Your Thief's Latest and Greatest Accomplishment!Follow

Since you've realised not to feed the trolls, I'll award you with some actual drops from this last week:

Homam Corazza get
Denali Legs get
N.Abj Hands get
Agrona's Leggings get

Denali is just town/idle gear now though. In fact so's homam. It's only used whre I would use Mirke when not /Nin.

finally...
Suppanomimi: O

how did you get the pants first? did you pass all the other pieces?

WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Finally beat ACP, 1/6 on the fight.

Mirke +10 acc +3 DW!

Skadi's Bazubands O! (WTF is a Bazuband!? most rediculous name for 'armor' ever :P)

I am now 14/15 on entire skadi set pieces. Damn that body 35! Years of salvage and its still the only piece i dont have and the one i want the (2nd) most (I like legs more). But still, my rng is very happy and im 1 step closer to full set!

Edited, May 16th 2010 1:50pm by Banalaty

Although it's more geared towards dnc here's a guide with some good spots by your's truly XD

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?fjob=19&mid=1273868367317151665&page=1


And as far as accomplishments go, finally got my 10 acc dw 3 mirke back last nite...not gonna part with it ever again lol...

Long time browser, rare poster here. I generally don't post accomplishments here, but the last two days require it:

Yesterday

Finally completed my relic, thanks to the members of NephiIim LS on Phoenix. And Cosii + Vandyr of Phoenix for the 3k loan.




This happened last night

My orb was last.

edits... learning to link.

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I was going to add a note saying why I was WSing in TP gear: I was doing Trial of the Magian's for mandau. 1500 WS on beast mobs. For that: the softer the ws the better!

Enkidu's Subligar! Now for tons of math to determine whether I am selling my bravo's or not. That is, unless I get lucky on monday.

Lucky drop from KSNM 99 last nite so Strider boots O!

Also finally got enough ABCs to get Jaeger mantle for my racc setup.

Wow!!! Very big congratulations Melphina!!!

Also, you might want to look at your set a bit, I think you can lose 4 DEX and still maintain the same WSC for both Evisceration and Mandalic Stab due to the way the WSC calc is floored. If I remember correctly, the dead zone is from 137-143 DEX.

Edit: Yeah, that is it, 136 DEX is WSC 33, 137-143 DEX is 34, and 144 DEX is 35.

Edited, Jun 10th 2010 3:23pm by Meldi

I'm using my X's/blau in that screenshot. I'm going to fiddle with the setup a little. Dancing edge wsc comes out to 63.9 so it too loses out. I have a a full exp buffer and 10 merits saved up so I can change my 2 str 3 dex around if I want (and there's also thunder dakini to consider as well). I'll see what I can do with it. Atm I wanna try and augment a few forager's mantles and see if I can get a point of dex or two. I've seen that aug several times but aside from that it's up in the air. The version update is due later this month so I don't need to make any real decisions yet... I can wait a few weeks to see what happens. And before somebody brings up the version update and possible upgrades forthcoming which might make the N legs obsolete... don't. I set a personal goal to complete this armor set when I dinged to level 75 in summer of 2005, naive as I was to end game at the time. Completing this piece has taken more effort and caused me more grief than the other 4 pieces did combined. Completing the full skadi's cuirie leather armor set was far easier for me than getting that hell borne piece of paper. I've had this goal in my mind for over four years and refused to give up on it so I just wanted it that badly. I don't care about the gil I paid or the setback it means to finishing my Mandau. This goal meant so much to me that I was finishing my subligar no matter what the cost and that was that. Nothing can ever take this day from me. I'm literally walking on the stars.

Edited, Jun 10th 2010 4:49pm by Melphina

Just came back from a 2 month break playin SC2 beta, but I'm still chuggaluggin,
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v731/ShamayaAsura/June2010Equipz.png
The great thing about Strigoi Ring is, if you have Rdm/Nin, you can solo all the triggers. And if you get another Rdm/Nin and a couple friends that have Smn or Rng, Lord Ruthven is a joke. Ire Torque +1 gettin pretty cheap too, just yet to transfer it from the server I bought it on.

Grats on HQ hecatomb Mel.

Shamaya I am disappointed no Zilant Ring yet? Only an easy to get Strigoi Ring. That is no accomplishment........j/k. Grats on ring and Torque. What server you got the torque from?


For my own accomplishment I have this Odin parse from yesterday (19-6-2010) level 75.

1. Breaze 20636, 15.5.......thf/nin, Vajra/X's (+4 base damage)
2. Iwfym 17213, 13............sam/drg, Hagun
3. Visan 14782, 11.1.........war/sam, Perdu GA
4. Castonell 13130, 9.9......rng/sam, Fay Gendawa (+4str,+10 ratt, +5%ws dmg)
5. Brook 11321, 8.5...........sam/drg, Hagun
6. Mikeh 9292, 7...............pld/nin, Joyeuse
7. Nonakin 8969, 6.7..........rng/sam, E-bow
8. Chiefbootron 7735, 5.8....rng/sam, Cerberus bow+1
9. Anarki 6660, 5...............pld/nin, Joyeuse (d/c during fight)

No idea what happened in the rng party. Normally all rng parse a bit higher then that.




Edited, Jun 20th 2010 9:42pm by Breaze

Looks like I got it on Ragnarok. That's a really impressive parse. I bet you'd do really good on Ixion too. I wonder what your way of fighting is on Odin? I've never really gotten to fight it :(

When you mention it, Strigoi in a sense isn't nearly so much of an accomplishment as it would be without using the now controversial pinning tactics. I did my Ruthven fights with 6-7. But afterwards when a friend wanted to do it using pinning as well, we killed it Rdm+Rng in just as much time and fewer blunders than full-party style. I don't know about you guys but for me Zilant is likely impossible w/out mercing or buying. Or I suppose waiting on the cap increase and then trying a friend/PuG.

Ding 76. Soloed the merit points up to 2.6 for the limit break, then got a pt got the rest. After that I needed about 8k, plus I died once on a pull so about 8.6k xp. I got a pretty good SATA triple attack mandalic stab xping on Dhalmels in Bibiki bay. 1226.

Homam Corazza!!!

This is an item I have wanted for a very long time. I had it as my #1 priority in Limbus for a long time as well (unwisely). I am so excited right now.

Yeah, I know, but who knows, maybe they will actually add some uber armors to Trial of the Magicans

I honestly hope they just keep coming out with new gear instead of adding things to TotM. At the moment I'm working on 5 daggers and 2 guns which is making me spend more time on trials than I am actually using the weapons. Throwing in diff trials for each piece of gear and that pretty much becomes the entire game, even if it were just for things like homam or skadi.

Sure if you only have a couple of things to upgrade as it is it wouldn't be so bad, but for me and most of the people I know already have their plates full with trials.

Fire Kila: completed
Thunder Kila: completed
Aurore brais: O
Sharpeye mantle: O



Thf....still lvl 76 ; ;

Bought it or BCNM drop? If BCNM drop how many times did you do it?

1/1 on tumbler trunks, was a pretty random fight.

time to level to 79, through abyssea!

- Homam Manopolas 5/5 Homam set(big thanks ChaosReigns)
- Kila +6STR +16att
- Parazonium Occ. atk. 2-3 times

love the kila, using it mainhand instead of the 39dmg Kartika. loose one base dmg, but gain the str/att and 11delay.
the parazonium i did mostly for /dnc ~ solo stuffs and plain 'ol fun (that's gotta count for something).

I have had a really good week. I have gotten to 80 finally, which is a great achievement for me. I have finished both the Qutrub trial on my thunder dakini and the Flan trial on my flame dakini. I have purchased a cuchulain's belt for SA and WS. I also was able to get a yovra organ after about 3 years of needing one. Instead of getting breeze gorget, I went for a flame gorget for Mandalic Stab and Drakesbane.

Tomorrow I go back to work and stuff, so this stuff should slow down a bit.

Well, I got tired of having a slow as molasses kartika so I went and made a Fusetto to mainhand wiht offhand blau to hold me over till i get verthandi eyes for my Athame OAT path.
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tangent ramble go!:

Welcome back Chanchan! It is always interesting to see how our perspectives on things change over the years with life revolving around the game to the other way around. Particularly interesting as most of us have actually been playing this game long enough for our lives to significantly change. I know I am not the only one who started in college but is now out in the 'real world' trying to find space for Vanadiel to coexist. It is strange to have a piece of entertainment live longer in my life than significant actual time periods like college, high school, single to married life or whatever the case is for various people around here.

Looking back its strange how much has changed. I started this game the summer before my sophomore year in college back in summer '04. I had never played a real MMO, but I was(am) a huge blizzard fan (Picking up Starcraft 2 after work today OMGOMGOMGOMG!) and was patiently waiting for WoW to come out. My buddy (long since quit) was playing FFXI and got me started in it (He saved me! I have never touched WoW, but i still love blizzard RTS games). Id go to his house for days that summer and we played together (because my house was still on dial up LOLZ!) staying up to all ours and taking silly summer school college classes. It was awesome. Went back to school in teh fall and continued playing (way to much) for the next 3 years until I graduated with my bachelors. I continued to play all through grad school (FAAR to much, i should have graduated in spring 09......then summer 09.....finally made it fall 09 (This game probably had something to do with it xD). Now im in my own office (no windows though :P) in slacks and a button up shirt pretending like im a professional, but I still go home to play the same game I was playing over 6 years ago with my best bud since middle school. So much has changed, it is odd to think that FFXI has been one of the parts of my life that hasnt. Odd that a game has been a constant longer than almost any phase of my life and bridged multiple phases.

Certain zones or game music bring me back to a different time in my life. Everytime I hear yuhtunga/yhoater music I am brought back to sitting on my bed in my dorm room as a sophomore eating goldfish because i spent weeks leveling jobs through the 20s/30s back to back there. When I hear Ronfuare music I am back to my friends room where we spent weeks that summer as newbs trying to 'dodge' sheep attacks because we thought if we ran around it the moment it attacked, we would evade it. So much experience of my adult life have ties to FFXI. The game has changed drastically, the things I do in game/goals/way i play the game has changed. Funny to think i used to 'dodge' sheep attacks or 'run at the gob to make it drop the bomb!' and even used to be anti haste gear. Now im working out if its better do 0.5% more damage or have 1.2% more TP gain. I guess the way I play the game has matured just as I have. It is just strange taht I have done it so long that i actually HAVE changed.

Edited, Jul 27th 2010 10:41am by Banalaty