The End of an Era - Moving On

Apparently, Cimicine Discharge + Blazing Bound = Dual Wield, and Demoralizing Roar + Acrid Stream = Double Attack. Really, Square-Enix gave BLU everything it needed in this update. Now, it's a vert-less RDM with more Traits and more MP-efficient damage. Lord knows I'm just a complacent person; I was already thrilled to be a Blue Mage before this, but now everyone will want to be one. I was a Blue Mage before it was cool.

But honestly, I think it's about time for me to move on. Real life and all that. Two close friends of mine have also decided to quit, and I don't want to repeat the experience of the last year. I got so used to being alone that it never really occurred to me that there's a world outside that I, too, can be a part of.

To all my friends and the readers of this blog: FFXI is changing. Some of us can't keep up with it, but I believe it's for the best. The stodgy old world is dying, newer players are taking over. Ironically, I should be riding the tide, but I've gotten far too attached to the status quo and its newly-found discontents. Without them, this is just another video game to me.

And no, you can't have my stuff. I want it buried with me like an Egyptian Pharaoh.

Learning (Blue Magic)

So, according to preliminary info on wiki, Plenilune Embrace appears to be 50% more MND-efficient than Magic Fruit with a higher cap. That alone makes the buffs added like icing on the cake. Cimicine Discharge is approximately equivalent to Slow II when used by Gnats, but I'd have to test it in Brenner or something to confirm it. Battery Charge appears to be 4MP/tic for approximately the same duration as Refresh. Regeneration is only 2 set points and restores 5HP/tic for 5 minutes for a total of 500 HP healed; that's more than Regen III...

I wonder if Animating Wail really is above 15% magical Haste. These new support spells are an absolutely amazing addition to the Blue Magic arsenal.

Post-Update

All I did was learn spells. And that's all I'm doing until I learn them all. Then I'll cap my Magic Accuracy Magian Swords and THEN I'll worry about exp.

Woot for Regen II on BLU Main for a measly 2 set points 8D! Battery Charge seems promising too. :)

Tonight's Main Event: Capital Loss

Ladies and gentlemen, we regret to inform you that several actors will not be in attendance tonight. Instead:

6/21 - Update Notes FFFFUUUU

"The scholar ability 'Accession' does not affect the white magic spell 'Haste'." 

"Enmity generation for the following spells has been adjusted: Sleep, Sleep II, Dispel, Blind, Blind II, Bind"   

Oh, SHIT. Inb4everyonequitsthegame.

Why Double Attack?

Why does SE keep adding gear with Double Attack for jobs that can't use it? Well... I think it's time for a little math:

6/20 - Bhaflau Remnants

I hate this zone. Wind Weather just as we port up to the 4th Floor just to fuck up all the Gear-pulls. Again. Thanks, Salvage.

P.s. Sorry to my group for being such a queen bitch. I'm apparently starting to manifest an anxiety disorder, and it's spitting in my coffee every morning. That and I'm just a jealous motherf*cker. I'm a skittish cat when in groups of people I don't know, especially when they all know each other.

6/19 - Bhaflau Remnants, Yilbegan Redux

2 Gate Widows, another Mdk35, putting us at 2/9. That was all that went right.

6/18 - Silver Sea Remnants

What exactly are you implying, Raubahn?

• Cotton Coin Purse (100%)
• Hoshikazu Hakama (100%)
• Macha's Slops (4.3%) 

1/1, TH4.

No screenshot, but now FW is 2/3 on Usu Feets.

June 17 - Job Adjustments

"Several new Blue Magic spells will be added."

No... really?! Although I guess we're getting more spells than any other job, but seriously, SE? Not a single unique trait/JA for Blue Mages? We had better get some badass new set traits from these new spells. Tier I traits don't count for much as it is, unless you're giving us something like Double Attack... 

06/15 - Bhaflau Remnants

The above was completely and utterly unintentional

I forgot to take screenshots. Anyway, 2/6 people had no pants, which apparently turns Gate Widow the hell on. 7 Spawns from the same rampart: 2 Morrigan, 1 Marduk. So M35 Hands are mine now, and I randomly snagged M15 feet too (And S15 Legs but w/e). No Skirmisher Pephredo (Shocker) to make up for the Usu35 we got last time.

Nice One, Dev Team

Walk of Echoes sounds like the stupidest idea ever. MORE CAMPAIGN UNIONS because I'm not already tired of 3 years of campaign, or because I don't already have campaign to fall back on in the highly unlikely case that I'll miss the dysfunctionality and pervasive lack of teamwork. In addition, you only need to be up to "Cait Sith" in Wings of the Goddess, which means that the final WotG reward is probably going to be 99 Angelwings.

Thanks, SE.

The Slow Climb isn't so Slow Any More

... You just have to do it 16 times! NIN is finally done, and even capped its skills just because I'm OCD like that. I could have tanked (probably extremely well) on NIN, but I went solo, 37-49, through FoV. Took about a week of on-and-off exping. 

Now, a smart person would move on to MNK (yes, seeing another breath spell 75-80 tells me HP-based magic isn't going anywhere), because of the gear overlap, but no! I want something different. So now it's WAR. :3

There's still no word as to whether BLU is getting Dual Wield on main yet, but then again, no job adjustments have been announced either, so I can still dream. I'll need /WAR for PUP anyway, and here's to hoping I can sub WAR, whore DA/sTP and spam Vorpal Blade.

June 11th - Level Cap Concerns

1. DRK/SCH: Zomg. Manifestation Drain II.
2. No Afflatus Solace/Misery/Yonin/Innin.
3. Acc Check to Shadowbind... K...
4. Manifestation/Accession triples Recast Times. Oh no... >.> because a 60 second recast on Haste will disincentivize Hastega >.>... Anyway! RDM/SCH and WHM/SCH rejoice :o! 

• Caveat: I suddenly feel a lot less special for getting Animating Wail unless it happens to give more than 15% Haste... I wonder if this will just keep RDM the top choice for parties...

Intrigue!

June 10th Dat Mine - Blue Magic

Oh Gosh

"oh gosh"