December Weekend 8th through 10th

Had a very busy and productive weekend. First off Friday I logged on, which is rare, and as soon as I did got a tell from Pusarah asking if I wanted to do the Brothers ENM at Bearclaw Pinnacle. So of course I said yes and I, her, Zeitsev, and Marlow headed off to get it done. Had a few mishaps with a bad slide but with some tractoring and raising we all got the key item fine.

You may remember from my last post my buffer was down to 1k. Well after getting the key item and having to eat a Raise 1 I had I think a 75 xp buffer…Blah. So anyways we beat the ENM no problem and get absolute crap drops; a raise three scroll and a dragon bone I think. We did however get the 3.5k xp from it so my buffer was now up a little. WE all decided to go ahead and xp on some of the King buffalo while we were there so by the end of the night my buffer was back up to 14k. YAY!

Saturday. What a long and productive day for us. My dynamis shell had Dynamis-Sandy so we did that first. Not a bad run but we have certainly had better. 5 AF total but once again no RDM so my fellow mage class people once again are just point hoarding at this point. Zeit did get the lolwar AF taking him to 4/5 pieces. I died I think 4 times and 2 of those was because I think no one but me had cast sleep so of course I got beat on by all the hate. Oh well I wasn’t really into Dynamis then as Sandy is just way too easy and I had no AF that I could get there. We more or less cleared the entire zone and even went ahead and killed the Mega boss as some members brought their alternate characters in to get the win.

Next up is Dynamis-Xarcabard. We are going for the win there and if we don’t win this time HPG said he is going to recruit some more people so we can just get it done with. Going to focus on recruiting DRK’s and MNK/DRK to increase our damage output this time around (aggh Darknessfalls if only you were still around I could get you in). Last time we fought Dynamis lord everything went fine but our damage just kind of stalled around the 40% mark as the DD’s had used up there TP and wings by that point. If we had more sustained damage it would have been a sure win as the Chainspell stunning had gone very well.

That night after Dynamis, as is the case every Saturday night afterward, our Cop static got together for the next mission on our quest to get sea and to finish up COP. This was a very big night as it was the 6-4 airship battle. Some people say it’s the hardest BC type fight in the game. We had come prepared though and done some dry runs the week before.

So it was me Pusarah, Zeitsev, Marlow, Keeva, and Lyeia with Janaka on the outside cheering us on. Janaka would replace me in the following run and get his win. We have a 7 person COP static which means we do each instanced battle twice. See I told you my LS was made of great people, doing all the hard work of COP 2 times and not jumping ahead when they could have leaving one of us behind. We use to have 9 people we were doing this for but Darknessfalls of course left the game and Candyman seemed to just get disinterested and stop after we got to about mission 5-1 I think.

So anyways we go in and kill the mammets fine but have a bit of an issue with Omega for some reason. We ended up wasting a lot of time on him and got to Ultima with about 12 minutes left on the timer. With 2 people still weak we were only going to have about 7 minutes to deal with him so we decided to just time out and try again rather than waste our 2 hours. This time we go in and just blow through mammets and omega with an amazing 30 minutes left to kill. Needless to say we were all pretty excited.

We start off and as bad luck would have it Keeva, who was tanking on nin, gets hit with some move that goes through shadows for about 800 damage and he’s down after only about 2 minutes in and ultima sitting at 90% health still. However, things went very smooth for a while with Zeit and Lyeia bouncing hate and with just 5 people we got him down to 35% before we wiped and reraised. At this point we knew it was just a formality to get the win.

After weakness wore off we reengage and after second provoke from Keeva, Lyeia does hundred fists and I hit chainspell and it was over very fast. 6-4 Defeated!!!! So 1/3 on this mission for us although you could say that dry run didn’t count I suppose. At this point it was very late and I needed to log off, I wish I could have stayed to cheer Janaka on afterwards. They got the win for him too though and it was a great day for us all around. Next Saturday is the Tenzen fight and finally after a long journey Sea access.

Sunday.

This has traditionally been my catch up day. I try and get all the Cut scenes done for next week’s mission and xp or merit when I can. So I start off doing all the CS for COP 7-1 through 7-4 and since I know I am heading to movapolis I grab some Goblin Drinks to try and get the Parade Gorget for my PLD which is now 50.

Got the CS’s done and after 4 spawns of Goblin Wolfman still no Gorget. Oh well at least I know how to get to the spawn points now and He is a really easy kill.

After finishing this up Pusarah sent me a tell asking if I wanted to do some KSNM runs so of course my broke self went along. We ended up doing 4x Copycat and 4x Operation desert swarm. The ODS drops were all crap except for one D. Cloth and all in all I think we each made 600k. Now that I finally have a bit of gil I really need to upgrade my equipment. Finally bought a penitents rope after almost a year of being 75 (told you my gear was gimp) and so sold my Ocean Rope which means the total cost of the belt was really only about 200k. After I get the gil from the KS drops from everyone (we do even split no your orb your drop crap) I’m going to get the hume RSE gloves as well so that’s a good bump up in my RDM equipment.

I think that is enough rambling for today. I’ll post again Wednesday after our Xarc run and who knows, if I am really lucky maybe I will have my Duelist Hat to tell you about….. yea right.