Warrior fun

So I have been leveling WAR for a while now and got an invite the other day from Zitale, a friend and RDM in my new Linkshell, to come and merit with them. "All right!" I says and off we go not realising the fun I was in for. I was about 25k to 75 at the time and was just hoping to keep up damage wise. I think I did alright on that front. Anyway, it turned out to be my first ever WAR WAR WAR RDM BRD BRD party. Can I just say....O..M..G! I think I'm ruined. Heres a shot of one Raging Rush at 74 under full 4 song BRD buffs....


Up until this party, the highest chain I had seen was 12. Pitiful I know.This pt got to 43 but then the stars aligned and I died to an evil Firespit. Still, 43 was cool to me....


.....then last night I got a WAR MNK MNK SAM/DNC BRD RDM party. Chain 80! I forgot to send the screenshot to myself to use but I will post next time. But the best part was....

DING!

The merits I got last night (5 total) went toward opening Warriors Charge and an upgrade each for Double attack and Great Axe. I decided to go and give Warriors charge a go. I built up 300 tp on birds outside Whitegate, started to buff up, hit Mighty Strikes and just as I did (before Warcry and Charge), I got tickled. %@$#! So I had to do it without Mighty Strikes and at 200tp on the next bird. Landed for a little over 1700! I was quite taken aback to be honest. Very curious to try a 300tp fully buffed one. I'm relatively sure it will fly over 2000. Stay tuned...

So for WAR merits (which I'm going to focus on to make myself better in meripos for merits on other jobs), I'm going to work on Great Axe and Double Attack first then finish Warrior's Charge then do Berserk/Aggressor evenly which will leave one merit which I think I will put into Warcry. After that will be STR, finish sword and then work on finishing BST merits and maybe something else in WAR group 2, probably Tomahawk. Thats the plan for now and as with all things in FFXI, is fluid and can change at a whim.

I also decided I would start working on leveling up my other weapons. Not for any particular reason, just coz. I started with Polearm coz I wanted to see myself use Penta Thrust. That was cool but once I got Penta, it got boring so I decided Great Sword would be next and that since I had a little cash sitting around, I'd buy a Mercurial Sword to level with and sell back once I was done. Any job out there that needs to skill GS, should do it with Mercurial sword if you can use.

SO....MUCH....FUN!

I started at 20 and after 45 mins of whacking gobs in Gustav tunnel, I was at 95. Heres a shot of the hax that was going on in Gustav.


After that, I decided, I'd try Lesser Colibri since they were EP and would give a little EXP, drop seals and perhaps skill up parry. With all the acc gear I have and /DNC's acc boost, birds were easy to hit and I was not disappointed.


I'm at about 178 now and have spent all of maybe 2 1/2 hours total skilling. I think next, I will go play in Kuftal with the crabs down there.

Well thats it for this post. I still have lots of screenshots to post so more updates soon. I'll leave you with a Zen moment....