Yep. That there would be Zeo, giving an amazing performance for our newly made friend Mr. Bomb.I had no clue what to name this blog entry, so I randomly chose one of the pictures I uploaded this week and figured Zeo deserved a little bit of fame!
Janko, Soulstar, Zeo, Carste and myself decided to do another MMM run, and we happened to get a round with bombs. The interesting thing about these bombs, is that with every action taken against them, they increased in size. So we had a little fun trying to see how big they could get... though eventually we were a little worried they might explode and KO everyone.
As for the rest of the weekend, our LS CoP group finally got back on track again. We woke up early Saturday morning to get the CoP airship fight done.
Our setup was Drimergirl (WHM), Soulstar (PLD), Carste (SAM), Standpoint (COR), Janko (BLU) and me (RDM). We decided to do a dry run, because only half of us had previously done the fight. As it turned out, our dry run probably could have given us the 1/1 win but... I failed to remember that when fighting Omega and Ultima, you want to pull them to the side of the airship where you first zone in so that if and when you do wipe (which usually happens during the fight) you can get up and recover.
So we managed to get Ultima down to about 30% without using any items or 2hrs, before wiping. But as I said, we didn't exactly fight in the right spot, and so when all the melees died... there was no way to raise them without having Ultima aggro right away, seeing as you can't tractor during the BCNM.
We decided to give it another go, and this time we got the win. The fight was a lot messier though, and we ended up wiping during Omega. But at least we were able to do the fight pretty quickly after our first attempt, unlike the time I did my first airship fight which was before the update that made it a lot easier.
Gawd that was a long 12hr day. We had to wait on our 2hrs and with people taking breaks and what not...
Anyways, i'm really liking my new Einhejar shell Glowsticks. Its a fairly new group, but the leadership seems really strong and organized. I would prefer that the members were a little bit more organized and able to manage their time better because we have yet to be able to enter on time, but I guess that's a problem in every endgame shell and probably always will be. (Though i'm glad to say my Dynamis shell is rarely more than 5 minutes late entering unless we're pushed over our entry time by another shell)
I've managed to collect about 3k Ampoules so far, and have a very long way to go but like i've said before, time doesn't seem to be an issue for me. I'm really trying to let myself enjoy everything in this game, and not feel rushed to do anything. Plus its a bonus that i've been asked to play jobs I generally don't get asked to use in other endgame events, like RDM/DRK! >=)
My wednesday ls static didn't end up happening this week, due to all the merit camps being taken. Drimergirl and Soulstar are now 73, so we should be finishing up our static hopefully before the end of the month. After that, we might end up doing some casual meriting on that night, or just leave it open to do other ls events.
But yea, in place of meriting we decided to give a hand to Standpoint and get him a few of the BLU spells he's been needing. We started off with the Wamoura princes in Mt. Zhayolm, which weren't too bad. Took us about 8-10 tries to get the spell. After that, we tried the massive Wamoura moths.
Those are a real pain in the butt, and require a lot of MP to be tossed around. But we did manage to get the spell within maybe half a dozen tries I think.
Finally, Carste joined up with us and suggested we go fight some Dahaks for Body Slam. I thought he was kidding at first, but turned out he was serious so we all headed out to the area where the Dahaks were.
I thought they'd be as bad as they were in Nyzul, but they seemed pretty tame. And I think all the bad luck that Standpoint has had in the game finally paid off, because he ended up learning the spell after our second mob.
Limbus is also going really well again, we're finally doing boss fights now that we've farmed up both Omega and Ultima pop sets. We did Omega this week, and went in with just over 12 people. We managed to do really well. I'm reminded of the first time we did Omega, and how it seemed soo much more difficult and challenging. And now when we do the fights, things seem, so easy. Its still fun though.
And the most important update for me this week...
I GOT MY BRAVEHEART SWORD!
I got this pretty quick when I first started doing Nyzul, unlocked it right away, and then decided to toss the weapon because I never really thought i'd pursue upgrading a mythic weapon. But a week later, I changed my mind... and felt extremely stupid for having tossed my sword.
I didn't think it would be too hard to get another one, but for the last couple of weeks i've had no luck. Anytime I did pickup Nyzul runs early in the week, the groups rarely went after the NMs, which is understandable when the goal is to get to the boss floor asap. So I eventually asked my ls static if they'd mind letting me go PLD/NIN on a floor 100 run, which would guarantee me the sword as long as we got the win.
Our first try, we just had HORRENDOUS luck. We did manage to get to the boss floor, but we timed out if I remember correctly. Our second try, we got to the boss floor with just a tad less than 10 minutes remaining, and got the win! I was estatic! It felt like getting my Valor Surcoat all over again! The downside though, is that we once again got 0 gear drops. For some reason our static has had aweful luck with seeing any gear. Ever.
I really hope that changes soon.... Oh, though I should mention that we did get a pair of Trotter boots on the weekend when we decided to do a random run outside of our usual static time. Carste is one lucky {Bastord Sword} this month thats for sure. Glad to see good people get rewarded :)
Well what was suppose to be a blog that was going to be posted 4 days ago, has become a really drawn out post... so i'm going to end it here. There's another good entry i'm hoping to type up this week, but had to get this one posted first. I really have to put away some extra time to write these, because I get way too distracted when i'm also playing FFXI and then the next thing I know, I have this blog entry just sitting here half finished for 4 days. >_>
(It has now become a tradition for everyone in my nyzul static group to poke me over and over... because somehow they think it'll give us a better chance at getting drops. <_<)>
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