Your Latest and Greatest Accomplishment(MNK)

[Gokku]

This threads a throw back to the 6 year long thread from KI , title says it all if you've accomplished something big or small share it here * try to keep it monk related.

Also please keep the drama out , its for others to say something they have done recently either congrats them, ask questions or share your experiences. if your here to flame / troll people just go to general.

[MarkovChain]

I brewed 40 apademaks this weekend.

[Zhronne]

Using Victory Smite? What damage were your Smites doing? Which atmas did you use? How many Apa could you bring down on each brew?

[MarkovChain]

I can only brew per 6 since I'm lacking storage characters, and was using cataclysm (obviously) for 30k ish damage. Since this mob is pretty retarded with fulmination and stun lock we just have a mule smn use perfect defense and brew 3 by 3. It's overkill and you could brew more.

[Zhronne]

I had Apa brewed with Sanguine, thought Apa would resist the dark damage of Cataclysm. Which atmas did you use? Cosmos, Griffon Claw and Smiting Blow?
6 sounds very good, with Sanguine we could brew only 5 (with some occasional 6th, but it was risky).
Didn't need perfect defense tho, we just had a BLM stun the spell he casts as soon as he pops, and then he died in 2-3 WS.
Guess I'm gonna try with Cata for mine.

[MarkovChain]

I didn't have filters, mdk told me the damage, but yeah that's about it with those atmas. It dies in ~ 3 WS doesn't seem to resist drk.

[Monchat]

It resists (i.e can halve damage often). Sometimes you need 4 cataclysm. Not a pb since you can pop 3 at once anyway. Perfect defense negates en-stun, while brew doesn't, strangely. Way better than aeolian edge or smite (<10k dmg) anyway. Brewing 3 at once w/o PD seems pointless with the almost perma stun.

[Gokku]

ding 95 woo

[Zhronne]

three at the same time using Cata... uhm... sounds good in theory but I dunno if it would work with my current friends. We usually just popped one at a time and killed with 2-3 Sanguine Blade.
We also always made sure to stun after pop, because he ALWAYS casts a spell after pop, and if that happens to be a spell cast on himself he would levelup hence gaining access to fulmination.
Dunno what you mean with the stun thing, does Apademak have enstun on his attacks? Never noticed it (altough I was usually on BRD or on SCH stunning, never meleed it).

My turn to brew it for my horns is coming, and I was thinking to just single kill it, popping 3 at the same time and stunning all three, the posititioning them close to be in range for Cata sounds a bit too complicated for the numbers/jobs we have.
Still, I don't have any job with access to Sanguine Blade...
Which WS should I use then? I have Vere MNK, lolPUP, BST, NIN, SAM, SCH, SMN, BRD.
Not looking good... gonna be hard to stick 5 Apademaks in a single brew with my options, sigh...

He roughly has 50k HP, right?

[Greatguardian]

My advice? Spend a few hours leveling a job with Sanguine Blade so you can use that. Paladin or Blue Mage should do, and you can double BLU as a proc mule if you decide to get those spells later.

Alternatively, finish a WoE gun and level COR. Honestly, the former will probably require less overall effort than brewing with one of those jobs (Assuming you're doing 1 at a time), and the latter will come in handy for pretty much anything you want to brew.

[Zhronne]

I have no intention to level new jobs (I would love to level a few more actually!), I already have 8 and serious inventory problems and also problems in keeping them all updated with good gear and such. I might bring up one just to use sanguine blade naked, but it's kinda retarded to do that. I mean it's not a matter of time-restraints. I wouldn't level PLD or BLU of course because they're level 1 and fuck going 1-30, but RDM is 49 already so I could just leech it to 95 in a few days.
It's more that... isn't it stupid to level a job to 90 to keep it naked only to brew 35 apademaks? Or is it just me?
It's more a matter of principle than a real issue, maybe I'm just being too anal/whiney about it.

[Greatguardian]

Well considering it really only takes a couple of hours to level any job, it may come out to less work overall compared to using a weaker brew WS and having to go back and farm more cruor (The difference between killing 3/brew and 5/brew is 17 brews vs 10 brews, so that's 1.4M extra cruor to farm). You don't even need to level to cap, really, as long as the job is high enough to access Sanguine Blade.

If you have Cataclysm already, it's worth a shot to try just using that, but it would obviously be a better use of it to pop 3 at a time if at all possible.

[Zhronne]

Ehr... Nvm, I think I msread the line "(Paladin, Blue Mage, Warrior, and Dark Knight exclusive.)", in theory many other job can use Sanguine Blade if they have 300+ Sword Skill and one of the above jobs set as subjob.
So in theory I should be able to use Sanguine Blade on NIN/WAR. Guess I'd do that then. Only needs 90 more skill levels! lol

Anyway, thanks for all the precious comments, I'll make sure to treasure them all.

[Anza]

First night of the CoP Dynamis revamp... FINALLY GOT A MELEE CAPE! My Chakra set is happy, thought that was one of those items I'd just never get.

Soloed Nightmare Stirges near the start of Dynamis-Qufim on 95DNC for an hour, got the drop on the last one before I got kicked.

[Gokku]

picked up a bruiser's earring for 100k *** yes @ people not understanding the value of what they have.

[Greatguardian]

My jealousy is palpable.

[Lordscyon]

I did 2hr while I had the MORTAL KOMBAT theme song.

[Zhronne]

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1D + 3attack + ~2,5 acc + lolsubtleblow.
Sounds pretty close to Aesir, probably not as good as Moonshade but surely a very nice alternative to it and to Aesir as well, no?

[MarkovChain]

Just got me a level 95 vere (http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z315/pchann/Vere95.jpg) http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z315/pchann/Vere95.jpg

[MarkovChain]

More pimpness™

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z315/pchann/MDK.jpg

[Atoreis]

8652 Victory Smite outside abyssea.

[Peldin]

How do you level from 1 to 99 in just a couple hours? It takes me almost an hour just to get to 12 and then roughly 5 hours to go from there to 30ish. Then it takes me several hours to get from 30 to 99 in abyssea.
What am I doing wrong? I feel like I am wasting a ton of time if GreatGuardian says it can be done in just 2 hours

[Greatguardian]

I don't think anyone really cares about offhand, unquantified comments from 6 months ago.

Easy answer? GoV burn > Abyssea burn. 1-99 in 2 hours? Not happening. But that assumes the job is at level 1 to start with. Most players had the majority of jobs at 37+ from 75. A good Abyssea party hits 500k/hr. That's just a couple hours 30-75.

[Peldin]

GoV = grounds of valor right? Apparently low level players are doing those a lot in Gusgen Mines and Crawler's Nest. At least on my server anyway. Sorry for the short derail.

[Cursed]

I punched something and then kicked it.
was awesome.

[MarkovChain]

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z315/pchann/vere99-1.jpg

[Kvadrat]

Can someone tell me if the Overall DPS is better with 99 Spharai or 99 Verethragna? (and S. shinji vs v. smite?)
i'm sitting on 1500 plates, was waiting for update, now just need some info~

[Monchat]

you'll want both. to simplify, on long fights, spharai will win in the long run, but on short fights , verthragna owns it, due to impetus ( for example on zerging figths, voidwatch NMs etc).

Example: Arch dynamis lord zerg, no way in hell spharai can keep up with 300TP aftermath + impetus boost on verethragna.

[Zhronne]

Just wondering, why doesn't anybody ever consider Glanzfaust in the big comparison among MNK weapons?
Seems to me it's quite a nice weapon now, and very easily upgradeable to level 99 if you already have it, unlike Empy and Relic.

Dunno if they "fixed" the Focus/Dodge augment with the lv 99 version, but even without those it seems a very solid weapon to me.

[MarkovChain]

Glanzfaust is not bad but you need shijin because ascetic's fury is garbage (probably even even with the claimed 40% boost). So in the end spharai is better since it has a superior DPS. The augment are hardly useful. Seems only competitive for zergs because of AM2/3. Kenkonken seems more useful as a mythic. I'm going as far as saying than KKK pup beat glanzfaust MNK.

[Kvadrat]

you'll want both. to simplify, on long fights, spharai will win in the long run, but on short fights , verthragna owns it, due to impetus ( for example on zerging figths, voidwatch NMs etc).

Example: Arch dynamis lord zerg, no way in hell spharai can keep up with 300TP aftermath + impetus boost on verethragna.

LoL i bet SE read your post and decided to NERF Impetus!!

..so i guess now Spharai wins in all situations O.o?

[Zhronne]

Glanzfaust is not bad but you need shijin because ascetic's fury is garbage (probably even even with the claimed 40% boost).
The lv99 version is probably quite nice when you have Impetus up, and I'm confident it's also very nice inside abyssea (but lolabyssea), but either way I don't get your "but you need Shijin".
You're making it sound as if with Spharai you don't, which is not quite the case, is it?



The augment are hardly useful. Seems only competitive for zergs because of AM2/3.
Even supposing the augments didn't get updated for the level99 version (which is sadly likely, altough I wonder why changing the description then), I wouldn't call them "hardly useful", with an uptime of 3mins over 5 it doesn't seem to bad to me.
Shines particularly in Zergs of course, but it sounds good either way.
And while it might be hard to keep up AM3 on long fights, when you're able to that's gotta make a good difference, considering it also procs on WS, unlike many other AMs.

[MarkovChain]

I don't make it sound like you don't need shijin for relic since I have said that relic has a superior DPS and that is why it will beat glanzfaust. The entire mythic system relies on AM3 other wise the only weapons that don't suck are those whose weapon skills are great like stringing pummel. If stringing pummel is gaining 40% as claimed on the last stage then I have no doubt that KKK PUP is nicely superior to spharai mnk seeing as without the boost SP basically equals VS. However ascetic's fury is notoriously inferior to asuran fists, and therefore to final heaven, so with the 40% boost it probably still is inferior to Final Heaven and since the relic has a superior DPS, shijin or not, it's going to win over mythic.

[MarkovChain]

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z315/pchann/spharai99.jpg

For anyone wanting a maxed out relic it's not too hard, check this thread where I show how you can 6-man Arch Dynamis Lord.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/20300-Arch-Dynamis-lords-difficultly./page5

[Monchat]

this should be the first made glowing weapon:

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd244/mdkuserquetz/iglowOF.jpg

We'll now work on spharai.

[Cybermario]

Grabbed my Black Belt and decided i was strong enough to solo Tococo.

[Babekeke]

I watch parties and alliances wipe to Gamayun in Grauberg [A], yet I can solo it on MNK/DNC. And that was even before I got my Black Belt. And no relic/empy/mythic weapon. And I'm Taru so only ~3600 HP for that fight.