The last update SE gave us made 2 handed weapons really good, and that's great. DRKs, GA-WARs and SAMs are more than ever big damage-dealers. On the other hand, that update also nerfed the 1 handed weapons, and for what matters most to me, hand-to-hand. They basically lowered the pDif cap (which is something like the difference between your attack and mob's defense, factored by the level difference, if I remember correctly), which means it's easier to reach an attack cap.

The effect on merit-PTs is not so bad from what I've seen, even though damage output is a bit lower. Managed a few 24-26k per hour parties, which is good enough for me. Didn't get to test how HNMs are affected by this nerf, but I never do HNMs as MNK anyway. What's annoying is the loss of damage on farming mobs : it's now noticeably slower to kill a too weak mob, since you easily reach your attack cap, and your hits are gimped. It's a bit sad to think that an unmeritted SH MNK eating meat will hit some mobs for the exact same damage as a fully meritted Togi+1 MNK...But seeing how big the change is, I think SE will revert (at least partly) this change.

Update brought some new gear, but nothing really worth a "Nice !". Same for the new synths, still the same old new food reciepes that nobody will ever in any situation. A couple nice rings and earrings for Goldsmithing, but some of them require a more-than-rare gem so HQ will probably be very rare.

They added a new assault rank, and more interesting, the ability to teleport to any staging point for free, once you completed every assault mission and got this last rank. Even better, salvage gets completely free when you reached that rank. Sounds hot to me, since it means doing salvage without having to repeat the same old low-rank assaults for some points to pay for the runs.

All in all, according to my computations are right, a crappy update, except if you're a SAM or even better, a DRG. Of course there is the end of the ToAU storyline, but I'm so far beihind, and so mildly interested in doing the missions, that I just don't think i'll do more than mentioning it.

Don't get me wrong, I still love that game, and enjoy every minute I play it. My last few months have been dedicated to making money so I can finally afford a Kraken Club. I've been farming, craftng, and selling some gear I didn't really need, and I'm getting closer to my goal every day.

Did quite a few LS events as well, on top of the usual Kings camping : a Bahamut v2 run, several melee-burn Kirin runs (won the parse on one of these ^^), an Ouryu run I think, some KS99 Wyrms and KB. Lots of Dynamis runs as well, a few attempts at DL (that I still never seen killed :/) and a few CoP zones (were I kept hoping for RNG belt to drop, but which never happened :/).

MNK and RNG being well geared and very well meritted, I decided to level other jobs. First of all, duoing WAR with my friend Charun's THF. We're at lv46 so far, and it's pretty fun. And I'm going to level SAM when I can, at least to 50 for the fun that must be a Soboro Sukehiro (obtained one last saturday in a LS Soboro Marathon run :). SAM will be easy to gear up at 75, since I have most of the key pieces on MNK already. WAR is gonna need more work, some abjurations, and ultimately a Ridill, which I will perhaps get in a couple years if I'm lucky...

Fun stuff lately...

S-E had announced during their latest event, that they were raising the cap of Weapon and Magic merits. So I decided to cap Archery skill, to match my H2H and get out of the Walmart RNG crowd. So I meritted a few evenings before the update :



I love LS parties, got all this in no time :) And I started meritting Archery :



Only tested on Khimaira, but so far it's already a big improvement.

Xolotl finally stopped being sych a fag, and dropped something more interesting than his fucking HATZ :



And finally, Dynamis Xarcabard made me happy for the second time :



Full RNG AF2 ! Matches pretty well my full MNK AF2, too :)

Guess what, the economy of this game is collapsing everyday. That isn't a bad thing, prices were way too high, as a consequence of people obtaining gil with their credit card.

Today, prices for most items are back in a reasonable range. You can, just as some of us did back in 2004, farm for your Scorpion Harness (450k) or Haubergeon (750k). A few days, a week at most, and you have the gil to buy it. This is way better than a year ago, when they were both 5 or even 10 times more expensive. That's the good thing in this all-time-low economy.

Bad thing is people want to sell their items as fast as they can, and they end up undercutting each and every item, which eventually leads to ruining about every profitable market. In other, clearer words : crafting is dead.

So here I am, after close to 4 years playing this game, back to my roots, farming for gil. It's not that I need a lot of gil for consumable stuff (arrows and nin tools), but I really want to buy a Kraken Club before this summer. So I'm farming...and it's actually working pretty well. I still craft for money, but profit is so low that either I have to spend 3-4 hours for a decent income, or I may as well farm mobs. LS events are a steady income as well. I managed to make about 5M in a few weeks, and am now at ~9M.

My NIN is 56 still, I switched to making money lately. I'll finish it when I have ~15M. I finally obtained my Boxer's Mantle, so the only item I need for NIN at 75 is a Haubergeon (preferably HQ signed by a friend). And Bandomush Kote, but Xolotl is still being a fucking whore, so it may not happen anytime soon :/

Finally did the Bahamuth v1 BC with LS, and it was a blast. Easy fight, but very fun. I would love to do the v2 BC, but it's pretty much mages onry >< So I may never enter it. Other than that, a few Fafnirs, a Nidhogg, a couple Khimairas (no sword), many Xolotls, and a few Dynamis runs, overall the usual fun.

I really need to post some screenshots, I have 1200+ to sort out now...

Took on crafting again. I'm gonna try big ticket synths for a while, hoping i'll break even at least. Tonight was Cursed Haidate night :

Try 1 : Broke Log
Try 2 : NQ
Try 3 : NQ

Not the best luck, huh >

Really been a while since my last entry on this LJ !

I'm still playing FFXI and I still like it a lot, despite the WoW effect =) Lots of things happened and lots of things changed for me in-game.

First, I stopped trying to upgrade my relic, because I don't have the money to fund the whole upgrade. I was sitting on 40M at the time I started, which would have brought me half-way to Stage 4, meaning I would have had to sell most of my gear and farm my ass off, not being sure I'd finish stage 5. So instead, I sold all my currencies to a close friend (at an annoyingly low price !) and decided to get the best possible gear for my MNK.


That's my usual gear :



Destroyers, Olibanum Sachet
Walahra Turban, Faith Torque, Merman's Earring, Brutal Earring
Shura Togi +1, Ochiudo's Kote, Sniper Ring +1 x2
Amemet Mantle +1, Black Belt, Byakko's Haidate, Dune Boots

There isn't much room for more upgrade, except for some Uzukane gear (but I don't do Savage at all). Bandomush Kote would be nice but for that, Xolotl needs to stop being a fag. And fuck Forager's Mantle, since MNK and RNG can use Amemet.

Now that's my evasion gear :




Destroyers, Olibanum Sachet
Optical Hat, Evasion Torque, Elusive Earring, Evasion Earring
Scorpion Harness +1, Master Caster's Mitts, Sniper Ring +1 x2
Bat Cape, Black Belt, Byakko's Haidate, Melee Gaiters

Only missing Boxer's Mantle (57/75 A-BC right now) to have a complete and reliable Evasion set. It's pretty nice for soloing and random farming, since I don't waste time resting at all. I've also tanked a few bigger NMs, NQ Behemoth and Adamantoise among them. Keeping hate is quite easy with the damage output, and evasion makes recasting shadows easy ^^ MNK definately can't blink-tank big stuff though, mp sponges ; ;

I got my 2nd job to 75, it's RNG ! It was pretty fast, faster than I thought it would be. And very fun all the way, especially the ToAU exp mobs weak to piercing...epeen SideWinders ! :) My RNG gear is pretty good, without being awesome :

TP gear :


WS gear :


RNG is my end-game job, since MNK is a no-no on most mobs. I changed LS and am now in the most successfull NA one on my server. Doing fun stuff on a daily basis, which is great. Got to take part in fights I wouldn't have experienced in my old LS, Khimaira or JoL being good examples.

On the merits side, MNK is capped. Really. And RNG meritting is still to be started >< But right now, I'm farming and crafting all I can for a Kraken Club. Don't worry, I'm not as poor as these screenshots show...money's on the mules ^^

Dynamis Jeuno

Sponsors: Vegetaa (1M).
34 T Whiteshells, 64 O. Bronzepieces, 51 Byne Bills.

Stage 2 : 400 / 400 Byne Bills (~100%)
Stage 3 : 274+51=325 / 1.400 O. Bronzepieces (~23%)
Stage 4 : 263+34=297 / 6.100 T. Whiteshells (~4%)
Stage 5 : 60+51=111 / 10.000 Byne Bills (~0.011%)

Dynamis Bastok

Sponsors: Vegetaa (1M).
209 Byne Bills.

Stage 2 : 251+149=400 / 400 Byne Bills (~100%)
Stage 3 : 151+123=274 / 1.400 O. Bronzepieces (~19%)
Stage 4 : 203+60=263 / 6.100 T. Whiteshells (~4%)
Stage 5 : 0+60=60 / 10.000 Byne Bills (~0.006%)

Done with Stage 2 ^^

Dynamis San'doria

Sponsors: Baf (500k), Vegetaa (500k).
245 Bronzepieces, got 123.

Stage 2 : 251 / 400 Byne Bills (~62%)
Stage 3 : 151+123=274 / 1.400 O. Bronzepieces (~19%)
Stage 4 : 203+60=263 / 6.100 T. Whiteshells (~4%)
Stage 5 : 0 / 10.000 Byne Bills (~0%)

Dynamis Windurst

Sponsors: Baf (500k), Vegetaa (500k).
120 Whiteshells, got 60.

Stage 2 : 251 / 400 Byne Bills (~62%)
Stage 3 : 151 / 1.400 O. Bronzepieces (~10%)
Stage 4 : 203+60=263 / 6.100 T. Whiteshells (~4%)
Stage 5 : 0 / 10.000 Byne Bills (~0%)

Bought a 100 Bynes Bill (1M) that we got on our last week Xarcabard run (we got 2, actually ^^)

Stage 2 : 122+100=222 / 400 Byne Bills (~55%)
Stage 3 : 86 / 1.400 O. Bronzepieces (~6%)
Stage 4 : 180 / 6.100 T. Whiteshells (~3%)
Stage 5 : 0 / 10.000 Byne Bills (~0%)

Then did a Jeuno run :

Sponsors: Baf (500k), Vegetaa (500k).

Stage 2 : 222+29=251 / 400 Byne Bills (~62%)
Stage 3 : 86+65=151 / 1.400 O. Bronzepieces (~10%)
Stage 4 : 180+23=203 / 6.100 T. Whiteshells (~3%)
Stage 5 : 0 / 10.000 Byne Bills (~0%)

Sponsors: Baf (500k), Vegetaa (500k).

120 Whiteshells dropped, got 60.

Stage 2 : 122 / 400 Byne Bills (~30%)
Stage 3 : 86 / 1.400 O. Bronzepieces (~6%)
Stage 4 : 120 +60=180 / 6.100 T. Whiteshells (~3%)
Stage 5 : 0 / 10.000 Byne Bills (~0%)

AF2s : WAR(hector) NIN(daigor) RNG(me!) BLM(gonegator) PLD(?) SAM(rioka) SAM(lok)

Been a while, huh ? Much new stuff, but i'll sum that up real quick :

- RNG is now 60, hard to get a party despite of my allmighty EBow <3<3<3
- BLM is dead, sold all my gear, will never exp it again
- Sea is fun, fought a few Jailers, but still need 8-3 and 8-4 to get my ring ; ;

Now the big project : I'm gonna upgrade H2H relic, thanks to the sponsoring offer from my Dynamis LS. So this LJ will now be used to write down my progress. Here is what I need :

Stage 2 : 400 Byne Bills
Stage 3 : 1.400 Bronzepieces
Stage 4 : 6.100 Whiteshells
Stage 5 : 10.000 Byne Bills

So here we go, here is my current status, after 1.5 year of non-sponsoring dynamis :

Stage 2 : 122 / 400 (~30%)
Stage 3 : 86 / 1.400 (~6%)
Stage 4 : 120 / 6.100 (~2%)
Stage 5 : 0 / 10.000 (~0%)

It's probably going to take a while, since I can't afford (yet) to buy big amounts of currencies from bazaars. But I'm gonna try to craft all I can, and finally use the ~300 BSs I have, to get the money to buy some, to speed up the process, since sponsoring alone would take 2+ years ; ;

SOON :
- Get WHM to 37 (been 36 for 6 months now ><)
- Get money for an EBow
- Get RNG to 75 (48 right now, gonna take some time)
- Complete CoP and get the ring !
- Start ToAU stuff
- Get a Peacock Charm

A BIT LATER :
- Get alchemy to 100 on Miniveggie
- Get RNG abjurations

LATER :
- Get a Kraken Club

Last entry is from mid-April, time to type a new one :)

Ok, let's see...first of all, i've been through the biggest break from FFXI since i started playing : 3 whole weeks...But it was 3 weeks in asia (Thaliand and then Bali Indonesia) and it was a fucking dream. Best holidays in my whole life, with close friends...lots of fun ^^ And I'm leaving for Canada at the end of June, for 3 weeks...that's a lot of travelling, and 4 continents in 1 month...I love that :)

Back to the game :

CoP :

I finally got sea ! Beat Tenzen in what was the biggest joke BC ever. People told us it was a hard fight, so we geared up and psyched all we could, just like we did for Snoll Tzar (which we won 2/2 btw). Well, we entered with PLD DRK RNG MNK WHM RDM and proceeded to kick the crap out of his fucking SAM face. Fight did last less than a minute, probably around 35 seconds. We didn't even have enough time to SC as we initially planned. Tenzen is a fucking sissy, now we know it.

So now i have sea, and I started having a little fun there...fighting UFOs and these weird sharks (more like half-calamari-and-half-rays). And started Limbus yesterday, and it's really awesome. We did what's probably the easiest route (slimes + crabs + bones + weapons) and got some nice loot (PLD SMN DRK SAM WAR item, and 4 coins each). And big numbers too, like 1600+ asuran fists with /NIN, and a DRK/NIN friend doing 2200+ rampages.

HNMs :

LS continued camping the 3 big things...with some success. Still no Ridill or M Body, but it will eventually come. I stepped down on camping, since I'm working on RNG as much as I can.

Sky :

Same here...LS continued, and got a lucky saturday with 2/2 osode :) More and more people are pimped and don't need anything more from sky...which is a good thing because sky is really getting old.

Crafting :

NQ'ed all I tried to HQ. Trying to get rid of the tons of shihei I crafted in the last 2 months. Need to find a new money-maker because gil is getting rare ><

Other jobs :

RNG is getting stronger...lv48 close to 49 now. NIN sub is making me weak though, so I will probably switch to WAR sub, at least until 55 and EBow. I first need to save enough gil to buy me one...Well despite the /NIN weakness, I often end up tanking, and it's not so bad, honnestly. All the AGI I stack helps me parry and evade a lot, and I sometimes have the feeling I'm a better tank tan the NIN tank. Thing is I only partied with morron NINs lately. The kind of NIN that don't count shadows, and only use ni because "JP pro NINs only use ni, even when tanking mobs like AV" (yes, a random NIN was stupid enough to say that in party chat...)

ToAU :

Still didn't do a single thing for ToAU, except install the expansion. Didn't even start the quest for the boatride from Mhaura to Al'Zhabi >< Lazy guy, huh ? But look, I got CoP sea access the day ToAU came out in store, so it will take some time but eventually happen :)

Yeah yeah, it's been a while...

CoP :

Went through a lot of missions since the last update...the big fights being :

Snoll Tzar : I think it was the most fun fight ever. Many, if notall my friends, have always been like "Snoll is a pain, you're gonna spend millions of gil and several nights, to finally beat him". Ok...we had PLD DRK RNG RNG RDM MNK and we completely annihilated it. We had it dead before the first salt effect disappeared. RNGs are pretty good for big dmg in a small amount of time, but looking at the damage parse, MNK is even better. I had standard lv60 gear and was using Red Curry, and was able to deal about 35% of the damage, with 2 RNGs going all out, and RDM doing chainspell fire II (or III ?). We did that BC again for a friend, the next day, and it was even more of a blast, with this time PLD DRK RDM RDM RDM MNK...chainspell x3 killed the mob even faster.

Omega/Ultima : Now that was a tough BC...we had PLD WHM RDM RNG DRK MNK, and won on the 4th try. 1st was our way to learn that mammets are weak, but require to be killed as fast as possible. 2nd was our way to learn that Omega is a bitch. 3rd was our way t learn that Ultima is very weak, and we shouldn't wipe against it. 4th was the moment we decided to kill all these fuckers with a single wipe. Yep, we wiped on Ultima, but it was actually a good way to ensure our victory, since the mob doesn't regen, and wiping gave us a fresh start with Ultima under 40%. Won with 6-7 minutes left.

Now I need to kill the little NMs so I can finally kick Tenzen's ass, and get sea access. This will happen soon, and yes, it will be right after ToAu is out, and yes, i'm fucking slow with these missions :)

HNMs :

My LS finally managed to claim some Fafnirs, and even got several kills. We also got a Nidhogg, and won my friend Leiah our first Adaman Hauberk ever. Still no Ridill, but it will come eventually. It could have dropped yesterday, since we claimed the post-update Fafnir, but one of our mages, who's probably been living under a rock for a while now, decided to stand behind Fafnir to cure our main tank, just when he got claim. Guess what....BAM ! Spike Flail...We tried to recover but couldn't, and another LS got the claim. But when the mob went at like 5%, it flailed again because of a running-around-BLM it seems, and a 3 LS got it and killed. Crappy drops for them, but who knows what we would have got, if we killed it...

It's funny to see how people get cocky...we had a discussion about how the uncappe Ouryu BC can be hard or easy, and several ppl in the LS were kinda having fun about me saying the BC is probably very hard. They were like "Hahaha we owned Faffy so bad, Ouryu is going down ! Strat is just to rush the mob, hahaha it doesn't stand a chance !"...well, I couldn't attend the BC runs, but they wiped at 80-90% every time. Same people explained me how easy was Jailer of Love...hello, we wiped to Byakko not that long ago, guys...Hint : Cock won't get you anywhere in this game ^^v

Got quite a few Aspids too, and I still didn't have a chance to fight it, since everytime we get it, it's 5AM my time. I want the funny title...

Got 2 KBs in the last 2 months, last one a few days ago, providing a Crimson Mask to my good buddy Gallie (grats on full Crimson !). About that big purple beast, I'm now sure I don't want a Pixie Earring. The critical hits bonus effect has been proved wrong, except for the 0.3% you get from 3 DEX, so Merman Earring (or even better, Triumph Earring) is clearly better.

LS tried Jormungand again, only to find out we obviously don't have the right strategy/skills/gear. Tanks are taking too much damage, pumping too much mp, and don't hold hate well enough. We wiped, restarted, and wiped again.

Sky :

LS continued rampaging sky, and getting nice drops from every god. Except Kirin of course...Not much I can say about it, I didn't attend most of the sky runs lately. I'll eventually do that again, but so far, I have been enjoying my break away from sky and the chi-blast frenzy.

Crafting :

Been slowing down with crafting, since I had a lot of gear to sell...Only thing I've been doing is friends' requests and paid orders...Still around 30% HQ for staves, which isn't bad, and no more luck on Shura, after 15-20 synths (togi, haidate and kabuto). I started a taru mule in Bastok, and started Alchemy. at 21 right now, planning to get it to 75+2. I'll get it to 100 eventually, but not in a hurry...

My Monk :

MNK is now complete in gear. I finally bought 2x Triumph Earring for 5.4M each, which is a lot better than the 13M they were at, last December. Not much to say, except I still like the job a lot, and I'm glad my LS is open-minded enough to let me and my MNK buddies melee our big fights...We proved that Fafnir can be fun with 2 MNKs in the alliance ^^v

Other jobs :

My RNG is alive and kicking ! I bought some gear and took it from 19 to 33, seriously planning to get it to 75. This job is really fun, and despite what ppl think, it still kicks serious ass against most mobs. As cautious as I can be with damage dealing (MNK75 do that all the time :), I tanked my way through the Jungles...My STR and DEX merits seems to help a lot at lower level, except for the hate management...

I cancelled all my BLM projects, because I discovered how boring is that job, through CoP capped missions. I like BLM a lot in exp parties, but not in anything else. So I sold all my gear, and made a whole lot of gil from it, so I could afford very good RNG stuff, and part of these Triumph Earrings i was talking about, earlier.

ToAU :

I'm not so excited about that new expansion...I have no interest in the new jobs, and the gear that's been added in yesterday's update is just meh. Most of the content seems to be related to that new conquest system, which doesn't look too interesting to me. I'll try Besieged, but let's say I'm not overwhelmed by what I read so far.

I'm under the impression that S-E is more than tired of keeping FFXI alive. Many things make me think this game wasn't expected to be a big success, and was supposed to be a first-step into the MMORPG world, leading to later very popular games, and not to a very popular, but very unbalanced and hard to update, game. RoZ was a very good expansion, sice it brought many new jobs, many new zones, many new mobs/NMs/HNMs, and a ton of content...and then CoP was nothing more than an annoying shit ppl thought they had to go through, to access some awesome, yet Zilart-like, content. this was proved wrong when LSs discovered it was nothing more than a time sink, bringing nothing better than RoZ brought 2 years before. So now, as ToAU is being shipped, I can't help thinking it's gonna be an even worse shit, that people will still feel mandatory to go through, only to end up disapointed by some ridiculously hard to pop and/or to beat NMs, that will most likely drop nothing, or a few Zilart-like items with minimal improvement.

Another big bad thing about the expansion : no new craft, and not many new reciepes except the crappy alchemy stuff that relates to the new jobs. I guess ppl will continue making money out of Silent Oils...

A lot of things to put in this entry.

CoP :

Managed to beat Diabolos and then Ouryu, both quite easily. Now I need to do complete the Sacrarium mission, which doesn't sound any fun to me :(

HNMs :

My LS was lucky enough to rule Behemoth Dominion in the last 20 days. We got like 90% of the claims, and overall : we don't bot. Got 4 KBs in a row, and the 4 fights have been huge fun, and good money rewards. We got 2 Crimson Masks and 2 Martial pieces, just can't remember which one he drops. I'm next on the list for Pixie Earring, too :) Farming Behemoth/KB gave us so many Behemoth Hides, that we got to a point we were too lazy to sell these =)

We also got 3 Aspid : a greedy one (shura feet onry), and two very nice ones (1 dalmatica and 1 crimson body). And a fuckton of Adaman ores, as money-makers.

On the Fafnir side, nothing new. LS killed it after another LS wiped when mob went down to 10 percent >< And no Nidhogg at all.

Sky :

LS did many many gods lately, to pimp as many people as possible. Except for Byakko, who has been a total bitch to us, all other gods gave us very good drops on their items. This includes Kirin, who gave a nice number of crimson legs, shura bodies, shinning clothes, and of course Osodes.

If you add all the /random i did, when lotting osodes (and there's been a lot), i'm not sure the total is more than 1000. Want an example ? Here we go :



{That's too bad.}

But that day, things got a bit more interesting :

(woot ! kill-shot !)



One chance out of 1000, to get draw lots. Well, this happened that day : Bloodanaki and I both lotted 978, which would mean we should have both re-rolled. But but but...Bloodanaki was nice enough to pass the Osode to me, which really made my day. And made a very pimped monk out of me.



Next pieces I'm interested in, are :
    - Shura Togi : I am an Osode fan, but Togi is probably better for exp, and since i still have a lot of merits to get, it will probably raise my DoT and make exp a bit easier. Read below for some exciting news about Shura Togi...

    - Triumph Earring x2 : It hurts to spend 20M in 2 earrings you're gonna macro for WSs, but every single person who tried these told me they really rock, so I wanna try these to make my own opinion.

    - Peacock charm : Only 3 more accuracy than my spectacles, but every accuracy I can get will be fine, and it's very usefull for lower level jobs. Now if that BC40 would drop these (0/9 now).

    - Sniper +1 x2 : Having these with Peacock Charm means being able to be Elvaan, use attack food, and still be accurate. Also awesome for lower level jobs. I would be even happier with Torreador ring x2, but these are simply too rare.

Crafting :





I finally hit 100 ! I can now focus on making money. Or I will, when I'm done with sub-crafts (Bonecraft at 54 and goldsmithing at 55, all others at 60). I've been lucky so far, with elemental staves (10/20 HQ'ed), but most of these were friends orders. I'm 2/6 from my own ingredients, which is basically break-even.

  1/1 on this one =)

I was asked by my buddy Fahna, a few days ago, to craft his Shura Togi. Since it's a pricy and risky synth, I was very nervous about it. Losing one of my best friends' divine logs is not something I would like to see. But we decided to make it anyway. We met at guild, I cut both Divine Logs to lumber with no problem. Still very nervous, as you can imagine. And then, I did the Togi synth :



Pressing the "ok" button was my most thrilling moment in ffxi. 20 million gil is a lot of money. But I pressed it anyway, and struggled with my own body, to keep my eyes open. And this happened :





It's a level 99 synth, with a sub-craft requirement. Which means it's a 1 percent HQ-rate. But over all, it's the most rewarding thing I ever had, from crafting. I guess it's my "one in a lifetime" synth. Amazing. I know of 2 others on Lakshmi, 1 I've seen when I was a very low level monk, about 2 years ago, and another one synthed last november by server's most known JP crafter Jangula. But it took him more than 1 try, to make it...So I've pwned him, and that's all ^^v

Now we need to decide if we sell it for 320M, like we agreed before I synthed it, or if one of us uncurses it and become the pimpest monk of Lakshmi. I'd love to uncurse it myself, but would also be very happy if my buddy did it. And 160 million gil sure would change the game. Tough decision.

It's been a while...and I have a lot of things to post. This entry is gonna be a friend-page-killer >< and a dial-up killer for sure :)

Been crafting a lot, to make money and to skillup woodworking mainly.

[yeah yeah forgot to screenshot 89...]



[yeah yeah forgot to screenshot 93...]

Got a few lucky synths along the way, while skilling up :

I'm now at 97.9, and that last .1 doesn't want to come...17 unlucky synths so far ><

Also been doing HNMs...LS got Fafnir, and fought it down to 10%, but wiped. It was a pretty intense fight, being our first real chance at trying him. It was sad to see us wipe so close to victory. But it was a very fun fight, and I really hope we get to do that again real soon. Got a few Behemoths too, been making money off the hides...

Got BLM up to 51, and discovered the joy of raping mobs, with the power of elemental staves...had a lot of fun with that, and levelled quite fast. Not sure I want to brng it any higher for the moment. I'd like to get a full HQ staves set first (signed, of course ^^v). Next job I'll be working on will be BRD or BST, in a static i'm trying to build.

Got back to CoP ! I did 2-5, which was a really funny BC. We were all stressed by people saying it was tough...but it happened to be a complete joke. I did it as NIN, and ended up being hit only by AOE spells and perhaps 2 regular hits. So now is chapter 3 !

Also did a few AF1s, MNK for fun (that ghost has a whole lot of HP), BLM and NIN too. Gonna do BLM AFs real soon.

Also, got a few evil numbers...

Also, here is what happen when I kill Kirin :

Of course, I didn't get the Osode. The guy who got it was MNK under 50 when I hit 75, and I even did his AF3 fight...sometimes, i feel like crying over the loot distribution rules (only relying on /random...which is pure crap).

And last but not least, had some fun with a big badass Scorpion ! And this guy raped us badly !

I'll try to post some more real soon...Gonna do a few Kirin runs next saturday, hoping i'll get an Osode.

No update for soooooooooooooo long >< Gonna try to add something this evening. Stay tuned !

How surprising, I've been crafting a lot, starting with woodworking :






...which leads me to :


For that, I crafted a few Cermet Lances, with tat along the way :


And also a ton of Kabura Arrows. And since theis reciepe requires bonecraft, I skilled on it at the same time :


I continued levelling BLM (which is now 39), and WHM (which is now 31). And since healing for MP is very boring, I decided to hunt for an item that would help me get MP faster.




aka "The Dark Staff of the Poor" :)

Huge update, with many good news :)

New summon :
S-E finally decided to add a new avatar, being Diablo, that dark based mob we saw in several of the previous FF games. His abilities seem nice, especially Phalanxga and that attack that AOE-sleeps mobs and DoT them.

New gear :
Awesome stuff for SMN (at last !) like this Bahamut Staff (MP+30 Summon Skill+5 Avatar Perp-3), and these new pants Bahamut's hose (kick attacks +6 breath damage -5%).

New Dynamis zones :
Valkurm, Qufim and Buburimu (Tavnazia safehold coming later too)

New AF2 pieces :
Belt and mantle I think. Read random posts mentionning it on BG forums, but since it's now allakhazam-esque, I'll wait for solid pictures to edit this post with better info. So far what I know is : Melee Cape (DEF:8 VIT+5 MND+5 HP recovered while healing +5) which is ok for MND bonus, but useless for most activities.

AF2 now upgradeable :
Every AF2+1 has a little stats bonus. Same as the new AF2 pieces, I'd like to see pictures, but so far I can already say I want to upgrade head and feet pieces :) It seems that you have to collect an AF2 piece, plus the -1 version of the same piece, plus a certain amount of currencies, to be able to upgrade.

Stay tuned =)