The first bad news we had about our static, was that our BRD Remus had recently gotten a job offer, and come August he would start. We were all happy for him, because it sounds like its going to be a good paying job but, the hours wouldn't allow him to remain in our static. :(
Then the next thing, was that one of the members in our static left our LS due to the events mentioned 2 posts prior. He was our healer. This would leave our static without 2 of the most important jobs: Refresher & Healer. So the plan was going to be lvl together with us 5, because Remus still had until August but unfortunately only one other party member was online on Monday so we had to cancel. I'm trying to see if we'll still be able to party on Thursday, our other scheduled static night but things aren't looking too great. Oh well, if we don't end up lvling i'm probably going to finish up getting Audri's avatars because last Sunday when I did my avatar run, he wasn't able to stick around for the last 3 due to work.
So instead, the plan was to continue with our assault static that includes me (i'm usually just the replacement), Timwakefield and Soulstar. For the last 2 months they have been doing Golden Salvage to get both Tim and Xean some body piece for their MNKs. Every once in a while i'd fill in, or log into Xean if he wasn't home from school to help them get their points and finally as of last night, we finally finished everything up. Next we'll hopefully be able to do Imperial Agent Rescue so that I can obtain these for my RDM:
Then last night, I logged in and the plan was to help Xean's brother Zhoutai with his BLU AF1, but unfortunately the only high lvl people available were already busy. So I sat in my moghouse for a bit, and ended up watching "300" on tv links until more people popped on.
Eventually Standpoint logged in and asked for some help on his WS NM for Impulse Drive. At the time, there didn't seem to be too many people that had logged on in the last while to ask to come along and help but after mentioning it in LS, we ended up having a full party. We headed out to Sea Serpent Grotto and went beyond the door that requires the Sahagin Key. When we got to the location, we buffed up and cleared the area and then Stand pulled the NM to us. The fight lasted maybe 5-8 minutes, but it was fun. We had myself (PLD), Standpoint (DRG), Soulstar (SMN), Terminataru (RDM), Littledipper (RDM) and Onedarkflame (WHM) and we did really well. And its a good thing I picked Elvaan, because right at the end of the fight right before the last hit was made, that stupid pugil did some attack that brought me down to about 200hp, when I had been sitting at over 1k. -_-
After that we were going to head out and help Zhoutai with his AF, but he had managed to get into a party so everyone just went off and did their own thing. I believe later on Zhoutai managed to get his AF1, because by the time he had finished his party more LS members had logged in and were available.
I on the other hand, had Dynamis. For the past 3 runs, i've pretty much been in charge because Archmage hasn't been able to reactivate his account. Before he had left, he'd asked me to take care of the coins and LS bank which i've been doing. The only thing that I have been having to step up and do in addition to this, is organizing the parties. Usually in the past, Kizaryo, Acts and Archmage took care of this because they were more familiar with it but now i've been taking on more responsibility in this. Though I have a general idea of what works, what jobs should be brought along... I don't feel entirely confident all the time. But luckily Kiz and Acts are still there, so we usually talk together and get things figured out.
So yeah, last night we did Dynamis-Jeuno. At first, things were going really slow. We were very low on members (lately people are taking vacation for the summer, so our numbers these last few runs have been much less than what we're use to) but we managed to keep going. It wasn't until near the end that things started to get a bit messy. I really don't know what the problem was, whether the pulls were too much or if those designated to sleep the mobs weren't keeping on top of things but we ended up having a few wipes which really made us lose time. There just seemed to be more mobs going crazy. We did recover pretty quickly, but we had lost so much time that right as we were ready to pull the boss for the win, we had 3 minutes remaining and we didn't manage to get it. ; ;
But the night wasn't a complete loss, I think we had 5 AF lot that night, 2 of which were for our MNKs who were extremely happy because they had been waiting months to see this AF drop. I guess because our LS only runs once a week, when AF drops for one of our members its always a "big deal" because we don't see it as often as other linkshells. Our progression is much slower, so when we do accomplish something its always reason to be estatic.
I was so tired after that run though, and headed off to bed right away. As for tonight, I get to go up in Sky again with KeitaroAeon. I've decided to donate a diorite I once had drop one time when me and some ls members were killing things after having gotten a group of our members sky access. I feel confident that the people in this LS are good people, and during our last god run I didn't see any hint of greed. I'm sure people are eager to get their gear, but the attitudes were very encouraging and they were really happy for those that did get winning bids on the gear that dropped, so I think this will go to good use. I'm still surprised at how the atmosphere reminds me of TBH.. I feel like i'm at home :)
Oh, and the reason for the topic of this post is that right before Dynamis, Josudes asked if I could give him a hand with Dune Widow so that he could get the Spider Torque for his RDM. I had about 30 minutes before I had to get ready, and didn't think we'd manage to get the NM to pop because its a lottery spawn but I headed out anyways. After about 5 minutes and a few spider kills, he told me to head south because there was a spider there. But as I headed south, I saw another spider to my right and after targeting it and reading "Dune Widow" I provoked right away. Me and Jos killed it in about 2 minutes, and sure enough the Spider Torque drops. I was pretty surprised, because i've heard some horror stories about this NM and it having a very low drop rate. And here we had just gone 1/1, at least for me. It was awesome, saved him a good 200k with about 10 minutes of work ^^
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