Final Fantasy XI Then...

[Tobal]

Average day yesterday, finished of 3 of the 4 Ichi quest with just the Damp scroll dipping to go, and went off to level my ninja, got to 21 in a short time until some of the party left and leader got in a right fool, first sentence was ?I have lvl60 PL with me!? and continued to act like a total fool attacking everything because we had PL even though out damage output with 4 players was taking ages to beat crabs but there 200 odd exp was apparently better then 100-150 quick deaths of worms? then the PL Onii started barking orders about how we should kill or brilliant idea?s like taking 2 mobs at once? then the guy said a lvl75 pl is coming as well, I then said I?ve got to go, disbanded after the next fight and 2hr?d away.

Im also going to stop using Jack-o?-lantern?s as my Attack rate is terrible, and i think having +20/30 attack vs +10acc and eva will benefit me more.

[C']

lol, Onii was that SAM who joined our ENM group last week offering to be WHM then tried to get out of it trying to come as all different jobs. Also the one who started testing me when I joked about buying the account.

What you have just described is what I detest about having a power-level especially at Valkurm levels. As soon as the letters PL is mentioned they seem to assume they can start killing things beyond what they can. It leads to fights that take at least twice as long with the EXP result often being only a little better and when you look at EXP/hour ratio is actually a lot worse.

As for food options, you need to remember that in the low levels katanas are really quite bad for damage. NIN only became respectable damage wise at 40 when the Ni elemental ninjutsu came into play then at 61 when we got katanas with decent damage. I find now at 70 with the right gear setup I can do nice damage but that is only because of the 4 dual wield bonuses meaning the DoT is much better.

You could perhaps try Navarin as your food of choice. It?s quite cheap and iirc offers Evasion and Attack/STR bonuses. However it?s a 3 hour food so you may not want to risk it on Qufim Island parties. However, at those levels (before the big food change last year) I used Meat Mithkabobs/Chiefkabobs and they worked fine.

I?m a bit stuck as to what to do lately. Obviously I?ve got the remaining Hakutaku stuff to sort (which Bayan has been really supportive about, I?d not have played since Sunday had it not been for him) but the biggest issue is a couple of equipment I want to buy. War Shinobi Gi would be boss for farming and I?m also eyeing up a Ninjutsu Torque for my enfeeble macros. At a stretch I can afford both but it will leave me on the poverty line. Guess it?s time to get back to farming which I haven?t done for 2 weeks.

[vwilsonuk]

Just a note for Tobal .... the earring has sold ^-^

[Tobal]

We?re in the Money, We?re in the Money, dododododododo

That?s has made my day! How much it sell for? Also you lot will have to wait till 7pm tonight ^^

[Tsingtao]

Excellent, money money money...

Just in time to pay for my diamond shield at 66...

Speaking of 66 excellent night last night, got a party that worked and stayed together made 13k xp leaving me just another 7k to get 66. My target of 67 for the Zilarts is looking more and more likely.

Right I think it's time we picked ourselves a night for Riverne Site A#01 next week. So I'll start the bidding with next Thursday night, how does that work for everyone?

Plan would be for everyone to gather together about 19:00 get geared up and head into Riverne Site A#01 this should give us around an 2 hours to farm for scales from the fire drakes before Talizker gets on as early as he can. Hopefully when Tal joins us we can then just get up to the spire and beat this thing. If we get up there quick it should give us 2 shots if we die first time up.

As far as I know we could use the follwoing, about 5 potions per kite / melee and a bunch of yag drinks for the mages and everyone packing regen food as well. Going to suggest that we carry an icarus wing each as well so we can get that extra weapon skill at the death should we need. In addition I'll be packing a whole ruck of yellow liquids to try to lock the mob we're fighting to DRG.

Once again my plan is that we go so over prepared that way should only have to go once, I may even bring a vile elixir or 2 this time. The wadge of gil from this earing will help at least most of us do that.

Hopefully after the win we can run round and go oo and ah at the lovely Cut Scenes and get ourselves to whatever the next BC is.

[vwilsonuk]

The earring went for a cool 6 million.

Thursday 17th sounds good to me. Shame its a little way away but that'll give me time to spend my new found cash on some decent level 40 kit and maybe squeeze in a BCNM20 too when I can get my Ninja to 10 (doubt that will be before this weekend as parents in town the next couple of days).

Have just been reading up on the Relic gear (was playing with model viewer earlier and lusting over the Relic gear which you hardly ever see). Then I saw that you get it from Dynamis. -.- Have heard such bad things about Dynamis. Wouldn't it be nice to think that one day RarghLS may do the odd Dynamis on a Sunday afternoon instead of ENMs, and gradually get everyone that top gear they had started to think was unattainable?

[Tobal]

i won't be around thursday and saturday, maybe friday to, celebrating hitting 25 ^^ and mates 26th who born on the same day.

[Tsingtao]

Ok lets try Wednesday then?

[vwilsonuk]

Wednesday works well for me (just seen Tsing's post) ... and on the topic of Relic gear ...

Must .... stop .... playing with ..... model viewer.

[C']

The earring went for a cool 6 million.

Thursday 17th sounds good to me. Shame its a little way away but that'll give me time to spend my new found cash on some decent level 40 kit and maybe squeeze in a BCNM20 too when I can get my Ninja to 10 (doubt that will be before this weekend as parents in town the next couple of days).

Have just been reading up on the Relic gear (was playing with model viewer earlier and lusting over the Relic gear which you hardly ever see). Then I saw that you get it from Dynamis. -.- Have heard such bad things about Dynamis. Wouldn't it be nice to think that one day RarghLS may do the odd Dynamis on a Sunday afternoon instead of ENMs, and gradually get everyone that top gear they had started to think was unattainable?

I?m actually looking into joining a Dynamis linkshell now that I?m 70 in order to work on attaining my relic armour. The level 71 piece is leg armour for NIN and has a cool ?Enhances ?Dual Wield? effect? stat along with Evasion+10 at night time hours. Easily better than anything I have currently and the only item that betters them would be Byakko?s Haidate.

[vwilsonuk]

I?m actually looking into joining a Dynamis linkshell now that I?m 70 in order to work on attaining my relic armour. The level 71 piece is leg armour for NIN and has a cool ?Enhances ?Dual Wield? effect? stat along with Evasion+10 at night time hours. Easily better than anything I have currently and the only item that betters them would be Byakko?s Haidate.

Excellent! Good luck with it - let us know how you get on of course too!

The main reason I want things like the AF and Relic Gear is because it feels like such a significant achievement in any job. To me its more about knowing you've completed a milestone in the game than any particular stats it gives, but if it gives good stats thats a bonus as well.

The NIN Relic gear looks really neat as well.

[Tsingtao]

Er slight snafu, I forgot that Wednesday is my Birthday though I'm not suite so young as tobal. I turn 31 so no agist jokes you young pups...

So try yet again how about Sunday, idea would be to start about 19:00 with the aim of being up to the BC before 22:00.

So here's the roster as I see it

RDM/NIN - Talizker
BLM/SMN - Darwock
PLD/WAR - Tsingtao
SAM/THF - Tobal (though any job combo for DD is cool)
BST/WHM - Wedgemoon
WHM/BLM - Hicory

Rough break down will be
19:00 everyone (bar tal) gets themsleves online
19:30 everyone (bar tal) fully geared up and heading to Tavnazia
19:45 everyone (bat tal) enters Riverne Site A#01
19:50 - 21:00 farm up the needed wyvern scales
21:00 Talizker gets on line
21:15 Talizker catches us all up
21:30 we reach the BC
21:45 victory and cakes

The whole time line is based on getting on about 2 hours before talizker can to make this as early a finish as we can. Afterwards time permitting we can waltz off and get our next bunch of Cutscenes.

Last thing to check is does everyone have all their cuts done and access to Riverne sorted? It's not hard but takes about 30 mins or so and we don't want to slow ourselves down

[Daragon]

Right, here goes with my rant post for the week, and I've come one step further to being driven completely insane, in turn becoming some kind of ultra spiteful maniac who suddenly has a vendetta against everyone on the server. Last night after deciding that I wasn't going to end up with a party invite, I joined my second promy-holla party of the week. Seeing as I had ended up with WAR being slapped on me jobwise, I went out and spent over 100k on gear (not that big a deal to some of you when you think about it) but I'm the sort of guy who tends to get tired after 30 minutes of farming.

Anyway, kitted out in gear and stocked up on Mithkabobs, I joined my party in holla. At first I was greatly concerned for our victory when our whm announced that it was his first time in a promyvion -_-;; but I let that slide after realising he was actually good at the job and could take instruction well. It all seemed to go well until we got to the 3rd floor and our smn managed to attract weeper aggro. About 30 seconds into the fight, I noticed our rng Titian (or something like that) had somehow ended up back in the hall of transgression (wtf x many). We had assumed that the weeper had somehow warped him back to the entrance, but the real reason was of course far more lame, the idiot had scarpered on purpose, apparently due to an arguement he had had with the group leader a number of months back. and of course following that our party decided that we would now be unable to win against the boss so the rest of us ended up taking the portals back to the entry hall. No more promyvions for me with complete strangers who might pull **** like this again, I'll wait for the rest of the LS.

[talizker]

Sunday is fine with me. I will make sure I am logged off at the zone and all being well should be able to get on before 8.30 so as not to drag this out for people.

[Darwock]

I was going to say I don't have a hope in hell of being SMN 40 for Sunday, but I see you've got me listed as BLM anyway so that's obviously not a concern.

However I feel I must point out that I haven't played the game for 6 weeks - lack of practice is also a concern for me!