Mage of All Trades

/sarcasm.

Anyways!

Right after maintenance was over on Monday, we got a group quickly and ran out to Mamool Ja — the exp was nice at first, but slowed to a painful speed as more and more people came out and camped on top of everyone.  I needed ~6k exp for my third merit though, and a few others needed some EXP to finish as well, and we got that at least!  We sucked it up for 3 of us to be able to complete LB6 and headed to Jeuno.  Then we went out to Castle O. [S] as suggested by Campsitarus, as previously posted.  The exp was ok, but nothing fantastic.  Good enough for most of us to get 76 with a decent buffer though!

Ever since though?  I’ve been in Misareaux Coast.  VERY nice exp from 75-~77 or so, and we’ve just been syncing to there.  Everyone I’ve talked to has wanted to keep it hush hush…but it’s posted on BG, that’s how we found it.  So whatever!  It’s like greater birds, but the vultures don’t reflect or steal our food!  The one complaint the melee had is that one of their mobs causes like a ~10-11 sec stun.  Pretty much the same party set up as greater birds though works great — DDx3, BRDx2 (or COR), and WHM or RDM to heal.  Our best exp though was with only one bard to pull, and in place of a second bard getting a dancer.  That party hovered at 23k~ without band, with other parties being closer to ~19k without band.  I know greater birds can get higher than that, but the “normal” I’ve seen there is closer to 17-18k/hour without band. Anyways!  All but living there has proven effective…

^^b  It was a long grind though — I was out there and on one day partied so much my rank 10 signet wore off :<  I don’t know what was worse, not having signet or realizing that I had partied long enough for it to wear off!!  So many people camped on top of us too — anyone on my twitter knows ALL about that.  I’ve been bitching about it for days.  I mean, I know that camps are hard to find…but seriously.  I know it’s  a good camp and all, but for ONE party, but not two.  With two parties there, both parties get shit exp, and at that point you may as well be off some place else.  Instead, no, you just HAD to camp on top of us and force us all to have shit exp.  It’s just so rude, there’s absolutely no reason to go “hey, I’m going to get crappy exp…lets make this other party get crappy exp too!!”  So rude.  I’m sure they were trying to force us out of the camp…but yeah.  We all know how THAT works ^^b

It’s been a bit of an off week — we’ve canceled salvage so we could all focus on 80.  It’s so weird to not have salvage stories to write about!  Instead, I’ll write about dynamoose!

I love the Orc NMs in Beaucedine SO much.  Nego, btw, is our sole galka in the linkshell.  The Orc NMs have the most amazing names ever though, seriously.  Our runs have gotten a bit messed up lately — we were hoping to get a Jeuno and a Beaucedine win before the end of the month, but someone sniped our Jeuno on Sunday and Beacedine was taken, so we went to Xarcabard instead.  That left us with two runs left in the month, and it would have been so nice to do Jeuno > Beaucedine…but Beaucedine is taken for Sunday :(  We at least got that win on Thursday though — and oh boy, have we become pros at spending as much time farming as possible before getting the win.  We typically finish clearing the Yag NMs at the pond when we get the ~10 minute marking, TYPE OUT SOME DIRECTIONS while everyone books it for camp, and have Z run to pull assuming everyone will be in the right spot by the time he gets back with the eye/dragons.

Z’s so mean to me ; ;

Thursday, since I had RDM at 80, I was actually something other than BLM.  When I’m on black mage, I’m usually at the 20′ marker to nuke, and as such if charm goes off, I don’t get hit with it.  IE, whenever charm goes off…I’m usually the one everyone chases after.  Thankfully I has +8% movement pants on black mage and can usually get away!  Tonight though?  Not so lucky.

As a red mage, I was standing with the group, and so I got charmed with everyone else…the stupid thing was at 3% too.  Unfortunately, my charm wore off and I went “hey, lets nuke this down!”  I realized everyone else was still charmed about the same time I decided to eat snow.

Other than that?  I did see a few funnies this week.  I loved seeing “So&so delevels to 75.”  That was on Star’s screen though, so no screenshot!  It just highly amused me :]  That was before I even dinged 76, when I was working on my 3rd merit.  Funny stuff!  I also saw this gem as I was zoning:

The only thing that would have been better is if they were combined — someone getting killed by the furnace and deleveling to 75.

With Red Mage done though…now it’s time to continue grinding.  Black Mage will be the next to 80 for dynamis, and then White Mage soon after since I use that quite often in limbus and used to full time it in salvage — I tend to go back and forth between White Mage and Red Mage, so it’ll be good to get up there.  Plus, it’s one of my favorite jobs!  Then…idk.  I may just get Ninja to 75 before taking another to 80, it depends on how sick of fighting for camps I am.  That can at least get synced down without me feeling bad!  For now though…not looking forward to the grind on Black Mage.

June?  Good month for salvage.  And I thought May was the good month!  I started June with Morrigan’s Robe and Morrigan’s Slops, both of which were upgraded in January of 2010.  As of June 17th 2010? 5/5 Morrigan’s!!

(Above screenshot was taken Weds, the night my Macha’s Pigaches dropped! Oh, the irony <3)

Last week was just a good week in general for salvage.  Saturday we decided we were sick of Arrapago, so we would do SSR then and Zhayolm on Monday.  We finished Star’s Morrigan’s Cuffs on Saturday with the 25 dropping from the boss.  Monday’s Zhayolm dropped a pair of 35 Usu gloves, which went to B.  Tuesday we did Arrapago again, and finished not only Wig’s Skadi shoes with the 35 but also Omni’s Marduk’s Tiara when the 25 dropped.  It also dropped the 25 Usu gloves, which went to Wig.  Wednesday’s run was Zhayolm again, which dropped ANOTHER Usu 35 gloves, which Wig quite happily lotted so he could upgrade them.  That said, I wasn’t holding my breath too much when we got to the 6th floor frog…

But I was quite pleasantly surprised!!  That’s 5 completed salvage pieces in four runs…pretty darn sexy :]  And of course, salvage is never dull with Marduckies8U!  Gotta love B’s sexy gear, and his even sexier subjob!  …how many times can I use the word sexy!?

I got a spiffy new title as well one night after salvage!  Aneu’s poked me a few times about helping with Oupire, the vampyre NM in the undersea ruins.  I’ve always been busy, or we couldn’t get people, or the NM wasn’t up…but as I was running back to Ahty, I took a wrong turn and found people fighting him! And it was Aneu! :]  I cured him for a bit, and then got invited to party and was able to help the group finish him ^^b  We got the magic def. katana for one of the tanks (Aneu had just gotten his a few nights before), as well as 3 100k synth mats! Very nice ^^  He said I was a big help but it was pretty easy from what I saw…didn’t look TOO stressful though I wasn’t tanking either!

(…I really should have blurred out what Aneu said…not sure why I didn’t.  Ooops!  Don’t worry Aneu, we wont hold it against you!! <3)

Other than salvage?  Been busy with dynamis, as always!  Had a bit of drama over the last few runs (lame!).  Ended up losing a member, which, sad that she left but tbh with the reason she did?  Hard to care too much.  She was a nice person but meh.  Another really good friend left for the same reason and it all but destroyed our friendship so…eh.  Glad B saw reason and didn’t leave!  Anyways.  Really good last few Xarc runs — one we got 3 AF and 2 hundred pieces, the other we got 7 AF and 1 hundred piece.  Not too shabby :]  I’ve also been exping and meriting!

I promised Omni I’d help get his COR to 75, so for a while we synced with my NIN (now happily at 67).

We had a quite fun party with Wig — Marduckies fun carries over into exp quite nicely!

And then let him join our merit parties a few levels early…since why does it matter with COR!?  I’ve also found a few amusing seacoms while looking for people to party with….

Jenksy you may recognize from the screenshot above of my merit party with Nommers — he’s a friend who abused the glitch when job changing and made a silly seacom to go with it :]

And that should be it for the week or two before the update came out! I started this entry during maintenance, but it finished before I could post this… I’m sitting at about halfway tnl on my RDM, at lvl 76 currently :]  Nearly all merit zones are a freaking ZOO, it’s insane.  It’s too bad I’m busy this week — work all day tomorrow, have friends visiting from out of town on Weds, and my mom’s leaving the country on Thurs so I’ll be busy with family in the morning.  Thursday afternoon I can level a bit, and then Friday I work all day again . . .  Hmm!  It’ll be interesting to see how long it takes me to get 80 on RDM WHM and BLM :]

So! Salvage.  This last week has seen us continue to spam Arrapago Remnents — I think the last five runs have been 3 Arrapago and then 2 Bhaflau.  Arrapago continues to refuse to give us the two pieces we’re interested in, but that doesn’t mean to say we haven’t gotten anything.  The other day we got our 5th, 6th? Ares 35 body.  It was on Des’s list but he kindly passed for Seite since he wasn’t going to upgrade it soon even if it is something he wants.  As far as boss drops, one night we got double Skadi pants I know –Wig and Des both had them on their wanted lists so they were appreciated, but just not quite what we were looking for.  One of the other runs, I forget what the drops were, but two nights ago…that was a pretty exciting boss.

For the longest time we had issues with this boss.  We’ve finally got it down pat, but not we’re trying to figure out timing — be to floor x with y time remaining, etc…  Cells (or lack of, I should say) can really screw us up on Arrapago.  Once or twice we’ve been on the first floor at the 60 min mark still because freaking magic/ability/weapons just WILL NOT drop for us.  Obviously on those nights we have to skip something.  The other nights though? We do as much as we can depending on how long farming the basics takes. This night was an example of us being wishy-washy on if we had enough time for the Soulflayer NM and deciding to risk it.  …and lame, I just realized now that I cut out the time text.  Oh well.

It took 8 seconds for Star’s pigaches to land in his treasure pool, and 11~12 seconds for me to get mine.  Believe you me, we were pretty darn excited when we got out of THAT Arrapago and hadn’t lost anything.  Again with the drops that weren’t what we were after, but both of those were on wanted lists so that’s good at least :]  This also puts me at 1 drop away from being 5/5 on Morrigan’s Robe set!

Des, of course, can’t let a single night go by without SOME Dragon Ball Z reference :]  Last night was funny though; someone with was NOT a fan of DBZ and Des just couldn’t understand.  I’d also like to point out that I was on White Mage this night.  Just saying!  Our Red Mage obviously doesn’t care too much about being called McGimpy though!

Random fact? My salvage group likes the word duck.  Heck, just ducks in general.  Why? I do not know.  A while back Seite (I think it was!) coined “Marduckies” when a piece of Marduk dropped.  Now? No one calls it Marduk anymore.  It’s ALWAYS Marduckies.  Or just duckies.  Des was quick to correct me in the above screenshot though…”No, you Omni and Seite have an obsession with the word duck.”  It’s not just us though!  We also like the 8U face, and it has been decided that it’s a duck wearing cool glasses.  We joked that we should make a linkshell called Marduckies8U for the salvage group, and although unfortunately 8 doesn’t work in linkshell names, I do have a spiffy BRIGHT YELLOW linkpearl now called Marduckies ^^b

Our Bhaflau runs went ok, I guess.  No drops, no NMs.  That’s the most frustrating thing: spending 100 minutes in a zone and not even killing any NMs.  I’m really glad when we used to spam Bhaflau it was to do one rampart and then the boss — at least that way it felt like the run was useful when we killed the boss.  Now? This is just disheartening.  We did fl2/3 one day, and fl1/2 the second.  Not sure what’s worse, no NMs in Bhaflau or Arrapago.  Then again, the lack of drops (cells, anyways) in Arrapago isn’t bothering me nearly as much anymore.  I’m excited for Omni to finish a piece of gear so we can switch up wanted lists — not so much for me to get more stuff as I feel pretty lucky already, but because then we can actually do different zones.  Speaking of getting new gear though…

I seriously have the nicest friends.  I did RR on 3 occasions, and got all the ingots I needed.  One friend sold his ingot to me at a discounted price (about 110~130k off the AH price), Jenks and Fen each gave me one, B gave me two, and Star gave me three :]  Time for me to find something I can help these folks with, as that was really really kind of them.  I had the kindred seals, but they more than halved how many RR runs I had to do to finish up that piece.

I’ll end with an amusing quote from dynamis — they were talking about people who brag and list their jobs, gears, etc…  Just as a disclaimer, I don’t think I’m the be-all end-all to black mages; I’ve got a decent black mage and I know how to play the job, but I’m not trying to say I’m the best one out there! I know I’ve got quite a bit yet to learn :]  Either way…this still amused me!

…and I take a LOT of screenshots.  HOLY COW.  I’ve been meaning to edit Screenshot Organizer to save my screenshots as Name/Date/Zone rather than Name/Zone/Date for ages and finally got around to it the other day.  That said, all of the screenshots below (save two, which were taken within the last week) are from yesterday.  And no…this is not ALL of the screenshots.  This is maybe half of them or so.  Never realized quite how many I take on a daily basis!

Dynamis has been going well.

Last Thursday was a San d’Oria run, which netted us FOUR M. Silverpieces.  Wiggin’s been telling us for quite some time about a new strategy that he and his linkshell have been using, and we finally got around to trying it out.  Success? I think so.  I think all city runs will see us with a THF in every party tagging every statue before the BLMs kill them.

Words like racecar are spelt the same forwards and backwards! Insert linkshell conversation about this. Also notice Kilty? Read his name backwards [;

Sunday saw us in Dynamis – Xarcabard.  It was kind of nice; being Memorial Day weekend, a lot of linkshells took the night off.  Gotta love snow with no competition :]  Sunday’s also when my Valor Surcoat dropped, making me 5/5 on Valor gear — huspag, 4 inventory spots back now that I can store it!  Crazily enough, that was the last piece of Xarcabard relic that I needed.  I don’t need anything from cities or Beauedine that I can use presently either.  Oh well!  There’s always incentive and the occasional dreamworld :]

Sunday also saw our second pair of TH4 hands to drop, which went to our resident puller.  As you can see…he’s quite happy about this!  Also, I can’t believe it, but I actually apologized for doing Xarcabard two runs in a row.  By some stroke of luck, last night had only San d’Oria and Xarcabard open…both of the runs we had done in the last week.  I felt bad for the new folks who couldn’t attend…but the officers decided as a whole that we’d rather do two Xarcabards than two San d’Orias so close together since there’s typically more competition for snow rather than cities.

Random dynamis conversations are random. Also, people need to stop watching "I'm on a Boat"!

I’m not quite sure why, but I’ve been lurking on BG’s forums more lately.  I recently discovered a thread with …interesting player names.  While gearing up for dynamis, I happened to stumble upon one and had to screenshot it~

As far as salvage goes, we’ve been steadily moving along.  Last post I mentioned that I got Macha’s Crown, putting me 3/3 on the Morrigan head piece.  I’ve yet to upgrade it (darn RR!), but since then I received a pair of Bodb’s Cuffs…making me 3/3 on Morrigan’s Cuffs! Those I quite happily upgraded this week!

This puts me at 3/5 on Morrigan’s gear, and once I upgrade the crown I’ll be 4/5!!  Just need silly Macha’s and Bodb’s Pigaches and I’ll be all done with Morrigan’s gear!  I’ve seriously got like 8 SSR Cards in my satchel too…time to spam some Zhayolm farm!  We’ve actually been focusing quite a bit on Arrapago farm/boss runs lately, but haven’t seen any Bodb’s Pigaches :<  Omni’s the last of our regular members who needs to upgrade a primary/secondary item, and since he’s got the 35 Marduk crown we’re attempting to get him the corresponding 25 from Arrapago.  Des has also come back to us and is wanting Skadi feet so it works quite well for most of us.

Yesterday also saw me dusting off my bard for not one but two merit parties.  I’m now sitting at 3/5 on Mineut merits for my bard — I figured my bard was long overdue for merits.  Even if I never use it.  As you can see, things are never dull with Des around!  He’s been really good about coming red mage to both salvage and dynamis for us, which has eaten through his buffer pretty quick, so Star dusted off his bard as well and we merited with Des for about an hour before salvage.  I don’t think a day has gone by with Des back that there hasn’t been SOME DBZ reference or another in linkshell!

Like I said…never dull with Des around!  He loves to spam people for invites etc so I figured I’d give him a dose of his own medicine :]  After all, he accused me of doing it before I did it!!  Anyways…like I said.  I take a lot of screenshots apparently!  One other thing to mention that’s not going to be SS’d in this post…Nerdie got 75!  He’s sitting quite contently at a 56 exp buffer, if I recall correctly.  I should probably do something about that at some point…  Until next month~

My very first 75 was Red Mage, and when I dinged 75 I had a few pieces of gear I really really wanted to get: a Duelist’s Chapeau, which dropped to me in Nov of 2008; W. Legs, which I managed to get in the summer of ’08…and a Morrigan’s Robe.  Prior to hitting 75, I really wanted a Dalmatica because refresh AND 50 mp was like the coolest thing in the world back then (yes, I was one of those RDM who full timed the whole AF set and stacked MP wherever I could! D:).  At that point, 2M for the cursed body was way beyond my price range, which I think is part of the reason why I didn’t even dream of a Morrigan’s Robe at that point.  Shortly after I dinged 75 though, Morrigan’s gear was something I REALLY wanted.  Leveling black mage later on didn’t help make me want it any less, either!  Today, I’m finally 3/3 on the big items I wanted in game…and couldn’t be happier 8D

Of course, there are always little upgrades here and there — INT+2 and MND+2/3 earrings, for example, and finishing off more salvage things…but those are the three BIG items!  The same night I turned all my mats in, Wiggin turned his in as well, so our salvage group went from 0 to 2 bodies in one day!  He, Star and I were rocking it up in Ahty this morning :)  Star and I also went out to poke puddings to see how my robe worked, and it was niiiiiiice.  I resisted twice :<, so I’ll have to look over my numbers and see if I need to swap INT or MAB out for MACC somewhere else, but overall I’m very happy with it :)

Look, an entry and a fun quote, all in one!  After probably like the 25th Bhaf boss run…

Incoming pictures of Morri Robe tomorrow ;)  Not sure if it was the swearing, or the fact that I came BLM, a job that can actually USE Bodb’s Robe vs WHM like I normally do…but I sure as heck am glad it finally dropped!

So! November was a busy busy month!  RL wise, school continues to kick my rear — they sure don’t make Nursing classes easy!  I was out of town for Thanksgiving as well, visiting Staren.  FFXI wise, Salvage and Limbus have been going along steadily, and our new Dynamis linkshell has started off fairly well.

Salvage

We’re still going 4x a week, which makes me feel like I log in and have time to do events and nothing else.  We did though get a pair of 35 Usu feet, which is nice! We’ve been after those for a while :) We’ve gotten a few other 35s as well, though nothing of note that I can remember offhand.  Of course, this puts us at needing several bosses now; we need multiple 25s from every boss except Arrapago now.  And actually, we have 2 35 Marduk bodies in the group…just no one has that very high on their wanted lists! Most of us have 35s though so we’ve been doing about 50% boss attempts and 50% 35 farms for our few dedicated members who haven’t gotten a 35 yet (needs moar Morrigan’s Pigaches and Usukane Haidate 35s!)

Bhaf continues to be the only boss we can win with any frequency, though we haven’t tried the others more than a few times.  Arrapago we’ve poked once or twice after farming, and it seems easy enough.  We just haven’t focused on it since there’s no real need.  SSR hasn’t been attempted yet, and Zhayolm we’ve been timing out on.  Oh well, practice makes perfect!

Limbus

Nothing new really with limbus, other than I’m doing a little bit more here and there as an officer.  It’s so crazy that I can be a leader in 3 events, and each is SO different.  Limbus is so laid back, it’s very relaxing.  Last night I was asked to lead when only myself and one other leader were on–we’ve got 5 officers now, I want to say?  For the most part, Q and Raven do a lot of the work, but Raven was gone and Q was having an off day, I believe.  We did Temenos North, which worked very nicely since we’re nearly always in need of the Ivory Chip since most of the officers hate the zone.  One of the newer members pulled for me, so the two of us were chatting the whole run about what mobs to pull, chests to open, etc.. and it went pretty smooth.  Previously when I’ve lead I’ve been really stressed out because I’m not used to doing it all, but it wasn’t like that at all last night which was very nice :)  I still probably won’t lead a ton, but it’s good that I’m able to do it now without too much stress.  Thankfully I still had Q to poke when I had questions though!

Dynamis

Ahhh…mine and Star’s new baby.  This is a horrible time of year to be starting a new group — so many people are on/off for holidays!  Our first run went amazing — we did a Sandy run and netted a 3.25M profit and got the win.  Next zone we ended up doing was Jeuno, and we were missing several people due to the holiday.  The next Sandy was rocky for the same reason, though we still got minor profits off both.  No wins though!

Our forth run was Bastok, which put out TEN relic armours (the others only gave us maybe 2-4 each :<).  Not as nice of a profit as the first Sandy, but bills don’t sell for much so that’s no surprise.  No win again, we were just a bit slow and then had a very poorly timed NIN 2h blow most of us up.  Overall though I’m pretty happy with how things are going…just need a few more people to make up for some people not being able to make every run and we’ll be set! :)

Other

I’ve recently picked up leveling paladin again.  A while back, Star and I leveled PLD and BRD together, and at about 65 I called it quits.  I knew I’d finish it up some day, but I was just so sick of the job and needed a break.  We went on to level SMN and MNK together, and we’ve been done with that for a while now.  Those were finished…early August?  So I’ve not touched paladin since spring this year or so.

Anyways, I’ve been having a blast with it.  Unfortunately I sold most of my gear for the Morri robe I -don’t- have yet QQ, but I’m told just using AF works fairly well.  I’m going to have to rethink gear though, and look at what I’ll want at 75 and start collecting some of it.  I’m waaaay too anal about wanting “decent” gear.

Other than that, I’ve not really been meriting too much.  BLM and RDM are both fully merited now, and WHM is nearly done — just need 3 more merits and I’ll finish Regen Potency 5/5.  I’m not sure what I’ll do next — probably Spell Inturruption Down and Critical Hits Taken Down, which will then make all of my generic merits completely finished, save for weapon skills.

With starting dyna again my BLM’s been taking a beating, so we’ve been spending a good chunk of time recapping buffers — everywhere from Beaucedine Glacier [S] to Mount Zhayolm to Sea.

Star and I also duo’d 7-1 and 7-2 in Windurst missions and got rank 8 :)  We’ll be doing 8-1 at some point; I didn’t feel like buying crystals when I exp often enough, so we stopped after I ran out of what I had on hand.

After leveling PLD though, and I’ve gotten 2 full levels in the last half week or so, so 55k exp or so, I’ve got maybe 7-8 stacks of crystals which should last me to rank 9 or so :)

The only other note to make of is my laptop has been really wonky lately.  I took it with me when I went to visit Star, and used it during my layover.  It was really laggy, but I didn’t think anything of it.  When I got home…it was still super laggy :<  Star’s gonna look at it; hopefully we can figure out what’s up with it!

Anyways: to end with a quote! This was just before salvage; I DC’d and so leader got shifted.  The guy who got it was having waaay too much fun, randomly kicking people and reinviting them before we were ready to get in.

Alternate Title: It’s been a very productive week in the world of Anexia.

Sunday saw my dynamis linkshell’s THIRD Xarc in a row, though I certainly wasn’t complaining.  Earlier this month, I netted a Summoner’s Horn and a Scholar’s M.board off the same run, and this week I managed to top that: Sorcerer’s Petas. (what’s actually on my list), Commodore Tricorne (which dropped right after my BLM hat, and then free dropped to me), and netted a last minute pair of Cleric’s Mitts as well!  This puts me at 5/6 Xarc. pieces for my 75s!  All that remains is BRD pants, which I’m not super keen on anyways, what with having AF+1 pants.  I also am able to lot Valor Surcoat since my PLD is 65…but my PLD is 65.  So I’ll wait for that ^^

I started Dynamis in November of 2007, and 1 year later I got my Duelist’s Chapeau.  Between then and this month, I got nothing from Xarc, which was fine — my hat was worth it~  This month, nearly a full year after that…I get five pieces.  Nearly 2 years and I only got 1 piece, and then in two nights, during 1 month…I get 5 pieces.  Crazy!

TONIGHT!, then.  We did Arrapago last night and got nothing really, and then went to do it tonight as well since we were low on people.  We killed like the first 4-5 mobs, and got nothing off them — leading us to joke about our THF’s fail TH4.  I, on the other hand, said we were just saving it for later.  Fast forward to the first THF Qiqirn.  Right before we get to it, my graphic card crashes (frequent problem), and so I get booted.  I go to get back on, and as it’s taking forever to log in realize that my internet’s been acting up…which means I have to restart.  I let my group know in vent, and hit the restart button.  Just as windows was loading back up…my phone starts to ring.  I run to grab it, and sure enough, it’s Staren: “Hurry, it dropped your coat!”

Needless to say, I was about freaking out as I was logging back in, but I made it safe and sound and now have my very own Macha’s Coat!!  Good week, very good week :)  Of course, I’m going to be stupidly biased now, as to what zones I want to do…finishing this robe, {Yes, please!}  Time to start cracking down on gil as well, need to figure out how much exactly I need yet~~

Just a little blurb quick on the Scholar “glitch” — I bet they’ll fix it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t.  It’s very had to pull off from my understanding, but because I bet there’ll be bots sooner or later that make it go off correctly maybe they’ll cap it at 5-6-7, something like that, MV stacking.  Still can do a nice chunk of damage, but nothing game-breaking.  Very cool though, it definately made me want to play around with my Scholar a bit more ;)

And I’ll end with a fun quote from Salvage tonight — I responded to this one with a “good save ;)”, if I remember right!

Just a quick post~  I won’t really go into what’s been going on Anexia here, but a good chunk of my time lately has been spent working on Mr. Drouggle.  I’m LOVING re-leveling black mage, especially since it’s on a taru!  He was lvl56 when I started, RDM was lvl1, and WHM was lvl22.  I’ve not gotten a TON of levels for him, but he’s 59 now, with /WHM 29 and /RDM 26!  It’s getting somewhere! ^^  As you may have guessed…I’m enjoying leveling his black mage a smidge more than his support jobs, but it’s on hold at the moment until I can get his subjobs to 30+

He was also completely naked when I got him, poor thing!  He now had a shiny Shaman’s Cloak, which you can see in the image — that was taken when I ran out to near Giddeus to get a bit of EXP off elementals.  He also has his Moldy Earring, and all of his wearable AF.  I need to nab his hat yet, but since Anexia has a portal charm it shouln’t really be an issue.  He was pretty good on spells when I got him, just missing Tornado, Retrace and Sleepga II, and maybe one or two other small spells.  I bought Tornado, and am nearly done with his Sleepga II quest — just need to head out and do the actual fight ^^ A few people in my dynamis linkshell are also about on the fight, so I’ve been waiting for them.  After getting him paSt access and setting him up in Windy [S] I quested Retrace for him.

Hmm, the last thing really that I can think of that I’ve done for Mr. Drouggle is capping his skills, which have since uncappe since I leveled a few times.  It originally was about 100 below the skill cap though, and now it’s maaaaaybe 1-2 levels below — not all at bad, considering!  I’ll make sure to cap that soon though, before I go out to level again ^^  Anywho, hopefully I’ll be posting about Anexia soon, but that’s what I’ve been busy with lately! :D

At the start of the last conquest week, I recieved notice that I was approved to chaperone a wedding!  BTW, interesting fact about weddings…when you get an approval, it doesn’t list names.  Makes things a smidge tricky if you’re applying to chaperone multiple weddings, as I learned!  Thankfully I had copies of my original applications ^___^  I’m really happy for the couple who got approved — I’ve been applying for them for weeks.

I haven’t been up to too much lately — my little sister came to town to visit me for the last week so I’ve not been on 11 much lately.  I did manage to get a few more merits though, and am now at 3/3 Freeze II and Burst II merits — just another 20 merits and I’ll be capped out on BLM!  After that I’ll upgrade Spell Inturruption % Down and consider my Black Mage –fully– merited out!

Limbus____________________
The last limbus run that I did was last Friday — I managed to forget soap on Monday :<  I had gotten my second SCH AF+1 mat the Monday before, and so had turned in my M.board to upgrade, and then on Friday received my second RDM AF+1 mat ^___^  I’ll be turning in my W. Chapeau this weekend to upgrade to +1 for a few more INT.  Monday was a dissapointment though, I was actually able to come SCH to limbus…and then forgot soap, as previously mentioned :<  I’m pretty happy with my SCH gear — AF+1 hat/body, relic 5/6 (missing hat), full HQ staves, omega/tamas/snow/aqua rings, etc.. — and I -rarely- get to use it.  Of course, I still need to merit it out…I’ve got no job specific merits but full MP/INT/ele. skill/enf. skill certainly helps ^_~  But yeah, rarely get to use it, and the one time I would have been able to I managed to not get soap ~_~  All I can think of is I talked to the NPC and got my Sch. M.board +1 and when I talked to her again I clicked the wrong option to get soap?  Really not sure.  Ah well.

Goofing around in Sea on Scholar after being left out of Limbus…gotta love how pretty the zone is!

Dynamis___________________
We canceled dynamis on Sunday due to the holiday weekend, and then the run before that was on Thursday…which probably should have been canceled.  Our group is still fairly new and we’re not awful but we’re not amazing either.  There’s definitely room for improvement.  Anyways, we’re used to going with 20-24 people or so, and last run we did with only 16.  We got a few pieces of relic, and some coins, but all in all it was not our best run.

Synthing___________________
As stated in my last update, I managed to ding 68 to get my Bonecrafter’s Apron.   Since then, I’ve gotten myself up to 71.2~ or so.  Not a huge difference, but my next 7.8 levels of skill ups are on synths that I’m more or less breaking even on or even profitting a small chunk for–hip hip hurray!  Star and I tried our hand at clamming to get Coral Fragments for myself and lumber for his woodworking but it went horribly, so I’m thinking I’ll just stick with Tigerfangs (:

Anyways, like I said…not too much has been going on lately.  Today I’ve been trying to merit but apparently no one wants a bard — people who say bards always get invites, remember this :p