Lately i've been working on my crafts bit by bit. I got my Smithing to 18, Goldsmithing to 9 and I plan on taking these up slowly. It'll be a while until I can get all my crafts to 60, but at least at this rate i'm not going to see a huge dent in my funds. For the most part i'll farm what I can, and limit myself to spending only a certain amount of gil for any synthing up session I plan.
As for meriting, I did a week of that trying to get my BLM finished. Of course there ended up being more work than I had thought, because SE recently had an update that increased the merits available in "Group 2". I haven't had any opportunity to use my BLM in any of my endgame events (go figure, and here I thought all endgame shells wanted BLMs) so i've been a little disappointed. I want to get more experience with the stun orders, and general knowledge about how to use the job on endgame monsters but so far with my luck, I don't really see that happening. I've been tempted just to stop putting merits into my BLM and focus on the other jobs I play more frequently but i'm more than 70% done so i'll probably just finish it up. Then I'll probably finish up with my WHM considering that's the job i'm always asked to come for most events as. (Curse WHM!)
Speaking of merits, the other week a few LS members got together to lvl up/merit on Trolls. These aren't the greatest xp/hr, but we had a blast. I got to bring my SAM and went a little crazy at times. I love seeing the mob's HP go down in chunks when I use my weaponskills, and I also enjoy keeping up my shadows/third eye when I take hate.
We managed to get Darce to 74 on his PLD and Onedarkflame to 74 on his WHM. Hopefully we'll be able to finish up again when people aren't so busy. I think with it being summer, people are on less often so it hasn't been easy setting up LS merit/xp parties recently... still, its fun not having to deal with pickup parties. You really can't guarantee a fun experience with those ><
(Lol@Zeo's dead corpse being danced on!)I've also been on a little NM spree this month. First it was Ose... who refused to give up his Assault Jerkin for Standpoint. Finally though, the one night I wasn't around (haha, I must be unlucky now) some LS members went out to help him and they got the drop.
During one of the camping sessions though, we ran into Lord of Onzozo. Some BST had either gotten aggro or had tried to solo him and failed miserably, and ended up bringing the kraken over to us befoer dying. We managed to kill him, but we didn't see any drop. Oh well, I got to tank him for a little bit on my RDM until Carste came in and stole the fun ; ;
We also had some fun with Roc again. Last year, we had tried to get the Dryad Staff for one of our members, Falk. I think we had gone 0/5 before we had to put him on hold due to the window being at inconvenient times for most of the members of our LS. But a few weeks ago, Falk went out and got himself the ToD and we had a few camping sessions. We went 1/3 this time around, which was a relief. Its not fun waiting around for 3hrs doing nothing @_@. I'd like to get the staff one day for my WHM, but I don't think I have the motivation to keep up with a ToD for more than one round... so I guess Light Staff will have to do!
Onedarkflame also gave me a hand a couple of times with Valkurm Emperor. I wasn't really feeling the need to get myself the hairpin, but out of the blue he offered to help me camp it on my character Kaelyth so I accepted. One session we had Darce come out to help with the claim, and both times we camped the NM (i'm currently 0/2) Standpoint was on the verge of outpost warping only to read that we had gotten claim and were killing it in LS. Oh well, i'm sure i'll go after him again when i'm bored but for now i'm not dying without it.
Onto Kaelyth, i've gotten his MNK to 37 thanks to my LS static! We party every wednesday night and while its been a little slow sometimes its still relaxing. I think we'll pick up the pace soon, me and Onedarkflame will be getting some nice melee gear to dish out some better dmg.
(No this is not the usual gear setup I use for Kaelyth. I changed the .dat for my subligar to those shorts, and for laughs I fought one mob naked to annoy everyone in party because they of course had to look at my naked character in their screen, haha)I'm definitely going to have to do some major farming though. I want to gear up Kaelyth so that I don't have to constantly send over Zerayla's melee gear. I know that's kind of a retarded idea, but it also gives me something to do.
Oh, and my limbus shell has finally tried Ultima. We have gone 0/2 so far, and managed to get him down to 15-18% before wiping. Of course once you wipe, its very hard to get the alliance backup and ready to fight before Ultima has regened back to 100%. The citadel buster is the one move that gets us every time, and so far we're discussing some changes to make from our strategy. Hopefully we'll have another run today and if we do, I hope that we finally get to take him out. Not many members in our shell are wanting the Nashira gear badly, except a couple. But we're fine with that, because these are mage only members that show up for every run and are more than deserving of having a shot at some nice gear. I'd like a couple of pieces myself, but I think i'd benefit more from the Homam (which we've had not problems with, Omega is much easier).
I do have to say though, the fight is really fun even with a lot of death. I really hated having to be WHM all the time, but that was always because i'd be put in situations where I wasn't really required to challenge myself at being fast and efficient with healing... but with fights like Ultima, i've gotta be on my feet most of the time and be ready to cast whatever is needed instantly. I like the excitment :)
As for sky, well... I was promoted to officer which I thought would give me the chance to finally help the shell progress more. But sadly, I haven't really felt like i've been given any kind of power or resources to do this. I honestly don't feel like a leader right now, and dont' know if i'm on the same page as the rest of the leadership. I want to organize and update everything on our forum, but I have no ability to do this yet. I want to see our shell become more efficient with our time, and our strategies so that we can do things better. We're pretty successful as a shell, but at times I think the attitude of some members isn't exactly "lets do our best".
I actually had an interesting conversation with one member during our last run where I had to explain why it mattered that more than one person was overwriting the hastes on our tanks. I had noticed that we had 4 WHMs and 1 RDM all casting haste on the same two tanks, which to me was a huge waste in MP. So before the next god we fought, I asked if we could assign one mage to cover the hasting and was given a reply of "It doesn't really matter if they're over-hasted".
Really bugs me sometimes when there are players that just don't care to do better than what they can. I'm by no means a pro at this game, but when it comes to being efficient I am always trying to find ways to improve myself.
So we'll see how things progress. I don't like giving up, but I also don't want to be the only person who wants to be a little more strict on things (waiting around for 30-50 minutes for gods isn't acceptable, a huge waste of time) and organized then I know that the frustration will get to me. And i'm not really playing this game to feel frustrated, i'm playing it to get some enjoyment out of my free time.
The one endgame event that I really have not had any stress dealing with lately is my dynamis shell. We've grown like crazy over the last couple of months, I think our roster is missing 2 more people before we'll have to stop recruitment altogether. The best part, is after next month we'll finally be done getting all our members Xarcabard access.... and then the fun really begins because we'll hopefully get to farm Northlands more often and see more members go 5/5 with their relic gear.
I feel bad sometimes for friends that I hear describe their opinion of Dynamis, because its always so negative. I think the reason why I enjoy the event so much is because I only do it once a week (twice a week might be too much) and because the majority of our shell has a great attitude during the runs. If there's any mistakes, we're more likely to laugh about it. Plus now that we have more members getting on Ventrilo, it makes the runs more bearable especially during the last hour when most people want to head to bed. Nothing keeps you awake more than the coconut song! hahaha... (ls joke)
Oh yes, and before I forget... we had a pretty fun subligar run on Saturday. We got 4/5 of the subligars we needed, and probably would have tried for the 5th but Darce had to take off. The run was fun because we only had 7 people and we were able to take down the party of fomors that included the RDM, PLD, SAM. I'm sure it can be done easily for some, but in my last experiences with that particular fomor party it always ended in mass death. Nothing like a good successful "panty raid".
I kinda hope that summer ends soon... need to get more people to 75 so that we can do more LS events. I think my social will be trying a Shen run soon too if we can get a schedule to fit with everyone. That'll be fun, and something else we can add to our LS's accomplishments ^^
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