A LS member Spalko had asked to get some help for his Tachi: Kasha weaponskill quest, which involved fighting a high lvl NM beetle in Kuftal Tunnel. Originally I didn't think that we were going to have a whole lot of help for this, but when I logged in I soon found that quite a few LS members were willing to give a hand, and before you knew it we had an alliance on their way.
At the time I had been talking with Kiersten, a PLD75 in our LS about gear as he's going to be joining a sky LS soon and will be able to upgrade his gear, and he ended up offering to give a hand with the NM so I went ahead and grabbed my RDM gear instead so that he could tank it. As much as I do love tanking, sometimes I prefer being able to play my RDM and was glad I had the opportunity to do so. In the end we had a ton of LS members come out (Kraksa, Alyada, Alianne, Sirivalin, Lokelani, Kiersten, Falk and I believe another member or two) and we owned the beetle. I even managed to take some good shots, but me being the forgetful person that I am forgot to send them to my work email address so i'll have to wait to post those and update this later.
I also managed to get in 2 lvls on my DRK, taking it from 29-31. I had been invited to a Japanese party (well there was one english speaking player) and we fought goblins and mandragoras in Yhoator jungle with ease, but then again we also had a PL at the time so that really cut down our resting time. I also really got to experience the update that allows you not to lose tp when resting as long as you have signet, which was veeery useful what with me being DRK and having to use up my MP every battle.
The only thing though is that I found that playing DRK wasn't as great as I thought it was going to be. Maybe it was that I was distracted with the conversations in our LS that night (Myrrh jokingly hitting on Xean and them discussing ways to murder each other) that I wasn't focusing much on my party so I couldn't get the most out of it, but I found that there was very little for me to do but hit hit hit, cast a spell, weaponskill, hit hit hit. It wasn't as "busy" as I had found PLD or RDM to be, so I guess that's probably why I couldn't appreciate it as much. But I definitely appreciated watching my dmg sky rocket when I got Berserk, I was doing upwards to 80-100 dmg a hit! Hehe, I love my dmg ^^
Then last night, when I got home from work I had promised to help Alianne do some farming in Castle Ostroja and also get the coffer key for Terminataru who needed his RDM AF there. I think the coffer key dropped after about 30 minutes, so from that point on we just killed the coffer mobs hoping for some good spell drops for Alianne.
After about 45 minutes, Xean joined up with us on his MNK and we were killing really fast. We ended up getting 2 good scrolls (Tornado and Hojo: Ni) which were worth about 160k together, as well as various BRD scrolls worth 2-10k each. In the end, i'd say our farming session was really successful for about 3hrs.... its only too bad that right at the end some RMT decided to go after our mobs and it became an all out war on getting claim which of course we were winning.
But eventually I had to head to Bastok Mines to do dynamis. And this is where the bad moments comes in.
I've been supporting my dynamis LS SpiftasticAdventures since November. At the moment, we only do 1 run a week so in terms of progression, we're still very behind to established linkshells but we finally have the right jobs showing up every run that we no longer have to panic that we aren't going to have a full alliance. We've also finally had a few wins (Bastok, Jeuno) and have really pulled together and been perfecting our strategies.
The only thing, is that in all the time thats been put into the LS I haven't once obtained any drops, even though i've had numerous chances at lotting the 100c. Everytime, I always end up getting a low lot. Normally i've been fine with this, its just gil and even though I don't have near as much as most players that have been playing for as long as me (10 million +, I wish -_-) I have enough to allow me to continue playing so its never been a big deal... Plus, the whole point is to doing the event for the "fun aspect".
But tonight, something dropped that I very much wanted and was very very upset to lose. It was the Valor Coronet, the piece I was going to be lotting on for Bastok. The funny thing is I didn't even see it drop until I heard everyone in the LS saying "GL PLD!" and then I checked to see that it had dropped. I was estatic, because in so many months I hadn't seen it drop once.
So immediately I went and lotted and gave a quick little prayer wishing that I would have the highest lot...
Turns out, I was 10 points under the highest lotter.... Yep... ten... measly points. I know that I shouldn't be upset that I lost, but I couldn't help it because I felt that I had put in so much time, and worked very hard (I'm the main tank for our LS) and I was going to lose, by 10 points. It really did crush me, because of course i'm the type of person to be the most pessimistic when it involves myself and the thoughts going through my mind were: "It'll never drop again". And even if it were to magically drop again, I currently have about 4 other people in the LS also main lotting PLD for that zone so my chances aren't so great to getting the next one, and that just discourages me because I have always wanted to see my PLD in full Valor.
I'm sure i'll get over it, its just a piece of gear... and I know that I enjoy other things in this game far more than just getting relic gear... but even still, it felt like a loss, a victory taken away from me and being able to shrug my shoulders and say "meh" is a bit harder. *sigh*
All I know is that if I give up now, I won't ever see it so guess that's the best advice I can give myself at this point. Lets hope it works, lol.
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