Yuhtunga Jungle

Black Mage:56 White Mage:51 Warrior:56 Thief:63

I know, the last thing you guys wanted to see was a screenshot of THIS god-forsaken place. It has Fire Elementals, those godawful Smithys running around, and it's just teeming with Ivory Lizards that don't wanna give up the drop for my Teleport-Yhoat scroll.

Well I gotta say that the scenery looks really cool sometimes now. And when it starts raining, it looks positively majestic in there. Still, I am not happy that I don't have my Elshimo Marble, which drops from the Ivory Lizards. I am also not happy that the last time the Teleport-Yhoat scroll sold in San d'Oria it sold for 40k and I WASN'T smart enough to wrangle it in while it was cheap and more available.

Nevertheless, I gotta keep the focus. I have set my hp to Kazham now so that I can Warp there and check on AH prices in Windy, take a choco to the outpost and outpost warp home to Bastok, and then I can Teleport-Altep and hike it to Rabao and check AH prices in San d'Oria. Too neat huh?

Well try telling that the party leaders when they have to wait for me to take an airship to Jueno. Usually they don't wait but sometimes they will. When I get into a party this way though, it is a very good one by the time I get there.

I got into just such a one yesterday. It was not completely done when I got there but since the leader was patient enough to wait for me to get there, he was patient enough to get a good group together. The setup was WHM BLM BRD NIN MNK THF. And, even though I love hitting for 1376 dmg (it's my max) on the birds in Bibiki Bay, I don't like taking on the gobs there. My Black Cotehardie has nice elemental resistance to most things +3 but -30 resist to fire. This is bad against Goblin bombs. I died twice. I don't like dying. I don't mind losing exp too much but I DO mind losing money. I now use Squid Sushi exclusively since I am gonna treat THF as my main til 75. This esp since I don't need to buy another weapon for him. More on that later. Squid Sushi sells for 22k and that makes every death cost me 2k about in food. It takes about 10 gobs or so to get 2 Goblin whatevers from the Smithys that are gonna get me those 2k back. That's too much money lost and too much wasted effort. Having died twice, I was now 4k in the hole.

In the past I would switch off between using Bream Sushi and Meat Miths just to see which "value-conscious" food would give me the most benefit. Bream Sushi gives a bonus to DEX and VIT and Acc; and Meat Miths give bonus to STR and Attack; Squid Sushi gives the bonus to DEX and to AGI as well as Acc. Well I would settle for the first two because Meat Miths sell for 5k a stack and Bream Sushi was usu at about 15k a stack. Squid Sushi, though it was at 15k, is now pushing 22k a stack! I used to think no big deal if I miss out on a little AGI and save some money esp before I was level 60 when I was still using Viper Bite.

But recentlly on the THF forums in Allakhazam I found the multiplier used to calc the dmg on Dancing Edge and the AGI is a very significant part of the Trick Attack damage. As a matter of fact that being said, with the +7 AGI that the Lust Dagger adds to your stats, I don't think there is any other dagger that I am going to be using period. For a significant change to take place I would need to have DMG go from 20 to 25 and even at LVL70 daggers are giving about 23 or so as a stat. I might try the Harpe(DMG:28) and see but I know it will probably affect my Dancing Edge negatively because it doens't add a bonus to any stat.

I was thinking Garuda Dagger also maybe but nah. I am convinced that the Lust Dagger is the best weapon to use for Dancing Edge, period.