Blue Chocobo {Mine!}

So finally after having tried raising 2 chocobos, I finally found myself with a colored one on my third try! It jus so happened that last month during an ISNM run that Elden asked me to go on, I happened to get a chocobo egg. I had previously raised 2 other chocobos, hoping to get myself a colored one but as my luck would have it, both ended up being yellow. So off to retirement land they went. >_>

When I got the chocobo egg as one of the drops from my ISNM, I figured I might as well try and hatch it and see what would happen.

A week later, I found myself with a little blue female chocobo! And so I gave her the name LunaRay :)


I also got quite a bit accomplished this week to say the least. I managed to pick myself up my Captain's Rank in assault. I owe a big chunk of gratitude to the people in my original static that I had soooo long ago. It would have been nice to see the static end with everyone obtaining captain's rank, but with some members quitting, others moving to different servers... well, I guess it was never meant to be. But thanks Carste and Janko for helping me with the last win!

Ose also decided to be a little nicer to me, than he was to a friend of mine, Standpoint. More than a year ago, I helped him out with a few camping sessions for the shy little kitty to get his Assault Jerkin. I think he ended up being something like 1/13 or so on this drop, and so when I finally announced to my social that I was going to attempt to get this piece for my up and coming DRG, I have to admit that I was expecting to have the same kind of luck.

The first time I camped Ose, he popped within an hour. Not bad, but no drop.


I then tried to go after him a couple of nights later, which is when the kitty decided to drop the assault jerkin. Thanks to my social ls, we had a very quick and easy fight. I think the best part (or rather, the most humorous) was that as soon as the item dropped into my inventory, Standpoint had JUST crept up on us. Even though i'm sure he destested this NM because of his own experiences, he still came out to help... only he was about 3 minutes too late, lol. Which might explain why the AJ dropped.


There was a little detour that I made on my way to the Ose camping session that night. My friend Onedarkflame and I were the first to arrive, and we ran into a rather repulsive looking NM called Hellion. Without really paying attention to the fact that I had absolutely no buffs up at the moment, I casted Dia 3. Luckily though Onedarkflame engaged seconds later and took hate which gave me a few seconds to get us both some buffs. The fight wasn't too hard, but I was having to spam a few cures because Onedarkflame had come out on his SAM/WAR and didn't really have much in the way to help him evade the hits. When the fight was over, we were left with a scythe of sorts, which we ended up offering to a WAR who was in the area, seeing that neither of us ever planned to take DRK past 37.


And again I found myself getting another chance to nuke down some dirty mithra. Carste asked me and Janko to give him a hand for another attempt at the ENM "Requiem of Sin" in an attempt to get him his X's Knife. This time we had a better idea of how the fight was going to work, and our plan went pretty well. My job was to chainspell nuke "X", while Carste would be sleeping the rest of the group and then teaming up with Janko to nuke down X's pet rabbit. Then we would take a wipe and pretty much repeat, taking on new targets to nuke down. Everything went according to plan, with the small.. and minor exception. I now officially have 3 times in my RDM career where I have pulled the "Convert! >>>> Zerayla's HP drops to ~20 >>>> Before Zerayla can get off a cure, the mob KO's her". As I was nuking down something (I think the rabbit?), I ended up making a bad call on the distance I had between me and the mob and hit my convert macro. During that time, Carste had said he would stun the mob for me but before he could say "give me a second", I had already hit the macro which was followed with getting my arse kicked. Thankfully though, we finished the fight with no other problems, unless you consider getting 0 drops in the treasure chest one. -_-;


Oh well, we're hoping to try it again this week. I don't mind the fight at all, it is pretty fun and gives me a chance to have fun with my chainspell >=)

By the way... I've recently rediscovered the fun that you can have doing CoP missions! Earlier last year, I was finally able to help out a friend with his CoP missions. This involved getting some other LS members caught up so that they too could also complete the CoP expansion. While I do like the idea of seeing friends progress, there have been a couple of times when I've felt the frustration these missions can cause overwhelm me. It's all good though, we've been taking a break and i'm sure that it'll help because I tend to over-stress about these things due to the time sink involved.

Anyways, I was asked to help out 2 of my friends with an earlier CoP mission - Ancient Vows. I was very hesitant to wanting to do this because of my last experience. I had helped a couple of ex-ls members get this mission done, with I think 2 or 3 failures? I had spent quite a lot on meds and items which wasn't that big of an issue as much as never having gotten much of a "thank you" after it was all done. So needless to say, I wasn't very eager for the fight.

But Onedarkflame came through and did a little prep work and got us a really nice strat. We went in with 3 NIN, and 3 healers. We were split into pairs, and each set would tank an NM. We all managed to do very well, and had no deaths which really surprised me considering all my previous experiences had always involved them. I have to say that doing that mission was probably one of the funnest CoP fights i've done in ages, and now look forward to any other LS members that'll be asking for help on it.


I also got to bring out my MNK again for a little fun. Ascendotuum and Standpoint needed some help on a couple of WSNMs, so as usual... what started out with one or two people being available to help ended up with pretty much the entire LS coming out. Both of the fights were over pretty quick, and resulted in the much needed fun I had been missing on my MNK.


Speaking of fun... I wanted to help out Onedarkflame get a little xp on his BLM (which just recently hit 60) and offered to tank for him in a lvl sync party. We grabbed a lvl 56 THF and headed to the Lesser Colibri in Wajaom. The xp was a little slow at first, but it picked up in the end and he got himself a lvl and a bit.


I was just happy to be able to use my PLD. As much as I have expressed not really wanting to sync down my lvl 75 jobs, i've always found myself giving in.. and in the end, I usually ended up enjoying it. I'm pretty sure that i'll start offering my PLD for more lvl sync parties in the future, at least to LS members. Its fun being able to watch them attempt to steal my hate, hehe.

And another thing which i've found myself getting interested in, is the Moblin Maze Monger event. I've been looking into this, and it seems there's a few nice pieces of gear that you can get by doing "1 boss" style fights. Of course though, you need to have a specific setup in order to initiate the fight. So, whenever i've had a chance i've been trying to do some quick and easy MMMs to collect marbles and purchase the rune pieces needed so that eventually I can do these fights. As easy as these are, they're still a blast especially when you have a crazy mithra named Fieryblizzard who runs ahead and aggroes everything to bring to the party in an attempt to MPK us.


I haven't really been updating much on my other endgame activities, but figured i'd do that now. My dynamis shell is still going strong, we've managed to recruit a couple of new members again. This has made our farming runs veeeeeery profitable. I've especially been enjoying the fact that our shell hasn't been having any of the drama kind of issues i've been hearing happening with other shells. While not all are the same, many seem to have some pretty messed up leadership problems. I'm really glad that RoR not only makes everything "transparent" to our members, but also puts the "good of the ls as a whole" first and foremost. Whenever we need to make a change in the shell, we always try and look at things from as many angles as possible to ensure that whatever changes are made, are as fair as possible. So far we haven't had any complaints, so I think that's a good sign. And now that another one of our THFs has obtained his TH4, we've been seeing AF rain every run. Craaazy @_@

Limbus is also doing pretty good. We're finally starting to do Ultima and Omega again. We just finished farming up 2 pop sets for each recently, and i'm keeping my fingers crossed for the drops to come. I'm really anxious to see my homam body so that I can have that on DRG before I hit 75. I probably won't get that lucky, (i'm 2nd in line) but as long as we're getting wins and getting members gear, i'm happy. I can't wait for the Ultima fight planned next week... I get to bring out my BLM *evil grin*


Well that about covers everything. Only other minor updates are that i've completed meritting my WAR, gotten Bonecraft to 34, almost capped my merits out again (which I intend to put right into DRG when I hit 75) and...

I've decided to pursue a Burtang for my PLD. Yep, the mythic weapon. And yes, I'm aware of the time/cost that'll be poured into it. While I DO want to have it fully upgraded before I quit this game, I know that might not (well more like probably not) happen. I'm still going to put as much effort into pursueing this in game goal though, because all the requirements involved I know i'll enjoy doing and so even if I quit this game and the sword isn't fully upgraded, i'll still be happy because I will have gotten at least SOME progress on it.

But obviously i'm going to hope that opportunity + luck favor me with this insane goal ^^