To My Side Wirbelwind!

Not much has been going on… Got RDM to 61 which is nice. Took a little bit of a break for now, until I get a little bit more free time and until I collect all the scrolls I need. Just have one left, Water III, which I can get off of the Sapphire Quadavs in Beadeaux.

In my last post, I talked about wanting the Homam Gambieras (feet) but there was a person that had way more points than I did in front of me. We did a run last week in which we were planning on doing a Proto-Ultima but didn’t have enough people for it so we did a vote and it  to do a Proto-Omega run instead. We waited for the person with a lot of points to come home, we were under the impression that he’d be on by 8:45, and by 9:00 he hadn’t shown up so we headed out. Mind you, our run that day was scheduled to start at 8:00. There was still another person in front of me in points but I still put my bid in for feet so that if, by the rare chance, two of them dropped I’d still get them if the one guy didn’t make it in time.

Sure enough, we got 2x Omega’s Tail! And just after they distributed the guy shows up. I can understand his frustration because these were the first Omega’s Tail that have dropped in almost a year. Granted I’ve only been doing Limbus for a few months and this was our third Proto-Omega in that time. However, this guy then started ripping into the guys that run the Limbus side of SpiritEvolution about how he’s been waiting for so long for them, he would have waited if we were doing Proto-Ultima for them, and so on. While it sucks that he’s been waiting so long for them, I can understand because it took me 3 years to get my Valor Breeches, there was no reason to go on such a childish tantrum that he did.

And so, to appease the tantrum, we’re going to try to run as many Omegas as we can. Despite that there are people that have even more points than he does for Ultima gear. I’m not entirely thrilled with that decision, but I will benefit from it. I don’t want as much Ultima gear as I do the Omega gear, but when you earn 1 point a run and someone has 90+ points for one piece of gear… it makes one sick when someone throws a tantrum like this.

I like the guy and all… but dude… it’s a game… IT’S DELUX SON! DELUX! IT’S NOT THAT HARD!

Time sure does fly. Sometimes when you’re having fun… Sometimes when you’re not paying attention. I cannot believe that it is already then end of January, partly because not much has happened since my last post lol.

Leveled RDM from 37 to 56 so far. Been rough doing that. So few people are seeking for a party on Odin due to it being closed that even as a RDM I still go hours seeking for a party. It’s been an eye-opening experience for me. Of the 4 jobs I’ve leveled to 75 (PLD, DRG, BLU and SMN) only one is a mage job and it is an outcast of a mage job lol. Having to balance enfeebling, healing, and nuking is a lot more work than I’m used to! Kielee, you have more of my respect for how well you do it lol.

Nyzul Isle is becoming more and more fun. We (Aerro and I) are part of a weekly static groups that runs at 1PM EST on Sundays. Most of the static have done the climbs many times for different people so they’re pretty good. Doesn’t hurt that it is mostly people from our dynamis LS. Aerro and I cleared floor 80 this past weekend, which is nice. Just have to go back and get 71-80 for Kie and Mal when Kie gets back from being on a boat (I doubt T-Pain is with him). I’ve also managed to snag an Askar body piece! There was another member of the climb that wanted it and we both lot on it, I had the higher lot and was about to pass because he really wanted it but the rest of the party passed too fast and I wasn’t able to. I’m happy that I got the piece, but I’m sorry Kyo! I learned a few weeks later that he was actually planning on leaving the Odin server, which he did.

Limbus is still quite fun. As I’ve mentioned it before, I think it is one of my favorite end game events that I do. We’ve done a few Ultima’s already this year and I cannot wait until we do some Omegas… Misami and I are drooling at the mouth and chomping at the bit for some more Homam gear. Last Omega we did it dropped two hind legs so that we both got our Homam pants! We’re hoping for a repeat on that. The only item we see any wait for is the feet armor. There is a member of the shell that has something like 80 points for Limbus and all he wants are the feet armor. I have something like 10 points… hopefully they drop soon… or he stops coming lol

Dynamis is still dynamis lol. We’ve got a consistent group of about 12-15 that show up on a regular basis. So it seems like we’re low-manning everything. You can tell in 10 minutes whether or not everyone’s heart is into the run. And those nights where it is very obvious that it isn’t makes it tough to keep going with the run. Not a lot of drops that I’ve wanted have dropped at all or gone my way. With only one job 65+ that I need gear for, and that might only be to store the set (SMN), I’ve tried to get some RDM pieces for when I get there. I’ve been purposefully trying to have priority behind Aerro, much to her frustration lol. She can use it now, I cannot. No point in me taking it away from her lol. We also started a need/want list on our linkshell’s forums. Doesn’t look like many people are putting much on there.

I’ve decided that after RDM, I may dabble in BLM and THF. Being on a closed server for so long (which does have its’ perks and drawbacks) getting parties has been hard. I’m scared to level THF because of this. Who knows though… it may be one of the easier to solo ones because of its’ evasion. We’ll see. BLM though, shouldn’t be too bad. Most of the people in CerebralAssassins have BLM leveled and my long time, good friend Terren is “always needing a buffer” on his, so there may be some possible BLM burns going on!

Also managed to get a little more CoP done. Finished 8-2 and got the map while we were at it. Have to go back and get one of the Quas…thingys for Aerro. Thankfully it’s one of the earlier ones and shouldn’t be too bad lol. Looking to finish it when Kie gets back from his earlier mentioned boat trip. And then on to the next story line… whichever that one may be lol.

Hopefully the productiveness of the first 25 days of the year carry over into the next 340!

So long, and thanks for all the fish 2009!

Ok, well not for the fish… Didn’t do all that much fishing…

But so long, and thanks for all the fun!

2009  saw a lot of accomplishments for this little ole elvaan here. Managed to double the number of level 75 jobs, went from 2 to 4, and the two that I did level, BLU and SMN, were ones that I told myself I wasn’t going to level a year ago lol.  Also snagged one of the better titles from a rare NM recently, Bye-Bye-Taisai!

Also have 19/20 relic pieces for those 75 jobs! Already had all of my DRG gear, finished PLD and BLU and am missing only the SMN feet.  Speaking of dynamis, also got my first and second dream world wins (Buburimu and Qufim) with the linkshell that I first entered dynamis with years ago. Thanks SpiritEvolution!

Also, thanks again to SpiritEvolution on the limbus side of things!  Got my first taste into limbus with them, much fun. I think I like it more than I do dynamis lol.  Haven’t been buying ancient beastcoins out of bazaars, just have been using the ones I get from the runs we do, so I don’t have any of that fancy gear yet, but I do have SMN AF feet +1 and might do BLU AF body +1 soon.  Also got my Homam Cosciales (pants), much sexy fun there!

Finish the Windurst story, still debating on whether or not we’re going to do Lastok… I mean Bastok’s story, for completions’ sake.  Still on the last fight for RoZ, but managed to get sea access and up to CoP 8-2.  Advanced a little bit in ToAU’s story, up to the … khimara 13 fight.  And WotG didn’t go too far, on the fight before the behemoth in the San d’Oria [S] story line, we’ll get to it soon I hope lol.

Not a whole lot of drama happened over the year, of which I’m very thankful!

Here’s to a great 2009 and a very hopeful 2010!

Happy New Year my fellow adventurers!

I decided that I wanted a Frostreaper for my BST in training so I marched myself off to Ranguemont Pass to fight me some cave scorpions… all I was getting were some scorpion claws and shells so I decided to wander around the Pass for a while as it had been quite some time since I’ve been through there. Wanted to see what they’ve done with the place, you know?

So I wander into this guy that and it *oh so nicely* gave me this! Should be fun!

With my spirits higher, I continue to roam the pass… and then I get this:

Didn’t get FRAPS up before the kill as I was trying to log Aerro on but it kept making me focus on it… Ah well… I’ve got the ToD so maybe I can get it for her tomorrow!

In other news, Aerro stayed up late one night working on her Dagger of Trials and used Xiahou to dual box to get the points. She grabbed my SMN and thanks to her, I sit proudly with SMN75!  I’ve done some meriting and picked up Grand Fall and Thunderstorm, both very fun!

SMN continues to progress towards 75. Slowly, but it is still progress!

As of right now I sit SMN74 about 6k tnl with some large chunks of vacation/free time coming up. Hoping to get SMN75 and a few merit points done on various jobs. I haven’t had all that much time for meriting due to a plethora of factors.

Helped Aerro get her Sapara of Trials broken and due to some rampant stupidity, I was unable to be there for the fight to get the Annals of Truth for it. But she got herself some Savage Blade loving for her RDM74.

Helped her skill up her dagger too, she just picked up the Dagger/Knife of Trials yesterday so we might work on that.

Limbus has continued to become more and more fun. Got my items and coins in order and even found out that I had enough to get me some Evoker’s Picgaches +1 which is much loving. Just need to get either the Proto-Ultima gloves or a Pluto’s Staff and I can have me a free Diabolos with Avatar’s Favor!

Been working on getting a YYR for my SMN too. Helped Malechai get hers and she seems quite determined to help me with mine. I’m okay with that =D

Dynamis continues to go well too. I am now 5/5 on 3 jobs (PLD, DRG, and BLU) and 3/5 (missing head and feet) on SMN.

I think I may have been overly-eager one day last week. I picked out which jobs I would like to level next. I picked 9 of them. That’s right. Nine. It took me 6 years to get 4 to 75… and I pick to level 9 more. What the hell is wrong with me?!? lol

Hope you all have a happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy the day, should be a good one!

The dynamis shell I’m in has been trying to do a Dyna – Beaudicine for a few weeks now. We either had too few members or another linkshell stole it right out from under us. However, we finally got to do one tonight.

I set my priority for BLU because I can use that piece right away. Only one person wanted SMN so if we got more than one I would probably get that. And no one wanted PLD… which means that if one dropped I could finish my set that I started 4 years ago!

The run starts off pretty smoothly, I came SMN to help with the boss fight. Summoning Magic skill ups came pretty quick at first, got to 231. It is way underleveled, but I’m working on it!

DRG drops. Aerro gets it because no one else wanted it. MNK dropped and it went to the one JP player we have. DRG dropped again, and it auto sorted to me. Because mine is in storage, I now have 2x DRG relic bodies lol. Then PLD dropped and I won the free lot!

We had another DRG drop, a RNG and a BRD before we reached the lake with the 8 NM’s just before the Mega Boss. We’re fighting along and after defeating the orc NM’s at the lake. SMN and BLU are called out! I got my BLU armor and the person in front of me got the SMN armor!

All in all, was a very successful run! I got 2 of the 3 pieces I wanted in one run and even got one that I’m not quite sure what to do with lol.

Get to toy with it all in the morning. Fun!

Still working on my BLU75 merits and such, chatting up with an old friend of mine that is an officer in the dynamis shell I’m in. It’s good to be talking to him again more often. I’ve truly missed the guy.

So we’re chatting away and we start talking about the state of the dynamis linkshell, which is basically falling apart. Over the last few weeks we’ve seen attendance drop from about 25-30 to the point where we’re lucky if we get 15. Which sucks. I like this linkshell. I came back for a reason: I had a lot of fun with the group of people who usually show up.

We then move on to how if we’re going to continue to function in dynamis we’re going to need a SMN, which he implied rather so subtle “MR SMN71 HURRY UP AND GET TO 75 KTHXBAI” So I’m working on that now instead of meriting my BLU. Got SMN72 the other day when Aerro and I were duoing in Ro’Meave.

Don’t get me wrong. SMN is a lot of fun, I enjoy it quite a bit. I think I just enjoy BLU more at this moment in time. Who knows though, with the updates they’re doing to the avatars SMN might get a whole lot more interesting.

Time will tell.

On a side note, one of my coworkers told me that the new slogan in Vegas is that “It is easier to beg for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission.” Food for thought lol

The Job Updates II is out and just… wow…

I have this sneaking suspicion that SMN are going to in a lot more of a demand if those Avatar’s favor things work out they way they sound like they are.

I’m not getting my hopes up too high… but it might make leveling SMN a lot easier XD

In other news, BLU merits are coming slow but steady. Trying to balance meriting via Campaign and leveling SCH (now SCH27 and missing a few teeth) between all of my school work and events in game. Dynamis goes well… just wish we’d do some Beaucedine and Xarcabark so I can try to finish my BLU relics… or even throw in some Windurst and San d’Oria so I can finish my SMN relics!

Did my first Limbus run on Monday. We did NW Apollyon manaburn style… well… the BLM’s manaburned and I, as BLU, kept using Diffusion + Memento Mori while throwing out a few Heat and Cold Breaths lol. Was a lot of fun and I look forward to doing more Limbus and eventual a full Homam set (because PLD, DRG and BLU can use it all in different ways. Yay for multi-purpose!).

Is what leveling SCH makes me feel like I am doing! Though, it has gotten easier since I hit 18… Regen helps a lot when soloing because well… On Odin I could not find more than 2 people looking for a party other than my self from levels 10-20.

I just hit 25 with it yesterday, things are continuing to go more and more smoothly, thankfuly.  I keep telling myself that it will make my SMN and BLU better… ends justifying the means lol.

Also picked up some more BLU relic pieces and am now 3/5 with only the body (glacier) and head (xarcabarkbarkbark) left. Cannot wait to finish the set… I like the way it looks.

It also seems that I am showing up to more events on BLU than I am DRG… shocked me becuase for the longest time I didn’t want to level BLU and it sat at 11 because I was so frustrated with it lol.

Ah well, tastes change. I guess =D

After much campaigning, BLU75 is mine!

Now begins the painstaking task of meriting it… Though with the powerhouse my BLU is, it shouldn’t be that difficult.

I just wish that Dyna – Glacier would have been more friendly last night… 3 mp/tick self refresh [Auto Refresh job trait + Mirage Jubbah + Sigil] (Can I add you to my friend list?)

I think once I finish meriting BLU it will be time for me to finish leveling my SCH (currently 16) to sub-job level for SMN and BLU. From what research I’ve been able to put together, Dark Arts will help me with my MP Drainkiss and I will still have reraise for Campaign. Not to mention a pool of 300 mp to use when I wanted… would come in handy when you’re the last one standing to Cobraclaw Buttsavage in Dyna – Glacier lol.