Zerayla the Warrior is back again!

After months of having my WAR gear gather dust while sitting on my mannequin in my storage, I finally got to take it out and level up my WAR. Xean had been wanting to get his THF a little higher, so that he could contribute more to our farming sessions with his treasure hunter II, and seeing as in the last few months we haven't really had a chance to farm our funds have been getting a little low. Of course it doesn't help that I kinda went on a shopping spree and picked myself up a few upgrades for my RDM >_>;

Anyways, we got setup and began seeking. We were both lvl 58, and about 15 minutes into seeking I got a party invite. We headed out to Wajaom Woodlands and began fighting colibri, which I learned are a melee's worst enemy. Xean had told me that I should buy some squid sushi because the mobs eat your food with a move called "Snatch Morsel", so at least if they were going to be eating my food I wouldn't be losing out on too much, gil-wise.

After losing about half my stack, I decided to gimp the party a little bit and just not eat food altogether. Though we had Xean on his THF helping with the hate control on our NIN, my rampage would sometimes hit too hard and the NIN had a hard time getting hate back before i'd lose my food. I guess I could of waited to finish off the mob with my weaponskill, but I don't believe my ACC was that much worse without food because we were still getting chain 6's.



We ended up getting well over 16k in that session, and both me and Xean hit lvl 69. I finally got to equip my haubergeon as well as my ugly purple sipaphi turban, which I had changed to "not head gear" dat. I am not going to spend hours staring at the ugly thing while lvling on my WAR >_<

Then yesterday, I spent helping out Kraksa with his Opo-opo crown items. We headed up to Ifrit's Cauldron to go fight Hurricane Wyverns for the Wyvern Skull, but unfortunately we were a little delayed because I had thought I knew the way.... when really I didn't. But that's ok, after taking a few scenic routes, we eventually found the wyverns! And, we even found the NM Vouivre that I was very tempted to solo on my RDM/NIN, but because Kraksa had little time to be online I had to pass on it.

(I'll get you one day Vouivre!!!)

We were eventually joined up by with Alianne, who came to give us a hand which was really helpful. The mobs I believe are around lvl 80 (or a little lower) and they hit pretty fast. I could of soloed them but because I hadn't brougth my shield, my stoneskin wasn't lasting very long and sometimes I couldn't get my shadows up fast enough before taking a hit. About 2hrs later, just as Kraksa had decided that we would only fight a few mobs before he had to logout, we were on what was to be our "last" wyvern. Sure enough, the skull dropped! So now Kraksa has all his opo-opo crown items, and he'll be turning them in to get his crown.

After we finished up with that, me and Xean decided to give Alianne a hand learning a few BLU spells. The first one was Wild Carrot which Alianne learned after about the 5th or 6th mob. Then we headed to Ranguemont Pass and started killing the Tasai for Death Ray. I think we only spent about an hour there before it was learned.

With not a lot of time left to seek for party, I decided to take the ship to Mhaura to Selbina in hopes of killing the Crossbones on the ship for a Sand Charm, which is a rare/ex item used to get the map to Bostinaux Oubliette. It took me my second trip to get the item, but of course I had to head back to Mhaura.

And aside from that, in between helping members in the last couple of days me and Xean went to go and try to get me a Tungi Axe dropped from an NM Tribunis VII-1. In order to make this NM spawn, you need to go to a few different places in Quicksand caves and find a ???, and when you click on this you can get an antican tag, which you then trade to another ??? which spawns the NM.

(I just loved this shot of me, I thought it was a really neat pose. Wish I could take more pics like this)

Well the first time I went looking for the ???, I found it within 15 minutes and me and Xean headed out to go kill the NM. It was a pretty fun fight, very easy because I was /nin, but unfortunately the Tungi didn't drop. I got a butt load of other ores though so it wasn't too bad, maybe made about a 20k profit.

Because the respawn time of the ??? for the antican is 2hrs, me and Xean couldn't fight the NM right away so we had headed out to party on our WAR and THF. When that party was over, we headed back to Quicksand caves to get my antican tag. Easier said than done.... we were there for 2hrs, looking for it (someone must have gotten it just before us)

(Me and Xean having one of those "aww moments". He can be really sweet when he wants to be ^^)

Finally Xean managed to find the ??? and we headed back to the spawn location. Again, the fight was a blast and went by really quickly. And this time, Xean's TH II seemed to work because I got the drop!!! I had heard some people going 1/11 on this, so I was really happy that I was only 1/2. Now I just need to gain one more level before I can try it out! And then 3 more levels until I can use my Francisca which has been sitting in storage since last year <_<