So now onto the exciting stuff. Saturday morning, me and Xean logged in for our CoP static. We were going to start with the Airship fight, which is apparently the hardest in the promathia missions. We all had our CCB Polymers (40k each -_-), our meds and we were all ready to go. Our setup was: Sirivalin (BLM), Lokelani (WHM), Xean (MNK), Kiersten (PLD), Alianne (SMN) and me as RDM.
Now the Airship BCNM has 3 parts to it: Mammets > Omega > Ultima. The plan was to use Alianne's 2hr ability on Omega, and 3 people would use their Polymers. Then on Ultima, everyone else would use their 2hr (well aside from Lokelani unless needed). We decided to enter the BCNM and do 2 test runs, just to see what we would be up against. These were pretty useful in figuring out how the battles would work.
Then for our first run, we managed to get to Omega but when we got him down to about 50%, things turned for the worst and we ended up wiping. Unfortunately, Alianne wasn't able to die in a safe place so after the rest of us raised, we thought we'd try and raise him and hopefully he could run a little bit further up, so that we could raise him a second time where he wouldn't get aggro.
Bad idea. >_<
Omega killed Alianne again before he was able to even move his character and then came after us for revenge. So we went in a second time, and I think we managed to get to Ultima that time but unfortunately hate ended up getting turned around and Ultima came towards the mages and did an AoE which ended up in another wipe.
So, finally I came up with a suggestion and asked if I could change to my WAR59, hoping that maybe I might do more damage. After gearing up, we went back in and noticed that the fight definitely went faster because me and Xean were skillchaining with Sirivalin doing MB. But by the time we were on Omega, we had a wipe due to me getting one shotted while not having my shadows up in time. When we were all raised, we decided that since we hadn't used any Polymers or 2hrs, that we would just try again from scratch... so we all went to melee Omega so that we could intentionally wipe.
And finally, on our next attempt we actually succeeded. I think we still had one wipe during Omega, but we made sure to raise quickly and recover. I ended up doing my 2hr and popping an Icarus wing for my Rampage which landed a nice 650+ and before we knew it, we were onto Ultima.... who we overkilled with everyone else's 2hr. And of course, as always... at the end of the battle the only player that was KO'ed was Xean. Its my guess that he has been our sacrifice for every BCNM we've done, because he's always dead at the end of every fight. I think SE only lets us beat the BCNM if he dies, lol.
So after hours of trying to get past the hardest battle in CoP (because everytime we failed, we had to wait 2hrs before we could use our 2hr ability again) we were finally ready to speed through the next cutscenes and get onto the last fight, TENZEN!
This of course, ended up taking longer than expected. When we were finally ready for the BCNM and just waiting on a few people to zone into Tavnazia, Sirivalin had a disconnection. We waited a bit for him to come back, but when he finally came back Lokelani also had the d/c symbol above her head. She was gone for about 20 minutes, and just as we started to discuss about putting the last BCNM before Sea on hold, she came back.
We headed into the BCNM, and pretty much went all out on Tenzen. At 75%, I did chainspell > stun so that he couldn't use his skillchain and in a matter of minutes the fight was over. Sea was finally ours!!!!
After zoning into Sea, we decided to play around with the creatures which we found out follow you. We took a few pics (for some reason they didn't come through on my work email, so i'll have to post them later) and basically just looked around. Eventually Lokelani found out that not all the mobs are friendly though, because she ended up with a shark looking on on her which we took out... well err.. I mean Xean took out.
All in all, Saturday was a veeeeeeeery long day for us all (we worked on the missions from 10am - 11:30pm PST) but it was definitely worth it. We still have a few more BCNMs and cutscenes to get before we can get our CoP rings, but I feel like we have the hardest/longest obstacles out fo the way finally and it'll be a breeze when we meet for our next static run.
And the only other thing I did during the weekend, was do an avatar run for several of my LS members that were needing the pacts/whispers. I did all 6 avatars as RDM/NIN which was fun, but I wish the others had been ok with just watching from a distance because it never feels rewarding when I have others helping me out. I like to see how fast I can get on my RDM/NIN in soloing conditions, because I really want to be able to take on more difficult mobs. >_<
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