The Wonderful World of Lordwafik

Hoorah! I’m going to be back in USA later this year, this time I’m going to have a choice of when I want to go. I’m deciding to go during september/october or october/november this time because I’ve never had a Halloween party ever before, and I’d love to go to one and do all that fun stuff like dressing up in an outfit and getting hit on/hitting on other dorks like myself. Also this time I’m going to want to travel a bit more than I did last time, so I can have a lot of fun meeting people and such!
An advantage I’ll have is my sister works in Delta Airlines now , so I’ll be able to get a buddy pass she claims which will help me travelling for cheaper around the USA. I would love to visit the east coast as that is somewhere I never travelled last time (which was Louisiana, Montana, California). My sister lives in Vegas so I’ll probably visit my other friends in California (since that place is hueg) and then see if there’s any room to bunk with my east coaster buddies. I’d like to see snow too if possible! Never seen it and unsure if it snows around october in USA.

On the FFXI side, I’ve been just playing my alt occasionally , but nothing too serious. Half heartedly levelling THF to help LS here and there before my interest completely 100% evaporates.
Madherk took over Einherjar, the pearl for it is now called “KirbysDreamLand” and they’ve now won 2 runs! I attended the first one and made the totally rad video, but forgot to wake up for the second :p I guess I won’t be doing Odin que que.

I made a video for them : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqrTGIhzFkI - watch in HD!

Also downloaded a WoW 10 day free trial, it’s pretty amazing to see what a game is like when there’s no PS2 Limitations (which is the scapegoat reason for what I like to call “Developer Laziness”). It’s a breath of fresh air for me as I’ve never played WoW nor even looked into it (I’m a stubborn gamer), and I’m enjoying the trial so far - I’m on day 3 and if I still enjoy it by the 10th day I’ll go ahead with turning it into a full account.

Another game on the horizon is Aion: The Tower of Eternity . This game looks very promising, the next step for me and a lot of FFXI friends (from my own LS and other LS’s on asura). However a big worrying thing for a lot of people has been “When will this game get released in EU/US?” to which NCsoft have never answered as they always say they’re busy Localizing the game.
An even more worrying thing?

NC West mothballs Europeean Office

Dangit! all that layoff can’t be good for the game, probably won’t be launched at this rate.

Untill next time, see you again!

Currently on BG there’s a thread about an AV theory ( AV video solved? ) , which reminded me of a PM back and forth conversation I recieved a while ago, instead of invading and derailing that topic since they are talking about Sea Torques, I will post it here - if you wish, feel free to copy/paste any of this anywhere you like, I don’t care where this goes.

I got a PM some time last year from someone who claimed to work for SE or at least become “In the know” - due to my lack of confirmation I didn’t take it as seriously, but some of the ideas they brought up were somewhat interesting. I was hesitant in posting because I’d rather confirm it before posting something blatantly retarded (remember that person who said omg omg omg I know the AV secret, and it was really a Vile Elixir +1 against AV which wasn’t even possible?).

Considering I got banned from FFXI and am only now playing on an alt with no sea access, I really don’t care anymore, especially since POL helpdesk refuse to talk to me on the phone about my account (if anyone who works for SE and want to help me get it back, let me know! :p).

Keeping the person anonymous, here is the PM :
Absolute Virtue will use the available 2hrs of the main jobs in attacking alliance/hate list. Ideally you want to contain the amount of abilities at its disposal, simply to ‘maintain’. You will want jobs that have 2hrs that can be eliminated by Dispel and Sleep, given Stun is ‘mostly harmless’; in order to contain AV’s output. AV is a Dragoon, dragon affinity,speculated to keep DRG as primary job/ability set. Mitigate AV’s melee output with Blind and Sleep/Sleep II. Sleep and SleepII used to interupt undesirable spells and TP moves. AV is actually the designers comment on the direction the player community was taking ninja at the time. Thus ninja mains are a big no no due to Mijin Gakure. Blue Mage, Corsair, Puppetmaster, Scholar, and Dancer 2hr abilities are not in AV’s ability pool, so on paper these jobs present do not present additional abilities. Use opposing elemental spells and opposing elemental debuffs to the vanadielian day to mitigate regen.

Main Points:

1.)2hrs that affect status (SP icon) and Benediction are not your friends.
2.)Tank: Paladin. *do not put a ninja in your alliance.
3.) Regen effect utilize opposing elemental debuffs and spells to elemental day.

Now with these ideas one can develop and strategy to ‘maintain’ control with the beast.

I assume the handling of aern wyverns and links is something that doesnt really affect containing the main subject at hand, in that i assume/pressume you have a decent strategy for those and that handling the AV is the issue. I assume the same with regard to method of dealing damage.

Please read the fine print

Key Points:

- Blind: mitigates melee accuracy and dmg of Absolute Virtue.

- Sleep and Sleep II to Interrupt/Stun Absolute Virtues spells and TP
moves.

- Dispel: AV’s status effect 2hrs asap… Chainspell, Mighty Strikes, Hundred Fist, Manafont, Invincible, Soul Voice, Blood Weapon, Astral Flow etc.

- When AV 2hrs, alliance/hate list 2hrs …
a: Clearing available 2hrs in alliance/hate list limits availabilty to AV.
b: Mainly to eliminate the possibilty of Benediction being used by AV
c: Zerg AV HP down if Benediction was used.
d: do no bring a nin/xxx to party Mijin Gakure on the 2hr list is not negotiable.

I also spoke further about the 2hour thing, they mentioned that the AV video was kind of misleading and AV 2houring has nothing to do with when you 2hour, people were matching it to the first person who 2houred so there’s no time in between the first person’s 00:00:00 and someone elses 00:00:00 counter, even if there’s a split second of time then there’s a chance he can 2 hour. So basically anyone around AV with a 2hour up will let AV 2hour, according to this theory everyone around him absolutely must blow their 2hour.

His words :
from what i understand. not supposed to resist sleep or sleepII, its supposed to stun him, like a jab.

2hrs… there is that about pairing of 2hrs… dont have 2hrs. dont have 2hrs. if i could be said in three compacted words dont have 2hrs

honestly has nothing to do with jobs with regard to benedection being available. <(LW note : I asked him about replacing WHMs with SCHs to strip potential benediction)

that video you mentioned… the key to what is being communicated is the first 2hr.

its not absolute virture its the main tank

on the second cut the first 2hr is that same tank then AV followed by everyone simultaneously they are all on the same timer. They are at that point 2hr spamming to keep AV from even using one. The give or take massive amounts of hours is if douche bag gets benediction off in the span of about 2 seconds in an ideal situation.

I am obviously extremely sceptical when someone tells me they’re from SE (and pick me to tell instead of Sonomaa who is an admin). If my entry helps in any way to defeat AV, hoorah, if not, then we know it’s a troll trying to be funny with me.

It does however bring an interesting point about Dispel - remember how AV sometimes “Readies” a 2hour and sometimes “Uses” a 2hour? One of those could have been a fake dispellable 2 hour this whole time, I even asked him about how sure he was on this topic considering you can’t dispel 2hours from monsters nor players unless it’s a special move - and he was kind of clueless about it (the fact he was clueless made it more believable that he worked for SE as sad as that sounds ).

The more I read it the more I see contradictions as well as possibly legit points. In a further PM he mentions that NIN isn’t a good tank, but is a good DD on AV (when he previously said don’t bring a NIN for anything at all on AV), as well as the fact it doesn’t matter if I bring a WHM or not, AV would still have access to Benediction, when he previously said that don’t bring a NIN in case of Mijin.  Maybe I’m reading it wrong though.

Once again, don’t shoot the messanger, I don’t know how legit or illegitimate this is at all. Happy AV hunting.

Blahblahblah we all know about the dupe issue, we know it’s wrong to do this and that, but a warning would have been more better instead of throwing everyone straight into a ban. Especially 2 months after the incident, especially when SE knew about the incident for 1.5 years and didn’t do anything about it till it became widespread amongst NA players.

This could be bad for SE, depending how many are actually perma banned. It’s also crappy that SE has a vague “Ban” system - LM 17 could mean 3 day, 10 day, 24 hour temp ban, or a full perma ban, so we’re just sitting and waiting for now

If this gets me perma banned, oh well - it was a fun ride. If I get to keep playing, hurrah.
I just feel bad more for my LS since I’m holding JOL pop sets and random sky gems/stones that they could have made better use of - as well as other nice items I could have distributed amongst them.

Normally I don’t post about my good merit pts, and I don’t merit all that much anymore but ever since I hit rng to 75 I’ve wanted to cap my merits. We ended up making a party which was getting not bad exp - RDM BRD COR | MNK DRG THF who were all pretty ok. We cleared 2 ledges of birds npnp. After a while the MNK had to leave, the COR and DRG also decided to leave too, boo! We wanted to keep going!

After getting people from the LS who wanted to merit, we ended up being RDM BRD COR | WAR MNK THF, still ok exp, nothing special yatta yatta. MNK had to leave after about an hour, the same time Rainesong logged in so we told him to come and mooch some exp for his pld buffer. Our WAR Ghikque changed to NIN (he has a Kikoku), raine on his excal PLD, and me on my mandau THF. Before we knew it we had 3 relics in the party !

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RNG AF looks so nice

“Big deal” one might say, but RNG AF has always had me envious , even back when my only job was BLM. I don’t know what it is that draws me to it, so much but it just looks amazing on humes.
Little tidbits here and there all over the AF, such as the asymmetry on the body/hat/hands, the leaf on the hat, the colour scheme, the fact that it leaves the place behind the knees exposed (no idea what that part is called), the fact they paid attention to detail where the hand that pulls the arrows back is more clothed than the other. To me it all just fits together as a really awesome looking set.

Some of the pieces aren’t too bad either.
Head - HP+13, INT+3, Ranged Attack+5, Increases “Rapid Shot” activation rate.
To me I will use this full time until I get a better option in the 70s. Before this I was using emp pin, which only gives me 3 AGI really, and most of the time I’m partying with COR or BRD so agi isn’t really doing much for me racc wise, I like focusing on Rattack.

Body - HP+20 VIT+3 Ranged Accuracy+10
HELLO! I love this piece due to the gigantic Racc boost! Before this my only option was Noct till Jaridah for racc (so +2/3 until +5) and then you get this that just trumps it. This will be a nice piece even at 75 if I ever fight evasive mobs, I’ll def keep it in my “Super Racc” set.

Hands - HP+10 DEX+3 Dark Resist+10 , Enhances “Shadowbind” effect.
Meh. I’ll only use these for my shadowbind macro, this will give it another +15 seconds on shadowbind which is worth the inv slot (same reason I keep THF AF1 shoes, 15 extra flee seconds).
Right now I’m using Hume RSE1 hands (3STR key point).

Legs - HP+15, MND+5, Enhances “Sharpshot”.
These to me are useless outside of using them for a holy bolt setup.  Enhance sharpshot doesn’t extend duration, just the effect of it which apparently isn’t all that noticable.
For now I use Jaridah Salvars (Racc+2 Rattack+3)

Feet - HP+10 AGI+5 Eva+5 , Enhances “Scavenge” effect.
These aren’t so bad, but I use better things for now which are available to hume, the RSE2 feet (3STR 2AGI). I guess for other races without much options these wouldn’t be so bad.

In a realistic situation I would toss everything but the body/hands when I hit 75, BUT IT IS ALL SO PRETTY! I can’t get rid of it like how I got rid of the majority of RDM and BLM af.

It begins again!

So I’ve been pondering over the last few weeks, blahblahblah, however now I’ve locked myself into it, so it’s completel 100% absolutey official that I’m starting gun.

Don’t believe me? Well I can show you this!

Pennies, Attestations, Fragments oh my!

The path is :

1. 5x 100byne + (Relic Gun + Rainbow Cloth + Darksteel Ingot + Marksman Oil) = Marksman Gun
2. 15x L.Jadeshell + (Marksman Gun + Pirate’s Gun + Arquebuse + Hellfire) = Dynamis Gun
3. 62x M.Silverpiece + (Dynamis Gun + Attestation of Accuracy) = Ferdinand - the gun you can WS with in Dynamis!
4. 10,000 byne bill + (Ferdinand + Ethereal Fragment + Necropsyche) = Annihilator!

Currently I have : lvl1 complete so ignoring - 8/15 L.jade, 6/62 M.silver (boooo), 60/70x 100byne and I’ll be scouting for a 30x loan when that’s done.  The only thing in my way is currency at this point, every rare/ex is done (thank goodness!).

In regards to the rare/ex, it got really annoying getting them. Including runs where the eye pull got supremely messed up because some of the people who ran up to the eye didn’t understand how that eye pull works, and then 3 more runs where I made rainesong solo the eye (sacrificing his exp!) and us getting really stupid attestations like Great Axe, Katana, etc. We both ended up going 1/5, the first four were junk attestations and the last one dropping what we wanted, on the same run! Was awesome.

Then came Xarcabard, many failed runs due to shitty mistakes, like someone (a zerg drk of all things ) falling asleep just before the weapon, a different run a drk accidentally bringing the wrong SJ thus them dying instantly, etc etc, just a lot of crappy mistakes that unfortunately cost us the weapon warping out.
On top of that, there was a lot of zone ganking which annoyed me to bits. Doing ice dynamis on asura on saturday nights is as enjoyable good as eating crushed glass.  There are so many shells and pickups who ignore schedule and just trade glass to enter which only infuriates me when you’re trying to get relics completed.

At the end, I resorted to doing red-eye dynamis :p Depending on the day, 4-6am EST (which was 8-10pm AU) Beaucedine runs where we farmed attestations. Ended up getting them on the early morning runs.
The Xarcabard however we were sooooooo damn lucky that 24/7 LS were already in the zone way ahead of time (24/7 are also ones who just enter when they like) and no other people were waiting outside - in we went. I decided I’m not taking any chances, got 4 people to change to DRK, 2 with Kraken, 2 with other weapons, and they went to town on the sword, I don’t think the sword was out for more than 15 seconds before it melted, haha.  Congrats to Rainesong on your Holy Fragment woo! All rainesong needs is 13 more M.silverpieces and he’s completely done with his excalibur

When we went to fight gun however, I nearly shat a brick - first off we didn’t have DRKs with 2hours, however we had 1 brd left with SV and also 2 RDM with chainspell, so we decided to get the brd to 2hour SV marches on all the drks, then  2 RDM to CS cure4 a certain DRK with a KC.  I pulled the gun back, but a BLM’s ES+Sleepga2 hit the gun too early, and as it’s a gun it was keeping its distance, UP on the ledge - it wouldn’t come down and 10 seconds already passed and we had the pissed off message, I was so furious at this point and thought it was gonna warp, but thank god everyone decided to run backwards and draw it out. They then smashed it to bits, with the help of my feint too! Ok ok the real reason was it was stupid and decided to cast flare on us :p so it gave us plenty of time to kill it despite the fact we didn’t have all the manpower, but rotating brds = winwinwin.

So yeah! I’m excited, and no my rng isn’t level 1 :p it’ll be 75 long before I get the gun finished . I always loved the job RNG, but never had the extreme motivation before. After getting all my skadi and then getting a bunch of other thf/rng goodies I decided “Why not”.

Wahoo. Since the version up I’ve been collecting some nifty SCH af2! Got hands from a midweek sandy that I did at like 6am EST , and tonight picked up the gown which I wanted most, hooray.

Biggest reason I wanted gown is because of the +7 enhancing skill - stronger phalanx so I can perform better at being salvage sch (unfortunately I’m this rarely), dynamis SCH, etc. Anywhere where I am sticking Phalanx on people. Also because it’ll help bump up damage with enspellga.
Also, it’ll help with sublimation during healing mode. I think this is now the best healing body for a SCH to use, along with AF1 hat for the 4/tic sublimation. I’m kinda peeved at SE for releasing the “refresh item” as more sublimation instead of something totally rad like refresh, but hey better than nothing at all. What this does now is bumps us up to 4/tic sublimation when paired with the hat, which helps us reach our 25% HP marker faster, which is nice. My Goliard Saio moved out from being my healing body armor into my haste armor for faster recast on drains/aspirs etc (when I don’t need the +dark skill from body that is).
Hands are awesome for the +7 enfeebling skill for obvious sleep/grav/bind blahblah, very nice for soloing, also they completely replace AF1 hands which is awesome. AF1 hands’s only bonus over these are the fact you get -20% spell interruption, which I’ve always found nearly useless on SCH.

Also got myself some Brilliantine cloth, so I can upgrade SCH af1. I think I am going to upgrade the body first as it adds +3 int (to a total of 4int on the gown +1) since I use it as my nuke body anyway on anything where I need more ele skill rather than int/mab.  After that I’m probably going to do the hat, so I can have a high int hat , although unfortunately it’s just +1 more int (to a total of 5) instead of the 2 I was hoping for.

Hoorah for SCH updates! One of my fav mage jobs in this game, oh how I wish we could wear morrigan, then I think my SCH would be complete.

Bought a Hume F mannequin to complement my Hume M Dalmannequin , woo! Dressing her up in BLU AF2 (got the 3 pieces I really wanted, head/body/legs, all very good pieces).

Girl Mannequin has the soul of a Girl Gamer

Was talking to Falisa and Akucean on vent and was telling em my thief wasn’t always this good. They wanted proof! I showed them , and now I’ll show you

2006 May or so - I just got mandau.

2006 - Acc set

2006 - Mercy set

• Those are not sniper rings! Those are Venerer / Jaeger rings
• No optical hat That was an NQ war beret!
• No homam at all, didn’t think I could kill omega
• No PCC, had spike neck till I won spectacles in assault (and bought them off the group)
• Thug’s Zumburak!
• DEX rings / Dragon Harness! Me and Aurik hadn’t tested mercy yet and we were under the belief it was still a DEX mod rather than STR mod.
• Spike Necklace for SA+WS because I didn’t think I could kill yovras yet
• Diabolos earring ROFL
• RSE1 hands! No heca aside cap/body because I got them from my last HNMLS and I wasn’t in one at the time

2008 - Today

2008 - Acc

Mercy Stroke 2008!

Yay!!

To me nothing is more satisfying than watching a shit talker just get completely owned, only after talking complete shit to someone no less. I got to witness this just the other day in a merit party!

I rarely merit any more due to capping most of them and spending my time doing other things instead, however my friends told me “Let’s merit gogogogogo” so I joined them. I got a friend to eyeball the camps, bottom floor colibris seemed open so we went there.
Shortly after pulling, we then see there’s a party slowly pulling colibris from the tunnel. Bleh, we didn’t see them but then again they were pulling ever so slowly so it’s easy to miss.
My party comes in and decimates every colibri that was up on the bottom floor, when the crappy party decide to get sassy with us.

lolwat.  I don’t mind people being competetive, I love it when it becomes the race to outpull the other party. We may have been in “the wrong” (camping over another party even though they were killing 1 mob per our 3!) but I couldn’t give 2 shits anymore. So apparently according to the WHM, 2 brds means kill wivres. How about no? I’m not 100% sure these guys coulda handled a wivre (note : we were killing Wivres before we realized there was another pt, just to keep chain) but anyway! Normally I don’t do this, but if people are going to shit talk me I want to see who is doing the shit talking.

Wow really? These are the people calling us weak, yeah ok.  Thankfully my party wasn’t retarded enough to reply to their taunts or pathetic attempts at “reverse psychology”.

So they start sending all their pullers to pull. This is where the fun begins! Now I tell my pullers to stop  pulling because the other pt was clearly overwhelmed. They weren’t killing fast enough so I knew they’d get screwed hardcore :p

And so they did! I am not going to help a party who was a scumbag to me. I watched their warrior die and homepoint instantly, then watched their PT rise up and teleport (apparently their WHM had no RR lol, she HP’d and came back).