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A somewhat small, but lengthy achievement ... capped my parry skill on Dancer with Pucks in the Den of Rancor.

Cinquedea 1/2, duo'ed with RDM (DOT) and BLU (cannonball)

I went from 219 to 250 in the space of a little less than two weeks, basically. My SAM and NIN friends hate me now.

I started skilling up during a week where we had the Martial Master Kupower, and wow does that help Parry skill ups! Though during the last 15 levels it was without the Kupower and it still went fairly fast. The most skill that I have gotten in a night is five levels over a period of 4-5 hours. The longest amount of time I went without a skill up was about an hour and a half. But then there was a few times that I got two big skill ups back to back.

The whole thing might sound really tedious and boring, but with /SAM and Meditate along with No Foot Rise it's really quite easy and can get to the point where you don't even think. I got so used to it that I was browsing the web and watching movies after a few days. Besides, if you really want your Parry skill capped, you'll want to do it sometime ... so why not right now?



I was at J-9 of Map 7 in the Den of Rancor and you can get there easiest from J-7 entrance in the Yhoator Jungle. There is a circular room of Pucks you can pull from and if anything goes wrong you can just zone up the ramp behind you into the Temple of Uggarepih. The Pucks there range from Decent Challenge to Tough and you can generally change their toughness by zoning and respawning them. I subbed /SAM for Meditate, Seigan and Third Eye (you can still parry with Third Eye up, I found out) as well as tossing on Fan Dance to mitigate the beastly punishment these Pucks can dish out.

I would pre-buff my TP to around 270% and then load a No Foot Rise on after that to make certain that I wouldn't need to zone. Generally I would bounce between 200% TP and 300% TP but at times Pucks can channel their diabolical, satanic masters through their tiny fists directly into your face. During those dark times I have gone down to under 100% TP, but was always able to recover to 200%+ after a while. Here was the eclectic gearset I used :

Main - Earth Staff
Sub - Reaver Grip
Ammo - White Tathlum
Ring - Jelly Ring
Ring - Iota Ring
Head - Gnole Crown
Neck - Parrying Torque
Ears - Drone Earring
Ears - Parrying Earring
Body - Mirke Wardecors
Hand - Dancer's Bangles
Back - Boxer's Mantle
Waist- R.K. Belt +1
Legs - Dst. Subligar +1
Feet - Bounding Boots

That's +19AGI (73 base; Mithra) in gear and +4 from Tavnazian Salad. Near the end I put in three Parry merits and had around 270+ Parry skill. The more Parry skill and AGI you can pack on the better the skill ups will flow. Even though my setup has some +Evasion and +Evasion Skill, I felt that the miss rate from the Pucks was within acceptable bounds for Tough Pucks. If I added in the Praefectus's Gloves it suddenly felt like the Pucks were missing me a bunch.

Edited, Jan 25th 2010 12:29pm by Kuuhalee

Tachi: Kasha WSNM

Kettenkaefer

Took about 40 minutes to clear.

At merits I was:

FD:1 SB:1 NFR:3 HS:5 SA:1 RF:1

So I'm not yet at full potential.

Been kinda busy over the past few weeks but gotten quite a bit done on DNC

Atkorkamuy solo - fun fight which prepared me for the next accomplishment

Charybdis solo - one of the main reasons why I became a solo DNC...now I need a new target

Enkidu's cap/mittens - good WS pieces

1/7 on surge subligar - had to dust off my rdm for this one ><; was also my first rdm kited/dot solo...and I'll never do it again lol

1/3 on virtuoso belt - completes my step acc build

Dnc bangles +1 - had the pieces so said meh...gogo 1 more acc on steps

ANNM gully - got augmented with -8% delay, 4 attack, 2 CHR...nice lil toy

5/5 Denali - dont use hat/body/hands on dnc (although thinking about doing a PDT build with hands), but legs and feet finally completes my VF mag acc build...so glad I don't have to farm nyzul anymore

Sleight Kukri finally dropped.

Next up, Cinquedea...

Finally got my Mirke Wardercors after months of putting it off. Ended up going 1/3 for the day and finally getting it about 10pm last night lol. Thank goodness.

Finally.... Finally I got my Dancer Relic Body. I was on place one of the lotting list since the Relic was released..... today we had the first Body drop since release... Finally Finally

Finally got a Cinquedea after trying to low-man the NM on and off again since November '09! Just went 1/10 on successful kills (and there were a lot of failed attempted at killing before we ever got it right) after forcing a TH4 friend to pop by this time and whack it before we killed it, and it payed off. I finally get to replace my BK+1 in the offhand :)

Sure, the strategy that worked best for us was SCH/RDM (me) and RDM/NIN duo. SCH should be replaceable by BLM, probably smartest to /NIN as BLM. I buffed up and activated Desert Boots with Sandstorm, casted Helix on it, and pulled it to Arrapago Reef zone. I would normally do my best to get a clean pull and avoid other mobs until Aynu deagroed, but even with adds, they would normally deagro along with Aynu, so I could run back to him, tag him with Bio II, and run the rest of the way to the zone, where the RDM was waiting and zone. I've done this with 2 RDMs, one with W. legs, and one without. The one with would run the pull with me snk/invis and when Aynu deagroed, he'd Bio II him and run him the rest of the way to the zone.

Once there, the RDM's sole job was to keep Bio II on Aynu, while I on SCH provided all the damage through helix. RDM would Bio II Aynu whenever it was almost up, zone in Reef, and then I would zone into Caedarva and Ebullience helix Aynu and zone. Helix was a good choice over nukes since it would cover any breaks it Bio that would happen, but if your RDM is able to keep Bio II up at all times, then nukes instead of helix can be used.

Once it got to around 10%, zone into Caedarva and time nuke together your best nukes (make sure it's not Ice magic), and it should kill Aynu off. If you have a THF for TH, have him attack Aynu right before the nuke, with shadows and evasion gear he should be able to survive the few seconds until Aynu dies.

Always make sure to have Stoneskin and Utsu/Blink up and casting from absolute max distance when zoning Aynu, as I've died in the zone from being just a tad too close more times than I can count.

We tried straight tanking it with DNC or THF, perhaps could work with WHM or RDM, THF or DNC, BRD (BRD is the missing element that we never got to try, but I think it would be very helpful.) This strategy never worked for us, so we kept with the DoT zone strategy, which was normally pretty successful, barring any freak accidents. Good communication is key for the zoning method though, knowing when your teammate is zoning, and when it's safe to zone in is crucial.

I hope this helps, I absolutely love the dagger, and hope that it doesn't suddenly become outdated with the level rise after I just managed to get it. >.<

Edited, Jun 15th 2010 9:08pm by apresmoi

Had a pretty good run in abyssea tonite. Got sharpeye mantle (acc 12) and farmed up enough cruor for aurore brais (acc 9 haste 3%)

Now just gotta reaugment my ASA pants with waltz -5 movement speed 8%

Charis Necklace get! 1/6! Each attempt was with a base party of PLD THF WHM, occasionally adding in an extra DD or healer who wanted to come along for whatever reason. Everyone that wanted a Varangian Helm over the course of those 6 kills got one to boot. It's a very easy and straightforward fight as long as you don't put your healer in the line of fire for Mantle Pierce. A dancer would probably easily be able to either tank or main heal the NM. Finding people to help is easy if you offer them the helm, which is pretty good for SAM WS and lord knows everyone and their mother has SAM leveled. Just be sure to bring a Thief because the drop rate leaves a bit to be desired.

Secret weapon: Complete!

Yeah yeah, I know I said I hated multi hit weapons, but I can't deny that fun toys are fun. Double Kila is still my way to go on anything serious of course, but for stuff like campaign, other trials, limbus, etc I'll be rocking this in my offhand.

Thankfully I got lucky and teamed up with a TON of JPs doing these trials...only took me about 3 weeks off and on from start to finish...most trials being done within 24hrs of starting them.

Not a drop accomplishment, just one of those feel good stories.

Last night my LS was gathering for limbus and the leader started to call out jobs an whatnot. We were getting ready to do omega so I automatically went to gear up RNG...

"Kali - DNC"
O.o. "/Sam for support?"
"No sub nin, you're tanking"
":o"

I must admit that my LS leader is really open to trying new things, but wasn't expecting this.
"oh and we're farming pods"
><;

Surprisingly I did pretty well. Evasion held up pretty nicely as did fan dance. Leader was on pld but with my Waltzbombing when he got low, hate was equally shared between us. The only real problem I had was when he took two consecutive heavy hits and went down. I was able to hold it for a bit, but without being able to cure back anything, hate started to slip towards the DD's. Thankfully each one of them took enough damage for me to divine waltz 2 and keep omega long enough until the pld recovered. All in all it worked out well and it left me feeling pretty damn good, despite my hatred for tanking in general ^^;

Oh and if any of you ever get questioned about bringing dnc to omega let your leaders know that either you can serve as a co tank, or at the very least, be able to keep it stunned with a 95% success rate (at least that's how I parsed with relic body + 2x stutter step + 12% mag acc gear)

edit: typos and such...

Edited, Aug 24th 2010 6:57pm by Kalisa

10/10 Verthandi's eyes! OAT Athame is mine! I'm already 5/10 Chukwa's Eggs and 4/20 Cuelebre's Horns so it's still a while until it's finished, but all that will be is an increase of 2 DMG in the end so I'm not in much of a rush anymore.

I solo/duod the pops for Verthandi and then popped them during my linkshell's VNM events for most of them. There was a big lull in events so for 2 pops, I payed another group 100k to kill them for me (the price was static regardless of how many eyes dropped).

Beat Laila for level cap increase on first try w/o using 2 hr. 3:55 Wasnt as difficult as most of the guides on wiki said it was and only used 5/6 hi-pots

Charis Tiara +1 get! Very easy if you kill Granite Borer instead of doing quests. A good setup is WAR/NIN THF COR WHM RDM. RDM is interchangeable with SCH or DNC. Make sure someone runs the gamut of spells or weapon skills to try and hit weakness, as that will make it drop 4 seals instead of 0~2. The fight itself is pretty straight forward, barely much of a strategy beyond barfira, magus roll, shellra, and keeping shadows up.

You pop it with a withered cocoon at the ??? just west of all the gullycampas. It's just south of conflux 7 in attohwa.

Edited, Sep 20th 2010 3:13pm by Seitekifu

+ 1 Stabbies completed

Hope they stick to the "one trial per update" formula as it was much easier to get everything done this round.

Finally completed charis tiara +1 all from running the quest ><;

Wasn't as horrible as legs. about 80 runs total and ended up with 8 caller's, 5 savant, and 4 ravagers so pretty decent rate on the dnc seals.

Now gotta work on feet, but think I'm just gonna do NM drops...no way i'm running that quest multiple times ><;

After weeks of not selling my adroit ring I finally said screw it and tried to augment it

...and ended up getting +4 acc on it ^^

Also just took down ironclad for my tandava crackows. Nice way to start off my weekend lol

Soloed Asanbosam (that bat in Abyssea-Misareaux). ^_^ Duoed and trioed it multiple times, and finally decided to try my luck solo. It took a long time, and there were a few very close calls (involving having to open door and put groceries away while praying shadows/fan dance hold :P), but I won! One blu seal closer to those legs.

That eva down - def down combo is pretty mean especially when it goes on never miss streak. >.>

Awesome to hear of everyone's accomplishments so far. I haven't had as much activity in XI lately due to lack of NA endgame shells that operate past midnight EST, but I helped a friend duo some tier 2 VNMs. The scorpion, Jyethesa or however it's spelled, the Farruca Fly, Capricornus, and Yacummama. Starting the long and arduous process of working up to the Twashtar with Rudora's Storm... but I'm having the damndest time getting the Black Triple Stars to pop. Been killing bats left and right for at least 9 nights total (in-game), and not a single pop. >_<

Even offering to pull doesn't get you in? :/ I've seen plenty mid-60s thf and nin there just for pulling.

As for accomplishments, charis tights+1 and atma of razed ruins, which kicks ass, did 16 min bat NM and 8 min colibri NM with it (had token 79thf for TH there tho, but he didn't do much dmg, he was there for rng seal from bat). ^_^

Sucks that my LS is doing all the other good atmas *cries after atma of voracious violet* while I'm 3 weeks away from FFXI because of family obligations... :(

Finally got my AF3+1 feet completed last night which completes all of my +1 pieces so far. Will have some time this weekend so I'll get back to the feather step testing and see how much they enhance it.