Well actually, after seeing a screenshot of my character and Xean's as tarutarus, thanks to some nifty program that Falk used on his pc to swap the .dat files, me and Xean both decided to bring out our tarutaru characters and have a little fun. The plan at the moment is for Xean to lvl RDM on his taru Magisterial, and i'll lvl BRD on Tahla. We probably won't try to do too many missions or quests, but mainly use these characters for LS events.
I'm not sure yet if i'll unlock ninja to use as a subjob, or stick to "ls only" parties so that I can just go with /whm until 75. I figure if I plan to use the character for LS events, chances are I won't need /nin too often and so investing time/gil into getting that to 37, might not be worth it. We'll see.
So, i've managed to get Tahla's WHM to 25, and BLM to 17 (yay for warp!). Most of my levels went by really quickly, thanks to an anniversary ring I had from last year.
I even lucked out getting to be the level sync target for a SMN Astral Flow burn, which brought me up to WHM 23. After that, I had a late night level sync party with Vepion's MNK and Zeo's PLD which went really well. I honestly didn't expect for a lvl 10 Valkurm Dunes party to go so smoothly, but that's just the pessimist in me speaking... which seems to always be present when playing this game, lol.
However, that fast and smooth ride soon came to a halt as soon as I accepted an invite to a Qufim party. I had a feeling when I saw the party setup that we probably wouldn't be getting the best of xp. We had WHM, SMN, SCH, DNC, WAR and MNK. Normally this setup wouldn't seem too bad, but for some reason the other mages thought that they were the main healers, and spammed cures rather than attempting to deal some dmg and speed up the kills. It also didn't help that our WAR wanted to kill worms out in the open where the Gigas spawned, and never waited to make sure all the mages were present before engaging. That of course lead to his death a couple of times, before he eventually just disbanded the party without saying a thing. I think in the end, I only netted about 3000 xp in that party ~_~
I took a bit of a break from trying to get Tahla to 30, (eventually I will though and then i'll unlock BRD) and decided to do a couple of rank missions. When I got to mission 1.2 for San d'Oria, I had to head over to King Ranperre's Tomb in the evening. I ran into an old friend...
Unfortunately though, he didn't drop anything.
I stayed in the area, killing bats for the rare/ex Orcish Scale Mails needed for the quest but wasn't having any luck. That's when Xean came and joined me, and after a couple of kills I got my item. He also went after the 2nd spawn for Spook to try his luck, but again no drop. I miss the good old days when me and Xean used to camp that thing as our gil maker, one of us always outclaimed all the other campers.
As for Zerayla, i've managed to do a little bit with her in the last couple of weeks.
First of all, I realized that I really enjoy my RDM. This has made me determined to become better at playing the most versatile job in the game, and so i've been trying to re-work all my gear sets. For the last year, i've only had my MP gear out of storage because all I ever did was merits. But now I have all my upgraded item, my rare/ex gear and i'm currently looking into other pieces to pursue such as a cape in Sea.
And because of the frequency that i've been asked to bring RDM to events (Limbus, Salvage, Dynamis) I decided to unmerit my Bio/Dia 3, and get 5/5 on Phalanx II. Only took about a week to finally finish, but that was because I went several days without a merit pty! (ZOMG!)
I've also been trying to get some more allied notes, because thanks to the update, I only need lets see.... 65k + 75k worth? I need to get both the new Iron Ram Mail and cobra Unit Harness, which so far seems like it's going to take an eternity to obtain. Everytime I put 2hrs aside to do campaign, I spend more than half the time waiting in town because there aren't any happening except for in beastmen owned areas. And those give you nothing if all you do is hit fortifications. Good job SE! Way to offer no incentive to go to those zones! /sigh
I will say though, last night me and Xean tried out the new "Union" thing and we're both happy with this update. If I understand it correctly, you just need to get a certain amount of AN, and your union will then get a chest full of random items. Anyone that joined the same union as you, will also be able to lot, but at least there's a chance you can get something at the end.
Then there is my ever continueing quest to get a decent leg weaponskill piece for my DRG. I have 3 options at the moment: Aurum Cuisses, Pahluwhan Seraweels and Askar Dirs.
Tonight I'll have a shot at the Aurum Cuisses if my social LS is able to do the 2 Experimental Lamia planned. But seeing as that ZNM is far out of the way, and requires a decent number of people... i'm not going to keep my hopes up.
Then there's assault, which is going well so far. I'm currently spamming "Pre-Emptive Strike" with Athoz, Sabene, Standpoint and Xean. I was a little sad when after our last run this week, I checked my points and saw that I was only about 90 away from being able to get my P. Legs.
And lastly, the Askar Dirs! While I believe i'm the only one left in my Nyzul static out of the "main lotters" that doesn't have this piece (which means i'm next up for them), no one has been wanting to do the floor that drops these so I have to wait until its my turn to call the floors. I think that might be next week though, so hopefully i'll have something for my DRG in the next 7 days.
Oh and I did get a couple of lvls on my RNG recently. I don't really enjoy the job at all, but i've been wanting to get it to at least 37 to use as a subjob for my RNG. I haven't really been in any situations where having COR/RNG has been needed, but I like being prepared and the fact that i've put off getting the job to 37 has been annoying me. I just wish I had the patience to get all the lvling done at once, right now I have about 16+ inventory slots in my delivery box filled with RNG gear that I want to give back to my mule already. Maybe i'll try to finish that this week.
And for LS events, SoTW finally has something new to add to our list of accomplishments! We took down our first Byakko!
Falk has been lvling his NIN with the static I do on Sundays, and he finally was nearing the "B.Haidate" level. So he spent a couple of days up in sky farming the pop items. And when I say "days", I don't exaggerate. I actually went up one time to help him and we spent quite a few hours killing Aura Stones but nothing dropped. It was still kinda fun though, I brought my RDM and my nuking set and didn't do so bad.
We decided to pop Byakko during our normal ZNM night because this is when most people were available to help, and no one had made any ZNM requests that week. But we did run into some trouble, because more than half the people that came out to help had either logged into LS too late, or been too busy on the skype call that was going on to have seen when Falk said we had to pop Ulli first before going to Byakko. What this meant is that we only had a handful of people at Ulli, with only one or two DDs. Everyone else had gone straight to Byakko ><
In the end though, we did kill Ulli and then joined up with the rest of the group. We were also pretty lucky too because there was a JP shell that was popping multiple Byakko's at the time, but they let us get our pop in.
So after buffing up the alliance, Falk invited the white purple striped kitty to come out and play!
Me and Darce were tanking him as PLD/NIN which was something new for me, because in my previous sky LS I had always gone PLD/WAR. I actually enjoyed it too, though did run into a few moments when I didn't have any shadows up and the recast timers were down. But our WHMs did one hell of a job keeping us alive, and I think the only death we had was our TH4, Soulstar. I think he died twice at the very end, though I can't really remember how that happened. Maybe the SATA hadn't gone off correctly?
All that matters though is that we had some really awesome drops. Falk got his haidate, and a few other goodies dropped that went to LS members.
The nice thing about doing sky gods is that it gives a chance to LS members that don't have the time, or desire to join an endgame LS, an opportunity to get endgame gear. And it even looks like we're going to have a Suzaku planned down the road too, which I look forward to seeing as I owe that bird for one shotting me ages ago with chainspell Firaga III. ~_~
I've also started doing Limbus again with a shell that Carste and some of his friends reformed from a broken shell. The run times are way more convenient, and so far the runs have gone a lot better. It looks like we'll be doing Omega a lot more frequently too, because this shell is used to doing low-manned events and we've done really well farming 2 zones in one run with very few people.
We even got to do an Omega, which I was able to bring RDM to! We had less than 2 full parties, which made the fight a little more challenging. The members are really good players though, and we managed to get the win which resulted in Carste finally getting his homam legs he's been after for months. I'm really looking forward to future runs with these guys, looks like we'll easily be able to do an Omega at least twice a month, and thanks to a fair lotting system, I might finally be able to finish my own homam, rather than sit on a bunch of points that mean nothing. (Fun fact: after I left my last limbus LS, seems they finally decided to change their lotting system and go with some of the suggestions I had made to make it more fair, go figure?)
Lastly... looks like Garrison might be something SoTW will start doing again. Kawanomu had setup a run last weekend for Cape Terrigan, and this was pretty straight forward in comparison to the other areas we've done in the past. It was pretty easy for me, all I did was bring COR/WHM and help cure and do some rolls. Oh... and spammed my sleep. I love that I can sleep mobs while running, quick draw FTW! Hopefully we'll get to do this again. The drops aren't all that great, but this is by far one of the more enjoyable quick events our LS has done in a while.
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