The Wonderful World of Lordwafik

Finally! Epic story behind this too, I messed up and Rr’d in the BC to finish one off, but we got pwnt, blahblahblah I’m dead with no RR, as is Chapstick, rainesong the only one out of the BC and alive, but is /rdm also tisi / toir are on the other side waiting for us to come back and do the first BC for them so they can’t raise me without going all the way around the BC area, well they can’t since it’s a 1 way drop off, and I had to spend the next 5 mins waiting for it to drop, and I wasn’t sure if I even had inventory room for it ><

Thankfully I did (66/70) but those were a nervous few minutes!

So happy to have it. Did a few quick tests with it, Crits definitely affect both hands and all crit based JAs. SA Bees in the Canyon with Mandau/X’s - about 650. SA Bees in the canyon with Mandau/Blau - 585.

Also did some limbus with it but it’s kinda unfair to judge with limbus, however I did a few WS near 3k! More testing later

Experience Points, Nyzul Weapons, and bears, oh my!

SE just updated their page with this, and boy oh boy does it look like September’s going to be a great update for us all So not only are they adding level synch, they’re also bumping up the EXP you get from defeating mobs that are Easy Prey or Decent Challenge which in FFXI, these mobs are judged as so from a party’s perspective rather than solo - which is kinda misleading when you examine them solo and they’re still “EP” yet curbstomp you, they’re giving them more exp woo!

Nyzul on the other hand is wows, they’re greatly increasing the chance you can get to get your weapon, it looks like they want everyone to get the weaponskill (WS without the Mythic Weapon gives no Aftermath bonus, however the WS alone might be awesome) and will be great as I’ve had a hard time convincing people to let me go on their runic discs and warp out for a chance at a weapon for me (despite me doing the same for them /rolleyes).  So after the update, 2 weapons will be dropping from the boss, 1 of the job of the runic holder, and 1 random.  However there’s a chance that the lvl100 weapons will drop off other monsters in the final stretch too! Which is also good.

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If you’re out of the loop on BG forums, ElmerThePointy has made a blogsite called “JP Button” which is awesome, he’s translating things that we non jp want to see, and making it public so those of us white skinned demons can view it.

He’s done it well, adding his own “middle ground” commentary at the end of it, trying to explain the reasoning behind posts, as he is someone who understands both cultures very well and looks at it from an unbiased perspective.

What Elmer’s done in these two threads, has built more of a bridge between the countries than SE has done in 5 years. That is amazing and sad at the same time.

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So I was updating this BLORG (as Diablokiller puts it!) and moving all my LJ posts over to here via the export/import features of LJ/Wordpress, and oh my god the memories!

You can click on the side to see I’ve been blogging since 2005 (yikes!) , but here’s a few snippets that made me laugh.

http://wafiks.com/blog/2005/08/dynamis-windurst-sucess/

That post is me about Manaburn’s Dynamis Windy win, and me pondering over my Claustrum Fund, yes you heard right, when I first started my relic, I wanted to do Claustrum since I was BLM only! And what BLM running a dynamis LS wouldn’t want to upgrade his Dynamis weapon hmmmm? That was my mindset back then.

http://wafiks.com/blog/2005/12/hmm-maybe-im-going-thf-next/

This post was me pondering on changing my relic and next job to level. Pretty crazy, if you read the post you’ll read about the stranger who came up and dumped gil/items on me for no reason, If it weren’t for him, maybe it would have remained a Claustrum after all :p

http://wafiks.com/blog/2006/01/dynamis-lord-is-pushed-down-a/

Manaburn’s 1st Dynamis Lord, Jinkies! Brings back memories of us being one of the only groups on Asura able to do this (at the time).

Hello everyone, welcome to my new blog. I used to use Livejournal ( http://lordwafik.livejournal.com) but have imported my entire LJ to this directory! So you can find all the old posts in here, completely backed up!!!

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As you readers may know, I started a second character “Countwafik” for the purpose of having a bard or whm slave, as well as re-doing some things in this game, one of them being CoP missions!

This time around, I got the jolly idea of after each CS, point form write down the main things from each CS, so I can actually keep up with the story. Unfortunately on my first time round, the story was chopped up horribly, most of the cutscenes had a 3 month gap in them at minimum, which wasn’t very easy to keep up with, especially when they start referring to things at the beggining of the story. Maybe I was just too naiive and unfocused to pay attention back then, but this time around my ammo (of notepad!) is my savior.

The way I’ve set up my notepad so far is the chapter mission will be bolded (for example : 2-5 Ancient Vows) and then the rest of the text under it. After I’m done with a mission, I’ll type up the next mission under it, so it can be one big text file that I can read from top to bottom.

I plan on pasting it through this LJ, not the whole thing though in one clump, but in segments, I’ll post my first segments in the next update :p Then probably comment on them and such.

Going through CoP is great fun again because this time I’m doing it mostly with friends. I did Promyvion mea with a pickup and that’s about it. The only thing I wish from CoP is that one day SE turns it into an offline game, CoP is huge and amazingly epic, and would be a shame for an expansion like this to become lost in the void of “MMO stories lolz”. I too did bash on CoP’s story back in the day, saying if you want story you play an offline game rather than online, but looking back at it, most likely I was using the story as a scapegoat due to the lack of content that CoP didn’t have (and now look! wings has even less, lol).

Promyvions have been fun, fun to go through these again, ended up doing minotaur today and getting CS’s which puts me at 2-5, mammet fight which I am verily looking forward to.

Maybe one day when I know how to make websites properly (from scratch, not using a website builder) I’ll give a shot at building one for all my storylines that I’ve encountered in FFXI. I’m imagining something like a main menu up top, side menu with all the expansions, and when you click on the expansion, a sub menu goes beneath with the list of chapters/stories.

I’m doing it with CoP now, and am definitely going to do it with Zilart, Wings, and nation missions. Kerrigan’s story website is nice for in depth answers, as are other littered posts here and there, but sometimes I just want a nice summarized story so I can answer myself “Hmmm why did X do Y? According to my notes, it’s because Z ate Q’s lunch!”, and such !

Here’s a funny screenshot

CoP’s easy once you take shortcuts and tricks such as everyone anima locking promy bosses, pre-parking someone at minotaur hours before it’s time to do minotaur so he can allience draw in, e-sealing slow on bosses so you don’t have to worry about resists in your half ass gear (my taru wears full seers + monster signa, go me!) etc etc.

Tomorrow planning on doing a mammet run after salvage if people aren’t too tired. If they are then it can happen on another day. My biggest push this week is to get diablos killed , since bastok has Tavnazia this week and you need to finish 3-5 or it doesn’t let you OP / Use AH in tav which is what I mainly want. I hate going to whitegate for AH purposes when there’s a much better one to use in Tav, lag free as well.

I screwed up the BG art contest a little, nothing too damaging, but it will delay the contest by a day (only 1 day hopefully!). I also missed two of the entries, and titled one of them wrong, so it was good in a way to remove the polls since I had to fix the other things.

I’m also going to try a new thumbnailing system, small 100×100 px thumb of image, when clicked goes to the whole image, and will also include a link to all the images for those who don’t want to go through thumbnails, so the options are all there.

Here’s a sample of the thumb , it just doesn’t link anywhere :

This is my first Zelda that I seriously attempt and do not finish. Fuck the ocean king temple, worst game design by far, much worse than the split triforce in wind waker.

I enjoy the game, but the repetition of this temple has driven me insane, to the point where I stop playing it for 2-6 weeks each time they send me back to that temple.  Seriously, magical temple hasn’t heard of an elevator or something? I have put off all my other DS games for a while (since I like to only play 1 before moving on). Time to open some of my sealed games which are a billion times better than this bullshit piece of crap, helloooooo phoenix wright!

Zelda DS sucksssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss. 2/10. It’d get higher from me, but the ocean temple alone is enough to devour at least 6 points of negative on it’s own. My first DS game that I haven’t finished, and I couldn’t give a squirt about the story. If anyone wants to spoil the ending, please feel free to do so, because I’m never picking up this game ever again.

#1
LS Dyna, doing dyna for a few weeks again, we do dyna on and off. Anyway, Dyna bastok, 22 people, full clear, 17 AF2 + 300 coins + 2x 100 byne + 10 Wootz Ore = moneyyyy.

#2
Yay for selling homam. I am rich for low effort

#3
Tarutaru is going great, I used 5 charges of his Anni ring already on WHM, gonna hold on and save the other 5 charges for using it on NIN for him. He’s now lvl17 BLM and lvl33 WHM.

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BG art contest is going terrific ! So many nice entries, the prizes will definitely be justified.

Lordwafik’s distant relative from some castle in eastern euro-vanadiel, Countwafik!

I was planning on levelling bard, however I didn’t feel like lugging around instruments and such for it. Nor do I really have the inventory room to have yet another job on LW (yet), so I started this account up, and it’s going pretty well. I am torn on which account to play bard on though, while BRD on LW means I can save myself 12 USD a month, as well as having the last job on mandau finished!(lols), on the other hand BRD on my Taru is the more obviious choice, will mean I can play it separate from LW, and not have to put aside some of my useful jobs like RDM or THF or BLM. Also I’ll be able to use it to PL myself if I need.

The current plan is :
BLM 17 > WHM 37 > BRD 50 STOP
WAR 17 > NIN 37 > BRD 75.

When BRD is done, I plan to level WHM to at least 60 on it, so I can have all the teleports. If I am having fun, i’ll stay whm and take it to 75. I like the job WHM a lot, I did main healing on all my mages aside BLM (yep, blu main healer!) so this would be nice.

Also I realllyyy liked playing BST. While the job hasn’t much endgame use, it’s fun to play on, so I plan on eventually playing BST on the taru, however I am going to duo it with COR on LW , or some other job, whatever is fun really. Preferrably some job that can share my gear at 75 (cor can use skadi/joyeuse/mage items etc).

Either way, that’s if I keep this taru up! If I don’t keep at it then I’ll probably just deactivate him and save myself a few dollars per month, however I have wanted to do CoP and ToaU storylines unbroken for a while now, so this is my chance! I liked the story but some elements didn’t make sense towards the end, especially when it was months between storyline progression (imagine trying to keep up with LOST and only getting 2-4 episodes at once every 3 months).