Quick update.
Since I was enlisted to help out getting some friends a few soboros, I decided that after helping others get about 20 of them, I should have one too.
My “Make the SAMs Jealous Pic”. My SAM is lvl 37 at the moment. >.>
The group I got the Soboro with, the AnimeFusion social shell.
And of course the main reason I was there, to help ensure Miz got his. He actually has a lvl 50+ SAM.
-pyra
Posted in AnimeFusion, Caitsith, FFXI
Tagged AnimeFusion, Caitsith, FFXI, Notorious Monsters, Samurai, Soboro
As many of those who read know, I usually go as a monk to the Dynamis Lord fight.
At the last run, one of the leaders said to try footwork.
The first one is at 300% tp, the second around 120% tp. I’m impressed. Especially considering that a Soul Eater-ed Dragon Kick only gets me about 650 damage (at full health).
For normal dynamis and limbus, I wouldn’t use footwork much. The slow delay means I get 1 or maybe 2 hits in per monster. In city dyanmis, I only get 3-5 hits per normal monster as it is, footwork would lower that too much. But for a big WS every so often, or the start of a fight like DL (or any HNM for that matter), footwork is a nice boost in damage without soul eater.
I do agree though, stacking footwork with hundred fists would be completely broken. Footwork kicks do more damage than a normal kick (even with dune boots) by about 40-50%. It would be so broken it wouldn’t even be funny.
This will answer the questions about the new NM system.
http://www.bluegartrls.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=34658&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
I read teh google hits. This is all that is known, but it looks like a tiered system (again) with everything being a popped NM. When you pop a first tier NM, there is a 100% drop which you trade back to the main NPC for all of this. When you trade it, you get a key item that lets you buy a pop item for a second tier, etc.
I’m going to stay cautiously optimistic about these being an ‘obtainable’ series of gear items. Unlike, oh, say limbo, where Omega has decided to drop 1 Body in the past year….
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’.
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.
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.
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.
That’s how you know I wanted it, I lotted an 890 :).
Later that night in Limbus, I was trying it out.
I really need to level my throwing.
Special thanks to:
Drus
Nift
Sgb
Stimed
Toonces
Willowdream
Posted in Caitsith, EternalMemories, FFXI
Tagged Caitsith, EternalMemories, FFXI, Notorious Monsters
(note about the title: being born in the 80’s meant I missed out on much of the great songs of that decade and am only now discovering some of the wonders of that time. This one is from Rush. It was almost titled “All you Zombies”.)
I love scaring people. I’m sure this picture is going to be abused for the next year or so.
Before anyone freaks out, there were (and still are) 2 Pyra’s. One was (formerly) on Fenrir, but is now on Diabolos.
Yeah, those are the legs of my galka mule.
Moving along. Yesterday morning it hit me, a THF/COR has access to Slug Shot. I don’t have Ranger unlocked on Pyra, so all of the XBow/Gun WSs are unavailable — or so I thought.
I then went to Rollan Fields and had fun Slug Shotting with Acid Bolts.
That was fun.
Other than getting my Dancer to 47 (woo! 50 by the end of the week, depending on how Mario Kart goes), there isn’t much to update on.
Except — I got to play a summoner in Limbus for the first time in about 4 months. Apollyon SE. If you are a summoner, you know what that means.
Just a quick comment — some avatar melee hits (including Garuda and Leviathan) cause 0 dmg to these monsters. Oh well, I still get the big numbers from the Blood Pact.
Sadly, the Ranger was out damaging the summoners. By a significant amount too.
But not on floor 3 :).
The next day I went to play with some Colibri to get my summoner death buffer back (I lost my buffer a few weeks ago camping a NM Antlion in the Chasm).
I don’t think I’ve ever hit that high on a normal monster before. Avatar Blood Pact damage is capped to an extent. Before, people would try to get huge numbers on level 1-10 monsters. Not that it really matters, the lvl 70 Blood Pacts will 1-shot any monster under level 30.
Oh, and I have a new least-favorite enemy TP ability:
Total dispel and damage. Fun. At least it left me with my food.
That’s it for now. And go listen to Subdivisions by Rush (and All You Zombies by the Hooters).
-pyra
Posted in Caitsith, EternalMemories, FFXI, Limbus, Nyzul Isle
Tagged Caitsith, EternalMemories, FFXI, Limbus, Notorious Monsters, Nyzul Isle, Summoner
I’ve been working on my Dancer. When the AF was finally released, and I heard the weapon was in Grauberg, at the Witchfire Glen, I wanted to get it done as soon as possible.
Witchfire Glen is a really unique place where a handful of VT to 75 Pixies reside. It is also where you go to reset ‘Pixie Hate’.
If you’ve never been, I suggest going there, especially at night.
The Dancer AF1 quest CS shows the Dancer in Upper Jeuno as a child, with her mother.
She is performing for the Pixies, and learning the “Spirit of the Dance” or some crap like that, I wasn’t really watching.
Then, for some reason, you fight a Hippogryph.
This NM was a complete joke. My white mage could have soloed it, and hexa strike was just decimating.
Awww, I love happy endings. FFXI has so very few happy endings.
In the spirit of the dance, here’s a little /dance4 off.
Well, moving along, Campaign has been interesting since the last patch. The beastmen are more or less destroying the players. But now, we can whack away on walls for lots of easy exp, so its not a total loss.
And with the new summoner AoE buffs, ohhh the lag I can cause. Its wonderful. More on this in an upcoming post.
Complete with the glitch that was just fixed last week.
I’m sure the Fortifications are at 1008/100 strength. Really, I am.
And finally for campaign, here’s a good pic of Miz (we tend to campaign together a lot).
That’s all for today!
-pyra
Posted in Campaign, FFXI, Lowbie Leveling
Tagged Campaign, Dancer, FFXI, Lowbie Leveling, Notorious Monsters, Quest
I’m so far behind, where to start
Did a Proto-Ultima at the end of February. It went well, and I got to play with some of my new chi blast gear.
Yes, I know I was /drk, but I’m more focusing on the +80 part (with a mushpot on of course).
Which got me this nice blast.
It also got me dispelled, but c’est la vie.
There were also some really good drops! I blame my 707 Chi Blast for them.
The next day, I went and did Shadows of the Departed, in order to get ready for Apocalypse Nigh fight (soon I hope).
It was a lot of fun, even with a lolPUP. 🙂
And, um… crap.
I deleveled my whm 🙁 to 36 even. Stupid job, about 200 shy of getting my level back too. Oh well, its only a chi blasting sub.
I also finally, after about 2 years, turned in my magic trash. Here’s a pic from the back room in Garliage. If you go there in the past, bombs aggro you through the door (but it may be openable with the key, I didn’t have one to try).
Sometime later, I did a couple avatars with Miz. We do a bunch of avatar fights to help pay for our limbo runs.
And I noticed something. The background that looks so neat in the cloisters, is a weather effect (same as the sky in the [S] areas, try it yourself, turn off weather and look at all the stars disapear).
Anyways, with weather:
And without weather:
More to come! Pics from the Cut Scenes leading up to Apocalypse Nigh, Dancer AF1, Cut Scenes, Exploring the [S] areas, Campaign, and the likes!
-pyra
Posted in Caitsith, EternalMemories, FFXI, Limbus, Missions
Tagged Avatars, Caitsith, EternalMemories, FFXI, Garuda, Limbus, Missions, Notorious Monsters, Quests
This week, I saw the NM Roc for the first time. Not only did I see it, but I got the title too.
Yes, I was there for TH-Whoredom, but they pulled it to the bottom of the cliff so I could hit it once.
While hoping for a D. Ignot to sell, we got a dryad staff instead. As the only White Mage present, free lot for me!
So its a free 50 MP. Not too bad for a short run.
But you might say, a short run from where.
Well, I had just outposted to the Merphy Mountains to finish up mission 6-2. Earlier in the day, I was a bit bored and decided to duo the fight with myself.
The fight is quite easy for a MNK/NIN and a WHM/BLM. Although it did go bad after the first Yag, the final 3 went very smooth, especially since I managed to get the SAM and WHM to use their 2 hour abilities before I died.
After my trip to Castle-O, I went to see the Star Sibyl and now my signet lasts 1 hour longer than before. Yay!
Oh, and the 40K is nice too. Payed for that night’s Limbus run.
I also finished up my 4th Star in Campaign. Hopefully I’ll be un-lazy and get the first metal this weekend.
Other than that, I’ve only done a Dynamis – Xarcabard. Thief hands finally fell after a 5 month break.
1 more person off the list before I will get mine.
Since we always do a Dynamis Lord when we go to Xarcabard, and I always go to Xarcabard as Monk, I got to try a decent Chi blast on him. I was in mostly melee gear as a MNK/DRK, and I only got 10 boosts, and its Dynamis Lord, so this isn’t horrible.
Part of this came from my newly acquired Temple Crown +1, and a borrowed Osode.
Speaking of a borrowed Osode, here is what I look like in 4/5 of the Sky Set.
Soon I’ll have one of my own. Hands are kind of meh for monk, I prefer the Melee Gloves, or the +1 if I can get them. According to Genome, they help with counter rate, aside from the obvious evasion granted by 15 extra AGI. But I would put myself at the bottom of the list for Seiryu’s Kote, Rangers, Ninjas, and even Samurai deserve them before a Monk would.
-pyra
Posted in AnimeFusion, Dynamis, FFXI, KillerInstinct, Missions
Tagged Dynamis, FFXI, Missions, Notorious Monsters
Friend in my LS said Boroka was up, so we got together a group and went to make him slightly less alive than he previously was.
I’ve never fought this NM before, so it was a fun fight. But was a lot simpler than expected.
This next picture would be perfect except for the ‘miss’ on the screen. Oh well that’s what I get for turning on the damage report.
No deaths, although there were a couple close calls.
Yay! Thief kill 4tw. The Auditory Torque was what we were after, so it worked out well. The elf pictured — Yenvious — ended up with it. Skulker’s Cape was sold, and probably used to buy a silent oil.
Fun fight, wouldn’t mind going back to sell the drops at another time.
Boroka gives you a title too (surprise to all of us involved).
Cool!
Since this didn’t fit anywhere else, and this is already a large post, I wanted to post this pic here.
I helped the AF group do CoP 8-2 and the map acquisition quest. The map part… sucked, a lot. But in the end, we all got it.
For some strange reason, I always hit the NM on Darksday. I was hoping that for once, maybe, I would hit on some other day, but no, Darksday again.
This time, he really spammed the sleepga2.
Good times.
-pyra
Posted in AnimeFusion, EternalMemories, FFXI, Missions
Tagged FFXI, Limbus, Missions, Notorious Monsters