RDM Group 1 Ponderings

Most people who’ve leveled Red Mage in the past 2 years have heard of Avesta, often due to people half-jokingly telling them to go do what he does. I have based my merit point plan on his due to wanting to solo stuff at some point as well. If you look at his page, he ... Read More

Merits, Shield Skill, and Mashing Maat a Second Time

For some reason, I’ve finally caught the meripo bug again. I’ve had two excellent merit parties in the past few days, both of which were in excess of 15k/hr, enabling me to finally cap Enfeebling Magic merits last night. I plan to cap Shield merits before Friday if I can, then I’ll need to work ... Read More

Awesome Dynamis-Beaucedine!

Today’s Dynamis was Beaucedine, and we rocked the zone big time. Killed 3 of the 4 city bosses and got 21 AF and 2 100s to show for it all. Ended with time to watch most of the Super Bowl too. At one point we had 4 AF in the pool! But what was awesome ... Read More

On the Cusp of Valor…

PLD is now approximately 8000 exp to 75. Sad to say, since hitting 74, most of the exp has come from Campaign Battles. I’ve been either getting invites to parties below the level I wanted to sync to or invites to horrid parties. Fortunately for me, Garlaige Citadel [S] has been Beastmen controlled this week, ... Read More

Recent Happenings

It’s been a while since I posted here, hasn’t it? In the time since then, Paladin is now on the home stretch to 75, having hit 72 last night. Joyeuse makes a huge difference in exp parties. I’ve also decided to make proper gear-swap macros for the job too, so I blink on most actions ... Read More

Merit Point Plan

In the most unprecedented event ever, last night I flagged for a merit party and actually got a good one! Managed to net 3 merits from it, bringing me to 3/5 on Convert Recast Timer. I came up with the following plan at work yesterday, and it seems to be sane: Convert Recast: 2/5->5/5 (12) ... Read More

Fail Party is Fail

I have been trying to get Paladin to 50 so I can do my artifact quests and rid myself of the 4 coffer keys needed to complete PLD AF that I've been holding onto for a year and a half. Sadly, my efforts have been stymied by either a lack of refreshers, healers, or just ... Read More

Updates

Updated the theme I use, FastTrack, to the latest version to enable widgets. I did this so I could use XI-Prof to have a nice layout of my character’s basic information. On the XI front, I took WAR from 31 to 37 over the past two nights. Gaining six levels in two nights is pretty ... Read More