Loss

Sunday night our usual group got together to do a few Royale Ramble runs and I must say that we've pretty much perfected it. Our group tonight was Meph as PLD, Bennei as WHM, Oric as PUP, Sheeshmaru as SAM, a Mithra from the LS as MNK, and me as SMN. All in all, the runs went incredibly well except during my run. We had one wipe but it was nothing that we couldn't recover from. We ended up winning and I had Oric hold some of the items in the treasure chest for me but then the unimaginable happened. Items dropped fast and filled up my inventory and I ended up losing my O. Ingot. I'm just lucky that I'm not piss ass broke or workin' on Marduk's Tiara or something along those lines. I still made 30k from doing runs and other items that dropped to me. Better than nothing, right.

I was hoping that Monday would end up better and in a way but not much better. It was TraumaCenter/KurokajiSyndicate's first Dynamis-Beaucedine run in a while and I was @1 for the Cleric's Briault which is, really, the only piece of WHM that I really WANTED aside from the Cleric's Pantaloons. The run went absolutely fabulous with Oric finally getting his Pantin Tobe and Bennei getting her Duelist's Tabard. It was on one of our last few fulls when I see that the Cleric's Briault dropped. I honestly, jumped and was so ecstatic. Oric, along with Bennei and Lavera all sent me /tells saying to "Go, go, go lot! Ani lot!" Its common rule for Astrael to announce who can lot first so I waited then she only said Lchan, the other Mithra who was @1 for WHM. I thought there was a mix up and that she missed what I wanted. So I asked and just then she broke the news that, "I'm sorry, Ani ;-; but Lchan has more points" I was devastated because I completely forgot we only had points for the Northland areas and I'm pretty sure if I was able to lot I would've outlotted her. None the less, {Carbuncle}ations to Lchan. Hopefully it will drop next time.

Enough bitching for one night. Its time for mine and Oric's first ever Limbus run ;)

P.S. Best quote ever while we were on the discussion of Oric taking my gil BUT he paid me back for the Condenser and half of the Azoth

"I'm like the drug addicted, alcoholic cousin that needs money all the time in our FFXI relationship. And he's the rich uncle."

All Burned Out

Its been a while since I've posted an actual update, but I have a lot to write about.

Last Friday was CarpeNoctem's final Dynamis run. They had planned it to be as they had began, Dynamis - Bastok. Which, in a way, was ironic considering that is where Anidrall started his adventures. We entered a bit late, considering it'd be our last gather together and going over the rules. Plus, who doesn't like Goblin Ani and Goblin Oric terrorizing the citizens of Bastok.



It was definately a bit of an emotional night especially since CarpeNoctem has been running for nearly five years now. It was a quick run, as most of our usual Bastok runs. Nalya and Kennth were both of our tanks for the night and as usual the run went amazing. In the time I was with CN, I had never seen a failed run. The drops that night were plentiful, even though Oric and I didn't get any relic. We broke the record that night on relic drops which, if this wouldn't have been our last run, would have earned us an extre point :) We ended the run with a final {Elemental Seal} {Thundaga} III and linkshell pictures afterwards.





After that, the members who were online and of course wanted went to do some Ballista. It was my first time and let me tell you what, it was so fun. I went as Summoner and I loved using one of my blood pacts on somebody, especially when they decided to engage with me. I think everybody did four or five rounds and it wasn't over until five in the morning my time. CN said they'd like to do more Ballista so maybe the shell won't be completely dead.

Next on my list to tell you about is that I've finally maxed my Tier I merits on Summoners. I put two into Avatar attack and accuracy, two into Avatar magic accuracy and four into Avatar magic attack. I'm happy with my choices and even better I get to start on my Tier II merits now. After getting more than 30k exp in campaign and my new Wings of Integrity medal, I unlocked Heavenly Strike for Shiva <3

Now, the title of this blog post is a quote from Sano, another Summoner in my linkshell. It is in regards to the Astral Flow Burn party method. I have capped Summoning Magic and I refused to put any job in one of those parties because I don't want to be a gimp Summoner. On Monday he asked me if I wanted to merit using that method. I figured it wouldn't hurt and it'd be the fastest way for me to put max merits into Heavenly Strike. I was with a few other people I didn't know and after we finished the first pull Sano took the level sync off. I was horrified after watching the level 67 Summoner, Gohann, Elemental Siphon 54 MP back. Thats all. I was sick. After that he said he still needed Leviathan, Ifrit, Garuda, and Titan and if anybody was willing to help him....

I left and went up to Sky with the LS. We did awesome that night! We popped, claimed, and killed Despot without any deaths. Thanks to Lailu for the Taru sacrifice :)

Finally, we're on to today. I went out to breakfast with my family today which was a nice break considering I only have cereal for breakfast in the morning. When I got back, I went and got my map of Grauberg and went out to explore the area a lot more than I recently have. I thought about it today and if/when the servers close or when I do end up quitting the game, I want to log off in Grauberg. To me, its the most beautiful area in the game.

By the way, WHM is 63 ;)

Serket Breaker

Is Serket considered an HNM? I thought he was, anyway I didn't log on until later today after sleeping in and getting some much needed sleep.

Last night Oric and I hit level sixty-one with Puppetmaster and White Mage with an amazing party. A great group of people too so that made it even better. The Paladin had to leave since he was already late to Dynamis so we took Aylah to Cape Terrigan to do some FoV and get her level. While I was there I got club skill 200 and got Judgment. Only twenty levels more and I'll have access to Hexa Strike. Also, I finally capped out my Summoner's Tier I Merits.

Back to Serket! Once I logged on this morning I went up to Whitegate to get some of my missing spells. Well, really only Cure V and Esuna. Have yet to try them out in parties, well, maybe not Cure V in case its really needed :) I figured I might as well get to work on my Summoner's Tier II Merits so I made way to the past to do some campaign. I grabbed orders for Hawk Eye III. Only problem was the only place that was under Quadav control was Beadeaux [S]. I was up to it though so I headed to Pashhow and got my tags. Let me tell you, I hated that place when it was under Bastokan control. Breakga is a bitch. I didn't get much from that battle so after it was over I buffed up and headed out to Beadeaux. I got lucky on the way there. Everytime something was going to wear off I was always in a safe spot. This is, well, the second time I've been in this area so I wasn't sure what to expect besides Imps. I didn't know where the fortifications were and I didn't find out where they were so I just decided to warp out.

Before I warped out I got a message from Zumayriss asking if I could help with Serket. I figured, what the hell so I headed out. I've never killed Serket before and I've never seen anybody kill him but I've heard he's not too hard at all. At first we had me a SMN and another SMN, PLD, SAM, DRG, DRG, RDM, and BLM. I guess I wasn't paying attention to what had happened but after being there an hour or so the PLD, SAM, one of the DRGs left. I thought they just had to go leave for an event but I found out later why they left.

Then, not even ten minutes after they left he popped! I was down near where the undead mobs popped when I got the call in the party and Zuma saying HURRY HURRY ITS SERKET. I GOT CLAIM. I ran down there so fast and by that time we were low on people. Only one melee, and two jobs that weren't really suited for the situation. Right away, the Red Mage got aggroed by a Chamber Beetle. His sleep didn't stick and he died and the Black Mage got magic aggro by one of the pots in the corner. With just the three of us left we managed to get him to around seventy percent. I was pretty lucky on which day we ended up fighting Serket since Garuda perpetuation was lower from the latent on my relic body.

I was running low on MP so I used Astral Flow and got off a few Predator Claws before having to Elemental Siphon again. Near fifty percent I decided to call in back up, because we were going to need it. Seraphe, Aylah, and Umi made it to Garlaige as fast as they could along with other help from Zeuss, the Red Mage, and we killed Serket. Serket Ring dropped, and I was the first to say {Carbuncle}ations to Zuma, but then I saw for Zeuss to lot as well. Take note, he was dead throughout the whole battle and didn't contribute at all. He got the ring ;-; and soon after I found out that if Zuma had gotten the ring that her sister Seita would get it. Her sister that didn't help, that wasn't there, and said nothing but for her sister to fail, I was pissed about that. I warped out and got ready for Sky.

Sky went good tonight, Steamcleaner popped on the first pull. Killed and got drop. Did some water farming, no water though but we had a good time :) Shiva was kicking ass today with Rush, my highest was 1202 :D We made a new friend today, Khaiya, who is able to join us on Skype! I'm slacking, too much for to blog about for the past few days. I'll probably have another for tomorrow too. Good-night.....or good-morning where you live :)

Anidrall has the Nyzul Isle Blues

I told you that only being level 47WHM would change by the end of the day. Oric and I are making amazing progress with White Mage and Puppetmaster. This is really the only, dare I say it, static that has worked between us. After taking a lunch break and giving me time to blog we went to look to make another party. Guess what, zero tanks. We went ahead and put our flags up and specifically asked for 44+ party invited.

We were about to call it quite when I got asked for a party invite, but he said nevermind since my search comment read 44+. I looked what level he was and saw it was 37. I went ahead and asked if he was partying in East Ronfaure [S] and to my surprise he replied "You bet we are"

Its just one of those camps I love, especially because its a camp in one of the WotG zones plus its colibri, so it was bound to be fast. It was faster than we though. Our party insisted of a WHM. PUP. RNG. RNG. SAM. and BRD. I don't care if we gimped our skills a bit, th experience was fucking amazing! I got from level 47-51 in that party and Oric is just a little bit behind as level 50.

After that, I put off Teleport - Altep and went to work on my WHM AF2 quest with Oric. Later it turned out to be a solo when I told Oric to go on a Nyzul run. We're both glad he did. He some something very special that will only want to make him level PUP ro 75 even faster. Lets just say I died when I went to kill the Abbots. I managed to aggro another one. Slept it easily but out of nowwhere came two more fucking mobs and I was destroyed. I felt like such a noob, after Nyzul Oric came to save me and we got the drop 1/3.

Oric logged and I was planning to take a trip through WG to grab a pair of moccasins off of the AH when I saw a shout for Nyzul Isle floor 20. I know Summoner isn't the most reliable, well most people don't think it is but I think it fares wel, job so I went ahead and asked. He answered real quick and I was able to come.

As usual I asked what type of role they wanted me as there and the leader said buffing with hastega and earthen ward and to back up cure. I din't have a problem with it. Our first run, 16-20 went pretty well until I was getting bombarded. As usual I used EW and I kid you not, almost ten second afterward I get a /tell "Give us hastega now" I trid explaining I still had time on my BP: Ward timer but they obviously didn't understand that. Then on our third floor which wass an eliminate all floor, I was getting told to pull as well and bring all the enemies to them. In all honesty and I'm not trying to sound conceited but I know I'm a good Summoner and I was being overwhelmed. It was seriously too much to pull, cure, and use both of my buffs. I think it was just so bad because we were on a half hour time limit. The second run, I don't even want to talk about it ;-;

Funny enough, the leader wanted to do more Nyzul with us. I really don't want to join if I'm going to have to pull as well. I didn't evn go into full detail about what shit went down. I reallly do need somebody there I know. I'm gon' see if I can get Oric and his SCH in. I was just so exhausted after the run and I felt like I just wanted to cry because I felt like it was my fault. Thank to Aara and Umi for trying to cheer me up though :)

Thats all for now....this should be listed as Wednesday as well, but I didn't post the blog until 2AM today. Until then, thanks for reading :)

{Pianissimo} {Do you have it?}

First off, I'm going to take away any statements that I've said before about not leveling White Mage past thirty-seven. Its level fourty-six right now and I really do enjoy it.

Secondly, I need to get something off of my chest. I can't stand being blamed for things that are not my fault. I consider myself good at the jobs I play and I have been told on numerous occasions that I'm good at those jobs.

On to the story, Oric and I have been leveling PUP and WHM together and have set a goal to get them sixty plus by the end of the summer. I do a good job setting up parties and today was a similar situation. I, well Oric, finished my Tele-Vahzl scroll quest and he started looking for a tank. I get a message on Skype "THERE'S A PLD LOOKING! GO, GO, GO! MAKE A PARTY!" So I did and it was a damn good party set up as well.

Our final party set up was WHM, PUP, SAM, BLU, PLD, and a BRD. We settled on going to Crawler's Nest since Quicksand Caves already have a party there and I have yet to finish that Tele-Altep quest. I'll get to that later though.

After me having to run up and down the stairs to find a stable connection we got going. We were going to the Rumble Crawler camp and after hitting the slope I sneak and invisibled Oric, the PLD and BLU used their respective ninja tool and made their way to camp.

Now, blame it on me or not but I forgot what level invisible was and the BRD already started casting sneak on the SAM so I figured he'd sneak and invisible himself. I started making way to camp following close behind Oric in case his buffs started to wear. The BRD and SAM aggroed and died. Now, I didn't have a problem. I know mistakes happened because I disconnected prior to the party starting a few times. I went back and raised them. I rested my MP and then watched the Taru proceed to run out in front of an Exoray. He died again. I raised him again. After getting MP to S/I all of us, I started to sneak and invisible the SAM. The BRD snuck himself and we started moving towards camp. Thats when I got this in the party chat:

(Tetsuetsu) What, no invisible for me?

He got himself killed by running to the camp with only sneak up and not even asking for invisible. Now don't get me wrong, I would've gladly casted invisible on him but he didn't even bother to ask.

Putting that aside we made it to camp and proceeded with slow pulls, the puller was our BRD. His first 'pull' was by running into the middle of the room with the beetles and getting aggro. After that we said no more BRD pulling. Our BLU, Drkmessiah, who was a rather good BLU said he would pull for us and things started getting better until the BRD started to pull again. His first pull went well, he got hit, no problem, I gave him a Cure II and Regen II. At about 50% of the current's mob HP, he went to pull again and failed to sleep that crawler and he died. Our BLU started pulling again and the Bard was unweakened. On our soon to be final pull, another Rumble Crawler popped right me in the middle of the fight and proceede to beat the living fuck out of me thats when all hell broke loose.

After reraising, the Taru BRD, Tetsuketsu, complained to bitch about our experience per hour when he was clearly one of the causes for that. The PLD received ballad maybe once or twice and I don't think the BLU got it at all.

I'm not the one to respond to people like that but I was so pissed that I did, and I got what I wanted out and pretty much, the final words were {Pianissimo} {Do you have it?}. Sad to say the party with potential disbanded after that, and I had one more name on my blacklist.

Hopefully ZNMs will make up for this disaster :(