Casual Saturday Night ZNMs, has begun!

As mentioned in my previous post, i've decided to start up a little casual event on Saturday nights to give ls members something fun to do together. We're not a really big social/event ls, but we can manage to do quite a lot as a team with the numbers that we have.

So the event that was chosen, was ZNMs. I remember last year when SE first introduced ZNMs in one of their updates, I wasn't really interested. The gear looked great, but the work that was involved seemed too much of a hassle and for the most part, it seemed that you would need to join an endgame shell to get far.

Eventually though, a friend started telling me about how the fights could be low-manned and explained all the details about ZNMs. Though there was some extra work involved (like collecting Zeni points) I didn't really feel initimidated anymore. And after our last ohat run and realizing that our ls was pretty much capable of alliance type fights, I decided to get things started up!

Saturday night was our very first run. Originally it was going to be Janko and myself popping the tier 1 ZNM - Cheese Hoarder Gigiroon. But, with the interest of other LS members increasing, we soon had a few more pops on our agenda.

Our first fight seemed a little rough, probably because we didn't really know what to expect. Carste, Janko and his friend Kefkha were the only ones that were familiar with the fight, so it was a learning experience for the majority of us.

I went as PLD and had Darce acted as backup tank. I pulled the NM to the "safe room" where the rest of the group waited, ready to nuke down the NM. When we got the NM to the room, it seemed a little chaotic at first because there were mines every where and we weren't exactly positioned correctly in order to avoid the explosive damage. Luckily though, I don't think we had more than one death. Though, I did learn something interesting about this rat.... apparently he has this move where he removes certain pieces of your gear, and you can't equip it back for a period of time. Damn SE perverts. -_-


After our second attempt, we decided that I should go and change to BLM and let Darce do the tanking, seeing as he managed pretty well co-tanking with me. I didn't object to the request, after all... I don't usually get a chance to bring out my BLM for events.


So we went 4/4 wins, had a few drops and then decided we'd do the next ZNM in line - Iriz Ima.

This ZNM was a lot easier, and by far a lot more fun. We got to kite a huge Marid while nuking it. At one point, I managed to get off a Burst II for about 1600+ dmg only to have the elephant come after me and one shot me with one of his TP moves.


But that didn't stop me... as soon as I got raised, I got up and chased the thing as it was being kited around a tower and got off a Freeze II. This was of course followed by a little scolding from my friends on skype who pretty much just shook their heads at the weakened BLM who had a little bit too much fun nuking...

We got full drops on 2/3 of the pops that we did.

Next Saturday we plan to do Lil Apkallu and probably a few more Cheese Hoarder Gigiroon. If we manage to have people available long enough, we might even go after Armed Gears which i'm pretty excited about. I really really want to get those Aurum Sabatons! I might reconsider unretiring my WAR if I do.

So what else... oh, I decided to try a pickup KSNM run for Copycat the other day. That didn't go too well... the setup was WHM, WAR/NIN, SAM/WAR, DRK/SAM, PLD/NIN, RDM (me). I was hesitant with the setup, but figured i'd still give it a try. Turns out that my gut feeling was right, because we wiped on the first orb. We had to wait for one of the members to bring their mule and raise us, seeing as our WHM didn't have RR up. Unfortunately though, the second attempt was just as bad. While silencing the mob is a good idea, I was having to focus on the sleeps, hastes, refreshes, enfeebles and cures and couldn't sit there spamming silence (because the mob is resistent) otherwise I wouldn't be able to do the rest of my duties. And with only one stun, we just couldn't handle the -agas. After the second failed attempt, we decided just to call it quits. Guess my only luck in this is that I didn't end up using my orb yet. Glad that I have my KSNM static group on Sunday nights though, I don't think i'll be trying the pickup thing again ><


And continueing with the progress on my DRG, I finally decided to go after all the AF. I started with the first AF quest, which involved me heading out to Western Altepa to fight an antican.


Easy win.

Then I had to go get a couple of coffers and redo the Dark Spark fight (for the gazillionth time I swear) Janko offered to come out and help, and so I offered him the chance to bring his PUP that he had been trying to skillups on earlier... as great as the level sync addition has been, it really messes up jobs that need to get skillups and have difficulty in doing so.


The next day, my friend Anderoc offered to help me take out the AF3 fight. So we headed to the temple of Uggalepih and cleared the room where the fight was to take place. I then popped two fomor NMs, which he pulled one at a time. After we killed the first fomor, we waited for the other one to despawn... but, I guess we killed the first too fast, because I wasn't able to get the cutscene. -_-


So we rested up, and tried again. This time though, the fight seemed to be a little rough (that or my attempt to help was really just feeding the mob more tp) and ended up killing Anderoc. Thankfully he had come /whm and so he also had reraise up. He raised me, we waited until I was unweakened and as the saying goes... third time is a charm!

Finally, DRG AF done!

Having been the one that needed quite a bit of help this week, I was finally able to return the help. Janko was still trying to get caught up skill wise with his puppet (due to lvl syncing all the time) and so we decided to head to Vunker Inlet again to fix that. I brought my PLD along so that I could also get a few weaponskill points for my Brave Sword and unlock Atonement (now sitting at about 900/1600 pts).

(Zerayla may not like beating on the bambi mice in La Theine Plateau, but she sure loves nuking lizard like creatures to oblivion when she's waiting for the Manaclipper. <_<)

Throughout the week we've had a number of random skillup sessions. I've also been able to help him out with trying to unlock his BLU mythic weaponskill. We managed to get pretty far, but I think the new plan is to help him get a few more floors through Nyzul so that he won't need so many weaponskill points. Its just a matter of rounding up 4 other people to come along.


And on that note, I was able to unlock Tashi: Rana a while ago, though I forgot to mention it. It didn't take very long because i'd done quite a lot of skillchaining during my Wednesday ls merit/xp session. The animation for the weaponskill is really nice, its just too bad the damage isn't as great on its own. But that's ok, I can make Dark skillchain now! Woot!

Oh and speaking of Nyzul, my friday static finally made it to floor 60. I'm really glad that our group decided to help Drimergirl and Soulstar get lvl 75 on the other jobs they were lvling because now our setup is a lot more reliable. We have BRD, DRK, THF, WARx2, RDM. As long as we don't get any Soulflayer floors, I think we'll continue to keep climbing. The plan after we hit floor 100, is then to go back and farm the boss floors to get the gear we all want. I'd reaaaaaaaally like to get a few Askar pieces for my up and coming DRG. Otherwise, i'm gonna have to think really, really, really hard of a way to convince a few ls members to come and camp a certain kitty that is not to be mentioned. <_<


Well that's about all I can think to write about at the moment. Err, actually one more thing! Elden dragged me and Janko out to help him get G2 done for his new character Vepion that he's rushing to get to lvl 75 so that he can retire his Elden character. I met up with them both in Xarcabard, but when Elden zoned in, he realized he hadn't flagged the quest so he had to warp back to town and do that. While me and Janko waited, we ran into an old friend of mine, Gimli who eagerly offered to help us out. It was fun watching our dmg do insane amounts on the undead :)


Oh, but because i've already started this... here's the .dat swap of the week!

Friendship

Well, in a couple of months I will finally hit my "4 year" mark for having played FFXI. I know that a lot of people who end up playing for so long, usually end up feeling like the time invested was a huge waste of time, or life rather... but for me, I can honestly say that i'm pretty content with looking at the hours i've put into this game. The reason? I've met people that I would have otherwise never known, and the friendships i've made are truly some of the greatest i've ever had in my life.

This last year I honestly thought i'd probably end up quitting at some point because I was about to experience what playing this game on your own, really was like. For the first 3 years of playing, i'd always had someone to be with and so the term "getting burned out" was foreign to me. That all changed last year, and it didn't take long for me to start feeling burned out with certain game activities, and creating an alternate character that I hoped would make me forget everything from before and be able to find that excitment most people feel when they first play the game. In the end though, I focused more on playing this game as a means of hanging out with my friends, as opposed to "playing" and over time the thoughts of quitting soon became a thing of the past.

So I guess in short, i'm very happy that I have a group of friends (though I feel like they're more family nowadays) that I can log in and play with every day. :)

Speaking of friends... the "Trio" has had a few more adventures in the past week:


We've been doing the Moblin Maze Monger event as often as possible, before we usually log for the night. As usual, the event is very easy but we somehow manage to get one of us killed.

(Janko's dancing skill rises .01 points!)

I also dragged Elden and Janko along to help me with my SMN AF3 fight. I had gotten the coffers earlier that week, so all that was left to do was the actual AF3 fight to complete my AF set. We had to first head to The Boyahda Tree to fight 2 weapons, which was pretty easy with Janko on his BLU and Elden on his DNC. Elden had forgotten to grab his /nin subjob, but he did just fine as DNC/THF.


After that, we headed out to Cape Terrigan and took on a Manticore NM, which I now wish I had attempted to solo because he seemed much easier than I thought he'd be. Oh well, i'm pretty sure that both Janko and Elden didn't mind a chance to go beat something up!


Oh, and on our way to the first AF fight we happened to run into an old friend... AQUARIUS! This NM has a few inside jokes with the members of my LS, particularily one DRK who's famous line will forever be: "I can tank Aquarius, I have shadows!"

Of course the whole tanking lasted only a few seconds, but nonetheless our LS regrouped and killed it! (At least I think we did, its been so long)

So when we saw Aquarius up, it didn't take long for Janko to run in leroy jenkins style and get claim while Elden was oogling with excitement. And there I followed, ready to keep them both alive ¬_¬;;;


Seeing as none of us actually needed the Francisca that dropped, we ended up inviting someone in the area and let him lot it. So we did our good deed for the day ^^

SoTW also had our 3rd Hakutaku run over the weekend. We originally were going to have about 3 people popping, but in the end managed to get the clusters for a total of 7 members and went 7/7 on the Ohats. This time we ended up having almost a full alliance, and the fight was extremely easy (at least from the mage perspective, go go RDM/DRK!) Congrats to Sabene, Darce, Vepion, Fieryblizzard, Athoz, Demionknight and Zuruki who are all new Ohat owners! And thanks to everyone that came out to help :)


After we finished with the Ohat run, we decided to give a hand to Demionknight with his NM for Spiral Hell. The fight was way easier than Hakutaku of course, and barely lasted a few minutes. =P


Having had such a big turnout of LS members, I started to consider the idea of starting up a weekly thing where my social shell could take on some kind of NM for kicks. We do occasionally camp NMs together and such, but something that might require us all to be on top of our game seemed really appealing, and after seeing how well everyone did at the Haku fight I thought the best way to give us some kind of challenge as a LS, would be to try out the high tier ZNMs.

So, this coming Saturday will be the start of what I've started to call "Casual Saturday Night ZNMs". Basically any member of my social will be welcome to get the pop item needed for a ZNM, and as long as it's within our power, we'll take out the ZNM that night. We probably won't be doing this every Saturday, but as often as possible. I'm hoping to pop Cheese Hoarder this weekend and hopefully we'll get full drops so that some LS members can benefit from some of the gear.

The only other things i've been up to this week have been working on my BLU subjob, and my DRG. Thanks to Janko and Onedarkflame, i've managed to get BLU to lvl 24 and gotten most of the spells I need to use it as a decent subjob.


I started out with getting some spells in Konschtat Highlands, while hoping that Stray Mary might pop. Then out of no where, I see this BLU come and toss me a cure which happened to be Janko. After i'd gotten Sheep Song, he escorted me to Gusgen Mines where the plan was to learn Poison Breath from the undead. After engaging one of the dogs though, we quickly realized that I was waaaay too low to attempt getting the spell because I was hitting for 0 for the majority of the time. That's when Janko decided to go punchy punchy on the little pooch.


After waiting for what seemed forever for the dog to finally use the spell, we ended up giving up and took a tele-mea so that I could go and learn Healing Breeze from the Dhalmels. It took a few tries, but I learned it pretty quickly in comparison to the other spells i'd been working on. This is really the only downside to the job... I can't stand learning the spells, because my luck is soooooo aweful -_-.


And on one Monday night, I happened to get invited to do some Nyzul floors with Janko. My friday static has actually managed to get to floor 60 as of last week, but I figured that I might as well use my extra tags and see if I could help a friend get up a few floors.

The group we had, was actually very well geared and very efficient. I thought for sure we'd get 3/3 wins. And considering that my own static had done very well the week before, I had no doubts about this group doing well.

But... you can never really count on SE to make things the same for all players... because we went 0/2 on the runs, due to having Mr. Roc and Mr. Aquarius + some Soulflayers... oh, and did I mention the very very fun frogs? Yea.....

After the runs, the group asked me and Janko to join them for an ENM run: Sheep in Antlion's Clothing. I'd done this ENM before, but the static I had been in eventually broke after a couple of weeks. I really enjoyed doing the actual fight, but could never stand having to climb that stupid forsaken mountain in Attowha Chasym.

. . .

Yet, somehow I ended up doing it again. Only this time, I didn't fall ONCE! I was quite happy that I'd made the entire climb again without messing up, and even managed to actually "run" up the mountain as opposed to "walking" which is what I usually had to do in the past.


Once we finally made it to the top, we had to get a tele-mea and go back to the zone to the other area so that we could get into the ENM. We only had 4 party members (Janko wasn't able to come into the fight due to having done it previously that week) but still managed to win in under 10 minutes. Sadly, all we got for drops were two items, worth no more than maybe 5k.


But gil isn't a big issue right now... thanks to a static that I seem to have created on Sunday nights for the Copycat KSNM. I've been inviting LS members to come along, and so far we've made quite a lot of profit. Everyone seems to really like this fight because it's always funny to watch each other mpk our party members when we're charmed. Well... at least it's funny for those of us who don't die.Poor Sabene, she died and ended up deleveling on our last run ><
I promised her i'd help her get some xp to make up for it of course, and so the next day we went out to Mt. Zhayolm to do a little manaburn party. We ended up inviting Onedarkflame on his lvl 50 BLM so that he could get a little xp, and then Janko and Zeo joined us for a little bit.


Onedarkflame seemed to really enjoy himself, running out there and trying to do the pulls as the rest of us rested our MP. I was soooooooo tempted to watch him die, just once... but, I know that if I did he'd find a way to get back at me eventually. <_<>

I also got to catch a little action with rank missions again. Carste decided to take on the challenge to get rank 10 within a matter of weeks (I think he's just about done now) and asked for some help with the Bastok Missions. Some of the missions I wasn't available to help out for, but when I did get a chance to beat up stuff I definitely didn't hesitate!

As for my last update... DRG is now 49!!!!!!!!!

I've managed to get into some LS parties as of late, and so far they've turned out really nice. The best party I had so far was when we went to East Ronfaure [S], and kept chaining the ladybugs like crazy. If it weren't for people farming in the area, i'm sure we could have gone beyond our chain#6. Nonetheless, it was fun and I can't wait to finally get the job to lvl 75 so that I can finally make a little more room. All this low lvl gear is really making things a pain for my inventory situation.

(Ooo another pretty .dat swap! This would be an earth elemental)

The path of the BLU Pancake...

With my not so recent decision to take DRG to 75 next, I have been looking over the useful subjobs I will end up needing. One of the subjobs which has been said to be very useful, especially if I'm need as the "support healer", is Blue Mage.

Now, when this job originally came out, I thought it looked interesting. Then, when I heard about how you obtain the spells for the job, I said "haha yeah right". And for over a year, the job has stayed at level 1.

But with some encouragement from one of my friends who already has BLU 75, I finally decided I would try and get the job at least to 37. After all, i'm the type of person that likes to get that "perfect file" so eventually i'd have to have the job available right?

So, for a couple of days I went out and whenever I had free time from events, I would level up the job. I didn't actually go after xp the way I usually do when I solo, but was actually focusing on getting the spells I needed. This, is where my enjoyment went out the window. Just like I always knew it would. Its also the reason I swore i'd never touch the job.

Anyways, after many, many... maaaaaaaaany painful hours of fighting friggin beetles in west ronfaure and who knows how many mandragoras in sarabaruta, I finally hit lvl 12 and had all the spells I needed at that point. I wasted no time in NPCing my leather gear and forgetting about the job again.

I enjoyed playing the job, and having a pretty interesting choice of spells and dishing out some nice damage... but the frustration of never learning the spells I was after was enough for me to put the job back on hold for a bit. I do plan to finish it up to 37 maybe sometime next month, but for now i'll just put it on the backburner. I do have some interest in taking it to 75 one day, but I think i'll only manage to do that if I can get someone to come along with me for my spell hunting because otherwise i'll go insane. It's about as painful for me as regular solo-ing is.

So on that note, I have DRG at lvl 41 now. I haven't had too much time to play it in the last couple of days, but the last parties I have had, have been pretty good. I just wish there was a little more to do on the job, ability wise. I seem to have more fun being support healer right now (with /whm) because there's more to do, but I would like to be doing damage.

I also have SMN at 55 now. I finally went out and got all my AF pieces, minus the last piece "Summoner's Horn". I'll need to set something up within my LS soon to get this done because I don't think I can solo the mobs too easily. So far the job has it's moments, but because i've played RDM I have some issues adjusting. I feel useless a lot of the time, because Sabene who is our RDM is just very quick on the cures and takes care of the enfeebling. I get off a BP every minute, and take care of support healing whenever i'm up... but, I just feel like I need to be doing more @_@

My salvage group is still going... but, we haven't exactly had any progress. We've been attempting this one zone, where we need to fight an NM frog that can charm us - Poroggo Madame. Our first attempt we took too long to get to a particular floor so that the NM would appear. Our second attempt, we just didn't have the strat down well enough. And the most recent attempt, well... I'm not entirely sure why we failed, other than to say we just had some bad luck. One thing I have concluded with all this salvage... I hate... FROGS.


A couple of days ago, one of our new LS members Helius asked for some help on the rank mission 5.1 and 5.2. Seeing as I had left off at this point with Kaelyth, I figured I might as well come along and get the missions done for him. Maybe one day i'll start playing Kaelyth again... though probably more for "fun" than any real intention to make him a main character. So anyways, the fight was a piece of cake. Me and Athoz just 2hrd the skeleton on our MNKs and it was down in less than 3 minutes.


I was also asked to help Carste along with his Bastok Missions, specifically the 2.3 Dragon fight. This fight is really a piece of cake, but for some reason SE decided to curse us both.

I went in, and used my 2hr and got the eye down really fast. I was able to get the dragon down to about 50% (or so) before he cursed me. After one hit, my HP went down to about half and Carste tried to get a cure off, but sadly the dragon attacked too fast and killed me with the next hit.


That's when I got to watch the epic battle of Carste trying to solo the dragon by nuking and sleeping him. He did pretty well considering he was capped at lvl 25, but sadly without any refresh he wasn't able to nuke fast enough before we timed out. Its ok though, because we managed to get the mission done a couple of days later with a few extra LS members who wanted to come out for the fun. As always, our LS tends to "overkill" the simple things. :)

Thanks to my awesome navigating skills, and my curious nature... I also managed to get myself into a fight I wasn't expecting when I went to Pso'Xja to help Carste farm up some chips needed to make the CCB Polymers for the airship fight we had planned for our CoP Static. I saw a glowing light in one of the rooms, and decided to click on it. That of course, popped two huge dolls that immediately started attacking me. I thought to run back to the entrance and zone out, but apparently SE had other ideas. The door had locked on me and left me no choice but to fight the two dolls solo because Carste was somewhere else in the zone already fighting. Lucky for me, the mobs weren't too high lvl and were pretty easy to take care of once I had one slept.


As for the usual late night stuff that I find myself doing, I recently came upon a nice little "cheat" for the new Maze Monger's event. Janko and Vepion came along with me to try it out. Basically we had to sync down to Vepion's lvl (13 BRD) and the mobs in the maze would be brought down to his level. Then when we entered the maze and unsynced, which brought me and Janko back to lvl 75.


That's when the fun came. Because it was basically a competition between me and Janko to see who could one shot the mobs first. Sadly, my PLD didn't really stand a chance, especially with his BLU spell Cannonball. I think he had a little too much fun walking over to the mobs me and Vepion would engage, only to one shot them right before we could get a hit off. ¬_¬

Oh and I finally made my contribution to Al Zhabi! The chocobo lady in whitegate had been kidnapped from an earlier beseiged, and because we had obtained some keys to unlock prisoners in Mamook from a recent xp/merit party we both had joined, we went on a little adventure to save her.

Along the way, we had to touch this liquid stuff that turned us into Mamools. This was so that we could get past the true sight Poroggo's in the zone to find the prisoners. It was actually quite fun sneaking past the mobs dressed up as Mamool. At least until my sneak wore off and without realizing it, I had aggroed a Sahagin mob that linked with about 4 more... which kinda, kicked my ass. Yay for reraise!


In the end though, after checking all the possible locations where the prisoners were kept, we found out that apparently the chocobo lady wasn't there at all. -_-

(Installed a few new .dats - Ice Elemental/Spirit! Pretty eh?)

And another FFXI Wedding!

Yesterday I had the pleasure of being the chaperone for the wedding of two of my close friends, Soulstar and Drimergirl. The wedding was held in Misareaux Coast near the waterfalls outside the Sacrarium, Windurstian style.

I decided to head over to the meeting area 2hrs before the event, so that I would have time to go over things with both Soulstar and Drimergirl before the wedding GM met up with us to do a rehearsal. While I waited for the bride and groom to make their way over, I started remembering the first time I had seen the waterfall area. I remember adding the zone as one of my favorite spots in the game.


After Soulstar and Drimergirl arrived, we waited for the wedding GM to appear. We were then asked to head closer to the waterfall near a rock where the GM went over all the wedding procedures and rules. We got through everything pretty quick, and then I was asked to head over to the guest waiting area and organize everyone.


That proved to be an interesting and fun challenge. For most people that know me, i'm not the greatest at verbally expressing myself and I guess my instructions weren't entirely clear. I had to form two straight lines, and getting everyone into position took a little work. Some people would afk, others just... didn't understand me at all ; ;

But in the end, we finally got it right! All that was left to do, was hand out the fire crackers and other fireworks I had picked up, and we were off to the official ceremony! Though that too, didn't exactly go as smoothly as I had planned, lol. I wanted everyone to walk in a nice straight line all the way to where the GM, Soulstar and Drimergirl were waiting but the lines were soooooooooooooo out of order. We even had one person who had apparently afk'ed without saying, run in right as we were about to start the ceremony! X_X


All was good though. We started the ceremony, and everyone kept quiet while we listened to Soulstar and Drimergirl say their wedding vows, and trade their special food item which I thought was rather cute.

After they had been given the official "You are man and wife" line, the GM gave us the cue to applaud. Everyone busted out their fireworks, used their abilities and emoted like there was no tomorrow as we all tried to congratulate our two friends. Even one of us, went as far as showing his excitment by using his 2hr Mijin Gakure! He thought the mob that he had targetted was far enough out of range that the ability wouldn't go off, but out of no where... we all see this HUGE explosion amongst all the fireworks going off and then we see our good hume friend Carste fall dead into the water. Lol.


We of course all seized the opportunity to do a little friendly LS "Dog Pile" on his corpse and show him just how much we appreciate him!


While everyone was having fun taking random screenshots, I gave both Soulstar and Drimergirl their wedding gifts. I had crafted up 12 Sole Sushi +1 which I gave to Soulstar for his DRK, and a Ecphoria Ring for Drimergirl. Hopefully both items will be useful for merit parties which they're now able to enjoy :)

Yet another fun event for the LS.


And the only other stuff that i've been up to this week, has been completing the last of my FL assaults with Carste, Zyn and Arezael. Both of the last two fights, they asked me to come PLD/NIN for. Aside from the fact that I was paranoid to death about failing at keeping hate, we managed to do very well on both fights. Carste died on Khimaira but was up and back in no time. With Arez being quick to keep me healed, there wasn't a whole lot I could do to keep my hate against Carste's NIN though.


I think i'm now down to about 10 assaults before I can get captain rank. I never really cared much about getting Captain, but recently with the smooth runs i've had in assault, I think i've had a change of heart. Besides, free teleports on the runic portal would be awesome!

Oh yeah, and my SMN is now 54. I've finally been able to collect all my coffer keys too. Just need to motivate myself to go initiate the quest in Jeuno, and then steal a few LS members to go do the AF3 quest and i'm all done!


Then... give a couple of weeks and i'll have to do the same thing over for my loldrg! ><


I've gotten that job to 35, mostly with LS level sync parties which have been quite relaxing. I'm eager to get a little higher though on DRG so that I can finally have something more to do other than weaponskills and jump. Actually, because I had been asked to assist with the healing in my last party by subbing WHM, i've decided to try and get my BLU to lvl 37 so that I can use that in the future. From what i've heard, whenever healing is needed (or is i'm so bored I decide to solo on DRG) having /blu as the subjob is the better choice because of the spell cost/cast time.

So that's what i'm currently up to. Doing something I said i'd never do. Level BLU.

I hate it.

As predicted, I had to kill at least 100 stupid beetles before I learned a spell. Now i'm onto mandies, and they're being just as generous. -_-