Roooar I'm a lion

Pic unrelated


I took the boat to Nashmau for Einherjar because there's lots to take pictures of, and I wasn't in a hurry.


Drawdistance comparison!


I prefer the foggyness (sans drawdistance) here, it fits the area/weather more, but drawdistance usually makes zones look 100x better (as in you can actually see more than 5ft in front of you). God knows why SE bothered to put cliffs and crap in the background if you can never see them in the normal game.


I noticed I was being stalked after a short time, so I sat down for a mock tea party with my new friend Archduke von Krinkenhoff Apples III to discuss a plan to eliminate the unsightly onlooker.

Fortunately for this unsightly villain, I was distracted by strange noises, which turned out to be a flock of birds harrassing my ship and pooping on the deck






SO ANYWAY


Temenos - West tower. Actually enjoyable for a change because DD's don't sponge too much and I had a WHM (hasting nobody of course) to at least cure people when they got in the red, so I just went apeshit and started chainspell nuking every floor. Was fun stuff.


I found Nem in the Boyahda tree, presumably perving on the elvaan lady I found him next to when I showed up. A couple of stacks of darts later I'd capped throwing (hooray!) and left him to spam sleep bolts/arrows for skillups. Turns out the sleep on them is something silly like 99% proc rate, so you can just shoot away keeping them asleep full time. Next I need to regear and train a bunch of mobs for shield and parry skill.

Yup

Not even a rank 5 on my main (not that I wanted another inventory-1 statue D:)

My mule had a bit more luck and managed to complete her statue set ._.

35 drops? In mah salvage?

It's more likely than you think.


Cheyne won the lot for it, and he now only needs the 15 to complete his usukane set! Not exactly an accomplishment of our static, but at least we contributed. We probably wouldn't have managed the turtle without him in any case, since that was the first time I've ever done it and Lawz is the only other one who knows what to do.

And today I realised why I was lagging so much on that run, I had shadows turned up to full :\

Final FoV augment, Gration and Hydrawr

No more tabs, guess that's it for me unless I start farming high-level FoV (hint: I won't) for tabs :\

I got myself a picaroon's shield for 150k from someone's bazaar. Whether that's a good price or not I don't know, but I do know I can get at least 150k profit from the 100% Tatmi shield drop.


I dusted off my magic damage set to give it a try, even though his -aga is easily out runnable. I was curious.


I took him up to the river this time, instead of the previous duos I did with juli by the shed on the way to riverne. There's lots more room and no aggro so it's even easier to outrun him. I kept losing claim during the fight, which had me concerned about him dying to dot unclaimed so I stopped dot around 5% and did the rest with nukes. The shield went from 400k > 350 > 300 in the past month, but there's none on the AH so I might try to bump it up to 350 again. Chances are someone awesome will undercut by 100k just because I put mine up and I'll end up making a loss from this whole venture thanks to AH tax.



We did a couple of Tinnins, which got us an Alkalurops, couple of bodies and a hat. I think we're doing the Cerberus guy later, not sure about Tyger (pity cause I would have wishlisted Aurum body if we were). But one mystery remains: where are these pop sets coming from?! We haven't done any T3s in the LS, and nobody's mentioned it so I can't really contribute what I have left over from the ZNM soloing I did a while back (though it's mostly the seal from Armed Gears...).

Omega, augments and game mechanics abuse

What's this?!


Pretty insane Omega, we got 3/4 chips for the next set from gunpods, no RDM af though :<


Sadly I'm back to the bottom of the ladder for Nashira again, plus with lectures starting again next week I'll probably only be able to make half the runs (though I could do some apollyon soloing for coins/af+1 if I miss tuesdays).

Anyway, some recent augments!


Sky FoV. Only got enough tabs for one more attempt :(



Fei'yin ACP. Nothing to see here.




Some new NM in Upper Delkfutt's Juli wanted. Turns out you can just abuse the porter to lose hate completely even when it's stood on top of you. It can be dot-soloed this way but obviously will be longer and incredibly boring. No drop for us of course. I'm assuming I don't get banned for doing this, as it follows the same principle of zone/dot/nuke, which has been around since the game started. Though this particular strategy probably wouldn't work if the NM wasn't magic aggro only.


I've been doing some fishing as well!


I found insect paste for 30 gil each at the fishing guild so I went to get me some moat carps. It's better money than the random crap I'd fished up at ports but I still don't think the money is worth the time investment. I won't bother turning them in for the Lu Shang's quest because it's a 20 gil loss per fish, and it probably works out better to sell your fish and buy the rod at the AH (3.3mil minus about 200k in tax from fish, rod is 2.9~3mil) although if you already had a bit of money, it would be faster to catch some of your own and buy some carps off the AH.

I want to find a way to farm gil, the only reason I'm reluctant to spend anything is because I know I don't have a way to make my money back :(

I can't really go back to my old routine of harvesting/farming in Giddeus because that was VERY inventory-intensive and probably not very profitable anymore because people don't need low-level crafting ingredients. Also, clothcraft is useless mid-level because nobody needs stat-less mid level gear anymore, and nobody cares enough about leveling to augment their level 50 gear if they know it will be replaced in 5~10 levels.

Also, zomg skillups


Should be level 10 soon ;o

So I heard you've been trying to get some of them nice augments

We can't be having that now, can we?


Turns out you can only do it once per Earth day. Who knew?



Much safer on RDM, and I don't have to use a warp item to get home! It was taking 0 damage from drain/thunder/blizzard for some reason, plus I could Aspir MP from it. Strange NM.



The spoils were...well, spoilt.

wat

Finished MNK 35-37, all six starter jobs 37+ done!


The PL had better gear than my main job.


I downloaded a new /sit DAT. Turns out /sit isn't the only thing it changes.


The idle motion isn't too bad, and the vanilla idle stance has gone all buggy and you 'twitch' when looking at stuff at a certain angle. Need to find it without the resting stance though.




"I'll never waste my money on FoV augments!" He went a bit apeshit at one point and nearly killed me (red HP) thanks to a combination of double attack spam and 400 damage TP move. If I hadn't bothered with improving my healing breath trigger I probably would have died!



Will try RDM next time, might be safer and it doesn't have much HP, so it will probably die to 2 MP pools. (Also, I found death by counter from MKD hat rather amusing)

wat.

Hopefully just a one-off and there's not aliens inside my game.

Red Mage

Look at this equipment. Look at it.



Static potency debuffs. ie Silence/Bind/Sleep etc.

Needs more nashira legs/enfeebling cape? I'm not too bothered, they will come in time.

Convert

Not changed in a long time, and it's more than adequate, so keeping it like this unless I want to needlessly burn money on a serket ring for 20 more mp return.

Dark magic

I use Chasauble and Wise cap for chainspell stuns, not sure if I should have them on for drain/aspir too as they have fairly low acc thanks to RDM's dark skill. I should probably have more haste on for stun, but I don't carry haste gear when I'm doing general support RDM stuff. Besides, I've needed to stun again before the recast is up (things like Sandworm KA and ACP final fight).


Enmity down

For when I need to heal people and have alot of hate accumulated. Also helps in long fights with hate resets.

Idle

Basic mage idle set gives a decent standing MP (in case of MP refils in limbus/dynamis, and to trigger ToAU latent refresh sooner) also provides a little PDT-%, and I usually add more if I'm doing something where I'm more likely to get hit (soloing, or when I expect to be kiting something). Oh, and auto refresh/regen. No points for telling me what item is missing here.

MND potency

Needs a 2nd earring and morri feet. After that, very expensive HQs (3 MND earrings, mahatma body, mistilteinn).

MND - medium acc

Semi-resistant stuff. Mix of accuracy and potency.

MND - high acc

For slow/paralyze when they are fussy to land. If they don't land after a couple of tries in this, then the mob is likely immune.

Nuke - resists

Should be used on anything VT or above. Errant Cuffs when MCB's aren't active. Could invest in Genie gages, but I don't often use this set. If I'm resisting alot, it's likely that I'm fighting something we brought BLMs to nuke instead. Admittedly, I could use them for resting as well.

Nuke - damage

Hurts more, but resists more.

Resting

Subligar.

Ouch set

Needs more work. HQs are rare and cost money, and I don't like spending money. (Obviously terra's staff when I'm not meleeing)

Stoneskin

Could add some haste, but that would result in losing MP if I cast it pre-fight. Maybe another set on a separate macro (which I don't have space for) may help. Add communion earring and prism cape for /blm.

Stoneskin - melee

For campaign etc. More skill to lower interrupts, not sure whether to go for haste in other slots or spell interrupt. Starts casting in full fast cast, should probably keep AF2 body on and put MND elsewhere to keep recast down too.

Utsusemi

So I heard it's possible to be immune to spell interrupts with 102% in gear. May have to attempt an interrupt set for :ichi. Also needs haste legs (nashira or ASA augments, whichever comes first).

RDM melee!

Haste legs needed, love torque if I'm using dagger. Better to stick with coeurl gorget if I'm dagger/sword? I've not yet used sword/sword, but that's supposed to be a virtue stone in ammo. Could use Lava's/Kusha's rings, but NM camping isn't much fun, and the effort could be better spent elsewhere.

RDM WS

My most half-assed set. Not got a build for Death Blossom, I just use my acc/att stuff from vorpal and evisceration. But really, who cares? It's a RDM melee set.

Missing stuff
-Dragoon. Will post it another time
-MDT set. Is about as good as my PDT set (ie: not)
-Enmity+ set. It's on a mule along with MDT should the sky fall and I need to tank something. Again, not much work so not amazing.

New shoes, BV2 and finishing MNK

I say new shoes, all I did was pick up my DRG af+1 from the NPC I left them with for two weeks. But it's a healthy addition to my Jump set, which I will get around to posting with the rest of my gear soon, since I'm fairly satisfied with what I've got now.




MNK from 32~35 from a mix of soloing/FoV/Garlaige party. Wasn't too bad, but I want it done so I can spend my time doing something productive instead of satisfying my OCD-esque compulsions (next: deleveling whm and nin to 37 so they match my other jobs).


My turn to CS-stun Bahamut. Not hard, but I'm always worried about screwing up and asploding the alliance.