A while back, one of our members Standpoint had mentioned wanting to lead a static to complete CoP. He's had probably some of the worst luck in this game, especially when it comes to statics for Chains of Promathia missions. For some reason, he just hasn't attracted the right kind of people to commit to his previous statics and after a couple of people leave without a word, well... things just kinda fall apart.
So when he mentioned wanting to start another static, I was eager to be apart of this to ensure that this time, he would finally get to the end of the missions. He's the type of player that rarely asks for help and usually keeps to himself... but if ever someone mentions needing help in the LS when he's online, he'll almost always show up a few minutes later without a word, waiting for an invite to help out. He doesn't get to play too much either, so that of course makes it really difficult for him to progress much in the game, at least in terms of endgame so it'll be nice if our ls can help him finally accomplish one of his big goals in the game -- getting that shiny rajas ring!
A few people in our LS had expressed an interest in joining, and so this week we decided to work on getting them caught up to Standpoint who is currently on "Three Paths". This meant starting off with mission 4.2, which involved running around Sacrarium and killing a corse NM. Unfortunately I wasn't able to join up for that fight, but later in the night I was able to help out with the climb to Promyvion Vazhl.
Janko, Carste and myself joined up with Drimergirl, Soulstar and Elden to help them get the mission done. We were only able to get to floor 4, but the climb went smoothly. We would of kept going too but because it was late on a Sunday night, we had to call it and reschedule (which is yet to be determined @_@)
The two NM fights that we did manage to do, were pretty fun. As Carste had predicted, I was tanking on my SAM.
<_<
>_>
I went SAM/WAR with my Soboro, and it was fuuuuuuuuuuuun!
But as you can see, my "fun" on SAM often results in this:
I probably should have gone /nin, but what can I say? I like to make my mages work! Squishy ftw!
*ahem*
We also managed to (mostly) finish our never-ending swift belt run which was started a few months back. We had decided to farm the codexes we needed, and our first time with the NMs only resulted in one swift belt dropping. We tried to setup farming runs in the weeks that followed, but there never seemed to be enough people around.
Finally though, we decided to give it another shot and thanks to one of our members Falk, who was able to farm 2 codexes on his own, we headed out for yet another run.
This time we had 2/3 belts drop, which was great. We weren't able to get Falk a belt, but we do plan to have a run in the future when he gets his NIN closer to 50.
So yeah... I also was able to experience something that really changed my opinion on BLU recently. I know the job can be pretty versatile, and that in solo situations its a powerful melee/mage. But for a long time, I always thought the job was pretty "meh" in merits.
That all changed when I was invited to merit with some members from my Limbus shell. At the time, I knew my friend Janko had just gotten his SCH to 75 and was desperate to finish some of his STR merits in order to start on SCH merits after. So I invited him along.
This was definitely one of the most enjoyable merit parties i've had in ages. First of all, our setup was RDM, COR, BRD, BLU, WAR, MNK. I was keeping haste on everyone except for the brd, refreshing myself and Janko on BLU, and was even able to keep up with dia'ing (3) every mob. There was hardly any time to rest in between it all but I was glad because it meant that boredom wouldn't creep in like it usually does in most merit parties.
After a while, Janko asked if I could parse him and so I loaded up directparse and after about 30 minutes... I went to check the results. Knowing that both the WAR and MNK were fully meritted and had some pretty good gear, I expected to see them as #1 for the dmg in our party.
Nope.
Our BLU, Janko was in the lead! The party continued for another hour and a half and whenever i'd check the parser, Janko was always in the lead. Our COR also had a parser going and confirmed the results. So... I guess as long as the BLU has a real haste and a constant refresh, they are definitely a job to invite for some good xp in a merit pty. I think in 2.5hrs, we were able to get just over 60k.
I went ahead and put those merits into my MNK. I decided to go with Kick Attack rate first, and hopefully if I can manage to get myself into another merit pty I'll be able to start on my merits for "Focus" soon after. The problem i'm having though, is that i'm not getting any invites on my MNK. I do plan to semi-retire the job soon, but i'd still like a few more opportunities to play it a little more ; ;
I was able to get into a Nyzul pickup party with MNK yesterday, so I guess that's a start. My own Nyzul static has been put on hold until we can get Drimergirl and Soulstar to 75 (in the meantime, we just merit/xp with them during our static time slot) so I figured I might as well join a few pickup runs and test my luck.
My luck is still crappy (to be expected of course) but the runs we did went pretty well. Our first run was a climb from floor 31-36, which we did very easily. We had probably 8 minutes left when we exited, which is something i've never experienced before. The second run, was a boss run for floor 40. Again we got to the last floor with about 10 minutes left, and after popping my 2hr and temporary items, we zerged the boss down really quickly. Unfortunately we didn't get any drops though.
On our last run, we had to replace a couple of our members which was probably not the best idea. We had two floors where you have to figure out the lamps, and the replacement members were either not familiar with these types of floors, or just really failed at comprehending english. The leader for the run gave out pretty clear instructions, saying who needed to touch the lamp and when, but this didn't exactly go according to plan, and we had to redo the lamp order quite a few times. All the wasted time left us with 3 minutes to kill the boss, which was another Behemoth. We got him down to about 50% or less before time ran out ><
Oh well, I was just happy that I didn't die at all!
Last, i'm really urked with part of the new update that was just added yesterday. SE decided that in order to try and discourage RMT even more, and prevent them from making gil to sell on the internet, they would cut the NPC selling price of a few items. While this is good in trying to eliminate RMT, it does also affect the regular player. Myself and many other friends I know, have farmed some of the items that were affected for a little gil... and of course now, we have no choice but to find alternatives to earn gil in the game. I have some stuff to fall back on, like fishing and crafting... but a few people I know will probably have a much more difficult time trying to find something that can net the same gil/hr ratio.
Well I guess we'll see how this new update looks in the next few days. So much talk about the new battle systems that were implemented to help players get a little xp while being able to play casually. It sounds pretty confusing to me right now, but i'm sure i'll give it a try soon with a few friends and see it for myself.
Btw, has anyone ever been to Witchfire Glen in Grauberg [S]? I was looking for some Brasscaps (mushroom looking mobs) to farm some items, and ended up finding this secluded area where a bunch of fairies were. There was a waterfall and small little ponds all around, and absolutely no mobs. Really nice little place.
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