As of yesterday evening, I am officially DONE with climbing Nyzul Isle! Our group had completed floors 6-100 flawlessly. Of course there were several times where we came stupidly close to losing. One of our final floors yesterday was a lamp floor and were 30 seconds away from timing out, but we pulled it off. When it came to do the last set of floors, I was asked to come on DRG to force a radiant lance to drop. At floor 100, we had Khimaira waiting for us, and it coughed up two radiant lances and a Denali hat for our troubles. Immediately after we finished, I raced back to lower Jeuno to pay a visit to Zalsuum to receive Expiacion and Atonement since I had enough points to break both weapons.
Huge thanks to Leylana and everyone that came and helped along the way each week. It felt great to finally be clear of this hurdle which had been a source of so much trouble the past several months.
Showing posts with label paladin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paladin. Show all posts
Monday, November 30, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Dark knight revisited
After completing STR merits, I decided I was going to do something I'd wanted to do for a while - take DRK to 75. I've been exping on it in between events and KV camps and it's currently at 45. Yeah, I know... still a way to go. I need to ding into that abyss burgeonet that rotted to me in Xarcabard the other day.
As far as merits go, I still have yet to finish divvying up my combat merits and will likely hold off on that until I finish DRK. I must be crazy leveling this since my LS has 2 stage 4 scythes in the works, both of which looking to finish by year's end.
I can't say I'd NEVER get to use it, since I've been on SAM a number of times over the past couple months, even with an amano. Lately however, my PLD has been taken out for a spin for one or two events each week since getting those speedy pants. And yes, it still has zero merits put into it. Now I really, really, really hope I don't end up having to tank Odin next time we fight him. I may have been rebuilding my PLD in the past couple weeks, but I am nowhere near comfortable with that fight. If I do end up with such a burden, I'll be forced to rage-log that night.
As far as merits go, I still have yet to finish divvying up my combat merits and will likely hold off on that until I finish DRK. I must be crazy leveling this since my LS has 2 stage 4 scythes in the works, both of which looking to finish by year's end.
I can't say I'd NEVER get to use it, since I've been on SAM a number of times over the past couple months, even with an amano. Lately however, my PLD has been taken out for a spin for one or two events each week since getting those speedy pants. And yes, it still has zero merits put into it. Now I really, really, really hope I don't end up having to tank Odin next time we fight him. I may have been rebuilding my PLD in the past couple weeks, but I am nowhere near comfortable with that fight. If I do end up with such a burden, I'll be forced to rage-log that night.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
You have PLD too?
Well the past couple days have certainly gone very nicely. For starters, we can now move into tier 3 of Einherjar starting Monday, and to top it off, I had enough amps to snag me a ritter gorget for heat breaths and also for use on PLD. Speaking of which, last night in Xarcabard, we had not one, but TWO surcoats drop. Oh, and we stomped a mud hole in Dynamis Lord's ass and walked it dry.
The funny part? Myself and the other person that got the first surcoat have never used our paladins for much of anything LS related. Even funnier is I get a tell this morning from someone that does dynamis with us saying "you have pld too?" and I was like "yeah it's my only other 75" and they were like "I thought you had brd and blu". My response: my brd is at level 1 and forever shall it stay. I'm sorry, but I just cannot see myself doing that. I'd rather fucking chug battery acid.
The funny part? Myself and the other person that got the first surcoat have never used our paladins for much of anything LS related. Even funnier is I get a tell this morning from someone that does dynamis with us saying "you have pld too?" and I was like "yeah it's my only other 75" and they were like "I thought you had brd and blu". My response: my brd is at level 1 and forever shall it stay. I'm sorry, but I just cannot see myself doing that. I'd rather fucking chug battery acid.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Goings on the past few days
Let's see... Where to start...
The evening of Thanksgiving, I'm just slaughtering imps as I normally do, when I receive a tell from a friend asking me to come out and help bag King Vinegarroon since his LS didn't have too many people around on account of the holiday.
The result: we get skunked, which I guess is par for the course.
As much as I dislike the "hurry up and wait" nature of camping HNM's, I'll have to admit the fight was rather enjoyable (despite most of us dying) and can understand why people do it aside from the drops.
The other night, I finished my blue magic skill merits! W00T! Next up is swords, followed by HP/MP most likely.
Earlier I got my hands on a piece of snowy cermet from Temenos, which is sure to be no more than a freeloading safe resident for the next 3-4 months.
Maybe I'll merit up diffusion and/or convergence at some point so maybe I can bring my BLU to dynamis, which brings me to my next topic.
Now I like playing PLD, really I do, but it gets stale rather quickly, especially in a venue like Dynamis. Voke these sleeping mobs, kite these statues while the BLM's blow them up, yadda yadda yadda... It does become amusing whenever the main assist goes down and I wind up calling mobs and doing a bit of actual tanking. However, it just irritates me that I'm unable to flex my blue mage muscle here, especially given that I've spent more money and merits on it than PLD thus far. I feel that it is a waste of talent that could be applied elsewhere, especially now that we aren't as short-handed on paladins/ninjas as we were at the time I joined up in August. I almost got to bring it to a Jeuno run one night, but one of our PLD's redballed and never came back that night, so I was asked to switch at the very last minute before we started. I smell a conspiracy, but meh.
It certainly opens up new potential, especially with Diffusion. BLM's getting ready for a nuke fest? Swap in a BLU, fire off a diffusion + memento mori or amplification and let 'em rip. Hey if the shit dies faster, it saves time in the long run, meaning more potential AF2 and money after the fall of the mega boss. Everyone wins!
OK, now I know this sentiment is the farthest thing from new with this game, and folks have been like this since the time people started being able to enter Dynamis or take on Kirin or kings. I know of a few grumbling RDM's/BRD's/PLD's/NIN's/BLM's that are dragged to events on said jobs, in spite of not being quite as well-geared as some of their other jobs. Yes, I get it!
Selfish? Perhaps. But if we all weren't just a bit selfish from time to time, we'd still be slogging it out in the lowbie zones getting chased and killed by goblins.
OK, that's enough ranting for now. Happy adventuring!
~Zeotah
The evening of Thanksgiving, I'm just slaughtering imps as I normally do, when I receive a tell from a friend asking me to come out and help bag King Vinegarroon since his LS didn't have too many people around on account of the holiday.
The result: we get skunked, which I guess is par for the course.
The other night, I finished my blue magic skill merits! W00T! Next up is swords, followed by HP/MP most likely.
Earlier I got my hands on a piece of snowy cermet from Temenos, which is sure to be no more than a freeloading safe resident for the next 3-4 months.
Maybe I'll merit up diffusion and/or convergence at some point so maybe I can bring my BLU to dynamis, which brings me to my next topic.
Now I like playing PLD, really I do, but it gets stale rather quickly, especially in a venue like Dynamis. Voke these sleeping mobs, kite these statues while the BLM's blow them up, yadda yadda yadda... It does become amusing whenever the main assist goes down and I wind up calling mobs and doing a bit of actual tanking. However, it just irritates me that I'm unable to flex my blue mage muscle here, especially given that I've spent more money and merits on it than PLD thus far. I feel that it is a waste of talent that could be applied elsewhere, especially now that we aren't as short-handed on paladins/ninjas as we were at the time I joined up in August. I almost got to bring it to a Jeuno run one night, but one of our PLD's redballed and never came back that night, so I was asked to switch at the very last minute before we started. I smell a conspiracy, but meh.
It certainly opens up new potential, especially with Diffusion. BLM's getting ready for a nuke fest? Swap in a BLU, fire off a diffusion + memento mori or amplification and let 'em rip. Hey if the shit dies faster, it saves time in the long run, meaning more potential AF2 and money after the fall of the mega boss. Everyone wins!
OK, now I know this sentiment is the farthest thing from new with this game, and folks have been like this since the time people started being able to enter Dynamis or take on Kirin or kings. I know of a few grumbling RDM's/BRD's/PLD's/NIN's/BLM's that are dragged to events on said jobs, in spite of not being quite as well-geared as some of their other jobs. Yes, I get it!
Selfish? Perhaps. But if we all weren't just a bit selfish from time to time, we'd still be slogging it out in the lowbie zones getting chased and killed by goblins.
OK, that's enough ranting for now. Happy adventuring!
~Zeotah
Sunday, November 23, 2008
So it begins...
For starters, let me tell you a little about myself. Like so many, I started playing FFXI during the initial US PC launch. Several old friends from a previous game (Phantasy Star Online) had joined the Bismarck server. I played on and off until around April of the next year and left around the time our old linkshell fell apart. At around that time, I became so disenchanted and irritated with the game that I just gave up. I got to about level 32 on monk and never got past the jungles. I would start playing again on another server in March of 2006, but I would stop again after being invited into the Japanese closed beta of Phantasy Star Universe.
In October of 2007, I would find myself back on Vana'diel, this time as a mithra red mage. I even wanted it as my first 75, but after reading about how it worked at 75 and the journey up there, I decided against it. After getting RDM to 30, I then proceeded to open up blue mage after getting the six sub job items to get into Aht Urhgan. After a few levels of BLU, I was hooked. I then began working on subjobs such as ninja, warrior etc. However, it wasn't my first job to 75.
My first 75 turned out to be paladin. I actually unlocked said job out of total boredom one morning in January, and just started riding that momentum. At about level 67, I started to have static exp sessions with my friend Snk's RNG and a BRD in our linkshell. However, these sessions were few and far between. In between exp sessions on PLD, I started pushing my BLU up the levels and also finishing my THF sub. At about 72, invites started falling by the wayside, and I found myself campaigning and leveling BLU more. I'd finally ding 75 on PLD in late July.
The road to 75 BLU was a much more turbulent one. This was due in no small part to the long hard road to sea. Some time ago, I promised myself I would not level past 72 on BLU without sea access and the spell Disseverment. I finally got past Promyvion Vahzl in late September after being like 0/6 on the boss at the end, but that was only the tip of the iceberg. The next nightmare came with getting past the dreaded three paths (mission 5-3). I spent practically the entire month of October trying to finish this, and get past Ultima and Omega. I was ready to quit the game altogether if I didn't have sea by month's end. After being roughly 0/16 on that fight, I managed to get past it with the aid of Burnout, Blackout and Gippal, as well as two others from my dynamis shell that needed said fight. A couple of days later, I FINALLY GOT SEA!!! After getting some of the spells from there, including Disseverment, I resumed leveling BLU in earnest and dinged 75 a couple of weeks ago.
So where do I stand now? Currently I'm working on finishing my blue magic skill merits by soloing imps (since no one ever wants us in those manic 20k/hr bird killer parties). Recently I've started doing limbus with the people from my dynamis shell, and I'll say it's a lot more fun than dynamis. I'll have my homamz soon enough.... I hope.
In October of 2007, I would find myself back on Vana'diel, this time as a mithra red mage. I even wanted it as my first 75, but after reading about how it worked at 75 and the journey up there, I decided against it. After getting RDM to 30, I then proceeded to open up blue mage after getting the six sub job items to get into Aht Urhgan. After a few levels of BLU, I was hooked. I then began working on subjobs such as ninja, warrior etc. However, it wasn't my first job to 75.
My first 75 turned out to be paladin. I actually unlocked said job out of total boredom one morning in January, and just started riding that momentum. At about level 67, I started to have static exp sessions with my friend Snk's RNG and a BRD in our linkshell. However, these sessions were few and far between. In between exp sessions on PLD, I started pushing my BLU up the levels and also finishing my THF sub. At about 72, invites started falling by the wayside, and I found myself campaigning and leveling BLU more. I'd finally ding 75 on PLD in late July.
The road to 75 BLU was a much more turbulent one. This was due in no small part to the long hard road to sea. Some time ago, I promised myself I would not level past 72 on BLU without sea access and the spell Disseverment. I finally got past Promyvion Vahzl in late September after being like 0/6 on the boss at the end, but that was only the tip of the iceberg. The next nightmare came with getting past the dreaded three paths (mission 5-3). I spent practically the entire month of October trying to finish this, and get past Ultima and Omega. I was ready to quit the game altogether if I didn't have sea by month's end. After being roughly 0/16 on that fight, I managed to get past it with the aid of Burnout, Blackout and Gippal, as well as two others from my dynamis shell that needed said fight. A couple of days later, I FINALLY GOT SEA!!! After getting some of the spells from there, including Disseverment, I resumed leveling BLU in earnest and dinged 75 a couple of weeks ago.
So where do I stand now? Currently I'm working on finishing my blue magic skill merits by soloing imps (since no one ever wants us in those manic 20k/hr bird killer parties). Recently I've started doing limbus with the people from my dynamis shell, and I'll say it's a lot more fun than dynamis. I'll have my homamz soon enough.... I hope.
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