I miss my WHM in Dynamis ; ;

First before I start recalling last night, I just wanted to include a little part about me and Xean where we decided to go and get our AF weapons for WHM and NIN on Monday night. It was about 10pm, and I figured there wasn't much time to do anything so seeing as we had both hit lvl 48 on our jobs, and would soon need to flag our AF equipment we might as well start with the weapons. So off we went to go flag the missions, Xean to Norg and I went to San d'Oria. Assuming that we would have to do the NM fights for these quests as our job, we outpost warped to Altepa first, and went after 2 spiders for Xean's NIN AF weapon. That was a piece of cake, because I went as PLD and those things were hardly hitting me.

Then we went back to San d'Oria, and changed jobs so that I could go get my WHM AF weapon in Valkurm Dunes. He came along as MNK to pummel the thing to death... So we get there, and i'm searching for the ??? but can't seem to find it. I've done this quest before for him on his WHM, as well as for other friends so I KNOW its where i'm looking. I decide to go check online to make sure there wasn't another NPC I had to talk to (don't you just hate when that happens? -_-) and sure enough, it said I had to wait until night which made sense seeing as the NM was a shadow.

So while we waited for night to come around, me and Xean role played a little for fun with our emotes. Everytime he does, it always takes me back to the very first time I learned about emotes in West Ronfaure forest, where he taught me you could type out your own personal emote. I won't really get into the ones we used, because they're not necessarily PG rated but needless to say, its always fun to be able to joke around with my bf Xean, in game because the way we tease each other, is pretty much how we are in RL. But anyways, finally night rolls around and we take down the NM. I tossed in a Banishga II and did about 250 damage on the lvl 41 NM, so I was smiling. Its likely due to the fact that my divine magic is capped because of my PLD <_<.

So now on to Dynamis. Well, things are finally coming along for SpiftasticAdventures. We're finally getting committed people that actually work for the success of the LS. We had experienced quite a few people who just wanted the drops, and weren't willing to put a little work into the LS because they'd rather go with a more established one that had little to no deaths... which is fine for them, because we don't want members that can't grasp the concept of working for everyone's success.

We had a few more recruits last night, and some of them showed some potential to being dedicated members so I was quite happy. But aside from that, I have to say last night was probably one of my most unpleasant runs i've had since SA started a few months ago. First, the lag I was experiencing was more than normal which I think is a sign that my PC is going to crash in a matter of time... every run it gets worse. This time, I would select my target but because of the lag, I would end up targeting myself or whatever I had selected last which I think might of caused confusion to our melees. Seeing as I'm main tank, that is NOT a good thing because we can't have slept mobs waking up.

Then the other annoying thing, is that because we had more melee than our previous runs, I was having a really difficult time getting to any mob because of all the characters I had to run through. I literally felt like I was walking through molasses or something, and wasn't feeling like my performance was as great as it could be because by the time i'd get to the mob the DDs would have it dead, and I wouldn't have been able to voke it and keep hate on myself. Its good that we can kill so easily, but i'm a PLD.... so it bugs me when others are getting hit and not me >_<

Anyways, we did very well and really exceeded our last run in San d'Oria time-wise... until we got to our second NM pull, near the West Gate. For some reason, this NM ALWAYS gives us a hard time. Last time, we couldn't get him to pop and I swear this was due to some glitch.

This time however, we didn't have any THF 2hrs up (Perfect Dodge) to run into the gate, and pull out the NM as a sacrificial pull so we decided to use PLDs + Invincible + Rampart (with Crimson legs). This unfortunately didn't work. We tried this twice. We then decided to try THF with flee, and we aaaaaaaaaaalmost had it, but sadly again, we gave yet another member to the orcs to feed upon ; ;. In the end, we probably should have just killed some of the mobs before heading in there after the NM but not everyone was on the same page. We ended up losing a lot of time due to a few wipes because as with any new member, not everyone knows all and a few mistakes were made (leading mobs to camp, resting while NM pull was done) so we had about 10 minutes where we just farmed.

While many people were frustrated, as we didn't get any drops but just some xp loss I really hope that the members will still work with us because we have good people that aren't harsh when mistakes are made. Instead, we're fun and pretty friendly so I think that down the road, when we work towards harder things we won't suffer the same negative atmosphere that other dynamis shells sometimes have because people can't be sympathetic or understanding. We just need to learn from our mistakes, and perfect what we have and i'm sure we'll make it!

And in case your wondering, the reason for the title of this blog isn't because the WHMs in SA are not skilled, because they are and do a very good job at keeping me alive... but I miss having Xean in the LS as my WHM. Maybe one day I can convince him to come back as MNK, hehe.