So I hit 75 DRK last week (Thursday 2/5/2009) and man what a differance a level made for me. I went from gimp to a pretty nice well geared DD in an instant. I had been holding off on buying anything from 72-75 since I had all my Homam gear ready to use so I was shockingly bad in my opinion as a level 74 drk in my party I got. Soon as i dinged tho I went to pretty much competing for Top DD with another DRK in the party. My gear was slightly better but he had a lot more merits so i felt good about how I was doing.
Now I need to get to work on my ws set and then eventually a zerg setup. That will take a while but i'm in no rush since i'm still going to be RDM 90% of the time. The plan right now is to get AF+1 hands, head, and feet. Get an askar body, homam feet, and askar head and that should do it as far as I am concerned. I may upgrade some ares pieces as they go free lot and after my morrigans is all done but that stuff will just come way down the road.
It sure is nice though to change things up with DD and it is far more relaxing to play. Many mages say playing a DD job is easy and I know DD mains get kind of upset at this. I think it would be more accurate to say DD just has almost no stress involved unlike playing a mage/support job does. The reason for this I beleive is that DD jobs are played more proactive than reactive like a healer job is.
Events wise everything been going about the same. We are on floor 80 of nyzul and I believe tonight we are going to push to 90. Salvage has been going smooth and we are starting to do split runs on Wednesdays now. Been going pretty hard after my morrigans slops but the 35 NM is just being a real pain with the drop. Limbus we did another Ultima but I passed on drops wanting to stay in line for my last Homam piece. We have another Omega comming next week I think. Sky/Sea/ZNM been doing a lot of trigger farming so nothing much to report there.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Still around
Yea so its been several weeks since my last post. Just haven't felt like typing anything up really. Been a lot harder to find time as well as works has had a lot of stuff going on so my time has been limited. Anyways on to the post.
Its been so long I forget what I haven't posted about so I guess I'll just try and touch on anything major in the last few month's. First off in salvage I got all the drops for my cuffs and now have some nice Morrigans hands to go along with the body I had. I really like this piece with the MAB and of course the MACC on it as well. It eliminates a few hand gears I had and no real need I think to want to grab the Master caster bracelets, especially since I been this long without them already. I got 19 total MAB in gear right now, not that great but I can grab an ugly pendant and boost that up sometime down the line.
In limbus I'm sitting at 4/5 homam now lacking only the feet. This combined with my other gear gives me 15% haste equip on my PLD. In addition I picked up leveling DRK again and will be taking it to 75 as soon as possible. Can't wait to try out all the haste stuff on a big DD job. DRK is up to 70 now and rising as I try to get xp anyway I can on it at least a little every day.
My Nyzul group is cleared up to floor 55 now. Not bad, but I still have no luck getting any gear from here. I'm the only one without a single piece despite several attempts on boss floors just for me only to get other stuff and not Goliard. I don't care that much as I don't find the gear to be all that great compared to what I already have. Floor 54 brings the WS points I need to unlock the WS down to 2400. I got 1700ish on the pld sword and am just going to stop and let it unlock with a floor 60 clear. I'll work on RDM and DRK weapon after my DRK hits 75.
Lastly I joined up with a SKY/SEA/ZNM/KSNM LS run by the same people I do limbus with. Its a very good group and I have been getting a lot done. This puts me back on the map for getting some much needed and overdue gear. wlegs, justice sword, some zenith stuff, heca stuff for pld and drk, the list goes on of stuff I need. Nice to finally have a LS to do that with on a consistent basis. So far I got a genbu's shield (lol can't believe I never had one of these yet) and some heca feet. Many people in the ls have been in it a long time and have a lot of the gear already so the waiting list on things isn't too bad.
I think i'm beginning to burn out a bit on RDM. Well not so much RDM burn out just with the repetitive stuff I do. Like salvage as RDM several times a week is getting old. I think going as another job a few times to get a different experience would be nice. And of course I've sworn off Merit parties on RDM. Just can't handle the boredom. Refresh and haste bot is all the job seems to be anymore and that's just not fun. Let me do more things like I do in limbus and BCNM/KSNM and I'm all for jumping on my RDM and showing what I can do. For the most part though the job has grown stale and needs a change.
On the reverse side of things I am absolutely loving my DRK. Its like playing a whole new game really being a DD doing WS's and using various other skills in battle applications. I always wanted to level a DD for versatility and I am very happy I finally did. Hoping to hit 75 in the next few weeks bumming some merit parties form LS friends. I'll never be as pimp on DRK as I am on RDM from a gear standpoint since I have so much for RDM and many things for DRK are either down right expensive (KC) or very rare and need a HNM shell for (adaberk). However, I sure am having a lot more fun on it. Maybe when SE finally makes some changes to RDM I'll be able to dive into the job with renewed fervor, until then i'm going to be DRK and leveling other jobs to fill the void.
Its been so long I forget what I haven't posted about so I guess I'll just try and touch on anything major in the last few month's. First off in salvage I got all the drops for my cuffs and now have some nice Morrigans hands to go along with the body I had. I really like this piece with the MAB and of course the MACC on it as well. It eliminates a few hand gears I had and no real need I think to want to grab the Master caster bracelets, especially since I been this long without them already. I got 19 total MAB in gear right now, not that great but I can grab an ugly pendant and boost that up sometime down the line.
In limbus I'm sitting at 4/5 homam now lacking only the feet. This combined with my other gear gives me 15% haste equip on my PLD. In addition I picked up leveling DRK again and will be taking it to 75 as soon as possible. Can't wait to try out all the haste stuff on a big DD job. DRK is up to 70 now and rising as I try to get xp anyway I can on it at least a little every day.
My Nyzul group is cleared up to floor 55 now. Not bad, but I still have no luck getting any gear from here. I'm the only one without a single piece despite several attempts on boss floors just for me only to get other stuff and not Goliard. I don't care that much as I don't find the gear to be all that great compared to what I already have. Floor 54 brings the WS points I need to unlock the WS down to 2400. I got 1700ish on the pld sword and am just going to stop and let it unlock with a floor 60 clear. I'll work on RDM and DRK weapon after my DRK hits 75.
Lastly I joined up with a SKY/SEA/ZNM/KSNM LS run by the same people I do limbus with. Its a very good group and I have been getting a lot done. This puts me back on the map for getting some much needed and overdue gear. wlegs, justice sword, some zenith stuff, heca stuff for pld and drk, the list goes on of stuff I need. Nice to finally have a LS to do that with on a consistent basis. So far I got a genbu's shield (lol can't believe I never had one of these yet) and some heca feet. Many people in the ls have been in it a long time and have a lot of the gear already so the waiting list on things isn't too bad.
I think i'm beginning to burn out a bit on RDM. Well not so much RDM burn out just with the repetitive stuff I do. Like salvage as RDM several times a week is getting old. I think going as another job a few times to get a different experience would be nice. And of course I've sworn off Merit parties on RDM. Just can't handle the boredom. Refresh and haste bot is all the job seems to be anymore and that's just not fun. Let me do more things like I do in limbus and BCNM/KSNM and I'm all for jumping on my RDM and showing what I can do. For the most part though the job has grown stale and needs a change.
On the reverse side of things I am absolutely loving my DRK. Its like playing a whole new game really being a DD doing WS's and using various other skills in battle applications. I always wanted to level a DD for versatility and I am very happy I finally did. Hoping to hit 75 in the next few weeks bumming some merit parties form LS friends. I'll never be as pimp on DRK as I am on RDM from a gear standpoint since I have so much for RDM and many things for DRK are either down right expensive (KC) or very rare and need a HNM shell for (adaberk). However, I sure am having a lot more fun on it. Maybe when SE finally makes some changes to RDM I'll be able to dive into the job with renewed fervor, until then i'm going to be DRK and leveling other jobs to fill the void.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
New WS quests
So the biggest news I can think of since my last update is that new Weapon skills were released in the last version update. These range from the not so good to the really amazing. The 2 that I am most concerned with of course is the RDM ws Death Blossom, and the PLD ws Atonement.
Death blossom is said by many to be one of the better looking ones. Gee that’s nice… too bad the damage from it still seems to be greatly lacking. It has some nice skill chaining properties being able to open and close many types of chains and the after effect has some limited uses as well. But I was looking for a better damage option with swords to help out the pathetic selection RDM has native access to. Savage blade as the best ws you can have is laughable. And death blossom performs with nearly the same amount of damage even though it gives an extra hit. It’s hurt by its low ftp mod and therefore just doesn’t do it for me. If dual wielding, dagger main hand to evisceration is still the better way to go.
Atonement however is amazing for what you would use it for. It does a flat 750 damage once you have hate to a certain level. That makes it the best option for fights that last over a minute. It’s also a magic damage ws and therefore has 100% accuracy to it. That’s very hard to beat. Now if in a merit party or any situation were fast killing is involved vorpal blade will outperform it simply because there is not enough time to establish adequate hate.
Now the downside, at least for me, to getting these ws is the points it cost to unlock them. Total points are based on what floor your own nyzul disk is cleared through. IF you got 100 floor great, just 250 to do. But if like me and you’re on zero then it takes roughly 14,000 points to unlock it. And that’s per ws. Bleh. I am trying to do climbs though but the last 2 runs have been canceled so I am still stuck at zero. Hopefully we get this on track soon. Oh and I don’t have the RDM sword yet anyways but do have the PLD one. Just using the sword at random events and in parties has got me up to about 500 points but that’s just a drop in the bucket and it took me over 2 weeks to do that. So put this down as a long term goal for now.
Limbus has seen a drop in attendance from some members again so we been farming chips and trying to rebuild the ranks. We have I believe 3 ultima pop sets and 2 omega sets ready to go. We recruited 3 new people this past week so hopefully we will knock out another boss this coming Thursday. If we do, it will probably be ultima. Now the ultima gear is ok and I can find a few uses for some of it, I just don’t want to give up my spot in line for homam drops. So that being said, I hope others in front of me do want it so it moves me up the list more on homam.
Also, I hate to say this but I am getting the itch again for dynamis. I mainly want to just beat the cop zones so I can say I’ve done them all as well as maybe get some gear for my up comming BLM. One day I do plan on leveling BLU as well and the recently released relic for that seems to be pretty good. Although, more morrigin gear may make that not as desired for me
Death blossom is said by many to be one of the better looking ones. Gee that’s nice… too bad the damage from it still seems to be greatly lacking. It has some nice skill chaining properties being able to open and close many types of chains and the after effect has some limited uses as well. But I was looking for a better damage option with swords to help out the pathetic selection RDM has native access to. Savage blade as the best ws you can have is laughable. And death blossom performs with nearly the same amount of damage even though it gives an extra hit. It’s hurt by its low ftp mod and therefore just doesn’t do it for me. If dual wielding, dagger main hand to evisceration is still the better way to go.
Atonement however is amazing for what you would use it for. It does a flat 750 damage once you have hate to a certain level. That makes it the best option for fights that last over a minute. It’s also a magic damage ws and therefore has 100% accuracy to it. That’s very hard to beat. Now if in a merit party or any situation were fast killing is involved vorpal blade will outperform it simply because there is not enough time to establish adequate hate.
Now the downside, at least for me, to getting these ws is the points it cost to unlock them. Total points are based on what floor your own nyzul disk is cleared through. IF you got 100 floor great, just 250 to do. But if like me and you’re on zero then it takes roughly 14,000 points to unlock it. And that’s per ws. Bleh. I am trying to do climbs though but the last 2 runs have been canceled so I am still stuck at zero. Hopefully we get this on track soon. Oh and I don’t have the RDM sword yet anyways but do have the PLD one. Just using the sword at random events and in parties has got me up to about 500 points but that’s just a drop in the bucket and it took me over 2 weeks to do that. So put this down as a long term goal for now.
Limbus has seen a drop in attendance from some members again so we been farming chips and trying to rebuild the ranks. We have I believe 3 ultima pop sets and 2 omega sets ready to go. We recruited 3 new people this past week so hopefully we will knock out another boss this coming Thursday. If we do, it will probably be ultima. Now the ultima gear is ok and I can find a few uses for some of it, I just don’t want to give up my spot in line for homam drops. So that being said, I hope others in front of me do want it so it moves me up the list more on homam.
Also, I hate to say this but I am getting the itch again for dynamis. I mainly want to just beat the cop zones so I can say I’ve done them all as well as maybe get some gear for my up comming BLM. One day I do plan on leveling BLU as well and the recently released relic for that seems to be pretty good. Although, more morrigin gear may make that not as desired for me
Monday, August 25, 2008
August Update
Past time for another update. Can’t believe its been a whole month since I got the Joyeuse.
So I’ve fallen into a bit of a routine lately. I got so many events scheduled now its hard not to. Monday is Limbus and Einharjer (however the hell you spell it). Tuesday is Salvage and then when its over I try to get down and Help out PNB with sea/sky or whatever they got planed. Wednesday is salvage again and soon to be Nyzul. Thursday is more limbus and late night Sky. Friday is salvage and then a late ENM. So yea that’s a pretty full schedule.
With what little free time I have, I spend it mostly farming some (still paying off my ingot loan) and then doing a bit of campaign. There is another updated schedule early in september (if I had to guess id say it will happen on the 8th) and I am hopefull they introduce the last piece of the Iron ram set, the body, that I can pick up. However, I had used up most my points so I need to build them back up hence doing more Campaign again. Back up to 40k AN and I’m figuring going to need about 75k to at most 100k for the body piece.
The other thing I been doing is finally leveling up my nin subjob. That’s right I been 75 RDM for well over 3 years and my nin still not 37. I know its very useful at times but those timea are far fewer than most RDM use it for. Its really only beneficial if you are soloing a very hard hitting mob, a mob you don’t want to give tp, and in some but not all melee situations. Far to many rdm slap on /nin when it really has no merit for the situation and you would be better served going something else like /war for damage or /blu for high defense and making shadows unneeded in the first place.
I do however really need the sub for my PLD. A lot of tanking nowadays at the endgame level is done with /nin and having a lot of haste gear. I never had much haste gear so it made this style of tanking something I couldn’t do. I mean I could by some dusk stuff for haste but you really need a swift belt and some homam to make it happen. Well now that I have some of that stuff its become a real possibility for me. Got the swift belt a while back, rebought the dusk gloves, had the wal-mart turbin, and then last Monday I got the homam pants. In total I have 15% haste in gear so now its time to focus on the /nin tanking setup meaning I actually need to level nin up. Got it to 35 now so one more xp party and its done. Just need to get the NI scroll and I am all set. Going to need to BCNM it though since most my gil still going to ingot payback.
Not much else going on other than I got another 35 drop from salvage. It’s the hands making my debate over what I really wanted to upgrade next a null point. Hands are very good and I was leaning that way so it all turned out well. We went after the Boss that drops the 25 and managed to kill it. It was our first time fighting it and was not the cleanest of fights but we did manage to pull through. Didn’t drop the hands but it got some other needed 25’s for the LS. So grats to them.
So I’ve fallen into a bit of a routine lately. I got so many events scheduled now its hard not to. Monday is Limbus and Einharjer (however the hell you spell it). Tuesday is Salvage and then when its over I try to get down and Help out PNB with sea/sky or whatever they got planed. Wednesday is salvage again and soon to be Nyzul. Thursday is more limbus and late night Sky. Friday is salvage and then a late ENM. So yea that’s a pretty full schedule.
With what little free time I have, I spend it mostly farming some (still paying off my ingot loan) and then doing a bit of campaign. There is another updated schedule early in september (if I had to guess id say it will happen on the 8th) and I am hopefull they introduce the last piece of the Iron ram set, the body, that I can pick up. However, I had used up most my points so I need to build them back up hence doing more Campaign again. Back up to 40k AN and I’m figuring going to need about 75k to at most 100k for the body piece.
The other thing I been doing is finally leveling up my nin subjob. That’s right I been 75 RDM for well over 3 years and my nin still not 37. I know its very useful at times but those timea are far fewer than most RDM use it for. Its really only beneficial if you are soloing a very hard hitting mob, a mob you don’t want to give tp, and in some but not all melee situations. Far to many rdm slap on /nin when it really has no merit for the situation and you would be better served going something else like /war for damage or /blu for high defense and making shadows unneeded in the first place.
I do however really need the sub for my PLD. A lot of tanking nowadays at the endgame level is done with /nin and having a lot of haste gear. I never had much haste gear so it made this style of tanking something I couldn’t do. I mean I could by some dusk stuff for haste but you really need a swift belt and some homam to make it happen. Well now that I have some of that stuff its become a real possibility for me. Got the swift belt a while back, rebought the dusk gloves, had the wal-mart turbin, and then last Monday I got the homam pants. In total I have 15% haste in gear so now its time to focus on the /nin tanking setup meaning I actually need to level nin up. Got it to 35 now so one more xp party and its done. Just need to get the NI scroll and I am all set. Going to need to BCNM it though since most my gil still going to ingot payback.
Not much else going on other than I got another 35 drop from salvage. It’s the hands making my debate over what I really wanted to upgrade next a null point. Hands are very good and I was leaning that way so it all turned out well. We went after the Boss that drops the 25 and managed to kill it. It was our first time fighting it and was not the cleanest of fights but we did manage to pull through. Didn’t drop the hands but it got some other needed 25’s for the LS. So grats to them.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The goods keep comming
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.
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.
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.
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