Exenterator

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 food. Depending on mob type and whether fire shot is up, it could be stronger than WF, but generally weaker than Last Stand.

Obviously this is my "cheap WS", considering Last Stand uses 2 bullets, every time when I use it my heart bleeds and I can hear my wallet screaming.

Or I can use some excuses: "But.....but Exenterator has acc-!"

But yeah, besides saving gil and -acc, there are no reason to use it over Last Stand.

Now all 3 merit WS done, time to finish MP merit.

20%!

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

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 physical WS and CDC. Without food/JA/temps etc it drop below 1k.

My set is far from the best, but getting best set isn't going to give extra 500 dmg IMO.

IMO it's a ok WS on T3 VWs for none-CDC ppl, especially on Pil since Pil has shield, and this WS is awesome for getting shield's off.

But on T6 it's completely shit, on Gaunab it's even worse than Sanguine sometimes._. ,although I used pizza instead of RCB on Gaunab.....too cheap and too chicken about my acc ._.

I guess I just don't have enough attack to make it worth using on T6s since I'm never in DD pt and never get chaos roll. And attack penalty does suck.

Sooo maybe back to work on Almace then ._. My BLU is getting harder and harder to use due to shitty dmg output that I'm on COR 90% of time nowadays.

I also found this WS hits harder than sanguine on elementals in assault. I guess this WS is good on fodder mobs that has physical resist and that's it.

On a side note, once again in more flan run I realized I need to improve playing COR also....I often put myself in same pt as PLD, but too scared to go close to PLD and give it rolls, and ended up missing PLD for buff. Even with Luzaf I'm still unable to reach PLD from safe distance.

I guess time to fit in some DT- gears and MP gears in inv for SS, so at least can run in and buff without dying.

Probably finally time to remake my PR gear set, which is full of DT- gear on slots without PR gears.

D; Must remind myself to buff PLD!

D; Must buff PLD!

DDDD; Must stop being a lazy COR and hit everyone with rolls DDDD;

Good thing is I just finished upgrade save TP atmacite, should* have enough HP and MDB to do so.

0/37 Athos body now, plus 0/12 head, and 0/20 legs, that's 0/59 athos since I got last piece hands. Awesome huh?

Since every time when I make flan pt I feel some of my brain cell died, the sooner I get the body the more brain cell I can keep ._.

Matsuko x24

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 admit, the amount of elitism I have to deal with from other LS while trying to do this NM is never before seen. I ended up having to do tones of research, ask on forums, read a lot of info, watch a lot of JPs do it, just to reduce the chance of failing to minimum.

But I believe that being "elite" isn't required to win, as long as leader knows how to organize. Since most of the leader doesn't know how to organize VW, only knows how to blame pick-ups when it doesn't go well.

My first run failed 2x, after a bit more research and practice, and changing pt setup + watch more vid, I managed to get a little bit over 50% success rate(7/12).

I also managed to get into JP pt and see how they organize once. It's a good learning process, they're 12/12 and every fight lasts only less than 5 min, although sometimes they do face shitty proc, they always managed to pull it together and win even with only 1 HQ.

I guess as a pt lead, there are something that can improve a little after learning from JPs.

1. Make a macro to remind ppl pop fana after 2hr almost done.

2. Attempt to do weapon proc during chainspell, then do easy magic/JA proc if weapon can't proc in time.

3. Ask RDM to /BLM for stun(instead of SCH) NIN SJ DNC, WAR SJ MNK, and DRK SJ DRG.

I also used 3 WHM for that fight, although I'm debating changing one WHM to either MNK(for h2h proc, since we're stuck on this proc many times) or BLM (many JP flan pt seems to have 1 extra BLM for proc outside of BLM tank pt)

If I can find a way to get rid of shitty proc situation, probably more chance to get 12/12 every run.

And that will be my goal for all future flan runs, 100% success rate, every fight last 5 min.

Anyways, although it seems weird since VWNM run is very different from old school EG event that 60% pt are /shout ppl, but time to make pic for first real ImmortalFlames LS victory(ok, I also did T4~T5 clear runs with LS before, but that doesn't really count)

Hmmmmm, looks just like something no? Or wait.

I can't remember who gets what so I didn't make "drop" pic, I only remember pretty much everyone gets athos except me ;(

Btw, Matsuko is how JPs call that flan, so I just follow XD.

Anyways, time to post epeen SS as always.

                                         

After a lot of cruor farm, I managed to upgrade my Atmacite of Slayer to lv 15. With AGI+ spell from WHM and wizards roll, WF dmg was boosted to 3k+ easily with fireshot. I wonder if doing 4k WF on B.rex is possible?

After spamming flan x24 in one day(12 more with JPs), no Athos is no Athos, I guess this flan is just as stingy as Qilin, Pil, Ocythoe and such.

Sword

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 a none-elemental WS, since it has 1.the most powerful magical WS in this game 2. a JA that bypasses special dmg cut like Pil.

I only do it to fulfill my desire to play as sword COR.

I leveled the job all the way up with swords, and considering I'm a BLU main, it more or less shows that I'm a sword lover(a gun lover too)

Anyways, time to make a set for it.

Digging my inventory, this is really all I have....not sure if it's a really good set.
So far the only good sword I have is just Galenus, I guess unless I start Arch dynamis NM event in my LS I won't get a Sagasinger.....so Galenus+Joytoy for now.

The best head is Maat's cap I believe, so in order to make it work I need to revive my project Maat's cap again ;(

Body should be w body for 10 or 11 MND, which I don't have, and don't have gil to get atm, so I just fill it with random pink body.

Athos hands is probably the best in the slot.

Neck I'm not sure too, debating between faith for MND or fortitude for 7 acc/attk.

Ring should be 7 MND ring x2, but again, too cheap to get better rings....I guess I better get one someday, I need it for my BLU anyways.

Legs/feet/waist I just fill it with random items I have with MND or attack or acc.

Time to try it in Campaign or something, when nobody is watching me ;)


Yesterday when I did Qilin fight, after the fight I asked someone in pt if he has alex for sell, since he put it on AH.

Then he asked me, if I'm making the gun.

Wtf how'd he know? I swear I don't know that guy, it's my first time pt with him. I asked how'd he know, he said I just look like COR fanatic - -

I found this description actually quite accurate.

Zeig used to describe me as a "hardcore/elite COR", however my COR is really nothing hardcore/elite about. I still use stat+6 ring, and too cheap to upgrade to +7. I don't have ambushers, which any bandwagon COR nowadays with some small amount of work can get it. I don't have AGI grip, which many COR bother to camp AH would have, and don't have athos body, which any hardcore COR bother to spam flan 20 times a day would have.

Basically everything I used, are nothing better than average player, and not really better than ppl who lv the job for VW(inferior in fact), as long as they're not as cheap as me.

Ppl as cheap as me can't really be put into hardcore/elite category no? Can only be put on BG gimp thread ;)

I used to describe myself as "Career COR", however considering my favorite job changes every 3 weeks, and not really a COR at heart, this description somewhat made me uncomfortable.

I found COR fanatic fits the category more. Fanatics are blind, do none-sense stuff that no one really understands. Fanatics are dumb. I do none-sense stuff all the time, such as insist to do every event on COR and never job change or lv another job, tried to farm azure light on this job, play with evasion set and evasion solo NMs in abby, QQ about not having TH or QD debuff, play with swords and build sets for sword WS when it's not even the best way to deal dmg, play with mage mode and QQ about not having enough cure potency in gears, merit everything for it when it doesn't really offer much for the job, or try to get all relic+2 augment done when some effect ppl don't even know.......

When most ppl with right mind would just job change, lv another job, and play it normally. I like to try out new stuff no one bother to try, test stuff no one bother to test, even though it's something no one really cares.   When most ppl only try to get "important gears"  like ambusher/stat +7 rings/AGI grip, I spend time on pointless gears like 2hr and fold augment. When most ppl would build a more useful relic like Aegis, I spend my money on Death Penalty, another gun that doesn't offer much improvement over Armageddon.

Fanatic, I guess I am. Blind, dumb, and do pointless stuff. But that doesn't really make me play better than others, just better at being pointless.

No wonder Tavera often call me insane/crazy. I guess that's what he really means, I don't play the same way as majority of players in FFXI ._.

MKE hat

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 piece when racc is needed. It stays with me through the age of meripo.

At one point of time there are many ppl who augment this head piece for WF, but I insist that this piece should be slug shot racc piece, just because a head gear with +25 total acc for WS is hard to find, and I don't want to gimp my only good physical WS.

Now that I mostly use Last Stand if I need a physical WS, and Last Stand doesn't have racc penalty, there are very little reason to WS in this head.

The only use for WS acc+25 head is just landing Marksmanship proc in VW. Which shouldn't be THAT hard to land if I just swap every other slot into racc piece when I try to land it. In fact AF3+2 head has 21 racc itself, kinda close to 25.

Time to change it, maybe.

I plan to change it to Cure potency+3% MND+4 Waltz ability delay-2.

That way both jobs of mine benefit from it....I /DNC and spam Curing waltz alot on both jobs, and COR/mage doesn't have a lot of cure potency gear. In fact considering I still cure in teal hat, it's actually a better hat than Teal for magic fruit.


Speaking of which, I recently just finished sword WS merit 5/5.

Time to work on dagger, I guess. Last WS I want for this job...and probably a hell lot more useful than lolRequiescat.

Taming the beast

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 Stand gear set. Vulcan's + Uther's grip v.s Nguul dagger for /WAR.

Nguul dagger obviously do more WS dmg, but Vulcan's combo gives extra 15% QD dmg plus no racc penalty.

Hmmm so hard to decide, not sure if extra WS dmg can make up the lose of 15% QD dmg or not....I'm more leaning towards Vulcan's combo atm tbh, also no racc penalty with vulcan's.

However once I finish elemental Obi grinding, I should gain another 13% QD dmg while sacrificing 3 MAB on specific day. This should somewhat catch up the QD lose without vulcan's.

So probably vulcan's on fire/light/darks day, and every other day use dagger?


If I'm meleeing for TP, I'm also debating between Nguul and multi-hit.............

Tbh, an ideal TP set with /WAR should have 29% DA and 6% TA, alone with regain roll + save TP roll, and TP gain from QD, it should somewhat close the gap between Nguul vs Joy.

However Joy still TP faster, and has higher DPS.

Another option is Striker sword, it has similar DPS to joy, a bit slower TP gain, but AGI+7 to boost WS dmg.

I think atm I'd probably stick with joy though.

That also means I pretty much just got Nguul for nothing D;

But for the purpose of epeen SS, Last Stand with this dagger sure is very good for epeen SS.

The average WF dmg I've seen when I pt with other COR(I never WF on Qilin, this is my first time fighting Qilin on COR) was about 700~800. So Last Stand is about 2~3 times more dmg.

I also don't think I WSd at right spot most of the time, that's why I often get subpar WS dmg. I also fought this Qilin with only one atmacite since I forgot to use the save TP one, so I didn't parse very well for sure(not like I can parse higher than MNK WAR double march anyways)

Do I like this WS? I have to admit I have a semi love/hate relationship with it, so many things I don't know about it that I'm not sure how to make it work properly. And yet I love the epeen spike dmg it produces. I don't use this WS on Jeuno T6s because I'm afraid that I can't make it work as well as WF on T6s. But anything T6 or lower I'm slowly learning how to tame the beast.