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More to follow.Basically, I stopped writing on here because there's more productive things to do than talk to an empty room.But it turns out that (1) the pDIF formula we know and use is wrong for two-handed weapons and (2) Imageshack is being a pain so I guess it's back to this site.Hello, FFXI blog! What a thick coat of dust you've accumulated!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l9QXPn1FRU&feature=channel_page

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Take care, everyone, off to work on a secret project. See you in Vana'diel!

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All tests performed as 75RDM with Sigil active.SQEX changed the way rewards from Campaign Battles work, AGAIN, but they never tell us what the changes are.Unfortunately, the recent change means that battles last less than 5 minutes. Since the /cmap lags 1~3 minutes behind, often I arrived to find everything was over before I could even attack or cure. Until this is adjusted again, forget any kind

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FINAL FANTASY XI Update (Nov. 28)- An issue wherein the maximum number of charges for the scholar ability "Stratagems" was not functioning correctly has been addressed.Didn't we all mention this a few days ago? Right. Ok.- The method by which Campaign Arbiters evaluate players has been readjusted, and the maximum amount of experience points and Allied Notes obtainable has been increased.... I

Araelusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32932915.post-21833032468029262772007-11-28T01:30:00.000-05:002007-11-29T00:49:44.775-05:00

All tests performed as 75RDM with Sigil active.If only casting cures,1 HP = 0.1 xp and 0.05 Allied NotesSQEX changed the way rewards from Campaign Battles work, but they didn't tell us what the changes were.As of right now, no wikis have this kind of information posted. Everything posted here, unless I put it on a wiki myself, should not be copied. Thank you.The first thing I tested was what

Araelusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32932915.post-53392537239863619332007-11-26T16:49:00.000-05:002007-11-26T17:58:36.584-05:00

Behold.No equipment, no Grimore effects.Please note that Enfeebling is +16 from merits (A+ is 276)and Elemental is +4 from merits (C+ is 230)(as noted in my merit sidebar...)Activate Light Arts.That's +205 Divine Magic!!Healing magic gets raised from C- to a B rankyet both are uncapped!Now activate Dark Arts.That's B+ rank for Elemental Magicand between B- and B rank for Dark Magic!!That means

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- Preventive measure has been implemented to address the fire elemental appearing in certain areas.- The location of a ??? that appears in Jugner Forest [S] has been partly fixed. What the huh?- The following NPCs will now appear during Campaign Battles:The Eldieme Necropolis [S] - Erik / LaytonCrawlers' Nest [S] - Naiko-PaneikoGarlaige Citadel [S] - RarcasmeaultFinally! (Runs off to get the maps

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SE's not reporting why, though I can guess.Scholar is able to go to negative two stratagem charges, using the macro commands. As a support job, the Grimore JAs will raise any spell skills that cap below a B rank up to that. Meaning WHMs now have a B skill in Dark Magic and Elemental Magic, and so on.Dancer can solo ITs past level 30.One or both jobs are being adjusted, but I'd suppose that SCH is

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...and travel to the time of your childhood heroes!There once was a war that shook the very foundations of Vana'diel.It was a dark and dreadful age.The lives of many were lost.The futures of many were destroyed.The joys of many were extinguished.However, there are those from that age who remember...They remember the hope that burned in the darkness...The companions that banded together.The heroes

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o_o;;It can't be... really!?HOORAY!! HOORAY!!

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I finally got through to the password confirmation screen... hit enter...ERROR CODE: HAW HAWThe server is a broken down old hunk of aluminium with some wires stuck on it. Please try to connect over and over again even though this will further stress the server. Oh, and we're going to say that if you verify your own computer is set up right it will help, even though the problem is entirely on our

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So after a while of fiddling with the BROKEN REG SERVER I gave up and figured I'd go back to playing the crappy, modern-day game. BUT WAIT NO!My ridiculously overpowered machine is going to take forty more minutes to check 20238 files!!How much of the CPU is being used by pol.exe to do this?3%Yes, that's right.BASED ON MY COMPUTER'S POWER, IT SHOULD BE DONE IN THE TIME IT TAKES ME TO TYPE

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I just drove about eighty miles to get a computer version for Wings of the Goddess and the registration server is still borked.This is flatly absurd.

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Due to "problems with manufacturing" the PC version of Wings of the Goddess will not be shipped until the 21st. Servers still going up at original schedule.I should get the game in two to three weeks, due to travel and shipping problems.Great. Just great.

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Well, now every time I zone the game shuts itself off.Many people are unable to play with more than 5 FPS.Many people can't load the game at all.Many people have wacky un-fixable gamma errors.Emergency maintenance どこですか？...as I type, I can't get a party right now because I can't zone...

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ScholarWhile it's disappointing to see that Scholar's AoE Spell Stratagems (Accession, Manifestation) are at level 40 and thus not available to the support job (meaning no Refresh-ga amongst other things), this does give the job a boost in terms of being used at higher levels.The 'helix and 'storm line look excellent. I think being able to pick and choose weather effects will significantly change

Araelusnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32932915.post-43765200495488235572007-11-18T02:43:00.000-05:002007-11-18T02:46:59.040-05:00

Hey, all. I know it's been a while.Template posts for May 31 through November 16 should be up tomorrow, and will be filled in shortly. Lots of pictures, not so many words. I spend my time writing elsewhere anyway.I expect that I'll fill up a huge backlog again with the new expansion release, though.(Then again, no-one still reads this.)Cheers,Araelus

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Nagamaki:We (as in one-hander jobs) didn't make the game unbalanced, you morons. If you run into an inanimate tree in a park, do you seethe in rage for years until it gets cut by park services and then go gloat over it? Really?Plow:No, but if someone stood behind the tree going "HAHA NOOB LEVEL CHAINSAW IF YOU WANNA WALK IN THE PARK" we probably wouldn't be too supportive of them when they

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(space)

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(space)

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The full weight of the process of getting twelve Imperial Wootz Ingots is beginning to sink in. Consider that a Haubergeon costs about 440,000 gil right now.One Imp.Wootz costs 750,000 gil to be crafted.One. I require twelve of them.Now, this is all in perspective. I've never sought a relic weapon, I've never gone for big money items. For me, a Morrigan's Robe will be the single most complicated,

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You find a....MACHA'S COAT!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Thank you guys SO MUCH!!!!!!!! eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeI... I can take Dalmatica off my goal list now.o_o;

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"You got the Duelist's Chapeau?""Oh, my, no. But I have 13,000 AP towards my Yigit Gages.""......"Actually, the great news today is that Marquis Orias dropped a Sorcerer's Petasos! I don't have Zenith Mitts, but I have the (rare?) and exciting Relic BLM Hat! So now people can look at me and go "why does he have that item?" since most BLM aren't lacking the trademark mitts.Hopefully I'll get to

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(space)

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With a 450 delay weapon:9 hits - 0 Store TP8 hits - 9 Store TP7 hits - 25 Store TP6 hits - 45 Store TP5 hits - 74 Store TPHere's an interesting problem.At level 30, Samurai has 15 native Store TP, and Rajas Ring boosts this to 20. But +20 doesn't do anything.At level 50, Samurai has 20 (native) + 5 (Rajas) which reaches the seven hit mark. But at level 50, you also gain access to the Shinimusha

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We had been camped on Qufim Island for two days, slowly working our way towards Delkfutt's Tower. Moving around after nightfall was far too dangerous, with the skeletal remains of long-dead warriors and mages wandering the snowy fields. Not all the corpses from the battles here during the Crystal War could be properly put to rest, and now they fought against their former allies and countrymen.I

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The Goblin Leecher scowled at our hunting party as we struck him again and again, and to our dismay some of his wounds healed and vanished. "He's casting Cure II!" I yelled, "I don't have enough Tactical Points to stun all of these!""I've never fought one of these before, is this supposed to take so long?" our Elvaan warrior asked over the din of battle."Not. If. We. Had. Silence." Our tank, a

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When Bjornar asks, "...merit?" the linkshell becomes deafening as people fight for a spot in the party. Luckily, neither Arkaine nor Willya were online, and they let me come along...Aurorastar, Anekei, Nichole, and Weiing completed the team, and we headed out through Nyzul Isle to the Thickets.Our target? XP Piñatas.Easily the best party I've ever been in. Absolutely amazing.

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(pic is link) GO! GO NOW!!(Yes, this has been posted here BEFORE the official SE site has it! Bwahaha!)

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RMT still have position hacks by the way.

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"Are you sure this is legit?" Dragod cast a wary glance at the Immortal keeping watch just out of earshot. "I mean, you had to sneak an armband from Illrusi Atoll and that lady told me to get lost when I asked her for another."The Imperial Blue Mage looked over at us, and my Tarutaru friend pulled the brim of his petasos over his eyes. "Urgh, they have good hearing, I guess.""We got this mission

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To begin, Fafnir was defeated by HappyAngel with less than five minutes left on the rage timer.So we go to Bhaflau Salvage: Nemain's Sabots drop! Hyre has TH+ as Monk it seems... ^_^;;Also, this area is considerably easier to get a lot of cells from compared to Zhayolm, as evidenced below.Forty minutes in, Tiamat pops.We debate, wait, then leave. Int claims and does very little damage.TheFlock

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(1:55am EST) Momooo luckily has a mule on the island and is skilled at solo killing, so Noyade (Ache playing char) got Sallet, but some other people are killing them, too, and we have no scales.(4:45am EST) Four flies alive. Willya came back with three scales, farming got us no scales. Momooo (as Yoki), Lawrnz (as Ciscute), Achelois (as Noyade), Willya, myself fighting flies in a moment. SMN SMN

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One nice thing has resulted from this otherwise pointless time spent in Castle Oztroja - I ran into Genji again this morning. We chatted a little about the poorly designed drop rates, right after his Mee Deggi claim didn't have the Kote, and then about Salvage.Genji and his group have been incredibly successful in Salvage, netting him an Ares's Cuirass and Mask, and often splitting up into

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0/21 now. When should I quit?

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If he was so gallant, he'd drop the items every time. 0/15 right now, and getting really fed up with non-force pop NMs.It's weird. This game can be a lot of fun or it can be a complete waste of time. For the most part I stick to activities that don't make me feel crushing despair and boredom, but every now and then I run into the problem of needing an item that will either (a) cost all the gil I

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A Farewell to Arms LimbusAfter the loss of a few major members and the unfortunate inclusion of some complete idiots, cuniLimbus has been in decline. This was exemplified by a fiasco regarding DoTs on slept mobs. After Proto-Ultima today, I cashed in my chips and resignation. Most everyone else I know did, too. An example of why this has to end, from late June.Hey, all, ...well, this is more

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It makes me feel a bit better when I think that some people managed this in the first year. And I started this character on October 8, 2003.Sheesh. We've all come a long way since then.

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Epic Drops One time, we had two M.Silverpieces from the first two Eye kills here...RDM/NINI never thought I'd bother, but I'm finally done with Ninja! It was, all things considered, only a hassle because of my poor internet connection and not the shihei cost. On the other hand, I'm not going to keep going with the job. /NIN37 will make Ouryu fights much easier, since I have to solo tank the

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In the Name of ScienceIt took a while, as everything does these days, but I picked up a Thunder Obi from the Safehold.And: surprise! It massively boosts Enspells: the calculation is already affected by day and weather, and the Obi adds on additional damage!Joke for the DaySnow makes my feet cold, so if you die in Dynamis, I leave you dead when we exit.

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...my computer died, not me.Two computers, in fact. RAM failure on one, and the other's video card turned into slag. The new one is doing well, however, and I'll post records from the build process later.It's nice to be back (on May 29), and lots of fun working with Perseverance again. Great bunch of people! The first week back was a sweep, with three Dalmaticas added to the shell, Arkaine

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The Savage, AgainWe headed to Riverne today to build up for a Bahamut v2 run.Standing in our way, back from CoP Chapter 4, was Ouryu!This fight's been discussed to death by everyone else who's fought it, but this was my first time in the battlefield. Ouryu is immune to Earth-based spells, meaning there's no way to slow down attacks. In addition, Elementals and Worm pops keep the backline busy

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Otherwise known asNíðhöggr!It's been two crazy days in a row in the Aery, first yesterday's Ridill + Beard, and now...Woah!

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I mean, it's pretty self-explanatory, but it still rocks.Congrats, Arkaine~!

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[Updated long after the post was made as a placeholder. Unfortunately, the original pictures were lost in the computer crash.]Marids apparently used to have a serious problem, but they no longer serve as an endless gate to a parallel dimension filled with Chigoes.I am assured this is a good thing, but not so for endless XP chains. Alas.Anyway, marids are pretty nice XP mobs because at the right

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One of these is not like the other...[picture of search comments]That's a full JP party, right? But wait, take a closer look at the names.初めまして。よろしくです～＾＾This is due to my tenous grasp of spelling errors in other languages, an adventurous spirit (mostly meaning I get a rush out of wandering through zones filled with slavering monsters and people I can understand but not always respond to), and the

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(If you're the nice person from Blogger reading this to confirm that I am, in fact, not a computer, the post "No, we're not a spam blog." may interest you.-Araelus)Ok, on to the post:どんな戦術でいきますか？聞いてくださいです。＾＾；[p2]さん解散、挑発ディアボロスけんです。[p2]パーティに誘う。①はい：２．００タイムスタンプ黒魔道士：ｘ４ブリザガＩＩＩいっせいです！いいえファストキャスト！②後：ナインビンシブルです　赤連続魔スタン　　　黒全力で攻撃だです！ありがとう　[p1]さん＾＾ (Defeat Diabolos in two badly-worded steps.)Red Mages have

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Garvin and Noule are fantastic.Profblix is an evil, evil goblin!1/21 or something.But we got it! We got called filty names by people thinking we were Japanese!!!! BUT WE GOT THAT MOLDAVITE![pictures]

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Levelling BLM today was all about glaring at my xp bar and thinking that soon I'd get three nice upgrades all at once: Flare, Penitent's Rope, and the sweet, sweet Wizard's Petasos. (Sorry, level updates are less storytelling and more metagaming.) Hitting 60 was thus very nice, and made better by partying with Jakey, a 75BLM and DRG who is also in Umai, my Dynamis shell. He had a number of useful

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In that huge list of equipment I had trouble getting the HTML tags to make a nice indent, so I coloured underscores ___ etc. the same colour as the background to make those nice indents. This made Blogger™ think the blog is a spam blog. While I am not sight impaired and thus able to type in the letters for the CAPTCHA (an acronym for for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers

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Senjuriko and Sapara of TrialsIlrusi Atoll AssaultPFCEraseJazaraat

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My BLM role model, the incredibly dangerous and powerful Doctor Shantotto, has no time for idle chit-chat. I'm lucky she didn't decide to vapourise everyone there when I wasn't in Black Mage robes...Brushing off my status as Duelist, she ordered me back into the sewers beneath Windurst Walls to investigate the continuing problem of withering Star Trees, knowing full well that it wouldn't be easy.

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See if you can tell what is "wrong" in this photograph. (Click it to see a larger version.)No, it's no that the PLD's name is Prophesy. He was a cool Taru.You may notice that the Monk, Charredremains, who is also the party leader, is at his Home Point. Nor is this what is wrong. What's wrong is that I'm casting Freeze instead of Burst.Anyway...I had to d2 that Monk. He didn't notice. (Again,

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BLM continues merrily towards sixty, though I know full well that the closer to level 70 I get the harder it will be to find parties. Since melee-heavy xp groups work so well in the new areas, all reports are that BLMs get shoved far, far away to Mount Zhayolm and the creepy bug things.Which may or may not now all be true sight and even more creepy. At least I have my cast metal plate to open the

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Buying things, huge purchased list.

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First off, this post will probably vanish in a little while, I'm just letting you all see how totally insane I am. *Ahem* Ok, and since I haven't posted my BLM update yet, many thanks to Garvin for helping me with Tonban coffer, and Otak-san for all the advice!! ^_^;Anyway, here's the insanity list.__________________________________--------------------------------------------BLACK MAGE-----------

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There's two schools of thought on how to build a party that works: either you get a normal xp party (chain 4-5 required) or you take two party's worth of refreshers and four party's worth of BLMs - thus preventing everyone else in your level range from xping normally. Today I got to try both methods.Frankly, I have more fun in a "normal" party - there's more tactics, more effort on everyone's

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In my continuing effort to only get Artifact Armour from nations other than my home, (RDM was from San d'Oria,) I wandered back to Windurst this week. Though Walls is a nice rendition of (聖剣伝説2) Secret of Mana's title screen, even if you got rid of the rest of the city it would still be larger than Bastok. In other words, way too big.Alas, Bastok, we're always losing in Conquest so the Rep.Gold

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Fun merit party tonight in Wajoam Woodlands - I'm saving up seven merits for Dia III.Nikky was our tank, and hit level 75 Ninja. Congrats! It was nice to see her again; it's been quite a while since Perfect Dynamis runs. I'm still not entirely sure what the "screams like a peanut" before WS macro is supposed to mean. ~_~;; Hilarious none-the-less. (Oh, Garvin, even a fully-kitted out Ninja is

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August 22 Quite some time ago I mentioned to Vil that I never got to fight Fenrir, prompting his response of:Yeah, see, I defeated Diabolos (once, he defeated me about 60 times), but I never slogged back around Vana'diel to get a Moon Bauble. People don't like to go to the Cloister of Frost/Flames/Tides for some reason. (Maybe because they're way the freg away from everywhere else.) I have to

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That means stupid Red Mage. It also rhymes nicely. Hopefully I won't have to post too many more of these up, "and while I'm dreaming, I'd like a pony."* (What's that you say? Chocobo instead? Cool.)Princessdiamond seemed like a perfectly normal Elvaan RDM. They always do, if you can't tell from the gear. The minute we started fighting Robber Crabs in Hell version 3 I mean, Boyahda Tree, she...

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Hello, everyone! I decided that it was about time I made a blog about FFXI. I've been playing on my current character since English PC release, and before that on a friend's JP character. Back then it was rather difficult, since I only speak a little Japanese.よろしく～ These days at least we know what all the job abilities and such translate to in English, though some errors remain, especially in SMN

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This is just a test to see if the time machine is working properly.

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testing

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I want to muse about random things, so I'm using 2000 as a dumping ground. Douglas Adams claimed that using past times irresponsibly would only make us mad when we suddenly realize our descendants are doing the same time to our now in their now. But meh. I'd like to read my future writings today. So, future self, time travel away!Forewarning: this is not really a post about FFXI. I mean, it can

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