Mordion Gaol & A Moogle Kupo d’Etat

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.

Heir to the Realm of Dreams

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

A Winrar Is you

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!

Lets update

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!

Cheers FinalFantasyXIV. Cheers.

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.

Look what I got !!!

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

Dynamis Fools

My Dynamis guys.

I dedicate this post too…

So, alot has happened since my last post. Wednesday was maintenance/update day, as a general rule, I was happy about this, until I learned that they had F*%&ed PUP’s ranged automaton. Completely demolished it’s ranged attack, and WS damage, but thank god that’s fixed now.

Onto better news, since the emergency maintenance happened during dynamis time, I cancelled dynamis and scheduled some CoP NMs with my static.

Damn he’s another ugly on

There is one more, a Sea Monk NM named Dalham in Bibikki bay, and a Tonberry in Carpenter’s Landing, but I forgot to grab a screenshot. So we downed these NMs pretty quickly, our goal was the final fight before Sea. We had a time limit, Cynric had sky in awhile. We finally got the last of it, I quickly jeuno warped using my ring from beating 6-4 (Such a nice ring). I grabbed the flight to bastok, ran to Cid’s office, and grabbed a cutscenee. This is where the action paced running around stopped, I left my laptop while waiting for grey to grab some ciders. I needed cider at this point. So we resumed our race, got to Sea Lion’s Den, and we went into our next fight against the Samurai Tenzen.

A man's discontent is his worst evil.

Our stratagy was born out of haste and simplicity. We hit him. Repeatedly. Until he cried for mercy.

It’s a pretty sound stratagy for anything

I’ve got a video coming up soon from the tenzen fight, it’s surprisingly short lol.

We got a really nice (Long) cutscene next, and we got welcomed into a zone I’ve been waiting a long time to see, ever since I read the posts on Amarok’s blog of his journey into sea. I’ve been with many people, on many missions in CoP, I’ve joined at least two statics, but I’ve finally got this far.

/Welcome to Sea

Damn there is some wierd ass stuff in Sea

Don't Ever Annoy the Blackmage. Ever.

I’d like to thank at this point, everyone I can think of who’s helped me get to this point in CoP (Damn this will take awhile!)

Amarok, Rokada, Hikitsune, Snokyd, Finndel, Riverwind, Wimpy, Miarin, Mindel, Dooom, Wembo, Stockyboy, Generaltalon, Sucubus, Kagomie, Mattads, Sungaga, Razis, Greybolt, Cynric, Frasier, Hannahry, Myste, Nerji, Armarn, Edmon, Kinikki

I’m sure there are many others I have missed, if I have let me know and I’ll add you to my list

I dedicate this post to you all.

Together we made it!

Oooooh Yeeaaah!

Last night, may have been THE best night recently, having finally accomplished what has kept me aggravated for so long!

Just after a wipe

So this guy. Ultima.

Ugly F&%*er, isn't he?

I’ve only actually fought this guy twice, I kept wiping to his other half, Omega, on previous runs. We finally got to Ultima on Sunday, as RDM (Cynric) WHM (Hannahry) PLD (Greybolt) WAR (Razis) DRG (Sunaga) RNG (Yours truly!). We had him down to 11% before running out of time, as we had a few of our member get killed at the last couple of % on Omega. Kinda sucked, and I realised then, if we had brought 3 Icarus wings we would have won (Plus I was holding onto TP for a Sidewinder, if we had just had another 30 seconds, we would have won!)

We came back again, Hannahry was swapped for Myste, (They were just helping, didn’t need the mission) and at the last 38% on ultima, we just went full out, I was building up TP, used EagleEyeShot, Barrage’d, Sidewinder’d, used my Icarus wing, and Sidewinder’d again.

We meant serious business, and we got him down with a minute or two to spare. We are finally on to the last stretch before Sea, we are all so glad we got that down, it felt so good to have that mission done, after having it wear me down so often. In a way it’s rejuvenated me, giving me a new found enthusiasm for the expansion.

One of the Cutscenes later scared me however, if you have ever spoked to Cid in Bastok Metalworks, you will know what I mean.

Look at those nashers!

Damn those are some scary teeth.

Until next time!

Easter Break

So, it’s been awhile since I last posted, and it’s time to see write down what’s what.

My RNG has finally dinged 60, and I do so love that Sidewinder action!  I’m now 5/5 on AF, all of it solo’d on my PUP too, so I was pretty happy about that. I’m refusing to level it any more though, till I get more gear, I need amemet mantle+1 and some new R.Acc knifes!

Just an old screenshot of RNG

PUP, has been doing pretty well, I need to up my gear in some areas, but it’s mostly just Sea gear really. I’ve got the Role Reversal JA from merits, it’s a pretty neat trick, instantly swaps my ‘maton and my HP around,  really useful if I need to deactivate>Activate and he isn’t on 100% HP, but of course this only works really on the mage frames.

BLM is just the same as ever, albiet with a lower buffer after fighting ZNMs with Ama!

Dynamis has gone pretty well recently, we got the win again on Dynamis-Qufim, and on a more personal note, I am 4/5 on BLM relic gear, with the 5th piece hopefully becoming mine tonight!

4/5 BLM relic go!

CoP hasn’t gone so well, but hopefully getting 6-4 tonight tonight, the signs are good anyway.

Real life wise, things havn’t been going so great. Work is fine, wembo is making things easier for me, and sixthform itself is going fairly well. My problem is my friends, or rather, my imminent lack of friends. At the end of the year most of my friends are off to Uni, and I’m going to be one of the only ones staying around, it’s pretty depressing, but I know that’s it’s how life happens, with everyone going their seperate ways, but it will be very hard on me to see them go. It’s going to create a gap, and I can already see it happening, and I have nothing to fill it with. The people who are staying at sixthform are ok, but i’m not as close to any of those as I am to the people I am close to.

What can I do? Only time will tell. For now, I’ll leave you with this picture, which made me lol.

It's a Trap!