Just a quick post to congratulate my long time game buddyRathiel on his newly acquired GJALLAHORN!
Beyond well deserved. Supremely stoked for you dude. May it increase my meripo excellence for many moons!
CONGRATULATIONS RATHIEL AND SOYMILK! GREAT JOB!!
So ahhh, oops. Been a while since my last post. Merry Christmas and Happy new year all! Hope you got everything you wanted from Santa and that the new year has begun well for you.
I wanted to start my 2010 blogging with a list of goals and items I’d like to achieve this year. Something I can look back on at the end of the year and evaluate how well it went. So here we go…
Gear:
Dynamis:
Limbus:
Sky:
Einherjar
Nyzul Isle:
Salvage:
I’m sure there are some other random pieces I want around but for now, I think this is enough to start with lol.
Quests:
Maat’s cap.
As of today the jobs I have beaten him with are BLM, SAM, DRG, RDM and NIN. Still have to get WAR and BST done whenever I get a testimony but I’m in no rush for that. They will come along as I go along.
NIN was kinda hard at 66. Took 3 tries and got lucky on the last try that he didn’t Mijin while I was at 423HP >.> Now that that is over, BRD is the next to 66. Should be a rather quick effort. After BRDm I’m thining PLD then THF or SMN. SMN I might leave till last and go to 75 with it. I really like the job once you hit 65 and get powerful BPs as well as mass buffs in Campaign ftw.
Other quests to be determined. Maat’s cap will definitely be the main focus of 2010.
Linkshell:
Biggest thing I want for the LS is to grow into an LS where people WANT to be fulltime. Not have to badger people into keeping pearl on and being at events. An LS of people who want help each other, like being around each other and have fun together.
Specific goals would include making Kirin an easy fight, the Sea jailers and getting everyone kitted out in Homam and Nashira gears.
So there we go. I’m pretty sure this list will keep me plenty busy this year >.>
As a small linkshell, one can’t expect a lot to happen too quickly. New people need time to adjust to each other, figure out the right/best way to do things, be willing to commit to what they do with/for the linkshell. Evolpmal has been no exception. But I’m proud to say that after just a couple of short months, we are getting very close to being able to do all the things we want to do as a linkshell.
This passed Tuesday, we had our first shot at Byakko without the need to recruit a bunch of friends from outside the LS with exception of Trench who came along to provide a little extra DD. Our tanks tanked like champs. Our support kept them refreshed, hasted, na’d and cured without issue. Our BLM and other stunners locked him down when needed while nuking without pulling hate. Our DD took his HP gauge from 100 to 0 without a hiccup while maintaining all the hate on the tanks. The only thing that prevented a perfect run was an unlucky Razor Claw for over 1k without shadows at 5% on the first attempt through which Warslane kept his cool, maintained hate for another 10 seconds while we zerged him the rest of the way.
All in all, 2 Byakko kills, 1 death and our first Byakko’s haidate!
Congrats to Rebwolf who has been pining after these for a looooong time. Our other kill of Byakko saw only Heca hands drop for which I was the only person present with them on my wishlist so YOINK! Hecatomb Mittens MINE!
So with these very smooth kills of Byakko, my confidence level in my fine LS has risen substantially and we are off to kill Omega tonight without our normal 2 NIN/DRK tanks but rather a NIN/DRK and a PLD/NIN. Hopefully we get a good turnout and get some more Homam for people. Also feeling brave enough to give Kirin a shot as soon as we have a regular 18 member showing for sky each week. I know we have the people and skill to do it. We just need the turnout.
Other LS member obtains:
So it has been a busy few weeks since the last post and people have been getting the gear they have been hoping for slowly but surely.
Thursday we took the night off from Limbus to go after Uggalepih pendants for some of our BLMs. Always a fun fight with Golden-tongued Culberry and having a THF there to tap away on him while he chased after nuke crazy BLMs proved very beneficial as he dropped his treasure all three attempts (1 HQ pop item, 2 NQ). Big congrats to Bossco (thanks again Boss for providing the pop items), Matito and Tandorin on pumping up that bomb power.
Also thanks to Mon for keeping that pesky random tonberry dead while we kited Culberry around and to Dyl for helping us out. The near future will see us back to visit Mr. Culberry again to get pendants for Silkitty, Sickaning and whoever else might post that they need one 
Nyzul Isle has also been good to us of late. This past Monday saw 3 drops from 3 runs! All of which were items people wanted.
Yeah Dyl lootwhored an Askar korazin he can’t even wear yet! Woohoo! Poor Matty has to wait for the next one ; ;
Personal progress:
This past few weeks has also seen a few items come my way. Sky has provided both Heca hands and feet to actually make my DRG and WAR weaponskill gear somewhat respectable.
Speaking of DRG, after finally obtaining the other half of my AF+1 upgrades from Limbus, I set about getting together some Wyvern HP+ gear for better healing breaths and therefore better soloing/DRG parties. In quick succession, I got…
Now all I need is Homam Feet and Wyrm Armet to make soloing on DRG a breeze! With this gear, I can push normal wyvern cures up over 500 and with Deep Breathing, over 1000! COME ON OMEGA AND DYNAMIS: XARCABARD!
Outside of obtaining gear, I have also had time to work on improving my character some via merits. Had great fun in DRG parties just going nuts on mobs without care for mage MP and building merit points while I do it. That combined with Campaign I finally got to this point for the first time.
10 Merits??!! I couldn’t believe I had the patience to let that accumulate lol. So that went into STR upgrade #4 and shortly thereafter…
Holy crap, its finally done! I thought I’d quit the game before I finished STR but after getting the 4th, the 5th was actually easy. Thanks Dyl for berating me into finishing this ; ;
Now that all my general merits are done, I’m left only with job specific merit upgrades and the next on the list to complete is DRG. High Jump capped followed by Deep Breathing then Angon. After DRG, I think I’ll open up the remaining AMII spells on BLM before showing BST some love. MAYBE after that, I’ll do WAR? I really have to not think about the fact that after 402 merits in use, I still have so far to go as well as work on my Maat’s cap. Guess I’ll be playing till 2020 eh? Well at least I have the love of my friends to keep me going.
