Attack of the Lag Monster
Posted by: Anexia in BLM, Dynamis, General Game-Related, Limbus, PLD, SalvageSo! 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.
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