Where to start, well first off... two Dynamis runs back to back, I came out with some more Valor AF! Dynamis-Windurst was a little more messy than usual, and by the end of our run we had more than 10 people who had to leave due to needing sleep/work/other valid reasons. I think we were down to 2 BLMs too, and even had to melee the stones at the end @_@
But within the last 30 minutes of our run, the Valor Leggings dropped!
I was so pysched, i've waited for these for a long time and there was one other person lotting against me and knowing my luck in Dynamis, I figured i'd lose the lot. But for whatever reason, luck was with me that night and I got a 600+ lot which won me my boots! I think the greatest part, is that the entire LS was expressing how happy they were that I got them. I had a bunch of congratulations through /tell after they dropped, and it reminded me of how lucky I am to be with a group of good players and good people. I was very grateful for everyone cheering me on and just really happy to be apart of a friendly dynamis group.
And the luck didn't stop there.... the following week, we did Dynamis Beaucedine, and we were about half way through the run with 0 drops... until... VALOR BREECHES DROPPED!
Our Northlands lotting is a little different, and setup so that those with the most attendance get their gear first (rewarding veterans first) and because i'd been with our shell since day one back when it was SpiftasticAdventures, I had the most attendance and up first for lotting the PLD AF. Again I was pretty much surrounded by everyone cheering me on, and I ended up being so psyched myself that I wasn't entirely paying attention to the debuffs I was casting on our PLDs and ended up getting off the wrong spells for a few seconds. <_<;;;
Next week is Xarcabard, our first run in that zone. I'm excited to try it out, but i've heard so much about the difficulty of the zone that i'm not going to over-estimate our LS. But i'm pretty confident that with some of our main players like our puller Cherron, that we'll do very well. And even if we have some wipes or just a few mistakes, we'll learn and do better the next time.
In other endgame activities, i've FINALLY gotten my Byakko's Haidate!
I've been saving up my points from sky farming to lot on these, because they're one piece of gear that all the melees want and therefore really hard to get. I've actually had enough points to be in the lead to bid on them for the last month, but Byakko wouldn't drop them and on the Byakko before the last, leadership didn't pay close attention to the people lotting and allowed a person who had been considered "inactive" to bid. According to our LS rules, if you're considered inactive you have to attend at least one farming session before being able to bid, and so technically while this player did have more points than me, they still weren't suppose to be able to bid. I was a annoyed at the time because I had thought for sure i'd get the Byakko Haidate that night, and when I saw that I was outbid by another player who shouldn't have been able to bid right away I immediately brought it to the attention of the leads, but for whatever reason they chose not to address it until after we had killed Byakko.... despite that I brought it up to them through /tell BEFORE the fight.
In the end, apologies were made so I left it at that. I didn't mind that the other player had gotten them too much because if they had more points than me, obviously they were deserving. Its just that not everyone follows the rules, and the leadership isn't always aware of the status of its members. I guess sometimes I just like being a perfectionist, and if there are going to be rules in place for me to follow, I expect that they will be followed by everyone else.
But anyways, on our next Byakko pop a week later, the haidate did drop and I won the bid. Of course it cost me like 90% of my points, which is one of the highest bids i've ever seen for the Haidate. Its worth it because now my WAR and SAM don't feel so gimp, but its going to take a while to regain those points that I paid for the haidate so that I can finish the other gear I need to get.
As for missions.... my static had been able to make it up to ToAU44 this month, but we had decided we would wait on the last fight with Alexander to better prepare. Well last weekend, some of the members were asking if we could try it out, and gave some suggestions as to how we could change our setup. We were going to invite 3 people from our LS as well, so that they could get this last mission.... mainly because they had tried more than 10 times to do this fight with other groups and hadn't succeeded.
So we went in as PLD (me), BRD (Alianne), MNK (Timwakefield), WHM (Xean --- Haha!), DRK (Standpoint) and BLM (Carste). Our first run we got Alexander down quite a bit, but we just didn't get in enough power at the very end and he wiped us pretty bad. But on our second go, we made sure to keep me at full health when Alexander did his Omega move at 50%, and I managed to live through it and though we did have a few deaths, we did manage to finally kill him!
Our third run we replaced Timwakefield with one of our static members - Hojima (WAR) and again we had a win! We were on a roll! Finally for our 4th run we had Alianne change to WHM, brought in Elden for BRD and replaced Hojima with Spalko (SAM). This too was a win, but definitely not an easy one.
We were all definitely happy though, 3/4 wins on ToAU44 which seemed to be pretty decent considering 3 of the people we did the fights with had tried many... many.... many times, only to have failure. Of course I think the reason why though, is because it wasn't done with a full LS group, hehe. When our LS comes together, we can definitely pull of some great things.
Also, being that i'm an active member for KeitaroAeon and KeitaroOmega, their social group KeitaroPrime opened an invitation to me and Xean to complete Storms of Fate, which is the mission required just before Apocolypse Nigh. Me and Xean had to get up early on a Sunday morning in order to do this, but it wasn't a problem because like Divine Might, you usually need close to an alliance of 75's to take down the BCNM which isn't the easiest thing to do.
Our fight went really well, except that I died at the start. I was sitting in orange health for about 10 seconds and then took a bit hit sending me face into the dirt. I quickly raised and went near the mages to get unweakened, but the group was doing so good that Bahamut was dying too fast, and finally when he was down to about 15% I just jumped back in unweakened because I didn't want to miss the entire fight ><
And so our run was a success! Thanks to KeitaroPrime for letting us come ^^
What else is on the list... oh yeah, Sabene decided to change her nation to San d'Oria (yay!) and so me and Alianne were helping her get the beginning missions done. We helped her out with the BCNM fight for 2.3 in Giddeus, which was fun. I of course hopped on my MNK and 2hrd the eye and dragon, hehehehe. I'm really going to have to pick up MNK again, that was always a pretty fun job to play.
And a few days later we gathered a few LS members and did the BCNM for mission 5.1 and 5.2 for Sabene. These were a piece of cake with everyone having done them previously, and everyone being lvl 75 for the Shadow Lord fight. Sometimes I kinda wish I had played the game before the lvl cap was raised to 75, so that I could see what a challenge the 5.2 fight use to be for players.
With how busy i've been, I haven't really had much of a chance to lvl up my DNC with Xean's BRD. We did however manage to hit lvl 20, but with his school and my other in game activities we just haven't been able to steal some time for ourselves and lvl. And to make things worse, getting a decent party at the early lvls is always a pain... such a pain in fact, the we ended up duoing lvl 18-20 in the dunes. I don't mind the duoing, but I definitely prefer the xp of a good party much better.
And just a few little updates on my character:
-Put 4 merits into Great Katana
-Unlocked Shikikoyo
-Finished merriting PLD
-Lvled Woodworking to 39
-Lvled Leathercraft to 35
Thats about it for this update.
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