Overdue Update!

Well its been a very long time since i've posted, but I think i've decided to pay a little more detail to this blog now, because it would be nice to have something to read in the future if I ever quit the game and want to read up on the memories and experiences I had in this game.

So lets see, whats new since i've last posted? Well I managed to get RDM to 75, and even began meriting so that I could "beef up" my PLD. I added a few points to my MP, Enmity, Shield Skill and one to my Vitality.

I surprisingly have grown fond of playing on my RDM because it really keeps me busy, and because I have my ninja available as a subjob, I can now solo things I couldn't before as PLD. It might take a very long time, and be a little costly with the shihei but I still enjoy every minute of taking down a really strong mob all on my own.

In fact, i've even had the opportunity to attempt soloing some avavatars. Just the other week, I went to give Shiva and Titan a try. I had a few LS members show up to act as backup healing and cheer me on. Things went alright, but in the end I wasn't able to solo the avatars entirely on my own without a few cures but that just means I will need more practice and eventually i'll get it. I was happy with how well I did for having done very little as RDM/NIN before the avatars. Most of what I know, if not all has been taught to me by Xean, and I guess his advice has paid off because I think I did pretty well. I ended up getting Shiva down to about 40% before I needed some curing because I had forgotten to recast stoneskin and while panicking to get that back on, I didn't notice my other buffs wear. And with Titan, I got him down to 30% or so, and had I not realized that my refresh had worn off before then, I probably would of had enough MP to defeat him.

What else? Oh, two good friends of mine, Sirivalin and Evanai had their wedding in December. The ceremony didn't seem to be as great as I thought mine and Xean's had been, because the speech the Wedding GM gave, reminded me too much of a typical RL wedding but nonetheless it was fun to attend.

I only wish that I had been able to participate in their Brenner match after which was an event open to all LS members and friends that attended the wedding. I heard that Sirivalin got it handed to him by his newly wed wife, lol. Hopefully things will work out for them in RL too, because their relationship goes beyond in game ^^

Other than that, i've decided to take up WHM next to 75 because I plan to lvl it with Xean's NIN which he enjoys... despite the fact that Ninja is still {Too weak} when it comes to tanking, lol. But the truth is that Xean's actually very skilled when it comes to tanking, I usually have very little healing to do which is kind of nice because it allows me to do more of my preferred RDM duties such as enfeebling, and hasting. Now if only I had the ability to MB!!! haha, I kid.

So I guess this takes me to this weekend. Saturday me and Xean finished farming up a stack of Demon Horns in Castle Zvahl Bailey's, which we'll put towards funding his NIN. We then waited a few hours before we got invite on WHM and NIN, which resulted waiting for another hour until we had 5 members in our party: WHM, BLM, SMN, NIN, SAM. We didn't have a refresher, and the pt leader decided it would be best to try killing some mobs in Crawler's Nest until one popped, so we all headed there.

When we finally got there, the first mob took a long time to kill. We were a little too heavy in the mage department and lacking in the DD. When our puller grabbed the second mob, he got a link and unfortunately that got our SMN killed and we had to escape out. Needless to say, Xean didn't want to be wasting his tools on fights that would take forever, and so he went afk until they found a replacement which was a THF. This meant that our fights were still taking too long. Eventually though, our SMN was able to get a BRD replacement and things started to speed up, but our SAM was beginning to show how much of a bad player he was, because he would pull when asked to wait (repeatedly) and wasn't doing what was needed to allow our THF to SATA. In the end we had one mega link with 4 mobs, and two of the PT members disbanded and left so me and Xean went back to Al Zhabi.

At that point we decided to gear up and get ready for our ENM static which we were replacements for. All in all the event was great, but it didn't start on time and a few of the people in the static didn't show. But despite the frustrations, we still got some LS members to jump in and help, and had a hell of a time thanks to our crazy Galka Timwakefield who always manages to be humorous and keep us laughing. And hopefully now that it doesn't seem all the permanent static members are as committed to this, there might be an opportunity for me and Xean to do this weekly which I hope happens, because not only can we get awarded 3000 xp but its another great way to do a LS event and have some fun.

And lastly, as of today I spent the morning farming up some Royal Jelly from the bees in Crawler's Nest in hopes of raising my Cooking which is now at 99.1 +2. In an 1.5 hrs, I only managed to get 2 drops, and none resulted in a skillup -_-.

I then got asked to help past LS member with a BCNM 50 "Final Bout" where I went as PLD. It was easy because we all 2hrd, and was done in 2 minutes and 22 seconds which broke the record. Unfortunately nothing good dropped, but still I love being able to help with these and gain more experience.