Melee Gloves and new recipes!
(|All right!|) During my LS's last Dynamis-Jeuno excursion, I obtained a pair of melee gloves! This makes for my first relic piece with 4 more down the road. He's what it looks like and the stats:
Only 4 attack less than the coveted Ochiudo's Kote, but with a few other rather nice and useful goodies. I love 'em and can't wait to use in an exp party and see how they compare to my Temple Gloves. Something is telling me that I won't see a noticable difference in hit-per-hit damge and that WS damage may be about the same also. I'll see though, and post my assessments.
During this past week, I've gotten it in my head that I would practice my culinary skills hook or crook. I love to cook, don't get me wrong, but often times I have to be in the mood to send all of my unnecessary equipment to my informants in each of the nations and concentrate on just cooking. Now lets see, last time I decided to concentrate on culinary I was learning to make crayfish paste for the fishermen, of which I'm nothing more than a fledgling at this point. My skillfulness in the culnary arts was guaged at a score of 51, which isn't too bad.
To begin my practice, I thought it'd be best (and cheapest) to try beaugreen sautee.
Ingredients:
fire crystal
selbina milk x1
clump of beaugreen x1
Generally, the recommended skill level to begin practicing this is 52, but 51 was close enough that it wouldn't make a difference. I talked to one of the chefs to gave me a glaring look and words of encouragement to help me focus and pump me up, which always helps when I practice cooking. I practiced this recipe for awhile and when I felt I could learn no more, I had reach a skill level of 55.
For my next dish, after reviewing a little on the prices of ingredients and what was avaiable for me to viably practice with, I decided to try stone cheese.
Ingredients:
dark crystal
selbina milk x1
rock salt
As you can see, the most expensive ingredient for this are the dark crystals. Being the sometimes lazy person I can be, I opted to just buy the crystals at the Auction House instead of waiting for the appropriate time to hunt dark elementals in the Northlands. I practiced this until 58. Ah yes! Now I am eligible for my next culinary rank exam! The head chef asked me to make for him a yagudo drink. So I ran to the AH in Windurst Walls to fetch a drink for him and ran straight back. I gave it to him, he looked at me inquisitively while I glared back nervously, he tasted, I lean in in anticipation... and he loved it! Thankfully, it was fresh enough that he believed I had made it myself.
The culinary guild now recognizes you as a craftsman!
YES! /dance
You know, stone cheese never sells at the AH, so I wondered if Apple au Laits do better. They do, but not enough to be a viable money making recipe. But that's fine with me, so I decided to try this.
Ingredients:
water crystal
selbina milk x1
honey x1
faerie apple x2
I used my San d'Orian and Bastokan scouts to fetch the apples and rock salt respectively, while I ventured to Selbina to personally get the milk, which is cheaper there. It is said that this drink can be used to practice until 63, but I only wanted 60 for the mean time. I said to myself that this night I would not rest until I've reached 60 and I stuck to it, hoping I wouldn't run out of supplies before I did, as I did not feel like gathering the ingredients again. Of course I had to, though. So now, I finally reach my goal for the night and notice that it's much later than I thought (4 am), so I head back to my mog house to reflect on my accomplishment and take a snooze.
posted by Fox the Sly @ 10:09 PM
