Yay relaxing day (FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

Nice and uneventful day. Spent many hours idly farming (AKA: killing stuff while watching TV). Once desant_chan logged on, he, philia, and I went to level NPCs and farm buffalo for meat. Our NPCs dinged twice each! Mine went from 50 -> 52!

Now able to lock two of four pieces of equipment on Gunnar, I went off to the Coast to burn the last two charges on my pearl to attempt to move him from body armor #8 to #10. Though he had a 50/50 chance of upgrading body or gloves, he upgraded gloves both times. Grrr, stupid NPC. (No worries Des and Ead, I'll still come help farm. And man, that XP is so much better farming than soloing in the Coast, but I really want to get him into a noble's tunic. :/ )

I never realized how much taller he is than me. (When I have my o-hat on we look somewhat more even.) You can't really see it in that shot, but his body armor is mighty spiffy: earthen doublet.

Ead and Des, I think we killed too many mobs in Promy. MT says the max is 30, plus you get a bonus based on level. Their example: 40 x Defeated Mobs (Max30) + 300 (1st Layer) + 500 (2nd Layer) + 750 (3rd Layer) +1000 (4th Layer)

How odd, I just picked up the NPC G2 (limit break for 60) quest even though Gunnar is only 52. I guess I'll do it tomorrow, looks easy.

Comments

[desant-chan.livejournal.com]

That can't be right... According to what Mysterytour is saying, the total NPC-XP we would get on the second level would be 1700 each. We got 1900. O.o

I never realized how much taller he is than me.

*Cough*short*cough*

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

If you want to talk about short, I took this picture the other day when my mule Izaku ran into you at the Windy AH. I think it's cute. ;p (And proof that yes, he is taller than knee-high on you - but barely!)

Also, may I LJ friend you? (It's Cydori, in case you didn't realize. ^_~)

Sorry for comment-spamming you, Thistle. Love the new icon!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

No worries, spam away! Gives me something to read at work. :P

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

the total NPC-XP we would get on the second level would be 1700 each. We got 1900. O.o

40 XP per mob, 30 killed = 1200
Bonus for touching first floor = 300
Bonus for second = 500

Total: 2000

So maybe we were short a couple kills?

*Cough*short*cough*

*stab*stab*stab*stab*stab*

[desant-chan.livejournal.com]

Oh, right. Thought the level rewards didn't stack. ^^

Maybe we should go on a killing spree against the weak and easy empties on first level, then spend the rest of the time trying to get as high up as possible? We

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Looks like your comment was cut off, but yeah, that seems like an option. Use all our kills on strays as we try to get to the third level?

Just have to find out where the ??? is before we set out.

What do you think about how we should handle tanking? Do you want to do it and we'll let the NPCs attack/heal? Or want to keep the NPCs doing it? In some ways, it's easier for a PC to do it, since then both Ead and I could see the tank's HP, but either is cool with me.

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

I'm suspecting that NPC limit breaks work the same way as PC limit breaks - can't get G1 until you're 50, but can get G2 when you're 51, G3 when you're 56, etc.

Your NPC is going to be higher-level than me soon. ;p

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Your NPC is going to be higher-level than me soon. ;p

Isn't that strange? And once he's got a noble's tunic, he'll be better dressed than many PC WHMs. :D