Puppetmaster~

Well...Been a real long time since I've had any real ambition to post because I really don't play too often anymore, however I've been playing Puppetmaster lately and actually enjoying it. ^^;

I didn't really understand how the job worked at first but as I got to play it and as I still do, I'm enjoying it more and more. While the job does require some pretty expensive parts, it's fun. I doubt I'd have the patience or capacity to take it to 75, but I spose it'll be another job to take to 37.

I've given though to taken MNK to 37 also, followed by BLU, followed by BST. With those jobs all being at 37, I'd have every job at 37 and can then decide which job I'd want to take to 75 next. I've considered taking BRD or something next to 75, but fear being a BRD whore to events and such.

As for latest accomplishments, I got a Wind and Ice Grip from a pick-up ZNM that I did with Coejus, which helped give me some extra cash since Puppetmaster was weighing in on my purse. Also I acquired Nashira Gages for my Summoner which is always cool, it's been a desired item of mine since I began ShutUpAndDance limbus.

I've heard about people being banned for duping items and such in Salvage and I've heard a few people who I knew were banned. :( To them - I hope it's a temporary ban and not a permanent one :/. Although you did violate the ToS...I don't know if you guys should be permanently banned from a game you've been supporting since and/or before North American release.

Anyways, I'm done for now. ^^ I'll post pics later or blog about how limbus goes later.

Recent things..

Well, I've been busy as shit in real life lately. Been doing this orientation program at school, been more work than I had originally thought, but it's been fun. Haven't been on FFXI much to update too much...But heres an idea of what I've been up to lately..

Thats me Dander and Danteyy trio'ing some ZM mission...it was pretty fun. Immediately following that I went to help my friend Devlinne with some Windy mission..Then I think I just got bored and logged off. The game has had trouble keeping my attention as of late just because of weak merit parties and lack of things to do. Recently burned with Looco, Sclera, Sirinity, and Stonemage and got like 20k in an hour, which was really nice.

Blau Dolch

So lately I've been farming a ton to get a Blau Dolch. The AH price on the has been fluctuating quite often between 1.7m to 1.9m and today I happened to have around 1.9mil and was shouting in whitegate. Sakurato offered to sell me one for 1.8m and I had noticed they had purchased it for 1.87m, so I decided to buy it. Which in return is this:



Pretty sweet. I've got a bad headache now. ><.

{Welcome Back!}

Well, I've just returned from an 8 day cruise. That was a nice little break from technology and a good vacation. We hit some rough waters through the duration of the trip and still, 3 days later, I am rocking with the waves. So today we did Omega and it went very smooth. Got Head, Hands, Feet, and Body. I got the body, which makes me 4/5 Homam, very exciting. :D
There you can see me in my schnazzy new body piece. I've been meritting lately and figured that Homam would be better on mobs which I use meat dishes for, considering its +15 Accuracy and +2.5% Triple Attack boost to my already 10 Triple Attack. I think it'd be nice for Colibri and such, but stuff I use sushi for, I imagine Raparee Harness being better with the haste +4%. I'm trying to cap merits in all things before I decide what I really want to do but I have left:

12 Merits to finish out HP/MP
27 Merits to finish out Attributes
21 Merits to finish out Combat Skills
18 Merits to finish out Magic Skills
9 Merits to finish out T1 Thief abilities
18 Merits to finish out T2 Thief abilities
A LOT of merits to finish T1&T2 Ninja abilities
21 Merits to finish out T1 Summoner abilities
21 Merits to finish out T2 Summoner abilities

141 merits to go.

Lord of Onzozo

Anyways...Notice how Onzozo looks like a catterpiller? Thats strange. Today Aable, Zang, and I went for it after Zeng had exclaimed on ventrilo that it had popped. They're a good bunch of people these fellows. I'll go into that later, perhaps when I get drunk or something... But heres the kill pic
That Shall Shell has to be worth so much...Not. Limbus has been going well. We had a little bit of drama the other day trying to do a triple run, but everything seems to have smoothed over. I recently got the finishes pieces to my Thief and Ninja AF+1 materials. I decided that the Rogue's Armlets were probably the only thing worth it for the thief equip and I'll go for the Ninja Chainmail +1 body. The +15% base agi that the armlets add make it a great piece for trick attack damage. My girlfriend recently stopped playing since she rarely played and I was paying her bill. It was fun while it lasted :p.

Earlier we attempted to do Hydra, but he ended up owning us because like 5 of us DC'd, but that was fun as hell.

Anyways, little post update...We did Cassie last night, which was a very interesting fight. We get there and Fishura's group had some trouble doing it, so they invited our group to the alliance, but that was kind of a bad idea because we just fed it TP and ended up nearly wiping. So everyone wipes and I'm left to solo it down from about 11%. Once I loaded up on evasion +, it could barely hit me, but it was still pretty exciting.

Swift Belt

Today was cool, my girlfriend hit level 8 as I PL'd her for a while. She's so funny..She was running around Zehrun Mines for like an hour trying to find the NPC for the first Bastok mission and wouldn't let me help her. Then she was so amazed by the auction house and didn't understand it until I told her that essentially...It's not an auction house.
Next was Limbus. We decided to do a split run, we failed the t1 run because of some confusion, but succeeded the t2 run, landing us one chip closer to another Ultima set. Limbus has been good lately, we've increased our numbers and turn out rate. I got WHM AF+1 material, but I tossed it because it's pretty useless for me now.
Then comes the Fomor Codex. I've had a Fomor Codex for a few weeks now and I decided to give it a go tonight. I threw together a random group from Whitegate and we set out to Sacrarium. So we get there, we start killing Stego's and Joelizzy lots for a Fomor Codex that dropped and got 997. So he gets the codex and then we move onto Red Mages near the Mithra pop room. After a few pulls I learn that I don't have the required hate...So we decide to keep kiling Fomor's around for subligar drops. So a Red Mage drops, and I convince Joelizzy to let the poor little JP RDM lot it, he agrees. So then DRK and NIN subligar drop and I lot both of them since I have NIN at 75 and I plan on taking DRK to 75 next I think. After a long while of killing Fomor's, I finally have enough hate to pop the Swift Belt NM. So I pop it and we fight it and I get it! 1/1 ! I was so excited, big thanks to Jurgen for sticking it through until 3:50 AM!
So after that we decide to farm more subligar, namely thief. Now Joelizzy's thief is 65 and mine is 75, with that being said I think its pretty fair that we both can lot any Gemini Subligar that drops. So on the last boss a Gemini Subligar drops and he rolls a 711...I stare at the screen and pray for a higher lot and roll a 832 (or something) and he drops party and proceeds to warp. I tried telling him that I'd help him tomorrow and that I had to go because it was 4:30 AM and my girlfriend was practically raping me... But he told me since I "renigged" on something I never agreed to in the first place, he'd never help me again. As I lol'd at that with my LS, a few people had stated some problems with him and labeled him selfish and a gil buyer, both of which I don't doubt. I felt bad for this one person who didn't get anything or cap their Fomor hate in the night so I told them to friend me and I'd commit to helping them sometimes tomorrow. So..recap: 3 Subligar and 1 Swift Belt tonight!

Girlfriend on FFXI w

That sexy Galka would be my girlfriend Daniella. She finally got the game! Lol, she enjoyed it last night just whacking the shit out of everything as I PL'd her a bit. She's kinda funny, she got mad because some guy was killing the crabs quicker than she was. Last night I just leveled Red Mage and PL'd her after I set up POL and installed it on her computer. It was fun~ , keep checking back for more exciting pictures.

Recent Accomplishments

Heya, don't know who reads this or cares to read it, but I have been doing quite a bit recently in game. Recently, Fishura and I have been maintaining the Shut Up And Dance Limbus shell. Things have been going well for us lately, we've been having great turn outs and lots of Homam Pieces dropping. I've been fortunate enough to get Homam Gambieras and Homam Manopolas
or however they're spelt. Also I've acquired Ninja Tekko +1 recently, which I'm happy about.


A few friends and I have gotten Boroka the past 2 days in a row resulting from 2 Horomusha Kote's. Not a bad fight, was kinda hard for me to tank at first, but the second time was way smoother. I got the Boroka earring, which is really sweet. Waiting for maintenance to be done and then its Limbus tonight.

Treasures of Aht Urhgan: O

Finally finished the Treasures of Aht Urhgan chapter of Final Fantasy 11, which means that I've completed all the expansions (with the exception of Apoc. Nigh). We ended up beating Alex by wiping with 2% left, then it Gospel of The Lost to regen to 5%, then we had to bring it down again and our Black Mage killed it with a Bio spell. I chose the Acc+4 Atk+4 ring mainly because Magic Accuracy does nothing for Summoner and its my only mage job as of now. Just finished my first run with Obsidian. It went well, I got the Key Item for Jeuno which is cool. I can't wait until I can start lotting some AF. The other day Looco, Soli, Jurgen and I went out to claim Adamantoise, but Aspidolechone popped in its place and we still got the claim. Ended up giving it to 1kn and helping them kill it. Was kinda funny. Random screenshots of recent things:

Katoke obtains...

AMAZING! I managed to throw together a random group of players that I know and we actually got it...Well...Kinda of, check this


Right before my voke I saw the DRK from the other party camping it use stun on it... It didn't get claimed offly enough because we had aggro hate~....Kind of cool... I voked it, attacked it and we claimed it. I'm so happy, I 've spent about a week camping this thing!! Well, I think I've kept my cute girlfriend up for too long~ GOODNIGHT!
Edited...had times and shit w

MPK'd at Shikigami Weapon fun! w

So today I decided to devote to Shikigami camping as I just got my SMN to 71. So we get there and we start at like 6. This random Japanese player Gaogao　decided to MPK us by zoning mobs we were near before we brough Shiki there to have them repop and aggro us. We got it down to 50% and it depopped then, only to have them claim it. So they got the robe.. the damn JP kept calling me mean and everything and I called a GM on them. The GM conversation afterwards helped make me feel a bit better~

Hah, so yea.. Spent the rest of the night getting my MPK'd level back with Faisa~ He's a nice guy...Hoping to try for Shikigami again soon eventually.

Summoner almost done

I've managed to grind out like .... 75k exp in the past day and a half. My summoner now sits like 12,000 to 70. It's going to be cool to have a 3rd job 70+. Anyways, since my summoner now nears end game, I figured it best to compile a list of things I need to get for all my end game jobs

Summoner:
Yinyang Robe - Very easily doable once I can find out the TOD of the NM.
Astral Signa - Perhaps not such an easily obtainable item, however a great way to reduce spaces in inventory at the cost of 1 Perpetuation (compared to HQ staffs)
Nashira Gages - Great item for Summoner's from Limbus. With the Limbus shell I have now and how it currently stands, with regular attendance this item will be mine the 2nd time it drops.

Any of the AF2 pieces from Dynamis would be great too, once I can start working in that area of the game. Suggestions as to what other end game pieces are valuable to summoner would be appreciated.

Ninja:
Byakko's Haidate - One of the most valuable sky items a Ninja can fetch. The haste +5% makes these a viable piece of equipment for any ninja.
Kirin's Osode - Not necessarily needed, but it should increase the output on some Jin's or Ku's.

Thief:
Basically for my Thief, I'd like to get the remaining Hectatomb pieces and perhaps pick up the Phomiuna Aqueducts subligar body as well as Bravo's subligar. As always, Assassin's Armlets are the ambition of any Thief.

Anyways, I gotta get up for work tomorrow and then do some limbus... Any comments are greatly appreciated :D.

Updates

Well recently I have been doing a lot of running around with the new expansion and I have to say that it is so discouraging that you have to run around that much. Also, not only do you have to run around, but none of the zones are the same so you have to find the entrances and such. The mobs are all like level 60+...Just such a weird expansion. So I finally completed Sandy and Windy quests up to mission 3 of the new expansion. I can't express how angry I was just sitting here running through zone after zone after zone...Such a fucking timesink. I completed my Summoner AF recently, kind of cool to have my first mage set of AF.

Also , we did another Omega run with ShutUpandDance Limbus LS and I was fortunate enough to get Homam zuchetto (Head). Relatively useless, but still looks cool. Acc + Haste is kind of cool if you cap out haste.

I tried camping Mee Deegi after maitenance...But some other random Galka got him with no drop. Such a waste of time really, I think I'm going to throw together a BC run to do that and try to get O. Kote and what not. I only need 3 more avatars (including Fenrir).

I has it.

Got Wings of the Goddess today. Been slow leveling in game lately. In between seeking for parties I'll usually jump on avatar runs. So I did Leviathan and Ramuh and the first part of my Summoner Horn AF.


Also did an Aquaduct run for subligar and lo-and-behold, I got the one for SMN. The most useless thing in the world. Nimbus Doublet .. lol. I think I'll stick with those hot panties for now. Nothing new really to report other than that! See you around~

Good Day

So I wake up at like 8 this morning ... To work on this god damn 10 page paper thats due 5PM Friday...And then I decide to log FFXI while I work it. So I decide to eventually hunt my SMN Temple of Uggalepih Coffer...So I head there and die once ... Forcing me to HP I eventually return to hunt the coffer. And I'm there against this lvl 50 JP SMN for like 15 minutes when I spot the coffer through the wall. This was after I told myself... "I'll just wait like until 9:30 AM at least before I leave" and the coffer popped at 9:28 AM.

So I get the doublet and I'm so happy! And then I have class and work ... So after work I attempt to camp the Toraimarai Canal Coffer Key as NIN and it took me like 1,000 EXP before I just gave up. Tonight my limbus shell did Proto-Omega and with much success we got 2 of the worst drops.

So that was overall a good run I spose for the people who were in line for those. Congratulations! Next I decided to go back to Toraimarai Canal for coffer key as Thief and on the last mob I finally got the key...
I decided to head back to Jeuno and help my buddy Bloodjinn do the Magicite Mission 4. We head to Castle Oztroja and I direct him toward the Mee Deegi The Punisher camp because there are a lot of people there.. So we're camping for twenty minutes and it pops!

Image courtesy of Bloodjinn.

Big ups to my little taru friend for voking it. Needless to say we didn't get the drop but taking it from Tohmane and Ryskar was fucking way TOO funny. I was lol'ing for about 20 minutes. So I just spent the rest of the night guiding him to the magicites. :D

Summoner AF!

I recently solo'd the Summoner AF BC against 6 saplings to get the legs. The fight was kind of hard as NIN/BLM. Took some concentration and a bit of luck and full evasion set. I also beat Titan again so I can eventually turn that in for the material for evoker's ring. Summoner has been leveling kind of slow. There are a lot of new players out there who really make partying a chore. Underequipped players tend to do that, and recently after Odin got flooded with a bunch of randy's from other servers. Helped Bloodjinn do his Samurai quest too yesterday ,that was kind of fun. I've been slowly selling things off to get money so I can start getting closer to get a vermy.

Well, recently I did some assault with CEC again, Croxx got some piece.
Also, recently took me 3 tries to beat Diabolos. I found out that SAM burning it rather than BLM burning it is a lot more effective.

CroxxExaminesCoejus

So I'm walking around Whitegate bored, seeking on SMN when this little dude says hi to me. It's Coejus. Coejus has a reputation for being a pretty respectable player from what I gathered. So he asks me to tag along Nyzul Isle assault as THF, so I do. We did 2 runs, only 1 Denali dropped from 60th I think. After our 1st run they gave me a pearl and we did the second.
On the 20th floor was Adamantoise, which dropped nothing for us. So then we decided to do a ISNM for Khroma Ore. We did 6 runs and eventually I was the only one who got the ore.
That was definitely cool, it eventually ended up selling overnight for 350,000 G, which was great because I was running low on gil. Paladin has been completed to 37 now, making it my 11th 37+ job. According to FFXIAH.com, only 4.994 million exp until Maat's cap! Thank you Coejus and Croxx and friends for the fun.

Long time!

I guess seeing GrandTheftChocoboo's new blogspot motivated me to write in this. Not much has been going on. I recently got into an end game shell, but haven't had much time to devote to it. I just can't stay in on a Friday night to play video games while I'm in college. I'd much rather be out drinking with my friends, so it's kind of a conflict. So I just level RoZ jobs in the daytime. I plan on getting all the RoZ jobs to 37 before taking SMN to 75. On a side note, I want to say that Paladin is a lot easier to tank with than NIN, I alt tab out and still have hate and barely have to pay attention. The new windower is awesome. I love the timestamp feature, its a nice little change from the old format. The recast plugin is probably the best thing ever invented. Anyways, I'm only about 5mil exp to maat's cap, so I'm going to go back to leveling.

Um... All Right!

Well, I just stopped doing homework and decided to go try for a Empress Hairpin so I can sell my Emperor's Hairpin for some gil. I logon, tele-altep, op warp to Valk and am there for less then 5 minutes when I see a guy running toward me. Immediately I turn around and spot a damsfly, I was going to attack it, but then I saw another in the distance. I run within 17 game feet, voke, kill and here's the result.

/hurray.