My new home

My new url for Nivaud will be http://nivaud.blogspot.com if any of you want to link me. I am carrying over all my old links to my new site cause everyone I have linked here has me linked and I think that's cool of you all.

Read about my deaths on a new site! Yay for deleveling! Thanks for reading everyone, I hope we can still continue my (mis)adventures.

Leap of faith

So I made the jump. I found someone who was looking for the same things I was (a new server, a new craft, and a new set fo jobs). I found that person on Bismarck and I made the leap and traded up characters straight up. To my right you can see what I gave up in Gorokai, here is what I recieved:

name - Nivaud
race - Male/Elvaan (Face 3A)
allegiance - Rank 10 Bastok, rank 8 Windy
jobs - 75SMN, 75RDM, 75BLM, 57BST, 56DRK, 55WHM, 37NIN
access - all areas including sea, sky, ToAU
crafts - 95 cooking (Raw Fish Handling), 84 fishing (Lu Shang's Rod), 60 Woodworking (Lumberjack), 27 smithing/alchemy

The character has a weskit and a yinyang robe for SMN! Along with LuShang's, I have an Evoker's Ring, Ugg Pendant, Loq. earring, and about 60-70 merits dispersed throughout SMN, BLM, and RDM. The RDM has 3 AF2's, the BST has 2 AF2's :D and the character has 1/2 the items needed to make a RDM, BST, BLM, and SMN AF+1. Unfortunetly I only have 14 coins... but that shouldn't be a problem. I have found a new joy in fishing and cooking. Last night I fished up 2 stacks of Black Sole in Port Jeuno (sinking minnow = free bait!) and then I synthed up some Sole Sushi and stuck it up on the AH. Easy gil... I also spent a few trips pulling in some Gugru Tuna and slapping them up on the AH block 4k.

It's not huge gil like clothcraft... hell I could buy a 500k Galaetia and make a 700k pair of trousers in 2 minutes and make 200k right there. Instead this is a slow and steady craft that has return customers. Once one of my clients bought my blessed trousers I'd never realy see him again, but melee are always gonna look for sole sushi when the fight. So I'm hoping that this turns out a little less stresfull than camping the AH for Galaetia and Siren's Hair.

Sadly I have to call POL and get the pasword for my new email account. The previous owner never used it and forgot it, and the only way to get my screenshots to my PC to host them on this blog is to email them from my POL account to my real life email account. So, unfortunetly, no new pics of my dhalmel SMN.

On a side note, I wanted to thank Resurrection very much for being the only HNM LS to take a chance with me. I never asked to join, but I was glad I did. They welcomed me and forgot the past and decided to invite Gorokai and if I was truly an ass... just kick me. They treated me iwth respect and were so SO helpful. You helped me kill my 1st king, my 1st Cerb, and my 1st Limbus Ultima. You helped me get BRD AF+1 legs and about 8M from my KS99 last week. I thank you guys for all you did. A while back I did my CoP static with Aenarion and Gimmeone, two Res members. UP told me to listen to him and forget they were Res, just push through the missions. I'm really glad I did. Thank you all.

bore ring

- Solo'd BLM from 138/23,000 to 12,100/23,000 over a few hours while watching TV.

- Synthed up 2 pairs of blessed trousars, having to deal with mid-week undercutting morons so they aren't selling, patience is a virtue.

Still need a buffer on RDM, seeing as I'm 1,400/44,000 right now.

I truly love tarus...

So for the past few days I have managed to do a whole lot of nothing really. A bunch of random stuff but no "big thing" has happened since Aspi last Sunday. Monday I leveled SMN which was sorta just to pass the time. Tuesday we did some Limbus, Apollyon SE which I've done a million times with Victory before. We managed to pull out the win. Wednesday was Dynamis and we got the win but 23 of our 45 people left right after the boss, so farming was not happening.
Thursday I picked up some xp on BLM, since none of my duo partners were online. It was the first normal party I have been in, in about 6 weeks. I was shocked to how much fun it was to getback to normal parties. There wasn't a whole lot of chatter, 4 of the 6 were japanese. We had PLD, DRK, RNG, RDM, COR, BLM. The RNG and DRK did a Fragmentation WS to perfection and I was able to MB Thundaga II or Aero III almost every time. The COR was dropping me Wizard's Roll which was like crack. I ended up getting 16k xp in two hours and really loved the experience. Taru's in COR AF take the cake.

We have planned to finish our KS99 runs that went unfinished from 2 weeks ago, but it kept getting delayed. Friday night we finally got the people together and did about 4 runs (mine included). The first run was great drops, the 2nd run was crap (poor Eowen). The third run was my orb and I ended up with a Shinsoku (3.7M) and a Behemoth Hide (5.1M). Not a bad bounty for 99 seals, seeing as last time I walked with a 5M gil Kriegsbiel. A big thanks to Resurrection for their death and suicide each time the KB got to 1%... since we all knew it was gonna blow.

Finally Saturday (today) I logged on to see no one really doing much of anything. I checked my Choco in windy which still hasn't hatched, went to Sandy to trade in Cursed Soup with Oblation Abjuration to get some Ambrosia, and decided to get some skillup. I got on BRD and went out to the local Lesser Colibri's outside of Aht Urghan. I had sanction + auto regen bonus on to start with. Then I would cast Regen and 2x Paeon. I was getting like 15hp/tick and I was able to stay at 90% HP while meleeing these damn birds. Energy Steal was a great WS to fill up my MP bar (since Cyclone is wind based and did about 5 damage to the Colibris). I started at 171 skill and ended at 197. It took about 2 hours but I got myself ready for the 200-225 mobs. I don't know why I really skilled up other than the fact I want to use Heart Snatcher (since my damn RDM can't use it) and I also want to eventually use Evisceration.

I bailed on solo skillup for Limbus, and without going into too much detail... let's just say we got to the last floor and had to kill 3 elementals and for some reason our melee thought that 4 melee could kill them without pulling em back to a safe spot. I tried saying "NO MAGIC CASTING" but some people just had to cast. We wiped, we lost, oh well. Not smart, hopefully they think it through better next time. The night ended with a crappy xp party that netted me 276xp in 2 hours, so I went back to my solo spot and was able to solo to 63. I decided to leave on a high note and logged off at that point.

newb

Not much going on last night, didn't feel like leveling BLM since I've done it so much recently. Wanted to get my newb feeligns back. I hit up my armor mule and saw that I still had all my level 15 mage gear so I muled it all over, switched to 13SMN, and headed out to Tahrongi Canyon. Soloing as SMN is easier than soloing as BST, and very little attention is needed, granted it's only 40-70xp per kill but seeing as it's only 3600xp per level... thats 65 mobs killed. If you kill a mob every 2-3 minutes than you can get your level in about 2 hours. So that's what I did, I spent the night watching the DVR on split screen and soloing on SMN, going form 13 to 15. I probably need to start going into parties now but even then, I won't need to pay super duper attention since all I'll be doing is using Blood Pacts and backup healing. (I will not be a main healer, if I wanted to be a main healer I'd have switched to WHM).

Tonight may be more of the same unless we actually DO our scheduled KS99 run which has been pushed back now almost 2 weeks since our last one. Maybe even do a few jailers. If both of those fall through I'll just party on SMN, solo on BLM, or skillup on leather (finally).

Aspi sunk (this time I WAS on-board)

Tonight we decided to head out to Aspi. We knew he was due and we had the people online so we all gathered at the Valley of Sorrows for his window. We had ToD from the previous night and when we got there only LB was there. BBQ started to trickle in and the Unsent popped up after the 2nd window. We weren't seeing much astion and I was watching the Colts game on splitscreen. I do this sometimes when I am in a slow situation like Dynamis or Kirin or camping windows (see below in this old pic)

So after the 4th or 5th window started to perk up because there's only seven. Well, he popped and we got claim. He isn't all that hard, it's the fact he is in an area that has so many adds that he can be tiresome. We evetually did most of our damage on MB's, and after about 30 minutes of fighting we killed him. Aspi drops Wyrmal Body, Aquarian Body, and Koenig Feet. 2/3 of the drops are RDM friendly... well he dropped the feet (Congratulations to Kimith!). Seems fitting since the PLDs claimed and they did a great job on adds. Drops were:

In other news I got my BLM to 62 while duoing and hit my alltime high for XP. We had to burn a Manafont in the process but it was well worth it. Fun times all around today. Too bad I was too damn lazy to level leathercraft this weekend...

Temenos Liberator

FINALLY!

FInally beat one of the 2 NMs in Limbus. Granted it took 59 minutes and change, it was our very 1st time and our very 1st win. We learned alot, mostly who has hate when Citadel Buster begins and who doesn't. We went in with 17 or 18 and came out with about 12 (still alive). Everyone gave their all, no one complained about R1's and after throwing everything we had at it including the kitchen sink we walked out with 2 claws (Nashira Gages x2). A big congratulations to Nanci and Gimmeone for their new uber SMN hands!

All in all a good fun night and it's a step in the right direction. I think we are going for Omega now which is infinitly easier to get to and to kill. Hopefully we can get melee some Homam (finally!) and start heading back to Ultima for some more Nashira (yes, please). Good times!

After that everyone kinda crashed. We were pretty exhausted. I know I was. I started the day duoing BLM with Santiago, finding out that spamming tier 3 and tier 2 agas do just as much damage in alot less time. I ended up 2k tnl before we headed out for Ultima.

After that I decided to take a shot at Aht Urghan mission 13 "Lost Kingdom". It's a Fomor NM named Jazaraat way out in the western part of Caederva Mire graveyards. I almost solo'd it with grav, nukes, and DoT's but he ended up double-attacking me (both were crits) and then he used a TP move on me that is BIND! That was the end of me... one hit after being bound and I was toast. I called out for some BLM support and Sartre came running. I offered him gil which he refused after the kill. LS mates helping LS mates... that's what I like to see. I have to make a note to myself that I owe him a favor. I just know he's going to cash it in on a CoP mission...

Finally, it seems some veterans to ffxi are leaving. Both leaders of BBQPlatinum are hanging up their controllers/mice and calling it quits. I wish we could have left on better terms but I still wish Hulkk and Donnie the best. They put together quite an impressive endgame LS and were always respecting to surronding LS's. Also a good friend Tuufless is quitting. I have gotten to know {Tough}less for a while, he was always out to help people and even though he dabbled ever so gently in endgame he steered clear of any drama and made sure he had fun playing a game, which is really what it's all about. He has made the difinitive resource for camps Campsitarus as well as an intriguing Goldsmith's blog called Shiny Things. Tuuf has always been a example of the kind of player we all strive to be. You will be missed Tuuf, good luck in real life. I hear it's a jungle out there.