We finally got ourselves a decent party though, so I couldn't complain. We were fighting Puks which was giving us 200-400xp per kill, and we were easily getting chain 5. At first the xp was a little slow though because our party was mostly 58/59, so it was taking us longer to kill the mobs but eventually we lvled and it got a lot easier. I went from having 10k tnl (lvl 60) to having about 5k tnl (lvl 61). I even got to cast my first Raise II on our BRD who had pulled a little too eagerly before the mob we were fighting had been killed off.... which also reminded me of why I don't think i'll be taking BRD to 75, I really don't like pulling unless i'm on WAR or THF and I don't particularily like the idea of chancing deaths like they do.
Sunday I woke up and decided to take up a friend Carste on his offer to help me farm some more Royal Jelly which is a rare/ex item used in my final recipe "Cursed Soup" which is suppose to take me from lvl 99-100. I figured because it was full moon, I would get lucky and get a skillup at the very least...
Yeah I love when my guesses are right.... -_-
Again, I spent a few hours farming and had nothing to show for it. Out of 8 synths, I had 0 skillups. The last time I had farmed, I had gotten 13 synths and also had 0 skillups so once again, I was quite annoyed. I was pretty much trying to get myself to face the reality that maybe it wasn't worth it to get my cooking to 100, because i'd be able to craft what I needed fine at lvl 99+2. The only reason I "want" 100, is so that I can increase my chance of HQ but now i'm not sure thats a big deal anymore... I think I just want to see that lvl 100 beside my name to add to one of my accomplishments... but now i'm not sure its worth the irritation of working towards. Likely i'll just farm up my Royal Jelly when i'm really bored, or if I can get some help from a friend so that its not a complete waste because at least I can catch up with friends and chat while i'm doing the farming.
(Yes, I was doing clothcraft in my cooking clothes <_<;;) So after that, I headed to Windurst and decided to lvl up my clothcraft a little more. My plan is to eventually have all my other crafts at lvl 60, and so far I think i'm doing good working on it a little at a time. I managed to go from Clothcraft 3-7 though I didn't get any of what I put into those lvls back. Its ok though, it was only maybe 20k total that I spent and i've been using some of my Imperial Standing lately to buy bronze coins and sell them on the AH, so I do have some gil coming in. And I also managed to take my Alchemy from 28-31 and in that, I should be making profit down the road because the item I crafted (Artificial Lens) will be used in making Invisible Powder down the road, which is an easy seller. Next up I have potions to craft, which look fairly cheap and thanks to Carste and Chpal, I have plenty of crystals to keep me going in all my crafts (thanks guys!!)
And before getting set for our subligar run, one of our LS members Alianne had asked for a raise in Qufim. He had been partying on his BLU and ended up getting aggro from a giant while the rest of his party had been AFK. Normally I wouldn't of had a problem because accidents happen, but what bothered me was that his pt had pretty much decided to disband, and not bother trying to find him a raise! So of course I got my WHM and outpost warped there to give him one, but I made sure to tell the party members (particularily one who is notorious for been an arse and inconsiderate) what I thought of them. Ali has always been one of the LS members going out of his way to help me, never expecting anything in return so of course I made sure to repay the favor... only wish I could of helped him lvl more on his BLU which he wants to get ready to do some BCNMs it looks like.
When Xean finally logged in, we headed off to Phomiuna Aqueducts with our LS (Sirivalin, Lokelani, Falk, Demonwolf, Kraska and Alianne) to farm some subligars. As usual, we ended up with a lot of unwanted subligars but all in all it was fun. Kraska got his BRD/BST subligar, Falk got his WHM subligar, Lokelani got her DRK subligar and Xean got his THF subligar.
It really sucked though because we had wanted to get 2 more THF subligars for Lokelani and Demonwolf, but our THF formor barely popped and when it did, it would never drop. It was a surprise to us all when it finally did, and even more of a surprise when Xean lotted above 900 for it, only to hear Lokelani say she was going to pass it because she couldn't equip it yet on her THF where as Xean could. Xean found it humorous, because everytime he has no competition he always gets a high lot, but whenever he does, he has the lowest lot... I think we're both convinced he has some GM following him around intentionally trying to make Xean's luck worse, lol.
Our subligar run went on for a few hours but eventually Falk, Demonwolf and Kraska had to leave. We were still able to handle the formors, but one accidental link pull lead to a party wipe. But luckily Myrrh had come out to give us a hand, and came as WHM to raise us all, which allowed us to get in another 30ish minutes of farming which ended up giving me a DRK subligar. I'm not quite sure if i'll be taking DRK up to 75, but it is a job I think I could enjoy.
And aside from that me and Xean finished up some cutscenes for CoP so that we'd be ready to continue with our static which will hopefully pick up next Saturday. We have our anima farmed for promyvion-vazhl, and hopefully everyone will be able to make it so that we can continue.
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