I owe that mostly to my renewed interest in campaign, which is thanks to a few friends: Elden, Athoz, Janko and Anderoc. I haven't really done a lot of campaign except for maintaing my current ranking (thanks to SE, you HAVE to do some campaign every 30 days in order to keep your medals.... -_-) but as I started lvling my MNK, I knew I would have to do a lot more in order to get myself some shiny new pieces: Cobra Unit Cap & Cobra Unit Subligar.
Well as soon as I put my mind to it, I was able to get the 90k Allied Notes I needed to get both pieces within 2 days. I had to change my allegiance to Windurst of course though, in order to get the gear at the cheapest price. (otherwise you have to pay an extra 20k AN for each item)
After this, I took a bit of a break from doing campaign, I felt pretty burned out. But recently a friend of a friend, Janko, who we will soon bring to the dark side, starting hanging out with a bunch of us and dragged me back into doing campaign. Most nights it would be me, Elden and Janko but throughout the week we've been joined by Sabene and Athoz.
Being able to do campaign with friends has made it all the more fun and bearable. Sometimes you experience some death...
And other times you get to wail on the birdies that try to stab you repeatedly with their little kunai weapons!
Of course one thing I still have yet to understand... is why the Yagudo have an obsession with removing Zerayla's top. -_-
An interesting thing i've learned with having done so much campaign this week, is that there are certain special NPCs that will randomly come and help you. There's this one fairy NPC that has an entire armie of pixies that help you out with healing magic...
And then there's this little toad dude, with a family of frogs. I'm not really sure what he does because I only saw him at the end of a campaign, but I like the idea that various creatures from the past come out and help you.
There's even this one NPC couple with a PLD and a RDM, and they actually talk in /say as they fight. Usually the RDM Hume is giving her "husband", the PLD, orders on what to do while she stands behind him keeping him alive with magic. Kinda funny to watch.
Here's just some random shots from campaign... I likes the fairies :)
Here's the Elvaan completely owning the poor Orc. He never knew what was coming.
With all the lvling i've managed to do on MNK, it was only a matter of time before i'd have to do all the questing to get my Asuran Fists unlocked as well as my Destroyers. And let me say... I am SO GLAD that I decided to keep my Destroyers ages ago when I got them in a KSNM. I never had the intention to lvl MNK, but for whatever reason I had decided back then to store my Destroyers because I knew it was hard to get a group together for the KSNMs that drop them... making them a little rare to come by.
Thankfully, my LS was able to lend a hand with everything I needed. It also helped that one of our members was also lvling MNK (his first to 75) and also needed help with many of the same things.
But before I could start on my Asuran Fists NM, I had to complete the NM to get my Steel Cyclone for my WAR. Yes... I have WAR. Its semi-retired though, because no matter what gear i've managed to get for it (I have all the hecatomb stuff from sky) I still can't make it dish out the numbers that my SAM can... so, I just don't play it.
I was able to snatch Janko, Zeo and Standpoint for the fight in The Sanctuary of Zhi'Tah against a big walking tree NM. I brought along Onedarkflame who I duo-boxed (though not too well, I suck at multi-tasking) on WHM and we all decided to zerg the thing. It only took a couple of minutes, but I was quite happy.
The next day, I formed a ws party with Athoz, Sabene, and Janko in Castle Oztroja. Later on Chocobits joined up with us to help out with his Hexa Strike. Both me and Athoz were able to get our WS pts completed in a matter of a couple of hours, and we even managed to get a few nice scroll drops for gil.
When we were finally done with that, we put together a group to go fight the Asuran Fists NM. Zeo and Onedarkflame came out to help me and Athoz. We decided to all 2hr the thing, which was probably a good idea considering I ended up tanking for most of the fight and just about died ><
Later on that day, I was able to get some more WS points to break my Destroyers thanks to Onedarkflame and Athoz. We didn't finish that night, but I managed to login the next day and finally break them. Yay :)
As for other LS events, it seems like we're starting to get back into the groove again. Its been a while since we've had enough members to really go out and tackle big NMs. Just the other day, Standpoint asked for help with the antlion NM for his RNG Jupon, out in Attohwa Chasm.
Initially there was a little bit of a... how should I say, sight seeing detour as we followed our brave little tarutaru SMN Soulstar. Eventually though, we did get to the right place and did a little testing here and there to figure out how to pop the NM. It involved us killing an Antlion Tracker (I think that's what it was called) which would pop if you rested on the cracks in the ground. After 5 minutes, you then had to move to another set of cracks and the NM would have a possibility of popping.
We lucked out and had him spawn within the first 20 minutes, and pretty much overkilled the thing. Our group consisted of Standpoint, Carste, Soulstar, Drimergirl, Onedarkflame, Janko, Mailinx, Athoz, Terminataru and myself.
And because Carste happened to spot Xolotl earlier, we all decided to give it a go and kill him. The first try started to go decently, but after about 10 minutes we knew that our setup wasn't really what we needed and it wasn't long before we wiped.
But of course, we still managed to have a little fun. I was able to finally show my thanks to Standpoint for all those canadian jokes he's always directing at me >=)
Anyways, after a little job changing (I went /nin for probably the second time in my entire PLD career... I always get really nervous because I don't feel very confident tanking without provoke) we took Xolotl for round 2! And sure enough, we got through the fight much quicker, with no deaths. I even d/ced about 2 minutes into the fight (stupid router) and we still pulled it off. Too bad our shell has really bad luck with drop rates, because we got absolutely nothing from the fight. Not even a crystal ><
And apparently farming "zeni" isn't as bad as I thought it was. One afternoon when I logged in, Janko invited me to farm zeni with him. I didn't want to go through the hassle of making inventory room and getting the special cameras you need to take pictures, but I figured i'd keep him company and help him out. So we headed over to Newton Movapolas to find some moblins. The first area we found, had already been claimed by a zeni farming party so with my leet navigational skills (i'm not as bad as people say I am!) I took us to another area and we quickly found us some moblins to play with. Then in about 20 minutes or less, we managed to take all the pictures that Janko needed to turn into zeni. So now i'm starting to consider trying out ZNMs in the future, if only I can find a shell that works with my schedule.
In terms of my character progression (aside from all the fun MNK stuff) i've managed to get a few more assaults done. I think i'm going to try and flag the quest for First Lieutenant sometime this week, though i've heard the quest can be pretty irritating because some of it is luck based (yay!).
My limbus shell also had another win on Ultima. I got to bring out my BLM for the fight which made me happy enough, but to my surprise I also got myself a pretty pair of Nashira Crackows. Now if only I could get my RDM into some more HNM events to test out the magic accuracy a bit ; ;
And last but not least... I'm still trying to work on my smithing. Leathercraft has pretty much come to a halt, considering no one seems to be selling the stupid catoblepas hides -_-
I'm hoping to get smithing to 30 before the weekend (sitting at 29) but after that i'm going to take a break from any kind of gil spending because I have some serious farming to do. I want to give a gil prize for a LS event i'm planning in December. We're going to have a "LS Secret Santa" as well as a "LS Treasure Hunt Party". I'm hoping to have 2 teams compete against each other to farm up various items and have a gil prize for the winning team.
Before I go, I might as well post my most recent accomplishment too... in fact, its so recent that it happened while I was writing up this extremely long post!
MONK 75!
7th job to 75! Now... either this means I enjoy the game too much, or... well, lets not mention the other possibilities. >_>;
Next up, loldrg! Why? Well... because i'm not touching NIN or BST! And actually, mainly because I have a few pieces of gear that most DRGs pursue so i'd like to make use of them seeing as my PLD doesn't get to come out too often.
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