Nah, didn't really focus on much MND gear, in my experience using a high powered chi blast in anything other than HNM/God fights was more trouble than it was worth, especially with the hate conflict it made.
Especially with NIN, pissed off many a NIN with a chi blast with a few boosts behind it. PLD <3
Cooking didn't really make enough profit over time to warrant wasting gil on +MND gear anyway. I wasn't in an HNM/God's LS yet (Benevolence was just a social LS), so there was really no need to invest much in it. I mean, I could have, I could make a mil in a day with cooking if I wanted to, but that's with sixteen hours of crafting and AH Camping, but most of the time the profit could just allow me to afford whatever stuff I couldn't make myself.
Speaking of crafting, do gilsellers still inflate the AH to kingdom come for sushi and what not?
As for the bloodsword, the AH tax couldn't have been greater than 75k for the bloodsword I would think, highest I ever put up was an Astral Ring for close to 2 Mil, was about 50k. Didn't really matter though, everyone got 437,500 Gil for our effort (half of us offered to donate our share to the LS Bank), and the BLM who put the sword up on the AH did KSNM30 runs close to weekly, so he never had money problems.
And at the time, yes Gavian had a Glutonny Sword, not sure what he has now, or if he even still plays, deleted my account last May, all I really still had fun doing on that game was CoP missions and soloing as MNK/RDM or RDM/(WHM/NIN), and because of it a friend suggested I quit. That's what I did, and the only thing I regret is missing all of the people I met on the game :/
So, how's Aht Urgan for your two? Is it worth the hype so far? And have BLU, PUP, and COR have cookie cutter roles assigned to them by the playerbase yet like every other job?
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