Final Fantasy XI Then...

[Darwock]

Can Utsusemi be cancelled the same way blink can? If so you could try dropping shadows for TP moves alone?

[Tsingtao]

Yeah Utsusemi can be cancelled like other buffs...

[djtickle]

Not a bad night at all last nite manged to complete and attain the below.

6-1 & 6-2
Royal Guards Collar
Sun Ring x2
Goblin Grenade

Im currentley sat on 3 stacks of silk which is worth about 180k towards my new scythe which is 1m ><

Back to farming

p.s i think imps just like Darwock

[Darwock]

The other event of note yesterday.. can't decide if I should be proud or ashamed but we took part in the first ever defeat of Al Zhabi, and as a result the astral candescence has been pinched and taken back to Arrapago Reef. There were only around 350 people when the fight started, and the number of enemies was overwhelming - normally you have to run around players to find enemies but last night you had to run around enemies to find players.

I really hope the orb gets returned soon so the invasions start up again, besieged is just awesome and possibly pips garrison in terms of the most fun I've had in the game. If it was lag-free it would be the best thing ever. I basically start off running around casting bio on any mobs I see, hoping they have picked up at least some hate elsewhere or I'm history, until I find a big group that have got a mob pinned down, then I can try to get nukes through without signing my own death warrant.

It'd be awesome if people were co-ordinated enough to organise mage parties with a single bard each, MP is hard to come by and resting anywhere is not safe. With that in mind I asked for refresh bonus with sanction prior to the fight, but with my auto-refresh I was still only getting 1 per tick. Until after the fight, when I noticed I was now getting 2 - but this was after the astral candescence had been stolen! Can anyone explain?

I also really want to get in a proper fight with mamools or trolls, it's always been undead so far (other than the first troll fight when besieged still wasn't balanced and only lasted 5 mins)

[C']

Can Utsusemi be cancelled the same way blink can? If so you could try dropping shadows for TP moves alone?

It can but you need to take server lag into consideration.

Again I considered this but it?s not totally straightforward.

Dropping Utsusemi is actually a key strategy to blink tanking after getting Utsusemi: Ni. Like all spells you cannot overwrite a higher level spell with a lower one. This means that if you are on Ni shadows, you cannot cast Ichi over the top (the spell has no effect).

What ninjas do is, if they are on their last Ni shadow (and the timer for Ni is not ready) they will start casting Ichi instead. At around 40% cast time if the remaining the shadow is still there they manually remove it.

But I have seen many occasions where just after removing the spell, and still mid-Ichi cast, an attack is blocked by a shadow. Basically, the server still hasn?t caught up with the removal of the shadow.

It?s something worth trying though if I go back.

This could all be pointless anyway. It could simply have been that I wasn?t moving fast enough.

[Darwock]

Not if you didn't move on the stave toss and it broke the door down.

[Tobal]

Tonight I?m going go farm the 2 anima I need for the CoP 5-2, already have a hysteroanima, so just Terror and psycho to go.

As far as plans for the fight, we?ll have 12 ability stopping anima, 4 per mob so 2 uses per mob, and 6 terror which will need to buy time after the current boss we?re fighting dies and the other activates(on 20%hp of current boss), we?ll have wedge kite the new boss till we?ve zerg?d the current boss and then use terror?s till rested.

We?ll need the usual poisons for holla boss, hi-potions and regen drinks.

[Darwock]

So we're not combining farming with an ENM then?

[Tobal]

well im not opposed to that.

[Super_Hss]

is anyone on unicorn server? and can anyone give me a recipe for lvl 3 cooking?

[Darwock]

Pebble soup! 3 (or 4?) flint stones and a distilled water, with a fire crystal ^^

Much easier to ask at the guilds, they give out recipes for free.

[Super_Hss]

okay thanks

cheers mate

[Tsingtao]

The obsses increase in hardness each level so the Dem on level 3 we should be able to do no anima and maybe the boss and level 4, the boss on 5 is supposed to be the hardest and then the 3 NM BC not to bad.

[dataDave]

Just got off the phone to Playonline. Decent support tbh.

Not too sure if I can drag Fallows out of server limbo though due to not sorting out the migration process. I have my old Playonline details back. The guy said to give it a bash anyhow, he did actually retrieve all my character info and used it for ID'ing me so that's a sign at least.

Felt good not to be talking to some Indian who doesn't have a clue what FFXI is.

If Fallows has gone I'm starting again as a Tarutaru WHM/BLM. ;/ I'll have to start in Bastok with my friends... How difficult is it getting ahold of a Windurstan ring? or are the nation rings EX? (can't remember)

[Darwock]

They are rare/ex, but by the time you're rank 4 you can get a windurstian ring using conquest points, that's how I got mine.