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KS99 and more Fafnir

Jun 30

Posted by arrode in BCNM, HNM | No Comments

Today the LS did KS99 The Early Bird Catches the Wyrm. Approximately 8 people got to use their orbs today and the rest are scheduled for tomorrow’s run. I ended up forgetting to screenshot my drops, but ended up with about 2.3 million in drops including an Unsho, dragon heart, and some weird axe that I keep forgetting the name of. No speed belts in this set of orbs (Ashy apparently won one last time they did KS99, lucky bastard!), but we have tomorrow to hope for some awesome drops.

Besides the KS99, we camped Fafnir and claimed it tonight. Some decent drops, no Ridill as people were hoping.

Not sure what I’m going to do with my drop money. I’m probably going to use it to uncurse my Zenith Pumps and repurchase some RDM gear. It’s so weird how 2 mil goes so much further in today’s economy.

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What a pain!

Jun 27

Posted by arrode in EXP, Einherijar, Sea | No Comments

Current levelsWhat a pain! I transferred all my entries from my FFXI based livejournal over here the past two days so now you can view all of the entries here. I’m probably not going to post in that LJ anymore, so come here for updates from now on. I’m going to try to make it a point to make at least one entry per week in regards to my XI exploits! Current level statistics for my jobs to the left.
I’ve rejoined NotED and there are quite a few new faces and a number of people I remember from back before I quit.

A quick summary of the past month in XI:

  • I got my BRD to 75!
  • Did some meriting. I have Slow II now and some random BRD enhancements and I’ve upped my MP boost to +4 (40 MP). Meriting is kind of boring since everyone wants to do colibri and I’m sick of those banana birds. :<
  • Won a free lot for Zenith Pumps, which is nuts considering when I left these were in high demand and waitlisted now they’re free lot from Fafnir. I don’t have the money to uncurse them yet though.
  • I’ve done a little Al’Taieu adventuring with the LS. I participated in a Jailer of Love kill, which was incredibly boring, and today we ran around the palace and farmed spawn items.
  • MOAR dynamis. I’ll be honest; I never liked dynamis. It’s long, boring, and lags my poor lappy to death. Drop rate seems higher now though for AF2, but that could just be my insanity.
  • Einherijar (Did two runs, both wins). Saw some of the new abjurations drop (the ones for WAR and DRK)
  • Got to see one of the new HNMs (no claim though) Cerberus. Very cool looking! Hopefully I’ll get to fight it soon if we claim it in the future.
  • Lots of sitting around quasi-afk camping Fafhog/Aspidechelone
  • Got killed three times by Absolute Virtue.
  • Helped Zenshin reacquire Rank 6 by killing the Dark Lord. I love that battle, it’s so epic! I remember the first time I did it around level 50ish and was freaking out and we won by a sliver of health thanks to our LV60 PLD friend.

I’m considering what to level next after I finish meriting a bit. I want to get my RDM pimped out merit wise and pump out my BRD a little bit before I advance with another job. I’m thinking going melee now even though my WHM is 62 (I can’t stand how BORING it is). I’m debating between SAM (LV10) and NIN(LV37). I’ve always wanted to have a LV75 NINJARRR just cause… it’s a NINJA. Plus I’m a sucker for cool looking AF. >_> I love my reasoning. I also want to do SAM since it just seems like such an elegant melee job and I have AF2 for it already (lol at free lots). At the same time, I want to finish off WHM and be done with it… and yes, I have AF2 for WHM too which makes me all the more sad since I’m still 0/5 for RDM AF2.

Sea farming
Farming in sea. Pretty Hrii casting Stoneskin.

Jailer of Faith
Killing the Jailer of Faith.

Standing around in sea.
Standing around in Al’Taieu.

Killing pop mobs.
Killing some spawn mobs in sea.

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Vrtra and Aspidechelone

Jun 25

Posted by arrode in HNM | No Comments

Hey all, a while since my last update. Got bored, so I upgraded this LJ account to paid as well.

Ingame has been pretty slow lately. I haven’t been playing as much because of he end of my senior year in High School, graduation, etc. Now that all that’s over, I’m spending more time in XI leveling my bard. I’m level 64 currently, hoping for 75 by the time I go to college this fall.

LS has been camping Aspidechelone religiously for three months now. From this, we have got a number of Crimson, Dalmatica, and two Koenig. Congrats to everyone who received the gear and serious thanks to Keftenk for being a crazy bastard camping that thing every single day. ♥

ED has attempted Vrtra a few more times, all failures. After the discovery of desynthing that subligar to make the BRD JSE, there seems to be no real reason to go after Vrtra anymore since cashmere cloth is now easily accessable for the mere price of 8million gil and your soul if you full-break it.

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Double Dalmaticas

Jun 18

Posted by arrode in HNM | No Comments


Probably the best drop we got off Aspi so far. Double GOOD drops. Congrats to the two new owners of Dalmaticas. ^^


And for the most interesting ASCII art in FFXI for the week.

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Dynamis Jeuno

Mar 27

Posted by arrode in Dynamis, EXP, HNM | No Comments

Yeah. Anyway did Dynamis-Jeuno today. x2 NIN, DRK, THF dropped. ; ; No RDM sadly. Was a pretty smooth run.

Working on leveling my WHM now since I’m taking a break from BRD till a certain friend of mine gets back. Got to LV57 which wasn’t too bad, though I really hate pickup parties. ; ; I wish I could find a static, but so few people in the LS play at this time of night (JP time zone). Meh.

Hit 93.0 Alchemy a few days ago. Have to level on Papillion, which sucks since it’s like 40k a synth. -.- My first synth did go to good use though as you can see below. :3

We managed to claim Aspidochelone yesterday, which was pretty adrenaline rushing for me as this was the first time I’ve fought the HNM with the LS (Usually it’s always in NA primetime and I’m either asleep or at class). The drops were awful though, Shura Feet for what the LS says was the fourth time in a row. ; ; I was so praying for Dalmatica or Crimson (DROOL) or hell, even Koenig for our PLDs. But yes, turtle is a bastage. Arvin outpulled 2 other LSes out there for the turtle. Good job! ^^

Starting the fight.

Death to turtle.

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