12.10.08
Posted in Final Fantasy XI at 7:52 pm by Pisces6
So on Monday night, I worked on the quest,
The Root of the Problem, to get my last black mage artifact armor: the black mage hat. Most of it was running around and getting cutscenes. The boss fight? Pretty easy for a 75 mnk/dnc and a 75 whm/blm. >.>; I thought it was a little interesting that the first fight you do for the black mage AF quests is a
Chaos Elemental that looks like a light elemental… While the
Magic Sludge you fight in the last quest is a dark elemental. XD The wiki really makes it sound hard when it was ridiculously easy. Then again… I don’t think it cast Sleepga during the entire fight. :|
So now, I’ve finished my third set of AF and am now a Paragon of Black Mage Excellence. HA! Paragon of killing beastmaster/summoner pets you mean. >.>; (Since that’s how most black mages solo from 1 to 70 practically…) Artifact armor quests done so far: white mage, warrior, black mage… Next job: red mage, if I ever get that far.
The story for the black mage armor was not too bad, though it really does leave on a cliffhanger. My guess is that the storyline for the Windurst nation is supposed to supplement it, but I’d have to go back and look at the cutscenes again to see all the connections. Part of the problem with FFXI is that the story is good and very complex… But it’s also easy to completely miss out on the subtle details if you haven’t done some of the quests yet. You always get that weird feeling that you’re missing something because you haven’t done X, Y, and Z yet. I felt that way for Chains of Promathia, kinda feel a little like that in Treasures of Aht Urghan, and I definitely feel like it in Wings of the Goddess. That’s one of the reasons why I want to try to get all jobs to 60 if only to see all the storylines for the artifact armor quests.
Anyway, Aslann still has to get his black mage af armor. :| Why hasn’t he gotten it? He’s in the middle of redoing his bard af quests so he can’t really do anything. >_<; Boo on Limbus for not dropping his bard items. D: (Then again, I haven’t done Limbus in a while…)
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12.02.08
Posted in Final Fantasy XI, Guides at 12:35 am by Pisces6
I’ve been in dire need of zeni for FFXI’s ZNM system, however, I’ve been having trouble just going out and getting soul plates of the appropriate monster since I only have a 75 white mage and I would like to take pictures of the monsters in Aht Urghan rather than going off to the conquest areas in Vana’diel. :|
So instead of snapping pictures, I’ve been earning a stockpile of jettons with my Pankration pet, Savage Sanguinaire, a wyvern. My wyvern was around level 19 when I started, but now he’s level 35. >.>;
I’m not an expert on Pankration, but here are a few hints on how to “control” your pet:
1. Try to give orders to your pet for every match he enters. How can your pet listen to you if you don’t give him any commands to follow?
2. Once your pet starts to listen to your commands, get a feel for what type of actions your pet performs when given a certain command. Your pet may not perform the action you are expecting so you must get familiar with the moves or spells your pet likes to use during a fight. I strongly suspect that the TP moves and spells performed by your pet depend on your pet’s job, subjob, and temperament.
3. Try not to spam your pet too many commands at once. Why? It seems that your commands cannot really be canceled. Your pet must perform an action relating to your command before it can move onto your next command. So, if you give too many commands to your pet at once, you run the risk of not being able to tell your pet what to do right away if he is about to die.
That being said, I have spammed commands to my pet before if it appeared he was not doing anything helpful in the fight or if the fight is not going well. You may also want to spam commands if your pet has not learned to obey you yet. Since he won’t listen to your commands, it doesn’t really matter how many commands you give him anyway.
Oh, and if you happen to have a pet with a mage job, better make sure he has the appropriate magic scrolls so he can cast the magic of his job. What would a black mage be if he didn’t have black magic spells? (Note: Most magic scrolls can be obtained from taking pictures of colibri. They usually cost 17 Feral Points.)
Anyway, I love my wyvern. The irony? I wasn’t the one who took a picture of him. Antorel, a friend I met in FFXI, had snapped him during a Beseiged when Pankration was first added and gave it to me. I haven’t seen Antorel for a while, (he’s working on getting his book published) but I’m really glad he gave me my wyvern. XD I have much love for it. <3 Hm, maybe I should level dragoon at this rate. ;)
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