What to merit and in what order? I see this question a lot on forums and get asked it in game from time to time so I thought I would throw my thoughts down into one post and refer to it as needed. Now this is just my suggestion and not the absolute way to do it. So with that in mind here is my sort of mini guide.
I think way back when I started to first merit I went with enfeebling first but I sure wouldn’t do that now if I had to start over. Of course that was pre ToAU so keep that in mind. With today’s fast paced parties I would definitely go with convert then mp first. If nothing else this will make your time meriting easier. I remember as a new to 75 RDM having about 750 mp and not much better with my convert gear. That would be rough to get away with in today’s party atmosphere. Remember its going to take well over a million xp for your RDM merits so anything to make it go by better is a good thing.
After that I would invest a bit here and there. Say like 3 in enfeebling then switch over and do some Group 1 or 2 merits. Usually upgrading something just 1 time gives no noticeable effect; it’s the combination of things that really add up. I also would avoid high cost upgrades and go to something else until you must spend the high cost merit points. For instance using 5 merit points to go from level 4 to 5 convert is probably less useful than using those five to say get level 1 and 2 mp(3 total merits) and boosting enfeebling form 1 (already upgraded once) to level 2 (another 2 merit points). If I had to map out a plan it may look something like this.
3 MP
3 Convert
3 Enfeebling
1 Slow II
3 Ice Accuracy
Total cost at this point is 27 merit points. This touches on all the basics for the job and gives back real benefits. You have given yourself a 10% increase in convert time, added a new spell, and made all your enfeebling spells better while adding more nuke accuracy for Blizzard III as well as increasing base mp.
From here I would work on capping vert, Enfeebling, and ice. Probably in that order unless you really want to go ahead and boost enfeebling first. Then after that just gradually work them all until capped. You may find boosting mp next will help you out more but you may not depending on what you do and who you party with. The problem with mp is it gets pretty costly going up to 5 merit points per upgrade for the last 4 upgrades making it not as cost efficient.
In the end my merits will look like many RDM 75
8/8 MP ( I am a big fan of mp. The more you have the more you can do)
8/8 Sword (though this is more for PLD)
8/8 Enfeebling (self explanatory)
8/8 Elemental (also leveling BLM so double usage)
5/5 Convert (goes with my MP philosophy. Not always used every time your timer is up, but when in intensive MP situations it makes things so much easier. Think of it this way. 1 Piece of refresh equipment gives you 1200 MP an hour. A max convert timer gives you 1 more convert in an hour than someone with out the upgrade. I have 1100+ convert MP so it’s like adding in another refresh piece over time. In a 30 minute BCNM I can get in 4 verts if I use one up immediately at start (through chainspell abuse). In long drawn out solo fights I can throw out nukes faster since I got more mp to burn. All in all there just isn’t any significant reason to not merit this in my opinion.)
5/5 Ice Accuracy (this is a no brainer as far as upgrades. Increases your blizzard III accuracy (most accurate of our nukes thanks to skill on ice staff) and bind, a random spell that you want to land ASAP when you need it. Also helps with paralyze accuracy. So boosting three useful spells is a win in my book)
3/3 Slow II (this is very useful at even one upgrade but not sure the final 2 are a big enough boost to warrant spending more merits on)
5/5 Para II (I know many don’t like this but I get some crazy procs on boss fights once in a while, the main benefit of going to level 5 is it gives more accuracy meaning you can drop some macc and skill gear in favor of more mnd for a better proc rate. The fact I have Ice accuracy merits makes this even easier.)
2/2 Phalanx II (very nice for salvage and other end game things. I only would go with 2 upgrades as this makes the duration of the spell equal to that of refresh making it easy to throw into a casting routine)
Everything else is being dedicated to other jobs so not really important here. That’s still 164 merit points for just RDM, or in terms of xp 1,640,000 spent. The amount and the time it takes to get there is why I suggest starting with convert and mp so you can make that journey a little easier. Of course if you use another job to merit on then you can adjust accordingly.
So as you may have noticed for RDM specific merits I didn’t put anything into wind or earth. Some RDM’s really like wind and a few boost earth because of slow II. Wind to me just doesn’t make sense and I’ll explain why. The 2 big wind spells for RDM are Silence and Gravity. Both are very good spells but have limitations that can’t be overcome no matter what. Gravity’s biggest downfall is that mobs (NM’s anyways where the accuracy matters) become resistant to gravity. No amount of gear or merits can make this built in game function go away. Also Gravity doesn’t increase in power in any way. Mobs don’t get more encumbered with higher skill or stats. The evasion effect is also not increased but static. So the only thing to gravity is whether you land it or you don’t. Very few mobs resist gravity unless they are immune, making the increase in accuracy wasted here. The same holds true for silence. Most mobs are easy to land silence on or they are immune to it, so once again wind merits just don’t cut it for me. Also for must land silence situations you can sub blm and use elemental seal for it (like for suzuku or whatnot).
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As for earth merits the only reason people do this is for slow II. Slow 2 is already a very accurate spell so meriting it to land is redundant. The only reason you would merit earth is so you can drop some skill/accuracy equips in favor of more mnd to make for a stronger slow. It’s not a terrible way to spend merits but to be honest I don’t think it’s more beneficial than the others you can get. Also using merits for a chance to improve one spell seems like a waste.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Monday, June 2, 2008
So got about a month’a worth of updated to get to so here goes.
Dynamis
Monday we did glacier and I was highest priority for RDM body. So yea no drop. The run went well though. So can’t really complain and they finally went and did the boss pull the way I had wanted using just a single thief to run the dragons back to start and just binding and voking the boss till it was time. I missed the Thursday run to do RL issues. The next Monday was xarc and we got another RDM hat but nothing else. That Thursday I missed again this time do to a new LS I have joined (more later). The following Monday was glacier again and guess what? RDM body dropped. I lotted a ….67. However luck was with me as the only other lotter rolled a 43. So 5/5 RDM relic finally. Now to focus on PLD or maybe think about calling an end to a lot if not all my dyna runs. Other than the pld body I have no interest in anything else there.
Limbus
Did a chip farming run on Monday. Got a whopping 10 coins since we added in the few we got from the last 2 omega fights. Been saving up to get a brutal earring and I now have 51 coins total. After that I need to upgrade PLD boots, RDM hat, and then probably grab a boxers mantle. So yea I still need a lot of coins. Not sure I’ll get the mantle but it is something I been thinking about. Ok cant remebr every run after but did a few chip farming runs, got a total of 68 coins for my earring now. Did ana omega (that I missed) and got good drops, hands and legs. That’s nice since it moves me up the list. Not much else to say.
Salvage
Tuesday we did another LBC run. Killed him with only 8 members this time and it was actually much easier and a pretty clean fight in general. We had one bad spot and had to take a wipe. He was down to like 25% at the time and regened up to 40% before we had our bard just dia and die over and over while the rest of us healed to full. Once ready we took it down with no major incidents. Got another usukane leg (that’s 3 in a row) and a marduck’s hand. Then Friday my salvage group finally managed to take down LBC as well. Got horrible drops (some head pieces no one wanted) but hey now we can do it and that the guy who drops the morrigans 25 I need so its good news. Did a few more arappago runs and guess what, this past Friday after who knows how many kills of the NM the morrigans robe 35 dropped!!! So I got and now am really close to having my RDM more or less finished as far as I am concerned. There are a few other upgrades I could make but this is the last major thing that will add a significant amount to my repertoire.
Other.
Lets see got my DRK to 59. It had been slow going for a while but then invites picked up and the leveling just took off. So as you can see I been leveling drk a lot… I would love to get this to 75 but now that I have the robe piece I have a major need for gil. All my efforts when not at an event will be focused on nothing but gil making.
Been trying to get a run going to get a swift belt. I keep asking and have got a few people to say they will come help but I’ll probably have to shout for a party. That could take a while.
SE announced they are going to allow you to switch nations and have your OP warps put on hold so they are still there if you switch back. Now I think I will finally change to windy and go after the MC bracelets so I can break 340 enfeebling skill, not that it’s going to make much difference. I think were I am now at 334 is pushing the bounds of usefulness and I should stick with stat boosters to make them more effective. Still this is more a long term project and more for completeness sake so not in any rush for this.
There was also a mention of new mage food which I must say will be interesting. The player base is going to want something fairly significant. Like a 10% boost to accuracy/potency/damage or whatnot. This however is going to be very empowering so I can’t possibly see them giving more than either a flat number increase or a smaller 5% increase. Giving too much will make a lot of skill gear unneeded/wanted as you would just switch out to stat gear. This would make having some of my gear pointless although it would also make the food only really useful for HNM’s where you need the boost and not in normal party play.
Other tidbits from the announcement include reduced cost dynamis and an increase in northland drop rates. I know many are thrilled about increase drop rates but damn it’s going to make my hat seem like not as big a deal. Oh well that’s really just me being prideful. Honestly I see tons of RDM nowadays with the hat. It’s not rare really anymore. Uncommon yea but not rare.
PLD gets a new spell and campaign is getting more rank ups. I hope with the rank ups they release more gear for the Iron Ram set. I am very interested in what the body piece will look like stat wise. IF its on par with the rest then you can forget about wanting the PLD relic altogether.
Dynamis
Monday we did glacier and I was highest priority for RDM body. So yea no drop. The run went well though. So can’t really complain and they finally went and did the boss pull the way I had wanted using just a single thief to run the dragons back to start and just binding and voking the boss till it was time. I missed the Thursday run to do RL issues. The next Monday was xarc and we got another RDM hat but nothing else. That Thursday I missed again this time do to a new LS I have joined (more later). The following Monday was glacier again and guess what? RDM body dropped. I lotted a ….67. However luck was with me as the only other lotter rolled a 43. So 5/5 RDM relic finally. Now to focus on PLD or maybe think about calling an end to a lot if not all my dyna runs. Other than the pld body I have no interest in anything else there.
Limbus
Did a chip farming run on Monday. Got a whopping 10 coins since we added in the few we got from the last 2 omega fights. Been saving up to get a brutal earring and I now have 51 coins total. After that I need to upgrade PLD boots, RDM hat, and then probably grab a boxers mantle. So yea I still need a lot of coins. Not sure I’ll get the mantle but it is something I been thinking about. Ok cant remebr every run after but did a few chip farming runs, got a total of 68 coins for my earring now. Did ana omega (that I missed) and got good drops, hands and legs. That’s nice since it moves me up the list. Not much else to say.
Salvage
Tuesday we did another LBC run. Killed him with only 8 members this time and it was actually much easier and a pretty clean fight in general. We had one bad spot and had to take a wipe. He was down to like 25% at the time and regened up to 40% before we had our bard just dia and die over and over while the rest of us healed to full. Once ready we took it down with no major incidents. Got another usukane leg (that’s 3 in a row) and a marduck’s hand. Then Friday my salvage group finally managed to take down LBC as well. Got horrible drops (some head pieces no one wanted) but hey now we can do it and that the guy who drops the morrigans 25 I need so its good news. Did a few more arappago runs and guess what, this past Friday after who knows how many kills of the NM the morrigans robe 35 dropped!!! So I got and now am really close to having my RDM more or less finished as far as I am concerned. There are a few other upgrades I could make but this is the last major thing that will add a significant amount to my repertoire.
Other.
Lets see got my DRK to 59. It had been slow going for a while but then invites picked up and the leveling just took off. So as you can see I been leveling drk a lot… I would love to get this to 75 but now that I have the robe piece I have a major need for gil. All my efforts when not at an event will be focused on nothing but gil making.
Been trying to get a run going to get a swift belt. I keep asking and have got a few people to say they will come help but I’ll probably have to shout for a party. That could take a while.
SE announced they are going to allow you to switch nations and have your OP warps put on hold so they are still there if you switch back. Now I think I will finally change to windy and go after the MC bracelets so I can break 340 enfeebling skill, not that it’s going to make much difference. I think were I am now at 334 is pushing the bounds of usefulness and I should stick with stat boosters to make them more effective. Still this is more a long term project and more for completeness sake so not in any rush for this.
There was also a mention of new mage food which I must say will be interesting. The player base is going to want something fairly significant. Like a 10% boost to accuracy/potency/damage or whatnot. This however is going to be very empowering so I can’t possibly see them giving more than either a flat number increase or a smaller 5% increase. Giving too much will make a lot of skill gear unneeded/wanted as you would just switch out to stat gear. This would make having some of my gear pointless although it would also make the food only really useful for HNM’s where you need the boost and not in normal party play.
Other tidbits from the announcement include reduced cost dynamis and an increase in northland drop rates. I know many are thrilled about increase drop rates but damn it’s going to make my hat seem like not as big a deal. Oh well that’s really just me being prideful. Honestly I see tons of RDM nowadays with the hat. It’s not rare really anymore. Uncommon yea but not rare.
PLD gets a new spell and campaign is getting more rank ups. I hope with the rank ups they release more gear for the Iron Ram set. I am very interested in what the body piece will look like stat wise. IF its on par with the rest then you can forget about wanting the PLD relic altogether.
Friday, May 9, 2008
May 9th update
So been about 2 weeks since my last post so I figure its time for another update.
Limbus.
We did 2 omegas and then a couple of chip farming runs these last 2 weeks. Omega was being stingy and dropped 4 head pieces (nearly worthless with the walmart turbin available for more haste) and 1 body than I already had and others were passing on to stay in line for a better piece. The body ended up going to a newer guy in the shell and I’m happy for him as he could have been waiting a long time for something as he was at the bottom of the list for stuff.
Dynamis
Let’s see we did 2 windy runs, a glacier and a xarcabard. Glacier is the run I really like doing since it drops my RDM body I need. It still didn’t drop but judjing by the people lotting and the points posted I should be able to lot the next one that drops. We are going there again on Monday so I’m hopeful for some good news to report. The xarca run was good with 5 AF dropping including a RDM hat so grats to them as they had been waiting a long time for some of their members. Windurst runs were , well who cares I hate windy and don’t really care for the AF there anyways.
Salvage
Both of my salvage groups have been after Long Bowed Chariot. My Tuesday group, which is much larger, was finally able to take him down last week and to prove it wasn’t a fluke we did it again this week. So far nothing dropped that we were really looking for but should only be a matter of time. My Friday group is still having problems mainly in that we need to focus on healing better and staying on top of things. With 7 people though we got it to 40% and I have a feeling we can do this with more practice. Today we are supposed to do arrapago remnants so maybe I can get lucky on the 35 body drop for morrigans.
Other.
Lets see been hitting campaign battles pretty hard. Capped out xp on both PLD and RDM and have gotten the last available rank up for campaign. Haven’t leveled DRK or BLM due to time issues, but I hope to fix this soon and at least solo some xp. Other than that I’d like to do a lot of assault missions for both ranking up and points. Once I feel I have a good point base built up then id like to dive into a Nyzul isle group. Good gear here but I never really see any form of advertisement for groups that are looking. I’ll keep asking around and see if I get lucky.
Limbus.
We did 2 omegas and then a couple of chip farming runs these last 2 weeks. Omega was being stingy and dropped 4 head pieces (nearly worthless with the walmart turbin available for more haste) and 1 body than I already had and others were passing on to stay in line for a better piece. The body ended up going to a newer guy in the shell and I’m happy for him as he could have been waiting a long time for something as he was at the bottom of the list for stuff.
Dynamis
Let’s see we did 2 windy runs, a glacier and a xarcabard. Glacier is the run I really like doing since it drops my RDM body I need. It still didn’t drop but judjing by the people lotting and the points posted I should be able to lot the next one that drops. We are going there again on Monday so I’m hopeful for some good news to report. The xarca run was good with 5 AF dropping including a RDM hat so grats to them as they had been waiting a long time for some of their members. Windurst runs were , well who cares I hate windy and don’t really care for the AF there anyways.
Salvage
Both of my salvage groups have been after Long Bowed Chariot. My Tuesday group, which is much larger, was finally able to take him down last week and to prove it wasn’t a fluke we did it again this week. So far nothing dropped that we were really looking for but should only be a matter of time. My Friday group is still having problems mainly in that we need to focus on healing better and staying on top of things. With 7 people though we got it to 40% and I have a feeling we can do this with more practice. Today we are supposed to do arrapago remnants so maybe I can get lucky on the 35 body drop for morrigans.
Other.
Lets see been hitting campaign battles pretty hard. Capped out xp on both PLD and RDM and have gotten the last available rank up for campaign. Haven’t leveled DRK or BLM due to time issues, but I hope to fix this soon and at least solo some xp. Other than that I’d like to do a lot of assault missions for both ranking up and points. Once I feel I have a good point base built up then id like to dive into a Nyzul isle group. Good gear here but I never really see any form of advertisement for groups that are looking. I’ll keep asking around and see if I get lucky.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
April 23 2008
So I haven’t posted in ages huh? Yea not really had much of a chance to write up things at work lately so the BLOG has been left idle and not updated. However, this doesn’t mean I haven’t been logging into the game to get stuff done. Nope, I’m just as active as ever. Still doing Limbus with the same group of guys but most of the other events I do have changed up a bit.
Dynamis. Well you know from my last post that I was really struggling to find a decent dynamis shell that ran on times I could go. I left that shell as they just had to many flaws with strategy and leadership. I had considered applying to Moirai for a while since I knew they did 2 weekly runs (and not on the weekend). This is strangely enough the old Dyna shell that Zeit and Pus had left to join up with me in alttab a long time ago. So it felt odd applying to them but I really had no reason not to like them and they ran at good times for me. So I applied and joined up. Been going with them for a few month’s now and am pretty pleased with my decision to join up. They can win all the basic zones easy enough and have a much stronger core group of players than the last few shells I tried out. So I’m collecting points and waiting to lot my relic armor trying to get my last piece of RDM relic (body) and then lotting PLD stuff as its available. So far I have got 2 lot on PLD gloves and body but lost both... to the same person lol. At least for that stuff it doesn’t seem to be a long line as PLD drops a lot for these guys.
Limbus has been going very well. We have killed both Omega and Ultima a few times now and have very little problem in doing so. We have had 3 mages already get the Nashira legs myself being the most recent. This is one of those pieces every RDM wants and pushes my Enfeebling skill up to 334. Now I’m going to focus on the omega drops for my pld and the pieces are so good I have decided to go ahead and level up my DRK to use them with as well (level 42 at present) I got the body so far and pretty much every piece but the head is amazing so all in all Limbus is looking great.
One semi sad thing is my sea LS broke. I was somewhat frustrated with them since we seemed to really drag our feet on getting things done but we did get in some good fights and had killed some tier II. It would have been nice to get my cape and a justice sword but lack of participation finally done us in. I would like to find a new sea LS but this is proving rather difficult.
As for a new activity I am now doing Salvage 2 times a week. I run once with my limbus shell and once with spirit link. The drop rates here are horrendous but the armor is flat out the best in game. I am going for morrigans robe for my RDM and BLM (more on that later) and then after that whatever I may get. Will probably take a year or more for the Robe but it will more or less complete any gear I could want for RDM (not buyable anyways) and is an incredible asset to BLM as well.
I finally completed the ToAU missions. These were all relatively easy until the last one. Alexander was just being a pain for the random groups I kept going with. Mostly it was all timing out due to not enough damage. Not sure why the melee were having such problems but it was consistant and happened with all the different pick up shouts I joined. When I finally did get the win we had a ton of time left over and the Melee where dealing much faster and consistent damage. Got the magic accuracy ring that gives refresh in salvage and assulats. Its nice as a all purpose ring if I’m being lazy since the MACC is universally useful for a lot of spells and in salvage it’s incredible and makes assaults LOL worthy for RDM mp.
Other than that I had been leveling BLM up since I have so much mage gear already and its time I got more jobs to 75. Got blm to 58 but have put it on hold while trying to level up DRK. DRK has been somewhat hard to get parties with though so I may go back to BLM again and solo some more levels. Either way I guess you could consider both those jobs as my current projects in game.
I’ve still taken lots of pics in game so I’ll probably post a bunch in the near future.
Dynamis. Well you know from my last post that I was really struggling to find a decent dynamis shell that ran on times I could go. I left that shell as they just had to many flaws with strategy and leadership. I had considered applying to Moirai for a while since I knew they did 2 weekly runs (and not on the weekend). This is strangely enough the old Dyna shell that Zeit and Pus had left to join up with me in alttab a long time ago. So it felt odd applying to them but I really had no reason not to like them and they ran at good times for me. So I applied and joined up. Been going with them for a few month’s now and am pretty pleased with my decision to join up. They can win all the basic zones easy enough and have a much stronger core group of players than the last few shells I tried out. So I’m collecting points and waiting to lot my relic armor trying to get my last piece of RDM relic (body) and then lotting PLD stuff as its available. So far I have got 2 lot on PLD gloves and body but lost both... to the same person lol. At least for that stuff it doesn’t seem to be a long line as PLD drops a lot for these guys.
Limbus has been going very well. We have killed both Omega and Ultima a few times now and have very little problem in doing so. We have had 3 mages already get the Nashira legs myself being the most recent. This is one of those pieces every RDM wants and pushes my Enfeebling skill up to 334. Now I’m going to focus on the omega drops for my pld and the pieces are so good I have decided to go ahead and level up my DRK to use them with as well (level 42 at present) I got the body so far and pretty much every piece but the head is amazing so all in all Limbus is looking great.
One semi sad thing is my sea LS broke. I was somewhat frustrated with them since we seemed to really drag our feet on getting things done but we did get in some good fights and had killed some tier II. It would have been nice to get my cape and a justice sword but lack of participation finally done us in. I would like to find a new sea LS but this is proving rather difficult.
As for a new activity I am now doing Salvage 2 times a week. I run once with my limbus shell and once with spirit link. The drop rates here are horrendous but the armor is flat out the best in game. I am going for morrigans robe for my RDM and BLM (more on that later) and then after that whatever I may get. Will probably take a year or more for the Robe but it will more or less complete any gear I could want for RDM (not buyable anyways) and is an incredible asset to BLM as well.
I finally completed the ToAU missions. These were all relatively easy until the last one. Alexander was just being a pain for the random groups I kept going with. Mostly it was all timing out due to not enough damage. Not sure why the melee were having such problems but it was consistant and happened with all the different pick up shouts I joined. When I finally did get the win we had a ton of time left over and the Melee where dealing much faster and consistent damage. Got the magic accuracy ring that gives refresh in salvage and assulats. Its nice as a all purpose ring if I’m being lazy since the MACC is universally useful for a lot of spells and in salvage it’s incredible and makes assaults LOL worthy for RDM mp.
Other than that I had been leveling BLM up since I have so much mage gear already and its time I got more jobs to 75. Got blm to 58 but have put it on hold while trying to level up DRK. DRK has been somewhat hard to get parties with though so I may go back to BLM again and solo some more levels. Either way I guess you could consider both those jobs as my current projects in game.
I’ve still taken lots of pics in game so I’ll probably post a bunch in the near future.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Darkness Returns
Lots happened this past week but before I get to that its time for the really big news. Darknessfalls has come back to the game. He has been gone for just a little over a year and man it sure was nice to see him log on again. Dark is by far one of the oldest friends I have in the game so it will be nice getting to do things with him again. Not to mention we are from the same State so we got other things to talk about as well. Welcome back Darknessfalls!
So last week I mentioned how pathetically close I was to level 75 PLD. So Tuesday before Dynamis I did manage to get a party and Dinged 75 finally. It was nice knowing I had a second 75 now. The party was just ok and I was completely leeching since there was no way I was going to keep hate of the pimped out mnks we had and my damage was average at best. I would have done better but we were at bird camp so no food, and we didn’t have a brd so my attack stats were pretty low. Ended at 10k into my level so I was overall pleased with that after a short party.
Did Dynamis windy next. Unfortunately as I predicted last week it did not go well. It was in fact pretty damn terrible if you ask me. We wasted far too much time and way to many people didn’t bring reraise. And to top it off even after all the explaining and going over things someone still managed to agro the SMN house. Bah just wasn’t a lot of fun. We going to be doing it again tonight and unless things drastically improve I feel like we going to do it again next week. A PLD piece dropped but I’m not on main lot. However, each drop always means I’m one closer to mine.
Let’s see Wednesday what happened? Oh yes, we did sea again. And guess what? I got to go as PLD. I did not have a lot of time though so we just decided to kill a few yorva’s. I was the only Tank and since we had so few people we just did the small ones. I managed to even get an organ and I did a pretty good job tanking if I do say so myself. I’ll probably be PLD for them from now on since we have low turn out problems on their Wednesday runs. Wish I could make it on Saturdays when they do bigger things but I’m going to keep holding out for better Wednesday’s at least for a while longer.
Now we were supposed to attempt a PLD burn that night but it fell through. I was really looking forward to it but wasn’t shocked to hear we couldn’t get enough people together. So instead a merited a tiny bit on RDM. Got very close to having 5 merit points and ready to upgrade my last Ice accuracy for RDM.
Thursday was Limbus again. Another smooth run that netted me 4 coins. So that brought my total up to 25. I foresee me getting my nice new tabard very soon now. After limbus I went and xped PLD some more and got my buffer up to over 20k on it. Funny thing is that’s higher than I’ve ever had it on my RDM. Was never a huge fan of capping xping mainly because I wanted to dive straight into getting merits and getting into a party was never really a problem on RDM. With PLD tho I’d like to try and keep it high as the possibility of Death is far more likely at events.
Friday I merited a bit more and got up to 5 saved points. So I’m going to upgrade that last Ice accuracy and now start focusing on PLD merits. Want to unlock Chivalry first then go more combat oriented for messing around. Thinking of capping Sword, at 4/8 now, and then shield. After that I think I’ll move on to Crit merits and then I’ll see from there. Probably focus on Sentinel recast for sure and then I don’t know what.
That night we went and did some assaults. Still just a lowly PSC but hopefully one more set of runs should put me up a level. Also almost have enough points for a Chivalrous chain so that will be nice as well.
Had the weekend off as usual for the most part. Monday was another Limbus run. Got a lowly 3 coins so that puts me at 28, just 2 more to go!. After that I’m defiantly selling the coins for a while as I just don’t think I can keep up with the 60k a week expense along with other things. I really need to do some farming and KSNM again but I always seem to miss out when the LS goes. It’s like a running joke right now that I keep missing them.
Monday night I had an absolute blast. That PLD merit party that fell apart and never happened last Wednesday actually did happen Monday night. We went and xped in sky too making it trip down memory lane so to speak. XP was actually going really well clocking in at about 10k an hour. Not pad for all PLD and certainly not bad for a sky camp. I went /war while everyone else went /nin. Berserk plus Double attack though made me one hell of a DD. Busted out a few nice vorpals and one breaking 800 damage. I averaged about mid 500’s with a good handful going up to the 700’s. I hope we do this again soon, it was a ton of fun.
So last week I mentioned how pathetically close I was to level 75 PLD. So Tuesday before Dynamis I did manage to get a party and Dinged 75 finally. It was nice knowing I had a second 75 now. The party was just ok and I was completely leeching since there was no way I was going to keep hate of the pimped out mnks we had and my damage was average at best. I would have done better but we were at bird camp so no food, and we didn’t have a brd so my attack stats were pretty low. Ended at 10k into my level so I was overall pleased with that after a short party.
Did Dynamis windy next. Unfortunately as I predicted last week it did not go well. It was in fact pretty damn terrible if you ask me. We wasted far too much time and way to many people didn’t bring reraise. And to top it off even after all the explaining and going over things someone still managed to agro the SMN house. Bah just wasn’t a lot of fun. We going to be doing it again tonight and unless things drastically improve I feel like we going to do it again next week. A PLD piece dropped but I’m not on main lot. However, each drop always means I’m one closer to mine.
Let’s see Wednesday what happened? Oh yes, we did sea again. And guess what? I got to go as PLD. I did not have a lot of time though so we just decided to kill a few yorva’s. I was the only Tank and since we had so few people we just did the small ones. I managed to even get an organ and I did a pretty good job tanking if I do say so myself. I’ll probably be PLD for them from now on since we have low turn out problems on their Wednesday runs. Wish I could make it on Saturdays when they do bigger things but I’m going to keep holding out for better Wednesday’s at least for a while longer.
Now we were supposed to attempt a PLD burn that night but it fell through. I was really looking forward to it but wasn’t shocked to hear we couldn’t get enough people together. So instead a merited a tiny bit on RDM. Got very close to having 5 merit points and ready to upgrade my last Ice accuracy for RDM.
Thursday was Limbus again. Another smooth run that netted me 4 coins. So that brought my total up to 25. I foresee me getting my nice new tabard very soon now. After limbus I went and xped PLD some more and got my buffer up to over 20k on it. Funny thing is that’s higher than I’ve ever had it on my RDM. Was never a huge fan of capping xping mainly because I wanted to dive straight into getting merits and getting into a party was never really a problem on RDM. With PLD tho I’d like to try and keep it high as the possibility of Death is far more likely at events.
Friday I merited a bit more and got up to 5 saved points. So I’m going to upgrade that last Ice accuracy and now start focusing on PLD merits. Want to unlock Chivalry first then go more combat oriented for messing around. Thinking of capping Sword, at 4/8 now, and then shield. After that I think I’ll move on to Crit merits and then I’ll see from there. Probably focus on Sentinel recast for sure and then I don’t know what.
That night we went and did some assaults. Still just a lowly PSC but hopefully one more set of runs should put me up a level. Also almost have enough points for a Chivalrous chain so that will be nice as well.
Had the weekend off as usual for the most part. Monday was another Limbus run. Got a lowly 3 coins so that puts me at 28, just 2 more to go!. After that I’m defiantly selling the coins for a while as I just don’t think I can keep up with the 60k a week expense along with other things. I really need to do some farming and KSNM again but I always seem to miss out when the LS goes. It’s like a running joke right now that I keep missing them.
Monday night I had an absolute blast. That PLD merit party that fell apart and never happened last Wednesday actually did happen Monday night. We went and xped in sky too making it trip down memory lane so to speak. XP was actually going really well clocking in at about 10k an hour. Not pad for all PLD and certainly not bad for a sky camp. I went /war while everyone else went /nin. Berserk plus Double attack though made me one hell of a DD. Busted out a few nice vorpals and one breaking 800 damage. I averaged about mid 500’s with a good handful going up to the 700’s. I hope we do this again soon, it was a ton of fun.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
New goodies
Well I had an eventful week.
I’ll start from the beginning I guess. Tuesday was dynamis Jeuno and only 10 minutes in we get a Duelist Tights to drop and in what must have been a glitch I lotted a 995 to grab me a nice new leg piece. Yay!. I’m at 3/5 AF now on RDM. Also the LS won the zone meaning we are 3/3 so far with the biggest challenge up this evening. That being Dynamis Windurst. I have a feeling we wont win as there was a lot of mess ups in jeuno and they still pull way to slow and waste too much time. Who knows? I won’t get to lot here as no RDM drops and pld is still just secondary for me and several PLD need their AF.
Wednesday was Halloween so we had a very short organ farming run in sea. Managed to get a few pop items and one mob dropped a tissue I’ve needed for my hyorin obi. My normal lotting returned and I lotted a 5… yup just a 5. However the other guys who lotted were kind enough to pass knowing I had been needing it for a while. So I turned in my items and got a new belt for my RDM. Not a bad 2 days so far.
Thursday was Limbus again. Normal good run for us and I got 5 coins, the last coming from a /random. Of course if I win a random you know everyone must have rolled badly.
This brings me up to 21 coins. New tabard coming up soon, 9 coins to go.
Friday had nothing planned but leveling PLD. So between what little leveling I was able to do during the week and then the time I spent of Friday I managed to ding 74.
Also, in a rare occurrence for me, I was able to log on for a bit this Saturday. I XP’d PLD some more and ended needing just 10k to hit 75. So yesterday I logged on before limbus hoping to get that last bit and ding 75. Didn’t happen though. I got a party pretty quick but we had people dc’ing and no camps open and it was just a mess. I got a very small bit of xp bringing me to within just 4k.
Headed off to limbus and was shocked to find out we were going to attempt Proto-Omega. This was a first for me and they hadn’t done it except maybe once or twice and from what I gathered it was a loss. SO I went as RDM/DRK for stunning help and mainly back up curing as well. We went in with 13 people and after a rough patch in the middle pulled it together and beat him down. Drops were 2 head pieces and 1 body so that’s very good. I lotted on one of the heads, it was free lot, but didn’t win. Oh well. I think we have 2 more pop sets and now that we know we can beat it this should be a regular event.
After limbus I flagged up PLD again wanting to get that last 4k but alas luck was not with me for that. So after 2 fruitless hours of LFP I joined up with Pus and Lye to help them farm for some item Pus needed. The mobs were all dc to ep so I did manage to get some xp leaving me a measly 2.6k from my level. So close now it’s a matter of time. I can grab that with a besieged and a bit of solo if need be.
One a rather interesting note one of the members of my Limbus group informed me they were going to try a PLD burn party and wanted to know if I’d like to come. Hell yes I would. PLD xp and I get to focus on DD with it? Can’t turn that down. Normally I would think something like this would fall apart from getting support jobs to help out. We would need a BRD and RDM to agree to try it and most just wouldn’t want to risk getting slower xp for their time. However, the person setting this up is herself a BRD meaning we are halfway there. So we are supposed to try it out this Wednesday. I’m hoping I can ding 75 tonight but either way I’ll be ready for the party on Wednesday.
I’ll start from the beginning I guess. Tuesday was dynamis Jeuno and only 10 minutes in we get a Duelist Tights to drop and in what must have been a glitch I lotted a 995 to grab me a nice new leg piece. Yay!. I’m at 3/5 AF now on RDM. Also the LS won the zone meaning we are 3/3 so far with the biggest challenge up this evening. That being Dynamis Windurst. I have a feeling we wont win as there was a lot of mess ups in jeuno and they still pull way to slow and waste too much time. Who knows? I won’t get to lot here as no RDM drops and pld is still just secondary for me and several PLD need their AF.
Wednesday was Halloween so we had a very short organ farming run in sea. Managed to get a few pop items and one mob dropped a tissue I’ve needed for my hyorin obi. My normal lotting returned and I lotted a 5… yup just a 5. However the other guys who lotted were kind enough to pass knowing I had been needing it for a while. So I turned in my items and got a new belt for my RDM. Not a bad 2 days so far.
Thursday was Limbus again. Normal good run for us and I got 5 coins, the last coming from a /random. Of course if I win a random you know everyone must have rolled badly.
This brings me up to 21 coins. New tabard coming up soon, 9 coins to go.
Friday had nothing planned but leveling PLD. So between what little leveling I was able to do during the week and then the time I spent of Friday I managed to ding 74.
Also, in a rare occurrence for me, I was able to log on for a bit this Saturday. I XP’d PLD some more and ended needing just 10k to hit 75. So yesterday I logged on before limbus hoping to get that last bit and ding 75. Didn’t happen though. I got a party pretty quick but we had people dc’ing and no camps open and it was just a mess. I got a very small bit of xp bringing me to within just 4k.
Headed off to limbus and was shocked to find out we were going to attempt Proto-Omega. This was a first for me and they hadn’t done it except maybe once or twice and from what I gathered it was a loss. SO I went as RDM/DRK for stunning help and mainly back up curing as well. We went in with 13 people and after a rough patch in the middle pulled it together and beat him down. Drops were 2 head pieces and 1 body so that’s very good. I lotted on one of the heads, it was free lot, but didn’t win. Oh well. I think we have 2 more pop sets and now that we know we can beat it this should be a regular event.
After limbus I flagged up PLD again wanting to get that last 4k but alas luck was not with me for that. So after 2 fruitless hours of LFP I joined up with Pus and Lye to help them farm for some item Pus needed. The mobs were all dc to ep so I did manage to get some xp leaving me a measly 2.6k from my level. So close now it’s a matter of time. I can grab that with a besieged and a bit of solo if need be.
One a rather interesting note one of the members of my Limbus group informed me they were going to try a PLD burn party and wanted to know if I’d like to come. Hell yes I would. PLD xp and I get to focus on DD with it? Can’t turn that down. Normally I would think something like this would fall apart from getting support jobs to help out. We would need a BRD and RDM to agree to try it and most just wouldn’t want to risk getting slower xp for their time. However, the person setting this up is herself a BRD meaning we are halfway there. So we are supposed to try it out this Wednesday. I’m hoping I can ding 75 tonight but either way I’ll be ready for the party on Wednesday.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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.
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.
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