You need cures? Sorry, I'm too busy meleeing

Finally got my WHM to 90. It was at 80 and I've been using it more often so I decided to just finish leveling it in a pickup party. Anyway, I hate pickup parties because no one has atma (and half of them don't have cruor buffs...), so I decided to screw it an melee on WHM. I subbed RDM and just did VV RR DD, my MP was fine and I was generally doing 1500-2.5k hexas, aka more than the entire alliance. On my 85 WHM. Anyway, people were yelling at me because people in my pt kept on dying, except that it was the one WAR who decided he wanted to attack Megamaw and would then (literally, he either had AaO on or no HP cruor buff) get one shotted by stone5. I decided I was JP and didn't say anything back.


I hate pickup parties.

lol

A little backstory:
We're doing CC lanterns because shut up. Some people come and say they need one Cep-Kamuy, I'm in a bad mood and we were there first so I said no. They respond with a "that's too bad" in which case it clearly was on. So we pop one, they get the next one and all their melee die (it was, of all things, a RDM, a SAM, a PLD/NIN, and a WAR). The RDM kites it and is all "now I'm going to hold it." 15 minutes and 10% later, she dies and we claim it. I fail like a boss and get killed by seismic tail along with our NIN, and he goes passive and our war vokes, except he has KI. So we were going to let him die but he ran after me, so we just decided to kill him. Tank dies again from current (lol) so we just nuke it to death. Then, this happens. (After this fact, they popped one and killed it, took 30 minutes and at least 3 deaths from everyone, 10+ from WAR).

So anyway, I did all day Misereux on Saturday. We did mainly boss farming, it was sort of fun. Some highlights:

lolBLU


Seedspray proccing grellow. Not that exciting.

OMG CHARMED LOLOL

Ahmuluk is not a very fun fight. He's easy but he resists magic so it takes a while to kill it >_>.


~80% of their health.

In the end, I ended up getting a +2 set for my BLU...except I don't have the +1 legs yet >_> nothing was dropping them. Oh well.


Finished up my MDT set, sort of. I think Lamia mantle +1 is better on back, and I need to get +1 coral/ coral visor. That, and then twilight torque.


Got MM. It was a very easy fight. People forgot pop items so it ended up taking a little longer than we thought though.




Got RR as well. Kited the first one for like 10 mins, then decided to stop and just straight tank and proc red. Second one we just straight tanked and killed it in like 5 mins. Got RR as well.

To finish off this lightly worded post, got a pickup party on NIN, VV/RR/DarkDepths (+30% crit rate). I DC'd two hours in after I got one level, since no one was opening ruby chests and we were in tahrongi. That, and I was tanking at level 75/6, and everyone in the party failed at knowing anything about gearing their jobs. Sigh.

Cactuses and Bosses, oh my! (also, Dynamis)

Yeah yeah yeah blah blah blah

Kutharei was laughably easy, the only mildly dangerous thing is the 1HP and hate reset move, but he only used it twice and never followed it with an -aga.

Dynamis was easy as well, we got the Dchap ~30 mins in and TH armlets ~70 mins, after that we wanted to stop (since that was all we needed) so we just did the NIN NM for Sonka, and ended up getting those anyway lol.

We have gotten 2 Ares body and one 25/35 set, one full Morrigan coat and 2 35s. lolsalvage etc, but 4 people can do any zone full farm + boss (except Bhaflau due to ramparts - can do 2 + boss).

Sedna and Itzapshjiaosufisaljasiudf were both dumb. WHM + any DD can duo Sedna, he was stupid easy with 4. I can solo Itz on BLU, with 4 it's a complete joke. I didn't take any pictures, but we also did the Uleguerand boss. It was an easy manaburn fight with BLM RDM BLU BRD, also had another BLM under 50%. Tarsal slam was dodged most of the time, and his TP moves really only did like ~300 damage.

The Grauberg boss was slightly harder, mainly because he double attacks 100% of the time and had instant cast gas. We did NIN RDM/NIN RDM/NIN BRD SAM, I got killed by painful whip for ~1200 at like 90% though lol. After I unweakened, he was at like 15% so I chainspelled and killed him (2 atmad bliz4 took off ~3-4% each). Funny story, there was an 18 person shout alliance killing Melo Melo so they could pop the boss after us - it was at 80% when we got there, it was at 87% when we left.

After this run, I got my 7th boss for my 3rd lunar, so now the game becomes broken. I can 2 shot any regular mob with Bliz4, 2 shot any number of mobs with Whisker etc. We procced grellow on all of them except sedna, because he spams TP moves and it'd suck to do AMs etc.

We also did Chickarney (sp, the cock) in altepa for seals, and he was harder than any of these bosses....We had a THF tank, but she got killed a few times because of 1shot hammer beak, and that NM is a biiitch. Under 25% he hit for ~700 damage in a -31/6% PDT set, critted for 1050 and he has 100% double attack. Luckily he can be kited pretty easily, and 7 shadows on BLU is insane for that fight.

That's all I think, and back to school for me so I won't be doing much. lol

FUUUUUU MASAMUNE

So we did La Thiene yesterday. I always told Kets that I (and the rest of our little group) would gladly do an Empyrean for him, and I guess he finally found that to be true. We entered the area at like 1PM and ended around 3AM, because everyone was getting lazy and we wanted to go to sleep (around 2, Dom started hysterically laughing and didn't stop until we left; he hasn't logged on today yet).

Setup this time:
NIN/WAR, WAR/NIN, THF/NIN, RDM/WHM, WHM/RDM.

We ended up getting ~12 Carby gems, 2 bullwhips, 2 serpentes, 2 lady panties, a pair of heafoc mitts (got blue, no katana =/ ), and then atma/win from Bria and Carb.

All the NMs were lol except for Carb, mainly because our WHM was afk for 2-3 runs. It SUCKS being the only healer on WHM, Aeroga III does an insane amount of damage, and I don't have high tier curagas.

Housekeeping stuff: my controller is still not here, so I'm stuck being relatively useless (edit: nvm it just came in lol). We also did attohwa a few days ago and completed ~8 sets of +1.

This week, in Abyssea!

So I finally got my laptop up and running, with all expansion packs loaded. Since that was the case, I could actually do Abyssea this weekend (omgyay)! The downside is that I don't have my PC->PS2 controller adapter yet, so I'm stuck using crappy keyboard/mouse which I'm not used to (that's why in all these pictures I have gimp non-ideal gear, because I couldn't swap anything). I did get spellcast though solely for aliases so I could just spam //cure5 ket (which is all I did). Anyway, a quick write up of what we did in Konshscnsaifgaislknfcat this week.

Setup:
Me! : WHM/SCH
Mish: RDM/BLM (stun)
Kets: NIN/WAR
Sonka: WAR/NIN
Grin: MNK/NIN
Fyre*: BRD/WHM

*Fyre fell asleep before we did any NMs, lol.

Misc. NMs:

Gangly Gean (omgcutetreant): Helm is like a 100% drop, I even got one of them. Even with blue, only got 1 NIN neck though. =( Did get everyone key items though.

Khalamari: Got atma and Vagina Helm, which I got because everyone already had it (procced blue, no neck, see a trend?) Procced blue with hexa like a boss.





Depths Digester: T2 VNM, really only for getting to T3. We got stuff but no one cared. Note how I managed to type a message to Carste in the middle of the fight. Yeah.




Turul:

What. A. Bitch. He's really not hard, his stupid spikes for some reason just lasted for literally like 5 minutes one time, omgsucksucksuck. Anyway, his agas hurt and thank God I was on WHM and not something like BLU. We procced blue once out of three times, got cape but no body -_-. Also got Atma, nice for people who don't have the windy one, and acts as a seconds atma for my WHM. Tbh this fight would have been easier with NIN RDM WHM and no one else, it's a pain having 2-3 people in range for -gas....

Funny story: Nearly wiped at 1% the time we procced blue, he went into rape mode and did calamitous wind -> -ga4 and killed everyone except me. I kited it and Kets RRd and Jin'd it to death. Go WHM kiter I guess?



Hadal Satiator:

I have to preface this with a funny story. We were looking for Turul and couldn't find it, so we just decided to pop the T3 VNM. Anyway, Turul, being the paragon of party crashing, decided to find us IMMEDIATELY AFTER WE POPPED THE NM and aggro our TANK of all people. At least this NM is stupid easy to kite, so we just kited until Kets became unweakened. Triggered atma but no blue, which is weird since we got (basically) full drops anyway. The atma is now awesome, since RDM and BLU get Bliz 4/5 respectively. That would imply my RDM is 90 though, which it is not >_>;



So overall, awful run but not too bad lol. We did get a KK popset and an EE, so we'll probably get those atmas/wins later. VV would be nice for my BLU lol.

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.