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Happy Saturday! (FFXI)
Mar. 25th, 2006 09:51 pmSix hours of NIN XPing with Ead (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
philia) was fun but very tiring. We each got two levels, and I'm about 1.5K to the next one. Mandies were pretty easy XP, other than when they were taking 2-3 of my shadows down at once.
I very very much enjoyed using my gun as a NIN! "Uh oh!" is right, little mandy! Die die die! When I hit, the gun was a great tool for keeping hate. (With my katanas I was hitting for 9-11 per hit, but with the gun I could do 60+.) Problem was, I probably missed two out of three shots, even with marksmanship capped. I'm going to get/make some racc rings to macro in when I shoot and see if that helps.
During the day I encountered a ram. I never noticed how pretty their eyes are. I reduced the size of the screenshot, so maybe it's not as clear, but they're really pretty and golden.
I made more powder boots, this time for profit. 70K for one set? Easy money.
Money-wise, I decked out my NIN. 3 million for a emperor hairpin and about another million in other assorted stuff. Then I logged onto my Jeuno mule and got a nice surprise:
Instead of bidding 19,000 for a stack of bullets, someone bid 190,000. Unfortunately (for him) I only check that mule once a week or so, so the sale was long gone from history.
I've been thinking more and more about the RDM Maat fight lately (I really want to try it), so tonight I decided to do the solo ENM 60 RDM battle and see how it went. The answer: Not very well. At first it seemed fine: He couldn't hit me at all (stoneskin and he was paralyzed nearly at all times from my ice spikes), but then he won a dice roll (the second one in the whole battle) and got nearly 300% TP. That lead to: Hello Spirits Within for a few hundred more HP than I have even at 100% health.
I have no idea how I could beat that as a RDM. Bind/sleep and nuke wouldn't work (my Blizzard II hit for 22 and my Fire II hit for 20). I could slowly chip away his HP with sword/haste/en-spell, but then dice rolls happen and those are usually bad for the challenger; fights in this ENM need to end fast.
So it's an interesting problem. I wonder if there is a solution? There must be...
Tomorrow is an o-hat run (blarg) and then NPC Promy and XPing (we better have time for that). Going to be a busy and stressy day.
philia) was fun but very tiring. We each got two levels, and I'm about 1.5K to the next one. Mandies were pretty easy XP, other than when they were taking 2-3 of my shadows down at once. I very very much enjoyed using my gun as a NIN! "Uh oh!" is right, little mandy! Die die die! When I hit, the gun was a great tool for keeping hate. (With my katanas I was hitting for 9-11 per hit, but with the gun I could do 60+.) Problem was, I probably missed two out of three shots, even with marksmanship capped. I'm going to get/make some racc rings to macro in when I shoot and see if that helps.
During the day I encountered a ram. I never noticed how pretty their eyes are. I reduced the size of the screenshot, so maybe it's not as clear, but they're really pretty and golden.
I made more powder boots, this time for profit. 70K for one set? Easy money.
Money-wise, I decked out my NIN. 3 million for a emperor hairpin and about another million in other assorted stuff. Then I logged onto my Jeuno mule and got a nice surprise:
Instead of bidding 19,000 for a stack of bullets, someone bid 190,000. Unfortunately (for him) I only check that mule once a week or so, so the sale was long gone from history.
I've been thinking more and more about the RDM Maat fight lately (I really want to try it), so tonight I decided to do the solo ENM 60 RDM battle and see how it went. The answer: Not very well. At first it seemed fine: He couldn't hit me at all (stoneskin and he was paralyzed nearly at all times from my ice spikes), but then he won a dice roll (the second one in the whole battle) and got nearly 300% TP. That lead to: Hello Spirits Within for a few hundred more HP than I have even at 100% health.
I have no idea how I could beat that as a RDM. Bind/sleep and nuke wouldn't work (my Blizzard II hit for 22 and my Fire II hit for 20). I could slowly chip away his HP with sword/haste/en-spell, but then dice rolls happen and those are usually bad for the challenger; fights in this ENM need to end fast.
So it's an interesting problem. I wonder if there is a solution? There must be...
Tomorrow is an o-hat run (blarg) and then NPC Promy and XPing (we better have time for that). Going to be a busy and stressy day.
