A Very Special Campaigne Indeed LOL

New Mini-Expansion Augment Builds: .........The following are the Augments that I favor the most based on the fact that I already have Crimson, Byakko, Homam, Ares, Usu, AF+1, Relic, and the Iron Allied Notes Legs. I was at first let down by the Augments, but now I am having trouble deciding which one I want! LMAO! 1) STR+2 and VIT+2 HP+25, Emnity+4, Physical Damage Taken-4% (PLD for Tanking, Physical Damage Mitigation Build) 2) STR+2 and VIT+2 Haste+3%, ACC+7 (DRK,DRG for TP-Build) 3) STR+2 and VIT+2 Double Attack+2%, Critical Hit Damage+3% (DRG Multi-Hit Critical Hit Modifier Weapon Skill Build) 4) STR+2 and VIT+2 Haste+3%, M.Acc+4 (DRK for Enfeebling Build) 5) STR+2 and VIT+2 Haste+3%, Physical Damage Taken-4% (PLD,DRK,DRG,WAR,SAM for Campaigne Build and Physical Damage Mitigation Build) 6) STR+2 and VIT+2 Skill Chain Damage+5%, Conserve TP+5 (SAM for Skill Chaining Weapon Skill Build) Einherjar: ........Saturday was our Odin#15 Run with the Obsidian LinkShell. After we kicked Odin's ass we pry'd open the Chest and got full drops. Of the 5 drops.......... Rud completed an A.Abjuration Set, I got a P.Abjuration Head, and Rif finally got his E.Abjuration Body. This puts me at 2/5 Shadow Abjurations and also next inline for an E-body drop (I based this on job/points at this time). I also traded in my 100,000 Ampoules for the Balrahn EyePatch Item towards my Scythe Mystic Weapon Quest. Since I can't start the Quest untill I get my last 8 Assaults done it has become a Inventory Slot -1 Item. Also congrats to PoppisGirl for finally getting her 30,000/30,000 Alex requirement. Campaigne: ........I was doing a Campaigne in Batilla Downs[S] the other day and Zoned into the Area while the Beastman had control over it. At that time the Campaigne Music kicked in and there was only 2 other people in the entire Area. One player in particular was a RDM/WHM named Lolietta, a Japanese TaruTaru. ........The first incersion was done by Lolietta. Lolietta pulled a Mob while the other player and I began to attack it. Immediately the RDM/WHM Disengaged and did a /Say in Japanese Text. I had no clue what it meant but I am guessing Lolietta wanted her (or his) own Mob. So lil' Lolieta pulled another Mob. At the same time the other player (PUP) switched off to the new Mob too. This left me alone with the first Mob. No biggie. I can Solo it as DRK/SAM even with out a BodyBoost or any other Temp Items. If the shit hits the fan I can just Sleep it. The Mob was an Orc. A BLM Orc to be more precise, so Guilotine would be the Weapon Skill of choice because of it's Additional Effect of Silence. ....... Anyway back to the Battle..... so I got the BLM Orc's HP down to about 20% and decided to Sleep it to buy me some time to get my Drain Spikes Timer back up. As I Sleep'd the Mob something happened. It started hitting me again from what looked like it getting Dia'd? At this point things were getting rough. I needed to contrentrate on surviving the Battle and couldn't check the Chat Log to see if someone Dia'd it. A few moments later I use SleepII. There it is again!!! ......but this time it was Bio not Dia.... no need for me to read the Log to confirm what a Bio animation looks like. By this time I was down to maybe 126 HP and I switched to my Crimson Legs to get the hell out of there! .....but I didn't go far. The Orc's Drown Effect did me in. Now I was pissed! I go back and check the Log. Sure enough the culprit was the RDM/WHM named Lolietta who was fighting a different Mob. Now ....I do not let people have the control of making me angry.... So instead of being angry I Home Pointed and took a small break from the game to cool off. Then I added Lolietta to my Blist. /em attains #100 Blist Key Item LOLietta. ........In conclusion...Yea you got me LOLietta. You got me good. You only casted Dia and Bio on the Mob that I was fighting when I Sleep'd it. Theres only 1 reason why you did that.....but guess what? I have that spell Bio to. Just remember the taste in your mouth because when I get the chance I'm gonna bitch slap it out. The only difference is that when I do get around to returning the favor. I will also be there serving you a big ole' Bag of Tea..... and getting my Screen Shot Trophy. ...... Well Am I mad anymore?.... nope..... ........I am happy. ;) ............I just hope LOLietta likes Tea. ~BAM

We are ENDGAMEZ!

Einherjar: ...........Between my Modem/Internet Connection crapping out on me one hour before our last Odin Run, people with specificly needed Jobs being short on Feathers, and a Mule issue.... I somehow have accumilated all 9 of the Einherjar Feathers. Thus giving me the Mark of Odin Key Item. From what I understand this gives me the ability to select any room for entry in Einherjar. What about the postponed Odin Runs? While it does sucks to have these few setbacks. It potentially sets us up for the next 3-4 Odins at a pace of every 4th or 5th Run. On top of that I should be able to get my Balhrans EyePatch within the next run or two. Hey Odin where's our E-Bodies? Nyzul Isle: ............In the past 2 weeks our Nyzul Isle Static has been cancelled due to peoples unavailability. This week we did the 40, 60, and 100 Boss Runs with only 5 people. While we did win all 3 netting 2 gear drops...... everyone already had this shit. It went to me via free lot. The drops were Denali Wristbands and a Denali Bonnet and I can't even wear them. I guess I will keep them for when I level RNG. Elite Training: .............So I tried the Marlboro Level-65 NM in the Upper ToonDingleBerries Jungle. It started out smoothly with Guilotine and Drain Spikes removing about 50% of it's HP but it's Additional Effect Petrify freak'n killed me. It just took 1 hit from the NM and I was Petrified as it hit me 26 times in a row. Ummm... yeah.... stay tuned... I will be working on this one. KS-30: .............Yup I was being lazy again. I did a Run with the BLM KS30 group which was lead by my friend Pixe. Woooooot! I made 190K from a Venomous Claw drop. Nice...... because once again..... I am a broke ass DRK. F.O.V.: .............I really hate it when your about to pull a mob and someone deliberatly sees you, but runs up behind you and pulls it anyway. I know sometimes it happens accidentaly but some people just don't give a shit (like a PLD/DNC pulling mobs miles away to Solo while people have to wait an extra 20 minutes at the end of a Campaigne). Thus the player "WEE" gets my Blogs "DoucheBagery of the Week" Award for doing this on purpose. What are we camping HNMs or something. ............Since we are on the subject of DoucheBagery. There was this Drg/Whm who thought it was O.K to try and Diaga one of the Rabbits that I was fighting in F.O.V. ! Did he think I needed help on 2 EasyPrey Rabbits? First of all they Link. Second of all they die in like 3 seconds. Good thing Drain Spikes put me higher on the hate list then his measly weasily itty bitty Diaga Spell. I followed it up with a AOE Spinning Scythe to seal the deal. The Drg/Whm stood there for a second then moved on. That's right bish! We in BIG BOY TOWN now! GTFO! We ENDGAMEZ! LOL! .........Thats it for today's rambles. See ya all online ~BAM

Salvage Gear completed #8

...........................Woooooooooooot! Usukane Hirayoroi! ~Nuff said BUB! Thankyou my friends over at the RemnantBrave LS! I am now happily 3/5's on the Usukane set and also 8/10th's of the total Salvage Gear that I can actually wear! Usukane set has been added to my side panel! ~BAM

NM Ruebezahl and Avatars too ;p

(Re-Edited with Additional Information 10/16/09) I am going to be randomly solo'n the Elite Training NM's as DRK and Bloging the Strategies here. I will be doing this to give some insight on these NM's to assist anyone Pop'n them for the first time. Jess's DRK Elite Training NM Guide #1: NM......................................Ruebezahl NM Type............................Lvl-60 Elite TrainingPop Item.....Chapter 5 Page Area.....................................Sanctuary Of Zi'tah ..........O.k. I Pop'd this NM 3 times and on the 1st battle I counted it had 9 Shadows. This NM is a Stone Golem so Arcane Killer is in effect. Here is the Strategy. 1) Meditate 2) Hasso 3) Drain Spikes 4) Pop NM 5) Poisnga (gets rid of all 9 of the NMs shadows) 6) Arcane Circle 7) Weapon Skill 8) Meditate 9) Weapon Skill 10) Collect your item from the chest then toss it because it's junk.... This NM has a few different types of Additional Effects when it hits you. It always does one type but never more then one type during the same fight. So far I encountered a Physical Damage Additional Effect, MP Drain, Absorbed-TP Additional Effect, and one that gives Curse (and it may have others). No sense using a Holy Potion because he will just hit you again and reCurse you. The Curse drop'd my HP's from 1580 to 699. Worst case scenario you still have Third Eye/Seigen, Drain1, Drain2. Weapon Bash, and Stun at your disposal but don't let me scare you. There really is no need to use any of that stuff. Just serve him a nice cup of Teabag. /Random Shit: .........Lets see here...I snag'd 2 more Merits doing random shit. My Ampoules are now at 95,780/100,000 towards the Balrahn's EyePatch. I also equiped all my Enfeebling Gear and changed Subs to DRK75/SCH29 to see what my Enfeebling Skill would be. It was 299. I really need to finish that Sub LMAO. RNG, BST, SMN Job Adjustments/updates: .........Looks like the Rangers are getting a little too moist in there stockings..... but then ...SE pulls the dick tease move, by with holding the damn BST and SMN info. Dam Bastard Swords. Anyway...lets speculate. .........Everyone knows this has to be the big new Avatar Update that the SMN's have been waiting years for (AKA a long ass time). The big question is...... what new Avatars will they give us. I personaly want to see a big freak'n Cactuar with a 1,000,000 Needles move.... called "The Big Prick" . The second Avatar will most likely be something fruity like a Unicorn or someth'n. I really can't see them releasing Odin, Alexander, Pheonix, or Bahamut because they are the main NPC's in the FFXI's story lines. Unless of coarse....... they plan on releasing them all. Mwhahhahaha .....Ya never know. .........As far as the BST Adjustment goes I have a few ideas of my own. I think a BST should be able to Delink Mobs. My favorite idea is changing the BST's 2-Hour to allow a BST to Charm another player. Come on everyone likes being Charmed and killing off your friends. .........Thats it for today's rambles. See ya all online. ~BAM

Shantolo shakes it like it's Hot

.........The other day I had an extremely awesome sick idea for the Shantolo Art Contest (I call it S.A.C. for short). I want to sketch Shantolo holding a whip, wearing a leathery clad thong, in hooker boots, and booby tassles. While having Maat chained from the ceiling with his wrinkly skined old mans butt....... wearing nothing but his Maat's Cap .....of coarse. Then have Shantolo chanting.... "You act Incredibly Tough with your Maats Cap on, but you scan Too Weak..... next to my Shantolos Thong" Coming soon to a FFXI Forums near you! LOL!

Algol 6-Hit

.........I just wanted to Humbly give thanks to my friends over at the BBQ LinkShell for helping me aquire an Algol. I definetly was lacking a good 6-Hit GreatSword. .........For the Algol to be a true 6-Hit it requires /SAM and an additional 1.2 Store-TP. There are a few ways you can do this. 1) Brutal Earring 0.1 Rajas Ring 0.5 Rose Grip 0.4 White Tathlum 0.2 2) Brutal Earring 0.1 Rajas Ring 0.5 Rose Grip 0.4 Chiv. Chain 0.1 Euphoria Ring 0.1 3) Brutal Earring 0.1 Rajas Ring 0.5 Chiv. Chain 0.1 Askar Body 0.5 4) Brutal Earring 0.1 Rajas Ring 0.5 Euphoria Ring 0.1 Askar Body 0.5 5) Brutal Earring 0.1 Rajas Ring 0.5 Carbanara (food) 0.6 Editors note #1: (Notice all the builds have Rajas Ring and Brutal Earring...... there really is no need to explain that) Editors note #2: (There are also other 0.1 Store-TP items that can be substituted for the ones I listed here.... but I'm not gonna list them because they all suck) ............Anyway.... while I was field testing the different ways to make a 6-Hit Build for my Algol, I realized that I wasn't precisely sure of the exact amount of Store-TP that Carbanara gives. Hmmmmm... was it 0.5 or was it 0.6 ....TO THE INTERWEBS !!! Allakazham said it was only 0.4 (don't be laughing at me, my PC is dead and I am using a DSI for the internet which means some web pages don't work right on my DSI so I am limited). Well Allakashitty is incorrect. I verified this with a few of my friends and then tested it my self and it is 0.6 Store-TP. I'm no math genius but testing that wass basic shit. .............Anyway that's it for today. I leave you with some pictures for your enjoyment. See ya all online. ~BAM

Stuff...

............OK just a random post here. I just got an Abyss Burgeonet and Sturm's Report. Which is nice. Complete's my Drk Relic Gear and allows me to sell my Phantom Tathlum for 50k. Also got another Merit which leaves me at 19 Merits till SAM cap and raised my Meditate Recast to 4. I am also now at 91,940/100,000 towards the EyePatch key item. .............Hmmmm... I'm now at full sets for Homam, Ares, AF+1, and Relic. Not bad at all. I am also currently working on Crimson (4/5), Askar (3/5), Relic+1(0/5), and Drg AF+1(4/5) + Sam Af+1(3/5) full sets. Other items that I am working on are E-Body, Abyss Cape, Usu(2/5), and an Augmented Death Scythe. Other then that I need to find a Sea LS that fits in my schedule for the Weapon Skill Torques. ...............That's it for tonight..... your drunk'n, bad spell'n, shity word phras'n..... DRK.... JESS ~BAM

DRK Enfeebling Skill ~Nuff said BUB!

.........To me....Dynamisis is the most painful EndGame Event there is. I mean it's a 4 hour straight block of time with no breaks at all. Thats a freak'n half of a work day right there. The worst part is the Lag and watching the Chat Menu zip bye at a million miles a second. That shit burns my eyes out. I actually began Dynamisis with a LinkShell named GateWay Shuffle like 5 years or more so ago. Once I got a taste of that shit... I avoided it like BadBreath from a Marlboro. .........Most recently I have re-engaged Dynamisis with the LinkShell Obsidian and I am actually starting to enjoy it. Matter of fact, last nights run Dynamisis Bastok kicked some ass. I made about 600k from 2 Wootz Ore drops (more then 15 dropped in total... crazy shit) and also got 2 Relic AF. Both Relics I actually needed. The Saotome Kote drop was specifically for my SAM's Meditate Job Ability. Now I can get atleast 140 TP from every Meditate. I fixed my Meditate Macro immediately.... which now looks like this. /Equip Head "Myochin Kabuto +1" /Equip Hands "Saotome Kote" /Ja "Meditate" /Wait 2 /Equip Head "Walarahn Turbahn" /Equip Hands "Askar Manoplas" The other Relic was the Abyss Sollerets for my DRK. I needed this for my Enfeebling build specifically. Now I have a 268 Enfeebling Macro Build with +7 M.ACC. Let me break it down for you here. Current Drk Enfeebling Macro Build: Enfeebling Skill..........+225 Enfeebling Skill Merits...+16 Crimson Mask..............+10 Enfeebling Torque.........+7 Choas Cuirass +1..........+5 Abyss Sollerets...........+5 Omega Ring..........(+3 M.ACC) Balurhns Ring.......(+4 M.Acc) ..........Most people don't realize that DRK has the same Enfeebling Skill that WHM has. Way before Scholar came out the Enfeebling Skill job tier looked like this (this is skill at cap only, not Merits and not Gear): RDM 276 Skill BLM 230 Skill WHM 225 Skill DRK 225 Skill ..........From here I only a few peices left to cap my build. One which is an Enfeebling Earring (+3 Skill) is currently selling for 1.8 Million Gil in the AH. Hey, thats alot to invest for a player who has no Mage jobs at all. My friend LukeBoxWalker thinks I am stupid to even think of getting it for DRK. What can I say I am obssesed but Luke also says "Hey Why settle for 2nd best". Like a smoker telling you to stop smok'n... I tell ya. ;p .........The second Item that I'am missing is the Sturms Report (+2 M.ACC) Ammo item. It is aquired by spending Allied Notes from Campaigne of the WoTG Expansion. I'm actually at 36,000/45,000 towards getting it. Whats really cool about this item is it also can be used for my Dark magic Build. .........Then finally we have the good old shity Back Slot. There is technically 3 choices to choose from here (Sorry about the names I forgot 2 of them): 1) Abyss Cape.........+7 M.ACC (from Dynamisis) 2) ???? Cape..........+5 Skill (from Sea) 3) ???? Cape..........+2 Skill (from Allied Notes) I think I will be aiming for the Abyss Cape. Whats really cool about this item is it also can be used for my my Dark magic Build and my Drk/Sam Guoilitine Weapon Skill Build. To me it is hands down probably the best Dynamisis Accesory period. There is no item in the game that gives you +7 WS ACC, +7 ACC, and +7 M.ACC let alone a measly Cape! .........For me ... the Enfeebling Earring, Storms Report, and Abyss Cape are all within reach. When I am finally done I will end up with an Enfeebling Build that grants my DRK 271 Skill with +16 M.Acc. I want to finish my /SCH too, which is still Level 29. I wonder what Skill I can get with that as a full Sub! LMAO! Thats it for today. See ya all online! ~BAM