Posts that obey no speed limits! (FFX)

[thistlechaser]

Yes, for the millionth time in a row, I logged off late and thus will be making a speedy post.

Summerfest: Did both AC2s (easy and hard) with Nai. Was no where near as annoying as I thought it would be! I hated the in-town version of the quest, and I hate dodging aggro, so I should have hated the event, but it was actually sort of fun! Must have been the company~! <3 Nai

Mission: Did the acid farming, trip to mouse city, and NM fight tonight. Woo! Such a fun story! We had no tank for the fight so it got a tad dicey here and there, but was oodles of fun!

Due to the Spiral Hell quest, I have, um (how to say this without spoiling)... my reaction to fomor-type mobs isn't typical. I felt so sorry for the fomor NPC in the CS! Poor poor poor fellow.

Digging: Oh my god. For the first time in a long, long, long time, I actually tried digging in the Desert. (It was an impossible zone pre-nerf, always 5-10 diggers there at any hour of the day.) While it was harder to dig (I brought 30 stacks instead of my usual 20, and still ran out when I had gotten only 80 items), it was worth it! $$$$! 3 platinum ores and a philosopher's stone (each 60K), plus a bunch of things like wyvern scales and other good stuff!

I'll no longer be tracking if the digging "nerf" was a good thing or a bad thing. While I understand that it did hurt a lot of the serious diggers (and digging bots), it's been amazingly good for me. Pre-nerf a good digging trip was breaking even for my greens cost. Now? I can make over 200K for 30 minutes of non-stressful, easy work!

Then a Besieged hit (level 2 undead) and not only did I get full reward as BRD 41 (and no deaths!) I got songs to stick again! Heehee. Have to stop doing that though, because getting hate at 41 is a bad bad bad thing. So that's 700 XP so far, and I was about 4K behind my static, so just need a few more to catch up! Especially once we get back to level 5s/700 rewards. (Edit: I'm actually having fun going as BRD, so I can almost hope to die now and then so I'll need the XP! :P It's fun chasing people down and cursing them when they run off mid-song and ordering "You stand there, don't move! Just wait, one more song! *sings* There, now shoo! Get to work!". Heehee.)

I never would have believed it until I tried it, but a level 40-ish person CAN actually be a help! I healed a mess of people, threw out protect/shells, and sang for my party when I could safely get to them. I healed a bunch of people back to full once weakness wore for them, which meant they could get back to fighting sooner!

Comments

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

That's why I've been going to Besieged as RDM50/51. I don't actually really fight the mobs, I just support the people in my party by healing, refreshing, etc. Admittedly, it's perhaps not quite as varied as BRD since I am basically a RefreshBot, but still it was better than spending 300+ MP on a tier IV nuke and doing 200 damage. :P

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

And by the way, Ni was making noises about wanting to do the new expansion pack missions. Ead, Draque, Aurian, and I were talking about it, and if you guys want to do it, we'll be happy to go back and do the farming/NM fight with you guys, then do the BC together as a group. (You won't believe this, but the farming is fast and easy -- we got a drop off almost every mob we killed! And the NM was fast and easy, too. Word is, BC is simple as pie! Everything is so non-CoP-ish. It rocks!)

[loneguardian.livejournal.com]

Yish! Much love for the Ni and Chipo! Come do missions with us! :D~ (No need for Assaults either, I don't think any of us have done any of them... I know I haven't. >_> And if you need the Dvucca staging point, we can get that while we do the mission. :D (It's a quick warp back to Whitegate to talk to Naja)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I know I haven't done any Assaults, but they're something I'd like to try!

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

We've got all the staging points. We spent a very hair-raising, heart-stopping day sneaking around getting all the points. We got into a trouble a few times with imps and then discovered we needed a key but somebody opened the door for us and... yeah, it was an "exciting" day ;)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah, great! Having them all makes things so much easier! (Not just for this, but for things like XPing and such, too!)

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

That sounds great! Ni and I are available pretty much any night with forewarning. When would be good for you guys?

[loneguardian.livejournal.com]

I think pretty much any evening this week is good. Tis not hard missioning at all (yay!), so it shouldn't take us very long. :3 (Need more Cutscenes full of love~!)

Maybe after Eco/Escort? Or Sunday night if people think that's too late. :3

[lokyst.livejournal.com]

Yes! Need more love scenes!

Wait ... ;3

Since there appears to be a game day wait in there and Chipo and I haven't gotten started yet with the run around, shall we organize to do the farming after ecoscort and then set up a time for the BC from there?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I replied on-game but I'll repeat here as well for Ni/Chip: I'd rather not do it after Eco/Escort. Things run too late that day for me. Sorry!