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Zaltana

Zaltana

WHO DAT!!!!!!
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for starters i check on FFXIAH.com and see that someone bought my tele-Vhazl scroll. :)

then elph and i finally take her car to the saturn dealership to get it checked out and see the totak cost of fixing it up. which btw turned out to add up to mor ethen the cars actual value. but while we wait for over an hour at the dealership they finally come to us and say the diagnostic is done.........and they spent the last 15 minutes looking for her keys.:shok: they lost her keys durring the check and to make up for their mistake they gave us a discount on the diagnostic. a 100% discount. $60 elph was dreading to spend and lost keys save the day. :biggrin:

fast forward to TGI fridays. good food and great service and slackers in the kitchen add up to yet another 100% discount. :bb: elph ordered a club and i ordered myself a steak. it took longer then we expected and the manager found that his cooks were both on a break thinking the other was watching our meals. took 20 minutes to get our food. and having worked in a applebee's before i know for a fact: 20 minutes late when the place is empty and the manager flips. he delivers our plates himself bought our meals to appologise. we still tipped our waitress cause she was kewl.

then we come home. its static night and we been lookin forward to it all day. its only 4 of us, PLD, RNG(me), WHM(elph) & a RDM. so we only have to look for another pair of DD's (or a DD & a bard). so i invite a DRK and a WAR this time. 64's down the board so we go to bibiky bay to rip up the birds. when we get there i notice that our DRK isnt wearing a hauby, so i check him out. this is what i see:
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that screenshot wast taken after the party btw. at first glance i thought the usual. "aw shit where did this gimp come from! ECT" i play it kewl at first and talk civil to him asking about his gear. basicly he tells me he doesnt have any more str gear on him (it was in his MH) but that he'll be fine DMG wise. the war, Twinblake, is dressed as would be expected so im expecting him and i to be doing all the dmg & . but boy was i surprised when our DRK with almost no STR gear pumps out a 1k+ Guillotine on his first WS (he wasnt wearing his AF helm i dont think). he used the whole souleater, resort & zerk combo yes but next WS all he has up is zerk. and he nearly matches his first WS. i quickly realize that he uses his spells to compensate for his missing str gear. and in turn also softens up the mobs for the rest of us. this led to fast kills and good fun with me SC'ing with whoever was ready. hit dmg was really high till we moved up to dhamels. everyones dmg took a hit when we switched mobs but his didnt drop as low as i expected.

its player like him that always remind me to give people a chance and not be hasty. if he had turned out to be a gimp, as i feared, and held my group back i would have booted him. im glad i didnt. my group had a good time and all 4 of us hit 65 as we planned. we got him his lvl too. :wink:

sorry for the long post but today was the best day i've had in weeks. both ingame and out.
 
Congrast on everything^^
 
Sounds like if you don't fret too much about the bad things everything turns good. Nice lil story you had here.
 
it's the little things in life, huh?
 
That was quite a PT we had, Zaltana. I'm glad to have been a part of it. I must admit to leaving most of my STR+ gear in my Mog House. I wasn't, personally, expecting us to fight Catoblepas'. However, I'll take this experience into consideration when equipping my Dark Knight in the future.
It was quite a experience being part of the PT, and I hope that I would be invited again.
Thank you.
 
I'm pretty melee illiterate, but why wouldn't you just keep your STR gear on you at all times?
 
I was using DEX+ and ACC+ gear on the Tragopans', since I deal a lot of damage to them. Your question's, also, very good. I have no real answer than: I didn't think that I would need to have used it today.
 
Guillotine, just as much as any multi-hit WS, really sucks when you first get it because you're going to whiff like a madman if you actually use a lot of str/att gear.

Schaubert was just planning on fighting evasive mobs and wore accuracy gear to guarantee his hits and 4/4 guillotines.
 
That was a very good explanation, Tagrineth. That's the reason why I've decided to wear DEX+ and ACC+ than STR+ and ATT+. It's just too bad that I didn't word it as detailed as Tagrineth.
 
Glad you had a fun day Zalt, and just as a drk trying to help a drk, and not really trying to take this off-topic or anything, but just a few suggestions to Schaubert to very cheaply beef up his attire:

-Sell Unyielding Ring and buy a Venerer Ring. You'll make 10k and the +3 acc will be more helpful than the +3dex +3vit. Sell the Deft Ring and use whatever +str ring you have instead.

-If those are Leaping Boots, sell them for a Woodsman Ring (assuming you aren't doing thf or another job that uses them) and get a pair of Jaridah Nails. If they are Bounding, I guess stick with them unless your race has good rse like mithras do. Too lazy to look it up atm, lol.

-Replace af legs with RK Breeches, they are pretty cheap and more beneficial.

-Keep your af helm with you at all times. It adds acc+20 when souleater's going, and even just normally on wses the +4str will outclass the +3dex from hairpin. Again, if that's the non-r/e hairpin you might wanna sell it unless you need it for another job so you can get more +acc or +atk gear with the gil or keep saving towards a hauby.

The rest looks good. In the meantime, save up for that haubergeon, it'll make a world of difference and you'll be completely giddy the first time you xp with it, it's that much of a difference maker. :)
 
this thread is way too happy and ridden with constructive criticism!!!


Congrats on your success, i wish my fridays had a manager like that, theres always bad service and they never take any cost off.

Congrats on a good day and thanks for introducing qcdn to a player who can enhance his performance by playing the job instead of just gearing it
 
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Rappa said:
-Sell Unyielding Ring and buy a Venerer Ring. You'll make 10k and the +3 acc will be more helpful than the +3dex +3vit. Sell the Deft Ring and use whatever +str ring you have instead.

-If those are Leaping Boots, sell them for a Woodsman Ring (assuming you aren't doing thf or another job that uses them) and get a pair of Jaridah Nails. If they are Bounding, I guess stick with them unless your race has good rse like mithras do. Too lazy to look it up atm, lol.

-Replace af legs with RK Breeches, they are pretty cheap and more beneficial.

-Keep your af helm with you at all times. It adds acc+20 when souleater's going, and even just normally on wses the +4str will outclass the +3dex from hairpin. Again, if that's the non-r/e hairpin you might wanna sell it unless you need it for another job so you can get more +acc or +atk gear with the gil or keep saving towards a hauby.

The rest looks good. In the meantime, save up for that haubergeon, it'll make a world of difference and you'll be completely giddy the first time you xp with it, it's that much of a difference maker. :)
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Couldn't have said it better myself.
 
Grats Z on a good day my friend. Hopefully you'll more like it soon!

Peace,
Shmed
 
i even dreamed about that party. stine and hornless (our pld & rdm) were picking on me more then usual that night. even though hornless wasnt feeling so great she went the distance and had a blast with the rest of us. our static nights are always fun. i can count like maybe 2 or so days we didnt enjoy a party. and they came down to the guest we invited that night. Twinblake, like nearly every other person that guest parties with us, asked to join our group. but we keep it 4 on purpose. we like mixing the group up when we exp.
 
well maybe if i catch up to you with my thief i'll get in on one of those guest spots =P
 
Thanks for the suggestions, Rappa. However, I still need to use most of the gear for some low level jobs. I'm still surprised that I was dealing a lot of damage just from the DEX+ and AGI+ equipment.
 
then elph and i finally take her car to the saturn dealership to get it checked out and see the totak cost of fixing it up. which btw turned out to add up to mor ethen the cars actual value. but while we wait for over an hour at the dealership they finally come to us and say the diagnostic is done.........and they spent the last 15 minutes looking for her keys. they lost her keys durring the check and to make up for their mistake they gave us a discount on the diagnostic. a 100% discount. $60 elph was dreading to spend and lost keys save the day.

Thats very nice of them considering I Work at a saturn dealership and the price of the key for the store is $1.47 and if they lost the remote like 30$ more...I realize there may be other keys but for something so cheap I'm glad u got it looked at for free. :D

Edit: IDK how to quote just that lil statement...forum n00b (still)
 
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