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Post by lockejv on Oct 15, 2021 23:33:09 GMT -5
>Did you get the Idris for your GEO? Yes, my Geo is maxed out. Is the new dynamis any good? I had fun with it. Geting the new gear, upgrading, and getting a R15 Relic Weapon has been fun. My Blu and especially my War were pretty good destroyers. I was one of the top DPS with my War in the shell. Nice job! That's some serious dedication. Would have been fun to play alongside you but the game just couldn't keep my attention. I activated my account a couple months ago, and when I signed on, Stahn / Mookies was on. Played with him a little bit but RL pulled me away and I deactivated. Been playing a bit of RDR2 online, AEW Elite GM for mobile and nothing else really. There's nothing on the horizon I'm really interested in either. Sad state of affairs ATM, everything is just recycled IP.
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Post by lockejv on May 4, 2021 10:21:18 GMT -5
Nice job Bridger! Did you get the Idris for your GEO? Is the new dynamis any good? I'm "between games" at the moment. Got the Platinum trophies for MLB the Show 21 (20th PS5 player to get it), Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Cyberpunk 2077, FF7 Remake and Ghost of Tsushima. Nothing really enticing on the horizon besides FF7 PS5 version in June, but I've already played it. Feel like I could reactivate my account in FFXI and run around a bit. Don't see myself getting back into the grind.
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Post by lockejv on Aug 9, 2020 13:31:45 GMT -5
Just in case any EO members or anyone else is looking to level Thief, here is a guide for dagger progression! Thief can use other weapons as well such as Sword (D), H2H (E), Club (E), Archery (C-), Marksmanship (C+), Throwing (D), however I'm going to stick with the Thief's most proficient (A+) damage dealing weapon - the dagger.
Level 1-6:
LV 1, Bronze Knife +1, 5 DMG, 189 Delay. This is the best DPS dagger to start, however it should only take a few minutes outside a starter city to hit level 7, so any old dagger will do for this phase, especially if you have trusts.
Level 7-17:
LV 7, Beestinger, 4 DMG, 150 Delay, DEX +1, AGI +1. Love that 150 delay! The Beestinger drops from Stinging Sophie in North Gustaberg, and is a nice upgrade which will also increase your sneak attack damage and evasion ability with the stat bonuses. It's also great to use in your offhand when dual wielding, which you'll gain access to at level 20.
LV 13, Knife +1, 9 DMG, 189 Delay. The best DPS dagger during this phase is an HQ smithing synth which hits hard and has a nice low delay. Other notable daggers during this phase include the Spark Dagger which adds lightning damage with a battery equipped, and the Silence and Blind daggers. However, you can hit 18 these days in 10-20 minutes with bonuses, so your level 1 dagger should get you to 18 in no time with trusts.
Level 18-24:
LV 18, Baselard +1, 9 DMG, 181 Delay. This HQ synth gives you a slight upgrade to DPS from the Knife +1 with about 5% less delay, however it's quickly eclipsed at LV 20.
Note: At Level 20, Dual Wield becomes available for Thief with level 10 Ninja subjob, so you can equip two daggers! At level 40, Dual Wield becomes available with a level 20 Dancer subjob. Thief gains access to Dual Wield without a subjob at level 83.
LV 20, Mercenary's Knife, 11 DMG, 190 Delay, Accuracy+2. This dagger can be obtained from the AH or with Conquest Points if you're representing Windurst. A nice bump in damage and the accuracy bonus is helpful! At this point you can equip two daggers, so you can either grab two of these, or use a lower delay dagger on the offhand (like the Beestinger) to speed up your attack rate. The low delay (150) daggers used to exploit the "TP floor" and allow you to gain TP at a crazy rate, but that was "fixed" when daggers were buffed many years ago. At 23 you can get Mythril Dagger +1 and/or a Corrosive Dagger to increase your attack speed, however at LV 25 there are 4 vastly superior daggers available.
Level 25-33:
LV 25, Federation Knife, 13 DMG, 180 Delay, Acc +2, Att +5. Back in the day when going from 25-33 took many hours, two of these bad boys provided the best DPS and stat bonus options for a week or more of leveling. The Federation Knife is an HQ synth of the Mercenary's knife you've been using since level 20. Dual wielding two of these provides a significant accuracy and attack buff over your other options. These days you'll almost certainly spend more time tracking these down than any time you'll gain by having them, unless you're on an old school private server. However, it is a bad ass dagger.
Weapon Skill Alert! When your dagger skill hits 100 at level 33 (can potentially get it sooner with merits), Viper Bite becomes available. To quote Jemali's THF FAQ from 2003, "Viper Bite is THE weapon skill to use when combined with Sneak and Trick attack until you get Dancing Edge". Viper Bite doubles your attack and is a two-hit strike that deals massive damage when combined with Sneak Attack. Sneak Attack adds your current DEX to your weapon damage, and with the attack bonus and job ability from Viper Bite that can't miss, "you will be doing damage that even warriors will envy". Combine Sneak with Trick Attack to also add your AGI to your weapon damage as well, and THF now has spike damage no other melee job can come close to. Viper Bite also poisons the target, and it's always cool on those rare occasions when the mob dies from Viper Poison - thanks to WildRose for pointing that out when it happened during our party in the Quicksands. Create a macro to swap in gear that gives you as much dexterity and AGI as possible and use it before every Sneak Attack -> Trick Attack -> Viper Bite. PM me if you want additional help with this technique! Also, shout out to Ionis for teaching me the technique to stack Sneak Attack -> Weapon Skills (Fast Blade) back in the day after Kevorkean called me out - "Locke, why the hell is Ionis doing so much more damage than you?"
Level 34-45
LV 34 Federation Kukri, DMG 15, Delay 182, Acc +2, Att +7 outside nations control. This is by far THF's best option for quite some time, until 46. However, the 15 damage here is only +2 damage from your level 25 dagger. Presumably this is due to THF getting massive damage with Viper Bite; your dagger upgrades between 25 and 46 are not much of an upgrade at all. Other jobs are treated much better, e.g. the Great Sword at lv 25 is 35 DMG, and at level 41 it bumps to 55 damage! THF +2 DMG, DRK +20 DMG, wtf! As for the attack bonus (outside nation's control), if you're Bastok, otherwise known as "Lastok", you always have that nice +7 attack bonus! Or +14 attack if using two!
LV 40 Marauder's Knife, DMG 15, Delay 195, DEX +2, AGI +2. This is the first piece of THF Artifact Armor, and it's a reward from the quest Tenshodo Showdown. It works well as an offhand because of the +4 damage bonus it provides to SATA, although you add some delay and lose some attack vs the Fed Kukri. So good luck stealing some Qadav Stew to earn the dagger! And if you need a Tenshodo Invite, I have one for sale (500 mil or trade for Kraken Club). PM me and I'll re-activate my account and get it to you.
Level 46-53 Finally some itemization; lots of ways to mix and match daggers after 50!
LV 46 Bone Knife +1, 18 DMG, 190 Delay, +5 Acc, +5 Att. Wielding two +1 bone knives the second you hit 46 was mandatory back in the day! +10 Acc and +10 Att on the highest damage daggers available was pretty nice to have at the time. Stat-wise, upgrading to these daggers was like equipping a Scorpion Harness!
LV 48 Hornetneedle, 16 DMG, 150 Delay, +1 DEX, +1 AGI. By far the best DPS dagger available at level 48 and easily the best offhand for even longer. That 150 delay is like having auto-haste! Drops from Death From Above in the Temple...good luck, you'll need it!
LV 50 Mercurial Kris, 8 DMG, 192 Delay, occasionally attacks 2-3 times. Attack distribution is one attack (30%), two attacks (50%), three attacks (20%). Gains about 10 TP per round making it the best TP gain dagger available to THF. Can also be used by many other jobs and is still a highly desired item. Tough to get (3% chance of being a reward when doing a Selbina pirate map quest). If you have it, might as well use it!
LV 50 Corsair's Knife, 21 DMG, 206 Delay, +10 attack. Nice bump in damage over main-handing a Bone Knife +1 at the expense of ACC and some delay. Combine with the Hornetneedle to make up for the delay! I remember saving up for quite some time for this dagger as it drops from a 24 hour NM in Zvahl Baileys.
LV 51 Lust Dagger, 20 DMG, 201 Delay, +7 AGI, -1 to all other stats. Good DPS for its level and a nice bump to DMG on Trick Attack with that +7 AGI.
Hornetneedle / Mercurial Kris might be the best combo here, followed by Corsair's / Hornetneedle into the 50's.
Part II coming soon!
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Post by lockejv on Dec 7, 2018 20:08:23 GMT -5
Man, I remember reading those forums way back in the day. That was some good drama that pre-dated allakhazam and killing ifrit. Did you ever get Eternal Darkness painted on your truck? haha. Hey Xerlic - I never did get the ED logo painted on my truck, although I still think about getting a "75 THF" custom plate!
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Post by lockejv on Nov 13, 2018 12:19:47 GMT -5
So I shut down the eternaldarknessls.com website after 15 years (it expires in 5 days). In doing so I downloaded everything local, including the SQL databases that ran the forums. I thought I'd review some of the posts for the hell of it. The most notable thing was the drama. Oh my god, all the drama toramas in the junior shell.
This person is being too bossy. This person isn't helping me. You made this person an officer but not me. This person is arguing with another person and I don't like it. This person talks too much in LS chat. If this person isn't kicked I'm starting my own shell. You kicked this person so I am leaving. This person is pretending to be a girl. Blah blah blah blah.... That's really on me for making the decision to hand out pearls to random people. And we handed out a lot.
Lots of good times too, but damn, what a bitch. I guess EO rose from the ashes of that junior shell, so it was worth it!
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Post by lockejv on Mar 14, 2018 13:14:20 GMT -5
My remaining checklist if I came back would be: [ ] Maat's Cap (need to beat him with WHM, BLM, RDM, BRD, RNG, DRG, SAM, SMN and BST) [ ] Kraken Club (I went 0/30 soloing the Up in Arms BCNM with my LV 60 Scholar, actually quite fun) [ ] Mandau to 119 (THF Relic, it's at 109) [ ] Cap THF Job Points (long way to go) I haven't played since September (about 6 months ago). I was able to complete my relic upgrade (Mandau), and I capped Job Points on THF. Had a lot of fun partying with Bridger and Draish, and carrying on the spirit of Titan. I was working on PLD but got burned out. Wasn't really up for grinding out any more r/e/a/m weapons or leveling another job. [x] Mandau to 119 (THF Relic, it's at 109) [x] Cap THF Job Points (long way to go) I'll probably reactivate at some point.
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Post by lockejv on Mar 14, 2018 13:07:16 GMT -5
I stopped around when they introduced Omen. Feel like I'm so far behind again after almost catching up. Forever a nub.
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Post by lockejv on Aug 24, 2017 10:11:49 GMT -5
checklist: [ ] Mandau to 119iii (THF Relic) [ ] Cap THF Job Points (long way to go) August 2017 update: [x] Mandau to 119iii (THF Relic) - finished this up a few months ago, has served me well! [x] Cap THF Job Points (long way to go) - During the double experience campaign last week I was able to finish. 60+JP/hour for a few hours a day and I hit the mark. I took PLD to 99, and have been working on Burtgang, Aegis & Ochain, but that's a lot of work. Enjoying playing with Bridger, Draish (Titan vet) and Skeets (newer player)!
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Post by lockejv on Apr 19, 2017 11:33:38 GMT -5
Was fun playing the other night Bridger! Nice job on the checklist. Here is how mine is shaping up:
[ ] Mandau to 119 (THF Relic, it's at 109)
I need 2800 more plutons (7200 down). Had been farming dynamis, but nobody is building relics and the bots are back farming, so currency prices have dried up. Will probably shift to Voidwalker / farming heavy metals for the last 30 million gil I need to do the upgrade.
[ ] Cap THF Job Points (long way to go)
300 down, 1800 to go! Would be nice if we could team up and do job points with your BLU - they are XP monsters with their AOE attacks.
No interest in Maat's Cap or Kraken Club at the moment, but that could change.
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Post by lockejv on Apr 13, 2017 14:19:02 GMT -5
What's up Locke! Still playing on Fenris at all or just FF? Just checked eternaldarknessls.com - well done on keeping it registered Bravo! What a blast from the past. I'm playing FFXI again at the moment on Phoenix, haven't played WoW since 2010. What are you up to?
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Post by lockejv on Mar 7, 2017 10:28:22 GMT -5
There's still time! I actually started playing again a month ago. Just farming gil for relic upgrade and job points, haven't started doing any events yet.
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Post by lockejv on Feb 11, 2017 12:32:06 GMT -5
sup
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Post by lockejv on Nov 3, 2016 10:42:09 GMT -5
FFXI account? Yes I have been playing for about 3 weeks. Having a lot of fun. Found Tibent. I am an official EO Sackholder now. Currently we have 2 members, and a 3rd guy kinda jokingly agreed to join. Took some screen shots, but FFXI doesn't capture text and I know there are Windowers out there that render better than FFXI. Cool! You should use the windower.net tool, it even has a minimap that comes in really handy.
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Post by lockejv on Oct 28, 2016 12:00:56 GMT -5
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Post by lockejv on Oct 19, 2016 14:48:10 GMT -5
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