Final Fantasy XI Then...

[Darwock]

P.S just had to nab the 6000th post

[talizker]

Great night last night I must say! 2 x sucessful ENM runs with 6000exp which got me Lv31 on WHM. Second ENM was done with 5 members but with all 2 hours available we totally owned it.

Then instead of being sensible and logging out for an early night it was on to a Skill Up party in Castle Oztroja. I've been trying for some time to get Sword to 175 so I can have a useful WS other than Burning Blade which i've been using like forever! Well went from 169 to 176 and got Spirits Within which on my one and only use (with 300TP) hit for 450 odd on a Yag Assasin - Nice!

Unfortunately the evening ended on a downer with the news that Bayan looks to be quiting the game. I barely got chance to speak to him as he was only on for a few minutes and we were busy tacking some links. I think he is going to come on the LS tonight for a chat but as I won't be on I will just say if this is the case, you will be sorely missed by myself and the whole Linkshell. I really hope you don't sell everything off and delete your character / account etc, so at least you leave yourself open for a return sometime if wanted. Your help has been much appreciated over the last couple of years - it's been a pleasure and I wish you every sucess on your course and for the future.

/bow

[Tsingtao]

Yup massively successful night for me as well, the last to promyvion maps are now mine and another 6k in the bank means I'm now back to around 20k xp into 68. I'm starting to think its time to press on and level some!

The above news from Tal though does somewhat temper the moob, shame to see. Hope you keep the character around B, won't be the same without you around mate. You never know ToAU may have enough to lure you back (I hope). In the mean time if I don't see you good luck with everything and cheers for all the help (and there's been lots of it) along the way.

[Darwock]

Sorry to see you go Bayan.

Presumably that means there's going to have to be a Rargh ver.3?

[Tobal]

I don't think we need to, cos the old LS was working months and months after malhory quit.

Shame to see you go Bayan, hopefully you have peek if the expansion pack interests you.

[C']

Crap, I wish I was on last night so I could have spoken with Bayan. Fingers crossed I can have a word with him tonight.

Last night, Moot, Apathye and I went back to Pso?Xja to help them 2 get coloured chips whilst I still needed to pop open the chest. Instead of trying the 2 Diremite spawns that most people go after (and basically standing around for a long time) we tried for chips off Treasure Chest mimics which also meant I could attempt to get the map at the same time. Took about an hour to get Moot and Apathye their chips and I got the map.

After that we headed to Boyahda Tree to hunt for Aquarius and when we got there he was up but another group seemed to be eyeing him up so we claimed him without being prepared or considering how best to tackle him. Despite that we got settled but the NM attacked incredibly quickly and our strategy needed Apa to Stun when Utsusemi went down. Took about 4 hits without a Stun and realised something was wrong then Apathye cast Stun?

On a nearby Bark Spider.

Well after that we had no chance, all 3 of us died and watched the other party claim it. Was a really poor performance all told.

Still after that me and Apa went back to Pso?Xja and got him a chest key and map too. All 3 of us are now prepared for 3-5 and 2 of us have maps to the zone.

[talizker]

Crap, I wish I was on last night so I could have spoken with Bayan. Fingers crossed I can have a word with him tonight.

It was about 1am He said he will try and get on tonight to talk to the LS.

[C']

Perhaps I?m being overly-optimistic, but that strikes me as incredibly odd. I like to think as Bayan as one of my best mates in game, and I think he is strongly linked to the linkshell so it seems strange that he would decide to come onto the LS at 1am (a time when he knew most people wouldn?t be online) to announce he is quitting.

Perhaps alcohol was involved

Of course, this is just (hopeful) conjecture on my part and I will be incredibly sad should he decide to quit.

[talizker]

Perhaps I?m being overly-optimistic, but that strikes me as incredibly odd. I like to think as Bayan as one of my best mates in game, and I think he is strongly linked to the linkshell so it seems strange that he would decide to come onto the LS at 1am (a time when he knew most people wouldn?t be online) to announce he is quitting.

Perhaps alcohol was involved

Of course, this is just (hopeful) conjecture on my part and I will be incredibly sad should he decide to quit.

Not sure it was meant as an announcement, just a bit of chat between the two of us. Maybe I shouldn't have said anything here and waited for him to say something. I did however state in my post "Bayan looks to be quiting the game" which obvously is not the same as "Bayan is quiting the game".

[C']

Tobal, this may be incredibly short notice but how about we attempt to do Dobsonflies tonight? If Bayan comes online then maybe he could help out (I know he mentioned doing them just before Christmas) and it could be the kind of activity to get him back involved in the game, and if not it could be a fitting send off

[Tobal]

Fine by me, im sure Meric/Sariek would want in, if mosely and true arr aroudn i'm sure we can tag them to. Who ever's on FFxi first today change the LS message say... 9pm meetup and those that can't make it, don't worry we're certain to be going back again and again

[mikewl]

Fine by me, im sure Meric/Sariek would want in, if mosely and true arr aroudn i'm sure we can tag them to. Who ever's on FFxi first today change the LS message say... 9pm meetup and those that can't make it, don't worry we're certain to be going back again and again

Im in.

[mikewl]

A few things:

First, apologies in regards to my confusion with the Jaeger Ring, it was a hectic situation and I just assumed it was as said before that we only go for either the ring or helmut, so I passed the helmut and cast lot on the ring. I will be sure to attend until everyone gets what they were after though.

Secondly, some talk today about CoP 3-5, im just gonna throw a suggestion out that we attempt this next Sunday, everyone who needs it turns up ready, that means you have done the chip farming etc, then we go in and do it and get everyone through, some will need to repeat most likely but at least those who need it get it done.

Thirdly, this BCNM for Apathye tomorrow, could someone please tell me which one it is so I can decide which job to use.

[Tobal]

A busy Sunday for the LS, morning we did ENM40 Bad Seed, went faster this time and we got the Belt again, which quickly sold (still need to give gill to rare and Mait). Followed if an attack on the DobsonFly?s, which first involved getting Vanicent and Daragon threw the aqueducts which took 1hr longer than would have wanted, so we didn?t get going on the fly?s till 10:30, certainly a learning process to start with.

Plan was to have Zav pull on fly and group them together and use Perfect dodge to survive the readying of Astral Flow and then a Mass Sleeping, from Dara, Apa and Wedge, which mostly worked but the fly seems to wake after a short time, meanwhile rare would select and target and we all take it out, we managed to take 4 fly down before wiping, getting 2 astral flows off I think. Stupidly I either didn?t activate RR or turned it of during the fight so didn?t get to lot on the item that dropped. Still we got up and took on the 6 remaining fly?s, which result in a few extra deaths (thankyou Elite and Dara) but we managed to take them down for a 2nd ring drop.

I think if we had another smn, we could have been fighting fly?s with Half HP at the start, which would result in the melee killing them faster. All in all an enjoyable fight!

[C']

Madness was probably the best way to describe it but incredible fun all the same.

Congratulations to everyone who got a drop out of it. I know Moot is incredibly happy with his Voyager Sallet (which he will no doubt be rocking for BCNM tonight) but commiserations to Apa who thought his incredible 900+ lot meant it would be his but it appears Moot outlotted him by 1 which is amazing.

I think it was Saerik and Wedgemoon that came away with the Jaeger Rings so congrats there also. Wedge, whilst there was some confusion about the lotting process it was just unfortunate that we never factored in the loot pool timing out but it was a learning exercise. We know better for next time. Compare yesterday's Bad Seed run to the previous. Was so much more smoother. When we go back for flies (Thursday) we know for sure now that we have to lot the items we want mid-fight.

I think all told the sleepers did an excellent job in what was quite clearly hectic circumstances. Considering our first attempt, a single wipe is pretty good going.

PS - I think Van took pictures of the carnage and will no doubt be posting them later. Will be interesting to see how they come out