2 posts tagged “crafting”
So we did Apocalypse Nigh. The setup was PLD/NIN, WAR/NIN, SAM/RNG, RDM/BLM, WHM/BLM, and BLU/THF... or something like that. To be honest I don't really pay much attention to mage setup and I know Rob complained about having to sub NIN as PLD for this fight. Oh, and the WAR was Caclax with his Relic Great Axe, Bravura. So we basically zerged it. We went in with TP and went nuts on the little brother. I did a total of 7 or 8 Sidewinders as SAM/RNG for a combined total of something like 5300+. Got the kill shot as well. Windower malfunction prevented me from grabbing screens of the text, but someone else got it and I'll be re-posting them soonish. Anyway, we broke the record with a time of 4 minutes and 44 seconds. Awesome.
So tomorrow I'll be getting my Ethereal Ring. More on that later.
Afterwards I was loitering in Aht Urhgan Whitegate and shouted for a Woodworking crafter for my Engetsuto. I'd picked up the synth materials a day or two before, but none of my carpenter friends had the required Goldsmithing and Blacksmithing support jobs. After a while I heard from Falus, who's a Corsair in Finale and one of the only people on the server to have an upgraded Salvage piece (Denali feet, I think it was). He crafted it for me without breaking a sweat and now I've got a new toy to play with:
On Saturdays GraveyardShift does KSNM99's. We've gotten The Horns of War down pretty good and can beat it without too much trouble. This week we switched it up a little bit and tried The Early Bird Catches the Wyrm, and got thoroughly trounced. We had multiple orbs but really only went twice.
The first run we brought it down to around 70% pretty quickly, but once it got up into the air we had a tough time with Hurricane Wings and it's area effect Breath attack. We couldn't get it back down to the ground and we wiped.
For the second run we decided to pop all our two hour abilities when it got up into the air. We brought it down to around 30% pretty damn quick. Most of the damage was coming from 2 Rangers, 2 SAM/RNG, and a handful of Black Mages. For the melee DD, we had a rough time since our party didn't have a White Mage and none of us had the foresight to bring eye drops and were blind for most of the time. I know I missed at least one Sidewinder because I was blind and I felt pretty ridiculous about it.
Anyway, with this strategy we brought it down to about 10% before people really started dying. Most of the alliance was dead by the time it was at 8%. I died and reraised, hit my Meditate, popped a Squid Sushi and a hi-potion and got one last Sidewinder in to bring it down to 4% before the full wipe. It was pretty aggravating getting it that close to death and losing.
Afterward I met with Quince and Robhighman and we did Ilrusi Atoll assault to finish off my Amir Boots. I'm now just two items shy of my King Baud set - one of those items being Amanomurakumo. The Amir Kolluks will be soon to follow, I'm sure. After that, I got to watch Caclax craft a Kyudogi for a Japanese player:
Now I'm alternating between Whitegate, Jeuno, and Rolanberry Fields trying to track down a Venturer's Belt for my SAM/RNG meripo setup. I really should try to get some sleep.
