Well first and foremost, i've once again gone back on something I said I would never do.
I'm leveling corsair! I always found the job interesting, and wanted to take it to 75 when the job first became available... but when I read into it and found out the costs to be efficient, I said i'd never touch the job. Its one thing to invest in gear, shihei and food... but having to spend even MORE gil, just to see your job perform well, really discouraged me.
But, as with a few other things in this game... i've changed my mind! When Xean returned to the game, he expressed his interest in wanting to take BRD to 75. I had wanted to lvl BRD as well, but only because out of all my close friends I only have one with the job at 75 that I won't feel guilty for asking to bring it to a merit party. And because Vepion had started on his PUP which he is currently taking to 75, I wouldn't feel very good asking him to bring BRD, as I know his preference is to merit on PUP.
So, it worked out great that Xean was going to lvl BRD because that then allowed me to look at something else to play. Thinking about the best combination for jobs, as well as what would be great to have in future merit parties, I decided to take COR. I know its going to be expensive to lvl, but its been a while since i've actually just ignored the costs in this game and done something I enjoy and I figured this would do the trick.
On the plus side, we've concluded that Xean's -TH effect is gone because with the farming sessions we've done, we've managed to make a lot of profit. We've gotten 4 Ecphoria Rings in the last week (3 during one session) and can easily get about 10 stacks of ladybug wings in just over 2hrs. Its nice to have your significant other playing with you so that you can work as a team to accomplish things in this game... you get them done faster, and usually have a good time doing it.
So for the last week... here's a look at what i've done:
Helped Xean get his SCH up to 37. He's enjoying the new subjob. I think its harder to believe that he is actually enjoying WHM period though, considering he couldn't stand it once upon a time... But i'm glad he likes the job, moreso because he's always been very effecient and whenever I played on PLD, we always seemed in sync with healing. He'd be fast to cast whatever I needed, but always knew when to give me "healing room" so that I could manage my hate. Good to have him back as WHM.
Got 3 members of my ls their Swift Belts. A few months ago we had done a few runs (weekend after weekend... after weekend @_@) but we never managed to get a belt for Falk. Finally he setup a run last Saturday and we had 2 other LS members come out in hopes to get one too.
Falk, Xean and myself started out by killing a few Tauro's to help Falk learn a BLU spell he needed, as we waited for more LS members to be free.
Finally we had Darce, Soulstar, Drimergirl and Korjon come out to help and we ended up going 3/3. We even managed to take on an NM with a link that we happened to get on our first fight.
I finished my merits in category 2 for DRG. I'm now down to meriting 5/5 on the recast timer for Super Jump. After this, I can merit my MNK, but I won't be playing that any time soon as i've pretty much retired it.
My Nyzul static went 4/4 again on our boss floors. We only managed to get one drop gear-wise, but the fact that we did great on getting to the boss with the win was enough I think. Looking forward to seeing some more big wins, and hopefully some new gear pieces for our static tonight.
Helped a new LS member of ours, Lyea get her fame to rank 4 for Norg so that she could quest Utsusemi: Ichi. Also helped her get the quest done to unlock NIN. Looks like we'll have another THF75 on the way. (*fears for the time when she'll be mentioning Kreutzet*)
On Monday, I was able to help out Vepion, Standpoint and Xean get from floor 1-15 in Nyzul. Our first run we had really bad luck, and I thought for sure we weren't going to end up getting the win but we did. Our next 2 runs went pretty smoothly.
I'm hoping that we'll be able to do this as a regular thing on Monday nights, so that way more ls members will have access to the Nyzul weaponskills and won't have to worry too much about having an insane amount of ws points needed to unlock them @_@
Dynamis this week turned out to be more than I expected. We did Beaucedine Glacier, and I was up for the BLM Body. I actually ended up getting this, as well as SCH, PUP, and DRG. So i'll have another 2 jobs to try and get to 75 in the future... <_<
I also spent a lot of time showing Xean all the new things added since he last played almost a year ago. He had seen a few of the new things such as Campaign, but he never really got a chance to explore the new areas. So I had some fun taking him to a few of my favorite places.
And I think that mostly covers the important stuff. I'm going to start focusing on farming Kindred Seals with Xean for the next couple of weeks so that we can do as many KSNMs possible. I've been spending a lot on gear as well as Alexandrites (now up to 10 stacks!) and need to put a bit more work into actually making gil, rather than spending it.
Oh, and here's just a pic I took the other day. I got Xean to call a GM and request his Benedight set. Back when we had our in-game wedding, they didn't have this available for male characters but sometime late last year, they added this. Any previously married male characters are now able to request a set if they never received one, though it does cost 50k.
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