I'm relieved that I no longer have to spend 2 nights "off" from helping out my LS with events and spending time with Xean, but at the same time i'm a bit annoyed that I wasn't able to obtain my koenig gear (hands and head piece). I'm happy that I no longer have to endure the bad leadership that existed in CrimsonSky, because honestly that was one thing that drove me nuts everytime I went up there. The fact that the leaders (except for one) would hardly ever reply to questions asked in LS, or when you would send them /tells they'd pretend they were AFK and not respond even though it was obvious they weren't. And it was just aggravating not seeing any friendliness come out of the leadership from that LS, there was definitely a lack of respect. A leader should never swear or type in all caps lock to their members, because that's speaking down to them. Speak down to a person, and you'll never gain their respect. So while i'm thrilled that I no longer have to put up with all the crap and I can now spend more time helping my social/event ls... I still wish I had at least been able to obtain the Koenig gear I was after. Chances are, I won't be able to see this stuff for a loooong time because of all the current linkshells out there, none can accomadate my schedule.
Ok, so now for the very long update ~ My weekend!
During the week, Xean and I had finally hit lvl 72 on our WHM and NIN. He was pretty psyched because he now had even more haste gear, which he wanted to test out right away. Before logging out we decided to kill a few manticores in Altepa Desert, hoping to get a few manticore hairs which I used to craft. (I'm in the process of raising my clothcraft on Zerayla, which is now at lvl 28) Yeah... Xean really likes his haste gear >=O
On Saturday, it was "CoP" from 10am - 10:30pm. Yup, about 12 hrs of pure CoP missions and cutscenes. I managed to finish 5.3 - Three Paths and get all the way up to 6.4 before the end of the night. So far the story is a little unclear to me, which is probably mainly due to me not paying attention to the first chapters....
Anyways, we started off by heading to do the Snoll BCNM fight in Bearclaw Pinnacle. Sirivalin had been nice enough to buy the cluster cores which you trade to an orc on the way, which then gives you a Shu'Meyo Salt which is a rare/ex item used on the actual NM to prolong the fight. If you don't have these items, its virtually impossible to win unless you can unload a massive amount of damage within 30 seconds because the NM does a move which will "blow" your party outside the BCNM if you don't kill him fast enough... so with these items, we were able to have a few time extensions.
Unfortunately though, our first attempt failed and we were removed from the BCNM. Because we had used our 2hrs, we decided that we would continue on with some of the other parts of 5.3 and come back later. We finished some more cutscenes we had in Jeuno, and then headed up to Delfkutt's Tower to fight a weak NM and get some more cutscenes. By the time we were finished, we were able to head back out and try the snoll BCNM again. This time Lokelani bought the cluster cores for us which was really nice of her. When we got to the BCNM, we were all ready and thought for sure we'd win, but sadly at the very end when Sirivalin had been casting some of his ancient magic, he wasn't able to use his salt item and we were kicked from the battle. This time we had gotten the snoll down to about 2%, so it was a bit frustrating. Thankfully though, everyone kept a good attitude and we decided to complete some of Tenzen's path in the meantime.
This was actually quite an entertaining point in the day. We had to go through Pso'Xja, and at one point because the camera had rotated I ended up getting myself and Xean lost. About 10 minutes later we were finally able to catch up with everyone but when we got to the area where we had to get a cutscene, poor Alianne had gotten aggro while trying to cast sneak because there was lots of magic aggro around. And because Alianne had died in an area with magic aggro, this made it virtually impossible to raise him, but Lokelani still gave it a go because we didn't have much of a choice.
While Lokelani was raising Alianne, myself and Xean had been in cutscene nearby and as soon as I got out, I ended up also getting aggro because I wasn't very far from the mobs that had gone after Lokelani and Sirivalin. But, Kiersten saved the day because he was able to raise me from the top floor, because I had died on the elevator. It was kinda funny the way I died, it looked like I was some kind of sacrifice, lol. But anyways we managed to get everyone up with tractor, and we escaped and headed back to try the snoll BCNM.
Third time is a charm, is how the saying goes and that was definitely how it was for us. It was actually really close though, because Xean had died and the chat log had shown the snoll using his move that would remove us from the BCNM, but luckily Alianne got off another astral flow just in time and we killed it. We were all really happy to have that fight done and over with, because frankly it was getting a little expensive. I think i'm gonna have to make some food for Sirivalin and Lokelani for having bought us the cluster cores all those times. x_x
And to finish off 5.3, we had to go to the mine shaft through Newton Movapolas for a very easy BCNM. I actually enjoyed this one, because there was a lot for me to do. We had Kiersten kite about 6 goblins, while Xean would pull one and the rest of us would kill them one by one. The fight went pretty smooth, and the only death had been Lokelani's but she had been able to reraise during the battle and I helped heal near the end.We had planned to do the airship fight, which I believe is 6.4 but Kiersten had to logoff because it was close to 2am for him. So Xean, Alianne and myself went ahead and did the cutscenes in between to be ready for the fight on our next static meeting. Hopefully we'll finally have sea by the end of our next session.
Oh, and we also managed to get Xean's rare/ex katana from the KSNM30: Operation Desert Storm. We did a total of 12 runs with Xean, Carste, Akichu, Alianne, Spalko and myself. I got to go as RDM/NIN which was a lot of fun, and even though I wasn't able to kill as fast I was able to take care of myself and help enfeeble here and there. By the end, we had 3 V. Claws, 3 O.Ingots and 1 Serket Ring which should give us each about 450k or more.
I also managed to get my SMN to lvl 19. I have to say the party was pretty good, but the one leading it was a bit of an arse. He kept talking to us all as if we were new to the game, and didn't know the most basic of things. It began to get annoying, especially when he had to tell me how to get from whitegate to jeuno, using the pay warp tarutaru. -_-
And the best part of the entire weekend, was the farming session me and Xean did. We headed to Castle Oztroja and began killing coffer mobs. After about 2hrs I suggested we go kill the NM in the G3 area where you obtain the crest. This of course led to us going to the very top of the area where we fought a few more NMs, one of which was a SMN. The SMN of course got to use his 2hr on us, which we weren't expecting because his air elemental had been slept and we didn't think he would be able to summon an actual avatar (why hello thar Leviathan!). After killing the NMs at the top, we decided to take pics feeling as if we had taken over the Yagudo domain >=]
And last thing to note, I finally visited that island where you can do clamming. I had never taken the ferry there, but one of our CoP cutscenes led us to the island and I was really impressed with the scenary and had to take a pic which Xean poked fun at me for. Yes I have an addiction with taking screenshots <_<
Anyways, this place reminds me of the town where Yuna and Waka are from, in FFX. I always loved that little area, the music was fun and relaxing.
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