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Anyone know anyone selling an account? (not on eBay for $1,000...)

For Sale

Well I've sat on Nivaud for almost 3 months now, and paid $17.95 each month and all I've done is get each update then logoff. That's $53.85 for 0 hours of gameplay, and I am pretty much done with FFXI, so I put out this offer.

75SMN, 75BLM, 75RDM, 64WHM, 58BST, 57DRK, 37NIN, etc etc etc

Crafts are posted on the right ->

I have 3/5 AF2 for SMN, RDM and BST, a LuShang's, and about 400k in cash as well as a Lamian Kaman+1 signed in my Mog House. The account is for sale, mostly because over the past four years I've spent almost $875 in fees, another $100 for game/HDD and probably another couple hundred upgrading my PC so I can play it on that instead of PS2. All in all I've spent a good 1k on FFXI since 2003 and as much fun as I've had in Vanadiel I would like at least something back.

If you want to make a serious offer for the account post a comment, otherwise sometime next month I'll be putting Nivaud on eBay for a few hundred dollars. It is too late to sell it before the end of this pay cycle so whoever buys it won't have to pay until August. Thanks for the memories.

irony

I get more hits on my dead FFXI blog than I do on my daily updated WoW blog. That's friggin pathetic...

How to kill a weblog

Pull all links from your sigs, post that you are done with the blog, and stamp a big motherf%@king CANCELLED across the header. It's a shame too, I had over 15,000 hits in about 6 months on that blog. Thanks to a combination of Ondria's lack of a sense of humor, Lunies/AD not being able to get over the fact I thought they were asses in December when they killed a charmed Minidragon at Xolotl, and overall just being tired of people basing opinions on what they hear, not what they know... I have left FFXI, (for the time being).

It was a fun time while I was here, but I came to Bismarck to join IRON, and what's the point of joining LS's that you didn't have interest in joining 8 months ago? Either way, I'm with IRON again and I don't have to deal with the plague that is RMT, the failure that is FFXI HNM, and the drama that is endgame. I think when they make server migration I may consider going back home to Odin. Who knows...

The downward slope!

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My US peeps

My International peeps

Getting some love from Unreal!

finito

I'm done with this blog. It has done nothing but bring me trouble. I speak my voice and then get the repurcussions later from people who don't even know me passing judgement on a person they haven't even met. I was booted from Prophets cause I called Assassin a douchebag for calling for help after his LS flailed Fafnir and wiped.

I got rejected from Lunarians because in a post dating back to 2006 I said it was pathetic that they killed Minidragon while he was charmed at Xolotl. People who don't even know me, know how I play or how dedicated I am to a LS try to judge me and my character based on stupid blog entries I post? Unbelievable. I was told that I was rejected because of my "overall general attitude". Not one person in that LS other than Lothlorien has ever even spoken to me. No one in Lunarians knows a single thing about me except what they read and interpreted in this blog.

Well I'm done, I've suffered enough through my FFXI career because of this stupid ass thing. This is my last post. Good luck to you people, if you ever bookmarked my blog feel free to remove it.

Extreme Makeover

So I got my new list for Altana Viewer and wanted to change my look up a bit. The 2 new robes have great stats... really great stats but the Morrigan's Robe and the Goliard Saio truly look like crap. I did find that the Marduk's Jubbah (BRD/SMN/WHM) does look quite nice and works well with Yigit Seraweels. Here's my new look:

Short of the giant Bison-like belt buckle I kinda like it. Anyways I spent 3ish hours in Sky soloing on Fire Elementals. They are nice cause you can Aspir them, sleep them, and just nuke the hell out of em. They give 240xp without any xp band on and drop 1 crystal, 1 cluster and about 1 out of every 3 kills they also drop a Kindred or Beastman Seal. Also I'm finally starting to get some Conquest Points back so I can keep buying my Empress Bands. Even best is with Tele-sky now in the game it takes maybe 2 minutes to get to camp whereas it used to take 15ish.

The night ended with another level 7 beseiged which was going great, and we got Lamia No.3 own to 1% then she did some massive AoE, killed me and warped out at 1%... I was so friggin furious. The animation went that had the general celebrating and I got ISP but I got no xp... and thats why I'm doing these beseiged is for the free 1200xp for my 64WHM. I was pissed... I just reraised, typed /shutdown, and got up and walked away.

Solo

Due to some miscommunications and a sackholder who couldn't recognize sarcasm from condescension, I was removed from the LS I worked very hard for and supported for the past 5 weeks. Without getting into a lot of details (what's the point?) I am now on the hunt for an endgame shell. I have my eye on one and if they reject me I'll do one of two things. Go back to leveling low level jobs and forget about endgame (the only thing I haven't killed is Khimaira and Salvage). This will allow me to get back to WHM, maybe BST or possibly a melee job which I have sworn off the past 3+ years. The other option besides that is moving to World of Warcraft. The game doesn't look as good but there are far fewer flaws with that game than with FFXI. We'll see, I have 3 paths I could take. Continue endgame, continue newbness, or continue WoW.

On my last night with Prophets I spent 4+ hours in sky farming Diorites for my melee LS mates. Darn, I'm so selfish. (That was sarcasm btw for those who cannot recognize it). We got only 1 from the Aura Statues (mostly cause we had 3-4 LS's up there competing for claims) but our 2nd group pulled in 6 form the Enkidu's. That brought the Autmnstone bank to 7... which I don't know if any LS has ever (before this update) had 7 Autumnstones to burn. After the alliance broke for the night I stayed in sky to solo some pots for xp and while it isn't massive, it is still 130-150xp per pot. It's a bit tricky, if you miss a Mountain Buster you probably need to use Carby to finish the pot off. It's mostly:

• Summon Titan
• Cast Dia on the Sprinkler
• Mountain Buster the Sprinkler
• Wait 46 seconds (Load on the -perpetuation gear here!)
• Mountain Buster the Sprinkler
• Run away!
• Resummon Titan (cause he will be dead by this time)
• Mountain Buster the Sprinkler

If all 3 hit it should be enough to kill it. The pots are RDMs so they cast things like Blaze Spikes, Burn, Choke, Sleep, and tier 3 nukes. Only Fire III and Aero III really do any damage. When it starts casting Thundaga III (wtf thats not a RDM spell...) run away. Titan will only take like 56 damage but you can get hit for 700+. I got about 4k limit points up there before I got sleepy and logged for the night. Its no burn party (which I'll be doing more on my RDM now that I am not required to be at any events), but it is steady/easy SMN xp without having to deal with praying that an Ule Range Agloolik uses Hypothermal Combustion; or soloing Imps for great xp but if Garuda's Predator Claws misses... you're fooked. Plus, Titan is massively strong against arcane mobs. Some of my damage output was

I also had some fun with the race converter. Stat-wise I wish I woulda been a taru but gameplay-wise... I really wish I was a Garka. If I play a job that doesn't need me to wear RSE gear I'm totally playing as a Garka model. For some reason I can't wear my Wood M Ledelsens when I change my race model from DhamElvaan to Garka... so until I play a job that doesn't require me to wear em I'm playing as ol'Longneck.

big update

Fine you lazy WHMs, don't critique me. I was just gonna call it all Hullabaloo anyways. This weekend was a busy one! Took WHM from 63 to 64. Saturday was a day of soloing on SMN for XP for the most part but Sunday... Sunday was a busy busy day.

I started the morning off on WHM, and it took a few hours to not getting invited by the Japanese players to force me to make my own party. I grabbed a NIN, RNG, WAR, WHM, BLM, RDM. Colibris? No thanks. The melee actually wanted to use food so it was off to Bibiki Bay. As a 62-63 party we were getting awesome XP from the Goblins there and the occasional Tragopan. We pulled some Dhalmels which gave the same XP but were harder so there wasn't much point in spending a minute longer for the same XP. We stayed there about 3 hours and we all leveled up, and around the early evening we got word that a foursome at KB claimed. I wasn't planning on heading out there because weekends are free days, but I also didn't want to see a KB get lost because I, along with others, were lazy. I found a WHM in Horotoru Ruins to replace me and I headed out to Behemoth's Dominion as RDM.
Once there I saw that most of the people online followed suit, and we went from 4 people to about 18 in about 10-12 minutes. I jumped in and keep spamming the gravity and ocasional Thunder III. One hit for almost 600 which surprised me and 2 of my 3 Paralyzes landed as well. I hadn't even made macros for these spells, I was casting manually and with an Austere's Staff on. Once the LS arrived we had it and some UR people started headed out. Later we would find out they headed to Fafnir where they got a free claim on Nidhogg and got an E Body. Oh well, our King Behemoth didn't drop a Defending Ring but it did drop some nice stuff (no Wyrmel!!!). Afterwards we rested a bit for Dynamis-Xarcabard which was to commence in under and hour (or so we thought).

Thanks to daylight savings time we had to wait a whole hour to get into Dynamis so we didn't enter till almost 9pm (gather is 7pm, enter is 7:30). I think that possibly the first eyewall was patched, because every single BLM who Thundaga III'd on them didn't hit for more than 180-200 and we wiped. This has never happened before with 6-8 BLMs and we had 8 on hand. Even our uber BLM only beat me by like 13 damage per eye. I will look at this next Sunday to see if we have the same results. We cleared all 15 NMs and guess what dropped? ZILCH. This is like the 4th out of 6 runs where we've haven't gotten a single friggin AF off the NMs. So frustrating. A Melee Crown dropped at the wall of PLDs on the way to the Vanguard Dragons (which rotted to a 50ish MNK). We got a 100 coin off one of the PLD eyes, another 100 off one of the Vanguard Dragons, and a 3rd off DL himself.

DL was a rush pull, we had to because of something like 3 wipes up till that point. Thats like 30-35 minutes we wasted weakened. We had like 17 minutes after Ying/Yang died, and we pulled at the 6 minute mark... Well, we stuck through it and really destroyed him, (Lightningsday) and got the best drops I have ever seen out of DL. Grats to Assassin on ring and Jace on mantle. was a real close one.

We got word at like 12:45am Cerberus was up so we rushed out there and I got to see Lunies deal the killshot as soon as I got to camp. Seems we got told Cerb at the same time Lunies had ti at 10%. yay. Anyways, that was the weekend. This afternoon I'll post about our 7 Ullis we got last night. Absolutely insane.