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Thanks to Howitzer for this. I'd always said that darn horn is a bloody UNICORN HORN. Well, it may still be a unicorn horn but at least it's mine :D

BTW, if anyone wants to see a gear shot, I'll put one up..just am a bit lazy.

Also you guys. Now that Favor's out, and now that I have that horn, I realize I might be stuck in the BLM party in dyn with Diablos for 'fresh. My summoning magic is capped but I understand I'll be missing 4 skill just by switching to horn. (And I'll WANT to for perp down!) I understand the sweet spot is actually 311 skill, which I don't have, even normally(and I mean with my usual gear for him). Any suggestions on gear that I can swap to or work toward to make that better? Mind I am doing dyn and limbo and I might be able to talk friends into lowmanning the sea god for the good summoner cape. I don't know if summoning magic merits are the best idea either since I'm doing blm.. (As it is, I'm thinking about camping a nm for this belt.)

Anyone else suddenly encounter trouble running FFXI under Linux? As in today. What's happening makes no sense.

My credit card expired last month, so when I successfully launched the POL Viewer under Linux tonight, it prompted an update. The update now requires me to enter a password on Visa's site, and of course the button that launches the site in POL doesn't work under Linux. So I boot into Windows, update my credit card information, and then boot back into Linux.

Now pol.exe won't even launch, it just gives "pol.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close" and advises filing a bug at winedb. It's not a wine problem since it literally worked in wine 5 minutes ago.

Ideas?

Last time I did Beaucedine with my ls, I had to go to bed (early, early morning the next day), I dropped my glass just a the body piece I wanted dropped >_>

THIS time, I got the win, AND this ---

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WHEE! :D

(we didn't have enough people last time for the win.)

Time to start saving up for my hat!

I've been noticing that people haven't been on FFXI as much anymore. I dunno if it's just my server, but we dropped like 300-400 people. Maybe it was just a bunch of RMTs banned, or if people are just too busy playing Dragon Age or Borderlands. And now Left 4 Dead 2 is coming out (But I would totally take a break from FF to play that too.). But anyway, is it just my server, or is it happening everywhere else? (My server is Asura by the way...)

Ok, my friend Jahn has been working on Shantotto expansion. He has a bit of a irritating problem. quoted from his Alla post:

"I have killed all 6 Notorious Monsters for "Shantotto in Chains"
When I killed them, I was sure I saw all key items show up, but temporary key items only show 5 items, and the door is refusing to open.
Luminous red fragment
Luminous beige fragment
Luminous green fragment
Luminous yellow fragment
Luminous purple fragment

Which fragment am I missing, and what NM does it drop from?

Additional note: I killed all 6 NMs again, this time none of them gave me key item."

Ok. He's been trying to ask people "Which one?" and asking people which key item for which nm, but no one's been answering. Can someone answer the question? I've been helping when I can on my smn, but this is irritating (not to mention hard on my buffer; got linked on with two nms and had to hp once, I just barely recapped smn)

Also for ref; I'm not the one with the miniexpansion, YET. He is.

[Edit] Nevermind, he found out. It was one in Fey-yin, he forgets which :) at least it had a happy ending!

This has recently come up again in a surprisingly heated debate, and I was wondering if anyone could point me to definitive testing one way or the other:

Does Barfire affect Mijin Gakure?

I always thought it did not, that it was "special" damage and not fire based.

I've got some people telling me I am wrong.

At question is specific testing proving this one way or the other (as opposed to anecdotal evidence.)

Point me in the right direction so I can better my opinion and/or rub my correctness in their face.

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Diabolos gives:
0:00 1 MP/tick
0:30 2 MP/tick
1:05 3 MP/tick

Diabolos won't drain your MP anymore if you at least have:
- Pluto's Staff
- Vermillion Cloak / Yinyang Robe / Dalmatica / Austere Robe
- Nashira Gages
- Evoker's Ring
- Evoker's Pigaches +1

Carbuncle gives max 12hp/tick.
Titan gives max 57 defense.

Carbuncle Mitts don't work anymore, hopefully bugfix for that soon. D:

Doing Bloodpact: Rage while ability is active still does some proper damage, 1083 on Simurgh with Flaming Crush. No idea how much it would do without Avatar's Favor activated though.

When you have the ability at max effectiveness (3MP/tick for example) and you do a Bloodpact: Rage it'll go back to a weaker state (2MP/tick).

Netherblast on Death Wasp with Avatar's Favor: 431
Netherblast on Death Wasp without Avatar's Favor: 508
So bloodpacts probably do about 85% of the damage they normally inflict, not bad at all. :3

You need to be within 10' distance from the avatar in order to get their buff.

NOTE: I haven't taken Summoning Skill in account for these tests. It was tested with only 258.

-I'll edit this post when I test more.

Anyone else psyched about this?
http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics/ff11us/detail/5017/detail.html
http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics/ff11us/detail/5027/detail.html
.Dat mining



Or any of the other cool weapon/armor/synthesis adjustments coming along with this update?
I just hope it's not lackluster like some of the previous augment updates have been >.>

Just did DM with a group and after a rough start and a re-enter we kicked ASS.

Suppanomimi mine! Finally! WoooooooO!

So Im starting to do more of my adventures here on LJ rather than blogspot. I cant keep toggling. So if you're interested, let me know! I'll start trying to watch more people too as this community seems to have less and less stories... I like hearing about adventures and what people do :D

warning though, I will be seperating my RL posts from my FFXI posts as much as I can. I am just starting to overhaul my LJ, so bare with me ^^; But thanks to all who are interested/want to watch me/want me to watch them back! :D

Now on to my real question..........


The more Im thinking about it, I REALLY need a DD job. I keep doing jobs that people need................... which ISNT DD USUALLY FOR MY GROUP :X But... I should level one none the less. BST doesnt really cut it there, and BLM IS a DD and all but... its more of a solo. Im totally not gonna get parties for it >.>;; unless its burns... which yeah fine and all but again.

This is what I have so far:
BLM RDM WHM BST75, NIN50, PLD45, SMN45........................

Im a magey, like hard core, or some kind of back up job :X PLD will be taken to 75 first before I take up anything else, HOWEVER.

YEAH.

SUGGESTIONS?!

We have enough SAM in our group too BTW and I wanna try something different...
But my question then is... yeah. Whats a different kinda DD job that will completely rip me out of my "I NEED TO BACK UP HEAL PEOPLE OR SOMETHING" mode?

Im kinda toggling on DRG and DRK......
DRK cause I have most of the skills from BLM (magic) and BST (weapons and skills)
DRG cause... great for merit parties.... and I love pet jobs.......

OK SHUTTING UP SUGGESTIONS?!?!?!!

Figured I'd introduce myself before replying to existing posts.  Just started playing FFXI - Tarutaru: Red Mage on Fenrir - and I'm loving the game.  It's interesting following some of the posts from experienced players as I'm still etching out an existence at level 18.  Anyway, looking forward to enjoying the posts of this community.

Cheers,