The unfortunate thing that happened though, is that over the summer our shell began to downsize. A lot of people took vacation time, others just decided to leave the game. There were a few people who left without saying anything, but I won't get into that. So eventually, our runs weren't able to happen because soon we began to miss key jobs needed for our wins... BLM and THFs familiar with the pulls. So, what began as one cancellation ended up with 4 cancellations in a row and not one dynamis run in an entire month. The moral of our LS began to sink, and after a failed attempt at a merge (well, actually I wouldn't call it a merge... it was more of a guy named Zaus who had one other member in his shell and wanted to join us) our group decided we would give one last try at a comeback run.
So, last Tuesday night we all gathered in Bastok with our new recruits we had received over the week. We handed out new pearls, as we had decided to elect a new leader, Gimli, so that we could promote members to officers. With Archmage being MIA for the time being, we couldn't bring in new officers because he had the original pearl shell. Our new shell was one that Gimli had made when he first started the game and wanted to make a social that I guess had since died out, called RidersOfRohan.
With plenty of BLM, and a willing THF that read up on our pulls we headed in and began our comeback run. And it really was a comeback run. We had a total of 7 AF drop that night, AND we managed to get the win for many of our new recruits who were new to Dynamis. On top of that, we had a total of 207 coins drop, which I believe was the most coins ever collected from a run.
And the best part? I got my Valor Coronet!
Most of the time I hear PLDs congratulating their LS on having obtained their last Valor piece, often
the Valor Surcoat. Me however? I'm congratulating SA for the dedication and efforts that got me my Valor Coronet, the first PLD AF I received from doing runs with them. We've had PLD AF drop before on previous runs, but me being unlucky I never won any of the lots. It actually became a joke within our LS that I was doomed never to get any PLD AF, but finally after 9 months of tanking dynamis runs, I was able to equip my PLD with her second piece of AF2. For something that I had come close to accepting would never happen (see my PLD in full valor), I guess I jumped the gun too soon as they say. Now I feel more encouraged to continue giving my efforts to the success of our Dynamis shell, because eventually we can accomplish the things we want to. Just a shame SE makes the drop rate so low -_-So now onto other news... I'm on a lvling spree with my SAM. I managed to get her to 30-35 the other day. My friend Anderoc has been doing a static with a few of his friends, and they invited me once before in Qufim. Seeing as I was around the same lvl, they invited me again and after a few hours I managed to get lvl 35 and put on my Ochimusha Kote.
The party was really good actually, for a while we didn't have a healer and we were getting chain 5 on mandragoras for about 180-220xp each. Our pt setup was BRD, PLD, SAM, WAR, WAR. Eventually we picked up a WHM and headed to Garlaige Citadel and plowed through the next of our lvls. I'm sure we could of continued but most of the members were EST and it was past midnight for them when we ended.
Hopefully I can keep up with their lvling I can get an invite from them and continue plowing through my lvls. With them I know that the xp will be decent and I don't have to worry about any of the typical things that go wrong with pickup parties.
Also, I decided to try killing Poisonhand Gnadgad for a Jujitsu Gi. I was surprised to find myself with 5 other LS members camping him, which was really great because I didn't have to worry about the CC with my NM camping pt, hehe. Sadly though, after 2 claims all we had to show were the sitabaki... and thats when I decided I would head to bed and forget about camping the NM and just snag Xean's Jujitsu Gi and borrow it for a while.
The next day though when I logged in and started to make my way back to town, I ran into an NM I had never seen or even heard of. Meteormauler Zhagtegg was his name, and he was an Orc just outside Davoi. I ran up to him and killed him within a minute, but didn't get any drop.
Aside from that i've mostly been doing Limbus and now have 48 more Ancient Beastcoins to obtain before I can get my loquacious earring. KeitaroOmega ended up doing a new area of Tenemos that I hadn't done before. The layout was really interested and reminded me a lot of the shrine up in sky. Too bad the mobs weren't so nice, we had this one Ahriman that literally annihilated us all. I guess each section has 2 mobs, and once you kill one of them the other gets really strong.... and well, we ended up wiping. We did kill the Ahriman afterwards, but we had lost a lot of time and so we didn't manage to kill the last 2 mobs and only collected 2 coins each after the run. Meh, oh well.
And i've been doing some assault with LS members. Recently did the most annoying one, where you have to tank mamool and make them use their WS where they toss a weapon at you and hit a door which leads to an NPC... who you are suppose to rescue....that.... warps out of his cage after you open it.
SMART SE. SMART! The NPC has the ability to warp, but won't until you open the hatch to the little compartment he's being held in.. . .
But yeah, we've been helping members rank up so that we can start doing PFC missions now. We try to run twice a week and so far we've done pretty good. The missions are a nice break from all the other things in this game that seem to be like a grind. Good thing grinds don't bother me too much ^^
Last but not least, I got a chance to do Divine Might again with my sky LS. A few people needed this, so we gathered together to get it for them. Our first run was a failure though, and our second run was extreeeeeeeemely close. Just as our last DD took a hit from the Elvaan Ark Angel, one of our weakened mages nuked the last of her health and we had the win. It was kinda fun to do, but the loss on xp definitely wasn't the best. I think I went down from 20k - 16k over the course of our two attempts. Lots of deaths ; ;
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