Just got dyna ls last week and this was the first one I got to do. It was incredible. We had two full alliances only a few people dead at a time and I only died once...mismacro at start of a fight and weapon skilled right away so my fault. I got a raise 3 so it was no biggy. So far loving dyna did windy yesterday and it wasnt bad either didnt even loose a full 1k exp. I lucked out with a great shell.

If you see somebody with an hourglass advertised for 1 gil in bazaar, don't buy it, it's used. You might mention it to the person as he/she may have forgotten to take out of the bazaar. Why do people do this?

Standard practice in Dynamis: once you use the hourglass to enter Dynamis, you immediately put your hourglass in bazaar for 1 gil. This applies to everyone entering Dynamis in the alliance.

Rationale: Recall that if your hourglass is removed from your person while in Dynamis, you are kicked out. As a result, at the end of an hour plus of tough play, there inevitably will be people that go AFK, and unfortunately this happens too often just as time is winding down and lots have not dropped because the AFK person has not bid/passed on items.

Resolution of problem: Dynamis leader spends 1 gil and buys hourglass from person that has not bid/passed, kicks them out of Dynamis, and voila! Items now drop to bidder, hopefully before time expires.

Now you know...

here are some screen shots of me and my LS clearing the area.


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I just want it known that I am a PLD56, and I am going to start seeking a Dynamis LS for when I reach 65. I am on the unicorn server /tell if you need a new PLD. I will reach 65 by Christmas.

I have noticed a LOT of new players in the free (sponsored) Dynamis pool, so here are some tips for you on your run into Dynamis (copied from my post on Saotome Kote):

Tips for noobs

So you want some Artifact - First of all, whoever is the sponsor owes it to themselves not to be noobs. What does that mean? That means if you want your moneys worth, only go into Dynamis on a good moon phase, ideally near 100% ~ The AF in Dynamis is exactly like farming a testimony outside of Dynamis ~ The better the moon phase, the better the drops. Only noobs sponsor Dynamis on a 23% and dwindling moon phase (also has influence on your money drops too) - Sponsoring a Dynamis run on a worthless Moon Phase is like throwing your money away.

White Mage Bloopers - Another thing is WHITE MAGES PLEASE WATCH WHAT SPELL YOU ARE CASTING!!! My dynamis the other day was sunk completely because of the idiotic White Mage that Teleported (yes, you heard me right TELEPORTED) an entire party (including the main PLD tank) mid-Dynamis to freaking Altepa Desert. Needless to say, I think that white mage got flamed to hell and back in-game. Please watch what spell you are casting, hell, go ahead and macro it (without party text that would cause more lag).

Pulls - please get a puller that knows what they are doing, especially a puller that understands the meaning of "sacrifice pull" which, sorry to say, is an all important skill in the expert Dynamis areas. Say, for example, the puller messes up and links like the entire zone of mobs and can see it... in this case DO NOT BRING THEM BACK TO CAMP. Bringing the mobs back to camp means a complete wipe so just SACRIFICE pull instead of ruining everyone's chance in Dynamis.

Black Mage saves the day - A Dynamis run without a lot of Black Mages WILL FAIL. If you are in a group that is heading into Dynamis without Black Mages, ditch them. Yes, you heard me right, ditch them to the curb because they are gonna KO and wipe and lose EXP. The real key to winning in Dynamis has to do with Sleepga and sending Nukes onto the evil Statues. Melee ABSOLUTELY cannot be allowed to hit a statue. Why? Because if a Statue gains Tactical Points to 100% its going to knock you on yer @$$ in seconds flat with the worlds worst AOE attack ever invented. ONLY Black Mages and Red Mages can attack the statue mobs with magic. A wave of continuous Sleepgas should be followed with a heavy nuke on statue type mobs.

Let Sleeping Dogs Alone - One last rule of Dynamis is NEVER EVER EVER EVER WAKE UP A SLEPT MOB. After the Black Mages Sleep them hard into Slumberland with their Magic, never go up to them and wake them up. Never. Ever. Never ever wake them up. The key to making sure you never wake them up on accident? Use a very rarely known command which is /assist ~ used like this-

/assist yourtanksnamehere

no quotes or anything used in this. spam this command like crazy so you dont wake up a slept mob. Your tank (Paladin or Ninja) will select which mob to fight. ONLY let them decide the mob to fight. Otherwise... guess what... yup... you will wake the sleeping death monsters. Sleepga is essential in these areas.

Melee take it easy for once - Finally, all Melee jobs (Samurai, Dragoon, Dark Knight, Warrior etc) stay back. Stay all the way back. Take it easy for once. Let the mages Sleep and Nuke away and let your Tank bring the non-Statue mobs back to you. This is especially important in Dynamis-Bastok because of the scorpion type mobs which have a move called "Breakga" which turns everyone to stone in the area of effect. It is important for Melee to stay out of Breakga range so that not everyone will be turned to stone. Keep it organized and just plain let the tank bring back the mob to you. Then pounce on the mob and spam Weapon Skills, defeat the mob, then wait patiently for the next mob to be brought back via the tank.

And that's about it, really. It's not impossible, it just takes a supreme effort of teamwork and excellence. If any one person screws up here, it could mean everyone has to suffer. Everyone must be at the top of their game. Good Luck!!

My highest job level is currently 50, so I can't go to Dynamis yet. Anybody know what the name of the song played in Dynamis is? If you have iTunes, just search for "Final Fantasy XI" and you'll get all three soundtracks, and the Dynamis music should be there. However, it's not called "Dynamis" or anything like that so I don't know. Can anyone help figure out which song it is?

So we got a person who is bring Gilsellers into Dynamis on Cait sith named Ryudo. They are trying to sell currency for 50k per single unit and 5mil per 100 unit. Well I guess Relic weapons will become harder to get if you plan on buying currency from these FOOLS.

by the way...

THIS IS STUPIDITY!

Considering if your going to sell them for that much why buy it when EVERY ONE ELSE sells for 15k??????????????????? Really its pretty stupid

Jump on the band wagon if your on cait sith!

DO NOT BUY OVER PRICED MONEY

chances are they are being sold by gilseller mules and/or Ryudo's henchmen.

yeah I would really like to see dynamis so I will know what to expect can you show us some of the monsters there?

Just did this today, we had about 60 ppl of averaging in the 70-75's. Whoa, did we ever get wasted. When one of the NM mobs poped up wit about 15 other mobs. BANG, there goes about 40 ppl. BTW, Decipline and Organization is the key to winning as well

The HourGlass costs 1 million Gil and this is for to participate in the Dynasmis Event.

it sound so much fun to doing this but since i am only 58 now still long way to go i hope i can find a LS at the time to do this together

Chances are it was, dynamis is brutal. You will always appear near the Mog House after you get booted out. If you get cleared out towards the end you will have sometimes 30-50 people or more dead in the MH entrance.

how do get the hourglass? i know where the marking is but i dont know how i get the hourglass

Could any of you high levels post a picture? I really would like to see Dynamis.