Joyeuse MINE! 2 yrs later...

Well quite a few updates. First is that I was able to get my DRK to 37. On Thursday when I got home from work, I put my seek up and waited for a very long time on an invite, but of course none ever came my way. Finally when Xean got home, he offered to PL me so we headed to Garlaige Citadel and began killing some bats, but it was taking a very long time for me to kill them by myself. Eventually we decided it might be better if we tried some lower lvl mobs, and so we headed out to Yuhtunga Jungle where I went to go kill the fish outside Sea Serpent Grotto. After my first kill, I got an invite... go figure, lol.

So off I went to Garlaige and partied for just over an hour. I managed to get from 34-35 in that party, but of course my goal had been to get 37 to finish with the job and make it available as a sub on my RDM. So Xean and myself headed back to Yuhtunga and I began killing again...


That is, until Xean spotted the NM Meew The Turtlerider. Xean didn't want to waste time killing it, but I had really wanted to have the opportunity to take down an NM I had never fought. I should of listened to Xean because he told me we shouldn't.... but my stubborness ruled out and because Xean always has my happiness in mind, we started attacking the NM and his little group of sahagins. We thought it was going to be a piece of cake, but the NM was barely taking any damage, and after we got it down to about 60% it used benediction -_-


So in the end, because it was taking forever to kill we just zoned him and headed back to get my lvl. It was going pretty smoothly, and near the end of the night we even had a little monkey friend come out to watch! ^^


Sadly though, I was burnt out and couldn't stay awake too much longer (it was close to 2am) so we headed off to bed. We resumed the next morning and I finally hit lvl 37. I had honestly thought that DRK was going to be my next DD job to 75, but for some reason playing it from 29-37 I really couldn't find any enjoyment and so I sent back all my DD gear, and sold any DRK only gear and put the job into retirement.

Afterwards, me and Xean decided to head to Castle Ostroja to go kill the NM Yaa Haqa The Profane which drops a Frost Robe that Xean needed to complete his subligar quest (Ranparee Harness) for his THF. We headed up to the room where the switch is, and killed the two place holders. We sat and waited for repops, and to our surprise the NM spawned right away which was really nice because we always seem to have the most aweful luck when it comes to getting a lottery spawn NM to pop. We didn't end up getting a Gaia Doublet which I believe drops from the NM, but the Frost Robe did drop.



I had to go out for a bit after this, but when I got back me and Xean decided we would try and camp Charybdis in Sea Serpent Grotto. I had decided that this was going to be the weekend I would devote to getting my Joyeuse... after 2 years of waiting.

So we headed down there, and I had every intention of soloing him (though in the end its a good thing I didn't, because I have no merits on my RDM and from what I heard, he may have easily pwned me if I made one wrong move). Me and Xean sat there with about 10 other people, waiting for the place holders to pop. Eventually our friend Josudes joined up with us and helped us keep an eye out for the NM.

I think we were there for about 2-3hrs, when finally the NM popped. Unfortunately we didn't get claim, but at least we had the new ToD. Only downside is it was late at night, and eventually we would have to get some sleep. Seeing as the window was going to open in 8hrs, we went right to bed and I set my alarm to be up the next morning at 6am, and left a few msgs to friends to see if anyone could give a hand.


I was really lucky, because I had quite a turnout when I logged on. Two LS members Kraksa (BRD) and Alianne (WHM) were ready to camp with us, and two friends Arezael and Anderoc (both NIN) came out to help tank it. I was really happy because not only did I have enough help now, but there were no counter campers!

However.... I wasn't about to have it made THAT easy for me. We killed placeholders for about 7hrs after the "window" had opened for Charybdis to pop. SEVEN FRIGGIN HOURS!!!!! I honestly feared that the help I had would have to leave before he'd even pop.... but 60 Devil Mantas and numerous Sahagins later (including an NM that dropped a rare/ex DRG spear) Chary finally decided to pay me a visit!!!!

I was so happy when I finally saw him pop, but about a second later I was filled with guilt because after Arezael had voked it he went down in seconds. I'm not sure if he had been one shotted or if I had been too excited to see that within those first few seconds his health was going down, but the next thing I knew he was dead beside me.

Thankfully we had 2 WHM75s with us, so he got a R3 and Anderoc continued to tank. I enfeebled as often as possible, Kraksa kept our songs up and Alianne and Xean took care of the healing. Then when Chary's health got down to about 20%, I went and chainspelled him with Blizzard III and nuked his ass. (I did just under 600 per cast, not bad for a RDM)





And now I get to sport this beautiful Joyeuse around on both my PLD and RDM!!!
(BIG THANKS to Alianne, Kraksa, Arezael, Anderoc and Xean for getting me this.... this is one of the goals I had in the game, and you've helped me accomplish it ^^)

Later that night, Josudes asked if we could do a BCNM with him. We decided to do Royal Jelly, which me and Xean had done with success in the past. He was going to come as NIN, i'd come as WAR/NIN and Josudes would be RDM. We were all set, two orbs ready and eager to make a little gil....

Well... that is until we entered and I was standing there half naked. For some messed up reason, I didn't really pay attention to my gear that I had muled over for my WAR, and the majority of it including the weapons were lvl 40+ gear, where as this BCNM was a lvl 40 cap. So we had to leave, which meant that we had wasted an orb. I felt really bad because I'm always good at being prepared for events, and for whatever reason I wasn't smart enough to look at my gear and realize it was lvl 40+.

So I went to Bastok, grabbed a GreatAxe and the rest of my lvl 40 cap gear, and we went in again. Me and Xean were doing really good timewise. I don't know if he was doing a lot of damage on his NIN, but I know that my GA didn't miss once the entire fight and I was just hacking those jellies to death, especially with my sturmwind which had been the reason Xean had suggested I bring GA instead of axes. I think two jelly almost got close, but me and Xean killed them quickly and prevented them from turning into the "Princess Jelly" which could of done some nasty damage. In the end, we had a smooth run but as Xean's luck always follows him, we had nothing decent for drops so I let Josudes lot on the items and promised to donate an orb on a future run for having wasted his.



On Sunday, I woke up and one of our LS members Mightynewt had requested help on his PLD testimony. So I went out to Beadeaux with a bunch of other LS members and we started killing Darksteel Quadav. We were farming for just over 3hrs when finally a test dropped.

By that time, Xean had come home and so we decided to go merit with Alianne, Spalko and Shaoulin who was playing on his other character Karihkinz. I couldn't find a tank at the time, so I switched to PLD and invited a JP RDM.

Overall the party was great, I was able to add a total of 2 more merits to my sword skill over the weekend (I had found time to merit with Alianne the day before as well) and we were probably pulling close to 10k/hr getting consistent chain 6's on Colibri. The only problem I found, is that because the pulls were so quick I didn't always have my job abilities available when I needed them, and because the mages were doing their job a little too well, I wasn't really able to heal much. Eventually I told them to take it a little easy on the healing, so that I could pull out some Cure IVs and keep hate against the melee that were just spamming their weaponskills which definitely helped... but of course, I think it made them feel like they were leeching xp because they usually had more than 500mp and some fights would even have full. But it was good, by the end I wasn't feeling so rusty tanking anymore.

And then to finish the night, Xean went to unlock BRD and I went to go PL him in West Ronfaure. I need to get my SMN to 37 to sub on my WHM, and because SMN had always been the first job I wanted to take to 75 when I first started this game (but due to the difficulty of obtaining the avatars without knowing any high lvls decided to put on hold) and so I decided that SMN would be the next job i'd take to 75 after my WHM and my WAR.


But because of all the difficulty i'd heard with other SMNs in our linkshell having a hard time getting a party, I asked Xean if he would mind taking his BRD to lvl with me to help get invites easier, which he agreed to. So for the rest of the night, he stabbed bunnies and sheep while I stood around in my wedding dress healing him. ^^