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Man... what a scary thought. Last night was the 1st night I haven't played FFXI in... I can't rememebr how long it's been since I didn't log on for a night. How weird/scary.

Last night I hit up GameStop at midnight to get my copy of FFXII. I was tempted to buy a strat guide but they are made by BradyGames and we all know how their FFXI guide was. Still, this game is cofusing as hell. I got lost just reading the instruction manuel! Gambits (macros), Espers (avatars), battle chains (skill chains), and something called a LP Board (no clue!) are just a few things that are throwing me for a loop. I got home around 1am so I spent an hour watching the bonus DVD before passing out. Tonight I'll take my 1st steps into Ivalice.

1 for the money, 2 for the show...

Interesting couple of days it has been since our shutout in Dyna - Xarc on Wednesday. Thursday was a Jormy run that was strictly meant for practice. We really didn't care if we won or lost, the loot isn't much of anything really. It was mostly for training against adds and getting our tanks trained. It was good practice too, we took Jormy to something like 17% then we had a few deaths in the add party and that ended that. Still, good fun.

Friday was our slow day. We did our usual ENM Totentanz which dropped Corse Cape and other crap. No Cloud Evoker again for the 2nd week... and I lost lots on all items for the 5th straight week. It's gotten to be just a 3500xp boost for me at this point. Afterwards myself, Xyo, Aida, Fuuko, and Melena all headed out to Navukgo Execution Chamber to finish off the Aht Urghan missions. Was a super easy fight but it sorta confused me. We had BLM, BLM, BRD, WHM, THF and somehow we tanked it with no tank. I mean Shantotto used like... 12 AMII spells so I know she had to have hate but she wasn't really taking any damage as far as I could tell. Was weird but in the end we killed the Chimera and got our cutscenes (and 5 Imp Gold Coins).

Saturday... what a day! I was up real late Friday night so I kinda slept in on Saturday. When I awoke I found that we were camping in Dragon's Aery. I rushed right out there on BLM and got in position to claim. We went through 3 or 4 windows cause I was able to watch about 4 episodes of Scrubs in between (22 min episodes are perfect between windows!). The Darters were being cleared each window by Mini which meant it was a spamfest. When I saw the big purple guy appear as my target and I waited my .85 seconds to use stun and viola!

Mine! Stoneskin didn't last a single hit and I actually got one Blink shadow to save me... but my stun hit! Sure it didn't actually stun for any real period of time, but it proc'd! People (including myself) laugh when they see stun on Faf/Nid. Well, it works... sorta. This was back-to-back Nid claims for me (hence the name of the post) and I was feelin mighty good about myself. The kill was VERY clean and VERY fast... unlike the flail heard round Vana'diel last week. We took him down in about 25 mins and that was with 2 sleeps to recover MP. Of course at 3% we tried to manaburn it... and I got toasted, but that's the fun of being a BLM. Also the weather was absolutely perfect for fighting him. It was Lightningday with double lightning weather. Since I had my Rairin Obi I got some nice shots in to him without having to piggyback a MB.

Drops were less than we hoped, but we had no TH of any kind in the alliance. Ended up with N.Legs for the 2nd straight week. Still, fast, efficient kill on our part. Less than 1 hour later the call went out that Tiamat was up. I had run to the grocery store after Nid, so i joined at 80%. Still, we had everything under control and our tanks were getting it done. Again this was our 2nd back-to-back Tiamat claim and keeping with the pattern, we got the Herald's Gaiters again, which now makes 5 gaiters for sale in IRON bazaars. If these things would sell we'd be rich, but the economy is in deflation and there's now way they are going to get them to sell like they did in Feb/March. Still, we got the job done and it was so much fun. I am so glad I found this LS after leaving Odin. This is exactly what I wanted to do in this game and am elated I am finally able to do it.

Thanks to all that read, I've gotten some /tell's ingame from some readers and that makes me really happy that I can offer something back in blogs (which is really just a glorified "Dear, Diary") I found this in my pics folder and it made me laugh. It's the only positive thing to happen to me at Wednesday's Dyna-Xarc run.

Dynamis sucks.

No Summoner Horn. Dynamis sucks. Dynamis Lord dead. Dunpeald mantle. No AF all night. None. Only two 100's all night. Dynamis sucks...

Finished up ToAU21 and 22. Only the BCNM left. I'm never getting a horn. Dynamis sucks.

Timmah!

Last night I worked late, logged in at like, 7:45pm which is an hour later than I normally do. So I logged in and saw 98% of the LS in the Chasm. As I scurried out there as SMN I realized that we had less than 18 out there including no add pt. When I got out there more and more people logged on, and we smoothed things out. To be honest it was kind of fun to take on timmy "behind the gun". Sure killing her in our 45-60 min timeframe is easy, but not always that fun. Just like our Spike Flailed Nidhogg last week, easy fights are no fun. I decided to Astral Flow at 2% since we wanted to just end it, and since she was in the ait I pulled out Diabolos and used Ruminous Omen... for a whopping 167. What a insult. Somehow I was too close and me, Dun. and Smae ate it at 1%... so we got kicked. Drops were great, we got hide, kote, gaiters... was a full drop.

We went straight to Limbus after. They made an Omega alliance and took him down no problem. Drops were 2 pairs of Homam hands (Gambrias?). Since we had almost 30 people online we sent 12 into ApollyonNE and we did that run with ease. Drops were BLMx2, NIN, and SAM. We also managed to score 6 coins each! This brought me to 20 so I can pretty much afford my next AF+1 when we start doing Temenos again. I'm sitting on RDM, BLM, and BST items from Apollyon and need the Temenos items to complete the set. I think we will start doing Temenos again since we have an Omega next Tuesday and another Omega the following Tuesday. Homam for everyone!

The highlight of my night was hitting a Burst II MB on one of the NM dolls on floor 2 last night. I hit an 1875 Burst II but no one had the ability to screenshot it and I DC'd and lost the chatlog before I could get a screenshot... It was Watersday with double darkness weather, so I don't know how it hit that high... but it's a record for me. So far 1700's was my max. Yay me.

Forget to add this... at the end of the night I was ready to crash, but Xyo and Smae were out trying to get him Vertical Cleave off of the Qutrubs. They found a NM pop named Lamie No.7 which is a COR. They tried to duo it with BLU and RDM/BST but died a horrible death. I headed out there (reluctantly mind you) as SMN and was going to just keep resummoning Carby till it died. Well Carby did suprisingly well until the NM COR rolled and spammed Hysteric Barrage. Still, with Xyo's leech pet hate wasn't totally lost when Carby died. We killed it in about 10 minutes with only one death (mine when the others got close and charmed off of belly dance...) but I reraised and was kept alive long enough for weakness wear. Oh yeah Smae died @ 1% cause he thought he could melee it out and then got destroyed by 5 HBarrages! The drops were a magical 2 water crystals! I'd like to try this again with 2, maybe 3 SMNs just using Carby. Meteorite averaged 238 with a low of 117 and a high af 370. Seeing as Shady is the only COR in the LS maybe if he came to fresh 2 SMNs using meteorite then we could get some cool COR drop. As it is, had anything worthwhile dropped... it would have gone to waste between the 3 of us. Fun times though!

easy kills are no fun

Last night was a Nid/Aspi camp and we went to Nid. Had a good group of people there and Nid popped and guess who claims. Me. My first king claim, though I have claimed Faf and Adamantoise before. Anyways I was feeling quite good about myself... but that last only about 90 seconds. Seems someone (a new applicant to the shell) mistakingly got it to flail on his 1st WS... It wiped almost the entire pit but somehow we had 3-4 people survive. We all HP'd and got back out as soon as possible. Took maybe 15 minutes round trip but we got there and we still had claim. We took him down but he was a bitch last night. Killed him a few minutes before rage set in and I was glad the LS persevered for the win. I got a good MB in on him too right at the end, though it was the end of me right after it landed.

Drops were pretty damn weak (N. Legs) for the work we put into it, but there's always gonna be another Nid another day. Aspi didn't show, he sent his bastard step-brother Adamantoise. Afterwards we hit up some Dynamis - Sandy. Absolutely nothing in there for me but WHM and BST and I don't think I can lot either since they are below 65. We ended up with PLDx3, MNK, DRG, BRD, and WAR. Grats to those who got some AF.

Afterwards Fuuko, Godbae, Xyoflite, Mirax, and myself got ToAU M15 done "The Black Coffin" and got me up to mission 20. Good stuff, the storyline looks like I may actually be able to follow it, though when you go to the palace to recieve your glory crown there's about 6 NPC's talking and the only one I knew was Ovjang the automaton and Grand Vizier (the dude in full Homam). Server maintenance going on right now so all kings ToDs should be real nice for the JPN players... and midday for the NA players (yay). Here are some random pics I found that I took so I might as well post them.

Soloing on BST/SMN/RDM/BLM has its advantages

Manafont/MB fun. Got in 2 MB's and the killshot but the screen wasn't big enough..

in addition

WTF is this SE? Behemoogle?


10% Diabolos
10% Moogle
20% Cerberus
60% Behemoth
100% retarded

(ninja stole R3's pic, thx bro!)

fu@k!ng smn horn...

FU dynamis. I'm tired of your BS. You drop summoner horns like a dresses @ the prom, and when my turn comes and I desperatly need to get rid of this stupid hobo hat... you clam up. SCREW YOU, stupid dynamis. I'm through getting my hopes up. Zero horns in 6 weeks, what a friggin joke. We got BST, WAR, SAM, and THF. Not a single mage drop.

t(-.-t) dynamis...

calm before the storm

Last night was a dual Limbus run and an impromptu sky farming night. Beforehand I jumped into a manaburn party and capped xp with Selanda (I love your GjallaBallads!!!). Got about 14k in 80 minutes, and to think... I had a 4k buffer two weeks ago. Next we did Apollyon SW and got BST, RDM, and BLM. And I had every... single... piece already. Grats to Moontang who finished his BLM AF+1 set and to whomever else ended up with RDM and BST. I heard the 2nd alliance ended up with 2x BLM in their run, so a helluva lot of people now have Diabolic Yarn and will be shooting for the other piece which is Diabolic Silk. Yay... Anyways our run yielded 2 coins each (Appy SW never drops alot) and also completed an Omega set we are using next week.

After our limbus run Evilbob (aka Nemesis) organized a 20 man sky run around midnight EST. I was exhausted from the day at work and was starving because I skipped dinner and had been on ever since I got home at 6:30pm. They ended up with something like 4 waters and a Gem of the South and West. If I do ever get up to sky I'm not gonna be able to lot anything since I have missed 2 runs so far.

On a cheerier front, the version update is tonight. We all logged in Aery so we can possibly snag a Fafnir when the servers come up. The update brings changes to DRG, DRK, RNG, SAM, and SMN!!! We now have an offensive and defensive BloodPact timer which is gonna be real nice. Let's hope we claim Faf and some A. Hands drop since I really haven't earned the right to lot them if they dropped from Gambu.

Ketchup

This weekend was spent catching up on alot of things I was behind in. I finished up getting my WHM AF, successfully farmed Raise II from Castle Oztroja since there was no way in hell I was paying 200k for that spell. I also did the necessary quests to raise my NPC's level to 55 since he was at the cap and was getting no xp whenever I called him. I nabbed a handful of maps that I was seriously behind in getting. Finally, I finished up PFC and hit SP on assaults (still need ToAU mission 15 and Bahamut v1 though).

Saturday was a Limbus run that yielded Astral Leather! That finished my set for my next AF+1 piece on SMN. I went with the Evoker's Pigaches +1 this time since I was conflicted last time as to which I should choose 1st. Now my macros have me summoning the avatar with the -perp gear on and when I use the BloodPact it equips the -BP delay equipment. The feet save me 1mp per tick on avatars so as soon as soon as I get that damn Summoner's Horn my Fenrir should be completely free in Dynamis. Sunday afternoon I also did a Fenny run which yielded my much needed torque.

Monday night was sea farming night. We set out early and farmed chips for a while. After getting 5 HQ Aern organs, about 2 stacks of Grah M chips and some xp we setout to pop Ix'DRG while the rest of the alliance tackled 3 Fortitudes. We ended up getting 2 virtues and 1 torque. The BLM party I was in got a crapload of xp (about 12k) and eventually popped Ix'DRG. He was the usual easy kill and we got deed but no vice (I want my SMN cape!). The LS met up and finished the night with 2 Ix'MNK fights. Again, 2 deeds, no vice. Still was a good night for the LS and for whomever got that Fortitude Torque.

I got back to my moghouse and had 5 merits. Dropped two merits into Level 2 Elemental Skill and 3 more into Level 3 which finally made my Elemental skill break through 300 , so next is either elemental skill level 4 or maybe lightning potency level 3. Sadly the LS wants my BLM more than my SMN but I'm finally starting to get some good numbers out of my BLM. If I were a taru I'd be right up there... but I can only do so much with my elvaan self. Tonight is Limbus and it should complete an Omega set for the weekend which will be nice since the last time we did Omega I didn't have cleanser and watched them fight it outside while sitting next to the swirlig vortex...

LET THE HEALING COMMENCE!

So I guess I'm a WHM now. Dropped a few hundred K on some gear (neck, waist, back. etc) and got into a party in about 15 minutes. So far it's been pretty good. Got my 2300xp to get to 56WHm and so far in the past few hours I've knocked out 56WHM and am current 2k tnl (57WHM). The xp has been very good off Lesser Colibri's, chain from 200-253 after the ring wore off and being WHM really isn't that hard. Make sure people stay out of yellow HP and they are happy with you!

I don't get anything at 57 really, no AF and only Shellra III. At 56 I should have Raise II but I sold it last month when I farmed it up on RDM/NIN so I'm gonna have to head back out to Castle Oztroja and grab another one since they are about 200k a piece (why??).

no shows

So last night's Ouryu was cancelled since there was so many no shows, which is really lame since we should have had 2 orbs for Ouryu and 2 orbs for Bahamut... I didn't even get Bahamat v1 done either so the night was quite disappointing. We did decided to check the Dobsenflies and some were up. We killed the three that were there but got only 3 Dobson Bandanna. Not even a sallet or ring. Kinda on par with the night we were having. When we warped I had a greater desire to watch TV so I didn't xp on WHM, but I am going to see if I can drag it to the ENM tonight and possibly leech 3k xp (I'm 2300xp till 56WHM) so I can wear my Healer's Pantaloons.

surprise surprise

No horn, melee and/or RDMs didn't have poison pots. DL pwnd us and I really hope it's going to become a requirment to bring a RR item and a damn poison pot. After the wipe we farmed for 90 mins and got 0 AF again...

Highlight of the night was getting RDM and BLM to drop from non-NM mobs before we fought DL. Both were for IRON-members-only, and neither went to me. Grats to Omnaru for the Chapeau (this is what, her 4th uber item in a month) and Tsatin for his Pestasos. Tonight is Ouryu I think and after is Bahamut v2. I can't enter v2 yet but I am hoping the LS beats v1 for me tonight and unlocks v2 for me so I can get closer to my Magnetic Earring.

Briault

Last night I logged in to miss Faf, then somehow the NPC took my gil but didn't give me a Cleanser to enter Omega... so I was locked out of that. They got Feet/Head. Afterwards some people went to sky, but I wanted to finish out my WHM AF and all I had left was my AF Body. I researched and only needed to trade my Tavnazian Bell to a ??? to spawn a level 65 NM. I thought I could solo it on RDM/NIN and just as I was about to hit up the HQ warp taru someone shouted they had 4/6 and wanted WHM AF body! Damn!

I hopped into the group, headed out to Fei'Yin and we killed it 4x without any problems. I was having fun trying to steal hate from the NIN, and it wasn't hard by using Spirits or debuffing the NM. Eventually he pulled out his NIN tricks and used his ja's and ninjitsu to keep hate. Still, wasn't too hard with WHM, BLM, RDM, RDM/NIN, and a NIN. I also realized there is no way in hell I would have been able to solo him, he spams aga's and then manafonts (wtf this is for WHM body not BLM!). I was real tired, it was 1am and I needed some sleep so I headed off after I got my Healer's Briault. Now I just need to get to 60 to wear it all (currently 55WHM and 3k tnl). I might just do WHM next instead of BST... cause BST is realy starting to annoy me with how slow xp is. I'm getting about 2k per hour which is damn slow. Annoying this is I bought gear for BST and if I put it on the back burner thats like 500k wasted.

Tonight is yet ANOTHER night that I am going to try for SMN horn. I just pray this damn thing drops so I can be done with it. Oh yeah, my bud Wyred put a link in his blog to show where he lives, well this is where I work:NYC.

Holy Manaburn Batman

Yesterday I was pretty sick, so I stayed home from work. I got about 3.5k on BST before Selanda asked about a BLM pt. She had 1 spot left. I jumped in cause I absolutely love getting Gjallarhorn ballads coupled with sanction refresh and my Black Cloak. I xp'd for 5 friggin hours but got 60,000 xp. Sixty thousand. We had a corp of dedicated BLMs who didn't have anything better to do with their time. I walked in with 1 merit + 5300 limit points and left with 7 merits and 5700 limit points. Crazy.

The only thing that broke the party was Fafnir's upcoming window. I capped Burst II and saved the other 2 merits for something else (maybe ltng potency, maybe INT, maybe a SMN merit since the update is coming soon). Fafnir popped 1st window right in my face. Darters were up and I made sure to not claim a bug, but my stun was interrupted and AD took it down. The even got a Ridill which I'm sure made all our WAR's heads explode. Oh well, no Aquarian Abjuration: Hands dropped... I'm told by a little wyrm that Faf is saving them for me.

After we farmed sea for what seemed like days. Three hours later we finaly had the chips and organs to pop Faith and Fortitude. We got one Jailer of Faith off and it killed about 3 people's PS2 upon spawning. I don't know what SE has programmed into that NM but the only way I don't lock up is to face a wall in 1st person. Pretty friggin stupid since it's the only time, place, event that does this to my machine. It's not laggy like dynamis... It's laggy so that I can't turn, move, type, anything. After about 15 seconds the whole screen goes black and I have to reboot the entire PS2. Whe I came back it was dead but they got weapon, torque, and virtue. Needless to say I was pissed since we spent 3 hours getting to this stupid thing only to have me and 2 other PS2 people get locked up and have to reset. I warped out cause it was getting close to midnight and I had been going almost 14 hours straight at that point. Concerning Burst II I was getting a steady 1352 on most mobs I was casting on. This was without Rairin Obi or Uggalepih Pendant on, just regular equipment. I want to see how much I'm MB'ing on things like Chlevnik, Fafnir, etc.

Oh and some asshat undercut my Hedgehog pies so he could make a quick buck... moron. People will pay full price for these items, these undercutters just can't wait more than 1 hour to get their gil though.

I'm sick, this sucks

I spent all day today running a 101 degree fever so suffice it to say I have been grumpy all day. Started out the day finally getting Mt. Zhaylom maps, Gates of Halvung key, and Oldton Movapolis map. Just things I saw that I needed to get done earlier this week. Crafted up 6 Hedgehog Pies and went afk till Dynamis... I mean, this is Sunday and football comes before FFXI.

When I came back we did Dynamis - Sandy. Got PLD x3, RDM x2, WHM x2, BRD x2, MNK, RNG, WAR, and NIN. No BST which is the only thing I could really use since theres no BLM in Sandy and I already have RDM and SMN. Twas an easy run and afterwards we went to Fafnir. He popped early and the same LS that claimed and died to Faf last night claimed it again... After 20 minutes that had done 3% damage... I understand that the only way LS's get better is through practice, but on a personal level it gets annoying losing claim of an HNM to a LS who is "practicing". Luckily, this time the LS leaders got together and agreed to /random. We won the random and after a while the LS just slept it and escaped out. Once we claimed it we killed it in 16:00. Really wasn't that hard a kill and I think I hit an all-time high for MB with 1541 (and I didn't even die!) Drops were kinda weak though. We did get a Neptunal Abjuration: Head which makes (when uncursed) a Hecatomb Cap. Grats to Hares on that mean ass beret. Still no A. Hands from Faf yet... cheapass. Anyways, was a fun day. I logged at 11pm which is early for me but I'm feeling crappy so I'm heading off to sleep. If I am miraculously cured overnight I'll head into work but I highly doubt it. If I do call in I'll try and xp BST so that I can get to 60 so I can finally wear my AF.

Drama on the high seas!

So yea, we just killed Fafnir. So much lame drama. Word to the wise, if want to kill HNMs do not:

1. bring only 6 people
2. claim it and let it whack you 4x till you die
3. also claim darters (and more darters and more darters and more darters)
4. expect the surrounding LS's to not to claim once you wipe

Long story short, some party of about 6 people claimed Faf, and a darter, then 3, then 5. They were wiping and another NA HNM LS says in /say "random". Now there are 2 other LS's besides us two NA LS's here, and one of them always refuses to random, so even if we did random and win we aren't guaranteed a claim when the current holders wipe... so we didn't random. When Faf goes white we claim, and the hilarious part of it was I saw about 4-5 vokes/flashes from the people who were clammering about randoming.

Once it was established we got claim it turned into a crybaby fest. So much lame crap being said in /say, then they were going to try and train darters into Faf, then they just hit rock bottom and spammed /random for 5 minutes straight. Absolutely pathetic. And just to dispel some of the BS that was floating around in /say... yes, we did wipe to Nid yesterday. No, we did not flail it. We wiped from breath after we claimed a darter and then tried to kill links. Another LS claimed and tried to pull it to a corner (bad idea). Then and only then did it flail and wipe all of Aery (which was funny as hell). BTW there was no randoming last night when we got Darters, and the very same crybabies at Aery tonight were at Aery last night trying to claim as we wiped. So obviously they are not only crybabies but they are hypocritical crybabies.

Anyways, excluding all that drama we did pretty well seeing as we had only 2 BLMs (I went SMN cause I was not in the mood to change jobs and shuffle equipment). Took about 25 mins and drops were scales, heart, Aegishjalmr, Andvaranauts, and Aquarian Abjuration: Feet. No hands... but oh well. They went to a BRD which is best. Tonight was Tiamat, Limbus, then Fafnir. Tomorrow I honestly don't know where we are going to do dynamis, I'm hearing jeuno and beaucidine. Anywhere is fine with me except sandy...

slacker

I been neglecting this for the past few days, here's a quick update.

Thursday - we claimed and killed my first King Vinegarroon. Wasn't that hard, dynamis style type kill. CS stun and let melee go to town. Got a measly 28xp to drop from it and that's it... no Ace's Helm which is a damn fine melee head piece. Later we camped faf but lost claim.

Friday - camped KV again but he didn't spawn, headed to Aery to camp Faf. On the very last window Nidhogg showed up. We got claim and took it to 14% without breaking a sweat. Then a BRD accidently cast threnody on a darter. Honest mistake, there's always massive lag. We tried to kill em but Nid used breath and wiped us. Funny thing was another LS claimed him and pulled him across Aery... and they caused him to Spike Flail! Killed every person in Aery, deleveled 3 people. We quickly HP'd and while we were en route Aribeth and Moontang claimed and were able to hold him for about 5-8 minutes. We arrived and took him down without any more problems. We were rewarded with not one but TWO Martial Abjuration: Body!! Huge grats to Hares and Kataru and a bigger thanks to Moon and Ari! Fun times.

Saturday - I was afk most of the day but came on for Tiamat's pop. We took longer than normal, we were short on SMNs and tanks. Took about 1:15 whereas our average time is 40-50 mins. Dropped more Gaiters so that was nice. After we did a Apollyn SW and got 2 coins each and BST/MNK items. I had the BST so it wasn't a big deal. Right now we are camping Faffy [Day 1] so I have some downtime between windows. I'm finally off the No Loot List so I am hoping that some Aquarian Abjuration: Hands drop.

Tomorrow it's sounding like Dynamis - Sandy which blows for me since I have RDM and SMN from there and no BLM drops from there. I'll settle for the BST AF2 pants even tho it goes AF+1 > AF > AF2. That's about it. Also capped BLM xp in an insane manaburn pt outside of Mamook. Something like 30k in 2.25 hours. Now I need to just get another 5 merits for Burst II (tier 3) as well as raise some avatar attacks/acc. The new update targets SAM, DRG, RNG, DRK and SMN! Blood pacts are now offensive and defensive and have 2 seperate timers. So nice to be able to Earthen Ward, release, then use Predator Claws right away.

4 8 15 16 23 42

Lost.

That was the exciting part of my night, because Dyna-Xarc sucks hardcore... The Lost numbers have more interest, thought I did have my own countdown tonight. 4 hours, 3 deaths, 2 AF2, and 1 Shadow Mantle. Oh yeah, and ZERO Summoner's Horn.

At least starting at midnight tonight I am off the No Lot List.

yawnga

Ultima last night. Seriously, I don't know why we had ANY trouble with him last week... this week we had him dead in less than 30 minutes and he only got off 2 Citadel Bustaers. I was hoping for the killshot with Tidal Wave but this little eveil taru NIN decided to Mijin Gakure right as my avatar was about to execute my Astral Flow, and he stoled my kirr!

Anyways it dropped 2 Claws and Heart. I am 2 days from coming off the No Lot List and was not able to lot the hands... I want to vent but I'm not going to start drama. There will be other Ultima's, and I am currently happy with my Evk. Bracers +1 so congrats to everyone who got their loot.

In happier news tonight may drop my GAWD DANG Summoner's Horn in Dyna-Xarc, so I have that to look forward to.

My weekend recaps suck

Mostly because I do alot of little stuff that has not much rememberance to it. Saturday was Limbus, we won again, RNG dropped (and was lost cause no one wanted it). Sunday was Dynamis-Windusrt... oh wait, one LS didn't want to try and follow our little schedule on the ironmog.com website so we had to change our run to Dynamis-Jeuno.

That meant I couldn't get any SMN AF because Jeuno drops no SMN AF. BST AF (while pointless atm) also doesn't drop there. I have Duelist's Tights from Jeuno so all that was left was BLM... and the Sorcerer's Sabots suck for the most part. Conserve MP+5 is their main stat which is nice if it only processed enough. Well we got the win and AF rained down on us (WHMx4, MNKx2, RNG, SAM, THF, BRD, DRG, and BLM). I lotted 704 on the boots but lost to a 777 and an 806. Since I wasn't hard pressed to get them it didn't sting that much, but what did sting was not being able to do Dyna-Windy which could have dropped Summoner's Spats which is the only piece of body armor I have that isn't BP- delay. Oh well.

Friday night I helped Xylo get t ToAU mission 15 and later on did 4 straight Assaults (2 Mamool, 2 Lamia 13). I have 17,340 Assault points in Iltrusi Atoll area, and even though I know I should get that stupid Yigit Turban I am so so so tempted to get the melee body piece. Right now on RDM/NIN I use Narasimha's Vest which is STR/VIT+3 and acc/eva+4. The Pahluwan Khazagand which is HP+20, acc/ranged acc +10 and an increase in critical hits. Comparing them I think having more HP, more acc, and more chance for a critical attack outweighs STR/VIT+3. I'll never wear the Yigit set for auto-refresh, and I have 4 pieces of headgear already for BLM... so I'll end up getting the melee body probably. Then again, I need 2-3 parties this week to get that piece...

Oh yeah, I made a Porcupine Pie this morning! It's a HQ version of Hedgehog Pie. This wouldn't mean alot but to me it does because not only is it a 35k profit on the NQ (55k on the HQ) but it's a 94 cap synth and I am a 95+2 cook. That means I made a tier 0 synth! Yay me... I think I'm gonna start cooking some more, I made a stack of Melon Pie +1 last week that sold for a nice coin as well.