Tempus Fuggit

Time flies.

Has been a good few weeks. Have made a lot of what might be called "steady progress" interspersed with some monster win.

First the bad, still working on NIN evasion. Flipping nightmare. Have had a fair bit of advice on how to cap it including getting buffed with Phalanx II and getting battered by Pucks in Den of Rancor. That’s worked ok except I had to /RDM myself and could only take about 11 hits before I had to zone. Something that has worked much better is Besieged and the “nullify physical damage” drink. Is it the Fool’s or Fanatic’s? One of the two. Anyway, I discovered if you pop that and run around in the bastion for a 10-15 seconds just as a new wave enters you can get a pretty good battering. Consistently pulling hate in Besieged is a bit of challenge so this works much better. To refine the method I’m going to sub either BLM or WHM and cast –ga spells to make sure EVERYTHING aggros me.

Good news: we made some more progress on CoP. We’ve now done Promy V and I’ve done two out of the Three Paths. Just need to do the other one this Saturday and we can low-man all the way to the Airship battle. Duoed the Disaster Idol on NIN/DNC with a RDM/NIN which was fun.

Best news: I got my BLM Relic body! So, I’m now 5/5 on BLM Relic and 40k better off now my Black Cloak has sold! Admittedly the coat is a massive luxury but there’s something quite nice about having a set. I also feel pretty vindicated in my decision to leave my old Dynamis shell. Whether it was due to their numbers, schedule or points system I could see very little chance of getting any gear with them within a respectable timeframe and investing 7ish hours a week for no foreseeable return didn’t seem all that great. I see people on their points list who were above me still waiting for items.

My new shell, Hustlers, weren’t even planning to do Dynamis when I joined (they did Sky and Einherjar) and so I got in on the “ground floor” when we started, which has to be the very best way to get any end game gear. However, our points system is pretty cool and has so far ensured a nice spread of gear with only those holding out for THF hands or RDM hat getting nowt. Myself I have had 4 pieces of nice gear, which is pretty high BUT that’s about all the gear I do want until we hit Dream.

Jobs wise: I got THF to 37. Seems stupid to have to level a job just so you can farm without looking a tit; NIN75/THF12 just don’t paint the right picture. I had terrible trouble getting invites though and never one managed to get into a party over level 30. As a result I never used Trick Attack once. Such a shame considering what a massive part of the job it is. I was actually forced to solo my last two levels in Rolanberry Fields. Bloody bolts ftw!

I’ve heard Magic Mortar and Sneak Attack + Dragon Kick is pretty good on PUP for big skillchains, so it’s not entirely pointless.

I guess that’s about it for now.