Gearz

These are out of order (well, the order I'd like them) but idc really lol.

RDM:



RDM MND build. Main things I need include Karka/6mnd rings, muse tariqah, promise badge (I have one, but don't have room in macro), augur body (getting it once I get WotG back, since he's on a 15m respawn now), teal chapeau (I really should use this, have it already lol), and a second MND earring. A lot =(


Swap HQ staff and uggy if applicable. Need +2 legs, a better back/waist, eradico mitts, novio (lol), witchstone, artemis medal, +1/2 AF3 hat. Also mangina staves.

Haste. Trying for a RDM body, but I feel bad doing glacier since we don't need anything else there >_> (the 5 man group I'm in is easily capable of doing any zone). Back should be Umbra Cape, macro still had cheviot in it lol. Also nashira legs, and HQ dusk (not going to happen). Perhaps sentinal's shield, but I rather like my earth staff.


Lolmdt. A rather gimp set as I've never really had to use it. I don't know if hexerei is better than lamia +1 back, but I have both. Need merman's earrings x2, resolute belt, coral visor +1, greaves +1, and maybe body and legs +1. Funny note, it took me like 3 months to find a kebbie lol.


Idle, omg a decent set! Body is Pluviale, if that wasn't obvious. All I really need here is serpentes boots (which I'll get soon), an augmented dark ring and some PDT earrings. That and Goliard Trews or Crimson legs, whichever.


Other RDM sets include:
Enhancing (really just duelist hands + warlock legs)
SS, capped at 380.
Full enfeeb set, warlock body/dchap/torque/macc/int gear.
A melee set with lolkogglemander, lol.
PDT set, which is basically just idle with darksteel harness and cap +1. Need a big upgrade.


BLU:



Crap. Need orc helm or something else, ire torque (+1), triumph/vulcan earrings, +1AF body, heafoc mitts, stirgoi/+6 rings (or another +5 >_>), Mavi +1/2 legs (I will get those soon, didn't bother getting anything else before then). Also better swords, see TP.

Casting, specifically regurgitation. I looooove this set. Anyway, need morry robe, morry hands/AF3 +1/2, novio, +6 int ring, and basmak (feet) +2. Also artemis' medal.


Casting idle, used when I'm only nuking/grellow proccing. Pretty simple, needs more pdt and serpentes feet though.


TP build. Swords are a big problem. I generally use hannibal/koggle in Abby since I have temps/ISL/atmas, outside I use koggle/demon slayer. I'm working on a DEX shamshir, and there are some nice new 85-90 swords out, so I may just get those. I HATE magian trials.... Anyway, also need Mavi head +2, some better neck, brutal/suppa/attk+6 earring, dusk+1/homam hands, toreador/rajas ring, cuch mantle, velo/bullwhip/goading belt, mavi +2 legs. (I actually just got homam feet, so pretend those are there).

Other builds include:
Sanguine Blade, STR/MAB/INT
Idle melee build, just puts on serp hands and nodowa.
Magic fruit build, MND/potency, with and without staff
Macc build for 1k needles, MP drainkiss etc.
Head Butt build (haste/blu skill/macc/acc)

I'm redoing my macroes so that each spell now has a separate casting build, so that way I can stack up modifiers depending on the spell.

Signs of Life

Boo.

Going to update more, I'll at least make a equipment post for the lols and to show off my leet (read: gimp) new shinies. Also updating goals/layout/some random stuff now.

Hoo hah!

Oh 75, how you elude me.

Due to someone Q.Qing over something to do with an update, here I am.


Misc. things first; I sort of decided to level to SCH. I say "sort of" because it is currently stuck at 51 because I simply can't level RDM. T_T It's funny because my "dead zone" of jobs seems to be 50-55 (BRD54, BLU53, SCH51), which are right below colibri range. I just can't stand non LS exp, it's just horrible when you end up having a party where your SAM fights a crab without telling anyone and then dies, HPs, says something angry and then disbands. Trust me, that was the least of my problems on RDM...but enough about that lol.

One of the reasons I chose SCH was for the fact that I could solo/duo up to 75, albeit slightly slower than regular ToAU EXP. The upside of this, however, is that I don't have to deal with people like the SAM above. The other reason I chose SCH is that it will allow me to be a hybrid healer in cases like ZNMs/misc. events I do in SoTW. I'd say that about half our fights end up being manaburns due to low TP gain/mob mechanics, so SCH allows me to act as a DD for part of the fight, and switch to support later if needed. I still love WHM, but nearly killing myself so I can nuke Iriz Ima with Misery isn't nearly as fun as it sounds after the 10th time (whenever I duo with Kets and need to get hit to charge Misery, I call it "charging my lasers"; sadly enough I actually end up nuking a lot on easier mobs).

Speaking of SoTW, I'll move on to the most exciting part of the post! Also, note who kills it: Holy is my friend at 1% >_> <_<


Not pictured: Soul dying to Claw Cyclone, reraising, and then dying again at 5%.
Also not pictured: The 15-20 hours (and 8 merits) to took me to dual box a Diorite, and the 3 hours it took to guide people up Ru'Avitau to kill Ulli after I had made many people confuzzled about the specifics of the night.

Anyway, first SoTW god fight! It went incredibly smooth (the fight at least, not getting there; can you say WHM sac pull?) and even put out a pair of pants! As greedy as I felt, since I farmed the popset...


Shmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
You do not know how happy I am to have gottten these pants so quickly and easily!
However, you may notice one thing; I'm 74 -_-. Unfortunately my static was plagued with Mamool and a DRG/WHM who never used his MP and meleed 1/2 the time in 3/5 heca gear. I'm currently at 12k to 75...and like half the areas for Campaign are lolfortifications. I may wait until next Sunday to ding, but I really want haidate+turban!

Oh, forgot to mention this as well: Finished 3 paths on Thursday! Next week is airship fight, so wish us luck!

On the list of incredibly minor things I did recently, I finished the "Beast of the East" quest. The final cutscene was incredible (and funny), as most WoTG quests are.



And I think thats about it. @_@ I'm sure I'm forgetting some stuff, but whatever.

Lucky Me

So two days ago:


Who needs SAMs? Also A. Hands dropped to Kets, and I got the Kabuto (...). Oh joy. Later that day I went 0/7 on Senju, so I guess my luck wasn't all that good that day.

Flash to the next day:


That makes us 2/3 on Hagun the past 3 weeks and 1/3 on KA. =) Plus the ToD is getting earlier and earlier which makes it easier for me to just wake up and camp him.

I know lack of blog posts etc. but I'm trying lol.

I leave you with this pro Abso member's macro: (warning-a lot of spam because I don't want to edit it all)

[14:14:32]Purple Ipoped = King Arthro -------> /em ftw?
[14:14:32]Shellers starts casting Flash on King Arthro. ----------> fail
[14:14:33]Purple Ipoped = King Arthro
[14:14:33]Elyssa's casting is interrupted. ----------------> fail
[14:14:35]Purple Ipoped = King Arthro
[14:14:35]King Arthro is out of range.
[14:14:37]Sjoidjgo uses Provoke on King Arthro. ---------> win (True story; I'm awesome)
[14:14:38]King Arthro misses Sjoidjgo. ------> lol


EDIT: It claimed today. Not pictured: HF during paralyze. And they didn't have a BRD/COR.

Obligatory Maintenance Update

Woot! This past weekend, I gathered a small group of LS members to take down Haku for me and Seth. We managed to "6.5 man" him (I was 2-boxing Kets), and it was actually really easy. I felt bad though, as I kind of let Xean die since I was busy WSing on Kets when he got triple attacked. >_>; Oh well.

Other misc. things:

MMM soro! Oh joy....




I failed the next time because I linked 2 mantas lol. ;_;

I've also leveled a few random jobs...a quick recap would be:
WAR 35 -> 36
NIN whatever it was since last time -> 70 (yay)
SCH 21 -> 30
DRG 18 -> 19
DNC 15 -> 18
COR 5 -> 16

And then a couple of merits on WHM. I now have 3/4 crit hit, so I need to finish that. T_T

Sorry for the short update, but there *should* be another coming soon. Summer ftw.

Off to camp Shikigami after maint., /dance.

Color me BLU

Well, as of a couple of weeks ago, I have decided to level my BLU to 60. I've managed to get it from 47-51 off pets (I'm stuck at 51 now since I can't seem to log on early enough to get Kets to PL me; I suck at pulling so I usually link the master >_>;;;;;), and hopefully I can continue to solo up to 60.

The main reason that I wanted to level this job is twofold...first off, Kets and a couple of LS members recently got Sea. I've always been a slow mission person (except RotZ, LS static burned it in 2 days ^^) , so I'm in no rush, but I've always wanted to finish CoP. I hate when people ask for help with things that I can't do (i.e. shark organs, later missions, jailers/Ix's etc.) because I don't have that area unlocked. I know that it's a very small window of events, but I still would like to be able to do as much as possible to benefit the LS. Plus, I've always wanted every area, and since I already have Sky, guess what I'm missing? (I'll give you a hint, it's Sea) BLU brings to the table a powerful DD, a stunner, a backup healer, and more importantly, not NIN or WHM <_<;.



So why does that matter? Well, the ACP body isn't really that good for WHM (Fast Cast+5 and some random crappy augment like enmity-5 since I don't care about that stat), but it's relatively nice for NIN (acc and DW). I'm pretty sure I'll get the Redingote when I finish it this weekend (hopefully), but I may drop it when NIN gets 75 for the Waldercors. Anyway, the point is that it's also good for NIN. But, the main main point is that I got this earring from the Fei'Yin BCNM (there's something that I accidentaly took a picture of in this; kudos to you if you can see it):


As far as I know, the only earrings you'd use for spells are Triumph/other stat enhancing piece. If I can manage to get one Triumph, I could probaby let this slide in the other slot for added effect proc rate.

But anyway, while I'm talking about ACP...last weekend Kets set up a static for the mission. It contained:

• Me: Guess what?
• Kets: SAM
• Bromeo: SAM
• Codewa: SAM (see a trend?)
• Mindswepr: PLD
• Mish: RDM

We started off with the goblins. It probably took us ~1 hour to get the item for everyone, and then ~1 hour to kill the NM. The mandragoras were a joke...one blizzaga 1 did 580+ damage to all of them and basically pwnt them. They seemed to take like 2.5x damage from elemental nukes, but I think my Banishga II did about the usual damage =(. I feel bad for the melees though; they would target a mob and then it would die from an -aga lol.

The Fei'yin fight was...interesting lol. About 30 seconds into the battle while me and Mish were buffing people/enfeebling, Kets got hit with a 950+ damage SA Goblin Rush and died. We ended up easily winning, but it was kind of funny. D=

And then there was the tower...I went up first before our escort got there, and I guess this is what I get lol.


(If you don't see it, it's that when I canceled invis, I accidentaly canceled RR ; ; But I got the stone!) Anyways, eventually the rest of the group gets up to the top, and we enter. Only Kets has /RNG, so we had 2 SAM/NINs that would TP off the thralls and then WS the stone. The stone used SoNihility of us very early in the fight, while we were trying to figure out where to stand. Unfortunatley, it reset EVRYONE'S job abilities, so I couldn't bene and Mish couldn't Convert. So, we eventually got it to 45% and wiped. Since that weekend, Codewa has gotten RNG to at least 30ish and Mish has gotten 73BLM. When everyone is ready again, our plan will be (did I mention Bro has RDM at 75? I don't think I did):

• WHM
• SAM/RNG
• SAM/RNG
• RDM/DRK
• PLD/WAR
• BLM/RDM

That will hopefully work a little better.

On my way up, I also got this:


Random fail ftw lol.

While I have this picture here, I may as well mention that my BLU has incredible luck. I think I'm 1/1-5 on most spells now-a-days.


Speaking of incredible luck, Kets, Mish, and I have been trioing Sheep in Antlion's Clothing for the past ~2 months. We've gotten the regular ENM stuff, satin, an evoker (! that someone whose name starts with "K" dropped ._.), 2.5k exp etc. I've actually managed to get 4 merits between this and random mobs at ZNMs lol. The past 2 weeks, we've done it earlier while Mish was cat-napping and got these:


(The Hagun has a funny story behind it; when I lotted a 25 and opened the chest I yelled out "Hagun!" (jokingly) and walked over to Kets' comp (I was on his PS2 at the time) and he went "Omg Hagun!" and I was all like "Srsly??" and then I saw it. It was a 1.3million gil angel falling into my lap!)

Kets outlotted me on the Hagun (we split everything, but we always joke around to see who wins the lot -- see the mantle), but I won the true prize, then wand! lol

But pretty much, our new formula is:

• Enter BCNM with 2 people
• 2 hour Tuch before his last Sandpit
  
• Kill Tuch
• Lot less that 50
• Take off pants
• ???
• Profit

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I mentioned ZNMs a little bit earlier, so I'll make a little comment about it here. Our little LS has managed to romp and stomp every ZNM we face. T1s are a joke...Vulpagne dies in like 30 seconds (although everyone is usually dead when it dies xD), and Chigre dies in like a minute. Cheese Hoarder usually takes about 2-4 "waves" depending on how many BLMs we have. T2s are a little more difficult, but Iriz Ima (as always) is just sad. I've actually started investing in a nuking set so that I don't feel entirely useless. >_>; We've also done Verd many times (did you know that you can melee him?). I don't think we've actually done any troll path T2s yet (although I know we've killed Ob a few times, so someone is holding out on their seals `_`). We've done a few T3s as well, although we may have to stop due to some people not being available (a.k.a. we don't have enough ranged DDs on a usual Saturday). We have done many Armed Gears though, and we've managed to defeat Dea, Nuhn, the Mamool, and the Lamia.

I only have one complaint, and it's a pretty bad one. I shoudn't complain since I usually can't farm up Zeni (or I guess I do other stuff would be the way to put it ._.), but I swear we've done 1235342421 Cheese Hoarders, 875964 Chigres, 658653 Iriz Imas, and 76453 Verdelets. I actually have a Beast Slayer because no one else wanted one. It's fun doing these easy mobs, but some variety is always nice lul. ^^;

I'm very proud of the way our LS has banded together to get some ZNM gear for all of our members. However, the most important part of this event is that it gives us time to just relax...away from heavy endgame, RL events, etc....and just beat some tiny bugs into the ground!

Sooo

Nothing much up for me this last month. Just a quick update; I'll make a longer one after March 28th, T-Day. T as in Tinnin. It should be fun, SoTW has managed to take out a lot of T3s (Nuhn, the 3 Hydra path ones) so I'm excited to see how we do. Anyways, the update and stuff...

• WHM 75! Funny story, it actually dinged while Kets was using my character in Sky, so anticlimactic much.
  
• NIN 63! Needs to farm @_@
• RDM 52! Finished G1/2 on Amer and got meh AF booties.
• I GOTS MEH ORACLE'S GLOVES! O= They're a nice enfeeb/hMP piece, but first ZNM item yay.

That's it I think lol. =/