After having tried to find an endgame shell that would be willing to sell the black belt items for 1mil each, and having no success... Xean decided to take up the offer that our Salvage LS leader had made, to join their HNM shell. The salvage LS we had joined was actually an "all endgame" LS, but was putting more focus into HNMs which meant that our salvage had pretty much come to an end. But the leader of the shell seemed to want us both to participate in the HNM part of the LS and offered both of us to join.
I didn't really want to commit, for a number of reasons. The first being that I didn't feel i'd be able to be dependable as a member, because my priorities have always been my social LS. I have some endgame events I attend, but I try to keep these at a minimum. I know that with an HNM shell, you're pretty much expected to drop whatever you're doing if a window opens for an HNM that the shell wants to go after, and I know I wouldn't be able to do that. The other reason has a little to do with my slowly growing hatred for camping NMs. I can't stand it! @_@
The last time I went after an NM was when I tried to get my Sarutobi Kyahan. I think i'm close to 0/10 on this, and even though I know other friends have had far worse drop rates with other NMs (hello there Leaping Lizard) I've reached my limit. I want to get these so bad, but everytime I go, there's always competition and then its back to running around that stupid platform and getting dizzy for 2-3 hrs. Yea... I refuse to camp him alone, and I also refuse to drag anyone out to endure that unbearable camping session, so.. go go fuma sun-ate!
Anyways, back on topic... as much as I want the experience (especially tanking experience) for HNMs, I just can't see myself getting into an HNM LS full time. But I guess things were conveniently put in place so that I wouldn't really have to, but still have a shot at seeing some HNMs! And provided the shell I run with doesn't get outclaimed by botters, I should eventually have a chance at fighting some of these.
So for right now, Xean has joined this HNM shell somewhat full time and attends quite a few windows, where as I only come out and help if I don't have anything pre-planned. So it all works out quite nicely. I don't have any plans for gear, i've played long enough without a dalmatica, an a few of the other e.abjurations so i'm sure not having them won't kill me. But i'm really hoping that at least this way, Xean will be able to get the items he wants for his BB seeing as my attempt to get these for him failed. I still don't understand why endgame shells will post a section on their forum where people that want to buy drops from them can ask, and then they don't even bother replying to a post that is made.
Aside from that, Limbus seems to be looking up. There was a little bit of drama recently because apparently being committed to a LS and showing up on time, every run for over a year somehow makes you "a gear whore" when wanting that time put into the shell to be counted towards something. I think the biggest problem was just that when the shell was originally made, the lotting system wasn't really setup in a way that would allow members to be rewarded based on the points they were earning which showed the time they were putting into the shell. For example, i'm currently sitting on more than 100 pts (currently have the most in the shell out of everyone) and those don't count for anything at this point because i've already obtained the pieces of gear i've wanted most (we get to set an order of preference for the gear we want, from 1-5). But now, leadership is currently looking at allowing members that have contributed more to the shell a way to "be ahead" of new members that join the shell.
Right now I don't mind waiting for the people that are "ahead" of me for the gear I want, to get theirs first. The members that are in line, have been with us a long while and come most runs. But because of our low attendance lately, we've had to look at the possibility of bringing in new members, and the way that the rules are currently... allows them to easily "jump ahead" of a veteran member which doesn't sit well with me if our system is based on points in the first place.
Enough ranting though! The good part of this story is that one of the other leads is stepping up to amend the rules and make them a little more fair for veterans. Not only that, but we've also changed our run time on Saturdays to 9am PST which is MUCH nicer for me and Xean. Not too early, and the event is done in the morning leaving us the rest of the day to do other things! Our last run this saturday also turned out well, and we managed to get the last chip needed for another Omega which hopefully we'll be able to do this tuesday. So yes... Limbus is starting to be fun again, no more stress! Now I just need to hope we get lucky with the farming runs we do, because i'm helping Xean get the 75 coins he needs for his Musical Earring. If only I hadn't sold the ~60 or some odd coins we had saved up for his Loquacious last year before he quit! ><
The only other things i've been up to recently have been lvling my COR with Xean's BRD. We're now at 66, and still shooting to get 75. Our progress might be put on hold though soon as i'm planning to get some farming done with Xean's leetTEF. I've spent so much gil on COR in the last month... I've only managed to do one KSNM in the last month which didn't really net a lot of profit, and aside from that the whole "gil making" hasn't quite been a focus for me lately.
Though I did luck out in Dynamis last week! Got myself a L.Jadeshell which I was able to sell for 1,280,000 gil. This of course means no "Month End Bonus" for me this month, but that's alright because... It means a bigger payout to the rest of the LS because my share of what I would have earned (if I hadn't won the 100c) gets added into the LS share. Now to put this gil into a secret fund which I am saving to pick up something special, mwahahaha.
Ooo, and to add to this, the entire LS of RoR now has BEAUCEDINE GLACIER ACCESS!!!!!!!! Its been such a pain for the last few months... every time we have the win for everyone that has joined, we get a few new recruits that need city wins! And not that city wins are bad to go after, its just that sometimes they don't allow for as much farming time... and I think the majority of our LS is really wanting to do more Northland runs. We only have a few pieces of AF in the cities that members need.... so much goes to free lot o.O
Oh, and I guess I should add that I got my SMN up to 65. I'm really not liking the job much, at least in xp party, I find that i'm way too slow with the curing in comparison to a WHM or RDM. I'm glad that i'm finally getting the job up there so that I can have something else sometimes needed for special KSNMs, BCNMs etc, but i'm pretty sure this will be one job that will be sitting on the back burner. I wish there was more to enjoy about it, but really... I find my other jobs much better.
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