Gear, limbus joy and banoonza

Updated my gearsets on FFXIAH, and added my Healing Breath trigger set that I made recently. Not everything reflects perfectly what I use, because I can still forget things or macros misbehave etc. Also I can't be bothered to put up EVERY set for my jobs because alot of them only vary by a few pieces (like some DRG TP or WS sets) or are sets I'm not yet finished with (RDM melee sets, or dark magic).

I'll get on to finishing them when I'm bored enough. Also no pictures today because I don't usually take plain screenshots of my gear.

Also, Temenos gave me an early christmas present last week in the form of DRG AF materials, so I opted to upgrade the feet. Next = head, then done. May upgrade the rest in future for the whitebox factor.

New year mog bananza (bonanza? banonza? who knows?) is go! I've got my 60k of marbles, now just to wait until the 29th of January :(

No, you can't has forgs

Zhayolm is a complete shit. We were supposed to do 5f/6f, but after being gyped out of cells again (we got 2 rings and 2 ranged after clearing 2f NE, so could only dupe one and therefore unable to unlock 3 people for 5fN) we ended up doing the boss.


Now I'm 2/3 on ares legs and morri feet, both needing the 35 :\

We could have tried for 6f, even without 5fN, but that would mean going south on 3f and killing 5fS (drops nothing) just to pop 6f which I feel is a waste of a run by itself, if we were faster we should be able to manage 6f+boss I guess, but our setup isn't great for this zone. In future, we might port up SE on 1f so we get hands (and TH4) before killing NE room, which I think is a waste because clearing NE first is always the best option because it can drop more useful cells, and I'd rather have everyone with back/waist/rings/earrings/ranged instead of just hands. Whether it was just bad luck, or we just didn't have TH on all the lizards (I wasn't paying attention) I can't tell, but this zone is not being kind to us, and we've done about 3 or 4 consecutive runs here so it's about time we went elsewhere for other people's stuff.


In other news, Flam came back to play over the holidays and we both went to dyna for shits and giggles. As it was dynamis, the shits and giggles ran out pretty fast, although spamming 2hours on Jeuno gobbies (dice move thingy can reset them) was entertaining for a while.


It was actually the first time I ever did dynamis as non-RDM, and now I have no idea why people always wanted to get off RDM in favour of DD jobs, because it's just as repetitive, and harder to ninja-afk when meleeing. 3am finish killed me, I don't know how I put up with that regularly.

Forgs

Our first attempt at 6f went as planned, which is a nice relief even if we got the usual 0 drops.



I learnt a whole bunch of stuff as well!
-2f Madame does contribute towards poping 6f, so you don't need to bother with timed 4f pops.
-Pop conditions are more trouble than the NMs themselves
-Lack of WHM is costing us time on 1f/2f thanks to petrify, but Juli is the only one with THF or WHM leveled, so we're kinda stuck

We finished 6f with about 22 minutes left, if they hadn't put the stupid chariot + gears on 6f we could have gone and killed the zone boss as well :\

Oh well, not bad for a first go.

Gurfurlur the Menacing, Ouryu + misc events

I've been fairly busy lately, but too busy to write anything decent here, plus just writing about events is yawn.



So, sea LS did some rampaging in Halvung on our way to Gurfurlur. Attendance wasn't great so it was a late start unfortunately.


I was on adds duty again, and they're complete pushovers to tank (2 RNGs and 2 PLDs). Not that I actually tanked them, but Ranger mobs are the easiest thing in the game to hold, and Paladins aren't exactly very offensive.


Hate on the adds was messy throughout (RNGs were being jerks for some reason) and positioning didn't go as planned, so they ended up running around and linking random trolls which we then had to have the DDs deal with.


But the fight with the big guy went smoothly throughout...until the last 20%


At this point he starts using a fun AoE-"every bad status effect you can think of" move, and we lost both tanks to something, so he moved into AoE range of everyone and proceeded to do what he does best: menace folk.


And boy, were we menaced.

More Recently...
...Limbus didn't drop any AF materials I need, limbus sucks.
...Salvage gave us skadi x2 from LAC, and skadi + marduk junk from BC, which wasn't wasted at least but nothing we have 35's for. No 35's dropped of course (and we took the wrong porter after fully unlocking for 5fN on our last ZR run, orz). Zhayolm needs more practice, and we need to be faster (plus I want to do 6f!) and I need more assault points, argh!

...Campaign lost me a medal, I'll try to make an effort this month not to lose another else I'm going down a rank. Lousy event.

Tarutaru galore though!

...I've started helping DaFunk with Einherjar, partly because I'm nice like that, and partly because I get to leech Therion Ichor for some nice items; mainly Morgana's choker and Aslan cape for converts/MND builds. Downside is I won't get any abjurations or Vork but it's not like I'd be able to seek out a successful einherjar shell that wants me anyway.



Most Recently!
Did some Ouryu killin'. I was in charge of kiting elementals and babysitting melees as they killed worms and just generally take damage.


The elemental gets kind of annoying after 20 minutes, it starts resisting sleep and runs out of MP so you can't aspir it anymore. I ended up just casting slow on it and letting it hit me with ice spikes on (added paralyze effect!) so I could just ignore it after that with stoneskin/phalanx absorbing damage. Suggesting that the melees kill it because there's no reason for it to be alive anymore was met with a 'lolno' until Gohan said they should kill it, then promptly did. No wonder I'm so hostile to people who don't pay attention to how back line jobs work!

And completely unrelated, I'm meeting ALOT of RDMs recently who have a dalmatica but no relic hat. WHAT IS WITH THAT?

Update for great justice

That's about it.

Not been on much thanks to this awesome essay that I'm failing miserably at. 1500/2500 words and I've got tomorrow left to finish it, which may sound like nothing, you could probably bust out a 5k word essay in a day if you have your shit sorted, but I've been managing maybe 300 words per day ._.

My shit is anything but sorted.


Oh well. Over soon, then I get the joy of christmas shopping and exam revision to look forward to.

Synergy

I'm not into crafting. I'm not into augments particularily. I'm not into camping particular monsters for a small chance at getting claim/kill/drop. I'm not into gathering a group of people to take part in an activity that will soley benefit myself. Synergy is certainly a good choice of name for this system because it combines all of the above into one abhorrent monster of an activity.

It is with pleasure that we announce the arrival of the version update featuring the exciting new Synergy and Evolith systems. Get together with your craftiest friends to create heretofore unseen items and put the perfect finishing touches on your arms and armor, old and new alike!

Want to learn more? Peruse the details here.

Pros
- Exploding is funny
- There is a mithra in the preview pictures
- Thwack furnace (THIS IS HOW WE FIX PROBLEM IN RUSSIAN SPACE STATION!)

Cons
- Think about crafting, but the only materials you can synth with are exclusive NM drops
- Need friends (with skill in appropriate craft?) to help synth stuff
- No idea what gear you can actually synth yet, unlikely to be anything useful
- Augments likely to be lackluster and not worth the effort involved
- Going to Bastok sucks unless you have a home point there
- Claim usage of a synergy furnace. Idiotic idea, and you can't get a private furnace until you get level 5 synergy skill AND complete a quest.

Now what?

Merits capped, and still not decided on another job, or have time to level it so...sword/dagger merits gogo?



Also, Hades got Martial Master kupower for the first time in a while, so I went off to finish my ranged skills.


Moar blue numbers! I spent 10 mins getting the last 2 levels on Archery (Even Match), then 30 mins without a single 0.1 on throwing, which was spent on Easy Prey. So either EP is too low for me (I thought this was unlikely, being at 173 skill) or I'm horribly unlucky.

That's all. What an exciting life I lead ;\

(I don't have anything to give you)

Cold winter is cold. I have work to do. I have two weeks to design an intervention aimed at reducing drinking amongst a student population (good luck with that) and I've not written a word.


So, I'm back to a strictly events-only regieme for FFXI again and after that maybe even less because I'll be busy with family/friends and christmas crap, then exam revision up until half way through January.