Quite a bit to cover, so lets get to it, HERE’S ANOTHER BORING BLOG POST.


So recently, Carste has been coming NIN to Abyssea with AP, and it turns out, that the atmas make him do more damage on NIN than I do on SAM. He nearly has a 50% crit hit ratio, which is awesome, so we can duo stuff WHM and NIN.. except for I have no refresh on my WHM in abyssea, not counting Sublimation, which leads me to my next part of this post..

So I finally bought ASA on Friday. The atma and PDT pants I’ll get are too good to pass up. I’m already on number 8 or 9 thanks to Carste. I hope to be on the last fight by Friday, and get my atma and pants by Saturday, just in time for Abyssea. I’m making quick work of these missions, but the one I’m on now seems like a pain, so I’ve been putting it off.

Had a bit of trouble getting to one of the cloister zones because I’m a stubborn retard. Decided it would be easier to PDT aggro my way through Cape Terigan instead of s/i my way.

I missed my Dynamis run with ROR on Tuesday last week. I was just too tired to attend.

Duo’d Nosferatu with Carste. (you’ll see 2 other people in the pt on the screenshots, those people were buyers for gear that could drop), Took us about 45 minutes to kill, and we both got charmed and turned into bats a few times. That was fun! The poor THF kept randomly taking our hate though, and would get either oneshotted or charmed.

Finally finished my Vermin trial on my Great Katana. Onto an assload of Manticores (I think). I’m not really sure when this becomes better than Hagun.

Also finished another trial on my Thunder staff. I finally have the version that’s better than the Jupiter’s staff. That slime trial took me an estimated 6 hours to do. What a pain in the ass. Glad it’s over.

I realized recently that I still had the drops from the Sarameya we had fought, so decided to do something with them. I had noticed that the Cerberus hide had been dropping very steeply in price, so I decided to wait to see if it went back up, and it never did. Athoz eventually told me to hold off on selling it, and he would try to make a Cerberus Mantle (+1) out of it once he got his leathercraft up. Well, Athoz ran out of gil at LC96, so I enlisted the help of a 100+5 leathercrafter to try and make us a +1 mantle to sell. He desynthed about 4 mantle’s before he lost the hide. Oh well. Sucks, but it happens. It was a chance I was willing to take to split the 3m between the remaining 4 people who still play.

Carste offered to help me skill up my Parrying level, since it was so gimp. I decided now was as good a time as ever to finish getting my Boxer’s Mantle. I cashed out the 250k in ABC’s in upper jeuno and bought it. It was kinda fun doing the parrying at first, but after a while it got real dull. I think I got over 30 levels though!

Abyssea with AP last night. TIDAL WAVE! Lol, Jala wondered into our –ga burn of all the mobs and decided to kill us all instantly.

Also some Ironclad fun. No closer to a +2 though. We’ve been spamming the Tier 2 VNM and it still hasn’t changed. Stupid stupid stupid.

Looking to solo some stuff this week to make some gil. I’m awfully broke.

I always have issues figuring out what I posted and what I haven’t….


Recently did some KS99 with AP. No speed belt for me. >.<, but I was able to get my pal Dragonsbane his Wyrm beard for his Black Belt.. he’ll probably never finish the set though.

I’ll post some big baller screenshots of magic bursts.

That new SAM JA really boosts that first MB by a lot.

AP killed one of the zone bosses for Abyssea- Misareaux, Cirein-croin! After killing this, I was able to be infused with 2 atma’s instead of just one. Lovely! Also, Carste got to NIN for the night, and tank. Nice to know NIN/DRK can still be done effectively. He had hate 80% of the fights.

Dynamis Jeuno. Had a weird DC issue. No WHM legs, bah. Waste of my time. Didn’t even get any skillups.

Last night:

Carste and I were supposed to have a NM killing night, but that faggot got into a terrible EXP Abyssea pt, and I had to come SAM to speed shit up so he could hit 80 faster and leave.

Abyssea- Vunkerl, Carste and I decided to give Quasimodo another shot… and instead of it taking 45minutes to wipe, we won within 25 minutes, minimal issues. However, no drops…Hellllo STR+ Atma.

So, we whooped that faggot right? Lets pop another… This time I’ll pull! … fuck I linked a few, I’ll drag them to the conflux… hold the NM!... OK I’m back, let me take hat- fuck I died! Hold the NM! OHSHIT YOU PROCED THE !!, Ok I’m unweakened! I’ll take it fro- Fuck we both died… ugh.

But we did find out that the terrorize move he does is a gaze, so if I turn around next time we do this, it will be less MP intensive, Carste will have less hate, and I won’t be terrorized for 4-5 minutes for each fight… even though it gives good evasion skill ups!

We moved to Abyssea- Misareaux to pop some NM’s and check on some roaming ones. Gugamatz was a no-show the first and second time we checked him. We decided to kill the bird (crow looking one) NM, we won easily, even though he had a silence aura or some shit and carste kept whining about me taking damage, and that his MP pool was below 900. Killed Sirrush for shit drops. Checked Gugamatz again, this time there was other people waiting for it to pop. We waited about 10minutes before we said fuck it, and left the zone. That was about it for the night. I’m having a good time playing SAM, and utilizing the PDT and enmity sets I made. Makes it seem worthwhile.

I got these nice rings, two of them..Finally. I’ve been wanting them a long time, but they were upwards of 1mi each up until recently.

Good for my Paralyze and Slow macros, which I’ll never use. I’m going to fulltime one of them on my WHM, and take out the Ether ring. -10MP and gain 4MND, a good choice, especially all FFXI is anymore is abyssea, and I have a huge MP pool anyway. Nobody wants to read about my small or gear changes. But I do hope they increase our inventory somehow. I don’t want to buy a goddamned key token for the + inventory from the satchel.

So I stole Vepion late one night, and decided to let him PUP it up for me to kill some NM’s. We successfully claimed and killed Bakka, PUP/NIN and WHM/SCH. Also killed Lachymater, neither gave us the drops.

After those two NM’s, we checked on a NM for Vepion in Abyssea – La-Theine named Kesha Poppo. This was a pain in the ass NM, which took 90minutes to kill. Vepion swapped to BRD/COR and I swapped to BLM/RDM. I don’t remember what the drop Vepion was looking for was, but he didn’t get it. This was a pain in the ass, because to kill it, I had to drag it across 75% of the zone, and then find a way to deaggro the links I had gotten along with the NM. I was far enough ahead that I was able to hit a conflux, and then warp right back. Luckily I was right, and the NM was alone, and didn’t have 10 other Opo’s with him. I Bio II’d him and ran him to the kiting spot. We shortly found out that after he does a TP move, he has hate reset, and Vepion nearly died a few times. I wish I had gotten more screenshots of this, but I was concentrating too much.. Next time I do this I’ll be /nin since 75% of the fight was me losing my pin because I had to put stoneskin back up. Vepion said that PUPs were soloing this by deactivating their puppets and whatever, but I can’t see that happening unless it took the full 120mins to do.

This section is about Carste and I getting raped. A lot.

After scoping out the Wiki for about 30mins, we decided on a small handful of NM’s to kill in Abyssea – Vunkerl which dropped seals which we needed for our jobs. Carste was RDM/WHM, I was SAM/NIN. Let me start by saying, I’ve never done any Shadow-Gekko tanking before Abyssea came out, so I’m still not a pro at it.. The first NM we were going to try, was a rabbit named Gnawtooth Gary. We popped the first one, and wiped to it around 60%. Even though Carste was successfully landing Slow and Paralyze on it, his double and triple attacks were too much for me to keep up with… combine that with a badly timed convert, and you have a wipe. We were able to get ahold of Vepion for the next attempt, which was excellent. He came on BRD, and would be picking up any SMN or PUP seals that would drop. We did much better this time, but still wiped. I died after a short time, and I was able to fully unweaken while bouncing hate between Carste and I. Shortly after I unweakend, the NM did an AOE WS, and we all died. Fucking fuck.

On to Quasimodo. This mother fucker had NO information on the wiki, so we figured we’d give it a shot. Thankfully, we still had vepion, and none of us died until we wiped. Sadly, Vepion had to leave at 30% because he ran out of time. For those of you planning to fight this, bring a stun. Quasi does a frontal TP move which terrorizes you for 30 seconds exactly. It has a bit of a cast time, so I believe stun could be used. He also has a aoe Curse + dmg move, which takes a few seconds to build up. During the few seconds he is charging up for it, it is possible to run out of range if you can get outside the 20’ . I’m not sure if it’s possible to stun it. Regardless, we wiped at 2%. He seems to have high defense, and additional attack food doesn’t seem to do much, so I might go with a tank food next time…

Last night, we got something that will make fighting these NM’s a lot easier. (I was WHM/SCH) With AP, we fought Eccentric Eve, and won! It was a fight from hell though. One of the BRD’s aggro’d Turul (The flying dragon in the sky), which has alliance hate. The BRD quickly died, and at a terrible time. I had just ran into the tank pt to give bar spells, and got hit with a Nasty breath or something, but it took 80% of my health, and paralyzed and poisoned and silenced me. Regardless, Turul was coming, so I casted flash on it, smashed the fuck out of my PDT macro, and started running. I didn’t get very far, before Poison got me. I warned the alliance that Turul was coming for them, and Carste was able to take him and start kiting him away from the alliance. Carste was able to hold Turul at bay for the remainder of the fight. I was able to unweaken after a bit, and the fight continued.. until one of the RNG’s pulled hate, and a few people over there died.. and then the tanks died… and then the SAM died… so eventually, it was down to one of the RNG’s kiting it around until the PLDs unweakend. We killed it, but sadly one person was still dead on the ground, and he didn’t get the Atma.

This atma, is the atma to end all atmas.. 50STR, Double attack 10% and Regain 2/tic. I CAN’T WAIT to get home and use this tonight. I hope with this atma, and a little macro tweeking, Carste and I will be able to get our NM’s killed… I just wish it hadn’t taken 70 fucking minutes for the leader to let us enter so we could start killing. I was half asleep once the fight started.

Well, that’s it for now.