Update and some monk fun facts
Soo, I haven't updated in too long. I try to make entries on different informative monk topics, but I didn't get around to it recently. This is my "I will do it soon" entry.
Meanwhile, I did get a lot done in FFXI:
My usual limbus runs often gave as much as 8-9 coins per run, leaving me with way too many coins. Since coin prices went down a lot and I never really cared much for gil, I just used the excess to get this for the last bit of improvement on utsusemi cast/recast time since my haste is already capped:
I got a the crit+ body for monk, just because lamia13 assault is so easy to tank and trio as monk, which makes 2 extra crit+ items with my trollbane (although trollbane is only active in mamook, halvung, and arrapago reef), not counting my full crit merits and crit+6% from destroyers.
I don't think I will wear it much because it's so ugly (just like my incredibly ugly walhara turban), and the stats still don't compare to osode for most situations.
Now, I would go to an xp PT in mamook with a parser to test my critical hit rate with both these items, but my big problem is, I have now had completely capped merits and xp for a while now.. And I mean completely, all categories and 9/10 merits on me.
On a less monk-related topic,
I got cloth to 90 finally, now I should start getting those clothcrafting glasses, apron etc while I get it to 100. The new recipes really helped me level it up my way without losing much in gil. It looks like I will be using the guild tool a lot for a while.
I also have been trying to get my remaining subjobs to 37 (BLU, PUP, COR, PLD, RNG, BRD), mostly slowly by soloing/duoing 4-5 xp scrolls every conquest period. On the way I've tried to duo some new ENMs that were on the way (aside from the normal ENM duo of like the wind) with mi
xed results (I got bugard in the sky down to 50% with my 2hr, but when he became immune to melee the redmage only got him down another 10% before running out of mp and dying =P, this one you definitely can't just wing it with 2 people..)
Now, for some fun facts about monks to distract you from the lack of new information in this entry:
Fun facts with monk: Did you know:
-Monk h2h can attack as many times as 7 attacks per turn(not counting counters):
2 normal punches, 2 more punches from a full double attack (brutal earring or war sub), 2 more punches from full "occasionally attacks twice" (2 virtue stones used by faith claws activating), 1 kick, I've had this happen to me and it's pretty awesome, looks essentially like hundred fists. Monk can also use kraken for 1-8 hits and even dual wield with it, but while faith claws hit almost as hard as destroyers kraken hits for nothing and is mostly for fun with hundredfists or for suicides with souleater from dark sub.
-Monk's chakra not only restores 320 HP (swapping just af1 body, af2 body and genbu kabuto) to 400+ HP (swapping more VIT+5ish items like warwolf belt, bibiki shell, rings, etc) every 5min, but it also removes all poison, blind, paralyze (although risky to use while paralyzed), disease (only simple one, not tp plague) when wearing both af1 body and af2 gloves.
By the way, thanks to all the people that contacted me to say they liked this journal and things like the monk limits entries. I will try to add more of those soon. One topic I think I will add soon is about easily soloable and duoable NMs, mobs, and missions as monk.
I'll end here for now with another sky, this one from the old CoP areas, in lufaise.