Scholar, Square-Enix's bastard child.

I love Scholar, as a sub. Honestly, it has a lot to offer. Light arts offers 10% MP cost down, 10% Fast Cast, Penury and Celerity, and some pretty animations. WHM is more versatile than it looks. Yeah /BLM and /SMN are pretty standard, but its uses are very limited.

What I have,when I use it:

BLM: Standard sub, I'll go to Khimaira for this for sure, Conserve MP isn't the most reliable thing, I think it just offers to me ES now since Sanction offers a Refresh already. Oh yeah warp, but it isn't hard to Teleport and walk.

SMN: Merit Parties, nothing more. /SCH literally replaces this for wyrms. Also Limbus for pulls and what not.

SCH: Golden sub, see above. Wyrms and some sea. Light arts gives +5 Barfire so NIN's can wear their Arhats gi and PLD's can wear their shit as well.

NIN: Kirin, Solo

WAR: Kings claimage since iiZerg took a heavy hit with Thetruepandagod out of the way.

DRK: Cerberus, I FUCKING LOVE WEAPON BASH. 5 second stun + negligible damage. And stun.

What I want to level:

BLU: Nyzul Isle

RDM: When SCH becomes ungimped, I'd definitely take this into consideration.


Gear:

So far all I really need is Salvage head and feet and some misc. shit.

Full time Cure V

Obvious improvements would be Hedgehog bomb, Einherjar neck thing full time, Star Sapphire ear?, HQ legs and body, and Star Sapphire ring. Some other shit as well, life Relics, Seveneyes, and I forget. I don't like carrying around too much gear, too much to think about.




HNM:

Cerberus
We did Cerberus enough times where I really just ran out of interest posting about it. We ranked up 9 kills so far, 4 swords. Still have people fuck up on Gates of Hades order. And honestly, the less people we have the better for this. Oh yeah, I must say, <3 onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i2.tinypic.com/80wi1jo.jpg">
Khimaira is simple. The first time TROGDOR claimed it, we killed it with a struggle because of NIN/DRK's and some other shit. I wasn't there. But the second time around was majesticly easy. With just 9 people we took him down to 50% without a struggle. BRD/BLM with an ES+Slow rapes this. Kimth and Warheit tanked it down without any real wiping problems. Tourbillion rapes, but thats ok! BRD/BLM WHM/SCH PLD/NINx2 RDM/DRK and a BLU makes this soooooooo easy. I for one never had any hate issues since PLD tanks just cured each other after Thunderstrike or whatever. So far, we've only received mats.









Just need AF2 feet and Ix'MNK cape.

Merry Christmas everyone. Santa dropped Ass Helms.

I forgot I had a blog

Yep. Changed servers again to Slyph to be with the original Resurrection members that swapped from Odin. Lakshmi was nice, but I didn't do much, and now that I know what my schedule is with Slyph, I can work around and play around and fuck around conveniently. Nothing much more I want to say. WAR is 37, thus my ideal subs are done. BLM WAR DRK NIN 37. Now I just need to work on BLU RDM THF and maybe BRD sub, if not main.

With Wings of the Goddess rolling in next week, (which btw I'm really excited for...for once), I think I'll end up leveling Scholar. Dancer is also nice, but its it'll take a lot more work since I don't have SAM or THF leveled. Oh well, obligatory RDM-deviant job is always fun to play...

So in essence, job order I'd prefer to play:

WHM- I'll forever be the LS's WHM.
SCH- When we get Jext to come WHM and PROBABLY SCH will get a lot of use out of Errant and WHM gear, plus its staff/club main, come on.
SMN-I have a YYR for a reason, good to solo KS's with, and the random sea-encounter, thats it.

If I decide to drop out of school (in order)-
RNG-Love RNG for always and ever, but its expensive and time consuming, so fuckin' A.
BLM- It's 37, and I have gear for it.
RDM-With the new merits and shit, I can still master this shit in and out.
BLU-Looks and feels sexy, but time consuming
WAR-Fuck yeah its 37, I'd go WAR/NIN to 75 and not look back.
SAM-THF....
PLD-Yeah, fun job.
NIN-Yeah, but meh
DRK-If I get a Kraken, I'll adjust the order
BRD-Mundane, stop caring after a while, unless I get my tiara done.
DRG- Good numbers now, but still useless
COR- BRD+RNG, mundane and expensive
BST- w
MNK- Nigga please
THF- lol

Don't think I'm missing anything important. Anyway, future plans:

-Get Hbomb
-Merit some more: Protectra (2), Enmity-(4), MP(5),HP(3) and I'll do more, I just forget.
-Finish Marduk Tiara: Which involves Salvage which I sometime can't attend.
-Start on Marduk Boots: If it ever drops when we attend the corresponding places.
-Level Scholar: Become Suma Cum Laude
-Update LJ more often: Like that will happen.

Now for obligatory wtf's on Slyph in red blue green.

Kill me now. Not saying my gear is tons of fun, but god damn.

I hate Apollyon.
I got fucking jewed. Ended up buying a few things, Miraculous cape until I get my Errant, Upgraded head (see bottom), and hMP feet. Saving up money to buy shit for Scholar.
Missing about 4-6 more MND, which will raise it a whole 3 HP. Oh well, I'm fine at 846 /SMN
1/3
Fuck the Dunes and fuck this sky faggot.

DRK37 and

3 Anniversary Ring charges and one Empress later, 37!
Soloed 32-34, made my own gimp NIN DRK/NIN SAM/WAR BLM RDM(later BRD) WHM party. Selling all of my old DRK shit and Blessed hands (which was sitting in my MH anyway) got me a pair of Mahatma Pigaches. With this sale I ended up taking my AF head out of my MH and buying a 2k Ajari Necklace. Rounding my total MND+ to 50.

As of 7/1 (holy fuck its July), normal Curing gear.



Main: Templar Mace
Sub: Nmn. Shield+1
Ammo: Fortune Egg =(
Head: Nashira Turban
Neck: Beak Necklace+1
Ear1: Novia
Ear2: Loaq.
Body: Noble's
Hands: Hlr. +1
Ring1: Ether Ring
Ring2: Tamas
Back: Rainbow Cape =\
Waist: Penitent's rope
Legs: Blessed
Feet: Mahatma

Head: To be fair, and on a budget. Errant/Mahatma head is technically better than Nashira Turban. Ugly as fucking sin, but still better. Why? Nashira only offers Enmity-5 and MACC+5 (for stun). Whereas Errant/Mht. offers MND+3/4 AND Enmity-5/6. It's a nice little debate, but I'd still keep the Nashira because it's free and not as fucking hideous.

Ammo: Hbomb. I'm too poor, deal with it. Next best thing is a Holy Ampulla which is MND+1 and like 3 MP less. Not worth buying, definitely worth camping.

Neck: Only thing I'd ever replace it with for normal curing would be the new Einharjer thing. But thats Einharjer, so fuck that in the butt.

Body/Legs: Obviously HQ would be "better"

Ring: Serket/Vivian/Vilma would be better.

Back: Errant capes are cheap! For now, Errant > Miraculous > Rainbow

Feet: The reason why I chose Mahatma Pigaches over Blessed pumps +1 is simple. Pigaches offer 3 great things, MP MND Enmity-. More MP, More MND, 1/2 less Enmity (but thats really negligible). AF2 feet is mediocre to cure in, same with Cure Clogs. Overall, its the best feet for my case. Marduk would be optimal for this, but thats salvage, and I'm not that homosexual like Aurik and Wafik.


Cure V

Based on my lolCalculations (ffxiwiki's setup). Add the [boxes].
Healing Magic (291/3) [97] + MND (78+50) * 1.5 [192] + 430 +20% = 862.8.

Based on this gear
Carbon copy of my healing gear with Ajari and AF head swapped in for the +50.

Ammo: Ampulla would be prime for this, but at the same time I really don't feel like macroing in and out an Hbomb.

Head: AF+1 all the way, +3 more MND and hMP+1 = :D
Neck: Einharjer would be nice to keep in for this, but Ajari is best for now.
Ring1: Aqua.
Back: Miraculous because it's cheaper than Prism.
Feet: Optimal would be Marduk, but again, Wafik and Aurik, tsk tsk.

If I had my "optimal" gear I should be at.

97+210+430 * 22% = ~900.

Which is presuming I don't merit MND and Healing Magic.

On a side note: Lakshmi is quiet, too quiet.

God forbid I get a party invite.

Nobody on Lakshmi sexp's at low levels. Maybe the name change to Intension is intimidating to invite a lonely DRK/NIN. Oh well. With the parties I do join ends up being filled with XBOX360 and French users.

Ding 32.
Ding 33: Solo :(
Did my first Besieged with Lakshmi, I'm impressed. Except they lost the AC yesterday. Neat little tidbit from killing Namean Lion:

Now this picture means a lot to me, its the LAST Bruins face I'll get to see in my log.
What the fuck is that?

Anyway. Seeking on DRK while afk. Time to make some lunch.

Tonight I'm Going to Rest my Chemistry

Take Care Odin:
Today I made the decision to leave Odin once and for all. Yes I will be taking Rene (Olorin) with me as my vessel into Lakshmi. It was hard to make a choice with his Character, but he knows as much as I do that I'm pretty much the transfered owner of the account now. I will keep Resurrection's first (and I hope one of many with Novio) Novia Earring as an item that I deserved since Ohem. I have done nothing but devoted my time to this linkshell in hopes to faithfully progress with whatever is left to do in this game. I came to the conclusion that it is time for me to not only leave the linkshell, but leave the server entirely because of the fact that I can't stand of the people I camp against.

To Hex: I have defended you and followed you every time I logged onto Ohemgee, Sartre, Blazes, Terican and Olorin. This move is by all means not a selfish attempt to get back at you, but to do whats best for my sanity since I wont be able to really play as much as you would want me to play. I have taught you how to do Kings, and well, to me, you turn it around and say the LS's efforts manifested itself into that. I do not regret what I am doing, and thank you for trusting me with Olorin's account. Yes, to some your losing your best WHM. But the 5 months that I spent playing WHM has shown me more responsibility amongst the others. To be fair, I wouldn't of made the decision if we didn't have enough people with WHM's leveled. If they can't do what I've been doing for 5 months compared to their entire time 1-75, then you need to make them better. It's really difficult for me to agree with you on recent events, due to the fact that they are friends of mine and are equal to you and I. At this point it really doesn't matter that he or she isn't in the LS anymore, but I hope you come to the understanding that people are people and we all need to have our needs satisfied. Just like me, I'm leaving to clear up my head as I take on probably the hardest years of school ever. Good luck and good health.

To Resurrection: You were my Linkshell. My only linkshell that I consider to be actually mine. I was gladly associated with you through whatever happened at Serket, Fafnir, or whatever. You guys have brought me up and helped me along the way as much as I helped you guys. I could never imagine myself in ANY other linkshell besides Resurrection, frankly nobody would accept me, and no, I really didn't care if nobody wanted me in another HNMLS at the time, and I'm not jumping boat because of it. You guys will always be my best friends (minus a few who are just annoying), you will always be my LS.

To Kitsume: Sorry for everything I have ever said to you. But when it came to facing facts with facts, yeah, I'm not sorry for that.

To LLK: Yes I will still call you a shitty tank, because I seriously do feel like you are a shitty tank. I don't know who you are in person, and I really don't care honestly, not like I wouldn't mind meeting you and having a Sunday Brunch or something. But really, learn to tank before yelling at me for your own mistakes.

To Alahel: I don't like you. We could agree on certain things, and we can disagree on MANY things. But in the end of the day, I really don't care if you don't believe a word I say, because your sentences mean nothing to me.

To Donnie and BBQ: My first end game LS turned out to be a ball breaker. I really have nothing much to say but thank you for the 3 months I was in BBQGold. Now that your LS has turned to trash, please take the time to reconsider your members.

To Odin: Thanks for the memories I guess. You treated me good monetarily, but in the end, I don't think it matters.

To Koston: Thanks for making the suggestion to come onto Odin. We need to get PS3's and play SOCOM 4 whenever that comes out.

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To Kimth/Bruins/Era/Lheo/Bruins/Darkoh/Aen/Fatally/Xajii/Loud(original)/Big/Taf/and others that I'm missing: Thanks for making the last 5 months fun. More with some others as well.

As far as I know, Odin is a decent server, its just the cycled crap that got me optimistic about a change.


-Ohemgee RDM 75 of Odin




DRK UPDATE
I'm 28 with Archers, GET AT ME DAWG.

Find Water to Douse the Flame

Cerberus

Nice thing to come back from cutting up coconuts; knowing Cerberus is up and we claimed it.
I was the only WHM at the time until Fatally came (and we ended up tag teaming with Darkoh and Lheoric tanking). Went too smooth, resulting in no Algol. Regardless! Zero Gates of Hades, only Ed died while holding it. Plus, I never got drawn in. I also like Lheoric as a tank, he's more responsive and isn't afraid to cure others. On a side note, I think I'll be fully capable of solo stuns when it comes to /DRK. But I still prefer /SMN when I dont have double Refresh like I had today. Anyway, gimp shit but still worth fighting.


DRK Progress

I hate xping my sub jobs. Its only fun when your @750 on Lv36. That way you have a XP scroll guaranteed to level you AND a warp scroll to get your ass back to your home point. With that being said, I haven't really updated my progress, but I have upgraded to 26. I pretty much soloed 1-24 on Worms. When I get to around 30, I'll buy a pair of Archer's and forget about people for a while. Dual axe is fun, despite my shit damage and accuracy due to a B- axe skill, I really don't mind it. To be honest, WAR DRK RNG THF can easily be soloed 1-37. With that being said, I'll be xping THF 1-15 solo. Oh yeah, Qufim SUCKS ASS. Highlands, Maze, Korroloka are all easy to xp in. But Qufim is a death trap man. The fuck at this
Yeah bitch, I lived.

Music: dredg- Planting Seeds

Ultima DRK

Unscheduled Ultima run. Went really smooth from 100->20. Then CB spam was just fun :D
We also tried the "no pants" trick and what do you know?
Grats to Taf and Saintjust on Legs and Head.


DRK UPDATE:
So I'm not a big fan of partying 1-20. So I decided to take my Lv8 RNG and take the "Self self-Chain" route. So far I hate it, but who cares! Don't have to level in Valkurm anymore :D
I might do the same thing with WAR, but I'll probably level RNG a bit more before that. So far I'm leaving Maze at 20, and then hitting up Kor. Tunnel and then start xping after I run out of Acid Bolts.

Video link of the day: http://youtube.com/watch?v=PwUkIuKVRj4&mode=related&search=

Reminds me of Nova's parking....

A.Hands!

Post-maintenance fun. Doofus claimed and we had Lheoric finally tank something :D.
Congrats to Mrhyde [Ridill'd]. That brings us to our 5th Ridill in the LS. Travion, Staber, Aen, Ladyrikku, and Mrhyde.

It's R-E-S-U-R-R-E-C-T-I-O-N

This blog is due for a post.

Don't care about being formal and introducing myself. So I'll jump to this:
1/1, completely unexpected. Not bad for a tier 1 synth.

Before actually doing anything, I completed the 4 Wildcat quests to get my Whitegate OP situated. So now my HP is in Port Bastok next to the OP so I can just feed my Alchemy GP without hassle. I could just Vahzl or Mea and OP to any king camp (since my Home nation is sandy and I'm way too lazy to get Bastok Rank 6).

Before even heading up, what the fuck:
Good lord. Charger Mantle (ATK+20), Faith Torque, Pixie and Thunder ring (Guess he parses above 90% regardless where he can just raise the DEX for critical hits). Note to self: If I ever level my BRD and he's still playing, replace Aenarion with Sarek.


Killed Cerb a while ago, forgot when, got Senal his Algol and the bank has a Mantle floating around. Also:
Final-fucking-ly. After year(s) of not camping and not claiming. Shit drops, I got the heart and made Tafafa's mask for last weeks Behemoth. ANYWAY

We claimed with 8, held it for a bit. From 100->14% we had 25. Then 2 or 3 others came along for adds. Doofus and I held our own nicely as the sole WHMs for the fight, he had to log hate a few times due to random CureIVs. But we knew each other enough to Cure V Big (mainly) alternatively.

Now I guess I could save an entry and a half by getting my own thoughts and Kamehameha'ing them off into space (It is Kamehameha day in Hawaii).

What I think about your linkshell: Volume 1

• BBQ: First and foremost. Joined them in February or March of 2005. Never did anything outside of Kirin, camping Fafnir, and wiping to CoP wyrms since they were still hard / fun to do. Openly admits to gilbuying (and buying peoples families apparently), botting, stealing, wiping to Fafnir (3 times in 2 weeks at a point). They've killed everything BUT AV, which is a great accomplishment for any LS. But they take WoW Raids to everything major that they kill; 42 for their first Jorm kill in July? 2005. 30-40 for Tiamat. Around 64 with Vrtra (and they brag about us not killing it, though we're 0/0). Overall , they have the potential to kill shit, but its really fools gold if you ask me. Oh yeah, poor Riotouscrow had a Ridill, Adaberk, KC, shit ton of Smurfjr's gil and got banned for POS hacking during the first stages of sea. He's still a cool guy though.

• LimitBreak: Killed everything, farmed AV for a while. Really keep themselves at most times. They have a LS bot named Monet, they take it to DA and sometimes Behemoth's for an attempt to claim. Jeremiah (when I was camping with BBQ at least) botted hard too from what I believe. They had a stupid phase (which BBQ inherently copied) of SMN and then BLM burning everything, forcing people to level a mage job or else they can't stay in the LS (Zven left and then came back). They need to keep Chalis NIN, and Kitsume to shut up out of windows. Not a bad LS, just wouldn't imagine myself in it. But they seem to be experiencing a recession, MEH.
• TeamKanican: To be honest, all LS's on Odin should strive to be them, not to kiss ass or anything, its just they have everything down to a science, literally, read Kaeko's blogs. Tark's LS (and I say that because I believe Tark is what kept them in their prime) has a small member base that can coherently work with each other. They know how TP feeding works (see their Khims), they know how basic shit works. Yet, their too pompous whenever they attack people. Senrez is cool, used to XP with him a few times on his DRG and NIN, don't know what else he has leveled other than BLM. Ashira is old, yes I know your probably going to read this. Jiggly and Chilicheese were awesome too, I miss them somewhat. Other than that, they have a serious decline with people showing up, so whenever they claim its like a Christmas miracle.
• Clan/SS/MP/RagTag: Not much to say, their Japanese LS's, of course their better than any NA LS (and yes I consider TK a NA LS now that Tark is gone). Clan on the other hand are crazy fuckers.
  
• 1000 Needles: Kaylea's LS. Has Lordlotuskiller in it. They've killed (on their own) Fafnir, Nidhogg, Adamantoise, Aspido, Behemoth. If I'm forgetting something please add on to it. They zerged our 5% Cerberus after we wiped and brag about their Algol. They show up to Cerb like prey (to Woopa and OD's) and buff up waiting for a wipe. They have a dumb amount of people (not like BBQ where about 25% of all 75's on Odin has a pearl to) to toss at, or actually lack tossing of since they like to fuck themselves out of not one, but TWO Jailer of Justice's, we know you have 17, but why? Getting back to their kill history, they've wiped to King Behemoth, and they boast and bellow how Darkstaruk's PLD/WAR deleveled at KB after a Meteor->Stun-> Melee, because we claimed we could use 1 WHM (I was the only WHM for a Nidhogg once) on Nidhogg and have 0 deaths (which we did for Rediz's Mbody). Their last Nidhogg ended up as an epic struggle to kill, LLK dieing TWICE PLD/NIN. Anyway, for a end-game LS that likes to talk as much shit to us as they do, they really need to step up with what they can kill before they can exaggerate their Melee/SAM's in sea. Yes their melees sub /SAM, so in the event their 2 tanks die (often), they have WAR/SAM's Third Eye tanking until they can recooperate. Oh yeah, they also like to complain we brought 10 BLMs for Prudence and Justice, so fucking what? Do you want our BLMs to /SAM and Full Swing spam?
  
• Lordlotuskiller- I don't know if he has down syndrome or Alahel made his Idiot shield because this guy is the esteemed WORST tank of Odin. I don't think he has ever camped a king and not died to it, whether its the WHM or BLMs fault for not curing / managing their own hate, or it was his, either way he has enough tools to keep himself alive, like Cure IV.
  
• Hederous and everyone else- His SAM isn't even 37, and he likes to talk shit with our Algol on him. Yeah, we're too nice to give you an Algol, and its ok that you don't equip it, because to be honest, your damage is sub-par to any of our DRKs.
• WoopaTroopas- Goodrats LS, got a Ridill on their first Fafnir kill. Nothing really to say about them. They need to do more shit, because most of their members are just Drstian dumb, but they can kill shit regardless. They stole Shiki from this JP and teamed up with Unsent to kill it. Oh yeah, rat boy doesn't camp kings. And their top DRG bought his Love Torque from RMTs. Go fig.
  
• OrionsDoor- Forgot who leads this LS, don't think that matters. Sea and KV LS mainly. They haven't had luck with Kings (never claimed). They have KC DRK's (don't ask how they got it, they just do) and like to use them on JoL! Other than that, I doubt they will have great organization at kings, too many mistakes over a long period of time equals frustration.
  
• Unsent- Sucked from the beginning. Firiel is a gilbuying whore, (Bigeasy, Santxol, and I'm sure a few others have felt her wrath). Got a lot of members from Unsent actually, they are experienced with stuff, like they grasp the idea. They killed Fafnir a long time ago. Wiped to KB a while back (where I forgot to mention, BBQ killed BOTH of Unsent's and 1k Needles KBs). They post pictures of wiping to Adamantoise. Wiped to Kirin a few times, some other shit, I'm surprised their still together. But really, they suck now, if they were a line chart, they would be at a trough, and they've been there for a while.
  
• EndlessGlory- Skurlover's LS. Had Fatally, Firestorm, Vapors in it. Basically, again, thank you for supplying our members with sea items, saves us the time. Because when you fuck with Ieno, you lose the people that farm sea for you. And when you lose the small amount of people that farm sea for you, you end up mass recruiting people. And I hope your LS breaks, fag.

• RisingMoon- German LS. Enough said. Actually, Jeanie (their faithful leader) got their first Abody off of a 1:30 Aspido, (thats an hour and thirty minutes) for her SMN60, oh yeah her WHM is also 75. They have Madberserk, an ex-PLD with an Mbody (which he dies in a lot, I think he's the third worst tank to be honest). They can't insult anyone for the life of them. I was with Doofus in Sorrow Valley killing off mobs for KS's when they were camping Aspido. Yes they camp Aspido FIVE HOURS before his real window. They apparently treat their NA members like shit, (see Kumbai AND Eternalsnow). But you know what? More chances to kill Kings whenever they claim.
• Eternalsnow: Yes the annoying KI 360 newb called for help on their Xolotl (for his benefit honestly) and essentially gave it to us. And frankly, yes he was annoying and stood out, but you know, its one less SMN and BLM any other LS can have, and he's a GOOD learner. And by far, if the only thing anyone has to say about him is that he's "Eternalsnow", just remember to check your log for our /say drops.
  

Some more RM pictures from their Jorm and Xolotl attempts.

• Versus-Bruins wanted everyone to know that they camp Despot with 40+ people.
• Germania-They killed their JoL RMT style, forgot to mention they harvest the most recently bought gil and accounts in their LS. Killed Faf like once, AND got a Ridill if I'm not mistaken.
  

Theres more LSs, but there not important to me. Versus, EmoRangers (lol), and some other minuscule groups.

More per-kill updates to come!