Death Sickle !!!

.........................ok before I begin this post I just wanted to say one thing and get it off my manly hairy chest ..... yes my ISP is still fucked up.... somedays I get no DC.....others I DC every few minutes. This has unfortunetly caused me to miss a few in game events and I apologize to my team mates. When will it get fixed ............... no clue cause Verizon suxs. Anyway on with todays show.......... .........................Oooops almost forgot........... I got the next Campaigne 2nd Wings rank and another merit and also even though I did die like 20 times this week I still have experience capped on Drk. I also have all 4 Mystic weapons now to work towards the new weapon skills for all 4 of my 75 jobs. PAST BC'S:

.........................ok here we started off with 4 members doing some low man Past BC NM fights...... Like the military policy ..... "Don't ask, Don't tell".......but if you don't understand that then you can kind of get the idea ......by looking at the pictures. EINHERJAR: ...................................Well we wiped to one of the runs on Tuesday but totaly turned that around on Saturday when we totally oblitarated the Vamp Boss as fast as a Kirin TP-Burn. Team-Ares FTW.

LIMBUS:

............................ Another Omega win and errrr....sorry about that Omoikitte ...I didn't see you there under my feet.

...................................Thats it for today ...... sorry ...........but this is all I could muster up with my shity ISP. See ya all online (hopefully >< ) ~BAM !

Internet Woes ........

..................I would like to apologize to all my friends that I do in game events with. I have had very bad DC issues the past 4 days and Verizon is no help to me at all as usual. I mean .....it got so bad that I couldn't be online for like more then 5 minutes with out DC'ing. Anyway I have tried many things to resolve this issue with no win in sight...... However.... as of this morning I have had no DC with the internet for 1 hour..... logged in as Eternalpain on his XBOX. I am heading to work now and I am gonna leave Eternalpain logged on all day untill I get home from work. Hopefully it will still be online when I get home and not DC'd. We will see. ...no ~BAM today.... and hope to see you online ;(

Free Skill-Ups !

(credit below goes to Siviard on the Shiva Server and posted on the Limit Break Radio forums website.....please note people claim that this has not been nerfed yet and I will be testing it out today) Skill Ups "Easy Button" {Found it!} by SiviardOfShiva on Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:58 am Okay well as you are all aware, when WoTG was released SE introduced the Fortifications for each Campaign zone. However, whenever a zone is in Beastmen control, players are able to freely attack the Fortifications which pop up either A) surrounding the main Fortification tower in outdoor zones, or B) Scattered around the beastmen controlled dungeons. At present there are very little to no beastmen controlled outdoor zones. Your best bet is either Garlaige Citadel [S] or The Eldieme Necropolis [S] dungeons. The Eldieme Necropolis [S] is the best as there are NO mobs anywhere near the Fortification so you can go afk without any fear of agro. The best Fortifications can be found at: Eldieme Necropolis [S] - I-8 (The main room against the Eastern wall) Garlaige Citadel [S] - H-8 (First underground room against dilapidated shed structure) Ok - so onto the free skill ups! Well if you have a subpar skill in any weapon visit these Fortifications and start attacking them. Do not get any Allied Tags if Campaign begins because you will not gain any skill ups and you will be open to beastmen attack. As long as you do not engage with any Allied Beastmen you WILL NOT be attacked! You will continue to skill up at an alarming rate. I managed to go from 10-147 skill in Staff in just 5 hours of swinging. Now the best part is once the Fortification ??? pops you can attack and walk away letting you skill up while afk with no fear of being attacked. However, be aware in Garlaige Citadel [S] there is one random Yagudo that patrols the site where the major Fortification ??? pops so be aware that external agro for people under 70 may occur. Now the Skill cap is quite low on these Forts however. I have identified the Skill Cap ceiling as this: A skill in weapon: Caps at 150 B skill in weapon: Caps at 147 C skill in weapon: Caps at 144 D skill in weapon: Caps at 141 E skill in weapon: Caps at 138 The Fortifications WILL pop for you to attack when no Campaign battle is going on and will stay there until the next Campaign battle ends. It will then re-appear a short time after (max 10~15 mins). Then you simply re-engage and rinse/repeat until you hit the cap. The Fortifications are massively easy to hit so you can go naked if you like! I went as a LVL 73 DRK naked with 42 Great Axe skill, and in about an hour, got it up to 86 even while going AFK to use restroom and sit back and drink a beer! So that's it! Just take your un-skilled weapons and start whacking like crazy and cap them out to at least 60% their maximum. Unfortunately after that it's all you and solo fun to max it to full cap. But hopefully this has saved you a ton of time, all while afk, all with no deaths! This is a blatant steal and I fear SE will wisen up with a ninja-nerf soon enough so be aware this may not last much longer so hop too it!! Otherwise, hope this helps, ENJOY! Also, you can FULLY CAP your skills on campaign mobs. Simply DO NOT GET ALLIED TAGS! Just engage and start whacking away. You WILL get skill ups on Campaign mobs!

Waiter....there's a Gnat in my Red Curry Soup.....

.......................I would like to announce that for the 1st time ever.........I have capped DRK experience 43,999/40,000 ! ....oh and add another 2 more Merits to my line up . .......................Check it out.......... in Campaigne today I was using a BodyBoost and eating Carbonara with a total of about 2480 HP. I was fighting a Campaigne NM Orc called DeathLord Rujgnsi and he hit me for 1239 damage and then immediately did a AOE move for 1280....dropping everyone around me....(about 30+ people). I lived with like 1100+ HP because I had DrainSpikes up that gave me back the 1239 HP after the 1st hit. Well...anyway It was pretty awesome. .......................I also got my HolyKnight Emblem-4 back .... and I am working towards the 1st Wings rank so I can get the last 2 Iron Ram gears for my up and coming PLD which is level 34. I am currently at like 37,000/100,000 Allied Notes that are needed. ........................Also last night we did the North West Apollyon run in Limbus. My Drk's Dark Magic Macro'd Gear set was doing 450+ Drain 2's on the Kronprinz Behomoth every time. The highest was a 481. I am sure with the last few items that I need I can increase that to beyond the 500 damage range easily..... on that particular mob. .........................Finally..... a few of you may have noticed that the past week and a half I have been online less then normal. It is because my best friend is having some bad real life issues and is currently hang'n at my house for a small bit. You all know him as Eternalpain on the Odin server. Everybody please cheer him up online if you see him. Anyway that's it for today ...just a small post. See ya online ! ~BAM

Drain2 and Ring's USU too !

.......................OK first I want to talk about Drain2 and how it overwrites Body Boost and Giants Drink. This would seem like basic common sense...(seeing how alot of other spells get over writ'd by even stronger spells to prevent them from stacking)..... BUT ......... there is something more to tell here. I am betting that even though most DRKs know about that....... they do not know about this. Drain2 will not over write Body Boost or Giants Drink if the spell does not fill your HP past it's HP cap at the time of completing your cast! What does it mean..... it means you can use it as long as you are smart and understand this concept. Anyway on with the rest of the Blog ... ;) ..................................congrats to RingThree on his full Usu Salvage set ! ...................................some random Past NM's, ZNM's, and Campaigne Pics ! (Below: Campaigning ......you either love it or hate it.....) (Below: Campaigning ....almost capped DRK XP less then 1000 short) (Below: Past NM's ..... nothing funny to say here ><) (Below: Illius is a DingBat as ussual) (Below: HellzFury popped online for possibly the last time and I had to kill him 1 more time with SATA to a NM) ................................see ya all online ~BAM

DO NOT LOOKY HERE (PART2) ... you know you wanna know !!!!!

LIMBUS: .....................................wow....... a huge post today with lots of goodies to all the boys and girls....... and 1 goody for me .....and it's not even my birthday. Say hello to my new little friend called Homam Corazzo ....which now puts me at a full set of Homam. Last night we did another Omega and 3 items dropped. Congrats to Aniero and another member who got the other item. Sorry that I forgot who it was but I was so tired last night and I don't want to input the wrong persons name. HeHe....you can kill me in the game later on....... and yes I will be using this for higher end game events and experience party specifically for Guillotine spamming where my Ares's Cuirass will be outperformed due to the ACC issue and Triple Attack enhancement. I do not have a E-body nor do I have a Hauby+1 so I will use the Homam Corazzo in it's stead. The below 3 pictures are extremely dark ......please forgive me. AF+1 Set: HOMOM Set: ARES'S Set: ASSAULTS: .................ok sorry Algeron but I can not pass this up.....LMAO...... OK Algeron, Ravax, and I were doing a quick Red Vs.Blue Assault. Ravax was the Pop'r... I was the Kite'r....and Algeron was the NPC kill'r. Well once we were ready and Ravax popped the fight....I used Drain Spikes and was getting ready to pull. However as I was casting Drain Spikes .....Algeron ran like 5 feet from all the NPC's and hid behind a rock. He then got agro and was killed which netted us a total loss. What was funny to me about this situation was Algeron was using the rock as a form of agro cover..... LMAO...if he ever reads this Blog entry he is gonna be like "Nooooo your a Asshole" .... but sorry bro this was way to funny when it happened and I was literally on the floor laughing my ass off. SALVAGE:

.................In Salvage news ......I am starting to work towards the cheapest of the Usu set items but I am in no way in any rush because I already completed my goal of the Ares's set and I am quite happy about it. I also spotted Qtipus the Teabagger .......in my travels who does his Salvage runs with RingThree's group and he just completed his Ares's Cuirass and is looking pimp now especially when you add the fact that he also has the Relic PoleArm.

.................I also made a Forum for our Salvage LinkShell RemnantBrave. So members please sign up ....especially you Ravax and Mav ! BESEIGED: ..................I also managed to snag a Beseiged....... which I desperately needed because I haven't done any experience parties in a long while and last week Omoikitte deleveled me to Level-74 and I was fresh out of ISP for useing the Runic Portals. CAMPAIGNE: .................I started doing Campaigne once again to get my Ranks back up especialy since I lost like 2 Medals in the past 6 months. Well I got 1 Medal back and now my Drk buffer is at 40,000. I am gonna cap my experience in the next dew days and this will be the first time that I will ever accomplished this. Poor Omoikitte is gonna have a hard time deleveling me now! I am also leveling PLD which is now at level-34 and I am aiming for all 4 of the Magic Defense gears from Campaigne. I am currently 2/4 for that gear set. PLD who also get good use out of my Homam and Ares gear.

SKY:

................We did a little SKY in Versus twice this week and I did a nice 2066 hit with 300TP SpirelHell with the Brave Grip on Seiryu..........which made one of the Tanks not lose any agro for like 90% of the entire fight .....LMAO

ERROR 202:

..................after the Maintenece and the small update I fell asleep in Aht Whitegate only to wake up with this message: Error 202: Unable to reserve required memory. I am on the Xbox and that is a FFXI Error message not a XBOX message. I am thinking that this is possibly a new trick that the Server can do from the update. Especially since Odin is over packed. My guess is that if you go AFK in a crowded area this will kick you out automatically.

BONUS#1: .............Clicky Here for a website about FFXI Icons...... has info which includes that there is actually 4 types of GM's that I didn't even know. BONUS#2: ...............Clicky Here for a "In-Progrss Version" of a New SIG for my freind DarkDawn .... let me know your thoughts....

BONUS#3: .........................I found this picture which looks like a Moogle Bitch Slap. ~BAM ...that's it for now...see ya ONLINE !

DO NOT LOOKY HERE !

................and.............................................................................................................................................your looking....didn't I say do not look here? Anyway since you are looking....I will display for your displeasure......a picture update of my fun times and not so fun times in FFXI in the past week for today's post....enjoy ;) ................below we were trying to get a IXA'DRG but no pop-e ...... ................below Genbu askes me to clean his teeth with my Martial GS as a tooth pic..... ................below is a picture of me in Nyzul Isle inwhich I did 4 runs with my friend Agana. Too bad I dc'd at floor 80 and couldn't log back on because ..... they lost..... do to not having enough damage and timed out..... that of coarse would be because of my ISP ;( .................below is a pictures of my freind Blaize who just finished his full Skadi set and also below that is another picture of both of us in full Salvage gear. Hmmmmmmmm why does he apear to have a square head? We can call him Sponge Blaize Square Head ..... naaaa >< ............that's it for now..... see ya online ~BAM

Ares's ..... completed -NUFF SAID BUB

.....................Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ...... also the RemnantBrave LinkShell GIF on the top of my Blog is just a prototype ....just waiting from Ravax and Mav for the GoGoGo on it.

LolGambu eats a 196 Drain2

............... we did a little Sky skinny dipping tonight and noticed there was only 2 other people in the entire Sky Zone. My guess is since endgame is branching out into more and more new things ......coupled with the fact that alot of people already have all the Sky drops.....then Sky will be a less crowded zone from here on. Well thats ok to me because that means easier Sky runs to get those people who need the goods from Sky. Anyway I only wanted to talk about one thing.... and that was I did a 196 Drain II on Genbu. It was Darksday and I had 335 Dark Magic Skill, +26 Dark MACC, +10 MABB, and add in the Dark Staff and Dark Obi damage bonuses. I definetly need a Dark Staff +1 soonish....... for anyone that thinks pffffffffft 196 damage is shity ..... well then let me see you do a 196 Drain II on Genbu .........Anyways I still have a bunch of gears left to get before I finish my complete Dark Magic Macro build. I am not sure if I will use all these in my build but I will need to test for the best effecientcy but anyhow here's the list: *Abyss Cape *Demons Harness *Corselet +1 *Finger Gauntlets +1 *Vampiric Boots *Vampiric Mittens *Merciful Cape

??? The big Mystery !

..................and no you can not have your 30 seconds back for clicking my Blog. You can however indulge your self in some Blog pics. Also congrats to Izman on his new Organics Sword and also congrats to Coborn on his new Terror Shield! BAM ........... see ya online !

THE SKY IS FALLING !

OMOIKITTE WINS OMOIKITTE WINS !! .............Well it has taken 2 long years ........but finally Omoikitte has completed her promise to me from back when I first joined Versus. Yes! It has been one of her goals in FFXI to de-level me to 74. The other day it happened while we were in Nyzul Isle doing some ZNM pops. At first I could see her get all giddy about it.... as she heard a deleveling sound effect as my body collapsed and hit the floor. Then she collected her new FFXI prized possesion .... (a screenshot of me level-74 dead) and changed the LinkShell message to let everybody know of her omnipotence and my gimpness. Luckily I had used a Reraise item and as I got back up I was magicly turned back to 75. I then proceded back to the town to go change to Drg inwhich Omoi then called me a "WUSSY". However I did have to remind her that as happy as she was feeling..... if I was to stay level 74, then besides just the merit gimpness..... I would be like practically completely naked bacause alot of my gear is rated for level-75 especially the TP-macro-gear. Omoikittie earned a new title that day ... "Crusher of Jess's Level-75 Ego"

CASSIE: .............After the maintence Omoikitte was farming in Zi'tah and she seen that Cassie was up. So........ we struggled to get out some of our LinkShell members in hopes to snag it. Unfortunetly we didn't have a tank nor a healer. By the time we got us some healers out there we lost it to a duo-ing group. It was obvious that they were experts at it since they not only had the title but the Ninja had Remedies on him. However.... even though we did fail.... we didn't fail due to lack of skill. Kallo and Izman where doing an awesome job Kiting it for 30 minutes and that is when we all died and lost it... it went into Rage Mode. Anyways after the duo group beat it I sent a /tell to the Ninja "Good Job" and he said "Thank you". However they did use the /cry emotion which means a shit drop. >< LIMBUS: .............In the Versus LinkShell we are currently working on building a few Ultima pop sets which will be nice to get some spank'n new Bling Bling for our mages. We are currently sitting on 2 Omega pop sets (I believe) and I am locked in for the Homam body which will complete my Homam gear set. I am looking forward to the use of this body for a Guilotine build because it has 15 Acc and a Triple attack effect. Alot of people may disagree with that because I do have a Ares body but I think they forget it lacks any Acc at all. I also do not have a E-body (Adaman Hauberk) so I do see this as a good alternative especially since Guilotine is a Acc slurp'n multi-hit WeaponSkill inwhich every missed hit equals a 1/4th decrease in damage output. I am coming across more and more LinkShell events that I need to go Drk/Sam and spam Guilotine in a Zerg type fashion and this will assist me in that build. The last LinkShell pop set we used I did pass my chance to lot to Jarden who is no longer in the LinkShell. We also teamed up with Rakuen LinkShell for their pop set inwhich I got to share a chance to lot on the body with Celestria but it never drop'd. Of coarse I was gonna pass to Celestria if it dropped because she is such a awesome person and player in the game. As far as I am concerned there are only a few like her on the server. Anyway it is possible I already had said this in another post but who cares there is nothing wrong with bragging about friends and I am also look'n forward to some Ultima fights and sticking my Stun spell up Ultima's Citadel Buster's ass! ;) Also forgot this Sunday I will completing my 14th AF+1 peice which will put me at 2/5 for Sam. I have choos'n the Sam hands. I am also waiting for the Drg thingy to drop in Temendos so I can complete a 3/5 AF+1 for my Dragoon.

SALVAGE: ..............My friend Izman has completed his Ares head and now is 2/5 Ares. Woooooooot. ..............In the Remnant Braves LinkShell we have been spamming BBC and for the first 6 runs and nothing drop'd that we were aiming for. A matter of fact.... 4 of the 6 drops were strangely Usu Bodies. On the seventh run finaly we struck gold and completed SerialX's Usu head and something else I forget. SerialX has been on a good tare lately with Salvage drops and that makes me happy when I see my friends get stuff. No one likes the Salvage gods being stingy ! In other Salvage news we lost to LBC on a 7 person run because of a few issues during the run. The real sad thing about the loss was that we lost at what looked like LBC with less then 1% HP! ...OUCH !

SEA: ..............We haven't done any Sea events in the past 2 weeks which makes me sad in the pants. I am really looking forward to the 2 Sea gorgets I need for my Drk.

SKY: ..............Same news here .... no SKY last 2 weeks. I mean.... I do have every thing I need from SKY but there are other LinkShell members who need stuff from Byakko and Kirin. Unlike alot of people who are sick of Sky I feel it is one of the better made areas in the game and enjoy it alot.

PAST BC'S: ..............This is a relative new LinkShell Event and we now have 2 BC pop sets....one for the Orcs and another for the Quads. These new Beastman events are probably the best thing that we got from the last update and alot of LinkShell members also look forward to doing them. .............That's it for today's post ..... see ya online ~BAM

OH ....before I go ...I am making Kallo a Sig for his forum needs....... and we all know that he dislikes people busting his ballz about those new "salmon" colored pants...... so before I make his Sig I fiqured I post a joke one.

JA Haste Cap !

..........................ok a few months ago when Drk's were Zerging with like 93.5% Haste ........... every Drk ran to the AH and got a Runic GA ....... SE then decided to cap total Haste. Aparently that is not the case. The real truth is FFXI has different types of Hastes and they have different caps. Basically all the other types of Haste have a cap so all SE did was cap the JA Haste. Here is the proof and the test to show you. (types of Haste: Song Haste, Spell Haste, Gear Haste, Job Ability Haste) (Translation credit goes to Elmer The Pointy's Blog from a group 2 merit interview in Enterbrain's mook called Comic Vanatsu ) Question: The increase to Overwhelm for Samurais is capped beyond the 3rd upgrade but there is no limitation placed on Desperate Blows. Can you tell us why? Answer: The effect from Desperate Blows is only active when you use Last Resort. Also, the effect from Last Resort and Hasso during the same short amount of time is capped at 25%. So a fully merited Desperate Blows at 25% is equal to a Desperate Blows taken to the 3rd level (15%) + Hasso (10%). If you merit Desperate Blows above the 3rd level, using something other than Samurai for a support job is more viable. This is why they are the same up until the 3rd level. (Testing credit goes to Kirschy) "I went out and tested with a Relic Scythe. (The 999 Delay one.)Hasso + Last Resort(Level 5 - Desperate Blows) gave 751 Delay. (24.9% Haste)Last Resort(Level 5 - Desperate Blows) gave 746 Delay. (25.33% Haste)The small difference in haste is probably margin of error/lag/whatever. What it shows is that JA Haste definetly caps at 25%. If you use Hasso, Desp Blows at lv 3 and lv 5 are no different. If you're using Seigan or have /nin, the extra Desp Blows will still help. It just gives a little more info so DRKs can correctly equip themselves during a 2H zerg, and have a better understanding of their catagory II merits.I'm sure there's going to be some people that feel they wasted 10 merits"

STUN -nuff said

.........................Howdy Blog readers. Tonight I want to talk about the spell STUN, which is probably one of the best spells in the game..........all though... some of you may disagree with that. ........................Now I have been playing this game for about 6 years and the 1st thing I can remember about STUN was in a party as DRK about level 55 yo 60'ish in the Buburimu peninsula. It was there that one of the party members asked me to STUN a Goblin's AOE move "Bomb Toss". At first it was pretty tricky for me and I was pretty erratic at it but that person explained to me that I needed to read the chat log to see the Goblin's move and then use STUN. The problem was by the time I saw that the move in the chat log it had already gone off. This was solved by noticing a little animation that all mobs make when they do their special AOE move that can be used to help you know when to STUN. The only problem with that is you may STUN the wrong monster's move as an example "Goblin Rush" and then it may use "Bomb Toss" while your STUN recast is down. However regardless of of this shortcoming I soon got Drk to level 70 and moved up to my 1st endgame area SKY ! It was around this time I was hearing cocky RDM's who would only TP-burn with NIN's, WAR's, and a BRD in Uleguerand Range and tell me that DRK's where only good for STUN and sucked at HNM's. Basically they told me DRK virtually had no spot in endgame and that most LinkShells like Ressurection had leaders like Hex who hated DRK's and didn't want them in the LinkShells at all. My guess at that time was since Hex was a main THF he hated DRK's cause back then around level 60 most THF's lost experience parties to DRK's and SAM's who subbed /Thf. That was back in the day we did SkillChain's and BLM's Magic Bursted in parties. Funny how the game evelved and how most people want TP-spam partied to XP in now. .........................Anyway in SKY I joined my 1st endgame LinkShell called "Critical". While I was in that group......... 2 things expanded into my knowledge about the usage of the spell STUN. First was I had to STUN a Doll Mob's AOE move called "MeltDown". It was such a devastating move able to kill alot of people in a alliance at the time. I learned from the Critical's LinkShell leader Kohen that once again the Mob did the same animation that the Goblin did but it also added a additional special animation that makes it easier to know when to STUN. The Doll simply rolled up into a ball and BAM you STUN'd it. Another thing to note at this time only Shield Bash, Weapon Bash, and the spell STUN was pretty unresisted on STUN'ing the move "Meltdown". However some of the other things like Blade Bash, Head Butt, and other STUN moves/weapon skills/abilities had ACC/resist issues. What I mean to say is if a BLU used Head Butt and it was resisted....... Then "MeltDown" would go off even if you tried to STUN it. In the same way that if you Sleep a mob and then try to Sleep it again while it is still asleep you will get a message saying that it didn't take effect. To my knowledge this is the only in game Mob move that has a bad effect when getting resisted on a STUN spell and SE fixed this issue by upping the ACC/resist on these moves. The second thing expanded onto my usage of the spell STUN was being included into a STUN order. Once again I ran into a problem untill the leader Kohen helped me fiqure out my chat filters making it easier to see the move or -AGA spells I needed to STUN in my chat log. .......I also learned to make a macro to let everyone know I were using STUN and that sends a message to the next person to watch out and go next. ...............................From there I got better and better to the point I don't use any chat filters and started to impress many of my friends with the way I wield'd the spell. Matter of fact around then I changed my macro to the following and still have it that way to this day: Jess: <~~~~~~ M-E-G-A S-T-U-N ~.O .................................After a few years in Critical..... the LinkSHell no longer existed and I joined the LinkShell Versus. It was there that I began to master the usage of the spell. Whether it's STUN'ing every "Whirl of rage" in Limbus (and not STUN'ing "Smite of Rage" by mistake), or STUN'ing a Salvage's "Restoral" or Triple Gears AOE "Rail cannon" ........ you start to see that there is a few smaller things that can assist you. ...... that's where I am gonna stop this little tale of STUN. Yes I am gonna leave you all hang'n ............ but I won't be too cruel .... I will point you in the right direction so that you know just where to look. ....... try to understand the following ryhme: "Hickory Dickory Dock" "I tried to Stun but WTF" "I casted my STUN" "The Doll used Meltdown" "And everyone Felldown" "Hickory Dickory Dock" ...........................LOL .....ok that sucked and I was just kidding ......... The real key is alot of monsters (but not all) have a sort of rythem in their animation and timing of their moves. There are quite a few mob moves and spells that you can not beat speed wise by STUN'ing when they start to use them. You can't get it exactly but you can make a educated guess just before a mob uses a move. Another trick is some mobs will only have a possibility to use their move once they get to the end of a movement in there animation cycle. If you don't believe me watch the Gears in Salvage. I am not gonna say but if you look close enough you will see what I am talking about. ..... and that is where I am gonna leave off on this. ................................Also today I STUN'd 4 "Discord's" on 1 Salvage run on the mega-boss BCC. M-E-G-A S-T-U-N do you have it?

Awesome New Versus LinkShell Events and Ares's 15/15 = a Happy DRK !!!

..................................OK 1st I want to show every one my Tidal Talisman. It arrived yesterday via UPS after waiting 3 long months. Below is 2 pics of the in game item that Iwill be useing for Einherjar. This item is perfect for Einherjar because even though it is a 30 minute event it takes like 5 times longer to get everyone there and set up for the event. I fiqured this will be nice to grab the straglers from Aht Whitegate instead of them waiting for the "6 hour tour" boat run. I haven't tested it out yet but I will be able to take 5 other people with me. As far as the collectors item go's.... let's face it........ it is not solid gold nor is it lined with diamonds ........... if it was ......it would have been alot more in price. However FFXI has been the longest running game I have ever played so I wanted atleast 1 item towards my Video Game collection. This seemed to foot the bill nicely. ..........................On the way to La Vaule [S] riding in Chocobo style ....... (Davio in the past) ........ ..................................Here is something I was pretty excited about. Omoikitte the leader of Versus has decided to do the 3 main BeastMan StrongHold BC's as new LS events. They require running around the 3 Beastman strongholds gathering 8 chest pop items by killing 8 specific NM's per each area. Yesterday was our 1st run and we got a Gnad head pc and a Tights leg pc. I forgot who got the Gnad head pc which is pretty much a mini Heca-Cap but congrats to Annjannete on the tights. Gnadbhod's Helm DEF:24 STR+6 DEX+4 Attack+8Slow +5%LV71 All I can't find the Tights stats but I know they had MAB+4 .... .................................I was looking to lot on the earring if it dropped but Omoikitte and NinjaFox were drooling and talking about it so much that I was gonna have to passity Pass pass on it if it dropped..... I don't want saliva on a Earring that I am gonna wear !!! LMAO .....................................One of the nights I did 2 Nyzul Isle runs with Agana and a few other people. Yup that's a picture of Agana getting pawned by some Nyzul Isle mobs..... LOL .......................................Hey It's Qtip........... and he has a good question.........for some reason both Qtip and I have the Elvaan character both at maxed height ...... but I is taller. Weird. I told him it was his Relic weapon weighing him down. .......................................Finally I have completed all 15/15 pcs towards the Ares's Salvage gear. Last night we did a special run just for me to get the lvl-15 pc for Ares's hands. I will be wearing them tonight once I get home after work and collect them from the NPC. All that is left now is to farm 2.5 Mil Gil to get the head pc made. Soon my War will have 29% Double Attack. I am not sure what the cap is for DA but I am aware that stacking DA gets diminished returns unlike Haste. This means the 29% DA is actually worth less then the full 29%. It is possible because it has diminished returns there is no Cap on DA. Either way here is a Screen Shot of the Remnant Brave members that assisted in the completion of the 1st complete Salvage set collected in the Remnant Brave LinkShell !