Dynamis Windy

We did Dynamis Windy today, clearance for those who needed it, 9 AF drops, a 100 piece AND the final THF AF2 i needed to complete the set ^^.

German assholes!

Yesterday I experienced to worst incident I have ever seen in FFXI. We were doing Dynamis-Sandoria, and when we had about 1 hour left, we suddenly noticed Kleindanger from Ambition was lotting on the treasure pool, we was like "what the fuck is that asshole doing in here", they ninja lotted a few coins and a RDM AF that was in the treasure pool. We was stunned, just stood there and wondered how the hell he got inside. Then we see Klendanger, Zaagi and Andastra run to us with the western part of the repopped mobs following them. Massive MPK, at this point there is no reason for us to go on killing since we cant stop them from ninja lotting the items. After awhile the start casting Raise on a few of our linkshell members. We say to them "Don't get up, they will just train more mobs here and kill you again." but some of the guys got up, and sure, they proceed to position hack around to all the corners of the zone agroing everythin including the megaboss, and mpks us again. We have by now filed a GM complaint (or several afaik). Some of us drop our glasses, the ones down with no raise (like me) just quits the game.
When i got back on today I was laying face down in Sandy, got a Raise 2 tho so it was ok.
We still dont really know how Ambition LS got a hold of a glass, but hopefully, and I as far as I can interpret from what the GM has said, they will take action and get those stinking cheating germans of this server and permbanned. If you who read this know Kleindanger, Zaagi, Andastra or anyone else of those cunts in Ambotion, tell them they are a fucking disgrace to their country, the game and that I'd remodel their face if I was ever to meet them IRL.

The weekend's report

Friday, we did Dynamis Bastok. Clearance, some nice AFs and 447 currency dropped. Also did a run on Salvage with the new Salvage group.
Saturday we did Salvage and then Limbus. Went Fine. Got the Usukane lvl15 piece, and 4 coins from Limbus.
Sunday I did a few Assaults to get points to enter Salvage. We then did Salvage, but had bad luck with cells. Nothing good dropped.
After that we did 2 more KS99 runs. No speedbelt dropped this time either.
We have 4 orbs left to do (next week) after that Sundays will be "Ouryu Comet"-day for a while.
That will be fun, haven't done that one before.

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Yesterday I got on late, had a dinner planned with work, kicking of the new year. I got somewhat drunk, and when I eventually got home the LS was already up in Sky.
We did a MG, Faust and 2 Ulli. I fell of my chair, broke my mouse and injured my elbow.
FFXI is a dangerous game.

Ranger time

Yesterday we did Dynamis-Buburimu. Was great fun, and we got some very nice drops. Not much currency tho.. Before that I did my first Nyzul Isle Assault, was interesting but we failed. Apparently we had bad luck with the mobs we randomly got. I'm getting sick and had a splitting headache and a fever so I was more or less in a bad mood the whole time, and didnt really feel like doing the Dyna run, but I'm glad I did. Also the drops will help the LS a great deal, and that makes me feel good. If there is something I've learned since I gotten into the endgame thing is that there is no place for envy and I tend to just ignore the drama stuff. It's those things that finally get people to just say "fuck it", make a lot of enemies and in the end get the shaft when it comes to getting stuff for themselves. My plan is to be as helpful as possible and do my job, that way when the drops I would benefit from comes, I should have a much better chance of getting them.

Figured I should get the subs I can use for my level 75 jobs up to 37, which more or less means that the only one that still needs some leveling is Ranger. It is currently level 14 so i need another 23 levels for it.
Started to gear it up yesterday after our Dynamis run, and noticed att the Iron Arrows was sold out on the AH. No problem, my wood working was just 4 levels below the cap for making those I was gonna get some arrowheads, Chocobo fletchings, and Arrowwood lumber. Well waddayaknow, no arrowheads on the AH either.. So I had to buy the ingredients for those, and had Jamibian help me synth them. Very nice of him! Then i got stuff for the fletchings, and Arrowwood logs also, since there was no arrowwood lumber. So suddenly my inventory was smack full, and I haven't even completed my gear I was gonna wear. Muling, muling and more muling.

Well, then i got some new nifty rings, a bow, a body and trousers. Will continue the gear shopping once i get home later today. Hopefully I can get on a quick party in the dunes before Limbus that is planned for tonight. I remember I liked ranger 0-14, the damage you dealt was superb, and if you just spammed arrows you pretty much was tanking nonstop. I was kinda poor at that time tho so i mostly meleed. This time around I got PLENTY of arrows and plan to use them a lot. Should be fun.

Finally an update..

..I've been kind of lazy but I will try to sum up what has happened the past weekend.
Saturday, did a few merit parties, some Campaign plus got a new medal (first 1 of Tier 2). In the evening we did Limbus (Central Temenos Floor2 if I remember correctly). We cleared and got 4 coins each.

I was getting low on cash and I had an urge to buy something to "celebrate" the year passed and what not..I figured that even when I'll get my Homam body, I still will want to keep my Scorpion Harness for an evasion build setup, and until I get the Homam body (which could take awhile if we are unlucky) im going to be TP-ing in my SH. Sooo..why not buy a SH+1? The price is kind of right now, but on the other hand cash is hard to get nowdays.. Well, I parked myself in Rolanberry Fields over the night selling about 55+ coins and a few Dynamis coins I stole from mobs. Woke up and was 650k richer! So i bought the SH+1. Got it for 800k. That is for sure one of the few non rare/ex items that i know I will never sell. +12 evasion and +12 accuracy is not bad.

Sunday we had soem KS99 runs scheduled, I was short on seals so I headed out to Bhauflet Tickets to farm Kindred seals. Droprate was awful, I got 19k exp(!!!), so you can imagine how many mobs i killed (get about 40 exp/kill). Hehe, about 340 mobs according to my calculator.. Well i got 17 seals, making my total 97 (2 seals short!!). Well, we are planning another run next week and ill make sure to have a orb ready for then.
We did 3 runs, 1st went smooth, 2nd was a disaster, but we managed to win in the end, 3rd was super smooth. I captured all the fights on video, and will put up a link here when i edited them.
Drops was so-so, no speedbelts.

Run 1
http://media.putfile.com/KS99-Nusair

Run 2
http://media.putfile.com/KS99-Dancingedge

Run 3
http://media.putfile.com/KS99-Avy

Another day..

Today i did some Campaign on BLM, Merited on THF (only got 1 more merit), and later we did Dynamis-Jeuno with the LS.

Alchemy, fun but expensive!

Today i have mostly farmed for Alchemy synths and done some skillups, and A LOT of muling.
Things are getting quite expensive even though I farm all crystals and atleast 40% of the materials.. I'm currently at 26.1 doing "Eye Drops". One batch cost me 49k and if/when it sell will bring back about 35k and I gained 2.3 skillups on it. So thats roughtly 6k/1 skillup. Not so bad, but the problem is all the stuff that fills up my Moghouse and mules, and is a bitch selling..

Alchemy, something for me?

Did Dynamis Xarkabard yesterday. Got pretty good AFs, THF hands and BLM hat, but currency was bad. I died 12 times, hurray for sac-pulls, now i need to work on that buffer again.

Started leveling Alchemy yesterday also, its pretty fun still and not so expensive, since i can farm alot of the stuff on THF. Will update my progess in this blogg. I worked pretty hard on it today and dinged level20. Next recipe im going to skill up on will be Silent Oils, but that requires Slime Oils, that will be quite costly to buy, so I think I'll go farm those tomorrow.

After that we had Limbus planned. Today we we going to do Temenos-West.
Was a good run, got 5 coins and a material for SAM AF+1.

Fun day!

Started the day in Castle Oztroja, went so-so. Hit a coffer and got my THF AF pants. yet another piece I had forgot to get earlier. I got the AF2 versions already so I really have no use for these. Then hit Campaign, got my Ribbon (Level 4), after that we did Limbus with the LS. We split up and did Temenos East and Temenos North, was a smooth run, considering we only had 5 and 6 people total. We got both chips so we're now a bit closer to our next Ultima pop

After that we went to Behemoths Dominion, since window was open for King Behemoth, well, we were not the only ones.. There was 194 people in zone at one time when i checked.. Lag was bad, I was tired, and we were facing an army of German bots that somehow decided to switch over to the Midgardsormr server.. Mighty annoying!
(Update: We didn't get claim but it was a fair claim by Deeds, so thats fine.)

Back to BLM

Got a party invite, long story short, I am now level 64 on BLM.
After that I thought I would go buy the Horde Lullaby Song for my BRD since im gonna use it as sub in Dynamis, tagging stuff with sleep for TH4.
Well, the AH price was between 900-1000 gil, really cheap. I tried tried to buy one for 4000, and still no luck.. its not like its a lot of money but when people put things up on AH for 4 times the regular price i get upset, as much as someone undercuts a price with 4 times the regular price.. So I said "Screw this, im not gonna pay this bastard, I'll farm it myself." So I went to Castle Oztroja, stayed for 30 minutes, got the scroll and some other stuff that will net me about 65k once sold. Not bad for 30 min work, and I didn't pay that bastard for his overpriced scroll! Hurray!
After that I looked for a merit pt on my THF, but no luck so I went to Crawler's Nest [S], and got in the Campaign, figured since I should be able to get a new medal tomorrow it would benefit me getting some more Allied tags. We will see..

On a sidenote, turns out our Linkshell leader likes to be called Brenda, and told he's a naughty girl. I must remember that.

Burning stuff up..

.. is fun! So I have been leveling Black Mage again. Invites are ÜBER slow and I do mostly Campaign for exp right now, but i got it up to level 62, and im as gimp as ever.. Lol, I seriously need to spend some money on BLM gear. The other day I talked to Uchiha, explaining the thrill of having me on BLM/WHM as main healer in a exp-pt. I explained I was a professional Regen-magician and even tho no one was ever over 60%HP noone ever dies (that is true!). Just keep regen on everyone at all time and its damn MP efficient! He was a bit skeptical about it and said he'd never exp with my BLM. I just laughed!

New year, same game!

Yes, looks like 2008 will be another FFXI year for me, hehe.
Today my plan was farming some, doing the rank10 fight, and maybe some other stuff.. But I've been blessed with the hangover of the century!! So I ended up up doing stupid stuff (on and off since I had to go throw up now and then..) like attempting a solo rank10 figh on THF/DNC, lol. That may very well have been the most pathetic fight ive ever done.. I went down in 15 seconds.
I then spend the rest of the day in campaign, since you really have nothing to loose in there. Thats good for days when you have an IQ equal to a seagull.