Axe me no questions and I'll tell you no lies (FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

Very productive day! Had a bad start though: I logged on to a Besiege already in progress. Yay? No, not really. The zone was apparently full, because I kept getting kicked out of my mog house. Over and over again. I was DRK/NIN with almost no armor on (and no shihei), so I didn't want to go in like that. But eventually I gave up on that and just tried to get into the zone to fight... no go. Finally I got in in time to make two swings and got a grand total of 72 XP. For a half hour of stress and being annoyed before 8 AM on a Sunday morning. Bah.

But things got better after that! A LS friend needed spider webs for skilling, and some of us needed skillups, so we combined the two! Oh my, the spiders outside Al Newcity are so amazing to skill on! I got 40 levels in about five hours, plus we got 34 webs (each worth, what, 50K?), and got over 1,800 in XP. Why go into the Tree to skill on crabs anymore? The guy who needed the webs was staff 220 and still getting fine skillups. I started at axe 163 and got amazing skillups. IS with our XP, XP bonus, amazingly better drops than crabs, and the best feature: Totally easy to get to!

I pulled for the whole five hours, and it was no problem at all. We sat in a "tunnel" and pulled from the big room it was connected to. Plus we got the amusement of watching those big elephant things chasing people to the zone!

I started the day at 163 but soon hit:


Rampage is so nice!

Okay, no where near as good as Spinning Slash, and maybe not as good as Guillotine, but at this point axe was still about 100 levels below GS and scythe!

Yay! Too bad I can't use this. But still!


Ended at 202, which made me really happy. 200+ is a respectable number! Now I won't feel bad going to events and such with my axes. And man, /NIN rocks so much! I was able to tank half the time! (Spiders were annoyingly fast though and would rip through both sets of shadows before the fight was even close to finished, so it was good I wasn't trying to tank alone.)

Two fomor spawned in our room, and we killed them over and over. Fomor are so cool! Fomor BRD walked off the set of a show for little girls... Dude, what's up with that wand? Going to call down the power of rainbows and love upon us? Ha ha, non-fomor BSTs wish they could do this, too! Baaaa!

And lastly, for Nai~! I took about 50 screenshots, but somehow arms or weapons always got in the way. Only two shots came out right. o.O Maybe the game was trying to tell me something? /welcome Nairua~!

Comments

[loneguardian.livejournal.com]

You are so not getting any. For a very long time. >_o

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*laughs* But imagine how it could have been! I wanted to make a big, big picture with like 50 different shots at different angles! It would have been amazing! And horrible! So this version isn't so bad, right~?

<3 :E

[loneguardian.livejournal.com]

plzdiekthx~ :E

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*laughs* If I have to go farm another fangsack in the future, I'll try again~!

[kelen.livejournal.com]

...Use the model viewer? I bet they have the smithy there. ;)

[loneguardian.livejournal.com]

*eyes you... eyes the icon... BITES* Don't encourage him! ; ;

[kelen.livejournal.com]

*wriggles happily*

[danikar.livejournal.com]

rampage isnt supposed to do as much as spinning or guill (guill being way better than spinning >_>) but the point is you do it more often. also 1h dot > 2h dot which adds to the usefulness.

[tamd.livejournal.com]

I used that wand ; ;

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Did you? It's a real in-game wand? Did you turn into Sailor Moon when you used it~? ;)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

but the point is you do it more often.

Yeah, that makes sense. But how will my e-penis grow if I don't break 1K damage all the time?! ;)

also 1h dot > 2h dot which adds to the usefulness.

Yeah, that's what I've been seeing. Each swing is less impressive, but I get a whole lot more of them in!

[genomeffxi.livejournal.com]

The one thing that still makes the tree better in a way is that you can't call your NPC in the new areas (yet... I hope it will change).
When my guarding skill was lower I used to skill it up on spiders there, and it's something you need a lot of healing for because you can't use utsusemi while skilling up guard, differently than parrying or weapons skillup. Spiders in the new areas are easy to solo with /nin, but for guarding i'd have to find a healer and go as /war.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

My version of the model viewer is pre-CoP! And even with that old stuff, it sucks pretty badly. I should find an updated one some day...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Eh, not that I'm saying there were no goblins pre-CoP! Just that my viewer has no mobs at all.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yes! That's a big down-side. I really, really hope they change it (the XP would be so great for NPCs there!), but I'm not holding my breath.

[draymor.livejournal.com]

I -think- that's the rune rod. I could be wrong.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oooooh. Okay.