New Years Post, Synergy, etc
Posted by: Anexia in Goals, New Years - top 10/future goals, Salvage, Shinies!, SynergySO. I debated doing one of these, but I looked back and it was fun to see what I remembered most about 2008, and how far I got on goals, so I’ll do it again! Below are the biggest things that happened game wise in 2009 for me, in no particular order.
1. Dynamis linkshells! Divine Might broke (May), and I joined Consumed (May)…which also broke (Nov)! Star then created his own dynamis linkshell, and we reused an old linkshell I had created a while back titled TheGreatPerhaps. All’s going well now, and we still have several people from Divine Might and are very happy with how things are going :) Fantastic group, and now that I think attendance/members has stedied out we should be a-ok to shoot for Xarc!
2. Dynamis GEAR! January saw me completing my Duelist’s armor when my tabard dropped in Beau., and then in September I netted FIVE Xarc relics: WHM, BLM, SMN, SCH, COR.
3. I started doing Salvage! I’ve wanted to do salvage ever since before I dinged 75 on my red mage; a Morri Robe has been on my wish list for as long as I can remember. In August we started doing salvage, 2x/week, and ended up working our way up to four times a week. HOWEVER, most weeks we do more: last week, for instance, we ended up doing 3 extra runs!
4. Salvage gear! I haven’t been able to upgrade anything yet :< But I’m 2/3 on 3 pieces of Morri gear: robe, pants, and gloves. Once the bosses start putting out, the Morri gear will just start flooding in!
5. Limbus — WE KILLED PROTO-ULTIMA! Proto – Omega has never been a big issue in my linkshell, but Ultima has given us SO many problems. I joined this linkshell ONLY to get Nashira Seraweels, and it was so frustrating that we didn’t have the numbers, and then when we did have the numbers to watch us time out with Ultima at less than 5%. However, we’ve killed Ultima at LEAST 5 times this year, probably more, and each time he’s gotten easier :) We’ve made so much progress and I’m so proud of the linkshell I’m in. Also: getting Nashira Seraweels at the end of the year was most certainly a good night ;)
6. New 75s! I got Scholar to 75 in January (though I don’t think that should really count since it was like 71-73 at the end of the year!), and Summoner to 75 by the end of summer — and I AB’d all of 5k of it! I also spent a good chunk of time leveling Paladin, but needed a break once I dinged 65 this spring. It’s now sitting pretty at 71 :)
7. New friends! To name a few: Lz, Saytay, Aneu, Barbar, and SO many more that I’ve not mentioned. It’s also great to do more stuff with old friends again, like Wiggles!
8. Becoming an end game gal…ugh at mentioning it, but I suppose swapping from a social ls to full timing my dynamis linkshell pearl was a fairly big change.
9. Not -in- game, persay, but meeting so many ffxi people irl — Kaaley, Ruhiel, Despain to name a few new people, and then of course Mazken, Venser, and Cerealkiller who I’ve met before.
10. Merits! I completely capped out RDM, WHM, and BLM merits this year! :) Magic is capped out, INT is capped out, MP is capped out, and I’m working on the Misc category now — Spell Inturruption down and then I think Critical Hits Taken -% but we’ll see!
Like I said, no particular order, but those are the big things of 2009! As for goals…
1. Get Corsair to 75 :) Possibly BLU, but we’ll see, I think trying to level just one job next year would be plenty!
2. Finish Bonecrafting to 100 .___. Had this as a goal last year but I only got to 74, and I can’t even recall what I was at at the start of the year. Oh well!
3. Finish capping out merits!
4. 5/5 Morri. gear! This one I actually have very little control over, as it depends on the drops in salvage. I’m already going 4x a week at the least, and I can pretty much fund it all at this point besides the hat, which I can do Royal Ramble to fund!
5. Finish more story lines! Right now I need to complete: ACP (on final fight), COP (beat 8-4), RoZ (beat Bah. v1), ToAU (on Puppet in Peril), WotG (on one of the very first ones…), and Windurst (on 8-2). Lets say…finish at least 4 of them next year!
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Other than that! Star and I played with synergy quite a bit after it came out, which I forgot to post about in my last entry. We both have shiny new bodies now — for his monk, and my paladin — and I’ve gotten the PLD head as well.. Needless to say, it didn’t take me long to get PLD to 71 so I could equip it :) Right now mine doesn’t have any evoliths on it because I’m not entirely sure what I want…really bummed out that most effects is VS. Oh well, maybe they’ll put new ones out! Star got +Atk and +Acc vs undead, which works really nice in salvage :) We’re not sure but think it might be glitched out atm because he’s doing double the dmg of what our other MNK is doing (say, 100-150 normal hit vs 300 or so on a normal hit, if I remember right), but it’s pretty darn nifty :)
Synergy is really fun, it’s a lot more envolved than other crafts. Star and I both upgraded our crafting bodies, though I don’t really use the special ability much — it gets to be expensive! If you’ve not tried it, you really should :) It’s nice that you cannot lose materials with it, and that multiple people can work on the same synth together — you can even get skill ups after helping others! I’m sure this is a really belated post and that most people know this by now…the joys of taking forever to update!
As I’m on vacation, I’ve not been online a TON…though a coldspell in Mexico atm has me inside much more than I thought I’d be! I made half of a salvage run the other night — Star logged me in for the start and lotted some cells for me, and I got on in time to help cure for the boss. It was our first real SSR attempt, as Seite has decided our first one doesn’t count ;) We got it to 20% before wiping, but we all died a lot :< I was on WHM and all but useless since I didn’t have /SCH (no SJ cell and Star dragged me as I was, and so I wasn’t even /SCH if I had one) or a Spiss cell. I had a body cell, but no refresh body :< We had done RvB right before salvage, and so I swapped to WHM/BLM to R3 Star when he died in a freak accident, and went to salvage with 62/65 inventory slots full of BLM gear! I think we’d do a lot better with our regular healers though — typically Lz and I rock the healing but he was busy with his son, and I was super gimp, so we had two different healers.
I also logged in today to see I had 2 new staves…Star synthed an HQ Terra’s Staff and Jupiter’s Staff for me! Granted, I already had 8/8 HQ staves, but I’m super excited to have signed ones now! :) To end this entry, a quote from Seite! We were talking about having lists of people we don’t want to merit with, etc… due to bad experiences in the past, and apparently I made his :<
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