(Keeper of Halidom never stood a chance against ME! Haha!)
(Scenic pic I took of The Sanctuary of Zhi'tah. Not only does it have the best music in the game in my opinion, but its also the best looking zone)
When I finally got up to Sky, I was told that I needed to enter Ve'Lugannon Palace from "2.2". Of course I had no clue what this meant considering I had only been in Sky on a few occasions (Divine Might and 1 Kirin Fight I was guided to) so I gave a guess that it referred to the "island" and the entrance on the island.
Well I pretty much got that part right, but I didn't have the direction right for where I thought "Island #2" would be, because instead of heading in a counterclock direction to get to the right island, I headed clockwise and ended up on the wrong one. But it was alright, because one of the LS members was kind enough to exit and come get me. I think I have a better hang of how the maps work now, so I should be able to navigate a little easier next time.
Anyways, we were farming some golem statues for a good two hours, and I noticed that the xp wasn't so bad so I changed back to "experience points" from my merits considering I had a few deaths on my RDM and me being the paranoid person that I am, wanted to make sure I had a good buffer. Turns out that farming these guys can also be a little bit profitable, as they drop Golem Shards and Mythril Ores which I can give to Xean to use to craft with, so it wasn't too bad. But eventually after hearing that one of the NMs were up in another zone, we were all in a rush to beat the RMT to it. While zoning into one of the areas, I also ended up getting another cutscene with Lion which I assume means I might of completed another ZM o.o;
Most of us made it to the spot where "Mother Globe" was, but a few had gotten lost and stuck behind a gate. We would of sent someone down to get them and waited for everyone, but the RMT were gathering and the leaders decided to take chances and claim it. We were doing good for the most part, but unfortunately there were many of us that were new (myself included) and we weren't on top of everything that we should have been and eventually we all ended up wiping. I was fine with the death, but the rest of the LS was quite upset because RMT had gotten the claim and killed it. Plus a good majority of the LS were upset just because they don't seem to understand that when you're starting something new, there's a learning process and many of us were still in that phase. I felt bad for the leaders, because they had to give a little speeches to try and restore the confidence in some people that were doubting the LS, and I know from experience that it can be stressful trying to counter the negative feelings people will hold when something bad goes wrong, and having them believe in teamwork and trying better next time.
Then Friday night came, and I was suppose to finally start the Zilart Mission - Sky static I started with my LS for the members that need Sky. Everyone was logging in, and things seemed promising until our BLM Carste had a change in his plans and was going to have company that he had to attend to that night. Seeing as we didn't want to leave him on his own to complete the mission with trying his luck in Jeuno shouts, and because we didn't want to do the mission a second time (ZM4) we decided to reschedule for next Friday which I'm keeping my fingers crossed will actually happen.
So for the rest of the night, me and Xean headed out to help Maharo and Shaoulin get their carbuncle mitts in Temple of Uggalepih. We at first thought they had their offering which is an item needed to trade to a ??? to spawn the tonberry NM that drops Carbuncle Mitts, but I guess we hadn't paid close attention to the chat in LS and they actually needed the trade item.
So for the rest of the night, our group just farmed the tonberries near the spawn location while Myrrh went back and forth to the various ??? locations to try and get an offering. The offering respawn time is suppose to have 2hrs, but we were there for about 3-4hrs before Myrrh finally got it, which was RIGHT as we were about to disband because it was midnight or later for most of us. When Myrrh finally made it to the rest of us, we spawned the tonberry and in the end I pretty much just stood there swinging my sword while the tonberry beat up Xean because he used his hundred fists, lol. It was a success, and even though poor Maharo had suffered a lot of AoE deaths from the statues we killed waiting, I think we all had some fun.
When I logged in Saturday morning to get ready for Promyvion-Mea, I had a feeling that someone might not show up and that I should check our LS forum to see if anyone had posted they were going to be absent. Turns out my feeling was right, because poor Enlenne was feeling sick and wasn't going to be logging in. I decided to call off the run and reschedule because I would rather do the runs only as often as necessary.
So instead, I went and helped Spalko farm Jody's Acid from malboros for his ToAU mission. Xean came along and helped and we got the drop on the first kill. We started discussing what we were going to do next, but because I had lent my RDM gear to my friend Josudes who was going to go and try Maat, there was little I could do at the time until I had my gear back. By the time we agreed to do a BCNM run "Under Observation", I had to logout to go and do some groceries.
When I got back though, we decided to finish up the ToAU mission for Spalko and we headed out to Caedarva Mire to go fight the fomor (Interesting fact: I seem to keep spelling that word as "f o r m o r" and not as "fomor". I have no idea why o.o;) Alianne came out to give us a hand, and though I was suppose to be tanking on my RDM my dmg just wasn't enough and Spalko and Xean ended up tanking most of the fight... but we won, and had no deaths!
(Yep, that's Xean taking hate with his Hexa Strike -_-;)
After completing the ToAU mission, a bunch of TheBrotherhood headed out to fight the NM for the rutter sabatons. Spalko and Lokelani both had the item needed to trade, and after 2 smooth battles both ended up getting their drops. So we were 2/2 with the drops, which I would say is a decent rate.
(Akichu tanking on NIN, Xean on MNK, Spalko on SAM, me and Lilstitch on RDM and Alianne & Lokelani on WHM)
Then for the rest of the night me and Xean decided to lvl our WHM and NIN which we got to lvl 64. We were in a mostly japanese party which turned out to be really great. For some reason in the past, everytime we were with japanese players they always seemed to be worse than the stereotypical NA player... so unlike a lot of people, when we hear we're going to be invited to a mostly JP party our response is "meh, so what?" where as the rest of the world seems to be "OMG!!! JP PLAYERS ARE SOO SKILLED AND AWESOME! THEY ARE LEET!!". Yeah, just a tad overated I say.
But this party we had that went from 8pm - 2am was really good and got us our lvl. We actually ended up staying up later than intended because of some LS issues that we had to resolve, but guess in the end it was good because it left us with about 8k to our next lvl!
Then Sunday I logged in late because I had decided to be lazy and sit on my couch eating brunch and watching "The Holiday" while Xean was at church. When I did finally login, I got an invite on my RDM to a party which I had initially thought was going to be a manaburn. Boy was I wrong.
First, we really lacked some "real" DD because our party setup was RDM, BLM, PLD, SMN, SMN, RNG. Second, our PLD obviously didn't know the difference between "sky tanking gear" and "xp tanking gear". She was entirely equipped in HP+ gear, which gives her no benefit because the mobs we were fighting weren't going to do hundred fists or give her a one hit kill. And of course, her HP+ gear led to our mages getting hate easier than usual which meant more healing. And to top it off, the party leader had us set camp outside Nyzul in Bhaflau Thickets to kill Mamool..... and I had told him before, that because there are only like 7 mamool there, it could only really support one camp and chances are, there would be a camp there.... and I was right.
But our leader assured me we would get more than chain#3, so I went regardless not wanting to seem too picky which I've found i've become since being on my RDM and having the opportunity to get into some great cannon parties. After about 3 kills, we were waiting on repops and I knew then that the xp was going to be really slow.... and again, I was right. Within 1 hr, we had only gained maaaaaybe 3k xp total, and considering we were in a ToAU area with sanction, we really should of been getting double that. So after an hour, I got myself a replacement and took another break until Xean got home.
Wanting to get another lvl in before the end of the weekend, we decided to seek again on WHM and NIN and ended up getting a semi-decent party. The thf was a little slow on pulls, and our WAR wasn't doing any decent damage but we seemed to be doing ok getting chain #5 so we continued. About an hour later, half the party said they had to go and it was decided the party would disband which sucked because me and Xean were within 2k from lvling -_-
So we had our seeks up for a little longer and eventually decided to go farm some moblins to get moblin thread. Lately we've been looking into things to farm that will have a decent drop rate, and sell for something decent but unfortunately Xean's curse of having TH-100 always seems to affect our farming sessions. We had farmed a few nights ago on some Buffalo out in Uleguerand Range and only managed to get 2 pieces within an hour and a half I believe.
I'm sure our farming session on moblins might of been a little better if we had stayed longer, but I had started getting sick earlier that night and about 30 minutes later, Xean pretty much told me I needed to get some sleep and rest up (I love that he's concerned like that... he's great at taking care of me when i'm sick ; ;) so we logged for the night.
Oh, and one thing I forgot is that earlier on friday night, our friend Anderoc had invited me and Xean to go and pop the NM Pallas in Delfkutt's tower as he had the pop item and wanted me to get the bracelets as he already had them. So we went up there, and popped Pallas which was a quick win... but no drop. Because we all had a bit of time left, we decided to try and get another pop item for Pallas by killing the giants around the area. I think in total we went 0/3 on Pallas, and even managed to pop the other NM on the highest lvl but we didn't get the drop on those bracelets either.
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