So, I guess my Libsyn account didn't actually go down. Should have but it auto-renewed on its own and I figured what the heck I'll just leave it up. I had intended to start a website and post all the episodes there but I never got around to making all that happen. Figured screw it I'll just leave everything as is.
Just released Episode 40. I haven't been playing (much of anything) but I did have some notes sitting around from the last time I logged into FFXIV so I figured "What the heck?" I noticed that the amount of downloads spiked somewhere around mid April. I'm guessing someone mentioned this podcast on their show? If so I appreciate it. I haven't completely abandoned Looking for Party, it's just that I'm not playing so I don't have anything to record. That said I'm reinstalling FFXI as I type this.
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Show number 35!
Show number 36!
Show number 37!
Show number 38!
Show number 39!
Show number 40!
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Libsyn is down
My Libsyn account that Looking for Party is hosted on has gone down apparently. My debit card had been put on hold due to some security nonsense on the day my billing usually happens and for whatever reason Libsyn didn’t just auto bill me later. Logged on today and noticed that all the files were down. I was going to re-up my subscription however they were going to charge a $12 late fee on top of my regular charges so I figured screw it. I was going to drop Libsyn and put everything on here this month anyway. Sadly all the images on the blog that were hosted on my Libsyn account are probably gone forever. Oh, I still have most of them but I'm far too lazy to go back and fix all the links at this time anyway.
I'm uploading all the episodes I can find and will go about fixing the links on here sometime hopefully soon. Don't forget to check out my new site/blog at www.chrismishima.com.
I'm uploading all the episodes I can find and will go about fixing the links on here sometime hopefully soon. Don't forget to check out my new site/blog at www.chrismishima.com.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Whoops
A few days ago I was checking out the Eorzeapedia formus and they had a thread for posting picture of your PC setup. I figured I might as well post some of my pictures. I decided to upload them to my libsyn account (where the podcast is hosted) but they changed there service a while ago and I wasn't sure on how to just upload pictures. What ended up happening was that the three pictures ended up going out to people who were subcribed even though that wasn't my intention. I noticed the problem the next day and took the pictures off but I just wanted to apologize for that goof. Encase you didn't get the pictures and are curious here they are:
Not exactly the best picture, just a quick shot of my sloppy desk. Nothing too special. The monitor is just a 22" Samsung. They keyboard is a Razor keyboard but it's junk, sometimes it misses button inputs, probably why it was on sale when I bought it...The Neosporin, comb, generic mp3 player, and Xbox controllers are just there because I was too lazy to move then and clean off the desk. However I do play FFXI with a wired 360 controller. I'm in the process of doing a budget upgrade on my PC. Currently I'm using a AMD Phenom II X4 3.4 gig processor (on a cheap motherboard), 4 gigs of DDR3 ram, and my video card, a Geforce GTX 460, should be here in a few days. All and all it set me back $530 dollars so far. Not too bad. Hopefully it'll run Final Fantasy 14 well.
My TV is a 50" generic Samsung plasma. I bought it a couple years back for $1,500 bucks just in time for Metal Gear Solid 4 :). My Xbox 360 and PS3 are also in the shot. The game disk on the counter is Bionic Commando. I bought it last week for $6.00, lol.
My Anime/Video game collection. This isn't a very good shot because it's taken from a far. If you are curious as to what I own I posted a closer up picture of my anime after this paragraph (the photo is super outdated but I wasn't able to find a newer one). My collection hasn't really changed much since the podcast began because a couple of years ago I was out of work and fell way into debt so my game/anime purchasing came to a near halt. I'm just now finally starting to recover so I should be back to wasting money on filling up another DVD rack in a few months.
http://chrismishima.homestead.com/files/setupanime.gif
(the boxes on the bottom that you probably can't read are Saiyuki, Samurai Champloo vol 1, Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal, Silent Mobius, Serial Experiments Lain, Sonic the Hedghog: The movie, Soul Taker, and Sorcerer Hunters)
Anywho, here are the last two episodes.
Show number 33!
Show number 34!
Not exactly the best picture, just a quick shot of my sloppy desk. Nothing too special. The monitor is just a 22" Samsung. They keyboard is a Razor keyboard but it's junk, sometimes it misses button inputs, probably why it was on sale when I bought it...The Neosporin, comb, generic mp3 player, and Xbox controllers are just there because I was too lazy to move then and clean off the desk. However I do play FFXI with a wired 360 controller. I'm in the process of doing a budget upgrade on my PC. Currently I'm using a AMD Phenom II X4 3.4 gig processor (on a cheap motherboard), 4 gigs of DDR3 ram, and my video card, a Geforce GTX 460, should be here in a few days. All and all it set me back $530 dollars so far. Not too bad. Hopefully it'll run Final Fantasy 14 well.
My Anime/Video game collection. This isn't a very good shot because it's taken from a far. If you are curious as to what I own I posted a closer up picture of my anime after this paragraph (the photo is super outdated but I wasn't able to find a newer one). My collection hasn't really changed much since the podcast began because a couple of years ago I was out of work and fell way into debt so my game/anime purchasing came to a near halt. I'm just now finally starting to recover so I should be back to wasting money on filling up another DVD rack in a few months.
http://chrismishima.homestead.com/files/setupanime.gif
(the boxes on the bottom that you probably can't read are Saiyuki, Samurai Champloo vol 1, Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal, Silent Mobius, Serial Experiments Lain, Sonic the Hedghog: The movie, Soul Taker, and Sorcerer Hunters)
Anywho, here are the last two episodes.
Show number 33!
Show number 34!
Monday, August 30, 2010
The past 8 episodes
Whoa, been awhile since I updated this eh? Just encase you don't use itunes, here are the past 8 episodes...
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Show number 25!
Show number 26!
Show number 27!
Show number 28!
Show number 29!
Show number 30!
Show number 31!
Show number 32!
Boy, that wasn't so hard. I haven't logged in for so long that I forgot my login name, lol. It didn't come to me until like 6 hours later. Since episode 32 I managed to get my DRK & SAM to 80. Kinda sucked because in both parties I ended up hitting the cap and having to wait a while for my rep to show. I think I stayed for like 20 minutes after maxing out on DRK and around an hour on SAM. That's a lot of missed XP :(.
Aside for that I picked up the level 80 SAM great katana. I think I'm going to go for the +10 to Tachi:Kasha version. Regardless of what I pick it'll be better then the katana I got from sky and have been using on SAM for years. I finished the first stage and I'm going to get started on the second stage before I go to bed since the game will be down for upgrades when I wake up.
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Show number 25!
Show number 26!
Show number 27!
Show number 28!
Show number 29!
Show number 30!
Show number 31!
Show number 32!
Boy, that wasn't so hard. I haven't logged in for so long that I forgot my login name, lol. It didn't come to me until like 6 hours later. Since episode 32 I managed to get my DRK & SAM to 80. Kinda sucked because in both parties I ended up hitting the cap and having to wait a while for my rep to show. I think I stayed for like 20 minutes after maxing out on DRK and around an hour on SAM. That's a lot of missed XP :(.
Aside for that I picked up the level 80 SAM great katana. I think I'm going to go for the +10 to Tachi:Kasha version. Regardless of what I pick it'll be better then the katana I got from sky and have been using on SAM for years. I finished the first stage and I'm going to get started on the second stage before I go to bed since the game will be down for upgrades when I wake up.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Final Fantasy 9 Sucks!
Wow, episode 24. I can't believe I've done so many episodes! I think I might have the 3rd highest episode count out of all Final Fantasy XI podcasts! Don't quote me on that. Sure, my show is only 30 minutes long when all the others are 3 hours but they can still suck it. On this episode of Looking for Party I actually get an invite! It's to a duo party but hey I'll take it. Eitheta from Slyph drops by to chat with me. We probably spend more time talking about Mass Effect then we do FFXI but that is just as well because Mass Effect (2) is awesome! Though this episode is titled "Final Fantasy 9 Sucks", I don't actually feel that way, it's just a joke. Mostly. I hope people enjoy the episode and I'm totally down to have more guests if you are interested.
The audio isn't mixed very well I know. I was far too lazy to manually boost the audio in the spots that needed it. There are also a few curse words in this episode (4 I think), not a lot but normally if I have more then one I edit it out but I didn't do that this time. Sorry. The music at the end is from Clash of the Titans (1981) and the voice clip is from God of War 3.
In game I forgot to mention that I capped my Ninja last week. I think that just leaves BRD and RDM. However will I get a party on those two? I've been totally slacking on getting my sub jobs leveled and I'll need to get on that next month. I want to have everything ready to when the update hits. I've also been messing around with BLM some more. It's about 300 xp for 63 right now. I'd like to get it to 75 pronto and be done with it but looking for party on BLM doesn't usually yield results. I'm doing campaign to get it up but I lost my medal so the xp is terrible right now.
I'm also tempted to get back to leveling SMN since I have Odin and Alexander now. My biggest fear however is that by the time I get it to 75 SE will gimp those summons and I'll be all sad. Time will tell.
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Show number 24!
Email me at: lookingforparty@gmail.com
The audio isn't mixed very well I know. I was far too lazy to manually boost the audio in the spots that needed it. There are also a few curse words in this episode (4 I think), not a lot but normally if I have more then one I edit it out but I didn't do that this time. Sorry. The music at the end is from Clash of the Titans (1981) and the voice clip is from God of War 3.
In game I forgot to mention that I capped my Ninja last week. I think that just leaves BRD and RDM. However will I get a party on those two? I've been totally slacking on getting my sub jobs leveled and I'll need to get on that next month. I want to have everything ready to when the update hits. I've also been messing around with BLM some more. It's about 300 xp for 63 right now. I'd like to get it to 75 pronto and be done with it but looking for party on BLM doesn't usually yield results. I'm doing campaign to get it up but I lost my medal so the xp is terrible right now.
I'm also tempted to get back to leveling SMN since I have Odin and Alexander now. My biggest fear however is that by the time I get it to 75 SE will gimp those summons and I'll be all sad. Time will tell.
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Show number 24!
Email me at: lookingforparty@gmail.com
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Episode 23. 24 coming soon
Yeah, I probably should have done this post like a 2 and a half weeks ago huh? Anyways, Episodes 23 is here! I talk a bit about tossing my linkpearls and doing the Trials of the Magians stuff. Originally I had wanted to do something special for April Fools day but I was too lazy to actually record it ; ;.
As for episode 24, I actually have a guest! Eitheta of the Sylph server (formally a fairy...err from Fairy). We've already recorded the episode so it should be up soon. Just waiting to receive his audio file and I can start putting the podcast together tonight or Wednesday. No clue when the episode will be up. Just depends on how long it takes to edit. He totally outclasses me for the whole so but that works for me. I was afraid the episode would be 90% dead air. We pretty much go all over the place but it was a learning experience and maybe next time I'll be able to steer it a little better.
I also want to plug my other podcast Serial Experiments Gaiden. I recorded a new episode for it in order to talk about Final Fantasy 13. It spoiler full so listen at your own risk! Anways, here is the link to LFP episode 23.
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Show number 23!
Email me at: lookingforparty@gmail.com
As for episode 24, I actually have a guest! Eitheta of the Sylph server (formally a fairy...err from Fairy). We've already recorded the episode so it should be up soon. Just waiting to receive his audio file and I can start putting the podcast together tonight or Wednesday. No clue when the episode will be up. Just depends on how long it takes to edit. He totally outclasses me for the whole so but that works for me. I was afraid the episode would be 90% dead air. We pretty much go all over the place but it was a learning experience and maybe next time I'll be able to steer it a little better.
I also want to plug my other podcast Serial Experiments Gaiden. I recorded a new episode for it in order to talk about Final Fantasy 13. It spoiler full so listen at your own risk! Anways, here is the link to LFP episode 23.
Click the link to download.
Show number 23!
Email me at: lookingforparty@gmail.com
Monday, April 5, 2010
A fresh start
I've been meaning to do it for months but I've finally got around to doing it today.
Wewantrelic is one I've never used but was given to me some time ago
Been a long time coming
I don't really feel sad or happy about it. Darklords Domain are a good group of guys but I'm not just not feeling it anymore. Been in the shell for almost a year and the relic I joined it to get I'll probably never get (Darn you THF hands!!!!). Not to mention attendance has been pretty poor for awhile. When I joined the shell we were loaded with BLMS and WHMS. Our last Dynamis run had like 2 of each, with me being one of the WHMs... Plus, we are rumored to be switching to 7 days a week for awhile at work so I won't be able to attend anything for awhile anyway if that happens (please shoot me). So, out with the old I guess.
I'm not jumping to another shell, at least not at the moment. I may do a Dynamis run with Wewantrelic this weekend but I won't know until I find out which one they are doing and know if I feel like attending. My hope is that they'd be doing Valkrum or Qufim so I can get one step closer to Tavnazia access.
As for what I've been doing in game it's pretty much been Trials of the Magians. I picked the Dagger, Peeler, and embarked on the Dakini with 34 DMG, 190 Delay, 4 STR, and 12 ATT (http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/File:Trial021.png) quest line. I was pretty tempted to go after the evasion version to help with farming but then my primal need to hit harder took over. I also considered the 2x attacking dagger but there is no way I'm camping all the NMs so I'll have to pass on that for now.
The first trial was to kill 100 rabbits (trial 16) in pretty much any kind of weather. I knew the Boyahda tree almost always had water or lightning weather so I went out there. I was pretty surprised when I killed the first mob and the game actually told me how many rabbits I had left. Where the heck has this feature been for the last 8 years!? The kills were pretty slow going until I finally managed to get a party with Sigrid and Streak. Streak left pretty early but Sigrid and I kept killing stuff for awhile and I was able to pick up the last few mobs on my own in the morning.
Sigrid was JP and liked calling me Cat Boss in auto translate
The next trial was for killing 100 crabs in fire, light, lightning, or wind weather. I wasted a good chunk of time trying to find a new zone with one of these weather effects but when I get to then the effect would never take place. So, I ended up just going back to the tree and slowly killing 100 crabs all by myself ; ;. Luckily I finally started playing Final Fantasy XIII again which gave me something to do while waiting for the weather effects to change.
For trials 19-20 I went to Cape Terrigan. Sadly but unsurprisingly the fire weather that I needed never activated so I ended up waiting to firesday to start killing the 100 mobs. Luckily I was able to team up with Yuumin for two firesdays in a row to get my kills pretty quickly. Which leads me to trial 20 which I'm currently on. I need to kill 100 crabs in fire weather or on firesday. I've been able to get zero help on this one so it's been just me and my NPC wacking away at crabs. I currently only have 48 to go. I was hoping to get half of that taken care of this morning and the rest on Tuesday but maintainece has reared its ugly head so that won't be happening.
Guess that's about it. I didn't do any Assaults last week. I did do another Odin run and got the earring with 7 ATT and 3 Store TP (bye bye spike earring). I tried to get another amulet so that I could get the torque but I ended up dying 3 times which pissed me off so I stopped. I'm going to toss the link to episode 22 here at the bottom. I should have put it up a week ago but hey, I'm me.
Show number 22!
I don't really feel sad or happy about it. Darklords Domain are a good group of guys but I'm not just not feeling it anymore. Been in the shell for almost a year and the relic I joined it to get I'll probably never get (Darn you THF hands!!!!). Not to mention attendance has been pretty poor for awhile. When I joined the shell we were loaded with BLMS and WHMS. Our last Dynamis run had like 2 of each, with me being one of the WHMs... Plus, we are rumored to be switching to 7 days a week for awhile at work so I won't be able to attend anything for awhile anyway if that happens (please shoot me). So, out with the old I guess.
I'm not jumping to another shell, at least not at the moment. I may do a Dynamis run with Wewantrelic this weekend but I won't know until I find out which one they are doing and know if I feel like attending. My hope is that they'd be doing Valkrum or Qufim so I can get one step closer to Tavnazia access.
As for what I've been doing in game it's pretty much been Trials of the Magians. I picked the Dagger, Peeler, and embarked on the Dakini with 34 DMG, 190 Delay, 4 STR, and 12 ATT (http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/File:Trial021.png) quest line. I was pretty tempted to go after the evasion version to help with farming but then my primal need to hit harder took over. I also considered the 2x attacking dagger but there is no way I'm camping all the NMs so I'll have to pass on that for now.
The first trial was to kill 100 rabbits (trial 16) in pretty much any kind of weather. I knew the Boyahda tree almost always had water or lightning weather so I went out there. I was pretty surprised when I killed the first mob and the game actually told me how many rabbits I had left. Where the heck has this feature been for the last 8 years!? The kills were pretty slow going until I finally managed to get a party with Sigrid and Streak. Streak left pretty early but Sigrid and I kept killing stuff for awhile and I was able to pick up the last few mobs on my own in the morning.
The next trial was for killing 100 crabs in fire, light, lightning, or wind weather. I wasted a good chunk of time trying to find a new zone with one of these weather effects but when I get to then the effect would never take place. So, I ended up just going back to the tree and slowly killing 100 crabs all by myself ; ;. Luckily I finally started playing Final Fantasy XIII again which gave me something to do while waiting for the weather effects to change.
For trials 19-20 I went to Cape Terrigan. Sadly but unsurprisingly the fire weather that I needed never activated so I ended up waiting to firesday to start killing the 100 mobs. Luckily I was able to team up with Yuumin for two firesdays in a row to get my kills pretty quickly. Which leads me to trial 20 which I'm currently on. I need to kill 100 crabs in fire weather or on firesday. I've been able to get zero help on this one so it's been just me and my NPC wacking away at crabs. I currently only have 48 to go. I was hoping to get half of that taken care of this morning and the rest on Tuesday but maintainece has reared its ugly head so that won't be happening.
Guess that's about it. I didn't do any Assaults last week. I did do another Odin run and got the earring with 7 ATT and 3 Store TP (bye bye spike earring). I tried to get another amulet so that I could get the torque but I ended up dying 3 times which pissed me off so I stopped. I'm going to toss the link to episode 22 here at the bottom. I should have put it up a week ago but hey, I'm me.
Show number 22!
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
New episode in the morning
Just got through recording another show. I don't have time to edit it before work so I may do it when I get home or after I wake up.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
March update is here kinda
So, the March update of 2010 hit today, well yesterday technically but the game was pretty much down all day. I logged in this morning to check out the new content but of course I see a message saying there will be maintainace in an hour, yay! I figure I might aswell get Castle Zhval(s) and Zhval Keep unlocked. I'm on WHM so I just recall to the past and arbiter warp out to Xarcabard. I don't make it but a few steps before I get imp aggro, so I sleep that, teleport to my home nation, then go back out there and try again. I got a little lost but I ended up finding my way with little difficulty. I had to raise a couple of people, a JP SAM (or atleast he was in askar), and "Nobody messes with" Zahan, who had a nice train of mobs following him up the steps to the castle.
I was pretty worried when I entered cuz' you see a bunch of imps in the sky but they seem to just be decoration (I steered will clear of them to be safe). I tried to run the usual way to get to the keep but the bottom floor is flooded with some red substence, taru blood perhaps? So, I run back down the main path where you spawn Dark Spark and at first I'm terrified cuz' it's full of mobs but then I realize that they all have campaign swords over their heads and just run past. I made it up to the keep with about 13 minutes left before the game went down so I figured I'd run up the throne room before I logged. Sadly a bunch of gargoyles were blocking the way so I paused not knowing if I should try another way or just give up. A minute or so later a BLM runs in and opens the door leading to the mobs and they aggro him, confirming to me that I won't be able to get to the throne room without a party. I was all ready to raise him but he sleep the mob and zoned.
Failing that I figured I might have just enough time to check the Trial of Magains quest thing out. So, I went to Jeuno. I checked out the new NPC that sends you off to fight Abyssea monsters, quickly determined that was wasn't messing with that crap, then headed to the moogle in upper jeuno. I was disappointed in SE right away because they gave the illusion that you'd be able to trade whatever you wanted but in actuality you have to get specific weapons from the moogle (or trade your mythic if you have it) and you can only get specific upgrades predetermined by SE. LAME!!! I didn't have time to check out all the possibilities for the weapons I might upgrade cuz' I ended up getting booted before I had to chance.
Sadly by the time maintainence is over I'll have to head off to work so I won't be able to check anymore stuff out today. I'll probably record a show about this update in a few days. Speaking of shows...here are links to the past few.
Show number 17!
Show number 18!
Show number 19!
Show number 20!
Show number 21!
I was pretty worried when I entered cuz' you see a bunch of imps in the sky but they seem to just be decoration (I steered will clear of them to be safe). I tried to run the usual way to get to the keep but the bottom floor is flooded with some red substence, taru blood perhaps? So, I run back down the main path where you spawn Dark Spark and at first I'm terrified cuz' it's full of mobs but then I realize that they all have campaign swords over their heads and just run past. I made it up to the keep with about 13 minutes left before the game went down so I figured I'd run up the throne room before I logged. Sadly a bunch of gargoyles were blocking the way so I paused not knowing if I should try another way or just give up. A minute or so later a BLM runs in and opens the door leading to the mobs and they aggro him, confirming to me that I won't be able to get to the throne room without a party. I was all ready to raise him but he sleep the mob and zoned.
Failing that I figured I might have just enough time to check the Trial of Magains quest thing out. So, I went to Jeuno. I checked out the new NPC that sends you off to fight Abyssea monsters, quickly determined that was wasn't messing with that crap, then headed to the moogle in upper jeuno. I was disappointed in SE right away because they gave the illusion that you'd be able to trade whatever you wanted but in actuality you have to get specific weapons from the moogle (or trade your mythic if you have it) and you can only get specific upgrades predetermined by SE. LAME!!! I didn't have time to check out all the possibilities for the weapons I might upgrade cuz' I ended up getting booted before I had to chance.
Sadly by the time maintainence is over I'll have to head off to work so I won't be able to check anymore stuff out today. I'll probably record a show about this update in a few days. Speaking of shows...here are links to the past few.
Show number 17!
Show number 18!
Show number 19!
Show number 20!
Show number 21!
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Episode Sixteen: I'm The King of The Pirates!
What's this you say? A real blog post!? Indeed good sir, indeed. So I've pretty much just been working on my COR. It's at 52 right now and almost 53. I may try and finish that up before I go to bed tonight but probably not. I'm not sure if I've even done a proper blog post on here since I last picked COR back up but I've been messing with it for a few weeks now. I'm having an extremely hard time getting parties during the week but on weekends it's been a piece of cake. Pretty frustrating because I've currently only been having Sundays off so I pretty much blow my only free day playing FFXI ><. But videogames are more important then real life so I'm doing okay.
I'm currently not sure how far I'm going to go on COR at the moment. I want to take it to 75 but I currently only have 14k gil on me and I'm missing two dice. Not to mention the iron bullets that I'm using are 100k a stack. I'm really starting to see why COR is so expensive that it's taking longer to gain levels so I'm throwing away more gil each party. Granted I can always take the lazy route and just not fire any bullets if it comes to it. Speaking of lazy I partied with the worst BRD I've ever seen today, Baisino. Dude would only cast two songs and said two songs would be cast on the whole party. Apparently walking two feet back to cast ballad on the RDM was just too much to ask. Dude, claimed nobody had complained about how he was playing before. I find that hard to believe yet at the same time he is a BRD so it isn't too suprising that people wouldn't kick him even though he was crap. Me personally if I get a BRD, COR, RDM, ect, in my party and they refuse to play properly, I look for a rep and kick them. I haven't made a party in forever (minus the one I made today) but I've had to give at least one RDM the boot before.
Aside from leveling I'd done the usual Dynamis & Nyzul Assaults. I've received WHM legs, DRK legs, THF head, and PLD feet recently in Dynamis. I was hoping for THF hands in my next Xarcabard run but it appears there are a few other people going for it so unless 2-3 drop (yeah, right) I'm gonna up empty handed (no pun intended). Nyzul wise I tried to get my Askar legs and Denali hands but I've come up short. The Denali hands dropped twice but I was out lotted both times...
I attempted my first SMN burn party recently. It was a total failure. Half us had no clue on what to do and ended up astral flowing the wrong mobs and getting ourselves killed. It was an interesting attempt at least and I hope I get a chance to attempt it again in the future.
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Show number 16!
Email me at: lookingforparty@gmail.com
I'm currently not sure how far I'm going to go on COR at the moment. I want to take it to 75 but I currently only have 14k gil on me and I'm missing two dice. Not to mention the iron bullets that I'm using are 100k a stack. I'm really starting to see why COR is so expensive that it's taking longer to gain levels so I'm throwing away more gil each party. Granted I can always take the lazy route and just not fire any bullets if it comes to it. Speaking of lazy I partied with the worst BRD I've ever seen today, Baisino. Dude would only cast two songs and said two songs would be cast on the whole party. Apparently walking two feet back to cast ballad on the RDM was just too much to ask. Dude, claimed nobody had complained about how he was playing before. I find that hard to believe yet at the same time he is a BRD so it isn't too suprising that people wouldn't kick him even though he was crap. Me personally if I get a BRD, COR, RDM, ect, in my party and they refuse to play properly, I look for a rep and kick them. I haven't made a party in forever (minus the one I made today) but I've had to give at least one RDM the boot before.
Aside from leveling I'd done the usual Dynamis & Nyzul Assaults. I've received WHM legs, DRK legs, THF head, and PLD feet recently in Dynamis. I was hoping for THF hands in my next Xarcabard run but it appears there are a few other people going for it so unless 2-3 drop (yeah, right) I'm gonna up empty handed (no pun intended). Nyzul wise I tried to get my Askar legs and Denali hands but I've come up short. The Denali hands dropped twice but I was out lotted both times...
I attempted my first SMN burn party recently. It was a total failure. Half us had no clue on what to do and ended up astral flowing the wrong mobs and getting ourselves killed. It was an interesting attempt at least and I hope I get a chance to attempt it again in the future.
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Show number 16!
Email me at: lookingforparty@gmail.com
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Episode 15: Pirates life not for me.
Yeah...I totally should update this thing huh? I'll get around to that...but not today! Guess I should post a link to the past 3 shows I've done since my last post here...also noticed that the links in the previous post both linked to episode 10...whoops. Fixed that.
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Show number 13!
Show number 14!
Show number 15!
Email me at: lookingforparty@gmail.com
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Show number 13!
Show number 14!
Show number 15!
Email me at: lookingforparty@gmail.com
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Dynamis Windurst victory!
I've spent most of these few days meriting and looking for party. Finally capped my Store TP merits on Samurai and I'm currently unsure on what I'm going to spend my remaining points on. Going to wait and see what Square Enix is going to do with "Warding Circle" and other simular abilities with the next update before I spend anymore points on SAM.
I attempted to stock up on Allied Notes for the update aswell but as usual there were bearly any fights going on so it seemed like a waste of time. I've been pretty excited for this Sunday since last week because the linkshell I joined, Weaponry, was supposed to be doing a Windy run (which I needed), however I noticed on Friday that they were doing Beaucedine instead. I was pretty bummed but not overly suprised cuz' that kinda crap happens to me all the time. My blues vanished when I noticed that the crappy shell I joined for Einherjar was doing a Windy run that Sunday. So, I figured great, I can tag along with them and get the clear, then run with my normal shell next week.
However, when we were getting ready to do our run on Sunday another LS named Illuminados took our spot. LS members bitched and moaned cuz' our leader had reserved the space on some website but those schedualer sites are pointless since they aren't sanction by SE. As soon as word came down that the other shell would get in before us I started feeling pretty down. The shell decided to go do Sandy but I had no intrest in doing San d'oria again so I said f-it and asked the leader of the shell that stole our spot if I could do the run since it's the last city I needed to be caught up with my current Dynamis shell. This is how that went.
Now, If I understood what he type correctly, first he says I can come, then he tells me that he won't invite me because one of the members in his shell doesn't want me to come. He then tells me if I give him 3 million gil I can come and I just have to trust that this complete stranger will give it all back at the end of the run. Needless to say, even if I had that kind of cash I wouldn't have been stupid enough to hand it over to this shady fellow, so, I just warped back to Whitegate and sat around feeling sorry for myself for a bit.
After an hour or two I couldn't shake the desire to get Dynamis Windurst completed today so I ran back to Windy, set my search comment to ask if I could tag a long and sat down next to the entrence. I ended up sitting there for a looooong time. I watched the last episode of Breaking Bad, played some BlazBlue, and excerised to the kill the time. Finally when I about to start my crunches a large group of people had amassed so I braced myself and asked the leader of Overkill, Overlordkain, if I could tag along with his shell. I got no response and thought he was just ignoring me but it turned out that he just missed my tell while he was getting everything organized. After debating a little bit on how we were going to do it, he just ended up giving me a glass and a pearl and I did the whole run.
I was somewhat confused by what he wrote until Terrasii handed me a pearl. My inventory was full so I had to toss my InsaneBrotherz (a.k.a. crappy Einherjar shell) to make space but I think I'll live.
Right off the bat I had a good feeling about this shell because they were tearing through the mobs with little difficulty and the route they took through the stage was different then the one I've taken every other time I've done this run. Things were going pretty smooth but we did eventually wipe...twice in a row. I started to doubt that we were going to win but we still had time so I stuck with it. It wasn't too long after that when I saw a giant statue crossing a bridge and knew victory was close at hand. The SOB got a couple of hits on me but I managed to survive get the clear.
Now I just have to hope Weaponry fails their Beacudine run so that they'll have to do it again next week and I can get the clear there too :)
I attempted to stock up on Allied Notes for the update aswell but as usual there were bearly any fights going on so it seemed like a waste of time. I've been pretty excited for this Sunday since last week because the linkshell I joined, Weaponry, was supposed to be doing a Windy run (which I needed), however I noticed on Friday that they were doing Beaucedine instead. I was pretty bummed but not overly suprised cuz' that kinda crap happens to me all the time. My blues vanished when I noticed that the crappy shell I joined for Einherjar was doing a Windy run that Sunday. So, I figured great, I can tag along with them and get the clear, then run with my normal shell next week.
However, when we were getting ready to do our run on Sunday another LS named Illuminados took our spot. LS members bitched and moaned cuz' our leader had reserved the space on some website but those schedualer sites are pointless since they aren't sanction by SE. As soon as word came down that the other shell would get in before us I started feeling pretty down. The shell decided to go do Sandy but I had no intrest in doing San d'oria again so I said f-it and asked the leader of the shell that stole our spot if I could do the run since it's the last city I needed to be caught up with my current Dynamis shell. This is how that went.
Now, If I understood what he type correctly, first he says I can come, then he tells me that he won't invite me because one of the members in his shell doesn't want me to come. He then tells me if I give him 3 million gil I can come and I just have to trust that this complete stranger will give it all back at the end of the run. Needless to say, even if I had that kind of cash I wouldn't have been stupid enough to hand it over to this shady fellow, so, I just warped back to Whitegate and sat around feeling sorry for myself for a bit.
After an hour or two I couldn't shake the desire to get Dynamis Windurst completed today so I ran back to Windy, set my search comment to ask if I could tag a long and sat down next to the entrence. I ended up sitting there for a looooong time. I watched the last episode of Breaking Bad, played some BlazBlue, and excerised to the kill the time. Finally when I about to start my crunches a large group of people had amassed so I braced myself and asked the leader of Overkill, Overlordkain, if I could tag along with his shell. I got no response and thought he was just ignoring me but it turned out that he just missed my tell while he was getting everything organized. After debating a little bit on how we were going to do it, he just ended up giving me a glass and a pearl and I did the whole run.
Right off the bat I had a good feeling about this shell because they were tearing through the mobs with little difficulty and the route they took through the stage was different then the one I've taken every other time I've done this run. Things were going pretty smooth but we did eventually wipe...twice in a row. I started to doubt that we were going to win but we still had time so I stuck with it. It wasn't too long after that when I saw a giant statue crossing a bridge and knew victory was close at hand. The SOB got a couple of hits on me but I managed to survive get the clear.
Now I just have to hope Weaponry fails their Beacudine run so that they'll have to do it again next week and I can get the clear there too :)
Monday, July 13, 2009
What I've been up to
I put together a Nyzul Isle floor 100 run on Saturday with Thebluedragon, Shortkiller, Vanin, Mirya, and Haublice. Much to my suprise we ended up scoring a Denali head which I had sole lotting rights too so I gleefully took it. I didn't feel as pumped as I did when I got my Askar head a few weeks ago but it still felt good and I was a little giddy for awhile because I was on Samurai so I couldn't equip it which lead to me constantly opening my inventory to look at it. After the first run ended, some people wanted to go again so we decided to do a floor 80 run. Thebluedragon left (I think he was out of tags) and we picked up Windraker and made another attempt. We beat the boss but we failed to get an armor drop. We had aquired a couple of ??? items but Haublice logged off quickly after we exited and took those items with him.
Later that day, still pumped from my earlier succes I joined up with Illucid, Eiana, Ririanne, Vaashe, & Jadeshadow to do a floor 20 run. It was an abysmal failure because Illucid and Jadeshow aggroed seemingly every gear in the stage ON PURPOSE, giving us all kinds of penalties and wasting a ton of time. Why they didn't just avoid the gears in beyond me but we ended up not even clearing the floor because of them. The first floor. They wanted to go again but I quickly jumped ship.
Why are you attacking the gears?
I've also joined a couple more linkshells. Weaponry, which is a Dynamis shell and Insanebotherz which is a Dynamis/Einherjar shell. Figured I haven't done endgame in so long I might aswell just suck it up and take what I can get instead of looking for something that has idea times for me. Weaponry is point based which I hate especially since I can only do one run a week with them due to work. But I figured even if it's points based I'll get some gear as apposed to nothing like I have been getting without a shell. Insanebrotherz I joined for Einherjar which I haven't done yet but we are preping for a run as I type this. *edit* Total failure *edit*
Some other stuff I've been messing around with is getting my polearm leveled. It's high enough now that I can use it in merit parties which is what I've been doing. Including one with Cobrazzzzzz who is the gimpiest person gearwise that I've partied with in awhile.
As far as I know he had the same gear on at all times. Full time dex rings THF af at 73. Is here main handing a theives knife in an xp party?...wow.
My polearm is currently at 238 and I'm guess it caps around 257 so I'm not that far off. I feel so stupid for waiting so long to level it but I'm glad I finally got around to it. Penta thrust is so awsome that now I want to level DRG to use Drakesbane. I also messed around with RDM a little bit. I'm working on getting Deathblossom unlocked. I'm still a ways away but at least I've gotten it started. I'm guessing I'll have it unlocked in a couple of days if I spend a little time on it here and there.
I also got my Askar body on sunday. I did the run as WHM which scared me quite a bit because I'm not a good healer but everything ended up working out okay. I didn't think we were going to make it because we had a few floors with chariots and one floor where job abilities were restricted but we managed to prevail and defeat the boss with a few minutes to spare. My thanks to Hirronimus, Malakz, Elsar, Seipher, Badmidou.
I can finally wear something other then a hauby!
And lastly I did my first Dynamis in ages. It was a Jeuno run and I ended up coming as WHM in an alliance-less party (ouch, my pride). Things started of real bad with a bunch of deaths and few near wipes but after a bit everyone got their stuff together and things started to run smooth. Sadly this shell has it's obligatory asshole, this one is named Astiar. He sent a few misstells insulting members in the shell and spent a good 10 minutes going on and on about how much better one linkshell member was over another. I wanted to toss my pearl right then and their. I can't stand people like that and I've quite shells before due to it in the past. I decided to tough it out though, it might just be an off night and I can give the shell and the guy another chance. If this kinda thing is a regualr accurance and Astiar doesn't get kicked I'm probably gonna bounce.
Quite the gentleman
Anyway, things were going smoothly (gameplay wise) until we got down to the last 30 minutes. We were making our way to the boss when we had a huge link and we ended up wiping. We were unable to recover in time and the run ended in failure. Didn't really matter to me because I have that clear but I'm a little worried about Dynamis Windurst. I still need Windy and if this shell can't beat Jeuno then they may not be able to handle Windurst either. Time will tell. Congrats to Shillelagh, Valesca, Mannabirds, and Zula for the gear this aquired.
Later that day, still pumped from my earlier succes I joined up with Illucid, Eiana, Ririanne, Vaashe, & Jadeshadow to do a floor 20 run. It was an abysmal failure because Illucid and Jadeshow aggroed seemingly every gear in the stage ON PURPOSE, giving us all kinds of penalties and wasting a ton of time. Why they didn't just avoid the gears in beyond me but we ended up not even clearing the floor because of them. The first floor. They wanted to go again but I quickly jumped ship.
I've also joined a couple more linkshells. Weaponry, which is a Dynamis shell and Insanebotherz which is a Dynamis/Einherjar shell. Figured I haven't done endgame in so long I might aswell just suck it up and take what I can get instead of looking for something that has idea times for me. Weaponry is point based which I hate especially since I can only do one run a week with them due to work. But I figured even if it's points based I'll get some gear as apposed to nothing like I have been getting without a shell. Insanebrotherz I joined for Einherjar which I haven't done yet but we are preping for a run as I type this. *edit* Total failure *edit*
Some other stuff I've been messing around with is getting my polearm leveled. It's high enough now that I can use it in merit parties which is what I've been doing. Including one with Cobrazzzzzz who is the gimpiest person gearwise that I've partied with in awhile.
My polearm is currently at 238 and I'm guess it caps around 257 so I'm not that far off. I feel so stupid for waiting so long to level it but I'm glad I finally got around to it. Penta thrust is so awsome that now I want to level DRG to use Drakesbane. I also messed around with RDM a little bit. I'm working on getting Deathblossom unlocked. I'm still a ways away but at least I've gotten it started. I'm guessing I'll have it unlocked in a couple of days if I spend a little time on it here and there.
I also got my Askar body on sunday. I did the run as WHM which scared me quite a bit because I'm not a good healer but everything ended up working out okay. I didn't think we were going to make it because we had a few floors with chariots and one floor where job abilities were restricted but we managed to prevail and defeat the boss with a few minutes to spare. My thanks to Hirronimus, Malakz, Elsar, Seipher, Badmidou.
And lastly I did my first Dynamis in ages. It was a Jeuno run and I ended up coming as WHM in an alliance-less party (ouch, my pride). Things started of real bad with a bunch of deaths and few near wipes but after a bit everyone got their stuff together and things started to run smooth. Sadly this shell has it's obligatory asshole, this one is named Astiar. He sent a few misstells insulting members in the shell and spent a good 10 minutes going on and on about how much better one linkshell member was over another. I wanted to toss my pearl right then and their. I can't stand people like that and I've quite shells before due to it in the past. I decided to tough it out though, it might just be an off night and I can give the shell and the guy another chance. If this kinda thing is a regualr accurance and Astiar doesn't get kicked I'm probably gonna bounce.
Anyway, things were going smoothly (gameplay wise) until we got down to the last 30 minutes. We were making our way to the boss when we had a huge link and we ended up wiping. We were unable to recover in time and the run ended in failure. Didn't really matter to me because I have that clear but I'm a little worried about Dynamis Windurst. I still need Windy and if this shell can't beat Jeuno then they may not be able to handle Windurst either. Time will tell. Congrats to Shillelagh, Valesca, Mannabirds, and Zula for the gear this aquired.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Episodes 11 and 12
Sorry, for my lazyness. I'll edit this post later, time for work!
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Show number 11!
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Show number 12!
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Show number 11!
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Show number 12!
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Episode Ten: A Crystaline Fallacy
Episode 10 is here! This episodes is more WHM leveling and the A Crystaline Prophecy quest. Spoilers in the episode if you haven't done ACP but there really isn't much to spoil.
I got lucky pretty early because when I logged on for the week Byson was shouting for an ISNM 3000, the puk fight. I joined that and got the go first, much to my pleasent suprise I ended up getting my drops.
Finally! They were going for 370k on the AH but I undercut for 340k (bit me). The BLM went afk and pretty much killed the run after only two attempts but I didn't really care since I got what I came for. I bought the lvl 68 WHM body piece with the cure potency on it. I did another run a few days later and got Khroma ore again, that was nice 400k in my pocket.
I'll finish the show notes later...
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Show number 10!
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I got lucky pretty early because when I logged on for the week Byson was shouting for an ISNM 3000, the puk fight. I joined that and got the go first, much to my pleasent suprise I ended up getting my drops.
Finally! They were going for 370k on the AH but I undercut for 340k (bit me). The BLM went afk and pretty much killed the run after only two attempts but I didn't really care since I got what I came for. I bought the lvl 68 WHM body piece with the cure potency on it. I did another run a few days later and got Khroma ore again, that was nice 400k in my pocket.
I'll finish the show notes later...
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Show number 10!
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
Episode 9: Dynamis Defeat
Episode 9 is out, and these show notes are like a week late, lol. I actually started recording the next podcast and then I remembered that I hadn't even done the notes for this one ><. This show is fairly uneventful. Nothing all that special happened but I figured I might aswell update anyway. The podcast was down for a few days, cuz' I was flat broke and tried to shut it off before I was billed. The feed is back up and I hope that it didn't cause any problems for anyone trying to check the podcast out.
I mentioned this last week but I talk about my failed Zilart Mission 16 fight. I haven't retried it yet but I'm still hopeful that I'll get it done sometime soon. I also did a few a Nyzul runs. I called a guy Oromusha in the podcast but his name is Oroshimar, whatever...he still stood in front of Cerberus and got himself killed.
Did another Nyzul run but nothing dropped that time either. Depressing but I haven't given up yet. On a positive note I finally got my WHM AF body. I was lvl 67 when I got the lvl 60 peice but hey, at least I have it. I took a nice screenshot of me posing when I acquired my body piece but I didn't actually have Fraps open, oops! This random picture of my back will have to suffice.
Did Dynamis San d' Oria a couple of times and neither went well. We got the clear and wiped on the first run, the second run was pure crap. We weakened the boss but we just weren't able to take him. We had a BLM d/c when the puller brought in a train of mobs with the boss. I think we would have beaten the boss had the BLM not d/c but you never know. The big question is was it chance or did she do it on purpose?
I spent most of my time leveling WHM. I tried to get SCH to 35 by soloing but that only ended with me dying repeatedly. And that was pretty much my week (or two).
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Show number 9!
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I mentioned this last week but I talk about my failed Zilart Mission 16 fight. I haven't retried it yet but I'm still hopeful that I'll get it done sometime soon. I also did a few a Nyzul runs. I called a guy Oromusha in the podcast but his name is Oroshimar, whatever...he still stood in front of Cerberus and got himself killed.
Did another Nyzul run but nothing dropped that time either. Depressing but I haven't given up yet. On a positive note I finally got my WHM AF body. I was lvl 67 when I got the lvl 60 peice but hey, at least I have it. I took a nice screenshot of me posing when I acquired my body piece but I didn't actually have Fraps open, oops! This random picture of my back will have to suffice.
Did Dynamis San d' Oria a couple of times and neither went well. We got the clear and wiped on the first run, the second run was pure crap. We weakened the boss but we just weren't able to take him. We had a BLM d/c when the puller brought in a train of mobs with the boss. I think we would have beaten the boss had the BLM not d/c but you never know. The big question is was it chance or did she do it on purpose?
I spent most of my time leveling WHM. I tried to get SCH to 35 by soloing but that only ended with me dying repeatedly. And that was pretty much my week (or two).
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Show number 9!
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Sunday, April 26, 2009
Nothing much up
I've pretty much just been leveling my WHM. I woke up Saturday morning, logged in at around 9:00 A.M and with the exception of a few breaks I played until like 2 A.M on Sunday. Currently my WHM is setting at 68 with exceeds my goal of hitting 67 by the end of the week. I'm pretty suprised by that but I'm glad at the same time. I guess I'm gonna shoot for 70 by next weekend but I'm not sure if I'll make it because I'm moving next week and my SCH is at 34, meaning I'll need to spend at least a day getting that up to 35. However I think it'd probably be best to aim for 37 on SCH just to have it done and out of the way.
On the podcast front, not really feeling like recording a show at the moment. Considering I mostly just xp'd on WHM until my eyes hurt, lol. I did do a Dynamis but that wasn't too exciting. I'll probably do something some time this week though.
On the podcast front, not really feeling like recording a show at the moment. Considering I mostly just xp'd on WHM until my eyes hurt, lol. I did do a Dynamis but that wasn't too exciting. I'll probably do something some time this week though.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Episode Eight: A Gentleman and a SCH
Alrighty, I'm back. My first recorded show since returning so I go over pretty much the last few blog posts and my experiences since. I was kinda pissed because I recorded the podcast on Wednesday/Thursday morning but after I had everything done and edited I ended doing a ZM 16 run that I would have loved to talk about on the show but I wouldn't have been able to get the show up before I went to work if I had done that cuz' I was cutting it pretty close as it was.
The intro song is an old Playonline song for those of you who are confused. I had intended to do something much more grand but it would require a lot of editing and I'm pretty lazy. Maybe I'll have it ready for the next episode (probably not). I more or less spent the last weekend leveling WHM and SCH. My attempts at soloing on SCH while waiting for a party didn't go so well.
I also needed the new WHM spells if I was gonna level that up. Being poor I figured I'd try and farm at least one. I got Auspice without too much trouble but since I was already in Castle Oztroja, I figured I'd make an attempt at getting the Ochimusha Kote from Mee Deggi the Punisher while I was at it. I waiting about 30 minutes then a different NM popped and somebody killed it. I said f-it and left. I hate camping NMs.
I've made an attempt at getting back into endgame since my return. Just looking for 1 weekend run at the moment. I had joined a shell that a guy named Zeake was shouting for after the shell that Spardathedark had changed it's date. Zeake ended up not making his own shell and joining another shell named "SerenityBlue" and to just give him a tell for a pearl or show up Saturday for the run. So I log in on Saturday ready to do Dynamis but noticed that Zeake was in Sandy instead on Jeuno. So, I shoot him a tell and tells me he bailed on that shell. So, there I am ready to go with no Dynamis shell. I was tempted to go to Jeuno and see if I could get into SerenityBlue at the last minute but I figured screw it. Since then I have joined two shells. SocialOutcasts with is supposed to be a casul shell but when I put on the shell it already had events set and they were at times that I couldn't attend. I'm not sure about this shell yet but I guess time will tell. The other is BouncingSoul, a dynamis shell. I just got the pearl this morning so I don't know if it'll be any good or not. I'll find out Sunday.
So, anyway, after I got Auspice and bought a few spells and got my SCH to 34, I went back to leveling WHM. I'm currently at 64, about half way to 65. I tried campaign after the update that nerfed the amount of xp you get from beating on fortifications and got a whopping 172 xp after probably 8 minutes of attacking a wall...why does SE do such stupid things? Anywho, the xping was pretty standard fair no real problems. I did get pretty annoyed at the last party I had because there was a DNC and BRD who kept healing the PLD which made me almost useless. I guess I shouldn't complain but I'd like to do something more then cast haste, I can do that on my RDM. As fate would have it the new LS I joined, SocialOutcasts, mentioned that someone was shouting for ZM 16 in Whitegate. I asked Rdragonfly if he had room, he said yes, and I imediately started looking for a replacement. It took a little while but I managed to find a 60 RDM (we were synced to 61). Dude ended up dying on the way to the camp so I had to go raise him. It took forever to find him because he had been running the wrong way but I finally managed to R2 him. He was decked out in melee gear and wearing pants that appeared to be scale mail...I hope to Altana I was mistaken or he was just dressed like that for fun. Either way, it was the party's problem not mine :)
So, I get to Whitegate and Rdragonfly, who I've been in a endgame shell with before, invites me. I immediatly start panicing because I thought I had triggered all the cutscenes I needed but my mission title was wrong. I was all ready to drop and go cry in a corner but Rdragonfly was patient and told me to just go talk to Gilgamesh and join everyone in Sky. I do so (which is when I realize I had already done it) and head off to sky after waisting 30 minutes of everyone's time. The run to the BCNM went pretty fast an easy aside from some weapon aggro. Luckily nobody died.
When we arrive at the BCNM our setup is Rdragonfly (SAM), Jophen (SAM), me (SAM), Sirax (DRK), Alrahal (NIN), and Esiga (RDM). Rdragonfly explains that the stratgey is pretty much just to spam Tachi: Gekko over and over again until the NM is dead. Works for me. Very quickly a few of the party members go down, I don't know what killed them, I just kept spaming my weapon skills and hoped for the best. We ended up taking out the first form pretty easily but about 10 seconds after we started resting for the next half, we realized that the boss doesn't wait for you and just attacks.
Everything is going fine
We try to rest after first form and he teleports to us
We probably would have won but the RDM didn't have reraise. I don't know if he just didn't cast it or if he died, hopped back up, and died again. Regardless things seemed like there were going to work out, we had him about half way to death, I was just about to used meditate and weaponskill him when he puts us all to sleep. After that he just takes his sweet time killing us off one by one and ending the run. It was a nice attempt and I went to give it another go, next time that sucker is mine!
At least I got to see a cool cutscene
I logged in today but due to maintainace I realized I wouldn't be able to level white mage. I saw someone shouting for Nyzul floors 56-60 which I need so I accepted that. Ramzat, Seipher, Beartooth, Ichlgo, Oroshimaru and myself grabbed our orders and gave it a go. I thought the party was going to end in failure real quick because it took a while to clear the first floor which was a lamp floor and people kept aggroing stuff. But after that things went pretty smooth even when SE hit us with another lamp floor. We ended up fighting Cerberus and he went down pretty easily. For whatever reason Oroshimaru stood right in front of Cerberus instead of at it's feet like we told him too and died. We still managed to win pretty easily. Sadly on the RNG weapon, Quicksilver, dropped. I was hopping for Denali hands but I need the floors cleared so I was happy with just the win. That's pretty much it for this update. Gameplan is keep messing with WHM and hopefully have a good Dynamis run.
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The intro song is an old Playonline song for those of you who are confused. I had intended to do something much more grand but it would require a lot of editing and I'm pretty lazy. Maybe I'll have it ready for the next episode (probably not). I more or less spent the last weekend leveling WHM and SCH. My attempts at soloing on SCH while waiting for a party didn't go so well.
I also needed the new WHM spells if I was gonna level that up. Being poor I figured I'd try and farm at least one. I got Auspice without too much trouble but since I was already in Castle Oztroja, I figured I'd make an attempt at getting the Ochimusha Kote from Mee Deggi the Punisher while I was at it. I waiting about 30 minutes then a different NM popped and somebody killed it. I said f-it and left. I hate camping NMs.
I've made an attempt at getting back into endgame since my return. Just looking for 1 weekend run at the moment. I had joined a shell that a guy named Zeake was shouting for after the shell that Spardathedark had changed it's date. Zeake ended up not making his own shell and joining another shell named "SerenityBlue" and to just give him a tell for a pearl or show up Saturday for the run. So I log in on Saturday ready to do Dynamis but noticed that Zeake was in Sandy instead on Jeuno. So, I shoot him a tell and tells me he bailed on that shell. So, there I am ready to go with no Dynamis shell. I was tempted to go to Jeuno and see if I could get into SerenityBlue at the last minute but I figured screw it. Since then I have joined two shells. SocialOutcasts with is supposed to be a casul shell but when I put on the shell it already had events set and they were at times that I couldn't attend. I'm not sure about this shell yet but I guess time will tell. The other is BouncingSoul, a dynamis shell. I just got the pearl this morning so I don't know if it'll be any good or not. I'll find out Sunday.
So, anyway, after I got Auspice and bought a few spells and got my SCH to 34, I went back to leveling WHM. I'm currently at 64, about half way to 65. I tried campaign after the update that nerfed the amount of xp you get from beating on fortifications and got a whopping 172 xp after probably 8 minutes of attacking a wall...why does SE do such stupid things? Anywho, the xping was pretty standard fair no real problems. I did get pretty annoyed at the last party I had because there was a DNC and BRD who kept healing the PLD which made me almost useless. I guess I shouldn't complain but I'd like to do something more then cast haste, I can do that on my RDM. As fate would have it the new LS I joined, SocialOutcasts, mentioned that someone was shouting for ZM 16 in Whitegate. I asked Rdragonfly if he had room, he said yes, and I imediately started looking for a replacement. It took a little while but I managed to find a 60 RDM (we were synced to 61). Dude ended up dying on the way to the camp so I had to go raise him. It took forever to find him because he had been running the wrong way but I finally managed to R2 him. He was decked out in melee gear and wearing pants that appeared to be scale mail...I hope to Altana I was mistaken or he was just dressed like that for fun. Either way, it was the party's problem not mine :)
So, I get to Whitegate and Rdragonfly, who I've been in a endgame shell with before, invites me. I immediatly start panicing because I thought I had triggered all the cutscenes I needed but my mission title was wrong. I was all ready to drop and go cry in a corner but Rdragonfly was patient and told me to just go talk to Gilgamesh and join everyone in Sky. I do so (which is when I realize I had already done it) and head off to sky after waisting 30 minutes of everyone's time. The run to the BCNM went pretty fast an easy aside from some weapon aggro. Luckily nobody died.
When we arrive at the BCNM our setup is Rdragonfly (SAM), Jophen (SAM), me (SAM), Sirax (DRK), Alrahal (NIN), and Esiga (RDM). Rdragonfly explains that the stratgey is pretty much just to spam Tachi: Gekko over and over again until the NM is dead. Works for me. Very quickly a few of the party members go down, I don't know what killed them, I just kept spaming my weapon skills and hoped for the best. We ended up taking out the first form pretty easily but about 10 seconds after we started resting for the next half, we realized that the boss doesn't wait for you and just attacks.
We probably would have won but the RDM didn't have reraise. I don't know if he just didn't cast it or if he died, hopped back up, and died again. Regardless things seemed like there were going to work out, we had him about half way to death, I was just about to used meditate and weaponskill him when he puts us all to sleep. After that he just takes his sweet time killing us off one by one and ending the run. It was a nice attempt and I went to give it another go, next time that sucker is mine!
I logged in today but due to maintainace I realized I wouldn't be able to level white mage. I saw someone shouting for Nyzul floors 56-60 which I need so I accepted that. Ramzat, Seipher, Beartooth, Ichlgo, Oroshimaru and myself grabbed our orders and gave it a go. I thought the party was going to end in failure real quick because it took a while to clear the first floor which was a lamp floor and people kept aggroing stuff. But after that things went pretty smooth even when SE hit us with another lamp floor. We ended up fighting Cerberus and he went down pretty easily. For whatever reason Oroshimaru stood right in front of Cerberus instead of at it's feet like we told him too and died. We still managed to win pretty easily. Sadly on the RNG weapon, Quicksilver, dropped. I was hopping for Denali hands but I need the floors cleared so I was happy with just the win. That's pretty much it for this update. Gameplan is keep messing with WHM and hopefully have a good Dynamis run.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Oh, did I say Sunday?
Yeah, I was intending to do a show Sunday but I ended up playing Final Fantasy all day. Was gonna then record it Monday but I ended up playing Final Fantasy until I went to work. I started recording today but the party I had ran too long so I wasn't able to finish the recording before I had to get ready for work. So, I may have the episode up Wednesday. Kinda hard to say cuz' I need to watch the last episodes of Heroes and WCG Ulimate Gamer, fit FFXI in, and do the podcast on Wednesday. Tough to say if I'll be able to.
Friday, April 17, 2009
New Episode probably on Sunday
I picked up a cheap microphone and was all ready to record something but then my internet kinda went bye-bye for a couple of days. I'm supposed to have a Dynamis run Saturday unless something has changed so I'll probably try and toss something up on Sunday.
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