First I'd like to wish Jixxi the best of luck in their Maat fight. Thank you for the comment, I'm glad you liked my guide. I hope you don't let Maat get to you. I know he nearly made me re-think my job choice several times. Infact I know some on our server who never did beat RDM Maat fight and ended up leveling another job. I know a few that are 0/22 on him as well lol. Eventually you'll beat him and when you do, you'll end up laughing and wondering why you never beat him before. Really hes just a cheating old man who can have a /mnk sub, use back to back weaponskills, and even when he does use chainspell half the time he wants to chainspell bio over and over. And you'll feel pretty good about yourself once you do beat him. And when you do win know that you won one the hardest Maat fights in the game.
Speaking of that, I hear that the BLU LB5 is pretty evil too. Someone told me that the guy you fight pretty much has a verison of chainspell on him at all times. Sounds like fun!
So lately my goal has been to get my subs finished. I've been trying to level RDM up as well, im currently at 71, but it takes almost forever to get leveled! Almost makes you wish for the levels where it took only 5k XP to get to your next level. Now it takes 40k. And then you got to add in the fail parties you get, deaths, and whatever else comes and at some points your ready to beat your head against a wall. But atleast you know you earned your level when you get it. And that your ready to stab the person who may get you killed and cause you to delevel. Anyways I finally got both WHM and BLM to 37 and im glad to be done with both of those. Next on my list is to get NIN finished, then SCH, and finally DRK. Though im wondering if RDM/DRK is as needed now thesedays. I know Chainspell Stun comes in handy but lately it seems that people don't want a chainspell stunner anymore. Or maybe its just RDMs don't bother leveling DRK and people work around it lol. Either way I'm working on trying to get all my subs ready before I hit 75.
Speaking of fail parties, I had one the other day. Seriously I understand that when your trying to setup a party sometimes its hard to find the job classes you want. But im my case I always kept searching for something similar, I'd ask my friends or LS mates, and even ask non-seeking people if I have to. I've never tried to get mutiples of one job class and just hope for the best. Now in some situations I could see that working. But why...why for the sake of Altana would you want to invite 3 RDMs to a party. What are we going to do, take turns with Refresh? Its silly. You can't tell me they couldn't find a single SMN, SCH, BRD, WHM, COR, BLU, DNC, or whatever seeking? 1 RDM is enough for main heal in most 60+ parties. I know that for a fact because thats what I end up doing every 60+ invite I get. I main heal, we usually have a brd or a cor, and the rest is your DD and tank. So why would you ever want to get 3 RDMs is beyond me. And the worst part was the guy tried to say he couldn't find anybody. Funny thing is after I disbanded from that failure, I was able to setup my own party from the people seeking and had absoutely no problem finding people. If you can't find the job you want, settling for less is good somedays, but mutiple RDMs is just fail.
So lately I've been doing sky runs with Mini Mart. Which by the way if your in the need of a good social friendly LS on Shiva then just give me a /tell and I'll try and get you a pearl. This LS is always doing something, missions or quests, NMs, BCNMS, and now they have a seperate LS for endgame stuff. So as I said I've been going with them for Sky and im actually enjoying it. Sadly though SE wasn't very much in the gift giving mood when it came to RDM Sky Drops. Some of the stuff is nice but isn't anything I'd /drool over. We've mainly been doing Genbu and Suzaku. We tried Byakko awhile back but we weren't quite ready for that yet. So far im the only RDM that goes up there. There are 2 others that occasionally show up, and of course most the people who go up there have a RDM 75 (which they've retired), but right now im the only one who usually goes up there most the time. Its an interesting learning experience in going after the gods. By the way am I the only one who finds it weird that Suzaku is considered a RDM/BLM type mob, but most of his drops are not really anything a RDM would want....
Anyways so its been fun going up there with MM for sky. The guys really make that LS feel like family, and their always joking and cracking up on vent. So far I figure I'll go for getting Genbu's shield and the Zenith Mitts Abjuration. My first time at Genbu I had no points and so I couldn't lot on the mitts, but the Shield went for free lot. Woot! Except for the fact that im a failure at lotting apparently lol. Which is okay because since that shield always goes free lot im sure to get it at some point. The 2nd time we went after him he was stingy though which made me sad because I had points to spend. So here's hoping hes a little more in the giving mood the next time we're after him.
And now for the other half of what I've been working on. I'm trying to find something decent to farm. I usually prefer farming stuff I can NPC over AH, unless its something that AH for a decent amount and sells pretty fast. So lately I've been testing out different farming ideas I have found from ffxifarming.blogspot.com. Some of them work, but the others aren't good anymore thanks to all the updates NPC prices. It makes me kind of sad that all the things I really want to try farming require a 75 job to do it decently. Or atleast a very kind THF friend to tag along with you. And being RDM with a gimp THF sub isn't fun lol. Lately though I've gained a new respect for THF. I use to just think of them as some silly job that used daggers. But after watching a few THF friends kick some mobs asses where others would go down, im starting to respect them more and more. And im actually considering taking it to 75 myself. Mithra THFs are just plain awesome anyways. So anyways im going to keep trying to find something thats worth farming so I can share with you guys. If you have any suggestions feel free to leave it in a comment in my blog and I'll test it out.
Well time for me to end this rambling blog. I have to head to work soon to farm for irl gil. Too bad I couldn't just camp a NM in RL and sell their drop lol.
p.s. I've been trying to find a decent sized picture of Shikaree Y for my boyfriend. I need something thats 500 x 500 pixels or bigger. We want to make a background out of her picture, but the only picture we could find online was barely 400 x 300 which was too small for what we needed. If anyone has a good picture of her, or can get me one I'd greatly appreciate it. If not her, if you know of a NPC thats a female DRK let me know. Thanks!
~Nindo
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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SCH is a super fun job, but you don't really need it for RDM. I've yet to ever use it as a sj for RDM. You get Regen II, which is nice, but you lose Reraise, and Sublimation and Refresh don't stack. On top of that, it's a huge pain to flop between LA and DA on RDM, and getting a +10% casting time/cost is a huge drag.
I do use /drk on occasion, but not all that often. It's nice to have in case you need it though!
GL with your leveling! ^^
That kind of makes me sad because I had such high expectations from having /SCH. I thought though that SCH's abilities cut down the casting time and cost, not add to it.
I plan on leveling /DRK as soon as I get a chance to even unlock it. Lately its just been so hectic trying to get so much done xD. Is there any other subs you think would be handy to have?
By the way I love your blog. I can't wait to start reading it more.
Well, it does reduce casting times/cost...provided you're in the right arts. Sorry, that wasn't well explained. In parties, for example, I have cycles of spells I use constantly (which you may not): haste on melee, refresh on magic users, and dia ii/paralyze/slow/bind on every mob, and silence/gravity/dispel when needed. For the most part they're all LA, but I'd have to swap to DA for 3 of them. However, recast on LA/DA is 1 min, so if I go through my cycle and use DA to blind I then have to swap back to LA to cure/continue buffing, and if dispel is needed, or bind wears off, the 1 min recast most likely isn't ready so gogo +10% casting time/cost from being in the wrong art. If that makes sense? And in things like dynamis, where RDM has to keep their party cured/buffed, and be debuffing/sleeping mobs, you don't have a minute to wait for LA or DA to be ready and need the spells immediately.
Anyways! Sorry for the rambling explanation, hopefully that makes a bit more sense! The only time I'd really use RDM/SCH personally is in merit parties, but even then it makes me uneasy not having RR because crap happens.
And yay, I'm glad you like my blog! ^^
Ah I understand now. It makes me sad because in theory /sch sounds like an awesome sub for RDM. As someone on wikia said its a dual job subbing a dual job lol. But that minute wait could be a pain. I'll probably still level it just because it seems like a really interesting job.
You defiently have a beautiful blog ^^. I'd like to make mine look as pretty and as well put together as yours. Sadly my banner making skills are somewhat fail :P. Photoshop only works as good as the person behind it xD.
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