Category: FFXI

This Friday and Saturday was rather fruitful for me. Finally got my Hecatomb Mittens(+7 STR gear) and Culinarian’s Apron on the same night (both shown in this picture). I’m going to start skilling up my cooking skill again! (´▽｀)

Next up was Dynamis-Beaucedine. On 2 occasions I fell asleep and got left behind, but I’m glad no one decided to kick me out of dynamis therefore I managed to catch up before lagging too far behind.

We cleared the boss and I now have access to Dynamis-Xarcabard I think. Not a single DRK relic dropped though. (´Д｀)

Later today, after some good sleep. I tried seeking for an EXP PT. Tried putting a Japanese sentence in my search comment this time. "日本語少し解るのシンガポール人です" meaning I’m a Singaporean who knows a bit of Japanese. No luck.

During the 4 hour waiting period, I did some coding for work. Somehow it feels very stressful having to work at home especially during weekends. /sigh

So I hopped down to Kuftal’s to level my adventuring fellow and skill up axe at the same time. Henrietta (name of my adventuring fellow) reached level 60 today and did a few Tachi:Yukikazes.

After hitting 196 on Axe, it becomes harder to get skill ups so I went down to Gustav to level Great Axe on the lizards there. Before I begin, I went to check and found Wyvernpoacher Drachlox up and running! This is a goblin NM that drops Othinus’s Bow, which seems to be a good crossbow for rangers.

Cast reraise and buffed myself. While waiting for my MP to recover, the exp pt next to me pulled a goblin and it linked with Drachlox. I pulled Drachlox away from them and began fighting it. Had my drk/whm ass kicked in less than a minute. やっぱり一人でソロは無理なｗｗ

Feeling quite exhausted mentally, and with most of my friends not online, I went to fish instead. Seeked advice from a fisherman friend, bought a Halcyon fishing rod and some bait from the Auction House and made my way down to Qufim. Meh, I forgot how fishing went and hit the wrong keys. As a result, I lost my 4000gil bait on first try but good thing I bought a spare.

Pretty poor catches tonight, according to allakazham’s forums, it’s hard to get a catch near 50% moon phases and I just happened to be fishing at 48% moon phase. Oh well, I’ll come back another night…

I honestly didn’t expect it would drop. My Abyss Sollerets in Dynamis-Bastok. So I never bothered when they didn’t ask who wanted the DRK relic feet during the preparations.

But it dropped! I lotted after asking if it was ok and I got it~

Not exactly a useful piece but I still want to collect the whole Abyss set and wear them with my Chef’s Hat. Dark Chef ver.2!

23rd December was the last event of my sky LS, ZenryokuZenkai. With suggestions from a member, I decided that we have another Kirin battle for that night.

About 19 people turned up. I started to get a little worried. But with Coolio’s assurance that we’ll be ok, we went ahead.

Everyone gathered at Kirin’s room. An LS was fighting them so we had to wait. About an hour later, our turn came but unfortunately, during that one-hour wait, one BLM logged off because he wasn’t feeling well and the other fell asleep. We proceeded with 3 BLMs and a total of only 17 people.

Even with the low number of BLMs, we killed the 4 lesser gods surprisingly smoothly with no deaths. Our plan for the melees create dark and light skillchains (depending on which lesser god was summoned) for our BLMs to magic burst was executed swiftly.

After this initial battle, everyone’s morale went up. One of the JPs said "いい感じ" which means "nice feeling".

We very few deaths and mostly from Kirin’s Astral Flow. Nevertheless, we emerged victorious after a one hour battle.

My shoulders ached but damn it felt good winning in small numbers.

Because of the lack of a THF for his Treasure Hunter 2 job trait, the most expensive item Kirin dropped was just an Orihalcum Ingot. ( T-T)

I can’t help it, just want to brag a little, please forgive me! ( >_<)

Black Mage level 52.

Up till now, the most boring part of playing BLM is in an EXP PT. And the most fun part is in BC battles.

I’ve went on an Ouryuu BC and Promyvion-Vahzl BC twice with great success, both either to help friends or for my own progress in the Promathia missions and they’ve been the most exciting battles I’ve had since BLM level 1.

That’s all I want to say today. [XD]

No, not quitting DRK, never will… 

Helped a Tarutaru friend camp Mysticmaker Profblix at Labyrinth of Onzozo. Just 30 seconds before it popped he was spamming "/panic motion" out of boredom. I was quite far from the others so I didn’t pay much attention.

I think that emote alone caught the attention of 10+ others who were camping it too because I managed to get claim with stun, even outclaimed a red mage. (red mages have fast cast job trait, meaning they have a shorter spell-casting time). Profblix went down easily and Xiaoke got his Moldavite earring!

But my point is, no matter how many times one sees it, it’s just hard to concentrate when there’s a panicking taru in front of you.

I’m going to abuse tarus now when camping NMs. So watch out Vana’Diel!