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.

win

Never again. No more sky! Thursday night marked the last 3 Byakkos per our deal with Revelations. Fortunately for us, we were able to get everything we had hoped to get. We started off popping the 3 Ullis, and farmed Aura Statues while we were waiting. We ended up getting another Diorite, so we stuck around to pop another. We then traveled to Byakko to pop him 3 times. The first pop yielded no useful drops. (1/4 on Haidate overall, 0/3 on the last 3 kills) The second pop dropped Byakko's Haidate and Dryadic Abjuration: Legs (Shura Haidate)!!! Being next in line, I lewtwhored and took both. (2/5 on Haidate overall) The third and final pop dropped Survive's Haidate, and we were able to walk away victorious. (3/6 on Haidate overall). Thanks to everyone in Revelations who came out and killed Byakko for us! Good times.

I am saving up for the Cursed Haidate -1, which cost ~2M. If anyone wants to hit up some BCNM/KSNMs, I am down.

Grenkinne spent the evening in Sacrarium and got Dulce a Swift Belt! Congratulations to her!

Tonight we will probably finish T2 Assaults! Over the weekend we will probably exp/farm/AF, with ENM on Monday. Simkiel will be starting up Dynamis again (Saturday and Tuesday), and will be resuming CoP on Wednesdays.

Now that our sky goals are complete, our focus has returned to exp, assaults, and ENM. Salvage at this point will probably be a distant future event.

weekend recap

This weekend was pretty much all about leveling. Our RDM/NIN/SAM/BST static went from 48-54 this weekend, which is pretty nice, even though we were averaging ~6k/hr. Gren is getting the hang of RDM, and is pretty much able to stay on top of the haste/refresh cycle. Survive has been having fun with a 6-hit setup at level 50 with her soboro (WS for 100-200, but who cares- its fun). Simkiel is grinding through BST, one level away from that elusive Rampage- I think he dinged 62 last night. As for me, ninja is tough. Keeping hate, spamming spells, wsing... etc. I need to work on gear swaps too.

While people were afk and whatnot, I attempted to pop Beryl-footed Molberry, who has a ~15% drop rate on the Hototogisu (level 55 offhand katana). The mob itself isn't too bad, but it uses Mijin Gakure, which can really mess you up if you don't resist. The pop item itself spawns once every 2 hours, so camping this thing can be a tedius project. Gren and I went 0/3, then Surv came out for the last two kills, and we went 1/5. During the downtime/clearing the pop room, I farmed Tonberry Cutters to get a scroll of Hojo: Ni. Finally got one right before the 4th NM pop. Saved me 20k, lol.

Sim has also continued his lootwhore madness. He finally got a Senju for his Ninja (hurray!), and also got a Serket Ring on his ODS run.

I would like to resume Assaults tonight, if everyone is on and/or willing. With 4 tags, I would like to do 4 assaults. We have to first do Golden Salvage for Sim, and then we can start T2s. For our setup, T2s look fairly easy.
-For Orichalcum Survey, it looks like RDM SAM NIN BLM will be effective there (or SAM/DNC instead of BLM). All we have to do is kill worms (again), and do some mining using a key item pickaxe.
-For Pre-Emptive Strike, just have to kill 13 Mamool Ja Executioners. RDM NIN SAM SAM setup here, duh.
- Lebros Supplies- this one looks annoying, but we need to get it out of the way. There are some decent guides on wiki if you want a summary. In short: bring movement speed+ gear. We will also try to do this at night for sim's +25% movement speed boots.

I don't know what Revelations is doing this week yet, but if it's anything like previous weeks, we will probably be doing sky on Tuesday, so we can finally use those Diorites.

ENM on Wednesday probably.

haidate!

All of that sky farming has finally begun to pay off. The first Byakko that was popped on Thursday dropped Byakko's Haidate (congratulations Simkiel!) and Byakko's Axe (congratulations Survive!). The second and third Byakko didn't drop anything that great, but I was able to get some neptunal hands, as no one wanted them. So we have to farm three more diorites, and get 3 more despots, then we will be set for 3 more pops- then our deal with Revelations will expire. Hopefully we will go 2/3 on haidate for myself and surv. I still want some shura pants, too. If we don't get drops for everyone, then I suppose we can do more ENM and hope for some more cloud evokers, I guess.

More Dorps!

Camping Quu Domi the Gallant with Survive yielded a Sarutobi Kyahan (2/48 overall for me), and a 2-hour subligar farming run with Simkiel and Survive got Survive her THF subligar! After farming Phomiuna Aquaducts for the last few weeks, we finally got everyone the subligar they wanted. Congrats! Hopefully this luck will carry over to the next Swift Belt run!