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Well, first thing I guess.
After screwing up my sword of trials the first time around, this time I didn't! I've the key item to pop it, I just need go and kill the NM, which is a lovely and I mean lovely walk and a half to open the damn door to get into the room. So maybe I'll find some time and finish it off, i've the part I hate the most out of the way.
Second thing! Been doing La Vaule Nms again, low man this last time, doing Mnk with 4 people really is fun when it starts to charm. I didn't even notice the mnk had 2hr'd til I was in red lol, might of been quite distracted :x
This is the bugger.
Had Pld/nin, Rdm/whm, Sam/Nin and Rng/Nin. Took a while to bring him down but was a EES finish in the end. Fun none the less.
I'll go over them tho; From A-Z..
Starting with:
All-Seeing Onyx Eye, Sch, Spawns at (J-11).
This NM is annoying, its a eye type with a gaze charm every 5 seconds. You have to tank it backwards and also deal with the level 5 petri which resets hate. Its ideal to pull him away from his spawn into the river more since there is a Malbro where he spawns. Its quite a slow fight and can get messy with charm if things start to go wrong. Its a sch so some of its spells go AoE, its tier 4's don't but on its '2hr' it'll start to cast AoE AM1, which rather hurts, you don't want anyone in AoE besides the tank when it casts. Also the Eyes cast time gets quicker as % gets lower, so be careful. If MP ever gets low, he is easily kited along the river if you're doing it with low #s.
Cogtooth Skagnogg, Rng, Warmachine Spawns at (I-9).
Two places you can fight it, either in the river right by the spawn point or by the zone line to La Vaule, honestly the zone line is the safest one because of the ability to zone hate. From a tanking point of view, he doesn't melee at all, and if you wear MDT- and MDB+ equip, he hits like a wimp. You can fight him JoL style and have every DD from afar, Tear grenade is the only really annoying attack of his. From a DD point of view, go until you pull hate and zone it, this NM doesn't last long at all.
Coinbiter Cjaknokk, Drk, Spawns at (F-6).
I hate this NM, firstly it'll try keep up dread spikes all the time, secondly it'll spawn shoulder charge, which lessens your hate and also adds defense down, which when spammed can make for a really messy right. Limiting its TP is ideal, and DD's with Nin sub. Pulling it is also something else I hate, since it really loves the crowd with the other Orcs. Having to either take it to a zone or clear/sac him to a camp SE of his spawn.
If the tank can keep up and not get hit that much with shoulder charge then its a quick and easy fight, but yeah, you can guess what happens if they can't. >D
Falsespinner Bhudbrodd, Mnk, Spawns at (E-8).
Last one I'll do for this update since I hate these wall of texts, you can pull him to the river close by, you just need to pray the Orcs deaggro if you're doing it low #s. You'll sac/pull him off the bridge near the BC area, and fight him down the river. (Down it because if charm hits all, then you'll be walked back to his spawn point, lol)
Keeping him dotted is always needed under 50% since thats when he can start to charm, which can drag out this fight, other then his charm the NM is rather easy. He is also largely kiteable in the river since at this end of it, there is lots and lots and LOTS of space. He does use Hundred fists, but you can either sent/invince/kite/ w/e, its not really an issue, the charm is more of a problem.
Now off SHNM and onto other things, pet job fun lately, recently I've been able to use my smn again (Yay, its actually a fun job), but I've been using it on Xolotl as part of a duo or Trio+, with Kaita's Bst and sometimes Nat or smashed's bst's aswell. The job can be played so many ways, and you've access to so many spells if you use the avatars correctly, i.e Smn can dispel, Fenrir's Lunar roar. Can grav with levi or diabolos, etc, the list goes on, and they can also DD (Pro of using it on Xolotl is, imune to charm). Strange thing is, I saw so many kote drop, which I'm used to seeing only the hat drop. We also got a dagger for Tiki's thf.
Besides that Smn has little uses which makes me sad, other then sitting afk with puppy(Fenrir) or carby out in some zone.
Besides camps and what not, nothing else been really going on, I'm missing doing salvage now, since the times it seems im awake for it, people aren't online, I guess its the way XI is going now.
Besides the hat, i've finally switched over from 6 line bs to windower macros. I've only managed to re-do Pld, Blm and Rdm with still lacking several things but as it stands, I am much more comfortable with my macros now then I was. I can actually do everything I wanted without losing my mind hitting 4 macros to do one job. There is alot to do for me still, but I think its actually made my mages.. even more fun, is that possible?! Still to re-do bard, add in ele debuff set to blm, finish solo/support sets on rdm, etc, etc, lots to do still.
So besides the hat and macros, whats new? Epic failure today by me. So I always take ages to break weapons, besides atonement for Pld. Now I had been for along time breaking my sword of trials, today I go skill up in the tree with Dw and after a few sc's it breaks. Some time later I get back to sandy, happily go and trade my sword to the npc to get my manual and guess what? In the time of breaking it, i've some how canceled the quest and now I have to break an entire new sword. I'm so smart ^-^.
Other then that, I screwed my foot up.. badly, on sunday I was made to use it alot at my grandads helping him out do things in the garden, lets say its not a hell of alot worse, going to the doctors tomorrow, hopefuly get something to make the swelling go down. I've already been to the hospital about it and they did pretty much nothing, but it was only A&E, rush in,rush out.. and by rush I mean 2 and a half hours, lol. Hurts to walk, move it, etc, and I did it by messing around jumping over something I really shouldn't of, lol.
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Ok so as I said I'd edit this, so here it is, lately we've been doing alot of farming in beadeaux [s], which is nice and all but last night we went to La vaule [s], farming the orcs... Well I say orcs, the nms we got were Drg (Orc), All seeing onyx eye (Eye, duh), A rng type giga and uh, the gnoll dude.
Ok so some notes on them, quick style, I'll go over these plus beadeaux ones in an updates time or so.
Draketrader Zlodgodd, Dragoon, spawns at (G-7).
Pullable to the entrance, with the trainer zoning the adds, a sleeper for the two tigers is nice so the puller will live. The Nm will lose aggro easily so it'll need someone to keep pulling it back, usually the tank.
His jump attack which starts off weak, but gets stronger and stronger as his % goes down, it also gets more frequent, hard to straight tank, easy to kite. Kiteable at the zone line and also just outside of the gate, if the time of day permits. Slow fight, but easy if kited. Hard to DD it with standard melee jobs, as ws's can be lost as soon as it jumps.
All-Seeing Onyx Eye, Scholar, spawns at (J-11).
Killable where it pops, tanking it backwards to avoid the charm. There seemed to be some sort of hate reset, mostly on petrify. The AoE spells aren't that much of an issue, I didn't get to see its 2hr which was quite disapointing, AoE AM its meant to be. It didn't seem to cast much and is easily stunable.
Rugaroo, Monk, spawns at (H-10).
Besides its spam of intimidation and weak asuran claws, this nm is a total joke, Pld tank makes light work of it, and the pull isn't hard either, a pld can run the adds and the Nm to the lake, jumping off the bridge just west? of the spawn, into the river (This will cause all adds to deaggro and despawn). Really nothing complex or diffucult about this guy.
Agrios, Ranger, spawns at (H-6).
Not a hard NM, easy to blink tank, when it lands with a ranged attack though it seems to reset or just spike loss of hate. Slow/Elegy land no problem, it only seemed to use its daunting hurl at low %, which really does hurt, esp with the hate reset. Besides the messy hate, its not a bad fight.
Then last but not least, the last mog bonanza. I only won rank 5, although twice so it wasn't bad. I picked these two, as alot of people got statues :p
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More next update on SHNM's and other stuff i've been doing :p
So in usual 'how high can you jump?' style, Me and a friend Kisho (Aka Neogeo) set each other a challenge.
We set the bar at the 3k mark and our target faf,
X1 Thunder weather + Day, No food (Roar'd) and no spirit lantern. U.pendant was active as well as sorc though.
Nearly there, 24 dmg off.. With Melon+1 which I -had- on before it was roar'd off, I would of broke 3k >D
One day I'll have a chance at this again:p Funny how before I said about not getting to MB on blm lately, then this :)
Ok, not really much to talk about update wise, but since I've not really got to use blm to magic burst onto anything. I might as well start on whm right? Yeah!
With zero +mab, not even novio on which never leaves my inv.
So I wonder, if 1.5k or so might be doable.
Not sure as to what I should really go for gear wise to get that.
Maybe:
Head : Zenith Crown+1, Body: Yigit, Hands: Zenith or maybe Marduk for +Mnd, Torque: U.pendant 50%<mp or Morgana's chocker, Earrings: Moldy/Novio, Ammo: White Tathlum, Rings: Tamas/Omega, Legs: Blessed, Feet: Yigit, Waist : Witch Sash, Back: Ixion cape.
Might of forgot a slot or two, not sure. (Oh, maybe light obi for that rare, rare, chance.)
I'll likely go over this again, once i've tested it some more.
Other things, lately I've taken up crafting once again. This time to finish my bonecraft sub, upon reaching 50 (My Aim was 55, but I got bored and wanted to try 5 levels lower, so I went ahead and tried)
And I didn't bust the synth, 5 levels below the bone sub level.
So now I has a yag hat signed by me >D
So now my crafts are: Cloth 88, Leather 60, Wood 60, Bone 50. I swear someday I will carry on my cloth, just to get it to 100.
Also, yeah been doing more level sync exp, which has gotten me quite a few merits, Rdm is my next job to finish, with 11 merits left to cap it out, then just for bard. I should manage to cap rdm before I get done with this type of Exp, Dia 3, and Phal 2 capped im going for to top me off. Current merits are http://www.ffxiah.com/player.php?id=1304
Also, as a last thing, finished ACP, last BC was.. different... quite annoying and the climb was also horrid.
Anyway I got the Pld body with +5 enm and fast cast,dat moded it already, hate it.
There is another pic which made me think of Rafa in 3 years but I'll send that one via msn :p
Might of forgot something but I'll add it in later >D
There is more for me to update about but I'll leave it at this, until I edit it :p
Well, this time again, whats changed since the last one. Well alot but I really can't be arsed to detail it all.
Merits:
Axe 4 is now Axe 0, instead it went into shield 4.
Whm is now capped in Cat 2, 5/5 Devo, 1 Martyr, 3 Shell, 1 Prot.
Next will be RDM to get merits.
Equip, Pld Cape, Brd relic hat (Mushroom hat, both got with awersome TH) and some others, I'll edit as I remember, haha.
It carries the same +Enm as my Cerb but the added HP and Vit, which will help on rampart off darksday (S.mantle for darksday). Other things I guess is, Koenig Schaller which basically rotted in sky (Everyone but me had passed when I noticed, so I lotted to uncurse, +5 more shield skill!).
I've no idea what my total skill+ is on bard atm but I know its quite high, only a few pieces left to max it. Which I hope I can see the difference when I finish it. I've Min merits but I will not replace my magic merits for bard, they(Melee's) already get +20 extra attack on SV for zergs.
Other stuff, well Salvage as some might of guessed in the previous post, I had missed quite alot and well, we went and did Zhaylom boss for Neo to finish his slops, we only did one run last weekend so, this is all that happened, Alldira got the 25 Usk head also, which will save alot of trouble. Still alot to get in terms of armor, still to see a SSR put out on drops, which I've gotten to the point where i think its the fact that im entering us into SSR so I keep making others port us in. Also now since I've got my satchel im tempted to put all my salv armor in storage and see if drops are based on which set you've chosen + stored.
Oh and now onto that I guess, what did you put in your satchel? Me, I stuck every med possible in it.
Mine looks like this, Antidoes x36 (3 stacks), Echo drops x36 (3 stacks), Holy water x12, Poison pot x12, Sleeping pot x24 (2 Stacks), 24 Prisms (2 stacks), 36 Silent Oils (3 stacks). Then every food I use, Melon+1, Tav Tacos, Dorando and Sole sushi, Wizard cookies. Then Nin tools, x36 bags of shihei (3 stacks), 36 tonko and monomi tools (3 stacks each). Then exp rings/port/warp items, pop items, re raise and then pld af2. Last but not least, sprinter shoes! As well as some other random crap.
Also, before I forget (I was reminded, yes by you(No not everyone reading this), thanks), lately I've been getting most of my merits via level synch, playig mostly Bard, Pld and Rdm roles, which are well, nice to see and you really learn how much you value your Ja's, its been alot of fun as well and damn good for buffers <3, I think the only job which buffer sucks is RNG, which is degeared :p Mostly been sync'd w/ Tikinas(Rng), Jersey(Rng), Evilvirus(Rdm) and Kadas(Rng), also did a few lower pts with Viles sch. I missed so many abilites and spells I would have at 75 on all three jobs.
Now I don't think I missed anything in this update.. which I prob have.. missed alot..
Basically like the title says, Sorry to my salvage group, I know I've been missing runs lately, due to sleep patern or IRL. Mostof its sorted out now so I should be back to normal. Yesterday and today I fell asleep at the gather times and entry times, so sorry :/
Although its short, I do mean it, I just can't be botherd writing alot since I'm quite tired atm still :p
Ok so, totally not related to XI, I was shown this video of Pon and Zi, which is a cartoon. Im not going to say what type yet till you watch the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTl2CegZo
I love the art work used, some of them are funny, others cute.
Which I really didn't expect from a emo cartoon, lol.
Yes I know my updates lately are shorter and shorter, I promise I'll do a big one some time, when I can be arsed.
Now onto the some stuff about IRL, My grandad should be coming out of hospital for the first time in 6 weeks or so, soon. I say soon because the results of the scans are still be be reviewed. The sad thing is, besides removing most of the infection, there wasn't anything done. Mainly because it would kill him. So kinda sad, but happy at the same time.
Still depressed from time to time but its getting alot better, things making me smile again, things to look forward to.
Yep.
Alot.
Also, other day playing around with plasticsurgeon again.
Taru. 
When I first started off playing FFXI, I was a taru, I think I went through 5 Characters before picking hume and RDM to start off as, same name though.
Maybe more about it next update!
So lately, I've been rather stressed and I've been looking for a way to relax.. although you know, when you seek for something, its alot harder to find. This is all due to reasons I'm not going to list here, some due to family, some due to ingame, alot of it is things I'm having to accept and I can't do anything about them, the others are issues i've made worse myself. Not sure about what is the "What next?" or if there is anything else, lol. Meh.
I've been listening to these bands lately though and they seem to help.
Snow Patrol
Foo Fighters
The Veronicas
Muse
Feeder
Still not able to really relax but hey, its a step in the right direction at least.
So last night we did dyna-beau again, another chance to get a snap shot of something snowy?! Damn right.
Snowy zones, Beau, Xarca, Ul range are prob, my favouite zones ingame.
Besides a few other zones, none can really compare, Mis. coast maybe..
Other things ingame have been fine, fun events, fun people, the normal kinda stuff. A few Tiamat camps ago, SE released a system message which would make everyone using windower 3.3 crash, so I had to update and in the process I forgot to re-download plasticsurgeon. So for the longest time I wasn't able to mess around with my characters race, well not anymore! Its finally back, well.. not as much, lol.
I'd hate ethys art work to of been for nothing after all (Any excuse, maybe, don't care, if I wana play as a cat, I damn well will!), I still do regret picking hume but im stuck with it now I guess. (I can't find the link to her final piece, maybe later i'll edit it in. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3238/2826
And then the other night, when talking about playtime, last time I checked I was at 950 days.. now.. /emo.
Don't think there is anything else I could add really to this update. Current progects are still major W.I.P's, Salv stuff won't drop, Arrapago today with 5, warped out after 5th floor, cleared all nms otw there, 40 mins left. Happy about that, back to old standards. SSR the other day, no drop from any nm, need to tweak this zones strat a little more, the damn slops and links slow us down so much..
I think thats all, till next time :p
So..
I should of highlighted the DRK level but meh, its been about 2 and a half years since I finished Rdm, about time no?
Pretty much finished subs, as far as current jobs go, I might do another when I get my satchel, I'm not sure.
Also messing around on Tia, It was flying, I had 800 mp.
Why not..
Mini update done!
