Golden Age of a Nyzul Group
BLM to 62, partially soloing in Bibiki Bay, partially level synching in ToAU being mostly a leech. Colibri are strange monsters. Most of my nukes do half damage. I can’t quite figure out if they have high resistance or just high magic defense bonus. Elemental seal’d spells only do half damage, which implies high MDB, but if I hit a magic burst (mostly on accident) it does the nuke’s normal damage and then some, indicating high resistances. I can’t figure it out. In any event, I’m pretty much leeching. I’m technically invited as a healer, but we haven’t required too much healing, so I muck around with nukes a bit. I’m not exactly comfortable with the whole leeching thing, but it’s not like I haven’t let my friends leech before so I guess it’s just one of those things.
Bibiki Bay soloin’. Unlike most of my exp screenshots, this one is WITHOUT a band. Not bad. I can no longer one-shot pets but I am glad to be back to BLM/NIN. Which reminds me; although all the guides recommend BLM/WHM or BLM/RDM for the 50-60 levels when you can one shot things, I HIGHLY recommend sticking with BLM/NIN. Keeping up stoneskin and blink is a huge chore and, even with them up, a resist on ancient magic (especially on difficult to sleep bats) usually means certain death. I’d rather have a few less points of INT and three shadows than dying every 1/15 nukes because a half resist left me high and dry. Spell interruption is such a bitch.
BLM gear check at 62, for the curious and my later memory:
• Weapons: HQ ice and thunder staves, NQ rest
• Grip: Buggard strap +1
• Throwing: Morion Tathlum
• Head: Wizard’s Petasos
• Neck: Mohbwa Scarf+1
• Earrings: Phantom Earring, Moldavite Earring
• Body: Cobra Coat (nuking), Wizard’s Coat (sleeping)
• Hands: Wizard’s Gloves
• Rings: Balrahn’s Ring, Zircon Ring
• Back: Red Cape+1
• Waist: Penitent’s Rope
• Legs: Cobra Slops (nuking), Wizard’s Tonban (dark-ing)
• Feet: River Gaiters
I didn’t completely break the bank on the super-expensive minor-upgrade kinda things like Phantom+1 or a HQ level 54 ring, but I have put a fair amount of gil into it and it suits my purposes. At the moment I’m more focused on getting less resists than every little piece of INT. I’ve never been too concerned about epeen damage. Though, with the Morrigan’s robe and slops waiting at 75, I suppose other BLMs will compare themselves to me by default…
Duoed all six avatars with Kailani to get them for her boyfriend Lycas. Me DNC, her SMN. For most of the fights her avatar tanked it and did really good damage with tier-IVs. Watching the avatars duel like this is pretty epic stuff. Shiva vs. Ifrit, a classic final fantasy summon fight.
Did our four Nyzul runs on Friday. Saw this cool soulflayer NM. Dressed up in black like that, it looks like he’s wearing BLM relic. Or maybe a Morrigan’s.
FLURRY status effect! Though every now and then we get a random pathos that hurts (like Kisa getting songs resisted, lawl) most of them seem to be positive boosts and the ones that are good are usually really freaking good. On one level a few weeks ago we had like 10/tic refresh. That made my BLU happy.
I don’t really have much to say about Nyzul this week. We gathered at 8, did four climb runs from 6 to 25, got some weapons, got some denali feet, and were done a few minutes after 10. No deaths. Got some unpleasant floors but handled them without problem. It was… it was easy. We started on time, did what we meant to do, and left. That is how events should be run, damnit. Come up with a few policies like “show up on time” and “don’t screw up”, keep taking people until you find people that will actually follow those policies, and treat them right so they don’t want to leave. Three step success program to a static right there. Now that we’re climbing discs for others and I don’t have to pay for floors, I’m starting to actually earn nyzul tokens. It will be a (long) while but it’s only a matter of time before I complete the 150,000 needed for the mythic. Even if this group falls apart, which is it showing absolutely no signs of doing, I can get what I need off of joining other shouts.
I wish it were so easy for the other mythic weapon objectives. Salvage has completely fallen apart and Alexandrites are a lost cause; Einherjar is hit-and-miss on membership and I seriously doubt we’ll be able to kill Odin; no word yet on beastmen gods runs; and I can’t even start redoing assaults yet until I’m on the second quest. I’m the only person in my group of friends that is taking a serious stab at this whole mythic weapon thing, and while I do have a pretty good start going, it’s difficult not to be discouraged by insane requirements and lack of organization I have in meeting them. I took Nyzul upon myself personally and it’s doing very well. It would stand to reason I may have similar result with other objectives, but I’m wary putting myself into that much of a serious leadership role. I have a bad enough time trying to form exp parties with random people.
Lesser news:
Picked up the first BLU AF+1 item from the final treasure chest in the HNM apollyon. The only piece worth upgrading is the body, and, while it’s worth the upgrade it’s not super-amazing, so I’ll get the temenos one and finish this off whenever it happens.
Quickie screenshot of solo dark skillchain on a Mamool Ja IT mob in a merit party. I’m REGULARULY getting unresisted darknesses on these bad boys. Please note that I don’t swap gear for Vertical Cleave since swapping gear when I do that makes a glitch that makes me unable to see thes skillchain damage, and since I don’t swap gear, my Cleaves are always a bit low and so is the darkness. My normal, optimized Cleaves do like 50% more damage. 600 cleave + 600 darkness, on top of the 300-400 from Expacion, is incredible. I’ll stop talking about this now until I do my goal of breaking 3000 total damage - should be possible with BLU/THF, but it’s difficult getting the solo chain off when there are a lot of other melees around.
Unlocked Pyrrhic Kleos, the DNC weaponskill. It’s a bit better of a skill than Expaction alone and lowers mob evasion, which is also cool. Not as much damage as Dancing Edge but the additional effect probably makes it worth using regardless. I haven’t done DNC soloing since getting it, but when I do, I’ll report on how it went.
RDM STILL sucks. Ugh. 19 now. If I can get to 25 and Kazham, I’d hate it a lot less.