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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.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Weekly Update 7/9 - 7/15

Late in posting this but since i typed it up I'm going to post it anyways.

Thursday - Did some more ZNM's. Mostly T1's but did a few T2's and T3's. Of note we got 2 more naglerings and 2 Tomoes. Should be ready to pop a t4 soon. Next time we do ZNM's we probably will focus on T3's and finishing up some T4 pop sets.

Friday - Salvage up first. To BR and farmed some ramparts. Zero NM pops so Zero drops once again. Afterwards we did an evokers pop. Killed the dragon with no issues. This coming Friday we will be doing B2 so I'm looking forward to that.

Monday - Eiherjar day again. Had about 5 people missing. Still frustrated. Afterwards we went to the last 2 hours of Sandworm window and we managed to get claim on it. I believe the was the first time anyone in the LS but me had fought it. After getting it into position and getting people out there we went to work. A bit sloppy but most were having to learn on the fly. Got Doovoid and off to fight KA we went. Or at least the rest of the gys there did. I had to log as it was way too late. So soon as we warped I was done for the evening. Hope we do it again soon.

Tuesday - Did some lite sea raiding. Killed a JoFortitude and a JoFaith. No torque drops again but I believe this gives us 2 pops for JoL. We also farmed up some HQ aern organs to pop an Ix Mnk but some other group went and popped it so we called it a night.

Wednesday - Limbus up first. farmed some temenos zones. Nothing I needed from here just need appolyon upgrade items. Easy wins for the LS. Salvage afterwards went rather well. Did AR and got 3 35's. Morrigan, Ares, and usu. A really good night of drops.

Other. Just a few days left until the update hits. Need to focus on getting allied notes. Managed to get back up to 37k after being down to around 20k. The plan is to be at 100k by update time but I'm not sure I can make that as I keep doing other stuff. Merited a good bit on Monday and spent another 7 Merits on BLM. Ice potency is maxed and Thunder is at 2. I have 1 merit point saved so just need 11 more and I'll be done with BLM for now. Still need to cap off t2 merits but I'll do that in time.

The Monday merit party I spent half of that time playing around with my PLD. Got to whip out the Joy/Justice combo with my 18% haste set up. With bard and RDm haste man it was just too funny watching me swing none stop. I think I could actually hold hate for a decent amount in an average Merit party if I tried.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Where is your mind at?

Time for a good mini rant about RDM's. I know I'm overly critical of other RDM's and so take this all with a grain of salt. However, why do you RDM's out there insist on casting in full Skill gear and ignoring the importance on MND. I just cant stand it. Not to mention you race to beat my casting a spell to get your no mnd and therefore weak slow or para on a MOB? Please stop. I don't care if someone beats me to the punch but damn make the spell worth something. Your 100 MND slow does not impress me and your weak ass para's are a waste.

Fighting a really hard to enfeeble MOB? Ok fine through on more skill gear that's fine. But your average crap in Limbus, Dyna, ZNM, pop farming, hell most Einherjar even, whatever it is start using your MND stuff or just don't bother casting. I can't tell you how much this ticks me off. Ok End of rant for the day.

Friday, July 10, 2009

Weekly Update 7-2 Through 7-8

Thursday through Sunday was still free week and Holiday's going on so I didn't do much nor did I log in much.

Monday - EInherjar. 24 people this time which is enough to win a zone but it depends on the mobs and bosses you get. We did not get something favorable so another loss. Beginning to make me mad really. I want to get to Odin and to bigger and better fights but we are just bogged sown with low numbers. Got another 1200ish ampoules I think. Brought me over 15k so I went and got a Gleemans cape for +5 int to use on my BLM. Other items are probably more useful for different jobs but my BLM has the least amount of good gear so I thought id splurge on it.

Tuesday - Sky Day. Killed 2 Byako and 2 Kirin. Got 2x haidate and 2x Osode so not a bad day. Really hope some wlegs start to drop soon. The list is getting really long now.

Wednesday - Farmed for chips in Limbus. Easy wins and we have another omega set ready to go. Salvage we went and did SSR again and once again no Morrigans legs dropped. I'll be honest. A year without a drop has gotten me depressed and wondering if I should even bother going anymore just to get a lousy 2 more INT and MND.

Other - Still meriting BLM. Monday I was able to upgrade Ice potency to level 4. I also bought a Ugly pendant so all told I can break 2k with Freeze 2 on puddings now with the right day or weather. Need 5 more merits to finish ice and 14 more to finish Lightning. Once that's done its time to start another job I think.
I also need to jump over to campaign to get more Allied notes as well as catch up on my WOTG missions/quests. Me and Keeva went and Duoed mission 9 I believe it is, "Purple is the New Black". Hopefully we can knock a few more out this week and try to be nearly caught up for when the update hits.
Did manage to make the ENM runs on Thursday and we got 2 Haguns to drop. All split should net me another 370k which will offset the pendant cost. I have the Key item to do another Brothers so I should probably go do that again if I can pull myself away from BLM meriting.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

6-25 through 7-1

Thursday - Did some sky Triggers and popped a few Gods.I think we did 2 suzy and 2 seiryu. I know we ended up getting 3 A.legs and one of them ended up coming to me. Another 25 mp for me I suppose when I decide to uncurse them. Doing Kirins our next sky day. During our ENM run we got a hagun to drop so after the3 split and selling to LS member for a discount I should net about 175k from that.

Friday - Salvage day. Did AR and got shut out on drops. I had to have done more than just salvage on Friday but hell if I can remember what it was. Probably just messed around and did campaign.

Monday - Einherjar time again. Attendance is down to 22 and that's just not going to cut it. We get to the boss fine but just not enough time and firepower to push through. 1,440 more ampoules bringing my total to 14,660. Next week ima get the +5int Cape...i think. Still not sure.

Tuesday - Umm hell what did I do? Events cancelled for free week but I had to have done something right? Oh well maybe it will come to me later. *Edit* Now I remember. I did Dyna Sandy with some people. How the hell I could forget that is beyond me. This was the LS's( a random shout group I decided to run with) first run and we won the zone easy enough. Lots of first timers there but they should be fine. I probably will keep going once a week but I do hate how boring Dyna is so nothing is guaranteed.

Wednesday - Finally broke down and did some WOTG missions/quests. The story wasn't half bad and I was really far behind so needed to do some catching up. No though I am at a point that needs 6 man BCNM to go further so I'll need to look for help.

Other - Did a few BCNM and got nothing. ISNM got nothing. Did some KSNM 30's, Royal Ramble, for some guaranteed gil. Merited on my DRK Monday to get points to spend on BLM. Got two more potency upgrades in ICE. Sitting on about 1.5 merits from some lite meriting yesterday. I think its about time to decide what I want to do next. I need to either level a craft or another job so I have somethign to do in my free time between events. Right now I am leaning towards either Fishing or finally doing Sam. Sam though, as has always been my issue, I want to do all out with good gear and have fun with it. My measly 800k not really enough to get that started but we shall see.