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.

Two updates? IN TWO WEEKS? Holy shit I’m bored. Not sure what I covered in my last update… let me check..JOL.. Cuelebre… WHM AF3…Yilbegan… OK here we go.

I’ve dragged Carste with me to Abyssea – Tahrongi at least 4 times to kill Lachrymater with me, so I can try to get a Witchstone. We killed him ¾ times, the one wipe being a unlucky pull by Carste. Our setup was RDM/WHM and SAM/NIN. I had some decent Gekko’s with the stat bonuses from Abyssea. We dragged Dragonsbane out on our 4th pop to try and get some TH on it, but still no drop. Bastard.

 Look ma! No sword!

One other NM Carste and I have been trying to kill, is Bakka. SAM/NIN RDM/WHM, although alternately we could probably do it just as easily WHM / RDM(or /sch) and SAM/NIN, but we’re usually already geared the other way. We haven’t wiped to this NM yet, because we haven’t been able to claim it… The fucker is never up, and the moment it is up, It gets claimed before we can get there. Someday we’ll get our Goetia Chains…

I’ve spent a couple more hours trying to do quests to get more seals for different gear from Abyssea, but sadly I haven’t been able to get anything. The quests for Abyssea – Vunkerl seem to take forever to do, so I’ll probably just wait until AP does that zone so I can just lot them from NM’s. It seems to be a waste of time doing the quests. Or maybe I’m just doing them wrong. I’ve been doing the 2 quests where they ask you to go to different points on the map and check spots and report back for a reward. I’m about 0/15 on those quests. Maybe my time would be better spend in Abyssea – Misareaux getting all my items from there. I still need my seals for BLM and SAM from there anyway, so I might as well do that. Also, I’m most familiar with that zone and it’s NM’s, so I should be able to team up with some people and get some seals that way.

I was finally able to finish my Shellra 5, and I put another merit into my Burst II. I’ve had WHM75 for 3 years, and it’s been my least merited job for a long time. Total Noob.

Still doing Limbus runs with Dragonsbane, He’s almost got enough to buy his Boxer’s mantle, and I think once he does that, we’ll do another run and I’ll get one also, and toss it in my PDT set for SAM. We average 22-27 coins a run.

Last night was abyssea with AP, Misareaux. Carste got a few RDM seals, and it almost done with his legs. I’ve been bugging Cloudxz (ls leader) to take the ls to kill Ironclad Serverer so that I could get by Goetia Mantle… Well, sadly the LS didn’t, but I did. As we were zoning in as a linkshell, I went to check if it was up, and it was.. but it was being killed, so I got the TOD, and cured one of the people killing it, and left. A minute later I got a /tell from the group leader asking if I wanted to get in on the next kill in a hour, BLM mantle being freelot… YES! A hour and 15minutes later, I got a /tell, and I disbanded AP, and ran to Ironclad. We took it down in 5 minutes, and I lotted a 400~ for the mantle. Ugh, but the other BLM lotted a 46!! WINNRAR. Extremely excited about that. Took 5minutes and changed all my nuking macros on the spot, and then left to finish off the night with AP.

I’ve finally started taking some screenshots again, and I’ve got some good ones to share!

It’s been an eventful week with AP, focusing mainly on Sea. We did some Jailer of Prudence, Jailer of Love, and the other less significant NM’s. We took bids on Novio Earring, and the one other person who would have been able to out-bid me wasn’t online! OH MAN NOVIO FOR ME!

If only it dropped on our 2 separate pops… ugh. Hopefully I’ll have more points than Chocoboits by the time we do JOL again.. that is, if Carste and I don’t lowman it before then!! That’s right bitches, I said it. Lowman, JOL. Stay tuned.

Carste and I killed Cuelebre a few times over the course of a few days to get him his dagger. I think we went 1/3? Either way, I made some decent gil off it. The first kill we did as a duo, the 2nd we had a BLM assist, and the 3rd kill we took Midgetking as THF for some TH on it. So still practically duo’d.

I obtained both my Key Items to lower the timer on my Transverser stones, so now I have 12hr stones! Also, I got they key item to add an additional 3 minutes for every stone I hand in.

Spent a lot of time in Abyssea-Misareaux, by myself and with AP. I got an exp party there, and was able to get 3/5 of my Shellra 5 merits, and later on with AP I was able to get 5/5 merits, which means I only need around 30 merits before SAM WHM BLM are fully merited!

Also, because of all the hype about the new AF3 (I think that’s what it’s called, this is the part where Carste will call me a dumb faggot) I had to put 100% of my play time on Saturday into getting my WHM legs. Well, eventually I was able to get them, but not when I wanted them, which was for the JOL fights we were going to do. I’m the first WHM in AP to get my +1 legs I believe. I’m unsure of what to work on next, probably the WHM head piece since it’s so nice. And after that I’ll do SAM legs.

I really can’t wait to get my hands on all of the SAM pieces, even though the only time I play the job is to kill something lowman style.. All those pieces are so much nicer than what I already have. I had some plans to upgrade my SAM AF legs to +1 to get 5STR for my WS’s, but the new AF3 pieces are so much better!

Essentially, I could go on for pages about how much better the new gear is than what I already have, but I wont.

Here’s some more screenshots.

Cloud and Longarm gonna duel!

 a damn worm that nearly wiped us

Yilb action

Some insane chest drops

 Some nightly NM's

 

So, I know it’s been a while since my last update, but some changes have kept me from posting.


For starters, there is a new girl in my office who I work closely with, and she is a little nosey about what I’m doing on the internet, so I can’t dedicate 30+ minutes to writing and posting updates. Also, I’m being more closely watched by my bosses here, so that’s prohibiting things. And to top it all off, I recently had to reformat my hard drive and reinstall Windows7, so I still don’t have all my stuff organized the way I’d like, and because of it, I keep forgetting to hit that screenshot button. >.>



Here are some minor updates.

WHM85

BLM85

SAM85



Carste joined AbsolutePerfection, and he’s getting lotting rights twice as fast as I did. Fucker.

I’ve got my full HP pushdown set for my Sorcerer’s ring, and am constantly getting yelled at for using it, and constantly dying from mega-aoe moves from NM’s because of it.

We compelted all the WOTG stuff up-to-date and we’ve gotten our rings! Also, I got this earring while doing VNM’s with AP.



I’ve been after it for a long ass time, but it still doesn’t help my gimp ass dark magic build.

I got the new STR12 helm for SAM, but it still doesn’t help the fact that I’ve only got 2STR on my legs slot for my YGK.

I’m about half done with my STR ATK GK for SAM, while Carste is about ¾.



Fought a couple Yilbegen’s, and a Turul or two. Turul is the worst NM I’ve ever had to WHM for in my career. Listen to me whine for a second. He has knockback moves and hate reset, which means that everyone is getting thrown all over the place all the time, so I’m constantly running to cure someone, sometimes over 40 yalms! K I’m done.



WHM is getting “Boost Stat” spells now, Can’t wait for STR and INT. I was really excited when I started thinking WHM/SCH will get Firestorm, and that when SCH gives me firestorm it grants additional STR, and I thought I’d be able to do Firestorm and Boost STR, but it’s a sch merit JA. Fuckers.



Started my Thunder staff trials last week, and thunder weather is avoiding me like the plague. It’s going to be a long road before I get to my final staff.

Got my Cure Potency +3% cape off Marvin, with the help of a faggot named Steve.



Haven’t had the pleasure of harassing Hesper within the last week or two. Makes me sad.



I’ve been duoing limbus with Dragonsbane to help him farm ABC’s. So far, we’ve had 2/3 succesful runs. Last run we wiped pretty hard on the third floor because we weren’t paying attention.



I’ve still got plenty of work to do to maximize my jobs. I finally found a reason to finish the Nation missions, which I never bothered to do, and that reason is Abyssea abyssites. I’m going to be busy as fuck for quite some time..