Petrifying Pair

Last night Almeth, Amedelie and I decided to try and make some money by doing the BCNM 30 Petrifying Pair. We'd done some research on this BCNM, and decided that the "Kite and Fight" strategy looked the most promising for us. Almeth and Ame both geared up as BLU/NIN's and set their spells to give them the "Lizard Killer" trait, and I took the kiting duties, gearing up as RDM/NIN.

Basically, Ame and Alm start pounding on one lizard, while I kite the other around, using Gravity and Bind. Once the first lizard is down, they jump on the one I was kiting, and I go into curing and nuking mode. I was a little nervous at first, but after we completely dominated the first one, that quickly faded away. We did nine runs total, 3 orbs a piece. I, of course, got the dick and recieved nothing but garbage...but Ame and Alm both managed to get themselves a pair of Leaping Boots. {Congratulations!}

{Ass raping}{You can have this.}

Laterz!

The week in pictures...

Been up to a lot lately, leveling and questing and such. Here's some highlights:

Eating another death to Soulstealer Skullnix, on our second attempt to get me a Kard. His triple attack and crazy high accuracy makes him quite a bitch. /sigh...


Fighting trees in Wajaom Woodlands, trying to get a couple Puffballs for the quest Unending Chase.


"Hey! Come back here, prick!!"


What an ugly mug these things have...


Level Sync 16 party in Valkrum Dunes; DNC, NIN, SCH, and BLM.


Amedelie is one of those people, that wear full AF in a Dunes Sync party...LOL


Since when do Gob's in Valkurm Dunes use Paralyna?! What an asshole!!


I just knew dropping Cure Bombs in Besieged was a bad idea...


Level Sync 18 party at the Secret Beach. DNC, DNC, BST, PLD, SCH...can you say mega curing? ^^


This RDM, Hadouken, was bored as shit, so he decided to PL us. What a nice guy! ^^


Since we had not only a PL, but 2 DNC's and a PLD, I really didn't need to do too much curing. Instead, I just switched to Dark Arts and did the DD thing...outside of sitting on my ass and leeching experience, that is. ^^


Not only did he PL us, but he started training every Gob in the zone over to us so we could pull them off of him one at a time and chain constantly. This guy is officially my favorite RDM ever!!


"This is fucking awesome!!!!"

Hadouken, I love you. In a totally platonic, non sexual way, or course...^^

ZM5 Fight/Level 71 Party, Boyahda Tree

The first thing on the agenda Monday was to help Amedelie get the final fragment for Zilart Mission 5 in Sanctuary of Zi'Tah. Almeth and I blew through this NM a while back with a pick up group, so I figured this was gonna be a piece of cake. We succeeded, but the fight was a little more difficult then I remember it being...although, we were in a full group with 75's on that occasion, so that probably had a lot to do with it. At any rate, for your viewing pleasure:

This guy hit like a ton of bricks; I damn near died right off the bat but Almeth managed to get it off of me in time. There was a scary moment where I almost two-houred, but we managed to recover and put him down. Congratulations on finishing up Zilart Mission 5, Ame! ZM6 here we come!!

When that was completed, we were off to Aht Urhgan for a Colibri Party in Bhaflau Tickets. While I'd much prefer to do the bulk of our leveling in Campaign, unfortunately skill-ups can't be gotten while you have tags on; in order to cap out our skills we've got to do a standard Experience Party. I ran out to our standard camp, and wouldn't you know it, there was a party already there. Muttering under my breath, I ran to a couple alternate camps in the zone, and yeah, all had full parties there already. For some reason, Bhaflau was just hopping...and our prospects for getting any experience out there rapidly became nil.

After purusing the interwebs for some alternate ideas, we decided to give Boyahda Tree a try. Almeth and I had duo'd up there recently for skill-ups in preperation for our Maat/Laila fight, and it was some pretty good experience. GodzillaX was online and available as well, so we recruited him into our little group and made our way...our main targets were Steelshells, although we worked some Elder Goobbues into our chains for some nice experience and money drops...

"Keep smilin', bitch...you ain't gonna be smiling for long."

"Ooh, bodyslam to the face!"


"Kick his ass, Sea Bass!!"

Amedelie blasting it's ass with a Sidewinder.


Break time!


"On my mark...Ready! Aim! FIRE!!!!!"


Kicking ass and taking names...

All told, we got a little closer to 72 (but still got a long way to go >.<), I managed to cap out my Dagger skill, and we all got some Boyahda Moss and Tree Cuttings...which sells for pretty decent money. Unfortunately, GodzillaX ate a death at one point (Goobbue crushed him for like 950+), but a White Mage in the area was willing to come and hook him up with a Raise, so it wasn't too big of a deal. As always, Godzilla took it in stride ^^

That's all I got for today, L8TRZ!!

Some PL action...and playing with our Adventuring Fellows

Been kinda quiet in BD the last couple days, but today Almeth and I were on a mission. Our awesome Tuesday static party had to be adjusted for some sub-job leveling, so we started the day with working on Almeth's level 12 Dancer, getting it to 15 so he would have Curing Waltz, and thus not wanna slit his wrists playing the job in a full party. Seriously, take it from me...Dancer absolutely blows ass pre-15.

Anyways, Almeth got geared up as best he could, I switched to my White Mage so I could help him along, and we got to work...

As soon as we showed up in La Thiene Plateau, Almeth starting beating birds to death.

They weren't too happy with me, either...


"Bitch!"


For as high level as I am, these little fuckers were still able to land poison and shit on me...wtf?!


Working on the first page of the Fields of Valor manual for Valkurm Dunes, which sends you back to La Thiene...can you say annoying?


Almeth had a little trouble hitting these guys at times, but it was damn good experience when he put them down.


"These chests would be freaking awesome if we actually got in one at some point..."


These guys are little sneaky bastards. God I hate Gobs!


You gotta do the cooking by the book!


With as much as people kept stopping and staring at us as they ran by, you'd think they've never seen a Dancer or a PL before. Move along, people!

Almeth get's DNC to 15, and shows off his new moves... ^^

The next item on the agenda was actually a few things all rolled into one. We wanted to get our Adventuring Fellows some levels, and wanted to work on getting weaponskill points for the Evisceration quest. We decided to try out Kuftal Tunnel; we'd been down there recently on our way through to get Almeth the Vollbow Outpost, and tried to get a coffer key to drop unsuccessfully. It's the only way to get a map of the place, and Lord knows you need a map in that freaking dump. We hurried home, changed into our mains, and hit the road...

Another little bastard type mob. I'm glad the NPC's were with us to absorb some of that Thousand Needles bullshit...


One of the many crabs we fought today...


A quick pic with my bitch...


The party in the background killing the scorpion was a huge fucking douche brigade. They would come through and kill every fucking mob around us in like 2 seconds and leave us with nothing. Almeth started pulling from all around them and then all of a sudden we start getting /slapped and examined. Prick bitches...

All in all, yet another productive day. We got Almeth 3 levels on Dancer, got our Adventuring Fellows a couple levels, got about 40% of the Weapon Skill Points we need, and got the map for Kuftal. Not bad at all... ^^

Record Breaker!

So yeah, doing more campaign with Almeth, he needed to get 71 quick so we could run off and start the Evisceration quest, so I decided to go out as my White Mage and get a little experience, and also so we could just dip out as soon as Almeth dinged.

I spent pretty much the entire battles weakened, and died at least 4 times. Dammit...

Record Breaker! Officially the highest damage I've ever taken...hurray for getting one-shotted by the NM!!


The Alpha Gnole's Plenilune Embrace is a neat looking ability...


...but not when it cures itself for this much, over and fucking over again. >.<

Campaign is a real love/hate thing for me... ^^

A new record!

Last night I got hit the hardest I've ever gotten hit in FFXI before. During a campaign battle in Jugner Forest, Deathlord Rojgnoj picked me out of a gang of people to make an example of. I tried kiting him around, but I guess that just irritated him more or something, because I got one-shotted. It was so sudden, it literally fucking scared me lol...

Fuckin' A...

PWNT ^^

(Best part is, the tiger got me when I raised. And then again when I got raised a second time. This game really loves to rub it in...)

Zilart Mission 5 Completed!

Logging in briefly Sunday, I noticed that Sandy had finally taken the Vollbow region, for the first time in forever. Almeth needed this outpost (I thought I did, too, but I must have done it a bajillion years ago lol) so a trip out to Cape Teriggan was in order. Since the final Headstone to Zilart Mission 5 was also in Cape Terrigan, we took a look to see what the fight entailed...a level 69-70 Shadow type mob. I was a little iffy on it, but Almeth thought we could do it...no guts, no glory, right?

I'm glad I listened to Almeth ^^

If the goddamn gob wouldn't have aggro'd this would have been a lot easier. Oh well, we won...that's all that matters! ^^

That's all I got for now...Peace!

Shattering Success

So, with my first post to this blog I also announce my success at beating Maat! Deuce covered the basics of the day, so I'm just adding my video for you guys to see. Enjoy!

Another fun filled Saturday bites the dust!

Today was an awesome day! We shared some laughs, we shared some tears, but all in all we had quite an adventure...

Ultimately, the goal of the day was for Almeth and I was to win our respective G5 fights, and break the level cap so we could continue to push our way to 75. There was a few things to do along the way, so we got on early and started making our way around. GodzillaX, our friendly neighborhood Galkan, was already online, and had some time to kill before he logged off for the day, so Almeth quickly enlisted him into the days festivities. First up on the agenda was to pop and kill Tonberry Tracker, and hopefully get Almeth a Thief's Kote. There was a bit of travel involved, so we got jumped to it and made our way...

"Hey, Godzilla, you didn't see where Almeth ran off to, did you? Goddamn him and his flee!"


Tonberries, Crawlers, and Bees...Oh my!


"Jesus Christ, just paint a smily face or something, it doesn't need to be a Rembrandt for God's sake!"

We finally made our way into the Den of Rancor, but we still had a bit of a ways ahead of us. With our Unlit Lanterns in hand, we made our way to the Rancor Flame to light them, and then back to the door we needed to open. Things were going okay, until...

"Yeah, that's right, LAUGH IT UP FUNNY MAN!!!! I FUCKING HATE YOU!!!!!!!"

Godzilla and I laid there dead for a bit, while Almeth begged and pleaded with everyone in the zone with Raise to come and help us out, but it was no use. Everyone was too deep in Den of Rancor to be able to come back up to help us, even offering a 10k reward was of no use. Godzilla and I home pointed, and we tried again, but upon closer inspection of the route we needed to take to get to the NM, Almeth realized it was just gonna take too long for us to get out to him. With a sigh, we gave up on it for the day, and as Godzilla had to log soon anyways, we bid him farewell and moved on to our next goal of the day: skilling up for our fights.

I'd heard around that for higher level players, The Boyahda Tree was the place to go if you wanted skill ups, so Almeth grabbed a shield and we made our way out there. Can't be fighting Maat/Laila with underleveled skills, now can we? We stopped along the way to get some payback on all those Golems and Goobbue's that made our lives miserable way back in the day...

"Not so tough now, are you, ya big stony bitch?!"

"Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!"

"God, why can't you just LEAVE ME ALONE!?!?!?!"


"Aww, don't cry Mr. Goobbue, we didn't mean to...OH LOOK, ALMETH, TREE CUTTINGS!!" *STAB STAB STAB*


Almeth skills up, while I just kinda sit here. Kinda hard for him to get skillups if the mobs hitting me, ya know...^^


This place is pretty damn cool...


We even brought our Adventuring Fellows out to get some Experience.


"Oh, sorry, didn't know you guys were fighting!"


"That's a really interesting hat you've got there, Almeth. Really interesting..."


"Oh Almeth, I'm so sorry player...I guess 4 Mandys was just too much."


Checking out the scenery while searching for a coffer...


Fucking crabs!


"Alright!"

After my death, we killed a few more, then decided we were ready for our G5. we weren't fully capped, but Almeth and I felt that we were close enough to give the big dogs a go. With a little trepidation, I made my way back to Jeuno to pick up some supplies in preperation for my fight with Laila. With my Hi-Potions, Icarus wing, Squid Sushi, Persikos Au Lait, and Sleeping Potions (for Opo-opo Necklace) all gathered, I traded my Dancer's Testimony to Laila and commited myself to the fight...

"God, I hope I don't fuck this up..."

Yeah! Eat it whore!!! Level 75, here I come!!!!!!

Almeth was also successful with his Maat Fight (video to come soon! Congratulations player!!!^^) so all in all, despite a detah or two along the way, we accomplished our goals, and for one brief moment, made Final Fantasy XI our bitch.

It's a nice feeling... ^^