Dynamis-Jeuno

I am a somewhat casual player when it comes to FFXI. Now that is a bit misleading, as I still log about 20 hours a week in game. 20 hours for most any game or activity a week is a good long amount. But as any FFXI player knows that just a scratch on the surface of many people. Several people log 3-4 hours a week night with 8+ on the weekends. Therefore, they may be logged in and active for 31+ hours a week. My time logged is based on a pretty strict schedule; I play Tuesday from 8pm-12 pm and on the weekend from 4pm-12pm.

Now you're probably thinking what the hell does this have to do with Dynamis-Jeuno? Well it's to illustrate how much of my time in game is dedicated to Dynamis. Tuesday when I get on it is just for Dynamis, and half the day Saturday when I get on is devoted to Dynamis. 8 out of my 20 hours, or 40%, of game time is spent doing this activity. I do this because the RDM gear there is really good, and I have a lot of fun there to be honest.

So last night we go to Dynamis-Jeuno and for those that are curious I am the main puller for my shell. Yes that's right I main pull and I do it as RDM/BLM to boot. Pulling in Dynamis is all about knowing what to pull and when. Any job class could do it if the player takes the time to learn the zone and pay attention to mob behavior. Yes I even do northlands like this.I entered Dynamis last night with a pathetic 3.3k buffer. I have put off getting any xp, or merits for that matter, in a while for a lot of reasons. I wasn’t too concerned though because with raise three you only lose about 300 xp so I would need to die 11 times to actually stay delveled at 74. For the most part I die maybe 2-3 times a zone. Not bad for a puller really, and most of these deaths are just all the hate I get from sleepga's.

So needless to say of course I die 7 times leaving my buffer at a horrid 1k. Wasn’t really my fault for all the deaths. It just seemed like a lot of people were half assing it yesterday. Jeuno is a really easy zone to win. We beat the zone with somewhere around an hour and 45 minutes left to farm. At that point I had only died once and things had been going well. But as tends to happen after wins a few people left, some decided to afk for long periods of time, and others just played far too relaxed. All in all a lot of things contributed to just a piss poor farming performance from the LS. I can safely say this was one of the worse runs I have had in the LS. Oh well I’m sure next time will be better as no one had to like all the xp loss that was going on.

We did decent with drops getting 3 100 pieces and 4 AF that I can remember, I’ll update with exact numbers once it’s posted on the site. The number of AF was low for a city but 3 100’s makes up for it. We also lost a NIN AF as time expired before it dropped and someone was afk so couldn’t pass on it…. Sad because the winning lot was someone from my Social LS. **EDIT** We actually ended up with 6 AF so a little better than I thought. MNK THF RNG BRD and 2xWAR.


Speaking of my Social LS, Spirit Link, there are now 4 of us in the Dyna shell. I have been with the Dynamis shell for about 8 months and 2 months ago Pusarah and Zeitsev joined up and yesterday Marlow went on his first run with us. Its nice having familiar faces around and people to cheer you on when you get some AF.

Speaking of AF after 8 months in this shell I still sit at only 1/5 pieces obtained for RDM. It’s by far the lowest job dropping AF for us. The piece I do have, the Duelist Boots, is a good one though so it holds me over. It’s a great nuking piece so I get a lot of mileage out of it in ENM and solo/duo play.

With my long stretch of no AF my points have really built up. I have the 3rd highest in the LS and us top three are only separated by 7 points, less than one runs worth of points (we get 10 for a full run). This means the next Duelist Chapeau that drops I will get to lot on and against only one other person. It also means I am not going to spend any points on lower AF as I don’t want to lose my position in the standings. So I may be 1/5 for several more months.


Next up is Dynamis-Sandy on Saturday which means more point collecting for me. At least maybe some more RDM boots can drop so the other RDM’s in the LS can get some AF. It really is sad how little RDM AF has dropped for us. 5 of the top 10 points leaders and 7 of the top 13 are all lotting RDM. It’s not because they are saving points up like I did just that there is nothing dropping for them to lot on. One day our luck has to change.

How bad is it? Here is a table of drops for the last 4 months.

Job Hands Body Legs Feet Head Total  % of Drops
WHM   2    4    1    5    3    15    11.7%
PLD   5    2    1    2    3    13    10.2%
NIN   2    2    5    2    1    12     9.4%
WAR   1    3    4    1    2    11     8.6%
THF   2         3    3    2    10     7.8%
BST   1    4         3    1     9     7.0%
MNK   4         1    1    2     8     6.3%
BLM   2         3         3     8     6.3%
BRD             2    3    2     7     5.5%
DRG   2    1    2    1    1     7     5.5%
SAM             2    2    2     6     4.7%
RNG        1    1    3    1     6     4.7%
DRK             2    1    3     6     4.7%
SMN   1    3         1    1     6     4.7%
RDM   1              2    1     4     3.1%
Total 23  20   27   30   28   128   100.0%

As you can see a paltry 3.1% of all drops are RDM. In a perfect world all jobs should have a 6.7% share of the drops. 4 lousy drops in 4 months time. Meh I need to stop being emo about it. Luck has got to change soon right?

** As a side note for those who bothered doing the math our drops per run are low (about 4) because 90% of the time we do northlands and deal with the lower drop % there. Also, I only have 5 months worth of data as we had a LS name change and split at that time and I didn’t keep all the data from that. If I had, WAR would have gotten a big boost as we had a streak of 3-5 war boots in sandy every time we went there.