Category: FFXI

Finally San d’Oria Rank 10!

Don’t know why but I’m crazy for merits again.

I’m going to try tanking Kirin’s 4 god summons next so I need all the merits I can to make it through safely.

Need 3 merits for Fealty, seems effective against Seiryu’s radiant breath and aoe paralyze.

Need 20 merits to max out HP. I’m currently at LV4. May just be the last thing to merit.

Need 12 merits to max out sentinel recast. Currently LV2.

I don’t think I can finish them all in time. lol

Anyway, an update on recent FFXI happenings!

Fishing in dynamis-windurst.
I wished I had brought mine. ( T-T)

This dynamis, I had a chance to tank for the last 10 minutes of the event because our main tank was having connection problems.

I had problems holding hate. I left my high breath mantle in my mog safe because I didn’t expect to be main tank. I didn’t have the neccessary macros and don’t know kill priority.

It was a good change though. As I was getting very sleepy from being a tank in the sleepga PT.

NIN NIN NIN WAR RDM BLM

The PT lasted 4 hours and I gained 3 levels!

Later that day, San d’Oria finished 1st in conquest and we redeemed our aketons.

Both of us started FFXI together and it’s almost 3 years. We finished the windurst missions together too.

That’s a fake kraken club by the way.

I’ve been trying to level NIN. Target 57 so I can use Hocho (cooking+3). Maybe 60 just for a nice round number. My BLM is 60 so why not?

So I went on seek for an hour. Got an invite. LV31-32 at Garlaige Citadel, setup was NIN/WAR, MNK/THF, THF/WAR, BRD/WHM, BLM/WHM, RDM/WHM. Notice anything weird?

Well, there’s no support tank.

And Garlaige is too high.

And so I lose shadows very fast and get hit for 90~100.

After the first bat, mages were all out of MP from spamming cure on me. BLM said his nukes all got resisted.

Then for the second bat, it was located across a crack on the floor. Meaning it would take a long way to travel to us instead of chasing the puller directly. So I told the PT to stand by and run. And yea. 2 bat links. I’m surprised because I was expecting more. I told everyone to run but only 1 or 2 ran to zone. Puller died. Someone went to fight the bat that was pulled and so the mages stayed behind to support him.

I went to tank it. Died. Everyone ran to zone. BRD leader probably forced disconnect himself. But I’m damn glad he was killed before the servers kicked him off.

It’s getting very common now.. People faking disconnects to run away from bad PT setups… 

PT disbanded, and I used my friend’s char to PL myself until my empress band effect wore off.

I… may just end up PLing myself again… At least until 37… Or I can also abuse the power of the IME plugin and pretend to be a JP player.

Almost 1am, I’m 70% sleepy so I’ll just put out my results first and analyze them another day.

I have always wanted to know how attack bonus from last resort and food affect each other. So here’s my results and findings.

Last Resort effect meritted to LV3. (+2% each level so +6% more than normal)

As a test, I equipped random armor and achieved a base attack of 400. Used last resort and achieved 482. +82 ATT increase, which is +20.5%.

Meat Mithkabob: +5STR, Attack +22% (Cap: 60@272 Base Attack)

Food	Before LR	After LR	ATT Increase	% Increase
No	467	563	96	20.5%
Yes	530	627	97	18.3%
–	+63	+64	+1	–
–	+1		–	–

So yea, attack bonus from food is added after bonus from last resort.

Since I ate food which I am able to hit the attack cap,
Meat Mithkabob → Attack +22% (Cap: 60@272 Base Attack)
60ATT and 3 more from the +5STR bonus for a total of +63.
Seems like attack bonus from STR bonus is added after the attack bonus from food is calculated.

My next step is to eat a food which I am unable to hit the attack cap and see if the attack bonus from food takes into calculation the attack bonus from last resort or not.

I’ll take results tomorrow, during one of my sky runs. Stay tuned!

Update #1:

Marbled Steak: +6STR, Attack +18% (Cap: 95@527 Base Attack)

Food	Before LR	After LR	ATT Increase	% Increase
No	457	551	94	20.5%
Yes	542	650	108	19.9%
–	+85	+101	+14	–
–	+16		–	–

Cool. With Last Resort on, I hit the attack cap on the food and receive full +95 from food. There’s an extra 6 points of attack, 3 comes from the +6STR of the food. The remaining 3, I have no idea where it came from.

My next and final test, I will use Dragon Steak or Dragon Soup. Both have even higher attack caps, which is 750. Will post results next week!

Update #2:

Red Curry: +7STR, Attack +23% (Cap: 150@652 Base Attack)

Food	Before LR	After LR	ATT Increase	% Increase
No	457	551	94	20.5%
Yes	575	693	118	20.5%
–	+118	+142	+24	–
–	+24		–	–

I chose red curry because of the high attack bonus of +23%. Allakhazam reports the attack bonus to be 24%, but from my numbers, I received 25%.

Got lucky!

Iceday 20:00~20:53
Waning Gibbous (67%)
Facing West, wearing mitts and apron.

Ingredients:

Fire Crystal: 2000g per stack.

Darksteel Ingot:
Darksteel Ore(9000g~10000g), Iron Ore x3 (675g from Smithing Guildsalesroom)
rough average: 12,000g each

Elm Lumber: RMTs buying up all the Elm Logs so I couldn’t try and HQ them myself. Bought a lot of stacks at 24,000g~25,000g.
rough average: 2,000g each

Result:

Darksteel Pick: Bastok NPC buys them at 12,484g, Rank 1 with LV8 Bastok Fame.

About 1,700g loss per synth, which I’m trying to cover by furiously synthing sushi on my main.

Who says DRK is weak? :p

Sneak attack Spiral Hell

Last resort effect LV2, Royal Sautee (+80ATT, +5STR, -2INT)
WS gear: http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/profile.xml?124581

I got to leech on a 75ENM with Tuufless and few other LS mates, but it was too late and I had work the next day so I left while we were waiting for the ice weather to go away.

LV45WHM tanks Jormungand for 2 hits.

Carbuncle tanked Jormungand until it flew

The lag resulting from last month’s quake near Taiwan damaging some underwater telecomm cables are still around. About 0.5-1second of lag. Bad enough for me to miss Radiant Breath stun at Seiryu. /sigh.

Also, I’ve gone as far as to replace the phone lines in my home with CAT5 cables and still, I’m getting ADSL instabilities. I’m going back to bugging my ISP, Singnet, to do more to help solve my problem.

The above 2 has pretty much killed my FFXI experience. And I’ve been spending more time with friends who’ve also bought NDS and have Mario Kart. We’ve been playing together often, cursing each other when they use the red shell, lol.