Siviard's Blog: The Guttler ProjectFollow

SE had to make an exception for BST doing Guttler; when confronted with that kind of SUXX, how could they refuse?

Edit: huked own foneks wurked fer mee

Edited, Jan 17th 2008 5:43pm by TwilightOblivion

Ah, you got the Silenus chest. /comfort

Siviard, best of luck on your project. A suggestion I'd like to make is that maybe you want to hold off your purchases and keep your gils until you are ready to upgrade. Deflation is still going on as we speak so it is likely that the price will continue to drop.

Zackary: It was BCNM 40 "Under Observation"

Levy: Deflation? WHERE? I sure don't see it on Shiva. Matter of fact, currency prices been going UP instead of down.

Honestly Siv, I'm surprised you aren't hitting up the fishing more. Unless time is an issue, I'm sure you could probably reel in at least 200k/day. Was reading that some people can make about 140k per day just NPCing fish so I'm sure you can do better on AH. I think you have the right idea with getting your cooking up. Consumable items are always good, in my opinion.

Ever try harvesting in the thickets?

or mining in Halvung?

thickets is pretty solid and bst friendly place to harvest. just make sure to /whm for sneak ect.

Halvung is a rough place where the only competition you will have is the mobs themselves. Exactly like it should be.

logging in mamook is suicide practically...

Go, go lolGuttler!

Sounds like this is a real challenge!

Hope you can do it, Siv.

Just another thing for you to consider! Maybe you should go Gustav/Ifrits/Boyahda sometime and solo some NM's-- the drops (vclaw from amikiri/tyrannic tunnok, tarasque skin from Tarasque, dragon blood in ifrits, Daihyanna from Ancient Goobbue in Boyahda, leshonki bulb from leshonki in boyahda). All can be solo'ed with varying difficulty. Amikiri is a bit of a toughie, though, and those scorps never drop the damn vclaw. But still. One or two of those = a day of farming if you get it, right? Either way it's gonna take at least a year plus. . .

Anyways.

OT: Hope leading LoTB2 is going well for you.




Edited, Jan 19th 2008 7:14am by Tomlionhart

It's going ok Tom, just wish you were a part of it.

I am back in gil accumulation mode currently.

Over the weekend, I made about 140k just from fishing alone. However, I spent a bunch of money on wind crystals and bluetails to make bait for Bhefhel Marlins.

The reason why I am doing this is to get Brigand's Charts to obtain a Penguin Ring. With that ring I should be able to land Lik and Gugrusaurus and HOPEFULLY with some luck, get my Ebisu Fishing Rod. With that, I could then fish for Lik and Gugrusaurus continuously for profit, and also since it never breaks, I won't need my Woodworking anymore and could then concentrate on leveling cooking.

However....luck was NOT on my side. I went on an 0/61 streak trading Marlins to Zaldon before he finally gave me another Brigand's Chart. I go and do the event with a LS mate as support.....I'm now 0/14 on the Brigand's Chart event for the Penguin Ring....yet I read about people getting 2-3 Penguin Rings in a row.....orz...

omg! lol

The reason why I'm doing it is to open up another potential avenue for making gil.

1. Catching/Selling Lik and Gugrusaurus in an AFK Bazaar next to Zaldon in Selbina = Profit

2. Provides opportunity to level Cooking to 100 since I would no longer need Woodworking skill.

I am in no rush whatsoever to obtain my Guttler. I am, however, wishing to open up more potential income sources than the ones I have now.

Which NMs do you suggest, Tom?

Besides, I thought you knew I was never one for NM camping. Major (Yawn) IMHO.

hmmmm nice. I was gonna start on my Guttler, but decided to lvl another job first. I wanna get in a good HNM first before I even start. Heres some research I did when I was first thinking about it:


INGREDIENTS

Stage 1 -> 2 L. Jadeshell x3: 24m

Stage 2 -> 3 M. Silverpiece x14: 7.5m

Stage 3 -> 4 100 Byne Bill x60: 48m

Stage 4 -> 5 R. Stripeshell: 80m


{79.5mil to Stage 4}

TOTAL PRICE: 159.5 Million Gil.

EDIT: prices change every month for relic currency >_> so don't take it to heart that this is the set price.

Edited, Jan 22nd 2008 3:49pm by TehBST

remember to keep your sig updated ^^

Well, I did that math a long time ago... so they aren't accurate anymore. I had no idea that they had changed so much. I havn't played in a couple months, and I stopped paying attention like 8 months ago, because I stopped caring about Guttler until a get 1 or 2 more jobs lvl'd.
anyway, most of the other calculations are still accurate as far as I know.

except for the T. Shells O,o they were 8-9k when I was on...

Not a very productive weekend, to say the least. Damn undercutters!

But I was able to nab 20 more T. Whiteshells, and I traded those in for L. Jadeshell #2.

I am now 200/300 towards the first upgrade....and I'm quickly realizing this is gonna take a REALLY long time unless I'm able to find a way to sponsor some dynamis runs.

At the current rate of roughly 10 coins per day (200 since Jan 7, 21 days but we'll call it 20) it'll take about 4 years 320 days. You have plenty of time to look for sponsorship opportunities. >_>

I see you have gotten some Brigand's Charts. What about Pirate Charts for mercurial kris? I am sure that goes a for a few mil. Marlin are going for 3k on your ah. How many marlin can you catch in a day before fatique? Also do you use the baits you get from Pirate's Chart fight?

Well, after speaking to the LoTB members....we're going through with it!

LoTB has now formed a Dynamis LS! "BeastsGoneWild"

(btw, Sig updated)

Had a long chat with the LoTB membership asking various questions regarding schedules, member sponsorships, LS bank, and recruitment. Everyone was in support of forming the new linkshell, and recruiting outside "normies" to build membership on top of the already existing LoTB membership who have Dynamis access.

Then not even an hour later.....

I contacted a friend of mine from an endgame LS called "AngelsOfApocalypse", and told him what was going on. He comes out and tells me that AoA had been considering merging with another Dynamis shell to grow and get better. They have currently about 30 members that do Dynamis in their shell. So add the LoTB membership on top of that and we're pushing close to 50. We still have to work out the kinks, but the one guy I had spoken to (who is a sackholder for AoA and a fellow BST) seemed STOKED about the idea of joining up with "BeastsGoneWild".

Now, come to find out there are FIVE people in LoTB upgrading stuff. Four are upgrading Guttlers, and 1 is upgrading a lolGungnirDRG on top of the two AoA members who are upgrading weapons as well (I think one was a Mandau and the other is an Excalibur) so there will be no shortage of people sponsoring runs for the next foreseeable future.

Man if this gets off the ground, this is gonna ROCK! BTW, BSTs are encouraged to come and show off their 1337 BST skill0rz. lol

Edited, Jan 29th 2008 1:20pm by SiviardOfShiva

BAH!!!! You got it in before I could *ninja edit* the post. Damn filters. I mean come on what's wrong with typing "lol" and "DRG" together? That doesn't mean "I'm a moron".

Whoever set that up must have been a DRG and must be shot dead.

if its anything like your blm leveling speed its gonna be a long, long time til i see a guttler on shiva =(.

good luck dood

Wow....negativity from someone on my own server....this makes me a sad BST for about 10 seconds....
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Ok I'm over it. And Taterz, I went from 19 BLM to 60+ BLM pretty quickly. But once I got to 65 I took my sweet time getting to 75. Just like when I got my BLM to 75, I am in NO RUSH to get things done. I play FFXI for fun, not to make my e-peen bigger asap.

Thanks for the invite, but really no need. IF BeastsGoneWild gets off the ground and going, I'll be sponsoring runs all the way to my Guttler....and all I have to do is farm 1M gil. CAKE!

BTW, when I sponsor a run, in the case of multiple 100cc coins dropping I may keep those and sell some of the 1cc coins to build up funding for the next time I sponsor a run, which would help minimize the time I need to farm up gil.

Another thing I've thought of is dual-sponsorship. 2 sponsors, 500k each, split currency drops down the middle. Would help save cash.

it was a light joke >_>

That's about the extent of my attention span- and that's another thing I've never understood! There's this magazine for people with ADD but it's more than 3 pages long. Who's gonna get that far?

Siv, have you asked anyone about KS99 runs? If you could get a speed belt drop from sponsoring a 99 that would be a massive chunk of change towards completing the project. I know some of my BSU guys have done KS99 recently... I'm sure Yoshime would be more than happy to run through a strategy with you. The key is communication! Jokes aside, you should look into it if you have an excess of seals or friends.