Thursday 4 June 2009
Tuesday 31 March 2009
Our first Proto-Omega!
To be honest, I was extremely nervous about our first Omega. Our group only has 14 members and only five of us had done Omega before. Our setup was following:
Tank party: NIN/DRK, PLD/NIN, WHM/SMN, RDM/DRK, BRD/WHM
BLM party: BLM/WHM x 5 + BRD/WHM
Melee party (erm trio): WHM/SMN, WAR/NIN, MNK/NIN
We kited it when it was on 2 feet and straight tanked when it was on 4 feet. Our BLMs used only tier III and IV for the first 75%. Our WAR voked the gunbods and we had two BLM casting tier IV to kill them. Since it was our first try, we didn't farm the pods.
For the last 25% after the last gunpod was dead our RDM/DRK used CS+Stun, PLD used Invincible, melees used 2hr and BLMs started to cast AM. We killed it with plenty of time to spare and got hands and head as drops. Congratulations guys!
I'm so proud of our little group, everyone played so well and did excatly as they were told to do! There weren't any problems and only one BLM died. Good job guys, I love you all! <3
Tank party: NIN/DRK, PLD/NIN, WHM/SMN, RDM/DRK, BRD/WHM
BLM party: BLM/WHM x 5 + BRD/WHM
Melee party (erm trio): WHM/SMN, WAR/NIN, MNK/NIN
We kited it when it was on 2 feet and straight tanked when it was on 4 feet. Our BLMs used only tier III and IV for the first 75%. Our WAR voked the gunbods and we had two BLM casting tier IV to kill them. Since it was our first try, we didn't farm the pods.
For the last 25% after the last gunpod was dead our RDM/DRK used CS+Stun, PLD used Invincible, melees used 2hr and BLMs started to cast AM. We killed it with plenty of time to spare and got hands and head as drops. Congratulations guys!
I'm so proud of our little group, everyone played so well and did excatly as they were told to do! There weren't any problems and only one BLM died. Good job guys, I love you all! <3
Saturday 28 March 2009
(I'm back!) I guess...
It's been a while since I've really played FFXI, other than logging in to do events. And well, I quit most of my events. For a while I've been only doing Limbus and my Sunday events: Sky and Dynamis, and even that has been impossible at times. But after taking a somewhat total break from the game, I've actually felt like playing it again. Just not too much.
I decided to finish my project "get all subjobs done", and at the moment my job level list looks quite nice:
At the moment I have 6 subs leveled: WAR, NIN, DNC, THF, WHM & BLM. My last goal is to get my RDM to 37 as well and I'll have all the subs I need for now.
My latest achievement was to get my BLM finally to level 37 today! I soloed it almost all the way in pet camps, but I also duoed a bit with my husband. We had amazing time duoing mandies in the jungles:
I also used the yhoator pet camp which was amazingly never taken!
As you can notice, I had unbelievably gimp gear nearly the whole time... For example I used the xmas event boots until I could wear my RSE. And I didn't even bother to mule Seers since Elvaan RSE worked just fine.
I got my last BLM level in this amazing LS Qufim party (level 20) today. Our setup was THF, 2 x DNC, NIN, SAM and BLM and we owned the zone. It didn't start very well: I told our THF to pull before one of our dancers was there and before our SAM had any weapon...and of course I told him to pull a clipper. We almost died on that, but when we got all our members there and geared we succeeded to chain them. Then we decided to move to the pond to chain worms and we got chain #6 on them, which was pretty nice. Later my husband came to PL us, which made it even faster if possible. It was a great party!
I'M IN YOUR QUFIM, CLAIMING YOUR MOBS:
Then we had a Nyzul run, started from floor 46. Shokun kept d/cing for the first 3 tags and we failed two of them, but at least we got to floor 55. Boss run next time! We also got some amazing drops:
Also, our little limbus group is doing our first Omega on Monday! I'm soooo excited, can't wait!
I decided to finish my project "get all subjobs done", and at the moment my job level list looks quite nice:
At the moment I have 6 subs leveled: WAR, NIN, DNC, THF, WHM & BLM. My last goal is to get my RDM to 37 as well and I'll have all the subs I need for now.
My latest achievement was to get my BLM finally to level 37 today! I soloed it almost all the way in pet camps, but I also duoed a bit with my husband. We had amazing time duoing mandies in the jungles:
I also used the yhoator pet camp which was amazingly never taken!
As you can notice, I had unbelievably gimp gear nearly the whole time... For example I used the xmas event boots until I could wear my RSE. And I didn't even bother to mule Seers since Elvaan RSE worked just fine.
I got my last BLM level in this amazing LS Qufim party (level 20) today. Our setup was THF, 2 x DNC, NIN, SAM and BLM and we owned the zone. It didn't start very well: I told our THF to pull before one of our dancers was there and before our SAM had any weapon...and of course I told him to pull a clipper. We almost died on that, but when we got all our members there and geared we succeeded to chain them. Then we decided to move to the pond to chain worms and we got chain #6 on them, which was pretty nice. Later my husband came to PL us, which made it even faster if possible. It was a great party!
I'M IN YOUR QUFIM, CLAIMING YOUR MOBS:
Then we had a Nyzul run, started from floor 46. Shokun kept d/cing for the first 3 tags and we failed two of them, but at least we got to floor 55. Boss run next time! We also got some amazing drops:
Also, our little limbus group is doing our first Omega on Monday! I'm soooo excited, can't wait!
Thursday 19 February 2009
ToAU 44 and other stuff
Yesterday made me remember why I actually like this game. For a while I have been only logging in because I have to, and it definitely hasn't been fun. Well, of course I have enjoyed doing dynamis and some other stuff, but mostly it hasn't been very enjoyable. Until last night.
We were doing ToAU mission 44, which is the much feared Alexander fight, probably the most difficult mission in the game currently. To be honest, I was pretty sure we wouldn't win, because I had heard so much horror stories about that mission, about losing again and again even when using The Most Optimal Setups. And well, our static - like all our LS statics - are based on who wants to do the missions, not on which jobs they have leveled.
Anyway, at first our setup was RDM/DRK, BLM/WHM, PLD/NIN, DRG/WHM, DRG/RDM and PUP/NIN (me). On the first try we wiped to the BLU guy and decided to just HP and go again. On the second try we knew we would run out of time, but we used it for a kind of "dry run" to see how Alexander is like. We got it maybe down to 75% before we wiped. Our third try didn't go well at all, and we decided to just give up, and at that point our second DRG needed to leave.
So, we replaced the DRG with a LS friend who had done the mission before. After that our setup was WHM/SMN, RDM/DRK, BLM/WHM, PLD/NIN, DRG/SAM and PUP/NIN (still me). We went in, tried again, got Alexander to 3% and got thrown out. But the good thing was, we weren't pissed off, we were laughing! It was so unbelievably funny and epic how we just kept throwing bodies at it and praying for the best... And it was so close in the end!
Because it had been so close and we were having so much fun, we decided not to give up just yet. We used a COR to get our 2hrs back and decided to give it one last try. Well, in the end, the next try failed and we decided to give up and come back, but anyway... On our sixth, final try, we finally won! It was really, really close though, because after we got the "You have 30 seconds left in the battlefield" message, Alexander had still a few % HP and he used the invinsible shield move which meant we couldn't damage him in any way. Luckily, it wore just a few seconds before time ran out, and then Alix used a WS and Red landed a spell to finish him off. I couldn't believe we actually made it! It wasn't an easy mission, but in my opinion, with a good team of friends, (almost) anything in this game is possible, if you just won't give up! And this one proved it, once again.
If someone is interested, I'll tell a bit about the strategy we used the time we won. This might be interesting for Puppetmasters at least. ^^
Raubahn Form One:
As soon as we entered, we ate food, used reraises, casted protectra & shellra and then ran away from the door and pulled Raubahn in to a corner where there was more space for mages to stay far. For the first and easiest form, we used mostly only magic damage. Our PLD was only melee engaged all the time, and our BLM, RDM and PUPs BLM automaton nuked him down. BLM and RDM also took turns stunning Eyes On Me. When he used 2hr, BLM and RDM kept stunning/sleeping him to prevent him from one-shotting us with EOM, but we never disengaged or stopped dealing damage. When he was around 20%, DRG engaged too.
Raubahn Form Two:
I changed my automaton to ranged frame (ranged to keep Comedie far enough to prevent her eating AoE) and meleed the second form down with PLD and DRG. BLM and RDM kept stunning / sleeping and we tried to take him down asap.
Raubahn Form Three:
Our strategy was simply "kill him asap and try to survive". The third form really sucked, but on our final try we got him down pretty fast. I continued using ranged frame, and I think Armor Piercer did around 800 damage on him. No one died while fighting Raubahn, and when he finally died the third time, our mages were ok with MP.
Razfahd
This was the easiest part of the mission, because he wasn't really able to hurt us in any way. We tried to get him down to 50% asap, using any damage available. While fighting him, I deactivated my automaton and changed back to the BLM frame for Alexander.
When we had gotten Razfahd down to 50%, we got the CS, and decided to rest full since we were really good with time (30 mins left or something like that). After that, we engaged Alexander. Our PLD/NIN stood in front of it (I don't remember if he was in melee distance in the end or not, but I think that he did melee). Mages were far away on both sides of Alexander (and so was my automaton, as far as possible) and me and DRG were meleeing on different sides of him. The positioning was extremely important, and somehow I managed to do it so that my automaton didn't take any of the AoE damage! That was really lucky, because her nukes did a lot more damage than my meleeing.
Our biggest problem during the fight was Alexanders 2hr, Divine Judgement, as we didn't really come up with any good strategy for it. On this final try, we tried to get our BLM to nuke away all his MP, grab hate and die to his 2hr while others ran away ("Because we're brave like that", as Alix said ;)). The problem was, our BLM actually died before he even used 2hr, and in the end, that situation became a full wipe. However, most of us succeeded to die in a safe place (well, everyone but the poor BLM who got drawn in), and we had plenty of time to reraise and recover. And when Alexander used his 2hr again when he was on about 4%, we succeeded to avoid it slightly better (I think).
In the end, I used about a stack of food, a reraise earring and whatnot for this mission, but it was all worth it, because WE WON! WON WON WON WON! And I got a cute grown and a nice ring! So it was totally worth it!
But really, the best thing was that it was so fun! It was such a great feeling to finish something this difficult with friends. I laughed so much yesterday, especially when we got thrown out from the battlefield when Alexander was on 3%, I had such a great time! Call me crazy, but those are the moments that make this game enjoyable for me!
Talking about enjoyable, we also had our first Limbus run with SecretFellowship! I decided we start with NE Apollyon, because it's the most easy Limbus zone I know. And it was really almost perfect, we finished the zone with about half an hour left or something. Red kind off took the lead there, but I didn't mind, because well, he's just so good at it. It's just a bit amusing because he's always telling how much he hates leading stuff, so I just had to tease him about it. Anyway, I love our group, and I'm really looking forward to our future runs!
Also, the Einherjar group I recently left, finally got to do their first Odin and I promised to help. And, we got thrown out when he was at 1-3% HP. I'm pretty annoyed because that will most likely be the one and only time I never get to fight him (because well, I'm really not interested in doing Einherjar), so I wanted the experience and the title and the memory... But well, I guess I will remember that time as the-time-when-we-I-almost-became-Elite-Einherjar.
We were doing ToAU mission 44, which is the much feared Alexander fight, probably the most difficult mission in the game currently. To be honest, I was pretty sure we wouldn't win, because I had heard so much horror stories about that mission, about losing again and again even when using The Most Optimal Setups. And well, our static - like all our LS statics - are based on who wants to do the missions, not on which jobs they have leveled.
Anyway, at first our setup was RDM/DRK, BLM/WHM, PLD/NIN, DRG/WHM, DRG/RDM and PUP/NIN (me). On the first try we wiped to the BLU guy and decided to just HP and go again. On the second try we knew we would run out of time, but we used it for a kind of "dry run" to see how Alexander is like. We got it maybe down to 75% before we wiped. Our third try didn't go well at all, and we decided to just give up, and at that point our second DRG needed to leave.
So, we replaced the DRG with a LS friend who had done the mission before. After that our setup was WHM/SMN, RDM/DRK, BLM/WHM, PLD/NIN, DRG/SAM and PUP/NIN (still me). We went in, tried again, got Alexander to 3% and got thrown out. But the good thing was, we weren't pissed off, we were laughing! It was so unbelievably funny and epic how we just kept throwing bodies at it and praying for the best... And it was so close in the end!
Because it had been so close and we were having so much fun, we decided not to give up just yet. We used a COR to get our 2hrs back and decided to give it one last try. Well, in the end, the next try failed and we decided to give up and come back, but anyway... On our sixth, final try, we finally won! It was really, really close though, because after we got the "You have 30 seconds left in the battlefield" message, Alexander had still a few % HP and he used the invinsible shield move which meant we couldn't damage him in any way. Luckily, it wore just a few seconds before time ran out, and then Alix used a WS and Red landed a spell to finish him off. I couldn't believe we actually made it! It wasn't an easy mission, but in my opinion, with a good team of friends, (almost) anything in this game is possible, if you just won't give up! And this one proved it, once again.
If someone is interested, I'll tell a bit about the strategy we used the time we won. This might be interesting for Puppetmasters at least. ^^
Raubahn Form One:
As soon as we entered, we ate food, used reraises, casted protectra & shellra and then ran away from the door and pulled Raubahn in to a corner where there was more space for mages to stay far. For the first and easiest form, we used mostly only magic damage. Our PLD was only melee engaged all the time, and our BLM, RDM and PUPs BLM automaton nuked him down. BLM and RDM also took turns stunning Eyes On Me. When he used 2hr, BLM and RDM kept stunning/sleeping him to prevent him from one-shotting us with EOM, but we never disengaged or stopped dealing damage. When he was around 20%, DRG engaged too.
Raubahn Form Two:
I changed my automaton to ranged frame (ranged to keep Comedie far enough to prevent her eating AoE) and meleed the second form down with PLD and DRG. BLM and RDM kept stunning / sleeping and we tried to take him down asap.
Raubahn Form Three:
Our strategy was simply "kill him asap and try to survive". The third form really sucked, but on our final try we got him down pretty fast. I continued using ranged frame, and I think Armor Piercer did around 800 damage on him. No one died while fighting Raubahn, and when he finally died the third time, our mages were ok with MP.
Razfahd
This was the easiest part of the mission, because he wasn't really able to hurt us in any way. We tried to get him down to 50% asap, using any damage available. While fighting him, I deactivated my automaton and changed back to the BLM frame for Alexander.
When we had gotten Razfahd down to 50%, we got the CS, and decided to rest full since we were really good with time (30 mins left or something like that). After that, we engaged Alexander. Our PLD/NIN stood in front of it (I don't remember if he was in melee distance in the end or not, but I think that he did melee). Mages were far away on both sides of Alexander (and so was my automaton, as far as possible) and me and DRG were meleeing on different sides of him. The positioning was extremely important, and somehow I managed to do it so that my automaton didn't take any of the AoE damage! That was really lucky, because her nukes did a lot more damage than my meleeing.
Our biggest problem during the fight was Alexanders 2hr, Divine Judgement, as we didn't really come up with any good strategy for it. On this final try, we tried to get our BLM to nuke away all his MP, grab hate and die to his 2hr while others ran away ("Because we're brave like that", as Alix said ;)). The problem was, our BLM actually died before he even used 2hr, and in the end, that situation became a full wipe. However, most of us succeeded to die in a safe place (well, everyone but the poor BLM who got drawn in), and we had plenty of time to reraise and recover. And when Alexander used his 2hr again when he was on about 4%, we succeeded to avoid it slightly better (I think).
In the end, I used about a stack of food, a reraise earring and whatnot for this mission, but it was all worth it, because WE WON! WON WON WON WON! And I got a cute grown and a nice ring! So it was totally worth it!
But really, the best thing was that it was so fun! It was such a great feeling to finish something this difficult with friends. I laughed so much yesterday, especially when we got thrown out from the battlefield when Alexander was on 3%, I had such a great time! Call me crazy, but those are the moments that make this game enjoyable for me!
Talking about enjoyable, we also had our first Limbus run with SecretFellowship! I decided we start with NE Apollyon, because it's the most easy Limbus zone I know. And it was really almost perfect, we finished the zone with about half an hour left or something. Red kind off took the lead there, but I didn't mind, because well, he's just so good at it. It's just a bit amusing because he's always telling how much he hates leading stuff, so I just had to tease him about it. Anyway, I love our group, and I'm really looking forward to our future runs!
Also, the Einherjar group I recently left, finally got to do their first Odin and I promised to help. And, we got thrown out when he was at 1-3% HP. I'm pretty annoyed because that will most likely be the one and only time I never get to fight him (because well, I'm really not interested in doing Einherjar), so I wanted the experience and the title and the memory... But well, I guess I will remember that time as the-time-when-we-I-almost-became-Elite-Einherjar.
Wednesday 11 February 2009
Because I'm bored
Some um...interesting? things being said about me in LS chat:
Oh right and we killed Tinnin with Epic for the first time! Grats for Enkidu's body Pyootu!
And then me and Red went disturbing:
Oh right and we killed Tinnin with Epic for the first time! Grats for Enkidu's body Pyootu!
And then me and Red went disturbing:
Tuesday 27 January 2009
Pimp my BRD!
Yesterday some of my beloved LS friends did some Periqia assaults with me to get me the Yigit body finally! Thanks guys, <3 you!
That got me thinking about my current BRD gear and how I'd like to make it better. This is what I use now...
Weapon
For Elegy.
For Finale and Cures when /WHM. Will update to Apollo's at some point.
For all other songs.
I am thinking about getting Earth Grip for Elegy and Light Grip for Finale.
Head, neck and ears
It's pretty and good.
This is the best neck piece for BRD I think?
Not much to say about earrings... <3 them
Body, hands, rings
I love it! Love it love it love it!
My first and only upgraded AF piece. Totally hot!
This was the first item I got from Einherjar.
The latent is pure hotness! Got this from a solo BCNM ages ago, lucky me!
This is for situations where I can't be on yellow HP or when I really need that extra 2 CHR.
Back, waist, legs, feet
The piece I really want for this slot is Astute cape, but as I don't do Sea at the moment, this will do for now.
Meh.
These will be upgraded to +1 when I get my Limbo group going somewhere in the future.
Probably the best feet piece for BRD at the moment.
My Bard isn't really amazingly pimp, but I've worked hard for every piece of gear and I'm currently quite satisfied with the gear I have. Next I'll be working for my yellow HP macro, I think Zenith gear is a good way to start (well, because I need an excuse to do Sky...)
That got me thinking about my current BRD gear and how I'd like to make it better. This is what I use now...
Weapon
For Elegy.
For Finale and Cures when /WHM. Will update to Apollo's at some point.
For all other songs.
I am thinking about getting Earth Grip for Elegy and Light Grip for Finale.
Head, neck and ears
It's pretty and good.
This is the best neck piece for BRD I think?
Not much to say about earrings... <3 them
Body, hands, rings
I love it! Love it love it love it!
My first and only upgraded AF piece. Totally hot!
This was the first item I got from Einherjar.
The latent is pure hotness! Got this from a solo BCNM ages ago, lucky me!
This is for situations where I can't be on yellow HP or when I really need that extra 2 CHR.
Back, waist, legs, feet
The piece I really want for this slot is Astute cape, but as I don't do Sea at the moment, this will do for now.
Meh.
These will be upgraded to +1 when I get my Limbo group going somewhere in the future.
Probably the best feet piece for BRD at the moment.
My Bard isn't really amazingly pimp, but I've worked hard for every piece of gear and I'm currently quite satisfied with the gear I have. Next I'll be working for my yellow HP macro, I think Zenith gear is a good way to start (well, because I need an excuse to do Sky...)
Friday 23 January 2009
LOL @ banned people, Dynamis, ToAU & WotG missions
Of course all the FFXI community is talking about the bannings of Salvage duppers at the moment. It's been entertaining to read all the QQing in BG. The comments that have said how FFXI will be dieing (!!!) now with all those HQ endgamers gone have been the best laugh. Hate to break this to you, but this game doesn't revolve around you. You broke the rules and knew the risks, now face the consequences like a (wo)man and stop whining.
Haven't felt like logging in for a while. I got my DNC and THF to 37 so all my needed melee subs (WAR, NIN, THF, DNC) are done. Next I should focus on getting RDM (currently 24) and BLM (currently 22) to 37, but don't know how to do it. I'd like to duo with someone maybe, but don't know if anyone else has a melee job they'd like to level with me. Partying is of course always an option but for some reason I really don't feel like going looking for party...
So instead of playing, I've been studying a bit (well, at least trying), doing iaido and reading and writing fanfiction. I've only logged in for events or to check my plants but mostly I haven't felt like doing even that. We'll see how long this will last.
Anyway, a couple of days ago I was talking to a FFXI friend of mine in Facebook. He mentioned he had crafted a Royal Cloak. Some mental malfunction hit me and I decided to buy it. I have no idea why, really. I guess I have too much gil. I don't even have a job that would need it really. Well I've used it on my BRD when I've had to recover MP fast and it's a nice idle piece I guess. My LS friends have been happy to /point and /laugh at me every time they've seen me wearing it though... As they said, it's probably the most stupid thing one can put their money to.
But it so red and hot!
Dynamis-Windurst was pretty much a chaos on Sunday. We didn't have that many members on that run, and too many left in the middle of the run for whatever reason... We were left with not enough people to even try the boss pull and we had a couple of horrible wipes. People who stayed to the end were somewhat angry about so many people leaving and wanted to get extra points for staying to the end. Well, I decided to give them full 5 points and only 3 points for those who didn't stay to the end. I know at least most if not all of the people who left in the middle of run had a good reason to do it, but in the end it still meant we weren't able to even get to the boss and I felt like it would be fair to give some compensation of the time and EXP lost for those who did stay to the end.
Many people thought people didn't attend the run because they don't want to do city dynamis. I don't know if it's true or not, but I hope everyone understands we have many new members who need the city zones cleared before we can organize Northlands runs again. If people keep skipping the city runs like this, we'll never get to Northlands again... Anyway, it's Dynamis-Bastok this Sunday, the zone is easy and I'm pretty confident we will clear it.
With SecretFellowshep we've started doing ToAU missions. We did ToAU22 and will do ToAU29 next Monday. It has been easy and fun, but the storyline isn't as interesting as CoP or WotG have been in my opinion.
We've also done the WotG missions a bit, we're currently on mission 10. I think I should get those cs and farming done because I think others are waiting for me... Anyway, the storyline is still great! Some CS pics...
Flying dancers:
Camouflage!
Chilling out with Lili:
Wuts this? /poke
Cat /panic
A cat with nine lives:
<3 My favourite badass <3
Gimme a big warm hug!
Haven't felt like logging in for a while. I got my DNC and THF to 37 so all my needed melee subs (WAR, NIN, THF, DNC) are done. Next I should focus on getting RDM (currently 24) and BLM (currently 22) to 37, but don't know how to do it. I'd like to duo with someone maybe, but don't know if anyone else has a melee job they'd like to level with me. Partying is of course always an option but for some reason I really don't feel like going looking for party...
So instead of playing, I've been studying a bit (well, at least trying), doing iaido and reading and writing fanfiction. I've only logged in for events or to check my plants but mostly I haven't felt like doing even that. We'll see how long this will last.
Anyway, a couple of days ago I was talking to a FFXI friend of mine in Facebook. He mentioned he had crafted a Royal Cloak. Some mental malfunction hit me and I decided to buy it. I have no idea why, really. I guess I have too much gil. I don't even have a job that would need it really. Well I've used it on my BRD when I've had to recover MP fast and it's a nice idle piece I guess. My LS friends have been happy to /point and /laugh at me every time they've seen me wearing it though... As they said, it's probably the most stupid thing one can put their money to.
But it so red and hot!
Dynamis-Windurst was pretty much a chaos on Sunday. We didn't have that many members on that run, and too many left in the middle of the run for whatever reason... We were left with not enough people to even try the boss pull and we had a couple of horrible wipes. People who stayed to the end were somewhat angry about so many people leaving and wanted to get extra points for staying to the end. Well, I decided to give them full 5 points and only 3 points for those who didn't stay to the end. I know at least most if not all of the people who left in the middle of run had a good reason to do it, but in the end it still meant we weren't able to even get to the boss and I felt like it would be fair to give some compensation of the time and EXP lost for those who did stay to the end.
Many people thought people didn't attend the run because they don't want to do city dynamis. I don't know if it's true or not, but I hope everyone understands we have many new members who need the city zones cleared before we can organize Northlands runs again. If people keep skipping the city runs like this, we'll never get to Northlands again... Anyway, it's Dynamis-Bastok this Sunday, the zone is easy and I'm pretty confident we will clear it.
With SecretFellowshep we've started doing ToAU missions. We did ToAU22 and will do ToAU29 next Monday. It has been easy and fun, but the storyline isn't as interesting as CoP or WotG have been in my opinion.
We've also done the WotG missions a bit, we're currently on mission 10. I think I should get those cs and farming done because I think others are waiting for me... Anyway, the storyline is still great! Some CS pics...
Flying dancers:
Camouflage!
Chilling out with Lili:
Wuts this? /poke
Cat /panic
A cat with nine lives:
<3 My favourite badass <3
Gimme a big warm hug!
Monday 12 January 2009
Leading Dynamis and other problems
Our Dynamis leader needed to take a two month break from the game because of his studies and at the same time our second Dynamis leader wanted to take a break from FFXI. We also have two other sackholders, a guy who's responsible for LS bank and then me. So when the people who usually organize schedules, points, lots, setups and so on go to holiday, that work is left for me.
I've never really wanted to lead Dynamis and if I started an end game LS it certainly wouldn't be a Dynamis LS. But well, as I had previously lead a couple of runs and done setups and points for the LS, I didn't mind taking the job. Also, I suggested a person to be responsible for pulls and moving camp and another person to be responsible for BLM strategies, so I wouldn't be the only person leading the run and taking responsibility.
Yesterday was the first run without our leader. We were supposed to do Dynamis-San d'oria but a half an hour before we were supposed to enter, a group of six (!) entered the zone. I contacted their leader asking which Dynamis Calendar are they using (the answer was none...) and how long they would be in the zone (the answer was they don't know...) Our LS has never had problems with other groups since we have always been using Dynamis calendar and been in contact with other groups. But well, what can you really do when there's a 6 person group willing to take any zone they want not caring about LS which has scheduled this run with other linkshells?
So my first Dynamis run with me as a leader didn't start so well... I tried to talk with the group to find a solution but I didn't get any information out of them and finally I just decided to change our run to Bastok which was free. I was actually surprised how fast we got everyone to move from Sandy to Bastok, and we entered Dynamis only 10 minutes late.
The run itself went mostly really well. We got 13 pieces of gear and 6 wootz ores. Mobs went down fast and our setup seemed to work. The only big problems came when we were ready to pull the boss. The thing is, I had been so nervous about being leader for the first time and having to change the run so fast that I didn't check any info about the boss in that zone. So when we did our first sacpull to get the boss, our PLD who was bringing the boss to camp got bound... and we weren't ready for it. Long story short, we wiped and proceeded to second try.
On the second try we got a WHM and another PLD ready to support with pulling... Except that time the boss opened with casting Death on first PLD and the second PLD somehow failed to get the boss. Which meant we didn't get the boss again, ran out of time and had to exit the zone without win.
It was quite a bad ending for an otherwise good run. I blamed myself for not making sure we were well prepared for the boss and all the PLDs blamed themselves for not pulling the boss to camp... Anyway, in my opinion, it wasn't really anyones fault, it was just a moment of unthoughtfulness and bad preparation.
Other than dynamis, I've been doing somewhat a lot. Maybe too much. I'm starting to feel I'm too busy with all my FFXI events to focus on my studies well enough and that's definitely a bad sign. At the moment my schedule is this:
Monday: Free!
Tuesday: Assault, Salvage
Wednesday: Einherjar
Thursday: Free!
Friday: ZNM
Saturday: Nyzul Isle, Salvage
Sunday: Einherjar, Dynamis
So I only have two days a week free from events which really isn't enough for me at the moment. Nyzul Isle is my absolutely favourite event at the moment, I have so much fun there every time! Dynamis is also fun and there's a lot of gear I want from there, so I'm not thinking about quitting that any time soon. Then there's Salvage which is fun and doesn't really take that much time, and Assault which I need to do to be able to do Salvage and to get some gear. That leaves me with ZNM and Einherjar. Our ZNM group is nice but it takes a lot of time to farm zeni for pops and quitting ZNM would leave my Friday completely free from events. Einherjar, well... I don't really know why I'm doing it. So if I'll quit something, Einherjar will most likely be the first thing.
Talking about Einherjar, we finally won the Wing 3 yesterday! It was quite an easy chamber with Hydra boss and we won with 5 minutes left! Odin next week!
In Salvage, we've had two runs now, both in Zhayolm Remnants. Our goal has been to unlock 3 members fully to be able to pop the Porroggo NM in 5th floor and on the second try we were able to do it! The problem was, we didn't get the NM down... We were so busy to attack it that we didn't really even think of a strategy. Well, I'm sure it will go better next time.
In Nyzul Isle, I've had to make some difficult decisions about our setup. A while ago we took two new members to our static, which meant we needed to start all over from floor 1 for them. Then, on what was supposed to be their second run, one of them didn't show up, not sending any message... Not hearing from him for a week, I decided to replace him with yet another person (which of course meant starting AGAIN from floor 1)... and of course, after I had replaced the said person, he sent me a /tell asking if he's still in the static and explaining that he had had some credit card issues and he's POL account had been deactivated.
The thing is, he could still have sent me a message on our forums or something, but he didn't. So I said I'm sorry but I had already replaced him, and that I couldn't expect my static members to do the same floors all over again just for him if he didn't even bother to contact us in case he couldn't attend a run. It was a bit harsh from me, but well, I had to make the decision as the leader of the static. Anyway, I'm quite happy with our current setup. Everyone is at least on floor 10 and we've had two successful floor 20 boss runs (no drops though). On Saturday we had our best run so far: we managed to climb 5 floors up on every tag, getting from floor 1 to 20 and killing Fafnir!
I've never really wanted to lead Dynamis and if I started an end game LS it certainly wouldn't be a Dynamis LS. But well, as I had previously lead a couple of runs and done setups and points for the LS, I didn't mind taking the job. Also, I suggested a person to be responsible for pulls and moving camp and another person to be responsible for BLM strategies, so I wouldn't be the only person leading the run and taking responsibility.
Yesterday was the first run without our leader. We were supposed to do Dynamis-San d'oria but a half an hour before we were supposed to enter, a group of six (!) entered the zone. I contacted their leader asking which Dynamis Calendar are they using (the answer was none...) and how long they would be in the zone (the answer was they don't know...) Our LS has never had problems with other groups since we have always been using Dynamis calendar and been in contact with other groups. But well, what can you really do when there's a 6 person group willing to take any zone they want not caring about LS which has scheduled this run with other linkshells?
So my first Dynamis run with me as a leader didn't start so well... I tried to talk with the group to find a solution but I didn't get any information out of them and finally I just decided to change our run to Bastok which was free. I was actually surprised how fast we got everyone to move from Sandy to Bastok, and we entered Dynamis only 10 minutes late.
The run itself went mostly really well. We got 13 pieces of gear and 6 wootz ores. Mobs went down fast and our setup seemed to work. The only big problems came when we were ready to pull the boss. The thing is, I had been so nervous about being leader for the first time and having to change the run so fast that I didn't check any info about the boss in that zone. So when we did our first sacpull to get the boss, our PLD who was bringing the boss to camp got bound... and we weren't ready for it. Long story short, we wiped and proceeded to second try.
On the second try we got a WHM and another PLD ready to support with pulling... Except that time the boss opened with casting Death on first PLD and the second PLD somehow failed to get the boss. Which meant we didn't get the boss again, ran out of time and had to exit the zone without win.
It was quite a bad ending for an otherwise good run. I blamed myself for not making sure we were well prepared for the boss and all the PLDs blamed themselves for not pulling the boss to camp... Anyway, in my opinion, it wasn't really anyones fault, it was just a moment of unthoughtfulness and bad preparation.
Other than dynamis, I've been doing somewhat a lot. Maybe too much. I'm starting to feel I'm too busy with all my FFXI events to focus on my studies well enough and that's definitely a bad sign. At the moment my schedule is this:
Monday: Free!
Tuesday: Assault, Salvage
Wednesday: Einherjar
Thursday: Free!
Friday: ZNM
Saturday: Nyzul Isle, Salvage
Sunday: Einherjar, Dynamis
So I only have two days a week free from events which really isn't enough for me at the moment. Nyzul Isle is my absolutely favourite event at the moment, I have so much fun there every time! Dynamis is also fun and there's a lot of gear I want from there, so I'm not thinking about quitting that any time soon. Then there's Salvage which is fun and doesn't really take that much time, and Assault which I need to do to be able to do Salvage and to get some gear. That leaves me with ZNM and Einherjar. Our ZNM group is nice but it takes a lot of time to farm zeni for pops and quitting ZNM would leave my Friday completely free from events. Einherjar, well... I don't really know why I'm doing it. So if I'll quit something, Einherjar will most likely be the first thing.
Talking about Einherjar, we finally won the Wing 3 yesterday! It was quite an easy chamber with Hydra boss and we won with 5 minutes left! Odin next week!
In Salvage, we've had two runs now, both in Zhayolm Remnants. Our goal has been to unlock 3 members fully to be able to pop the Porroggo NM in 5th floor and on the second try we were able to do it! The problem was, we didn't get the NM down... We were so busy to attack it that we didn't really even think of a strategy. Well, I'm sure it will go better next time.
In Nyzul Isle, I've had to make some difficult decisions about our setup. A while ago we took two new members to our static, which meant we needed to start all over from floor 1 for them. Then, on what was supposed to be their second run, one of them didn't show up, not sending any message... Not hearing from him for a week, I decided to replace him with yet another person (which of course meant starting AGAIN from floor 1)... and of course, after I had replaced the said person, he sent me a /tell asking if he's still in the static and explaining that he had had some credit card issues and he's POL account had been deactivated.
The thing is, he could still have sent me a message on our forums or something, but he didn't. So I said I'm sorry but I had already replaced him, and that I couldn't expect my static members to do the same floors all over again just for him if he didn't even bother to contact us in case he couldn't attend a run. It was a bit harsh from me, but well, I had to make the decision as the leader of the static. Anyway, I'm quite happy with our current setup. Everyone is at least on floor 10 and we've had two successful floor 20 boss runs (no drops though). On Saturday we had our best run so far: we managed to climb 5 floors up on every tag, getting from floor 1 to 20 and killing Fafnir!
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