Went after my Selene's bow yesterday. I know the OBow is a good xbow to have but I should diversify and have at least an EBow, Vali's, or Selene's bow. Of those, Vali's is a lottery spawn NM and EBow is BCNM60 drop. The easiest of them is the Selene's which is dropped from a rabbit that is force spawned every full and new moon. You trade a Sandy Carrot to a ??? and it spawns. Droprate is said to be about 10%... we went 0/3.
Next windows are:
Full Moon: Monday, Oct 20th 4am-11am EST
New Moon: Tuesday, Oct 21st 8:30pm-3:20am EST
Full Moon: Thursday, Oct 23rd 1pm-7:30pm EST
New Moon: Saturday, Oct 25th 5am-noon EST
Full Moon: Sunday, Oct 26th 9:30pm-4:15am EST
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
What's on the menu
Diabolos------------------Pso'Xja (40 cap)
Ouryu--------------------Riverne Site #B01 A (50 cap)
Keremet------------------Sacrarium (50 cap)
Nunyunuwi---------------Pso'xja (uncapped)
Empty NMs--------------Promyvion Vahzl (50 cap)
Mithra NMs--------------Boneyard Gully BCNM (50 cap)
Bugbear NM--------------Mine Shaft #2716 BCNM (60 Cap)
Spheroid NMs------------Misareaux Coast (uncapped)
Omega/Ultima----------- Sealion's Den (60 cap)
Dalham-------------------Bibiki Bay (uncapped)
Tenzen-------------------Sealion's Den (uncapped)
and those are just the fights! How am I going to do all this in 4 weeks? AARGH!
Ouryu--------------------Riverne Site #B01 A (50 cap)
Keremet------------------Sacrarium (50 cap)
Nunyunuwi---------------Pso'xja (uncapped)
Empty NMs--------------Promyvion Vahzl (50 cap)
Mithra NMs--------------Boneyard Gully BCNM (50 cap)
Bugbear NM--------------Mine Shaft #2716 BCNM (60 Cap)
Spheroid NMs------------Misareaux Coast (uncapped)
Omega/Ultima----------- Sealion's Den (60 cap)
Dalham-------------------Bibiki Bay (uncapped)
Tenzen-------------------Sealion's Den (uncapped)
and those are just the fights! How am I going to do all this in 4 weeks? AARGH!
Captivating
So I finally got home from vacation and decided to attend my first LS event. It was an easy night of sky. Luckily, I have years of experience in sky but the only trouble is... I was always a RDM or BLM. This was my first time in sky as a melee. It wasn't that bad... I deleved (which sucks) but all in all I thought I did a pretty good job.
I headed out to Li'Telor and realized that without a raised chocobo yet I was going to have to run it from Zi'tah... I miss that old chicken I used to have... I made it up to sky and our 1st target was Mother Globe. Someone knew it was up so we headed up there and just before I was on MG's floor I used widescan and found out Faust was up! We never really got around to Faust but at least I was able to contribute SOMETHING to the LS already! We got to MG and it was a cake walk. I was used to going as a mage where you just nuke the hell outta that NM, but this was a different approach. Get TP off MG and then use it on a Slave Globe. Got full drops too! The Katana was just meh, but I wasn't going to lot it, it was lv.73 and I'm only NIN60. And I just joined the shell like 8 seconds ago.
After that I had about 2'ish hours left before work so we headed to Kirin. I was 1/1 avoiding the damn pots which was a nice relief from those times I went 1/15. Unfortunetly... we had someone else go 1/15 so it took almost 45 minutes to go from MG to poping Kirin. Why they don't make that a non-random telepad is beyond me. When we finally popped Kirin it seemed like our most important people kept DC'ing. It's Murphey's Law really, I mean if you have 15 jobs not being used to kite Kirin and 3 PLD's... It's always going to be the PLD's who DC! Never fails! I got to say in 4 years of playing this darn game I have never DC'd once. Either on PS2 or now on PC. We managed though, and sure enough I was supposed to Shadowbind old Seiryu.
He was the pet popped by Kirin and all was going fine, He 2-hours and I use my macro.
/pDISENGAGE DISENGAGE
/wait 3
/ja "Shadowbind"
/wait 1
/pis Shadowbinded
Sure enough, someone broke it. Chaoslegacy (it seems the LS RNG) had to use his to SB him and we cleared him no problem. Next was Genbu (poor tutrle), he went down no problem. When Suzaku came up we both had our Shadowbinds back up. Sure enough... someone broke Chaos' SB! Being the good team player I am, I run up and use the macro. It sticks, and everyone runs away and as I'm backing away in first person I realize that I am still engaged with Suzy... so I'm backing up very very slowly. As I fumble to disengage from him I'm getting slammed with Flare repeatedly, and eventually I get cooked beyond belief and finally bite it.
Crap. I get a R3 and my 2k buffer is now 1300. We go on with Kirin and I'm hitting a steady 40 per Holy Bolt and a 252 per Slug Shot. I have nothing to compare it to, so it could be crap, could be average, idk. All I know is each Sidewinder Chaos did was 500-700 a shot. Granted I don't have Osode, Ebow, and about 1/2 the gear he does. Eventually after a Diaond Dust I live with about 134 HP. I get healed up once Cure IV and I somehow get slammed by a random Great Whirlwind.
Now I'm getting it from my LSmates. buffer xp {where?} Granted I just dinged 75 that morning and had 2k xp buffer from two lvl.8 Beseige runs. I see R3 being started on me and as I accept the raise I realize I am now a RNG74. I was thinking "WTF, R3 shoulda got me back my level". Seems someone decided to R1 me as R3 was being cast and since it has a shorter spellcast time it was cast on me first, and the R3 had no effect once it was cast. Not knowing this I chose to be revived, thus recieving a R1 after deleveling and not getting back my RNG75 level. It sucked but oh well, I'm like 900tnl so that's 1 more beseiged or maybe I'll get off my ass and finally start XP'ing on RNG. Soonafter we got the kill, good drops in my opinion.
That was it for the night, I logged off and headed out to work. Did prisoner transport, so I pretty much slept from midnight till 4am and then had to start working. Love this crazy job. Got home today at 9am, went to sleep. Woke up at 1:00 to get some leveling done on RNG.
ugh.
I headed out to Li'Telor and realized that without a raised chocobo yet I was going to have to run it from Zi'tah... I miss that old chicken I used to have... I made it up to sky and our 1st target was Mother Globe. Someone knew it was up so we headed up there and just before I was on MG's floor I used widescan and found out Faust was up! We never really got around to Faust but at least I was able to contribute SOMETHING to the LS already! We got to MG and it was a cake walk. I was used to going as a mage where you just nuke the hell outta that NM, but this was a different approach. Get TP off MG and then use it on a Slave Globe. Got full drops too! The Katana was just meh, but I wasn't going to lot it, it was lv.73 and I'm only NIN60. And I just joined the shell like 8 seconds ago.
After that I had about 2'ish hours left before work so we headed to Kirin. I was 1/1 avoiding the damn pots which was a nice relief from those times I went 1/15. Unfortunetly... we had someone else go 1/15 so it took almost 45 minutes to go from MG to poping Kirin. Why they don't make that a non-random telepad is beyond me. When we finally popped Kirin it seemed like our most important people kept DC'ing. It's Murphey's Law really, I mean if you have 15 jobs not being used to kite Kirin and 3 PLD's... It's always going to be the PLD's who DC! Never fails! I got to say in 4 years of playing this darn game I have never DC'd once. Either on PS2 or now on PC. We managed though, and sure enough I was supposed to Shadowbind old Seiryu.
He was the pet popped by Kirin and all was going fine, He 2-hours and I use my macro.
/p
/wait 3
/ja "Shadowbind"
/wait 1
/p
Sure enough, someone broke it. Chaoslegacy (it seems the LS RNG) had to use his to SB him and we cleared him no problem. Next was Genbu (poor tutrle), he went down no problem. When Suzaku came up we both had our Shadowbinds back up. Sure enough... someone broke Chaos' SB! Being the good team player I am, I run up and use the macro. It sticks, and everyone runs away and as I'm backing away in first person I realize that I am still engaged with Suzy... so I'm backing up very very slowly. As I fumble to disengage from him I'm getting slammed with Flare repeatedly, and eventually I get cooked beyond belief and finally bite it.
Crap. I get a R3 and my 2k buffer is now 1300. We go on with Kirin and I'm hitting a steady 40 per Holy Bolt and a 252 per Slug Shot. I have nothing to compare it to, so it could be crap, could be average, idk. All I know is each Sidewinder Chaos did was 500-700 a shot. Granted I don't have Osode, Ebow, and about 1/2 the gear he does. Eventually after a Diaond Dust I live with about 134 HP. I get healed up once Cure IV and I somehow get slammed by a random Great Whirlwind.
Now I'm getting it from my LSmates. buffer xp {where?} Granted I just dinged 75 that morning and had 2k xp buffer from two lvl.8 Beseige runs. I see R3 being started on me and as I accept the raise I realize I am now a RNG74. I was thinking "WTF, R3 shoulda got me back my level". Seems someone decided to R1 me as R3 was being cast and since it has a shorter spellcast time it was cast on me first, and the R3 had no effect once it was cast. Not knowing this I chose to be revived, thus recieving a R1 after deleveling and not getting back my RNG75 level. It sucked but oh well, I'm like 900tnl so that's 1 more beseiged or maybe I'll get off my ass and finally start XP'ing on RNG. Soonafter we got the kill, good drops in my opinion.
That was it for the night, I logged off and headed out to work. Did prisoner transport, so I pretty much slept from midnight till 4am and then had to start working. Love this crazy job. Got home today at 9am, went to sleep. Woke up at 1:00 to get some leveling done on RNG.
ugh.
Monday, October 6, 2008
ugh
I gotta work on resizing these pics so that my blog looks somewhat organized. this just looks like a threw up screenshots without any preparation... ugh. Looks so lazy. Sorry about that, it'll change in the coming posts.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
A New Beginning
Well, it seems like we were here just a few years ago. My old character can't be reactivated so I was able to get a new one from my buddy Lance. This one was started as a melee character. I had always wanted to play a melee character but never really got around to it. If I ever did go melee, RNG is what I would have chosen because (like BLM) they can cause massive damage and (like BLM) they aren't a front-line job so it's also a strategic job as well. So when Lance told me his main was RNG, I was quite excited. Let me introduce you to my new character:
Ultrabum
When I took control of the character the jobs were 75RNG, 60NIN, 54BLM, 45BST, 37WHM, 37RDM, 37DRK, 37SAM, 37WAR. Other jobs like BRD, COR, PLD, DRG etc are somewhere between 10 and 17. The RNG is fairly well equipped with Suzaku's Sune-Ate, Seiryu's Kote, Crimson Finger Gauntlets, AF2 HEad/Legs/Feet, OBow, Suppanomimi... It still needs Selene's or Vali's as well as better neck, waist, and rings... but I'm a perfectonist so that's not saying much.
First on my plate was to start getting my BLM AF so I started soloing Goblin Leeches in Gustav Tunnel to 54. Then I moved to Pso'Xja where I really started to hit my stride. Freeze when the Goblin Veterenarian's back is turned. If it doesn't one-shot the pet bat then a quick Blizzard spell finishes the bat off. I got some REALLY good XP here, even without the Emperor Band.
Soon after hitting 56 I headed out as RNG to get my coffers. Unfortunetly I had NIN AF hands quest started so I had to complete that 1st before starting the BLM hands. I needed an Ifrit's Cauldron Coffer Key and after an hour of even a few deaths... I finally got to see this:
I headed out to Xarc and towards Dark Spark's spawn location. I read up and did my homework on how to solo him. I cleared the two Kindred by the spawn loaction to get my 300% TP. Then I used Velocity Shot, popped Dark Spark, unloaded a full Slug Shot, then a Barrage and a sleep bolt. I made sure I always had shaows up since DS can double attack and cast Bio 3 on you which really does some damage over time. I alternated Sleep Bolts with Holy Bolts to get me to another 300% Slug Shot, then uloaded on him again. I think he went down after the third time of that strat.
I got those Ninja Tekko out of the way and headed out to The Garlaige Citadel. Sure enough, first kill dropped the coffer key and I was able to get it past the 3rd Banishing Gate. To my surprise, I exited out to the Champaigne and found this:
Back in the day (circa 2005) I remember how our camping would consist of camping Simurgh and Roc on a daily basis. A quick check of FFXIAH showed why he wasn't camped like he used to be. Seems that Crimson Blade, which used to be worth tons, now it's worth no more than 10k. The other drop is the Rare/EX Dryad Staff which is pretty darn nice for a leveling WHM. MP+50 and Cure+10% but you can't sell it.
I headed through the Maw and headed towards Windhurst [S]. Seeing Roc was a bit of a surprise but then I came across this little fella
Dark Ixion... just roaming around, unclaimed. I gotta tell ya, being a past BLM I saw the stats for that Ixion Cloak
and I was shocked. Even though the head slot is taken up... this piece looks like it almost breaks BLM... Almost everything a BLM could ever dream about is on that Cloak. You get INT, Magic Acc, Refresh. The only thing not in there is MAB like a Weskit would have but you could always macro that in for a MB.
I eventually made it back to Dark Spark but died 3 times for some unknown reason. I deleveled and was just over 4k tnl. I started soloing in the Undersea Ruins but that took alot of time, ammo, and shadows. I eventually spent a few hours doing Beseiged and after 3 wins I got my level back. I did get a little over-zealous at times though, and this isn't really something you want to see
yeah... he hits HARD.
I went back in to Pso'Xja and got BLM to 57. My next camp would be either Newton Movopolis or West Sarutabaruta [S] and that should get me to 60BLM. I ended my week doing a quest to get this stupid Retrace scroll which people are paying 140k for. I have to run to Windy in the past, then Giddeus in the present, then Windy in the past, then Castle Oztroja in the past and finally back to Windy in the past.
In an uneventful end to the week, I camped something I haven't to in a while. Hoo Mjuu the Torrent. I was only there because I was doing the Retrace quest and remembered where his camp was. After 30 minutes he finally popped, I got claim, but I didn't get the signa.
Ultrabum
When I took control of the character the jobs were 75RNG, 60NIN, 54BLM, 45BST, 37WHM, 37RDM, 37DRK, 37SAM, 37WAR. Other jobs like BRD, COR, PLD, DRG etc are somewhere between 10 and 17. The RNG is fairly well equipped with Suzaku's Sune-Ate, Seiryu's Kote, Crimson Finger Gauntlets, AF2 HEad/Legs/Feet, OBow, Suppanomimi... It still needs Selene's or Vali's as well as better neck, waist, and rings... but I'm a perfectonist so that's not saying much.
First on my plate was to start getting my BLM AF so I started soloing Goblin Leeches in Gustav Tunnel to 54. Then I moved to Pso'Xja where I really started to hit my stride. Freeze when the Goblin Veterenarian's back is turned. If it doesn't one-shot the pet bat then a quick Blizzard spell finishes the bat off. I got some REALLY good XP here, even without the Emperor Band.
Soon after hitting 56 I headed out as RNG to get my coffers. Unfortunetly I had NIN AF hands quest started so I had to complete that 1st before starting the BLM hands. I needed an Ifrit's Cauldron Coffer Key and after an hour of even a few deaths... I finally got to see this:
I headed out to Xarc and towards Dark Spark's spawn location. I read up and did my homework on how to solo him. I cleared the two Kindred by the spawn loaction to get my 300% TP. Then I used Velocity Shot, popped Dark Spark, unloaded a full Slug Shot, then a Barrage and a sleep bolt. I made sure I always had shaows up since DS can double attack and cast Bio 3 on you which really does some damage over time. I alternated Sleep Bolts with Holy Bolts to get me to another 300% Slug Shot, then uloaded on him again. I think he went down after the third time of that strat.
I got those Ninja Tekko out of the way and headed out to The Garlaige Citadel. Sure enough, first kill dropped the coffer key and I was able to get it past the 3rd Banishing Gate. To my surprise, I exited out to the Champaigne and found this:
Back in the day (circa 2005) I remember how our camping would consist of camping Simurgh and Roc on a daily basis. A quick check of FFXIAH showed why he wasn't camped like he used to be. Seems that Crimson Blade, which used to be worth tons, now it's worth no more than 10k. The other drop is the Rare/EX Dryad Staff which is pretty darn nice for a leveling WHM. MP+50 and Cure+10% but you can't sell it.
I headed through the Maw and headed towards Windhurst [S]. Seeing Roc was a bit of a surprise but then I came across this little fella
Dark Ixion... just roaming around, unclaimed. I gotta tell ya, being a past BLM I saw the stats for that Ixion Cloak
and I was shocked. Even though the head slot is taken up... this piece looks like it almost breaks BLM... Almost everything a BLM could ever dream about is on that Cloak. You get INT, Magic Acc, Refresh. The only thing not in there is MAB like a Weskit would have but you could always macro that in for a MB.
I eventually made it back to Dark Spark but died 3 times for some unknown reason. I deleveled and was just over 4k tnl. I started soloing in the Undersea Ruins but that took alot of time, ammo, and shadows. I eventually spent a few hours doing Beseiged and after 3 wins I got my level back. I did get a little over-zealous at times though, and this isn't really something you want to see
yeah... he hits HARD.
I went back in to Pso'Xja and got BLM to 57. My next camp would be either Newton Movopolis or West Sarutabaruta [S] and that should get me to 60BLM. I ended my week doing a quest to get this stupid Retrace scroll which people are paying 140k for. I have to run to Windy in the past, then Giddeus in the present, then Windy in the past, then Castle Oztroja in the past and finally back to Windy in the past.
In an uneventful end to the week, I camped something I haven't to in a while. Hoo Mjuu the Torrent. I was only there because I was doing the Retrace quest and remembered where his camp was. After 30 minutes he finally popped, I got claim, but I didn't get the signa.
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