Final Fantasy XI Then...

[talizker]

Getting through Ifrit?s Cauldron for the Cermet Headstone was difficult due to the flame spouts but would have been much harder had I gone through with a large group of people. Luckily I went through with 2 other people I knew I could trust and we were able to do the headstone battle once through.

Congratulations and good luck when you get round to the synth again O.o

I asume you have decided to push forward with the ZM stuff on your own at the moment? Shame really as I was looking forward to you joining us on these as you and Tsing always complement each other nicely. If you change your mind be assured that I will step back when we get to the stage that my level may effect the group result.

[vwilsonuk]

I think Rare will be joining back up with the group for future ZMs, Tal. Can't remember which now but I'm sure Tsing mentioned that he would.

Not doing very well on progressing Ninja this week. Last night between taking calls from my estranged cousins over family inheritance legal issues, erecting a seven foot "six foot" Christmas tree and being totally exhausted I didn't manage to get online at all. Have an appointment this evening, not sure how long that'll take, but I doubt that'll be more than an hour. Hopefully I'll get one level in after that.

In the meantime, Tsing is happy to try a BCNM 20 with me subbing BLM on RDM. If you're up for that too Tal we could give it a crack on Thursday? Someone is going to have to explain what happens in this BCNM because know hardly anything right now. If we go in with BLM subbed am happy to use my orb first just in case the gamble doesn't pay off. Haven't ever created an "orb" with my seals before, so I really do know nothing.

[C']

Don?t worry, I?m not risking the synth again. Bayan has bought the cluster from a bazaar and he will give to me in exchange for the 5 individual eyes.

As for ZM, I?m more happy doing my own thing at the moment as I won?t offer anything to the group and I?d be essentially leeching my way through. My equipment setup is built around tanking which I wouldn?t be doing and I can?t afford (in terms of gil or inventory space) the extra equipment that I would need for a DD build.

One thing I don?t like doing is doing missions and not pulling my weight.

[talizker]

In the meantime, Tsing is happy to try a BCNM 20 with me subbing BLM on RDM. If you're up for that too Tal we could give it a crack on Thursday? Someone is going to have to explain what happens in this BCNM because know hardly anything right now. If we go in with BLM subbed am happy to use my orb first just in case the gamble doesn't pay off. Haven't ever created an "orb" with my seals before, so I really do know nothing.

Yeah, happy to give that a go. It seemed almost too easy last time given what we'd heard about it so will be interesting to try it with a slightly different set up.

[Apathye]

Sup, would the following Rare, Tobal, Wedge, Bayan(RNG or WAR) and Mosley(as WHM) we up for a BCNM60. Rare suggested Den of Rancor (so you will be going back there =p more then once), which sounds good to me, good drops too.

If we are all up for it id like to suggest Thursday evening or even tonight at around 7pm onwards. Post a reply or message me on each of your positions regarding this. If we can go ahead with it tonight try read up on the BCNM so we will be better prepared.

Sacrifical Chamber Level 60 BCNM - http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/quests.html?fquest=349

On another note I had to wrestle to drunken idiots two the floor last night as they had decided it would be funny to kick and ruin most of the cars along my street. My car only got the wing mirror knocked of luckly, but one has been ****ed up with massive dents on the passenger door. ****ing retards! Anyway they got the piggies to deal with now.

peace!

Ps. My English teacher got me thinking, how come WHM get raise surly it should be given to DRK or BLM as it raising the dead which is a sin. Obviosly it makes more sence for a WHM to have it but still its funny to think about. hmmmmmm!

[C']

I can do tomorrow but with Utd playing in Europe tonight and Lost at 11pm I don?t plan to be online much.

Tommorrow could be ok but do you think we?d have time to do 6 runs on a Thursday evening?

[Tobal]

not sure about tonight as im being forced back to xbox live for halo2/forza bout with 2 rl friends they been really pissed of with me not playing recently. Thursday for sure.

I have a lantern for the Den now, which i'll keep in my MH for all den events, so i wouldn't mind doing it, the Fomor(feiyin) or Tonberry for the RSE 3 outfits, but tonberry for sure as my hate been reset.

[Apathye]

I think so, should take about 2hours at the BC at most (if all goes well)! So we can only do thursday at the time, if we cant make it then the weekend is good for me, Sat or Sun through the day!

[vwilsonuk]

Can't see the post with the swearing in (company firewall). Unfortunately as I'll be away Friday night and all of Saturday + Saturday night at Tsing's brother's wedding time is pretty limited this week. I'd say I'll be online to help people with BCNM20s on Sunday, but I can't guarantee right now that I'll have time so I'd rather not commit and let people down.

That's the rationale behind Thursday night for me at least. But if people want to do it some other time, or half of us are ok with Thursday and the other half want to do it at the weekend I don't see any problems with that. As far as I'm aware Tsing and Tal are cool for Thursday evening, sounds like Tobal is too.

[Apathye]

Is it visable now!

[Tsingtao]

For CoP I think Wedgemoon and Darwock still need both the NMs on the Windy and Sandy legs. As for ZM5 I killed myself in the Quicksand Caves the other night after an EP antican argoed and linked the whole zone. Not amused, I seem to be dying frequently at the moment in stupd ways I never used to. I think the problem is all the running around is starting to get to me, there's no real challenge to it other than staving off the boredom and benality of the mission.

I am starting to sense a touch of mission burn out in me, I need to get thorugh sky before it gets to much. The anoyance I'm starting to find is that the actual mission BC themselves or the challenge you finally face you get through quite quickly and without to much danger. What you do get to do instead is run for 45 minutes through no agro areas before you reach any challenge. I'm not sure what I'm moaning about to be honest, these aspects are what gives the game the challenge and makes it tough, it's part of the character of the game.

Quite peeved I think that I've effectively lost 10k xp over the last 2 weeks basically due to mistakes related to boredom. Think that could be part of the problem with how busy I am right now I'm finding I'm struggling for time.

[talizker]

What you want to do my friend is bring someone along on the run who has Escape ^^

How many people are we likely to need for the CoP NM's? Could say the two/three of us who need it do it along with a suitable tank.

[Darwock]

I have a bit of an 'issue' with the fact that they've plopped a couple of (apparently) level 60-70 NM fights in the middle of some 40-50 cap missions. It completely defeats the purpose of having the level caps on CoP surely.

[Tsingtao]

The CoP NMs aren't that tough I don't think I could have soloed the windy one but you need a more for reasons you'll soon find out! The one in Sandy was dead before it moved but we did have Tobal with us. Basically for both of them it was Tobal, Hicory and I and none were tough though windy took some thought to beat in the end.

I think I'm not a fan of doing things on my own its not much fun sat whacking at monsters for hours on end on your lonesome, its worse than farming!

[Darwock]

I'm the opposite, I sort of thrive on doing things solo... I think it's probably because the large majority of the player base have a very closed mental approach to the game.. if it's not allakazham approved then omg you're a n00b!

That plus the reluctance I've had in pick-up parties when suggesting we just head out and see what happens - "I prefer to let mysterytour do my adventuring for me" was one memorable comment. Nobody actually wants to *play*, everybody just expects results.