Abyssea = Awesomeness.

I can't seem to get enough of Abyssea @_@

I actually forgot to mention a few posts back, that I was involved in a low-man Jailer of Love fight. I finally got to bring out my PLD, which has been locked away collecting dust for who knows how long. I remember when I was initially asked to tank this fight, how hesitant and nervous I felt because it had been so long since I had played the job other than getting some xp through an Abyssea party.

(After we killed Jailer of Love, Absolute Virtue popped and immediately began to rip us all apart. After raising, Onedarkflame then thought it would be funny to MPK us again by pulling him over to where we resting.)

The fight went pretty well though we did wipe at one point which was probably my fault. Jailer of Love has a charmga move, and in order to avoid this I had to remain a certain distance. Throughout the fight, I hadn't noticed that the NM had moved a little closer to me, and I ended up being in his charm range. I think mostly everyone got charmed because of this slip-up, but we managed to recover with a little bit of sac'ing from Xean's WHM. And at the end, we managed to get the Novio Earring and the Love Torque... so well worth the deaths. And I got to enjoy playing my PLD again. But back to the closet it goes for now, seeing as PLD isn't all that useful in the new content being released.

And I was able to find a couple of pictures from the cutscenes following the Shinryu fight.

The fight itself is a joke when you have someone "brewing", which increases their stats to insane numbers. Hello Mr. 10,000 HP with 50tp/tick regain! So far i've done this fight I believe 4 or 5 times, and haven't managed to get the more desired pieces (Twilight Mail, Twilight Helm). But I have managed to get the Twilight Belt for both Xean and Zerayla, as well as the Twilight Cape and Twilight Torque. I'm sure there will be more of these fights to come, however I need to do some more cruor farming so that the fight can be brewed. And even though the brew makes it easy, the first part of the fight can be tricky. I usually end up duo-boxing as Zer's WHM and Xean's MNK. Which means that i'm usually tanking or proc'ing on Xean, and healing on Zerayla. And because of the constant spell spamming and having to proc "in between" the melee hits, this makes it really difficult for me. I know that eventually i'll get more used to it, but I get so nervous not wanting to mess things up that I can't relax at all when I do this fight. At least now I have my alt-tab thing fixed, so swapping screens should be easier from now on. Oh, but I do still get some annoying lag for some reason and I have a feeling its because my graphic settings are too high. If this could get fixed, it'd make my life so much easier.

And so yesterday I got invited by a friend Yatlin/Mindgrasp to help farm some AF3 Feet seals in Abyssea-Vunkerl. Having a BLM available is definitely giving me that advantage now, because people will actually look me up and invite me along to help them. I managed to finish off my SAM and RDM AF3 feet. Now all I have left on Zerayla are her PLD feet.

As far as the AF3 seals go, I'm starting to feel that i'm near "done". I've been trying to get much of this done in the day time so that I don't have to keep dragging everyone in TBH to do this. They've all pretty much completed their pieces and are now working on the bodies, meanwhile I've had a huge list of head/hands/legs/feet to do. Thanks to SE making the new AF3 gear good, and because I have 8 jobs that i'm gearing between 2 characters... I have my work cut out for me. But I can't complain too much, always having something to do right now is a nice change.

One thing i'm baffled about though, is WHY SE made the Empyrean Polearm such a pain in the butt to get. We've just started working on the next trial for my Rhongomiant, which involves collecting 50 non-stacking Two-Leaf Chloris buds. And the work involved in popping the NM Chloris, is a real headache. I need to collect 4 key items to pop him, and each of those 4 KI's involve at least 2 NM kills to get. We did our first "Tahrongi KI farming" session just the other day, and I was really trying to convince myself that maybe I should give up the idea of getting the Rhongomiant because it seemed like too much of a hassle. But Carste insists that the next session we do, we'll be able to manage our time more efficiently because we'll buy some of the pop items for the lesser NMs, and we won't have as many "leeches". Our last session, a number of us brought our low lvl characters in to get some xp and while that was helpful (Xean's WAR is now 49!) it did hinder us a bit, because Carste was more or less doing all the work in terms of killing. So we'll see how our next session goes, and hopefully stupid Chloris won't be stingy like he was last time. On 2 of our kills, he only dropped 1 Two-Leaf Chloris Bud. I'm now 10/50, and so there's still a long way to go with this.

And thanks to TBH, i've now gotten a really awesome Great Katana for my SAM (who also has yet to see the light of day) which allowed me to sell my outdated Hagun. I picked myself up this little guy:

We were fighting some NMs in Altepa for body seals as well as +2 upgrade items, and it dropped from one of the Cerberus type NMs. I don't recall the name off hand, but the fight didn't seem to be too difficult. As long as i'm not being distracted with /tells and people aren't asking me questions about random things on Skype, I can stay focused on curing! And with Carste usually being our tank on his NIN, fights are made even easier.

So now I think we're going to be working a bit more on body seals as well as the +2 items. And hopefully we can get in a little bit of Limbus, because I recently found out that the MNK AF+1 legs are a nice counter piece. I just wish I hadn't tossed BOTH upgrade items months ago when I was doing some cleaning on his account. I never thought they'd get used, and now I want to slap myself for not thinking. I have terrible luck with tossing things that I end up needing later on, which is why my Mog House storage is now swamped with rare/ex gear that I refuse to toss, even though i'm not using it. I have made the mistake too much of tossing what once was useless, and later on needed.

Next up on my list of things to work towards, will be getting the last item needed for Xean's Black Belt. He's now 2/3, with the Wyrm Beard and Behemoth Tongue. I just need the Egg from the Adamantoise NM, but so far i'm having a little difficulty in pushing myself to get the ToD. I had this master plan of camping it this Thursday after I heard there would be maintenance, but they cancelled it at the last minute. And the thought of wasting an entire day to find the ToD.... really turns me off. There's been talk about doing a KS99 because Athoz is also 2/3 now, and we "may" have the nuke power to pull it off... but, Xean no longer has an orb available and my two attempts at Kindred Seal farming haven't been that great. I think i've only managed to collect 4 seals. I may just have to ask around and see if anyone I know would be willing to sell me an orb. I want to finish Xean's BB ; ;

So back to the game I go now. Looks like Standpoint may have returned to the game and i'm sure I can help give him a little taste of the Abyssea awesomeness.