Anyways... Valker's fight was going to be up in Horlais Peak. So I dragged Janko and Elden along to help me out because we had just finished doing some zeni picture taking together. I brought my DRG, Janko had previously been on his RDM and decided to bring that along, Elden was on BLM (he wanted an excuse to wave around his scythe) and Valker came on MNK.
When we zoned into Yughott Grotto, Elden had the bright idea to train every mob in sight so that he could spam -agas at the end. I figured it was also a good idea because Valker was only lvl 28 and would eventually get aggro from the higher lvl mobs, and this would save us the time from sneaking/invising him.
I have to say, watching Elden run for his feline life was quite enjoyable.
He must of had at least 20 orcs on him, and as he trained them to zone (while screaming for Janko to give him a cure because his HP got into the yellow) I just sat there laughing. Eventually though I decided to give him a hand and started provoking a few orcs and bats.
By the time we had finally reached Horlais Peak, i'd say we had trained every orc in the zone. So, basically, we claimed that territory as ours! And of course... we claimed the win on the dragon fight (but then again, that fight is so easy provided you're not with a noob of a certain beardmage, hehe)
But yeah, prior to helping out Elden and Valkar with the dragon fight, I was on a mission to collect as much zeni as possible. I've been working throughout the week to accumulate about 5k pts so that I can pop a few this coming Saturday.
So far the Casual Saturday Night ZNM group I have going with my social is turning out to be amazing. Everyone seems to be having fun during the fights, and a lot more members seem to be interested now that they've had a glimpse at the gear that can drop. I'm trying to encourage more members to take an interest because now they can have access to better pieces of gear without the stress of having to join an endgame shell, earn points, etc.
I'm extremely happy with the progress we made last saturday, which is probably due to the fact that I was lucky enough to get two of the drops I never thought i'd see.
Our night started off with Armed Gears. We had a lot of members, and figured that it would be best to do the hardest of our ZNMs while we had enough people. I had my friend Anderoc come along to help tank alongside Darce, and both did very well. The rest of our team consisted of BLMs (Carste, Sabene, and myself), WHMs (Falk, Drimergirl), SCHs (Janko, Kefkha), THFs (Soulstar, Ketsuchi), BRDs (Elden, Mailinx), a RNG (Standpoint), a COR (Zeo), a BLU (Kawanomu), a MNK (Athoz) and a DRK (Demionknight).
We had two pops that night, mine and Janko's. My pop yielded my highly desired Aurum Sabatons, a couple of grips and I believe something else. I was very psyched and am now determined to finish meriting my WAR so that I can see how much better I can do on the job. I probably won't be able to outparse my SAM, but... my DRG is able to equip them, so I can look forward to that. Janko's also yielded some nice drops, but unfortunately we didn't get to see a second pair of sabatons.
The fight was actually pretty fun. Our first time we took things pretty slowly, just about everyone was new to the experience. But by the time the armed gears were weakened down, we all went just a tad "leeroy jenkins".
To be more exact, I kinda went a little nuke happy.
Ok I lied... I went a little nuke happy, a little often....
Which, as i'm sure anyone could guess, meant that the NM suddenly had a new love for me. A love which surpassed that of the PLDs tanking and had me running for my dear life... which uh, didn't take long to lose. <_<
I like BLM! >=)
So after we finished up with Armed Gears, we went after Cheese Hoarder again. I think we did 3 pops, and all the fights were pretty quick. There was a lot less "blowing up" because most of us had a good idea of the distance we needed to keep this time around.
Then it was off to fight Verdelet! (Well actually I think we ended up doing these next two first... but, I don't think the order matters too much) When I originally read up on this guy, I thought curagas would be spammed on end and stuns would be flying through the roof.
The reality though was that I actually barely recall much else other than getting off one of my Burst II's before the mob was dead. We zerged it just a little too fast.
Aaaaaaaaand, something that I had really wanted but assumed i'd never see, dropped! Muse Tariqah! I was extremely happy to see my winning lot and probably missed a few thank yous in my chaotic excitment.
Next on the list was Lil Apkallu. This fight was probably the most fun, probably because many of us wiped to hundred fists, lol. But luckily the bird only got that off at the very end and we were able to finish him off. I think only the MNK feet dropped from him.
Then it was Iriz Ima again! I LOOOOOOOOOVE this fight! Its only too bad that we only had one pop though. Most of us got a little too anxious to nuke the big elephant down that we pretty much had him at less than half HP by the time we got him close to the camp we were "supposed" to kite him at. Actually, I think we pretty much killed him seconds after we got him there. Yeah... our ls rocks :)
So now i'm reaching a point where i've really got to put some effort into gearing up my DRG
which as of today, has just reached 64. I have to say, ever since I got to lvl 40+ i've really started to like it. Especially on bird mobs. OMG!I remember back in the day, "loldrg" was very common. In fact, I know that I even made jokes here and there too. But ever since the update with 2 handed weapons (even if it did get nerfed a little) I honestly don't see anything "lol" about the job. It might be that I have access to merits, and a few pieces of gear that aren't easy to come by (unless you have no life like me, lol) that have made me excel as a DD in party... or it might be that I have been getting invites very easy, always to camps where we fight bird type mobs... but regardless, I'm keeping up with the other melees!
Actually, most of my party experiences have reminded me of what I went through on my MNK. And of course, my MNK parties remind me of what I went through on my PLD. Which in lamens terms = I tank!
I can't wait to finally get lvl 75 and try merit parties on colibri. I'm just hoping that by that time, i'll have gotten either an assault jerkin (why hello thar Mr. Ose - REVENGE IS MINE!) or an Askar Body (doubtful considering I have 4 other people in my Nyzul that will also be lotting for this) or a Homam Body (which i'm currently in 2nd for). Likely i'll have to go with the AJ, so now I just need to work up the resolve to go camp Ose. (I just pray I don't have the same luck Standpoint had with that kitty)
The good thing about my DRG's lvl now is that I can do campaign. Last night after a run of Moblin Maze, Janko and Elden/Vepion joined me for some campaign.
The first while we enjoyed quite a bit, though there were a few deaths when we decided to go after the big NM turtle. Apparently his AoEs were a little too much for us to handle. ><
Aside from a lotta DRGing, Zeni picture taking and the usual Dynamis/Limbus stuff I do every week, I also managed to get in some small LS help time. Drimergirl finally hit lvl 50 on her DNC and needed some help farming a rare/ex item off some yagudo in the past. Elden, Janko and myself went to West Sarabaruta [S] to pulverize some yagudoes with Drimergirl. We probably spent a good hour there killing, before we finally go the drop @_@
Anderoc also invited me to help him unlock his polearm of trials so that he could get his lolimpulsedrive for his DRG. We did a few light skillchains in Pashlow Marshlands [S] and then headed out to SSG to fight a fish NM to finish the quest. Janko also came along for the fun, and I just did my RDM thing.
As for plans this weekend, I might be helping out a friend with his self funded Dynamis runs that he might be organizing on Saturday mornings. Then I have my Limbus, and then some ZNMs again. I'm hoping we'll be able to try Dea (tier 3) but that'll all depend on our turnout. Being that I emphasized our ZNM thing to be "casual" it won't be expected for everyone to show every weekend... but, hopefully we'll luck out so that we can pop multiple ZNMs and gear up our members ^^
Oh, and it looks like i'll be able to try out a new ENM this weekend. Carste dragged me and Janko along to get the pre-requisite fight done, which was a fight with "X" and "Y" mithras from the CoP storyline. (I think those were the names)
Of course you can always rely on SE to find a way to make you sink your time... because the actual fight that Carste plans to do this weekend, has a 1 week "cool down" which is why we're planning it for the weekend. Hopefully he'll get his "X's Knife" which is apparently an uber item for THF. I might have to convince Carste and Janko to boot me from party though, otherwise my "bad luck" might just play a factor. /em looks away.
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