Wow, busy weekend just went by... With the hot weather in NorCal, I made a conscious decision to just stay home and watch TV/play games instead of braving the outside weather this weekend... I didn't think I'd end up playing FFXI for all of it though! Let's see what happened... in chronologcal order...
Leveling Up
Met up with Aqqy, Vargie, Nain, Fuupup and Dexie on Friday to level DNC in the mire. Went from 71-72 easily, though we went a little later then expected, pushing back the ToAU mission run slightly ^^; I got DNC from 72-73 as of this morning from another pickup party on Sunday morning, and from a bit of campaign... Just two more levels to 75. Once I hit 75, I intend to take DNC to as many missions and events as possible to experiment with it to see what it can do.
As we were finishing up on Friday, Aqqy mentioned the idea of starting a new Friday night exp static with the six of us. Starting this Friday at level 10, I'd be doing RDM, Nain PLD, and other people... well, other jobs, but with the healer/refresh & tank covered, pretty much anything goes, especially with supermule backup xD. I never actually thought that I'd level RDM again since I did it all before in another life, but now I'm starting to look forward to it again. The main difference is that this time, I'll be doing it as RDM/WHM. I was RDM/BLM exclusively the last time I played RDM, so it'll be a little different. I'm probably completely out of practice and out of touch on how to play a modern RDM xD
On Saturday afternoon, I took out RDM1 in Christmas gear to get to level 10. Zurar joined me with PUP for fun, and we dragged along a PL. Took about... I think just over 2 hours to get to level 10 while using only one charge of an Emperor's Band. I need to pick up the RDM specific spells at some point, and get some actual real gear xD
Missions
Kinda weird how things work out... on Friday night, we did yet another ToAU mission, the Gessho fight this time. Calix, Utaru, Ashle & I needed the fight, with Nain & Flayer helping us out... we failed twice, but on the 3rd time, we nailed the fight down easily. We're just two fights away from finishing this storyline now, and I must say that the ToAU storyline has me just as captivated as the CoP story! I'm just annoyed at these stupid "JP Midnight" cutscenes that force us to spread the missions out over days (weeks in our case).
On Saturday, an old friend sent me a /tell right when I was watching some TV to do the Bastok rank 6 missions. Since the missions were relatively easy, I decided to just go as DNC for fun. The fights were a joke, and we hammered both missions out in about 2 hours. Rank 7 Bastok now, and we might end up going for the rest of the Bastok missions next Saturday xD. Maybe once I hit Rank 10 Bastok, I'll switch over to Sandy and join Aqqy in finishing those missions up!
Assault
Ranked up to Chief Sergeant this Friday. Only 16 unique assaults left before reaching captain. That's about 4 weeks worth of Assaults, since we're only about to do 5 unique assaults each week due to the schedule and rank-up mission requirements. Along with that, we have 4 repeats to do for Zurar in order for him to complete all the unique assaults as well, so it all kinda works out :)
On Sunday evening, I went for a Nyzul Isle run with Aqqy & Varg's group, taking Nain's spot since he was completely exhausted from work all day. They really, REALLY have Nyzul down to a routine... we went through 5 floors without a hitch in just 15 minutes (Yes, I have a clock with a timer that I hit whenever I start these Assaults now xD) Picked up a few useful things too in handling Assaults, such as...
- For Eliminate Specific Enemies - Leave one person by the Rune so that you can move up to the next floor as soon as the "Objective Achieved" message shows up
- Once you complete an objective, all mages should /heal while a melee (Preferably the THF) can run back and move to the next floor
- Pairing up and moving around is good to cover each other... but if you come across one group fighting, help them finish off the mob and move on
So, yeah, that's a very smooth, well-rehearsed Nyzul run, much different from the confused, nobody knows what to do runs that I've tried on my own. Now to get our Nyzul group to be as polished as theirs :)
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yay!! i'm glad nyzul worked out well :)
No worries - we started out confused and horrible D: I remember telling Aque that none of us were BAD players so I was kinda irritated that we were sucking - we ended up getting two new members after alldo and basha quit and things improved with the more balanced setup (alldo had blm and aegis pld and basha had blm :X manaburn definitely didn't work at all) And make sure the person going to the rune has a sense of direction! <3 Aque but the sameness of the zone and no map makes it harder for directionally challenged folks to get back to the rune XD
~varg
xD Well, hopefully we'll get this down... the timer factor also makes people make stupid mistakes and me to make stupid decisions...
>.< I'm just glad i'm probably not the person who will go running back to the rune... that place is confusing...
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