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Another solid farming morning for me!

Thanks to a 2.5M spending spree, and an LS full of expert crafters, the first thing I did this morning was go to my dbox and see a pair of Vexed Nails in my delivery box. I had purchased the ingredients last night and asked a LS mate with the proper craft skill to synth them for me. I haven't seen him on to thank him yet, but will be sure to do so.

Gathering the materials myself saved me some gil as well which was quite nice.

So after taking them out, I hurried to San d'oria and uncursed them. I updated my equipment sets, got another fruit parfait with double duration, and then saw an announcement for Besieged.

It's been about 5 or 6 years since I did Besieged, so I said why not see what it's like at this item level.

A joke of course :) But that's understandable. Turns out there were three others in the zone doing what I was doing - marveling at what used to be and what it is now. It was over in 8 minutes with Gulool Ja Ja warping out. 9k imperial standing is still worth some gil if you turn it into imperial coins.

Then I remembered "Oh yeah I can augment these feet". So i went to Norg and bought 12 stacks of Eschalixir +1s (extra to throw into my two Psycloth pieces) and capped them for Path D.

Then I started my farming session.

I did AR2, SSR2, Neo Nyzul, SSR2, and another Neo Nyzul. My total Alex takedown was 550, with a linen purse in each run - including Neo Nyzul!

The Amalric Nails were just the piece I needed to add to my set. I had been using Manabyss Pigaches that I had received from the Ark Angel HM fight on Normal (not that I had been after them). Changing to Amalric increased my Subduction damage by 350, which was enough to kill triple gears in 3 casts instead of 4. The chariots in SSR2 now take about 6 casts instead of the old 8 (barring resists of course).

I have the most practice in SSR2 so I timed my entire run from start to finish. I farmed both sides of floor 3 for gears (although I am strongly considering just farming one side. I can likely shave 3 minutes off a run by doing this and I usually only get 6 Alex from either room), skipped the 2 single gear ramparts on floor 4, and cleared everything else (killing stuff on first three floors to clear pathos).

I finished in 23 minutes.

That's pretty solid in my book. This means if I get 125 Alex per run on average, I can get about 325 Alex per hour of Salvage.

I have considered this as a viable gil farming activity after I finish my mythic. Assuming the price of Alex stays at 6k or so, I can farm about 1.8 mil in 1 hour. Perhaps I can use that to fund my Aegis if I'm not too sick of Salvage by then.

What I also have been doing with Neo Nyzul are Records of Eminence tasks - particularly spoils, but also the variety of Unity vanquish enemy tasks.

I earned about 15k sparks and 20k accolades through all runs this morning. I deal a lot of damage in both events, so that's 1000 sparks each time I deal 500+ damage. I have used these for gil and after the dent Amalric Nails put in my wallet, I will now be able to focus on purchasing Bronze and Silver pieces for stage 5.

Burtgang Progress

5528/30000 Alexandrite turned in
68388/150000 Nyzul tokens
Eyepatch turned in

Speaking Aegis, last night I FINALLY got the Attestation I needed after 19 kills total.

I zoned in as blu/rdm and farmed two pop items, killed twice, and nothing.

Then a thief LS mate came in zone and we farmed two areas of Hydras for a pop item. One finally dropped.

Then he used his truck stick/TH button to force Goublefaupe to cough it up.

I turned the shield, attestation, and currency in last night for Stage 4.

Now it's Goldpiece or bust time. The long road begins for that.

Farming 2.0 plan

My plan is to farm Salvage and Nyzul during this month's campaign period and use the gil to buy Silverpieces from the AH. When I reach 70, I may ask for a 30 piece loan, but may also just keep buying until I have the necessary amount to make the Goldpiece.

Fun times ahead!