Been awhile since I did any kind of update. I've been busy last couple months because I started a new engineering job so I feel like I'm always behind on stuff lately. As a side note, the weather has been terrible here lately, so thats kinda depressing, driving conditions are terrible :/.

Stuff on game been pretty busy lately, so find it hard keeping up with all of our site stuff. Weekdays we usually cram alot of stuff in, weekends are a bit slower. We've lost a few members due to inactiveness but we have picked up some new members over the last few months which have seemed to turn into solid members so thats good. Linkshell continues to get stuff done and people continue to get along, so all is good I guess.

Not much really new with me, in game. Only new things I think I've got since the previous update was Valor Cape and Love Torque which are pretty nice and both things I was hoping to get one day. Messed around with the Love Torque a bit it merit parties on my sam and drg and liked the results. Especially on my sam, I found I did really well in that party. Though I have no idea if the torque really improved things that much but nonetheless i was ripping through birds. I'm probably missing some other stuff but mostly just been helping other people get stuff, because is nice seeing people get what they want. One thing that baffles me is like my SAM penta thrust is as good if not better than my drgs penta thrusts. I have no idea why really, you wouldnt think it could be. Granted I dont use penta much on drg because drakesbane gives better results but nonetheless I still find it confusing.

I think meriting is probably the biggest thing overall with me this year that has changed. I'm around #450 merits now I think. I think at the start of the year I was at like #150 or something ridiculous. So lately I've just been looking at my jobs trying to figure out what I want to merit next. My jobs that are either capped on merits or that I am happy with are war, drk, sam, mnk, whm, smn which leaves me with drg, thf, pld and sch. Out of those 4 I really have no idea what I wanna do first. I will probably finish Angon but I dont know. I still gotta finish my enfeebling merits off as well.

Events continue to go well for most part. I think last month we probably netted the best Dynamis profit we've ever had despite not always having a ton of people. Salvage been going well too, seems like we keep rolling through the 35's especially in SSR, but BR runs have went dry. Have so many people sitting on sets with like 3/5 or 4/5 so heres hoping that can finish those off early into new year.

Anyways just blabbering on :p. Really looking forward to christmas. I get paid vacation time from Dec 24th to Jan 4th I believe and I dont have to use any vacation days or anything during that time off. Really looking forward to the time off and getting caught up on stuff. Maybe finish my 56 BLM who knows. I probably wont update again this month, so hopefully everyone has a good xmas a good new years.

Since my last LJ update managed to get the 35 usukane hands and the head piece finally dropped :x
Seemed like it took 20 battleclads for it to finally drop but it finally did. Third set for moi.

Been 9 months since I updated last >.>, alot has happened since then. The linkshell continues to get stuff done, and I think for the most part, people continue to have fun and has a good atmosphere going for it. Sometimes its hard to keep things going because the game has been out for so long, and the lack of injection of new players makes it hard to always have enough people to keep things going strong, but nevertheless as a linkshell we continue to do it without much strife. As they continue to post more about ff14, I find myself getting more excited about it. The game looks pretty nice so far but I dont really understand why they changed the names of the races. Its going to be so nice to move onto something new with good quality people and people you enjoy being around. One of the things I probably dislike most about being a officer in FFXI is just the feeling like you have to accept people to make things work anymore because you dont really got much to choose from because the lack of new players coming into the game. So if we do decide to move on ff14 whenever it comes out, and the linkshell does decide to transfer over I think its going to suck in some ways because everything you have accomplished in this game doesnt really mean much anymore but at the same time, your still doing stuff together which is the most important part imo, and being able to meet and become friends with new people is going to be nice.

Since I last updated we did get a few HNM's. Sometimes I think I miss the HNM scene because fighting the mobs is pretty fun and its exciting because it breaks the monotonous schedule of events which we are predominantly anymore. Then once we get there and after 1-2 days, I snap to my sense and realize why I hate the HNM scene because of all the bullshit associated with it.

Nevertheless heres some pics:







The Nidhogg one was my personal favorite because we got the ToD from a whitegate shout and we just ran up to the aery and scooped up a Nidhogg, was one of the funnier things I can remember from this game. Gratz to Griffith on his free Dalmatica. I also got gaiters from that Tiamat, pretty grateful for that, one of the few items left in the game I really wanted.


About 2 years ago we quit doing HNM and started to focus more on events because as mentioned above we were tired of all the bullshit associated with it. Since that time our linkshell has been doing a ton of salvage, its crazy how many runs I have been on looking back. Finished my marduk set completing my 2nd salvage set. I've been working on usukane set a bit too, and recently completed the body which is really nice. I've had the 35 usukane head for like 6 months but ZR boss only drops 25 usu body, skadi hands and marduk feet. Once I get the 25 Usukane Head and the 35 Usukane Hands that will complete my 3rd set.

We've got a couple turtle drops since they "updated ssr". But overall it doesnt seem like they improved the drop rate that much on drops in ssr. Maybe just bad luck for us.








Einherjar been going really well for the linkshell as well. Even though we dont have great numbers alot of the times we still have a 98% tier clear success rate it seems. The only problem really is we get the SAME FUCKING DROPS all the time. I mean literally same shit every time. Its like some combination of M Body, Crimson Body, Hofud, Hadean Body & Valhalla Helm. Not saying that those items suck or whatever but its some combination of those items 95% of the time.

But after a dozen of Odins, we did manage to get one odin that people liked >.>





Gratz to Arc on finally getting his E.Body

I was lucky enough to win the lot the on the Valhalla body :o





I think overall the biggest change since my last update is just the fact I managed to level a few new jobs. Since my last update I believe I got Scholar, Thief, and Monk to 75. Scholar still to me is a complicated job and I'm still getting used to the whole the nuke aspect of it. I am pretty familiar with healing aspect because I been a WHM for years and WHM probably the job I play the most. But I have done alot of sea on sch since leveling job but I think out of all the jobs I have that scholar is definately the most complex and I'm always trying to improve upon it.

For the most part I finished my nuking set. I'm not really sure on how I could improve it. I did finish the ACP storyline which I used as a Scholar nuke body. Was pretty dissapointed with that expansion and havent bought the Kupo expansion and not sure if I'm going to.



I finished thief because I pretty much already had the gear for it, such as homam, hecatomb and I had picked up Skadi Feet/Legs/Head (didnt upgrade head though), when my THF was level 50 or something coz no one wanted them so if seemed only logical to finish the job. I enjoyed leveling the job for the most part, especially after level 60. I aint really too hardcore about the job though, but it is nice to have for farming, and I use it sometimes for salvage, and Dynamis because I am pretty familiar with the pulling paths and everything associated with that, so it works out good for me.

Last job I finished recently was monk. I mainly finished monk because I had received the blackbelt items from ks99 that no one could use, I had already got some usukane gear from leveling samurai and I pretty much love salvage and monk is a awesome job for that and I like having options and being able to fill whatever roll is needed. Monk has been pretty fun, but I think out of all the jobs I have played that its basically the most simple, which is nice sometimes because you can just beat shit up and you dont really gotta think too hard which is sometimes relaxing.



Until next time :o

http://duskktildawn.livejournal.com/8305.html

In reference to this beautiful post. Let me just reitterate and tell what happened from my point of view. Duskk was sick and tired of the game. It was pretty evident because he was a big giant void of negativity. I'm sure if you read his whole SOU cfh Ixion post it would be pretty evident. It was painfully aware that he wasnt enjoying the game anymore. It happens to people, we all play this game a ton and alot of us come to the point where it, no longer is fun for us. Not a big deal really. But instead of "Being a man" like he puts its, and just accept that, your time has come and its time to move on, he started pointing fingers and making excuses and accusations.

The whole "fight" between us happened as a result of him saying Liltulip was corrupt and using the ls bank for her own needs. The fight happened because I stood up for my friend. If you know anything about liltulip you know shes not like that. Not once as an officer have I ever heard people complain about her "using the ls bank for her own needs". When I talked to Duskk via Private messages about this because he was spreading rumors, I asked him "What is she using the ls bank for that makes you think, that shes using it for herself?" "Give me one item that shes bought that makes you think this?". He couldnt even respond, he had no answer. Dont you think if you were going to accuse someone of something like this you would at least have a reason for it? There are many items in this game that me and liltulip share. To this day we still share a errant cape, serket ring, peacock charm and in the past we shared a pair of dusk gloves among other things that I am sure I am forgetting. Why would we share gear if she dipped into the ls bank? Why wouldnt she just buy stuff for herself?

His response to this would probably be something of the effect, "She keeps no record of it". Just judging from things that I've seen and things I have heard with people who "Steal a ls bank". It almost always results in LS leader stealing the ls bank to fund a relic or something. Guess what, Liltulip has no desire for a relic weapon. In equilibrium, we sell all dynamis currency and divide it up evenly to those who participate on runs. Which is the biggest amount of currency the LS brings in and guess what that is recorded and documented and given to people. We're probably the only ls on seraph that distributes gil to people evenly and fairly among our members regarding dynamis. The next biggest source of income for our ls in bahamut 2 where we sell the cashmere cloths to help fund peoples salvage bodies. And guess what that is documented as well. Not too mention that you, yourself Duskk got 5mil for your Ares's Cuirass. Everything inbetween is not really recorded so yeah you would be partially right. But guess what: this is a game and we're all here to have fun. Its not liltulips job to keep bookeeping on every little detail. You know she has a RL job and all sorts of other stuff to deal with outside of the game. Shes not getting paid to document every little thing within the game. Which is what I was trying to point out about your "summer job and not being able to play event nights". I didnt really care that you couldnt play all the time, my point was that you thought you should be given a break (because of this RL job) but yet you wont give a break to anyone (liltulip) else.

And you know what? Even if she did document every little thing conceivable, it will always come down to the fact that you need to trust your leader regardless. Something that you will never understand Duskk, because your so hellbent on thinking everyones out to get you and they're corrupt. Liltulip and EQ treated you really good, we accomplished everything that you ever wanted plus alot of extras and we get shit on by you. When you quit the game, you sold kirin osode, sha'ir manteel, plus whatever else - instead of giving it back to the ls. Also your brother decided to give his novio earring to someone else instead of giving it back to the ls, and they sold it. Of course if you ever ran a hnmls you would realize that 90% people will never give shit back so its not a huge suprise. Loyalty doesnt always run through peoples veins as much as we would like.

I just think its really sad that someone we treated really good (in my opinion) turned out to be so negative and so hypocritical. You were a great player Duskk, and one of our most active members. But your personality when you left the game was so meh, you were so negative and hyproctical, I just had no desire to talk to you on vent. Me talking to you on vent wasnt going to change or fix anything and nothing good, could of came from it. I didnt want to be enveloped in all the negativity and hate.


In regards to Haladir. When you joined EQ you already had the 35 Ares's Body piece and you had already farmed your 12 imperial wootz ingots. I went out of my way to get you, your 25 piece to complete it for you. We give people gil in our ls for salvage body pieces to help people who are unable to acheive it, its not a means of making gil. In conjuction with that people must work on ENM's and participate in salvage. I can say that you were not active at all in salvage. So here you have a guy who is not active in salvage, already got the 35 before joining the ls, and already had the 12 ingots before joining the ls and he wants $5million dropped on him just like that. It would be like someone getting a salvage body in a previous linkshell then joining a new ls and expecting to be compensated for it. Also combine this with the fact that he pretended to AFK all the time and farm in zones while people did events. Hes going to deny it but hes a liar. People AFK in whitegate or your homenation, you dont afk in "Quicksand caves". Honestly your a joke. To respond to your post about Yamato. I dont even know talk to anyone in Yamato yet have any good friends within that linkshell. If you think I cockblocked your attempt into Yamato, your mistaken. Maybe you didnt get into Yamato because you have a shitty fucking reputation and everyone on seraph knows it. We gave you a chance and you blew it with being a terrible member and now you have burned your bridges everywhere. Quit making excuses and pointing fingers and just realize that nobody fucking likes you.

Been a long time since I posted any type of journal entry. Been busy as usual in ffxi, linkshell is going along real well. Last few months have been pretty fun, people getting along real well and little strife among members nowadays.

Since I last posted I started doing Nyzul runs, about twice a week with a static. Static consisted of Geronimo, Liltulip, Estifer, myself, rubicant then we usually just picked up another person from the linkshell - usually Griffith or Kobra. Managed to make up to Floor 100 with only failing one floor. Overall the nyzul experience was pretty fun I guess, was pretty easy with a good group of people. Reason I wanted to do nyzul was to obtain the new weaponskills first and foremost, I didnt really care too much about the gear.




After obtaining floor 100 I preceding to get the new weaponskills :o
Unlocking them wasnt so fun but the new skillchain combinations are pretty nice :)












As it stands now, only weaponskill I am missing is the Summoner one, which im not overly worried about.


Things been going pretty well in salvage too. Overall we have slowed down the pace of salvage mainly due to the fact that we have been doing einherjar much more now than we used to be. Overall the progress has been pretty amazing and we have completed a lot of pieces. Salvage is probably my favorite event overall in the game, I like being able to accomplish things rather than sit around waiting for stuff to pop. Alot of the gear is nice too.

Was able to pick up a couple more pieces :o

I recently dinged samurai to 75 and got some nice boots to go with it :). Luckily our linkshell has had real good luck with Usukane Boots so this made it a possibility for me to get.




Besides the Usukane Feet, I was also able to pick up Marduk's Tiara and Jubbah making me 4/5 on marduk set and my 10th completed piece.

Was also able to complete liltulip's morrigan set, was our 2nd completed set and she really deserved because she had put in a ton of effort into salvage :)





Dynamis been going real awesome for our linkshell as well. We have gotten so many af this year it is pretty amazing when you stop and look at all we have achieved. Overall people have really done a awesome job in the Dynamis part of our linkshell. Recently we have killed numerous Dynamis Lords and the af2 just sort of pouring out.

I was luckily enough to get some nice drops from here as well :o




The long awaited summoner horn. It took like a year and half just to get one of these >.>. We have gotten so many of everything else but summoner horn. It was really weird our luck with it. Since the first one dropped we have managed to get a couple more. Funny how those things work out.




Also, managed to pick these up for my summoner :o, they are pretty nice as well.




With that, my summoner is pretty much complete. Too bad summoners dont get much time and day in the game anymore :(

Also managed to pick up a few more pieces in Dynamis. Waited awhile for the Abyss cape to drop and finally win a lot on it. But I really am liking it so far :)




Ever since I leveled paladin I had always wished I had chosen the ethereal earring. I choose magnetic earring because when I completed the quest years ago, all I had was dark knight and summoner and was finishing whitemage up. So I choose the magnetic earring. When the quest came up for you to switch your earrings, I wanted to change it but because I play whitemage so much I figured it really wasnt worth it. A few months ago I was lucky enough to receive a novia earring from the linkshell which prompted me to switch my earrings:




Other various things I have recieved recently were the aurum boots. Wanted these boots for awhile, I'm not sure how many times I've done the armed gears fight but I know I have done it a few times. Was lucky enough to get a double drop on my orb. These boots are sexah as hell, even appearance wise lol. Made it so I was able to sell my dusk boots which was nice, because I hate dusk gear >.>, the -movement speed thing drives me nuts sometimes.




One of the biggest changes in our linkshell has been Einherjar. It took us awhile to finally get there but eventually we did. Its been pretty hard simply because our linkshell just isnt very big so its hard to get a good turnout. However with a few adjustments we were finally able to overcome it and now Einherjar is going pretty well. Its a pain to really set up initially but not so bad once you get rolling. Its a real fun event when things go well. Our first odin :o, double crimson body ftw!




Decided to start leveling a new job as well. Have had a few crazy parties on SCH. Partying in the past is crazy as hell >.> My scholar is currently level 54. I think this was the most epic party I've ever been party of:



Chain 36 at level 41. 18k an hour. WTFseriously

and last but not least, probably my greatest acheivement that I have had personally over the last couple months:



How awesome is that?

Salvage been going very well for the linkshell recently. Now upto 95 complete upgrades with a little over 100 35's since November. Month of July was very slow, but August has been amazing with 18 completed pieces so far and its only the 18th.

I was lucky enough to get these recently :)
I got the first 3 pieces relatively quick but took awhile to get the 4th and 5th piece, but it happened pretty quick. I am still a little shocked how it sorta just came together.





Me in full ares :3





I gotta say that overall I was happier when Liltulip finally got her Morrigan Body after going about 25 Long Bowed Chariots with no drop, than me completing full Ares. She really has busted her ass for EQ and I dont think she gets as much appreciation as she deserves. So I was pretty happy for her when her 25 dropped because LBC was getting so discouraging.



Happy adventuring in Vana'Diel :o

Really looking forward to the update, seems like they're going to adding alot of nice things to the game. One can only hope that things turn out the way they sound. I'm pretty excited about the changes to Einherger. We used to do einherger alot when it first came out and we were pretty successful at it, it just got to the point that it was such a organizational nightmare and having to always go back for people or leaving people out really sucked. The changes that they are planning on making seem pretty nice from a organizational point of view so I look forward to that. Luckily we have about half the clears already needed for Odin so least we dont have to start from scratch, when the update comes. I only hope we got enough firepower to get through the tier III's, because our ls roster is pretty small now and we have alot of inactive people. So hopefully it will be ok with the numbers we got or we can find a way to get a few more people to make it work successfully.

Other than that been busy in the game as usual. We been doing a ton of salvage. LBC continues to be just ridiculous on 25 drops we need. We have something like 9 25's we need from LBC to complete peoples pieces yet somehow manage to always get the pieces that we dont need. Last month we got like 3 macha coats so we been trying to get the 25's but were something like 0/18 on the last lbc's on 25 bodb's robe >.>. Would really like to get some pieces so we can start moving onto other areas of salvage. So far were upto about 70 35's since November so, salvage been going pretty good for the ls. Other than that just been filling up ls time with some dynamis, limbus, sky stuff and managed to get Niddhogg recently and do JoL. Was kinda hoping to tank JoL for the first time because I recently had bought some magic gear for various stuff but gonna have to wait on that I guess. I know everyone would be excited to see me tank JoL :p

Thats about all for now, sorry for no pics :/

Well in my previous entry I talked about how I have all this great paladin gear and never end up tanking anything because we usually dont have a shortage of people who want to tank but we have a shortage of people who like playing whitemage. Yesterday was only 4hours left on the Khimiara window but we decided to Salvage instead because we have something like 10 35's that need the corresponding 25's, and recently our luck on 25's has been atrocious so we been trying to complete peoples pieces. Phobo's Mask anyone? >.>. So after getting 35 Skadi body from Peryton and finally getting 1 needed 25 Skadi boots from lbc and getting shafted on needed drops from Battleclad chariot we dediced to head on out to Khimiara because it hadnt popped.

I decided to go Paladin because Duskk was the only other paladin there and quite honestly I think some of the mages there needed some new spice added to their lives and needed to see some elf paladin sexahness. So we all arrived about 10-15mins before the window, and then the following happened:

It was late at night, the clouds begun to swirl with madness and we all knew what was about to happen. Oh, this would be the day when Zubbie, Paladin of San D'Oria would lose his HNM Paladin virginity. You could just tell from the smell of the air. Then it came, a big purple chimera popped from out of the clouds and a Taru summoner, with a swift dia pierced thy beasts breast followed by Carbuncle just getting downright nasteh and giving the purple beast some bite action. Luckily Zubbie who happens to be a bit of a summoner himself and animal lover knew that Buncie wouldnt last long so with a thunderous flash the purple beast was blinded and buncie was saved. From there Zubbie and Duskk just took over and protected the people of Equilibrium as they smashed it into the ground in a focal point of destruction.

Some screet shots for the ladies :o
/drool







After the fight April O'Neil interviewed Zubuis on his thoughts on the fight:

"Well to be honest I was expecting a little more and thought it would be faster paced action. But it was really just in slow motion and wasn't really too challenging. Overall it was pretty /yawn and I was expecting to be crushed initially but ironically enough, didn't even take hardly any damage and there were no fatalities from anyone. I am just happy that we can now put behind the rumors from people like Geronimo who claimed that I wouldn't last longer than 1 minute without dying. Lastly I would like to thank Jesus and my linkshell for this opportunity, peace out."

Over the course of the weekend we managed to do a few Bahamuts v2's. We recently have had very good luck with drops from the bcnm. I think the last 5 for 6 have dropped masks so were pretty close to being capped on Bahamut Mask and Bahamut Staff now other than a few new members. And we still have about 5 or so Bahamut v2's to go. On saturday I was lucky enough to get a mask :o




Overall I've been pretty fortunate in EQ. I have been in the linkshell from the beginning. Even though my main job has always been DRK my paladin is looking pretty nice nowadays.




And no I dont tank in templar mace/hospitaler earring typically >.>. Though I tend to use them in Dynamis because I feel like whitemage anyway other than tanking mnks with sentinel because its impossible to hold hate for the most part against standard dynamis mobs against melee's/blackmages.

Sometimes I feel bad because I dont even play DRK or PLD much anymore and I have pretty great gear for both jobs. But saying that, pretty much all of our PLD's in our linkshell have pretty good/great gear. However in our linkshell most people prefer to come DD or Tank over whm, so I just tend to go whm more because it keeps others happier playing jobs they prefer. Sometimes I will go PLD to dynamis and stuff. But I am kinda hoping to tank a few more things in future. Though now that we do so much Salvage, PLD isnt really all that useful so yeah >.>.

I've been thinking recently of re-doing Apocalypse Nigh to exchange my magnetic earring in for a ethereal earring >.>. Though I'm still not sure which to do, because I play WHM and SMN more than PLD and I'm kinda lazy to redo the quest. But ethereal would be shweet on PLD >.<. And I could just replace Magnetic with some other mp earring and wouldnt make much of a difference.

What to do, what to do >.>

Been a while since I made a post, so thought I would write up a little bit. Just finished up moving into my new place at the beginning of the month so things are starting to settle down for me a bit.

Stuff on game is more or less same as usual. Stuff seems kinda slow at the moment, but overall I guess the linkshell is still pretty busy. The linkshell has been moving more slowly towards Salvage over land hnm's for sometime now. Overall salvage has been going pretty decent, our 2nd group within our linkshell has made vast improvements and now we got pretty solid groups. I think we have gotten around 50-35's since november/december and are nearing around 40 completed pieces now within the linkshell. I expect the numbers to start going up dramatically now that both groups are going strong. I kinda miss camping stuff sometimes but we've made so much salvage progress compared to land hnm progress that it seems silly to spend much time on land hnm stuff nowadays.

Part of being in a hnmls though is helping others acheive their goals within game and theres still some people who really want land hnm stuff so probably will still end up doing it to some extent.

One of the biggest problems I think with salvage is that it sorta segments your linkshell more than other events such as limbus, dynamis, and camping stuff. Because you need to break into groups and its more efficient to go in same group and can create animosity if one group is doing better than another. Also because salvage requires alot more dedication and continous work it kinda leaves out the more casual type people as well not everyone enjoys Salvage for various reasons. Overall I think stuff is a bit better now since we got two groups that are going along nice, but I guess it was a concern of mine for sometime. Even though I didnt see much of a problem, it always worried me a bit. But overall I think Equilibrium is pretty drama-free hnmls and I think most of the members are more mature than alot of other hnmls, so it hasnt really been a problem.

We've started to do Limbus a bit more consistently now so were always doing multiple runs and have omega/ultima come a bit faster now. After 175 runs it getting pretty boring and mundane. Hopefully can start getting some of the newer members some stuff though Ultima loot pools recently have been pretty crummy.

Things like Dynamis seem fine I guess, though we really havent had exceptional luck with lotsa AF in northland runs like in the past. However most of the AF we get in xarc are good pieces and we get very few of DRK, BST, DRG, etc that alot of linkshells seem to get. We have gotten so many RDM and BLM hats its kinda ridicolous. Still have yet to see a single summoner horn however.

We've had really good luck recently with people within the linkshell getting cloud evokers as well as people out of shell donating cloud evokers. Probably will have in excess of 10 Bahamut II's soon enough, which is always nice for the linkshell bank as well as Masks/Staffs. Our linkshell is pretty self sufficent with the way it setup regarding Dynamis so will have alot of extra gil for salvage upgrades and wishlist items which is nice, even though the price of manteel is dropping fast.

Overall things are still pretty fun for me in game, still really enjoy doing Salvage. I kinda feel worn out though with all of the events and such lately though :p

/yawn

So been pretty busy lately with linkshell stuffs. We recently have taken in alot of new members and been getting so many applications, its unreal. Making my job of recruiting officer basically hell on top of everything else lol :/. But things are going pretty well.

As a linkshell we are doing salvage more and more, which I think is pretty good because we have made quite a bit of progress in the few months we have been doing it alot. The second salvage group seems to be going a bit better now, is still a pretty new experience for them and is bit rough at times but they have managed to net several 35's in the last week or two. My group is in a bit of dry spell after getting a ton of 35's a couple weeks ago, including 8 35's in a single run -.-.

Dynamis been going pretty well as of late, we seem to have unreal luck at times in Xarcabard. Though this month we have done a few more city runs than usual which is nice because it gives EQ members a bit more gil in their pockets.

Limbus been going ok, did a couple Omegas last week and now starting up on Ultimas for a bit. Really wish we could figure out a better schedule for limbus, is just really hard at the moment to fit everything into the game while providing some free days so people dont get burned out. Really wish they would get rid of the 72hr time for limbus and just make it so you could do it twice a conquest week at any time, that would solve my headache -.-.

Havent really done land HNM's much of late, did manage to get a Niddhogg recently, but now those are out of your time window for a bit so that means more time for salvage :o. Have done several Jailer of Loves recently which sucks because honestly its my least favorite event in the entire game I think, but it makes mages happy so thats always a good thing :)

Recently have gotten a couple shinies :o

How cute am i? :o




Even cuter >.>



Lil managed to get her first upgrade as well :o. Really wish Powderkeg would drop for her, Silver Sea Remnants really smells >.>



Getting the khroma's for the ares body had to be one of the biggest pain in the asses I've been a part of on the game. Camping the auction house really sucks. It was also annoying how like the last 50 khroma ores sold for 300k but for some people need to put them up for higher >.>. At one point someone got their 6 or so ores, sent back twice because people wouldnt pay more than 300k for them so that made me feel a lil better.

Luckily enough I was able to get the ores because Liltulip and Elsvet camped the auction house a few times when I was at work, so thank you to those two :).

This week in Salvage been going pretty good. We netted several 35's this week. 35 Ares Body, 35 Usukane Gote, 35 Morrigan Body, as well as 35 Skadi Mask and Ares Gauntlets last night.





Making me 2/5 on Ares.

Also finished up Neruru's Marduk Body and Aeris's Morrigan Robe. How cute is Neruru :o







Skadi Body should be completed soon as well :o

Our Dynamis shell is pretty small. 90% of the members consist of EQ members. Usually we just farm Xarcabard because people need alot of af2. We have had pretty good luck though in Xarcabard farming wise. Probably 6 or 7 rdm, 4 or 5 pld, 5 blm, 6 or 7 thf af, etc in probably around 15 xarcabard runs. We havent attempted Dynamis Lord too many times. On sunday we had pretty good numbers so we decided to give a whirl.













No shadow drops. But was a pretty fulfilling expierence since our Dynamis started with 15 members initially. I think it was one of the few titles I was missing in the game ;p

Fight was bout 40secs long, no deaths. Good job by all that attended :o

Just thought I would update :o

Things been busy per usual. Alot of stuff has been happening recently. King HNM's have been dissapointing as usual for the same reasons as always. Everything besides that has been going along pretty well.

Some recent things :o

Managed to bag a couple Tiamats lately.







Gratz to Hiru and Talphon on the gaiters :)


Been doing a ton of salvage lately. Though we havent had much luck on 35's lately at all. Did manage to get our first 35 in quite a while. Hopefully this will break our bad luck streak :o









I actually passed the 35 Body. Gratz to one of my best budaru's on the game on his Ares Cuirass.


Also managed to finish some other pieces up recently from prior 35's. Still waiting on cashmere/manteel's to sell to complete Minakus Skadi Cuirie and Neruru's Marduk Jubbah. Hopefully they can get those completed soon. Also missing 1-25 Ares Body to complete our third Ares body within the linkshell.

Dynamis been going pretty good as well lately. We have been pretty lucky with drops in general from northlands. Upto like 6 or 7 Redmage hats / 5 Valor Surcoats / 6 or so Assasin Armlets/etc over probably 15 runs.

Did manage to pick this up recently. Passed the previous one, but seems SE wanted me to have one >.> ~




Been a lot more stuff, but I'm too lazy to post everything :o
/yawn

Things been going pretty good lately. Enjoyed my christmas, spent several days with Family and had a good amount of time off work. That was nice. December is always a bit slow because of the holidays but did have a couple exciting days on the game.

So where to start :o

How bout EQ christmas!


Santaru Showed up :o


Everyone gathered around as santa gave presents. She had a pretty full sack to give out :p



Luckily santaru got a gift from EQ as well :)





Gratz to liltulip on the gaiters, much deserved.

Was actually the 2nd Tiamat we killed in a row over the holidays. First one was pretty scary, was kinda messy below 20%, I think on the 2nd one was only 1 Death total.

Salvage been going good for the group. Did alot of salvage over the holidays since wasnt much for scheduled events. After killing Batteclad chariot many times finally got Lani his piece.



Also had some luck farming :o









I think we got a couple more 35's as well. I think were in double digits now for 35 pieces for the group since we started in November.

Heres a pic of my first piece.



Dynamis been going ok. Would be nice to have a few extra bodies in the DynaPowPow. Would like to recruit a few more people to the linkshell :) but not many applications as of late. Overall I think DynaPowPow been pretty successful since its creation. I think we now have about 40 runs under our belt in total. Collected around 270 AF2 from those runs. Half of them being northlands I believe. Ended the year on another redmage double hate drop :o







Grats to Aerisflankheart and Lani on their hats. Got monk and bard I think on that run as well. Something like 6 Bard Pants from 10 Xarcs now D;.


Happy new year everyone :p

So things been busy in Real Life and in FFXI for me as of late. Things picking up a bit on game after giving some people some time off for expansion and american thankskgiving.

Killed a few more Bahamut 2's lately. Not sure what that puts us at now but I know its getting up there. Finally got our second bahamut mask -.-, which Geronimo won lot on. So hes getting pretty pimped out now. Too bad hes a Tarutaru. Managed to get Bahamut Scythe as well which I won lot on, would of preferred to see more Bahamut Masks for the Paladins though. Manteels pretty much maxed out now and can start going towards the ls bank for wishlist gifts.

Most land hnm been out of our time zone for so long now, and are finally starting to come back it seems, well until theres emergency maintenance tomorrow or something. Despite that been able to bag several Cerberus's and Khimiaras at off times with about 12 people. Not much luck on Hauteclaires though, but last few Cerberus have dropped Algols. Pretty much all our darks have them now so just giving them to paladins to look trendy. Most tanks and alot of DD's have mantles so hopefully can get some HQ's soon :p.

Dynamis been going pretty well lately too. Despite having somewhat low numbers, were still doing okay. Hopefully numbers will pick up a bit after xmas. On my last journal update we got 2 rdm hats from xarca, yesterday we got 2 blackmage hats and I think 12 af from the glacier before that, so thats pretty nice.

Salvage still going great. Been farming and doing boss clears. Only Boss we hadnt tried yet was the Arrapago Remnants boss.

Yesterday tried it for first time :o



Was very easy and clean fight. Have killed all 4 chariots now. Have farmed some 35's since last update so looking to complete those now :o. Overall pretty fun and I'm enjoying that. Another salvage group in the linkshell trying to get going too, would really like to see those guys pull it together and make some magic work, that would be awesome to see. After a month and a half I think im 2/3 on 4 pieces now and I think I have like 12 pieces, but no completes yet >.> lol. I dont really care though as long as we're having fun and others getting stuff.

Things just keep ticking along in Equilibrium. Not much for problems, people seem to be getting along and been a long time since we had any core members leave or quit game, its really nice to see. So overall things going pretty awesome for Equilibrium.

Really looking forward to the christmas break when I have some time off work. Also getting excited to see Liltulip playing santaru and giving out pressies to all the bois and gurls in Equilibrium at christmas :).

So been awhile since I updated. Things been kinda slow lately due to amerikan thanksgiving, expansion, 1000 maintances etc. So we decided to give people a week to enjoy themselves with the new expansion and all that, but some of us been spending the free time on doing salvage more :o

Salvage been going very good for the linkshell. People been taking it serious about the last 3 weeks or so. Took us awhile to get going. Our group started off trying to clear long bowed chariot, after a couple feeble attempts. We would always try and pull all 10 gears to try and nerf it but something would always go wrong. So it ended up taking us several tries to put the bad boy down but eventually we did. Our first kill was actually a unnerfed long bowed chariot or long bowed asshole as some people in the group like to call him.




Group Photo



And that chariot win pretty much put everything into place, started getting everyone interested and involved in and now were doing salvage pretty hardcore. ;o

So within three weeks we have come a long way I think. Heres some screenies of stuffs

Heres our first 35 of the group. Got it from Silver Sea Remnants.



Heres our Next 35 couple days later :o



Which set us up with an old acquintance ~

Mr. Long Bowed Asshole



That ended up being our first completed piece out of the group, which went to Minaku.

Decided to try a few different bosses - Silver Sea Remnants and Zhayhom Boss. Ended up winning both on our first tries ~



Dont have screenie of Long Armed Chariot in my photobucket. Armored Chariot one was pretty epic, had like 10 minutes left when we got to it, finished it with about 30secs left :).

Been farming a bit lately ~

Got these two in one run, I have to say that this particular run was pretty crappy, we got so hosed on cells (had a thf) it was unfathomable but the end of the run was pretty shweet >.>





That basically put us at our 2nd completed piece -- Geronimo on skadi feet. Something like 2 fully completed skadi feet in 3 days I think. Ares Body will be completed probably by this thursday/friday as well as Ares legs.

So after about 3 weeks we have completed 4 pieces and are sitting on lots of 2/3. Its been pretty fun and we are enjoying our successes.

Dynamis been going good for the linkshell too, I think most people enjoying themselves in that regard. We been pretty shafted on Redmage hat in the past but last sunday it finally happened :o



Oh, then it happened again 10 minutes later >.>





That was a pretty crazy run overall. Had 2-100 shells and 7 af2 I think by the time we made it to the 5th tower. Was pretty hawt. :)

Really been enjoying my time in Vana'diel last little while. :)

So heres some pics of yesterdays Niddhogg. Fight went real smooth, this one was alot easier than the previous one >.>






I decided to get my hauberk crafted. One of the main reasons for doing this was back in the day Gealan bought me a hauberk when we had a static back when Dark Knight was my only job. Back in the day I was really poor and never could afford one. I dunno why he did it, but one day the Gealan wishes to trade you~ message filled my screen. And he put up the hauberk :x. Was kinda shocking because it was one of the nicest things someone had ever done for me. So when I got the earthern body abjuration, I wanted to get the hauberk made into my cursed hauberk since it was something special to me. Otherwise I wouldnt had no use for the hauberk.

I was pretty nervous getting it crafted because I didnt want the item my friend bought me so long ago to break. So I crossed my fingers and my toes and:



Was relieved that it didnt break. Thank you Milennia (Elsvet) for crafting it for me :)



Heres a pick with me in my hauberk :)



Later on that night, I leveled with my static. Which consisted of Geronimo and Liltulip. Two of my best friends on ffxi. We been leveling together since probably around level 40 or so. Paladin - Zubuis, Red Mage - Liltulip, Dragoon - Geronimo. Not sure how long it took us to get to 75, was relatively fast. As paladin was pretty awesome having liltulip as redmage because shes pretty hax with the refresh. Like I had it on 99.5% of the time lol. Geronimo managed to do ok despite being a dragoon. :p

Heres some pics of us:







We will probably be leveling another job as well when the expansion pack comes out. Liltulip wants to do a melee job, I'm not really sure what I want to level next D;.

One day after reaching level 75, Liltulip found herself in the tank party for Tiamat. I think she was going crazy because it was something new for her lol. She wanted me to tank Tiamat but I passed for Geronimo, because I was scared and I didnt have /nin macros made. Geronimo did awesome on initial claim till we all got ready. Was a pretty smooth Tiamat, and was a good job by all. Lil did a pretty awesome job on it despite not being used to redmage.





Guess I will end the journal update by asking whos cuter between me and geronimo :o



vs





I know, I know. Theres no way Geronimo can compete with Zubalicious :p

/yawn~

Goodnight!

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More pics tomorrow :o Sleepy time :)

Couple members passed it to her. Yay lil! Isnt she cute :p

Did 3 runs again tonight. All 3 went very well. Would be nice to see something other than Bahamut Hose's on the 2nd item drop. :/