Old Skool

I had a pretty retro weekend!

Some friends just started playing again and we spent a lot of the weekend together as a group.

We had big plans to exp on Saturday morning in Abyssea but we got started a bit late. 11am to 2pm Saturday morning is pretty dead EU time; US just gone to bed and JP already well into stuff. And the EU players? All in bed with hangovers.

So, we had to abandon our Abyssea exp plans. I'd managed to get my NIN to 90 on Friday night and was keen to get my DNC to at least 45; I'd been intending to key in Abyssea. Since we were 4/6 we decide that some old school exp in East Ronfaure [S] would be better than nothing. My returning friends all needed to level sub jobs so we quickly found two other people and headed out.

Obviously it helped that I still had an allied ring and an anni ring but we plowed through the levels, easily getting chain 5s. We stayed for about 2 hours and I got 5 levels, which I was pretty pleased with!

Then, even more retro, we went off to the last fight of the Zilart missions. Everyone stops after DM and I just wanted to get it done. The fight didn't go amazingly. We actually wiped the first time (NIN90, DRG88, RDM75, BLM80) due to a failure to CC the surveyor-type mobs, which subsequently pwned through everyone's shadows making the AoEs very dangerous. This left us at extremely low health for the 2nd form. Then, our poison pots wore just as he came back and cast sleepga and that was it.

2nd time went much better. He was totally unable to hit me in his second form and was fairly easily tanked down.

Sunday we hit the old school exp again and headed to Garlaige Citadel to work on subs again. I managed to get my DNC up to 45 (finally), which was a good result!

I also spent some time crafting and got a few levels of this and that, here and there. Was good!

I also got a bunch of merits and capped out NIN Group 1 and Elemental Magic. Not exactly exciting news these days though!