Category: FFXI

My last 2 Haubergeon synth sessions, I broke and lost a damascus ingot each. Just when I got discouraged and about to give up…

2 HQs out of 6 synths! XD

Had a little interest in MNK so I went to camp the NMs for the quest items for Brown Belt. 1/2 on Nue, 1/1 on Dodo, 1/2 on Morbolger. Morbolger drops the item 100% so what I mean by 1/2 is I lost claim on first attempt.

I feel lucky that I finished this in 2 days.

Next, I was asked to help on a Swift Belt run. My friends brought 5 triggers and we fought the Hume one for all 5. No drops on first 3 fights. Drop on the 4th one. So they decide to use to 5th codex for me and it dropped. :o

 

I knew about this belt and that many people were after it. But the 4% haste didn’t feel much to me so I never bothered about getting it. But now that I have it, maybe I’ll borrow dusk gloves when I max out Desperate Blows and see how fast I can go.

Friend says it’s good for my PLD/NIN or DRK with Desperate Blows LV3 + Haste + Walahra Turban + Swift Belt.

I tried it on my NIN last night with my static PT. I borrowed a friend’s Fuma Kyahan(3% haste) too.

NIN AF body (Enhance Dual Wield) + March(Song) + Haste + Swift Belt + Fuma Kyahan = Fun.

Setup was WHM BLM BRD WAR MNK NIN (LV 57-58), camp was just outside Nashmau, fighting birds and puks. Our first hour, we got 7000exp (8000 with empress band). I pulled non-stop, even though the mages had less than 100MP, but somehow we didn’t have any problems.

Grabbed a few LS friends and we went to do the last BC in the Zilart storyline!

Funny thing happened when we arrived at the Celestial Nexus zone. As some of us haven’t cleared this BC before, it was the first time we’ve visited this zone.

Upon arriving, there’s a gate, which we newbies assumed it was for getting into the BC. Turns out it was just a normal gate and you have to go through about 2 of these to reach the actual BC entrance. We stood there for a good 5 minutes wondering where the other members were, until they told us to go in. We laughed.

We never examine the gate for fear of starting the BC prematurely or something.

This last battle turned out to be easy. I guess it’s because back then, there were no merits or people weren’t heavily meritted so it was a challenge.

Setup: NIN/WAR, RDM/NIN, WHM/BLM, BLM/NIN, WAR/NIN, DRK/NIN. Having shadows helps as most (or all?) of the weaponskills the boss uses can be absorbed with utsusemi.

Death by dread spikes. :D

The second form was easily defeated too as he doesn’t have a lot of HP.

Finally finished the Zilart missions. Funny how I finished the Promathia missions first.

Did 2 KSNM99 BCs with my Sky LS on Saturday. This time we challenge "Early bird catches the Wyrm".

Alliance Setup:

Tank PT:
PLD/NIN PLD/NIN NIN/DRK RDM/DRK WHM/SMN BRD/WHM

BLM PT:
BLMx5 RDM/DRK

Melee PT:
RNG MNK WHM RDM SAM THF

The setup was a little different for the first run. We had 16 people on the first run and only 2 BLMs. We still won however, and since it’s the first time for a lot of us, a lot was learned.

For the first round, we took a long time and used 2 chainspell stuns. Because of the lack of BLMs, we couldn’t deal enough damage to get it to land quickly when it flew.

When we finally got it to land, it was facing the entrance (at first it wasn’t) where a lot of mages were, which resulted in a few double/triple deaths as it used dragon breath.

I was the backup PLD/NIN and I think I was probably the only person who contributed least, lol. The main tanks did a great job.

As we get prepared for our second run, a few members switched jobs, and we used COR’s 2HR ability(got lucky) to reset the 2HRs for our RDMs.

2 more members joined us and they were BLMs.

After some discussion we began the second round. It went a lot better and we had very good drops!

Speed belt and wyrm beard! 1/2 on speed belt for us. Both runs we had our THF open the coffer for us.

Nothing much on Sunday. I reached 57 for NIN and can finally put my Hocho(cooking+3) to use! Also got back my Chaos Burgeonet +1. :)

This week, I’ve cut down my FFXI playtime by half. When I get home from work, I avoid logging on unless it’s for the AH or besiege.

And it feels refreshing.

The last 2 nights, I had dreams of FFXI. First night, I dreamt I had uncursed my blood cuisses. Just like that, a short dream.

The second one was more vivid. I dreamt I was a war dual wielding axes. In that dream, I wasn’t just controlling the character, I was the character. I was probably a WAR in the 70s because I had AF legs and feet on and could cast Utsusemi:Ichi and Ni. I was in some kind of BC with a friend.

Back to real life, I haven’t been doing much to improve my character’s skills(merits), equip or levelling other jobs. Just doing lots of crafting to earn gil to buy dynamis currency. This week has been slow. Stuff takes longer than usual to sell.

And speaking of crafting, from some interviews with SE, it seems that SE knows about that there are RMTs in the crafting business. I’m anxious to see what they can come up to fix this problem.