Kreutzet(s)..

In my previous post, I eluded to the idea of getting myself a Sirocco Kukri. The day after that post I wandered my ass out to Teriggan, no idea when ToD was, and pitched my tent. No one was around which kind of worried me, but kind of didn't. I sat and sat, always got very excited when wind weather appeared. I was there for 9 hours, and figured the window had to be open... 3 hours later still no pop. I ended up spending 14 hours at Kreutzet before he popped. When he did pop, CC had JUST shown up and pulled a manticore. Thanks to Wakmidget's sleepy but vigilant eyes...

7:30 AM (this is a few days ago so don't even bother ToDing this XDXD) it died... >.o thats the longest camp of an NM I've ever endured.

And boom!



Thank you so much to all the members of CK who either touched base with the camp or endured the entire thing. Mine as well as my linkshell's efforts to camp this thing paid off greatly. The next spawn CK returned there. I had a Bahamut BCNM to go to, so I missed this one. Moriarti and a smaller group of CKs not attending Bahamut claimed Kreutzet (I'm told Nekoi claimed) and Moriarti's Kukri dropped. The next window we were outclaimed by a 66 THF.. next window again (but by a friend so I can't beat him up for any reason! but you meanie you outclaimed my ls! lol). The next morning we had no CC so we got Rimare's alternate character Voxx his Sirocco.

Chantal, Typhus and Pauge still need theirs, but I think we've lost the ToD ; ; We'll work on it again. The knife is definitely well worth the effort.

We also did some sky farming on Saturday in CK. Two BB's, Two Seiryu (2 A.legs, 1 W.hands, 1 Seriyu's Kote... I think that was about it..), and a Faust. Not bad but Ullik and Zip are the two we need most right now ; ; ahands where!!!!

Saturday night was supposed to be Invictus' Beaucedine, but ThirdStage once again dodged us, so we said screw it and just literally winged Valkurm XD It was fun as hell. We got RDM boots too so it wasn't a complete waste! lol...

Sunday was Proto-Omega night. Hoping and praying for a Homam Corazza, our wishes were not met;; but still Omega Hind Leg and Tail dropped. Eulore won the lot on the Hind Leg (which i want!!!) and I somehow won the Tail with a 600 lol. 2/5 Homam now! Starting up Temenos and Proto-Ultima path next week... good times!



Last night Gaillardia (our Japanese member whose practicing his English to an extent^^) was logging in Mamook when he stumbled across a mamool ja NM called Hundredfaced Hapool Ja. After looking up info about it, we rallied CK and took about 12 people there. We already had a manaburn in progress, so we ended up having 6 black mages in attendance, awesome! The photos speak for itself, its a crazy NM that clones itself >.<


TKO first round lol...
Second round go!!!



To my understanding... it drops a Katana. Not a ninja so no idea how good it is. Just one of those you hear about it and you just want to go beat it up type of things XD Gaillardia was shocked to see that so many CK showed up XDXD.

Kirin Revisited

With our newfound ability to manaburn down Kirin and his adds, with some coaxing and poking around at the leaders, they let me go thief and finally use my damned armlets lol.

Now, I have a slight theory about the elusive Treasure Hunter. Realistically, (lol yes I said realistically), when you think about what Treasure Hunter does is cause a mob to drop more items. A thief 'subbed in' at the last 10% of a kirin or a byakko only hits him a few times, doing maybe 400-700 DMG depending on turning, placement, speed of kill, etc, maybe a little more. Damaging a mob this much, how many items would you carve from his carcass? When you aren't in the entire that severely limits the time a thief would have to concentrate on pulling items from the mob. Now off from the realistic crap. I think the amount of damage a thief inflicts or at least time in the battle on top of the amount of treasure hunter really impacts how much treasure hunter influences drops. Though keeping a thief in for 100% rather than 10% of the fight may only increase the amount of Treasure Hunter by 5% or so (not good with numbers, don't ever quote those figures lol) that still increases the likelihood of good drops by some amount.

I'm at work for the moment so I'm lacking pictures, but I did take alot ^_^ I'll leave placeholders and eventually swap in my photographs later.
Our byakko was kind of crappy. Typhus was subbed in at the last 10% (but was told he would be dropped for the duration of the fight even though he died :P) and all we managed to get was e.feet which went to Briddy and a behemoth hide I think. Moved onto Kirin and I managed to be allowed to come on thief with my Treasure Hunter+. I think a few people were a little annoyed but I was happy ^^. I stayed in the fight the entire time, pulled hate a few times, outparsed the ninjars (lol but only because they died a few times and I had sam sub lawl!!!). It felt so good to actually be on thief again. We didn't drop him as fast but I think for 1 it was Earthsday making Kirin stronger, and Naotakun's Wild Card didn't score as well as it did last time. Kirin still died in about 9 minutes, which is better than our old hour time lol. Drops were superb ^_^


Kirin's Osode to Pauge, Shining Cloth to gilsplit and boom!!! Neptunal Abjuration: Body to meeeee!!!

I almost blew 1.4M on a cursed harness because I was so excited. After some coaxing from Moriarti and a few others though, I browsed Batallia Downs and got one for 1.1M. Sold my 100c for a bit less than I could've, but its okay, I can make gil easy enough if I work at it. I need to finally uncurse my N.hands now too. I really feel alot better about my thief after last night, and I think I'm going to put a few of my other jobs on hold until I start pouring some gil into it.



Me and Moriarti need Sirocco Kukuri's too D:

Anyways! Dynamis-Xarcabard on Saturday was a little sloppyish, but it was okay. Had a bunch of new people and we were a bit chaotic. But to no matter. Congratz to Beckham on his Sorcerer's Petasos and Suavdok on his Scout's Jerkin. Oh yeah, I won another 100C too >.>; Dynamis-Beaucedine wednesday I believe, see what kinda goodies we can get there ^_~

We went sea farming for a few hours last night. Got a merit point which I think I'm actually going to start pouring into my thief a bit. I have some points into my black magic, so why not start working up my baby job and make it better. I'm more inspired now. Though the merits still may come via BLM... though Moriarti is hitting me up for a thief burn to try out ma new harness ^_^

Going to get some work done I spose while its quiet! Pictures will show up later, so check back!

Kirin

Thursday was Kirin night again. Working out a new strategy for him, we managed to melee zerg him down. Erring on the side of caution, we let him pop his minis first to see if this was possible. Kirin himself took 5 mins. Minis were about 20 mins (took forever to pop -.-)

I'm really down about my thief as of late. I miss it really bad. I miss being able to go thief. Worked my ass off for a year to get my relic that pretty much collects dust anymore.

I should've let a thief who could actually use the armlets get them.

Just kinda frustrated.

Small update

Eulore says I don't update my blog enough. So I'll do a mini-inbetweentheactuallyinterestingstuff blog entry!

Yesterday I had class so I missed the first two windows of Fafnir. He ended up spawning second window, Kaizen claimed and ripped him a new one in about 15 minutes. Might miss the one tonight too which kinda blows-_-...

Yesterday was kind of lame. I got my Dark Torque finally. Been staring at the AH for a few weeks now trying to find one. Three were on the AH last night so I finally snagged one for about 200k. Problem is now I am broke again. Joy. So I spent most of last night fishing......

Much to my great disappointment, apparently I'm profitting more off of my side-sale cash now than my main fishing goal. I used to get a ton of squid and chop them into sushi for some major profit. My HQer is busted or something as of late, therefore the 20k/stack fish oil broths seem to be netting me more gil than my squid sushiNQ... 11k a stack for them is really really lame. :(

Trying to work out a few things I'd like to acquire in the near future for my BLM...
A.hands for sure...
Nashira feet or body...
Yigit stuffs...

Enhancing I need:
Augmenting Earring
Merciful Cape

Dark I need:
Merciful Cape
Sorceror's Gloves
Nashira Manteel <3
Dark Earring
Diabolos's Ring

Elemental I need:
Elemental Earring (iffy)
Merciful Cape
Ice Ring
Sorceror's Petasos
Druid Slops
Nashira Crackows...

Magic Atk Bonus really need to work on.. meh...

One thing I definitley have a new appreciation for is Conserve MP. I never really realized the impact it had until I managed to obtain my JSE feet. with my weskit and my huraches I have a total of +6 Conserve MP. With Magnetic Earring I could bolster that to +11 Conserve MP... with Relic Feet that could go to +12 Conserve MP. Really some other aspects of BLM that I've been looking into as of late. I'm contemplating obtaining a few of the Avatar rings as well. Water Ring on Watersday has a +15 Conserve MP bonus... Situational items are always a plus when its prevalent to use them. Some come at a cost though, would the Conserve MP bonus really take place over a snow ring? I'm not sure... An Item like the Duende Cotehardie which grants Conserve MP+4 rather than the 2 given on Weskit is not worth losing the skill and MAB that the weskit grants. With the huaraches, I'm losing out on a few intelligence, but my MP is being partially conserved... Cost/Benefit relationship that I still need to toy with a bit. I really think once I get my Sorcerer's Sabots it'll be very likely that I will only be using my huaraches for my dark and enhancing set, leaving them on my feet most of the time. Comparing Rostrums to the Sabots is kind of iffy. The Rostrums grant a bit of MND and INT, with a fast cast bonus and some MP. Fast cast is nice, but not always 100% valueable, and the +30 MP they grant may be conserved in a Conserve MP activation. It's a big toss up on some equipment...

Want to continue to build on my enhancing set as well. It seems like the closest one I can get to completion. Merciful Cape, which I think I'm up next for, and Augmenting Earring which isn't that expensive and I think I have just about all the gear that a BLM can have to bolster Enhancing. I probably wont even think about meriting it, but I have a very fond appreciation of swapping on my enhancing skill+ set when casting my buffs.

Works over, may add to this entry later but must depart for now! Sorry no pictures =P

Fafnir Slayers!

After watching for a few days now some hardships at Fafnir... IE: Fafnir CFH killed (see Eulore's blog for a screenshot of him at 0% Orange -.-)... along with a few iffy-started kills by the regular shells (with a Spike Flail happening the day before our kill, even though they managed to pull it back together), it felt really good to hear Rsouljah scream 'I GOT IT!!!!' Kill took us about 40 minutes, which compared to the last few days went pretty smoothly. Apparently we got the 'hard Fafnir' last night, as my friend counted 14 wings, 3 right in a row (which managed to not obliterate us somehow XD). Positioning was good, attendance was good. Very proud and extremely happy to have finally claimed this biotch after waiting a week and some days to finally snag him again.
Drops are as follows!














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Only more to come!!!

Monday was sea farming but got a late start due to our Fafnir claim. Ix'DRG was being an asshat and didn't pop. Still happy about our Fafnir claim, we just called it a night. Oh well!

CK also did a Proto-Omega run. We ganked him in about 4 minutes. Drops are as follows:

Congratulations to my fellow thief Moriarti at owning my lot XD and getting the Homam Corazza. Eulore and Daodao both botained Homam Gamberias (sp?) feets! We'll get more of them no worries!

Invictus went to Dynamis-Jeuno on Saturday. Awesome night, 49 attendees. I pulled for the first time in awhile. We cleared the mansion twice, the lower area twice, then had over 50 minutes remaining AFTER all of that when we killed the boss. Unfortunately some pulls linked badly and we ended up partially wiping, but Jeuno generally is annoying to pull after the win regardless of positioning. Drops were extremely well: whm whm whm blm brd drg drg mnk thf thf thf and possibly a few more that I'm forgetting >.>; 100c dropped as well and I lotted a 995 on it XD!

Welcome to all the new people! We'll get you set up for Beaucedine/Xarcabard as soon as possible.

After Limbus the other day I ran out to Onzozo to help 2 of my best friends in the game. I knew my 66 DRG friend wanted an Assault Jerkin pretty badly. While harassing the RMT CO: Wyle translating for me, we camped Ose. He popped after about an hour and dropped!!! Congratulations to you Durandarte on your Assault Jerkin!!! (forgot to take a screenie ; ;)

After that it was getting really late but me and Nekoi had ToD for Mysticmaker Profblix so I hung around. Finally spawned right behind me and I nailed em with a stun. After our 2-3rd kill it finally dropped for Nekoi ^^! Congratulations on your earring hun! Now level BLM !!!!!


Really eventful week but at least it made me smile.