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Tanked Charybdis for the first time ever, which was probably the most fun I've ever had in FFXI. Also, I bought my Peacock Charm and Fire Bomblet today, which nearly caps me on AH gear.

I'm two merits away from capping category 1 and 2 merits for THF, also.

Edited, Feb 14th 2009 11:29pm by Angina

When your parrying is capped. >_>

116 /cry

Sad part is, I rarely parry on thf. most of my parying skills from 50 to 116 have been on dnc EXPing 50-75

February 15, 2009 I got homam Manopolas.

I really wanted either legs or feet because the hands doesn't boost my haste but I am happy to be 3/5 and looking to finish my homam set this year. Hopefully by summer.

I capped Thief merits last night, as well as gained 2.2 parrying in a single (extremely long) solo farming run. Now I'm working on the "Others" category: Spell Interruption Rate 1/4.

Denali Kecks: O

Thank god, they open up like 2 inventory spaces for my THF.

Takes the spot of rogue's culottes, dragon subligar, and crow hose. I know it's not as good as any of those other pieces, but I'm on a major inventory issue with THF, usually 67/70 on THF gear with meds and such, 69/70 with foods D:

5/5 Denali \o/ Sure, legs I'll never use, and feet I wanted for ninja rather than thf, but still, 5/5 is 5/5 and 5/5 looks very, very sexy.

A step in the right direction. This is going to take a while, still...

Just went 0-5 on Taisaijin for Spelunker's with TH3! Awesome! ^_^


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1/1 on my Swift Belt!

Thank you, Supertim, Hasrice, Quetzal, Lostprophet, Natme, Twentyfourcm, Debodopimp, and Jyugemu! {Thank you}, {Thank you}, {Thank you}!

To be honest, I picked up Hollow Earring and it was a mistake in the long run. It's nice but it's not big enough of a difference over other earrings to make it better than etheral as Thief. Especially if you like to tank, etheral is simply golden, and I'll be trading mine out the first chance I get. (It's a bit of a pain but could be worse)

Yupyup, what deadgye said.

Ethereal Earring to me is a bunch of stats that have different purposes, but nothing specialzed. The 5 attack is trumped by Merman's, and I have no use for that. The 5 evasion is equaled by elusive. The 3% hp --> MP is just 3% damage down like a miniature D ring since I have no mana, but much less potent. The 15 HP means little to me. Yeah, the ethereal earring is a tanking earring, no doubt about it. But when I tank or solo I'm not in need of its stas that much, and I solo and tank just fine as is. I can't foresee it being of much use to me, maybe others can but not me.

Hollow earring now.. This baby was MADE for the thief. 2 dexterity + 3 accuracy and 3 ranged accuracy (heck it's even useful for my ranger I'm leveling >.>). The 2 dex equates to 1 accuracy, so it adds 4 accuracy or 2% accuracy, and makes it the strongest earring we get for dancing edge alongside one of the other big name pieces. 2 dex is still 0.498 WSC on every hit, so it can add extra damage if a tier is broken even in TA DE. In SA DE it directly mods the first hit critical plus a potential WSC tier, and of course accuracy.

Being a meat eater the choice was obvious. The only consideration was what to wear alongside it in ws. I'll be brutal/suppa for tp, and since it's a ws ear I chose pixie for sa de because 3 dex on first hit crit (and it does break a wsc for me) was greater than the brutal. The brutal adds averaged one extra swing every 10 weaponskills (main and offhand get 5%, so that's 1 swing in 10) and these are subject to current acc and can miss too. Adding 2% accuracy plus first hit crit plus an extra damage every swing is more worthwhile for me. Since TA has no dex mod... brutal is the obvious choice here.

Side note: if I'm /war this sucker is the best TP earring to wear alongside the brutal as well, so even there it's a win!!

<3 <3 my earring already.

Edited, Feb 25th 2009 12:05am by Melphina

I traded my hollow for etheral because I leveled PLD to 75. Figured I'd get more use out of it on PLD. I also use it on THF when I sub WAR, since suppa is useless. I'd like a Delta Earring, but I don't do Einherjar anymore and I'm like 1000(or less...) ichor away. >.>

Congrats on the Enkidu's Leggings. I just recently obtained Enkidu's Subligar, though I am not sure if they're better than Dusk for SADE. I want to say yes. (I'm thinking situational, if someone can give me an answer on that, that'd be cool.)

Edited, Feb 25th 2009 1:17am by Stilivan

I still say Etheral. The difference between Svatta and Etheral as tanking pieces is that Rajas is too important to even consider using svatta instead. Hollow doesn't have that glory over Etheral. Etheral is designed beautifually as a tanking earring on Thief. It enhances our damage, our evasion, and reduces our damage taken. And if you're using a subjob that uses MP (I love playing around as THF/PLD) then you get a refresh to boot depending on how much damage you're taking.

Yes, Hollow stats are nice, but they aren't game breaking for that slot. It's not going to change your performance over Brutal+Pixie, or brutal+merman's, or brutal+accurate much at all TPing. And that's only for a situational sub job. It's almost never better for /nin. And for WS, Brutal+Pixies is always A+. Unless you're ACing (big deal).

Etheral over any other Earring in the game for tanking purposes will be huge. Even on Thief.

And I look at Thief as more than just a hate clamp DD, because it should be. I prefer to tank whenever I can.


Edited, Feb 25th 2009 2:01pm by Shamanfoxl

Pixie is only better than hollow for SAsolo. Hollow > Pixie for DEanything, and possibly shark bite anything as well.



The same could be said for Ethereal, both earrings are nice it just comes down to what you want to use them for. Since I'm pure thf and always use attack food ethereal just wasn't for me. :p

1) Oily Trousers {mine}

2) Just saw my first PCC drop in forty-five runs of Under Observation. Yes, 45. Literally. It's been dreadful.

Another Sirocco Kukri! For my LS friend, this time. 2 of em in 48 hours.. very happy atm.

Homam legs tonight.

And completes my Homam set (no Head, but don't really want that!)

Well theres good news and bad news....

Skadi's Visor O! 1st piece of salvage gear w00t! Now if my skadi body 35 will drop....damn warping gears and wind weather -_-

And got screwed outta Heca cap Abj last odin due to some confusion. Everyone so focused on the Ebody and Wbody that Nhead kinda slipped between the cracks and the lotting procedure got messed up -_-

In other news, I am updating my Racc set and am pleased so far with the results. Ive even been tempted to level Rng myself once i get skadi body.

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/late, but on the earring issue, I am VERY happy with my delta earring. 2dex/chr is pretty pimp for DE as the chr mod is so terribly underrated (not that you should gear for it, but if its free on other gear....40% is still VERY high for multi hit WS.) Id have to run some numbers, but my gut says it is probably on par for DE with hollow (dependant on hitting a WSC tier)

But its rather irrelivant to me because Ethereal [impossible to gauge] on Drg/mage and im not giving up my chain 5 zero downtime Greater colibri solo for +3 damage avg on DE.

Ever since turning over a new leaf on my thf:

Went on a modest shopping spree to revamp my thf gears and food (squid sushi) for xp purposes. Nothing fancy, but a little more party appropriate (and a whole set dedicated to SA woohoo). Now just to solo to 55(4k tnl) so I have decent attack earrings and back to wear (spike+royal army).

Raised my Marksmanship from 1 to 160 over the weekend and bought me some x-bow(thug z.) and status bolts. Is sleep+acid enuff for pt xp?

3 straight nights of solo farming in the temple of Ug before pop item (bee larvae) dropped for the Hornetneedle NM. Pop item drop was a serious pain in the tuckus. Stacks of chips, honeys, and wings to show for it before finally dropped. DW corsair + HN @54 gogo. (viking shield as back up if not /nin)

I admit its nothing too impressive in the grand scheme of things, but its more of a reflection to get more enjoyment out of this job.

Got to do my first real merit party on THF tonight. SAM/WAR MNK/WAR THF/WAR BRD BRD RDM @ the middle bird camp. The SAM was voking birds off the BRD so his damage was shafted. We were getting Min/Mad/March x2. I wish I had brought more pizzas with me as my acc was lacking after I ate the 2 and only had mithkabobs on me. Hell even some crab sushi probably would have helped me more.

Meriting on THF is a lot more busy than I expect and 100x more busy than what I'm used to (usually merit on SAM). It was a lot of fun, but I don't think I'll do it very often. Still working on my gear and merits for THF so I know theres a lot of room for improvement.

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Wow, Nice stuff Pudgy. That was a heck of a weekend, I have to congratulate you on that.



This part is awesome, that's a huge achievement. Although I must warn you, once you find full time employment the 40 hours a week plus commute will hardly feel "free", but the benefits of such a step more than make up for it. I got full time about 4 months ago, and it was the best thing I could have done for myself. It's nice to be able to pay bills and be able to eat >.>.

So yeah, really good weekend. Grats for that, you deserve it.

I've had THF75 since like...late 2006.

Parrying broke 210 today. It's taking forever, but I'll eventually cap it. >_>

I've very literally been doing nothing in FFXI except for "skilling" parrying for the past month and a half. Go solo Nightmare Bats for up to six hours a day for a few consecutive weeks. You'll see some increase, and make a few hundred seals on the side (and a few million gil, as a nice bonus). (I've soloed over 30 merits on these things, and taken my NPC from 31-58.)

I'm taking a break for a bit, though; I'm starting to burn out. Having gone from 178-210 in six weeks is ridiculous.