"Welcome back"

It's pretty funny that recently when I run into certain old friend such as Zapx or Myry, first thing they said to me was "Welcome back" or "Coming back for SoA?"

So just to clarify, I never quit FFXI, just became less involved in this game. I still log on everyday, or at least 4~5 days a week. It's just that I rarely log on for more than 2hr a day(often around 1.5hr), run to dyna, farm for 1hr~2hr, log off. And I literally not involved in anything else besides meeble static on Sun, because I can't stand the idea of having to worry about FFXI event starting when I'm doing rl stuff.

Another reason is because different timezone....I pop around 10am EST time, and so EST ppl won't see me around with a job/school.

Although I admit new weapons made me even want to involve less in FFXI(since wanting to finish Mythic, is literally the only reason why I still keep account active), out of curiosity, I still played with new SoA content for a bit.

I mainly play on BLU now, since I have no money on COR again and now I kinda getting worse at playing it because it got rusty again. I haven't get a chance to try Delve NM(should be able to soon), nor wildskeeper reive(100k bayld is a lot, and 3~4hr fight is too long for me with 1~2hr pop time), nor skirmish(can't afford entrance fee for outdated gears), so I mostly do reive/reive quest and delve plasm farm.

I found /SCH best SJ for solo lair reive. Although I've soloed lair reive with /DNC before, /SCH is much more comfortable to do it with and gives more room for error. One of the most dangerous aspect for solo lair reive or solo super tank is, when you reapply sleep, it's very dangerous. My sleep often got interrupted even with occu on, and I can die in 1 sec if I got interrupted twice. Technically you can carry a spell interrupt rate- build, but I don't see how I'd get enough inv on BLU to do it, so fuck that....

Aquaveil from /SCH can save life(although sometimes I still almost died with it cuz it can only absorb a few hits), and aspir + JA for shorter recast is a nice way to recover MP. Pair with MP drain kiss I'd never run out of MP spamming AoEs. At first I went with evasion set, but then I realized it's not worth it as it's not very effective on BLU without casting 1000 other spells. I guess it's ok to go with a PDT- set, although I got too lazy with inv and not bothering anymore. Most of the time I just TP in rancor as usual :)

As for delve plasm farm in fractures, I found acc a huge issue without BRD COR acc buffs. Sushi+ /DNC acc job trait+ mantis eye(no new acc ammo D; )+ Letalis Mantle and I still see kinda shit acc sometimes, and I don't have other free slot to add more acc for TP without sacrificing huge chunk of dmg. I'd say evasion down spell is must have if you're not getting hunter's roll.

That makes BRD COR must have for farming points.

I'd say so far new content, especially delve in SoA seems interesting enough for me to mess with it for a bit, only if dev doesn't eliminate the concept of "long term goal" in 1 update and made me feel like quitting once I get busy with rl.