Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Back To The Daily Grind.

Ah back to the normal run of things in FFXI. What could be better? oh yeah, everything lol. Na j/k I'm enjoying the game again for the first time in awhile. Everything seems to be moving along just normal.

ShieldsofValor is growing. Not so much in members, but more in what we are aiming at. With the gear choices in Abyssea, more and more members are leaning towards that event full time. The only problem will be is with the payout system of SoV and if the members want to give up that bit of gil at the end of the month. That will be up for debate. Now as far as the weekly run down.

Monday we went up for a Kirin ass kicking, Zerg style. As expected, he went down like a little bitch(or Neo take your pick lol). Kirin didn't even scratch us before he met his end. You could see the difference in kill speed with lv 80 in place of most of our current DD. We still had more Kirins, so we tried somthing new. Kirin zerg with no 2 hours. So we did everything that we normal do, with exception of 2 hours. Well the fight started normaly, with Kirin going down a little slower, but still a good steady kill rate. Then Disaster(or Carby) either way you want to call it. Carby blows his 2 hour and 80% of our members hit the dirt. Well Kirin was still at around 40% at that time, so the rest of us do our best, but the damage just wasn't there. we finally Wipe to Kirin @ 20% when Suzy popped. For a run with no 2 hours and crap luck with carby, I think we did well. If nothing else, it was fun.

Tuesday Aristocratls was in Dynamis Xarc to hopfully finish up getting some people their AFs that they have been looking for, for a long time. What started off as a slow run, quickly became a great run with 2 Whm hands, and a number of other drops. Funny part is that even with a few big links, we held strong to the point where Shamus was trying to kill us. Then towards the end of the run he did just that. He pulled the Relic staves unexpectedly. First it was panic, then death. Then Shamus loled. . Well that's what we get by pissing off the Taru.

Thursday we finished up Kirin with another zerg. Pretty uneventful other than some really shitty drops. Oh well. The rest of us hit up Abyssea for some Exp later on and that rounded out our night.

That was pretty much all I played that weekend so fast forward to Monday of this week. Dominik had some Kittys to pop, and we like gil so we killed them for him. One thing I noticed is that holy shit these things go down fast. We only had about 13-14 people, so it wasn't even a full alliance and max life span of byakko was around 1-2 mins. Not bad considering his 2 hour. Anyway, Dom finished the night with 3/4 Byakko haidates and we finished the night with a little bit larget wallet. Afterwards we aimed at abyssea again to get more merits/exp

Ah I almost forgot, I got a new toy!. Plaga scythe woot! Now that's a story in it's own and it also serves as my Douchebag of The Day Award.

Dannik and I decided to camp that scythe for Yudaman and myself. So we set out for the Abyssean worm NM. When we got there it looked like someone had just claimed him, but it wasn't damaged and no one was around.. Weird. So when it unclaimed, I jumped on it. then started going through my motions. Then came the /tells. I felt bad, so I invited them into alliance. After everyone got there, the worm went splat quickly. One of the easier NMs that I can remember. After the kill, it dropped! So I was quick to lot, only to be outlotted by the other guy that I had just let join. Damn my conscious! oh well, I'll get them next time... or so I thought. At the next pop there was 3 Blm there killing it,Zigounette,Punishment,and a third(Don't remember the name) . Only problem was that they sucked and after getting hit but the 3rd stonega III and the taru dying, they ran off and it unclaimed @ around 90% hp. So dannik claimed it. and we proceded to kill it. Now we had to face the fact that they linked four other worms and try to dodge Stonega IIIX3+Quake+Stone V. we where doing well and had ot down to 20-30% when I messed up and got pwned by the Stone V(The one I forgot) and splat, down I went. So dannik couldn't kill it with his thf with only a ranged attack, so we had to let it unclaim. During this entire time, we get threats from Zigounette that he is going to kill us(lolInternetztoughguy) and that he is coming to get us. Yeah we got our laughs out of it. Then after I get killed, he kicks it up a notch. I found out somthing new about myself, #1 I bought my character. Yep I sure did, over the past 6-7 years I've paid dearly for this guy. #2 I'm an uber noob since I don't have a maat;s cap. Yeah the punk said that. Oh btw he was nuking in a Maats cap, Errant body and diamon rings... Hardcore, I know. So they kill the last 20% and go to talking shit again. Let me make this clear, the only one talking shit was Zigounette. the one that got killed during the start of the fight Punisher didn't say anything is say or /tells. He was was only a part of the group. Anyway after the 4th camp, I finally got my scythe. I can honestly say that over the Moliones's Sickle, the Plaga kicks ass. My first night of testing it out put me 150K in 2 1/2 hours over the second place DD who was an Ebody War. I bet that made him feel really good about that Ebody now. Yeah I know I look like I just got off of the assembley line, but you have 1 of 2 options. #1 change with the updates and improve yourself, or #2 stick with your old ass gear that used to be pimp and be out damaged by the guy you used to call Gimp(and probally still do.) Then enjoy being midgrade... That only last for so long.

My rant is finally over lol.. On a sad note, We say goodbye permently to Miae and Gooky as they decided to move on with their lives. They tried to right a wrong commeted by Peitha by donating their uber gear to AC and some of the members to improve their play. You two will always be missed, and never forgoten. I wish you both luck in anything you ever do. Take care and hopfully you wont forget the people of FFXI and all the crazy fun we had.

Monday, July 19, 2010

I swear I'm not dead

It's been ages since I've posted. If anyone even still reads this, I apologize for leaving ya'll hanging. Not one to make excuses, I'll catch you up to what has been going on.

First I took a pretty good break from the game(2-3 weeks) and got to enjoy some of my other games that I haven't had a chance to finish. After a few weeks of my break, the "Crazy B!T@^ " Incident happened.(see FFXIAH.Com for details) So I was needed a bit more in game, SoV in the mean time was pretty sick of farming by that time so I decided to make my return.

Then the update. ah the damn update. Abyssea, Walk of echos, massive exp to gain.. I would have rather /wrist than to exp rdm to 80. (I'm still in debate on if I level it further.) So I pretty much stuck to events and figured I'd get exp as I go. Well I got tired of levelsync parties very quickly on pld. So I started looking for other methods. I tried Promy zones, I tried getting into merit burns(lolpldmerit) and then finally Abyssea.

Ah the glory that is Abyssea! When I first started doing Abyssea, someone told me that there was a rumor that you can get around 50k/hour in the zone with a full alliance. Excited, I jumped into the next farming group I could find. Well to say the least, levelsync parties would kick it's ass. I didn't know what was going on and I'm pretty sure neither did anyone else. Sadly, I was let down again. A few days later I figured I would give it one more try. I jumped on the first shout I seen(lolshout parties; ;). Big difference was that this time we knew how to get the exp. This time I went drk and got some major exp. I went from 75-78 in a few hours. We averaged about 30-40K/hour.  After that I have been on a mission!

Last weekend I figured I would try my hand in leading an Abyssea farming run. I grabbed Breathem, and who ever else I could in a shout, then headed off to kill some mandies. Fastforward from 8:30Pm on saturday night to 6:00AM Sunday morning(yeah I passed out), I was fully capped on Drk, and Blm with 10 merits... Yeah I lacked sleep but holy hell on the exp! Best of all I wasn't gimped after. I had capped Scythe and Great sword on Drk and I'm only 2 skills away from cap on Blm. Thats what I'm talking about!! I think our average was around 70k/hour. I came back to the group later on to get some more merits, and the same group was still killing at 2:00PM that night. Not quite 24 hours, but damn close.

 Later on I caught Dierdren and talked her into getting me into an EX party. After waiting around forever(I'll never get that time back ; ;) We finally get started. I was excited to get my Pld to 80 so you can imagine my dismay when they wanted my Mnk.  F_%K!!!!
Oh well, I needed to level it anyway. So I geared up mnk and away we went. That was around 9:30ish. Fast forward to 1Am( My sleep hates me, wife isn't to fond of me either) and I went from 75-80 cap + 2 merits. I found out a few things last night. Number one: Either my mnk isn't horrible or EX DDs aren't THAT great. After parsing the entire time last night, Kakeshi was first, I was second, and the rest of the DDs started falling off as the night went on. Now to explain further, I was third most of the night untill one of the other Sams left, but we were neck and neck the entire night. This was a shock to me, as I expected to be blown out of the water by EX. I consider Mnk to be my secondary DD to my Drk, untill I get Black belt at least, so I was quite hopful after seeing those numbers. Maybe, just maybe I don't suck so bad.

During this time, SoV decided to go into Abyssea with out any knowledge of the zone, and we met "IT". IT is the thing that we all know as a fact in the FFXI world. That fact is that "no matter how strong you think you are, there is always a bunny that can kick your ass."

That being said this is IT:Photobucket

After we picked up our teeth(and our pride) we left the bunnies alone and went for the birds. That was going well untill their big brother flew up and aggroed. Round 2 SoV 0- Abyssea NMs 2.... So yeah our first adventure wasn't very good, but we all had fun and it was a change from sky.

Again I apologize for not blogging for so long, but I'll be back to my normal posts as of this one.

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