Well I guess i can start editing this post, it's been up for a while, though I highly doubt anyone really reads this stupid thing. Either way, for my 3 devoted followers... here goes.
So from the moment Fields of Valor reared its ugly face into the FFXI world people have both loved and hated the event. I think an augmenting system COULD be phased in to the game if done right, but then all the naysayers would shoult "WoW clone WoW clone!"... Anyways, making items become unsellable after adding completely random stats is actually a pretty stupid way to augment in game items. They sorta figured that out after the augmentable craftable weapons were added, but still... allow the player to un-augment it somehow, or at least give magey stats to magey items and melee stats to melee items. Instead you end up with shit like below. Granted, some lucky bastrads got INT+6 on weskits and Magic Attack Bonus+5 on Aquilo's Staff, but for every one of them there's 1,000 of these:
One of the one outta a thousand augments:
Now the augmentables were nice, I mean, I was able to finagle a shoddy Bahamut's Staff form the Perpetuation-3 staff, but the problem is that if I want to macro in the Blood Pact ability delay-2 staff I need to throw my Perp-3 staff in my satchel, cause they are 2 weapons of the same name. Macros don't know which is which. The answer, of course, is to keep killing the NM until you get the nice BP-5, Perp-3, Attack+7 or MAB+4. How many times will that take? Well as you can see below, more then 15x for me.
This is our NM crew, we've really gotten this strat down to where we can nuke the adds down and DD/nuke the three-quarters of the NM and when he goes into super crazy defense mode, DD down the last 25% or so.
These were just some numbers I screenshotted. It seems that the highest MB I can get on him is 1508. The only thing I can think of that could push me higher is Morrigan's gear and a Novio and those aren't exactly gotten in a short period of time. The deaths were a bit funny too so I had to screenshot them as well!
Speaking of deaths, this was a fun little Sleepga I got while in Dynamis-Qufim. I'm guessing his pull linked... I got all of them slept but about 2 minutes later it was like Jurassic Park and what seemed like a thousand raptors all came to find me and eat my face!
A weekly Nidhogg here on Cerberus.
This was actually a funny story. now for some reason whenever Rozamia is in game and not at a camp, he's in Sea Serpent Grotto. He's managaed to get the LS like, 5 straight Joyeuses and it's now at the point where he gets Charybdis to spawn and no one comes because no on needs it anymore.
Well I was exp'ing on BRD when he did a shout and I thought like always that he was camping Charby but he said something about BRD body NM and I realized he meant the Minstrel's Coat NM. At this point I was like, 72BRD and all I had was Gaudy Harness and Errant Hpl so I said I was gonna get to SSG as fast as I could. I raced as fast as I could from my xp party and made it through the door that needs the coin. Then, without thinking I just ran into the open area with the higher level Sahagins and got wrecked! Roza had already begun fighting it before I even entered SSG, and it was at 15% when I died! Luckily, I was able to get raised and cast lots on my coat. Wasn't the most glorious or legndary fight to get the body... but at the end of the day I still saw:
*ding* 74BRD! ALMOST THERE!
Grats to Oneway on his HotClaire. It surely is hawt.
My new pro Salvage group.
I kited Sandoworm once, and once I... didn't.
Mmmmmm... pudding camp on darksday = fun times.
Random ePeen BP.
Random ePeen nukes,
Yay, 3 down, 17 to go!
