Attack of the Rampage

My warrior finally hit the level for Rampage and it is now mine! It was pretty sub-par at first, because we were camping Lesser Colibri outside of Aht Urhgan. Eating food was out of the question for me, because I kept pulling hate despite Tala's valiant attempts to hold the birds at bay. Then, when I would pull hate the mages would sit stupefied as my hit points went from 850 to 0 (through three shadows too). - Pecking Fury is a bitch.

We were finally tired of that location, and people decided to break up after a few hours of partying. Tala and I immediately put our flags back up and within moments Tala had created a great party. We took the boat to Caedarva Mire to fight Marsh Murre which are plentiful in the area outside of the town (very nice short walk with no aggro). Needless to say, this camp was 100% better than the Colibri camp as we reached over 8,000 an hour with no xp ring.

Everyone in the party did a pretty good job. I kept pulling hate with upwards of 800 point rampages, but we had an abundance of healing power with both a WHM and a DNC in the party so it was a non-stop, zero-downtime fight. We had a few mix ups, however, such as when the DRK used and AOE WS and hit some sprouts - not fun. A few other times I took too much hate and got a beat down.

Over all, it was a great party, and a great XP spot for 54-57.

Here is a parse from the fight:

Back to War!

After taking DRG to almost 40 (@2k), i have decided to stop for a short bit and wanted to level war again. Got my gear and macros ready, lets get to work.

My STR build for my WS's.

Finally Broke 1k on a normal non-two hour WS.

This was with my Two hour, Mighty Strikes was nice.

Warifick!

My march to 60 might be paused for cash making. After, being given next to 9 mil gil i have blown thru it with items that are resell able at a later date but leave me currently semi poor. After tonight i will have close to 1 mil on the AH. Last nights party came quite quick and i have hope for the party. The first setup was Drk/nin, War/nin X2, Pld/war, Rdm/whm, Whm/blm. I was puller for most of the parties and when i checked the mobs they compared as neutral evi or low evi so i figured i could pop some meat and be good. This was a mistake and half, my acc for the next two hours (yes two i ate a 1 hour meat twice because i didn't pay attention) was around 68%. However with 1 sushi and 30 min my acc climbed to 71% so i was very impressed with the results this also allowed me to pass the dark who was killing me before.



Then after the Drk left we changed over to a Blu for about 3 fights, he was quickly replaced by an even worse THF. This setup didn't last long just long enough for replacements to come to remove the bad seeds.

Finally we got down to a set party that was good. I forgot to reset the parser so there are some left over numbers in there but you get the idea from the numbers.


Some key moments from the party i am very proud of:

This is what happens when you pull to much hate and the entire party is silenced and the poor mages have run out of echo drops. =( But thru my death the rest of the PT lived so it was worth it.

Moving on UP!

Got to 48 over the long weekend. Taking a break to get new gear and sell old stuff. Had a very lucky weekend also, an in-game friend quit and i just happened to be in the right place at the right time. He's leaving allowed me to purchase some very nice added bonus for my War and Blm.

Anyway had two great parties yesterday first party was in the morning was with some LS mates. We had a brd in the party which was amazing but sadly the brd DC'd and after about 10 mins of waiting we got a 6th memeber from the LS to come down to camp we kept going for about an hour longer.

Second party had me kinda shaking in my boots, from a damage stand point wasn't sure i would be able to keep up. Our party had a war/nin, rng/nin, nin/war, war/nin.

Posting War Data

Not much going on - helped some people get through ToAU missions so we can start salvage soon. My war was out damaged by a ranger, =( however i did spend 3 fights face down eating dirt.

Caught me showing a little Taru leg.


I was just behind the ranger in damage but i think i would have passed him had i been alive for the other 3 fights.

The Black Coffin

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.

Once complete, we headed off toward the Black Coffin. Sadly, it involved a staging point which I did not have - the last of mine to get. So, I slowed everyone down as I marched my little Tarutaru butt through the undead invested regions of the Mire and the Reef to get my Runic Portal. On the way, a Soulflayer decided to True Sound me and start casting Thunder IV on me. I ran out of range, without ever losing Sneak and Invisible, and continued. He chased me through the Reef, but continued 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.

Congratulations to everyone for a fun fight.

The Amazing FLOT!

My party last night consisted of 2 PL's, 2 war's (one was me), 1 NIN, 1 PLD/nin, 1 Cor, 1 BLM/smn who was dual boxing with one of the PL's. My goal here was to keep pace with the Elvaan War/NIN and me as a Taru War/THF.

Damage wise i think i held my own. I almost achieved my goal of level 35 War last night. If we hadn't taken so long to get started i might have gotten to 35.

New Parser

Kalia has released a new parser which looks cleaner than Tazz's. Also, Kalia's updates immediately as you play.

You can get the new parser here. Or, you can visit the blog for the parser here.

I have yet to try it, but it is getting glowing reviews; we will see later tonight hopefully.

UPDATE: After messing around with the parser, I can say it has potential, but it is still fairly new and missing some nice things. It doesn't parse everything, for one, which is a big issue. Thus, if you want a fully parsed fight you need to use another parser. But, it is good if you want to see things like your ACC, your damage (remember you can't really compare it to other party members at this point) and things like that. Overall, I think it will be better than the other parsers out there once it is done.

Taking up Warrior

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.

Get Your Parse On!

I saw that some people wanted information about the parser Flot and I have been using. You can download it at www.lildevilproductions.net.

Remember, this parser is passive - meaning, it doesn't actively do anything with FFXI. It reads log files that FFXI generates. So, you do not need to worry about getting in trouble from SE by using this parser, as it doesn't read FFXI memory, or alter any FFXI related items.

Props to Tazz for this parser - it is very nice.

Spike Damage Master!

So over the weekend i started playing with THF i had tested out my acc and damage b4 merits and after merits. I had put enough merits into dagger that i had viper bite two levels early, 31 instead of 33. Lets just say that the poor mandys had no clue what was going on. These mandys were mostly IT to IT - a couple were VT ++.

My first viper bite was at 450ish, this was my second one.

This was my third viper bite.

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.