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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:21 pm
by Alya Mizar (Tsybil)
Rishutlaw wrote:p.s. Keavy if you would like to do a BCNM with me and my bro (probably next weekend) you're welcome to join us as whatever you want. I'm going to try and get a Gunromaru (lvl 20 Great Katana) and my brother is hoping for an astral ring for his SMN, but you are welcome to any other drops. Oh, and the BCNM is Wings of Fury. http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/quests.html?fquest=381
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I do hope you have been keeping your Polearm Skill leveled. A Polearm SAM is deadly on fliers.

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:21 pm
by Rishutlaw
Keavy wrote:Rish, I am sitting on five stacks of Beastmen seals so yes, I will gladly join you just to be rid of the damn things.

BLU 24 and met the world's worst PLD today. As we're resting for MP she pulls, almost dies, then BLAMES US!!! Not only that but she never provoked, never used magic, and I'm pretty sure went AFK on more than one occasion.
Alright sounds good. I can't guarantee that it will happen next weekend because I still need to come up with 16 beastmen seals for myself, I want to lvl monk to 35 soon, and it looks like I'll need to lvl {polearm} for my SAM now.

And I got BLM to lvl 9 last night.

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:39 pm
by Keavy
Rishutlaw wrote:
Keavy wrote:Rish, I am sitting on five stacks of Beastmen seals so yes, I will gladly join you just to be rid of the damn things.

BLU 24 and met the world's worst PLD today. As we're resting for MP she pulls, almost dies, then BLAMES US!!! Not only that but she never provoked, never used magic, and I'm pretty sure went AFK on more than one occasion.
Alright sounds good. I can't guarantee that it will happen next weekend because I still need to come up with 16 beastmen seals for myself, I want to lvl monk to 35 soon, and it looks like I'll need to lvl {polearm} for my SAM now.

And I got BLM to lvl 9 last night.
I could support runs if needed. You guys get what you want if it drops then we split the remainder. I'm currently at 80/80 in Mog Safe, 70/70 in Locker, mule's full, too and I'm storing part of my WHM gear on Keavy so I desperately need any space I can get.

Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:40 pm
by Rishutlaw
It was a big day for me playing FFXI. Completed mission 2-3, and attained Rank 3 (thank you Keavy for the help with that). Afterwords we helped Keavy with his mission 2-3 fight for Sandy. I purchased all of my lvl 30 gear for MNK, as well as a polearm for SAM to do the BCNM with next weekend. In the process of getting my polearm skill up I soloed SAM to lvl 20. Around 3 AM I did a few random quests and got a scroll of Blaze Spikes for when my BLM hits lvl 10.

Tomorrow I'll probably take a break from FFXI to get caught up on some school work.

Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:34 pm
by Keavy
Thanks to Rish and his friends I am now Sandy Rank 5. Gonna wait on the fight for a bit. I want to get BLU to 50 before I do 5-1 because I want to see what a BLU can do to that undead S.O.B. (And I'm not calling him a Star Onion Brigade member :lol: )

As for other stuff, most of my time will be spent getting my mule to 20 and farming necklaces for her. Need to get her Norg fame up so she can get me Tonko: Ichi and Utsusemi: Ichi. She'll eventually get me the rest of the NIN spells but for now, those two take priority.

Then its NIN/DNC to 37 then back to BLU after I learn some new spells. Still need Blastbomb, Claw Cyclone, and Poison Breath and if I can I want to pick up Screwdriver.

I totally lucked out on Bomb Toss. Was soloing in the dunes at 20 building my buffer when a gobbie did a Mijin Gakure and I learned the spell.

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:36 pm
by Sugami
Ding DNC27 :D

I decided to give /NIN another chance and hated it (again). I was as accurate as a blinded Elvaan DRK pre-patch :lol:

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:18 pm
by Keavy
Sugami wrote:Ding DNC27 :D

I decided to give /NIN another chance and hated it (again). I was as accurate as a blinded Elvaan DRK pre-patch :lol:
...and I thought I was the only one having /NIN ACC issues!

I noticed that as BLU/NIN if I stopped spamming Bludgeon I stopped contributing damage. I heard about some good ACC food called Boiled Tuna Head I'll try after I get my NIN leveled but, yeah...

Solo mobs I f***ing own as BLU/NIN but on exp mobs without Bludgeon I'm just another pretty face.

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:03 pm
by Finwich
I'm just curious what food and gear you are using that your acc would be so poor on DNC.

I used Bream sushi and had no problems. Seen others use Squid too. I use Sole +1 for WAR, so I used that for DNC at higher levels too since I Was too lazy to AH it.

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:43 pm
by Sugami
Well that's your problem, you shouldn't really be using sushi at such low levels and I'm too stingey to dish out more money for rice balls and jack o' lanterns (especially when dying is a good possibility).
Using meat mithkabobs and I still find I hit gobs for 0 in Yuhwhatsits Jungle sometimes.

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:05 pm
by Finwich
Problem? I think bream costs as much at chiefkabobs.

I've never thought of using acc food when it was needed as a problem.

Oh well, to each their own.

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:30 pm
by Sugami
I don't dish out for HQ foods at low levels, Meat Mithkabobs is something like 2-4K a stack and not all that much of a loss if I end up dying and losing a piece.

Problem with using sushi early is it doesn't help you with damage, which is initially the main problem due to lack of decent gear. Need to get past the defense and VIT of the mob and avoid hitting those 0s, which with Daggers is an inherent possibility.
That and sushi gives a percentage of your overall accuracy, which if is quite low then you're not getting all that much in the first place anyways.

I have 4 Dagger merits (capped at 2 until 30) and with Accuracy Bonus I from RNG sub I was told I had Accuracy of 66%, which is apparently good for that level but I still hated it. I'm too used to having a near perfect 95% accuracy on my DRG so a drop to 66% is icky.

As for switching to sushi, I'm not too sure when I'll do that, maybe after Garlaige Citadel. DNC gets Accuracy Bonus at 30 and later Accuracy Bonus II at 60.

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:07 pm
by Alya Mizar (Tsybil)
Two words for low level melee food: Rice Dumplings.

Rice Dumpling
Duration: 30 mins

* HP +17
* Strength +3
* Vitality +2
* Agility +1
* Attack +20% (Cap: 45@225 Base Attack)
* Ranged Attack +30% (Cap: 45@150 Base Ranged Attack)
* HP Regeneration While Healing +2
* MP Regeneration While Healing +2
* Accuracy +5
* Resist Paralyze

A bit pricey but well worth it.

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:31 am
by Tianshii
*ding* samurai 69 :D

did a sea raid w/ my ls the other day and took down:
Jailor of Faith, Jailor of Fort, Jailor of Hope, and Mnk Ix'Aern!
goodies: Fort Torque, Faith H2H, Fort Axe & Hope Staff :)

A different day we took down Genbu & got A. Head, Kabuto, M. hands & a V.claw

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:56 am
by Keavy
Tsybil wrote:Two words for low level melee food: Rice Dumplings.

Rice Dumpling
Duration: 30 mins

* HP +17
* Strength +3
* Vitality +2
* Agility +1
* Attack +20% (Cap: 45@225 Base Attack)
* Ranged Attack +30% (Cap: 45@150 Base Ranged Attack)
* HP Regeneration While Healing +2
* MP Regeneration While Healing +2
* Accuracy +5
* Resist Paralyze

A bit pricey but well worth it.
As soon as my BLU gets better ACC gear I'll start using those.

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:49 am
by Karou Ariyen
Ding DNC 17. Also, Check my XBL section, I got 2 whole achievements done on Undertow, although that doesn't pertain to XI now does it?

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:03 pm
by Sugami
Aye, my friend told me about the rice balls/dumplings but I'm too much of a cheapskate to fork out that much for low level food :P

Ding merit 3 in a horrible merit party, not so much the party's fault but the camp was horrible. Do not do Mamool Ja above the Greater Colibri, they are stronger than the usual ones :oops: That'll probably go into Jump Level 3 :) Think back to Campaign Battle for my merits :oops:

Edit: Claim page 150 :P

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:06 am
by Karou Ariyen
Ding DNC 18-20. HA!

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:31 pm
by Sugami
Ding DNC29 :)

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:50 pm
by Okuza
Made a couple minor changes to our KS99/Wyrm strategy and our shell went from 1/5 wins last trip to 8/8 very easy wins this trip. No big drops, no beards, but it was fun just cranking out the wins right and left on this one. ^^

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:52 pm
by Fiye
Well, I took my Driver's License test at the DMV. Spent over an hour and a half there, and ended up passing the test.

So...

W0000000000000TS!

Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:02 am
by Sugami
Ding DNC31 :) Boxstep, Curing Waltz II and Desperate Flourish are mine as well as being able to use my sexy Rajas Ring :)

Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:04 am
by Tianshii
Congrats Fiye!! ...where do you live again so I remember never to drive through there... :P

Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:20 am
by Shirai
Tanked Jailer of Love!!

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Yeah that's right! White mage tank yo!!

And Dynamis Beaucedince was rewarding to me today~
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And to some of our other linksters as well!
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:49 am
by Fiye
Tianshii wrote:Congrats Fiye!! ...where do you live again so I remember never to drive through there... :P
Las Vegas

Located somewhere in Nevada.

x'DDD

Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:38 pm
by Alya Mizar (Tsybil)
Current title:

Dynamis Valkrim Interloper!!

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:00 am
by Sugami
Ding DNC33 :)

Byebye gimpy beetle harness and hello skimpy Savage clothes :lol:

Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:51 pm
by Karou Ariyen
ding DNC 21 (unless I posted already in which case whoopsie.)

Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:22 pm
by Fiye
I got myself 2 Merits last night, got bored, and when FFXI crashed I didn't log back in.

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:21 pm
by Finwich
OMG. That mamool camp is my favorite. 20k an hour there easily with brd x2, and 15k with only one brd.

Anyway, Love Halberd: O

JoL is like the most boring fight ever. I can't wait til my ls takes a break from Sea lol

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:45 pm
by Tianshii
double *ding*
Dancer 14
and~~~
Samurai 70 :D
plus I camped AH for some cute new shoes!
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