Final Fantasy XI Then...

[Tobal]

mission 8 was the last mission before the patch, Naja just tell you to be the best merc by doing assaults

mission 9, start with naja (cs start as you get close to her) and she tell you to partol the new ruins area.

[talizker]

Looks like i'm only on Mission 4 (which I will rectify pronto) so won't be able to join you tonight ><

[C']

Going after the mirrors is independent of the missions so you can still do those.

I'll be up for trying the mirrors if I'm not busy.

[angelx]

Regarding the addictiveness. I do feel FFXI has a certain character in it?s design (probably in part due to its Japanese origin) that you don?t get in rival MMORPGs. I genuinely laugh out loud at some of the situations that occur in cutscenes and dialogue. Some of it is really clever and it?s testament to how well it is written and directed that plain text with limited animation routines can so well achieve what it does.

Also, the incidental little touches. The other week I spotted a store in Windurst named Nchaa?s Good Goods that I hadn?t really spotted in 2 and a half years of playing but I found it so amusing and still giggle everytime I go past it now.

Brilliant

The english translators had a lot of fun with names and some text though, like the summoner quest, the chant the taru(is it the taru? it's been a while) does, and fork off always something to make you smile

[C']

I'm partial to the Star Onion Brigade. So funny when the affirmative option to join them was "I was born an S.O.B."

[talizker]

Another poor Exp party ~ man what is it with them since passing Lv65. Its going to take an age just to get to Lv70 at this rate /sigh

[C']

Well we tried the Amphibian Assault BCNM60. I?ve done this a few times a while back (I never donated an orb but was helping Apathye and a few others clear it) and a group of 6 did it a few weeks ago. Both times it has been an easy set of wins.

Our setup was slightly different but was still confident going in but things did not go to plan. Our BLM did not have Sleepga 2 and we had the second sleeper as RDM/BLM. It was only once in the BCNM did it become clear that RDM does not get Sleepga at lvl60. Well it was quite painful with the BLM and WHM falling quite early as the slept mobs woke whilst we were still killing the first one.

Then it looked like we may be pulling it off as we killed the WHM and BRD sahagin and started on the DRG. However the RDM couldn?t last any longer sleeping the MNK and the DRG summoned a wyvern. The rest of the DD fell and I hit Mijin Gakure finished off the DRG (but not the wyvern). The remaining Sahagin (MNK) returned to it?s starting point but the wyvern stayed over us preventing the WHM from reraising which would have allowed us to finish off the BCNM and get something.

It was agreed that the setup wasn?t going to work and abandoned using the remaining orbs.

Guess who used their orb first? ;_;

[Tobal]

sorry about that but it was pretty dam stupid to decided to go in there without sleepga2 or lullaby as its just begging to lose.

Got into an exp party myself, took over an 1hr of travelling to get tot he exp ground and i managed to just rake in over 10kexp in 1-2hrs with the blm leader d/cing every couple of fights.

I've also decide to try and get a Potent belt(mainly for sale its nearly 3m for 10k points, i have 3k at the moment) its part of the worm killing area, which would net you 700-800 for 6/5man party, once a day.

[talizker]

I've also decide to try and get a Potent belt(mainly for sale its nearly 3m for 10k points, i have 3k at the moment) its part of the worm killing area, which would net you 700-800 for 6/5man party, once a day.

[Tobal]

I take that means your in on it lol, well once a day(around 11pm) i try to get as many Ls members as to do it one time, fill in the rest with outsiders.

[Tsingtao]

Doh, how did you maange to find a BLM without Sleepga 2 thats a huge hole in their spells.

I need to find somethign to do right now, still wating for my Dynacore applciation to be approved, no diea how the DynaEclipse runs work seem totally disorganised. No idea of run schedule for August or how to register for runs so I may just ignore them and use Dynacore.

Think at the weekend I will give reaching 74 maybe even 75 a try, would be nice to finish that.

Crafting alst night was hell, I must admit that at times I really do think SE just taunts us. Randomly took 60 odd synths for 2.2 levels witht he last level coming in just 9 synths. Well at least thats 39 leather, when I can sort a magic belt I'll move onto 49.

[Darwock]

Tsing, keep in mind I did the sleeping for all our ZM missions up to sky without sleepga 2 - it is a shockingly expensive (and painful to quest) scroll, not to mention it's barely used outside of BCNMs - I don't think it's too surprising that someone didn't have it, wouldn't call it a huge hole either.

But they definitely needed a back up sleeper to avoid being stuck on a single cooldown timer.

[Daragon]

I wouldn't have called it a huge hole in my "book" either (although it is one I will EVENTUALLY fill)

The majority of fights I have partaken in, many far tougher than that BCNM have been handled perfectly well with ES+Sleepga (even at a level where S2 would have been available) which is what I used. Had the mobs not woken up and proceeded to gang bang me in a corner, I maybe have been able to land sleepga again seeing as I had more than capped my enfeeble magic.

I am sorry that the run ended badly, at least now we know what we need to win...

[C']

I would have thought twice about commencing had it clicked earlier that the BLM didn?t have Sleepga 2. Unfortunately I only realised after the wipe that the BLM didn?t have it. As for the RDM, well I think the blame has to rest on their shoulders for not realising what level subjob spells became available as telling us mid battle that they had no Sleepga is pretty much useless. We should have been ok without a lullaby had we had 2 AOE Sleepga casters but we didn?t

I?m afraid I don?t go in for the Sleepga 2 is expensive line any more. It?s 1 million gil at the moment and I have to seriously question any level 75 character who is not able to make 1 million gil on their own.

I hate to try and take blame away from myself but I have everything I could possibly have to do my job well at a level 60 cap and the majority of that (bar my Rare/EX katana) has been obtained via my own hard work which is why I refuse to accept ?it?s too expensive? as an excuse. I had equipped a katana for that battle worth many times what Sleepga 2 would cost that is of no use to me in uncapped circumstances but I keep it on me and not sell it so I can be the best I can be for 60 events.

Also, comparing mission battles to BCNMs is not viable as BCNMs are notably harder. More monsters to sleep reduces Sleepga?s effectiveness for a start plus the higher level of mobs.

[Darwock]

I didn't realise it was only 1 million now, that plus the fact Daragon passed level 56 a very very long time ago changes my opinion a tad, heheh. I'd call it a hole if you don't have it by endgame, but at level 60 it's not at all surprising. 60 is just off the back of buying all the ancient magic as well.

Plus it just hardly ever gets used to make it worth buying, if I didn't have it, as long as I didn't volunteer for BCNMs nobody would ever know I didn't have it. That amphibian assault I did a few weeks ago was the first time I've ever used it (other than on a personal whim)