Kyarutaru's FFXI Ramblespot

December Update!

2011-12-20T00:24:00.000-05:00

My update, not the game's! So! Since my last post, some stuff has occurred!


Absolute Buttcheeks

Well! Clave and I got invited by Sukasaroth to tag along to help out with an Absolute Virtue fight, and I got to go WAR and Ukon-smash his pasty hiney. Was a fun experience considering I've never messed with Sea stuff or even considered fighting AV before :D

And getting the killshot was worth it too ;o Drops were distributed to the actual LS members of Suka's group since we were just there for the ride (and title!)

Shortly after that, our old ZNM Group, Senkei, invited us to help them with a Pandemonium Warden fight! I went WHM since that's my strongest job. The fight took us damn near two hours with multiple wipes lol :X Thank Altana for Twilight gear!

Please note the amount of 0HP

And of course I got my 95 Mjollnir! I did some testing last night with Clave to finally help answer questions about Randgrith's "Evasion Down" effect, and we figured the effect to be Evasion -32 on the mob with no decay over time that lasts for 1-2 minutes. He's got his data he collected at The FFXIAH Forums. I'm also in the process of getting data for the Recover MP and the Triple Damage proc rate on Mjollnir 95 :3

I also got a new computer. cuz. Yeah. ^

Never Ask What's in Lufaise Meadows...

2011-10-05T23:13:00.000-04:00

So yeah. I hope you learned your lesson, Cell. Never ask what's in Lufaise Meadows.

Auto-follow GPS misgivings

This is what you get for pissing me off! Say goodbye to your {ball}s!


Hot action in Uleguerand~


Mjollnir's new description


... o what the heck is t.......... WHOAMG

Related to that last pic. I've gotten Ukonvasara since I last updated seven million years ago :D Still just 85 version as I'm casually gathering Orthrus Claws :> Been a fun alternative to play and rip through monsters and SMAAASSSHHHH. Also been leveling DNC for some fun and cute & sexy outfits! Can't go wrong with cute dresses!

Anyway, hope you enjoyed this picture-filled silly update! My LS should hopefully be delving into Voidwatch stuff soon so may update more once we start all that ^^ But really, we're just a small group of long-lasting friends so business is never quite srs.

Mjollnir Versus Jormungand

2011-08-01T18:57:00.000-04:00

Ever since I got Mjollnir a few years ago, smackin' Jormungand with it has been an aspiration of mine for the sake of the myth of Thor crushing Jormungand's head with his Mjollnir. I've never been (nor wanted to) be in an HNM shell so I never really had the chance to do this fight until recently. Duo'd it with Clave (Fugue) successfully! Took maybe about 40 minutes? Was a bit trickier than when we duo'd/trio'd(if you count Rydiah) Tiamat. :D Got my Herald's Gaiters off Tiamat at least, as well as a pair for Cellfish and for Showp.


buurrrnnn

Oh yeah. Forgot to mention I finally got 90 Mjollnir too >_> Was awhile ago, but I suck at updating this :D

WTH have I done in the past 4 months!

2011-04-04T21:34:00.002-04:00

Well. Let's see....

Finished Wings of the Goddess!


Let us frolick away!

Fun story and fun fights :D Definitely recommend people to finish em!

Finished Abyssea Storyline (aka Shinryu)!


Let down :(

Also got to brew Shinryu a few times, which is pretty disappointing. Magic WSes really shine with Shinryu so Hexa sucks. Highest I got though was over 12k.

Got all my AF3+2 for WHM and RDM!

Fun Taru POV screenshots lol

Did several lowman charrenges too, including killing Azdaja with just Me, Clave and Rydiah. Nice trick to avoid Spike Flail is to cure outside of alliance ;o

Helped Clave work on his Twashtar!


Tunga apparently died up on the rock after we killed it.. uhhh I'm too short to reach that

Gotta kill a bunch of Orthus now D: Need 50 more claws.
Random Fail! During one of the last rounds of Itzapapalotl killings we were doing, some other group was claiming Tunga just to piss us off and ran around and lost hate on it, so Clave grabbed it. The guy was sending Clave tells the whole time saying "Lol it didn't do idle, you should just die and let us have it!", completely full of BS. Needless to say, we killed it with ease got the key item and Clave said sarcastically, "Didn't go idle, eh?" and one of the others lied stupidly and said "Yeah ^.^ I got key item" lolol full of crap :P Sorry doods, been playing the game long enough to know when something goes idle or not.

Helped my other LSmates get their AF3!


Pompom warp ftw!

/jobemote NIN shenanigans abound in my small Abyssea group of friends :) Cellfish, Boatsoap, Zenairis, Clave, and me. Sometimes others like Coishin, our Loot Whore of the Week, tag along too. Coishin is granted this prestigious title from having over 200 instances of "Coishin obtains ____" in my chat logs since October 2010 from just tagging along on extra runs with us XD Congrats Coishin! (Thanks for not letting the stuff rot and go to waste! I'm glad you were able to benefit ^^)

Got 85 Mjollnir!


Yey

I had no motivation to get this done really until the update which reduced the number of kills drastically to like 300 or something lol then I got it done in 2 days. Waiting for the Dynamis update until I go for the Attestation mob kills :)

Got Chocobo Carvings from Clave! :D


I fkn love these <3

:3 I really love little decorations and cute things, even if they serve no purpose. That's why I have no inventory space :S

Took silly screenshots of Clave!

Thethe pantth are jutht fabulouth!

Did a whole bunch of other stuff I can't think of too, but uhhh let's say that Clave and I have done so much in the game that we can't really think of anything to do when we log on <_<

Oyeah, we redid our AMK hats too, I nixed the accuracy on mine and got WS damage +2% cuz accuracy isn't really an issue anymore in Abyssea. I've also changed up my melee gear to accommodate for the lack of need for accuracy, got Ziel Charm & Zelus Tiara and have no need to melee in Goliard Saio, so I use Redingote. I'll eventually (lol) update my melee set lists I have on here too :)

I'd also like to welcome back a fellow LSmate, Wari, to the game after a long hiatus :D Been helping him with nabby stuff like genkai and AF quests so we can eventually help him with Abyssea crap! In his return, he's also brought along some of his friends, so the LS is a bit livelier!
Also, Anaentar whom I mentioned in a post in December, is safe and alive and recovering well! Thanks for all your thoughts ^_^ <3 yay Anae~

Soon!

2011-03-31T23:52:00.002-04:00

I swear I'll update soon! I know it's been forever! Lots of new pics and shenanigans ahead! :D

Anaentar

2010-12-22T00:31:00.000-05:00

A long time FFXI friend, Anaentar, is currently very ill right now in critical condition at the hospital... To all who may know him or don't know him but sympathize, please keep him in your thoughts and hope for a speedy full recovery :(

HEKUSA SUTORAIKU

2010-12-05T14:51:00.000-05:00

Dis shiz gets its own entry cuz I'm proud of it! It's my highest Hexa Strike yet :>

Granted, yeah it's in Abyssea with all the crazy buffs and Mjollnir + Molva Maul and Razed Ruin/Sanguine Scythe but hey! Nice shiny high numbers from a Taru WHM! ;> heehee~

Pictures everywhere!

2010-11-22T01:07:00.002-05:00

Woo! All right time to finally update cuz people have been bitching! 8DThough I don't know why, cuz this blog is just an excuse for me to post fun pictures. Or boring pictures, either way. But let's see what I've been up to for the past few weeks, in no particular order! I just select the image I feel like talkin about and go from there :D

Oh yeah! So remember that Sippoy pic I posted awhile ago cuz he scared the piss outta me when I first saw him? Well, Clave and I trio'd him easily (and I still kept my distance....) Got his Atma!

We also fought his buddy Kutharei which we had the luck to find him up! He was a bit of a pain, but we had mroe than just me and Clave thankfully -- had Cellfish, Boatsoap, & Toren too! Got his Atma, Laurel Wreath, Navarch's Mantle, and... I don't remember what else, but I got those things 8D
.. Oh I thought I took a screenshot of "Kyarutaru obtains the Laurel wreath" but I guess not. So no additional screenshot there.

That night we bonked Kutharei was pretty productive in general -- fought Cirein-croin a few times since Toren needs his lanterns or whatever, and we managed to geettttt:

Whee! Molva Maul! I've since been able to play with it offhand with my Mjollnir using Razed Ruin and .... well I forget which other atma I used. Voracious Violet? Hell if I know I have a crap memory. Was able to pull out some nice numbers with Hexa Strike without food and such.

I did a 2600-ish one on a colibri but I can't find that screenshot >:|


Bonk bonk bonk. Stupid blinkmenot doesn't show my melee gear..

Been doing a lot of TE and Key item farming in Abyssea with just me and Clave. So we get to stare at big chests all day :D

This was a fun fight! Trioing Amahulak with Clave and I got to melee as well! I reckon I just spammed with Kraken offhand and pulled hate off him quite a bit lol He had to Accomplice/Collaborator me a bunch :3 Fight went pretty smoothly and we got the jewels and whatnot we wanted as well as the BST Axe thing which Clave got.

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During another farming session we bonked Carabosse a bunch for Toren. So here's a shiny pic. Nothin special, she's not too hard.

This corse thing was a douche. Hadal Summons bonked the crap outta some of my DDs if Barfira was down, but we still managed and took him down twice! If all else fails, run around the rock and try to avoid being hit! I like this screenshot :D

Inside its guts!

We were gonna go bonk this bigass Sandworm too after that Tit-corse thing last night but someone else was already fighting it so we just enjoyed the show! Lots easier to get fun screenshots when you don't have to worry about dying :o

And lastly! Cuz I took this about an hour ago... Trioing Ovni! Didn't get the haste thingy, but got my Augur's Jaseran thingy 8D We're camping it again in hopes to get the Bullwhip Belt* (dammit you fkrs the haste thingy! I don't pay enough attention!)! So off to pay attention while camping :X

ENJOY THE POST

BINCKLY BINKS

2010-10-27T18:00:00.000-04:00

I told you I suck at updating this! So this post is JUST FOR YOU! Well. And for Alpaka and Sushiroll too 8D Actually, let's make it for everyone BUT Bincks.

THERE.

... I'll have a real update within a few days :P Fun with Razed Ruin + Sanguine Scythe Atmas + Hexa Strike!

I suck at updating

2010-09-22T20:09:00.000-04:00

Ahoy! Lots of stuff since last update but I suck and don't take many screenshots :P Got WHM and RDM to 85 ad COR to 80 (And leveled Clave/Fugue's THF to 85 as well since I'm an EXP addict and Rydiah's WHM and BRD to 85 too..).


Hood looks kinda Assassin's Creedy

Got mah Orison Cap +1 in about two days worth of camping Whiro the Eft in Attohwa -- haven't worked much towards my RDM AF3 Hat or WHM legs and such, but I do have some seals for em cuz they're pretty sexy. So much stuff to do with all the Abyssea stuff :o Which is good cuz I likely will not be playing FFXIV -- my laptop isn't powerful enough and my part time job isn't enough to afford a new one :P I'll wait until 14 unsucks anyway if I do play, but I've wasted the last 7 years of my life on FFXI and I don't want to give up just yet!

I about peed my pants when I cam across Sippoy in Abyssea-Vunkerl... I even had a damn dream that night involving him wiping out my party of friends cuz he wandered near us ;~~~; Stupid FFXI infiltrating my brain...

Abyssea is kinda nice though cuz when I go on WHM I always go /DNC and can melee my heart out :D But uhh... I've gotten so many merits I don't really have anything left to put them in so.. I can't really go on Kyaru anymore (which is why I leveled Rydiah and Clave lolol). I don't really like Tahrongi though due to the lack of natural Ruby lights -- makes exp accumulation far too slow. I like frogs in La Theine. I haven't had much experience EXPing in the Scars areas (aside from a not too long party in Misareaux on birds which wasn't bad). Just anything but stupid Pachypodiums prz and I'll exp allllllllllllllllllllllllllll night.

I haven't worked much at all on the Mjollnir trials... it's just too many killshots and it's just really disheartening. I've written SE some nasty feedback about the relic trials. It's just kinda bullshit that after the years of hardwork we put into initially obtaining them, we have to put forth sevenfold the effort to keep them being the strongest of their category to beat out the new weapons they implement. It's easy enough just to say, kill some NM and BAM! now you can own a lance that you can use the relic WS with every 13 WSes or so with really nice base damage! Sucks. =/ Should just autoupgrade the relics to keep them the best :/ Not make us slave over killing over eight thousand monsters to do it. Granted, the stats on the 85 Mjollnir are pretty sexy but... that's still 5500 killshots away.... .___.

The main draw to getting Mjollnir for me was it's high DMG rating for a club to make meleeing viable, but a lot of these new clubs and such (like Molva Maul - DMG 65 Delay: 308 Latent effect: Randgrith) is better than my current DMG+8 Mjollnir, just without the Attack +20 and Additional Effect Recover MP. Just kinda sickening seeing such things after spending 150M+ on upgrading.

And ending off on a silly picture:

{Fake moustache}

Catch up post!

2010-07-09T03:24:00.000-04:00

Done a lot since the update! Been having a great time playing around in Abyssea^^ I've gone in groups from being just me and Clave to full pick-up alliances for exp/cruor farming. The first exp group we went with sucked because some idiot suggested Pixies over Gigas and well.. that was just terrible :P

The second one was pretty decent, though slow starting -- went after bees in La Theine and dinged 80 in it, meleeing as WHM/DNC the whole time :D

Oh yes, which brings me to the fact that I SMN Burned my DNC all the way to 49 since DNC has Dual Wield now, and Reverse Flourish is pretty fun and I'm able to self chain with it and Kraken Club ^^ KC is just plain cheating with Drain Samba II as well, sapping back a decent amount of HP per round of bonks.

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And in other news, which I made a brief emo post about upon finding out... not quite looking forward to the next two trials for Mjollnir... The first one involves 1500 more Randgrith killshots on amorphs. Ugh ;~; Painful.

And then 2000 killshots on Vermin... though the results are quite tasty :Q

Before even thinking about dabbling on my trials though, I've been helping Clave with his, which the first one is Arcana and I don't remember what his second is.. still have 800-something more to go for his first one before I'll bother dreading his second :P

Also been idlly working on some other Magian Trial things. I've got Culacula right now on the Urd stage of the trial path towards Gambanteinn. Though the likelihood of me ever finishing it anytime soon is slim, I figure it'd be a nice strong powerhosue option for offhanding when Kraken isn't wise.

And as far as another multihit Kraken alternative, I've started another club trial towards Naboot, though I haven't done the math yet to determine which final outcome to aim for for that yet. Still got a billion more trials for that before having to think too hard :> Plus uh, art major. I can't do the math anyway 9_x

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And lastly, I'd like to give a little shout to those of you who read this, such as Karri! Who was so kind as to send me a tell today! :O Welcome to Slyph, Karri! Hope ya like it here! :D

Update

2010-06-21T21:53:00.002-04:00

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3500 more finishing blow Randgriths....

Ding!

2010-05-05T18:13:00.000-04:00

Yaaaaaaaaaay!

lol Had just been talking to Clave to about fishing stuff (and how much moolah I've been rakin' in with Liks and Gugs and my rare skillups, then lo and behold! First fish I catch today grants me with the final .3 I needed for 100! :O ILU LIKS! FU GUGS >:O

Gotta keep mah fish pimp Clave happy! D=! so I'll still be fishing to get gil to recoup the costs of the Morrigan's ingots I bought at the server merge :P

Uleguerand Wildlife Control Services

2010-04-19T15:49:00.000-04:00

Are tigers hindering your trek to Bearclaw Pinnacle? Rabbits consistently humping your leg in desperation to reproduce? Then call Uleguerand Wildlife Control Services, your #1 source for pest elimination in the snow front!

... ok yeah sorry for that bit of cheese :P Just spent over 20 hours worth of time there slaughtering rabbits and tigers, landing the killshot on the with Randgrith for Trial 1064!

Another Hare taken care of!

But yaaaaayyyyyyyy finally done! And I don't even want to think about what sadistic thing S-E will come up with for the remaining relic trial(s) :| This was torture enough! ;~; Thankfully I had help from Clave 98% of the time to speed up the kill rate to about 80-90/hour, up from my measly 25-30 I was able to manage on my own. But yeah. fk Uleguerand. And fk wherever we'll be going to finish Clave's 2nd Amano trial on vermin ;______; Oh well, at least the upgrades are worth it!

Prior to doing this second trial stuff, Clave and I finished up the last of the WotG missions that are out and I'm dying to see what happens next, but gotta wait eternity for the next missions update and by then I will have forgotten the epicness ._.But that's why there are screenshots (and Goblin Footprints :P)!

Look away if you don't want some spoilers, but these were just cool lookin scenes!

Ok well this last one is unrelated, but I saw some random linkshell forming a line in Port Jeuno after finishign my Trial and decided to butt in :> HI RANDOM PEOPLE!

Trial of the Magians

2010-03-25T05:12:00.000-04:00

Welp! There was a big update on Monday which merged my poor server, Fairy, into Sylph... Which unfortunately cost Clave his name and all variations of it were taken too =/ So after a logn time of mulling over other choices, having been on a huge Eternal Sonata kick the past few months, he decided on Fugue. Previously people used to sometimes refer to us as Kyave or Claru, combining our names, but now, we are FUKYA! >:( Yeah! FU Sylph! /sigh. Hopefully one day he'll be able to get his name or some sort of close variant back ._. I still always try to type /sea all cla or /pcmd add clave and other such things. And of course I'll always keep calling him by his rightful name of Clave, and am gonna keep my Wedding Ring engraving of [Clave] as well :B

But anyway, lots of new updates like new summons and weapons and NMs and crap, but the main thing that caught my attention was the Trial of the Magians stuff cuz I could augment my Mjollnir! So I raaannn over to the moogle and looked at my trials... I had to use Randgrith 1500 times on lizard-type monsters. 1500 Randgriths. omg.

BUT I WAS DETERMINED!

So last night I went by myself to Kuftal... smashed many many lizards and got about 300 out of the 1500 needed before calling it a night. Was rather lonely out there by myself with nobody to talk to (well, I was yappin in LS of course :> but still..)

So today Clave and I went to Grauberg to target Wivres -- more resilient than weenie Sand Lizards which I could only get maybe 3 Randgriths off each before killing them.

And so we fought.

And fought.

For nearly half a day straight.

Until yayyyyy! Did the remaining 1200 Randgriths allll today with his help @_@ He was doing Marches on Rydiah and pulling and such for me while I constantly bapped the hell outta these stupid things.

And so I brought it back to the Moogle~

And voila! Mjollnir with DMG: +2!

My next upgrade is another daunting 1500 Randgriths, however... each of them needs to get the kill shot ;_____; Luckily Clave's 1st trial is on the same mob family as my second one, Beasts, so he can get his first upgrade while I work towards my second! Because the second upgrade is nothing short of drool-worthy :Q ....

DMG: +8

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Here's to more grinding! But sooo worth it for THAT awesome of an upgrade! Can't wait to see what the next trial(s) will be for relics! They better be good considering most, if not all, of each of the new weapons added can be augmented to equal or surpass each of their respective relics in damage ratings >:/ Culacula upgraded gets the same 57 base damage of Mjollnir which is bullshit, and one of the Great Katanas can be augmented to have 1 more damage than Amanomurakumo. So yeah. They'd better make these additional trials make relic insurpassable and indisputably superior!

Keep on fishin....

2010-03-18T05:02:00.000-04:00

Still fishing... well, I took a break for awhile but I'm back at it now.. alone.. in Quicksand Caves... but why would I endure such a oring task, with bites few and far between?

...because the catches are damn worth their weight in skillups!

0.3 at that level! Sometimes double skillups with Pelican Ring (Got a 0.1 and a 0.2 on the same catch the other day)

So hell yeah I'm staying here, even if I generally get a few catches per hour.

Meatballs are my standard fare of bait, but I just ran out a few minutes ago and am successfully catching more cave Cherax with a Sinking Minnow until I decide to go back to Windurst and sleep @_@ Which given that it's 5am... should be pretty soon...

Macha-cha-cha

2010-02-27T04:19:00.000-05:00

Tonight's Arrapago Remnants run was a bit crappy performance-wise, but the nice surprise of a Macha's Coat made it at least a little bit worthwhile! Since Cellfish already got his (since Morrigan's is his primary set, whereas it's my secondary even though I finished Marduk), I got this one ^_^ Granted, both he and I still need the 25 from Bhaflau and I still need to pop the frog that drops the 15 too, but those are cake in comparison to the rarity of the 35. Finally have a use for the gil I've been sitting on like a dragon the past few months. Not much out there that I'd wanna buy since I pretty much have everything I could ever want for WHM, but Clave wants me to try to pick up a White Tathlum sometime if I can land a good price for it (2.4M or less).

Also about a month ago I went out with my friend Coishin and a friend of his to Ru'Aun for some Fields of Valor. I had an extra Blue Cape with me amidst all the failures of augmented Rainbow Capes, and upon defeatign Eraser, I got a ncie little surprise of Accuracy +2! I know it's nothing fabulous, especially on a cape like Blue which decreases HP, but hey! I finally have a friggin back piece with accuracy on it for White Mage! Clave made another slew of Rainbow Capes for me the day before yesterday, so gonna try to get decent melee stats on one of those instead of having to use this Blue Cape. But for now it's better than Bellicose in my opinion! WHM severly needs as much Accuracy as possible since we can't use Amemet or even Accura or hell, anything really.. gotta augment away! So hopefully out of this batch of 7 I'll get something aside from stupid magic resistance crap >:/

Haven't been playing as often lately since RL's taken a hit, but just been finishing up WotG nation quests (finished Windy awhile ago which was badass), and did Bastok the other day and got a little bit done with San d'Oria too. Been slacking off as far as fishing goes :X Still at 90. And last Thursday, me and a few linkshell friends did some MMM meriting which was a blast! I'm hoping to gather them up again sometime so Clave and I can EXP my PLD and his RDM without havign to suffer through normal non-ToAU parties with strangers. It's a lot more fun with friends!

Until next time!~

Ebisu~

2010-01-03T23:25:00.000-05:00

Yay! Only been fishin for a few months now whenever I've got some free time and hit 78 (now 82) last week and racked up enough GP to get Serpent Rumors~ So now that the conquest tally has passed after turnign everything in, I was able to claim my reward from Irmilant~

:P And haven't had a chance to actually fish with it yet lol.

Marduk Jubbah Set COMPLETE!

2009-12-13T16:09:00.000-05:00

Marduk COMPLETE!

Started doing Salvage with my Linkshell back in about April (and had done a few runs prior with another group but never got 35s)and so now, 8 months later, I'm all done! Which ain't bad considering we only go Friday & Saturday and some nights had been cancelled. Unfortunately we haven't had as much with all the other sets, but we've managed to help others complete some pieces!

So now that I'm done with Marduk, I'll be going for Morrigan stuff without impeding on Cellfish's progress since that's his main focus set ^_^ I dun wanna be greedy so I've only been lotting the 25s and 35s he already had, or if he wasn't present for the run.

Nothin' else really going on that's new that I can think of -- Finished RNG to 66 for Maat's Progress and am currently working on PLD, which is currently 41. Also was the sync for the first SMN burn party I've done on my 13MNK and got it to 24 that way (200 from 25) :Q Sure is a convenient way to level jobs you don't care about! Sucks ass though if you do it for a job you want to take seriously since you'd be so super-gimped on skills unless you had em up from another job you leveled naturally. I'd love to do it again though given the chance :D

Rollin' in Marduk & Fishing goodies!!

2009-12-07T15:55:00.004-05:00

Had a very nice Bhaflau run this Saturday! The first Rampart was generous and gave me both 35 Marduk legs and 35 Morrigan hands and dropped a spare pair of 35 Marduk legs which nobody else seemed to want so we gave it to Rydiah. ^_^

And thus that completed #4 of 5 Marduk pieces! I'll be getting the 5th piece this weekend's SSR run since I suck and just need the 15 =X

I'll be focusing on Morrigan's afterward though not much priority on them since I don't use my RDM nearly as often as my WHM, but the pieces are still fabulous :Q

tra-la-la-la *prance prance in mah pantsu*

Now in Fishing News!

Clave and I both placed in this month's Fish Ranking contest and got our Pelican Rings!

Also after a bajillion Moblin Maze Monger runs, I finally got my Seagull Ring to couple with my Heron Ring I got not long ago as well! The drop rate as gathered by users on Wiki including myself is abyssmal -- ~3% Seagull, 7% Heron. But now finally both Clave and I have our sets :D

But not only that, at around my ~30th Gugrusaurus, I got my Saber Shoot for Ebisu Rod! lol now at weenie level 50 Fishing, I just have to get to 78 to flag the quest and get the guild item and BAM! Ebisu!

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And just some funny things :P

o_o interesting signature...

And I'm affectionately(?) called Club by Xti in my Dynamis shell and he thinks my bedsheets are ugly;~;

And a badass Fenrir shot from the most pwn CS in the game on the badass scale. The ASA final CS comes in first on the hilarious scale, but wow dude, do the WotG Windurst quests for this *_* Karaha-Baruha is my hero. O, well. And I guess all of Windurst's hero too :oa

A Tour and some new goodies

2009-11-29T01:04:00.000-05:00

Well, I figured it'd be kinda fun to show off my Mog House a bit ^_^ I'm a crap collector and my MH shows it :S;;; It's a lot like how my actual room is in terms of being pretty much packed with decoration and lots to look at~ I've got each of the various fish tanks, 3 Hobby Bo's, some eggies, my Emeralda from Alchemy and some miscellanous bottles in front of it to make it look more alchemisty.

All that Alchemy stuff is behind the folding screen in this pic, where the Behemoth statue is. I also have all my Chocobo Circuit trophies and the storyline trophies on display :D

Got my mannequin sporting Askar and some miscellanous gear I have lying around unused, looking at the Gold trophy and the Marriage Certificate above it ^^ Or maybe she's wondering why my fish disappear from the tank occassionally... You can kinda see my Christmas boot on the left side in the back... yanno, just in case Santaru decides to come early 8D

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Clave and I picked up our Matrimony bands/rings the other day too :D lol and he was on THF and didn't have an snazzy gear with him for screenshots >:(

Finished A Shantotto Ascension the other day as well with Clave, Cellfish, Boatsoap, and Klia, all from my social LS lolMatrixlol ^^ Was a fun final fight with THE best cutscene afterward lol but I won't spoil it for anyone! Go see it yourself XD Got myself the Tatsumaki Sitagoromo augmented with Haste+3 Accuracy +7 to be my new TPing pants on WHM meleeing :D

Been doing MMM a lot lately with Clave as I've said in the previous post when I got my Heron Ring and we get Brigand's Charts sometimes and both of us finally got our Penguin Rings from it ^_^ Yay. Still need to fish more though... fish fish fish..

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Flame is my favorite asian.

J-J-J-Jubbah!

2009-11-22T14:47:00.000-05:00

Was given a nice surprise in last night's Zhayolm run! We mainly did the run for the sole purpose of getting Cellfish the 15 Morrigan hands he needed in order to finish 'em, but we met the requirements for my 5th Floor froggie and lo and behold! She actually dropped!

^__^ And Clave had already bought Ingots to save up for his own Usukane body, but since he doesn't have all the parts yet, he gave them to me (with the condition I keep a sharp eye out for more ingots for him of course~) ^^ Yay! Finally that drawing I posted a few months ago with my char in Marduk's Jubbah is accurate ;o~

In other news! Clave and I have also been fishing a bunch as I mentioned in the last entry -- got ourselves some Lu Shang's and my fishing is currently 43 now and so we've been doing the newest Moblin Maze Mongers Voucher 08, Aquatic Depopulation Team to try to get some extra Brigand/Pirate's Charts as well as (mainly) the Seagull/Heron Rings added in the update. Clave's already got his ring set and we've been workign on mine but with no luck yet. Also been fishing up Bhefhel Marlins for the Inside the Belly quest and Clave got a few Pirate Charts the other day from his. And as ya can see from the screenshot, we got a Mercurial Kris on our very first one! Sold within like an hour for ~3.77M I think.

After doing the far-too-pansy-to-even-be-called-a-fight against Ramuh for ASA, I decided to solo Ramuh Prime as Whinja. Actually was a nice challenge because Shockspikes kinda pwned me with KClub when Stoneskin and Barthundra were down lol ;~; Stun ftl. He got me down to like 6HP at one point because of that, but I soon recovered and beat him down npnpnp

It seems I'm starting to gather a fanbase :O

Update!

2009-11-12T12:31:00.003-05:00

Well! Late last week Clave bought both of us Lu Shang Rods since he got em fairly cheap on AH, so we've been fishing a lot since then -- He's around 32 and I'm almost 29. Nothin' to boast about just yet, but I did come across an interesting scene at the Fishing Guild in Windurst...

It would seem that Babubu is to short to be able to sprinkle fish flakes into the tank so they all died.... Poor fishies ;~;

I also got my Marduk Tiara this past week as well, having gotten the 25 off the Arrapago boss. I quickly bought all the ingots I needed off the AH and turned em in ASAP so I could get my pretty headpiece :D

Nothing else really new in terms of gear (aside I guess from buying a Sniper's Ring +1 for my WHM melee set to use in conjunction with Toreador's), but been doing a lot of camping with these new NMs! Aiming mainly for the +12ACC 2 ring set as well as the HP/MP ones which would be a lovely replacement for Sniper's/Vivian's which take away my precious Taru HP and the +100HP overall would really help with my Sublimation pool too!

We fought Rapido a few days before the update -- nu drop of course. heck, no good drops off any of these NMs we fought below just yet aside from the STR thingy from Corrido, and another doohickey off Jenglot and a Likho Talon off Likho, whatever that's for.

In addition to all these, we also fought the Dyna-something Beetle in CN, Hyakinthos in Sauromugue [S], and Belladonna in Saruta [S]. Again, no noteworthy drops but we're gonna be persistant until we get them rings!

Kyarutaru vs. Kalokoko FIGHT! + other crap

2009-10-23T09:49:00.001-04:00

While doing FoV and helping Clave unlock Empyreal Arrow for his newly attained 75RNG, my NPC Kalokoko finally dinged 61 so I got to do possibly the most fun quest in the line of 'em! Fighting her one on one! It's kinda like a Maat fight 'cept versus my own personal midget -- I had to zoom in my camera in order to get good screenshots lol.

I went WHM/NIN of course which deermined her job to be RDM/NIN but she didn't stand a chance. I Hexa'd the hell out of her and she only got me with two spells, Sleep II and Water III, when she used Chainspell.. and the Water III only did like 30 damage since I had stoneskin up and all too. I have her in Seer's gear because on my own laptop I used to have those DATs swapped with a cute schoolgirl uniform and I just haven't swapped em on this one yet.

In other news, I got my COR to 75, having taken it up with Clave's RNG for a nice boost with Hunter's Roll. It's a shame I'll never really get to use COR since I have relic/KClub WHM, but it was still fun to level nevertheless! Got to put my Cobra Harness to use and my full AF2 set and Denali Jacket after getting 75 in that awesome party ^^ Could have gotten a higher chain but we had to get going.

Lately, Clave and I have been helping our LS friend, Phatdade, with his Windurst missions and, now that he's switched to Bastok, those missions as well, so I took a few screenshots along the way of our records and Dade's silliness:

Take that Tatzlwurm and Shadow Lord! Easily broken records with our small group! I melee'd against Shadow Lord but went RDM to Moon Reading, but having Clave there with his Amanomurakumo = rapeage in any situation.

Clave and I have also been trioing Limbus runs lately since the group we were in stopped going and we still wanted some upgrade items for our main characters and for Rydiah. Already got the RNG pieces for Clave and one of the BRD pieces for Rydiah and a RDM for me in just the few runs we've been doing whenever we've got the chance. ^_^ Getting around 20 or so ABC's each run too which isn't a bad profit for just being able to beat up the Elementals and various Enhanced beasts in Temenos or Slimes, crabs, and bones in Apollyon! The challenge of pushing through it together has been pretty fun (even if we did have a bad run-in with Shiva that one time...)

Trio Triumphs!

2009-10-08T03:30:00.000-04:00

Long time no post! Not much interesting over the past few weeks I suppose other than getting to Maat's Cap level, though today, Clave and I had some fun with trio challenges

First up in order to prepare for the second, Clave & I trio'd Bomb Queen, utilizing my Kraken Club to gain TP fast so that I could immediately switch to the summoned Bomb Princes & Princesses and swiftly finish them off with an assault of flying hammers with Hexa Strike. The fight was long, probably a little over 20 minutes, and we had to contend with sleeping the Volcanic Ash that repopped, but we easily kept it slept with Lullaby and Repose handy.

And so we got the ring for Clave, which he would use on his DRK for the next fight!

TENZEN!

Well, I suck and was too busy to take screenshtos during the fight, but I managed to get one at the end where Tenzen shamefully hung his head in defeat after we took him down in a little over three minutes, beating the former record of 3m26s held by 5 people, and we were just 3! Bwahahaha!

So now finally Rydiah has Sea access and can spend the Ancient Beastcoins we've been saving to get her Loquacious and Musical Earrings. Finally~ Also will be a good help to have her around when we low man farm Limbus with just us.

Next order of business is just more EXPing. I'm still hoping to aim for Maat's Cap but would also like to finish my COR to 75 (current 63 -- leveling together with Clave's RNG~). I've also been wanting to take advantage of the whole Astral Burn craze before SE figures out a way to nerf it so I can get my SMN up fast with little pain. Hopefully I can mooch in some SMN Burn parties on BLM too in that case.... I just want those dreadful jobs out of the way since I don't really have any desire to suffer through hours of lfg as a gimp WHM or undesirable old-fashioned nuker who has no place in the TP Burns of Today.

Until next time!

Updated WHM Melee setup

2009-09-05T23:40:00.003-04:00

All right! Well.. the post from before with this info was from back when I only had stage 4! Update time!

This is for WHM/NIN while bearing Mjollnir & Kraken Club!

Melee TP Set:

Tiphia Sting (HP-25 Accuracy+2 Attack+2 Evasion-4)
Walahra Turban (HP+30 MP+30 Haste+5%)
Peacock Charm (Dark-10 Accuracy+10 Ranged Accuracy+10)
Suppanomimi (AGI+2 Enhances "Dual Wield" effect Sword skill +5) (When /NIN)
Brutal Earring (Enhances "Double Attack" effect "Store TP"+1) *If No KClub
Swap: Minuet Earring (STR+1 DEX+1 Minuet: Accuracy +3)
Swap: Diabolos's Earring (Accuracy+3 Dark weather: Accuracy-3 Magic Accuracy+2)
Swap: Fenrir's Earring (Daytime: Attack+10 Nighttime: Ranged Attack+10)
Goliard Saio (DEF:42 HP+42 MP+42 "Conserve MP"+5 Enmity-5 Haste+4% Set: "Magic Def. Bonus")
Blessed Mitts +1 (DEF:19 MP+18 MND+8 Haste+6% Enmity-4)
Sniper's Ring +1(Accuracy+7 Ranged Accuracy+7 DEF-12)
Toreador's Ring (DEF:1 HP+10 Accuracy+7) ~3M
Bellicose Mantle (DEF:3 HP-10 Attack+6)
Swift Belt (Accuracy+3 Attack-5 Haste+4%)
Tatsumaki Sitagoromo (DEF:31 INT+2 MND+2 CHR+2 Aug: Haste+3 Accuracy+7)
Blessed Pumps +1 (DEF:15 MP+20 MND+4 Haste+3% Enmity-5)

Alternate swaps based on day/time are Fenrir's Earring, Fire Ring and Thunder Ring.

Hexa Strike Swaps:

Selenian Cap (DEF:19 MP+20 "Conserve MP"+3 WS Accuracy +15 STR+4 Attack+5 Accuracy+10)
Light Gorget (Latent effect: Increases weapon skill accuracy and damage)
Royal Redingote (DEF:40 MP+20 INT+5 MND+5 CHR+5 Aug: Attack+10 Accuracy +10)
Triumph Earring (STR+2 Fire+11 Ice+11)
Swap: Fenrir's Earring (Daytime: Attack+10 Nighttime: Ranged Attack+10)
Healer's Mitts +1 (DEF:14 MP+15 STR+7 MND+7 Healing magic skill +15 Enmity-4)
Marduk's Crackows (DEF:20 MP+3% MND+10 Enfeebling magic skill +5 String instrument skill +5 Summoning magic skill +5 Enmity-4 Set: Enhances "Fast Cast" effect)
Royal Army Mantle (DEF: 9 STR+2 MND+2)

Randgrith/ Mystic Boon Swaps:

Selenian Cap (DEF:19 MP+20 "Conserve MP"+3 Aug: WS Accuracy +15 STR+4 Attack+5 Accuracy+10)
Breeze Gorget (Latent effect: Increases weapon skill accuracy and damage)
Triumph Earring (STR+2 Fire+11 Ice+11)
Swap: Fenrir's Earring (Daytime: Attack+10 Nighttime: Ranged Attack+10)
Royal Redingote (DEF:40 MP+20 INT+5 MND+5 CHR+5 Aug: Attack+10 Accuracy +10)
Healer's Mitts +1 (DEF:14 MP+15 STR+7 MND+7 Healing magic skill +15 Enmity-4)
Rajas Ring (STR+2~5 DEX+2~5 "Store TP"+5 "Subtle Blow"+5)
Triumph Ring (STR+5)
Royal Army Mantle (DEF: 9 STR+2 MND+2)
Potent Belt ( DEF:5 STR+3 Accuracy+8)
Blessed Trousers +1 (DEF:33 MP+30 MND+7 Haste+4% Enmity-6)
Marduk's Crackows (DEF:20 MP+3% MND+10 Enfeebling magic skill +5 String instrument skill +5 Summoning magic skill +5 Enmity-4 Set: Enhances "Fast Cast" effect)

Marduk Crackows ゲットだぜ！！！

2009-09-05T17:59:00.002-04:00

Yay! Finished my first piece of Marduk gear, Marduk Crackows! Thanks to everyone in Rub Club for helping me get these pwn bewts! They'll be in my enfeebling and divine sets mainly but I might have em in my standard base set for awhile just to show off... even though nobody can really see shoes on a taru to begin with....；－；　　And Clave calculated for me that the Marduk would be slightly better than Creek F Clomps for WSing by 1DMG & -4ENM versus the 2 Attack the Clomps have over it. Thanks for the numbers Clave!

And grats Cell on the 25 Morrigan's piece that ya missed out on the last time since you weren't there and I got em instead! lol but I'm glad you got em this time ^_^ You deserve it! Even though we only drag you as THF now ＾＾

Also did a bit of campaign the other day and just like taking screenies~ Which, honestly, the main point of this blog is because I like to post my pics haha and to show that I can be pretty effective as melee WHM and have tons of fun doing it! These two pictures were in mid-Hexas and were just cool poses while Clave and I obliterated the Yagudo forces.... though I did eat dirt quite a few times in FKN against the NM hahaha... we all did lol;;;

Well! We'll be doing another Salvage run tonight and I'll be updating this post if we're lucky enough to get anything more!

Slavage, Art, and Vali's Bow!

2009-08-30T03:49:00.001-04:00

Well! My Salvage group, the "Rub Club" (don't ask), has been doing fairly well lately and we got ourselves some drops in today's and yesterday's runs! I got Macha's Pigaches and Bodb's Slops to pimp up my RDM once I complete the pieces, but that'll be for a few months yet until we move onto Arrapago and such. Marduk stuff is still my main aim since that pertains to my WHM, but I would also like to have some nice pwnness for my RDM considering I already have 6/6 AF2, even though it's fairly rare for me to be on my RDM instead of my WHM -- but I want it to be awesomely geared for when I do have to use it!

Clave and I need to do a few assaults to scrape up some more points for future runs, but that's no problem for us anyhow. It's a nice change-up of pace and quick and easy to do RvB. Just run in, piss em all off, and run like hell while Clave slices down the leader super-fast lol.

YAAAYYYYYYYY lmao Clave and I just decided out of boredom to run up and check shadows. There were two other people up there but they were wandering around and then *Pop*! Claimed, killed, V.Bow! That saves us a good 4.5M for whenever I take my RNG up! Clave already has his :) But this is 1/1 trying for my own! Super-duper lucky and awesome!

In other news...~ New art!
It's a portion of the banner I did for FFXIVFanart.com which is elongated and much smaller than the size I worked at, so I wanted to make a separate piece from it to show the work put into it ^^~ Was a nice opportunity to draw my character of course and the other taru in the picture is kinda based off my friend Cellfish, though with a different hairstyle. And I just plain love leeches, titling this piece (With Clave's input!) "Leech Huggers". They're cute little monsters, all squishy and bouncy and I hope to be able to sew myself a Leech plushie once I have some freetime to do personal projects like that :3

Enjoy! And leave me comments so I know people are reading this ;__;

Kupo Stuffs + Hexa Hat!

2009-08-27T06:00:00.000-04:00

Wellll~ My LS friends and I finally finished the A Moogle Kupo de'Etat missions today~ Spread out over the course of two tries however... we failed the first time due to bad luck :X So screenshots are mainly from the first try.

Chamber of Oracles fight! Everyone else died so well, I stepped in with my Mjollnir and finished Nanaa Mihgo off! Bwahahaha!The second run we did of this went a bit smoother :P No deaths at all and I didn't have to step in with my Hammer of Doom.

Kupenreich was kind of a dick, but we managed the second attempt just fine ^^ Clave died once, as did Flamedancer, but they utterly raped that Moogle down from the final 50% with a stunning 8102 Light Skillchain :O Was pretty awesome to see and a great relief to finish~

And Yay! I got my lovely Selenian Cap augmented with STR +4 WS Accuracy +10 and Attack +5, making it an ideal piece to use for my Hexa Strike build as well as good ol Randgrith and Mystic Boon, too! I'm very happy to have this beauty in my arsenal now -- much better than Optical Hat and Voyager Sallet for Hexa and Randgrith respectively.

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Overall I rather enjoyed Moogle expansion, despite its tedious little tasks ya have to endure. But hell. Didn't have to do a damn tower run and that's definitely a plus in my book! ^_^

Nyzul Goodies & Merit Allocation

2009-08-17T06:58:00.009-04:00

My Salvage/Nyzul Isle Static group, dubbed "Rub Club" (lol don't ask..), did a bout of 4 Nyzul runs this past Saturday since some of the usual members weren't able to make it. We were just 5 people (4 players though! One dual boxed :3) and since I've got a Kraken Club now, I was able to melee ヽ(^◇^*)/ We were lucky enough on our first run to see a Denali Bonnet drop, which went to me ^^- Nothing on second run, and another Denali Bonnet on third run (which Boatsoap passed on so Rydiah the dual boxed char with no jobs to equip it got it ;_; I don't think Boatsoap has any jobs to equip it either, but at least he's not a BRD-bitch alt account hahah). The fourth fight we ran out of time at 1% HP on the Cerberus boss
Very fun overall and I'm very happy to have this Kraken Club to mess around with ♥ Heck, I meleed some of the time during last night's Dynamis-Windurst run even!

Also I decided to compile a char of my current merits with the help of how merits are displayed on the FFXIAH site for those who may be interested in what a melee WHM uses ^_^
All of the ones displayed are capped or at the stopping point of where I'll be meriting them with the exception of Enfeebling Magic, which I may or may not add more into, but I do play on meriting Enhancing and maybe Elemental Magic as well in that category.

Other future merits I have have planned to get are Lower Enmity, but I will have to wait until I am finished leveling Paladin before doing that one! And well, I guess I should also put a merit into Protectra V even though I don't find it to be worth it, but at least it's extra shinies :P And in the same category, I might put a few more merits into Shellra V (maybe more in Devotion but ehh not sure.. other important things to merit for now!) And don't worry for those who may be aching over my lack of RDM oriented merits -- I am always a WHM first, but I also don't like to be gimp on my other jobs ;o so more RDM merits in teh future as well as they may be permitted :>

♥ K-k-k-KRAKEN CLUB! ♥

2009-08-15T04:17:00.006-04:00

A few weeks shouting and 46M gil later... I finally got a Kraken Club!
^^ It's an early birthday gift from Clave to me (my birthday is Aug 21 :3) since it was his currency we sold in order to get the gil needed to afford it. ♥ So thank you veeerrrryyyy very very very verrrrrryyy much Clave ^___^ 大好きだよ~

And so, after equipping the crazy club and switching to Whinja to dual wield it, I went out to do so campaign and give it some fun usage!BAP

This shot shows the club nicely ;o

Uhhhh RMT Faerie train!

Inevitable death by Behemoth ;___; lol the damn spikes ate me alive and then a Yagudo buttraped me by surprise.

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And then since I had done so much campaign I was able to rank up to the Stars level, so I used my Allied Notes to get:

and

The Cobra Harness will be used primarily for my COR once it's up there ^_^ It's currently at around 64 I believe (YES I do have jobs other than WHM lol). And the Sturm's Report (which I can't help but pronounce it the same way as the Colbert Report :P) will be for landing enfeebling stuff on both my WHM and RDM. I didn't post a pic with stats but it's Magic Accuracy +2 for those who don't know~
I don't have enough AN just yet, but I plan on probably getting the Fourth Division Brunne in the future to use with my NIN (75), BST(68), and SAM(67). ^^ But no rush on that cuz that'll cost me something like 112,400 AN and I think I've only got about half that now after buying the Harness and Report.

Oh yeah, and I've had a lot of people ask about my Hexa and Mystic Boon damage so I'll be sure to take more screenshots int he future to post :D

WHM Meriting with JP players!

2009-08-08T04:49:00.003-04:00

Well! This was the first time I've merited in a long time and also the first time since I've finished my relic ^^ I looked for party and ended up being invited to a Japanese one. The leader initially had asked if I could come RDM, but I was able to convince 'em to let me stay as WHM ;o~

I was quiet for a little while, doing my normal haste cycles and curing and normal WHM duties... But well, that didn't last for too long before I started bonking stuff, regaining my MP through the Additional Effect of Mjollnir as well as spamming Mystic Boon and keeping Sublimation up -- havign a BRD and a COR in the party was a great help for restoring my MP as well :D ^_^ The Japanese players turned out to be pretty impressed with me... the BRD, Endlicheri, especially seemed to have taken a liking to my abilities xD

[04:32:23](Tifarno) 白かっこいいｗ (This WHM's so cool!)
[04:32:32](Goushu) いいねｗ (I know right lol)
[04:32:45](Endlicheri) うらやましいw (lol I'm jealous)
[04:33:11](Endlicheri) うまいなぁw (So skilled!)
[04:33:27](Endlicheri) ・White Mage・・Impossible to gauge・

But yay that was a pretty fun experience ^^ Hopefully next time Clave and I can start our own meripo and maybe give me a dedicated DD slot to just mess around with, though I personally don't mind how things were handled for this party either since I was still abel to keep up with my WHM duties as well without slowing us down :D

Little Things Here & There~

2009-08-04T17:58:00.008-04:00

Yay! This past Sunday's Dynamis-Beaucedine run was rather kind to me (despite my body not being too kinda -- had been sick with an upset tummy!) ^^ Won RDM body, making me 6/6 for all the RDM AF, including Duelist's Belt! I haven't yet updated my Spellcast to accomodate the body since I don't use my RDM but so often especially now that I have my Mjollnir, though I'd be more than happy to attend whatever as my RDM :) It may not be as pimped out as my WHM, but it's not ghetto by any means ^^ I still hold the most pride in my WHM gear and all my wonderful signed [Clave] gear on it <3>

Also! As you mighta noticed, I like to draw and such (Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration/Communication Arts)~ I had stayed down at Clave's place for 2 weeks in July and doodled up several sketches while I was there~ So I'll go ahead and share em here!~:

Kyaru versus Orc

^^ Kya and Clave~

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Flamedancer getting mobbed by Bouncing Balls & Anaentar and his wyvern Ringo sipping some tea

Clave with his Amanomurakumo in his future fullset of Usukane~

Annnddd good ol Cellfish and Boatsoap... the goofy brothers who never fail to provide entertainment for the linkshell and during our Salvage runs together ^_^

Also been on a KClub hunt lately. With RL closing in on both Clave and I (particularly pressuring for Clave's case), he decided to bow out from his progress of upgrading Yoichinoyumi, and as an early birthday gift to me, is letting me use to gil made from selling all the currency he had saved up to get me a Kraken Club to Duel Wield with my Mjollnir. Neither of us will really have the time to be able to camp NMs as stalwartly as he wave been able to over the past few years, so being able to gain the gil to upgrade Ybow in any reasonable amount of time just didn't seem possible.:3 Thank you very much in advance, Clave~! ^^ Just need to find a seller who is willing to sell a club to me at a reasonable price (not ridiculously expensive like 50-60M :P Club isn't worth THAT much tbh) *cough* So if you're reading this and have a Club to sell or know someone who has one to sell, send me a message! I'm willing to negotiate!

Bappity bap bap bonk

2009-07-09T08:17:00.008-04:00

Well, I've been contentedly enjoying being able to whap things with my newly acquired relic, Mjollnir. Also made a little pixel doll of Kyaru in melee TP gear~ Well, minus ugly turban and substituting pretty Bridal Corsage :3 ( Base credit to PinkVanilla )

STOP! Hammer Time.

Hehe a friend pointed out on the FFXIAH site when I posted this screenshot that I seem to have a vendetta against Yagudo, haha. I do tend to do a lot of images of beating Yagudo up, don't I? Hehehe.
Been doing Campaign more often than I used to (which was roughly never -- campaign was part of my Hate Everything phase after my mom died, but now I'm liking things again finally) and was invited by Emukat to join them in whacking some Yagudo cuz they wanted to see Randgrith :D

O and I enjoy this screenshot since a) I did more damage than Clave! and b) Our damage numbers are reversed! 795 vs. 597! lol

And a crit with triple damage proc! Not shabby against a Quadav!

*__* Oh yes and teh new hats for the reward fro Kupo d'Etat... omg.. Supreme Hexa Strike Weapon Skill Piece incoming! STR +4 Weapon Skill Accuracy +15 & Accuracy +10 Attack +5 will most likely be my augments. With the advent of this peice, Maat's Cap is no longer a priority. *_*

MJOLLNIR COMPLETE!!!!!!

2009-06-29T05:30:00.010-04:00

MJOLLNIR: COMPLETE!

Yahoo! After tonight's San d'Oria Dynamis run, Carion was willing to trade me 947 Bronze for 947 Shells, enabling me to finish super fast! Xtinae (who is almost done with Yoichinoyumi!) let me borrow the remainign 30 M. Silvers, and many many members of both my social LS and my Dynamis LS tagged along with me to The Sanctuary of Zi'Tah as I turned in all my currency and such to receive the first and only Mjollnir on Fairy server! Hell yeah! I didn't get much time to play with it though since I felt pretty awful and sick, but I'll have PLENTY of time from now on to mess around and bonk the hell out of things!
It's too bad though that the original Mjollnir owner was a Galka (who can be pretty stupid in Campaign too, btw) but oh well! Now anotehr cute little Taru's got Thor's Hammer to weild! WATCH OUT JORMUNGAND! DIS HAMMER WAS MADE TO SLAY YA!

Took a bunch of screenshots, but here are just a few! Lots of fun group shots with LS friends :) Took uhhh many tries to get the motion synchs to be decent :P I was really happy though to have so many people come out for me ^^ Despite all the jokes they may make about me and my Club, I know they still have supported me the whole way through and well, even to me lolClub jokes are funny :P Because I've got the facts to strike it down! :D
Also, looking at the stats in the attendance spreadsheet for my Dynamis shell, I only ever bought 31 100s and probably got around that from all my sponsored runs. Most of my currency was purchased outside the shell, but still, having the privilege to sponsor and be able to purchase 100s cheap @ 500k helped speed along my progress. However, to any people who are considering sponsoring or are doing so now, you HAVE to be able to afford every 100 that drops on your runs AND be willing to buy a crap-ton of currency outside the shell, otherwise you'll never finish.

The ability to sponsor is a wonderful way to afford a relic more cheaply, however, in a shell with so many sponsors such as mine, it should not be your only source of currency obtaining :)
Good luck to the rest of the pwnED sponsors! Xtinae, you should be the next one done! Also I'm hoping Clave gets in as a sponsor soon too so he can upgrade his Ybow. He's already got Stage 3 and since we work together for gil, he'd be able to finish super fast ike I did! Money is of no issue, and money is exactly what ya need to upgrade a relic.

I told Harperu he was scary :<
I love leeches~ bonk bonk bonk!

Ba-da-da-daaaaaa! Mjollllnniiiirrrrrrr!
Gear info is detailed in an earlier post if ya care to see :) I don't settle for crappy gear >:O

Next Objectives!: Maat's Cap & Kraken Club (Purchase or BC)

=O it's under ONE THOUUSSAAAANNNDDD

2009-06-27T21:59:00.002-04:00

..ok so I passed the over nine thousaaaaaannnddd mark a longass time ago so I figure a countdown over being *under* one thoussaaaannnddd is more appropriate at this rate! But yes! Finally less than 1000 coins to go! As I type this, I currently have 6049/7000 for stage 5 omg ;__;
I'll have my bappin stick soon enough! Then I just need to get that fkn K. club :P

Gya! Just excited, had to post! won't be long before ya get to see an obnoxious completed post! :D! :D! WITH WHM MELEE MERIPO POWAH. Maybe idk :o I dunno what I wanna do first when I get it xD Except christen my first unlimited Randgrith as a miss :> For is tis Relic tradition!

So we'll see soooooon enough! /dance /dance

ZNMs + Progress Update

2009-06-26T01:44:00.007-04:00

Did a Tier IV ZNM today, Sarameya. I wasn't completely altogether with myself, having had a rough day and wasn't in that great of a mood. However, Oracle's Cap dropped the first fight and I won, though in retrospect I should have passed it to someone else who needed it more than me since it's really moreso a resting piece it seems, which I simply use Goliard Chapeau for. Two Aurum Armets dropped too, one from each fight, so congrats to Barlow and Faeryl who got them~

Also, Gathered up a few more singles currency-wise, which puts me right at 90% completion! So close! Clave and I did three Up in Arms runs the other night but no luck. We've done so damn many of those runs to no avail, which is to be expected really. Though I do reaaalllllyyyy need a Kraken Club to go with my relic. He and I agreed to set aside the purchasing of Imp. Wootz Ingots for our Salvage pieces in order to save up enough to potentially just buy a K. Club. And with our steady income, it shouldn't be an issue, though I do tend to spend a ton on currency, which is my absolute priority anyway. For runs I sponsor I like to have at least 4-5M on me. Currently I have double that :D

Update:

So went out and boguht an M. Silver in Rolanmart! So 55/70 now~
Fifteen more M. Silvers to go.... Just fifteen....

Excitement~

2009-06-14T21:55:00.004-04:00

Well, I'm pretty excited about my progress at the moment! Under 20 more M. Silvers to go until I've got my shiny hammer to bonk things with at will. Still don't have a Kraken Club to accompany it though which is crucial... Been working on trying to get that for a longer time than I've been working on my relic itself D: Then again, who hasn't? Hopefully as Clave and I work up towards getting our Maat's Caps, we'll gather enough seals to finally get lucky on Up In Arms and claim a K. Club for ourselves ^_^ For now I'll have to settle for Perdu Wand :P But man I wanna be K. Club spammy! Would have nice overall damage output with that, I believe. Clave and I were talking and will probably try to farm seals through leveling low level jobs or duoing the painfulness that is BLM (which both of ours are just around 38-40 range). Duoing is always nice since the seals are guaranteed to ya. Also especially nice duoing when ya have an outside healer and it's just nice since ya don't have to fuss with lfg or dealign with crappy people n_n~

Hurrhuurr. I'm actually in the middle of one of my Xarcabard sponsor runs as I'm typing this bit of my post. 40 Bronze, 22 Shells, 21 Bynes right now, no luck with 100s D; My Iceland runs tend to suck 100s-wise whereas my city runs rain. We'll be fighting Dynamis Lord though tonight so that'll be a guaranteed 100 ^_^ Hopefully a Silver or Jade :P I'm also eligible for both ring and mantle drops if they happen to drop. Always been outlotted which is fine ^^ The players who have gotten them hopefully have given them some good use. Most people though would probably scoff at the thought fo a melee WHM getting them though, but I do have other jobs yanno! Workin' on Maat's Cap I'll have everything at least 66+ and potentially all to 75 one day!

Overall run I got I think about 164 singles or so and a Jadeshell off DL. Got over 100 of both Shells and Bynes I need to trade and get rid of for more Bronzepieces. I've made a new seller friend too who contacts me frist to sell Shells and Bronze to before she bothers putting them in bazaar :D Thanks Mistweave! Also need to get in touch with that Japanese player and see if he has anymore bronze to trade for the shells I just got -- traded a bunch with him last night.

Back to Dynamis land, DL also dropped a Shadow Mantle which Toth was winning with a 900-something lot, and he was thoughtful enough to pass it to Lester who had the next highest lot. :D Just want to give a shoutout saying that Toth is pretty damn cool for doing that and has earned a lot of respect from me and hopefully others for his selflessness ^_^

Ahoy Captain!

2009-06-14T03:38:00.004-04:00

Woo! Got Captain rank the other day~ Did Khimaira last so took a group pic afterward. So now can just spam the crap out of Red vs. Blue to get Assault Points for Salvage.

Then got a pic of Clave in his Goblin costume holding his dagger up to poor Tarus hassling them for their gilz.Aaannndddd shiny dat mod for staves! Makes the world prettier.

Also, I'm 50/70 now for Mjollnir. :P Still can't convince Clave to let me 'borrow' the 19 M. Silvers he's got, hehe. but he doesn't enjoy those jokes anyway :/ Should be done by summer's end at least.. Next rotation for Sponsoring will starts oon and I'll be on San d'Oria so I'll be raking in the bronze faster then.

Current Coin Count

2009-06-05T00:45:00.003-04:00

Had to screenshot my currency count to confirm with my LS before they make the sponsoring calendar for next rotation, so I figure I can post it here too!

So I've got 356 Tukuku Whiteshells available to trade for Bronze, so hopefully I can shout in Whitegate and find someone. Clave had some extra Bronze himself so I traded him around 280 shells which was nice and quick. I sponsored a Windy run tonight and got 270 singles and bought the 2 Jadeshells that dropped. I've got two Xarcabard sponsors coming up in a week and a half which'll yield even more crap I need to trade off :P

Other than Dynamis-related stuff, Clave and I continued doing more of the WotG Bastok missions and got our Goblin Belts!.... and I suck and didn't take screenshots while he and I and Rydiah were in Windurst Walls prior to Dynamis all wearing the costumes :P Oh well, another time! But I do have a screenshot from our last Tav Run where we were all in Choco costumes so I'll post that instead :>
And in other news, Macchiato the RMT was banned. Though it seems Kingy, Kylei, and Soe are still around =/ I'll get em banned eventually I suppose....

Claw Hunting

2009-05-29T20:10:00.006-04:00

Just a few screenshots from gnole farming for one of the WotG missions. Clave and I were out bonking Gnoles for a good hour or so and only saw one stupid claw drop, though we didn't have any TH to begin with.

This unlucky dead sucker was nice enough to let me hack off a claw of his to use for the mission. We stopped after that for awhile but later that night, clave had gone out on his THF and farmed up two more for himself and Rydiah. Bastards have an awful drop rate :/ Said it took him another 30 minutes to get the remaining two.

But I do enjoy being able to mindlessly bonk things and this shot just had a lot of shinies from my Hexa Strike and such. With all my gear swaps it's hard to get a shot that shows the correct gear too, and well, this one's no exception lol. At least the Redingote is shown though since that swaps in for WS, but Optical Hat should've been on (unless I had forgotten it? Possibly.. was pretty tired and didn't have every bit of my armor with me). Because of teh gear swaps and all, a few other screenshtos I had tried to take didn't even have me in them sicne I blinked! lol Oh well :P At least my NPC, Kalokoko, was seen 9_9 Ripokeke is Clave's tomato taru NPC. Kalokoko is in full Seer's cuz at one point I had dat modded the Seer's set to be either a schoolgirl or a maid (had changed them intermittently). lol Dat modding taru clothing to gender-specific things is quite funny since both male and female taru share the same body XD So it's amusing to see little boys running around in skirts and the like :P

Old screenshot from 2006 during my CoP static days. Poor Cellfish :P

Macchiato~

2009-05-24T02:50:00.003-04:00

Hehe so I talked to Macchiato more today 00 he asked if I had anything to do with him being sent to Mordion Gaol last night... but I denied it to all ends ;o

To be honest, he's actually a pretty nice guy, but I still have to report him for being RMT :/ I do feel kinda bad for him - he's 21 years old without a home and this is his way to feed himself, but dude, he needs to find another way to make money. I do hope his RL gets better and he doesn't have to resort to RMT to push by and can actually progress in his life with a better job. I'm really surprised at how open he is with me, a normal American player <_>.. Probably a little too trusting for his own good since I had to STF him, but still.

He even said to me he was considering quitting or at least leaving Fairy server. ;o I told him to push Kingyrje's group to switch servers too lol. I do enjoy how he hates Kingy's group as much as I do and he deliberately camps against them because he hates em so much. Last night after being jailed he was so upset and bummed he purposefully Mijin Gakure'd and had his other char, Finish, Chainspell Raise, die, raise, die, raise, die over and over.

Maybe he's lonely and has no friends whcih is why he's so confiding in me? His English is rather good too - he said he only studied it for three years but his teacher taught him 6 years worth in that time so he was always #1 on the tests in his city. lol :x Also said he gets huge headaches staring at 3 computers all day (3 characters) so he actually hates camping lol so why RMT ijdk

Overall, RMT suck and still have to be reported and dealt with, but I'm glad there are some nice, non0jerky ones out there who aren't just robots camping and claiming and being schmucks. So sorry for your inevitable fate, Macchiato, but at least you're a nice guy (named Dong Wang lol)

lmao RMT admitting he's RMT!? Plus, GM of pwn!

2009-05-23T04:14:00.004-04:00

Oh boy... this has got to be one of the stupidest, gullible RMT out there...

lol flat out admitting in the log that he's RMT from China and know Kingyrje, Kylei, and Soegotme are too.. FABULOUS

AND THEN THE BEST DAMN GM EVER OMG!

^^^^^^^^^^ The important info^^^^^^^^^^^^

But yeah anyways, please report Kingyrje, Soegotme, Kylei, Macchiato, and Finish to the Special Task Force :) They're all RMT (Finish is Maccihato's other char). Macchiato's nice and all but well, sorry dood, yer fkn up my game too! lol Good way to end tonight before bed ;o~

New Drawing

2009-05-21T22:07:00.004-04:00

Photoshop CS2 + Wacom Intuos 3

Gear shown (for nerds):

Marduk's Jubbah
Blessed Trousers +1
Cleric's Mitts +1
Triumph Ring
Toreador's Ring
Brutal Earring
Triumph Earring
Blessed Pumps +1
Mahatma Cape
Mjollnir

Hexa vs. Randgrith

2009-05-05T07:26:00.006-04:00

Maikeru asked why I've been using Hexa over Randgrith in Dynamis. Well, Hexa Strike is just friggin broken. Six hit WS with crit mod! Can't get much better than that! 7 hits if /NIN and 8 if double attack kicks in, all with that crit bonus. Dynamis mobs are just kinda blegh in general as far as being able to churn out damage for me and was just looking for numbers the other night, which Hexa delivers moreso than Randgrith.

That is not to say that Randgrith is not a good weapon skill. It's only single hit, but /NIN gives another hit (I was /SCH in Dyna so no extra for me) and the -40EVA to the mob +20ACC aftermath on myself is plain awesome. But for Dynamis mobs, well, it's more useful on thiefy mobs and the like, but not really worth using if a THF has already tagged it with feint. The damage output may not be as stellar as Hexa Strike, but then again it isn't a multi-hit crit-modified WS. Attack would probably have more of an effect for Randgrith's overall damage (hence my Redingote's augments of +10 ATT and ACC)!

So is upgrading club kinda just like the reason MNKs upgrade Spharai? Ehhh kinda, cept Randgrith's a little more useful in my opinion with the Feint-ish effect and accuracy bonus. Though in a similar fashion to Spharai, Mjollnir is an incredible upgrade base damage0wise versus any other club, and the highest base damage of any single handed weapon in the game (discounting h2h since that factors in skill and other things -- just talking straight up base damage on the weapon itself). Mjollnir's base damage is 57. The highest damage rating club under that is the 46 that Brass Jadagna +1 has. A full difference of 11, so it definitely is quite the upgrade in that sense. Other relics damage rating versus second highest damage rating in their class seems to be just a difference of a few (2~5) so 11 is just plain crazy of an upgrade in that sense.

Other situations where Randgrith would be preferred to Hexa Strike is for long fights, where the -EVA/+ACC would be more helpful than say in Dynamis or Merit parties where the mobs die too fast to be worth it. Hexa would be a more viable option then to churn out the damage and keep kills fast. Also in situations where I've got high attack but low accuracy against a mob, Randgrith would be better to boost my accuracy and since attack has a more significant effect on a one-hit WS such as Randgrith as opposed to a multi-hit critical mod WS like Hexa Strike.

:D Does that help clear anythign up, Maikeru~? n_n So Randgrith has its uses in particular situations and Mjollnir is far more of a significant upgrade compared to other relics. The end! Now gimme yer Silvers, Maik >:/

Hexa fun!

2009-05-03T23:53:00.005-04:00

Bapped some pots today while in Fei'Yin just to see what I could whip out damage wise. This is with /SCH so I'd probably be able to easily break 2000 offhanding Perdu Wand as /NIN :o I'll have to test that out too. :D

Melee'd a bit in Dynamis-San d'Oria tonight as well, parsing neck-and-neck with the MNK and THF in my party (me 17%, them each 20%) which considering I still had to cure, haste, and auspice and such, isn't bad if I do say so myself ;o Used Meat Mithkabobs since I didn't have any accuracy food which is moreso what I need, and again, /SCH. Was fun, but as always with the seemingly forever-lasting that is Dynamis, got tired towards the end and didn't melee as much. Full cleared though as usual. Something like 340-ish coins for sponsor (too bad the sponsor wasn't me ; ; 40/70 M. Silvers towards Mjollnir!) I won't be able to sposnor a Sandy until next rotation which I believe starts late June ;_;... I have a Windurst sponsor coming up in a month though and will be planning to trade all the shells I get for bronze ^_^ so still progress!

Three man Ouryu~

2009-05-01T11:10:00.004-04:00

Trio'd Ouryu the other day no problem. Was a fun little challenge with just me, Clave, and Rydiah (NIN NIN BRD setup). The former time record was 14 minutes with 6 people so we laughed how we did it faster with just three :) Had a good stockpile of Mistmelts so the fight was cake! Fun times ^^

Yeah! Heavenly Fragment!

2009-04-24T00:42:00.006-04:00

^This pic was actually taken at last Thursday's xarc, not tonight's... :x Lagged too much tonight

lol while Clave was busy being Randgrith'd to death (after a few pwn Kaitens of his own) I squeezed in a Hexa Strike with my Gullintani (Feint was already on otherwise I woulda done Randgrith right back at it!) But yaaayy~ Got my fragment finally! Now all I need are coins coins coins!

Afterward we went for a few more fragments other people in the LS needed, all to great success! The Knuckles didn't like me when I Hexa'd them though.... But congrats to Xorn and Rewt on Mystic and Ornate fragments, respectively!

Nerp, back to the old

2009-04-18T23:25:00.003-04:00

Back to the old hair style I had. :S Clave didn't like the new one (and I was wavering on it myself) so back to the more cute and innocent long hair~ I did like the messiness of the pigtails, but the makeup was a bit much for my taste.

Helpin' Nang's Amano + new hair?

2009-04-17T22:56:00.004-04:00

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First up. Trying out a new hair dat from ffxidats.com Been awhile since I've had my original pigtails, and these are pigtails with ATTITUDE! Too much maybe? Not sure yet. Gonna try it out awhile and see if I want to keep it or if it's too bitchy, to revert to my normal long hair style. I like how the long style looks in hats better though.

Also~ Helped Nangongwentian by lending him the final 30 M. Silvers for his Amanomurakumo!

;___; I'll have one of these myself one day....

Animated Hammer

2009-04-17T21:03:00.005-04:00

Animated Hammer fight last night in Dynamis-Xarcabard. :P Unfortunately the mofo ran. Not all the satellite hammers followed the THF and just picked off our mages. Hopefully next time! I'll be needing this fragment within the next few months to finish Mjollnir!

Melee White Mage Setup

2009-04-12T16:42:00.008-04:00

I've got my WHM Melee/WS sets listed under my Item Sets on FFXIAH, but I'll also talk about em here for anyone too lazy to look :3

My main meleeing set focuses primarily on Haste, capping out at 26% so I am able to get in as many hits as possible. When /NIN I'm using Gullintani main hand and Perdu Wand offhand until I get a Kraken Club.

Melee Set:

Tiphia Sting (HP-25 Accuracy+2 Attack+2 Evasion-4)
Walahra Turban (HP+30 MP+30 Haste+5%)
Peacock Charm (Dark-10 Accuracy+10 Ranged Accuracy+10)
Suppanomimi (AGI+2 Enhances "Dual Wield" effect Sword skill +5) ( When /NIN)
Brutal Earring (Enhances "Double Attack" effect "Store TP"+1) *If No KClub
Swap: Minuet Earring (STR+1 DEX+1 Minuet: Accuracy +3)
Swap: Diabolos Earring (Accuracy+3 Dark weather: Accuracy-3 Magic Accuracy+2)
Goliard Saio (DEF:42 HP+42 MP+42 "Conserve MP"+5 Enmity-5 Haste+4% Set: "Magic Def. Bonus")
Blessed Mitts +1 (DEF:19 MP+18 MND+8 Haste+6% Enmity-4)
Ulthalam's Ring (Accuracy+4 Attack+4 Assault: STR+4 DEX+4 Adds "Regen" effect)
Toreador's Ring (DEF:1 HP+10 Accuracy+7) ~3M
Bellicose Mantle (DEF:3 HP-10 Attack+6)
Swift Belt (Accuracy+3 Attack-5 Haste+4%)
Blessed Trousers +1 (DEF:33 MP+30 MND+7 Haste+4% Enmity-6)
Blessed Pumps +1 (DEF:15 MP+20 MND+4 Haste+3% Enmity-5)

Alternate swaps based on day/time are Fenrir's Earring, Fire Ring and Thunder Ring.

Hexa Strike Swaps:

Optical Hat (Accuracy+10 Ranged Accuracy+10 Evasion+10)
Royal Redingote (DEF:40 MP+20 INT+5 MND+5 CHR+5 Aug: Attack+10 Accuracy +10)
Ulthalam's Ring (Accuracy+4 Attack+4 Assault: STR+4 DEX+4 Adds "Regen" effect)
Volunteer's Brais (DEF:28 MP+20 Accuracy+6 Besieged: MP+100)
Light Gorget (Latent effect: Increases weapon skill accuracy and damage)

Randgrith/ Mystic Boon Swaps:

Voyager Sallet (STR+3 DEX+4)
Breeze Gorget (Latent effect: Increases weapon skill accuracy and damage)
Triumph Earring (STR+2 Fire+11 Ice+11)
Royal Redingote (DEF:40 MP+20 INT+5 MND+5 CHR+5 Aug: Attack+10 Accuracy +10)
Healer's Mitts +1 (DEF:14 MP+15 STR+7 MND+7 Healing magic skill +15 Enmity-4)
Rajas Ring (STR+2~5 DEX+2~5 "Store TP"+5 "Subtle Blow"+5)
Aqua Ring (STR+2 MND+5)
Royal Army Mantle (DEF: 9 STR+2 MND+2)
Potent Belt ( DEF:5 STR+3 Accuracy+8)
Creek F Clomps (DEF:9 HP+35 MP-35 STR+4 VIT+4 INT-3)

If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know ^_^ So far this has all been turning out great as far as efficiency and damage but I'm always open to suggestions. I do plan on substituting the Aqua Ring for a Triumph Ring once I can get my hands on one since it will be marginally better. Maat's Cap and Marduk's Jubbah are also works in progress for these sets.

ACP Finished!

2009-04-12T16:37:00.005-04:00

Finished the mini expansion A Crystalline Prophecy last night and picked up my nice shiny Royal Redingote! Augmented to suit my WHM melee style~

I haven't had a chance to really use it yet though, but I'll know I'll get a lot of use out of it in all my WS sets.