Yesterday, a few of us finished up with some of the ToAH missions so that we may take part in Salvage. It was a conglomerate of Moogle Army members and Rayneblood, a Guts member. We first completed ToAH Mission 13 which is an easy NM fight to get a coin to allow us onto the Black Coffin, the dreaded pirate ship lurking in the waters around Aht Urhgan.
to try to cast long duration spells, allowing me to always run away before the spell cast. Anyway, I made it to the point without further incident, even with Mr. Sunshine on my heels. (You may note that the link shows that a Soulflayer is 'True Sight'. Needless to say, he aggroed me from behind his back. Some people say there are literally true sight and true sound mobs. That being the case, this one is definitely sound based, or both.)
Once at the Black Coffin, we watched the cutscenes then tried to enter. Flotsam was missing the coin so he had to drop and we tried it with only 5 people. The only healer, other than the PLD's own healing skills, was a BLM. The basic plan was Jedi (WAR) and myself (THF) were to duo the mobs while the PLD, BLM and DRK focused on another. Jedi and I rocked through two of the mobs while Maddox (BLM) was on sleep/heal/nuke duty. We easily got through the first wave but failed to allow the BLM to rest MP back before taking on the second wave of undead. The captain was at around 50% HP when we wiped. We just didn't have enough healing power, and failed to sleep the second group as easily as the first.
We all returned to get some coins and fought the mission again, with only 5 - we picked up Flotsam (BLM) and lost a DRK. The fight went very smoothly with no difficulty.
I can't let Flotsam post all the posts. But, my FFXI time has been fairly boring. Balu and I have been spending a lot of time out in M.Coast hunting Odqan for my elusive Bravo Subligar. While I know he has a very shitty drop rate, he is still fun to camp. Although, it is very hard sometimes to know if it is foggy out. I only know because I can see other Clusters on widescan.
I am almost to the point where i will be temp stopping at 40ish range for my AF weapon and to allow time for old gear to sell and obtaining new gear. Being a war is very fun i can do massive damage and have much more survivability than a BLM. The party invites are very slow i was expecting a higher invite rate.
Just ding'd over to 39 on my way to 40. WOOT.
Corpse was also in need of some AF mob killing, so we headed over to Davoi. After running for days it seemed we arrived at the spot killed a couple mobs and waited for NM to spawn. Killed him quickly and Corpse got his RDM AF.
So Peck and Deana, both needed Dark Spark. When we get there we are talking about what TP moves he does, i forget who said that he will self-destruct but i had never seen it, so we assumed it was a very rare thing. We start fighting and then about 10% left he decides to self-destruct. We all lived so it was fun times, and everyone got the AF they needed. I will see you soon also Dark Spark when i come for my War AF.
My love for warrior has caused me to stop lvling THF and sell all my THF gear. I can tell u this my THF compared to my WAR at this lvl are so far apart in damage its not funny. Now one thing that hurt me was when i got a PT i was in a rush so my gear isn't as uber as it should have been. Warrior's weapon skills are very heavy on the STR part so i have to get a STR build, for my WS and maybe just normal melee's. So for now this is my current parsed data not bad but does need work. 
Had to cut and paste my parsed data since i parsed so much data. The first screen is before any merits.
This is my first party after merits. When i was getting 450+ viper bites.
I think i have found the true power of soloing on my BLM. With my XP ring on i would make over 1k in two kills.
The Eo'ghrah have 4 form's sorry i didn't get a pic of all 4 but u will understand all of them but the ball for agro.
This is top of one tower i think Hume tower. We had to climb 3 which made the event a tad longer than normal, but so much fun.
Playing with pots and magic bursting fun.
Be warned there are spoiler pic's here.
So we finally get to the pots and we get our game plan Elemental Seal + Sleepga II on the pots they are supposed to be weak to black magic, so we will see. The four pots are made of 2 pairs a pair of smaller sized BLM's in the back and a pair of normal sized RDM's in the front.
We zone in and we let Xephir our mnk/nin agro the 4 pots and get them together so that we can sleep them. Our next goal is to take out the BLM's before we wipe. So we had a SC in place Xephir lets go of his WS i start casting my thunder IV and Draco our THF doesn't use his WS so no Skill Chain and no Magic Burst for extra damage. =( However, Thunder IV does lands for about 1100. After that the mobs hit points are dropped to around 10%, one quick nuke and WS from Draco and we move on to the second BLM pot. After about 30% of damage the other pots wake up we are attempting to sleep them and fight the last one i believe we get one slept but shortly after defeating the second pot and last of the BLM's we wipe but this was planned for. Creb our RDM wisely landed BIO III, and Poison II on one of the pots b4 we wiped after they move back to the starting position's we re raise back up and as we wait for weakness we watch that pots HP drop and drop and drop and drop those two enfeebs removed about 5% of HP. These pots don't regen life if they don't retreat if they just go back to start because of wipe they wont regen. So after weakness wears melees use Opo necklace and sleeping pots we have a WHM Elemental Seal Sleep the 2nd pot and we go all out on the third one, right after draco uses TP he dies. He never put up shadows and got one-shoted. So we are down to 5 ppl and 1 pot we rocked it with in a minute.Onto Promethia, group shot from the outside here.
This is a couple of Screen shots during the cut scene's and the floor in the fight.
Promethia as the first and second form.
I forgot to add the pic of me getting credit for defeating promitha but will add later.
