Man its quiet in here...

[raidenn]

Hi

[Calum]

Hello Raiden, how are you feeling?

[Icemage]

Eh? This forum may be a bit empty, but there's plenty of people here from Midgardsormr. :P


Icemage

[raidenn]

Yeah I noticed 5 people viewing this forum. I had a productive weekend with ffix. I spent only maybe a few hours too. How about you?

Im alright, just another work day nearly done.

[Khevn]

<.< >.> I see Midgar people 0.0!

[Shadowneko]

I haven't had much luck trying to find a party with my Summoner from 38-40...but other than that there seems to be lots of people ^^

[Icemage]

I'm mostly too busy lately to play FFXI due to some side consulting I'm doing, but I did manage to log on last night for a few hours and help my LS take down Jailer of Hope, Jailer of Fortitude, and Jailer of Justice. :D


Icemage

[raidenn]

I logged in for a few minutes before going to work because i have to get rid of a few stacks of bronze bullets...

You guys need any bronze bullets?
Or how about some ninja powders?

*I feel like a drug/arms dealer

[Khevn]

Aw man hook it up a fellow midgar on debuff powerders >.> Hojo is expensive ><

[Maerta]

Hellu!

[raidenn]

Hiya!


-regarding hojo, its clothcraft and Im more set on alchemy. The reason that is expensive is because of the manticore hair ingredient. It's 14k for 1 hair. 3 hairs are needed for 1 kaginawa stack.

[Irisjir Callard]

Wow I oughter be out farming them thangs.

[Hyrist]

Yeah, tell me about it.

Somthing I would like to ask around is why isnt there much co-lab from all the midgardsormr people in these forums?

For example, people fomr DiV group together to do an event or a Mission of some sort?

I generally think that most people here are rather helpful in their posts, and could really work well together if grouped up say for a promivon run.

I really do think more communication on these boards would help make the game just that much more easier for people, as everyone knows we're not going to get much more help form SE on that part.

[Khevn]

I think Rockman tried to start a board LS but it failed miserably -.-

[silentsteel]

We could try again? I think Pai still has his shell.

[raidenn]

Weekend is upon us again.
Before the weekend, buy your consumables, just realized the price goes crazy during this time.
Also, I had a party last night led by someone from the LS: Godz. Isnt that a RMT linkshell?

[Hyrist]

I'm not saying start a linkshell persay, I'm saying gather together for events. After all we have the forum capiblity here, between the normal and the social lounge.

[Jui]

Hi :"D

[raidenn]

Oh hey you're that person from the AH yesterday. Halloo.

[Jui]

Yeah ^^ hi. I've seen you before. I'm always sitting around jeuno or something XD

[dirtyclown]

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/6092/1154669502686oy1.jpg

Discuss.

[Mog]

Party!!!!

[Murphie]

What's to discuss? It seems to be a pretty factual statement.

Oh, and FYI - Pink text on white is near impossible to read.

[raidenn]

Anyone want to do something? bcnm ? missions?

[Siber]

What missions?

[Hyrist]

I donno, I'm still a bit baked at the fact we lost AC again and its taking(taken) them forever to get it back.

We lost mainly this time cause no one went out to rescue the generals, and we got attacked with only 170ish people in sever. I rushed in from getting one of my staging points (funny story there...) to try to help, and watched as General Crummypld get slaughtered by about 40 monsters (after draining my entire mp pool into curing him).

[KoukiRyu]

I'm up for doing Sandy 6-1 or Promyvion-Mea or Divine Might if anyone wants to do those? >_>

[raidenn]

I need to do the Promies myself. Perhaps we can set up a team?

[KoukiRyu]

Sure, I know that I can get a war/nin, I'll go war/nin myself, and I believe I can get a smn and a rng...so we'll just need a whm, and another smn if we can :3

[Icemage]

I donno, I'm still a bit baked at the fact we lost AC again and its taking(taken) them forever to get it back.


If you don't like the Astral Candescence gone, go get it. :) General consensus at least in my LS is that it's more trouble than it's worth. Useful if it's there, but more useful when it isn't, as it brings XP zones in ToAU back to "normal" instead of packed to the rafters.


We lost mainly this time cause no one went out to rescue the generals, and we got attacked with only 170ish people in sever. I rushed in from getting one of my staging points (funny story there...) to try to help, and watched as General Crummypld get slaughtered by about 40 monsters (after draining my entire mp pool into curing him).

Most of my LS doesn't even bother with Beseiged anymore. It's not worth it. Almost an hour of fighting for less than 1000 XP and Imperial Standing that you could have just as easily have gotten by going out and earning some real XP. This totally offsets the +15% bonus from Sanction.

Really the only drawback to having the Candescence gone is the Warp Taru's erratic magic and his once-a-day restriction, and that's pretty easy to work around since there are precious few reasons to stay in Jeuno anymore.

Before you sound off on me for being ungrateful yadda yadda, I should note that I was in the party that won back the Candescence from Arrapago Reef previously, so I'm in a pretty good position to say whether the risks are worth the rewards.

In this case, I'm pretty sure the Japanese players got fed up with having the Candescence gone and retrieved it this time.


Icemage

[KoukiRyu]

So is it finally back? I wasn't on last night and I won't be home for about 4 hours...if it is back, that'll be good cause I desperately need some buffer before Dynamis tonight x_x;;

[Icemage]

It was still in Al Zhabi as of around 2AM EST last night, so unless the Japanese or Euros drop the ball in the mean time it should still be there.


Icemage

[Turlos]

If you don't like the Astral Candescence gone, go get it. :) General consensus at least in my LS is that it's more trouble than it's worth. Useful if it's there, but more useful when it isn't, as it brings XP zones in ToAU back to "normal" instead of packed to the rafters.
Most of my LS doesn't even bother with Beseiged anymore. It's not worth it. Almost an hour of fighting for less than 1000 XP and Imperial Standing that you could have just as easily have gotten by going out and earning some real XP. This totally offsets the +15% bonus from Sanction.
Really the only drawback to having the Candescence gone is the Warp Taru's erratic magic and his once-a-day restriction, and that's pretty easy to work around since there are precious few reasons to stay in Jeuno anymore.
Before you sound off on me for being ungrateful yadda yadda, I should note that I was in the party that won back the Candescence from Arrapago Reef previously, so I'm in a pretty good position to say whether the risks are worth the rewards.
In this case, I'm pretty sure the Japanese players got fed up with having the Candescence gone and retrieved it this time.
Icemage


Was people in my linkshell that got it back again. I've been in a party to get it back once. I know people in my LS got it back 2 times as well. Most of the other times the people who got it back were from your LS...

That said, I agree with you. The fight to get it back was fun, but getting to it was like pulling teeth.

[raidenn]

Hi :"D

Hi Jui :D. Errr...interesting picture you have there.... Is that a Japanese or Korean pop star?

[Jui]

:P It's my friend <3<3 haha..

[KoukiRyu]

Jui just joined my LS :O She came on last night for like....2 minutes and said she had to leave ; ; We were betrayed for another LS! ; ;

[raidenn]

Regarding Besiege, how much XP does one usually get? I got around 450xp last night and some shouted they got 500. No one took me in their party so I had to go solo.

[KoukiRyu]

It depends on the level, I believe the lowest you can get is 200, and the highest is 1000, although I may be off on those numbers, last night was...level 3 or 4, can't quite remember, and I got 500 myself, just spam JA's and die a bunch and you'll get max exp :3

[raidenn]

I finally got 500 last night. Woo! Now to spend it on booze, women and....hehe kidding.

[KoukiRyu]

lol, I keep missing besieged, I should really watch for it more...I'm seriously lacking buffer on 75, I'm at like 1,177/44,000 ._.; I gotta get into it since I'm not exping on mnk right now, I can at least grab free exp from Besieged :D

[Lunaryn]

Yeah, unrescued generals is usually at the center of AC losses. For my part I have done a few solo runs out to Arrapago Reef now and rescued General Mihli twice and General Rughadjeen once. THF/NIN, at least a stack of Silent Oil and plenty of Shinobi-Tabi, as well as as many Living Keys and Skeleton Keys as I can bring. There are two major difficulties that affect my ability, as a solo THF, to rescue people held in Arrapago Reef:

1) THF Keys, even Skeleton Keys, are subject to failure rate. I've run out on a couple runs and it's not fun. I think Dark Weather may have a connection to this, every time I've blown through a lot of keys at once trying to open a door that just won't open I've noticed that this weather was up...

2) There are 4 locations I know of that have cells. Two of these locations are easy to get to, and two require true-sight-aggro-dodging (either Soulflayers when entering normally or Imps when entering from Ilrusi Atoll Staging Point). Of the two easy locations, the closest is right next to an Archaic Mirror guarded by two Lamia Palace Guards. If a prisoner is held in this location, well, I won't be the one to rescue them. The aggro-dodging I can handle.

I haven't yet made runs out to Mamook or Halvung so I can't speak much to that. I've noticed that Halvung tends to keep prisoners for a long time...