Another win against Diabolos!

Haven't updated in a while, mostly due to the fact that Xean's been visiting me these past 2 weeks. He's still up for one more week, and then has to fly back home. I won't get to see him again until December... ; ;

Well first things first. I managed to finish meriting my sword skill, and now have 8/8 merits on it. The next thing I want to merit is my MP, because both my PLD and my RDM can benefit from the extra MP. After that, i'm not quite sure what i'll merit next but it will probably be something for my RDM seeing as I find myself playing on RDM more often than PLD. Its really convenient to be able to solo things and not have to rely on other high lvl players.

I also managed to bring my SMN up to lvl 33, but getting a decent party has definitely been a pain in the arse. I think over the weekend, I had my seek up for more than half the day. Finally after getting my first invite, I found out that the party members included a couple of lazy "newbs". We had one WAR that hadn't bothered to level his subjob, and wanted to use Scythe because he planned to take DRK once he hit lvl 30. I never understand this logic... because even without the help of friend, I would know to have my subjob lvled. As for the weapon choice, I might not have known what was best without Xean's help but as soon as I had found out each class excelled with a certain weapon, I would of used the best available weapon for my job.

And to top if off, both the WAR and the BLM in our party had been begging us to kill a few mandies outside Kahzam while we waited for 2 members to join us. I didn't quite know why they were eager to get some xp until a few battles later when they mentioned they were only a couple hundred points from lvling up, and would be leaving right after. They hadn't even planned to get a replacement... just joined to get their lvl with the intention of leaving right after -_-

Thankfully though, after we got their lvls we were able to invite 2 others: Timwakefield and Spalko's mule: Mudiwudi. Our setup rocked, and I managed to get 2 lvls that night! I wish I could party with LS members more often.

Oh, and I also managed to get another try at Diabolos. I had tried him a few weeks ago, and went as PLD. The plan was really strange from what I had been used to. I was asked to go down and solo Diabolos while the BLMs would cast their first spell from the top. But the trick was, I wasnt going to be in party until just before they casted. Because there was at least a good 30 seconds where I was without party, I kept getting warped around the platform and not expecting this, I panicked a bit trying to make sure I wasn't going to be on a square that would fall to the floor below where these spider mobs could kill me. In the end, our party wiped because of the nightmare move that Diabolos casts... or should I say spams?

But I managed to get in on another run last Friday. The setup was BLM, BLM, SMN, RDM/DRK, WHM (me), NIN/WAR. This was definitely the smoothest run I ever had. The BLMs and RDM took turns stunning, and we managed to deal some hefty damage to Diabolos before he had a chance to go crazy with Nightmare. I think we only saw the move once, which was right at the end and ended up killing one person at the last second due to the bio status. But, we came out winners and I got myself the Diabolos Earring which has ACC+3 (except for during dark weather) which I will be using on my WAR.

Other than that, I finally figured out how to use Windows MovieMaker, and made a video of my LS. I plan to update it and edit it once I get better clips to use, but for now i'm pretty happy with it. Its just taking an eternity to compress and save, so i'll have to post that that afterwards.

Guess that about wraps up this update. Looking forward to starting my static for my WAR and Xean's THF. Its going to be an all LS static, and hopefully if everyone's schedule permits, we can get in 2 sessions a week and hit 75 within 2 months. I'm also going to be looking around for a limbus LS now that I have sea, and hopefully before the end of this month i'll get my Tamas ring! Still so much to do in his game x_x