The Hunter #1

Apr 22, 2009 12:40





As you may or may not know, I picked up my RNG23 almost immediately after I returned. Though I know I have merits to finish for a handful of jobs, I have a hard time gathering the enthusiasm needed to do so: Especially now that my awesome merit set is a thing of the past (fj Liirian). Aaaaaanyway I promise myself now that after RNG, I will work on my merits. I will absolutely not start leveling SAM at any rate. It's too expensive anyway.... So, at any rate I'm having a blast (pun intended) with RNG, since 53 I've been gunning my way forth, doing pretty absurd dmg and blowing everything out of the water. I'm doing the marksmanship route so not considering an E.bow at all. I discovered however that TPing with silver bullets alone is expensive, but I'm working on a way to combine meleeing with daggers at approx 3 yalms and shooting in between. More efficient and much cheaper. (Still looking at around 10k in bullets per hour of pt.)

As for campaign, I haven't brought RNG there yet, but I suppose I will when I hit 60ish. RNG in campaign isn't that great either, not least because marks weapons have low base D and rely on heavy D ammo. For that reason I intend to get a half decent bow with high base dmg and use some cheap arrows. Honestly though, I don't think I'm going to *need* to campaign much as RNGs are in pretty high demand for lesser colibri pts always, and I'm also pretty damn sick of campaign as you should know.

I haven't been fishing much since finishing Lu Shang, even though I really should: Money doesn't grow on trees and I need to buy hellfire +1 and osode and shit later on. I had hoped that acquiring Lu Shang the "legitimate" way would provide some kind of fishing bonus, but dissappointingly I discovered I'm still better off using Halcyon Rod for skilling on the fish I do right now (skill 42). Bluetail are real bishes to pull up with wooden rods (including lu shang), much much better on halcyon. I'm sure I'll value it much more though when I hit the 50s and get some better money fish to aim at. I should also return to fishing marlins, mercurial kris would be a fun piece for RNG. Or to just sell for cash of course...

Finally, ACP. I'm not quite done, I need to redo the Delkfutt climb after losing a zerg on the boss for uncertain reasons. I thought we did good but some heavy AoE move snuck through chainstun and hurt us pretty badly. Next time (which should be one of these days) we'll do it the old fashioned way and I have no doubt we'll make it then. It'll likely be a RNG piece for me, Snapshot +5 Rattack +10.
Still, what a crappy add-on. Running around killing random mobs and unbelievably weak "bosses", peaking with a highly tedious climb that makes no real sense. They could have just added this as a normal quest, seriously.

ffxi, rng

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