The last couple of weeks have been a little bit on the slow side, but no complaint here. Having a bit of a break from scheduled events has been nice and allowed me to kinda "play around" doing nothing in particular. I think sometimes its a good thing to forget about all the goals you have in this game, otherwise you can easily get burnt out or find yourself filled with irritation and frustration because so often in this game, not everything works out as easily (or as quickly) as you'd like.Sounds like i'm speaking from experience? Well, not exactly... but, might as well mention that the goal of helping Xean get his Black Belt has officially come to an end. I don't really want to say that we'll never pursue the BB items in the future, but Xean has decided to pass on going out of his way to get the BB items. I think the main reason is just because he doesn't really get all that much use out of his MNK, and because of a lot of the experiences we've had recently, this item has just become too much of a headache.
I won't go into too many details, but to sum it up: our server only has 2 HNM shells that are camping the HNMs that drop the BB items. Both have so far, proven to be unreliable, and un-cooperative. Me and Xean had decided that we'd put forth the effort to farm up the gil for the ridiculous prices the shells were asking for, because joining them and keeping up with the members that were able to play 24/7 and be at every single HNM window seemed impossible (especially with the time put into our social LS) So after making arrangements with one of the shells (the other still had members wanting to lot the BB items so they wouldn't sell) Xean waited close to 3hrs for Aspid to spawn one night. After the shell got claim, and killed it, he waited a few minutes to be invited so that he could trade the gil and lot the item.
Only a few minutes go by, and nothing. So, he sends a /tell to the leaders and asks when he'll be invited. The leader he spoke with, then informs him that they have a LS member that will be lotting the item, and so they won't be selling the drop.
Hours of wasted time, for nothing. -_-
So after that, I tried to rally together a LS camping session for adamantoise (drops one BB item, but its not 100%). The turn out seemed pretty good, but in the end, the desire to continue putting in the energy and effort to getting the BB items without an HNM shell, just wasn't there so we cancelled at the last minute. Maybe one day we'll have a go at the HNM (or even the KSNM99s) for fun, but for now this goal has been put in the closet.
So what is on the agenda now? Well... I'm hoping to setup some BCNM and KSNM runs soon, as i've accumulated quite a bunch. Other than that, I actually don't have too much else that I personally feel compelled to pursue in this game. I do plan to finish meriting my COR (only need 5 more limit points!) and hope to get my BLU and RNG up to 37 so that they can be used as subjobs. I also plan to get a few pieces of gear, here and there for my PLD and DRG through Salvage, Assault and Limbus. Most of this stuff will happen "eventually" and i'm not feeling too rushed.
I guess its worth mentioning that I am now trying Salvage again, and might get to see an Ares piece or two for my DRG & PLD. This time I think it'll be a lot smoother, mainly because the static consists of LS members only. Carste is the one leading this, and we have Xean on his MNK, Sethidus on BRD, Janko on BLU, Zeo on WAR, Carste on THF and myself on RDM. There are a few others interested that might end up joining us too down the road once they get access, so i'm keeping my fingers crossed that this static might actually see a few upgraded salvage pieces. I'm just not looking forward to revisiting the frogs. Omg..... I... hate...... frogs.
As for what i've been up to lately, well... I've been slowly working on getting some xp on my RNG. I'm bringing that up to 37 with Xean's SAM, and so far the duoing hasn't been as slow as I thought it would. That's probably thanks to the Fields of Valor that I never really got into.
Once we get to 37, Xean plans to take SAM all the way to 75. I can't really see myself leveling something else to 75 right now, so i'll probably just sync myself to him and bring whatever job his party ends up needing. He's not overly eager about getting to 75, but i'm hoping to change that because I remember having a blast when I lvled SAM. I just hope that I don't find myself getting nostalgic about playing SAM because I pretty much retired mine. Turns out my DRG was a better DD on birds, and if I end up getting some Askar/Aurum/Ares pieces, i'm sure I might even outparse what my SAM used to be capable of against non-bird mobs. (loldrg)
(A random ToAU mission that Carste asked me and Xean to help with so that he could get his mule access to Salvage to fill in as a 6th)He and Sethidus were needing an Ohat, and so he rounded up some LS members (Xean, Carste, Sethidus, Athoz, a duo-boxed Ketsuchi and myself) for the fight. During the first fight, we had one death but that was only because our healer (Falk) was duo-boxing and I had taken the risk to cast an enfeeble not knowing he had switched characters for a few seconds. But the rest of the fights went great. I guess we don't really need to organize and plan Hakutaku fights anymore, seeing as they can easily be done with a party of 6.
And speaking of Falk, I just happen to have a fun screenshot from a couple of weeks ago, highlighting the results of a tarutaru NIN tanking fire breathing crawlers!
Actually, Falk does really well on NIN. The static I have with him on my SMN, has been going surprisingly well every week. I usually have had aweful experiences with having SMNs in pty, and had concluded that they're pretty much a waste of space... but, thanks to Sabene's refresh, Xean's ballads, sanction refresh AND my auto-refresh trait... I'm enjoying being able to keep up 3 "buff" BPs on the party and being able to cast at least one offensive BP every fight. I know my place in the static could easily be replaced by something else to make things better, but with the setup we've had, I haven't felt as much of a gimp to the party as I used to a while back.
And now that i've gotten lvl 70 on SMN, its now time to go after a certain item that brings a laugh to me everytime I hear someone mention it.
Yep, the good old YYR (Ying Yang Robe).
I was actually unsure how i'd get the ToD for Shikigami because i'm not the kind of person that can just "sit in game and do nothing" for hours. But the day after I hit lvl 70, there was maintenance!
I logged in 2hrs before maintenance started, and decided to go park my character in Ro'Maeve. I went RDM/RNG, and decided to scan just for the heck of it until SE kicked us from the server. About 10 minutes before that was supposed to happen, I suddenly see Shikigami Weapon appear on my widescan. So I started freaking in LS and was able to round up some friends (Athoz, Sabene, Lyea and Xean) to come help. It was a pretty crazy fight, we were all nuking and meleeing it to death trying to kill it before maintenance started and finished with maybe 2-4 minutes to spare. Sadly though, we didn't get the drop.
So after maintenance, I logged in to see if the NM would spawn. As wikipedia mentioned it would, it never did. So I had to wait until today to try it again when the window opened. Only this time there were about 3 groups also camping it, and someone else got claim. ~_~
Now to try again tomorrow. I know that I can duo this guy easy with Xean's NIN, but if there's more people counter camping... i'll need all the claiming help possible.
And then when I finally get my YYR, i'll most likely still be camping this guy because 2 other LS members are looking to get SMN to 75. Fun fun fun.... at least its only a 15 minute window! Unlike a stupid, annoying, irritating, despised chicken called Kreutzet! *shudders*
Lastly, I had an opportunity to tank Omega the other week.
I was asked to come PLD/NIN, and though I had some doubts at my ability, I was told that I did pretty well. I know that I was a little bit rusty at first, but I eventually got the hang of things after a few minutes of kiting I was able to get a somewhat fluid method where i'd alternate curing with Xean who as on his WHM. Worked out really nice being able to communicate with him so that I could take care of my curing when needed for hate. And at the end of that run, we had ourselves another Homam Body to give to one of our members.
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