Final Fantasy XI Then...

[C']

Haha, also forgot to say, for those who were around yesterday evening, I found the missing CD

Was in bed thinking about what could have happened to it and had the idea to check the other FFXI soundtrack CD cases on the off chance I?d put it in there and lost the corresponding CD (replacing the add on soundtracks would be a lot easier than the original Ltd Edition OST). Sure enough I open the Rise of Zilart soundtrack and the missing disc almost falls out on to the floor with the Zilart CD behind it.

Panic over

[Darwock]

That's weird, at level 75 you xp on the same mobs in Caedarva Mire that we do at level 68-70... presumably it's all about quick kills then cos surely the xp rewards would be tiny (Jnun's were giving us low xp at 70).

Need to tell the story of the Prehistoric Pigeons KSNM30 I got involved with on Saturday night. You couldn't dream up these situations. Yenyoju was asking something about it on the LS, this jumped out at me because that's where you can get the best BLM scythe (other than Garuda's sickle) - rare/ex Gravedigger. I said as much and that I would be up for it any time when I had a few more levels as I really want this weapon. 10 minutes later Yen said I had a spot on this run if I wanted it, so I was there in a flash. I had hopes that there would be someone who already had the scythe or didn't want it, to raise the chances of being allowed to lot if it should drop. No such luck, everyone wants it.

5xBLM and a RDM to handle the sleeping. On the way there one of the BLMs d/cs. 20 minutes later he isn't back, we're all in the shrine ready to go so we decide to try with 5. RDM loses the roll and goes first. This was very lucky for the rest of us, because the RDM didn't understand the concept of manaburn - he ran up and put them to sleep immediately before we nuked >< that totally put us on the back foot. They woke up before we cast, RDM once again slept before we cast, half our nukes only hit half the mobs, we wiped.

Being a pick up group I thought it would end there, but amazingly we kept it together - the RDM asked if they could go get another orb, and we agree to wait. He comes back with a 6th BLM, who isn't bringing an orb but wants lotting rights on the Gravedigger in exchange for his help. Bah!

This time it goes a bit smoother, it's not clinical but we killed the mobs, notable rewards were D ingot, O ingot, Coffinmaker (awesome looking rare/ex gun). Our newest BLM asks for this as well, someone else wanted it too but he kicked up a fuss and then won the lot anyway. Not sure I'm entirely happy with that situation, but hey-ho.

Next run, again half the nukes miss and we wipe again after 2 of the birds have died, luckily far enough back that we could reraise and finish the job. Party leader Hammtaru is calling the nuke times and he's not giving us quite enough warning, so we ask for a couple of extra seconds and he takes note. Rare/ex great katana, D ingot, O ingot.

Next again, Hammtaru is calling much better and this time it's perfection. Nuke, sleep, nuke.. they all die on the spot without any of us having taken hits. Another D ingot, another katana.

Now our original d/cing BLM has appeared back in the shrine, and he wants back in on the action. So we're now looking at doing 7 runs in total.. my state of mind is not particularly good given the total lack of scythe drops, the flaky wins & numerous deaths, and now we've changed members after finally getting the technique perfect etc... I keep losing the randoms and the RDM gets his second go before me, then it's Yenyoju... still no scythes, another D ingot though. Not for Yenyoju who gets rubbish drops... typical story, it's the Rargh members who lose out. Now it's my shot. I get up on the burning circle and I'm about to trade when Hammtaru goes "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" I'm like ?... and he goes "HAHAHA MY KEYBORAD IS BROKE" I say "you typed that OK" and he goes "I'll f*&k you up bitch!" at this point we're all like WTF, and Yen is saying to me on the LS do NOT trade the orb. This spacker tells us he is Hammtaru's friend and is working the keyboard while Hamm is in control, I wouldn't have a problem with that if it wasn't for the fact Hamm was calling the times, and also we can't risk having spam in a manaburn. This dude tells us he knows what to do he's a level 14 BLM, so all the evidence tells me he's a complete retard. I refuse to go in until Hamm has his keyboard back, we're standing there for like five minutes and everyone is getting pissed off... Hamm claims he's back and Yen asks him about something that came up earlier in the night.. he answers correct so I trade and we go in. The moment I'm in the arena all I see is HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ><

This is my orb, I'm not having it screwed up so I tell everyone that I'll be calling the times... I see most people saying OK apart from this dude who is moaning that it's his job. So we start, and when I call the time I see 3 different times appear in the chat log from different people. By some f*&king miracle we all landed our nukes at around the same time, and the birds are back to sleep. Next call, same story.. multiple choice nuking - this time we all pick differently and 1 bird is left alive.. someone got it asleep but then Hammtaru woke it up with Drain.. as a result it killed 2 of our team before someone got a big enough nuke out to kill it. Now I'm really ****ting myself.. the chest is there and I'm alive but Hammtaru's mate is clearly in control of more than the keyboard, and is also the party leader - he's just been responsible for 2 deaths and the entire party is arguing with each other. Not to mention we've had no scythes and everyone wants it.

Everyone had left the arena except me but I was not popping that chest until the situation calmed down... I asked for party leader a few times and didn't get it, but then I got given QM instead. So i'm like.. f*&k it.. and opened the chest. All I saw flashing past was "Darwock obtains a Gravedigger"... can't describe the emotions, lol.. usually when everything goes so wrong EVERYTHING goes wrong; that was a freaking miracle of luck. Not only that but I also got rare/ex Evoker's boots which I didn't even know existed, but would surely have wanted them if I'd known. No D ingot for me but frankly I don't care, rare/ex beats gil every time.

Back in the shrine and all the worry & nerves turns into serious anger... I can't believe this Hammtaru tosser would screw around with someone else's orb like that by handing control over to a complete twat.. I told him to go f*&k himself, blisted and left the party.. apologised to the d/c BLM who was up last but I'm f*&king furious, he says it's cool, he's done it 10 times before anyway and is sure they can win with 5.

Yen told me after that it was another messy one, but they beat it and got another D ingot. 5 in total from 7 runs, can you imagine if that had been an LS share? Anyway, I really couldn't care less.. gravedigger woo!!! The fact I got it is almost as good as the fact Hammtaru didn't, heheh... justice!

[talizker]

Nice one D. Always nice to see a result after going through some cr@p. The situation sucks mind, I bet you were fuming!!!

Fairly poor weekend for me. Decent Exp party on Friday night at Boyahda Tree with a bit of an ego boost as the Party leader several time mentioned I was the best RDM he had partied with in ages...

Saturday night our party learned that that SE had changed the way Marid work (Chigoes no longer give Exp), so after wasting over an hour in a party setup up to take Marid's, no other invite was forthcoming and the LS pretty much dead, so logged about midnight. With no CoP and after a week of late night Exp Parties with not nearly as much Exp as I had hoped for it was a non-FFXI night for me last night.

I was also looking to see how I can afford an Enfeebling Torque and Elemental Torque. Even given a sucessful BCNM30 (for me last week), 3.5M seems so out of Gil range for me at the moment ;_;

So tonight probably back top Exp'ing. Would quite like to do some Assaults as well although I think LS folks are generally doing these earlier in the evenings now - I need 8000 points fromMamool Ja Training Grounds for that Neck piece.

Congratulation on your Maat fight as well D - you are on a serious high at the moment ^_^

[Darwock]

Thanks mate! Yeah don't worry good fortune never lasts.

I was also looking to see how I can afford an Enfeebling Torque and Elemental Torque. Even given a sucessful BCNM30 (for me last week), 3.5M seems so out of Gil range for me at the moment ;_;

I had to sell a lot of my lower cap gear (including a couple of my favourite items) to sort myself out for 65-70, figured now we're on to 60 cap fights for CoP anything lower will just have to go ; ;

There is still that bowyer ring fight remember although the price on it has fallen.

So tonight probably back top Exp'ing. Would quite like to do some Assaults as well although I think LS folks are generally doing these earlier in the evenings now - I need 8000 points fromMamool Ja Training Grounds for that Neck piece.

I still need lots and lots of assault, it's getting to do it that's hard as most people have now caught on that a trio give better rewards, anything more is a leech... hopefully that will be fixed with the update.

[C']

Firstly, that story is horrible but at least it had a good ending. I do very little in this game outside the LS for 2 reasons. The first is fear of screwing up which is my main stumbling block to joining a Dynamis shell (and I really want to do that). The second is idiots like you mentioned potentially stuffing things up. I have got over 2 stacks of Kindred Seals now and am desperate to use them but the thought of having potentially expensive drops taken by a jealous leader who got crap. I realise that the idiots in this game are far outnumbered by the genuinely honest players but usually it?s hard to tell who the dicks are until it?s too late.

Anyway, I realise you manaburned it on that attempt but what do you think is the likelihood of completing it with a more regular setup? Like I say, I have an overabundance of kindred seals right now which I want to use. Partly in the hope of making some gil but also because I am keen to own the Coffinmaker (gun) and Michishiba-no-Tsuyu (great katana) both of which are the best examples of the respective class that a NIN can use. I suspect from the name of the battle and the overabundance of Damascus Ingots that they are Greater Bird type mobs? If so, they aren?t ideal NIN tanking material but I?ve managed in the past.

As for Caederva, yes, it is all down to fast chains. Imps and flies check in the Tough ? Very Tough range so have a decent base EXP but Jnuns are usually reserved for late in the chain so they get a multiplier bonus and when nothing else is available.

[Darwock]

I don't see why a regular set up wouldn't work, they can surely be slept and picked off one at a time a la BCNM60.. yes they are greater birds, all bard types but I only ever saw one singing at any particular time. All I can say is they hit black mages very hard.

Yeah that Michishiba was the GK that dropped, we got 2 of them.

As for screwing up in Dynamis, don't worry about it! I made that Firaga III blunder on my first run, people just laughed it off, and on Saturday one guy's actions led to a complete wipe but nobody slagged him. It was actually funny - he engaged an Orc NM, it gained TP and subsequently charmed an entire BLM party (of which I was a member - one of my other ambitions fulfilled!). We all turned on one of the paladins who actually had to use invincible to stop us beating him to death with our staves, lol.

[C']

As for Assault I am interested in completing Leaujoum Cleansing or Excavation Duty (both of which I have cleared and would be doing for points) or Imperial Agent Rescue (to have it cleared allowing me to move on).

[talizker]

I had to sell a lot of my lower cap gear (including a couple of my favourite items) to sort myself out for 65-70, figured now we're on to 60 cap fights for CoP anything lower will just have to go ; ;

Yeah, I was looking at doing this but really the only piece I have that is worth a decent amount of Gil is the Penitant Rope which I can't really part with as it is used all the way to Lv75.

The dilemer comes from the Enfeebling Torque. Its only +2 above the Spider Torque but not having that along with the insanely priced Enfeebling Earing, means I will effectively be -5 on what I could be for Enfeebling Skill. In some parties I am in now I am really finding when I level I do struggle to land Enfeebles until I gain the 5 odd levels to cap it out again so +5 is likely to make a big performance difference.

[talizker]

I am also trying to get my equipment sorted and skills capped ready for Maat. As far as I understand, the RDM fight is a particulaly tricky one. I do need to look at buying an Elemental Torque as well as obtaining the Moldavite Earring to increase my offensive spell casting. With 1-1.2M needed for the Elemental Torque, the 2.4M needed for the Enfeebling Torque looks even further out of range.

[Darwock]

You can borrow my elemental torque for it if you like.

[talizker]

You can borrow my elemental torque for it if you like.

\(^_^)/

That would be just awesome. It's certainly something I would like but it is in no way top of the importance list to buy at the moment. I usually only nuke on MB's and to be honest, with my nuke/int build at present, I usually land fully. When casting outside of MB it is much more like to be resisted...

Do you know what level I likely need to be to not agro Gobs near Mysticmaker Profblix? I really ought to take a trip there and check it out...

[C']

Pretty sure I stopped getting aggro in that area around 67-68. It's actually the cockatrice, not eh goblins that aggro the longest.

[Darwock]

I think you'll be OK as you are. They were easy prey but aggroing me at 60. You *should* be able to solo him easily too with stoneskin etc.

[Tobal]

i've got enough KS to do one and im about 5 seals away from a 2nd. Still interested in do many and any assaults but would rather have them be lvl70cap or uncapped if possible just because its easier on equipment.

[talizker]

i've got enough KS to do one and im about 5 seals away from a 2nd. Still interested in do many and any assaults but would rather have them be lvl70cap or uncapped if possible just because its easier on equipment.

I am getting that way myself (prefering Lv70) as much of my equipment is now >Lv60. I am close to Lv67 and trying to push on... but I would be happy playing support in Lv70 Assault whenever anyone want it.