More Moogles...

Thanks to Sabene, Athoz, Vepion and Zeo, myself and Xean were able to complete the latest mini-expansion "A Moogle Kupo d'Etat".

Myself, Vepion and Xean had made a static to get the expansion done and get ourselves the new augmented head piece. Along the way, we had to recruit some LS help in order to do a fight in Quicksand Caves. Thanks to Zeo, Sabene and Athoz, we were able to complete this very easily. After having done the fight, we started to make plans to do the final missions which included another challenging fight in Castle Zhvahl Bailey's.

Sabene and Athoz had asked if they could join in the static and get caught up, so that we could all do the last fight together. We had no problem, and so they worked on getting their missions done that following week. That weekend, Anderoc, RMTFalk, Darce and myself helped Athoz and Sabene get the quicksand caves fight done, so that they would finally be ready for the last fight with the rest of us.

This time around the fight didn't go quite as smoothly, but we still got the win. I was only disappointed that I never got to use my SAM 2hr because I ended up dying about halfway through the fight. ><

The next day, we headed to Castle Zhvahl Bailey's for the last fight against Riko and his evil matrix minion moogles.

Our first attempt started off pretty good, but due to some bad luck with getting off the sleepga/horde lullaby when it was needed, we ended up wiping.

Determined to get our head pieces, we ran back to Beaucedine Glacier to redo the mini moogle games needed to get the key item to redo the fight.

As for our 2nd try, we made sure to have everyone ready for the sleepga/horde and that seemed to do the trick. When we got to the last part of the fight and had Athoz and Xean zerg Riko, I knew we were going to have a sure win because of how fast Riko's HP was going down.

After the win, we all made our way to Jeuno and immediately picked up our new gear.

I'm still a little unsure if I made the right augments, but so far i'm quite please with the choices I made:

STR+4 & Weaponskill Accuracy +15
DEX+4 & Critical Damage +2%

I went with these choices with my DRG in mind. I knew that the STR+4 and WS Acc+15 was a definite, but the second option is where I was a little unsure. I had done a little reading, and also asked for some advice and was told that the augment that added +2 WS DMG, would be roughly around 20 more dmg on my WSs. Then the other option was getting ACC+10 & ATK+5, which while looked very good, I felt wouldn't add as much.

So far i've been able to have a couple of merit parties, and I do notice that my "average" has increased and is more consistent now. I haven't seen much of a difference in what I call my "high" WSs, but then again I have yet to have both a BRD and a COR in my pty. I suppose I'll just keep what I have now, and wait until some poor and bored "Joe" goes and spends hours testing the various combinations to find out which augments would of been best for a DRG WS piece, and until then i'll stay content with what I have.

Other than that, I gave Fields of Valor "Elite Training" a try. I managed to pickup an extra Warwolf Belt through a KSNM30 Royal Ramble that had been setup through QCDN (really good group too) and thought i'd see what kind of augment I could get.

One would assume that with all the people bragging about getting really good augments, you too would get something decent.

+15 Light Resist.

. . .

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.

Seeing as the fight was pretty easy, and a few LS members were interested in trying out the sky FoV, I decided to try again with an extra Hierarch belt I had.

-1 STR, DEX+1, VIT-1.

Ugh....

So with that kind of luck, I think i'll put the augmenting thing on the back burner for now. I do enjoy going up to sky and killing pots with Vep's PUP, Xean's MNK and Darce's PLD though... so we'll see.

I think the next few things i'll work on are getting my crafts up again, and finally getting my cooking the +3 skill I never finished. I'm also hoping to get Tahla to lvl again with Xean's alternate character Magisterial. We both need to get rank 5 for our characters, so maybe we'll get that done this week.

I'm kinda looking forward to getting Tahla's BRD to 75. The last couple of days, Xean has let me play his BRD (I wanted the BRDing experience and he didn't mind getting the extra merits) and while I know I'll need a lot more practice... I feel pretty capable at merit pulling now. And, I actually really like it. o.O

Maybe thats just because I haven't had to take the job to 75? Well, guess i'll find out how I like it if I can get Tahla to 75. Only question now is... do I want to invest the time/gil into getting /nin to 37? I had only planned to play the job for LS events, and usually /whm is needed for those. But... I might just want to play her BRD in future merit ptys. Gah, decisions ><