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Sadly I haven't seen Anna in game for a while. She was working on DNC/WHM in campaign last time I saw her.

Oh and only like 550 more post to go!

Posted Oct 17th 2006 5:42am


Potential income from ex-rmt character names

I believe it has already been established that if you created a char and put something on the AH, then deleted the char and created a new one with same name, you would get 7 new Ah slots, and the sales from the previous char will still be delivered to you. So the AH sends the buyers gil to the sellers name, not to the sellers account.

So I wonder if during the next rmt ban, if we create char names as mules that match the rmt names that were removed, we will be able to collect on any AH sales they currently have. For some this may not be worth it, all depends on what that char was selling, so you would have to know the rmt name, their mules names and track their sales. Ofcourse we now have FFXI AH website to track sales.

So made an account just to post here and add my small rock to a mountain of a thread.

Not sure how many of you actually know me in game, but I know a lot of people just from memory of our pretty low populated server. Despite how much we're all gonna hate not seeing "<<< Welcome to Garuda! >>>" I don't think this will be a bad chance to meet new people and hopefully stop planning for low man events and do things as actual groups. I'm hoping most people will be welcoming us into their server as I'm sure MOST people on this server would.

I'd like to take this moment to thank everyone who's been a great friend to me in game. Shibaa, Tsuzee and Oblivia are 3 of the best friends I could have ever asked for. I feel we've all been there for each other when we needed things done, and I hope our friendship continues even after this game dies out or we decide to move on to other things.

Hope to see you all in game!

Mioki

hi, i've never posted on here, but as a level 50 elvaan whm/blm, I've got some things to say.

I have been complimented on my healing abilities countless times, despite the fact that at my level i'll have up to 200less mp then taru mages, /smn, or just well equipped whms.

Efficiency is key. You don't have the mp to spam cures all the time, so make sure they count. Cure restores 30 hp (on average), make sure every drop of that goes to your tanks health. Wasting hp means wasting mp, and you can't afford it. There is also a priority in who to heal (if you have a support healer this really comes into play, and you should discuss it with your helper). There are two people in my party who I try to keep fully healed, the tank and the puller. Hate will be an issue in the dunes, even if you have the best party possible. Mages for the most part, don't need cured. Yeah, if they are half way or so, definately, but if the blm takes 1 shot from an overnuke before voke is up, he'll gain that life back when he takes a knee after battle. If your DD melees are getting hit alot, wait until they are in the yellow to cure. If they had to take hate because your tank was at low life, heal your tank full. I won't let anyone die, don't get me wrong, but I know that as a whm if the tank dies, I die. I try to keep the puller healed because they usually take damage on the way to camp. I am not saying to never heal the others, but make sure they need it.
Learn to kneel during the fight. Don't be one of those guys who just stands there when you're not doing it, or god forbid engaging the mob as a whm. If you have an extra second, take a knee. I know it takes a long time to gain 1 tick of mp, but if you know how to do it right, time won't matter (for example let the tank take hits and heal, then stand up and drop a cure II, if he's been spamming voke and doing whatever else that particular tank class should do you shouldn't draw aggro, because you haven't been healing).
As far as equipment goes, don't bother buying any +mnd gear, if you can fill that spot with +mp great, but your elvaan and mnd is what we're best at. I don't use cure anymore, so I don't really know how much my cure is for, but my cure III currently heals for between 190-205 I'd say (rough estimate, haven't partied as whm in a long time, been limit hunting). Most other cure III I see do around 180. 10 more hp might not seem like much, but if I put on my medecine ring, that could put me healing an extra 30 mp then normal.
/blm, /smn, /rdm? Conserve MP is an awesome ability. Especially when you are launching higher cure spells (Hitting Cure IV for 44 mp is awesome). /smn provides the awesome mp boost and at higher levels avatar abilitis. /rdm I've been told is gimped and I can understand why (as my rdm is only level 16, I can't talk a lot about this job, but I do know that rdm has lower mp then /blm and /smn, and fast cast doesn't really help a whm very much. My personal preference is /blm, conserve mp is awesome and so is ds + sleep (in case of multiple links, no blm, etc).

I am sorry this post is so long, but I have taken a lot of crap for being an Elvaan WHM. I get a lot of /tells about what my mp is, and how much better it would be for my group if I had more. The truth is that I have never had a problem getting chain 3 and 4s without any sort of refresh (no hmp eq. either). The problem that happens more is that my party can't kill things quick enough to chain more (this becomes less of a problem in statics when you have all the kinks worked out). Anyway, I hope this helps.

I have partied with drizzle and seiferz multiple times (they are friends I think) and it has sucked each time. Drizzle was blm and seiferz was war/nin. We were camping in quicksand caves, don't remember the party set up, but seiferz said he would tank. I'm a little squeemish on war tanks (I don't party with a lot of wars, so I guess I don't know what they're capable of but I would much rather have a pld). So anyway, I lead them into the deeper part of quicksand cave, the exit zone that you have to run through the tunnels for. We get the party settled and pull our first beetle. Drizzle constantly nukes, seiferz can't hold hate and there were some deaths. I figured it was just new party kinks, but it happened again. I told him to hold off on nukes until second voke and he's like "I know how to do my job"(my least favorite type of people, the kind who won't listen). After struggling for a little while I disbanded and left. I felt bad leaving them stranded there, but I wasn't going to try and make that party work.

I also think that deathseeker is a horrible player. I partied with him once in eastern altepa, and never again. I refuse to invite, take an invite, or raise him. He copped a horrible attitude during the party, so I said "Hey, if you don't chill I'm booting you." He didn't stop, so I booted him and then dealt with about 5-10 minutes of "why did you boot me noob?" and the like.

everyone has their day I guess.

my friend firebert has informed me this is a lame topic and refuses to post so i am going to post this one in his honor. :D