42k to lvl 75! O.O

Well a few different things happened since my last post. First thing is that I went and helped my LS member Zakuta, a fellow PLD get his AF weapons "Honor Sword". We headed off to Ordelle's Cave and he then popped an elemental. Having done this ages ago for my own PLD, I wanted to solo the guy and so I did. Revenge was sweet!

Then there was the static that I joined with Airou (RNG), Arlenna (WHM), Ruffyreborn (PLD), Soulstar (RNG), Legaia (MNK) and myself as SAM. At first the battles were a bit tough for us, and there were a few deaths. Ruffyreborn just kept dying instead of progressing (felt so bad for him) and at one point we just decided to sit out on top of him for fun, hehe. In the end, we gained 2 lvls (10-12) and it was a lot of fun to be paryting with all LS members.

Then there was the NM I killed to get my weapon skill "Savage Blade". I had thought it would be hard to get this done, seeing as it's a bit of a lengthy quest where you have to go to various columns in Altepa desert. Lucky for me, a guy named Janos had posted about a run, which I had answered and he brought me along. I also had my Xean (<3),>

And last but not least, I managed to get my lvl 73 in a crazy party last weekend. I'm pretty sure we went through about 50k experience points within about 5 hours. Wish I could get a party setup like that again ;_;. And just last night, I was able to get my lvl 74 though the experience points were reeeeeeeeeally slow. I think we only managed to get about 10k in 4 hours.

Ding lvl 72!

I have to say that today was definitely a looooong day. At 10:00am, I went with my LS members to do promyvion-dem. It was myself (WHM), my bf Xean (SMN), Soulstar(SMN), Mercambus (WAR/MNK), Ruffyreborn (WAR/NIN) and Angeloxi (WAR/NIN).

Compared to all the previous promyvions, this one we managed to do extremely quickly. I think we got to the BCNM in under 30 minutes, very little aggro and no deaths. Then when we went to do the NM, I sat out as only 6 members could go. The group managed to do very well and they were victorious! We managed to get 3 LS members their Lufaise access (Ruffyreborn, Soulstar, Shaoulin) and hopefully next week we can get 2 more members theirs.




After that, I had agreed to helping a friend camp an NM that had a 21-23 hr spawn time, however it would only pop when the wind elemental was present. He had said the window would open 4 hours later, so instead of lvling as had been originally planned by me and Xean, I just did some muling and also went out for a bit. In the end, the wind elemental wasn't forcast and so we cancelled fighting the NM.



Me and Xean then went to go lvl with our friends Anderoc, Deude and Raiderx. Before that though, we decided to go and get Raiderx' weaponskill "Tachi: Kashi" which required us fighting an NM in Korroloka Tunnel. We picked up a RDM and headed out. After a very quick battle, Raiderx finally had his skillchain and we decided to get some experience points in so we headed for Caedarva Mire.

At first the experience points were decent, however me and Xean were having some problems. Our RDM wasn't keeping up with the refresh, and when we tried to address this we got a response to the effect of "Asking for refresh is the worst thing you can do to a RDM" to which Xean responded "Refreshing is one of the main duties of a RDM and expected". It was really disappointing because me and Xean had already partied with this RDM before, and in our previous party he had also been reminded to cast refresh.

As a paladin, there is only one effect I absolutely get annoyed with not having, and that is refresh. I like to have a full MP pool at the start of every battle, so that I can cast away to my heart's content and allow the other DDs in the party to unleash their insane damage with their weapon skills. If I do not have enough MP to keep casting, then all I have are my job abilities which unfortunately each have a long recast time, which means I can't use them all every battle. I have partied with many RDMs and those that contineously cast are definitely noticed. I have had parties where I NEVER find myself without and so I know its possible. This RDM however, didn't seem to cast continueously and so there were times where i'd go 30-60 seconds without refresh. While I don't expect new RDM's (lvl 41-50) to have this perfected, I would expect a RDM at lvl 72 to have this nailed. Lucky me I guess.

Anyways, later on we ended up moving camp to Bibiki bay where me and Xean finally managed to hit lvl 72! WOHOO! Now we only have 30k experience points to go until 73. -_-;

Well, either way i'm glad I got my lvl because now there's only 3 more to go. I'm just really thankful the expansion came out because without it, lvling would be much more difficult.

A New Beginning

Well i'm new to this whole blog thing, but kinda liked the idea and figured i'd start my own. I really like the idea of being able to write about my adventures and experiences in FFXI, because I spend so much of my free time playing this game. Hopefully i'll be able to keep up and post as often as I can.

Just to give a little info about my character, as of July 22nd 2006 here is my profile:

Character Name: Zerayla
Race: Elvaan
Rank: 7
Nation: San d'Oria
Rise of Zilart: Mission 14 - Ark Angels Chains of Promathia: Mission 2.2 - The Lost City Treasures of Aht Urhgan: Mission 5 - Confessions of Royalty
Crafts: Cooking 94 (Mule - Tahla: Clothcraft 22)
Main Job: Paladin 71



Hopefully i'll have more to add later this afternoon, as i'm headed off to do promyvions for my linkshell members!

And just as a note, if anyone happens to be from the Quetzalcoatl server and is interested in joining a linkshell that goes out of its way to help its members in quests, missions, etc please feel free to visit my forum The Mythical Realm and go to the "Sign Ups" thread and introduce yourself. One of our sac holders will be in touch with you to trade you a pearl. We're a really friendly group and have a little bit of a family atmosphere. We try our best to help the newer players, and try to get events going such as Garrison, Promyvions etc for fun.