As the title says, I really do enjoy making lists.
But before I go into my list of awesomeness... I need to take a minute (or a few) to give a huge thanks to my LS friends Carste, Onedarkflame, Athoz and Vepion for all the help they've given over the last month.
A few months ago, Carste and Onedarkflame came back to TBH full time and included me in their low-man stuff in Abyssea. This has since turned into a daily thing, where we all hang out in the evening and work on getting whatever we're pursueing, from Empyrean Weapons to zone wins in Abyssea.
The best part is that there is no point system, there is no penalty for catering to RL, and there is no waiting around on end for people to show up to actually do something. We're just a bunch of friends that hang out almost every day when it allows, and help each other progress in the game. And with only a few mistakes here and there (people need to stop sending me /tells when i'm healing!!!!!) we accomplish everything we set out to do, pretty smoothly.
So thanks to some good friends and players, this game has really become worthwhile to play. I'm pretty impressed with the amount of success we've had in obtaining gear and items, all in such a short time.
While we have progressed a lot, and by a lot I mean we've gotten all the zone wins for Abyssea including the 6 Caturae kills, and successfully killed Shinryu... there still remains a lot more to be done. Which is good, because I really don't want to go back to not having anything to do in the game @_@
I created a list recently for all the NMs, quests and other things our little Abyssea group wants to go after. I had organized it by "zone" to make it easier to get the most done at once... but lately we've kinda been moving from zone to zone anyways. So instead, I added everyone's "individual" list of NMs/items they're after so that we can just alternate on who we focus on.
My list is kinda huge... which makes me feel a little uneasy. I'm working on gearing Zerayla's WHM, BLM, RDM, SAM, DRG and PLD. These are the jobs that I enjoy the most, and also end up being used for events. But it makes for a lot of work, considering SE finally made the new AF3 worth going after.
And then there's Xean. I've really enjoyed being able to play his MNK and so i've been working on making it better than average for the events we do. This meant re-gearing him for tanking situations which now means I need to drag everyone back to Limbus so that I can get the AF+1 items that I had dropped thinking them useless many months ago. I'm also working on his THF for situations when we don't have one, or when i'm just on my own. Invested a good 700k just on his EVA set alone. And now all I need is to get lucky and get him a Twilight Dagger because I really have no desire to do any Magian trial quests for a dagger. And then there's his BRD and WHM. BRD has been useful for some of our Abyssea stuff, and well WHM is only used when we need everyone else on other jobs and need that extra healer. I'm not actively trying to make gear WHM to the same extent as Zerayla's, but making whatever upgrades I can as I go.
And not that I ever see it happening... but, I am collecting gear for his NIN on the side. I kinda have this thought that if I can get all the gear for his NIN by the time the 99 update comes out, I will lvl it to 99. But for now, i'll just keep the job at 75 and collect what would normally drop to the floor.
And so for recent accomplishments... Xean is now 2/3 for his BB items! Carste, Onedarkflame, Athoz, Hesper and Vepion came out to do a few KSNM99's in hopes of getting the Behemoth Tongue. To our surprise, we actually got 2 of these to drop and so now Athoz is also 2/3 on his BB items. A big thanks to Vepion for donating his orb to me. Now I just need to find the determination to camp the turtle, or farm up more KS to do the other KS99 and try my luck there. I'm really eager to get the BB item finished now that i'm so close, and even more excited to drag my husband back into the game to play his character again, even just for a little while! I miss playing with him, but RL doesn't really give him the kind of free time needed for him to prioritize playing a game that is only "decent" to him in comparison to the other games out there. So i'll be good with whatever time I can get playing with him, even if its just for a little while.
RoR also got our win in Dynanis-Xarcabard this month. Another LS had sniped Beaucedine the night we intended to run there, so we went to Xarcabard instead. Then we had the crazy notion that perhaps we could try the Shadow Lord and get the win, with only about 16 members. I don't think we even had more than 1 person who had successfully done the fight, so we didn't really go in with high expectations. But we did manage to get the win, and quite easily. I guess the lvl cap being raised really changed how easy things can be in this game. And Ketsurui our PLD tank since day 1, was rewarded with the Shadow Mantle. We did a second run the following week, and again walked out with the win. Looks like our future Xarcabard runs will now include the Shadow Lord kill, which is good because a number of members are quite eager to get the gear he drops.
Also low-manned Omega a couple of weeks ago. That fight was a piece of cake, and fun too. We got 2/3 homam pieces that the mule Buckeyespud needed. Carste and Onedarkflame pretty much share the account and are working on gearing his THF as well as a few other jobs, so that he can be duo-boxed for our low-man events. I think that's a big reason why we've been able to do so well, having access to multiple characters.
And that actually reminds me... i've finally fixed a problem i've had for who knows how long. I haven't been able to "alt+tab" between my characters because at some point over the last year or two, I had changed my "alt" key on the keyboard. It never occured to me to fix this, until one day Carste mentioned "alt-tabbing" to change screens when he duoboxed. All this time, i've been using the mouse to click between the windows which actually added a minor delay whenever I had to swap characters to do something. It isn't much, but in terms of efficiency... I was lacking. And I just recently fixed the problem now, which has made duoboxing a lot simpler. I just need to re-train myself now, because I keep reverting back to the "mouse + click" to swap between screens/
Oh, and getting back to my list.... with the exception of gear drops that I have yet to look into, here's my list of awesomeness of things i'm working towards:
Zerayla
====Seals====
Feet: PLD [x8], RDM [7/8], SAM [x8]
Body: PLD [x10], RDM [x10], WHM [x10], BLM [2/10], SAM [x10], DRG [1/10]
Hands: PLD [x8], RDM [2/8], SAM [x8], DRG [x8]
Head: SAM [6/8], PLD [2/8]
====+2 Upgrade Items====
Stone of Vision: WHM Head +2 [x6]
Jewel of Vision: SAM Head +2 [x6], RDM Head +2 [x6]
Coin of Vision: BLM Head +2 [x6]
Card of Vision: DRG Head +2 [5/6], PLD Head +2 [x6]
Stone of Ardor: PLD Body +2 [x9]
Jewel of Ardor: BLM Body +2 [9], RDM Body +2 [x9], SAM Body +2[x9]
Card of Ardor: DRG Body +2 [x9], WHM Body +2 [x9]
Stone of Wieldance: RDM Hands +2 [5/6]
Jewel of Wieldance: BLM Hands +2 [x6], SAM Hands +2 [x6]
Coin of Wieldance: WHM Hands +2 [x6]
Card of Wieldance: DRG Hands +2 [x6], PLD Hands +2 [x6]
Jewel of Balance: SAM Legs +2 [x6]
Coin of Balance: PLD Legs +2 [x6], RDM Legs +2 [x6]
Stone of Voyage: PLD Feet +2 [4/6], RDM Feet +2 [x6]
Jewel of Voyage: SAM Feet +2 [x6], WHM Feet +2 [x6]
Card of Voyage: BLM Feet +2 [x2], DRG Feet +2 [x6]
Xean
====Seals====
Legs: THF [4/8], WHM [5/8]
Body: THF [x10], BRD [x10], MNK [1/10]
Hands: BRD [3/8]
Head: BRD [x8]
====+2 Upgrade Items====
Stone of Vision: THF Head +2 [x6], BRD Head +2 [x6], WHM Head +2 [x6]
Jewel of Vision: MNK Head +2 [x6]
Stone of Ardor: BRD Body +2 [x9]
Coin of Ardor: THF Body +2 [x9]
Card of Ardor: MNK Body +2 [x9]
Stone of Wieldance: THF Hands +2 [x6]
Jewel of Wieldance: MNK Hands +2 [x6], BRD Hands +2 [x6]
Jewel of Balance: MNK Legs +2 [x6]
Coin of Balance: BRD Legs +2 [x6], THF Legs +2 [x6]
Jewel of Voyage: BRD Feet +2 [x6], THF Feet +2 [x6]
Coin of Voyage: MNK Feet +2 [x6]
(Scary list I know...., but it looks so pretty and organized!)
And last but not least... this guy:
Rhongomiant
DMG: 111 Delay: 492
Lv. 80 DRG
This'll be a very long work in progress I think, but it's possible with TBH!
And gotta love how in-game distractions can so easily wipe your mind blank when you were in the process of writing up a blog post. Multi-tasking FTL!!!! Well guess i'll finish this post now.
The End.
