Time for a change

Had to make a very hard to decision a few days ago. I been really itching to get into some serious HNM. I been holding out waiting for a spot to open in a prominent LS on leviathan. Talked to the members and the LS leader and they are all fine with me joining up eventually, just they have to many people in the shell right now. I can understand that. No need to clog up waiting lines and its not like they need more people anyways. So I had been just biding my time and waiting.

Things change though and after a lot of thought I have decided to join a HNMls on Phoenix. This by no means was an easy thing for me to decided to do. But at this point in both game and real life the time was right. So starting today I'll be on a new server with all new people, linkshell, and events.

Wow. Saying good bye to people was far more emotional than I would have thought. I mean its just a game right? Well, after spending so many years and experiencing so many good times with my in game friends letting go was truly hard. I started letting my old spirit link LS know about the move on Tuesday and it was a rough day for me. Wednesday I posted in my current LS forums and informed them all of the move. They wished me well and understood the decision and after the initial emotions on Tuesday, yesterday I was just more resigned to the decision and wanted to enjoy my last day.

What an eventful last day it turned out to be! First I log in and go out to VOS to help bong and the ls camp turtle for BB items. It was eventually forced pop and even though the big lses turned out in full force we got the claim. Killed it, after getting some horrendous adds at the start, and had fun being out there with the guys.

Next my Nyzul shell wanted to do one last run since we had made it to floor 95 on Tuesday to push for 100 since this was my last day and end the static on a good note. Luck was with us and we got some easy floors and had 10 minutes to deal with Hydra on the final floor. Took it down and wouldn't you know it we get an Askar Helm to drop. We all lotted and in what must be a fluke I lotted a 943 to win. Turns out this last run would give me my one and only gear piece from all those runs.

After that ended I rushed off to help Janaka do the UO BCNM. Was really glad Janaka had logged in as he is probably my oldest acquaintance in game. I can remember meeting him for the first time back when I had just gotten to Khazam and my RDM was a wee little level 20ish noob. We did a lot over the years and while our play times haven't been aligned that well for the last while I still consider him a great friend. Anyways, on to the bcnm with him and Kuldin and we do 3 runs. Wouldn't you know it, a PCC drops! Now I could have just split this with them and gone on my merry way but this was Janaka after all and so I told them they could just have it and wished them well. Was just happy to be able to help them.

I ended it all with one last run of salvage. Nothing amazing here happened. We did 2 NM's which didn't drop for us and killed the mega which dropped stuff we didn't need. Still though it was my last event and got to spend time with Keeva and all the LS guys I been hanging with for the last year. All in all it was a good day.

I regret not getting to do one last limbus run with my limbus shell but nothing I could do about it. Limbus was and always has been one of my favorite things in game and I had a really great group of people I ran with. I'll miss all my friends on leviathan, it was great playing with you.

Now though I'm excited to enter this new phase of the game. The sadness of the last few days has turned into anticipation and I look forward to just diving head first into the HNMls. It may be the end of an era, but Malaketh lives on.

Job #3 at 75

So I hit 75 DRK last week (Thursday 2/5/2009) and man what a differance a level made for me. I went from gimp to a pretty nice well geared DD in an instant. I had been holding off on buying anything from 72-75 since I had all my Homam gear ready to use so I was shockingly bad in my opinion as a level 74 drk in my party I got. Soon as i dinged tho I went to pretty much competing for Top DD with another DRK in the party. My gear was slightly better but he had a lot more merits so i felt good about how I was doing.

Now I need to get to work on my ws set and then eventually a zerg setup. That will take a while but i'm in no rush since i'm still going to be RDM 90% of the time. The plan right now is to get AF+1 hands, head, and feet. Get an askar body, homam feet, and askar head and that should do it as far as I am concerned. I may upgrade some ares pieces as they go free lot and after my morrigans is all done but that stuff will just come way down the road.

It sure is nice though to change things up with DD and it is far more relaxing to play. Many mages say playing a DD job is easy and I know DD mains get kind of upset at this. I think it would be more accurate to say DD just has almost no stress involved unlike playing a mage/support job does. The reason for this I beleive is that DD jobs are played more proactive than reactive like a healer job is.

Events wise everything been going about the same. We are on floor 80 of nyzul and I believe tonight we are going to push to 90. Salvage has been going smooth and we are starting to do split runs on Wednesdays now. Been going pretty hard after my morrigans slops but the 35 NM is just being a real pain with the drop. Limbus we did another Ultima but I passed on drops wanting to stay in line for my last Homam piece. We have another Omega comming next week I think. Sky/Sea/ZNM been doing a lot of trigger farming so nothing much to report there.