Been a busy couple weeks irl. Been so busy that I think I've only logged into FFXI a couple times at most. I don't see my rl schedule opening up too much in the next month, so I've decided to once again take a break from FFXI. For a while? For good? I don't know yet.
As of October 15th, 2009 I am now a proud new homeowner. I am now in the biggest debt of my life! Yay! {money} {Can I have it?} Not to mention all the gil I have to fork out to buy appliances, furniture, new flooring, paint, etc, etc, etc... X_x;
So I've taken two weeks off from work, and just about half way through that. Spent mon-fri of this week painting, and I'm still not done yet. I'd say probably about 50% done overall. I so hate painting at this point. Once that's done, I wanna put in some new flooring, then get furniture, then move in! I totally underestimated painting. I figured it'd be a one week adventure, then another week to do the rest of the work. I think I need to burn the rest of my PTO, and take another 4 weeks off D: It's kinda weird, I've spent more time working on my house than I do at my job... it's definitely doesn't feel like a vacation... which I guess why in my case it's PTO...
I've been looking forward to this phase of my life though. Finally moving out of my parents' house, and into a place all to myself :D Let the gaming begin! I have a nice queue of games I need to get around to, not to mention CoD: Modern Warfare 2 coming out soon. But my gaming time has been limited to a couple hours late at night before bed, definitely not enough time to do anything meaningful in FFXI, so I don't even bother. Most of the time I end up eating dinner at 9:30-10:00, shower, sneak in some gaming time then crash.
After three playthroughs of Uncharted 2, I have gotten my platinum trophy! It's a really good game, single player and multiplayer. Though I don't recommend playing single player three times like I did. I was just set on getting all trophies, and made the mistake of playing on normal difficulty first. If I had started on hard, it would have only taken two playthroughs. What's really fun though is that I've been playing multiplayer with some AP'ers (though they don't play FFXI anymore). Foosh, Deb, Cala, and Eldo have been playing UC2 also and invite me to play some co-op mode every now and then. Unfortunately, co-op is limited to three players :( It works out most of the time though, I haven't seen everyone on at the same time since beta multiplayer.
Guess that's it for now. It may be a while for any FFXI related stuff. I'll "miss out" on the Nov update, and the next mini-expansion (item). Sorry Maat's Cap and Leathercraft 100, maybe you were never really a reality for me anyways.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Stuff
Been slacking a lot since the last post. Guess there just hasn't been much stuff happening.
As far as FFXI goes, I'm close to finishing up my 9th job to 75. My FoV thief is about 1/3 of the way to 73. I think FoV works for me for a couple of reasons. On average, I can get about 3000 exp in about 15 min if timed right, i.e. if I start FoV near the end of the game day, I can finish it for 1300 exp (plus exp I get from actually killing mobs) then start another FoV when the day changes. I usually then either log off and do other stuff, or do my crafting or other misc tasks until the next game day. There's never any downtime (as apposed to seeking endlessly) which is great. And I don't get stuck in long exp sessions and get burnt out. Alternatively, instead of timing my FoV sessions, I just start a training regime then log. Come back about one hour later or whenever, do the training regime, then immediately start another regime. Easy.
I should have it finished in a couple of weeks, then maybe see what kind of things I can 2box. Couple things I've been considering getting are Sirroco Kukri, Ungur Boomerang, and of course Joytoy. But we'll see how that goes... last time I tried camping Joytoy, I gave up after 6 or so hours due to Chary not popping and not wanting to compete for it. Other NMs are on similar pop conditions :(
Been considering Maat's cap too... most of the remaining Maat jobs are already 37, with SMN at 10. I just need them to 66 and just slack after that. DRK, DRG, RDM, BST, RNG, SMN. BST and SMN might be a pain to get parties with... but then again there's always FoV!
I've also started to craft again, this time leveling leathercraft. I've leveled cooking up to 93, and my leathercraft is now 63. I'm not exactly sure if I'll be able to bring leather up with my cooking already so high, considering you only get 40 levels to distribute to crafts that are above level 60. I'll keep leveling it and see what happens. It hasn't been to bad to get leather up to 63. I've probably spent a few hundred thousand to get it this far, which is pretty good. Most crafts were break even/small loss synths, with the exception of the raptor skin levels (50s). Couple thousand loss per synth, and for some reason I barely got any skillups, maybe like 1/10 got me 0.1 skill D:
Non-FFXI, let's see. Started to play Uncharted 2 multiplayer beta after reserving a copy at Gamestop. Deathmatch is fun... sorta. I feel it's just kind of a novelty thing right now, and I'll probably get bored with it soon-ish. I'm not really used to over the shoulder type games, but as long as it tides me over till Modern Warfare 2, I'll be happy. On the horizon, Modern Warfare 2, Assassin's Creed II, Super Mario Bros Wii, Uncharted 2. Fun times.
And, rl-wise, I am in escrow for a home purchase. Should close next month. Maybe all my plans for FFXI will get put on the backburner, for a long time, with house and upcoming PS3 games coming up. We'll see. Definitely won't be doing any hardcore anything in FFXI.
And Wu, if you still check up on this, sorry to see you go like that. I always thought you'd still be playing long after I was done with FFXI. You were the more dedicated and model FFXI player. My inconsistency with helping out on stuff is pretty well documented I'm sure, but you've always helped out whenever! Thanks for that. You came through big time for some of my CoP! GL in whatever you do!
Tune of the Moment: Richard Durand - Into Something
As far as FFXI goes, I'm close to finishing up my 9th job to 75. My FoV thief is about 1/3 of the way to 73. I think FoV works for me for a couple of reasons. On average, I can get about 3000 exp in about 15 min if timed right, i.e. if I start FoV near the end of the game day, I can finish it for 1300 exp (plus exp I get from actually killing mobs) then start another FoV when the day changes. I usually then either log off and do other stuff, or do my crafting or other misc tasks until the next game day. There's never any downtime (as apposed to seeking endlessly) which is great. And I don't get stuck in long exp sessions and get burnt out. Alternatively, instead of timing my FoV sessions, I just start a training regime then log. Come back about one hour later or whenever, do the training regime, then immediately start another regime. Easy.
I should have it finished in a couple of weeks, then maybe see what kind of things I can 2box. Couple things I've been considering getting are Sirroco Kukri, Ungur Boomerang, and of course Joytoy. But we'll see how that goes... last time I tried camping Joytoy, I gave up after 6 or so hours due to Chary not popping and not wanting to compete for it. Other NMs are on similar pop conditions :(
Been considering Maat's cap too... most of the remaining Maat jobs are already 37, with SMN at 10. I just need them to 66 and just slack after that. DRK, DRG, RDM, BST, RNG, SMN. BST and SMN might be a pain to get parties with... but then again there's always FoV!
I've also started to craft again, this time leveling leathercraft. I've leveled cooking up to 93, and my leathercraft is now 63. I'm not exactly sure if I'll be able to bring leather up with my cooking already so high, considering you only get 40 levels to distribute to crafts that are above level 60. I'll keep leveling it and see what happens. It hasn't been to bad to get leather up to 63. I've probably spent a few hundred thousand to get it this far, which is pretty good. Most crafts were break even/small loss synths, with the exception of the raptor skin levels (50s). Couple thousand loss per synth, and for some reason I barely got any skillups, maybe like 1/10 got me 0.1 skill D:
Non-FFXI, let's see. Started to play Uncharted 2 multiplayer beta after reserving a copy at Gamestop. Deathmatch is fun... sorta. I feel it's just kind of a novelty thing right now, and I'll probably get bored with it soon-ish. I'm not really used to over the shoulder type games, but as long as it tides me over till Modern Warfare 2, I'll be happy. On the horizon, Modern Warfare 2, Assassin's Creed II, Super Mario Bros Wii, Uncharted 2. Fun times.
And, rl-wise, I am in escrow for a home purchase. Should close next month. Maybe all my plans for FFXI will get put on the backburner, for a long time, with house and upcoming PS3 games coming up. We'll see. Definitely won't be doing any hardcore anything in FFXI.
And Wu, if you still check up on this, sorry to see you go like that. I always thought you'd still be playing long after I was done with FFXI. You were the more dedicated and model FFXI player. My inconsistency with helping out on stuff is pretty well documented I'm sure, but you've always helped out whenever! Thanks for that. You came through big time for some of my CoP! GL in whatever you do!
Tune of the Moment: Richard Durand - Into Something
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Another month of FFXI, and another Job to 75
I was on the fence on whether to keep my subscription going, but decided to keep it going. I've finished up my 7th job to 75, SAM, and have gotten a relatively insane amount of merits on it in the past few days. So far I've put 21 merits into SAM, i.e. 210,000 extra xp, i.e. enough xp to get a new job to 46 X.x It's not the most by any means, considering ppl have jobs capped out on merits, but it's a lot for me. I usually don't do that much meriting, but when you get amazing xp/hr (unfortunately I don't run any parsers or anything so exact numbers are hard to come by) it's hard to turn your back on meriting. I've had a bunch of 100+ chain parties.
This here is my new all time high, previous was in somewhere below 150.
Well, taking a somewhat conservative estimate, with birds giving 193-217 xp each... I'll say avg 205 xp per mob. To maintain a chain beyond chain 5, a mob must die within 1 minute of the last one, so in this case we have 275 mobs killed to establish this chain, with 1 dying per minute. In 60 minutes we have (205x60) 12300 xp/hour. Not too shabby. Again that's a somewhat conservative approach, due to lack of a parser. I know I wasn't meriting for over 4 hours, though over 3 sounds reasonable, but still a decent amount of xp and beats FoV or Campaign.
When it comes to merit parties, I don't bother seeking on anything other than BRD. From the past few days, it seems the parties that do the best consists of RDM, BRD, 3x DD, and either a 4th DD or another BRD. I should note that DD doesn't mean any DD, but rather either SAM or DRG. Those two jobs just tear through birds like there's no tomorrow. Drg obviously have polearm to help them, 1.25 the damage to birds, and their mythic ws Drakesbane does awesome dmg to birds. SAM can use polearms too, though their cap is 36 points lower, but they shine because of their tp gaining abilities, which help them overcome TP reset moves of birds. WAR and DRK do ok, but every single highly sucessful party I've been in has had the majority of DDs eithing being SAM or DRG. Chains seem to fall apart with other setups. I don't have DRG, and my SAM would probably one of the gimper ones w/o Haidate and/or Ace's Helm, not to mention lack of meditate merits and overwhelm merits.
So I started to do some FoV lately to buffer my other jobs. New zones were given FoV training manuals and now Cape Teriggan is always busy with ppl. It used to be my hangout spot to skill up, break latent, and level npcs and now I gotta fight for mobs ; ; The thing I like about Teriggan is that I can OP to it and start working on ws points right away with my npc. No other travel time needed. And with it being an outdoor area, mobs respawn pretty quickly. With page 1 of the training regiment, you get 1300 xp for completing the task which consists of killing 4x bunnies, and 4x lizards. It's like an added bonus for stuff I'd be doing anyways in Teriggan.
And now I've also started to experiment with augments earned via FoV. There are now new 'elite training' you can do which are fights against NMs. I've been playing around with the highest level one available, which is in Behemoth's Domain. It spawns an NM behemoth and augments up to a level 50 item. This is the result of my 2nd augment:
My first one was of the same item, but with worse stats. It had +2 INT, -1 MND, -1 AGI. I ended up npcing it and buying a new one. Augmented items cant be resold on the AH. This one was a little more bearable but still nothing to write home about. It's still fun to see what kind of random augments I might be getting.
So next up, I'm looking at finishing up either THF (61) or MNK (65) as my 8th job. I want THF mainly so I can go out farming and have TH support. And if I can get it to 75 and cap out evasion, I'll go attempt to 2box myself a Joytoy. I've wanted one of those since back on my old char as a RDM, but at the time I was in an HNM shell, and only PLDs got to have one. Well now I have PLD, and I still want it! MNK I just want because it's another type of specialized DD, and I have gear that I share with my SAM. Costwise, it'd be be pretty cheap to level.
Tune of the Moment: Steve Porter - Rap Chop (You'd have to youtube this to get an appreciation for it >.> or maybe not! lol)
This here is my new all time high, previous was in somewhere below 150.
Well, taking a somewhat conservative estimate, with birds giving 193-217 xp each... I'll say avg 205 xp per mob. To maintain a chain beyond chain 5, a mob must die within 1 minute of the last one, so in this case we have 275 mobs killed to establish this chain, with 1 dying per minute. In 60 minutes we have (205x60) 12300 xp/hour. Not too shabby. Again that's a somewhat conservative approach, due to lack of a parser. I know I wasn't meriting for over 4 hours, though over 3 sounds reasonable, but still a decent amount of xp and beats FoV or Campaign.
When it comes to merit parties, I don't bother seeking on anything other than BRD. From the past few days, it seems the parties that do the best consists of RDM, BRD, 3x DD, and either a 4th DD or another BRD. I should note that DD doesn't mean any DD, but rather either SAM or DRG. Those two jobs just tear through birds like there's no tomorrow. Drg obviously have polearm to help them, 1.25 the damage to birds, and their mythic ws Drakesbane does awesome dmg to birds. SAM can use polearms too, though their cap is 36 points lower, but they shine because of their tp gaining abilities, which help them overcome TP reset moves of birds. WAR and DRK do ok, but every single highly sucessful party I've been in has had the majority of DDs eithing being SAM or DRG. Chains seem to fall apart with other setups. I don't have DRG, and my SAM would probably one of the gimper ones w/o Haidate and/or Ace's Helm, not to mention lack of meditate merits and overwhelm merits.
So I started to do some FoV lately to buffer my other jobs. New zones were given FoV training manuals and now Cape Teriggan is always busy with ppl. It used to be my hangout spot to skill up, break latent, and level npcs and now I gotta fight for mobs ; ; The thing I like about Teriggan is that I can OP to it and start working on ws points right away with my npc. No other travel time needed. And with it being an outdoor area, mobs respawn pretty quickly. With page 1 of the training regiment, you get 1300 xp for completing the task which consists of killing 4x bunnies, and 4x lizards. It's like an added bonus for stuff I'd be doing anyways in Teriggan.
And now I've also started to experiment with augments earned via FoV. There are now new 'elite training' you can do which are fights against NMs. I've been playing around with the highest level one available, which is in Behemoth's Domain. It spawns an NM behemoth and augments up to a level 50 item. This is the result of my 2nd augment:
My first one was of the same item, but with worse stats. It had +2 INT, -1 MND, -1 AGI. I ended up npcing it and buying a new one. Augmented items cant be resold on the AH. This one was a little more bearable but still nothing to write home about. It's still fun to see what kind of random augments I might be getting.
So next up, I'm looking at finishing up either THF (61) or MNK (65) as my 8th job. I want THF mainly so I can go out farming and have TH support. And if I can get it to 75 and cap out evasion, I'll go attempt to 2box myself a Joytoy. I've wanted one of those since back on my old char as a RDM, but at the time I was in an HNM shell, and only PLDs got to have one. Well now I have PLD, and I still want it! MNK I just want because it's another type of specialized DD, and I have gear that I share with my SAM. Costwise, it'd be be pretty cheap to level.
Tune of the Moment: Steve Porter - Rap Chop (You'd have to youtube this to get an appreciation for it >.> or maybe not! lol)
Thursday, June 18, 2009
What to do about FFXI...
I'm not sure what to do about FFXI again...
It's been fun being back in FFXI and I still wanna keep playing... at least until the next update. But as far as I can tell it's gonna be released at the end of July, so doing the new content will most likely be in August. Two more months.
Yesterday I got my pre-approval letter for a home mortgage, which means no more slacking on looking for a place. My months of slacking has hurt my goal of buying a place this year, since the supply of available houses around here have gone down considerably, and as economics dictates price goes up accordingly. I hate California prices. San Diego county may not be the most expensive of areas, it's still ranks pretty high.
So with that in mind, I wanna devote my time more toward my search, than spend it in FFXI. I know as long as I have my account active, I'll want to log-in and play =/ I dunno, maybe another break is needed. Little less than half a month to decide.
On a happier note.
It's been fun being back in FFXI and I still wanna keep playing... at least until the next update. But as far as I can tell it's gonna be released at the end of July, so doing the new content will most likely be in August. Two more months.
Yesterday I got my pre-approval letter for a home mortgage, which means no more slacking on looking for a place. My months of slacking has hurt my goal of buying a place this year, since the supply of available houses around here have gone down considerably, and as economics dictates price goes up accordingly. I hate California prices. San Diego county may not be the most expensive of areas, it's still ranks pretty high.
So with that in mind, I wanna devote my time more toward my search, than spend it in FFXI. I know as long as I have my account active, I'll want to log-in and play =/ I dunno, maybe another break is needed. Little less than half a month to decide.
On a happier note.
Publish Post
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Random thoughts
Wow, a real life Final Destination.
First post since coming back... and I'm bored while waiting for a party. I made the decision to come back to FFXI because there wasn't much else going on in my life. I'm catching up on my queue of TV shows and small selection of anime. Not much PS3 action except SF4 online. No new games to play. Played some CoD:WaW zombies with a friend and got to an all time high of level 45. That got pretty repetitive at level 35, and we easily could've gone further, but it was getting late and 5 mins a level didnt seem too appealing. So we've retired with zombies until the next map pack comes out, which should be today!
As far as FFXI goes, doesn't seem much has changed since leaving. Few new faces here and there, but overall still the same. Not much goes on in AP, Dynamis still same old Dynamis, Limbus attendance still slacking. I'm not really complaining about anything, just observations.
SAM is now 66, and the main reason I log in now. Xp'ing to 75 and hopefully I can get that by the end of the month. I've been doing a lot of level 54-57 sync parties, mainly because it's the only invites I get, so been fighting lots of Lesser Colibris. Easy exp, though skillups are non-existant ; ; But on the upside, I get to use Penta with polearm and totally destroy birds, but I'm not sure it's better than use Soboro.
Even though Soboro is weak and doesnt put out the best dmg per hit and per ws, it does great DoT. I can throw out 2-3 Enpis compared to 1 Penta when using polearm, and although combined the Enpis don't do more damage than 1 Penta, it works out better for hate management. With one Penta, I can do about 300-600+ dmg and generate a pretty big spike of hate with that. I end up having to tank a good portion of the fight and have to put up Seigan + Third Eye. With Soboro, my ws do about 100-250+ dmg. Less dmg, less hate but spread out more over time. Seems to work better for me since I end up tanking less this way -_-; It also allows me to keep Hasso up longer, which translates to more accuracy and just more awesomeness.
I also tried to hold off ws with Penta until the tank gets about 2 vokes in on the mob. Problem with that is that generally doesn't seem to work out too well and I end up stealing hate, and I don't get to do my full potential as a DD. With Soboro, I can ws much more often and not worry too much about taking hate. Even if I somehow do get hate, a voke should be following soon and take it back. With a big Penta, it takes more than just a simple voke to get hate back. Seeing big damage is always nice to see as a DD, but I think Soboro ends up being a safer route to take.
And that's all for now. Update patch next month... wonder just how much more WotG content is gonna be added. Knowing SE, not much >.>;
Tune of the Moment: Linkin Park - New Divide
First post since coming back... and I'm bored while waiting for a party. I made the decision to come back to FFXI because there wasn't much else going on in my life. I'm catching up on my queue of TV shows and small selection of anime. Not much PS3 action except SF4 online. No new games to play. Played some CoD:WaW zombies with a friend and got to an all time high of level 45. That got pretty repetitive at level 35, and we easily could've gone further, but it was getting late and 5 mins a level didnt seem too appealing. So we've retired with zombies until the next map pack comes out, which should be today!
As far as FFXI goes, doesn't seem much has changed since leaving. Few new faces here and there, but overall still the same. Not much goes on in AP, Dynamis still same old Dynamis, Limbus attendance still slacking. I'm not really complaining about anything, just observations.
SAM is now 66, and the main reason I log in now. Xp'ing to 75 and hopefully I can get that by the end of the month. I've been doing a lot of level 54-57 sync parties, mainly because it's the only invites I get, so been fighting lots of Lesser Colibris. Easy exp, though skillups are non-existant ; ; But on the upside, I get to use Penta with polearm and totally destroy birds, but I'm not sure it's better than use Soboro.
Even though Soboro is weak and doesnt put out the best dmg per hit and per ws, it does great DoT. I can throw out 2-3 Enpis compared to 1 Penta when using polearm, and although combined the Enpis don't do more damage than 1 Penta, it works out better for hate management. With one Penta, I can do about 300-600+ dmg and generate a pretty big spike of hate with that. I end up having to tank a good portion of the fight and have to put up Seigan + Third Eye. With Soboro, my ws do about 100-250+ dmg. Less dmg, less hate but spread out more over time. Seems to work better for me since I end up tanking less this way -_-; It also allows me to keep Hasso up longer, which translates to more accuracy and just more awesomeness.
I also tried to hold off ws with Penta until the tank gets about 2 vokes in on the mob. Problem with that is that generally doesn't seem to work out too well and I end up stealing hate, and I don't get to do my full potential as a DD. With Soboro, I can ws much more often and not worry too much about taking hate. Even if I somehow do get hate, a voke should be following soon and take it back. With a big Penta, it takes more than just a simple voke to get hate back. Seeing big damage is always nice to see as a DD, but I think Soboro ends up being a safer route to take.
And that's all for now. Update patch next month... wonder just how much more WotG content is gonna be added. Knowing SE, not much >.>;
Tune of the Moment: Linkin Park - New Divide
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