Roooar I'm a lion

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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.