Woot! Updates

So I’m still stuck at work, but I’m looking at the .dat mine on BG. So far, COOL!

Items I’m interested in (aside from event items, which are always fun and will give me a quick warp to the island where I can farm clots, if I ever do that again).

Hachiryu Haramaki (Body)
DEF:52 Accuracy+20 Attack+20 Critical hit rate +5% Enhances “Zanshin” effect
Set: Enhances “Store TP” effect
Lv. 75 WAR/MNK/RNG/SAM/NIN

This is the first item I’ve seen that makes me want to put aside the Osode for my monk. 15 more accuracy and 15 more attack than osode. Will still keep it around, but might be time to sell it for a few weeks. Obviously, nothing beats osode for chi blasts, but some of the new things come close.

Enkidu’s Harness (Body)
DEF:50 STR+5 AGI+5 Accuracy+10 Attack+10 Evasion+5 “Subtle Blow”+5
Lv. 72 MNK/THF/RNG/SAM/NIN/BLU/COR/PUP/DNC

This one looks interesting for my thf. Same accuracy as my main acc piece (Scorpion Harness), less Evasion, but, meh, its the Attack and Str, as well as the AGI that looks nice. Would also be an interesting item for my DNC, should I ever actually get my DNC that high (I’m sure I will, some day).

Avalon Breastplate (Body)
DEF:52 VIT+7 MND+7 CHR+7 Accuracy+13 Enmity+3 Magic damage taken -5%
Lv. 71 MNK/THF/PLD/BST/BRD/RNG/SAM/PUP/DNC

Antares Harness (Body)
DEF:50 HP+15 DEX+8 AGI+8 Accuracy+8 Evasion+8
Lv. 71 WAR/MNK/BLM/THF/DRK/BRD/NIN/BLU/COR/PUP/DNC

These two items look nice for any tanking I may end up doing as either Monk or Thief. The Antares Harness is just ‘wow’ for SA on Thief. The Avalon Breastplate would be nice for Avatar fights on Monk. Potentially, the Avalon is better for Dancing Edge with the CHR, and Enmity is always good for TA. If I ended up with an Enkidu’s and an Avalon (depending on how hard they are to get), I might have no reason to keep the Osode.

Ixion Cloak (Body)
Cannot Equip Headgear DEF:43 INT+13 MND+13 CHR+13 Magic Accuracy+5 Adds “Regen” and “Refresh” effect
Lv. 74 RDM/WHM/BLM/BRD/SMN/BLU/PUP/SCH

Bet this falls from Ixion. Would be really neat for a white mage with all of that MND. For a whm/sch or sch/whm, wow this rocks (auto regen + regen will cancel out HP loss from Sublimation). Only thing it is missing is cure potency, which you can swap in a Noble’s for cure and Cleric’s for regen (which you should do anyway, even though I’m lazy and need an external macro editor badly).

Seihanshi Habaki (Feet)
DEF:13 STR+3 Enhances “Kick Attacks” effect
Lv. 68 MNK

Mostly because I’m curious how they compare to Dune boots. These look crafted since there is a NQ version.

Junhanshi Habaki (Feet)
DEF:12 STR+2 Enhances “Kick Attacks” effect
Lv. 68 MNK

NQ version of above. Please be leathercraft, please be leathercraft, please be leathercraft, please use griffon leather (so I can finally sell the 3 stacks I have of it). Leathercraft is like the Black Mage of crafting — everything we can do is trumped by someone else, and its been years since they’ve added a good, new, high level synth.

Enkidu’s Leggings (Feet)
DEF:23 DEX+3 AGI+3 Attack+4 Ranged Attack+4 “Subtle Blow”+2 Haste+2%
Lv. 72 MNK/THF/RNG/SAM/NIN/BLU/COR/PUP/DNC

Mostly, these look quite nice for my THF, but I’d be willing to try 2% haste on my monk feet. I guess it depends on the way the new kick attacks JA works.

Hermes’ Sandals (Feet)
DEF:17 HP+12 Evasion+5 Enmity+3 Movement speed +12%
Lv. 70 WAR/MNK/COR/PUP

Um, yeah, I’ve bolded the only reason I care about these. There is also a +1 version, which will (hopefully) mean crafted. If materials are easy to get, woot!

Hachiryu Kote (Hands)
DEF:26 DEX+10 Accuracy+5 Enhances “Zanshin” effect
Set: Enhances “Store TP” effect
Lv. 75 WAR/MNK/RNG/SAM/NIN

This would make a good acc piece on hands for my monk. Right now, I’m using Melee Gloves (attack +16, HP +3%). I believe this is more for 2Hers, but hey, acc+10 and lots of dex would be nice too. But, I do have over 110 dex in my normal TPing gear.

Enkidu’s Mittens (Hands)
DEF:24 STR+4 DEX+4 Accuracy+5 Ranged Accuracy+5 “Subtle Blow”+2
Lv. 72 MNK/THF/RNG/SAM/NIN/BLU/COR/PUP/DNC

This would be for my thief. So far, this Enkidu’s looks nice. I’m using War Gloves +1 at the moment, and while I’d lose 1 acc, the 4 dex and 4 str more than make up for it.

Tanner’s Ring (Ring)
Leathercraft Success Rate +1% Cannot synthesize high quality items
Lv. 1 All Jobs

Maybe I’d finish leathercraft if I got this. Eh, probably not.

Roundel Earring (Earring)
DEF:1 “Cure” potency +5% “Waltz” potency +5%
Lv. 73 RDM/WHM/BLM/DRG/SMN/PUP/DNC

Wow, although if they are EX, I’d need 2 of them eventually. One for my WHM, one for my DNC.

Hissho Hachimaki (Head)
DEF:22 Accuracy+8 Attack+8
Lv. 71 MNK/SAM/NIN

Wow. A head piece too.

Karura Hachigane (Head)
DEF:20 Garuda: Perpetuation cost -2 Attack Bonus Defense Bonus
Lv. 73 SMN

*drool* No way this is a crafted item, the price would be through the roof.

Cuchulain’s Mantle (Back)
DEF:8 STR+4 DEX+4 Accuracy+5
Lv. 74 WAR/MNK/BLM/THF/PLD/DRK/BST/BRD/RNG/SAM/NIN/DRG/BLU/COR/DNC

Wow. This would make my THF very happy. MNK too. Side note, there was a Cuchulain on Diabolos who always had a neat name (or so I though). Spelling might be slightly different.

Ixion Cape (Back)
DEF:5 STR-5 DEX-5 VIT-5 AGI-5 INT+5 MND+5 CHR+5 Converts 20 HP to MP Enmity-2
Lv. 74 RDM/WHM/BRD/SMN

Bet this is an Ixion drop too.

Ancient Torque (Neck)
DEX+4 Accuracy+9
Lv. 74 All Jobs

! That’s nice. Expect the PCC to drop in price soon.

Hachiryu Haidate (Pants)
DEF:42 STR+10 Attack+5 Enhances “Zanshin” effect Set: Enhances “Store TP” effect
Lv. 75 WAR/MNK/RNG/SAM/NIN

Wow. This might put Byakko’s Haidate in a run for its money. The question is — 15 DEX and 5% haste vs 10 STR and 5 Attack. There was discussion before that the Pirate Pants (from the Talif quests) with 3 STR and 3% Haste might be better than Byakko’s Haidate. 10 STR might just put it over the top. So aside from when you need haste (tanking gods, soloing), and in something like a merrit party, does hitting harder, but a little slower win out over hitting faster.

Enkidu’s Subligar (Pants)
DEF:40 STR+4 DEX+4 “Store TP”+5 “Subtle Blow”+5
Lv. 72 MNK/THF/RNG/SAM/NIN/BLU/COR/PUP/DNC

Uh, maybe. Depending on how hard this is to obtain, I would sell my Dragon Subligar for it (to combine gear for the eventual DNC)… but it wouldn’t compare to a Hecatomb Sub. So its kind of iffy if you ask me for my jobs (but for SAM and BLU, it looks very nice as a macro piece).

Oily Trousers (Pants)
DEF:35 DEX+5 AGI+5 Accuracy+5 Ranged Accuracy+5 Decreases movement speed
Lv. 74 WAR/BLM/THF/PLD/DRK/BST/BRD/RNG/SAM/NIN/DRG/BLU/COR/DNC

Replacement for Dusk pants? Not horrible, but not something I’d go out of my way to get. A small bit of acc over Homam pants, and a little DEX wouldn’t beat 3% haste. Maybe to replace a Dragon Subligar or the Enkidu’s subligar, but otherwise, meh.

Shlng. Baghnakhs (H2H)
DMG:+21 Delay:+51 STR+3 Accuracy+10 “Double Attack”+1% “Subtle Blow”+3
Lv. 71 MNK/PUP

This one caught me off guard. It is slightly slower than Destroyers (3 delay) but has higher base damage (by 3). Then the 3 STR and 10 Acc with 1% double attack. Do these 3 stats together work out better than 6% crit hits? Wow, destroyers may finally have something that almost beats them. Of course, this depends on price. Destroyers are free, if these are as much as the Hades Santi, then forget about it. Slightly better for 2 mil is not better.

Azoth (Dagger)
DMG:35 Delay:210 AGI+4 Accuracy+4 Evasion+4
Lv. 74 THF/DNC

Wait, what? A non-sucky dagger added for THF? This is 2 base damage less than the Perseus’s Harpe, with other stats that are decent too.

Zareehkl Jambiya (Dagger)
DMG:31 Delay:201 Evasion+5 Latent effect: DMG:36
Lv. 71 WAR/WHM/BLM/THF/PLD/BRD/NIN/SCH

Another non-sucky dagger added for thf? Aside from the Crit Hits, this might compare to the X’s Knife.

Trilling Dagger (Dagger)
DMG:28 Delay:186 Increases light elemental magic damage dealt Silence: Attack+10
Lv. 73 WAR/THF/PLD/DRK/BRD/RNG/SAM/NIN/DRG/COR/PUP/DNC

A 3rd non-sucky dagger added for thf? What is up with this update… Ok this is the worst of the 3 daggers. Aside from the Att +10, it doesn’t really add much and is worse than a Misericorde +1, and about on-par with the NQ. However, a DNC can use it, which improves it greatly (DNC cannot use a Blau, or Misericorde).

Reacton Arm (Throwing)
Attack+10 Enhances “Mijin Gakure” effect
Lv. 70 NIN

I LOLd at this one.

Black Tathlum (Throwing)
DEX+1 Accuracy+4 Attack+4
Lv. 70 MNK/THF/SAM/DRG/PUP/DNC

Not too bad either.

The only other things that caught my eye were these

Alkalurops
DMG:49 Delay:366 HP-10 INT+10 MND+10 CHR+10 Magic Accuracy+20
Lv. 73 RDM/WHM/BLM/BRD/SMN/SCH

Dorje
DMG:42 Delay:402 MP+20 “Magic Atk. Bonus”+25 MP recovered while healing +10
Lv. 75 RDM/WHM/BLM/BRD/SMN/SCH

Both staffs. The reason is simple — For a RDM and BLM, these will replace an entire set of HQ staves. Look for prices to start to drop on all HQ staves very shortly (depending on how hard these are to obtain).

I look forward to these new items and spending years trying to get them *grin*. I hope they don’t suck like sky does, but it looks like Ixion might be the ‘boss’ of them all, with others being the stepping stones to get to him/her/it. I hope that the key here is ‘obtainable’, rather than everything else, which is just ‘annoying’.

Random Thought of the Day

Remember when gas was still cheap, and under $4/gallon.

Ahh the good old days, of last week.

Today I saw $4.55/gallon.  Ew.  I really hope no one actually paid that much.

Sweet, Warhammer Beta

Yesterday I was accepted into the Warhammer Online Beta.

According to the e-mail I received, that’s about all I’m allowed to really say.

So, that means I can’t talk about it.

Either way, some time away from FF can’t be all bad, and its a chance to try something new, especially since my FF commitments are not nearly as high as they used to be.

The Most Depressing Post Ever

I was looking down my friend’s list recently, it was depressing.

Abadon
Still playing

Aeria
Missing, presumed quit

Anthany
Unknown

Ariakan
Missing, presumed quit

Armoni
Missing, presumed quit

Ayslain
Banned

Bertuzzi
Still playing

Bidririont
Unknown, presumed quit

Blader
Unknown, presumed quit

Bockwurst
Unknown, presumed quit

Bogar
Still playing, infrequently

Bongi
Quit

Boomsticka
Quit

Bubbette
Still playing

Caelrelva
Still playing

Catscradle
Migrated, Garuda

Cellestia
Quit

Chronas
Still playing

Chumley
Still playing, infrequently

Cinaurie
Quit

Cite
Still playing

Clubnani
Unknown, presumed quit

Cobion
Quit

Coda
Still playing

Crimsonhorn
Quit

Crosswind
Unknown, presumed quit

Cyclopean
Still playing

Daddyx
Still playing, infrequently

Daica
Unknown

Dandelyon
Still playing, infrequently

Dangel
Missing, presumed quit again

Dblade
Unknown, presumed quit

Demica
Quit

Dragish
Still playing

Draiganadi
Missing, Migrated somewhere

Dreadnought
Quit, WoW

Drekon
Quit

Duimai
Quit

Dukeofdongery
Jail

Edeia
Quit

Elamie
Migrated, Garuda

Elanndir
Quit, again

Elko
Quit, account given away

Essayons
Still playing, infrequently

Evilcloud
Unknown

Flayra
Quit

Freyu
Quit

Fyomkayii
Quit

Galencu
Missing, presumed quit

Garic
Still playing

Generaltao
Quit

Golgothan
Still playing

Heartsong
Still playing, infrequently

Hellblazer
Quit

Hirayu
Quit

Iraphise
Still playing

Irianna
Quit

Jastor
Still playing

Jedion
Quit

Jessi
Missing, presumed quit

Jkillahreturns
Recently Un-quit

Kairos
Back, finally

Kcbing
Missing, 18 months

Kierra
Unknown

Kindone
Quit

Kirtec
Missing, presumed quit

Korbim
Quit

Koudelka
Quit

Krisanne
Quit

Kristan
Still playing

Kristan
Still playing

Kymberry
Still playing

Laddie
Quit

Lilandra
Unknown, presumed quit

Lilmustard
Unknown, presumed quit

Loite
Unknown, presumed quit

Lumdy
Quit

Mayabelle
Unknown

Mizuhito
Still playing

Mungle
Missing, presumed quit

Myrra
Quit

Nahla
Quit

Nekekami
Missing, presumed quit

Nevena
Still playing

Noldor
Still playing

Nukuchan
Unknown

Oddone
Unknown

Onik
Quit

Parano
Quit

Pestilence
Still playing

Petravaa
Missing, presumed quit

Pied
Still playing

Pokey
Quit, WoW

Prudince
Quit

Raena
Quit

Ragenarok
Still playing, infrequently

Raylin
Still playing

Redsonia
Missing, presumed quit

Rieku
Quit

Rini
Quit

Sanjurosan
Still playing

Sarkon
Quit

Seamless
Quit

Seir
Quit

Shadowryu
Quit

Shopice
Unknown, presumed quit

Shotya
Still playing

Simulacra
Quit

Skullone
Quit

Sophtia
Quit

Sprinkles
Still playing

Stallion
Still playing

Static
Hacked

Stethlin
Quit

Stokes
Quit

Stolenhope
Quit

Sulolla
Quit

Sursmokintoke
Unknown, presumed quit

Sweetpeaz
Still playing

Sydonia
Missing, 18 months

Tetedeau
Still playing

Trawnie
Unknown

Trixie
Missing, presumed quit

Tsewong
Jail

Vaelushyn
Still playing

Vang
Unknown

Veona
Quit, again

Vimont
Still playing

Virmythrax
Still playing

Wes
Still playing

Wolfreign
Still playing

Woofie
Still playing

Wooofey
Quit

Ygraine
Still playing, infrequently

Zao
Quit

Zealboy
Still playing

 

136 people when you combine both friend’s lists.  46 still playing, 2 in jail, 1 was hacked.  87 no longer play.  I noticed that Ata’s list has a much greater percentage of people who no longer play, over half of Pyra’s list are still players.  I guess this is one of the curses of playing something for this long, so many good friends are bound to just go away.

Putting the Goon in Dragoon

So I decided to give Dragoon a fair chance for once.

For years, I’ve mocked it, joked about it, and even offered condolences when someone leveled up.  But today, I wanted to try.

Since I got home from work very late and missed dynamis, I took the time to use an emperor’s band charge on my level 1 dragoon.

dragooning

Almost made it to level 7 on the one charge.  I’m going to keep going, try to get both DRG and SAM to 20 this weekend.  My dancer is stuck at 49, and after a couple days of seeking, I’m going to take a break and mule much of the gear.  I just wanted lvl 50 so I could start the AF quests.  Oh well, I’ll probably go back to DNC in a couple weeks or so.

As to the name on my Wyvern, an old friend who quit a long time ago had the same one.  I really just had to.

A Day of Highs and Lows

I like doing big numbers, especially with my thief, who so rarely gets the impressive WSs.

This is from Limbus.

de_part1

de_part2

I was so surprised, as its normally the Samurai’s job to make with the deathening.

Maybe these had an Acid Bolt and Dia 3 on them, but that’s hardly the point.  The point is that I broke 1K on Dancing Edge on Limbus monsters with /nin :).

At the end of Limbus, I was asked to “Find some rdm in the chest”.  I tried my best, but I think everyone will agree that this is the biggest failure chest ever.

failure_chest

Yeah…  DRK, DRG, and BST in 1 chest.  What a waste of 3 AF+1 items.

Although this may have been 1-up’d by my failure /random for coins.

failure_random

At least the low randoms got more coins this time.

Earlier in the day, I had this.

failure_roll

I had just made the comment about how Nift was the most inconsistent lotter I knew, then I proceed to roll 1 lower than him on the one item (71 vs 72), and 20 higher on the other item.

Such an odd weekend (yes, I know this isn’t going to ‘published’ status until Thursday, I’ve just got a backlog of entries).

Well Hello There Ugly

Woooooo!  I’m still excited about this, as this has been a thorn in my side for quite some time now.

I randomly went with a group of friends to do some Golden Salvage in order to get the one person a few points towards ranking up, when another member of the LS asked for help with Evisceration WSNM.  So we all went off to Gustav to kill the bat.

After the bat, we checked to see if Ungur was up.  He wasn’t, so we tried for a little bit to pop him.

ungur_standing_still

On the last pop we would have waited for (about an hour), he popped.  An amazing effort was made using 3 SMNs as DD and a NIN, RDM/NIN, and THF/NIN to try to keep hate off of the SMNs.

ungur_fight1

We got him to 50% before a couple lucky TP moves took out most of the SMNs.

A couple friends showed up to help, and we changed some jobs, and tried again.

Much smoother this time around.

hello_ugly

my_lot

That’s how you know I wanted it, I lotted an 890 :).

Later that night in Limbus, I was trying it out.

putting_to_good_use

I really need to level my throwing.

Special thanks to:

Drus
Nift
Sgb
Stimed
Toonces
Willowdream

Greetings MechWarrior

A friend of mine at work loaned me a copy of MechWarrior 2, circa 1995.  There were two goals:

1)  Hear the sound track that comes on the Disk

2)  Attempt to get the game to play on WinXP

Getting the game to install was tricky enough.

mechwarrior_small

(image links to full sized version of the pic)

I’m not sure if my midi was working.  And ‘Electronic Registration’ was a fax machine.

I do wish I had gotten a screenshot warning me that the “Full” install was “105 MegaBytes”.  Wooo, considering my drive has around 384 GigaBytes free, I wasn’t too concerned.  Besides, FF takes up around 9 GB and my FRAPS folder is another 5 GB.

The game does not currently play.  It crashes as it tries to start the actual game – although the opening CSs play fine in their 640×480 glory.  I also cannot get screenshots of the game, FRAPS apparently does not realize it is playing a game.

Oh well, it was worth it just to see if I could make the game run.  I have not given up yet, but I believe it will take something a little more exotic than I had originally planned.  Now if I can find my copy of Win95 and Virtual PC, I might be able to make this work.

New Storyline Cutscenes, Part 7 – Conclusion, and for some reason, more Chess

Pyra smells nice.

But I like chess.

more_chess1

Knight to King’s Rook 3

more_chess2

I’m sorry, I wasn’t listening, I’m so good at this game, did you say something?

more_chess3

Indeed.

New Storyline Cutscenes, Part 6 – The Male Mithra and the Pyra

After the battle, a male mithra is let loose inside the female mithra troops.  What follows can only be described as Mithra’s Gone Wild.

mithras_gone_wild4

mithras_gone_wild1

mithras_gone_wild2

mithras_gone_wild3

But he’s too cool for all of them.  And instead, he decides to go for the Pyra.

sniff_pyra

And he sniff me.  Weird.

Hmmm.  You smell like cat food.

hmmm_redux

*Sniffs again*

sniff_pyra2

Interesting.

sniff_pyra3