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).

Yay! After the billionth time killing this NM, I finally see it drop the old ragged gloves once more after seeing it drop when we did it wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy back in the days of early salvage when we didn’t realize SSR was a diseased harlot.

Back in the day of my NA time group, it dropped and I passed it to Preet and said “I’ll just get the next one! All yours”. HA! I never saw it in my whole time in that group, even after it broke I didn’t see it drop in my own group till tonight.

With full Skadi armor set, I am thinking of setups. Now the thing is, I can’t think of any reason I’d want to wear the whole set at any time! The set bonus is “Increases rate of critical hits” - by a measly 5% that is. I can get more total DEX/STR from other gear, more haste from mix/match, more acc mix/match, etc. The only thing it’d be technically good for would be the weaponskill Evisceration, but even then -
a) I don’t use Evisceration much as it’s in the same category of dark as Mercy Stroke thus me not needing it for SC
b) If I was going to evisceration, I can achieve a higher STR/DEX bonus from hecatomb.

I guess I’ll wait till I test it out on the feild rather than just theoretical wishy wash, but just at a glance I don’t see it good for much (on THF) outside an unstacked Evisc.

Now the individual piece, the hands, are welcome by me! They are now my strongest trick attack item for mercy stroke. Not only that, but they’re amazing RNG gloves and would also be welcome for Sidewinder (and when I obtain it, ) Conorach.

Hoorah skadi! 2 full sets finally complete after doing Salvage from the day it came out. I’m glad I hung around ! And I am not going anywhere I like to help my friends, so I’ll be doing it till we get everyone’s drops.

Damaage

1300+ ! It only did 1300 once, but many other times I was doing 1100+ , tested SB for the lulz and got a 750 (in my mercy setup, don’t usually bring dex gear around with me).

Chaos/Samurai roll (only SAM in the pt for roll enhancement) Madrigal/Carol

I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently, and I really would like another relic. I’ve always been attracted to the thought of me having an annihlator , looks like a fun weapon, and I like gun more than bow in this game so I’m definitely heading towards getting it.

The more I’ve heard about it, the more I want it badly :p things like the amount of dmg you can do in triple procs / barrages and such, fap fap fap. Would go well on things where my mandau doesn’t contribute in an amazingly good way (for example salvage bosses).

The funds will be the only real roadblock in getting it obviously, and I’ve got quite a wad saved up for it so far. I’ve been sitting on a small portion of cash, and hopefully I can do the relic in approx a year or so. If not, I’m in no super rush anyway, but I’d like to get the 10k byne out of my hair within the year.

Also looking at a bunch of things I could sell and convert to gil, the only thing I’m really wondering about is the manteel on the taru. That would give me 4m to fund, but I lose a lot of stuff :p However it is a mule after all, so maybe I’ll just downgrade him into errant.

Other stuff I plan on selling -  Terra/Apollo staves, Blau, HQ sniper, Mahatma Slops, basically things that I no longer have use for due to me obtaining better, (blau/slops) or things that offer an upgrade so small or I use so rarely that I won’t notice (staves/sniper +1).

Just by selling things off alone, I have the funds to get started, and then via my other money making activities, I predict to make enough money each week to at least buy a blob of currency . Little things here and there that I’ve taken for granted, like farming flayer crap, selling drops from the mobs in nyzul (like almonds/bone chips etc etc) will all add up in the long run!

I’ve always been the type of person who has no motivation to do anything , but when I’m motivated, I’m in it till the end.

So far I have liquidated some things to get me started, this is going to be long and slow unless I get lucky on a Kraken BC, but now I am up to 8x 100byne, 1x M.silver! Whee.  Starting all over again is sure “fun” :p The fact that I don’t have a fully sponsored dynamis anymore is going to be a strain, I won’t be gaining coins as fast, but oh well, no worries.