Pretty much all I've been doing. Crafting, crafting and more crafting. Still working on subcrafts. Almost finished with Woodworking, Clothcraft and Bonecraft. WW and BC are very easy but tedious. CC on the other hand is a massive pain in the ass that is costing me a lot of money. I'm turning three Silk Threads into one Silk Cloth to make a Green Ribbon. The cost here, even when farmed, adds up pretty quickly because I'm losing all that money I could have made by selling the thread. It might be stuck at 54 for quite awhile.

Once I finish synthing all these Scorpion Arrows(I have about 500 arrowheads left) I plan to start Leathercraft. I was able to get it to 21 while farming the femurs for Bonecraft so I have a bit of a start but it isn't much. The main problem will be space I think. I turn non-stacking items into stackables and then back into unstackables.

I know I promised some pics but considering I gained over 50 full levels of crafting skill this week I don't think I'll post each level. Instead, here are my final dings(for now) of WW and BC.

Been a bit since my last entry about the game so this may be pretty long(or I may just sum up everything and keep it short. We'll see.

Beyond: Left. Great shell, got some great items in my time there and liked most of the people. Unfortunately a rule change thread turned into a discussion about what I felt was an unfair item distribution(I would not have been allowed to lot the item in question). Two people left the shell(one was the recipient of the item and the other was his maybe-gf? Not even sure). I assumed this was due to their issues with me. This lead to a lot of unnecessary drama that ended in a leader calling me greedy and saying that I had gotten more than I deserved in the shell. They also said I was ungrateful which I found funny considering I thanked the shell here on my blog and on BG whenever I got an item.

In order to restore peace, move on, etc. I dropped my pearl. Well, the two people who left never returned and they took a full Ultima set with them. I'm still curious as to why they left. Both of them received great items in the shell and supposedly had no problems with the shell up until my comments in that thread.

I considered quitting since I never had anything to do on the game after leaving Beyond. I despise most of the people who do endgame on my server so joining a new shell wasn't really an option. This has more to do with the attitude of the shells they choose to associate themselves with more than anything though so this wouldn't really be different if I changed servers. A friend returned to the game and convinced me to stay until we could both play FFXIV though so crisis averted. I had already sold a good amount of my more expensive gear so I retired a few jobs and now stick to BLM, MNK and DRK for almost everything I do.

In order to fill some of my game time I rejoined Calm for Dynamis. They're a great shell who can clear zones and get gear for their members without being complete dicks about job assignments and lotting rules(oh hai DynamisBums!). We've done two Northland runs and a CoP zone since I rejoined recently. Beaucedine(sp) was a good run with us clearing everything in the zone aside from the boss and a bunch of hydras that were out of the way. Xarc was even better with RDM and BLM and many other AFs dropping for us before we killed DL and got Ring, Mantle and a 100 piece. Cop was stingy as always but we did get some good drops with NIN Hands -1 x2, MNK Hands -1, BRD Hands -1, BLU cape, RNG belt x2 and a DRK cape. I'm probably forgetting something from Bubu as well.

I'm making some great progress with Crafting. I got Smithing to 82 and am now working on some subs that I need for common GP items and money synths. Clothcraft is up first and is currently 50.6 of 60. Next will be Woodworking and then Bonecraft. After that will be Goldsmithing and Alchemy. Alchemy would be easier but I need to do GS asap anyways so I may just eat the losses and power it to 60 from 27. I got a little excited when I was finally able to make a Haub and decided to just sign an NQ for now(my goal is a signed HQ). It was a painful loss but it's cool to have my name on one of the best DD bodies for my main job.

With BLM as one of my three jobs I have been trying to get that mythical INT+6 weskit. So far I've gotten an INT+3 and too many resist augments to count(with a few MND+ here and there). I'm starting to wonder if they removed it completely since I haven't seen any INT weksits in the augment thread in a long time. I'll keep trying though. It's only a 10k loss per weskit and I make more than that farming tabs most of the time.

I am attempting to start a Nyzul Isle static from Floor 0(I'm on 45) in hopes that I can get it to 100. A few members of the group are inexperienced with Nyzul but hopefully I can lead them well enough that they can keep up. Our first run is tomorrow so wish me luck. I'm not hoping for 0-20 but hopefully we can clear 5-10.

Sorry for the tl;dr/omg too much text entry. I'll try to have more pictures next time!

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!