When it rains it pours.
Ok so my lucky streak isn’t over yet. I haven’t posted about this on my blog in the entire time of its existence which I find a bit odd. I have been trying to get a Joyuese for literally years now. My biggest problem is I can’t leave my computer on overnight to try and get a TOD. The few times I have gotten a TOD half those times I couldn’t get people together and the other half my group got out claimed. I seen charby popped and killed a good 20 times over the last few years trying to get my sword.
Enter Monday evening after maintenance. So with timers reset after maintenance I had logged in SSG and hoped for the best. So good news is I was the very first person to log into SSG so I knew it hadn’t popped. Bad news is I couldn’t get anyone down there to help out. So I figured at least maybe if it popped early I would have TOD and another chance later that night before going to bed.
As it turned out it didn’t pop early at all. Only one guy had people there to kill charby so his group went about killing PH for the next 3 hours. Why I continued to stay there knowing the TOD didn’t matter as it was going to be too late and I didn’t have people is beyond me. Guess it’s because I was stubborn and wanted to see it pop again and also all my events that day were canceled b/c of the maint. Well 3 hours in it hadn’t popped and the other group had to go. So only I and one other RDM were left in the room.
We got to talking and decided we would kill PH and he informed me he had friends on the way to help kill. That’s cool I don’t mind helping to pop it while his friends gather and I’d have TOD so maybe someone else in my shell could use. His ls gets there and the killing goes on for another hour. Still no sign of charby.
At this point its midnight and I been camping it for 5 hours. It’s late though and the merit parties and other various things people in LS were doing have all ended. Upon hearing Charby still hadn’t popped I got word a few people were on the way to help kill. I was ecstatic. Only one other group camping and with the window open for as long as it had been something was going to come to a head and soon.
Well another hour and a half goes by. It’s 1:30 am and were tired as hell but both groups still there camping. Our nin tank, said he had one more pop then had to go to bed. Wouldn’t you know it he popped? Course this mob always been a curse to me so as luck would have it we get out claimed.
Then we noticed a few things. One, the other party had no bard to give their nin tank mambos. Second, the nin was only 74 and not very well geared for evasion tanking. Third, their war was meleing and feeding it tons of hp and grabbing a lot of hate. 2 minutes in war goes down. 1 minute later nin is dead. At this point it went unclaimed but ls leader said to wait for them to full wipe to be fair. So we did.
Soon as their last mage went down we grabbed him and the fight was on. Our party was nin, thf, brd, rdm, war and I think sam. Sam was there for help claiming and killing adds. So our party setup is classic for charby killing. The fight itself though starts out bad. Charby already had tp from the other group and as soon as we claimed did that AOE move then proceeded to kill the nin almost instantly as we were trying to move into position.
Fortune was with us though. The war was next on hate list and died soon after. This was expected really so instead of worrying about him I focused on healing up and getting the thf buffed and ready. Thief takes over tanking and its smooth sailing from here. 20 minutes later charby goes down and joyeuse is mine. 3 years, a 6 hour long open window camping session, out claimed, a near wipe, and now it’s finally all over.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
Morrigan’s Robe.
No other way to start this post really except to say I finally turned in all the materials, items, and Imperial coins to get my robe done. Wow! This piece is simply amazing. Not only that, it caps off one hell of a good streak I had for about the last month. I got an Altruistic cape from sea last week, a Hautecalire from the mog bonanza, and now the Morrigan’s robe.
I won’t lie; upgrading the Robe nearly killed me. I had about 3 million of the 9 million it cost to upgrade before the last piece dropped meaning I needed a lot of gil still to upgrade it. I basically set small goals for myself to try and get this done. First, make sure everyday I was making some gil. Second, farm no les than 50k every day I logged on. Third, do ENM’s on a regular basis. Fourth, garden with all my characters to try for elemental ores. Last, sell everything that wasn’t needed for RDM and PLD. This kind of hurt to do since I was really enjoying leveling my DRK and BLM but it had to be done. Doing all of this for the last 2 months slowly and steadily brought the funds in. Although, I did borrow the last 3 ingots from a friend in my Limbus shell and still need to pay him back. About another 1.5 mil to go to be completely cleared.
I learned a lot about gil making to be honest and overall this may be an even bigger benefit to me as a whole than even the robe is. Farming, for as boring as it is, really isn’t as bad as I had thought. I used to farm and make lots of money but then the economy bottomed out and it was hard to find something worth while. You could spend an hour farming and barely make 20k. Just didn’t seem worth it. However, doing just a little bit every day really does add up. I did find some things that brought me up to 30k an hour (sometimes 40k) and farmed at least 2 hours every day. Over the course of a week this brought in about 350k. Do that for 2 months and I was looking at 2.8 million of the 6 million I still needed. Nearly half way done just slowly pecking away at it.
Gardening was pretty mixed in truth. I made maybe 600k from this over 2 months once you subtract out all the cost for materials including tables and pots. However it’s so easy to do I’m going to keep it up as a way to supplement what I earn and see it as an easy bonus. ENM’s was almost a bust with all the crap drops I got but hell even those got me probably 200k over the course of a few month’s. Gear selling netted me about 1 mil. Sold my dusk gloves, chivalrous chain, vasago’s scythe, potent belt, and some other miscellaneous stuff mostly all for DRK.
I kept waiting to buy ingots in hope that the price would go down. Well I did that after the first 4 anyways. I was so excited when I got all the drops that I blew that 3 mil I had on 4 ingots right away. Then I got more cautious although in the end the prices stayed at 750k for the last several I bought. The mog bonanza helped with ore prices and I managed to snag one ingot for 630k, 1 for 670k, and 1 for 710k. All told saved 240k from the short time price drop.
I got to nine ingots and finally got so excited I asked to borrow for the last 3 ingots. A friend had offered before but I declined because I didn’t want to be that indebted to someone (at time only had 5/12) and I wanted to accomplish this on my own. However, as I got closer and new it was only a matter of time I went ahead and borrowed the last 3. Got enough to pay back 1 soon as AH stuff sells and the other 2 should take a few more weeks at most to get me in the clear.
No other way to start this post really except to say I finally turned in all the materials, items, and Imperial coins to get my robe done. Wow! This piece is simply amazing. Not only that, it caps off one hell of a good streak I had for about the last month. I got an Altruistic cape from sea last week, a Hautecalire from the mog bonanza, and now the Morrigan’s robe.
I won’t lie; upgrading the Robe nearly killed me. I had about 3 million of the 9 million it cost to upgrade before the last piece dropped meaning I needed a lot of gil still to upgrade it. I basically set small goals for myself to try and get this done. First, make sure everyday I was making some gil. Second, farm no les than 50k every day I logged on. Third, do ENM’s on a regular basis. Fourth, garden with all my characters to try for elemental ores. Last, sell everything that wasn’t needed for RDM and PLD. This kind of hurt to do since I was really enjoying leveling my DRK and BLM but it had to be done. Doing all of this for the last 2 months slowly and steadily brought the funds in. Although, I did borrow the last 3 ingots from a friend in my Limbus shell and still need to pay him back. About another 1.5 mil to go to be completely cleared.
I learned a lot about gil making to be honest and overall this may be an even bigger benefit to me as a whole than even the robe is. Farming, for as boring as it is, really isn’t as bad as I had thought. I used to farm and make lots of money but then the economy bottomed out and it was hard to find something worth while. You could spend an hour farming and barely make 20k. Just didn’t seem worth it. However, doing just a little bit every day really does add up. I did find some things that brought me up to 30k an hour (sometimes 40k) and farmed at least 2 hours every day. Over the course of a week this brought in about 350k. Do that for 2 months and I was looking at 2.8 million of the 6 million I still needed. Nearly half way done just slowly pecking away at it.
Gardening was pretty mixed in truth. I made maybe 600k from this over 2 months once you subtract out all the cost for materials including tables and pots. However it’s so easy to do I’m going to keep it up as a way to supplement what I earn and see it as an easy bonus. ENM’s was almost a bust with all the crap drops I got but hell even those got me probably 200k over the course of a few month’s. Gear selling netted me about 1 mil. Sold my dusk gloves, chivalrous chain, vasago’s scythe, potent belt, and some other miscellaneous stuff mostly all for DRK.
I kept waiting to buy ingots in hope that the price would go down. Well I did that after the first 4 anyways. I was so excited when I got all the drops that I blew that 3 mil I had on 4 ingots right away. Then I got more cautious although in the end the prices stayed at 750k for the last several I bought. The mog bonanza helped with ore prices and I managed to snag one ingot for 630k, 1 for 670k, and 1 for 710k. All told saved 240k from the short time price drop.
I got to nine ingots and finally got so excited I asked to borrow for the last 3 ingots. A friend had offered before but I declined because I didn’t want to be that indebted to someone (at time only had 5/12) and I wanted to accomplish this on my own. However, as I got closer and new it was only a matter of time I went ahead and borrowed the last 3. Got enough to pay back 1 soon as AH stuff sells and the other 2 should take a few more weeks at most to get me in the clear.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Slow II: Accuracy vs. MND
Max accuracy versus max stat when casting slow II.
I made a post about this on a message board earlier and thought I would expand upon what I wrote here. Someone had asked the question what’s better to cast in +3 skill or +6 MND. This lead to a debate about casting in full accuracy vs. full stat gear vs. a mixture of gear. I believe the answer is all three and I’ll explain.
Like so many things in this game things are situational. Most people however break this down to a fight by fight basis. I like to take that a step further and say it’s situational during the fight as well. If you have an event were three RDM show up you had better be casting in max MND setup since you can do an ES rotation on slow II. That gives you a max slow for 90% of the fight right there and 100% if more than 3 RDM present. IF you don’t have that many then you should bring both your max MND and Max accuracy gear so you can rotate based on whether or not ES is up. Now of course some fights you need to save ES for other things like silence but you should know that already.
So in the above example I am advocating going max MND and max accuracy throughout the fight based on how many other RDM you have to back you up and if you have Elemental seal available to use. IF ES is up go max MND and make the most of it, if not go with your accuracy gear to make sure it lands. This is basic stuff here but most people tend to stick with one or the other and don’t adapt as the fight goes on.
Also don’t forget slow one. If you cast Slow II and get a resist cast Slow I just to get something on the mob. You can always overwrite it later with the stronger version. If it takes you 4 casts to land Slow II at least you would have had some form of enfeeble on the mob. If you stand around waiting a minute to land anything that’s just being unresourceful. If doing this i'd go all out accuracy with slow I and then go max stat to overwrite with Slow II.
As for the original question posted, I personally would stick with the MND. 6 MND is a pretty decent chunk to give up for three skill. I doubt three skill is going to push you over to large a resist threshold to matter. Its good as part of a max skill set up but on its own nothing too incredible. We have so many slots with enfeebling skill now you need to pull back somewhere to get stats and I think feet is one of the best places to do this. I can currently get my skill up to 339 but it moves my MND down to 100 total when doing so and that requires some food. Now I can get some gear improvements for this (some of which I really need to do but am poor now) but doubt I’d get over 110 total.
Because of that when you have the opportunity for so much more MND over skill in a slot id take it. Especially for slow II.
I made a post about this on a message board earlier and thought I would expand upon what I wrote here. Someone had asked the question what’s better to cast in +3 skill or +6 MND. This lead to a debate about casting in full accuracy vs. full stat gear vs. a mixture of gear. I believe the answer is all three and I’ll explain.
Like so many things in this game things are situational. Most people however break this down to a fight by fight basis. I like to take that a step further and say it’s situational during the fight as well. If you have an event were three RDM show up you had better be casting in max MND setup since you can do an ES rotation on slow II. That gives you a max slow for 90% of the fight right there and 100% if more than 3 RDM present. IF you don’t have that many then you should bring both your max MND and Max accuracy gear so you can rotate based on whether or not ES is up. Now of course some fights you need to save ES for other things like silence but you should know that already.
So in the above example I am advocating going max MND and max accuracy throughout the fight based on how many other RDM you have to back you up and if you have Elemental seal available to use. IF ES is up go max MND and make the most of it, if not go with your accuracy gear to make sure it lands. This is basic stuff here but most people tend to stick with one or the other and don’t adapt as the fight goes on.
Also don’t forget slow one. If you cast Slow II and get a resist cast Slow I just to get something on the mob. You can always overwrite it later with the stronger version. If it takes you 4 casts to land Slow II at least you would have had some form of enfeeble on the mob. If you stand around waiting a minute to land anything that’s just being unresourceful. If doing this i'd go all out accuracy with slow I and then go max stat to overwrite with Slow II.
As for the original question posted, I personally would stick with the MND. 6 MND is a pretty decent chunk to give up for three skill. I doubt three skill is going to push you over to large a resist threshold to matter. Its good as part of a max skill set up but on its own nothing too incredible. We have so many slots with enfeebling skill now you need to pull back somewhere to get stats and I think feet is one of the best places to do this. I can currently get my skill up to 339 but it moves my MND down to 100 total when doing so and that requires some food. Now I can get some gear improvements for this (some of which I really need to do but am poor now) but doubt I’d get over 110 total.
Because of that when you have the opportunity for so much more MND over skill in a slot id take it. Especially for slow II.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
June Update
Time for a progress report.
So as far as big news is concerned right after I got the 35 drop for morrigans body the very next Tuesday my group did LBC and we got the 25 piece! SO yes I now have 3/3 and just need some funds to finish up this piece. This has but leveling DRK and BLM on hold as well as leading to me farming, bcnm, ksnm, enm, and anything else I can think of to make the Gil to finish the upgrade. I can’t believe how close I am to having this now. Got a few ingots resting a mule now and I am pretty much having a fire sale on anything I don’t need for PLD and RDM. All told if everything sells and with what I have bought already I should be able to have about 9/12 ingots. Man I am dyeing to put this robe on!
On another lucky note the mog bonanza just ended. Odds of winning of course were pretty damn small and most people expected to get maybe a rank 5 win. A few ls members got a rank 4 win getting them a bit of Gil. In what I can only call now as my current lucky streak (morrigans 35 and 25, nashira legs, duelist tabard all recently) I managed to pull in a rank 3 prize! I chose to get a Hauteclare for my PLD. This sword looks really nice and has nice functional use too. I have yet to actually use it as I just got it this morning but I am excited to see how it fares. It was tempting to take the Gil prize of 1 million just to buy more ingots but the sword is a pretty rare drop off a HNM I never fight anyways so figured it was worth taking.
Limbus has been rolling along as usual. We stopped doing some boss runs for a bit while everyone’s been taking vacations here and there. I did get 75 coins and was going to buy a brutal but when I got the robe pieces just sold them off for more Gil to buy ingots. Been doing that with each runs coins so at the moment just biding my time until another omega run.
Dynamis I have decided to call an end to. I used to love doing dynamis back when I first started. It was new and a large scale event you rarely have in game. I was a main member of an LS doing most of the pulling and able to do lots of different things with my RDM. I had hopes of getting some really rare armor for RDM and it was the only real endgame event I was part of for a long time. Now however its been over 3 years total and I have gotten the RDM armor I had once dreamed of and with my new shell don’t have as much responsibility and therefore the fun has gone out of it for me. I thought I would try and stick it out for the PLD relic but its not that great and though I like PLD a lot it’s just not the same joy for me. I will always remember fondly my times with Alttab and even before that when they were called speedo. The time that Boentiful pulled me aside and asked me to be main puller was a real honor at the time especially since I was so new to the shell. It was with them that I got my Duelist’s Chapeu and will always be greatful of them for that. I was there with them when they got their very first Dynamis Lord Kill and when we completely failed at doing COP zones. I dnot think I’ll ever go back to dynamis unless it was to upgrade a relic weapon and of course that is completely beyond me for the forseeable future. SO this chapter is closed but I’ll never forget the fun I had.
Salvage of course I am still really into. Going three times a week now all with different groups. Keeva and Bongripper are in both the Wednesday and Friday runs so we do have a good group working on those days. My Tuesday group continues to be very effective especially in regards to beating LBC. Killed him again last night and got another 25 morrigans body and the 25 marduck hands. Funny thing is our leader has been needing the 25 Ares drop for a long while now and after 6 kills it has yet to drop for us. For my next upgrade I think I will be going after the morrigans feet but I am not entirely sure yet. 10 mnd in the feet slot is a huge improvement over any other mnd feet in the game. It’s not even close really. However, the hands also look nice and I could use them as well especially on BLM whenever I finish it up.
Not much else to say other than we had that update last month. Some intersting new items were added but nothing I’ll be looking to get right away I don’t think. PLD’s new spell reprisal is interesting. It can really boost block rates and I’ve played around with it a bit to see it’s a noticeable improvement. Recast is long but of course in party with haste gear, haste spell, and march’s you can get it down a good amount. Speaking of haste I finally got a swiftbelt. Along with aiding my PLD tanking skills and my upcomming drk, I can hit a pretty decent haste number on RDM now. In fact between haste gear, haste spell, and fast cast stuff my recast timers on some spells is really low.
So as far as big news is concerned right after I got the 35 drop for morrigans body the very next Tuesday my group did LBC and we got the 25 piece! SO yes I now have 3/3 and just need some funds to finish up this piece. This has but leveling DRK and BLM on hold as well as leading to me farming, bcnm, ksnm, enm, and anything else I can think of to make the Gil to finish the upgrade. I can’t believe how close I am to having this now. Got a few ingots resting a mule now and I am pretty much having a fire sale on anything I don’t need for PLD and RDM. All told if everything sells and with what I have bought already I should be able to have about 9/12 ingots. Man I am dyeing to put this robe on!
On another lucky note the mog bonanza just ended. Odds of winning of course were pretty damn small and most people expected to get maybe a rank 5 win. A few ls members got a rank 4 win getting them a bit of Gil. In what I can only call now as my current lucky streak (morrigans 35 and 25, nashira legs, duelist tabard all recently) I managed to pull in a rank 3 prize! I chose to get a Hauteclare for my PLD. This sword looks really nice and has nice functional use too. I have yet to actually use it as I just got it this morning but I am excited to see how it fares. It was tempting to take the Gil prize of 1 million just to buy more ingots but the sword is a pretty rare drop off a HNM I never fight anyways so figured it was worth taking.
Limbus has been rolling along as usual. We stopped doing some boss runs for a bit while everyone’s been taking vacations here and there. I did get 75 coins and was going to buy a brutal but when I got the robe pieces just sold them off for more Gil to buy ingots. Been doing that with each runs coins so at the moment just biding my time until another omega run.
Dynamis I have decided to call an end to. I used to love doing dynamis back when I first started. It was new and a large scale event you rarely have in game. I was a main member of an LS doing most of the pulling and able to do lots of different things with my RDM. I had hopes of getting some really rare armor for RDM and it was the only real endgame event I was part of for a long time. Now however its been over 3 years total and I have gotten the RDM armor I had once dreamed of and with my new shell don’t have as much responsibility and therefore the fun has gone out of it for me. I thought I would try and stick it out for the PLD relic but its not that great and though I like PLD a lot it’s just not the same joy for me. I will always remember fondly my times with Alttab and even before that when they were called speedo. The time that Boentiful pulled me aside and asked me to be main puller was a real honor at the time especially since I was so new to the shell. It was with them that I got my Duelist’s Chapeu and will always be greatful of them for that. I was there with them when they got their very first Dynamis Lord Kill and when we completely failed at doing COP zones. I dnot think I’ll ever go back to dynamis unless it was to upgrade a relic weapon and of course that is completely beyond me for the forseeable future. SO this chapter is closed but I’ll never forget the fun I had.
Salvage of course I am still really into. Going three times a week now all with different groups. Keeva and Bongripper are in both the Wednesday and Friday runs so we do have a good group working on those days. My Tuesday group continues to be very effective especially in regards to beating LBC. Killed him again last night and got another 25 morrigans body and the 25 marduck hands. Funny thing is our leader has been needing the 25 Ares drop for a long while now and after 6 kills it has yet to drop for us. For my next upgrade I think I will be going after the morrigans feet but I am not entirely sure yet. 10 mnd in the feet slot is a huge improvement over any other mnd feet in the game. It’s not even close really. However, the hands also look nice and I could use them as well especially on BLM whenever I finish it up.
Not much else to say other than we had that update last month. Some intersting new items were added but nothing I’ll be looking to get right away I don’t think. PLD’s new spell reprisal is interesting. It can really boost block rates and I’ve played around with it a bit to see it’s a noticeable improvement. Recast is long but of course in party with haste gear, haste spell, and march’s you can get it down a good amount. Speaking of haste I finally got a swiftbelt. Along with aiding my PLD tanking skills and my upcomming drk, I can hit a pretty decent haste number on RDM now. In fact between haste gear, haste spell, and fast cast stuff my recast timers on some spells is really low.
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