Beans

Merits: ...........Saturday I completely finishing my Merits putting me @ 469/469. This means I can only store 10 more Merits before I am actually waisting XP. That also means no more Campaigne for me untill the June Version Update. I think it's time for me to finish up that SCH Sub or maybe getting PLD to 75. Campaigne: ............Later that night I also unlocked the very last AN Medal, the "Medal of Alanta 4". I then quickly Flee'd to Bastok and snag'd that new Forth Mantle @ 75,000 AN. This will be used for my SAM/DNC Soboro Campaigne-TP Build and on my DRK 5-Hit Scythe Build. Which brings me to.... True 5-Hit Scythe Build (20TP per Swing): .............With my aquisition of the Fourth Mantle I can slightly altar my Store-TP Gear in my 5-Hit Scythe Build which frees up one of the my Ring Slots for either an Iota Ring (ACC) or Blitz Ring (Haste+1): Rose Grip +4 Store-TP Askar Body +5 Store-TP Chiv. Chain +1 Store-TP Brutal Ear. +1 Store-TP Rajas RIng +5 Store-TP 4th Mantle +2 Store-TP (Carbanara) +6 Store-TP Basically to make a Scythe 5-Hit Build on DRK you need: 1) +24 Store-Tp from Gear and Food 2) /SAM 3) a 528 Delay Scythe ..............The main problem with this build is you loose out on Cap'd ACC versus higer Level/Evasion Mobs. This makes the Build only good for lower Tier'd LinkShell Events. This is mainly why I never use it. However, with the possible future release of new Gears from upcoming Version Updates this Build may become Viable. .............If you are looking for more information on this type of Build. There is a Allakazham Store-Tp Guide someone posted but it is not 100% accurate. Someone also Linked it on the BG Forums. NIN Sub: ..............While I did manage to get my /NIN from Level-37 to Level-49 the other week. I was still missing 1 Spell the Hojo: Ni Scroll. Instead of buying it from the AH I did attempt to Farm it from the Tonberry NM and the regular Tonberries but they were being stingy bastards. I finaly gave in and tried to snag it from the AH. Of course everytime one was AH'd it was sold immediately. Luckily I managed to snag one for about 50K but it took 2 whole weeks of scanning the AH. With the that note my /NIN is finally completed. Like my friend Glacian always says... Glacian>> Back in the Box you go! Kraken Club: ...............Dam! My friend EternalPain got the Kraken Club Drop and quickly sold it for 44 Million Gil! ~Nuff said BUB! Odin#1: ...............Odin won. /em shakes his fist vengefully in the air at Odin. Alex: ...............Alex got his shit pushed in! It was like a 3 minute Prep/Buff and took about a minute to kick his ass. Since there was nothing really that I could use I just choose the Alexander Summon. Odin#2: ...............We won!. Kreoss and I died first with his M.Kris and my Bahumet Zagnel. The rest of the Team pulled out all the stops for the win. I choose a Torque to replace my Dark Torque. I definetly could use a few more items from this fight so I'll be back Mr. Odin! /em wrenches his fist in the air at Odin rightiously. Ashu Talif BC#1: ................I decided to do this set of BC's with some of my friends and we beat the Tier-1 BC fairly easily. While we did lose the 2nd BC we did learn from it and only had 5 people anyway. Soon we will be farming that third BC! I can feel it. .......as always see ya Online! ~BAM

X's Knife [Do you need it?]

Limbus: ..................Lately I've been doing some Limbus with some of my friends over at the LinkShell OpenDoor2. My main goal there is to complete my last 3 AF+1 Gears while helping them build a few Omega Pop Sets. Thank you again "Magical Boobies"(Sap) for passing that DRG AF+1 Item which finally completes my AF+1 Set! Congrats to Kreoss on completeing his Homam 5/5 and the other 2 peeps on there Homam too. ReCap: DRK....... AF+1 FullSet WAR....... AF+1 FullSet DRG....... AF+1 FullSet SAM....... AF+1 3/5 ENM's: ..................So every Saturday Ravax(MNK), Mav(RDM), and myself(DRK) do the X's Knife BC. Then we immidiately follow that up with the Hagun Drop ENM. We have been trying to sell that dam X's Knife Drop for awhile now but it doesn't like to Drop. Of coarse last Saturday we had no buyers and no THF friends Online. Even LukeBoxWalker was showing offline on my Friendslist. Ravax opens the Treasure Chest. You find a X's Knife! So...since both Mav and Ravax already had one it went to my Level-49 THF. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Campaigne XP back to normal?

Campaigne: ...................Oddly enough Campaigne XP has reverted back to it's previous yield. This aparently happened suspicuosly right after the Version Update/Patch. If you read my Blog Post from last week it explains how every 1-Wave Campaigne was always netting me and my friends exactly 1500 XP. It now seems to be back to the normal with 2k+/3k+ per 1-Wave Campaigne and I haven't even seen a 1500 XP Run since.

"Team Splitting Hiers" (Part-3)

Team Splitting Hiers: ...................News Flash! This just in! MAV>> "Team Splitting Hiers" has just become... "Team Shadow Lord" ........that is all.

Trials of Magians Rumor....

.....................The Rumor is you will be able to combine 2 Sets of Compatable Gear..... like so.... .....remember it's just a Rumor!

Campaigne Ninja Patched XP Nerf/Balance of 2010?

Campaigne Ninja Patched XP Nerf/Balance of 2010?: (1-wave Campaigne) Jess has earned 1500 XP (1-wave Campaigne) Jess has earned 1500 Xp (1-wave Campaigne) Jess has earned 1500 XP (1-wave Campaigne) Jess has earned 1500 XP (1-wave Campaigne) Jess has earned 1500 XP ??? W T F.... is going on here!!! .............Look I have done plenty of Campaignes. Enough to earn a bunch of Merits... Enough to cap my Lvl-75 Buffers... Enough to gain the latest top Tier Medal and maintain it... Enough to aquire a decent amount of AN Gear. .............So...since...when does every 1-Wave Campaigne give a nice fat round number like 1500 XP? Not just once. It's every time now and it's not just me it's my friends too! At first it just seemed kind of odd, a koinkydinky if you will..... but then I started to keep track of it. (all in same Campaigne) Jess has earned 1500 XP Ulyses has earned 1500 Xp Callistra has earned 1500 XP (all insame Campaigne) Jess has earned 1500 XP Eternalpain has earned 1500 XP (all in same Campaigne) Jess has earned 1500 XP Junin has earned 1500 XP .............In the past 3 days alone I have done about 14 more 1-Wave Campaignes with 13 of them rewarding 1500 XP (the other one I was dead the entire Campaigne). .............From what I understand the Campaigne Formula seems to calculate your XP in different contributing ways like Magic Damage, Healing, Melee Damage, Tanking ect... but this 1500 XP per 1-Wave is wierd. It seems more like a total Cap per Wave. At first I thought SE was preparing for the new Lvl-99 Cap and needs to standerize Campaigne XP. What do you think? ..............Look I'm not really upset about the XP. I am kind of a little irate that I take the time to do all this Campaigne shit for AN gear, in order create a Campaigne Build, in order to gain a bigger benefit from Campaigne in the 1st place....... and then I have to bend over. It's like digging a hole and then just filling it back up. In reality tho we just need to wait and see where SE is going with this and what the bigger picture is. ..............any way....since we are talking about pictures.... PICTURE TIME: ........see ya all Online! ~BAM

Preparing For 99 (Progress Report: Part-1)

Level-99: .................When SE first anounced At Vanefest a few weeks ago that they were increasing the Level Cap from 75 to 99, it reinvigorated me. It gave me a new drive and purpose. SE was right. FFXI had reached the point where COP Areas no longer needed being Level Cap'd and seeing a Maat's Cap become a pretty common event. FFXI was becoming stagnant. There's a reason animals have an instictive behavior to drink running water rather then sitting water. Stagnancy equals death. SE knew this and they delivered with a steroid shot right in the ass.. .................So...after carefull thought and revaluation.... I have simplified the preperation for the up and coming Level Cap Increase into 4 simple catagories. 1)Subs 2)Buffers 3)Merits 4)Old Content 1)Sub Jobs For Level-99: .................For the next few weeks I will be investing some time on prevoisly Level'd old 37 Subs and make them Level-99 ready. Last week saw me take THF, DNC, and NIN from 37 to 49. This week I will be working on SCH which I left at the dismal Level of 29 a long ass time ago. Maybe in the next few weeks I'll hit up COR-37, BLU 37, and PLD 39. Subs that are ready now for 99: A) /Drk B) /Sam C) /War D) /Drg E) /Thf F) /Dnc G) /NIN 2)Buffers For Level-99: DRK @ 20,000 DRG @ 42,000 SAM @ 43,000 WAR @ 43,999 3)Merits For Level-99: ..................SE also said We will be getting a Merit Cap Increase as well as a possible new type of Level-99 Merit in the near future. My friend Ravax had this good idea of a so called "Super Merit". His idea was you can trad in 10 regular Merits for 1 "super Merit". Then use 10 "Super Merits" to Augment your character's SubJob so that it can reach Level-50 instead of 49! ..................That's a cool idea but first I need to finish the regular Merits! My Merits are currently 14 from total Cap on my 4 75's. You bet your ass that I will complete that and be ready with 10 extra Merits before we get that Increase. 4)Old Content: ...................Lets face it. It is inevatable that the EndGame player somewhere down the line has to part with Older Content to make way for New Content. It is now vertually impossible to do everything in FFXI all of the time! FFXI has a shit load of Content with more on the way. Just look at FFXI's freak'n Title Screen. They are gonna have to shrinky-dink all those 8 Expansion Titles to make room for the next Three! ....................Here's where I stand on all the old and upcoming future content... A) Salvage w/RemnantBrave (Still need Usu Body 35+15) B) Einherjar w/Obsidian (Still need a shit-ton of stuff) C) Sky (Fin.) D) Sea w/Obsidian (Still need Torques) E) ZNM's w/Obsidian (Still need a shit-ton of stuff) F) HNM's (Fin.)(F-U HNMS!) G) Other Pop NM's (Fin.)(except those MAB Gnat Hands) H) Dynamis w/Obsidian (Still need AF and AF+1) I) Abyssea w/Obsidian (Need AF3) F) Nyzul Isle (Still need Askar Head and Legs) G) Walk Of Echoes w/Obsidian (No clue what Drops here) H) Expansion Stories/Missions/Quests (Still need WotG and original Sandy/Windy Nation Missions) I) Limbus w/OpenDoor2 (Still need 2 SAM AF+1 and 1 DRG AF+1)

The AF3 Rumor....

The AF3 Rumor: ..................So there's this rumor going around about the new AF3 Gear. The rumor says your going to need your AF+1 from Limbus, Relic AF2+1 from Dynamis, plus 3 seperate drops from Abyssea to make them. Bend over...... SE is waiting... .....remember it's only a rumor! ~BAM

WAAAAA Lvl-99 WAAAAAAAAA!

WAAAAA Lvl-99 WAAAAAAAAA! Change. Some people fear it... some people embrace it... ...and some people cry like little bitch's about it. Everyone needs to STFU and realize a few things. 1) SE = Game Balance: SE always maintains Game Balance over everything else. That means your freak'n awesome Lvl-75 Morigans Robe will still be freak'n awesome even at Lvl-99. Look at Byakkos Haidate as an example. It's still freak'n awesome and it came out when? Most likely we will be Augmenting our existing Gear thru an Augment System that actually works! The Trial of Magaia.... or how ever thats spelled. This is SE's solution to ease your whimpering and all your butt hurt. Just make room for the incoming Lvl-99 +30 MAB Bodies bitches. LMAO! 2) All New Possibilities: Even tho we don't know how SE will balance the SubJobs.... we can still take a look and speculate. Rdm's may no longer need to Sub DRK for Stun because they can get it from /BLM. DRK's will be able to Self-SkillChain Distortion with a GreatSword (that's if SE lowers the SAM's JA like they said) or Light if you have a Relic GreatSword. You thought Soboro SAM/DNC was unstopable in Campaigne before. Now they will have Haste-Samba. Remeber the old DualWield WAR/NIN days? With DualWield III and a new new Temporary Tanking Job Ability they'll be back! The list go's on and on! 3) Set The Mark: Nows your chance to stop being just a sheep in the flock and become the Bull. The lvl-75 Elitist stagnacy has come to an end and in it's place will be temporary uncertainty and your chance to step up your Game. FFXI is getting refreshed. The Elitist will now need to get off there ass's and get a crack'n or GTFO and /quit. Just remeber theres a difference from being a EndGame Player and being an Elitist asswipe! 4) You Still Have 4 Months: That's right take a fresh look at where exactly you are right now in the Game and start to prepare for the June Update. That's when we get our 1st Level change. There's plenty of time if you plan it all out and stop bitching about the Subs. 37 to 49 is only 12 more Levels! I myself have already started. THF... 37-->45 DNC... 37-->42 NIN... 37-->42 .................Also don't forget about your Merits. They are expanding Merits down the road and a possibly adding new Merit Type for Lvl-99. Another good idea is to Cap all your Buffers which will put you at 1 EXP Point away from 76! ..................Here's my personal plan for the next 4 Months. 1) get Usukane Body 35+15 Drops (completes Usu-Set) 2) get last 4 Limbus AF+1 Drops (completes my AF+1 sets...corrently @ 17/20 AF+1) 4) get THF 45 to 49 5) get NIN 42 to 49 6) get DNC 42 to 49 7) get last 15 Merits (completes Max total Merits @ 469) 8) Maintain all 4 75's Capped Buffers 9) get last 2 Askar Gears (Legs + Head) 10) get any left over Jobs that are low level to 49 (COR@37, BLU@37, PLD@39, SCH@29) ....................This also wil eliminate a few EndGame Events for me like Sky, Limbus, and Nyzul Isle. My Main Events can center around Einherjar, Salvage, Sea for Torques, ZNM's, and Dynamis. This will allow time for new Events such as Walk of Echos and Abyssea. 5) Campaigne Is Your friend ....................On a much smaller scale I am glad I created a Campaigne Build for my DRK/SAM and SAM/DNC. This will assist me when I level my 75's to 99. On top of that they are also releasing New Campaigne Medals and Items in March and June. It's rumored that the last Medal may prevent you from losing older Medals. Kind of similar to how Captains Rank grants you free Rune Teleports. ....................By the way I am glad the Level was increased to 99. I have always pushed in every direction in this Game to improve and push thru any Limit and any boundry. Now I can literaly take it to a whole new Level! I am Sorry if some people are too butt hurt and feel like your losing their Lvl-75 "Entitlement" then GTFO and head over to FFXIV! ~BAM

New Shinies!

New Shinies! 1) N-Head 2) War Relic Head+1 3) Saotome Koshi-Ate

"Team Splitting Heirs" (Part-2)

Chapter 2: Pushing the Orc's Shit in "TEAM SPLITTING HEIRS...... ASSEMBLE!" Mav, Ravax, Izman, Qtipus, Kaylea, Jess .......................13 runs of Splitting Heirs.... Final Score: 13 wins 0 losses Drops: 4 Cuch Mantles 3 Witch Sashes 6 LOL Orc Gloves .......................While most of our Runs were under 10 minutes, our fastest Run was @ 7 minutes and 42 seconds. Other then a few fumbles it was pure Pawnage! Our Party Set-up consisting of a WHM, RDM, PLD, DRK, DRG, and a SAM. Most other groups were either BLM Mana Burn or DRK Kraken Club Burn Set-ups. There were many failed atemps by other Teams. Anyway.... "TEAM SPLITTING HEIRS...... DISASSEMBLE!" .....see you all next Splitting Heirs Season....! ~BAM