Crafting Skill ups.

Several crafting skill ups:

1 Goldsmithing
4 Smithing
3 Leathercraft

I still have the crafting bug. I think its starting to go away. At one point I went 0/24 on goldsmithing skill ups. I about called it quits then. I think I may take some time and lvl my smithing a little more seriously.

I got a pretty nice merit party the other day and got 10 merits in 1 party. I upgraded my Desperate Blows to full. I will tackle Last Resort Recast next.

We been claiming alot in Dragons Aery. Got another E.Body, a few more N.Heads. I think I am going to start hording my points in my HNM shell. Only items I will spend a significant amount of points on will be N.head, E.Body, Ridill, Aces Helm, Justice Torque.

Byakko Hiadate, and other goodies!

I dont know if you can see it, because the TV I play on is really old and crappy, but I got me some Byakko Hiadate. I am really stoked, this is one of the first things I did after getting them. My first big item I have recieved from my LS. I did get Osode for 80 points, but I don't really count that. Anyways, this will re-energize me on my WAR. I really would like to take it to some merits and see how I do.

I also picked up:



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The last 2 were freelot. The kote will end up being a ranged or HP piece for my WAR. The A.Head will turn into Zenith Crown, which will be useful when I get a ministrels ring.

Friday Night we did Dynamis-Jeuno. I picked up this:



Nice Attk piece, but Dusk Gloves really is still better. I have yet to think of a good use for them.

Thursday Night we did Proto-Omega.

The prick dropped 2 Feet. It was our 12th and 13th feet drop. We currently have about 60%-70% of the shell with feet now, and some of the people in our shell cant even equip feet. I wonder if we will ever get to the point that we can sell off our feet drops.

My first King drop

So my first Kings drop:



Turns into this:

Not exactly a go to piece for me, but I think a situational piece for possibly my WAR. I view it as a good accuracy piece if I need it, but I am sure most of the time I will stick with Dusk. It was somewhat cheap on 30 points, so I consider it a good buy.

Crafting:

I got my leathercraft up (lol to 7) so I can start lvling my smithing. I am doing Iron Gloves now, and that allows me to skill up both my leather and smithing at the same time. It is somewhat break even on success if I NPC to the smithing guild, so I figure why not. I also managed to get .9 in Goldsmithing, but man its been a hard level. Over 40 synthes and no level yet.

King Behemoth

We got King B. the other day. I wasnt there. Drops were E.Legs, W.Head, Pixie. Apparently we synthed E.Legs and got the HQ. Another situational piece I would eventually want to have.

Einerjar
Man what a bust. Worst attempt yet on tier 2. This is the first time we havent at least killed all the regular mobs. I wont complain, I am getting very close to 15k ichor for my item. I am guessing after next week I should have enough. Though I still havent made up my mind on what I want.

Proto-Omega
We have an omega run tonight. Its my pops so thank god I will be getting inventory slots back. I am getting pretty anxious to see what drops and if I will find myself closer to being able to win legs.

80 Goldsmithing and Awesome drops

I dinged 80 Goldsmithing. I am sitting on quite a few beads that I will either be selling or trying to craft for HQ staves.

Thursday we did Ultima. We had a GREAT run. Probably the smoothest run we have had. I think maybe next time we should try farming a chest or 2 before we do Ultima.

We got Nidhogg last night!! E.Body and M.Body drops!! A very needed drop. Sirfang got the E.body and Zycipher got the M.body.

I decided today to get this today after putting a little bit of gil aside after hitting 80 GS:

Goldsmithing Goal accomplished much sooner then expected

I am now sitting at a fresh 79.4. I was 75 with intentions of getting 79-80 within the next month. Well now, I have got to 79 and even done 11 bead synthes already in just under 1 week. I was really lucky the past 2 levels getting about a 50% skill up ratio. I am really excited. The only issue right now is, I my Woodworking buddy is awol!! So right now, I am sitting on the beads.
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I actually had a humbling occurance last night, where I poped 2 100k Ores in a row. I think I will stick to cheap ores for the time being, I may even finish my last .6 on bucklers since I have almost a full stack of gold ingots anyways. I am going to try and get to 82 before I start the expensive beads. I think that was a bad decision of mine.

Did Omega last night. We pulled down a Homam Body, Legs, Feet. Pretty awesome for us to get body and legs in the same night. We need mucho legs to drop! I think I can see myself 2nd or 3rd on the list most likely, possibly 4th or 5th. We will see I suppose. We did finish another set at Omega. So Thursday, we are doing Ultima, and next week we will do Omega.

Sea last night sucked. Killed Hope and Justice, no drops. Prudence was glitchy as hell was disappearring and stuff. Proabaly mainly because we tried to "wall" it. Oh well. It ended up despawning on us while still claimed, and not at spawn point. Really wierd. Was kind of pissed off last night, we didnt fight it normally even though we had more then enough people. Spent almost 2hours on that NM. Shit happens I guess.

I think I am content taking a break from Goldsmithing (read: not spending 100% of my time dedicated to skilling GS) I do still have the crafting bug, but I do not know what I will do. I was thinking about getting Smithing up, but I dont know.

DRK Skills almost done!

Since acquiring my friend Cmdrfly's account, I had been thinking of what I will do with it. One of the things was doing the Excavation Duty assault to skill up my weapons. I cant 100% do it on my own, but now I only need to find 1 person to do it with me instead of 2. So to the point. I talked my buddy Sapster into doing a couple runs at that there assault. I ended up with 15 lvls of dagger and 2 lvls of Marksmanship. Though not very much, that is all I needed to completely cap all the weapons for my DRK. One of my goals ever since dinging 75 DRK was being "all blue". I am pretty much there, with the exception of 6 lvls of Parry. I will probably not go out of my way to get that done unless I get bored but I am pretty much there.

GOLDSMITHING

I am now 77.2!!!! I am currently completely dry on materials and gil at the moment, so I am back to making money. I like doing my skilling up in big batches so I at least get 1-2 lvls so maybe I will just concentrate on making gil for the next week and try to at least hit 79. I am guessing 5 stacks of synthes will get me there. If I have the luck that I have been that should put me well on my way to 80. So I think that equals about to about 1.3mil gil worth of materials. Expensive, but very doable in the next week.

HNM - We killed fafnir on Monday. Got N.Head. I wasnt there but I dont think I could have won that lot. Sucks as soon as the HNMs got to around our time, Server Maintenance had to happen to push them back to JP time. We are farming sky tonight. Dynamis on Friday. Not sure what is in store for Saturday, perhaps Kirin if we get a couple sets put together, maybe Jailers.

Limbus - Well we have an Omega Set, 3/4 Omega Set, and 2/3 Ultima set. Alot of points are about to be spent in the next 2 weeks, especially if we happen to get another Omega pop from our current ones. I am about 13th on the list of points so I still have a little ways to go before I can get my homam legs, but hopefully once we pop these 3 I move up considerably. I really hope at least 1 legs drops the next 2 omegas since that is our big ticket item in this shell. Would also be nice to see a body drop again soon. We are due for one. I am kind of anxious to fight Ultima again. Our last one was about 2 months ago.