Fun with UFOs

Well before fun with UFOs, I suppose I should mention that I have gotten PLD up from 24 last entry to 30 now. Did some Jailers, did some Assaults, did some Dynamis, all that jazz. Nothing particularly interesting to note from those. So that leads in to today...

After dinging 30 PLD Cami sends a tell saying he wants yovra organs. I need 2 myself so I find a replacement and head out to sea. Ul'yovras are old news for us and we duo two of them without a hitch. No organs drop though, so Cami says "Wanna try an Om?" and despite my best judgement I say "Sure, why not?"

So, off we go to attempt to duo an Om'Yovra. If you aren't familiar with sea, the Om mobs are the much more difficult versions of the other mobs, and Yovras are the hardest regular sea mobs. Not really prepared for it or anything, had enough pineapples left over from PLD xping to make 7 pineapple juices. So went in with just that for refresh and off we went.


Wasn't too much different from the Ul except for much more hp and dealing much more dmg when it hit him. We managed to fight the thing for right about 30 minutes (buffs were wearing when mp finally gave out and we wiped). We managed to get it just below 50% hp before it won.



Well, never ones to take a loss lightly, we call in a reinforcement in the form of Crosis who heads out on BRD. Well, it was much simpler when he got there and we trioed it with ease. Flamey came out to watch and once it was obvious there was no way we'd lose we let him join in for the kill. This actually lead to a pretty funny moment where Cami, Crosis, and Flamey all got charmed and I had to haul ass, but the charm didn't last long enough to make it really funny. :/



Hurray for an organ. Went back and killed the easier ones again quickly as a group afterwards and another dropped. Cami got them both and next trip I'll hopefully get mine. I'm 2 yovra and 1 hpemde away from a Light Gorget for my MASSIVE DAMAGE HEXA STRIKES.

Levelling

The time since my last update has been a blur. I've done a whole lot of levelling and I've been busy RL as well. There were some really fun times, especially levelling MNK with Mirewen's BRD, but to try to put any of it down in writing now just wouldn't do them justice. I took SAM from 31 to 37, taken MNK from 20 to 31 with Mirewen's BRD as previously mentioned. I dinged BST from 52 to 53 exclusively off of xp scrolls. I got a few merit points and finished off my Critical Hit merits. I've taken PLD from 19 to 24 and currently pushing it towards 37 as well. I made a decision that I'm already starting to regret that I want to get all of my jobs to at least lvl 37 so I will always have every available subjob for anything I ever choose to continue levelling. When you look at my jobs, I don't really have a whole lot to go really but there are a few I'm really not looking forward to (sup DRG and BLU). I haven't decided what if anything will be my next time to 75. I'm enjoying MNK with Mirewen but I debated swapping to either BLM or NIN when I hit 37. I'm also thinking about continuing on with PLD, though not really sure on that one.. it would be able I got the other jobs to 37 first.

Again, there have been some good stories and funny shit happening during all this time, but covering it just won't be possible so I won't try. Aside from all of the aforementioned levelling, I managed to pick up a few items as well:


Hurray! These are by far the best magic gear swap hands available for DRK, and definitely not something most DRKs are going to have so pretty proud to have these.


Not a particularly great item, but got this drop in Dynamis-Jeuno last week.


Big thanks to my friend Kahsha for helping me finally get this stupid thing. Ended up going 1/8 overall to get it.

And these are just a few funny dynamis moments I happened to catch as well:


wtcrap, dragoon h4x!


So I got charmed along with some others and Cami took it upon himself to save the rest of the group from my scythe of doom! At least I claimed one victim before I got Combowned. :(

Trio Trio Trio

Well, time for another update. Feb 1st was boring and don't really remember what I did. Today there was maintenance so we collected some ToDs to camp tomorrow (though I'll be in Dynamis for most of that time, but hopefully Element can claim something). Relatively uneventful day until after I duo an ENM with Cami (crap drops this time) and we start talking about Fenrir, wondering if we could trio it. Well, not much else to do and nothing to lose but xp, I convinced Mishaela to come be our suicidal WHM and I suited up BRD and Cami of course came on MNK/NIN and we decided to give the puppy a try.

It wasn't too encouraging seeing a JP pt recovering from a wipe when we got to Full Moon Fountain, but after raising their last member and buffing and all that good stuff, we entered the battlefield. The plan was pretty straightfoward. I gave Cami minuet/march and Mishaela kept him hasted. That optimized damage and Utsusemi recast. Kept her Ballad'd and kept Fenrir Elegy'd. Around 55% (if we made it there) I would Soul Voice March and Dark Carol.

Well, we get the fight started and go to work. Fenny's life bar falls surprisingly fast and aside from a few weaponskills Cami doesn't really take much damage. It actually looked like we had a chance when we got it to about 60% or so and still had most of our mage's mp. I pop Soul Voice, get March and Carol up, give Mish double SV Ballad, re-Elegy Fenny, and shortly after that he 2hrs, causing minimal interruption to our team. Mish Benedictions for a quick recovery and the rest of the fight pretty much goes without a hitch. As you can see from the screenshot below, Fenny died about the same time SV wore off. Was suprisingly easy.


We set the record (kind of a joke, since there was no record due to maintenance :P) and that JP group ended up wiping a second time. Oops. Was a fun fight, we handled it really well. Oh, and I got me one of those Fenrir's Torques the kids are always talking about these days.


1300 mp with my maximum mp gear on now for WHM, not even subbing SMN. Pretty darn good for a mithra in my opinion. Just need to get me some Zenith Mitts and maybe Zenith Boots and then I'm about as good as I can get as far as max mp is concerned.

Finally!!!

Well, tonight they finally dropped for me! What you might ask? My Abyss Gauntlets! I was totally shocked and since it's loldrk relic I had no counterlotters (though I'm pretty sure if I did that they would've passed, hehe).


Hurray! So of course promptly after the run I went and gathered the 1 byne and got Nolie to make me a Darksteel Sheet since the AH was out at the time and I turned them in.


Good times. I'll be sure to post a pic of the +1s when I get them as well. Aside from that, been a good few days. Got a few merits that I put into critical hits then Mirewen and I got our low lvl jobs to level 20. Can't wait to try out those Boreas Cesti at lvl 30!

Today was a good day

Well, nothing majorly noteworthy has happened since my last post until today. There were a few nice random things. I finished off my whm merits with a blm cannon pt with my friend Mirewen and some random BLMONRY members. I also got NINE xp scrolls during the time since my last update. 5 of them took SMN from 36 to 37 and 4 of them took RNG from 23 to 24 (just wanted to get to the level where I could equip Empress Hairpin before I level this job again in the future). No DRK gloves in dynamis and no Swift Belt, though not from lack of trying. I ended up using 3 codices in the span of 3 days and went 0/3. Grats to Willian and Tryxie and everyone else that got theirs though.

Today things were a little more in my favor, though I have to admit it didn't look that way at first. Today we did Dynamis-San d'Oria in Encore. I had to go as BRD which was my first dynamis experience as BRD. Not too bad, but I don't really like it that much for dynamis. So anyway, I have the WHM relic from sandy so I was only lotting Bard's Roundlet. Well as luck would have it, about halfway into the run one drops. This is my first time in a while actually getting to lot on relic and I lot a monster lot of 21 and lose it. I wasn't too upset since I don't get relic often, even though the roundlet is a really great piece. But then about 3-4 minutes before our timer's up another one drops. I have the winning lot but a few people are dead. We get them raised to pass but someone's afk. Somehow we manage to get a BLM into their pt to d2 them and I get the relic, but it was a REALLY close call, almost lost it.


Luckily I got it and was really excited about it. I haven't gotten relic that I actually wanted in ages so this was a welcome change.

After an nq Adamantoise that died in like 15 seconds to someone, Cami asks me to help him duo Leviathan so I figure I'd lend a hand and then we'd enm afterwards. In all honesty, my being there probably wasn't necessary, though I'm sure Barwatera helped out a lot on the 2hr. It was an easy win. Afterwards we head to do the eft enm in Boneyard Gully. What about these apples?


I didn't even know that was possible, but I sure as hell didn't complain. A Maneater each for 30 minutes of work, good times.

Whatever

Well, first and foremost just an announcement that for the time being, I'm putting PUP on hold. It just isn't holding my interest and the people I enjoyed levelling it with have been busy doing their own thing. So instead I've decided I'm going to start levelling another random job, and for now that job is MNK. I might change once I get it to 37, I might not. But I'm trying to do a duo static thing with my friend Mirewen (on her BRD). One person's schedule is a lot easier to work with than several people's.

So we started off just duoing, just trying to get to the point where we can go to Qufim Island or whatever. We went to the Maze of Shakhrami hoping to kill worms. However, they were a little bit tougher than expected and it ended up just being faster to speed chain the goblins. We snuck in a quick level there each, bringing her BRD to 17 and my MNK to 18 (hurray Purple Belt!). I also took Guarding from 50 to 52, yay! I took a ding screenshot but this stupid crawler was a camera hog so it came out silly looking, oh well.

Well, since I'm planning to go to at least 37 and usually don't have much else going on in the mornings while I work, I decided to camp Kirata for Boreas Cesti to pop on my MNK when it hits 30 eventually. Only took two mornings before he was polite enough to drop for me.


That's about it until this evening. There were some Dynamises with my new Dynamis LS Encore, and some sky farming in Element, but nothing majorly exciting happened there.

Then this evening we helped Jamal out with Amaltheia, a giant ram that drops an item needed in the upgrading process of the relic shield Aegis. This is a fun fight in that you fight it out in Lufaise Meadows and it summons every single sheep and ram (the VT-IT to lvl 75 ones) in the zone to come help it out. As you can expect, lots of Stonaing and Erasing Max HP Down-ga and all that fun stuff. The fight took right about 30 minutes or so, but it was fun since it's something I haven't fought before.


After that, I went and soloed myself a Fomor Codex really fast then helped Tryxie get one since Element's doing a Swift Belt run on Sunday and I still don't have mine yet. Hopefully on Sunday I'll be posting about getting Abyss Gauntlets (which I have the -1 item to upgrade with!) from dynamis tomorrow and getting my Swift Belt on Sunday!

I haven't forgotten about you

I just haven't had anything to say! FFXI has been pretty meh this year and I haven't done much. Let's see if I can remember anything worth mentioning in this rather brief update...

On the first of January, we tried killing Ouryu. We didn't really have much of a strategy coming in, just wanted to see what we could do on a few trial runs since we have a ton of evokers. The first run went pretty poorly but on the second run we got it down to about 30% or so before time expired. We're pretty sure we know what went right and what went wrong well enough to take him down next time.

There was also a New Years event this year where you could get a few items. One looked like a spanking paddle and one was a furnishing that gives Moghancement: Money. I snagged both on those in about 15 minutes. I took screenshots but meh, not really that interesting. Moving on.


Next up was a pickup Storms of Fate group from QCDN. This was somewhat of an unpleasent event for me. It started WAY late, after the time at which I was hoping to be done. I'm training myself to go to bed earlier and wake up earlier this year as part of my resolutions so this was pretty irksome. After a lot of stupidity we finally made it to the fight itself. Now I've heard this fight is really easy, but we just barely won. There were a lot of deaths (at one point I got Terror'd and then Fire V'd), but we somehow pulled through. It just reminds me of why I hate doing pickup anything, almost never on-time. :/

We're up to the 10th now. Between Bahamut and today not much really happened. I fought Ose 2 or 3 times trying to get Tryxie an Assault Jerkin but he isn't dropping for us. Encore (the replacement shell for TheDynamisShow) did our first run in Jeuno. Something like 17 relic ended up dropping, 5 of which were Scout's Berets that no one wanted. Of course, Cleric's Pantaloons didn't drop, though with the new lotting rules of Encore they are no longer guaranteed to go to me anymore anyways. Oh well. So the 10th finds us claiming King Behemoth which was nice since hnm times have been really wonky the past few weeks due to maintenances and we haven't been able to camp much (and even now that we can again, S-E has another maintenance scheduled for Sunday, thanks guys).


Run JB Run! It's always nice taking down a king, but the drops were pretty meh.


That's pretty much it. Whenever I'm in-game this year I'm usually either idling in my mog house with the game minimized or just doing random things like checking my chocobo, camping Ose, or just talking to people. Haven't done PUP in a while, kinda miss it and kinda don't. As much as I want to level the job to a high level just because it's rare to see 75 PUPs, I just don't know if I can stomach 30+ more levels of it, especially since I know it's just going to keep getting worse and worse as I progress. We'll see.