Final Fantasy XI Then...

[mikewl]

Tal by any chance do you need ENM's for your WHM?

We are planning ENM at 7.30pm Gather Together 8.00pm in the ENM if your interested.

[talizker]

Tal by any chance do you need ENM's for your WHM?

We are planning ENM at 7.30pm Gather Together 8.00pm in the ENM if your interested.

Yeah, I would like to but not much chance at that time i'm afraid, 7.30pm - 8pm is kids bedtime on planet Tal - Sorry

[mikewl]

No prob dude, will see how things go, you know how things get delayed.

[djtickle]

Yeah, but the point is not to loose out. Bring 10k across and that won't go very far, buy a stack of silk, bring across and sell for 100k, that goes a little further - but not much (^_~).

10 Stacks of silk and counting

[Tsingtao]

I'll give you a up to the date price check on silks later, grain seeds are a good one as well 60k a stack right now as rice demand has gone loopy.

Right checked out rice this morning, silk in jeuno is 70k per stack

[Darwock]

Another weekend of awesomeness! Although I went through agony trying to kill a notorious singing fishman in sea serpent grotto, I got some great excitement out of it. His appearances were infuriatingly sporadic, at the end of last week I twiced stayed up until 2:30am waiting for him to appear and he rarely did, when I did nab him he always put up a tough fight, requiring me to manafont. After every victory all I got was assorted seafood.

First interesting one - I'd been clearing out the other sahagins, and needed to recuperate - ran back towards my spot and there he was, before I could think he had aggroed me. I had two choices, warp or sleep - I tried sleep and discovered he can't be slept. That left me with the option of either dieing, or manafonting so I could warp. I did that (HP in Norg) quickly grabbed all my remaining BCNM meds out of the safe (since 2hr was now gone) and legged it back to the spot. I got there before he was discovered by someone else, and with the aid of my pies and yag drinks was able to wipe him out. I was sure that the drama would lead to the drop on that one, but it didn't.

Rare very graciously offered to come down with thief sub for my 8th attempt, in the wee small hours (I was staying up to watch the F1) with no way of knowing when he'd pop, so I greatly appreciated that. He made short work of the placeholders which probably accelerated the cycle, he appeared, still nothing. Got to my kip at 7am that morning, was back up at 11 and back in the grotto.

Again while clearing the other sahagins, I was scanning the area and targetted a different NM - he appeared to be on a ledge up above me, and was also a bard. So I fancied my chances and did a blind cast, not knowing if he'd bring half the grotto with him. He didn't, but jesus it was a tough one. I used manafont, that came and went, he still had bucketloads of HP. I saved my remaining MP for blinding and ice spikes hoping my scythe would do enough damage to get me through. In the closing stages he had a few millimetres of health remaining, I had 100hp and no mp at all. I'd loaded him with DoT spells, which all wore off at this point. He used magic finale repeatedly and removed my regen, spikes and enthunder. He hit me once, twice, I'm down to 20hp. I landed a couple of scythe hits and he was looking rough too. He missed, missed again, I hit, he started playing requiem (AARGH!) then I hit with a critical and killed him! Thrilling stuff!

No point trying for my other sahagin buddy having spent manafont, so I went to do other things. 2 hours later Saerik was in the grotto with TH2, so he came along and helped me kill him when he popped, again no drop.

We all went off to do the Bad Seed ENM, with no healer and only five of us we managed to break the record, rubbish rewards though. We all decided at that point to get Rare a florid stone and go to Pso'xja for the other one. I warped to prepare, and I'm back in Norg. What the hell, they don't need me for the farming anyway so back I go to have a look.

The area is clear, there's another camper there now. I take up position to show I intend to compete for it, and the other guy logs off. Two pops later, the NM is back. I wanted to keep manafont for the ENM, and the NM was next to a sahagin that would link, so I didn't claim immediately. I was chatting on the LS, then I notice a high level ninja standing next to the NM drawing his blades. I've never been so fast on the stun macro in my life, must have got him with fractions of a second to spare! No link either, phew! I really chanced my luck, didn't resort to manfont - he could have wiped me out with that knock back attack at any point, but I finished this fight in the red, and got the drop! 1/10 on the rare/ex frog trousers - cheer!

Last night I upgraded my scythe to the 'real deal' version for BLMs (has int and MP boosts) and who better to try it on than the fishmen I was so familiar with, so I ended up back in there. Man I wish I'd had that weapon earlier in the day, I'd have been making sushi!

[mikewl]

A mixed weekend for me, facing the end of my holiday I found it quite hard to fully enjoy my time, however the ENMs were good, except for the Holla ENM, talking of which I think generally performance has been poor lately with them, I think its down to disinterest as we have done them so many times, rushing through and making mistakes.

I think im done with Promyvion ENMs now, time to look towards the 40+ cap ones, especially 70+ as they can drop some good stuff.

On another note, planning a Bugbear NM run soon for the Something or other Sabbots, if you can help and or want to get the Sabbots let me know.

[Tobal]

i'll help, don't need the boots myself as samurai has at least 4 boots(JSE70,relic,Shura,AF+1) better than it to use.

[Tsingtao]

I'm up for the rutter sabatons, have an airtank in my mog house.

As for the promy ENMs, that's why I've decided to stop doing them. We don't do them properly thesedays, people wander off, we get agro, we lose the BC, we used to be 100% on those things but of late its been crap. Its faster xp in parties now, which is pretty crap, we used to be able to do all 3 in about 2 hours. Now we're lucky if we do one, need to have a think about what we're doing if we're going to continue.

[mikewl]

How about an attempt at the Rutter Sabatons tonight, considering its a forced spawn NM it shouldn't take too long.

I am not too sure on what setup we are going to need, I hear the NM has a rough AOE.

[Tobal]

When we did it the last time with Bayan it nearly killed us all, so a proper Healer is required and its gonna cost at least 10k(depending on luck) to teleport our asses into newton. So a standard party setup.

[C']

You should take Moot. He's had an air tank for months now.

[mikewl]

Sure, anyone who needs it is free to join, will ask Moot if he is on later.

[Darwock]

Don't worry, I won't be taking my 'tough as eggshells' level 60 BLM along - I'm just puzzled as I thought the gambling aspect (the 10K tobal referred to) was only to get into the mineshafts, rather than newton movalpolos itself? I got into newton on foot without any problems.

I'm quite intrigued by the 3 man level 60 ENM you can do in there, I'm hoping tsing and tal would like to do this (all entrants have to be the same race) at some point.

[Tobal]

You can get into newton anytime from oldton the problem is the gates at cover both exits, which if your lucky it will allow you to carry on further into newton or zone back into oldtont o operate the switchs to enter the mineshaft(teleporting breaks the stone), to change the gate requires farming/buying/crafting of some item to trade to the furnace on each side of newton(2 gates north and south).

Quickest way to the ??? point is teleport and zone back out to newton for short walk.