Ugh Meriting.

Lately that's pretty much all i've been up to. I've been wanting to finish off my MP merits so that I can finally work on my enfeebling skill and magic accuracy, but this is taking much longer than I thought. I'm now 5/8 MP merits, and each time I want to make an upgrade (for 10 mp lol) I have to accumulate 5 merit points.

I've been somewhat lucky lately, because on Friday night me and Xean had a merit pt with our friend Anderoc, Xean's brother and 2 other JP players. We were probably getting just over 10k/hr, but because we were fighting trolls and Anderoc was on his PLD to get a buffer, we weren't able to go beyond chain#6 or 7. But at the end of the party, I was able to get my 5th merit pt and was able to add another 10 mp to my lolelvaan mp pool. Then on Sunday morning, I had managed to get into a really great cannon merit pt. We had myself (RDM), BRD, COR, NIN, MNK, WAR and we hit chain#113. We could of continued chain, but unfortunately our MNK kept d/cing and eventually this caught up. I managed to get 2-3 merits I believe, and for only about an hour and a half of xping which I didn't think was too bad at all.

I also managed to get my WAR to 61 with Xean's THF. Its actually kinda funny, because when we were invited to the party there was a player from QCDN who ended up disbanding without saying a word. I knew he had disbanded simply because of me and Xean, because you know... we're evil and we might tell our party member to ninja lot the crystals or something. Actually, I find it more funny that "condoning ninja lotting" somehow relates to our performance in an xp party. I already explained the whole thing a few posts below, but sadly most of the people at QCDN find satisfaction in hating people and being one sided. It wouldn't matter what would have been said, the outcome would of been the same with everyone saying it was all "bs" just so they continue hating. I mean even now there are still posts happening in that flame where people continue to say no apologies were made, that no attempt to make amends were made... lol, people are truly blind. If I cared what they thought, i'd quote all the times apologies were made and the explanations of how attempts were made to fix things, but i'm not wasting my time on ignorant people like that. But yeah, got my WAR to 61 and now only 2 more levels until I get to take my Francisca out of storage!

Our LS also got together to help out our member Samsy take down the NM for his Dune Boots. At first we only had 4 people available to help, but soon more were able to come out. We started killing the placeholder cactuars for about 30 minutes, and finally the NM popped. We had 9 people in party, most with their NPCs to help take the damage from the NM because he spams 1000 needles. This move actually ended up getting really annoying at the end, but luckily no one died. Well our NPCs all did, but none of our members. And as soon as the boots dropped, we decided to reform one of our parties in the alliance to go help Shaolina with her 6.1 mission, but there was some confusion and Samsy's party disbanded. We were all freaking because his Dune Boots hadn't yet dropped but we managed to get him into party quick enough and he lotted them.

Shaolina's NM for her mission was much easier, and we took this down in a matter of seconds. It was still fun though, and I even got battle recorded though I probably won't upload it because the lag was so bad I wasn't able to rotate the camera very well and i'm afraid it will be very choppy.

After that, we headed up to Castle Oztroja to kill Yagudo Prelates for the BLM Testimony that Nanekyune needed. On the way up, we killed a few leeches for the WAR AF item, though I forget who that went to. And when we were on the top floor, it only took us 3 prelates before the test dropped.

At that point, everyone headed off to do their own thing and I logged out to go watch a movie at the theatre with my brothers.

When I got home, I decided I'd try to lvl up my leathercraft which was sitting at 18. I headed out to buburimu peninsula to kill dhalmels for their hides, which I would turn into dhalmel leather. Eventually Xean joined me and helped. We farmed for a good hour and I managed to hit lvl 21 which had been my goal and the cap for the recipe. But you wouldn't believe how many dhalmel saliva dropped that night... for every kill we had, there was almost always a drop @_@