Goldsmith's Smock and some Synergy action.

So I took some time off from making gil and took that time to skill up Synergy. Its an incredibly boring skill up process, but very quick compared to regular crafting.

Over the past 2 weeks I have managed to ding 50 Synergy. Though with the update last week the cap was raised to 60, I am pretty happy with 50 for right now. In the process of skilling up I made my Goldsmith's Smock. FFXI WIKI doesnt have a pic of it but its pretty much an upgrade to the Goldsmith's Apron but with -25% synergy damage. Im not really into doing synergy synthes, I just figured I would level it because I have a feeling that synergy is the way of the future for updates to come.

I havent Salvaged in 2 weeks. The guy that leads the group I been going with has been away. So I havent got much Salavage action.

I hit my goal of getting enough gil together to purchase my ingots for Ares Curiass. However I changed my mind on actually going through with it. I am just going to continue to save gil and put it towards Apocolypse. At 6k per, that means I have 1/3rd the gil I need for stage 4. Hopefully I will get enough DRP points to start buying coins from my LS for almost half the price. I decided this because I have played DRK only 1 time and WAR, PLD zero since coming back. But knowing me, I will change my mind once I get my hands on the 25, 15 pieces for ares.

Nabbed a goodie for my alt.

Those that know me know that I have an alternate character. It has 75 WHM WAR NIN. I have gradually got things for it over time and even exped some on it. I picked up a nice piece of gear for it in Dynamis Tuesday.



I have really wanted this piece for Cmdrfly for a long ass time. One of these days I may seriously gear him up, but not anytime soon. For now at least I have a ra/ex piece of gear that can auto refresh for when I am PLing myself.

I also picked this up for my Paladin.



Too bad its not a piece I would use with any frequency even if I played PLD at a dcent rate anyways. As far as I am concerned, I am 1 piece away from storing the PLD Valor set.

I also had quite a shitty synthe session yesterday. 0/20 on Triumph Earrings. I was about to admit defeat when I said I would do just 1 more. I then finally popped out a Triumph Earring, a big sigh or relief, but I stil lost money. So my record on this synthe sice I came back to the game is 1/21. BOOOOOOOOO.

I hope to do more salvage this up coming week. I am getting close to being able to buy my Imperial Wootz Ingots for my Ares Curiass!!

A couple small things.

Its been a pretty uneventful week and a half. I got a couple pieces not really worth mentioning but I am going to do it anyways!

I got this via freelot. 1 step closer to storing my Valor gear.



This now completes all the 25 pieces I need from Arrapago.




I didnt do any exping last week but I did get 3 merits last night when I broke out my BRD for the first time since being back.

I managed to make 2.3 mill last week. I am about 3-5 mill away from having enough gil to fund my Ares Curiass. I doubt I will be able to replicate the week I had last week on a regular basis, but I am going to try! Really it just depends on how many elemental ore I can get my hands on.

I played around with synergy and managed to get it to lvl 10. Its really a boring process but I want to make some Goldsmithing Cuffs and a Goldsmithing Smock.

Anyways goals for the upcoming week:

1: I need 15k exp to get my 3rd STR upgrade.
2: Level Synergy to lvl 20.
3: And of course make some gil!!