Yea, no thanks!
So I guess its a good thing that two groups have recently started doing CoP missions in my social LS, because now I have something to enjoy and login to do.
The first group that started up, is being led by Athoz. He organized an Ouryu run just last week.
I was asked to come on BLM, and we ended up going with the "Nuke + Sleep" method. It is less of a challenge, but I have no complaints considering the time investment can sometimes be frustrating if you have failure in the end.
So the group consisted of myself (BLM), Sabene (BLM), Athoz (WAR), RMTFalk (WHM), Sethidus (PLD) and Xean (BRD). We went in, started off with a timed nuke and then alternated the sleeps. Ouryu took to the skies about 3 times, but Athoz and Sethidus (and I think Falk) were pretty quick to toss some mistmelts at him, making him come back down. The fight went pretty smoothly, with very minimal damage from AoEs that got through in between the sleeping, and we got ourselves a quick win.
A few other people have decided to join the static and it looks like this group will probably get their CoP rings in 2-3 months. I just hope they don't suffer the all too common "I need to go on an indefinite break" from someone and then have the static halt or break in the end. I swear that seems to be the curse for anyone who tries to do a static for CoP missions... it happens 99% of the time.
The other group is being led by Vepion, who is now racing to get up to the Diabolos fight, so that he can participate in our Dynamis Buburimu run planned at the end of this month.
And while I do enjoy the missions and the fights... I'm always reminded why I stopped organizing CoP runs, especially the prommies.
People. Do. Not. Plan. Ahead.
Usually there will be one or two people that will read up on the missions, find out what items and meds are needed, but the rest... just go planning to "wing it". And as to be expected, when you don't read up on things or bring what's needed, you're more likely to fail.
Which is what happened during our first promyvion-mea attempt.
Our setup had 3 SMN, 1 WHM, 1 PLD and I think 1 BLU. Not everyone had brought a full set of animas (hystero, pyscho, lolterror) and while I have known these fights to be possible without, "first timers" are not likely to be among those that can pull that off.
A few things went wrong with our first run, the first being that no pyscho or hystero were used (at least I don't recall seeing any), the second being that no ES + Paralyze was used at the start even though I had suggested this, the WHM pulled hate with Cure III's right at the start which led the mob to come towards the mages, and from there everything was a mess. I believe someone also used a Terroranima too, which really wasn't a good idea with the SMNs needing the mob to be still so we could pull off our Astral Flow. Needless to say, I was a little grumpy after that failed run.
So the plan was to try again the next day. I hadn't been able to sleep much that night and had woken up extremely early so I decided to go ahead and farm the recollections and turn them into anima for the group. I was pretty sure that most of them would rely on the AH, and didn't want to risk not having any anima on sale before the run.
About 4 hrs later, I had 6 pyschoanima and 6 hysteroanima all sent to the static members via delivery box!
Only 2 of the people that had been with us the day before, didn't show up.
Ha. Ha. ha... ha..... oye.
Anyways, Vepion managed to get some replacements, including someone else in our LS that also needed the promies so we just changed things around and went with a new setup: SMNx3, WAR/NINx2, WHM.
This time, we had everyone use both a hystero and pyscho anima at the start of the fight and after the Astral Flows went off, the mob was dead. We decided to wait 2hrs and go after Promyvion-Holla next, so that we could try and get at least 2/3 done for that day. And with everyone doing what they did the run previously, we had ourselves another win.
Unfortunately though we had run out of time and had to schedule the last promyvion the next day, which again went just as well.
So now that we have the promies out of the way, we just need to do a couple more missions. The only thing that I forsee being an issue is that this group isn't "full". 2/4 ppl are helping, and we have to always look for 2 other helpers. I just hope that we can keep LS members only for this static because getting random help usually results in finding people that have no clue what they're supposed to do, and don't show any indication that they're willing to actually be useful. They just join, hoping they'll get in on a free ride through the missions ~_~
And now for a little breakdown of the other stuff i've been up to:
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Yep, i'm gearing up my Samurai again. Quite a few ppl in my LS have been lvling the job, and i've been having that feeling of nostalgia everytime I see them play it. And one day, I happened to come across a Hagun that was about 200k cheaper than the current price. I mentioned it aloud, not thinking much other than the fact that it was a good deal, when Xean asked me if I wanted to buy it. I told him the truth, that I did, which was then followed by him trading me the gil I needed to get it.(We play this game as a team, so we always work together to get gear we need and follow the saying "What's yours is mine, and what's mine is yours". So far, this has made progress in the game for both of us much easier and quicker, go go teamwork! Besides, that's how it should be done.)
So a few days later, I decided to also pick myself up some Hachiman Kote +1. I had done a LS merit pty just the day before, and had a blast with my WS spamming, which sealed my decision to regear my SAM and use it again.
My plan now is not to retire DRG, but rather to use DRG for birds and my SAM for almost everything else. I still want to pick myself up a hauby +1, but i'll wait a bit and farm up the majority of that if I can rather than spend what I have saved.
WoG Progress at last!
Though short lived, I did finally make some progress on my WoG missions. I convinced Xean to do the missions with me, so we spent some time getting him caught up.
When we were finally able to continue together, we made a group with Lyea and Janko and did the dragon fight in La Vaule.
But first... we had to go through a number of cutscenes.
For the most part these were ok, but sometimes the scenes were a little "lol". I"m still confused as to whether the character Caitsith is supposed to be evil or good. o.O
The bird of doom...
Seems like there's a lot of "going back to the good old days". And what fun would there be, if we didn't pay a visit to our old friend Kreutzet?
Well Athoz finally asked for some help with this guy (about time, that guy is always helping out people but never makes any requests to get help himself) and while I wasn't able to make one of the windows, I did manage to help out on the following window. We had another group there camping at the time, but Kawanomu was able to outclaim them on his BLU.
Though the fight went well, we didn't manage to get the dagger. I think this makes Athoz 0/2 on him now. And because of work, he wasn't able to keep up with the window so looks like we'll be taking a break from this bird for a while. Hopefully we can go 1/3 on the next attempt. And hopefully I won't shudder everytime I see the wind icon pop up in my window now whenever i'm playing. ~_~
Stupid bird never pops in the 3hr window.
Inventory space = decorate your moghouse?
Sure does! Though strange, I do enjoy decorating my mog house and after commissioning Carste to make me some furniture pieces, I decided to "spice it up" a little.
Mog Bonanza!!!
When I heard that this event was coming out, I told myself I wouldn't buy any marbles. Last year, I had spent about 80k, buying 10 marbles on my main character and 7 mules and all I won were xp scrolls.But, I gave in. My reasoning is that i'm playing this game for fun, so I might as well take a shot at "some fun" and see if I win something. Its not like this is real life, so i'm not spending "money" when it can be used for something better.
And i'm happy that I went with that choice, because I ended up getting myself 2 Rank 4 prizes. I went with the most valuable item at the time, Behemoth's Hide. I then happened to see someone shouting to buy these in WG shortly after, so I sold them right away. Seems like it was a good decision too because later in the day, that same guy was offering to buy them 40k cheaper than what he paid for mine.
Plus, I got myself my Fafnir Statue. I would of liked to have won all 3 statues on my main character, but oh well. One is good enough.
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