Another eventful weekend

A little bit to catch up on. So lets start with when me and Josudes went out into Bhaflau Thickets to xp on some colibri. He was needing 200 imperial standing in order to get a silver coin to use the warp taru to get to Jeuno, and asked for some help. So I geared up my PLD, and went out with him. He was a 68 RDM/BLU, and we killed fairly easily. He wanted to try out tanking, so he buffed up using protect IV + Stoneskin + Phalanx + Cocoon which gave him just over 400 DEF. He wanted to try tanking and wanted to try to steal hate from me, so I engaged a colibri and started attacking but didn't use any of my moves. Unfortunately he couldn't get hate no matter how hard he tried, but then again I also have my sword and enmity merited a little bit, and had quite a bit of enmity gear on me ^^

Then on Saturday morning, I logged in thinking that first I would be doing my ENM static, and then Garrison.... only to find out that I had cancelled the ENM static for this saturday and scheduled Garrison to be early. I quickly geared up as MNK and headed to Buburimu Peninsula outpost and waited for the rest of my LS members to gather.

We had expected to do an alliance of 18 members, but as with anything there are always people who don't show. I was a little disappointed because I had even asked that everyone confirm with me that they could make it, and still we had people MIA. This of course, meant that we had to cut our alliance down from 18 people to 12. The problem was of course, that we had 14 people, which meant that I had to ask for 2 people to sit out which I really didn't want to do. If we had gone with 14 people, we would of had a number of mobs that are suppose to be taken down by a full alliance, and I didn't want to risk having any casualties so we cut it down to 12 people.

Now for those who don't know what a garrison is, its when an alliance is meant to fend off 4 waves of mobs. Each wave has more mobs than the last, and the last wave will have an NM. At the end, you are rewarded with gear and 2 Dragon Chronicle Pages (xp scrolls) as well as mannequin pieces will drop throughout the battle.

I went as MNK for the first run, and Xean was our NIN kiter. The first run was great, I got myself an xp scroll (500 xp applied to lolninja) and a pair of mannequin feet. I then decided to give my spot to Buckeyespud so that he could join in with the fun, and quickly OP warped back to San d'Oria to gear up as my RDM. I also picked up another linkshell which I called TBHGarrison so that from now on, if we have extra members but that aren't in the alliance we can still all keep in contact without having to use our main LS which often gets clogged up with regular social chat. Then I headed back, and we went on our second run.

We did a total of 4 runs, and the only casualty we had was 1 NPC death. It was amazing, our members were so pysched and just having a blast. I'm so proud to see how many of them who were new, managed to adapt really quickly to how a garrison is done. I'd say this was by far our most successful run in terms of surviving and keeping our NPCs alive. The only thing that lacked, was the fact that our drops weren't really worth a whole lot. The plan is to sell off our military weapons and split the profits, and though there is a little profit its not as much as we've obtained in past garrison runs. But in the end, I think everyone was more there for the fun of doing another LS event together and the gil reward at the end is only a by-product.

On Sunday, me and Xean finally got back to doing our CoP missions. We were asked to join Sirivalin's CoP static (also includes Alianne, Lokelani, and Kiersten). We were on 2.5, which meant that we had to make our way to Monarch Linn to fight a BCNM. At first, we were killing firedrakes to get an item dropped which is used to open the portals to the different areas, which allow us to get to Monarch Linn. This went pretty well, we manaburned them which was kinda fun.

Finally when we got to the BCNM, we prepped and discussed our manaburn strat. While at the BCNM entrance, Xean decided to pretend he was some powerful being and stood in the light for a bit making some jokes about sensing the power. I'm always able to count on him for a laugh or two. When we got in, we waited for Kiersten to invincible and off we went with our Stonega II..... err..... well at least everyone else did. Apparently I had forgotten to add the "II" to my macro and only let off a stonega v_v. But I quickly changed my macro and caught up with the casting only in time to see Kiersten's health go to 0. I was a little scared at that point as I saw the 3 mobs come after us mages thinking to myself we might not make it. I quickly casted a few more "aga" spells and as soon as my MP was low, I ripped off my manafont and casted a Stonega II before finding myself eating the dirt too. But thankfully we killed it, and won.

However, the night was only about to get longer as me and Xean went to go solo 3.0 - 3.3. The first two missions, required a lot of running around to and from places. We had to go to Jeuno, then to San d'Oria, then to Carpenter's Landing, back to San d'Oria, then to Windurst. We had to go to and from about 4 different NPCs in 3 zones in Windurst, which seemed to take forever. Finally we had to travel to Attohwa Chasm where we needed to spawn an NM which Xean took out easily with his MNK. But the hard part came next, we had to navigate the mountain and climb up it... which would of been fine, except you barely have a path to walk on, because its width is about as wide as your character and if you step too far you end up falling off to the bottm, and have to start again.

And of course, that is exactly what happened to me. Because we only had an hour in rl time to get to the top, we decided to go back to the NM to get the key item again and try climbing a second time. Only this time, I WALKED! There was no way I was going to mess up and fall down again, that mountain was such a pain in the ARSE! Thanks to Xean's excellent navigating, he got us to the top and we finished the quest and enjoyed the scene. Though I said i'd never do it again, i'm sure I probably will end up having to climb the mountain again when LS members need to do the quest... but until then, i'm staying clear of that zone because my memories are not the fondest of that forsaken mountain! GAH!!!