I'm so tired today, I only slept for about four or five hours... I blame SE for this. It's completely not my fault.
I logged in tonight and the LS was really full 10+ in TRS tonight so it was quite busy (this is busy for my LS, but I like it when there's not a million people in it), everyone was in parties doing their own thing by the looks of it. I planned to go check up on my poor chocobo... It's been two weeks the poor things probably half dead by now :
So I taruwarped to Sand'Oria and went to my mog house to pick up my carrots, chatting to the LS at the same time, catching up on all the hugs, when I got a tell from an old friend that hasn't talked to me in a long time.. {Party} {Do you need it?} 5/6
Hm... I could sit through eight hours of chocobo updates... Or I could go merit on WHM...
*runs*
So we headed out to Mamool Ja Staging Point, the set up was WHM NIN RNG BLU RDM DRK all 75 but for the BLU (the guy I know, Maddi) who was about to level to 74. There were already three parties exping in the Thickets though, so we took the Mamook exit and had a look to see what was down there. We roamed through for a bit, and killed random Mamool Ja and Spinners, the experience points were alright, it was a bit slow, but it wasn't all bad. I made about 10k in probably ooh I dont know.. 2 hours? I didnt really keep track of the clock. I got my third merit point and half way to the next one. I got a bit restless after a bit, so I advised I would be going soon, so we headed back to the Bhalfau Thickets to meet my replacement. Near the exit I fell down a cliff bit and was a bit too lazy to walk around, so seeing as the party was near the exit, I just warped out.
Then my friend Ingram logged on, asking if I would go do some Assaults with him, so I headed over to Ilrusi Atoll Staging Point to do the Lamia 13 Tier 2 assault mission. We did this with four people, Me as WHM, Ingram as BLM, Farris as SMN and Hidezou as SMN. Farris and Hidezou are from Ingram's linkshell LeCielBleu. (I join them for Dynamis and Salvage a few times a week) We pwned the Lamia pretty quickly, its a shoe in if you have dispel and Fenrir. So I made about 3000 or so Assault points to spend on Salvage. (Honestly, I think Salvage fees are ridiculously high... 1000 would be more practical. But I guess they thought of it as "sacrificing Assault Points and missing out on Assault gear for the chance to participate in Salvage and acquire Salvage gear) but they forgot to mention that the drop rate is horrific. You thought Dynamis was bad... Just go to Salvage. I have a knife you can borrow, it works better if you run a hot bath first... >.>
So, Salvage.
I thought tonight was one of our better runs, we have been many times and had no drops, through no one's fault in particular, but simple organisation problems and just having low drops on the cells to unlock equipment and abilities, etc, which means the bosses are harder to fight when we are all still gimped. We got three Lv. 15 pieces of gear tonight, but nothing I wanted so I didn't lot.
But I love Salvage, its fun. Despite the drop rate. I mean, where else can I run around in my underwear without anyone giving me funny looks?
As usual, I spent some time sitting in the entrance filing my nails until my items dropped to unlock my magic and max MP. Naturally the two red mages got theirs first, as they tend to be more hmm whats the word... useful? Well, they have Refresh AND Cure, so it makes sense. Other than Max MP and Magic, and maybe INT or MND, I don't really lot on anything else. I don't need armor to cure people. But the body piece is handy for Refresh (Noble's Tunic {Yes please} luckily we had a couple drop so I got to wear my tunic. No pants though!!
We ploughed through the first few floors killing Merrows and such, and killed the first two Qiqurn bosses, the Treasure hunters. They didn't drop any gear, but we fought some Archaic Gears and got the Lv. 15 Ares pants to drop along with the Lv.15 Morrigan feet? or pants? I can't remember now. And toward the end we got another one of the Ares pants to drop also.
We made it to the last floor with about ten minutes or so to spare, and engaged the Armored Chariot (I think that's what it is called) We only had ten people with us including myself, and no bards, we did really well but just ran out of time it was at about 50-60% when the timer ran out. No one died fighting it, Ingram as PLD and Kingdon as MNK tanked it mostly but I think if we had a bard and another MNK we could have done it, or if we had more time, like 20mins or such. Oh well, it's all a learning curve hey.
One day I'll have something of the Marduk gear! It will take me eight years but I'll have it one day...
Don't remind me that it costs around 5-6million gil to acquire the Marduk Jubbah body piece. I'm well aware...
After Salvage I was about ready to fall asleep, I hung around to see if anything useful was being said, but it's tricky for me in Salvage, as almost everyone in LeCielBleu is or speaks Japanese. Ingram is bilingual thank god but the LS forget to tell me important things quite often... Like strategy. Although I mostly just have to follow him around and cure, it's still nice to know whats going on. It's okay though, I make do.
Ingram asked me if I had gotten Tier 3 in Assaults yet, and I have yet to still find that stupid Warhorse Footprint, so that's a no. He offered to help me find it and I said alright, but he took a while before he responded to me after "wait a few minutes" so I was dozing off at that point. I got disconnected, my laptop decided "Right Now" was the time to download Windows XP updates, thank you so much, I logged back in and promptly got d/c again. I gave up, sent Ingram a message to say sorry and fell asleep.
Thus ends my night in Vana'diel, was a lot of fun but hoping to spend some time with LS people next time, I'm hoping to do some missions or quests for them so hopefully some one wants to be my friend later tonight :P
I have tons of friends. Really.
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