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Another Small Update

Sunday November 19, 2006 at 09:14 AM (EST) by Cyberstorm

I’ve run out of stuff to update! But what’s happened so far:

I quit Tsunami (my Limbus linkshell). Why? Because the really good leader, Chronus, quit, and left the linkshell in the hands of a few people. Now, I like a good amount of people in that linkshell. However, the new, self-appointed “leader”, is a fucking retard and can’t get his shit together and manage us, so I just left the linkshell. The quality of the people in it seems to be decreasing, thus causing many deaths.

Take, for example, the Apollyon HNM run. It has 5 floors, each with monsters and a boss on the floor. Now, a few months back, when we were in our prime, we did this and thought it was a joke. We killed every monster and every boss, with maybe 1-2 deaths total.

But now, we can’t even win the run! The “leader” (and I use that term loosely) made us skip all of the bosses (except for the first one), and we got to the top floor with something like 25-30 minutes left. We then had that much time to kill 4 Behemoths and kill King Behemoth. Back in our prime, we had maybe 20 minutes at most, and won flawlessly. But now, stupid stuff like this happens:

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While fighting the last Behemoth, no one pulled it back. No one though enough to move it out of the path of the fucking boss. So of course, it aggros! And that would be time #2 that run that something stupid like that happens.

The first time was on the floor below the final one. It had wyverns and Fafnir was the boss. Fafnir just roamed in the middle of the zone, going back and forth. Now, we decide to skip all the wyverns and Fafnir, just like the floors below. Just to save time, mind you. So we’re running to the portal, and we aggro Fafnir and two wyverns. I won’t go into the details, but I’ll just say someone walked right in front of Fafnir like they were fucking blind. So then we all get aggro, and most die. Actually, two people died, me being one of them. I didn’t have reraise on, because I don’t like to waste gil on idiots.

So I’m dead, and the “leader” sleeps Fafnir and the two wyverns that had also aggroed. So then most go up to the next floor and leave me dead. The new White Mage that had joined a few weeks ago was kind enough to come and raise me. Thanks to TParty, I could see her mp. It was a little over 700. I was the only one she had to raise. So, what raise do you think I got? Raise 1. I take it because I didn’t have time to bitch at her to fucking give me a Raise 3, so I just barely live.

Hopefully Iso, the leader I like (notice no quotes around “leader” :p), will be kind enough to give me coins still, even though I already told them I quit. I figure since I left on good terms (until someone reads this), I should be able to spend my points. I earned them, it’s the way I see it.

Also, in happier news, I got my 666th level!

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Minor Update #2

Friday October 20, 2006 at 09:38 PM (EDT) by Cyberstorm

So what happened today? Well, I stayed after school to take a Geo Test and Physics Quiz. I took the Geo Test, but my Physics teacher left right after school, and me a few other students that were going to take it ended up just wasting time waiting for him to return (which he never did).

But to the FFXI part. I started off seeking with Red Mage. I got a party pretty quick, only the party wasn’t too good looking.

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They all had the same title: Dark Dragon Slayer. That’s the rank 2-3 mission title. Why they’re still rank 2 I don’t know. I knew something was up when I saw the list and the titles and none of them were in any LS. Also, when I first joined, one of them was a PLD30/WAR5 that soon changed jobs. What logical thing could anyone who was in an RMT party do?

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They took it pretty well too. I didn’t get any tells or anything from them. I guess they eventually got some sap that couldn’t tell they were RMT to party and went on their way.

Some might ask: “But Cyberstorm, they have fully leveled subs, just because they may be RMT, doesn’t mean the party would be bad.”

I would reply with: “Since everyone had level 10-20 armor at level 50, yes, it would be bad.”

…but onto a happier topic…

Someone was selling Ancient Coins for 50,000G each. I was trying to hold out as long as I could on buying coins, but I broke down and bought 29 coins, for a total of 1,450,000G. I got 46 coins from Tsunami, and finally got the best melee earring ever.

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Long time no see

Wednesday October 18, 2006 at 12:18 PM (EDT) by Cyberstorm

So in recent news, I caught a cold on Sunday, and I’ve missed 3 days of school because of it. And since I’m sick, I figured why not write an entry in my blog, since I never do that anymore.

So here I am.

Since the last real FFXI update, a lot has happened. My Dragoon and Bard have hit 75, my Red Mage has hit 51 (2 nights ago that happened), and I’ve got a few new records and new armor.

This is when my Dragoon hit level 75:

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So what did I do first when my Dragoon hit 75? I seeked to find a Mezraq, the best polearm for Dragoon, not counting the Love Polearm since it requires stones to not suck. At the time, the polearm was like 2 mil on the AH, but I got it for 1.4 mil from a bazaar! Not sure what it is now however…

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So my Bard is level 75 now! What does that mean? Insane exp. I’ve capped exp on Bard, and got a new highest chain record. I went from having Chain 74 to Chain 106 as my highest! I was the puller in the party, and it would’ve gone higher if there weren’t so many parties there at the time taking all the monsters. :(
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Assault time! Rilian, Tranced and I decided to keep doing Halving staging point PFC mission until we got another 20,000 Assault Points! They got gil and I got the best foot gear for Black Mages ever, Yigit Crackows. (Best in exp parties, there are better feet gear for stuff such as HNM).

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My Paladin has hit 68 (it’s 2,000 exp away from 69), so Rilian helped me get a Jelly Ring. It’s a pretty nice ring. The first attempt, we got aggro and died. But we came back, and I carby tanked him to death. Meteorite did a ton of damage (700+), and Sewer Syrup doesn’t have much HP to begin with.

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Over to {sea}. Limbus boss, Proto-Ultima. 18 people BCNM with a 45 minute time limit. This is our 3rd or 4th successful run against him. Finally I get something from him. :p Eventually I hope to get the full set, but for now, the feet are great (I didn’t snag a screenshot of the gear, but I’ll add one later). The only other piece I really want badly is the hands (-1 prep. for avatars, really nice).

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Back to Dragoon. Rilian (WHM/WAR), Kazuo (WHM/BLM) and I (DRG/WAR) went and exp’d in Caedarva. It was a really good party, and it was the first time I tried Meat (Hedgehog Pie to be exact) in a party (I normally eat Sushi, Sole or sometimes Sole +1). So since I was using meat, I got a drastic increase in damage output. The below weapon skills show it. Oh, and just in case you wanted to see, oh say a parser report, here it is.

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Last article. Last night/this morning, I finished off my Red Mage artifact set. So this is now #7 of my complete AF sets.

Limbus Photos

Monday June 26, 2006 at 08:57 PM (EDT) by Cyberstorm

Apollyon NW Photos of the run today.

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Summoner AF+1

Sunday June 18, 2006 at 10:27 AM (EDT) by Cyberstorm

Finally got it!

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SMN AF

Thursday June 15, 2006 at 12:47 PM (EDT) by Cyberstorm

I don’t remember if I posted this or not, but on Monday I turned in my Summoner AF boots to get them upgraded to the Summoner AF+1 boots. And since I’m so short on room in my mog house, and on me, I erased my memory of the Summoner AF quests (via the NPC in Lower Jeuno magic shop), and redid my SMN AF1 (the staff) and AF2 (the legs) on Tuesday. Yesterday I didn’t have too long to play, had some real life stuff to do, so I decided to go farming the key from Toraimarai Canal for the boots. And as luck would have it, the second monster I killed dropped it. :p

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Then after checking all the coffer spawn points, I get my boots and was finally able to restore all my Summoner AF.

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Last thing: A picture of what the Summoner AF+1 boots look like. Borrowed this from Alla since I won’t get mine until Sunday 11 AM EST.

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Productive Day

Tuesday June 13, 2006 at 06:24 PM (EDT) by Cyberstorm

Got home at 12:00 PM today. Finals are the rest of this week so I’ll be getting home at noon everyday, except Friday when I’ll get home at ~10:00 AM. But anyway. Last night, after the Limbus run, I took out 8 coins that I had saved up and combined them with the 7 coins I was trying to sell and traded them to that Elvaan and this Sunday I’ll get my own pair on SMN AF+1 boots. They give -1 prep. cost to avatars, so they’re uber. But of course, that means that I cannot store my normal AF so I erased my quest history for the SMN line and started all over. I did AF1 and AF2 today, planning on just getting my boots either tonight or tomorrow so I can store my SMN AF and leave it at that.

SMN AF1 was an easy battle, I went in solo with SMN and owned the hecteye. I even broke the record, go me. :p

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SMN AF2 isn’t easy to solo since you have to fight 6 saplings that are all level 50. They can’t be slept very easy, I remember that from when I first did it. So I took Yurei and we went in duo. All he did was cast Cure IV and Cure III on me a few times, because I manafonted and went insane. Thundaga III, Blizzaga III and Firaga III was enough to kill all 6. :D
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And that leaves me with the last item for todays entry: Another DRG party. Now, this one was different. We went to the Mamool Ja Staging point and killed Sea Puks. They are dragons so dragon killer went into effect. :D Also, they have wings and fly so they are weak to piercing. The party setup was also different from what I usually have. It was DRG, DRG, PLD, BRD, WHM and THF. The other DRG was an Elvaan that could’ve been my twin. He had the same gear I do, but he had the +1 Barone pants (Conte) and the Barone feet gear. I have the normal Barone pants and I use my Taru RSE since it gives +4 str and HP. He also used some attack hand gear (forget the name), where as I use the level 50 braces that give insane str (+7). :p His gear was really nice, and I was amazed at how I was able to keep up with him in overall damage.

My best penta yet on a VT:
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Gear~

Monday May 08, 2006 at 08:51 PM (EDT) by Cyberstorm

Just thought I’d post this :D
Finished Limbus tonight, got 24 points, brining my total points to 248. Chronus, being the nice guy he is, let me borrow 2 points (that will be deducted next Friday) and take out 25 coins (10 points for each coin :p). And with another 100k down the drain *cough*Ether Leather*cough* I was able to get a nice new hat. Which I won’t be able to get get until tomorrow when the server resets ~_~.

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FFXI Update!

Wednesday April 12, 2006 at 08:11 AM (EDT) by Cyberstorm

So lately I’ve been (trying to) level dragoon. It’s really fun, and a change from leveling all the mage classes . At 60 I got Skewer and it’s a 3 hit weaponskill, and TP is used to change the ACC of every hit. The best time to use it is around 150ish TP, thats when I was able to get it to do the most damage. Pictures below are from level 61 to 64 (currently at 64). The lotting is on the OSE whisker, I thought it was funny that I lotted 1 point higher than the RDM, but then the last person lotted somewhere in the 900 range and got it -_-;

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I’ve been doing limbus a lot too, every friday and monday, still missing a BLM and WHM piece, but once I get one I think I might go and upgrade a piece of AF. In the past two weeks I killed Proto-Omega and Proto-Ultima, Omega was really easy, whereas Ultima is a bitch. Ultima “drops the bomb” on one person and everyone near that person dies (2000+ damage)! But, in Apollyon, double dark weather :D.

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Easter event, SE should’ve seen this coming… (HAHAHA, joke there XD)

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Last picture, I was just fooling around in the CN, killed a bee pretty damn fast.

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Been a While…

Sunday February 05, 2006 at 08:57 PM (EST) by Cyberstorm

Well, let’s see… Yesterday, I got Warrior from level 29 to 33. Meaning now I can level Dragoon and Paladin to level 68 before I have to level it again. But today is what was a good day, for the most part.

The beginning of the day was the worst. My {sea} linkshell, Tsunami, set up a KS99 run that I was looking forward to in hopes of making some good gil and getting my own Noble’s tunic. We only had 4 people with orbs, so we {/random}’d to see who would go first. Who do you think went first? That’s right… me! I hate going first because first always wipes because no one knows what the fuck they’re doing. And I was right, we wiped, ran outta time and the monster had like 20% hp left. So I just threw out 99 KS for nothing! We traded another orb and we wiped on that one too, so it was just one big loss. We decided to stop and decide to do it another day, since no one felt like wiping another time and getting 0 gil. Which is what I ended up getting.

But at least the afternoon/night was much better. I got an invite for my white mage, for a party in KRT. But not any party, a mnk burn! I never knew exp like this was possible! I never got one on Black Mage, because, well, Black Mages’ are useless! It started off pretty good, but then got really amazing:

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Well, I started off at 5.1k to level 74, and when the party ended, about 3 hours later, with 17.8k into level 74! I say that’s some really good exp, hope to do it again real soon. Only 24.1k away from level 75, making it my second level 75 job!

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