*SPOILER WARNING*
I’m not censoring out any spoilers, so don’t blame me!
That said, ASA was by far /THE BEST/ add on that SquareEnix released out of the 3. Without a doubt, I certainly had the most fun on this one, and the storyline was about 10x as good as others in my opinion, it kept me hooked while still being fairly humerous! Pics gogogo
The rewards I got are below! The legs are hot
Stylish!~
More posting! I’ve been getting back in the swing of things since christmas, week of events done, nearly 2 now, and while I hardly logged on at all over the christmas period, I’ve done a fair amount!
In game wise, we have had some nice suprises in drops so,congrats to Nerji on obtaining and HQing his Wyrmal Abjuration:Legs! And Famfryt on Valkyrie’s Fork, myself on Hadean Abjuration: Legs, Wolfheart on Neptunal Abjuration: Legs, Luxv on his Earthen Abjuration: Body, and many more drops that I really dont have the memory to name 
Numbers were dropping in dynamis, so I’m glad to say we’ve got a few new recruits, and best of all a old recruit, welcome back Dooom to the phoenix server, glad to have you back. I want another 4/5 people with dreamland access yet, we have 37 members that I counted with access, with an average turnout of 25~. Not good, I still want some dreamland gear =/
Been leveling a fair amount recently, my latest job being my Ninja. My plan for leveling has always been 1 pet job, 1 nuke job, 1 ranged DD job, 1 support, 1 tank, 1 melee DD job. PUP covers pet job, BLM nuking, RNG for ranged, so that leaves support tank and melee DD to do!
Support jobs, leaving out any form of potential healing jobs, leaves me with COR and BRD. Now while BRD would give me amazing invites, I dont fancy BRDing at events, so COR it is! But for now, the cost of bullets is putting me off for now. Melee DD? Love the idea of DRK, DRG looks awesome, but SAM and WAR don’t do it for me. I know there are other melee DD, but I really want a 2 hand weapon job, so it comes down to DRK vs DRG, and DRK is winning out so far… But my tanking job? NIN vs PLD, NIN just had to win, it’s freaking ninja!
I’m looking forward to tanking at endgame, having to level /drk for that will be a big help I think, 2 birds one stone and all that. I’ve found this little guide on NIN/DRK tanking , plus I’ll have Dooom and Dayloz to give me pointers and tips. Though I won’t be following all the ideas on that guide. Hades sainti for +7 enmity? All I’ve ever seen is Earth Staff/Terra’s Staff for -PDT.
I’ve already got my eye on tanking in sky, as well as tanking ultima/omega in limbus, and who knows what I’ll get a chance to tank in sea. I doubt I’ll be allowed to tank Odin in einherjar, but you never know right?
In real life? Christmas was good, got plenty of stuff I was after such as a 500 Gb external harddrive, of a portable size. Got myself Assassin’s Creed 2 for my PS3, Star Trek and Transformers 2: ROTF on DVD, other small bits and pieces to go with it.
I went to go see Avatar in the cinema last weekend instead of doing Sky (lol), took my girlfriend to go see it in 3d, which cost a fair bit extra 
but I think it was well worth it. I still have the 3d glasses I bought, since we got decent quality pairs, rather then the card versions.
All in all, well worth the seeing, though I wont give any spoilers away.
I’ll leave you off with my latest bit of photoshopping, my latest forum sig, including my new job! I’ve got to get to my next class, gotta love computing!
Hope you all get everything you wanted!
Well, I guess I should post something, I’ve have Reece (Valks) and Blasta telling me to post moar 
So much has happened in game, between Einherjar, Sea, Sky, Dynamis Limbus and other assorted events.
I’ve still got PUP75 BLM75 RNG75, and im planning on either DRK NIN or COR next. I even have 4/5 of lolDoRK relic stored away incase I go that route!
I’ve finally got 5/5 PUP relic pieces, having obtained my Pantin Taj from Dynamis-Xarcabard! Screenshots are bound to follow, suprisngly I didn’t take one of me in full PUP relic, however I /do/ have this one.
It took so long. But I'll be damned if I don't look sharp in that relic gear.
BLM 5/5 at last! The feet from jeuno, while a rather lolpiece, I’ve been after a long time, just to have all 5 pieces. Unlucky xxmchenryxx, maybe you’ll get yours next!
Plenty of happening been going on in nephilim, as an LS we’ve grown a lot since I asked to step up and lead dynamis. Sure 1/3 of the time I cant stand it, and about 1/2 of the time its ‘ok’, but that last 1/6 of the time, I can be really proud of what we’ve acomplished as an LS
Small selection of our LS Tarutarus
In sky, we’ve got down to zerging kirin as and when we can, rather then the old and slow kiting method, so that’s really sped things up in sky, so great! Limbus is plodding along, I managed to upgrade a few items.
RNG AF+1 hands
PUP AF +1 Feet
BLM AF+1 Hat
These being pretty much /the/ best DD feet for PUP, accuracy and STR, delicious!
And my epic BLM +1 hat, it’s so sweet, extra INT and MP, MP recovered while healing is a nice bonus also. Got to love white boxes!
Einherjar we’ve downed Odin several times now, but of course the only time an item I wanted /did/ drop I wasn’t there. Congo-rats you {Bastard Sword} Nedman
Sea is going well enough, I’ve managed to get my faith torque for PUP, hope torque I’m still waiting on however.
Dynamis has gone on a rollercoaster ride. Low attendance has really screwed with the Dreamlands, but on the positive side we gave Dynamis – Tavnazia a go 
A view from the top of Tavnazia.
We beat down the Nightmare Bugard, Worm and Antlion fairly easily to be honest, with a less then perfect setup (in terms of who showed up, a few people I was not impressed with on this run.). We managed to get a few pulls in, got a time extension, but some fail pulls put a stop to the run in the end. We got BRD PUP and DRK relic bodys if I remember correctly, so I can honestly say my DRK relic body is a tavnazia piece. Epic!
Most recently in tavnazia, we’ve had a run in with the Xarcabard boss. Can you guess who he is?
It's the Badass Dynamis Lord baby~!
We had him down in about, 50 seconds, it was epic. We even had non Dynamis members such as Luxv, and Belgaer come in for this zone, it was great! A real linkshell achievement for all. Unfortunatly for our lucky first choice PLDs (Henry, Siphon, Blanaid), we didn’t get a shadow item drop, but the money lover wolfheart got to get his paws on some 100 piece! So he couldn’t complain
It was agreat night for all, I’ve gone and put both images I took up from outside the castle in dynamis, it was something I’ve been wanting to do with the LS for some time. I cant wait to take on DL again!
Though I have to admit, not everyone in the LS enjoyed the final Dynamis cutscenes (Original zones.), even if I did. I do love Final Fantasy story lines, and the missions have kept me playing for quite awhile (See ToAU w/ Xelestria, The final mission was freaking awesome!).
Speaking of missions, I’ve yet to finish this lot, and it’s got me quite intregued
Ohohohoho~
I wont give away any spoilers, but man I’m really enjoying the missions for shantotto so far, while it has some ‘fetch’ quests, you can skip it via the AH, which was a pretty neat addition. Synthesis was cool also, that element of ‘I could break the synthesis’ really made the start of the add on enjoyable. The 3~6 fights you do against the avatars was also a nice touch! I can’t wait to do more fights, the gustav tunnel one was rather enjoyable!
Oshi~ that's a lot of ninjas.
Was a really interesting fight, luckily Bune couldn’t agro us while we were in the ‘battlefield’. (Also hey look, it’s my PANTIN TAJ!!!).
But not everything I’ve been doing has been in-game. For example in the summer I went down with a bunch of friends on a road trip to Torquay. That was a pretty good time, but we were all pretty miserable by the end, with goodbyes.
In the back: Myself (Martin), front row (L-->R): Lewis, Stacey
We’ve all gone our seperate ways. Lewis is in torquay, stacey in wales at uni, and myself, Im still in gloucestershire. It’s been INCREDIBLY hard for me without my friends support. I’ve needed them for quite awhile, and to suddenly lose that support was a shock to be perfectly honest. I still don’t know how I survived this long.
But not all the holiday was upset and goodbyes, we had plenty of fun times together too 
Yes. They had Guitar Hero.
Guitar Hero in the freaking arcade!!!! Bloody epic, I got loads of high scores Was so much fun! But by god was that controller heavy.
In more recent news, Im no longer single, but I’ve got no pictures of myself and my girl yet, so stay tuned, I may bother to make another post by easter She’s a lovely girl though, I couldn’t ask for better 
I'm a Puppetmaster, Get me out of here!
So yeah, as you can see I’ve been in Mordion Gaol recently! Nothing serious of course, I had my Patriach Protectors Arrow restored to me, well worth it. I accidently fired it without unlimited shot before, and it was something that I needed back, as I barely ever made Conquest Points.
Sweet arrow for WSs, R.Acc+40 on sidewinder {Yes Please}!
Of course, this is not the only item I’ve aquired recently, tonight for example I’ve got myself a new TP and WS hat for PUP, it’s pretty sweet
It's a nice head piece, no?
Acc+13, Atk+5 Pet:Haste+5 hat is nice!
Acc+10 Pet:Atk+15/R.Atk+15, for body augments
Those are the augments I picked, for referance, pretty nice couple of pieces. The one on the left being the reward for A Moogle Kupo d’Etat, and the one below being my A Crystalline Prophecy piece.
Which, is now my title. but let me explain how I got it
Terrestial Avatar.... Diabolos...
I had been hoping for a smack down between the Prime Avatar and myself for some time, and I finally managed to aquire my Tranquilizer attachment from the Auction House, so I quickly decided to give it a go. I grabbed my max INT set I could get on PUP (barring rings, couldn’t find my rings), my Pet:M.Acc AF2 lefts, and Pet:MAttackBonus AF2 feet, and rushed to get to The Shrouded Maw. Loncar came along, and we entered the fight, and I started to solo Diabolos.
PUPs are able to solo diabolos because for some reason, their nuke spells don’t claim Diabolos, which means he cannot attack you while your on the ledge, and nor are you drawn in. This meant I could have Donzel rain down nukes from above, and all I have to be careful of is the Regen! I get Donzel to cast Dia2 first to counter the regen, and start my nuke spamming, putting up triple Ice Maneuvers to keep M.Acc and MAB as high as possible.It being Ice Day probably helped too! (Blizzard IV spamming automaton, what’s NOT to like??)
Once diabolos is worn down to below 50%, the automaton’s AI prevents it from casting Dia2, so I had a much greater battle countering his regen. On the first attempt I got him down to mid 20s%, but ended up timing out. My next run, I let it regen to 50% before catching it with a Dia2, and continuing with my barrage of nukes. Got it down to about 12% and it started regening! Quick renuke got it down to 15%, and a DeactivateActivateDeploy nuke got it down to 8~12% again. It became a real struggle, but I managed to get it down to 1%! A quick Water III from the ‘maton finally brought low Diabolos
Diabolos Defeated
What an achievement for me, it was quite a challenge too, so I REALLY enjoyed myself.
So congratulations to Loncar, he is now able to Summon Diabolos on his Summoner, meanwhile I took something else
Nice earring for PUP and BLM
Can’t wait to redo him, let me know if your after his drops, or you need him for your Summoner 
Capture The Flag!
So, I had some major fun last night, we had finished doing sea (I was getting really fed up with it, I had lost 90% of the buffer I made at ix’drg farming). Xele and me pretty much decided, let’s go do ToAU, we’ve got our CSs done, and we want to get it finish to get our crowns, standard and ring! Fight fight was against a BLU and her gears
She's one tough cookie!
Got her down in 1/3, her first two forms were nasty, kept bringing in the damn Gear type mobs to help her, but eventually we got a win. Rested up for a final push against her Soulflayer form, and managed to get it down.
We were thinking about finishing there, but Xelestria was really excited about going on with the last fight, against an old Final Fantasy favourite, Alexander.
This was a pretty odd fight to be honest. We started shouting for members, and a MNK suggested the setup MNK Magex5. It was an odd idea, but we thought that it couldn’t hurt! First phase of the fight, we took down another Immortal (Blue Mage), that was quite cool, he RR’d a few times though, but we took him down swiftly each time. Then after alexander fully awakened, we all spread out to take him down. After fanning out, the MNK charged in to tank, slowly chipping away at it’s HP, with the mages keeping him topped up. At 50% it got ready to use Divine Judgement, and I threw every nuke I could get off at it, and managed to get it’s attention to take the hit. ’cause we were all fanned out, only I ended up dying, so I reraised and rested, back to nuke the last few % down 
I was pretty happy with getting the kill shot, and the CSs that followed, simply amazing!
Dun Dun Duuuuuun!
He's a Chargin His Lazor!
The final cutscenes were really good, and I’m sorry if any of this was a spoiler, but it was such a nice finale to an epic tale. Obviously after this climatic ending, we all rushed for our rewards! First up was a CS at the imperial palace
Ohohohohoho
It was pretty cool, getting my ring from the empress, I picked the mage ring in the end, it’s going to be a very nice nuke piece in assaults, or just on anything resistant, and a very nice enfeebling piece! Got to love M.Acc.
Getting a final CS from Naja, we all reobtained our Glory Crown from way back in the start of the story line, it’s nice to have it back, however Naja has a few suprise bills for you, for all the work involved helping you out previously…
{Loan} {Can I have It?}
Hehehe, and that’s without interest on remember! Some of the expenses I couldn’t be arsed to screenshot, but that’s the total lol
Together We Made it!
Again, thanks to my friends I’ve enjoyed a portion of the game, the story lines are truly worthy of a Final Fantasy, and it has kept me going for some time. I’m hoping to do more Windurst missions, as well as WoTG, San D’Oria and Bastok mission lines, with those I shouldn’t get bored any time soon.
KingPUP!
So, again it’s been awhile so let’s recap what I’ve been up to.
In game I’m doing the same old stuff, dynamis limbus sea sky. It’s getting dull to be honest thankfully einherjar is really fun and it won’t take me too long to get what I’m after (Not long being another 19 runs if we keep doing the third wing! Oh how time is relative )
I’ve finally caught up on some my dynamis payouts, and now it’s just back to the day in day out stuff.
Recently I did manage to have some fun though! Shock horror, but the brief time I’ve spent leveling rng has been really good, and I cannot wait to get it to an endgame level. I did manage to get some merit invites too so my pup is now 5/5 on automaton magic skill, just need 220k exp to cap optimization now D:
Another fun task is finishing up my story line missions, doing ToAU with numerous people really has reminded me what fun is! It’s playing this game FOR fun, with my friends, not obsessing over my next X Y Z drop from that event. So please, If you see me around invite me for fun events, and let’s enjoy ourselves!
Well, with the recent trailer from E3, and the amount of discussion in my LS, I had to check out the website for FFXIV (www.finalfantasyxiv.com). It looks very FFXI like, same/similar races, even the boat being attacked looked like the selbina boat.
It’s got me thinking. I joined FFXI originally because my friend Wembo, a level 50/60 Summoner was playing, I joined his LS with Amarok, Rokada, PerfectWeapon, Finndel, Miarin, Stockyboy and many others. This was way back on July 14th 2006.
I was a newb, I was my BLM. Since leveling to 75, which was a hard and ardous journey, I met many more friends, and lost many as they quit the game, something I knew I wouldn’t be able to do for along time, even with my ‘real life’ friends bugging me to join their WorldOfWarcraft server, but my FFXI friends were, and still are very important to me. I reached 75, I took up RNG and PUP, I unlocked Sky, Sea, beat floor 100 Nyzul Isle, did Einherjar, Beat the Chains of promathia and Rise of the Zilart expansion pack missions, I’ve been leading dynamis now for some time. I’ve killed Kirin, Byakko, Suzaku, Jailers in sea, behemoth fafnir and others in nyzul, I’ve deleveled and releveled more times then I can count. I beat maat for my first time, on my birthday, on the 21st September 2007, as a level 66 BLM. This game has given me so many memories, my only regret is that I cannot cherish all of them due to computer failures in the past.
Even the people in nephilim I consider friends, often they have been the source of alot of my stress, but they are the people that I’ve worked with to help myself and others get what they want from the game. What ever that is, if it’s just for the fun of being with friends, or for the achievement of getting your drop, or just the satisfaction of a run well done.
With FFXIV coming out, I’ve realised now… what will I have to show of my ‘achievements’ in the years to come. An old battered (Still broken) SE security token? My blog and it’s screenshots? All this work, I know it hasn’t been for nothing, but what will I have? The idea of joining a new MMO excites me, I want a new fresh start… but what about my character? Maginmartin is ME. That’s just who I am, and without my character, I’d feel some sense of loss.
I’ve just got in a funny mood this evening, I don’t know where I stand right now, I know when FFXIV comes out, some part of me will want to swap, and another part won’t want to leave behind what I’ve done, and what I’ve become on FFXI. I am MMthePUP. I am MMtheBLM. But only on FFXI, that has no relevance to a possible future career, and it’s certainly not going to help me pick up a girlfriend, but did I achieve something these past few years, or has it just been mostly a waste of time? It’s not an easy answer, but at least I’ve met you, my friends.
I’m fairly certain I’ve been rambling on about buggar all, but I think that’s what my blog is for, so y’know.
Later all, hopefully I’ll be able to think straight again soon.
Hey, managed to get this free. Feel free to be jealous!
It's awesome!
Really Really Awesome!
Shame about the picture quality, but it’s still nice to have
