Sit Rep

Bit of a lapse in posts recently; I guess the initial excitement has worn off a bit!

Since I'd like to avoid a laundry list of achievements every few days or a rant every couple of weeks I shall stick to blogging when I feel I have something worth saying.

I guess something I am quite excited about at the moment is old content.

I've never finished Zilart completely (does everyone stop after Divine Might?) and I'm only about half way through ToAU. I'm really excited to see the end of these missions. I actually really love ToAU as an expansion. The visual design of the Near East and the gear textures really appeals to me. So, I'm really keen to finish that story arc, as well as get access to Odin, of course. We're also trying out some Assaults at the moment, hoping one day to get Capt.

Another thing we'll try in the not too distant future is farming AF+1 items in Limbus. One or two of those peices are still situationally awesome. I've also started to try to get some Obi organs now too. Never had any before :)

Meanwhile, Magian trials and zone boss wins still continuing apace. Nothing very exciting tbh!

To Do: Avert Apocalypse - Done

I finally finished CoP. Yay!

Many thanks to everyone that helped. When I consider that I actually had all the capped battles finished before they removed the cap and raised the level cap, I wonder how it's taken so long.

But then, thinking about it, I've only played for a total of about 2 months in the last year!

So, finally have a Rajas Ring. Old but still good! For a NIN with designs on solo and a PUP side project, just the Subtle Blow and Store TP is enough to make you feel warm and fuzzy.

Happy times.

Still got no idea what the story was about and I watched every cutscene! Twice sometimes!

Paddling ftw!

Wooooo, so, I have Sea access :)

We high manned the last few NMs before Tenzen (those 3 tonberries never knew what hit them) and Tenzen himself was dispatched in similarly short fashion.

My first trip to Sea was excellent. I was escorted by some LS buddies and I was able to get my outside map immediately, which has already proved useful. Looking forward to farming some organs already.

Last night was my first run in Limbus, I think we did SE Apoloyon, which is an easy one. I was in the noob team, while 2 other teams hit other areas, and it went very well. Sadly I died twice: one-shotted by an AoE from miles away (damn that Taru HP) and the second time we got an add and it went after me for some reason we weren't able to fathom. Still, plenty of time for R3s so no harm done. Unfortunately I lost a lot on my very first piece of +1 on BLM. Boo.

Back to missions I had some help with Purple, the New Black, so WotG still ticking along. Looking forward to getting on with Chapter 8 of CoP too. So, close to the end!

Dynamis last night was a bit of mixed bag. We're farming Xarc for the forseeable as we have destroyed the queues in other zones. We desperately need some RDM, PLD and at least one THF, purely so those people can start spending on other items. So much going FFA outside Xarc atm. Last week in Beaucedine we had a RDM coat go free because everyone saving points for Xarc drops. That's awesome, isn't it? Talk about spread the love! Anyway, last night, we got some good drops, people spent some points and came away with gear they wanted. So that was good. We also had 3x WAR. That was pretty meh. However, we did have some strat problems with the BLMs misfiring a bit which was embarrassing as we've never had any problems before. We did manage to refine our farming strat quite nicely though. We identified a few areas that are good to farm and some to be avoided like the plague, so next week should be even better.

On a side note can I just thank the adventurer that DIDN'T buy the CCB Polymer pump from my bazaar for 1 gil while I was stuck in a cutscene following my exit from the Airship battle. Goes to show that not everyone in Vanadi'el is cut-throat, mercenary bastard.

Super Saturday - CoP

Saturday was destined to be a big day. We've been planning to knock out a big part of CoP for me and my bro for a few weeks so we were all set to go. I'll just do the cliff notes though:

Woke up. Fellow CoPees not on. Went and farmed Desert Venom for GK Quest and capped Sword and Dagger on NIN.

Went and had a crack at Parade Gorget NM for my bro in Oldton. 0/1

Gathered together for 1st CoP fight - Diabolos. An LS mate, Schutz, came along to help even though it was about 5am for her. I went WHM/SCH and it's the first time I have played WHM since they made the changes and the Stoneskin effect on Cures was a real bonus. Also my Barsleepra lasted until we actually left the BCNM! We won, no problems.

Next we headed off to Riverne to farm some Giant Scales to get through to Ouryu. We were sleep nuking on BLMx4 and we managed to one shot our way to 3/4 on scales. Awesome. Bhoyed by massive over-confidence we went and tried to kill Ouryu right there and then. We lost.

And that was the end of CoP for the day as we couldn't get any more help.