Category: FFXI

To all FFXI players across all FFXI servers,

I wish every one of you a happy new vana year. ヽ(´ー｀)ノ～♪

My last 2 PTs were good. So good it took me from 57→60.

The first one went like this. Initially, I received a /tell asking if I could hold hate. I simply replied that it depends on the PT. Which is true because if you have a trigger happy BLM, it will be difficult to pull hate off him. Turns out it was a BLM PT. Setup was PLD RDM BRD BLM BLM BLM, lv57-59, camp at Cape Terrigan, near beach. Fighting crabs, pugils and raptors.

2 of the NA BLMs disconnected a few times and eventually never came back. We ended up with 5 members. Leader invited another BLM to come before he himself disconnected and never came back. I wasn’t surprised anyway. I’ve heard complaints about those 2 players, years ago from people in my linkshell.

It turned out to be pretty good with 5. I was puller and I never stopped pulling. BLMs became conservative on MP and we could hit chain 4 with as high as 280exp once. Throughout every fight I healed myself and so could hold hate very well. 1MP from auto-refresh, 3MP from RDM’s refresh, another 3 from BRD’s 2x Ballad for a total of 7MP/tick.

The whole PT lasted 5 hours. We had a short break after the first hour and went non-stop for 4 hours. Total EXP gained was around 20K. Shoulders ached a little after this PT.

Next day, ls mate Sollanon made a PT with PLD SMN BRD BLM RNG BLU, lv59-60. Camp at
Aydeewa Subterrane. Crawlers and Spiders. The first 5 minutes were rough. But after everyone gets used to it, it pretty ok. Chained up to 5 and without empress band, we got EXP as high as 390s. This includes a slight sanction bonus from having Astral Candescene safe in Al Zahbi.

In the end I manage to finally hit 60 and wear full PLD AF. Looks cool. [XD]

*begins with a rant*

In my most recent EXP PT as PLD, our leader got all 5 members to go to Kuftal’s. Then proceeded to search for a 6th as we all fight crabs. So he couldn’t get a 6th because people think their asked to replace someone. orz #1

When he finally got someone to come down, he asked the PT to move camp.

As I ran down Kuftal’s I saw a dead body. Then another. Then another. So I used prism powder and just as I finished, Guivre ran past me from behind. I warned everyone in the PT and said to get invis-ed.

But for god knows why, the monk in my PT was running around the place without invis and when Guivre killed him, he died in a place full of monsters that aggro to sound. orz #2

He asked if the spiders aggro blood, I said no, aggroes sound. He asked for a raise which I gave him. He accepted raise while the spiders are still in aggro range. What happens next, everyone should know. orz #3

As everyone stood speechless at the exit to Cape Terrigan. The leader had a connection lost icon. Coincidence? No. He didn’t return for 10 minutes and I am very convinced he disconnected himself on purpose. orz #4

Someone in the PT asked the WHM to raise XXXXXX (monk who died). The WHM replied "who is he?". mega-orz #5

In the end, the monk got his high level WHM friend to come raise him as I told everyone we should disband. It’s late and not worth continuing anymore.

The whole PT lasted an hour. EXP gained: 1400. TNL:1600. orz #6

*end of rant*

So last night, I didn’t get any invite by 10pm. And with this recent bad experience with NA PTs, I gave up seeking and switched to my DRK, subbed RDM, bought a stack of pickaxes and went to explore the Halvung areas. (was also hoping to mine up those expensive ores)

Wyred’s GREAT BALLS OF STEEL ADVENTURE!

First off, setting my search comments…

Mining in a small room with 3 Trolls moving about. And I pulled this off twice without dying!
Excitement.

The results of that night. Exclude the linksack/linkpearl.

I travelled to Vozold Island, I decided to head to Navukgo Execution Chamber to see what’s there.

Behold what I found on the island!

Not a NM. There’s quite a few of these running around.

Entrance into Navukgo Execution Chamber.

Guess what I found inside.

 

 

*drumroll*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Decorative Bronze Gate. >_>

"Looking closely at the surface of the gate, you can see what appears to be the imprints of a Troll’s fist". wtf?

The whole area is designed like a BC area. No map, a second door that’s unaccessable because it’s up on a cliff.

Maybe they’ll add new BCNM/KSNM/ENM fights, or maybe these are for future Aht Uhrgan missions.

Disappointed, I warp back.

Finally hit 50 on PLD. It’s been fun and exciting so far. Not a single boring moment during EXP PTs.

But getting an invite is beginning to be difficult. I thought I could get better invites than on my DRK because it’s a tank job but as long as there’s a NIN out there within my level range seeking, he would always get picked first.

Give me a COR or RDM or even better, both in my PT and I can perhaps keep myself healed without a WHM’s help and even hold hate well.

Can’t wait to get 60PLD just because the PLD AF looks cool. 

Perhaps I was really lucky. Getting the last 1 skill for 100 cooking took me a really short time.

After retrieving ingredients from my cooking mule, I decided to give it a try at skilling up on cursed soup. Headed down to Crawler’s Nest and started farming…

At first I thought royal jellies were rare/ex,
so I slept my link and used the first jelly before killing the link.

When I first tried farming royal jelly for a windurst quest, it took me an hour just to get one. But this time, I farmed up about 10 in 3 hours. Perhaps it’s because I’m 75 DRK and it makes killing those bees faster.

Gotta love it when things like this happen. 

In the end, I got a total of 0.6 for cooking.

Next day, I decided to use the 7 pieces of dragon meat I’ve been saving. It also happened to be Full Moon phase.

First synth broke ( >_<)  But a nice 0.2 on the second and third synth.

Then I ran out of dragon meat. At this point, I was 99.9 at cooking. So I bought a piece of dragon meat from the AH and…

Mua hahahahaha!