Final Fantasy XI Then...

[Tobal]

During my day off work Wednesday, I spent Tuesday night getting to lvl72, took while with the party we had, 2x sam?s? doesn?t quite as well as our different gear setup made my TP gain/acc based setup(+str for WS) usless as the other Sam/thf used Att/dex+bit of acc get resulting in me waiting at 300tp for ages before he would be ready for skillchain(anything 200tp+) so I would lose out from having the pld tank build to much hate up I couldn?t turn the mob with SA+yuki for 800-900 damage, while he used Gekko for 800-1000. Annoying but I got the exp I needed to lvl and was happy.

Last night saw bit of change, Sam with war sub requested. I hadn?t used this in ages and had to change my macro around. I couldn?t believe hot much better my gear worked TP gain/Acc setup, double attack, berserk, warcry upped my DoT a lot and gain me craps loads of TP to sc 200tp sc with the Ninja and the thief ofr 500-700damage with a half +Str macro so I could get the WS to hit everytime(using 35str instead of 40) and got 5k for 1hr spent in Ro?meave before the Japanese got to tired to carry on. Before we had wasted 1-2hrs travelling around to find a place to level, we had gone to the cape at one point but the exp was 50-100, fast but American BLM complained a lot and left. To bad for him we got a Frostmane pop and it proceed to drop the extremely rare Lockheart G.K(worth 1m), sadly I lost the lot to the ninja, but then it wouldn?t have taken much to beat 4 lots of under 400 with a lot of 500 odd?.

Also I been looking in to ENM75?s and is looks very good for a free fight with many 1m+ items, and is about the only way I?m ever going to own a Hagun G.k which somehow is now 8m from 3-4m it was 1 month ago which is friggin stupid. We could easily start going any of this with 6 man team lvl70 and above, hopefully when Rare hits lvl70 we would have a core team to go every week.

[Mr Pump]

Looks like I'm coming back to this again.

Having nasty stability problems with my PC at the moment, but this seems to work fine so looks like it is going to be my choice of drug again.

So any help and advice, while I remember how it all works again will be appreciated

[Tsingtao]

Which server are you on?

[vwilsonuk]

Plague casts shadow across the world of Warcraft ...

Doh!

And this should make life more interesting for the China-based gilselling crews.

[Darwock]

Can anyone explain how a rank 1 Tarutaru black mage at level 6 (with no support job) got on board the Windurst-Jeuno airship???

I'm looking at her right now O_o

[vwilsonuk]

Can anyone explain how a rank 1 Tarutaru black mage at level 6 (with no support job) got on board the Windurst-Jeuno airship???

I'm looking at her right now O_o

Take a screenshot, send it to a GM.

[Daragon]

Is that "Hide your sub job" trick still working? They could have simply used that and then switched alliegance. Your rank is reset but all items gained via rank quests are kept.

[Darwock]

Take a screenshot, send it to a GM.

I can't take a screenshot that would be any use, because I have to hide all menus to do so. Possibly someone bought the airship pass for a mule...? I can't think of any good reason why someone would want to waste so much gil though.

[Mr Pump]

Which server are you on?

I think it is called fairy rather worryingly.

[C']

I guess the person on the airship could have used the warp hack to get past the airship guard. When you go to the dock you are still in Port Jeuno but entry is normally prohibited by making the transition through the door a cutscene (to stop people who do not have the pass from simply walking through when someone who does went through.

With the warp hack (videos are around) they could pplace themselves anywhere in the zone that they wish which would include any dock.

However considering the person in question could have legimately have airship access to in a number of ways, I would be hesitant to accuse them so quickly.

[Tobal]

1. someone using an mule they can afford to buy an airship pass
2. someone that changed rank recently and used the subjob trick

[Tsingtao]

The no subjob is the only confusing bit really I was on the airship at rank 1 the other day after switching to Bastok. Fixed that somewhat now and I'm back to rank 5 but need to go do 5-1 and 5-2 again so I'm ready to switch over to Windurst.

In other news I finally completed my Gobbie Bag VI quest and am most happy with the extra space, crafting is now a dream. Finally dinged 61 in the worlds worst party last night in the Labyrinth of Onzozo, started with the WHM dying on the way to camp after resneaking by an elemental, then I died following mages running out of MP, then we escaped after a link, then one mage went AFK for 20 mins, then about 10 mins into that AFK the other one went AFK 20 mins. Took me an hour to get 500 xp to ding my level and get the hell out.

Oh and ding Goldsmithinh 31, next the road to 40!

[Darwock]

Spent all of last night in Castle Oztroja, trying to finish my Windurst mission. I collected the first and third words of the password, but had to hunt around for the place where you get the second. After finding that I started to make my way up to the top floor - at the part where you have to flip the four handles to open the door I ran through and got aggro off a Yagudo Abbot. It checked as DC so I put it to sleep instantly so I could buff myself up for an attempt to wear it down. Unfortunately nothing I had could deal enough damage to kill it quickly, so I settled in for a war of attrition - but lost all hope when another Yagudo that had previously stopped just short of linking decided to join the fight. I had to Escape and start over.

Next time through I was able to avoid aggro, and got up to the top floor to find it deserted. Scoped out the area and found the torch stands, but each one was guarded by 2 IT++ Yagudos. Had to just bide my time until there backs were turned, then drop invis and hope for the best. Got the 1st torch lit. 2nd one I wasn't so lucky - just as I started recasting invisible one of the Yagudos turned around - I couldn't cast through the battering I took, so it's going to take me a bit longer to reach level 60 now.

Third time lucky - on my return I got all the torches lit, and ran for my life back for the door - sure enough it was open.. until I was within 10 seconds of going through, then it started to shut. AAARGHHH! I think even if I didn't have to stop for invis I'd still be hard pushed to get through in time.

Was about to give up when a couple of high level summoners arrived... so I asked for their assistance. They were very coy about helping, saying only 'Maybe'.. so I had to just hang around by the door in hope they would oblige. They were soon joined by a full party of (I presume) testimony hunters who started wiping out all the yags. After about 15 minutes, sure enough the door opened and I ran through. Hallelujah!

Now I had to use the password. I'd been going on the presumption that the password changed every week, much like the RSE locations. Changing it every day seemed too short a time to be able to get around the castle and back to the top successfully. First word - Incorrect. Mother&^&er! I had collected a few other words on previous visits so I tried them - amazingly two of the words were the same as the password I'd written down and the third matched another word I had seen before. Thank f*&k I won't need to bother that party again.

So now I'm in the final area. I run across a ??? surrounded by the highest level Yags I've ever seen (I was actually worried some of them may have true sight just like the Orc warlord) - I'm thinking this has got to be for limit break 3, but if I go for it I'm dead - and the door for mission 6-2 looks like a far easier option. So I chose to open the door instead. I didn't get the message that my key had broke, but when I went to return for the ??? there was no key in my inventory, so I had no option but to warp out.

Have you done this part of G3 yet Talizker? There is a handle inside the final door so it would only require two of us to get through, and chainspell+escape is the only way I can see to survive clicking on the final ???. (assuming that's the right one). So if you're going give me a shout!

[Darwock]

And this should make life more interesting for the China-based gilselling crews.

That can't possibly work for FFXI - it doesn't have country specific servers like all the other titles mentioned there so anything which applied for Chinese players would have to apply for everyone.

In fact if anything it'll push more gilsellers away from those other games and into titles where they would be unaffected - like FFXI ><

[talizker]

Have you done this part of G3 yet Talizker? There is a handle inside the final door so it would only require two of us to get through, and chainspell+escape is the only way I can see to survive clicking on the final ???. (assuming that's the right one). So if you're going give me a shout!

Not done any of G3 yet matey so will definately be up for this.