Damned trees... (FFXI)
Sep. 12th, 2005 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserI think I need a new hobby. No more NM chasing. Merlee mentioned that a NM was up in Jugner Forest. Fradubio, a walking tree. She had the mantle already so couldn't kill it, but Draque (SMN) and I jumped at the chance (even though neither of us needed it).
We outpost teleported out and hunted it down. Well, okay, back up a step. I don't know about Draque, but I dashed for the outpost teleport guy. I didn't stop to put on my real armor or anything, I didn't want to lose the chance to nab the tree. (And how many times have I said that DRK AF is worthless for anything important? I had nothing else on me, not my hauby or rings or anything. And amusingly, I didn't have the one semi-useful piece of my AF: the head (good for SEing). I was wearing my yag hat.)
So the two of us ran off and pounced the tree. I SA+TA'ed it and didn't move the HP much at all, but I was totally unworried at that point. I absorb-VIT'ed it and tried to judge what else to absorb. I wasn't missing it and it wasn't hitting me (hate was moving back and forth) so I figured VIT would be enough for now. (It wasn't aspir'able so I didn't want to waste MP.) I drained each time I could (twice).
The darned tree was very big, so I couldn't see what was happening with Draque at all, but the text was showing something about a Duessa. I thought maybe some PC came to watch and was getting AoE'ed. Near the end I swung around the tree to try to see what was going on there and found D rather mobbed with saplings spawned by the NM. Bah.
Carby died and I had the tree's full attention. One hit, two hits, three hits. I was in dark orange, so tried to 2hr. Stupid damned empty-headed me couldn't remember where my 2hr macro was, and the seconds spent having to look at the macro bar display did me in. By the time I was hitting it, I was dead. Poor Draque died a moment later. (I'm really kicking myself about that as much as anything else. I've had my macros memorized for ages! It's been months since I needed to look at them! How could I have forgotten?)
A bunch of people from the LS soon arrived (Aurian, Beanie, Chip, Nif, Niala, Caboose, and... did I miss anyone?) and they killed it. I got my first ever R3! Poor Draque got caught by an AoE while weakened and died a second time. Bah. No drops at all, not even anything worthless. *sigh*
If there's a small "plus side" to this, I don't think it would have mattered if I had taken my time. Even if I had had all my armor, even if I had used my 2hr, even if I had used my TP instead of holding it to try to keep from getting hate, I think Draque and I still world have died. (I can't judge how differently things would have gone if D had changed his subjob, but that tree had a crapload of HP. We didn't move it much at all. It took our level 74-75 LS folks a few minutes to kill it.) But even with that, this whole thing pisses me off. Not just that I died (I must have lost almost no XP with the R3), but... *childish whine* It wasn't fair. Damned stupid tree was in Jugner Forest, and we should have been able to kill it. (Yeah, yeah, I know that some zones can have much stronger NMs in them, but still!)
Screenshot of the big, ugly, stupid tree. I hate you so much! One day I'll be back and kill you myself.
Stupid me dead at the feet (roots?) of the tree.
I'm going to move to Bastok. No damned trees there. *grumble*
We outpost teleported out and hunted it down. Well, okay, back up a step. I don't know about Draque, but I dashed for the outpost teleport guy. I didn't stop to put on my real armor or anything, I didn't want to lose the chance to nab the tree. (And how many times have I said that DRK AF is worthless for anything important? I had nothing else on me, not my hauby or rings or anything. And amusingly, I didn't have the one semi-useful piece of my AF: the head (good for SEing). I was wearing my yag hat.)
So the two of us ran off and pounced the tree. I SA+TA'ed it and didn't move the HP much at all, but I was totally unworried at that point. I absorb-VIT'ed it and tried to judge what else to absorb. I wasn't missing it and it wasn't hitting me (hate was moving back and forth) so I figured VIT would be enough for now. (It wasn't aspir'able so I didn't want to waste MP.) I drained each time I could (twice).
The darned tree was very big, so I couldn't see what was happening with Draque at all, but the text was showing something about a Duessa. I thought maybe some PC came to watch and was getting AoE'ed. Near the end I swung around the tree to try to see what was going on there and found D rather mobbed with saplings spawned by the NM. Bah.
Carby died and I had the tree's full attention. One hit, two hits, three hits. I was in dark orange, so tried to 2hr. Stupid damned empty-headed me couldn't remember where my 2hr macro was, and the seconds spent having to look at the macro bar display did me in. By the time I was hitting it, I was dead. Poor Draque died a moment later. (I'm really kicking myself about that as much as anything else. I've had my macros memorized for ages! It's been months since I needed to look at them! How could I have forgotten?)
A bunch of people from the LS soon arrived (Aurian, Beanie, Chip, Nif, Niala, Caboose, and... did I miss anyone?) and they killed it. I got my first ever R3! Poor Draque got caught by an AoE while weakened and died a second time. Bah. No drops at all, not even anything worthless. *sigh*
If there's a small "plus side" to this, I don't think it would have mattered if I had taken my time. Even if I had had all my armor, even if I had used my 2hr, even if I had used my TP instead of holding it to try to keep from getting hate, I think Draque and I still world have died. (I can't judge how differently things would have gone if D had changed his subjob, but that tree had a crapload of HP. We didn't move it much at all. It took our level 74-75 LS folks a few minutes to kill it.) But even with that, this whole thing pisses me off. Not just that I died (I must have lost almost no XP with the R3), but... *childish whine* It wasn't fair. Damned stupid tree was in Jugner Forest, and we should have been able to kill it. (Yeah, yeah, I know that some zones can have much stronger NMs in them, but still!)
Screenshot of the big, ugly, stupid tree. I hate you so much! One day I'll be back and kill you myself.
Stupid me dead at the feet (roots?) of the tree.
I'm going to move to Bastok. No damned trees there. *grumble*
