Owned Kirin!

I think I really need to figure out when the majority of FFXI North American players tend to start forming parties, because everytime me and Xean seek on our WAR and THF we always have such a hard time getting an invite. In fact, on 2 nights that we spent seeking there were only a handful of DD and absolutely no healer, refresher or tank which pretty much guaranteed we couldn't get a party. Finally though we managed to get on on the third night we decided to seek and it was a pretty decent party. The only downside is that we were fighting crawlers in Aydeewa and there didn't seem to be enough for the speed we were going at. We had a BRD, WHM, NIN, MNK, WAR and THF and we were easily getting chain #6.

The party didn't last as long as I would of liked, but that always seems to be our luck. The party had to disband with me and Xean less than 5k tnl because our healer and brd had to leave and there weren't any replacements available at the time. Oh well, guess we'll try again sometime this week and eventually get lvl 62. Hopefully, lol. On another note, I finally got a nice rampage! I'm still trying to experiment with gear to figure out how to get the most out of my tp gear and ws gear, but I haven't exactly had too many parties to test this with.


As for the fun stuff, my sky ls fought Kirin this weekend and we won our 2 fights. The first fight was a learning experience for some, I know there were a few things I had to get use to (like running around being ready to erase the kiting PLD asap) Our first fight took over an hour, but then again I think it took at least 10 minutes for Kirin to pop his first mini-god which apparently isn't normal from what others said. We took down the mini-gods no problem, but man do I hate Byakko and his stupid paralyga move. I've actually found out that i'm much faster typing /ma "paralyna" nameofperson to cure the status effect.

I think the best part of both fights was when Kirin did his 2hr. All of a sudden, there were quite a few dead bodies lying around so it was up to us WHMs to raise those who didn't have RR (surprisingly most people did) and getting the alliance back up which kept me busy for a while. I think I actually enjoy being WHM for Kirin more than I probably would enjoy being PLD, kiting isn't my thing ; ;.

As for the drops, we didn't get Kirin's Osode which I believe is what people refer to as the "gold" but we did get a couple of abjurations. I don't recall which off hand, they were mostly for WAR I think. But we did snag 2 shinning clothes which I believe are going to upcoming WHMs in our shell to craft their nobles. Its good to see that the LS looks first at gearing up the members to make sure that they can perform better for events.

After the Kirin fight, I created a new tarutaru mule named Enza who I plan to lvl with Sabene's mule Isabo when we're not doing anything else. At first I wanted to call my mule "Ten" or "Sin" but all variations of those names had been taken so I asked Xean to help me makeup one, and after 1 or 2 names that I didn't like, he came up with "Enza" and that was the winner!

I plan on lvling Enza as MNK for now, but so far I haven't had a chance to because everytime me and Sabene would get ready to go lvl, someone in the LS would need some help so we'd just put our lvling away for the time being. Its not like we won't find time to lvl our mules, where as people can't always get help when they need it so it was more important for us to help out our friends. Plus, we always have a blast.


I also ended up helping Sabene farm her yagudo necklaces for her norg fame. We must of turned in at least 150 necklaces so hopefully her fame is good now as she had already done a few other things for her norg fame. And I thought i'd take a pic of her new and improved hair for her character! I found a couple of .dats that make the hair for both the black and blonde version of her character much longer which I like.


As for Sunday, I did a little bit of meriting and managed to add another 10 MP to my lolelvaan MP pool. Now I just need 5 more merits and i'll be finished with it. My gawd its taking forever though, and to think that eventually i'm going to want to upgrade my INT stats which I think the last 3 upgrades take 9 merit pts each! X_X

By the time my merit pt was over, we had enough people in LS to come out and finish up our subligar/fomor codex farming session we had started last weekend. It was actually quite a success, because we got everyone their subligars and even got 3 codexes to drop. Now I just need to try and get a group available to do the NM and hope that i'm lucky enough to get the drop because its not guaranteed ; ;


Yep, was a lot of fun and glad that everyone got what they needed.