Partners in Crime.

Black Mage, is H E L L A fun.

For the last week, i've been pushing to get as close to lvl 75 on my BLM as possible, along with my partners in crime Sabene and Alianne. Though the parties aren't always the greatest (gotta love the know it alls, or the people who just don't know anything and you would think are RMT with the lack of knowledge they have at lvl 60+) I am having a blast lvling the job. I admit sometimes I get a little nuke happy... but I blame that on Sabene, because she does it too! And then of course we have Alianne on his NIN just laughing as I tank the mob for a couple of seconds. >_> (I don't do it all the time though! I swear!)

And now that I have BLM up to 67 (as of today!) i'm now able to do the Up in Arms BCNM manaburn style! It is soo much more enjoyable than straight up tanking on my PLD. No cost for meds/items (other than melon pie) and its fairly straight forward. Nuke, gravity, bind, Nuke, sleep, repeat! So far me, Alianne and Carste are 0/24 for the Kraken club though ._.


Lets see what else... Oh, we got Squishy his Selene's bow a few days ago. I figured we'd be up most of the night, because the last time we had gotten this item for one of our LS members (ironically who left our shell a week later because apparently none of us were considered real friends even though by us helping him get his own Selene's bow, he was able to sell another bow and profit himself 3 mil -_-) we had fought the stupid NM quite a few times before the Selene's bow actually dropped... but this time when we got Standpoint's, he went 1/2.


Also managed to get my Sleepga II scroll. I had prepaid Alianne for the scroll because he had the quest flagged. I had quested the scroll a long time ago back when me and Xean were saving and farming like crazy to get his Noble's Tunic for 7.5mil.... sold the scroll for a nice 1.6mil back then. So sure enough, after mentioning that I needed to help Alianne with the actual NM fight against Agas to complete the quest, a bunch of LS members volunteered to come out and give a hand.


The fight was almost too easy. I could have sworn it was a lot harder, but we had the NM down in minutes and I don't think I remember Sabene going through any MP on her WHM, lol.

Afterwards we decided we'd do a LS merit pt with the members that had helped with Agas. We were doing pretty good, I think we managed to get up to about chain #35 until a party showed up and started taking the mobs at our camp. Gotta love people who don't know how to use the search function to see how many parties are in an area...

Anyways, we were still pulling pretty fast but eventually got annoyed because there were less mobs so we went to the North camp from Mamool Ja Staging point in Bhaflau Thickets, aka "Death Camp".

And that it was!


Poor Carste, lol.

Thanks to those merits, and some more meriting I did during the week I was able to get my Elemental Magic Skill merits to 6/8. I'm hoping i'll be able to finish those up in the next week, and then I can save up some more merits so that I can maybe work on my STR for my melee jobs.


I also had my first encounter with Padfoot. I've heard of the NM, and that he drops Astral earring... so when I happened to see a sheep with that name I immediately shouted in LS "COME NOW!" and had Alianne, Sabene and Zeo help me kill it. I could have soloed it, but at the time I didn't know the lvl so I didn't want to risk death ><;


Unfortunately we didn't get the drop, but then again apparently the so called "NM" we were fighting, was also a fake. I guess Padfoot has something like 5 versions, and only one of them is the real thing.

I'm slowly working on my crafting too. I want to one day see all my crafts at lvl 60, so slowly i've been working on them whenever I have gil (or rather when I want to spend gil) I've been able to get my Clothcraft to 55, Alchemy to 56, and Woodworking to 53. Clothcraft still has about 2 lvls that'll end up being a bit of a gil sink, but over time i'll be able to get most of that back.

And for all my endgame stuff... well Dynamis is good. We had a ton of Wootz ore drop in our last Bastok run, which will end up giving members in our LS about 160k from our "Month End Bonus" which is basically a reward for people that stick around the full run to help farm coins at the end. We also had quite a bit of AF drop, but more and more it seems that the cities no longer have any gear that people need, so it usually ends up being free lotted.


Lastly... sky is just starting to wear on me. Our shell hasn't been able to do the "tp burn Kirin", nor a "regular kirin" for the last 3 months. This is because a good number of the members chose to do other in game activities instead of showing up, unless of course we're doing something they actually need. And then again, there's just a lot of people that have left the game, or just left the shell without saying a word so our numbers have been down for quite some time.

I've been looking forward to getting a K.Osode for myself, so that I can use it on my SAM but it doesn't seem that will happen any time soon. I don't mind too much that things are a lot slower, but I do fear that the shell is in that last phase.... before it breaks. If no new members are recruited, people are just going to end up quitting because most of us only need to do Kirin at this point. So much of the regular god gear is free lotted. I guess its a good thing the osode i'm borrowing is from someone that is very unlikely to come back to the game... but just in case he does, I want to have my own osode.

Meh, guess i'll have to wait and see how things go.

Oh and I managed to get Kaelyth to 13 on MNK. I spent an hour seeking, but didn't get any invite which might be because I don't have a subjob and that my rank is lvl 2. Guess I could have made a party myself, but i'm really up for making parties now a days... its so hit and miss if you get people that can actually do what they're suppose to, and sometimes soloing the xp is just faster. >_>



Thats it for now :)