Our pt headed to Temple of Uggalepih while I headed to Kazham with Josudes to help him finish his cutscenes for ZM1-4. Only problem is that I am the game's worst navigator for Yuhtunga Jungle... and well... I kinda led us to a few dead ends before we finally made it out ^^;
Getting back to the others of course wasn't a problem, because I remember the path without looking at the map. When we finally got to the others, we headed to Den of Rancor and lit our lanterns and then headed to the BCNM. Though I had told everyone to bring extra items and what not, we didn't end up having to really need anything because we completely owned the BCNM. I think it took only a couple of minutes before it was all over. After that, we decided to do the ZM5 stone monument fights in Behemoth's Dominion, The Sanctuary of Zhi'tah, Cape Terrigan and Ifrit's Cauldron. We managed to get to each very quickly and again murdered the NMs.
Over the weekend, I led the promy static i've been organizing with my LS. We did Promyvion-Mea this weekend, and though we were quite delayed (by 1.5hrs) because the static members were still farming their anima, it was a success. I didn't actually participate in the BCNM this round because Raiderx had decided to keep his account active and asked to join as he was 0/3 on the promies so I gave him my blink tank spot and led the group as a very gimp equipped WHM. (I was far too lazy to mule over my gear ^^;)
Now all thats left is Promyvion-Holla which we'll be doing next Saturday morning. After that, i'm going to be taking a break from leading the promyvion statics because after doing them for about 2-3 months I am really feeling the urge to do something else in the morning (who knows, maybe even sleep in! lol)
After this Xean's RL friend Anderoc invited us to go farm the gigas in Delfkutt's tower as he had a pop item for the Pallas Bracelets which he was going to give to me if they dropped. This was going to be our second run at trying to get these, because the first time we had tried farming them I think we went 0/4.
Well in the end we went 0/1 on Pallas and 0/1 on Alkyoneus. We decided to farm a little longer but within a short time, the entire floor was filled with RMT. Xean of course, started telling them off in say which was pretty funny... telling them to get a real job. We were claiming for the most part, but eventually we grew tired of all the RMT that started logging in and going after the place holders that we just gave up and decided to try again another time.
I really wish that SE could come up with some brilliant way to rid the game of RMT. Its bad enough that they have some pretty bad game design that makes players put in insane amounts of time to get anything in this game, but the fact that SE doesn't seem to really do anything about the RMT makes it worse. RMT takes over the NMs the legit players want to camp to make profit or camp to use the gear that drops... RMT controls and undercuts regular farmable items that legit players try to obtain to make a little gil, and in the end, this game just gets harder to play. Its not all that hard to know who is RMT and who isn't, yet SE has to apparently do a series of investigations before they can prove who is RMT and then ban the accounts... which only come back a few weeks later. Stupid SE -_-
After that, Littledipper who's a new member of our LS logged in and a bunch of us went to help him get G1 done. It was pretty fun, the 3 NMs in Xarcabard were killed very quickly... but then that could be expected when you have a lvl 75 MNK (Xean), 2x lvl 75 SAM (Raiderx and Spalko) and a bunch of extra mages and plds with a range of lvls. I know that people say its not the same now that high lvls can go and complete your missions and quests for you where as when the game first came out, you needed alliances to do these... but even still, doing it with our LS is still a blast. I think our DDs had fun trying to see who was going to tank the NMs.
When we were done with this, me and Xean tried to seek on our WHM and NIN. We're still at lvl 65, and didn't manage to get a party that night. We did get invites from a few players, but of course these people just wanted to nab us because once you have a healer and tank, all you need is a refresher and you're set. Only problem was that there wasn't a refresher around, and we didn't want to wait in an incomplete party waiting on one to appear and missing the chance of getting an invite as replacements.
We eventually gave up seeking and were getting ready to logoff when Carste asked me to give him a hand with the avatar prime fights so that he could finish getting his whispers and be able to fight Fenrir. So I geared up as RDM/NIN and we headed off to go do Shiva first, with the help of my personal WHM Xean who gave us a lift to the protocrystals.
After we obliverated Shiva, we went after Titan. And of course...on the way to Titan I made us take a wrong turn so we had to escape and re-enter Quicksands. <_<;
Titan was also really easy, but I definitely had to be more focused because he hit really fast and I wasn't evading as often as I had expected, which meant I had to keep recasting shadows. But eventually he went down. I was going to get Carste his Ifrit that night, but I still had the whisper of flames on me so I had to turn it in first... and because SE enjoys making us put more time into the game, that meant I would have to wait 24hrs before I could get another turning fork to fight Ifrit, which I did the next day and got for Carste.
Sunday started off with the LS helping out Shaolina on her PLD AF3 fight with 2 orc NMs in Davoi. We cleared out the area and got her to pop the NMs. I soloed the RNG on my RDM/NIN while Sirivalin tanked the PLD orc and everyone helped him take it down. The start of the battle was a little rough because I had originally targeted Siri's Orc, and Shaolina had voked mine so I had to nuke a bit to get hate for mine. After about 10 minutes though, both orcs were nothing more than a pile of dust.
Then I was invited to go Diabolos for a friend of Aserati's. Seeing as I needed the demon avatar (only one I didn't have) I agreed. I was asked to come as RDM/DRK to stun, which was going to be the first time I acted as a stunner so I was a little nervous. One interesting thing I found out is that when i'm RDM/DRK, my MP is --> 666 o.O;;
When we got to the BCNM, our WAR had d/ced so Lokelani, Sirivalin and myself decided to go trio Diabolos for laughs. We went in, buffed and I just started stunning while keeping everyone refreshed and dispelling as needed. We managed to get him down to about 97% before he got us with his Nightmare move which puts a very strong bio on everyone and sleeps them (and the sleep can't be negated with poison) When we finally awoke, I was getting low on MP so I did convert, but I guess the Bio I had must of been stronger than I had thought because with 19 MP, I ended up dying before I could cure myself (which was tied into my convert macro). It wasn't too long until Sirivalin died, and then Lokelani soloed him for all of 2 seconds lol.
Finally after waiting about an hour, we were ready to fight him for real. Our setup was WHM, WHM, BLM, RDM/DRK, PLD, WAR. We were prepared to use our 2hrs, but we were going to wait a while. Our first attempt failed with Diabolos at about 60%. I wasn't able to stop his Nightmare in time, and he just ended up annihilating us.
Our second attempt we were able to get him down to 40%, but again with the Nightmare move we ended up getting owned. I blame my stun not being fast enough on my keyboard, because you have to hit the keys a few times before they work but no matter what, my stun wasn't there when it needed to be and we wiped again. I would of been fine this time, because I knew where I had gone wrong but our WAR who had been the last survivor decided to use her 2hr when Diabolos was at 40%.... and she only had 200hp, and the rest of the pt was dead. She wasted the 2hr, which meant that we would have to wait another 2hrs before it would be available again.
In the end, we decided to give it one more shot. Only this time Aserati decided to replace himself with another BLM so that we wouldn't have 2 WHM. This round we managed to get Diabolos down to 2% before we wiped. I was so ticked, because I'm sure that I could of nuked that last 2% too. I had chainspelled when I got low on MP and was going to stun him like crazy but right after I used chainspell, he used Nightmare -_-.
So after that wipe, Siri and Lokelani decided to go xp. Our party decided to have me change to PLD and I invited Alianne along as WHM. The pt then asked a friend RDM/DRK to come fill my previous spot, and this time... WE WON! It got really close too because at the very end, the 2 BLMs took hate and I couldn't get it back as I had already used my 2hr earlier in the battle which wore and Diabolos was about to kill them but someone got in the final nuke and the demon went down!
So now I am a lvl 14 SMN with all the avatars and an evoker's ring! I'm hoping to start lvling my SMN this week or on the weekend, because i'd like to use it as a subjob on my WHM... and plus it would be nice to get SMN to 75 one day seeing as when Xean first told me about the game, I told him SMN was going to be my job =P
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