Four months

In the four months since my last post, I've gone from 57DRG to 60DRG, then levelled another job all the way to 56 (BST and BRD), and Waif went from ALMOST having an advanced job, to being 57WAR 56PLD.

Wow. Not a bad run at all.

Also, both Waif and Shampoo have a Scorpion Harness and Peacock Charms (though Waif is exclusively Parade Gorget (+1 Refresh while HP > 85%) while on PLD).

Shampoo is set to get Lv70, and Waif is set to get Lv60. The next Limit Break is a joke, though (seals in the three beastman strongholds), and the one after that even moreso (trade 3 Kindred Seals). So... yeah. :) Can't wait to see where I am four months from NOW.

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

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.