Cost-benefit analysis: Samurai

So it appears the last few months have found me bouncing back and forth between perfecting my DRG and my SAM. Actually this seems to happen with my other jobs too, even my largely-ignored PLD. However it is even more so prevalent between the two-handers. At one point, toward the end of last year, my SAM had been all but "retired" until roaring back to life around February. I'd seriously considered doing that to my DRG around October/November.

Yilbegan revisited

Last night, Beyond took two more shots at the void-walking Yilbegan. Our first encounters taught us two important things. The first big thing we learned was that PLD/NIN tanks were useless in this fight. Another thing was there wasn't enough incoming damage to keep up with his high regen. A faster Yilbegan kill is what we sought. But how do we get there? It was "back to the drawing board" so to speak.

Yet another milestone

So today was a POL maintenance which also required FFXI itself to go down as well. I log back on to see double earth weather, and KV's up. Uncontested. Ours for the taking! So as people logged in, we begin rallying the troops and proceed to claim him.

More people begin to log in and even a couple of outside people come out to help.

Our strike force is finally assembled, and our bards commence their buffing. We join up with the kite party and proceed to lay waste to the overgrown arthropod. Oh what joy that filled us seeing the loot pool once the smoke had cleared.

The one thing we came for. No more and no less.


There it was.... after several weeks of assisting others with getting this thing. Now it was my turn.

Once the others passed, I became the proud owner of an Ace's Helm. Something that I'd never imagined that I would see.



Many thanks to Devdas, Kaishen and everyone else in Beyond for helping make this dream come to fruition.

The bane of drakes

Well, today it finally happened...



All that "being dirty" and using that radiant lance in merits paid off.

So we did floors 61-80 today and for the most part things had gone smoothly up until arounf floor 78. We had an order lamp floor where we had a flayer and some other annoying mobs that aggroed us and we ultimately wound up killing them. I did get a bit worried when we saw the 10 minute warning on said floor. However, we managed to come out on top. All we got for it was a lousy brave blade. Speaking of which, I think I'll open up Atonement next.