Progressing...

In the last week I think i've made some good progress with Zerayla. I managed to take her from 35-42 in one day which surprised even myself. I had gotten an invite from a friend Alianne, and joined his party for a few hours. Right after that party invite, my other friend Anderoc invited me to his static that he currently has going and I managed to get 42 before the end of the night. I think this just goes to show that as long as you can get yourself into a decent party where people understand their roles, and have up to date gear you can easily plow through your lvls.

So the next day I ended up getting my AF Weapon for SAM. I read up on the quest, and it turns out that you need to have the Mumeito which you get when you first unlock SAM. Well, as most others probably do... I tossed mine because it was a lvl 1 weapon and I figured once I had lvled SAM beyond the lvl where i'd equip it, I would no longer need it.

Yeah right. So in order to get the great katana again, I had to dish out 30k to an NPC. -_-Wasn't really happy with that, because that week I had spent more gil than I had farmed. But it wasn't like I had a choice, so I bit my tongue and gave the NPC his gil. Then I had to head out to The Sanctuary of Zhi'tah and kill Goblin Robbers for some fish scales, which I would then have to use to pop an NM fish. That fight went really well, except that when I killed the NM I didn't see the key item show in chat log so I started to panic thinking maybe I had to kill the NM on SAM, which would mean that i'd have to ask for some help. But before I did that, I decided to check the ??? that I had traded my item to, and then I got the confirmation that the key item was obtained!

And the party that got me my SAM 43, was actually a subligar farming party that a few LS members put together. It was reaaally late at night, and I had just been meriting (xp was kinda slow so I was glad that I had an opportunity to do something else) when Josudes who recently came back asked if anyone could help him and our other LS member Reiyn get their THF subligars. So I headed out on my SAM and we spent a good 2-3 hrs farming in Phomiuna Aqueducts. We managed to get the THF subligar on the first spawn, but we didn't get our second subligar that night. With all the xp we had obtained from the kills (60-120) I ended up hitting 43 on my SAM ^^

And to further make my week, during our gods night in Sky I got myself the Aquarian Abjuration: Hands. So after that run I went and got my cursed mitts and had them uncursed so that I could add these to my collection:

(Arg, wikipedia is down so I don't have a pic of the Zenith Mitts -_-)

I was really happy to get these off my list of "things to get in sky" because they're one of the items that often have many people bidding, so there's usually a bit of competition to get them. I guess our sky LS doesn't really have too many mages though right now that still need them because they've done Genbu a lot in the past and the drops have always been pretty good.

Also managed to pickup my Cleric's Pantaloons in Dynamis-Jeuno last night. Last night was our second run as our new established shell "RidersOfRohan" and we did great. We had a couple of big pulls, but our group handled them very well and we didn't have any wipes until the end, which of course was after the win so it wasn't so bad because everyone got a R3. I also played WHM for the first time in Dynamis, and i'm glad that I have no lag. I think I did pretty well, kept status effects off the tanks and other melee and kept everyone healed with the help of our other healers.

So now for this week, i'm going to focus on skilling up my GreatAxe to 218, which is the current cap for my lvl (63) on my WAR. I'm a little disappointed that the rare/ex axes I have probably won't be used in xp party now (Acha d'Armas & Francisca) but if what everyone is saying is true, my GA dmg will be lot better. I'm just curious as to whether i'll be able to sub SAM. I imagine that I can if I have a PLD tank, but I don't think I want to become an MP sponge and the tank if we have a NIN so guess it all depends on the party setup. But anyways, my progress on my GA so far is 181. After 2hrs I was able to bring it up by 20 lvls thanks to a few LS members that came out with me to skillup their weapons.

And only other plan worth noting for this week, is that tomorrow night i'll be helping some LS members with their ZM. Hopefully by next week they'll have sky. I really enjoy doing the fights for these missions, but if there's one thing I'm going to hope goes smoothly is the ZM5 Ifrit's Cauldron. That place is a pain in the butt to get an entire group through, especially if Ash Dragon is up. The last time I helped LS members with a static we had setup, that dragon killed us a few times each. I swear his aggro range is a lot bigger than it should be >_<

That's it for now =)