Lots of Merits

Finally finished up my INT merits. You know it wasn't as bad to do as I thought it would be. I been putting off meriting attributes for a long time since they are so costly but once I set my mind to just get it done, it didn't seem so bad. I believe in total now I have spent around 323 merit points. Sadly though I have a long way to go. DRG I haven't even touched yet and both PLD and DRk still have a decent ways to go still. All told I really need another 158 just to be done with the jobs I have at 75. At least I have DRG now to merit with. It's my go to job for merits now as people seem to fall all over themselves to get DRG in bird parties. This is fine with me though I'd rather DD then have to go dress up RDM to get merit points.

As far as other stuff goes I did pick up a few trinkets from sky. I got some N:hands and A:head. The head is nice as I can use it to replace some other gear in my sorc ring latent set. Should actually save me some gil too and free up an inventory slot to boot.

Other than that we did do some more fay weapon fights. I got a slightly better lance and im just going to stick with that for now. Pro tip for those doing this. We had 2 DRG's in the party rotating Angon on the boss (Grauberg fight) and it was waaaaay easier than any other time I've done it. We won in less than 15 minutes while other groups I went with that had some pimped out relic weapon thf and adaberk drks nearly timed out. Meanwhile right after my group got done owning this fight 3 times in a row another group came and wiped back to back times. I got a good laugh anyways.

Only other thing I can think of that I did was some ENM's. Doing brothers on Tuesday's with diz now and we got crap items. Thursday's we still do sheep and once again got crap. That's the breaks. We do still have as an LS 4 more evokers to pop which we are going to do some of tonight along with a few B2 fights. Hope bahamut gives up his scythe tonight id like to play around with it a bit and I believe I'm next up on the drop list too.

Sorc Ring Finally

Been a few weeks since an update but what do you expect with the holdiays and being away a bunch. I've missed some events and i've made it to some events.

Did some more B2 runs but got utter crap. ENM's have yeilded zero good drops. Salvage has still not dropped my legs causing me to become so frustrated with the event i'm just not going to do it for a long time. SO yea pretty typical stuff for FFXI, lots of wasted time.

I did get a few things done though. DRG hit 75 probably the day after my last post a few weeks ago. I did manage to get Drakesbane weapon and then the quest done and unlocked. I got in a few fay weapon fights but nothing to steller as far as augments go. Got a thal-1 right now with 3 dmg and 2 Dex. I've merited a good amount and now have 4/5 int merits done and need just 5 more merit points to finish it out.

Also, the other thing I had been working on was getting a sorc ring and then a set of gear to trigger the latent. Managed to finally do that and i'm more or less broke. I got about 100k on me and another 500k tied up on the AH so i can get by for a bit but need to make some gil. I did go out and Nuke a pudding to see what damage I could do. Got 2330 on Freeze 2 and that was before my last couple of INT merits. Since it doesn't look like i'm going to finish my Morrigans set now the only thing left for me to do on BLM is get that last INT merit, try and find people to assualt for some yigit feet, and then a Novio. Funny thing is i'll probably get a Novio before i get the yigit since noone does assualt much anymore excpet for salvage points and they all do RvB.

Weekly Update 11-13-2009

The New mini expansion, A Shantotto Ascension, came out this week. I've done a bit of the missions but haven't really made an effort to push through and finish them up. For one very few people seem to care about it and are actually doing it. With the last 2 mini expansions there were shouts for groups and missions all the time. This one though you see little interest in people wanting to get it done. I don't blame them. If you have some bad luck in crafting the first fetch quest is down right frustrating to complete. There are a few people in the shell that are going to do it though so once we all have some time I suppose I'll get it done.

With that said events on Monday were called off with low attendance from people not getting the download done. We did squeeze in one Cloud Evoker and are going to do the others along with B2 on this coming Monday. Tuesday's was also a no go for events with people still away. This time probably due to Modern Warfare 2 being released.

Wednesday saw things back on track. Did a limbus zone and then salvage afterwards. Limbus was just a chip farming day so nothing much there to say. Salvage we did ZR and took out 2 frogs and the mega. Frogs dropped nothing again. Mega we got too very late in the run and managed to kill it right as time expired. Got 2 drops we needed but no time to lot so they were lost.

Thursday we did some light sky farming as we needed just a few trigs. Afterwards we went and did B1 for a few LS members that still needed it.

DRG leveling been moving along. Keeva brought me to a LS merit party for me to leach some xp. Between that and some decent xp parties I now sit at 74 and only need 16k to hit 75. I'll probably finish that up today but then I have a lot of other things I need to get started on. First I need to do the Fay Lance fight so I actually have a weapon to use at 75. Then I need to make some purchases from the AH. Basically I been saving up for a Sorc ring and some latent triggering gear for it. I'm about 2/3 of the way there so if I take a few days to work on that I can knock it off the list. Then I'll need even more gil to finally get my SAM leveling underway. So a lot of ENM/KSNM/BSNM is what I would like to do next week.

Look at me run!!

Ahhhh yes. Sweet wlegs goodness. Been a long time since I got really excited over a drop but this one was certainly something I've been wanting for a long time. A big thank you to MPTB for being such a great LS.


SO I missed a lot of events this weeks. Einherjar was cancelled since Jye was a no show, Salvage I was actually pretty sick that night so just logged and got some sleep. Did managed some light Sea farming, no torques to report though. Of course there was sky and other than kirin we took out 2 Suzy, a Seriyu, a Genbu, as well as getting some more trigs.

Got to go on the ENM run last night for the first time in a while. Nothing dropped for us though. Also killed xol again but just a hat from him.

Trying to level DRG still. I swear parties are either feast or famine; there is no in-between. Got one that did a pitiful 5k an hour, then the next was doing 15k. Both were around level 60 ish. the 5k an hour the party leader was a smn and tried to play it as a DD and buffer. It just didn't work. Not saying it couldn't have but this smn was just not good. Other party members were BRD WHM turtlePLD(lol) DRG(me) DRK. So basically just 2 people doing any real damage and fights took forever. However I have managed to get to 70 now and about halfway to 71. Today is a free day so unless I decide to do some ENM/KS/BS fights I plan to spend most of it xping. Would love to hit 72 but of course that depends on how much feasting I get today.

Back from a RL break

SO I been out of commission for a while with the arrival of my new Baby. So of course nothing much has happened for me to BLOG about in Ffxi. However, I am now back to a more regular schedule so the updates can begin again.


About the only thing I have been able to do the last few weeks is get on and grab some xp here and there on DRG. Mostly done through FOV and some Campaign but also on rare occasions I had enough time to party. That said I got it to 65 and then this week I got a few parties and I now sit at 67. I'm excited to finish it up but also know that once it is 75 its going to be more or less regulated to a Merit job. That's fine with me as its hard to get merits anymore with drk and no one invites PLD even though mine is really well set up for merit parties. Hope to hit 69 today but that just depends on how long it takes to find a good party.

Not much else to post yet although I did get to go to Einherjar, ZNM, Salvage, and sky this week. Nothing to stellar to report although I did get a N body from Kirin I need to upgrade. Not doing that yet as I really would like to get a sorc ring for my BLM.

I got nothing else so maybe I'll post a bunch of pics when I get home later. I got folders full of stuff.

Week ended 9-6

Monday - Eniherjar and once again we got slime mobs. Just not a good one to have with low numbers. Oh well life goes on.

Tuesday - Did Dyna Windy. 17 people and we still once the zone. Did three r pumps fights and then spent the rest of the evening doign some Soboro pops. Trigs were bening a pain and not dropping so only got 3 in but the one win we got was on my trig as i wrote about earlier.

Wednesday - Still off b/c of RL.

Thursday - SKY farming. Had about 12 people show up to try for dio again but we have horrid luck with that lately. Did enm after and got absolute crap drops from all groups.

Friday - Salvage canclled again. Free day.

Other - So goal was to be 60 DRG and this time i fell just short stoppping at 59 last week. I might have hit 60 except for a really bad party on thursday that i should have left and went solo instead. I do need to finish up my AF though so this week xping going to take a backseat. I'd be surprised if i got to even 62 this week. Not much else to say. other than xping drg i been kind of bored lately. Events been really slow and things in RL just been popping up so not much else to say really.

SAM on the Horizon?

Special BLOG update.

Here recently I have been going with a format of making one post a week and just reviewing whets been going on for the prior week. I'm going to continue doing so but today just thought id post about something I been trying to do for ages. That's is getting a Soboro and leveling my SAM.

I've wanted to level sam forever. I even mentioned on this blog way back in February of 2007 how I been wanting to level it but I had a desire to go all out with it. Now, 2.5 years later, it's still an expensive job and gets that way early. Okotes right off the bat still putting me on hold, however, Tuesday I managed to get me a Soboro after all this time. The urge to Level SAM now is truly great but alas im sticking to waiting for the okotes.

Also, i'd like to finish DRG up to 75 before I start a new job. So for now, the plan is to hit 75 drg, farm up some gil, and then SAM all the way. I honestly can't wait till I get to dive into it.