Got WHM75 + Ohat!

Earlier this week, a friend and LS member Akichu offered to party with myself and Xean. We decided to take on some orcs in Halvung, and though the xp wasn't anything to drool at we still did around 8-9k an hour and Xean managed to lvl up to 75 on his NIN. He was a good 15k ahead of me, and before I could also get my lvl the party had to disband.

But thanks to Akichu's BRD, we ended up meriting again the next night and I finally got lvl 75 on my WHM. I'm glad to finally be done with the job, because I really don't enjoy it all that much. I prefer being able to attack or tank the mob in some way, and find that I usually stress myself out with WHM because I get paranoid the DDs are going to start nagging me for spells like blindna, erase and poisona. I think that i'm pretty decent as a WHM, but its definitely not the job i'm the best at in terms of speed and efficiency which is why I don't like playing it that much.

But anyways, now I have 3 jobs at lvl 75: WHM, PLD, RDM. I'm quite happy that i've managed to get this far in the game because the lvling grinds can be agonizing sometimes... but luckily having Xean with me all the time I hardly ever find it unbearable like he does.

Now I just need to wait until my vacation break is over, because once it is me and Xean will be in a static to lvl my WAR and his THF to 75. I'm really eager to finally be able to be a melee DD. The only thing i'm not looking forward to is the big shopping list I have for myself (see previous post). I could lvl without some of the items in that list, but I would really like to have myself well equipped and do the most potential that I can as a DD. I want to start seeing some big numbers @_@

And the other eventful thing that happened was the Ohat run that I organized. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get enough people to help from my LS mainly due to many not being 75, so I had to look for help through other means. I was lucky to get an offer from a friend Cmdrfly who I had helped out on BCNMs previously (for Xean's Destroyers). He was willing to come out and help, and bring a few of his LS members along who would also be trading.

In the end we had a full alliance (mostly TBH members) with a few friends (Gimli and Anderoc)that came to help along with Cmdrfly's group. We headed down to the spot where we trade the Hakutaku eye cluster, and explained everyone's roles. I was going to be first in line in the stun order. It took me about 2 NMs to finally get the hang of things, but once I had my chat filters fixed I felt in control and think I did fairly well. I was also doing hasting, healing, refreshing, enfeebling so it was a bit intense because I was constantly worried that while casting I might have to stun. Luckily though, that never happened.

When the run was done, we had managed to get 7/7 hats. Mostly everyone had stayed and I think we managed to get everyone that helped some nice drops (flare, wooden hakutaku eye, vile elixir +1 etc) so I would say it was a successful run. I would definitely do it again, and hope that sometime in the future I'll get to.

And the only other thing I can update is that I got a lvl on my SMN which is now 25. I was hoping to get it to 26 last night, but unfortunately I got myself into a really crappy party and that didn't end up happening. In fact, last night was the first time I disbanded without getting a replacement or having the party disband because it was that bad.

Our setup was way too mage heavy: SMN SMN WHM RDM WAR PUP. Yeah I had some LS members laughing at me when I told them about it.... And at first the other SMN wasn't even casting avatars, but instead was healing which didn't make sense when the WHM was at full MP. I think it took us about 5 minutes to kill one mandragora >_<

But I'm not one to ditch, so I figured i'd stay as long as I could bear or until I could find a replacement. Well, that didn't end up happening.

On one pull, the WAR got aggro from a goblin and so I told him to bring it because I would astral flow it. Unfortunately, the WHM who was apparently still "new" to the game and slow didn't get a cure off in time and the WAR died. He then said "Thanks for the cure", to which I replied "You don't need to be sarcastic about it".

Then the next thing I knew, I had the WHM and the RDM both teaming up against me and telling me that he wasn't being sarcastic in their opinion... yet the WAR wouldn't respond or confirm this. So finally I made a comment about how he shouldn't of gotten aggro and something about the party setup being bad... which then had both teh WHM and RDM teaming against me AGAIN saying "This is a great party". Then they started going on about how if I wasn't going to be apart of the "team" I should leave.

I bit my tongue and continued resting, only to have the next pull make me notice that the WAR wasn't voking every 30 seconds (he was the tank). I asked him if he was voking every 30 seconds, and again the "girls" started giving me crap and telling me to stop complaining and giving the whole "you can leave if you don't like it" speech. I was told that the game should be enjoyed, which I responded with "being in a good party dealing good dmg is fun to me, being in a shitty one isn't" and finally I just disbanded.

That was probably the first time I felt like I was being an elitist. I'm usually really tolerant of people being new to the game, and helping them out but the way that they were talking to me just made me not willing to want to be nice. They'll learn down the road that not everyone will settle for less than average playing performances, and people who don't do their job will be kicked from party... hopefully.

Ugh, only 50 more lvls to go on SMN >_>;