5th job to 75!

Finally got my WAR to 75 this week, making it my 5th job to 75. I had hoped to ding 75 with Xean's THF, but during our last static session he was trying to setup his new mega computer (which in the end had a defective power supply which means he has to wait another 2 weeks before he can use is new computer) so I ended up getting ahead of him. I had decided to start using my Byakko's GA (thanks KeitaroAeon, was the first drop I got with you guys) to skill up my GA skill which was sitting at 223 (and thanks again to Elden and Xean who helped me skill it up earlier that week). I managed to get it up to 245 on that party, which only lasted maybe 2hrs so hopefully i'll be able to cap it in my next party. All in all, the dmg seems to be much better but I would occasionally get some pretty crappy weaponskills ~ 100-200 dmg -_-. But I did manage to break 1k about 4 times! So I guess it can't be too bad, haha.


And on that same note, Sabene got her WHM to 75 with us. All week we've been doing pretty much "all ls" merit parties trying to get her to 75. It was a lot of fun, and though we didn't always have the best jobs available we still managed to get 7-10k/hr. Its always nice to party with friends, especially because you don't have to worry about having someone who can't perform their party duties.

So the next job i'm planning to lvl will be BLM. I don't really find it too much fun to play in xp parties, but I'm sure i'd enjoy it at 75 when I get to bust out some nukage on NMs. I always liked playing the nuking RDM, but sadly as my job class (and race to a degree) was limited, I could never really come up to par to any BLM. I know that lvling BLM will be tough because ever since ToAU, its not wanted in parties much anymore... BUT! I have a plan.... I'm bringing Xean along on his BRD! So I should be able to get xp pretty decently whether its with a regular party setup or with a mana burn. And I can't wait for Xean to have BRD@75. Knowing that he's the type of player that will do his party duties efficiently (and fast) i'm sure that by the time we're ready to merit at 75, i'll be seeing those nice chains of 200+.

But in the meantime, I gotta get his BRD caught up to my BLM40. So i've decided to lvl DNC up to 40 and use it as a subjob (for those random times when it would be useful). So far I've only managed to get it to 15, so I JUST got my curing waltz which is nice... but I have yet to actually fight something "tough" and see just how good the job really is.


Me and Xean have been duo-ing for most of our dune levels and though the xp isn't that great, we've still managed. We've had a few of those stupid deaths... you know, the kind where you see an NM and you think to yourself "Lets KILL IT!". Then 10 seconds later, you're lying face in the dirt....


Yeah.....

Aaaanyways, one of the most recent things that i've had the pleasure of doing, was an Ohat run for my ls. A few weeks ago, one of our members Elden mentioned needing one and I told him to make a topic on the LS. After that, we had several members show an interest so we did a lot of farming for the hakutaku eyes needed to make a hakutaku cluster which is the pop item for the NM. Finally after everyone got their cluster synthesized thanks to our very own alchemist Tiaybara, we scheduled a run which actually happened last night.

I was a little worried about how successful the run would go because we were very limited on the "help" end. A couple of people who had said they'd help out weren't online, and a couple of others didn't even bother to let us know they had changed their minds and prioritized something else.... but in the end, it didn't matter because we went 6/6! HA!

I was really happy after our first fight. It went soooo smooth, no deaths and barely anyone went beyond yellow HP. We only had 2 WHMs at the start, and while they did run low on MP they still did an excellent job keeping our tanks paralyna'd. And our tanks definitely were on top of things, as well as the stunners. I got to go as RDM/DRK and really enjoyed stunning whenever I could but with all the enfeebles, refreshes and assisting cures I sometimes had a full plate @_@

In the end, I was extremely happy with the members that came out to help. We pulled off something that not many "social" linkshells get together to do, and seeing the reactions of everyone at the very end was worth it.

Congratulations to Elden, Standpoint, Kawanowu, Yourdestiny, Tiaybara and Zeo for your new fugly hats!!! And thanks to Ferque, Trindel, Alianne, Soluslupis, Timwakefield, Sabene and Xean for helping on the run.


Based on how much fun everyone had and the comments at the end of the run, we'll definitely be putting another run together in the future. Hopefully we can even try a few different pop NMs.

Now for the other random things I did this week...

I recently got a /tell from a player who had joined SpiftasticAdventures Dynamis LS a long time ago, and unfortunately had to stop playing and took a long break. She came back to the game, and started a new character Annalise. We ended up talking a little bit, and in the end I offered her some help to get her new character started. She took me up on the offer the next day, and me and Xean went out to help her with the Magicite Mission to get her rank 5. I hadn't done that mission in ages, so it was nice to do again.


Then I also had Anderoc invite me to help camp the rare/ex fuma with him. On my way to Castle O., he ended up claiming the NM and managed to get the drop. So when I got there, we waited for about an hourish and got the second pop. Unfortunately we didn't get the fuma though. Haha, one of these days i'll go camp them seriously, but I'll probably wait until I can find a decent site to download free stream videos so that I have something to do while I wait for the window to open. I really can't stand waiting around for NM windows, sooooooooooo boring -_-


Other than that, KeitaroAeon finally did our Kirin TP Burn. I was asked to bring up Xean's MNK/DRK because my SAM wasn't merited yet. The actual fight itself was neat, and everyone was pretty excited... the only downside to it all, was that the fight was about 2hrs late. We had a lot of people show up late, and we actually ended up making another LS wait on us. Hopefully though our next tp burn Kirin will happen on time because the fight itself is only a few minutes long.


Its just too bad that I died on Xean within the first 30 seconds.... I didn't even get to use his entire "Hundred Fists". ; ; Oh well, lol... there's always next time. It looks like we might try to TP burn Kirin once every week, which would be good considering we've collected a ton load of Kirin pop sets and haven't quite been able to use them.

As for anything else going on in the game, I just finished up ToAU42. The first fight was a bit sloppy and we died in the second room, but when we tried the fight again we made it all the way to the Soulflayer and got the win. Was a bit of a long fight, but pretty fun. I love it when I get to play RDM and enfeeble the mob... and see them work effectively, mwahaha...

Our next fight is going to be against Alexander, but we're going to wait on a friend of ours to help on his BLM (we hope). We're also going to see if we can get Timwakefield to lvl 75 on his PLD so that I can come on RDM to help with refresh and healing because we don't have anyone else with RDM available. I've heard the fight is pretty harsh, and would rather wait for us to be 100% ready with the perfect setup, then waste an evening trying and ending up with only failures. Gawd the game can be such a time sink at times -_-


Last, here's a little pic I picked up while in The Sanctuary of Zhi'tah. My favorite zone in the game. Its a bit dark I think, because the image was made smaller but when you get to see all the details in full size its really nice. I'll have to use this for a future wallpaper or signature.