Sky Woes.

Well Monday wasn't the greatest night in Sky, I ended up losing about 4k total. When I got to Ru'Ann Gardens, I waited on my invite and said hello to my party members and also congratulated one on her lvls she'd gained since the last time I had seen her.... but I was given no response at all, even though I knew she was not AFK because she had invited me to the party a second before I congratulated her.

Also in LS, I had asked where we were suppose to meet up, and got no response. I haven't exactly been feeling welcome at all with this group, and everytime I go up hoping that people will be a little talkative, or that the atmosphere will be friendly i'm always disappointed.

But anyways, eventually someone else had asked where we were going to camp, which was to camp "Zip" so I met up with the others. I was actually quite proud of myself, I had completely remembered the way and didn't get lost!! Now its just a matter of memorizing where the other camps are <_<;;

So anyways, we were farming for a while when someone in the LS said that the Shikigami Weapon NM was up, that drops the YinYang Robe. So we rushed out to Ro'Maeve and waited about 10 minutes for the window to open, when finally it spawned. But the trick with this NM is you have to magic aggro it because otherwise its invisible (you can find it on widescan). Luckily we managed to get it and get claim before some others in the zone could and the item dropped which went to one of our LS members.

Then we headed back to Zip camp, but while we were on the way he spawned and another LS had gotten him so the leaders were rushing us to hurry. When we got there, the other party had wiped, and we took claim but the problem was that we didn't have a full party there yet, and so of course they wiped. When I got there, I was confused to what was happening seeing dead bodies everywhere, and so I started enfeebling and healing where I could but with only 3 of us left alive, we died soon after. Death #1.

As soon as I was given a R1, I was asked to chainspell and raise others so I did so, but Zip came back before I had time to buff myself and killed myself and the other mages raising. Death #2.

Again, I had to accept another R1. The only reason I was a little angry was because when Zip did manage to die, the mages would of had enough MP to give out R2 or R3 (I think WHMs forget that they have R2 because I never see them cast this when there are wipes) but instead they didn't, and so I was down to about 9k into my lvl. I really don't want to get more xp on my RDM because I want to focus on getting some more merits into my spells first.

So next we headed to Faust, but on the way a few of us fell behind. I was with a friend Xochi and a BLM, and when we used a teleporter and zoned to the new area the monsters didn't load fast enough for me and I went to go cast Sneak which led to my death. Unfortunately the rest of the alliance was determined to get to the NM before another LS could, so I had to wait for a Raise.

During their battle, I had mentioned in LS that myself and Xochi would need a Raise when they were done. As I figured they wouldn't get my msg while fighting, I waited until after they were done to ask again, to which I had no response. I then asked a second time, if they would be able to raise us because at this point we had about 18 minutes left on our timers.... still no response. Finally I addressed the leader of the LS directly, and asked him if he would pay attention which just got me a "?". I was frustrated at this point, because of the previous deaths and the lack of paying attention so I asked my question AGAIN and got no response... People continued chatting as if I didn't exist. Finally I said something along the lines of "Are you just going to continue ignoring me?" and then I got a spiel about how they had been busy and didn't see our chat, which I countered by saying that I had waited until the fight was over so there was no excuse to not see my numerous requests for a raise in between their discussion on what to camp next.

Finally a WHM and PLD came to raise me and Xochi, but just as I had gotten raised we got aggro and down I went again. Death #4. At this point I was ready to give up, because in my opinion a member should never feel ignored like I had been that night, and it should of been a priority to get any dead members raised but myself and Xochi were completely forgotten and ignored. But soon after, I got a /tell from the leader and he apologized and so I reconsidered and decided to help them continue camping Despot which unfortunately another LS ended up getting. At this point i'm not really impressed with the organization or leadership, but i'm hoping that after having expressed my concerns to the leader things will be different tonight when I go up. We'll see.

The next night me and Xean decided to go to Temple of Uggalepih to farm tonberry lanterns which I found out I could desynth into Glass Fiber, which I would use to make Invisible powders for profit. I think in 3hrs, we only got one lantern which Xean tried desynthin with his Alchemy 59ish.... and of course you can always count on his luck, because it failed and he lost the lantern!

So we continued farming, and eventually found the Guardian that opens the door to the room where you can use a paintbrush. We were killing him, but when he got low on health he used some explosive self-destructive move which resulted in Xean's death.... <_<


When we finished up, I headed to Dynamis which was one of the more enjoyable runs i'd had in a long time. We were really low on members because some endgame LSs have decided to add Dynamis to their events, and have been giving their members ultimadums telling them they would have to do "their" dynamis or be kicked. So our roster had decreased to about 21 members that night, but with the teamwork we put in, we managed to get the win and had about an hour of farming time. We got 3 WAR Feet, 2 BRD Hats, 2 NIN legs and 100c which was a really good drop rate compared to what we've had before.

And last night I decided to get some experience on my SMN now that I have everything I need and all the avatars. I headed out to La Theine with my seek up as a lvl 14 SMN, and began soloing rabbits and saplings for 20-40xp each. I managed to get half way into my lvl before getting an invite from a LS member Elden who wanted to party on his BLU. We headed to Valkurm Dunes to party at the Oasis which seemed like a good place, but our setup unfortunately wasn't so great. We had a THF14 (no sneak attack), a WAR with polearm (GreatAxe where? ; ;), a Galka RDM with about 66mp, a PLD, a BLU and myself. Our damage was pretty poor, and we were barely getting any xp so eventually we decided to head to the outpost to fight some gobs.

Things were going ok at first, but one bomb toss can ruin everything, which is what happened to our party. Elden and the other WAR ended up dying, and we waited for about 15 minutes shouting for a raise. Nothing.



Finally Elden HPed and had to come from Whitegate, which took about 30 minutes. Then a few of our party members said they had to leave in about 30 minutes, so we barely had any time to fight anything by the time we were ready again. I think I only managed to get 1.5k within 2hrs, which left me halfway into lvl 15. So when the party disbanded, I just headed back to La Theine and soloed the rest of my xp and hit lvl 16. Only 64 more lvls to go now <_<;;