Thief has been an adventure in leveling, that's for sure. I really enjoy the job and I get quite a few compliments on how I play it so I must be doing something right. I was putzing around my Mog House on Saturday morning when out of the blue I get a tell asking for a party. I accept, head to Aht Urhgan only to notice that a couple of the players had underleveled sub jobs and had recently been pointed out as people that didn't have a clue how to play their jobs. I told the leader that I was going to go do my own thing and not subject myself to what I was sure was going to be a disappointment. I warped back to Windy and decided to gear up and head to Phomiuna Aqueducts to do some Codex farming. Just as I OP'd to Tavnazia I get another tell asking if I wanted to party. Before I even had a chance to reply I had 2 more tells come in asking the same thing. I almost fell off my chair laughing because of the old saying "when it rains, it pours". Well I accepted this invite, headed for home, regeared, and headed to Wajaom Woodlands for some colibri massacre. The setup was Pld,Mnk,Thf,Whm,Blm,Rdm. Well, since I'm not 60, and don't have Assasin yet, the Mnk was on first voke duty. He was /war so this always makes me a little nervous since getting a tank to line for SATA fast enough isn't always easy. Well, the Pld was paying attention and lined up quick every time. The monk would only take 1-3 hit before SATAVB went off and set hate hard on the Pld. I'm not sure what good numbers for thieves are at this level but I was consistently doing 685-700 dmg on SATAVB and maxed out at 802. The birds are squishy to piercing so maybe I need to do some work on gear setups. Either way, we went fast and furious and I dinged 58 and got within about 5k of 59 before the pt disbanded.
Sunday morning I finally made it to the Aqueducts to farm up my codexs for the planned run that night. I farmed up one after about 10 kills, warped, traded it to my second char, and headed for round 2. It took another 10 kills or so to get another one so I was excited for the belt run. Unfortunately it didn't happen, but I now have 2 codexs for future runs.
In the evening I level'd Pld. My static for my Pld has been making tracks all over Bibiki Bay. We only level on the weekends because a couple members work evenings. I got to level 66 on Saturday night and 67 on Sunday night, and my goal for this weekend is to get to 69. Next week I'll be doing some farming so I can pick up my new gear. I'm thinking if we hit it hard for the next 3 weekends or so I should ding 75. That will be a great day as I'm thinking about doing some meriting so I can get Chivalry as soon as I ding.
It was around 1 a.m. when I noticed it was almost full moon. I looked to see if a couple of friends were on so we could try a BCNM. Well, they were online, just not on FFXI. I sent a couple AIM messages and got them moving over to FFXI so we could run. I muled my Rdm gear for a 40 cap run and then realized I didn't have enough seals on my main for a 40 Orb. Well, my second character had enough so I figured I would just use that one but since it only has whm high enough we would be trying the BCNM with a little different setup for my orb. Well, Royal Jellies is the BCNM we run because it's easy and we know we can do it fast. War,War,Rdm is our setup for rocking this BCNM. Well, the first to orbs were normal runs and then we got to my orb. War,War,Whm would be the setup for this. None of us have ever run this without a Rdm so we weren't sure what to expect. Well, since I didn't have gravity and my 2nd chars enfeebling magic isn't the best I just hasted the wars and tried to bind the first jelly. Well, I am thinking this setup is better because 2 hasted warriors just tear through the jellies in record time. When it was all said and done we didn't have great drops, but I did get a Fire Spirit Pact that I needed for my Summoner, so I was happy.
Well, it was Labor Day in the states so I didn't have go to work. I had been looking for a new item to farm where I could make money and exp for my thief at the same time. Well, I saw that Giant Bird Plumes are good money so I headed for Misareaux Coast for some Diatryma killing. I still had a tactics pearl from the previous week so I figured I'd burn it up out here. Well, I don't know if any of you have tried to get these plumes but they have got to have the worst drop rate I've seen. My NPC got 2 levels up to 45, I gained almost 5k exp, 6 stacks of worthless meat, 3 stacks of feather, and 9 plumes. Give me a break!! Oh well, I tried it, it didn't work, so it's on to something else. That is, after I finish the stack of plumes doh!.
I did get a cool new background for my PC while I was out there so that always makes me happy.
I also helped a friend on Monday night get 1 of his 3 items for G1, and this coming weekend I'm going to take him around for the other 2.
Wednesday was Limbus night. We had 1 more popset for the dirty ho bag Ultima. She raped us on our first fight so we had a good plan for this fight. Well, we got there and things were going well, we got her down to around 30% and then the plan started to go wrong. Some of our DD's were way to excited to use their 2hr's and didn't notice the timer. I yelled RUN!!!!! but only a couple seen it and most of our group got dusted by Citadel Buster. We got them up and still worked hard on her but in the end Ultima was victorious again. The last time we got her down to around 15%, this time was about 5-7%. We learned a lot and hopefully after we farm up another popset we will be victorious.
The group getting ready for the attack.
Well, another longish update in the books so I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for reading!
Peace,
Shmed
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