Now that we have that unpleasantness out of the way, yes life in Vana'diel has been pretty good of late. Got DNC to 35 and will finish it off to 37 with exp scrolls, WAR to 69 and thanks to campaign during JP primetime, getting close to 70 and lots of fun new gear, random NM hunting with BST friends and we reached floor 40 in Nyzul! Grats to Az on new Denali pants. The photo didn't work so I'll get one next week and post with our next drop.
Aless and I duod very effectively all the way from 10 to 32 before we ran out of decent exp mobs and just finished the last 3 levels solo with exp ring.
Note to those who do this: 33-35 in Attowha Chasm is great as long as you have exp ring. I did mine with my NPC who had enfeebles, similar damage to me and random cures. This resulted in faster kills, chain 4-5 every time and with exp ring, good exp even with the cut. Without NPC, I'd think this would go kinda slow due to the kills taking twice as long.
Got WAR to 69 and dinged into my Hauberk. Even though it doesn't really make a difference for WAR or BST, the AGI- and evasion- on Haubergeon just makes me gag a little. Glad to be back in the Hauberk.
Next level I get Barone legs, Fowling earring, Optical hat, maybe a Fire Bomblet if the prices come back down a little again, Joyeuse option, Wardancer GA (which looks REALLY cool asthetically), SAM sub opens up Saigen for Third Eye, and DRG sub opens up High Jump. Can't wait!
Oh and heres a little evil fun on WAR too ^-^
Had a lot of fun with Bubbo in Campaign lately. Been ranking up nicely and coming across a bunch of mobs I haven't seen before. One of the more fun ones was Dee Xalmo the Grim, one of the Yagudo NMs. This dude spams, I mean SPAMS Doom. Bubbo and I decided to avoid and kill other non NMs for a bit. On our way back to the OP, I saw he was being tanked and down to 25% so I thought "hey, he's almost dead. no way I'm getting hate and doomed now" so I go in for a few whacks. Two swings in...BAM...Doomed.
I had resigned to dying and started asking for a raise when the battle ended and it wore off. lol FTW!
Now the news many have been waiting for. BST FUN!
Been trioing NMs with Aless and Ryanium lately. For those of you who don't know Ryan, he's weird. Thats it. WEIRD! Cool guy but weird!
We got together one night and decided to hunt some NMs. We decided to start with AG in the Tree of course. We got there 2 minutes too slow and saw 2 other BSTs (who we highly suspected of being RMT -.-) killing him. We just watched and it was all I could to hold Ryan and Aless back from being shady and stealing him. lol
Unfortunately, I had to go after that so a couple of days later after checking the Tree, we headed to Onzozo to see if we could pop LoO, Narashima and Peg. We killed the PHs and while waiting saw SoulStealer up and decided he should die.
Easy fight and when Aless arrived, she promptly died to a beast of a Bomb Toss. Now this was funny but what made it even better was when she got up, she came and rested near where Ryan was fighting a Manticore. Of course, Murphy's Law states that Aless must die for this and the Manticore Heat Breathed her good. lol 2 deaths in 2 minutes is highly entertaining especially when its by mobs that normal don't pose a threat in that regard.
No other mobs popped so we decided we wanted to try some of the Mamook mobs after seeing them killed by Neurotic and his peeps. After waiting an hour for Ryan to realise he didn't HAVE to wait till Beseiged was over to leave the zone, he ran out the front gate and headed over to meet us.
Devout Radol Ja was up and knowing not much about him, we decided he was worth a shot. Lots of natural pets around so off we went and he was dying FAST. We got a little cocky about it and decided to melee when he got to about 20% not knowing that his def goes WAY up about then.
Pets died or were released and we all had to pop CC's and snarl off hate. Got a little hairy but we pulled through. In the end, his def went so high, it took about 15 mins to go from 14% down to 4% when he promptly Benedictioned and kept his def. Not wanting to be there for another 3 hours, we zoned and came back to try Zizzy. We each got a 2 houred VT spider, meleed with them and promptly dispatched him....to no drop >.<
Still, we 3 BSTkateers are quite the team. Its fun doing things with people who are good at what they do as well as fun to be around.
Ryan and I did a little duo exp in Bibiki Bay also. About 7-8k in an hour. Got a couple of good WS's out including this one. Mobs need to realise the complex we BSTs have in that we need to push out as much dmg as we can on WS's for epeen and show those damn WAR's we can DD too damn it! In realising this, mobs might be best NOT to Berserk and lower def when we have tp sitting waiting. I learned this camel good.
Aless and I are doing the previously mentioned exp scroll quests together also. While doing the CN escort one, we went and found Demonic Tiphia up and decided to have a go at her. I had heard she spams Cure V and Pollen which she certainly tried to do. Pollen went off a couple of times for 3500+ each but with 2 BSTs and 2 Carries pounding on you, its hard to get a Cure V off. I was happy to see I scared her. You can see the updated post of me intimidating the world HERE.
We got the drop too ^-^ A nice 150k to split for 2 minutes of work. Thats good money in my books.
Like I said to begin, life is good in Vana'diel and I'm gonna keep riding that wave as long as I can. It looks like a bunch of fun things coming up soon too so check back frequently to see them all right here.
/farewell (^-^)/
