Wednesday, February 25, 2009

new static

Surv and I destroyed maat on ninja and war, bringing our total maat jobs to 11/15!

Our new setup will be Ninja (Gren), Thief (Simkiel), SMN (Circa), and BLM (Survive). While I don't know how efficient this setup will be, we will give it a shot anyway. Hopefully it will work until 55...

We will probably do some Assaults tonight. This will bring us to T7+10/25, bringing us ever closer to perdu weapons.

I did salvage with Revelations last friday, and scored some lol15usukanelegs. Apparently everyone else had the drop, so it was nice. We wiped on LAC.

ENM on Thursday, exp all weekend. Maybe ISNMs if Cheki joins us.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

t6

Congratulations to all who ranked up last night! We are now T6, which is halfway done with all of the Assaults!

We also did another ENM run, but we didn't get anything to drop. We also tried the 'Shadows of the Mind' ISNM, and wiped 2/4 runs. I'm thinking we should push this back until one of us hits 75BRD, as we had too many deaths.

Sim has CoP tonight, so tonight is free. Unless anyone else has any better ideas, Thursday-Sunday will probably be solid exp, where we should be wrapping up another set of jobs (66).

I have about 95 levels or so until Maat's cap, so I am starting to draft out what I would like to do once Surv and I have completed it. 75MNK, blackbelt, and salvage are on the list, but Maat's cap is the priority at the moment. Hopefully we can get it by the summer. I know surv is working on aquiring a full set of HQ elemental staves, and I know there are some other pieces that she would like as well. Perhaps after Assaults are done we can start farming Nyzul Isle a bit. Who knows? We might just score some NM drops as well.

I recently spoke to a old LS leader, Zephir/Ventulus/Khao, who is on Diabolos. Apperently the whole crew that I used to roll with is on that server now. He mentioned something about maybe coming back to Siren eventually. It would be nice to hang out with those guys again.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

victory

Last week we attempted to do the Leujoam Sanctum T3 Escort Assault. We attempted to leeroy it, and it did not turn out well. Yesterday we came back for a second shot at it. Sim led the charge as Ninjar, Gren came as Thief, Surv and I came White Mage (repose spam) along with Cottoneyejoe, who also needed the win. Sim and Gren, with their movement speed+ gear, went and trained most of the mobs around the zone. Surv, Cej, and I took turns sleeping mobs that were in the path of the NPC. Fortunately Gren and Sim were able to stay on top of Reraising themselves, so us white mages could sleep. Sim and Gren each died at least once, but we were able to get the win, thanks to their sacrifice. This was the final T3 fight, so we all (including Cottoneyejoe) were able to rank up to T4 Lance Corporeal (Gren was able to rank-up to T5). Congrats!

Over the weekend, Survive beat Maat on Samurai, and I beat him on Ninja. We now have 10/15 Maat jobs. All Right! We are now all geared up and ready to go for the THF/NIN/WAR/RDM static, which is now 52 (400 tnl), hoping for 54 (yay birds!).

Sim's dynamis shell has been flakey lately, so I'm not sure if he has that tonight or not. If he doesn't get dragged to that tonight, I'm thinking we can burn the rest of our tags in Assault, then hit up some ENM. If Sim is busy, perhaps Gren, Surv, and I can burn Under Observation.

Monday, February 2, 2009

le weekend

Friday, Sim returned from his deathbed to join his CoP static for Promyvion - Vzahl. Surv, Gren, and I joined his group to escort them up to the spire, and to do the ENM 'Pulling the Plug'. Sim's group was able to win the battle (Congratulations!), while we didn't fare as well, wiping with the mob at ~30% (I should have 2hr'd).

We then did some T3 assaults. After losing twice to 'Sagelord Elimination' earlier in the week, we decided to take another crack at it... This time, we cleared all of the trash mobs, and were able to take the Sagelord down with relative ease. We then proceeded to win the Lebros Cavern and Illrusi Attoll T3s, which were quite easy. Sim forgot to grab a tag earlier on, so we had to stop. I think we are now 15/25 of the way to T4.

Saturday and Sunday were centered mainly on exp. Over this weekend, we went 59-63. We mostly grabbed a level 57 or 58 and 5-manned Lesser Lolibri. We also 4-manned for awhile to skill up. Surv got Tachi: Yukikage, which is very nice with her Zanbato. Survive and I only have 2.5 levels left on Ninja and Samurai! Maat's cap is pretty close now, as surv and I only have about 100 levels, and about 6 Maat fights to go.

Saturday we were able to do Sheep in Antlion's Clothing ENM again... and we finally got a decent drop! We got a Hagun! Gren passed, and I won the lot, meaning I cannot lot on the next 3 Haguns. I am waiting for this Hagun to sell on the AH, so I can buy a Kirin's Osode, Alkyneous' Bracelets, and a Flame Ring, which will essentially complete my buyable gear for Samurai.

After the ENM, we forced Simkiel to come with us to the Boyhada Tree to camp Aquarius/Skill up. We killed a round of Robber crabs, and Aquarius popped. Surv noticed someone running towards it, so she claimed it and got owned while we tried to kill the Robber Crab we were engaged with. She homepointed, and as she was on her way back, Gren aggroed it. We decided to fight, hoping that Survive would get back in time. Simkiel tanked it well, took a few hits, and hate was shared between him and Gren for awhile. Samurai weaponskills and skillchains did virtually no damage to it, but yuki and kashi both were lifesavers for the blinding and paralyzing additional effects. Sim and Gren got into red for awhile, and were finally taken down, with Aquarius at <10%. My shadows were stripped and I was taking a few hits when Aquarius finally went down. Survive showed up shortly after, and Sim was able to get his shiny new Francisca. That was an exciting fight.