So close...

But still pretty damn nice. Not far off a free enfeebling earring, but +2 MND on that would have been epic. I guess I can also use it for after-WS elemental breaths for my wyvern...but I don't really bother with that because I just tend to mash macros until they fire so any /wait lines get screwed up. Maybe worth a try if I can get Dragoon's earring from that T1 ZNM.

I asked if anyone wanted to help me with 5-1 since we were right outside the BC and a couple of lovely souls did offer to help, but others just fell silent. Except one of them, who asked:
"What mission is it?"
"The skeleton fight" I reply
"o" *warps*
What an ass...


They were more interested in going off to do more ACP missions, so I can take some small consolation in the fact they will fail miserably at the final fight. And suffer through the painfully mediocre cutscenes for the preceding missions.

And I got a nice earring.

Comet charioteer

Salvage is on again! New group, and everyone knows their shit, moreso than me so I need to re-learn stuff that I forgot over the past year. I had to go on DRG when I'm only used to doing it on RDM but I still had a good idea of which cells were which.



First run was in Bhaflau, and we were aiming for the boss (Long-Bowed Chariot) which had me worried because I've never had a positive experience with him. We killed all 10 gears on the fourth floor without them warping, plus the chariot there so we didn't get owned by Homing Missile.


The boss fight was very smooth, I only had to spam Angon, jumps/meditate for tp and WS when it was safe, and we had plenty of time left so I didn't really need to be there. Although heavy damage is needed for the 4th floor gears to kill them before warping. I wasn't keeping track of time, but we might have even had enough time to do a rampart + boss.

Was a good finish to an otherwise crappy day, which I spent (trying) to merit and got ignored by good parties, invited by mediocre 72~75 parties, which was fairly fun because I was main healing on DRG/BLU but that takes alot of attention, especially fighting Mamools because by the time I can heal someone (50% HP), they can easily get one-shotted by some TP moves. So not really workable on Mamools unless your party uses +HP macros so you can heal them earlier.

But it's not really a surprise people skip DRGs for meriting (despite them having a main weapon that has +25% damage against merit birds) when you take a look at the 'average' dragoon you can find:


To be fair, that's not a bad jump setup, but rings/earrings are still very bad and...well, I wanted a party :(


My eyes. Tiger ring +1. Trail weapon. There are no words for this.

If you want something doing properly, do it yourself.

Doesn't it suck how the actions of one person can completely screw up pretty much any event?

Also, I'm regretting augmenting my ACP body with acc/att, I'm thinking store TP would have been a better option after all now that I only use it for jumps (more acc overall than heca, also some VIT and no slow in case I get a hit in before changing gear).

More twins! (DRG edition)

Well...they're close

Bastok have managed to come second in conquest, but still only have control of three areas, two of which I already had the outposts for :\


Aragoneu was the only OP I didn't have. Still no northlands of course!

Spent 2ish hours skilling up, I didn't really notice much of an increase from the skillup mog tablet.


10 levels on staff, which is about typical for that amount of time (I wish I'd kept track better). And at least 1~2 parrying which is more that I'd usually get I guess.

So not a very noticeable enhancement, but this is FFXI, what else could I expect?

Ugly gloves.

RDM relic complete! Over 290 enhancing skill now with only 3 pieces of gear. Of course it still doesn't break the next tier for Phalanx II, but it's another +1 to enspells and Phalanx 1. I could break 300 skill, for the final +1 to Phalanx II, but that would mean changing merits, getting the +enhancing sea cape, or farming ACP keys to get a +enhancing belt - none of which I feel like doing just yet. If ever. Plus it would mean I need to carry 2~3 more pieces of gear just to break the last tier. For normal party support purposes I only need to be carrying AF legs, so the gloves and my enhancing torque can go in the 'situational gear' pile in my satchel.

Molybdenum Ingots are falling in price! So I could either get one now, while they're under 400k (in case they jump back up to 500k again) or keep waiting for them to fall further (hopefully all the impatient rich people have all got theirs now).

Haven't we been here before?

Flame gorget go! I couldn't get a party to try it out though :\



I've been pushing to make progress with Bastok missions, and so far got from Rank 2~5


My third (and final) run in with the mission 2-3 dragon. Much easier solo on BLU than it was for RDM. I filled my inventory with hi-potions, and ended up using 2 (which I would have lived without anyway) so now have a ton of them to shift.


Rank 3 involved trading crystals to skip the pointless missions! Also mission to Jeuno to save the ebassador guy who randomly wanders into Delkfutt's tower (for NO reason, and still doesn't explain after you save him) and gets knocked out in a place that is inaccessible unless you climb ten floors, kill an NM for the key, then travel BACK DOWN to reach the basement. Good thing the key is re-useable and I've done it twice before! I climbed the tower anyway, to grab the key item for ACP 11.


Magicite. Did this all as WHM to tele/warp around faster. Turns out Otzroja is a bit annoying solo at level 42. And some of the levers (the door you need the torch for especially) are really annoying to open because you have to be in a really specific position.


5-1 next, just need to borrow a mnk (or almost any other job would do, I imagine). Northlands outposts would be nice as well...

Apart from all that, I spent some 3 hours in Sacrarium helping people farm subligars. We had a good drop rate at first, but then the THF had to go and it fell to 1/109580185 kills. Fortunately the guy who wanted THF subligar d/c'd so we managed to get subligars for everyone else who was left and gtfo. At least I got some Conquest Points out of it? Yay.

I saw an ACP 11 shout while I was looking for a party, and decided to give it a go, since I'd just farmed the key item. Typically, the last guy who joins doesn't have the key item and we have to escort him up the entire tower, killing/kiting everything in the way (no sneak/invis and I can't cast on him when he's level-capped). Thankfully it wasn't in vain.


Everyone knew what they were doing! PLD had magic damage gear, and could actually hold hate for a bonus (and didn't get charmed once). The only difficult part was the THF (designated clone-killer) was on the opposite side of the room, so we had to run into aoe range if they needed curing, and they had to run into aoe range to pull the clones because they were running towards us. Coupled with the fact it was spawning clones in pairs for some reason, things got a little messy towards the end when the THF got hit with Seed of Judgement and died, leaving me to nuke the clones (but was running out of MP) and my Thunder got resisted on the last clone (which then killed the SCH), so I used weapon bash, stunned the crystal again, and was about to melee the clone to finish it off (was out of options!) but luckily the SMNs kept up the damage on the crystal and finished it off.

So even with a good group it can get messy.


WAIT LOL, HOW DID WE EVEN GET HERE???

look, it's that bit from the starting CS and I'm not in it:(

So anyway, the entire ACP storyline is pointless and confusing because it revolves around Aldo's sister who has being missing since Tavnazia got owned, but has been in the game since the start.


Except that she does have a different name, and that was never explained either. I'll try talking to her to see if she says anything different.

So, ACP is a mindless nonsensical expansion, with a 'storyline' that opens more plot holes than it closes. But if you want to try for some neat augmented items, and a shiny new body piece, then go ahead by all means.

Woot?

Exams ovar. Which would normally mean I have more time to play, but my connection is being a dick and for some reason won't let me play FFXI, even though I can do pretty much anything else.

Well, I logged in for limbus fine a couple of days ago, and Nem talked people into killing a Yovra for me while we waited for Omooga to be free!


I was messing around because I wanted to show I can take hate from BLMs lololololol when it did that to me D;

Apparantly it used boost or some shit. Still, 1374 total damage in a normal hit and that's with protect on...they don't mess around.

Now if I could only log in, I could go get my flame gorget sorted (and free some inventory up).