Category: FFXI

Out of curiousity, I bought this magazine at Bugis Junction’s Kinokuniya for $25. But it’s actually a guidebook because it has maps and teaches a lot of stuff about the new Aht Uhrgan expansion.

Anyway, on the second page, it showed a list of FFXI characters and their names, I noticed the name Kitty, for hume face:

I have a very strong impression of this guy because he wears his subligar (FFXI underwear) most of the time I see him.

Then I looked at the other names and I recognized them! Peaberry, Littlejon and then Bros, whom I’ve partied with recently with his COR.

Then I remember my JP friends who once referred to one of the players as "旅団の人ですね". Back when we were doing our Promathia missions in Ru’Hmet.

I feel a little proud to be on the Odin server. [:D]

My social LS Doom had a fenrir’s battle done yesterday. Originally, the setup was NIN NIN DRK WHM BLM BRD. But one of the NINs had connection problems so I pestered my leader a little to let me come. The WHM switched job to NIN so the new setup was NIN NIN DRK DRK BLM BRD.

The plan was to do Blade:Ten -> Spiral Hell twice and BLM MBs on both. Outside the BC, we used sleeping potions and opo-opo necklace for 300%TP.

The result:

Only less than 1 minute into the battle.

Adrenaline rush!

New pet wolf.

Ta-daaa!

274 days from the date of this post. I also chose to have it accessible from all over vana’diel.

About 57 Imperial Bronze Coins traded. [XD]

To spam trade, use the following lines in your macro. Works for 1 item trades only.

Stand in front of the mog locker NPC, hit the macro, and press enter when you see the blue cursor over it. 

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Dark Knights can now Absorb-TP! But knowing SE, I won’t be surprised if we only absorbed 5~10% TP…. Let’s just see how it goes. It better be a scroll sold by an NPC. If it drops from a NM or something, it’s going to be sold by the millions. ( >_<)

And, we get a few other Job Traits and Abilities! Let’s take a look…

1) Dark Seal – Job Ability – 15 min recast
Like Divine Seal and Elemental Seal, this improves the accuracy of our next dark magic.

But what the heck? A recast of 15 minutes? Isn’t the recast for Divine Seal and Elemental Seal only 10 minutes? Anyway, I’m only going to spend 1 level on this.

2) Diabolic Eye – Job Ability – 15 min recast
Reduces Max HP and increases accuracy.

Looks good. But I rarely have problems hitting VTs now. May need sushi for ITs. Perhaps this is more useful for HNMs? Going 1 level on this.

3) Muted Soul – Job Trait
Reduces enmity by 10 when using Souleater.

The last few times I used souleater in sky, I didn’t get hate because of good tanks. I think I’ll pass on this. I’d like to go for more damage.

4) Desperate Blows – Job Trait
Reduces delay for 2-handed weapons when using Last Resort. Lv1 reduces delay by 5%.

Last resort lasts like 15 seconds? A really short duration. Not sure if this is even worth spending 3 merits on. But I’ll let other DRKs test it and hear their comments through KI forums first. Heh heh.

If Diabolic Eye turns out to be "not so impressive", I may just max out Desperate Blows and merit Last Resort recast. My aim is ultimately: MORE DAMAGE!

On the other hand, RDMs seems to get very good spells like Phalanx II and Bio III… If the effect is good enough, maybe we’ll see RDM tanks too? But only at lv 75.

BLM gets tier 2 ancient magic! Maybe they’ll be able to break 3000 through magic bursts?

RNG gets to merit Snapshot job trait! What’s this? Screenshots can now be taken 5% faster?

All in all, it seems like the most exciting update since I first started playing. I hope with Absorb-TP, we DRKs can get exp/merit PT invites more often.

Update!! 

Absorb-TP can be very awesome. Potentially overpowered. It seems to have little to no resists and the amount absorbed depends on how much the target has. I have absorbed 104% from an NM general during besieged.

The 2 new JAs and JTs require 3 merit points for the first level. I still can’t make up my mind as I want to merit dark magic first.