Having just reached lvl 52, I spent the last couple of days getting my AF done. Now I really and truly understand the frustrations of everyone else in this game, especially when the AF you need to get can't be soloed. I've been so used to always having Xean with me whenever we had to do AF, and with his NIN we pretty much could duo anything.
Half of my AF was pretty easy, but there were two pieces that weren't exactly a walk in the park. I'll have to say though, getting all my coffer keys (x3) went really smooth. Timwakefield, Alianne and myself went out one day and decided to kill some coffer mobs. The coffer keys dropped fairly quick, with only Davoi taking about 40 minutes or so.
But when I went to go find the coffer for The Eldieme Necropolis..... oye... that was a serious pain in the ass. I've had a number of people help me with the switches on different occasions, and every single time i'd go and try to look for the coffer, it wouldn't be up. It wasn't until my 5th try that I finally found it. Of course though, it was in one of the last spawn points...
And the story gets better, but more in a hilarious way. My AF3 fight involved an NM down in Toraimarai Canal. An elemental NM to be more exact, which meant very high physical damage resistance. My party consisted of myself (BLM50), Sabene (WHM75), Standpoint (DRK75 aka Mr. Squishy) and Alianne (RDM66). The fight was going pretty well, however our DRK was having a few issues keeping hate mainly due to not having provoke, and with all the cures being tossed the mages were getting hit here and there. The moment though when it all got better, was when Alianne decided to convert, right next to the monster.
And literally, within that same second when the convert ability went up, BOOM. Alianne falls dead to the ground.
At the time a few of our ls members were on Skype, and we just burst out laughing for a good 5 minutes. We couldn't stop laughing even after we had finally killed the NM. I also ended up dying, but it was worth the laughs we had.
Actually, speaking of Skype I'm pretty happy that I finally got some members to pick up a mic and get this setup. We've been able to do some missions together and have had a lot of fun tossing jokes back and forth. The last few nights I haven't really been able to talk and have pretty much been silent, but earlier in the week it was a nice change.
Other things i've been doing lately to keep myself busy, are... Windurst missions. A bunch of us in the LS decided to change nations, and get rank 10 in Windurst and in Bastok. We were able to get through the first missions pretty easily, but gawd do they ever take forever. The static right now includes Alianne, Sabene, Sulitas, Uryury (played by Sulitas) and myself. We've been able to have a few people help us out along the way - Falk, Timwakefield and Faule.
I think we managed to go from mission 2.3-6.1 in one day, and then spent just this last monday getting up to 8.2. As easy as the Windurst missions are, they also have an annoying wait time. You don't actually have to "wait until JP midnight" to proceed, but you do have to fight 2 NMs on two different missions.... in order to get a rare/ex item. Each party member requires one, and the NM only drops 2 per death. So with 5-6ppl needing the item, we had 3 NMs to kill each time, and with their 20 minute respawn time... we were pretty bored out of our minds.
Our LS also managed to get another win on the ToAU44 Alexander fight (Sabene needed some help considering her previous static couldn't even get to Alexander....lol....hahahahahahaha..... sorry, just i'm not particularily fond of the static members she had so its kinda fun to laugh that they weren't successful <_<)
Currently we're 4/5 (our first run was a dry run anyways) and while this fight can be really expensive due to the MP you have to go through, its really fun. I get so pumped just listening to the music from this fight, when you finally get to go against Alexander.... its the perfect tanking music.
Last week or maybe it was just a bit before, I also volunteered to help out two LS members (Skiewalker and Pinkubara) with their promyvions. I used to actually do a weekly static to get our LS members through these with Xean, but eventually we got burnt out doing them every week and on top of that, not everyone who would sign up would make an effort to show up on time, or show at all. But I was pretty open to helping some LS members with the missions again, and this time I had my SMN to bring!
I will always say that SMN has a place to shine, and that would be BCNM type battles... especially the promyvions.
But... I didn't get to shine this time around. Not everyone was experienced with promyvions, and not everyone had the necessary items --> anima! Some people had said that the missions had become easier, so we figured that we would be ok with having maybe one pyschoanima and one hysteroanima per promyvion, but unfortunately when we went and did Holla.. we wiped.
I felt bad, because really that was one of the few wipes I had ever experienced. But Skiewalker and Pinkubara seemed set on getting these done and a couple of days after setup a post on our forum to try and reschedule. I'm sure we'll get the wins next time.
So for my other committments... i'm getting closer to being able to get my Perdu Vulge from Assault. I'm just about ready to rank up to Second Lieutenant (I think thats the one) and can't wait to try out a new Great Axe. I've really been focusing on gearing my SAM, but once I get a few more pieces for my WAR I might start playing that a bit more.
My weekend static with my LS has been going pretty good. We finally got out of Kazham, and most of us reached lvl 32-33 in our last party session. We actually tried out a new area to xp, which though took FOREVER to get to, was a nice change to the scenary. We headed to Purgonorgo Isle and partied there for a good 3hrs. The xp was about the same that you'd get in Garlaige Citadel, only we had no competition to deal with.
(Falk decided to dance on my corpse after I intentionally tried to club that Mandy in the backround to death, in order to bloodwarp on my SCH)
Limbus is not doing so well lately. We have had good runs on our Tuesday nights, but Saturdays have been really bad. We don't usually have more than 7-8 people now, and on our last run we had a few wipes that we don't usually experience.
The upside to this though, is that leadership finally decided to allow recruitment through friend referrals, so i've already invited Sabene to our Saturday runs. I just hope that more people will be invited to our shell because otherwise we'll be cancelling our runs every saturday if not enough people show up.
Dynamis.. Dynamis... Dynamis... last month we worked on trying to get our members some city wins (yay Sandoria!)
But when we went to Beaucedine, we didn't do so great. We had tried another method, which was to split our LS into 2 alliances. We would try to maximize our potential for farming while at the same time making our way to the boss. A few things though, prevented us from getting the win on our first run of the month...The first being that we had some pretty big pulls, and because we typically have a few people leave in the middle of the run due to having to be up early (these are special cases which we allow because these people can't really get into other shells due to their time zone) we didn't really have "full" alliances at all times. This resulted in a couple of wipes, which definitely cut down our time. And by the time we would get to the boss NM, we were really limited... I believe within 10 minutes of the hourglass being finished.
After the first loss, we decided to try and redo the zone, but this time it seemed just a bit harder. We had one rescue "mission" for a member that had come late, and again with a smaller number in the alliances near the end, we had a few wipes and just didn't have the time we needed to kill the boss before the dragons came back and annihilated everyone.
Hopefully tonight's Xarcabard run though will have plenty of AF drops. We could use a bit of luck ><
Only other things i've been up to lately have been Campaign. I find myself doing this late at night when no one is really on. Its one of the last things that myself and Xean actually enjoyed doing together, and I guess I find a bit of comfort in remembering that. I haven't really been able to have any kind of focus lately to get into merits (I did try and help Soulstar to 75 last week, but I was soooo behind with my refresh, hastes etc) so this is keeping me busy and giving me something to enjoy a little.
I think thats about all I can write on now. Its getting hard to keep updating all the time, but that might also be because of other things going on in my life. Meh, i'll try to kick myself a bit more to keep this updated.Oh, but before I forget... I've been working on making my moghouse look kinda nice. I don't use ALL my inventory space, so I figured why not decorate it a bit! Here's a few shots so far:
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