Nirvana Update: Appendix Subpart R

50/50 Assaults v2 (COMPLETE!!!)
 

150,019/150,000 Nyzul Isle Tokens (COMPLETE!!!)

30,960/100,000 Therion Ichor 

23,700/30,000 Alexandrite 

19,250,000 Gil

1 Pandemonium Warden Pop Set

Nirvana Update 6.ihavenoidea

50/50 Assaults v2 

129,546/150,000 Nyzul Isle Tokens 

 

29,700/100,000 Therion Ichor 

 

23,100/30,000 Alexandrite 

 
5,050,000 Gil 

1 Pandemonium Warden Pop Set

Mog Bonanza Results!!!

12th Anniversary MOG BONANZA!!!

Rank 5: "7"

Rank 4: "70"

Rank 3: "523"

Rank 2: "2399"

Rank 1: "17077"

My personal results were lackluster to say the least. I wish I could say I won something big... but even with 4 characters, I only ended up winning 5 Rank 5 prizes and more Bonanza Balls than I'd like to admit. 

I hope you guys out there won something bigger! If you did, let me know! GOOD LUCK!!!  

 

Nirvana Update v5.25

50/50 Assaults v2 
(FINISHED!!!)

78,746/150,000 Nyzul Isle Tokens 

(OVER HALFWAY THERE!!!)

 

21,900/100,000 Therion Ichor 

(ALMOST A QUARTER OF THE WAY THERE!!!)

 

19,500/30,000 Alexandrite 

(JUST ABOUT TWO THIRDS THERE!!!)

 
550,000 Gil 
(LOOK AT HOW POOR THIS IS MAKING ME!!!)

2 Pandemonium Warden Pop Sets

June Update

Jesus Christ. 

Nirvana Update: v4.25

30/50 Assaults v2

30,000/150,000 tokens

14,100/100,000 Inchor

19,500/30,000 Alex

1,170,000 Gil

3/3 Saramaya Pop Sets
3/3 Mulcibar Scoria 

2 Mulcibar Scoria for sale in Bazaar for 10mil each

Nirvana Update: v4.1

25/50 Assaults v2

30,000/150,000 tokens

11,900/100,000 Inchor

17,200/30,000 Alex

170,000 Gil

7 Pandemonium Keys farmed up. Working on an 8th. 

I need to find someone to assist me in finishing the Assault "Azure Ailments" and

Nirvana Update: v3.9

20/50 Assaults v2

30,000/150,000 tokens

11,900/100,000 Inchor

15,000/30,000 Alex

3,000,000 Gil (300 more Alex)

In addition: I've built 3 Pandemonium Warden pops and I'm working on more of them every day. Hopefully in about a week or so, I'll have 10 of them built so that I can mass farm PW for Mulcibar Scoria to fund the final leg of my Alexandrite journey. However, I'll need to leave myself with 3 of them in order to complete one of the last Nirvana upgrade trials.

Now that I'm at the halfway mark, it would seem that my biggest obstacle so far... has been farming up Inchor from Einherjar...

Going to have to work on that.

Nirvana Update v3.7

10/50 Assaults v2

25,000/150,000 tokens

11,900/100,000 Inchor

6,000/30,000 Alex

73,000,000 Gil (7,300 more Alex)

Getting There...

Divine Might 2

After 3 weeks worth of runs, I finally got my Seraphicaller last night. With it, my blood pact recast timer has reached its max floor once again.

Where it was once 45, it is now 37.

And where my Avatars level was once ilvl 115, it is now ilvl 119.

Obligatory Nirvana Update

49/50 Assaults

3/3 ToAU Bosses

1/1 Odin

4/4 Salvage Wins

7,500/90,000 Inchor

32,000/150,000 Tokens

2,000/30,000 Alexandrite

18,000,000 Gil 

By my calculations, I'll be finished in around 3 months if I keep things up at my current rate.

Earning 3,000,000 a day in Gil and around 80 Alex a day in salvage should give me 380 Alex a day... 5 days a week. 

26,200 Alex divided by 380 daily Alex would mean roughly 68 days of farming... If I don't take a single day off... or slack off in the least.

Additionally: If I earned 2,000 Inchor a day doing tier 3 fights, if be done in 41 days.

The biggest time sink is likely going to be a combination of tokens and second stage assault wins. Considering both require tags, I have to pick and choose which one I do at a time. Bare minimum I figure I need 50 days to finish assault and an additional 43 days to grind out the tokens I need from Nyzul Isle.

Yay math! 

6 months... That's my deadline for myself. If I'm not done in 6 months from today, I give up and sell all my Alex. 

This is my pledge.

New SMN Stuff!!!

Glyphic Doublet +1

As of 03/12/14 we were spoiled the details of the Glyphic Doiblet +1 stats for the upcoming Version Update on the 18th.

I for one... am happy with it. Have a look-see:

"Blood Pact" ability delay II -2? Yes please!

That brings the BP floor from 45 seconds to as low as 37 seconds if you happen to also have the Glyphic Pigaches +1 and the Seraphicaller.

And we still don't know if the +1 hands will also feature the same stat. Here's hoping!

The (reasonably) Complete SMN Gear Guide! (v1.2)

As promised (Did I promise? I think I promised...) I bring you the additions to the complete SMN gear guide as of the most recent updates! (Aaaaand I just looked back in the posts. I did not promise that.)

Now... I just need to think of a way to best organize these pictures and all this data so that it fits better into the format of this blog. I want to do it in such a way that the list won't just cycle out as I post more... forcing me to dig it back up and re-post it with all the additions each and every time.

Let's face facts... I'm too damn lazy to do that. Hell... I can barely motivate myself to post once in a blue moon.

HOWEVER!!! And this is a pretty big however for me: I recently found out that players on my server (and others) actually read the crap I write here. Who knew? So shout out to you guys who complimented this page to me in the past month. You know who you are.

So let's see... since I last posted, we had the February update. I suppose I can talk about that one first... and then the March update is right around the corner and I can touch on those sneak previews a little as well. Only the SMN specific ones of course. I have standards, you know. Low ones... but they're there.

First of all: In the February Update we were given an addition to the new upgrade system we previously saw with the Artifact Armor. This time however, we get up upgrade the Relics! To start, they are allowing us to upgrade all 5 pieces to their respective 109 versions... but only 3 of them are being allowed to fully progress to the 119. Namely the Head, Hands and Feet. But for the price tag on each of them... it's kinda fine with me so far.

The items toy will need in order to upgrade each piece to it's 109 version vary depending on the current state of your Relic Gear.

Example:
Summoner's Horn -  Rem's Tale Chapter 1 x10 and 2 L. Jadeshells
Summoner's Horn +1 - Rem's Tale Chapter 1 x10 and 1 L. Jadeshell
Summoner's Horn +2 - Rem's Tale Chapter 1 x10
Summoner's Horn +2 (Augmented) -  Rem's Tale Chapter 1 x5

In addition to those required items, each piece of gear has it's own list of additional items required in order to craft it to the 109 version. These items are pretty much the same as the ones required by the AF upgrades. I'll list the required items under each of the pictures for the sake of convenience.

Glyphic Horn

Lancewood Log
Phoenix Feather

Glyphic Horn +1

Rem's Tale Chapter 6 x8
Hahava's Mail
Gabbrath Horn

Glyphic Doublet

Lancewood Log
Malboro Fiber

Glyphic Bracers

Lancewood Log
Black Beetle Blood

Glyphic Bracers +1

Rem's Tale Chapter 8 x8
Hahava's Mail
Bztavian Stinger

Glyphic Spats

Lancewood Log
Damascene Cloth

Glyphic Pigaches

Lancewood Log
Oxblood

Glyphic Pigaches +1

Rem's Tale Chapter 10 x8
Hahava's Mail
Rockfin Tooth


Aside from those items (which are totally enough for me right now), the February update didn't really add all that much for SMNs to play with.

However... that changed when they announced the March update about a week ago. Because guess who's coming to dinner!!!

That's right! We finally get Cait Sith! After how many years of SE telling us he was coming? Like... 5? Crazy. And now we actually get him!

But more importantly... how do we get him and what does he do?! Well lets check that out:

According to SE, Cait Sith will be unlockable via a quest that can only be flagged if you have progressed to the WotG Mission "A Token of Troth" or higher.

In addition, he will only have 6 BPs and 1 AF at his disposal when you initially get him. The highest of which is only level 75?

Blood Pact: Rage
Level 1: Regal Scratch - Delivers a threefold attack.
Level 25: Mewing Lullaby - Puts all enemies with AoE to sleep and lowers their TP.
Level 55: Eerie Eye - Silences and inflicts Amnesia upon the target.
Level 75: Level ? Holy - Deals Light damage to enemies within the area of effect.

Blood Pact: Ward
Raise II - Revives target from KO.
Reraise II - Grants you the effect of Raise II when you are KO'd.

Astral Flow
Altana's Favor - Minimum Requisite MP: 198. Grants the effects of Arise and Reraise III to party members within the area of effect.


Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait... did I read that right? Cait Sith can cast Raise... Reraise... and Arise? AOE ARISE?!? I don't even care if that's a 1-hour ability... that's epic. Limited in it's uses... but epic none the less.

Now SE did also announce the addition of other BPs via some other kind of method they have yet to clarify... but my assumption is that they'll be buyable via the new Job Points system.

Oh you haven't heard? Yeah... SE introduced (for lack of a better way to describe it) a new Merit Point system. I'll spare the details and sum it up for you simply:

- Quest for the "Job Breaker" KI
- Change Job to whatever job you want to gain Job Points as
- Kill Monsters/Gain XP

Job points (unlike merits) will be earned and stored on each job separately. IE: you want JP for SMN, you have to XP grind as SMN. Simple as that.

In a twist on the old way however, SE did announce that we will be able to aquire XP and JP simultaneously... unlike Merit Points which we had to choose one or the other... leading me to believe that we can now Merit and JP at the same time. Kinda neat.

Lastly: It's unclear what the maximum number of storable JPs will be... or what we can buy with them... but SE did say that for every 30k experience points, we obtain 1 JP.

Happy grinding guys...

The Week of Weapon Skills

So this past week I spent the vast majority of my time in Walk of Echoes grinding through Vertical Conflux #7, #9 and #13 to get coins, dice and residue respectively. I managed to complete enough to unlock both Victory Smite and Myrkr.

Now I know what you're thinking:

"The fuck are you wasting your time unlocking Myrkr for? Moron..."

As you're right. There are probably 10 other WSs I could have chosen that would have been vastly more useful... but in the end, SMN is my baby and anything that helps me improve that job is worth it.

Hell, the first time I used Myrkr I returned 1129 mp. That's just... Broken. 

I stand by my decision.

Video of me playing with both WSs will be coming soon.

Productivity, AHOY!

So this past weekend was productive (as the title does not sarcastically suggest). I actually managed to do a whole hell of a lot more than originally expected. Lets go down the list, shall we?

- Odin v1 WIN
- Salvage BOSS WINS 3/4
- Arch-Ultima WIN and snagged myself a claw to upgrade my Nashira's Gages to the Auspex Gages (woot)
- NNI WIN (x2) and turned in both my Platinum Astrarium (or however you spell it) for Thaumas Coat and Nares Cuffs
- Arch-Angel TT solod on VE (after 2 tries)
- Farmed up a total of 80 merits to buy myself the pops needed for 4/5 Arch-Angels

Pandemonium Warden, anyone? No? Ok.

So as per my little grocery list of things to do, I spent the weekend working on some stuff to make a dent in it. This is what I managed:

- First and foremost, I solo farmed a Pandemonium Key. No small feat I might add... even at 99 with RoE gear. And I did it all on PUP/DNC with a Soothing Healer automaton. It wasn't until I finished that I realized I probably could have used my Trust NPCs to make the whole process a lot faster and easier on myself, but at least now I know for the future, right? /sigh

- I built a few parties to do the new(ish) BCNMs for the books to upgrade my AF gear to the new 109 gear. 16 Feet and 10 Body Pieces in total. I upgraded my PUP & SMN bodies and I'm just procrastinating buying the necessary junk to build my NQ AF PUP feet so I can +1 them and subsequently upgrade those as well. When all is said and done, I'll have 4 of the 10 pieces I plan to upgrade finished. Not a bad start.

- With a littlee help from one of the guys in my LS, I ran through 2 salvages, Thickets and Reef. Sadly... Thickets was the one I already had. Figures. Either way, I'm 2/4.

- Hayde, Shep, Bump, Hjui, Taril and I attempted NNI floor 100 a total of 4 time, failing to reach the final floor each time. We've come to the decision that we're aiming for floor 80 from now on and just using KIs to buy the floor 100 gear we want so badly. Thaumas Coat and Nares Cuffs are really all I want anyway. How hard can it be to reach floor 80 ten times? Not that bad I hope.

- Using Jujus I didn't even know I had, I walked into Dynamis - Qufim and wiped the floor with the zone boss. I'm now 1/3 of the way to unlocking Tavnazia.

- Farmed up over 70k in sparks through the weekend which I've been using to buy the 119 upgrade books for PUP and SMN. So far I have 4/8 towards 1 body piece, lmao. This might take a while.

- Used my accumulated merit points to buy pops for 3/5 of the new Arc-Angel fights in hopes that some day someone will want to actually do them with me. But hey... what the hell else am I going to use merits for at this stage in the game? I mean really...

- Alllllllllmost capped on Automaton Magic skill. Again, without actually working on it actively... it almost feels like the progress goes even faster. Odd how that works.

- Netted myself a dagger from the new BCNM worth 2.5mil and a box of 11 plutons from RoE worth a combined 2.75mil for an effortless total of 5.25mil for the weekend. 

- Purchased my Mog Bonanza Kupons before I let another year slip past me. I'm calling it right now, the winning number will be 20185. Either that or switch the last digit out for 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 0. Yeah that's right, I'm guaranteeing myself a rank 5 prize. I also chose the same numbers on my mule... Because I'll be damned if my mule wins a mythic and I don't. Fuck that noise. I mean I suppose I could take the Gil and use that to buy the Alex I need for it, but I doubt there's even 10k worth of Alex in peoples bazaars right now, let alone 20k. And that still wouldn't help me with the other crap I need to do... like Inchor or Nyzul tokens... Ugh.

- I completely reworked all my macros for COR, SCH and PUP so that gear swapping and abilities are properly organized and functioning at their max. It was a lot harder than I make it sound, believe me.

- Finally... I came up with a plan to earn the money I need to build Nirvana. Using the profits from the Scoria I'll be getting off PW, I'll buy all the Alex I see at a consistent 10-12k each and no more than that. Added to what I already have, and according in the occasional salvage run for an additional few pieces, I should be manage to earn 30k inside of 12 weeks from now. Not bad. That all depends on me getting a PW pop every week, finding the people to kill it every week and reliably selling the scoria I earn from it every week. There are a lot of variables in there, but I maintain faith that one day not so long from now, I'll be wielding a 99 Nirvana.

Here's hoping!

A list of chores...

- Farm up sparks to upgrade to the lv109 SMN and PUP AF gear.

- Ark-Angel Galka fight for Seraphicaller.

- Sacred Kindred Crest BCNMs (or farming tons more sparks) to upgrade to the lv119 SMN and PUP AF gear.

- Unlock Asuran Fists.

- Voidwatch Chapter II and III. Zilart I, II & III. Jeuno IV, V & VI.

- Zeni NMs towards a PW pop set.

- The remaining 3 Salvage chariot wins.

- NNI floor 100 for Thaumas Coat.

- Assault Missions for Captain's Rank.

- Einherjar for Odin win.

- Finish the remaining 3 WKR for their respective KIs.

- Morimar Basalt Delve (Toji) for a shot at a pair of Oats.

- Dynamis Bub, Qufim and Valkurm wins to unlock Tavnazia.

- Probably other crap I'm not thinking of right now...

December 10th Version Update: SMN Style!

Still not nearly as good as the Balsam staff or Nirvana... but I'll be damned if it's not a significantly cheaper alternative.

Currently the best smmo piece for SMN... Hands down. See below for further details.

Confirmed that the BP recast time II does indeed further extend the floor of the BP recast timer from 45 to 42 and 40 respectively with these 2 new ammo pieces. Nothing short of amazing.

Book 6

Book 7

Book 8

Book 9

Book 10

Don't get too crazy. It's been confirmed that these books do nothing more than give you between 0.1 - 0.5 in whatever their associated skill is.

I Dream of Mog Bonanza 2014

And we do exactly that, don't we? We dream. We put all our hopes in the lottery and cross all of our fingers and toes for the chance to get our hands on a rank 1 winning bonanza ball.

Sadly, I don't think I've met anyone who got a prize above rank 3, myself included.

Despite such staggeringly overwhelming odds, I'm trying again this year... because why not?

And in true Yyg hopefulness, here are my choices for each rank if I were to win:

Rank 1:
Mythic Weapon 90 Kupon: Nirvana (90)

Rank 2: 
Cats Eye (In order to make myself a Nirvana XD)

Rank 3:
Kupon AW-WK: Uk'uxkaj Cap

Rank 4:
Liminus Earring (So I can finally leave Gustav Tunnel forever)

Rank 5:
Kupon I-Skill: Aid For All (Enhancing Skill for my SCH)