NMs what!?

Well I haven't spent all my time leveling BST. My dynamis shell had a pretty nice Xarcabard run recently. I don't remember all the drops, but I got my 'second' Koga Tekko, which I can finally turn in to make this bad boy!


Then the next run after that I sponsored a Bastok which yeilded a 491 byne bill count! Very nice, extra points for all who showed up and helped!

But before all that, Mots wanted a Jelly Ring. While we were down there we were also killing ghosts for Mane to pop, but he noticed on Widescan that these two guys were up. Phanduron and Drexerion the Condemned. We were suprised 'cause there was maintenance that ended 4AM that morning, and we were camping these around 3PM or so, and that means no one has come down here for almost 12 hours to beat these guys. Or they did and horribly failed, and gave up.

We decided to go with the BLM first, Phanduron. This fight was a little difficult, because he likes his -ga spells, and using Dimensional Death right after using those -ga spells. So there were times when my HP dropped to red, but I was able to manage it and get back up to a safe level. No drops on him, but it was fun just to see him considering their spawn times.




Drexerion the RNG! He was pretty easy, like all RNG mobs they always shoot between hits, except this guy was sloooooow. So with hojo on him the whole fight was extremely managable. We got full drops, Mots took the Shadow Mask, and I took the bow which I now keep in my bazaar for max gil.






Finally after killing those NMs, our target pops as we are clearing out the area! We had killed him before for my Jelly Ring a while ago, and the fight was oh so easy, and the drop rate is oh so nice at 95%.


So needless to say (or take a screenshot) it dropped the ring. The fun part though, was mots and his Primal Rends. He was doing excellent damage to SS with those Rends. Makes me want to bust out RNG and try Trueflight on him!


Salvage was good, the run we did had a bunch of silly mistakes in it that held us back from doing the boss, but we got 35 usu hands! Always good to see a rare 35 drop.

Also on the SEA front, did 3 JoP, and one JoH! It was my job on JoP to kite the second one away while everyone killed the additional guy. I only died once out of three pops, it was a good day for me. Unfortunately though, only one torque dropped. :/ And the one JoH wasn't that friendly with the torque either.

But it is good to see my craft getting put to good use!

Lordscuba in action using the sword I signed for him!

I think it is time I get back to BST and do some more leveling. Been stuck on 52, SSG is a pretty good camp but not that fun! It is a tight fit, and there are people killing the Sahagin for the NM.

FFXI Community!

Yeah, I submitted my little blog here to the FFXI Community thing!

Check it out!

If you have an FFXI themed site, I highly suggest submitting it. They give you this neat little site tool (that thing on the right side with Shantotto), and they let you download a bunch of stuff! For example there are logos for each expansion: (I am posting lower res versions, the ones they give you are very much nicer than these)




They have one for each expansion, also all with Black Background versions, and PSD versions for easier editing.

They also give out stuff like shop and guild signs, little crystals, and the face of every race. (Not all of the faces though, just some ones they have selected for each race).


Just examples, they have all the crystals available.


As well as all the shop signs, these are just a few.


And the guild signs!


Here are some examples of the faces, these are just small versions. (Hume doesn't get cropped at the shoulders WTF!?)


And of course the flags of awesome!

You can bet I will totally be using these images and making myself a neat little profile!



Also on a side note: I hate the fact that Black Mage mobs in Dynamis can cast spells while moving, and while I'm not near them on the radar. Meaning they must have a larger range than normals. It completely ruined our Dynamis-Windurst run. Because we have to low-man it, and so we run out of time, and when I death pull the last NM before the boss, and eat a Thundaga III, while well out of range... it completely kills time.

UP TO THE DATES!

School ended last week. So I had a bunch of time to catch up on BST! Lets see, in my last post it was level 43? But now it is level 51. The trip was fun long, and also lame! I got from 43 to 45 in a party with some friends who had a PL, which was fun cause I just used a tiger jug pet and smacked things all day. Next I soloed a bit, and another BST wanted to duo Djinns with me in E. Ronfare [S]. It was okay, but the guy wasn't exactly the best BST. We /rdm to nuke the Djinn's and give them 100% TP, increasing their chance to explode and give us instant EXP! But at one point, the guy I was duoing with, nuked while his pet died and as the Djinn was coming at us. And wouldn't you know it, the thing exploded on us, killing us both. He got a R3 from a nearby Pixie, that ignored me. I took an R1 from a SMN that was passing by.

After that I started the long task of finding the right camps. I tried a BUNCH of places. A really good place was Gustav Tunnel. Lots of mobs all over the place, and lots of Goblins! Only problem is...


Yeah I didn't notice Goblinsavior spawned when I was leveling. I just thought it was another Goblin Reaper, and blindly sent my pet on it. I died eventually, the NM hits like a truck! I stayed in Gustav for a while, till about 47, 48. Then went on to test out a bunch of other different areas.

Rolanberry Fields [S] was not a good place at 49, almost all the crawlers there were Tough, and rarely ever turned EM. Labyrinth of O was not fun at all. First 'cause you have to get past the pack of Goblins at the start, and then the leech pets didn't seem to be high enough to kill cockatrice. Plus the cockatrice have a petrify attack which really sucks, and forces you to swap out pets. Pet swapping is not fun in that tight space you have to deal with.

West Altepa was a nice alternative for the 48-49 area. I just stuck to Beetle on Beetle action with the occassional Dhalmel pet in there.


Finally at 49 I gritted my teeth and just killed a bunch of EM crawlers and some T lizards in the Crawler's Nest. Then when I hit 50, everything changed. I now had RR, auto regen from /whm, Gaudy harness, this neat new leg armor...

Yeah, it is hilarious and practical, right up my alley!

Aside from new armor, all the lizards were now completely different. More EM, and some DC lizards perfectly mixed with T lizards. Not only that, but there were two rooms full of them, and some EM Witch Hazels in between to help kill T lizards, if there were too many of them. Also it was funny because when I went to a specific tunnel, the lizards seem to always back themselves into this wall, and keep going up it...

They go even higher on the wall to the point were you can only see like one leg, and a head, but I forgot to snap a shot of it.

I'm level 51 now, sporting my Apollo's staff. Can't wait to hit 52, and start leveling in the ToAU areas where I hear the EXP is so very nice, and I can start wearing my AF!