Now, when this job originally came out, I thought it looked interesting. Then, when I heard about how you obtain the spells for the job, I said "haha yeah right". And for over a year, the job has stayed at level 1.
But with some encouragement from one of my friends who already has BLU 75, I finally decided I would try and get the job at least to 37. After all, i'm the type of person that likes to get that "perfect file" so eventually i'd have to have the job available right?
So, for a couple of days I went out and whenever I had free time from events, I would level up the job. I didn't actually go after xp the way I usually do when I solo, but was actually focusing on getting the spells I needed. This, is where my enjoyment went out the window. Just like I always knew it would. Its also the reason I swore i'd never touch the job.
Anyways, after many, many... maaaaaaaaany painful hours of fighting friggin beetles in west ronfaure and who knows how many mandragoras in sarabaruta, I finally hit lvl 12 and had all the spells I needed at that point. I wasted no time in NPCing my leather gear and forgetting about the job again.
I enjoyed playing the job, and having a pretty interesting choice of spells and dishing out some nice damage... but the frustration of never learning the spells I was after was enough for me to put the job back on hold for a bit. I do plan to finish it up to 37 maybe sometime next month, but for now i'll just put it on the backburner. I do have some interest in taking it to 75 one day, but I think i'll only manage to do that if I can get someone to come along with me for my spell hunting because otherwise i'll go insane. It's about as painful for me as regular solo-ing is.
So on that note, I have DRG at lvl 41 now. I haven't had too much time to play it in the last couple of days, but the last parties I have had, have been pretty good. I just wish there was a little more to do on the job, ability wise. I seem to have more fun being support healer right now (with /whm) because there's more to do, but I would like to be doing damage.
I also have SMN at 55 now. I finally went out and got all my AF pieces, minus the last piece "Summoner's Horn". I'll need to set something up within my LS soon to get this done because I don't think I can solo the mobs too easily. So far the job has it's moments, but because i've played RDM I have some issues adjusting. I feel useless a lot of the time, because Sabene who is our RDM is just very quick on the cures and takes care of the enfeebling. I get off a BP every minute, and take care of support healing whenever i'm up... but, I just feel like I need to be doing more @_@
My salvage group is still going... but, we haven't exactly had any progress. We've been attempting this one zone, where we need to fight an NM frog that can charm us - Poroggo Madame. Our first attempt we took too long to get to a particular floor so that the NM would appear. Our second attempt, we just didn't have the strat down well enough. And the most recent attempt, well... I'm not entirely sure why we failed, other than to say we just had some bad luck. One thing I have concluded with all this salvage... I hate... FROGS.
A couple of days ago, one of our new LS members Helius asked for some help on the rank mission 5.1 and 5.2. Seeing as I had left off at this point with Kaelyth, I figured I might as well come along and get the missions done for him. Maybe one day i'll start playing Kaelyth again... though probably more for "fun" than any real intention to make him a main character. So anyways, the fight was a piece of cake. Me and Athoz just 2hrd the skeleton on our MNKs and it was down in less than 3 minutes.
I was also asked to help Carste along with his Bastok Missions, specifically the 2.3 Dragon fight. This fight is really a piece of cake, but for some reason SE decided to curse us both.
I went in, and used my 2hr and got the eye down really fast. I was able to get the dragon down to about 50% (or so) before he cursed me. After one hit, my HP went down to about half and Carste tried to get a cure off, but sadly the dragon attacked too fast and killed me with the next hit.
That's when I got to watch the epic battle of Carste trying to solo the dragon by nuking and sleeping him. He did pretty well considering he was capped at lvl 25, but sadly without any refresh he wasn't able to nuke fast enough before we timed out. Its ok though, because we managed to get the mission done a couple of days later with a few extra LS members who wanted to come out for the fun. As always, our LS tends to "overkill" the simple things. :)
Thanks to my awesome navigating skills, and my curious nature... I also managed to get myself into a fight I wasn't expecting when I went to Pso'Xja to help Carste farm up some chips needed to make the CCB Polymers for the airship fight we had planned for our CoP Static. I saw a glowing light in one of the rooms, and decided to click on it. That of course, popped two huge dolls that immediately started attacking me. I thought to run back to the entrance and zone out, but apparently SE had other ideas. The door had locked on me and left me no choice but to fight the two dolls solo because Carste was somewhere else in the zone already fighting. Lucky for me, the mobs weren't too high lvl and were pretty easy to take care of once I had one slept.
As for the usual late night stuff that I find myself doing, I recently came upon a nice little "cheat" for the new Maze Monger's event. Janko and Vepion came along with me to try it out. Basically we had to sync down to Vepion's lvl (13 BRD) and the mobs in the maze would be brought down to his level. Then when we entered the maze and unsynced, which brought me and Janko back to lvl 75.
That's when the fun came. Because it was basically a competition between me and Janko to see who could one shot the mobs first. Sadly, my PLD didn't really stand a chance, especially with his BLU spell Cannonball. I think he had a little too much fun walking over to the mobs me and Vepion would engage, only to one shot them right before we could get a hit off. ¬_¬
Oh and I finally made my contribution to Al Zhabi! The chocobo lady in whitegate had been kidnapped from an earlier beseiged, and because we had obtained some keys to unlock prisoners in Mamook from a recent xp/merit party we both had joined, we went on a little adventure to save her.
Along the way, we had to touch this liquid stuff that turned us into Mamools. This was so that we could get past the true sight Poroggo's in the zone to find the prisoners. It was actually quite fun sneaking past the mobs dressed up as Mamool. At least until my sneak wore off and without realizing it, I had aggroed a Sahagin mob that linked with about 4 more... which kinda, kicked my ass. Yay for reraise!
In the end though, after checking all the possible locations where the prisoners were kept, we found out that apparently the chocobo lady wasn't there at all. -_-
(Installed a few new .dats - Ice Elemental/Spirit! Pretty eh?)
No comments:
Post a Comment