Ties that Bind and Chains that Kill.

No this isn't some weird Emo post. Come on people! It's a joke on the Bind spell and Skill chains. Because Bind generates hate so it kinda ties the mob to you. And skill chains are skill chains. :P *old draft got deleted*
Speaking of Bind and chains I did my first Promy (Mea)!!! And liked it! I could try and give a guide to this whole event but I am clearly not qualified to do so. I got most of my info from Jowah's, Souleater.org, blog which you can dig around for. My Main man Frohike's, ffxiwarrior.blogspot.com, blog which covered it from a WAR/NIN point of view. And an episode from Limitbreakradio.com, things are just much easier when all you have to do is listen :P Seeing as how I went as lolBLM to the Promys I was going on my own guide. But it was fairly simple; The empties give their element away my the color of their um...centers? And so I would just Nuke it accordingly. In case of links I would aga everything with every aga at my disposal. But I preferred to use Firaga on the tall Spider like Empty and the Memory receptacles. I am called Tognesss the burninator after all...
I was fortunate enough to be in a Promy run sponsored by some LS mates; Eodwen & Zarmina. Who had prior experience with the event. So they could fill in any gaps in my knowledge and fix my strategy. Orders were simple: follow Eo or Zarmina. This proved difficult as I ran into one of those 'You're screwed if..." situations. As seen in the picture below:

I am a lonely Mage currently surrounded by aggroing hate machines. Yes, I did die, but only once. Because I'm lucky.
Second order; when we are fighting anything big: burn it to hell. When we get to the Boss: Bind him and aga sparingly. Not to my knowledge this boss had a circle AoE tp move that resets hate and Bind causes a good size of hate... so at about 20% health it starts spamming Carnival and we lose a tank and I just casted Bind. It hates me now. So I run ot the other side of the room while tanks wait for provoke to count down. The Summoners just two hour'd. Things are looking up! Ooops...it Carnival'd killing both SMNs before they could pop anything off. I'm still running waiting for the tank to try and get on this and I'm running out of places to run. Oh no...Eo is down. He didn't get to cast shadows so he went on the Carnival too. It's me and the WHM now(Zarmina). And you know what? I'm in the red and trying to Bind this ugly thing that is not supposed to exist and Zarmina two hours. To her credit the tanks and SMN kinda got one shotted. For a moment is seems we could bounce hate with me aga'ing and her curing. No go. She just got two shotted. I died shortly after trying to sleep it. I'm smart >.>;;
But here comes another fun part. The SMNs and I have reraise. Sure it's health restarts but mana burning it is tempting. :E I'll admit it thought it was fun for the first two nukes. Then we patted each other on the back and went our separate ways. I hope I can do another Promy run with them again ^_^

I'm a big WAR now!

To explain;
I've hit WAR level 30. So I can equip a lot of new nice things. Eisen/Kapmf gear is the first to come to mind. Which is a set that will probably last me until level 40 on WAR if I take it that far. I just might :P And as for the argument that the Eisen NOR the Kamphf gear can carry you until 40, I offer this: The Silver chain set provides about 5 points more DEF and it seems to me the only people arguing for the level 36 upgrade to Silver chain are either goldcrafters or associated with gold crafters. That and the stats provided by the Eisen/kamphf gear is invaluable at lvls where you fight Mandies who know Kung Fu. SO THERE. EISEN/KAMPHF FOR ME 'TILLZ 40. :P
That is a joke. I will want to get a kinda of DD WAR set up too but right now I'm focusing on Tanking. Mostly because Ninjas can't tank beautifully right now >.> So I'll have to duo tank with them mostly. Plus I take about 10 dmg from Kung Fu Mandies right now. I am happy with that ^_^
Trust me I know NIN's who could get hate so well I could Banishaga I, II, Firaga, and then Cure VI them. The Mob wouldn't budge, that stuff is bananas.
During the tread to get to 30 I was a very lucky SOB. I got great parties. The first was a duo 'party' with a BLU taru, named Eclypse(I think >.>).
Now a lot of people say BLU is broken. I have to agree to a degree. This guy was getting Kung Fu Mandies Down to about 12% on his own. Then dying, horribly. I would think the principle of Blue mage is that you can kill things fast; YAY! And you wear mage armor so you can Die fast; NOUH! End Rant.
Awesome dude and damn nice. He gave me two free T. Tacos. Tacos in FFXI are full of WIN. That is another topic though. We are killing things pretty damn fast. 400 XP in 10 minuets. Then rest for another one. See the only thing he really needed me for was to tank and make sure he survives that last 12% of Kung Fu. Which I did well. Especial while with the powers of the tacos, I love those things. After I leveled we found a Monk. I like Monk and monks, they are a simple and enjoyable job, punching things in the face DOES NOT GET OLD. :P My Linkshell generally has about three monks on it at all times. The Monk was also a Taru named Strikerx...of the same character model as Eclypse. It got weird. Either way we are dealing out the damage. 500 xp in about 10 mins. Barely needed the BLU to rest. I also have to thank Square Enix for the patch with signet, I love not losing TP while resting. And the HP resting bonus and the smaller party bonus. Makes the game easier on everyone but not a cake walk. Which this game has never been. XD It got to an impossible hour and we broke pt. I think everyone leveled. I know I did.
Then it was to my second string of good luck. A full pt! Where I got to Tank! YES! And no NIN! YESH! I like tanking and I don't like a NIN butting in and taking my fun away, okay? I'm weird, just look at the post title. Me and this Hume female were SUPPOSED to duo tank but I saw no need to let her get knocked in the face by a Mandy.

>.>

<.<

Does that make me sexist?

Aniwaze, the Black mage is having fun, everyone is staying alive and XP is flowing. Yay right? Nay, I was puller and if I'm a bad puller on Thief then imagine me on WAR. I was honestly pretty slow. and the zone was packed with other people. I love people. One of which had stolen one of my best in game friend to power level them >:{D
I didn't like them very much, plus they were slow. I'd see them either resting or killing one Mandy while I was going for seconds or thirds. Thank fully my Buddy, who is a manthra and a GI; let's call him Doc, would come to my aid when I shouted in LS for assistance. To my credit, I didn't die on a pull, I never pulled a link, but I did bring a smithy around. Yea yea, THE goblin smithy. I had to call in Doc for that one. Entirely my bad. Either way I lvled again. 29! But I hadn't packed my Eisen/Kamphf gear, oh wells. I busted out of that party and did a couple of real life things. I think I angered the black mage. >.>
Either way when I get back and through up my "Looking For Group" flag I get another invite. YAY! I'm not puller? YAY! But I'm secondary tank, to a NIN. Hmph. I also have to share tanking rights with a SAM who uses Third eye and then began to get hammered. While I still was getting hit for about 10 DMG each hit with Defense food. Yea, I pack defense food/ >.> After I ding in that party we disbanded about two fights later. Yay? Oh well I'm 30 and so are they. Then I'm off to unlock some jobs that I haven't before. Namely SAM, DRK, and PLD but that is another post for another day/night. Either way I come back.

A lil' white magic sparkle.

Since my Last Post things have gotten pretty heavy. Did some leveling, maybe too much leveling. But that is to be decided later.


First I get a random invite. It was from Jing, a dude I never met but he urgently needed a whm. and He was willing to take my gimp ass, seriously I hate that job now. I don't have any tele's other than Holla, I'm still using Seer's gear. I have all the cured and buffs though, I ain't that bad. So I bust my ass to get to Crawler's Nest and then to find my way through Crawler's Nest. And the Grind begins or as some call it I get on the XP treadmill. and after abotu and hour everyone in Pt lvl. YAY! Even me O_O
Then another hour later half the party dies from a freaking fly with Sphere spamming. I hate WHM. The paladin tank delvls, I feel horrible. But just like a Tank he gets back up. Shit happens, Eat cheese. I'm sorry I can't give him credit but I think his name was Ulthawe. Aniwaze later he redings and everything is happy time. DD's are getting haste, tanks are getting regen, cures here and there. I ain't getting hate. But the poor blm is...but because of our melees he doesn't go down. Damn fine job they did. From there on it's a blur. It was late at night and I was trying to talk in Ls and cure. =X Whm is boring...I ain't lying. So the PT goes down, my reraise wares off. Pt breaks in jueno after they find out I can't Tele-altep. I'm gimp, I admitted it. Some how I also undinged. and I didn't care.
Then it was the Adventures of Criran and Tog in Delkfutt's tower thingy. I went as my gimp 41 WHM while Crir wetn as his pimped out 42 NIN. He has some seriously good gear for that thing. We basically ran up and down the tower and then seated ourselves on the upper floor. And Camped Mimas and Enkeldos and key hunted. Mimas popped more times than I remember and we only got one Huge Moth Axe from him, asshole. I lotted on it and got it, I was determined to get Criran something considering that the guy was low on funds and I was running around with 100K+. We got one key on our owns and popped it and got a weird ax that I also wanted >.> But Criran got it ever though I was willing to pay for it right there. After about 5K of gil and 3K XP Criran called a friend out to help. Sirsmokesalot. I kid you not. He was a lvl 60 NIN who helped us kill our one and only Enkeldos, me and Criran could of took him. :P After that we broke Pt. and Criran went back to hunting. I think he really wants a Huge Moth Axe >.> I also reding there with Criran, my LS March Member, AKA most helpful member of March. A Pretty high Honor in my book. Too bad Pearlsacks aren't eligible :P
I'll post about WAR later. Love And Peace.

T.O.G. is in the house.

Hello one and all. This is Tog from Ifrit server in FFXI(final Fantasy 11 online) and I'm doing this mostly for my own data gathering and progression records. But I hope I cna entertain a couple of people(I.E. You ^_^) in the process. just quickly listing of starting stats:

Windurst Rank 4
Warrior 27(lvling)
Monk 19(needs lvling)
White Mage 41 (questionable)
Black Mage 30(lvling)
Red mage(lol)
Thief 15(retired, I suck at that job)
Beastmaster 6(Rover got me into it.)
Ranger 10(needs stable cash flow, Macabre got me into it.)
Summoner 9(Not lvling till summons)
others are locked but SAM, PLD, and DRK will be unlocked soon.
# of times called godo whm: 16
# of times called super white mage while pwr lvling: always.
#times called good tank: 2

Fishing:4
Woodworking: 3(arrows)
smithing: 1(accident)
goldsmithing: 2(making arrows)
clothcraft: 23(lvlin)
Leathercraft: 4(lvlin)
bonecraft:1(wtf?)
cooking:4(yum)

Linkshell:
IfritRoyalguard pearl.
Ifrit's Royal Guard Sack.
Love my Linkshell.
and now for something completely different: