Final Fantasy XI Then...

[C']

Best moment of the weekend. Popping my own Lifebelt in Fei?yin. It?s been a niggly piece of equipment over the last 10 or so levels. Something that I felt I should have, not overly expensive, but always felt another piece of equipment was more important to spend the gil on.

Wedge?s post last week about obtaining necessary equipment rather than simply buying it on the AH inspired me and I took a trip to Fei?yin yesterday. Got the key on the 10th kill and found the treasure chest shortly after. I was kind of worried when I turned that key and the lid popped open that I would only get gil, but for once, luck was with me.

Completes my belt collection, 3 for different situations:

Royal Knights Belt+2: STR+2 DEX+2 AGI+2 INT+2 MND+2 CHR+2 Ranged Attack+6 in areas under own nation?s control (used when I am managing to evade and hit a mob adequately)
Life Belt: Accuracy+10 (for those annoying mobs that simply evade everything I try, likely to be needed when I EXP of Toramas soon)
Survival Belt: Evasion+5 (for the ?Oh ****!? moments. When that extra bit of evasion is needed)

As for the Elusive Earring situation, still no go. Price went up to 700k and now hovering around 680-690k. I can afford it. Have about 815k atm with plenty more to sell but I?m reluctant to spend that amount of money on an earring.

[Darwock]

Argh, the pain! Qufim... make it stop! Luckily it has.. reached 25 with red mage (only did it for invisible) after a final excruciating half an hour trying to chain tough clippers with a party of only 4 people. Now I don't want to go back.. but I also want to get my summoner past this stage. Gonna have to face the music and just get it over with as quick as I can.

On which note, Mahlory the avatar fights have been my highlight of the game so far - I almost wish I'd quit right after them cos in my opinion beating those mofos is as good as it gets (and a little at odds with how beneficial the avatars actually are for your summoner). However it really is a massive drain on resources. Even with a solid plan you never know when they're going to throw a curve ball and mess everything up for you.

[C']

Oh and a cool little something:

[talizker]

Had a great weekend as I hoped. Started off well on Saturday by Getting a Gusgen Chest Key with Wedge & Ces ready to try for RSE again tonight. Then after a bit of Exp'ing decided to take a walk up Delkfutt's Tower on my own to check it out before going up with Rare on Sunday. Got to the top with no problems and then asked a level 66 DRG if he would help me get the key which he did (btw I now think that DRG have the coolest looking full AF!). After getting the key, Rank 4 followed shortly after

I spent all my time Sunday completing the Selbina Clay quest to get the Map to the Crawlers nest which I finally obtained at 12.30am this morning. The last four monuments all needed me to use the Selbine - Mhaura ferry which I had only used a couple of times before. I was pleased to see Wedge on the ferry leveling up his fishing skills... I had heard about the Sea Horror which sometimes is seen on the ferry and had just asked Wedge what kind of level it was was POP - Sea Horror on ferry!!!

It immediately took down a couple of people and Wedge did the honourable thing and engaged it. After a couple of hits it was obvious it was not going to go well but I fired off a couple of Cure II's to try and keep his health up. Well, that seemed to pi$$ of the SH and he turned on me a pow, Sea Horror hits Talizker for 373, Sea Horror Hits Talizker for 372, Talizker was defeated by the Sea Horror... Wedge lasted a little longer then after a chase round the ferry he too was dead

"Talizker was defeated by the Sea Horror"


"LS outing to Mhaura..."


"Talizker & Darwock vs a Scorpian in the Maze"

[Darwock]

hehe, my record for sea horror deaths on one trip is 7. It started when someone ran downstairs to get away from it, bringing it downstairs to where everyone was hiding.

Not me, I was safe in the captain's cabin watching the carnage. I saw a high level try to fight it back on deck, he got killed. A few other brave souls (or bots) continued to fish regardless of the danger... it edged over to them.. whack. whack. 2 more dead. I'm actually starting to laugh at the mayhem, then i saw a tentacle.. then the whole thing was in the captains cabin! Whack. Me dead too.

:-(

btw well done on getting up that tower yourself! Sneak/invis? I wouldn't even have known the way even with those spells to aid me. In fact when we did it our guide got lost as well.

Remember if you're ever planning a run on the magicite missions, let me know

[mikewl]

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/quests.html?fquest=567

What do you think?

lvl 60 BCNM, its a new one I think, shall we give it a go with my Orb.

[Marvelon]

Well, I got Nin to 15 and decided to leave it at that, shihei, food and constant equipment upgrades were draining my cash and my original plan to get nin 20 was cancelled. 15 should be enough to go WAR/nin in Promy (should it prove necesarry)

Helped mahl with her SMN ordeal yesterday, and we're going to do some more tonight. Even though getting Fenrir using the lv 20 battles is impossible, going through the Prime battles with our static should be exhilarating, especially when, after doing the 6 normal ones first, it will culminate with a Fenrir Prime battle... get ready to **** bricks.

PSP looking Sweet there Rare ^^

Wedge, I'm willing to try that particular battle, though I fear it might end the same way as our previous BCNM adventure. Either way, I'll advertise for members to take part on the LSMES tonight, when we have confirmed who's going we can pick a date an sort a strategy.

Going to continue to help mahl with Avatar battles tonight, starting with raising her Tenshodo fame (ie. she'll be sitting just inside Giddeus raising her Summoning skill, I'll be killing yags and passing on all the necklaces ^^) hopefully. I think Ramuh is on the cards for tonight. I'll be providing running commentary on the ls again (if people want hear how its going).

[Darwock]

Hrmph.. I remember asking the ls to wish me luck for my avatar battles and got a deafening silence.. heheh! (Darwock huffs)

Good luck Mahlory!

[talizker]

btw well done on getting up that tower yourself! Sneak/invis? I wouldn't even have known the way even with those spells to aid me. In fact when we did it our guide got lost as well.

Remember if you're ever planning a run on the magicite missions, let me know

The Tower was much easier than I thought, the map was excellent (once I figured out what was stairs I was away). Virtually all the levels comprised of corridors with only EP Bats and then larger rooms with Gobs/Gigas/Dolls/Pots. Sneak stayed on all the time with plenty of areas to recast and then casting invis just before the larger rooms made crossing those easy. The only part that threw me was on level 9 where the stairs lead back down but once down it was obvious that it was just a corridor before you go back up again.

As for Magicite, I will probably wait until level 41 to look at that. That will mean I can get a load of new armour, do some BCNM40's (to hopefully get Phalanx and the Buzzard Tuck Sword) and maybe RDM AF1.

Saying that, once I have the 2 RSE bits (tonight, fingers crossed!) it will be Exp'ing for a while and 41 should come round fairly quickly!

[Marvelon]

Another thing I found incredibly useful, yet somehow I always keep losing the URL, so posting it on here so I can bookmark it when I get home tonight (Yes, that's a note to self):

http://img36.exs.cx/img36/9281/skill1.gif

http://img36.exs.cx/img36/4052/skill2.gif

[Darwock]

Did you go through any teleporters tal? We went through a few, that's partly what confused me so much.. I presume they were shortcuts but even with that it took 2-3 hours to get up there (fighting on the way mind you)

[talizker]

Did you go through any teleporters tal? We went through a few, that's partly what confused me so much.. I presume they were shortcuts but even with that it took 2-3 hours to get up there (fighting on the way mind you)

Yeah, I think there were teleports after every three floors (to get to Middle and Upper Towers). Took me about an hour to get up but I didn't fight anything except a bat as I first entered that had aggro'd some 2x's. There were a lot of mobs in places mind so I can appreciate it would be a totally different ball game fighting your way up...

[aegen]

I spent all week leveling SMN to 20 so that I could do the lvl 20 Avatar fights.. this included being in a lvl 17-19 party as the only healer ><

Then on Sunday I spent the whole day leveling my SMN skill (which has got to be a good thing anyway) and tried 2 fights (Shiva and Ifrit) failed both of them but I know what I did wrong and next time would probably go alot better.

Then after all this time and energy and gil, I find out that the only way to get Fenrir is to fight the harder Avatars...

I know that either way you would have to fight them twice anyway because of the way it works but now I don't know what to do. Should I carry on with the tough and expensive lvl 20 fights that I can do whenever I am ready to and have the satisfaction that I went head to head with an Avatar and whooped its ass, or should I organise a lvl 60 party to go face them that would probably not happen when it's meant to and will be probably be more fun but less satisfying when they go down.

I don't know what the answer to that is but right now I feel like ****.

you can fight the harder avatars after 60 but you will have have wait until 73-75 to fight Fenrir with a party anyway. that thing is HARD.

[aegen]

has anyone read today's edition of Gamecentral on channel 4's teletext? one guy has claimed he finished FFXI 6 times over. hahaha....i bet he hasnt even played the thing! Oo

[Sdub]

Yep gonna keep plugging away at the lvl 20 Avatars, I figure it will be worth it eventually and I got my Summoning Skill up to 59 so only 4 more levels to go till its maxed!

Sorry for the rant yesterday, and seeing Rare's picture of the LS on the PSP brought a massive smile to my face just then.