some and maybe finishing off another job or 2 to 75. I can also spend more time concentrating on my crafting as that has been pretty stagnant for a long time. I would at least like to get my Bonecraft to 80, get my BC apron, and start actually skilling up my leathercraft as that is the main sub-craft for BC. Glad I still have PLENTY to do in game. lol
Now for the perfect timing of me finishing Maat's Cap, I was also accepted into DaFunk. This will fill up my time with actually having events for me to attend. Sadly these events will be sporadic because HNM times will be constantly changing, but this will give me access to getting the higher end gear that I really want like Dalmatica or Ace's Helm. Let us see where this journey will take me.
Quote of the Day:
Obtained: Maat's Cap
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Single Digits!
First and foremost, 8 levels left on RNG and I'm done!!! This is really the kicker of the weekend because otherwise I was in a really bad mood because I missed out on my RDM AFv2 Hat and possibly BLM AFv2 Hat.
Anyways, I got a lot of SMN burning in this weekend which means much progress on merits and exp. Obviously I'm really close to Maat's Cap now and REALLY need to start concentrating on my fights. I got DRG fight done this weekend and could probably do BLM, SMN, and MNK without much problem now. That still only takes me to 10/15 fights done so I have my work cut out for me.
The highlight piece of gear I got, and Khrone actually, was Yinyang Robe. That really boosts my SMN because now I am more confident on what I can do with it. Maat should be pretty easy now because I can have over 1100 MP as an Elvaan on SMN, but will probably only be around 980 or so since my SJ gets nixed during the fight. In all that should still be pretty easy for my fight though as long as I don't get unlucky with his Astral Flow. Also in SMN news I got the Temenos item for AF+1 which will be great for AF+1 hands to give me an extra avatar perpetuation cost -1.
I'm thinking tonight if I have some free time I'll be doing my BLM and MNK Maat fights and then hopefully getting into a burn party for more merits/exp. My jobs are really coming along with these SMN burns because even when I'm not leeching exp, I'm still getting good merit points that I'm currently lacking.
No QotD here because it would be large amounts or profanity from me finding out I could've gotten RDM hat Sunday night...
Anyways, I got a lot of SMN burning in this weekend which means much progress on merits and exp. Obviously I'm really close to Maat's Cap now and REALLY need to start concentrating on my fights. I got DRG fight done this weekend and could probably do BLM, SMN, and MNK without much problem now. That still only takes me to 10/15 fights done so I have my work cut out for me.
The highlight piece of gear I got, and Khrone actually, was Yinyang Robe. That really boosts my SMN because now I am more confident on what I can do with it. Maat should be pretty easy now because I can have over 1100 MP as an Elvaan on SMN, but will probably only be around 980 or so since my SJ gets nixed during the fight. In all that should still be pretty easy for my fight though as long as I don't get unlucky with his Astral Flow. Also in SMN news I got the Temenos item for AF+1 which will be great for AF+1 hands to give me an extra avatar perpetuation cost -1.
I'm thinking tonight if I have some free time I'll be doing my BLM and MNK Maat fights and then hopefully getting into a burn party for more merits/exp. My jobs are really coming along with these SMN burns because even when I'm not leeching exp, I'm still getting good merit points that I'm currently lacking.
No QotD here because it would be large amounts or profanity from me finding out I could've gotten RDM hat Sunday night...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
One Job Left
THF exp is complete! I had some extra time last night and some friends weren't doing anything AND the tunnel was empty. Those three things together means uber exp party. lol
Before I got the group together I was sitting in Besieged skilling up my Divine Magic with Lilmama and Eldeus. I got almost 20 levels on my Divine Magic and am almost ready for my Maat fight on WHM, excluding not having the Testimony yet. But some funny stuff did happen in Besieged. For one, I kept taking hate from Eldeus on his full Usu MNK on my level 66 WHM just spamming Banish, Banish II, Flash, and Holy which was rather amusing. Then there was a huge group of Lamia and undead by the AC room in the courtyard and there was a General there spamming an AoE WS. Well, I decided it would be a fantastic idea to go in and spam Banishga and Banishga II and watch myself die from all the mobs coming at me, but it never happened. All the mobs moved a little but then the General spammed her AoE WS and got all the hate back so I was just spamming my AoE spells too which was rather amusing.
Anyways, when the second Besieged started Swifman was well into bugging me to start a party so I decided to ask the other puller/holder/leecher that I know that wasn't busy. He said he was down and bam we had a party. Originally I was telling myself that I would burn only on my RNG from here on out but I decided that I really didn't WANT to exp on my THF and would much rather exp on my RNG if it came down to it so I burned my THF to about 10k to 67.
This was an AWESOME pull by yours truly though. I mean, the other guy pulled the middle to hold and I pulled the bats, spiders, and then leeches/bogies. First off, the mobs were cooperating a lot more this pull so I lost a lot less mobs. Secondly, I got a bunch more bogies than I normally do. Thirdly, I finally figured out how to pull the leeches without having them deaggro by going over water, w00t! There was only one problem with this pull, the sync was 77 exp until 12 and only made it to 3k til 19 which meant no Thunderspark. It was an awesome pull but unlucky on the astral flows because it seemed that a lot of mobs only got hit by a few of the bursts instead of all of them. At the end of the 9 bursts there were still mobs with 80% HP which isn't cool. The cool part was that we still hit a chain 25 just by doing Thundersparks. Overall with an exp ring I think we got around 45k exp which is REALLY good considering we didn't chain that well during the astral flows.
Tonight could be a potentially great night. We have Dynamis-Tavnazia at 8PM but I have volleyball at 8:30. What I'm hoping is that I can get out of volleyball right at 9:30 and make it home in time for the 2nd run of Tav and HOPEFULLY HOPEFULLY have a chance at RDM hat. The odds are slim but here's to hoping right? Besides that I'm hoping to get some more exp and Maat fights done. I'd like to at least get 1 more Maat fight done tonight so I can knock another one off my list.
Quote of the Day:
Hi Mike!
- inside joke haha
Before I got the group together I was sitting in Besieged skilling up my Divine Magic with Lilmama and Eldeus. I got almost 20 levels on my Divine Magic and am almost ready for my Maat fight on WHM, excluding not having the Testimony yet. But some funny stuff did happen in Besieged. For one, I kept taking hate from Eldeus on his full Usu MNK on my level 66 WHM just spamming Banish, Banish II, Flash, and Holy which was rather amusing. Then there was a huge group of Lamia and undead by the AC room in the courtyard and there was a General there spamming an AoE WS. Well, I decided it would be a fantastic idea to go in and spam Banishga and Banishga II and watch myself die from all the mobs coming at me, but it never happened. All the mobs moved a little but then the General spammed her AoE WS and got all the hate back so I was just spamming my AoE spells too which was rather amusing.
Anyways, when the second Besieged started Swifman was well into bugging me to start a party so I decided to ask the other puller/holder/leecher that I know that wasn't busy. He said he was down and bam we had a party. Originally I was telling myself that I would burn only on my RNG from here on out but I decided that I really didn't WANT to exp on my THF and would much rather exp on my RNG if it came down to it so I burned my THF to about 10k to 67.
This was an AWESOME pull by yours truly though. I mean, the other guy pulled the middle to hold and I pulled the bats, spiders, and then leeches/bogies. First off, the mobs were cooperating a lot more this pull so I lost a lot less mobs. Secondly, I got a bunch more bogies than I normally do. Thirdly, I finally figured out how to pull the leeches without having them deaggro by going over water, w00t! There was only one problem with this pull, the sync was 77 exp until 12 and only made it to 3k til 19 which meant no Thunderspark. It was an awesome pull but unlucky on the astral flows because it seemed that a lot of mobs only got hit by a few of the bursts instead of all of them. At the end of the 9 bursts there were still mobs with 80% HP which isn't cool. The cool part was that we still hit a chain 25 just by doing Thundersparks. Overall with an exp ring I think we got around 45k exp which is REALLY good considering we didn't chain that well during the astral flows.
Tonight could be a potentially great night. We have Dynamis-Tavnazia at 8PM but I have volleyball at 8:30. What I'm hoping is that I can get out of volleyball right at 9:30 and make it home in time for the 2nd run of Tav and HOPEFULLY HOPEFULLY have a chance at RDM hat. The odds are slim but here's to hoping right? Besides that I'm hoping to get some more exp and Maat fights done. I'd like to at least get 1 more Maat fight done tonight so I can knock another one off my list.
Quote of the Day:
Hi Mike!
- inside joke haha
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