A few people in my ls got this done just a couple days after the release, and as usual, I was dead against jumping into the missions at first. Whenever an expansion comes out, I always try to pretend like I have no clue it even exists. This is because the hype, is almost always overrated. I guess even on some level I see it as "following the crowd" which I really hate doing... so in the end, I usually wait to experience new content for FFXI when all the hype has died down a little.
And that time was also last week. I had mentioned to Vepion that I would join him in doing the missions, and that if he could get Xean to come onboard with us, I wouldn't mind starting. So of course that same day, he convinced Xean to commit to the static.
The next day we started off with the missions (with the exception of the first one you obtain when you zone into your moghouse) which led us to all the beastmen strongholds to farm some items. This didn't seem to take too long, and with a little bit of teleporting we were done pretty quick.
Then it was off to Jeuno for a cutscene, where we were introduced to SE's version of what I like to call, "The Matrix Moogle".
Seriously. Lol.
Story didn't really grab my attention too much, but it started to pickup a little later when suddenly the main moogle character was trapped in some kind of magical box. The cutscene was pretty interesting and creepy at the same time, with weird eyeballs and ghost looking things flying all around the room.
We were then sent off to Windurst where we had to ask Shantotto to help.
She sent us off to fight some cardians in Horutoto Ruins, which meant farming a couple of key items to make the "already easy" fight, even easier. Vepion came on DNC, I was on SAM and Xean came on WHM.
After we were able to free the little moogle, we then had to find some key items in Quicksand Caves. We picked up this mission a couple of nights later, because Vepion didn't have the map at the time which was a requirement to do the mission. So I helped him get the map one morning by farming up a coffer key for the zone.
When we were ready to continue with the mission, we then found out that Xean also needed the map for the area. So me and Xean zoned into one area and started farming, while Vepion farmed in another. Xean came out on his THF to add some TH3, and yet in the end, it was a mob that Vepion killed on his BRD that dropped the coffer key. Go figure, lol.
After we had collected all the key items, were were finally ready for the next fight. I was able to enlist the help of Athoz, Sabene and Zeo a few days later. The fight involved us killing Nanaa Mi'hgo (sp?) from Windurst, and a bunch of goblins. Fight was also relatively easy, more than I thought it would be. But i'm not going to complain, i'd much rather have an easy win than a failed attempt = loss of time.
Having finished the 2nd last fight in the missions, we set out to Beaucedine Glacier for some mini-games. These were a bit confusing at first, and took a little time to finally understand even with the wikipedia guide. Thankfully though both Xean and Vepion were able to understand what to do and explain it to me.
We wrapped up the last final mini-games in Castle Zvahl-Baileys, which were FAR easier and even a little fun, in comparision to the pre-requisite for the final ACP fight. Now all that's needed is the final fight, which i've already been able to try out as a Soulstar, Drimergirl, Chisei, Fizzywig and Janko needed an extra BLM for their fight. Hopefully we'll be able to do this last fight next week, and soon be sporting some new gear! I'm pretty sure i'll be going with the augments for the DD WS.
And for other updates... lets see...
Tahla is still lvl 22BRD. Need to get her up to 30 so that I can finally play with Xean's taru, Magisterial. Trying to work on some missions so that she can finally get her airship pass.
Did a bit of meriting, and just about done with the merits for my SMN. Gotta look into other things I can "unmerit" and "remerit" now...
Salvage is finally picking up. We've only managed to get one pair of Usukane feet in the ~15 runs we've done, but my static has decided to try out a few other zones to give a little bit of change now and then which I think was a good idea. Otherwise I think we'd all be going insane fighting so many friggin bees. I just dread the runs that we do when I have to revisit a certain green amphibian that gives me nightmares. ; ;
Limbus is really really great. We did an Omega with only 8 ppl last week, which really surprised me. In all my experience, i've never tried Omega with any less than 14 ppl, and on those runs we always relied on our 2hrs. This time around though, we didn't rely on 2hrs and got the win with a very small group. I'm really glad that i'm running this Limbus group now, i've finally found a group of people in the game that bring a lot of challenges that I haven't encountered very often. And thanks to that beardmage Carste, i've also had the opportunity to "trio" the Behemoth zone. I definitely sucked the first time around, but I feel that I got a good understanding of how to do that last floor and look forward to trying it again.
Oh, and lastly I was able to get my RNG to 29 thanks to some LS members that did a level sync with me over the weekend. The first party I had was with an all Japanese group and PL, and we just swept through the Qufim lvls. Then when we disbanded, I headed over to Kazham with some friends and was able to get 2k to lvl 30. Can't wait to get the last 8 lvls so that I can finally mule back all my gear. Zerayla has so much crap in her delivery box right now ><
Been a while since i've posted some "scenic screenshots" and seeing as I promised to do a wallpaper for a retired player on QCDN (he requested one after having seen some wallpapers I made a few months ago) I took a few screenies recently to work with, and figured i'd share them. Enjoy~
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