10大ニュース and more WotG!

10大ニュース or Ten Most Important FFXI Things I Did 2008

10. I tried Salvage, Einherjar and Nyzul Isle for the first time.
8. I claimed and killed Behemoth with my friends.
7. I joined Sky LS Lowquality and fought all Sky gods and Kirin for the first time.
6. I joined Dynamis LS ShadowHearts and did Dynamis for the first time.
5. I joined ZNMLS Epic.
4. I joined and left Europa LS.
3. I leveled 3 jobs to 75: MNK, BRD and PUP.
9. I got rank 10 in San-d'Oria.
2. I completed CoP and ZM.
1. I founded our dear LS SecretFellowship together with my husband and our friends.

Year 2008 was a really important year for me in FFXI since I got my first 75 job (Monk) in January and after that I got to experience loads of new stuff.

And in case I'm still playing after a year...

Ten things I want to do in 2009

10. Kill Odin.
9. Get some Salvage gear.
8. Finish merits with current 75 jobs.
7. Complete Dynamis-Xarcabard and all the Dreamland zones.
6. Climb to floor 100 in Nyzul Isle.
5. Get rank 10 in Windurst.
4. Finish ToAU missions.
3. Get THF, RDM and BLM to 37.
2. Level SAM to 75.
1. Level SCH to 75.

More WotG missions (spoilers) !

We did the mission 7 fight in La Vaule. The cs were simply amazing and the story is getting really interesting!

Some pics from mission 7: Purple, The New Black



Elvaans can be epic too!



These are my new favourite badasses, Hydraule and Aquila:



We got to fight a dragon. The fight was pretty easy with our setup (BRD, PLD and BLU).



Aquila didn't appreciate us killing her dragon...



Lilisette got dragged into that weird place were Caitsith lives. I hope that it will be a zone players can enter, kind of like Sky and Sea.



Like my friend Pythean said, there seemed to be a mirror like the one in LotR that shows us the future gone bad...



And then things just got really weird:



After the mission, there was quite a boring quest where I needed to feed some fish to the male mithra Lehko. After I gave him the fish he took me to a walk and gave me a dozen of roses. Too bad I'm not really into catmen.



Anyway, Lehko has his hands full already with the catgirls in Windy:



I actually suspect that Lehko could be the father of Nanaa Mihgo... But as my husband pointed out, he's probably the father of at least half the mithra born at that time.

Happy New Year to all readers!

WotG mission pics (spoilers)!

Since we don't really celebrate Xmas, we spent some time doing WotG missions in the past couple of days. I've read many negative comments of WotG but for me it has been really interesting so far. I'm only on mission 6 at the moment so can't really say much but I've really loved the Windurst story and the cutscenes! Here are some pictures of our way from mission 3 to mission 5...

Fights

We started from mission 3 related quests where we had to kill a NM Coeurl in Fort Karugo-Narugo. We trioed the NM with PUP, PLD and BLM, was really easy.



Another fight we had to do involved tons of yagudos! When I read from wiki that there were supposed to be "a large number of yagudos", I assumed that meant 10 or so, but in reality there were tens of them! We went in with two (PLD/WAR and PUP/DNC) and seriously underestimated the fight, but won anyway. Was a really fun and exciting battle!



NPCs

Several new and old interesting NPCs have been introduced. My personal favourite for now is maybe Cait Sith. Lehko Habhoka seems interesting too... and I really can't decide if I like Lilisette or not.















Battle scenes

The battle cutscenes have been really amazing!















Good stuff

The dancer show cutscene in San-d'Oria was just beautiful!





And this is one of my favourite WotG screenshots:



Here I am, riding towards new adventures!

MMM, Assault and Starlight Celebration!

So yesterday we did a couple of Assaults because people had tags. First we did Lebros Cavern PSC (most of us needed points from there) which was as easy as always. Our setup was PUP, BLM (duoing the north wall), DRG, DRK and MNK.



For second Assault I chose Periqia PSC because I needed points there and because it was a new assault for a couple of people. Unfortunately I didn't remember how much the mission sucked. I was controlling the NPC which is the worst task in this assault, since it's almost impossible. I've done it a couple of times now and I still don't really know how to make him stop or move. And he also likes to run away every now and then so I need to be ready to catch him. I didn't even have time to answer to /tells I got during this assault (sorry, I was seriously busy).

Anyway, after that one of us had to leave and another person wanted to save his last tag for Nyzul just to be sure he'd have four for that. So we decided to go and try MMM instead. Only one of us had tried it before and he had got himself killed so we didn't really have almost any idea about the whole thing. We just gathered 5 people and decided to give it a try. Our setup for the first run was DRG (68), DRK (70), PUP (75), BLU (75) and WHM (75).



We got warped to Everbloom Hollow and found a maze full of EP crawlers and slimes. It was easy and we finished with about 10 mins left I think.



From this first run we got 30 marbles (I think) which meant we all could buy the cool eyepatch for 10 marbles!





For our second run we decided to change our setup a bit. I changed from PUP to BRD and our lowest level member changed from DRG to MNK which was 75. We got warped to Everbloom Hollow again but this time there were DC (our lowest level party member was still 70) Krakens and Coeurls. Good thing I was BRD because those thing linked badly and it was really good to have someone to sleep them.

Yesterday we also had our LS Xmas event! We gathered in Northern San-d'Oria and first we did the card exchange thing for a while. After that we went out to smack some boxes and when all had their Dream Robe and the bell key item, we went to do that quest in Southern San-d'Oria for the HQ bell.

We also did a little "secret santa" game. Everyone who wanted brought a present (worth max 1000 gil) and then we gave them to our Santa Lary (Galkas make the best santas!) who mixed them and gave to different people. I was really surprised when he traded me and I got a linkpearl! The LS was called "LesAmis" ("Friends" in english) so now I can carry my friends with me everywhere I go! ^^

Some pictures of our event:













Merry Starlight and happy New Year to all of readers!

Xmas hurries and worries

I've been very busy, done a lot both in game and in real life, but haven't felt much like writing about it. I've been waiting for the inspiration to update this blog and write about my recent experiences but it still hasn't come. Anyway, I decided to post at least a few screenshots of all the stuff I've done lately in game.

In Einherjar, we still haven't beaten Wing 3... Last time it was very close. One of the worst chambers looked like this:



But I've managed to get loads of ampoules, so at least I got myself something nice:



With SecretFellowship, we've farmed Swift Belt pops. On Saturday we finally got a Fomor Codex for everyone who wanted the belt, and we popped 3 of them. Only got one belt though.



We also did CoP 4-3 mission for our LS CoP static. It went really well if you don't count the fact I called for help on the NM.. which meant we had to kill it all over again. But it's an easy NM so we only lost about 10 mins because of my noobish mistake.



Last Friday we had the last ZNM run this week and got full drops from every mob we popped!





On Tuesday we had our third Nyzul Isle run. I didn't include myself in the setup but went in on fourth tag because two people had to leave. The first three runs had gone very badly, but on the last tag we got 5 floors up which was of course nice. Here's a pic of Nyzul Isle seriousness:



Today I haven't really played, just cleaned up my Mog House a bit and took the Xmas items from event storage. Now my MH is ready for the holidays!



Happy holidays everyone! ^^

Fields of Valor coolness and other stuff

Yesterday I did a bit Xmas shopping and it was so exhausting and horrible I decided to reward myself with a lot of playing... As a result I played a bit more than I actually wanted to.

Anyway, we tried that new Fields of Valor thing with a couple of LS members. We decided to go as a party and level synced to 22. We checked the level recommendations and didn't realize they were for soloers, not parties of 4 people, so we chose to go to Valkurm Dunes. We took the hardest mission available there: we needed to kill 4 sheep and 4 damselflies.





For a group of four, the EXP wasn't of course as good as it could've been, but at least we figured the system out and two of us got levels! One of us had to go and then we moved to Jugner Forest and chose to kill funguars and tigers there. It was fun and easy and I got 3 levels while we were there!

Today I decided to continue exping my DNC in FoV. My DNC was level 28, so I chose Qufim Island mission 4: level recommendation 28-30, 6 gigas and 4 pugils. The mobs were all EM or T for me so it was really nice EXP. Every time I got those 10 mobs killed, I got 735 extra EXP and gil. I was soon level 30 so I've got 5 levels in the last two days just with FoV! I think I'll take my DNC all the way to 37 like that.

FoV makes at least soloing and duoing so much easier and more fun! The system really gave me motivation to EXP my subs. It's so nice that I can just take OP, choose mission and then get all those nice buffs without spending any gil! For example today when I was exping my DNC, I had free reraise, protect, regen and attack food on the whole time. It's a really great addition to the game, thank you SE!

Yesterday we also did a couple of Assaults: Mamool ja Training Grounds PFC and Periqia PFC. It's weird that no one else but me ever wants to do assaults in certain zone, everyone just says "I don't care, I can do anything". I know I need certain points to get some pieces of gear I want but I feel bad if I make everyone else spam the same missions all over again...



Anyway, those assaults we did yesterday got me the promotion to Second Lieutenant! I can't believe I'm only two ranks away from Captain now... Well, two ranks and a million Assaults I haven't done.



After those assaults a LS member Lary asked if we could help him to get Destroyers from Double Dragonian BCNM. The assault party agreed to help and some of us got orbs too. I remember when we tried to get my Destroyers it took us 8 orbs so I wasn't too confident we could get them for Lary with our 4 orbs. But well, Larys orb was first and Destroyers dropped! Then on the next orb they dropped again and on the last orb again... They only didn't drop on my orb, which means that I just have a horrible luck with that weapon I guess.