Now getting back to the whole "despising" being healer in cannon merits. For the most part, I don't mind this. But lately, even when i'm lucky to get a BRD + 4 DDs, the party still ends up being more frustrating and for 3 hrs I end up being miserable. My most recent party, which was this morning looked like it was going to be pretty good. We were going to fight colibri, and we had a BRD, DRK, WAR, SAM, NIN and myself on RDM.
Yeah, turned out I spent most of the session venting to my linkshell about the experience. First, the DRK and the SAM who did have /nin, decided they would rather "show off" their DMG by bringing /war. Yay for being an MP sponge!!! Lets go and make the RDM toss out an extra 200mp every fight to cure the health you lose! Then by the time we're 6 minutes into chain, she's out of MP and can't get the hastes off because she's trying to keep you all cured!!!! What is so difficult to understand about "Subbing WAR = More DMG = More DMG taken = More MP used to cure you = More down time = Less XP"????????
Second part of the merit session that annoyed me, was when one of those big rhino things near the colibri camp was pulled, and ended up ripping apart our SAM. I was low on MP, and was still trying to get the other members out of yellow HP from our previous fight, and right as the SAM's HP drops to red, what does he do? He runs. He has hate, and he runs AWAY. Smart.
So i'm running after him and the rhino on his arse, trying to get myself in range to give him a cure before he dies but because of his great logic in running out of my curing range, he ends up getting hit again because he still had hate and I couldn't get a cure out to him. Shortly after we disbanded. I was so relieved. I hate that now I have even another request of the pt leader before i'll accept merit invites: DDs MUST sub /nin. (I'm sure there can be an exception depending on the situation, but for the most part I will not party with people unless they're subbing NIN, at least for merit cannons)
But on another note, had some good stuff happen lately. Managed to hit 63 on my WAR with Xean's THF. That party experience wasn't so bad, though the WHM kept flashing at the start of battle which often pulled the colibri we were fighting over to him making the rest of us run after him. We did tell him to wait until later in the fight to cast flash, but he didn't listen so we had to deal with the constant moving back and forth to get the mob within range.
I also took my Club skill from 188-132 in about 2-3hrs. Me and a few LS members decided to get into a skillup party one night, and fought crabs and Goobue in the Boyahda Tree. Now I have my Hexa Strike (which I have yet to try out) and now I can go quest my Black Halo.
Did a bunch of assault during the week and upgraded to "Private First Class". Still a long ways to go to rank up, I think Captain is the highest rank but i'm sure i'll get there eventually. I was just happy to finally have earned 20k points to get my Yigit Turban, which I can now macro in for my lolRDM nukes! If I had never sold my Sleepga II scroll I quested, I would seriously consider lvling my BLM. Would be sooo useful for many things.
Also did a bit of NM camping over the weekend. Our friend Timwakefield wanted to camp the two Yagudo NM in Castle O, to get the rare/ex O.Kote so he could sell the pair he had. He's been something like 0/32, and we managed to get them that night after about 3 spawns. Now i'll get to have the great pleasure of camping this NM to get my pair, so that I can take my SAM past 40 (I think thats the lvl of the gear). I have a feeling Castle O. is soon going to be my new home! -_-
And randomly one night, Pasquale asked us to help his brother kill the HNM Steelfleece Balrich. A bunch of us in LS had been getting ready to do a merit but we decided to hold off and give them a hand, so off to Konchat we went and killed the big oaf. It was fun, though I didn't really get to do too much as I didn't bring any of my melee gear. ; ;
Limbus is also turning out to be more fun. I did another run on Saturday morning (woke up at 6:50am though, why does everyone on our server have to be EST? -_-) and got another 3 Ancient Beastcoins. Only 67 more to go until I get my Loquacious!
The run went really great, until we hit the last floor where we fought a boss Behemoth type mob that likes to spam Meteor. We were only 12 people in the alliance, and took a bit of figuring out how to kill him which was basically to have our 2 NIN kite him (we didn't have any PLDs) around while we randomly had DDs weaponskill him and kept enfeebles on him. Unfortunately though, there were a lot of deaths because of his meteor and we got him down to about 5% with maybe 4 minutes left and decided to have our SMN astrol flow him, but she died from a meteor so I raced out to raise her. We might of been able to get the win, except right as I started raising he came around the corner and meteored before I could run and down I went. Oh well though, it was a lot more enjoyable than a few endgame things i've tried so far. *coughdynamiscough*
And last night, I did some BCNMs and KSNMs with LS members. I started with "Up In Arms" which was a lvl 60 cap. I went as PLD, with Alianne as WHM and Carste as BLM. Our first run we had to use our 2hrs, but only when we got the kraken down to about 15% and likely due to the fact that I didn't let Alianne rest his MP before I provoked and engaged. <_<;
We did another two runs and though we didn't get the Kraken club we were after (why hello thar 45mil!) we did manage to figure out that with ethers and yagudo drinks, we can do the fight without using our 2hrs. So now we'll hopefully arrange a few more runs because Alianne has about 7 stacks of Beastmen Seals he wants to burn. Maybe, just maybe.... we'll get a Kclub.
Later in the night, we did Operation Desert Swarm x 10. We ended up with about 2.6mil in drops, so i'd say we did very well. We only had 2 deaths, which went to Carste our BLM. I think he got a little casting happy, lol. But all were wins and we were happy with the drops.
Thats it for this update. x_x
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