Recent Accomplishments - It's 2009, yo!

[Miriel]

It's a brand new year, so time for a brand new accomplishments thread! Happy adventuring in 2009 everybody. :)

2006-2007 Accomplishments (http://forums.eyesonff.com/final-fantasy-xi-online/81002-recent-accomplishments-13.html)
2008 Accomplishments (http://forums.eyesonff.com/final-fantasy-xi-online/113778-recent-accomplishments-2008-a.html)

[Ouch!]

Duelist's gloves got! ^_^

[Crossblades]

Reached Floor 15 on nyzul Isle =)

[Del Murder]

I got to floor 25 and hope to do more tonight.

[Ouch!]

It took me five years, but I finally hit level 75 the other day. Capped exp. as well. ^_^

[Crossblades]

CoP 8-1 :D

[Mirage]

Sky access. Yay. And I found me an endgame shell.

[strawberryman]

First Kirin~
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/4959/sta090130214505aox0.jpg

And...
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/8008/genbuah7.png

[KentaRawr!]

I obtained the Bard job. :p

[Del Murder]

Completed Nyzul Isle Floor 100 and got my Runic Key!

Now to get my new WS.

[Mirage]

Got 75 about 3 weeks ago, killed kirin on saturday.

Also, hecatomb leggings get.

[Crossblades]

Peacock Amulet now in my possession :D And all it took was 3 weeks of camping ; ;

[Mirage]

I would rather burn bseals for it :(

[Rostum]

I would rather burn bseals for it :(

A friend is 0/75 or so for the BCNM one. :p

[Crossblades]

I would rather burn bseals for it :(

You dont get rare/ex bling from the BCNM though :p

[Mirage]

Unlikely, the drop rate is about 8-10%. That's a statistic improbability.

[Ouch!]

My computer is fixed so I can finally play again. That's an accomplishment. Right?

[Dignified Pauper]

I finally managed to level past 15. My Taru RDM is level 17!!!!!

[xXsarahXx]

lol ive managed to get my Drg lvl 36 not a huge achievement but oh well lol!

[Mirage]

Which server?

[Rostum]

Unlikely, the drop rate is about 8-10%. That's a statistic improbability.

So is going by what any wiki says the drop rate is. :p I'd rather go by what my friend said.

[xXsarahXx]

Which server?

Im on Pheonix :) You?

[Del Murder]

For a 10% drop rate the likelihood of going 0/75 would be .04%.
For an 8% drop rate the likelihood of going 0/75 would be .19%.

For a 10% likelihood of going 0/75 the drop rate would have to be ~3%.
For a 50% likelihood of going 0/75 the drop rate would have to be ~1%.

Someone who has done this BCNM 75 times has too much time on their hands about 80% of the time.

Doing that BCNM 75 times would cost 3,000 Beastmen's Seals.

[Ouch!]

Unlikely, the drop rate is about 8-10%. That's a statistic improbability.

So is going by what any wiki says the drop rate is. :p I'd rather go by what my friend said.
I'm going to have to agree with Omecle. I don't really trust the wiki's drop rates for BCNM drops. I doubt anyone has made a sample large enough to get statistically significant and reliable data.

[Rostum]

For a 10% drop rate the likelihood of going 0/75 would be .04%.
For an 8% drop rate the likelihood of going 0/75 would be .19%.

For a 10% likelihood of going 0/75 the drop rate would have to be ~3%.
For a 50% likelihood of going 0/75 the drop rate would have to be ~1%.

Someone who has done this BCNM 75 times has too much time on their hands about 80% of the time.

Doing that BCNM 75 times would cost 3,000 Beastmen's Seals.

He had leveled BST to 75 twice and has been playing since release. Also the BCNM is the easiest thing to do in the game, ever.

[Del Murder]

Leaving my computer and then returning to have gotten 1,200 exp disagrees with that!

[Carl the Llama]

My computer is fixed so I can finally play again. That's an accomplishment. Right?
Ditto lol, the patch should be finnished by the time i get home

[strawberryman]

Only vaguely XI related but I've officially quit for about three weeks.

Starting to get the shakes.

[Ouch!]

Solo'd BLU to 37.

[Misfit]

I'm not good at beating up old men. ;_;

[Mirage]

are you playing again, misfit?

[Misfit]

Yeah, been messing around with my NPC alot :3 We're bffs~!

[Del Murder]

Got a Swift Belt finally.

There are tons of cool stuff I could get to pimp out Blu: Homam gear, Crimson pants, Fortitude Torque, Ekidnu gear, but I don't want to have to join some demanding linkshell to get it. This Belt and a Koggelmander were the only easyish things left for me to get on Blu.

[Crossblades]

Got Hecatomb Mittens this past week. Had to lot against 7 other ppl to get it too o.O

[Rostum]

Beat Ultima/Omega CoP fight. Why do I always get sacrificed at least once per mission fight. :(

[Mirage]

Yeah, been messing around with my NPC alot :3 We're bffs~!

gurl why didn't you tell me so we could get it on in my mog house? I bought a new bed and all.

[Rostum]

Sea access, get! Only 3 more missions then I'll get my Raja's ring!

Edit: And also just got Diabolos summon.

[Del Murder]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/delmurder/FFXI/ffxi_20090509_145851.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/delmurder/FFXI/ffxi_20090506_190331.png

[Rase]

Partied with people other than my two friends for the first time, and man was it a horrible party. Three WAR, a THF, a DRK, and me the RDM on healing duty. Except we level synced so we're all level 11 because my friend the leader won't drop the level 11 Taru warrior in starting armor who doesn't really know how to play. In the Valkurm Dunes.

If not for a kindly level 54 BLK/29 WHM who kept healing us we would have been so boned. As it turned out I gained two levels out of the night, so hurray. Also ended up being able to crack a lot of jokes with my other friend in the group since we were in the same room, and we agreed that the party was all that is wrong with MMO's.

[Rostum]

Finished CoP a couple of weeks ago and recently got Byakko's Haidate. :D

[Rostum]

Got Askar head. :D

[theundeadhero]

Took cooking from 9 to 18 in a day and stand to make a profit. Having money to spend will be so new!

[theundeadhero]

Took WHM from 18-25 the next day.

[Ouch!]

Seed Crystal took it hard tonight. Royal redingote (+4 magic attack bonus, +4 magic accuracy) is mine. Also recently obtained duelist's boots and tights.

[Del Murder]

Bastok rank 6! Is that an accomplishment? Or do I need to have acquired some silly piece of equipment to post here?

[Ouch!]

Bastok rank 6! Is that an accomplishment? Or do I need to have acquired some silly piece of equipment to post here?
Missions count! =P

[Ouch!]

Excuse the bump, but I also just completed Treasure of Aht Urhgan.

It's been a productive 24 hours.

[Del Murder]

Rank 7 for me!

Alexander is intense!

[Ouch!]

No kidding. We went 1/3. It was absolutely freaking awesome on the last fight. I loved it.

[Del Murder]

That was probably my favorite battle in FFXI. Especially fun for a PLD.

Tried to do some MMM today but it ended in epic failure.

[theundeadhero]

Finally 1/13 on a mist silk cape. I camped Spinni Spipi so long I earned enough cash to buy my WHM 25 all the magic and gear to make her awesome. I also picked up my MNK some Republic Knuckles for 20k. Cheap!

[Del Murder]

A long time ago when I was leveling a job (probably NIN I think) I came across that monster and decided to try and take it. Ended in my death. So I changed to PLD and went back out and slaughtered it and got the cape. I think that was the first NM I ever killed that wasn't related to a storyline.

[Del Murder]

2 days later, Rank 10 Bastok. Yeah I was bored this weekend...

Also this means I now have all storyline missions completed except for yet to be released WotG missions and the final ACP battle.

[theundeadhero]

I tried to solo keys for khazam but failed horribly. Recent failures thread?

[Del Murder]

I never see you online. If we're ever on at the same time I'll get your keys for you.

[Yeargdribble]

Not sure if this counts as accomplishment but since I posted my departure as such the return should be the same.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e240/Yeargdribble/back.jpg

Haven't exactly had much time to do anything accomplished yet and still waiting until my wife reactivates soon before anything will really happen, but here's something at least.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e240/Yeargdribble/jobs.png

Yay new jobs and the fact that the flag quests weren't ridiculously difficult like they were (relatively) for ToAU. Honestly, they were probably the easiest in the game to my recollection. Dancer is a lot of running around and hell, if you're prepared (bought your Vellum ahead of time) for Scholar, you can do it in a single short visit. You might as well just talk to a gate guard and ask to be allowed to be one.

Also...
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e240/Yeargdribble/jobs.png

Finally. How long were people asking for this? Very nice. And it seems that Dancer gets sneak/invisga... very nice. Now where are my BRD's sneak/invisga songs?


BTW... funny story about doing the Dancer quest. I was almost completely brought to humiliating grief by an EP ladybug. No... seriously. I was half naked without macros and had NIN sub. Was a very close call (down to 50 HP at one point). I've since made a few macros. Problem was, my wife raided my closet after I quit and my character is a complete mess with random assortments of gear ranging from 10-75 and lots of crafting mats. Have to wait to reactivate all of my mules before I can get it sorted out.


As a side story...

This is Hobufopu:
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e240/Yeargdribble/Thisishobu.jpg

Made this guy on a free buddy pass for kicks while I waited for the 1st to role around (because SE is still retarded about billing). If you want to come back and are wondering how much friendlier things are, this guy can tell you about it. In this pic he's less than week old. Seriously... gimptastic gear. I used a level 9 sword until around 24. I soloed my final subjob item at 25.

Back in the day, despite all of my white/blue box obsession, leveling even in your low teens solo was impossible for any reasonable XP. This guy hit nearly 30 in less than a week, and had time to level his gimp subjob to 6 (for poisona). He also got Rank 2 and did a few quests to get some pimpin' (read lame) gear. He did end up with a Traveler's Mantle 1/1 from an oddly completely uncamped Spook.



Anyway, the goal from now is to level primarily duo with my wife, avoid most endgame save for maybe Dynamis or Limbus and simply level up all jobs to 60 and get all AFs. Gonna be pretty casual we hope. Probably will never happen, but we have a good plan and I figure with the kind of money we have and the kind of gear we have leveling will be much faster and easier than it was for Hobufopu.


EDIT: Crap... I broke the tables... please don't lynch me.

[Ouch!]

Killed my first Odin tonight. Got a. body. I'm having someone craft me up the cursed dalmatica tonight. <3

[Quindiana Jones]

I caught a fish. And...and made some arrowwood lumber. :bigsmile:

I bet you guys feel like such newbs now.

[Ouch!]

Duelist's Chapeau: O

[Carl the Llama]

its nothing huge... well it is but I just bought a scorpian harness for 100k a Dusk Jerkin for 330k a Dusk Trousers for 350k and a Bushido cape for 20k!!!!

[Mirage]

My latest accomplishment is getting utterly crushed by the seed crystal.

Also unlocked blue mage, which is pretty fun.

But isn't dusk jerkin pretty bad? 2 acc and 1 hp/tick isn't all that. For which job did you get it?

[Carl the Llama]

I didnt buy it to use it I bought it cause it sells sold for 500k l o l though I do intend to keep hold of the Scorp. Harness.

EDIT: whats with the filtering of l o l... I dont like lol

[Rostum]

I've decided to blow around 4-5M gil on BLM gear.

[Carl the Llama]

I got Shiva from Shiva Prime!! oh and I unlocked SMN rofl

[Loony BoB]

All of my accomplishments at the moment are pretty basic as I'm such a newbie. The latest include getting to Jeuno, finally making more money than I've ever had since Ouch! handed me 20k, reaching L30 and starting the chocobo quest. Oh, and getting level 1 in Smithing. :p Haha. I enjoy crafting, and I need to go back to Bastok at some point so I can do it for a profit again and hopefully get Smithing/Goldsmithing up to something like 5-10 after some effort. Maybe on Saturday.

[Miriel]

Got Scholar up to lvl 18. It's a seriously boring job for someone who has already leveled white mage and black mage. The idea of socks motivates me though.

[Levian]

Got my first job to level 30 :mog: also got 2/3 keys so I can get airship pass to Kazham. Subbing Thief on my blm is kinda nice for farming xD

[Ouch!]

Got Scholar up to lvl 18. It's a seriously boring job for someone who has already leveled white mage and black mage. The idea of socks motivates me though.
SCH is just a :bou::bou::bou::bou:ty job to level until Accession at level 40 and arguably Sublimation at level 35. I've loved it since then.

[Miriel]

It really is a snoozefest. But the AF is so pretty. Kinda the opposite of Summoner. Summoner is probably my favorite job in the whole game, but it has the ugliest god damn AF. Why is it so ugly. ;_;

[Ouch!]

Finally completed the Mothercrystals. Dreamworld Dynamis, I'm coming!

[Loony BoB]

Rank 3! Yes, that's an accomplishment for us newbies. :p Soon need to decide which job I'll take through to 75. D=

[Levian]

Fought Titan yesterday and won! That was such a close fight.

Totally forgot Barstonra too, but got some buffs from a friend before I went in. :]

edit: and got Shiva today!

[Miriel]

Fought Titan yesterday and won! That was such a close fight.

Totally forgot Barstonra too, but got some buffs from a friend before I went in. :]

edit: and got Shiva today!

CONGRATS! :D

[Del Murder]

Tanked an epic Assault battle with Khimaira, where our DDs died to Fulmination spam and the SMN reraised and finished it off with Astral Flow. Me and the WHM were the only ones to stay alive the whole time, which was the key to victory.

[Levian]

Rank 5 and got my WHM up to 25. A good day indeed . :) also farmed about 100k the last couple days to gear up my BLM. Only 95k more and I will have all the best equipment available.

Probably going to let my WHM rest at 25 for quite a while as I continue onwards and upwards with my BLM.

[Loony BoB]

Cooking up to L26 in about 3 days!

[Ouch!]

Perhaps not an accomplishment, but it's something I know will amuse at least one member on this board. While I was originally planning on leveling WHM after SCH (currently 69), I decided that main-healing to 75 for a third time was probably going to drive me insane. As a result, I'll be leveling BLU instead.

[Del Murder]

Anyone deciding to level BLU is an accomplishment.

[WildRaubtier]

I've been leveling BLU by main tanking for a couple LS xp statics. BLU is great fun like that. Did you know BLU can main heal, too (I don't think they can, really)?!

Uhh cleared Minotaur last weekend. Managed to get Mirage in on the action, but Ouch was nowhere to be found ;_;

[Mirage]

THF61, and three AF pieces gotten! Guy from my LS randomly gave me an emp pin, now that's always fun.

Also, Windurst rank 7!

[Ouch!]

I've been leveling BLU by main tanking for a couple LS xp statics. BLU is great fun like that. Did you know BLU can main heal, too (I don't think they can, really)?!

Uhh cleared Minotaur last weekend. Managed to get Mirage in on the action, but Ouch was nowhere to be found ;_;
I'm already on Mammets.

[WildRaubtier]

We totally need to get something done about CoP, man; I've got two weeks with almost nothing to do.

[Ouch!]

My schedule disallows me from playing during consistent hours for any period of time. I just attend pick-up groups and get people together with my linkshell when I can.

[Levian]

Got all the best BLM equipment for a LVL 37 BLM! took me a while to farm those 200k gil. :p

Spent about 50k on spells too for both whm and blm. Still need to farm 100k more to get everything I need. :] The silver lining is that once I get all this done, it will be much easier to keep up and I will only have to buy one piece of equipment every now and then and another spell every now and then. Gonna be good!

[Ouch!]

It may also comfort you to know that the tier II spells, since they're only available at NPCs, are significantly more expensive than any of the other tiers of spells you'll ever encounter as the others are all farmed from mobs!

[Del Murder]

Beat ACP finally. Was 1/6 on that stupid battle.

Also got Captain Assault rank! Wooo! Assaults are really fun.

[Ouch!]

Beat ACP finally. Was 1/6 on that stupid battle.
Congrats, sir. What'd you get?

[Crossblades]

Completed Apocalypse Nigh and obtained Ethereal Earring this past weekend :D

[Del Murder]

Beat ACP finally. Was 1/6 on that stupid battle.
Congrats, sir. What'd you get?
Standard PLD/NIN getup. Emnity + Fast Cast. The thing is pretty useless for BLU.

[Ouch!]

The enmity + fast cast is like the best PLD body in the game. Can't go wrong with that stuff.

[Del Murder]

Iron Ram is good for certain situations, but yeah I plan on it being my main armor. Beats AF at least and I've been wearing that for years!

[Ouch!]

I hear a lot of argument over whether or not it beats out valor surcoat. I'd personally just swap in the surcoat for cover. But yeah, Iron Ram has its place in anyone's magic defense set.

[Mirage]

Got to Promathia Mission 3-1!

[Del Murder]

I don't have that surcoat and won't get one any time soon, so the choice is easy for me! That thing does look pretty awesom for Cover though.

[Levian]

Level 40, yay!

[Mirage]

Finally cleared Dynamis Jeuno, now I've got northlands access. Woo hoo!

[Ouch!]

I got to watch a DRK with Apocalypse destroy Hydra in F80 Nyzul in about two minutes. The damage from Catastrophe is relatively underwhelming, but the haste bonus probably put him at the haste cap (~80%) which makes him attack roughly 4.5 times as fast a normal. Throw in Souleater, Last Resort, and Blood Weapon and it wasn't even fair.

[Del Murder]

Beat A Moogle Kupo d'Etat! Got a cool helmet for BLU.

STR+4 Acc+10 WS Acc+15 Atk+5

[Mirage]

An excellent choice, probably the same as I will be getting.

[Ouch!]

Definitely a sick hat. Congrats, sir.

[Del Murder]

An accomplishment in it's own way: we managed to wipe to Proto Omega yesterday thus wasting 2 weeks of Limbus runs. The leader then totally flipped out, calling us pathetic and saying he's done with this shell (about an hour earlier the same group wiped to Jalier of Justice). Sucks too because I was getting close to the top of the list for Homam armor.

[Ouch!]

I can sympathize with wanting the gear (I'm not sure my linkshell is going to last long enough for me to get the rest of the stuff I want out of it), but at the same time, I don't imagine being in a shell with a leader who would fly off the handle like that would be the most enjoyable experience anyway.

[Del Murder]

Yeah the guy is an ass, but so much to the point that it's just amusing for me. Usually his frustrations are based in reality, he just tends to blow them out of proportion in a somewhat comical fashion. What bugged me was that everything he said during and after the run was directed outwardly and didn't include himself. 'you messed up' vs. 'we messed up' etc. Not really what a leader should be doing, even if he doesn't find any fault with his own individual performance.

It was a tough run, only two BLM who don't usually play that job, and only 13 people total. We should have been able to do it but it's not like the probability of failure was insignificant.

[Ouch!]

Yeah, that's pretty rough. I mean, I can understand the frustration, but at the same time, :bou::bou::bou::bou: happens, especially when you're low-manning an event and having people switch from their usual jobs. At least you get amusement out of it.

[theundeadhero]

Took cooking with MNK from 19 to 25 yesterday after failing to find help with those stupid keys on my WHM :p

[Mirage]

Too bad Del. perhaps the shell can continue without him and keep the lists?

[Ouch!]

Finally Rank 10 Windurst. I've been putting this stuff of forever.

[Nakor TheBlue Rider]

ohh Windurst was fun! GratZ!

I just got Ace's Helm :love:

[Ouch!]

Ace's Helm is wicked.

[Del Murder]

Finally got a piece of Homam...the helmet.

[Ouch!]

Not a bad piece to macro in for... uh... headbutt recast?

Speaking of head pieces for blue mage. I got Mirage Keffiyeh recently. :D

[Del Murder]

Smurf you Ouch. I don't have that, even after doing 50 Xarcs. It's the only piece of standard relic equipment that Delevel has never gotten.

We recently beat Dynamis Lord btw. Should have posted that here. Beat him on our second ever try and with ~23 people.

[Ouch!]

It was the third Keffiyeh we've gotten. Grats on the Dynamis Lord. That's pretty friggin' intense.

[Rostum]

I am so glad I stopped playing when I did, it allowed for much more concentration on my course which in turn should net me honors when I graduate and recieve my degree.

But now I am back!

:D

[Del Murder]

Welcome back and it's good to see you have your priorities in order. :D

[Rostum]

Thanks. What is happening with the EoFF gang on Midgard? Did you all leave? D;

[Ultimage]

First, welcome back. Second, I'm still around, not just as much as I used to be since WindShire died.

[Loony BoB]

Danielle and I abandoned ship after suffering from low finances and (for myself) boredom with the game. Love the people, but I found myself only going into the game to chat xD

[Levian]

I'm still around too, but haven't logged on in December. I blame BoB getting bored with the game. :colbert:

[Rostum]

Well, hopefully I'll see you guys in FFXIV!

[Ouch!]

I forgot to announce SCH 75. :D

[Loony BoB]

Was that in 2009 or 2010? ;)

[Ouch!]

I... honestly don't remember! :D

[Yeargdribble]

Where's the new thread? In our slow plodding trek my wife and I almost have all of our jobs to 30. I literally am only short DRK and BST.