Okay so there are a few mistakes in this image since I was half asleep when I made that. I'll correct them in the listing.

1.) Idle set(Weskit for B Cloak)
2.) Stoneskin set
3.) Resting set
4.) Enfeebling set
5.) High-resist nukes
6.) Dark Magic set(Faith torque is supposed to be Dark Torque)

Quick notes: Idle cape is Cheviot. Obis are swapped in for ice, thunder and dark magic spells when appropriate. Current HQ staves are Ice, Thunder, Dark, Wind and Earth. That's most of my lolElvaan BLM. Not shown is ele DoT set since I almost never(ever) use it.

Next set: Warrior.

Didn't expect to hit 75 so soon. It was at 37 when I started leveling it on Nov. 24, 2008. Level Sync ftw I guess(and no my skills are not behind and I do have Kasha!).

Once I hit 73 I had begun saving merits for SAM and was able to do this right after my pt ended:



I need three more merits to raise sTP to Level 4. Hopefully I can get those tomorrow.

I also bought two new items for BLM: Auster's Staff and Pluto's staff. I now have all the important ones and the rest will come as I have spare gil to spend.

Well, that's all for now. Hopefully more soon!

I decided I was going to spend some time working on my Smithing. I had been thinking about leveling it for a long time so it was already sitting at 26. I managed to get it to 29 on Iron Chains and skill ups pretty much died there. The guide I was following recommended Claws which required a Bonecraft sub. Well the only sub I had was 19 Goldsmithing so the quest to level some sub-crafts began.

I decided to start with Bone and Leather since those were the ones I would need the soonest. I did Leather first. Well, I tried. I filled up my inventory and Ellorna's with Sheepskins and got to synthing it into Leather. 80 synths later I hit level 1. Yeah. I kept at it until I hit level two and then moved onto to Solea. This synth was Level 11 so no skills on breaks but with Advanced Support I was able to hit level 3 pretty quickly.

Bonecraft was much quicker. I leveled on Bone Hairpins very quickly and then moved on to Bone Arrowheads. Both of these synths were painless. Wind Crystals and Bone chips are both very easy to come by and take up much less space since they stack(unlike sheepskins). I stoped once I got to level 4 because I had been crafting just about nonstop for several hours.

I needed to craft the test item for my Smithing test towards the end of the night. It required me synthing a Silver ingot or two. In the process I managed to hit Level 20 Goldsmithing so I needed to do that test item as well.

At the end of the day:

I thought I had a screenshot of my Bonecraft skill ups but I guess not.


Purchases~

Well since Ellorna gave me her account I have been selling off some of her stuff. Mostly stuff I'll never use or stuff that was just taking up space on mules. I ended up making around 10M by selling off stuff I'll never use. I still have the basics like the P. Rope/Ele torque/Noble's tunic/etc.. Would have been stupid to sell the stuff that makes the jobs useful in the first place.

The first thing I did was shop around for a pair of Homam Cosciales. I contacted HomingMissiles though PM on FFXIAH and got no response. The next day I saw that EverybodyLimbus was selling them 500k cheaper anyways(for 3M). I got in touch with Hracknul and worked everything out. Around mid-January or early February I should have them(I hope). It will be nice having them finally since they benefit so many of my jobs.

After that 3M was spent I shopped around and picked up a few things I had been wanting for a long time: Haubergeon +1, Fire bomblet, Fowling earring, and a Flame ring. I can't wait to do some stuff on DRK to see how much of an effect the new gear has on my performance. Here's the highlights of my current gear:



This isn't a specific set I use but it does look pretty. The next thing I want to do is upgrade my AF Helm. Then I'll be done with DRK AF upgrades until I have nothing else to use Anct. Bst. Coins for.

I still have 1.2M left but I'm going to save that. I want another acc ring for MNK but that can wait. I'm going to try to do the Toreador's ring ENM more often now that I have a healer to drag along. I've been hesitant about doing it solo without a Brown Belt. Something else I want to do is get a more solid Chakra set going. Right now my Chakras are about 360. I could hit 421 pretty easily but it would cost me about 300k in new gear and four item slots.

In other news I helped my friend Daegarae get his BLM to 47 from 44. In the process my BLM hit 65 finally which means I can finally wear my Ele torque. Woo! It was fun playing BLM again so I may try to play it more in the upcoming weeks.

That's all for now!

Well SAM is 70 now. I managed to get a 6-hit using JSE hands, legs and feet. Sadly the stat bonuses on those pieces are abysmal. Can't wait until I hit 75 so I can merit sTP and get rid of the legs and feet. My WS damage is starting to get more impressive already. Gekko is in the 800s and Yuki is in the 700s most of the time. I've still parsed highest by at least 6% in all of my PTs. The 6% was against an HQ SAM(the guy has a serious white-box addiction). I'm pretty sure he would have beat me if he had a Rajas but he didn't.

Ellorna quit and gave me her account. So now I have a char with TH4 THF, 75WHM, and 75BLM. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet but I'm looking into ENMs/BCNMs I can duo. I might take up RDM or SMN on the account to have some more versatility(even though RDM is my next job to 75).

I used Ellorna to get a second mule Whitegate access. It went very quickly considering the mule was Level 8. The mule only died three times. That's an extra 40 storage so far(need to wait to do next locker upgrade). Now that that's done I'm going to work on maxing Mog Safes, Gobbie Bags and Storage on a couple mules so I can delete at least three.

Sorry for the short update but hopefully there will be more to blog about soon.

Been a bit since my last update. I'll try to keep things in order as much as possible but no promises. First off I got BLM to 64. Thta means I can replace my Seer's with Druid's for even more Elemental Skill. I also found out that 64 was the level where my skill would come uncapped(since it was capped as 75DRK). So I caught a Besieged and caught it up but it is going to suck having it uncapped every time I level. It will really suck if I get the first level at a new camp and need to leave to recap it.

I've been doing events with Saviour for a week or so. It isn't too bad being BRD all the time...it's just pretty boring. So far we've done JoJ, JoP, JoH, and JoL as far as sea goes. I tried to tell them the depop trick for Prudence but I don't think they believed me so we ended up fghting both copies. They have their tanks come PLD/NIN for JoL. Personally I think they would be better off having them come PLD/RDM since you're out of melee range and just eating spells(usually -gas anyways).

Sky has been pretty routine. The only thing different is the amount of gil I spend getting around. We've collected a few pop sets and should be popping some gods soon. Should be interesting to see if I can debuff them at all.

I've only done one Einherjar run but it went very smoothly minus the NIN who kept running to the BLMs after every mob died(no march for him!). I haven't done any ZNMs, Nyzul, or Salvage yet.

I spent some time upgrading BRD gear since I joined. Instead of going through each piece individually I'll just list them:







The two staves are the source of the entry title. When I first went to get them both were waaay overpriced...I'm talking 70k+ over going price. Well I waited about a day and noticed that none were up. I was pissed off that someone paid those jacked up prices(which usually results in a higher posting prices from everyone else too). Well after I checked the history I saw that none had sold...The jerk who had posted those got them returned. I was happier than I should have been about that. After events I got these two for the going price. The musical earring and hands were pretty cheap since I found a supplier for ABCs. They have a ton of them(I guess they collect for their shell) and sell low. I bought about 70 from them and got 1.5k off each coin.

I need to upgrade my other Earring to a Loquacious and do enough Einherjar to get an Omega ring. Need to get new AF items from Limbus too so I can upgrade the legs and be done with BRD AF+1.

Speaking of AF+1 I got the Temenos item for DRK which means I could upgrade another piece(already have hands+1). I couldn't decide between the head and feet so I flipped a coin and feet won. Head will be next. If I get the MNK item I'll be upgrading my Temple Cyclas for the extra VIT for Chakra. I'm working on maxing out my Chakra build since I use MNK for farming.

Okay that's pretty much it. If I forgot anything I'll update this entry.

Not much to say before I get to sleep...Did some solo the other day. Got BLM to 63. Even though I'm not able to one-shot anymore I still get Chain #4 pretty frequently.



That was without an exp band ^^. Exp shouldn't slow down until about 65.

I finally finished that stupid promotion quest!



Now I just need to get Captain(lol)! It was pretty easy once I passed the Qiqirn part of the exams. BCG had some of the funniest dialog in FFXI.

In other news I got an offer to join an event LS. Seems like a great shell(pretty active and fair)...Only problem is that they want me to be BRD 99% of the time(and BLM too once I get that 75 I guess). It really isn't a big deal but my BRD needs a good bit of work before it is ready for endgame events. I farmed up 350k tonight to get started but that won't be enough(BRD is expensive!). Anyways, off to bed.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that I got my last piece of BRD relic(body). Now I'm 5/5 and can store it. Woo! Inventory!

I'm not broke but I'm no closer to my Hauby+1 ><;

Got BLM 61 not long after buying this though so that's a plus.

Was farming again and ran into an old friend. He asked me if I could drag Ellorna's character out to the Three Mage Gate as WHM because he was requesting his BLM hat. Wait! I need my BLM hat! So of course I went along. Took about 10 minutes to kill the Sludge(Wiki makes it sound much harder than it is) and then we both headed back to WinD and got our "new" BLM hats.

We were chatting and got to the subject of BCNMs. Obviously the best BCNM ever is the K Club BC...and we got a K Club! Nah, not really. We did agree to static it though and between the three of us we have over 2100 seals to toss at the BC. Here's hoping we don't go 0/100 lol.