Old Skool

I had a pretty retro weekend!

Some friends just started playing again and we spent a lot of the weekend together as a group.

We had big plans to exp on Saturday morning in Abyssea but we got started a bit late. 11am to 2pm Saturday morning is pretty dead EU time; US just gone to bed and JP already well into stuff. And the EU players? All in bed with hangovers.

So, we had to abandon our Abyssea exp plans. I'd managed to get my NIN to 90 on Friday night and was keen to get my DNC to at least 45; I'd been intending to key in Abyssea. Since we were 4/6 we decide that some old school exp in East Ronfaure [S] would be better than nothing. My returning friends all needed to level sub jobs so we quickly found two other people and headed out.

Obviously it helped that I still had an allied ring and an anni ring but we plowed through the levels, easily getting chain 5s. We stayed for about 2 hours and I got 5 levels, which I was pretty pleased with!

Then, even more retro, we went off to the last fight of the Zilart missions. Everyone stops after DM and I just wanted to get it done. The fight didn't go amazingly. We actually wiped the first time (NIN90, DRG88, RDM75, BLM80) due to a failure to CC the surveyor-type mobs, which subsequently pwned through everyone's shadows making the AoEs very dangerous. This left us at extremely low health for the 2nd form. Then, our poison pots wore just as he came back and cast sleepga and that was it.

2nd time went much better. He was totally unable to hit me in his second form and was fairly easily tanked down.

Sunday we hit the old school exp again and headed to Garlaige Citadel to work on subs again. I managed to get my DNC up to 45 (finally), which was a good result!

I also spent some time crafting and got a few levels of this and that, here and there. Was good!

I also got a bunch of merits and capped out NIN Group 1 and Elemental Magic. Not exactly exciting news these days though!

That's a fine hat, Sir!

So~, those hats from AMKDE (can't see that being as popular as ACP or CoP as an acronym) look a bit nice don't they? At the very least you got some of the best multi-hit weaponskill head pieces in the game. Nice. And that mage head with a 10% chance of +10MAB and one less INT than the AF+1 hat? Woah, mama.

Unfortunately for me I think the BLM head is probably a must have, which is a shame because there is no doubt that PUP would love that head. Aside from the Acc. of an OHat but with some Att. there's some nice pet stats. -10% dmg taken? Not bad for the puny Automatons.

Good weekend just passed. Managed to take a chunk out of WotG Missions, which has to be good because we'll be seeing the end in a few updates time. Begin speculation on possible rewards: neck piece? I also found out I can rank up in Assault, just need that bloody hoofprint. Erm, oh, and we completed Three Paths (finally!) and we're now all set to to start the Airship battle. Hope to have Sea access within the month. Better late than never.

In other news, we flagged Dynamis Windy again. Much easier this time (prolly due to having 13 more people) and was actually pretty good fun. We got a bumper crop of drops, 16, our highest from one run so far. Sadly 4 of those were BST. Flag run in Beaucedine next week.

Almost managed to cap Evasion on NIN. Besieged plan working excellently ^^;

Have also built up a fair few merit points but have no idea what to spend them on. Could go some generic combat skills or keep hammering BLM. Hmmm.

NIN74 - BLM Merits

NIN74 finally. Crawling towards 75 with the speed of a striking slug. Admittedly I never LFP and do all my exp in campaign and with friends, so I can't be in that much of a rush. Feel a bit gimpy without my oHat though.

In other news, been meriting on BLM a bit with people from Hustlers. That's been great fun. Got another 3 merits and decided to unlock Freeze II. It easily outdamages my Burst II cos I have yet to get my Jupiter's Staff. Also means another AMII to cast in Dynamis.

More BLM Merits

I got a few more merits on BLM this week. Finished off my 4th tier of elemental skill and got my 1st tier on Lightning Potency. I had noticed that my DMG was capping when we farm in Sky so I figured it was time to start introducing the MAB.

Having said that I was nuking the pants off Byakko last night and I managed to do get off about 5 T4 nukes, all of which did less than 100 dmg. So, I'll still be prioritising Elemental Skill ;)

However, I have been thinking more about MAB gear; the two stand-out pieces being the hideously expensive sorcerer’s ring and the ugg pendant. We were also discussing the relative merits of Yigit and Goliard feet. I feel that the increased accuracy and INT provided by the Goliard probably outweighs the Yigit MAB bonus in many cases. However, considering that I am a) poor and b) not doing any Nyzul or Assault, this is not a pressing concern!

Merits, merits, merits

I need 34 merit points to cap the skills I want to cap and that's just the tip of the iceberg. That'll be thunder fully maxed out though. Chuck an HQ staff on that I should be looking at a pretty much minimal resist rate.

BLM Merits

So, trying to get some BLM Merits in. Vunkerl Inlet is just a godsend. Get about 10k an hour easy, 20k with ring. Managed to get 3 points to day and started on elemental skill ^^

BLM Merits

Finally got enough merit points for Burst II. Next I'm going to hit some easier ones: Lightning Magic Potency and Elemental Magic Skill. I'll do a couple on each of those and then start on Freeze II and Ice. Not having Blizzaga III lowers my priority on Ice for now.