As of late, i've been staying up late with two of my friends Janko and Elden doing random things.
Last night we decided to do a little bit of campaign. Normally we all just gang up on a mob and call it a day, but when we zoned into Sauromuge Champaigne [S] there weren't really many mobs left, aside from an NM Yagudo which happened to have a few elementals. After about 20 minutes of slowly killing the elementals, only to have the NM summon them again, I decided to take Elden's somewhat sarcastic suggestion of kiting the NM "Kirin Style".
So off I went, provoking the NM and began kiting him in circles around the building as Elden, Janko and a few other players chased it down. I did this for a little while, but eventually the elementals kinda overwhelmed us all and well... yeah, i'm sure you can guess what happened next. :)
After that campaign, I felt a little burned out so I decided to make my way to this one area in Grauberg [S] that I really like, and mentioned in my previous post. For a long time my favorite place in the game has always been The Sanctuary of Zhi'tah, but some really retarded personal reasons I have tried to stay away from that zone. After discovering this new area though, i've decided it's my new favorite place in the game.
Not long after I got to the area, Elden and Janko decided to come find me.
That quest of theirs soon turned into...
Elden sees a pixie!
Elden engages the pixie!
Elden dances and tries to impress the pixie with uber solo skillz!
Elden is annihilated by the pixie!
So after getting back up, they finally made their way to where I was. We then decided it would be fun to kill some Wivres that were nearby. Then still being in the crazy "I must kite the mobz!" mood, I decided to voke one and lead both Elden and Janko into a field filled with true sight Hypogryphs. *evil grin*
I was actually hoping to lead them into the little fairy area, but Janko ended up getting aggro as he chased the Wivre that I was kiting and well... umm... yeah. I guess I kinda MPK'ed him. <_<;
I wasn't going to be able to solo both a Wivre and Hypogryph on my PLD, so also let myself die and then home pointed so that I could change to WHM and give Janko a raise 3. After a grueling 20 minutes of warping, changing back to PLD and finally making my way back to him and Elden, we decided to have a little revenge on the birdies.
Or to be more exact, elden thought it would be fun to play with the birdies while me and Janko watched and tossed popcorn at him.
What started out as "Elden soloing a hypogryph" soon turned into a "Elden getting owned by 2 Hypogryphs".
Actually no, he did pretty good and lived through both. But I was getting a little bored, so after Elden engaged a third hypogryph, I decided to get up and help him out while Janko goofed around and hid underneath the mob.
We had a few more kills before we finally decided to make our way to the NPC that teleports you back to the city. On the way back, we killed a few quadav and had the Dancer's Testimony dropped, so of course Elden got excited and insisted that me and Janko who were ready to pass out, stay online a little longer so that he could go and fight the Dancer NPC. (Which he was doing ok with, until the DNC NPC decided to 2hr and apparently weaponskill-ga the crap out of him)
All in all, it was a fun and random night. We didn't really have any goals in mind, and for once just took the night to goof off and watch how hyper a person can get when they get beyond that stage of being dead tired.
As for other things i've done in the game... I can't remember if I mentioned this before, but i'm helping some LS members with their CoP missions. We've decided to run through the missions on Sundays, and we started with promyvion-vazhl. Well actually, I didn't help with the vazhl fight but I did join in afterwards to help the group get past the 16 doors that each spawn a Golem.
By the time we were done with this part of the missions, we decided to call it a day and continue again next Sunday. Hopefully we'll be able to get through most of 5.3 - Three Paths before the evening and then if we're lucky, we might even be able to wrap up the expansion by the end of January. *crosses fingers*
And speaking of January, I'm going to get to chaperon another wedding. My friend Soulstar asked me to put in an application for him and his RL wife Drimergirl a couple of months ago. The application was finally accepted and the wedding date has been set for January 4th.
SE even approved Soulstar's request to have the wedding ceremony held in Misareaux Coast (at the cost of 240k!) so it should be a very interesting wedding. The only downside to having the event held in a requested area, is that the guests have to have completed up to at least CoP 2.3 in order to attend, otherwise they won't have access to the area. They also have to be lvl 68, so that they won't get aggro.
While the second part was easy enough to take care of because the guests all had jobs beyond lvl 68, the first was going to be a challenge. I really wanted to see all of Soulstar and Drimergirl's friends at their wedding ceremony, so I organized a run last Monday.
I had vowed never to do the promies again after having spent a good 4 - 6 months helping LS members get them done, because all the planning, organizing and time invested had just burnt me out. But I made an exception this time, and thankfully the people I organized the promyvion run for (Onedarkflame, Hanow and Athoz) were prepared and very efficient.
On top of that, I was finally able to use some of my Kindred Seals that continue to accumulate. Athoz was wanting to get a run done to get his Destroyers, so along with Sabene, Janko, Elden and a friend of Janko's, we setup to do Copycat.
It was a pretty fun run, what with everyone getting charmed and beating on our fellow party members ^^.
We managed to get a total of 3 Destroyers and had quite a few gil drops. Janko got 2 Orihalcum Ingots to go towards his Morgan's Body fund which he's currently working on.
Ooooo, and speaking of salvage stuff! Carste invited me to a "Usukane" only salvage group. We were suppose to have a run on Wednesday, but one person wasn't available and we still needed a 6th to show so that we could enter. The plan is to "low-man" the event, and do only the areas needed to get the items to obtain the Ususkane feet. I've never done salvage before, so i'm pretty eager to finally try it out :)
And while my Nyzul static is on hold until January, i've been able to join an assault static on Saturdays. The goal with this static is to do assaults needed to obtain "Captain Rank". I probably won't be able to get Captain rank with this group because once Nyzul starts back up, i'll have to bow out but hopefully if runs go as smoothly as last weekend, we'll get very close.
Oh and on that same note, the quest to upgrade to First Lieutenant.... IS EVIL. The first mini-game is absolutely irritating. You have a group of humes, and you have to figure out which of them are Quqirns (sp?). You only get a few hints to help you figure out which are the Quqirns, so its a process of elimination. And for the most part, its irritating as hell. -_-
Carste and Janko also invited me along for a BCNM60 - Up In Arms. We did 3 runs, and as to be expected, no kraken club dropped. I thought for sure that we might get one this time, considering both Janko and Carste have been lucky in the past and seen one drop on a run they've done (seperately of course). Guess my luck is still too crappy and it overwhelmed their good luck. I'm probably sitting at 0/50 on this BCNM now *shakes fist*
Seeing as i've been sitting behind in Wings of The Goddess missions for what seems to be forever, I decided i'd also make a little bit of progress. I was actually suppose to do the missions in a static last year with a few ls members, but... one of them decided to go into labour on the night we were going to meet up! So that got put on the backburner, and I think everyone just kinda forgot about them.
Right now there are so many statics happening in my social and so many events that I haven't wanted to set up anything else, so when Janko offered to give me a hand with the easy ones I took him up on the offer. We headed to Jugnar forest where I had to get a cutscene, and I went leroy jenkins and popped the NM by accident. But the NM Orc stood no chance ^^
I think i'm actually caught up now with everyone else that I was originally going to do the missions with, so I feel a bit more relieved. I hate being the one to hold people back in anything, and considering it took at least an hour or more just to get all the cutscenes and mini pre-requisite missions involved, I won't have to worry about that anymore.
And for the lastest news, my SMN finally hit lvl 51! This week my sunday static made a small change and we had our session yesterday. I was eager to be more useful to the party with my hastega. Sabene who is playing RDM is doing great with all the enfeebling, refreshing and healing and while we do share the healing duties, I still feel at times like i'm not contributing as much. I guess i'm too used to my RDM where i'm plowing through my MP and constantly casting... where as SMN, I have to keep waiting to use my BPs.
Anyways, the party disbanded when I was about 1k tnl (51), and after someone had mentioned the elemental staves at 51 that I conveniently forgot about, I quickly headed off to Campaign to get my remaining xp. I ended up going to Vunker Inlet [S] where I started to buff myself, and then out of no where a huge red ball of flame explodes on my screen and I see my HP shoot down to 0.
WTH?????
Seconds later, there's about 8 NPCs standing on my dead corpse, and I see Shadowhand running around killing everyone in sight.
Great....
I had to wait for people to pick off her little army that was camping my body before anyone could see that I was dead underneath and raise me. ><
But I got my lvl in the end, so I was happy!
No comments:
Post a Comment