First, I was disappointed to find out that the Bomb Queen Ring run that my sky LS had planned to do friday night ended up being cancelled. I had made sure to be home before the run started, and headed out to Ifrit's Cauldron ready to help and also to hopefully trade my items to be able to get my ring... however only about 8 people were willing to come help which wasn't enough to do the event. So once again, had to put my pop items back in storage where they will wait until I can find a run that I can join.
Despite that let down, the night got better. Everyone showed for the ZM static I had organized to help a few LS members get access to Sky. We started with ZM6 which was an antican fight in Quicksand Caves. Our group consisted of myself (PLD), Xean (MNK), Carste (BLM), Alianne (SMN), Falk (WHM) and Raiderx (SAM). Like our ZM4 battle, this was a piece of cake.
When we were done, we headed to Delfkutt's Tower for the ZM8 BCNM. I had everyone save their 2hrs, because I didn't want to have any deaths and didn't want to waste time as we had a lot to do that night. We went in and I remember the chat log going by really fast that I couldn't see when Kam'lanaut used any of his special abilities that either did dispelga, silencega, slowga or his hate resetting ability. But luckily with everyone's 2hr, we didn't really need to pay attention because once those went off the battle was over. In a way it felt like we cheated because we kinda went all out, but I wasn't complaining because we were able to continue with the missions.
Me and Xean waited in Jeuno for about an hour and a bit while the rest of the group went about to do their cutscenes. When they were done, we headed back to Quicksand Caves for the final fight against a magic pot, which definitely wasn't anything to worry about.
Finally, me and Xean took everyone to the Hall of Gods and brought them through to Ru'Aun Gardens. We all took screenshots to remember the accomplishment. I have to say that I enjoyed doing the ZM a lot more than I thought I would, and having a group that listened very well to instructions and came prepared probably contributed to that. I think we all had fun throughout the mission and i'm looking forward to being able to do these again for other LS members when they're ready.
After showing everyone around a bit (had to explain to them to stay away from certain walls because there are dolls that hide within them and will aggro on sight) we decided to go kill a few golems for fun. We were enjoying ourselves getting a little bit of xp and we even managed to get a Diorite which I believe is the item needed to pop the NM Ulli. I got to lot on it and told the others that maybe one day when our LS has enough people with Sky, we can do the occasional god for fun because I know the majority of them have no intention of getting involved with endgame because of all the drama, and because of the kind of commitment that "sky" linkshells usually require. So hopefully down the road, we'll be able to do a little bit of sky when everyone is bored just for the heck of it.
(Hall of Gods)
(TheBrotherhood ZM Static#2: Carste, Xean, myself, Falk, Alianne and Raiderx)
On Saturday, my CoP static finally got started again after weeks of being put on hold. We started with farming "Gold Keys" in Newton Movapolos. This was going fine, though the drop rate was what one could expect when Xean's in your party <_<;;
Eventually when we each had a Gold Key, we headed to La Theine for a cutscene with Tenzen to start Tenzen's path. We had to then go to Pso'Xja and go through a maze where we would have to kill a Golem each time we wanted to open a door. This was kinda fun because each one became a little stronger to kill, and after going through the door we always had possible aggro which we'd have to deal with.
After, we headed to Port San d'Oria to start Ulmia's path so that we could get all of the lvl 50 cap missions done before moving on. We grabbed a few cutscenes which I didn't quite grasp. From what I understand, Ulmia has the ability to play a song that will awaken the gods, and Prishe seems to know the last and final verse of the song. I'm still a little confused with the storyline and how the song relates to "saving Vana'diel" (or maybe the song destroys it?) but I figure i'll understand more as I progress in the storyline.
To finish up the cutscenes for this we had to head to Windurst where we met a Mithra tracker who was after Prishe. In the end, Prishe went with the mithra because she had some plot she was scheming which I didn't understand. So off we went to go after Prishe and the Mithra tracker.
This of course led us to Attowa Chasm. Everytime I hear that name, I always shudder because of this Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil mountain I had to climb in the earlier CoP missions. But luckily we didn't have to go anywhere near that, so there was nothing to worry about. On our way to the BCNM area, we had a few Antlions aggro which ended up dropping HQ Antlion Jaws I had planned on farming in order to get an Antlion Trap synthesized... which I plan to use in order to fight an NM to get my Rostrum Pumps down the road. (Thanks guys for letting me lot those!)
(Attowa Chasm)
So when we finally got to the BCNM, we went over our plan for the fight. Kiersten was going to kite 2 of the Mithras while the rest of us fought one, and once ours was killed we would grab another off Kiersten. Unfortunately this didn't go so well, and I believe in the end it was my mistake because I had thought to help Kiersten by casting Gravity on one of the Mithras that he was kiting.
Yeah, not such a good idea because the DRG mithra came after me and began killing me and eventually the pets which the mithras had, began attacking Lokelani and we ended up wiping. So we raised, and tried to fight again but this time we asked Kiersten to tank the mobs instead of kite them, while we would focus on killing one. This was a good idea except for the fact that the 3 mithras will skillchain when they are near each other, and again our party ended up wiping to them. ; ;
With little time left to be able to do any other missions because Alianne and Kiersten had to go to bed soon, we decided to use our 2hrs. Alianne used Astral Flow which knocked out the pets and really damaged the mithra and in no time the battle was over. Though we didn't get to complete all of 5.3 like we had planned, we at least were able to finish with the lvl 50 capped events which meant I could free up some more inventory space!
As for Sunday, I woke up and put my seek up on my RDM, hoping to get a merit party. Within about 40 minutes, I finally got an invite to a cannon party. Though I don't like main healing, I was really happy with this party because the DDs knew how to share the hate and keep their shadows up, which meant minimal healing. We actually did really well, getting about 30k within 2-3hrs. I'm sure we could of gotten far more had the JP party in our area not been sharing our mobs, but I couldn't complain because I managed to get my buffer xp on RDM again and get a merit point in. Of course, after this I realized I wasn't done meriting my sword like I had thought. So now I have a lot more meriting to do than I thought ; ;
When I was done with my merit pt, I got ready to help Inari with her mission 5.1 and 5.2. I geared up as PLD and went with her, Carste, Raiderx, Aserati and Shaoulin to Fei'yin where we did the BCNM lvl 50 fight. We had decided to use our 2hrs for this, which turns out was a good idea because at the end of the battle we were all in yellow HP. If only Xean had been around to come on his MNK, that fight would of been over in no time >_<
So next we headed to Castle Z to go fight the Shadowlord. I kind of wish I had been able to try soloing him on my RDM, because I had heard that a friend of mine had and was interested to know if I was fast enough with my casting to take on the challenge. But anyways, this fight too was really easy.
(Entrance to Shadowlord's Throne Room)
(Aserati, Inari, Shaoulin, myself and Carste - Mission 5.2)After re-organizing my inventory and waiting for Xean to get home, we headed out to Windurst to help Alianne get Fenrir. We had Carste, Akichu and a friend of Aki's come for the fight. This went better than the last 2 fights I had fought where our NIN had gotten one shotted, and the only time things got ugly was when Fenrir used his 2hr because we didn't manage to get Dark Carol up in time... but with our group, that wasn't a problem because everyone knew what to do.
And last, me and Xean decided to spend the night lvling. We formed a party, and headed to Caedarva Mire but in the time it took us to get there, another party or two had shown up and it was really hard getting any claims. Eventually we decided to head to Mount Z and fight some crawlers, which was definitely a smart move because we were chaining and with our xp bands we were getting 200-35oxp per fight. The only downside, is that our RDM eventually had to leave when I was 2k tnl (and I think Xean was 7k tnl). *sigh*
After the party had ended, me and Xean decided to help our friends Kelga and Reiyn get Eviceration. We headed to Gustav Tunnel and while me and Reiyn waited for the guys to show up, I thought I should voke one of the skeletons near the ??? we had to touch for the NM, so that we could clear out the area.
Yeah, bad move again. These mobs checked Tough and with my lolpld dmg, I ended up dying. Kelga and Reiyn had tried helping but they too ended up wiping along with Xean. Xean decided to HP and grab his WHM, and came back to R3 us all. While we waited for weakness to wear, Sirivalin had logged in and asked if anyone needed help, so we invited him over. In no time, he was out and gave us a hand with his BLM and we got Reiyn her Evisceration weaponskill ^^
And last last thing! I finally got myself a pair of wings!!! I have been looking everywhere for a "wing" .dat for my elvaan character, but the only ones I can find give my entire character a red glow and the wings are so big and bulky it just doesn't look nice. While I had been in San d'Oria I had spoken to the event moogle and he gave me a gift - "Angel Wing" firecracker which ended up giving me a nice little pair of wings!I think it looks a little strange with me in my black PLD armor, but at the same time I think it looks interesting. I'm not quite sure if it makes me a dark PLD that turned into an angel, or if it makes me an angel that turned dark o.O
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