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Welcome to my ffxi blog. Hope you enjoy your stay. I try and post at least once a month, sometimes more. I blog mainly about what I been up to and what my goals are in game. It's a nice way to keep me on track and show how I have progressed.

Friday, March 20, 2009

March 20 2009

Time for a BLOG update.

So im pretty well setteled into my new shell here on phoenix. Been doing everything they have to offer such as Dynamis, Limbus, Sky, SEA, and a few odds and end events that they do. Still trying to find an Einharjer LS. I've asked around and talked to a few people but no good leads yet. Most shells are either Full or the ones that aren't seem very disorganized or go at bad days/times for me.

Nothing new as far as gear goes to report. Been trying to do Nyzul 80 runs with some poeple in the shell but they haven't been cosistant on setting up runs so I may break off from them and just go when I can to shout groups. My DRK really needs the askar body so I can fix my store TP build I need for my Perdu. It's annoying as hell having 99 TP instead of 100.

My DRK though is tareing it up in Merit party's. Most partys I cant keep hasso up cause I end up out pacing the other DD's too much and they aren't taking hate away from me often enough. Last Night though i had a great merit party with some Pimped out DD's and hate was more spread around allowing more Hasso useage and we clocked in a solid 21k per hour at MJSP south camp, not bad for that spot. Had BRD and COR so got some nice WS output with several above 1.4k and think I topped out at 1.55k. Got 7 merits banked right now that i need to spend.

Been trying to cap out my DRK job merits and i'll need in total 74 merit points to do that. I plan on having 5/5 Desperate Blows, 5/5 Diabolic Eye, 5/5 LR Effect, and 5/5 LR Recast. RIght now I am at 0/5, 2/5, 4/5, 1/5 respectively. However I still have those 7 merits to spend so that will change slightly today when I get on.

As far as other stuff. Gardening I had a crap harvest, ENM I haven't gotten a chance to do again but I should today. Had a few fail attempts at 80 Nyzul with pickups. So yea not really good news there. Oh well until next time.

Also i believe i am going to start posting the POL update notices and then make a first impression comment on those. Might be funny to see what actually happens as opposed to what players think will happen.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Life on Phoenix

Phoenix had been interesting to say the least. So I moved here to join up with an HNM shell. The shell was decent and had some nice people in it but there was also a protion of players whos morales were just too low for me. The Called for help on another LS's Kirin and then proceded to try and steal it. I left the shell imediately after this incident. Thats just not what i am about. Lasted 4 whole days before that and maneged to kill a few HNM's at least but still its not worth it if thats how they are going to act.

I proceded to be without a shell for about 4-5 days. It was very boring and relaxing at the same time. Did a lot of meriting on DRK and i know have 8 scythe merits, 3 Last resort Effect, and 1 diabolic eye. Also had a ton of IS so bought me a Perdu Scythe. Overall im pretty pleased with my drk. Looking to get an askar body, finish up merits, and upgrade some AF to +1 and i'll be done with it i think.

So after my 5 days with no shell i finally got into one called Armada. They do sky sea limbus dynamis all on a regular basis and seem to be pretty good at those events. They have a couple of outside Einharjer shells that im looking into as well and that should be a nice new event for me. Would love to get an Ebody from there one day.

The shell itself has some good players in it. They have an apoc DRK and just yesterday a PLD finished his Aegis. The thing that has been most intersting and surprising is how much they want me to come PLD to events. They seen my RDM and I got a lot of "Holy SHIT!!" comments but they have a ton of RDM's in shell and while I may be better, they apparently have a stronger need in most events for a good tank.

This has been pretty fun for me as I came from shells on Leviathan that had really strong tanks and I never got to use mine much. So already they have me main/co-tanking Jailors, Dynamis NM's, Ying/Yang, and possibly I might have to on an AV attempt we got comming up today. I havent told them how little experience I actually have tanking but I must be doing a good job as I seem to be like #3/4 on the depth chart with the shell boasting several 75 PLD's. I Need to really work on PLD gear though as it could use help in certain areas. First and foremost though I need a HP UP/DOWN set to use for cure hate.

As far as things I got planed they go something like this. Golliard Body, Askar Body, ENM, more Gardening, and finish meriting DRK. Need to really start building my gil back up as I have been lazy and gotten down to like 300k. Bleh.