Proto-Ultima, Crafting.

Ultima:
Did a great job on this. We changed it up a little bit and went with 2 PLDs instead of 3. That allowed me to come DRK instead of PLD. (yay!) We farmed 3 chests and still won with 20 minutes left. I cant explain how much we have improved on this fight from our 1st one to our 5th. Our first one we went with 3 PLD, didnt farm any chests and timed out with 5% left. We managed to get Nashira Legs again, and Feet to go along with it. That is our 5 Legs drop out of our 4 wins. I wish we had that luck with legs on Omega.

Crafting:
I havent crafted in Goldsmithing the past few days. I have been trying to restock some gil. I been thinking about gear upgrades before I go lvl goldsmithing again. I was thinking Mercurial Kris or Hauberk +1. I did however lvl smithing 2.4 levels. I am rather enjoying Darksteel Ingots right now. Over the last 2 stacks I have crafted I actually came out in the green. I had an amazing stretch where I got 1.4 lvls on 12 synthes.

HNM:
Man we havent got shit for claims as of late. Really sucks. My points stocking continues.

Goldsmithing 90

I dinged 90 Goldsmithing. 2 lvls away from capping on Muscle Belts. I am going to continue to push to 92.

I have sold over half my Bead stock. I am waiting for it all to sell then I can start crafting for money again.

We start our static next Monday. I hope it works out, for at least a little while. I really would like to have my THF at 75. I hope the static lasts at least till 60 so I have assasin.

We camped Faf and KB yesterday. Got a whole lot of zero claims. Today we have Dynamis, Jeuno I believe. If I dont get there early enough I may just pass so I dont have to wait to get in on Friday.


Was pretty busy with life this past weekend so I didnt get much done. So I dont have much to update.

A so-so Omega and some skill ups

We poppped Omega on Monday, was the sloppiest one since the first one I have done with the shell. Both tanks died so we decided to kill it quick and not farm the pods. So, in short, we got 2 pods, niether one was a chip and we killed it. We got Body and 2 heads. I mean seriously, we have enough Heads and Feet. Body was a great drop though.

Dynamis-

Did Dynamis Sandy Tuesday. Got 3 100 coins to drop. I was lucky to get the winning lot on one. My LS takes the coins and gives the winning lotters 200k. I also picked these up.



Now, my SAM is only 37, but I think this piece is a pretty steller piece to have if I ever chose to lvl SAM.

Einerjar-
We did a Tier 3 today. Was our 2nd try at a tier 3. We got to the boss and got him about 30% from death before we were kicked out. I think with a tad bit more experience and coordination we should be able to start being comfortable with these.

Sea-
Monday was a Sea night. Popped Temperance and Faith. No drop. Couldnt get XI'DRG to pop. Typically sucky SEA. Did I mention I hate sea with all my being? I suck it up, but I am glad we dont do it all the time.

Goldsmithing-
Dinged 89.2. After today I should have around 50k Guild Points.

I think in my future I see lots of farming. I withdrew some money from my savings account (i.e. Mule) to ding 89 and get the materials for my item that I needed to turn in for GS Veteran. I want to restock that.

I hope fafnir is back in our time zone next week, and hopefully get some more kills.

Goldsmithing Veteran

I am finally a Goldsmithing Veteran! I am sitting at 88.2 right now. I tried farming some more gold ingots this weekend, but it was over camped so I moved to somewhere else and just farmed for money.

I popped a KS99 orb on Friday. I got about 30k total. That one hurt. Some others got some pretty nice stuff. Most notably we got quite a few Adamantoise Eggs for our MNKs, which finished up thier items for thier Black Belts.

I dont think that I mentioned this in my other posts, but my old group from when I first started this game (+2 new people) started another static. I am bringing my lvl 50 THF to the table. I am pretty excited about this because I already have alot of pretty nice gear with Hecatomb and Homam gear so as I progress I will be dinging into top tier gear. I think my only big expenses will be daggers.(mainly Blau, others wont hurt too bad to pick up)

I think having a decent level THF will be pretty beneficial for me due to the amount of time I spend farming.

Doing Omega tonight. Lets wish for the best, 2 Legs and 1 Body.

Finally done with Elemental Beads

Finally I am done, seems like I been synthing them forever, but it has been relativly short in comparison to other stages. I had a decent amount of gold ingots set aside to try and push to 88 as soon as I hit 87. I fell short, but I am sitting at 87.7. .3 Away from Goldsmithing Veteran. .3 away from being able to get Fools Gold.

Also Picked up this:



Nice staple piece for DRK zerg, Spirits Within, and PLD HP Build. I imagine I will use BQR over Jelly Ring in certain instances on PLD. For now it will be one of my full time rings when I go /NIN.

Limbus
We are 1 chip away from an Ultima set and have a full Omega set. I hope we can pop the omega on Monday and get a few chips. I am currently 7th, 1 point away from 6th on the most points in my limbus shell. As of right now, that puts me 3rd in line for Homam Legs.

HNMS
We havent claimed as much as we have been, but still pretty good. I think we got 2 claims this week. Pretty sure I have accumulated enough points to target N.Head but Fafnir/Nidhogg spawns are out of when I can actually make it.

Current Goals
Now the goal is to just farm and use the gold ingots I get for skill ups. I have ALOT of beads to get rid of so that is high on the priority list so I can get a nice wad of gil again. My #1 priority though, is building up 150k Guild Points for my Fools Gold. I have 30k so far with the ability to get 6.8k tonight. I am really excited about this GP item because honestly, when I started crafting I never thought I would ever make it to the point that I am now.

85 Goldsmithing and Misc. Stuff

Been going through the normal routine of stuff. We have been kind of light on our Kings claims as of late. Been concentrating on crafting. I am currently almost broke but with 2.5 mill in beads that I am not moving very fast. I think I may take some shots at HQ staves. Currently I am 85.0 GS. I have 2 more levels on beads then to move on to Muscle Belts, which I may chill for awhile perhaps after I get 88 so I can get the Fools Gold.

I picked up Iron Ram Legs:



This will replace my Adaman Legs. It is kind of nice to get a couple PLD upgrades since I have been neglecting it. (though I really havent used it at all the past 3-4 weeks)

Really thats about it. I cant remember everything we have done, but its just the normal stuff.

Kings, 2 Lvls of Goldsmithing, and Ritter Gorget

We claimed Nidhogg and a couple Fafs this week. The spoils have been great. 1 Ridill 2 Hrottis 1 E.Body. Sounds great to me. Achzeir is our first Ridill + Ebody WAR because of the E.Body drop yesterday. N.Head is down around 90 points, perhaps I should give it a try.

Crafting:
Man I been putting out elemental beads like its my job. I am finally to the level where I hardly break any so I been doing some more profitable beads when I can. Ice Beads sell well back to AH so I been doing that for skill ups as much as possible. If I can offload the water beads I currently have I will make 10-20k profit them. My real problem is just moving the beads after they are cut. Trying to offer free bead synthing for people that need it. I did have a WWer approach me and have me synthe alot of beads for him. He actually had a GS mule that could do beads but didnt want to have to log back and forth, so I did alot of beads for him free of charge, and got 1.4 levels in the process.

Been making great gil lately. Hopefully I can keep it up. Got about 1 mil tied up in beads right now, which I think I will continually have an issue with until I hit 87 due to my inability to stop trying to skill up.

Side Note, I have competely geared up my THF. It is ready to go and EXP. Cant wait to get it to 75 and for it to become my new solo job.

I got this beauty:



I think its a nice replacement for harmonia's torque for my PLD /NIN build. Also I think the +25 HP will be welcomed on my HP build and my DRK zerg build.

Darksteel Ingots!

I was able to get my Smithing to cap out on Iron subligars, which means I can now start skilling up on Darksteel Ingots. This is pretty awesome because if I have a 75% success rate, I profit. Once I get to within cap with synthesis support, I should be able to make a decent chunk of change at 3k profit minimum per successful synthe.

Not really been up to much but crafting and farming in my free time. I decided to horde gil for awhile. My current goal is to save 100k a day. So far I have easily exceeded it.

We did a Bahamut V2 the other day, always a fun fight, got a Bahamuts Mask. Not sure what is on the slate for this week. Maintenance is probably going to bone my Limbus shell for Monday so no Omega on Thursday. I know we have 1 more Monarch orb, maybe we will do that up. I also think we may be scheduling up a Bomb Queen Ring run, which I desperately want for my DRK zerg build. We have Dynamis-Sandy on Tuesday, perhaps I will finally get my Bard Hat. That and Valor Surcoat are the only relic pieces I really want.