Alright, well here's just some of what I've been up to lately:









Been leveling my Pankration mob and doing the usual shit with Sclera. Made some nice gil lately. The market kind of crashed after the update and Gobbiebag items didn't quite sell as much as people had hoped. We've been running ANNMs lately too and managed to get a Star Sapphire to drop, which ended up being like 500k a person, pretty cool.

Katoke's Tarutaru Day Care Center!

Been pretty busy lately, Sclera and I have been doing a lot together. Whether it be camping KA, to getting organs for Gorgets, to doing hagun ENM, we've been pretty close lately. He said it the best when he said that the game goes a lot smoother when you got a ride or die buddy. Here's some pictures of what I've been doing lately...

Tarutaru Day Care Center!

Tarutaru and 1 mithra, or MANTHRA as Teffy put it. Was pretty good, got about 6 merits or so in that party alone.

Here is Looco showing off his impeccable dying skills while Sclera and I are farming organs.

And here is a picture after I called a GM because it looked like Jokers was holding Ixion, but they managed to actually get people there...I thought it was funny because I was /anon and the GM knew my job z0mgg!! At least GMs still have a sense of humor.

Got a Khroma Ore ... That was a highlight.

Helped Malasia do the Mercurial Kris NM shit, biggest waste of my 2 hour, but Aable gave me 5,000 gil because the Albatross Ring dropped! (100% drop -_- )

Hagun ENM Success. Was a nice bit of cash, was able to fund HQ staves I bought off a friend for half AH price.



Sclera , Fiftygill and I doing KCBCNM.... And Sclera and I hitting the elevator up right as Fifty comes into view LOL. Fun.

That's pretty much what's been going on lately! Einherjar with LB has been pretty cool lately, Sclera got E. Body last Odin run, so congratulations to him, he deserves it. Did some Ixion with LB and stuff, but not much has been going on lately. Term 2/3 is coming to an end here, so I will be having a new and more flexible schedule lately I think, as I only have 1 class everyday from 12:30-3:40 or something. I also hit 4/5 upgrades on Strength in the past 2 days, only 9 more merits to go until thats closed :D. On a side note, I want to see if SCH/RDM can solo KCBCNM, because I think it can. When we did it, I always seemed to have more MP than Sclera and nukes did about the same amount of damage. And now bio homeworkkk....Suuucksss..

Trotter Boots {Mine}

No drop :[

Chaching!

Been busy with LB lately. Doing Einherjar, Ixion, Tiamat, etc and stuff....It's really fun and gives me stuff to do when I log. Also been burning on bard lately. Fin~

I've obtained some cool new titles lately :D Thanks LB!

Yeah, that's right, I got into LimitBreak! Holy crap! Thanks to Sclera and other people who posted positively on my app, it's an honor. Lately I've just been partying with Looco, Sclera and Croxx, leveling BRD and stuff... Was in my first Greater Colibri burn party today and sort of forgot that they linked ... Wiped our party on the first pull, but we recovered and eventually were doing about 16k an hr, I think my highest chain was around 30. Not too bad for first time being at that camp and being level 71 bard. And here is a prime example of our partying last night until liek 4:00 AM .... Looco let our 2004 camp get stolen ... Surprisingly, it wasn't that bad of xp/hr.

Sclera, Stonedsophist and Myself did the Hagun ENM and this is all we got!

Also did the Enhancing Earring and Enfeebling Earring ENM .... Which ended in nothing but clusters... I haven't had any luck making money in the game lately. Croxx, Sclera and I also did a ISNM run for Khroma Ore which ended in Sclera, Myself and Chickem being the only ones who didn't see an ore their run. ..

Oh well, all is well, BRD will be done soon, I can get a shitton of merits and then focus on another job to 75. Also, LB will keep me busy enough as is lately, so that will be fun.

Thanks again!

Croxx was DRUNK!

Alright, so a lot of shit has been going down. Recently, I applied to LimitBreak, an end game shell on Odin. Sclera put my application up for me, he's a pretty cool dude. I've also been grinding Bard hard the past week. Sclera and I also have been trying to start a Nyzul Isle static, which has been fairly shaky, but we're making progress. Currently we're on F25, which isn't too bad, but if we hadn't had so many failed runs, we'd probably be on F50 by now. It's hard to find skilled, reliable players who can be consistant with runs every 3-4 days. Sclera is a great player and someone who I admire in the game and he's always been there to assist me. But yeah, I recently completed all Bard Artifact Armor, which is cool.
Managed to get 57-62 just yesterday alone and today I ended up going and completing the AF by getting the coffer from Zhavl and killing Dark Spark. Pretty mundane fight, I managed to Aura Steal Berserk from him and it boosted my attack from like 315 to 513.
Anyways, Croxx came back from a wedding last night and was drunk, it was amusing.And Sclera and I camped KA ... but sadly didn't get the claim :(

Also, here is a pic from yesterdays Scandelous linkshell East Ronafure [S] party.

So yeah ... That's pretty much what it's been lately. I've been helping my friend Steve get some AF shit too ... I also dinged level 63 today...On a different note, only 3.9 million exp until Maat's Cap! I know it sounds like a lot, but it seems like it'll go quick once I start leveling :D.

Well, there is my job list as of February 8, 2009. I'm pretty satisfied with it. I have 370 recorded days of playtime, yet I feel as though the number is a little high. Going AFK with FFXI up and stuff can skew the playtime. I understand 4 jobs at 75 might not seem like too big a deal, but I think it is considering the jobs I chose to level. Thief was my first to 75 and quite a struggle, especially with the old experience points system in place. Thief was a fun job, I believe I used to level it with a Elvaan ninja, and we pretty much were level partners. Or I even leveled it with Doodlebug, so long ago. Ninja was kind of expensive, but getting it to 75 was fairly easy and fast. Ninja is a lot of fun and I enjoy playing that job as well. Summoner was also fun and relatively quick to 75, with it being a placeholder for WHMs in parties that needed main healing. Scholar was also pretty quick to 75, with its flexability to fit as a BLM or a WHM. Ultimately I feel as though my gameplay experience isn't truly reflected in my jobs per se, but moreso some of the ra/ex gear I've acquired.

I have to say I'm pretty happy with the amount of gears limbus has afforded me. From the Ninja Garb +1 equipment, to the Summoner +1 equipment, Nashira Gages for summoner and to Homam Gear for Thief, it's been a real blast doing limbus with ShutUpAndDance. Kitsume is great at managing the shell and Fishura, Sclera, Jurgen and Akanea's dedication to the shell are really impressive. I'd really like to start getting more gear from sky, but that's always something that can be done on the side.

As far as other things go, I have 163 merits, which is roughly 1,630,000 experience points. To me that seems a little impressive, as that amount in merits accounts for 1/5 of my total job experience points. Final Fantasy Auction House (http://ffxiah.com) is really a great tool to track Maat's Cap experience, merits, and overall status. While I was bored and trying to learn Cocoon (Blue Mage spells take a while to learn and are a pain in the ass), I built item sets there for all my jobs and my non rare/exclusive items.:With 114 non rare/exclusive items, based on current Odin Auction House Fees, my equity is 7.4 million gil...Pretty neat. Well, I plan to take BLU and BST to 37 next and then decide on my next 75 job.

Notable Camps

So Qip from TK invited me to some mini burn parties... The camps were really great, we were doing 15k/hr and then 20k/hr with Corsair's Roll. The first one was in Sauromugue Champaign [S] near the outpost on the Crabs there. This was from level 25-28. After that ,we decided to move to West Saruta Baruta [S] at this location chaining Dhalmel there:

The party was really fun and the camps could probably be doable without the PL for moderate exp and an alternate to the jungle. :)

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).