Divisor'd

So what has happened since the last blog update? Did some meriting, enough to take h2h from lvl 0 to lvl 5...


What else? Oh yeah....


I got Retribution. It's a cool looking ws, even though I like Spirit Taker in general for stealing mp. But it's still pretty cool and thanks to Mirewen and Gotterdammerung for making it happen.

Most importantly, my small little assault group (myself, Mirewen, Gotter, and Cami) has been having a lot of luck with the Azure Experiments assault...



I think that speaks for itself. We got both of the really awesome items in the span of a few days. Grats to Mire for her sexy boots and grats to me for one of the coolest items in the game! I'm still shocked I actually got it. :o Now to get 3 more of each!

Mirewen's been having a really good streak of luck lately too! In addition to the Ataractic Solea, she also got a Cleric's Briault from dynamis and well, I think this really speaks for itself...

Pants!!!

We'll start out this entry by calling out a liar. By name. That's right, I'm calling you out... COO KEJA THE UNSEEN!


You can claim to be "unseen" all you want to, but I totally saw you. Lying piece of crap. Oh right, pants. Well, we did Dynamis-San d'Oria last Saturday and I picked up another swell piece of MNK relic...


Hurray! That'll come in handy since I don't have Byakko's Haidate, right? The next Dynamis we did on Tuesday was Xarcabard and lo and behold.... MORE PANTS!


Hurray, another pair of pants! I took a brief vacation from acquiring pants to do some other random things in the meantime. I helped Mirewen out with learning Black Halo (grats again!) while also managing to get my staff skill high enough for my staff trials weapon. I also finished up the ZM16 fight I never got around to doing (gonna do slivers tomorrow and try to get AN done!). Dinged 55 bst off of xp scrolls so now whenever I finally decide to level it for real I'll have Rampage! Oh and also did some meriting... did enough meriting for 7 merits which continued the lullaby recast path for me.


Oh right, one more thing. I also picked up one more pair of pants....


This one was a bit unexpected, but after CashTheVain went 3/5 on haidate drops today from some very very generous Byakkos I picked up the 3rd pair of these that dropped. Thanks to everyone in CtV for helping me get my hands on these bad boys!

New toys

Well, not a whole lot to report in the past few days but I did get a few new toys yesterday so I thought I'd toss together another quickie update.

First of all yesterday started off with some light meriting. I whipped out the ol' bard since I'm really wanting a few key pieces of gear before I use mnk in cannon pts. PT'd with Mirewen and Gotter again along with Milgard, Godofdeath, and some horrible gimptard MNK whose name isn't worth remembering (gogo Arhat's gear?!). Merited enough for 3 merit points. I decided the next thing I'd merit after scythe is Lullaby recast since I'll probably be brding it up most of the time for my merits.


Afterwards we (being myself, Mirewen, Gotter, Milgard) joined up with Tailss to help Mirewen get Savage Blade. There ended up being some goofy drama here that isn't worth mentioning really, just silly things involving a group that followed behind us and mooched off our opening the Altepa Gate. I took some SSes of the fight and of her using Savage Blade but all of them look horrible for some reason. :/ I'll try to snag a good pic soon and edit it in or something.

After that, I spent a little bit of time in Sea with Gotter and we got me my 10 xzomit organs I need for Soil Gorget for Asuran Fists. All I need is the yovra organ now so I'll have to bug Cami about that. Took a break from the game after that until it was time for Dynamis-Jeuno in Encore. The run was disappointing in that we only got 3 relic and maybe 160 or so total coins despite owning most of the zone (where oh where have our THFs gone?!). However, the third relic that dropped was Melee Gloves, and I had no counterlotters.


Huzzah! I still really want the legs, but now I can do some pretty nice Chakras having this piece and Genbu's Kabuto, Bibiki Seashell, etc.

Finished up the evening hanging out with Willian and Cami. First we went and keeled Tres Duendes again, and he finally put out with a decent drop for a change. My lotting power was strong today so I picked them up...


These will really come in handy when I resume soloing on PUP again in the near future, as well as for anything level capped on MNK. Finished the night off helping Cami duo his SAM af helm bcnm thing against three demons. Was pretty easy after the first one went down.

Oh, and apparently I somehow totally forgot to post this in my last entry, but I also got another nice MNK toy back on Saturday...


Thanks to CashTheVain for helping me pick that one up. Byakko's Haidate, here I come!

75 MNK

Thanks to the Anniversary Ring (R.I.P :/), Mirewen and I quickly went from 72 to 75 the past couple days.



Also picked up an extra merit point so I got this too.


Ayup.

All subbed out

Whelp, I dinged 37 on my COR today which means I've reached my goal of getting every job to 37.


Such a beautiful sight! Though I have no idea now what I'm going to do as my next goal. I guess I'll try to hit my merits harder since MNK is almost to 75 now.

Also did a bit of meriting today. Got 5 merits, dumped 3 into Scythe skill.


Oh right, it's that time of year when we get to see our various stats. Here's mine:


Guess that's about it. My next entry should be about my fun with Destroyers! Oh, and hopefully about me getting Melee Hose too.

ASURAN FISTS!

Well, first thing I've done since my last update is rank up in assault.

After obtaining my rank, I finally got to snag a toy I've been wanting since it came out, the Perdu Sickle! It's the Maneater of scythes, and I've only seen a couple people using one ever.

Sexy. The scythe isn't a dat mod like the drk outfit, that's what it really looks like. I also got Amir Boots but they are less sexy so no pic of that. They are awesome statwise though!

I also got RNG up to 37 since the last update. I did the last 3k or so on xp scrolls so a lvl 36 ss will have to do!

I look cute in Noct gear. Oh well, I get to see it a bit longer as I work on COR and finishing up my getting all jobs to 37 silly idea.

Speaking of levelling up, Mirewen and I got our MNK/BRD combo up to lvl 71 yesterday! Hurray!

Of course, lvl 71 means unlockable weapon skill! And unlike most jobs, MNK actually has a really good and useful one! I get my 300 ws points that night and this morning, some solo and some with Willian's help. Right as I'm turning in my trials weapon I get a tell from Crosis asking me to merit. I really want to get my ws unlocked but I also know my DRK needs meriting asap so I can start on MNK merits. So I ask if he can help w/ Asuran Fists after meriting and he says sure np so I suit up BRD and merit it up. Got 4 total merits in the pt, giving me 6 total which I dumped into Scythe skill for drk.

After the pt most of us went to the Bost[tab] and made short work of the nm. Thanks to Crosis, Livvy, and Silfer for lending a hand there. I hurried my way over to Bastok afterwards and...

Hurray! I haven't used it yet, wanted to wait till I xp again so it'll feel fun and new the first time I use it. Plus I want Mirewen around to see it!

Monthly update, lol

Looks like I went a month without updating. Oopsie. As per usual, instead of trying to remember every single thing I did I'll just try to post a few highlights, with pics as appropriate.

XPXPXPXPXP

So I did some xping since the last update...

MNK 53->68
BLU 27->37
DRG 26->37
RNG 24->29

MONK

MNK is still a blast, and enjoying it so much more since I'm staticing with Mirewen and we always have a great time together. It was even better since the last update because we pted with several fun people multiple times, including Cursed, Shyrra, Neosquall, Shillo, Myrrh, Phraust, and so many more. Great times and amazingly fast xp were had by all!





Dragoon/Blue Mage

So these were both finished rather abruptly. A couple days ago I was 33 drg and 34 blu. My bud Demonknightx asked if I wanted to pt on my drg when I was about to seek so I was cool with that. We built a pt that ended up being an all-night marathon pt that took me from 33 to 37. It was crazy, it lasted seemingly forever, and I got to retire the polearm and Knirps at least for now.


Inspired by this, I decided to hurry with Blue Mage so I could start selling off that gear. So the next day I went out and got Digest solo then Dual Wielded my friend Willian's account to learn Pinecone Bomb from the Treants in Batallia then seeked pt. Well once again I get into my second amazing Garlaige pt in as many days at straight shoot from 34 to 37!

Huzzah! Two jobs down and two to go! So not wasting any time....

Ranger

This actually happened today. I seek pt for literally 4 seconds and get a pt invite that mentions a pl. That'd be silly to turn down, right? So I get into a nice morning-long xp pt that goes from Yuhtunga to Yhoator in style, constant fun chains and such. Went from 25 (dinged 25 the night before) to 29.


Everything Else

First of all I have to thank Cami and Malika for helping me out in acquiring my Dune Boots for my MNK. It was an epic trio battle and it ended with me dying post Benediction and the nm barely dying afterwards. It was crazy and a whole hell of a lot of fun. One of the most exciting battles I've done in a long time really.



On a lighter note, I was helping Mirewen get her Minstrel's Coat (which somehow I forgot to screencap :/) and afterwards I went to Norg for a job change and pulled off another Lady Luck win, my 5th in my FFXI career.

I'll end this longass update with a little dynamis fun.


We ended up doing Dynamis-Bastok on Saturday and the drops were falling like crazy. I snagged my first piece of MNK relic and also got Saotome Kote for whenever I decide to do SAM (nice to already have the best piece!). Didn't snag a SS of the Kote since it was near the end of the run, but as you can see from that epic lot pool, the zone wasn't holding out on us.

Just a few funny SSes I saw when clearing out my SS folder to finish up this post.


Good time for that mp stone!

Cami tries to sell me into slavery. ; ;

PANTALOOOOOOOOOOOOOONS

Time for another update. Guess we can start with the xping.

Since my last update I've taken jobs to the following:
MNK 47->53
BLU 24->27
DRG 21->26

Of course, hitting MNK 50+ meant it's time for AF and thus Mirewen and I went and did our AF2 quests together.



Mine was really easy. Just had to kill some weak orcs and deal with crowd control links. Her's was a little harder and we had to get some backup to help us get it done.


We've also gotten our lvl 54 AF already, and gotten our coffer keys for lvl 56 as well. MNK/BRD is progressing very well!

Done a few other things too.


Finally made my way up the ranks of the Assault world again. Just have one more rank to go. Since my static only meets on sundays, I plan to start going with another group on Thursdays as well. Hopefully that will expidite the process a bit. I'm wanting to hit the next rank so I can try out the new scythe they added in the update.


I also got bored and started going through some of my quest log just doing random quests that I never got around to doing. Even though quests really have nothing tangible to offer me anymore, I still love some of the little stories that most people miss out on with their focus on gear and gear alone. Oh well, I'm a quest whore so more for me!


Last and certainly not least, I FINALLY acquired the one piece of relic that I've wanted every since I started doing Dynamis ages ago, my Cleric's Pantaloons! Even though I'm currently not even doing end-game activities right now, I still am really glad to have a pair of these finally.

Just a bit more xp, nothing serious

Gonna try to update more often again so I don't go for weeks without updating and miss any good stories or whatever.

Started off on the 16th xping on BLU. I get invited to a pt that looks pretty promising and even has a bonus PLer which isn't really necessary but whatever, I wanna hurry and get these jobs to 37 and be done w/ them. However, 2 fights in and we get this!



wtcrap! Er anyway, the NIN and the PL (who was the same person dual boxing) never came back, so we're left without a tank. Being the resourceful fellow I am, I go swap to /WAR sub and come back and tank for a while. It goes okay, with Cocoon up I don't really take much damage. Members come and members go, eventually we get a PLD and I don't have to tank anymore. I make it about 1/3 of the way into lvl 23 and then the pt disbands.

At that point, I am without Poison Breath (lvl 22 spell from hounds) and Soporifc (lvl 24 spell from flytraps) so I figure I'll go pick those up. I start off going to Carpenters' Landing to solo some flytraps there. About about 15 of them, 3 or 4 of which used it, I picked it up. Hurray! After that, I chocoboed to Gusgen Mines to fight some Bandersnatches (kekeke) for Poison Breath. This turned out to be a bit annoying as they have one move (I forget the name offhand) that gives you the Virus status where you can't rest hp/mp and it lasts forever (10+ minutes). Luckily I only got hit with it twice and after the first use of Poison Breath I learned it! I noticed I was only about 1k from 24 at that point so I went to the skeleton mobs near the entrance and Bludgeon'd the crap out of them to hit 24.


That leads to today. I started today off by majorly oversleeping and entering Dynamis-San d'Oria late. I need nothing from the zone, but I try to attend every run regardless so I hurried my ass there asap after waking up. Turns out I picked up some relic afterall when these went to freelot. I waited and waited for someone higher level to lot and no one did so I laid claim to them. I'm wanting to level SMN anyway, so might as well since no one else wanted them.


After Dynamis, I made dinner and wasn't really sure what if anything I'd be doing for the rest of the day. Turns out Mirewen's evening was free so we went ahead and built a pt for our MNK/BRD static.

Everything seemed perfect. The pt setup was NIN, MNK, BRD, WAR, RDM, BLU. We went to fight Rumbles in the Crawlers' Nest and the camp was wide open. But unfortunately for us, the two most important facets of the pt, the tank and the main healer, both totally sucked. Everyone had to ask repeatedly for the RDM to Refresh them, he would wait abnormally long times to Cure if he even did, he would Curaga himself when no one was near him, etc. The NIN failed at holding hate and at Provoking, usually leaving myself and the WAR and BLU to tank.

The NIN decided to log to try to remove some lag. At this point, I was pretty frustrated with the pt in general and, with the pt's approval, decided to replace the NIN with a PLD that was seeking. The NIN eventually came back and I told him we repped him so he left, didn't seem overly bothered about it. Once the PLD joined, things got much much better. The RDM eventually started refreshing without asking (sometimes) and the PLD was really good at holding hate, so I could go nuts on the mobs without having to worry about pulling hate too much, and Counterstance and Dodge took care of the occasional hate pulling. We went from 45 to 47, and there was much rejoicing. Yay. MNK is fun, I'm already putting out some pretty high numbers even at this level..


Afterwards, I still wasn't overly sleepy so I suited up DRG in hopes of getting it up closer 25 (that's when BLU and DRG both get their next gear upgrades). I get an invite pretty quickly but the pt just sucks. Nothing worth talking about, and after 2 hours of pting I don't even get 3k xp total and disband still at lvl 21. Oh well, off to bed I go.

Long Time No See!

Howdy folks, looks like I kinda forgot to update this thing for a while, lol. Rather than try to recall everything I've done in the past 1.5 months, I'll just post some random screenshots that highlight the more interesting stuff with some really brief summaries!

Chocobo Fun


IndigoRhapsody as a teen, and most importantly, she's BLUE! Turns out she's pretty smart too. I wanted to get her Gallop for max speed boost and well, on Day 27 of raising her...


Ding ding! Now I have her going hardcore on strength and endurance. She's gonna grow up to make me so proud..! *tear*

Speaking of growing up...


Here's her now, just freshly in adulthood stage. Hope she enjoyed that Better Than Average receptivity cause it won't last much longer when I work on nonstop str/end, lol.

XP Fun

As mentioned before, I plan to take every job to lvl 37 at least. Well, I've made some pretty good progress on that. Since the last update, I've done the following:

MNK 31->45
PLD 30->37
DRG 13->21
BLU 13->21

So here's some random screenshots from those pts that look nice.











That's it for now. It hasn't been a terribly active period of time. There were some other things mixed in, but either I don't have SSes or they just aren't worth typing about, lol.