An Empty Vessel-Life of a pirate

Graduated from Bubu

2012-02-11T04:59:00.000-08:00

After nearly 70 kills of B.rex, finally. Athos's Tabard gotgotgotgotgotgotgot!. I have to admit, the process of making B.rex pt every week is somewhat of a weird experience. Some ppl requested to add me on FL so I can grab them when I make B.rex pt, and my FL happened to got a lot longer than it used to be thanks to B.rex. Some ppl lied(probably, or else you wouldn't avg 200 thundaja on that

9 months of VW

2012-02-08T05:55:00.000-08:00

So VW has been out for about 9 months if I remember correctly. Recently it had been a lot harder to get ppl for VW by /shout, especially none B.rex T6s. T3 is still ok, but T6 is a pain. And since I'm currently 0/61 Athos body, nearly 0/30 Athos pants, and about 0/24 Athos head, plus nearly 0/100 Toci, it can be a bit frustrating with such bad luck and trouble to gather a group. How do I like

Back to Eorzea

2012-02-08T02:38:00.000-08:00

I reactivated my char in XIV again. I somewhat missed XIV, and decided to go back to see how the game is right now, and first thing I did is do world search again, to see how many player left in XIV after they started charging. Although I did search during midnight, which isn't a lot of player, the number of player is still very low.....about 230~240 on my server. Compare with FFXI which

Regret

2012-02-08T00:44:00.000-08:00

After I dropped HP for MP merit, the low HP(thus higher chance to get one shotted in VW) is starting to annoy me. Probably gonna give up my dream to play as COR/WHM fake BRD and get my HP back, despite I love BRD so much. On the other hand just changed PR merit to 5/5, gonna test it out. Hopefully I'll like it.

Gender

2012-02-07T16:10:00.000-08:00

Despite I never made it clear, every once a while I often heard ppl spreading rumor(?) about my gender, says I'm a guy and so on. And this especially happens often when ppl butt hurt about me for some stupid reasons. Tbh, I never understand why ppl care about the player gender behind the computer so much. So if I'm a guy controlling a female char, will that make things different from how it is?

Rethink

2012-02-06T20:14:00.000-08:00

With recent conversation about several players, who suggested different roll setup for VW, this made me rethink about applicable rolls in VW for DD pt. One of the WAR suggested Regain+Chaos, although I do agree that chaos provides bigger boost than few TPs, but regain instead of save TP is big question. Assuming both buffs are both No.11, Misers has 5 times more TP return than one tick regain,

20 jobs

2012-02-05T16:07:00.000-08:00

I do /shout VW pt pretty often, and sometimes I often got /tell asking "what job you need?", if I answered "What job do you have?", I sometimes got "I have almost every job" reply. I know now with easy +2, easy empy and easy EXP, many ppl have 10 or even 20 jobs 99. And quite a lot of ppl tend to "look down" on those with 1 job, like it's a huge crime not to have NIN WAR MNK WHM for abyssea,

Hybrid

2012-02-05T06:02:00.000-08:00

So someone on AH started a thread named Versatility on BLU in VW on BLU forum. Although the title says about versatility, the thread actually ended up as BLU being a viable DD or not. Then the entire thread turned into Prothescar claiming BLU is top tier DD in VW, right below WAR but better than MNK, and BLU should go all out DD instead of sit back and proc. Minjo made an interesting comment in

Nerf Hammer

2012-02-03T16:32:00.000-08:00

SE:WAR MNK nerf Afania: Mwhahahah now no more bandwagon WAR MNK and epeen with their empy WS mwhahaha. Now go lv jobs you love instead of bandwagon the strongest k? NO ONE LAUGH AT ME FOR NOT BANDWAGONING DD JOB. SE:BST TH nerf Afania: Mwhahahah now no more BST only in dyna BS, go lv jobs you love instead of bandwagon BST k? NO ONE LAUGH AT ME FOR NOT HAVING BST IN DYNA. SE:Save TP nerf:

Need new SJ

2012-02-02T04:27:00.000-08:00

In one of the B.rex run I happened to pt with Blueskysapphire, a pimp JP RNG. After some parses and some discussion about gears with him (he has COR too), it seems that /BLM will do more dmg than /RDM. According to him, he has 103 base AGI with /BLM. I have 100 with /RDM. We're both hume F, with 12/12 AGI merit. I also asked him to change to /RDM and confirmed that /BLM does give 3 extra AGI

Exenterator

2012-01-30T07:38:00.000-08:00

After A LOT of flan spam, I managed to finish Exenterator merit, and put a gimp set together. P.S Belt is Crudelis belt. Missing AGI+13 head (which I'm not going to buy unless Toci drop), AGI+4 or Aesir earring(which I should work on it soon), Athos body(which is 0/55) or Denali body. Played it a bit in dyna, it's actually stronger than I expected, around 1.2k~1.5k on EP fish with no

20%!

2012-01-30T00:06:00.000-08:00

After some grinding and bugging ppl to sell alex to me(since there are 10000 rich ppl buying all the alex available), finally break 6k mark on alex, which is 20%. 5 more years and I can finish, I know it!

Requiescat

2012-01-26T03:14:00.000-08:00

I finally got a chance to play BLU in VW(haven't play BLU for decades, no joke), and got to try out Requiescat WS on some VWs. I have to say, this WS sucked compare with other merit WS, I mean, sucked balls. I guess SE just hates sword ;( This is with save TP+regain atmacite, Red curry bun, /WAR and temps, no chaos though. Around 1k~1.5k on Pil, which is slightly lower than other

Matsuko x24

2012-01-22T04:23:00.000-08:00

Since the VW Jeuno T6 flan NM drops Athos body, I ended up having to spam this NM for it. This is one NM that most NA /shout pt has trouble with, and currently the hardest VW, that 95% of /shout pt only ended up as wipega, I was 9/24 when I did it with other ppl's /shout pt, which is lower than 40% success rate. It's also my first time attempt a "hard" VW since I started VWLS. I have to

Sword

2012-01-18T08:57:00.000-08:00

With some random VW spam, I managed to finish the sword merit WS, Requiescat. Tbh, I didn't really merit this WS for my BLU, since I still believe CDC>all in most situations...unless you need none-elemental dmg. I more or less merit this WS so I can play with sword COR for a bit. Not that sword COR spamming requiescat is an efficient way to play the job in anyway. This job doesn't really need

MKE hat

2012-01-18T05:02:00.000-08:00

Now that Slug shot is replaced by Last Stand completely, I see very little reason to keep my current augment on MKE hat. I have STR+4 WS acc+15, racc+10 rattk+5 augment for 2 years. 2 years ago I finished MKE, I made this helm my ranged attack and Slug shot piece for COR. I changed ASA and ACP reward augment as time progress, but MKE augment never change. This is a very pimp slug shot head

Taming the beast

2012-01-18T04:44:00.000-08:00

Although I already 5/5 Last Stand for a while, it seems that I still in the process of learning how to use it properly. I often noticed I don't always shoot in sweet spot, which is something I have to get used to, considering COR has true shot JA to increase the dmg. Of course, in VW shooting in sweet spot is kinda suicide, unless I have fanatic up. I've also been debating about ideal Last

The Art of Gambling

2012-01-16T04:16:00.000-08:00

Ever since I finished relic+2 pants augment, I noticed how I do Phantom Roll changed....slightly. The process of doing Phantom Roll is all about gambling. And the essence of gambling is to take risks and make decisions. I have to admit that I'm a very conservative roller and have pretty much 0 courage of taking risk. If I got a No.6, I stop, unless Fold is up. If I rolled an unlucky No.8,

VW pt

2012-01-15T03:02:00.000-08:00

Since my cruor finally dropped to 1.8k due to spending on random things ( ;; ), I decided to make a Pil pt........yeah I still have my little hope up to get a Toci, but I kinda gave up.....I swear I only made Pil pt for Cruor! Anyways, when I made easier VW pt like Jeuno/Zilart T3 ( Jeuno T6 doesn't count, since it's slightly harder and works differently especially on flan), there's a specific

So it seems

2012-01-14T19:30:00.000-08:00

Final trial for relic/empy/mythic Empyrean 99 (afterglow) = 3000 Riftdross or Riftcinder (depending on weapon) from Jeuno Tier 6 Voidwatch NM Ig-Alima or Botulus Rex Relic 99 (afterglow) = 1000 vials of Umbral Marrow from Arch Dynamis Lord Mythic 99 (afterglow) = 500 chunks of Mulcibar's Scoria from Pandemonium Warden It seems not just SE lowered the amount of items required, but they

Into the Dark

2012-01-13T01:24:00.000-08:00

1 day before XIV starts charging, I joined a pt and cleared the quest Into the dark. I know it's a bit late, but this is my first Darkhold run(yes, I'm a noob). Although we wiped at Batraal then time out, for me this is still a cool "raid" experience that I haven't get to experience in FFXI for a long time...my life in XI nowadays is pretty much VW and dyna currency farm only. Then I

Set/Merit stuff

2012-01-11T06:04:00.000-08:00

I realized since I /RDM a lot in VW, I often face the situation of needing MP to help raise when things go wrong, but just don't have enough MP to cast raise if I'm weakened.Maybe time to revive my max MP set again.Tbh I hardly ever use max MP set nowadays, main reason is because there's no way I'd have enough inv to carry another set, it's such a huge pain.So instead of carrying a set with every

More math

2012-01-11T04:54:00.000-08:00

Since I had several debate about Armageddon v.s Death Penalty on several forums(funny thing is I'm always on the side of Armageddon despite I'm the one building DP), I decided to do some math to truly figure out which gun is superior in terms of dmg.Copy and paste on stuff I posted on Alla....I may calculate something wrong in the process though, waiting for someone to correct me and kick my ass

/SAM v.s /RDM

2012-01-06T09:24:00.000-08:00

So I got a chance to test /SAM in a Kaggen pt, after pt disband I tested more with /RDM solo.First Kaggen fight with /SAM, did 16 WS total, 2nd fight did 18 WS total. Both fights are pure zerg fight and ends in less than 2~3 min, so there are not much other shitty moment to stop it. Only used 2hr in last fight. My atmacite setup is regain+save TP, since I'm still not done with Slayers.The WF dmg

VW

2012-01-03T01:53:00.000-08:00

Since I got COR to lv 99, I've been doing quite a lot of VW....well, that's one of the main reason why I leveled it in the first place right?This VW style of play(2 hit WS spam) is still kinda new to me, and I'm still in the process of trying to find out best atmacite/gear/SJ setup.At the moment I'm using lv 15 atmacite of coercion(regain+3) and atmacite of displine(save TP+20), this setup allow

Futures Perfect

2012-01-02T01:36:00.000-08:00

Because I've yet to decide whether to pay for FFXIV after it starts charging due to lack of ppl on each server, so I quickly pushed and finished Futures Perfect, according to wiki, this is the last main story quest currently available...I'm pretty sure there's more to come, considering the story isn't done and seems only half way through.I have to admit, I'm fairly disappointed with the story in

Identity Crisis

2011-12-31T01:23:00.000-08:00

Recently I just found out Yunii, one of my friend who posted many DNC solo vid, is actually not DNC main. This surprised me a lot, considering I'm facing Identity Crisis in my FFXI life.I asked her what's her opinion about "main" job. Is it your favorite job? Or is it the job you played the most? Or is it your best geared job. And her answer is favorite job=main job, although she plays DNC a lot,

First Nidhogg

2011-12-29T02:25:00.000-08:00

First time getting a chance to fight Nidhogg, since my friend got a pop.I have to admit I never get a chance to experience HNM scene, until SE change the pop condition. This is my first HQ ground king fight(I bought my w head from KB so didn't get to participate the fight), I'd say it's very easy at lv 99, kinda hard to imagine the epicness back in the day.Getting the HNM to do Spike Flail used

Holiday

2011-12-27T02:52:00.000-08:00

After a few days of lv 99 update, I logged on to XI and found XI actually pretty fun to play with this update. At least not as bad as previous update, since I have a lot more time to play during the holiday, time to catch up some progress while I semi-quit.I found VW a lot more enjoyable now, unless it's some NM no one wants to kill. One reason is because many old VW dies so fast and pt cap light

Project Maat cap............

2011-12-21T16:42:00.000-08:00

I decided to drop project Maat cap for a while. Not giving up completely since I still want maat cap atma, but just not gonna put it as a priority atm.One of the biggest reason for me to do maat cap is for slug shot build, now that Last Stand replaces Slug shot there are very little incentive for me to get one, besides Jeuno warp.Between playing XIV, working on Almace/Arma 95/Death Penalty, there

Current population

2011-12-17T17:29:00.000-08:00

After SE implemented search function, I did a quick search for the world population on my server in XIV.On a nice Saturday night, about 500ish population on my server. And that's 2 days after update.I doubt this server can even reach over 1k+ ppl. Probably about 400~700 depending on the day/time I believe.When this game just released, it had about 1800 ppl, they it started dropping, until SE took

Version update

2011-12-16T02:25:00.001-08:00

Well, I'm not talking about recent update of FFXI actually. I'm talking about FFXIV. Since both games had major version update on Dec 14 and Dec 15.Tbh, I'm extremely disappointed with last FFXI update, that I feel zero intention to log in anymore. Building a Mythic had been my only driving force to play XI for a while, and now it's getting weaker and weaker, mostly because I realized that I will

Aiming for Lv50

2011-12-10T10:22:00.000-08:00

I haven't play XIV for months, and since I got bored of XI I may as well continue in XIV. I noticed that it's a lot faster to lv in XIV nowadays, that most players has multiple lv 50 jobs. Leve, the main focus of this game seems to be a dead event that no one cares when EXP is so slow and guild marks may be useless next update. And Behest....tbh I haven't done behest for ages, and kinda miss the

Losing interest

2011-12-08T20:51:00.001-08:00

I realized that I have come to a point that this game no longer really interest me....I guess unless next update they can come up with something interesting I will just stay semi-inactive.One of the reason is because I was busy with rl and haven't log on much, and it's way more interesting than playing this game. Second reason is because for the past couple weeks when I log on I literally do

Last Stand

2011-12-01T15:16:00.000-08:00

According to some of the testings, new marksmanship WS Last Stand seems to be new best (physical) WS in terms of pure dmg. It's better than slug, and also better than WF on any NM with magic resist. If this new WS is indeed that good, maybe need to alter tactics to play COR in VW again, since some RNG claimed he did 2.2k on Pil with this WS, WF from every COR I pt with is 1.2k~1.3k average, so

New WSs

2011-11-30T17:32:00.000-08:00

So, a bit of info about new WSs are out.Everyone can only get 3 max if you max them out. I can use 4 new WSs.Gun/dagger/sword/clubI'm certainly gonna get gun, I heard it's better than slug, and yes my COR needs a good WS that's upgrade from slug. So rest is deciding between club/sword/dagger.I'm very temped to get dagger too, for my COR. Looks decent enough and you all know that I love melee CORs

Back to FFXIV....for a bit

2011-11-26T22:26:00.000-08:00

I have't log into FFXIV for ages, not since I went back to XI. Since I only have enough time to play one game.Recently I felt a bit burned out in XI so decided to go back to XIV for a bit. I haven't really played since last update.Man, this game changes A LOT. I realized I don't really know anything about XIV anymore.So time to read some forums ;/And of course, I'm most curious about up coming

Been thinking

2011-11-24T22:30:00.000-08:00

I'm kinda temped to apply for another LS after talking to one of their sacks. And that means leaving my current LS Cynosure and become a nearly full time member(besides DP event on weekends) of another LS. I've been in Axiom/Cynosure since a lv 25 noob, and besides a few core member/sacks I'm probably one of the oldest member that still stays in LS and still plays, many other none sack members

Economy

2011-11-24T22:23:00.001-08:00

I found more and more alex on sell ever since SE announce they're gonna increase the drop rate after update. Alex used to be 15~20k each, now 15k is considering too expensive and there are more and more alex costs less than 15k.On the other hand heavy metal is getting harder and harder to find, and harder to find them for 100k too.I found the price of currency also dropped a bit, with large

More eva.............

2011-11-21T14:14:00.001-08:00

According to the test server, it seems new spell Barbed Crescent offers additional -30 accuracy, and stack with auroral drape.Did a bit of quick math, found out.............If we're not counting stat(AGI) and gear difference, a BLU/DNC casting Auroral drape+Barbed Crescent+warm-up now has higher evasion than THF.And the good news is Barbed Crescent lasts fairly long, so no need to spend such huge

Relic +2

2011-11-18T16:59:00.001-08:00

Quickly looked at the relic +2 info floating around on the internet, it seems +2 relic isn't anything godly amazing....at least for my jobs.Some of the pieces that's worth upgrading are:BLU: Body防59 MP+28 STR+5 DEX+5 命中+15 攻+15 リフレシュ (STR+5 DEX+5 acc+15 attack+15 refresh)Heavy strike.....I guess....less dmg than Toci and Alcde. harness+1 though. Or maybe CDC body when acc needed or something.

Enmity- set

2011-11-17T03:05:00.000-08:00

So I did some of the enmity math for WF set in VW while in math mode(usually not a math person here anyways)I did some search on FFXIAH.com and managed to come up with an enmity- set. Note that enmity- from gears capped at 50, so I only add enough enmity- gears to reach 50 cap, which is enmity- 50%. I'm not really sure if enmity- from merit can break enmity- from gears or not, since I can't seems

Taking forever...........

2011-11-16T00:19:00.000-08:00

Almace Progress: Helms 6/50, no skin, no NM killed yet.....If I push for a little maybe I can finish lv 80 during this Christmas holidays.Armageddon 95 Progress: 11/1500 Heavy Metal Plates.....If I push for a little maybe I can finish lv 95 next Christmas holidays.Death Penalty Alexandrite Progress: 3756/30000............If I push for a little maybe I can finish 30k alex during Christmas holidays

Changing merits

2011-11-09T13:22:00.000-08:00

Considering I'm sitting at 20/20 unused merits for ages, I've been thinking about changing merits for my jobs based on what I do......for example, change QC acc merit to 5/5 if I'm doing VWNM(especially Pil) on COR, and change back to PR focused merit when I'm rolling more in other events. Do more CA recast merit when I'm DD on BLU in easier game content, and change back to magic oriented merit

Evasion

2011-11-07T01:19:00.000-08:00

After playing a bit with evasion BLU, I decided to do some evasion math just to see the real rating of each evasion job....which mostly came from NIN v.s DNC debate long time ago.It's basically the comparison between NIN DNC PUP BLU and THF, 5 of the top tier evasion jobs.Note that I'm not 100% sure about whether evasion skill= evasion or not. Some say 1 evasion skill=0.5 evasion, some say 1

VW

2011-11-06T07:25:00.001-08:00

IMO, VW is really an event to test of how to gear a job properly, and how much you care about the job.Took me a lot of runs to find out my vorpal set and heavy strike set is completely garbage for VW, works in Abyssea but just not VW. When HS is missing 70% of time, and vorpal is doing less than a joytoy PLD, then there's something wrong. After I re-examine my gear, I realized I'm missing a lot

Interesting concept

2011-11-05T19:56:00.001-07:00

So while I did VW, I saw one COR wearing enmity- set. Considering COR can reach 2 hit in VW and has retard WS spam rate and will face down after a few WS, this makes me wonder if enmity- build actually deal more damage than high damage build, if enmity- is enough to make you WS a few more time before capping hate.And if it's possible to switch to high damage set during proc zerg and fanatics.I

Why?

2011-11-05T13:33:00.000-07:00

So I saw a Zilart T1 wyrm VW /shout. Below are /tell mode:Afania: I need clearLeader: What job you have?Afania: BLULeader: BLU is useless for this fight, this is a zerg fight, need Ukko WAR etc, come COR please.Afania: ..........................How the fk she knows that I have COR >.>Afania: But its only lv 90, and it won't have top performance. It won't function properly in VW without save TP

Practice practice more

2011-11-03T23:22:00.000-07:00

As previously mentioned, since my new in-game goal is to solo Shinryu, I need practice.Because one of the BLU in LS named Shadowmonkey needs a BLU JSE ammo, I decided to try to solo the Ironclad NM for him to get this item. Mostly just want to practice my solo skill for Shinryu and to see how durable BLU can be when blooding tanking shit. Since Shinryu and ironclad all shared same property: AoE

Waiting

2011-11-03T23:10:00.000-07:00

Project Death Penalty:Captain Rank 50/50 (Complete)Runic Key (Complete)Titles 8/8(Complete)Balrahn's Eyepatch 100000/100000(Complete)Wyrmseeker Areuhat 150000/150000(Complete)Assault relog 50/50(Complete)Alexandrite (3636/30,000)T4 ZNM items (0/3)Waiting for SE to increase the amount of alex drop so I can get that remaining 26k alex and finish this lonnnnnng quest.

New in game goal

2011-11-03T23:07:00.001-07:00

New goal in FFXI: Solo Shinryu on BLU.

An advice to all BLUs

2011-11-02T04:04:00.000-07:00

As previous post mentioned, I've been focusing playing BLU a lot and got a lot deep enjoyment out of it. I was intended to write a guide(again, not a guide from a pro, since I know quite a lot of BLU that's more knowledgeable than me on this server that I often ask gear advice from them), and if there's any advice I'd give for anyone playing BLU, or intend to lv it, I'd do one suggestion, that I

Rethink

2011-11-02T02:50:00.000-07:00

So recently I've finally started focusing on BLU a bit more and making it better, just so that I can do everything more efficiently.I've been duoing Bri with Zeig for Almace trial, although it takes very long to collect 50 helms(mostly because getting KI takes forever between running back and forth, Bri itself was an easy kill). Also finished 25% MDT- set which is enough to reach cap with shell V

JP bash

2011-11-01T17:48:00.000-07:00

If you've been reading any FFXI NA forum for sometime, you will often see NAs talk shit about JP players, like they're poorly equipped and bad players and such.After watching this amazing video, I'd have to say whoever says JPs are bad players are just ignorant fools. It's not just the fact that he soloed Shinryu on RDM, it's also the fact that he doesn't seems to use 3rd pt tool(not 100% sure,

-300k

2011-10-29T20:53:00.000-07:00

Shows that I have zero knowledge about tanking(sorry Zeig ;<)Been working on MDT- set recently for BLU, and after searching on FFXIAH.com this is the better set I come up with that's better than previous set as long as there's a mage to shell V.Something like this should have 25% MDT- and capped with shell V, and Magic def. bonus +9(w. legs has MDB augment on it), and a small chance to take 0 dmg

GoV

2011-10-25T00:46:00.000-07:00

Tried a little bit of GoV since update to lv my DRG, noticed that you no longer need to go back to book after you finished a page.By far one of the best update in FFXI IMO.Lving in FFXI has been easier than ever.

Cruel reality

2011-10-23T11:11:00.000-07:00

I had a bit more free time this weekend, so ended up playing FFXI all day, something I couldn't do in past 6 months...although soon I need to focus on RL again and enter semi-quite mode.I got a lot done this weekend, got BLU to 95, learned new spells, got PW title finally, got some 3 cities VW clear by making a /shout pt, joined some higher tier VW /shout. Ppl on SE forums keep saying VW is not

Ninja pop

2011-10-20T03:13:00.000-07:00

First of all, I admit, yes I broke my promise, I couldn't stay away from FFXI for more than one month after I realized I still spent most of the time chating without FFXI. So I've been ninja popping in FFXI, if I wanna chat on MSN, may as well chat in FFXI.I've been working on BLU gears recently, I ended up doing evasion set first instead of PDT-. At first I was skeptical about doing an evasion

New FFXIV concept art

2011-10-15T19:26:00.000-07:00

http://wdl.square-enix.com/ffxiv/download/en/FFXIV_2.0_Specs_EN.pdf That Bard AF design makes me want to play Bard >.> It seems that SE is going into ambitious mode for FFXIV to actually remake the whole game and rewrite whole game engine. And they also stated that in interview that they won't make FFXIV into another FFXI. I hope they keep their promise about FFXIV as causal friendly at least.

Leves in 1.19

2011-10-08T16:55:00.000-07:00

Finally got a bit of time to log on to FFXIV after 1.19 update. I've read SE forums about how gears and stats now makes a huge difference and how gimp your characters are compare with pre-1.19. So I was a bit worried that I can no longer solo leves until I upgrade/repair my gear.So I started a new lv 30 leve in N.wells with gimped/unpaired gears, I admit my character's killing speed is much lower

Some change

2011-10-07T18:41:00.000-07:00

Changed the description of the blog...although it sounds a bit weird. Maybe should change the blog title too? wAlso deleted "Project Armageddon" since grinding 1500 heavy metal for a AGI+2 weapon(This job doesn't get much benefit from higher base dmg) for a job I rarely play doesn't seems to worth it. So it'll probably stop at lv 90 until SE finally realized how dumb it is to make empy hardcore

Difference

2011-10-07T01:01:00.000-07:00

Been trying to download FFXIV patch 1.19 for 3 days, and it's taking forever. So I log on to FFXI to see how the game is now for a short time. Not a lot of ppl on, which surprised me.If you read SE official forum, FFXIV community is generally very happy with this new patch, with plenty of game balance fix and an epic battle. While FFXI is community rage about long grind with very little

If

2011-10-01T14:41:00.001-07:00

If I really go back to FFXI after this semester, there's one thing I was extremely interested and wanted to try in FFXI, that's BLU tanking build.Last year before lv 85 update, I've been planning to play with BLU tanking build already. But apparently it doesn't work in Abyssea too much, since Abyssea favors DD tank like NIN MNK etc to duo.Because of the duoing friendly nature of Abyssea, it's

Connection

2011-10-01T03:28:00.000-07:00

Long time ago before I met players like Zeig/Tavera, there is a very close friend of mine in FFXI. He left FFXI in 2010 at lv80 cap due to credit card problem, and never come back. I found him been playing FFXIV, I've been trying to get him back to XI, but I failed to convince him. I couldn't understand why, now I more or less understand now.I go back to FFXIV(once again) after leaving FFXI.

Heavy metal

2011-09-24T21:31:00.000-07:00

Although it's probably none of my business that I already took a break.....in fact even after I go back I probably won't be COR main anymore and shouldn't care about it until Almace 90(which only has 3% of chance happening), I still want to make comment on heavy metals ._.Inc everyone all starting to make 5 mules for new T3 VWNM to farm that 1500 heavy metal.Much faster to farm 1500 of them with

Last day

2011-09-19T01:09:00.000-07:00

Last day before version update, last day before I take a break from FFXI.I put down what I was working on and went home early for assault static. This should be our last run for everyone to reach Captain. So before I take a break I get to witness this little static I made 7 months ago finishes Captain, pretty nice no? Sadly we didn't go since everyone would rather do something else in Dyna and

Lets see......

2011-09-15T21:58:00.001-07:00

Planning to take a break in FFXI after this weekend's KS99 and assault static(last event planned for this week)Let's see how long I can stay away from FFXI =D

Mythic

2011-09-14T07:27:00.000-07:00

So yesterday I logged on to FFXI for a BR run, I've been try to do as many salvage run as possible recently, since my 2nd mythic quest only has token and alex left. After /shout in WG for a bit, Tavera(I secretly unblist him at some point of time earlier without telling anyone, because I'm just that type of person that can't easily hate others) sent a /tell that he wanted to do salvage if I don't

Dyna-Tav........

2011-09-11T04:19:00.000-07:00

Finally cleared it before it turn into Abyssea next update.Kinda glad that I got all dyna clear before it changed.But a scene like this still pretty scary sometimes even at lv 90....It was at least 20~30 mobs link(there were more mobs than SS showed, since after I took SS more mobs just kept coming), this kind of stuff probably won't happen again after dreamworld turn into dyna abyssea.Good bye

Prediction

2011-09-08T17:12:00.000-07:00

Seeing even more changes in FFXIV, I believe FFXIV won't die. It will slowly turning into FFXI+1/JP style WoW -1 and live on. They will slowly add more contents, following old and successful MMORPG formulas. Instance raids, ex/rare gears. More ex/rare gears, lv cap increase, new jobs and AF, and MOAR instance raids + ex/rare gears from events. That's how FFXI/WoW worked for years, no? They

DRG next.

2011-09-03T13:57:00.000-07:00

Decided, lving DRG to Maat cap level next....(while doing RNG if I get a chance to leech in Abyssea) Brown belt quest looks like a pain, kinda want to avoid MNK atm. Although I can just buy it and resell it after Maat beaten.

Light shot/Dark shot stuff.....and more mythic stuff

2011-09-03T10:52:00.000-07:00

Since no one posted this on the forum yet(cuz no one cares....who the fk uses dark shot nowadays....FIRE SHOT AND WF ONRY HOHOHOHOHO), I decided to drag Beelol to test light shot/dark shot stuff to find an answer that's been in my mind for ages(again). My question was: Does dark shot increase dark elemental WS like Leaden Salute? Does light shot increase holy dmg or light SC dmg? 2 months ago

So, next update......

2011-09-02T22:09:00.001-07:00

Since I haven't play COR for ages, I decided to bring it to Nyzul run while I grind some tokens, and I made up some excuses like "I'm already on COR, too lazy to job change and regear." ect. Then I realized something....rather horrifying while I play this job in Nyzul. That is, atm, I have no fun at all while playing the job, really. No fun at all. And I don't see how this gonna change after

Practice practice

2011-08-29T02:00:00.001-07:00

There's one player on SE forum here who's been doing signature for other player's character. I want one of the signature as well, but his waiting list is ass long ;( Since I'm impatient to wait, perhaps I should try it myself. I'm obviously not as pro as him. I'm never good at making character poses, and I SUCK BALLS at doing coloring. If I color it'll look weird and color never match.

So, DRG or MNK next?

2011-08-28T17:17:00.000-07:00

So, what job should I lv next for Maat cap? DRG or MNK? DRG = Always been the job I wanted to play with before I got my first job 75. I even unlocked it before I got my first job 75. At one point of time lving BLU was very frustrating with all the spell hunt, so I decided to give up BLU and lv DRG as first job 75 instead. DRG was actually the second job I really started playing as, although I

FFXIV

2011-08-26T18:43:00.000-07:00

Having hard time trying to find ppl to do lv 25 dungeon to complete the quest. Tried /shout, tried to ask LS, no reply. Most of the time there are no one /shouting to do any group event, and only 12 ppl in LS that was on, they're usually not doing any group event, just crafting all day. I feel like playing single player game in FFXIV.

;(

2011-08-26T17:58:00.001-07:00

Haven't play COR for like, forever. I miss it. But my daily life in FFXI = Do nyzul, do assault, do salvage, lv Maat cap job, farm gil, sometimes do dyna. Don't see much reason to play it ;(

WAR 75

2011-08-26T02:32:00.000-07:00

Finally, after some leeching, and days of GoVing in sandy underground tunnel, 5th Maat cap job done lving. Tbh I don't enjoy WAR at all, it's just about as boring as WHM for me._., so I pretty much just borrowed my all my gears ._. This time when I lv the job, instead of just leech all the way then skill up later, I spent large amount of time doing GoV for skill ups....I ended up actually

100% drop rate of ZNM trophy

2011-08-22T15:30:00.001-07:00

Inc 100% drop rate of alex pouch in Salvage areas too? =D Time to farm those zeni, I guess.

Let it go

2011-08-20T22:38:00.000-07:00

Joined the AV zerg on BLU/WAR, since I'm too lazy to change job and I'm tired of how useless COR is for AV zerg(gimp in both dmg and buff aspect) Apparently my BLU is no better, only Efflux+CA QC can hit 900ish, every other spell barely break 200. Then I helped the pt did an Einherjar run, Einherjar favors BLU as DD no? But the fact is, there's just no way I can compete with 2.7~3.9k Tor on

SE forum

2011-08-20T02:53:00.000-07:00

Because I can't really stand how ppl on SE forums kept posting misleading wrong information, I finally decided to register and started using it.....I mean, someone has to log on and tell them they're wrong so other players won't be misguided no? ;/ I've been sending PM through Alla and FFXIAH.com to other users everytime when I see a misleading wrong info on SE forum to provide correct info, may

I knew it

2011-08-18T18:07:00.000-07:00

Neo-dream world dyna.................................. Ok, at least my dream of having 6/6 AF2 finally got a chance to come true......always wanted AF2 belt(still one of the best ranged TP belt at this lv), but unable to afford 500k entrance fee to grind it ;< Should I be happy?

Tizona v.s Almace

2011-08-16T21:51:00.000-07:00

Due to some JP(I think) BLU has been showing off his lv 90 Tizona + lv 90 Almace recently while afking in Jeuno, there were some debate about Tizona v.s Almace in LS going on. Basically, some ppl flamed(you know there are always players who flamed other ppls gear for everything, especially if they're relic/empyrean/mythic owners and geared differently) the JP BLU for mainhanding Tizona and

So I guess everyone all very rich now.....

2011-08-16T20:37:00.000-07:00

After weeks of looking for buyer, I finally found someone selling W.head from KB. I offered 2M to buy it, 2M is the best I can offer after NPCing all my cruor and squeezed every single penny from my pocket. 1 day later he told me someone else offered 3M. And no fking way I can outbid him atm(Even LS rich daddy Grom can't lend me more than 1M), so I can only watch and Q.Q (Plus hating myself for

Let it end already

2011-08-14T02:21:00.001-07:00

So SE's been talking about upgrading AF2+1 through synergy or some sort of magian stuff..... So that means I passed all the -1 stuff for nothing. And that also means I need to go back to Dyna and grind all that -1 all over again, when I thought I can finally end this Dyna nightmare D; Seriously, why won't SE just let all the old content die already. We need something new, NEW. New area, new

First Odin drop obtained

2011-08-10T21:43:00.000-07:00

Spent 1 point on this(which is obviously obsolete and no one wants nowadays) after Odin fight in Einherjar just so I can at least get ONE item from Odin after 1.5 year of doing Einherjar......no W body/head/Hofud again. Err, I mean so I can fight Maat with a V.fork, legit reason no?

New avatar.....for now

2011-08-08T00:49:00.000-07:00

Getting sick of the taru pic, so changed to the bat pic for a bit.

I feel the nightmare is one step getting toward the end

2011-08-08T00:25:00.001-07:00

I feel the nightmare is one step getting toward the end.One more Odin probably.3 more assault nights probably.Still need a fk tones of Nyzul, but it should be easier once assault is done with more tags.Now how do I convince someone without "I only do stuff in Abyssea, and Abyssea only" mindset to help me farm that retard amount of Alex.

More WF test, MAB v.s AGI

2011-08-06T21:38:00.001-07:00

So after a debate between gearing for AGI(use Loki for WS) v.s gearing for MAB(use QD Mirke with MAB augment) on FFXIAH.com forum, I decided do some test myself, and finally get a bit of clear idea on how it works. This is a question I've been asking myself, and unable to find answers everywhere since everyone on the forums give different answer. Why ppl said /BLU deals more dmg than /RDM, but

Merit capped

2011-08-06T09:36:00.000-07:00

I never really try to grind merit points after recent merit cap increase, I just let merit point comes by naturally. So it took me a while to finally cap my merit on those new stats.Anyways, here's the review of how I merit my char.HP/MP:HP 12/12Tbh I'd do MP if triggering the latent effect of Uggly pendant isn't that much of a pain if I'm on COR/DDIf SE release any neck piece that has higher MAB

First PW fight

2011-08-01T16:20:00.000-07:00

So this week is not just AV......My first PW fight!This NM is, IMO, currently the hardest NM in this game(since no other NM has such annoying adds), I personally haven't encounter any other NM as BS as this one I'd have to say. Not even AV, which can be dealt with SMN 2hr perfect defense. Unless someone can come up with an easier strat to deal with those adds, it's quite possibly currently the

New No.1

2011-08-01T02:40:00.000-07:00

It seems SCH now finally beats COR and became the least played job in this game. SE should totally give SCH spells that cures Amnesia and charm, not WHM ;<

Not again

2011-07-30T06:21:00.000-07:00

It seems battle system in FFXIV isn't the only thing SE learned from WoW.....Now story missions gives a fuck tones of SP, so I pretty much just completed my previous missions before the update for nothing......Why SE always has the ability to make ppl feel they do stuff for nothing, when it can be done a lot easier/quicker/get more reward after a while ._.

A big change

2011-07-24T14:11:00.000-07:00

After 2 days of updating, and waiting for maintenance, I finally have a chance to log into FFXIV and play with new auto-attack battle system for a bit.This patch 1.18 is by far possibly the most game changing patch so far. Some of the biggest change including:1.Auto-attack, LOL2.MP cost of curing spells increase.3.Some abilities now needs MP to use.4.Leve quest change, now players gain less SP

Hahava

2011-07-24T00:35:00.000-07:00

Been doing some VWNM recently, tried to work on my VWNM pop, and did first Hahava fight after Ager got his T4 VWNM pop. I've heard WF worked very well on this before, so I decided to give it a try.If all the game content after lv 95 are like this, then this job will revive XDAlthough I also have to admit, it doesn't always do 2k on this NM. Sometimes it dropped to 1k(1k still higher than most

More THF, and enmity

2011-07-21T19:27:00.000-07:00

My previous post mentioned that I don't really enjoy THF.....and part of the reason is probably because how bad SA/TA(the main feature of this job besides TH whore and feint whore) JA is and not really practical nowadays.One of the JP job guide I used describes THF as enmity control DD, so it's supposed to be an enmity control DD to get hate on the tank by dealing big WS dmg with TA.But pt today

THF 75

2011-07-21T01:12:00.001-07:00

Finally leeched my THF to 75, so that's 4th Maat cap job done(done levelling, but not fighing him)I don't enjoy playing this job at all, so it will be a TH whore job only and only be played if TH is really needed and no one else has a THF, atm it has no gear except TH knife/TH hands =DOk I have some items from BLU and COR my THF can still use if it's lv 75 or lower. Next job to work on is

Haters will hate

2011-07-20T00:22:00.000-07:00

After recent update SE implemented new No.11 bonus they've been talking about for 1 year+ XD And the result:http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/11256-XI-updateCommunity whined and bitched about how bad it is and wanted old double duration back.Seriously I have no idea why w/e SE release new change (especally about this job) the first thing ppl do is to whined and wanted SE to change without

FINAL FANTASY XI Job Adjustment Manifesto

2011-07-16T13:41:00.000-07:00

So I guess that's the direction of each job's heading in the future.....no?There are a lot of jobs I don't play, so my opinion can seem a bit shallow XD But opinion is opinion.WAR:Looks like SE wanted to make WAR a versatile DD class. When this game was out, it was designed to be half tanking class(I still remember one of the 2003 FFXI guide said WAR is more like a proector than attaker, lol),

To do or not to do

2011-07-16T10:17:00.000-07:00

Recently I've been seriously considering doing an Almace for my BLU, but still can't make up my mind. Reasons to do Almace:1. All Stealthkiller's fault, he made it sound like fking easy to complete it.2. A nice change. Recently I've been doing nothing except working on Mythic and Maat cap, since those stuff doesn't require to play 5hrs a day, can just slowly working on it. And after a while it