BCNM, DRG

Got on after work last night, and Etcetera and I went to do Deleon's two orbs (BCNM40). Deleon and I were going to duo Royal Jellies at first, but Etcetera agreed to come, so we did the Big One - Under Observation.

[ Under Observation can drop the Peacock Charm, Lv33 Necklace that gives +10 Accuracy. It's awesome. ]

We didn't get any good drops at all. It was one of those runs where you make more money dumping your drops to an NPC than at the AH. :( At least Deleon does Alchemy and he can craft the Mercury and Hecteyes.

Afterwards, Genmo came home, and we decide to go quadro in Crawlers' Nest. We go down the Simurgh side, and all the way at the bottom are Knight Crawlers (crawlers) and Crawler Hunters (scorpions). It was awesome. They were VT and giving 100-180 exp a kill, we were getting chain 5 when the mobs didn't run out.

When Water Elementals popped, we retreated to the Rumble Crawlers. These crawlers were decent challenge, giving like 30-40 exp a pop, but better than nothing. Once the elementals left, we resumed Knight Crawlers. I was half asleep for the last hour or so of our party, but we were all so close to 57 I couldn't stop. :)

Ding 57. Grats Deleon. He doesn't have his Scorpion Harness yet, so I loaned him mine until I got close to levelling.

Ding 57. Grats Genmo and Etcetera (they levelled up at the same time). Finally, at the end, Ding 57. Grats ME :D :D

I equipped my Scorpion Harness. We got about another 1000 exp, but then I was about to pass out, so we quit.

^_^ I'm so excited. One more level and I can wear the DRG AF Body, and in two more levels, the AF Helm - which enhances our healing breath. Right now, our wyverns will cast Cures on us at 33% hp. With the AF Helm, they'll heal us at 50% HP. WAY better. :D

Edit: Got Waif to 29 MNK last night, in Korroloka Tunnel. So... freaking... close... to Lv30. I can't wait to unlock PLD, then level it up to about 30-ish.

DRG, THF, WHM, and Friend

DRG55 (yay Jaridah Peti), THF37 (trioed with LS friends, one of whom is Deleon), and got WHM40 just today (Electrum Gear = +65 MP, and HASTE!).

Spent most of this weekend PLing my friend's character Waif. Got 21WAR (Beetle Gear, Spike Necklace), and 23MNK. Helping a new in-game friend by duoing MNK+RDM, and gonna get him Rank 3 tomorrow after class. Hopefully get Waif and friend Rank 4 this week, and Rank 5 over the weekend.

[edit] I'm going to resume keeping track of mobs / camps and stuff. It'd be kind of silly of me to be doing all this productive duoing / soloing and not share the information I've figured out. :\

50DRG, 31THF, and Artifact

I've gotten really bad about posting. Lots of work, and what free time I do have, I prefer to spend playing rather than posting.

Got 50DRG earlier this week. Did 47-49 in West Altepa (48-49 was a stretch, because the beetles were mostly DC, with some EM). They both got Penta Thrust, but because we ran out of EMs, I couldn't get the final skill up (being at 149 Polearm for an hour sucked bad); we were doing Penta > Double (Transfixion-Light) > Penta (Compression-Dark). We then went to Crawler's Nest and went downstairs to Beetles. We got 50, and then after getting buffer, we went to get AF pants.

We're going to Quicksand Caves to do Beetles there tonight. Genmo went to do AF boots, and the beetles were all checking T-VT. Yay.

This morning, I got up before work early and soloed in Korroloka for an hour and got my final 3k exp to ding Lv31.

Alchemy and Leatherworking

Got 70.4 Alchemy last night. Up to around 30k Guild Points.

I got to 8 Leatherworking and got Advanced Leatherwork Support in order to skill up on Brilliant Snow (since Venom Pots got too expensive and I had a bunch anyway). I made about 15 stacks of Snow (they are fireworks that make it snow); that's almost 1500 fireworks. I dumped them all to NPC for 17 gil a pop, making like 23,000 gil back.

I got to level 9 or 10 leather because, when a recipe calls for two crafts, if you're under cap on the sub, you can get skills. On many synths I got 0.1 Alchemy and 0.1 Leather at the same time. It was cool.

Almost halfway to my Cadaceus. I can't wait.

LS DRG friend is 40 DRG, so we're gonna hang on for a few nights and let him catch up, then try a DRG quadro.

Progress - February 1

I sold my Astral Ring. I got 600k. I used that to power level my goldsmithing... to 29... lame. :(

Sold all that crap, and used the 150k to get my Alchemy to LV51... in one day. -_- If I'd only done Alchemy first, I'd probably have been able to hit 70 or 80. LOL Live and learn, I guess.

We did some more trioing, and I did some soloing, got BST25 in a quadro (Me Genmo Etcetera and LS mate). We got DRG44... I'm close to 45, Brigandine ftw.

Currently at 58 Alchemy; spent more getting 51-58 then I did 0-51... stupid Hi Potions have a horrid skill up, apparently.

DRG and BLU

Got DRG close to 42 in Behemoth's Dominion. Garlaige was packed, which is a shame; the bats and beetles there are PERFECT. The banishing gate camp was so nice, we got Chain 6 and didn't rest our MP (thanks to juices) for about an hour.

We decided to take a break on DRG, only using it for BCNM purposes, after doing the DRG AF weapon quest.

We're going to focus on BST for the time being. I'm going to PL them to 20BST, then the trioing begins. I hope it's neater than I imagine... it seems like it will be harder to trio, at least until we get jug pets.

I got BLU to 6 while Genmo and Etcetera did a Besieged. They're going to start doing their Assaults, so I guess I need to start doing some quests so I can get Assault points too. That Assault gear is nice, I can't wait.

Still haven't learned a single BLU spell. :(

DRG

Ran out to Altepa, first fight - Sickle Slash. -_-

Regroup in Rabao, I Teleport-Holla and we go to Rang[tab] Pass, near San d'Oria. We do Stirges at the zoneline to Beaucedine Glacier.

There's a tunnel of nothing but bats, about a dozen of them. We get a chain 7 on our first run. We clear the rest of the tunnel, rest up, and when we have a few repops we start killing again. They don't respawn fast enough. We don't go over chain 5 for the rest of the night. :(

After about 2000 exp, Floating Eyes start popping in our tunnels. I ding 31DRG, and we just run up and down the half of the tunnel the Floating Eye isn't blocking, to get ding for the other two, as well as buffer. We take on the Very Tough Eye...

We take him down, no worries, even his Stone II and Aeroga aren't causing too much trouble. Nothing we can't handle, anyway.

Then... Eyes on Me.

Genmo is wiped out, one shotted by a massive attack. Etcetera and I finish it off, then proceed to blood warp as well.

This camp was awesome, but not enough mobs. We had to wait on repops because we were killing so fast. Blech. Looking for alternatives. Chain 7 is our personal record, and once we hit 31, I noticed our Jumps and Double Thrusts closing in (and even once surpassing) the 200 damage mark.