The goods keep comming

When it rains it pours.


Ok so my lucky streak isn’t over yet. I haven’t posted about this on my blog in the entire time of its existence which I find a bit odd. I have been trying to get a Joyuese for literally years now. My biggest problem is I can’t leave my computer on overnight to try and get a TOD. The few times I have gotten a TOD half those times I couldn’t get people together and the other half my group got out claimed. I seen charby popped and killed a good 20 times over the last few years trying to get my sword.

Enter Monday evening after maintenance. So with timers reset after maintenance I had logged in SSG and hoped for the best. So good news is I was the very first person to log into SSG so I knew it hadn’t popped. Bad news is I couldn’t get anyone down there to help out. So I figured at least maybe if it popped early I would have TOD and another chance later that night before going to bed.

As it turned out it didn’t pop early at all. Only one guy had people there to kill charby so his group went about killing PH for the next 3 hours. Why I continued to stay there knowing the TOD didn’t matter as it was going to be too late and I didn’t have people is beyond me. Guess it’s because I was stubborn and wanted to see it pop again and also all my events that day were canceled b/c of the maint. Well 3 hours in it hadn’t popped and the other group had to go. So only I and one other RDM were left in the room.

We got to talking and decided we would kill PH and he informed me he had friends on the way to help kill. That’s cool I don’t mind helping to pop it while his friends gather and I’d have TOD so maybe someone else in my shell could use. His ls gets there and the killing goes on for another hour. Still no sign of charby.

At this point its midnight and I been camping it for 5 hours. It’s late though and the merit parties and other various things people in LS were doing have all ended. Upon hearing Charby still hadn’t popped I got word a few people were on the way to help kill. I was ecstatic. Only one other group camping and with the window open for as long as it had been something was going to come to a head and soon.

Well another hour and a half goes by. It’s 1:30 am and were tired as hell but both groups still there camping. Our nin tank, said he had one more pop then had to go to bed. Wouldn’t you know it he popped? Course this mob always been a curse to me so as luck would have it we get out claimed.

Then we noticed a few things. One, the other party had no bard to give their nin tank mambos. Second, the nin was only 74 and not very well geared for evasion tanking. Third, their war was meleing and feeding it tons of hp and grabbing a lot of hate. 2 minutes in war goes down. 1 minute later nin is dead. At this point it went unclaimed but ls leader said to wait for them to full wipe to be fair. So we did.

Soon as their last mage went down we grabbed him and the fight was on. Our party was nin, thf, brd, rdm, war and I think sam. Sam was there for help claiming and killing adds. So our party setup is classic for charby killing. The fight itself though starts out bad. Charby already had tp from the other group and as soon as we claimed did that AOE move then proceeded to kill the nin almost instantly as we were trying to move into position.

Fortune was with us though. The war was next on hate list and died soon after. This was expected really so instead of worrying about him I focused on healing up and getting the thf buffed and ready. Thief takes over tanking and its smooth sailing from here. 20 minutes later charby goes down and joyeuse is mine. 3 years, a 6 hour long open window camping session, out claimed, a near wipe, and now it’s finally all over.