More of the Same

I hate being poor. Just thought I’d throw that out there. I have been dangerously low on gil for a while now and have been just getting by scraping up enough for events and food to party with. I need to fix that soon as now that my PLD is nearing its leveling end, I will need to focus on another job that will take a lot more funds.


On to my recent accomplishments. So I have been level grinding PLD a lot lately (and mostly with Pusarah and Marlow so that’s nice) and these last 6 days have been no different. I mentioned last time I was only 800 xp from 72 so of course I got that. I didn’t stop there though. I got level 73 yesterday and I’m 10k into the level. Getting ever so close to level 75.

Upon dinging 73 I knew I was in need of some equipment upgrades. First it was past time for me to get a defensive head piece. Believe it or not, I haven’t had a defensive piece for the head slot since about level 50. I haven’t needed one either but now that my PLD may be called upon to do things other than xp I need to start getting ready. Of course to do this I needed some gil since I have next to none. So very reluctantly I sold 10 of my ancient beastcoins for 120k total. I took this and bought the adaman head piece for 80k. I then sold my generals shield for 111k and am going to buy a Koenig shield for 170k leaving me with about 70k total in funds. Yikes!

That should get the basics done for PLD purchases but I still need to get a normal tanking earring and stop being lazy and go camp a Jelly ring for my second ring slot. Once those 2 are done I’m more or less done with going after PLD stuff except for Dynamis and upgrading my feet to AF+1.

So as I mentioned I sold 10 of my ancient beastcoins. This was really tough since after my run yesterday I was at 26 and needed just 4 more to get my RDM Tabard +1. It was tough but I figure I could wait one more week anyways since I’ve not been doing anything much with RDM other than Limbus and Dynamis which I don’t need the upgrade for anyways. So with the current rate of coins I should have enough by next Friday and then come the following Monday I can pick up my shiny new tabard. After that its upgrade my PLD feet for only 20 more coins , and I have half the materials for that already, then a brutal earring for 75 coins and that’s it for coin purchases I think for a long while. Actually, after I upgrade my tabard I think I’m going to end up selling half of my runs coins each time to just help fund future runs. I’m in no big hurry for the PLD feet or brutal so I can take it nice and slow and help ease the cost while I’m at it.

I have Dynamis tonight and I believe we are supposed to do jeuno. So hopefully I’ll have a bit of luck and some RDM legs will drop and I can lot them. This has been for me in the past the least dropping piece I have seen odd as that may sound. I really feel weird having my Duelist chapeau now with almost no other relic armor. I have had the hat now for almost a year and I get asked all the time by people if I am 5/5 Relic. Most people are shocked to hear I am only at 2/5. The legs will be nice for an elemental magic setup for nuking hard things so it has some uses. The gloves are still going to be blah but I would like to have them. And of course the body would be great for the fast cast. Oh yea, and then I could still use some PLD pieces too so if those drop and I can lot that would be nice. So yea still a lot of Dynamis ahead for me. Once I get in a better gil situation I may suggest or ask if the LS minded if I ran a Friday run since we only go once a week as it is now. That however is going to be a long way off on my list of things to do.

Paragon of PLD excellence... only took 71 levels

Much more timely on this update. Only one week apart from the last one. Go me!!

So in our last episode I was hoping to level PLD some more and to finlly get some more of my AF for it. Well I’m happy to report I was able to do just that. Got to 71 PLD about a week ago and last night had to end a party at just 800 tnl. So basically soon as I log on I’ll go grab that solo and hit 72. Also, I picked up my AF body finally thanks to Pusarah and Pbcup coming out to help with the NM’s. I still don’t have the head piece but other than needing it to store the set I’m not the interested in it. At 73 I could just get a Adaman head piece if I wanted something for a defensive build anyways.

The reason I had to leave my party with just needing 800 xp was I had to run to dynamis. This was my second run with the ls, and I think just their 4th overall, and we did dynamis bastok. Won the zone fairly easy and still had I think 35 minutes to farm after boss win. They still seem too slow on pulls for my liking but its not really my say so I just go with it. I did get to pull once when the main puller went afk so maybe they can get comfortable with me doing it some in the future and I can show them a few new things to speed things up. As a whole we got 9 AF. No PLD or RDM dropped though so I didn’t get to lot. Next up I think is going to be jeuno. Would sure be nice to get the legs for some more elemental skill.

Limbus has been going good. Been on three total runs so far all of which were easy zone wins. I have 15 coins and both pieces for my RDM AF body upgrade so I should have enough in about another week and a half. That will give me another 20 mp putting me at something like 1071 convert mp in /whm merit party set ups and 823 mp in normal /blm setups. Pretty much the only things left non HNM/GOD drop related is a hedgehog bomb for another 20 mp and another 30 mp from my last three merit upgrades. Once I get those more or less no need for MP food at all.

I think that’s about all for now. The sea LS has been kind of meh so if they don’t pick up a few more members or get something working a little better I may decide to just hold off on that stuff for now. Plus it gives me another day to do things like missions/assault/gil making that I need to catch up on anyways. Although the lure of an altruistic cape and a Justice sword is pretty damn strong and those aren’t that difficult of mobs so it bears some thinking on my end.

LS Overload

So I’ve been back from my unfortunate forced break for about 3 months now and ever since I’ve been looking for a new Dynamis, limbus, and general sky sea whatever shell. I got into a small sea shell a couple of weeks ago and that’s still progressing in its early stages and I’m happy with it so far. In nearly every party or mission or whatever I have been involved in I have been asking about shells and finally this Monday got some leads. SO now I have joined a new limbus shell which seems to be pretty good, and a dynamis shell that’s not full of noobs.

Went on my first run with the limbus group Monday and got 4 coins. I lotted an astounding 37 to try and get an extra coin… Run went smooth, we cruised through the zone and had tons of time left over. I’ll be going with them twice a week and using mostly RDM and switching to PLD once it’s finished up to 75 on Omega/Ultima fights. This shell has a lot of good players in it so I see it working out nicely in the future.

Dalilah was nice enough to send me an email telling me about a dynamis shell that was recruiting. I sent the leader a tell and asked in. He said yes but didn’t need any PLD’s but did need more RDM. Which is what I would prefer to go as anyways. They currently go one day a week and I had my first run with them yesterday. They did dynamis sandy and overall they did a decent job. Got the win but not all the time extensions (they were fearful of trying to go towards the nin house). They seem pretty well organized and I can see the shell working out fine. Only thing I could say I see for improvement is the speed at which they pull. The puller is waiting until everything dies before going out to get the next pull which is killing us on time. Also, they set camps waaay to far back sometimes. This is mainly a time sink they are setting themselves up with but as they get more experience and maybe a little coaxing hopefully I can offer some hints they will heed. I don’t want to act bossy or try and overstep people though so mostly I’ll remain quite about things. We got 4 AF drops and I’m secondary lotting PLD so at least now there is something I can get from Sandy since I’ve had the RDM boots for ages. I think the next run will be bastok and I know they have a lot of new members that need all the other city wins so that’s a good thing as I’ve probably done more northland runs than city anyways over the course of my dynamis career. Getting a shot at RDM hands and Legs again will be nice.

Now back to the original post heading. I now have about 5 different LS pearls I need to keep around for all the different things I do. I sure wish SE would make some kind of pearl box because my inventory space is getting horrendous.

Sea tonight, and hopefully more PLD level grinding and maybe I’ll finish up my pld AF>.> I mean I should have it since it’s actually good af for pld to tank stuff in, just not XP party tanking. I’ve only even had one party ask why I wasn’t wearing AF. It was an early morning JP party that was going < Where?>. I told them I didn’t have it to which they replied with lol’s and w but then the party started and I owned mob hate and had zero downtime as they saw how much better it is to tank with shield skill, enmity and DD builds on PLD now. When party broke I got lots of praise and what not. So really I’m dying to know why all those other plds out there are still XP tanking in AF? Most any forum you go to everyone advocates how much better it is to go as a DD tank hybrid and yet still I see the masses are just turtleing it up. Oh well. To each their own.

So I haven’t posted in a while again. Guess I’ll just list the basics and get things caught up.

Leveled PLD some more and now I’m level 70!! YAY! Still didn’t have but 2 pieces of AF so I asked if anyone wanted to help hunt down some coffer keys and like everyone on in the LS said yes… Not only that keys were dropping like crazy, got 2 Beadeaux keys and 2 garlaige keys in just 2 total hours including the travel time. Coffer in beadeaux popped right in front of us so I got my AF legs easy. Didn’t get a chance to use my garlaige key yet but hopefully I will soon. Also went and got the key from castle zvahl and went back later and got the key item for my AF body fight. So I should get that soon as I can find a few people to try it with me… or I get stupid and try and solo 2 mobs at once with my RDM.

I missed a couple of runs of sea due to my schedule changing over but now I’m set for every Wednesday at least. Not much dropped, fought a few things but no torques and haven’t done JOJ in a while for me to try and get the sword.

Been meriting a fair amount lately and now have ice accuracy up to level 4 bringing my total merit points spent up to 83. One more in ice acc, buy back my HQ ice staff and its time to try some stupid death risking stuff again. I think I’ll start with trying fenrir solo and then maybe leveling up blu a bit and trying to solo Chardybris as RDM/BLU. I have the needed merits and decent gear for that so who knows. Worth a shot anyways and I think it would be fun.

SAM is still on hold because I’m still broke as hell. Got down to a meager 7k the other day. YIKES! Still looking for a Dynamis and limbus shell although I do have someone I was told to talk too about joining limbus with so I may have something there.

Lastly, I have been hitting ToAU missions hard. In fact I went from being nowhere to now I’m on the last fight of the whole series. Yup just one more fight until I can get a ring (thinking about the magic acc one to help with nukes and bind especially) and getting the glory crown. These missions are so much easier and faster to do than COP was. It’s not even close really. If it wasn’t for all the CS that made you wait until JP midnight you could do the whole thing in a day, probably not take more than 5 hours tops. The one thing I do like about them tho is they really tried to develop a story with the missions. It was pretty well written from that standpoint and a lot of the scenes are funny. I’ll post some screenshots of things down below so if you are reading this (anyone read this? Just curious) you might not want to spoil things by looking at the pictures. I’ve also just been taking lots of pictures randomly so I’m going to post a bunch of them.

After getting through with the missions next up on the agenda is to start getting my assault rank up. I’d like to have as much of ToAU stuff done as possible before the new expansion comes out in case it gets really hard to find people to do the older content with.

Level grinding, broke, and MP gear

Lots to report about. Need to catch up again on whats been going on the last week and a half. First on the weekend of the 15-16 I had intended to just farm and level PLD. Well I did level PLD some and got to level 66 finally but didn't get any farming done. Party was pretty good again, another JP party cause they love me or something, and got to 5k out of 27.5k into the level.

After that i merited RDM some and on saturday spent most my time in sea with Janaka and PB. We did another limbus run, zero coins again had to take a zone we didnt like since others were taken. So yet another 30k down but oh well i still love limbus, its a great time for me. After we got done with the run we stayed in sea and farmed up some organs so me and Jan could get some sea obi's. Got everything but 1 tissue so i more or less done. I can probably just get the tissue on wednesday when i go for another run with my sea LS.

Speaking of the sea LS, we went and killed Ix Mnk on Wednesday. Went down easy but we got absolutely nothing. Of course we did just pop with 1 organ and not three since we had so few there and was many people's, me included, first time. After that we just farmed some more pop items to be ready for the next time.

Now that catches me up to this past weekend. Saturday I spent most the day leveling PLD. Man did I have some bad parties. First we got a RDM that was awful. She said she had a 5 month lay off so she was rusty. I could understand that, I was in the same boat recently. But her bad play went beyond rust, it was like she had NEVER played RDM. Had no idea RDM had Raise, didnt keep sneak up when getting to camp, almost never kept refresh on the PLD tank, and other things that she should have known. Being slow is one thing, but not even knowing to do these things is simply a whole new set of warning bells. I'd bet it was a bought character. Anyways 4 deaths later the leader was fed up with her, and I was at negative xp after an hour down 2k with xp ring on, kicked her and got a replacement. New RDM gets there and we start crusing along. Got to 15k total and then some people had to leave.

So after that party broke I went back to seeking. I must have been really wanting the headache. This party gets a smn to main heal which is fine normally. Except we hit another homerun with grabbing a worthless party member. I wont get into all the details but we end up letting her go, after I die 2 more times(yes 6 total deaths), and got Helio from my LS to replace her. Things went much better but i had to leave after about another hour due to some real life stuff. So i am now at 20k out of 27.5k for my level. SO if you take away those 6 deaths i would have leveled up. Oh well, thats the breaks sometimes.

I made one new purchase on my PLD. I bought a hercules ring to add another 3 enmity. Doing this, and being very low on gil, i went and sold 2 of my defensive rings for PLD. Those being an unyielding ring and a verve ring. They sold pretty fast and i had a little bit of gil from my mules. Well being me it started to burn a hole in my pocket and so I finally did something I had been debating anyways. I bought the last 11 ancient beastcoins for my Loq. earring. It cost me about 150k but all in all thats cheap in comparison to what something of equal value cost. NOw with the earring I hit 1k mp without any food.


Not bad at all. Now its time to upgrade my tabard and get rid of that blue cotehardie for my body peice. It has too much -hp on it to get my convert up much higher. So I need another 30 anc. beastcoins and then I think im done with everything I want to purchase for my mp set except maybe a hedgehog bomb sometime way off in the future. Everything else would by drop items off of HNMs and Gods.

So having done that, and having zero gil just about leaving PLD off limits, I went and merited on RDM some. Got a good party and with the merit points I already had saved up I upgraded my ICE accuracy twice to get to level 2. I still have 1 and a half merit points so almost to another upgrade for it as well.

That's it for now. I really need to get some gil and i'll probably level PLD up to 67 soon as I can actually afford some food for it...

More MIdweek Fun

Interesting day yesterday. So I mentioned I had joined a new, small, Sea LS. Had a total of about 16 people for our first farming and tier 1 jailor run. Got some HQ organs for some future pops and then used one of the pop sets they had farmed up for JoFo.

The fight is pretty straight forward and basic. Pop the Jalior and he has two pets. When the pets are alive he reflects all damage back. Since he doesn’t take much damage at all from melee weapons you basically just kite him around while taking out his friends. By the time we actually got to the fight we only had one tank as the others had to log. Still was really easy.

Only slight problem we had was the only real way to damage him was through magic. SO with only one BLM there and 2 rdm it was basically us three doing most the nuking. The other RDM didn’t seem to be nuking that much either but was more assisting with healing and keeping the tank up. I was doing this too until I realized people were just standing there and trying to figure out how to damage the guy. I threw out a bliz III and did 500ish damage and figured I should focus on nuking or else this would take forever. SO after maybe 10 minutes of nuking from me and the BLM he went down and only death was the blm died once after getting a bit too much hate from nuking.

No torque drop but did get the normal stuff.


After that, and seeing how few PLD’s the LS had, I dusted of my PLD gear and went and bought a sword to level it up again. Had a few things sell on the AH and got enough to buy a Macuahuitl +1. Nice enmity sword and something I can get away with in parties rather than dropping the gil on a Espadon +1. Damage difference is really just from WS since the Espadon is slower and at 70 I’ll be going with a company sword anyways so it’s only a miner inconvenience for me. Still need to get a shield torque and buy a herc ring for 66, then I’m fine till about 70. That will cost me about 80k. Also need a new shield at 69 that will set me back about 130k, or I can by the new level 58 wivre shield if it’s ever available but that will cost twice as much…ugh.

Anyways I bought the sword, put up my flag, and actually got a party pretty fast. I got about 12k in 2 hours so not horrendous. I’m at 15/26k so I should be able to ding 66 this weekend. Going to concentrate on farming and leveling PLD for the foreseeable future. Having another job 70+ will be nice and of course I can always use the gil. Also need to stop being lazy and go finish my PLD AF as that is useful for real tanking rather than the DD tanking I do in xp Parties. And of course still try and do some limbus.

Going to Sea?

Very busy weekend for me.

So last post I was still working on getting my staff grip. After a few more merit parties I was finally able to get the IS points needed to make the purchase. Yay, another 20 mp to throw on the pile. So my full casting gear MP (with food) is currently at 825, and my convert mp is now at 1046. Man that sure is a long way from when I first hit 75; I struggled to get 900 then.

On the limbus coin/more mp item front I went on a limbus Duo run with PB. We tried the elemental one and they are very resistant to nukes, did about 1/3-1/2 normal damage. Kill time was slow for us and we picked the chest that had the mystic avatar and got completely owned. This was lack of experience and I had never read up on this one at all. So I dropped 30k and got… zero coins. Oh well at least it looks like we may duo some more soon so that’s a definite good sign on the limbus front. If we do that I should be able to get my Loq. Earring in a matter of just a few weeks.

Also, after all the meriting I was able to get the last upgrade for Convert. Time to work on Ice accuracy now.


I logged in late in the evening on Saturday which is odd for me right now. Soon as I did I saw a shout from an old friend that was in my very first LS. He was starting up a SEA LS and was looking for members. So I sent him a tell and told him I’d come on their Wednesday runs and he gladly accepted me. This is of course something unexpected for me but with the time working out I think it will be very enjoyable for me. My first real experience with HNM’s I guess you could say. Hoping to get an Altruistic cape for my RDM as well as a Justice Sword and Fortitude torque for my PLD and RDM to use. We will probably do Tier 1’s for a while as we are just starting out but at least I’ll have a shot at the cape somewhat soon I would think. On another note they may be starting up a limbus group as well and if they do I may join if I can’t do any duos with people in Spirit Link or maybe I can get some of them to join the Limbus group. Who knows at this point it’s still pretty early.

On the gil problems I’m having I finally decided to go out and farm some things. Still a little unsure of what to farm nowadays as my old money makers are just not up to power anymore. I used to be able to get about 100-130k an hour. Today that same stuff might net me 30k. I tried out some new things and did decent I guess, got maybe 50k an hour and that seems good with how bad the economy is. Problem is that things are slower selling than my old stuff, but I can wait for the gil to come in as long as its steady.

Had just a few hours left to play after farming and went and leveled Sam trying to get to 34 so I can sell my katana. Got to level 33 and only 3k away from 34 so not too bad. One more session, probably next Saturday, should do it. Then its back to waiting for OKotes so I may be done for a while.


Last bit of news was somewhat surprising. It seems that Pus and Zeit are leaving my old Dyna shell after a difference of opinion on how some things are being handled. I had mentioned in an earlier post I was thinking about starting my Own Dyna Shell so here is even more motivation. Still haven’t decided yet but it’s certainly still on my mind.