Sunday, 24 January 2010

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

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