Little updates

Been a while since i've updated, because I keep forgetting to send my pictures over to my email so that I can write up an entry at work. But anywho, first update is that myself and Xean now have our WHM + NIN duo at lvl 57. We decided to quest our AF body pieces during the week, which meant that I needed to farm a Tavnasian Bell in The Eldieme Necropolis. I had remembered when we did Xean's, and that it had taken hours before we saw a drop... so I already figured i'd be farming this item for a few hours.

Luckily, our friend Alianne came out with his THF and decided to lend me and Xean a hand. Turns out his Treasure Hunter II apparently works, and can't be affected by Xean's "Treasure Hunter - " effect we claim he has (inside joke - Xean's drop rate sucks more than anyone else's we've ever seen) because we ended up getting the drop on the second mob!

A few days later, I was able to ask a few LS members to come give a hand for the NM fight in Fei'yin and we took it down with ease... though as usual, Xean ended up being the meat shield about half way through the fight, and even more so after he used Hundred Fists. Thankfully he had something like 1700+ HP so the mages had enough time to toss Cure V's at him without him dying. When we were done with this, I went and traded my drop in exchange for the Healer's Briault which i'll be able to equip at lvl 58.

A few days after this, we also dragged Sirivalin and Evanai (her new character name is now Lokelani) with us to Yhoator Jungle where we fought 3 NMs for Xean's AF3. Along the way he decided to kill a goblin, and I managed to get a pretty good pic! And for those who are wondering, yes he is a Ninja in that shot... but i'm sure you're asking, why is he wearing the MNK AF body piece? Well that's because I edited the .dat for the Scorpion Harness which he was wearing in that shot, and replaced it with the MNK AF Body piece because I prefer seeing that when i'm partying with him... of course now anytime an elvaan male is wearing the SH, I always see them as MNKs!

And speaking of .dats, I also had a few changed recently. I have a new look for my PLD which I prefer to the adaman set. This is a hybrid of the Divine Might Elvaan outfit and pieces of the PLD AF2 that drops in dynamis areas. I also found a nice mod that changed my Fenrir to look like an Egyptian Anubis which I really like! Only thing is that I'm not quite ready to start lvling SMN so it'll be a while until I use him.


As usual, we also did our CoP static on the weekend. We went back to Sacarium and this time we were able to get the NM ghost to pop in the second room we tried. It was kind of a lengthy battle but it went pretty smoothly. It would of gone better, but at one point Alianne who was our SMN was slept during Astral Flow and wasn't able to get as many astral flows off as intended. The fight pretty much involved Kiersten tanking the main NM, Xean kiting one of the little ghost pupils with Alianne kiting the other, Sirivalin nuking away and Lokelani healing... and then there was me, enfeebling and refreshing like crazy. So now our next mission is Promyvion-Vazhl which we're going to be doing this upcoming Saturday.

Also had the opportunity to go solo Ifrit and Shiva for a LS member Clarisse. She was a great help for the Ifrit battle, because there were a few times I wasn't as focused as I should have been, and my buffs would wear and i'd be too slow getting them up while keeping my shadows up. The Shiva fight however was much easier, and I decided to chainspell + Fire III her at the end for the fun of it. The interesting thing is that when we finished, I realized we had fought her on ice day which meant she should have been a lot stronger. I was surprised because I found her a breeze compared to Ifrit, but then again whenever i've played on PLD i've always disliked any MNK type of mob because they really like to beat me up ; ;

The only other notable thing I can think off hand is that we helped Carste get the last of his Hakutaku eyes that he needed to synth his cluster in order to pop the NM that drops the O-Hat. We were farming Millioneyes in Den of Rancor with Myrrh and Mishaela and right as Carste got a merit point the wooden hakutaku eye dropped. It was a good thing too, because I had hoped to get to bed shortly after and felt bad that I might have to leave without him getting the drop.

And speaking of merits, SE now has a new animation which I thought was pretty neat and took a pic of. I managed to get enough merits to put another point into my sword skill, which I believe now sits around 284? I could be wrong, but I seem to recall it being around there. I think I have added 2-3 merits to sword now, and hope to do some more meriting soon to finish it off and then i'll work on enmity and MP next.