Helping out some friends.

Last week I did about a 10hr session of nothing but Zilart Missions. Some friends in my LS had setup a static to go from ZM4-Sky, and needed some help. I decided to take that opportunity to help one of my friends, Onedarkflame also get access to sky seeing as he has never been able to commit to any previous statics that were setup in the LS due to his playing schedule. Having access to his account, I just had to login and play as his character through all the missions which wasn't too bad.

The static consisted of myself playing as Onedarkflame (WHM), Vepion (BRD), Hyprixon (BLM), Athoz (MNK), Lailie (DRG) and the usual dependable Zeo (WAR) who came along to help.

Originally our plan was to do the missions in 2 days, but thanks to both Zeo and Hyprixon putting in a little extra(who were both on very very off time zones - UK and Asia), we were able to push through all the missions in one go. I don't know how they did it really, but I think everyone was happy at the end.

Going through all the missions again wasn't as bad as I thought i'd be, but then again everyone in the static was well prepared and followed instructions well. I think the only time I found myself a little frustrated was when we were doing the ZM8 fight in the Stellar Fulcrum, and I found out that Onedarkflame didn't have the key to Delfkutt's Tower which meant that I had to run him all the way up to the top.

All the fights were a breeze. In fact, they were a lot easier than I last remembered them being... which is probably due to the changes FFXI has had over the years. New gear + merits have pretty much made players more powerful I suppose.

I won't go into too much more detail, but rather i'll just post the screenshots I took throughout the missions.

(ZM5 Fight @ Sanctuary of Zhi'Tah)

(ZM8 Cutscene)

(ZM8 Cutscene - EVIL TARU!!!!!)

(Stellar Fulcrum)


(ZM8 Fight)

(Kam'lanautwhatever is DEFEATED!)



(ZM12 Fight)


(Dawn Maiden)


(Final Cutscene - Access to Sky!)

It was definitely a looooooooooooooooooong day, and I remember being pretty brain dead in the night. But it was worth seeing some friends finally have their sky access.

The reaction I got out of Onedarkflame was pretty hilarious. He had no idea that I had planned to get him Sky access, and so when I had completed the last mission for him, I logged him out, in Sky. That night when he logged in, he was pretty surprised not knowing where he was. Now he won't have to deal with the "Sorry, you don't have access" when asking to help out people in Sky.

Better yet, looks like we'll be trying out a few sky gods in the near future as a few ls members have expressed an interest. Zeo even has a pop set for I think Suzaku which I look forward to taking down with SpiritOfTheWolf.

I don't really see any "serious" sky farming happening, but the odd occasion when a member wants to farm pop items, or just pop a God, I think we'll be able to do this. We've had success with Byakko already (lucky RMTFalk got his haidate 1/1) and i'm pretty sure we'll be successful with anything else we try. Best part is that there's no need for ls members to join a sky shell and put hours upon hours into earning a piece of gear. The chances are much less doing sky gods as a "casual" thing, but once chance is better than none! And a chance to do a challenging fight with close friends, is enough to hold my interest! Well, to be more exact... a chance to bring out my PLD is enough to get me excited. <_<