Orly?

So I came across a link to this personality quiz that I thought might be a hoot on a Friday afternoon while waiting to leave work for the week. So I jumped in and did the quick one and all I can say is WOW!

My Personality Quiz Results

Its actually very close to describing me well and that in turn is scary! lol

Some particular things to note. I do not feel ashamed of myself. Well maybe when I get caught picking my nose or something embarrassing like that but who doesn't??!! lol. Note the first sentence in the "Openness to experience" section. >.> NOWAI! Overall, a very accurate report as I read over it more thoroughly.

I think its good to take a look at ones self periodically so examine whether or not you ought to try and change small things in your character. I'm not talking a total character makeover that changes the very core of who you are but we all have to admit there are things in each of our lives that don't need to be there and can be detrimental not only to ones self but to the ones we care about and surround ourselves with. Its these things that I believe we can all at least consider changing to be better people and more enjoyable to be around.

Anyway, I'm freaking myself out over who philosophical I'm being on a Friday afternoon so I'm outta here! Happy long weekend Canadians!

Nyzul Update #6 - BAM!

Hmm, I remember a time not long ago when these updates were a little fewer and farther between. I guess that must mean we are having success there? HELL YEAH WE ARE! lol


Note the "MINE!" call at the top of the dialogue. A little embarrassing but you get the idea now that this was one of the reasons I started this group. Mucho thankies to my awesome Nyzul Isle static. It is a beautiful thing watching you guys tear that place apart. I'd like to complain about how crappy our drop rate is but right now, I'm just too stoked to be crabby about that. So stoked even that I go to floor 81 instead of taking us out at times. >.>


Can I just say, I look totally sexy in this piece, don't you agree? The helm and pants will cap it all off nicely but thats a few weeks away yet me thinks.
















It's kinda funny how when I was initially reading up on how to do this thing, I read that Hydra was by far the worst boss to come across. In this pic, she died again in about 30 seconds. So fast that Zero had just used Meikyo Shisui when it died and Aless had a bunch of tp to use again too AND we had attack speed own inflicted on us. Gogo last run of the night 2 hour fest!


Cerberus on the other hand is a pain in the ass. He did give up my Askar Korazin so I can't be too aggro at him but damn, hes an ass pain. I wonder how much of a different tune we'll be singing when we hit the floor 100 bosses.

Anywho, I'll leave off on my short but happy Nyzul update with a little good form by our very orderly LS at our last Limbus run. WHEEE ASKAR BODY! ^__^/

Nyzul Update #5 - New acquisitions

Been a fun week or so lately. New items, new things I haven't seen before and fun LS events of late to tell you about.

Nyzul team has been doing really well. We farmed floor 80 for the first time this passed Tuesday and though we only got one body piece, we made it look easy doing it. Congrats Zero.


There was also call for doing a couple of runs on another day of the week. After talking to everyone individually, Loren and Dylorian were the only ones who couldn't make Saturday nights for a couple of runs so we have picked up Dolar and Byany from the LS and tried our first 2 farming runs last night. Saturdays will only be farming runs used to try and knock off some gear from the list as well as give a couple of other people a shot at some of the gear. Last night went ok with us failing the first run by a matter of 3 seconds. I was JUST clicking the rune to get us out after we zerged Behemoth (with no drop) when the time expired. 2nd run was far smoother with our new people getting the hang of it. We arrived at our good friend Fafnir with a solid 12 mins or so to go. Took him down without trouble and netted a pair of these...


Congrats Aless. I know you have wanted those for a while so yay for you. Condolences to Zero for missing out with such a crappy lot lol.

Lastly for Nyzul Isle and leading off the things I haven't seen in person before, I believe I will make a rule about wearing diapers to a Nyzul run coz this made my eyes bleed ; ;


So apparently the cities in the past can now be attacked by the Beastmen Confederate. They may have been able to before but this was the first time I had seen it. Gotta say, I'm pretty proud of the boys in blue. GTFO outta my town Shadowhorn! lol


The LS has been very active as always. The new ZNM system has really got some of them going making life even busier. This is a good thing. Its nice being in a shell where something is always going on but its not so hardcore that EVERYONE has to drop what they are doing and be there for it.

So Friday night saw us attempt Iriri Samariri, a Porrogo ZNM in Mamook. lol it was quite the disaster but fun nonetheless. We really only needed one more BLM to ga the babies he popped and to make sure DoTs were always on him so he wouldn't regen for when this happened.


This week also shed some light on the mentality of our mighty LS leader Byany. Quite the interesting fellow he is turning out to be. Heres a couple of statements I caught on camera for your amusement lol.


Finally for this post, my new acquisitions!

I'll start with merit points. My list made it passed the half way point this week with me capping our my Combat merits. That was nice to see and certainly makes the ordeal of capping them out seem a little less daunting.


I also had the opportunity to go and lot on Genbu's shield if it dropped when a couple of RDMs were duoing him. Yay it dropped!


And lastly, yesterday was our LS Soboro run. I was lucky enough to be able to be on for it when earlier in the week, it was looking like RL would have me out of game at that time. It was a great run netting us 5/6 Soboro's if I remember correctly so congrats to those who got their very cool GKT!

{See you again!}

Adventuring fellow fun

The June update provided us all a bunch of new content. New mobs, gear, merit caps, quests and missions. Congrats to Jazlyn and Frenzy on the first kill of Dark Ixion on the Carbuncle server. Jaz, I really would like your new cape please ^__^b


One of the bigger things I was happy to see in the update was the option to increase your Adventuring Fellow's level cap from 65 to 70. This involves a fight AGAINST said NPC in the quest called Clash of the Comrades. Now I use my NPC quite a lot from farming to weapon latent breaking to a backup Cure V when I'm doing something a little more on the risky side of life so I jumped at the opportunity do this quest.

Meeting up with Luto in Upper Jeuno, I was shocked to hear about Raka making a name for herself without me. Even more surprising was the mercenary fees she has been raking in...

! !

Oh hell yes I'm gonna fight you. I'm gonna fight you, kick your butt and take your frikkin gil!

I've been soloing a ton in Campaign on WAR/DNC with my fortitude axe so the survivability of that combo was what I was most confident would lead to an easy win over my moneybags NPC and hence what I ran off to Qu'Bia Area for our showdown as.

The fight started as expected. She didn't any harder than Campaign mobs, less even. I had read she would prolly be NIN for the fight. Shadows don't pose much of a threat with Retaliation active.

Turns out I should have been a little more worried about Mijin Gakure. >.>

Stunned. About the only word that described how I felt about that effort from my good friend Raka Maimhov. STUNNED! This took a lot to actually post as I don't usually post many if any at all of my failures lol. Well then, that called for the big guns to be pulled out. You wanna play like that Raka? Lets do this!

DING DING! Round 2...

Yeah, thats right. It's not so fun now is it!?

RDM/NIN made this fight stupid easy. About the way I expected it would be the first time. So easy that I really wasn't too impressed by her performance on the same job. Her RDM /NIN has hax MP though.

A few minutes later....

To be fair though, that was a fun fight against someone I spend a lot of time with. Good to see she still knows whos boss though. Am I right?! lol

And it was all for this purpose...

Congrats Raka!

In other news, I should perhaps make a continuing post of oddities in Van'diel. This isn't really that odd but it just looks funny right?

And yay! Another of the ultra slow and elusive parry skill ups!

Some of you might have noticed my list of merit to-dos on the right side of my blog. I try not to every time I open my blog but I guess it keeps me motivated if a little depressed. Well, I posted that after this...

...and soon after did this!

WAR/SAM really is quite fun in the right party surrounded by the right players. This party was O...K but the RDM was whiney and the SMN who put it together was a little noobish. Hey, I got merits so I'm not complaining. I guess my point is RDMs shouldn't seek a party if they aren't willing to do their job. That job in ToAU meripos is HEAL. USE THAT MP NOOB! I understand that if I or another party member is taxing your MP pool so hard that you are out with 5 minutes left on your Convert timer, thats a problem. If your Convert timer was up 5 minutes ago, we are doing fine and you are being a whiney %@$#!. Also, /SAM is a great sub for WAR. Don't tell me otherwise when the WAR/NINs in the party are taking the same if not more damage than I am while doing half the damage overall.

/em breathes. I digress. I try to keep my blog rants to a minimum. :/

Funny picture I saw that I can relate to at times. This shows perfectly the attitude of BLMs that leveled after the release of ToAU and the decline in invites for BLMs to parties where they would have traditionally learned HATE CONTROL! lol


This week should hopefully see another body piece or 2 from Nyzul Isle. We also start our second weekly run this Saturday to try and trim our wanted items list down a little. Stay tuned!

Nyzul Relic WS's

All I can say is I hope these are real...

Nyzyl Relic WS's

If so, my desire to do Nyzul Isle just got even more stoked. I just hope they are real and that some of the posts talking about the massive quests it takes to upgrade them are a little exaggerated. I really hope these are weapons that are not "easy" but not insane like Dynamis relics are to obtain. Some of us have a life outside of FFXI SE!

I particularly like the WAR GA, RDM sword and BLM staff. I'm disappointed in the BST axe ; ; Was hoping that would be something to drool over but oh well.

Nyzul update #4

Well then. I'm so stoked about tonight that I decided I would blog it right away!

So the last couple of weeks have been great! Last week, we decided we were going to build up Aj's token amount some and work my disc to 60 which we did with awesomeness mixed with a little 1337ness. This week, the goal was 80 so we could start farming body pieces that we need to get done. Unfortunately, with work, RL and general forgetfulness, a couple of people only had 3 tags for this week so with some quick roping in and help from good friends Bubbo and Rathiel to get us from 60 to 65 without our 2 normals, we quickly dispatched the 61-65 climb. Thanks again for your help guys.

The other 2 rejoined us for 66 and up and we were unstoppable tonight. Flayer boss? Sure. Flayer leaders? Why not?! Ordered lamp floors? Just try it! We couldn't be beat for some reason. 66-70 fell by the wayside in some 18 mins. 71-75 didn't fare much better. Climb to 80? Well at least the game tried. I believe we got something like ToAU leaders, all, ordered lamps, all, Hydra and somewhere in there I believe we had a no ninjitsu restriction before we reached 80.

Our first Hydra. I have to admit, from what I hear she sounds the hardest and I was nervous to see her after reading about some of the problems shes has posed for other groups. Oh and then I noticed SE's real attempt to deflate my feeling of invincibleness....


O...K....

So I admit. I panicked a little. But after quick recollection of thoughts, Paeon was put on our melee as they tp'd on the rampart and Body Boosted. Nervous as I was, the call was made to zerg Hydra when the 5 min warning came up. I readied my nukes and watched the onslaught begin....

...15 seconds later...

Gogo Soul Voiced melee with 2 hours, Fanatics drinks, Dusty Wings and Body boosts ready to rock! lol honestly, 15 seconds is not an exaggeration. Barely had a chance to touch anyone. I'm not sure if they 2 yellow HPs are Hydra inflicted or just still low from the floor before lol. I didnn't even get to nuke coz she put up her magic shield about 5 seconds in. We were even happier to see a body piece drop which Dylorian was able to lot.

Congrats sir!

This team is one that I am supremely confident we can destroy Nyzul Isle with. Since it came together, I don't recall a loss yet and unless we get EXTREMELY unlucky with floors (/em touches wood), I don't see us losing any time soon. Over confident? Maybe but see if I'm wrong in future updates :p

In other news, new update means new Campaign rank which means I have to get my rank up again so I have been hitting the Campaign trail with Bubbo and soro over the last night or so. Hoping to rank up tonight before I go to bed.

Last night was a blood bath at Rolanberry Fields [S]. Even uber Bubbo got caught in the cross fire....


...then you have to deal with whiney NPC bosses. Well, they better not whine too much or there is plenty more where this came from. I mean seriously, how is the Legion to extend its mighty arm when it's generals are whiney like little school tarus?

Night! ^___^/

FFXI Version update

So I get home from my weekend away to see that the June update is now available....

...../start update....

Time remaining in current process 3:50....4:30....5:19....6:17...

Then Bubbo sends me this link with all the new gear that is coming available.

OK so now I know that SE is just trying to make my brain explode after I thought I was relatively comfortable with a lot of my gear and stats on certain jobs. Now I'm just gonna be gimp ; ; {Good job!} SE. You have officially locked me into this game for the next 5 birrion years or till my head explodes from trying to get back to some semblance of decentness on my respective 75 jobs.

Should be an interesting few months pouring over the various job and game forums deciding what I would like/need/try for. STAY TUNED TO THIS CHANNEL!

Omega who? And so much more!

Busy, busy, busy! I keep bugging others to update their blogs but look at me being a slacker! Anyway, we have a lot to get through so settle in for a fun read...

As I told you last time, I decided to level SAM to 75. Well that died out with this announcement. Now I have WAY too many merits to work on so I have decided to put SAM on hold for the time being. Its sitting at 49 right now so I'll use exp scrolls to get it to 50 and a buffer and by then, I should have my Soboro to play with. Aless surprised me after a few days away with the pop item for Soboro for which I am very thankful. I hear it can be a pain to get. Thanks Al! ^__^ Here's a shot of the last party I was in on SAM before I decided to put it on hold.


Another reason to put SAM on hold was because my time playing on BST has drastically dropped. I hadn't been out farming for some time and so after the decision was made, Al and I got together and went on one of our farming sessions. AG was hanging out and died soon thereafter then we hit up Onzozo to check things out there. As I went to kill the PH for LoO, Al happened upon Ose and quickly set a pet on him. Apparently another group was hunting him that we didn't see and they immediately started killing our pets in the vain hope that we would wipe. Silly JPs. Onzozo has like a bajillion pets for us to use. When they saw we could use manta's as well while we waited for Torama's to repop, they tried to start clearing that room too. By the time we killed Ose, they had half of the zone linked to them....


....and we totally would have given them the Assault jerkin if it dropped (which it didn't by the way) if they had just been good about it since neither of us needed/wanted it. I really dislike that style of play against BSTs. Killing their pets to hopefully kill them. That needs to be considered MPK and for a GM to step in but I digress because we didn't even come close to dying.

On the lighter side of Vana'diel life, here are my numbers as of the last census or so.


I also did as every single other soul in the world did and got my Bonanza marbles for the big lottery to come. I'm not really expecting much but if I win, I'll be stoked. I didn't make an assload more mules to make sure I win. Just myself and my 2 mules. Rest assured, I'll be posting the winnings or lack thereof after the lottery announcement.


Moved another step closer to my Perdu Voulge just recently too. Only 2 more rank ups to go. I certainly have the IS for it lol.


And I also got my new Boxer's mantle too. Another goal to delete from the list. I'll be using this on BST solo and NM farming where I don't need Forager's attack or STR so much.


I experienced something I don't ever recall experiencing before in my life. Usually when I put something away, its away for good. Necessity demanded that I bring my RDM out of retirement recently for my Nyzul group after Ny's departure from the game. To begin with I wasn't too stoked about it but this is how much I want Askar Body and Head so I begrudgingly did so. Surprisingly though, I have really started to enjoy it again. I certainly do not want to be an LS RDM that has to take it to events etc which demand top end gear that I don't want to bother with but for personal things like Nyzul, Ix'MNK kills, Avatar kills etc, I actually really having fun with it. I am actually considering taking it and meripoing on it!

So I decided I would finish the quest for the Promise badge so thatIi wasn't in my Grandoise chain full time (lol) and add a chunk of potency to my enfeebles. I really do like seeing a mob get locked down by my capped Slow II and a potent Paralyze. +50MND ftw!


I was also chuffed (that means stoked/happy in NA speak >.>) to see this happen in Nyzul lol...


Barring the odd death in Nyzul, we probably rope in a good 2k in exp each 4 run session. It's really quite nice to have exp coming in from this activity especially for someone like me who likes to keep his exp capped.

Speaking of Nyzul, the group has finally rebounded from the loss of Nyena and Tulaq to RL. Roped in some great players from our new LS and the jobs we have now are what I think is going to be a fantastic group all the way to 100 and beyond.


This passed week was just fuel to my fire on how good this group is going to be. Dylorian was called in to work at the last minute and after checking with Bubbo to see if she wanted to come help us out for the night and her telling me she only had 2 tags, I decided we'd climb from 40-50 on my disc as a 5some and have Bub join us for the boss run to 60. So in we go as 5 and we kicked ass! Got to 50 without too much trouble. The hardest part was prolly 40-45 where we got 3 "all" floors and 2 sets of lamps (order -> same time). The first "all" floor had 2 stupid NMs. Roc benedictioned on us and then the last mob turned out to be Energetic Eruca which took no damage from anyone except Aless' joytoy. Apparently he's immune to slashing. Too bad for our Axe WARs and GKT SAM. So I had to grav/dot/nuke him down. Did pretty well if I do say so myself. Funny thing was we meet Mr Eruca again 2 floors later. LOL

Anyway we got through that and we were brimming with confidence as Bubbo joined us for the run to 60. We got there with more that 10 mins to spare and found Khimaira awaiting us. /joy! Our melee destroyed him and we were happy to see a drop (though not one of the preferred ones at this time).

Since no one had declared their desire to attain Goliard Hands, they went free lot...

Ninja lot! GO! lol. Wait, I thought Aj was the Ninja?

Seriously though, congrats Bub and thank you for coming and helping us reach 60. Next week its on to 80 where we will spend some time farming some of the 7-8 body pieces we need and getting a bunch of points on Aj's disc. There is also talk about us doing this twice a week to start really getting into clearing off the desired drops list. Stand tuned for further progress and drops!

Last night we went and did our 3rd Omega.



















Our tanks did an awesome job of holding hate on him again. I don't recall seeing Omega wander away from them even once. NIN/DRK ftw!



















He's really a joke. All we need to do now is get the farming of pods technique down. We brought him from ~88% to 32% in one session on his 4 legs. Byany asked to take him just a little closer to 25% and automatically a couple of BLMs went crazy and took him to 23% and locked him in his final form where he doesn't eject anymore pods. But we still did a fine job of taking him out.

We did get a Charcoal chip drop from this pod that did emerge which is nice....

....and we were even happier to see the drops from Omegas death....

Congrats to Aj, Dyl and Oki, the winners of those items!

MeneoCecus WINS! lol We dance when we win.

And lastly, I wish I could make my hair do this ; ; See you next time!