Avoiding cleaning up

I've been a bit busy with the thing called "real life" lately. Some of my university studies and my new hobby iaido start next week and I'm really excited! Also, I've done some serious shopping this week and tried to clean up our home a bit because my sister and his boyfriend are coming to visit us today. Yesterday I got to know that I passed my last exam of philosophy in the university! That means I need to do only my exams of Swedish to get my BA diploma.

I haven't got any great achievements in game lately. I opened Summoner and tried it for a few levels. I don't think I'll ever take it to 75, but I think I could level it every once in a while for fun. For some reason, I like all the pet jobs in game, but I don't think any of them can be as close to my heart as Puppetmaster (speaking of which, I just dinged 74 on it yesterday!). I think I like PUP so much because it's so challenging. It's probably the most difficult (and expensive) job in game to make effective, and it's also a very versatile job.



Our HNMLS events this week have been Limbus and Sea farming. We did Jailer of Fortitude and Jailer of Faith and wiped to Jailer of Prudence (We've never tried it before) because our pulling strategy didn't work. Most of the Limbus drops have floored now which sucks, but we're trying to collect more Omega and Ultima pops.



Yesterday we did an ENM run with our social linkshell in Promyvion-Dem. We finally got a drop worth of some gil, a summoning earring. I also got my Dem-Silver key item for Shadows of the Departed -quest which I have to do before I can do Apocalypse Night.



A bit short post this time but I haven't really done much in game and I should be cleaning up our home right now...

Linkshell fun fun fun!

Yesterday me and my husband went to see an iaido presentation (I don't know the right word in english for this). I needed to leave the LS events for two hours because of that, but it was refreshing and very interesting. I've wanted a new hobby for a long time, and I think this might be it. I'm going to a beginner's course next month and I'm really looking foward to it! I also signed up to study a bit japanese this year, so I'm hoping this year will be interesting.

I decided to take a two week break from the game from September 15th to 28th. It will be a difficult time to take a break maybe, because there will be a big update and I might miss something cool (for example, all pieces of PUP relic drop on one dyna run and I'm not there to lot them). I think it's a big reason for why this game is so addictive. But anyway, I think the break will be great for me.

I've played quite a lot again this weekend... On Friday we had a ZNM run which went really well. I even got something very nice for myself:



At the moment, I'm using that and my Rajas when I'm on my MNK or PUP. I also have two Woodsmans and I'm really tempted to sell them because I'm extremely poor... But on the other hand, I might want to level SAM or some other melee job soonish and then I'd regret selling them... And they're also nice for BCNMs and other capped things. Well, I don't know really.

On Saturday we had some kind of event day with my social linkhsell SecretFellowship. First we did the ENM Sheep in Antlion's Clothing with part of our LS ENM static. Our setup was a melee one (WHM, 2 x MNK, SAM, BLU) and it didn't work very well. But well, the point of the static is to have fun and try different things and setups and get experience. We won the ENM with 14 seconds of time left. Unfortunately, the only drop was Kejutsu satin. Yay, 800 gil for everyone!



After the ENM we did a bit zeni farming with my LS friend who I asked to join our ZNM LS. The zeni guy wanted ice elementals so we headed to Uleguerand Range, me as MNK and he as BLU. Unfortunately, the elemental we picked somehow succeeded to resist most of the Yawns casted on it, so my friend died. Fortunately my friend was kind enough to come raise him and help us with taking the rest of the pictures.

Then me and my friend Shokun went to help our LS mate Lary with his Sandy rank 8 mission BCNM. Lary is always very nice to everyone and I think he actually spends most of his time helping other people, he really is one of the friendliest people I've ever met. I was really glad I could do something to help him. Unfortunately, we had to keep them waiting for a while, but after we got to the BCNM it went really well and we even broke the record!



Then was the time for our LS CoP static Promyvion-Holla run. I wasn't included in the setup so I was spying the run on my husbands screen. It went really well, and again Holla seemed to be the easiest one (probably because that's always the one where we use most animas). Anyway, after organizing 3 Mea runs, 2 Dem runs and one Holla run, everyone but one of our 30+ level linkshell members are finally done with all the promyvions! Good job, guys!

I warped to guide them to the Tavnazian safehold. We ran around a bit doing the map quest and some random quest which gave us all 2100 gil for killing some orc NM (was a bit overkill with 7 people ^^). After everyone had gotten their map, we went to explore the Misareaux Coast and I showed them one of my favourite places in game, the waterfall there. We decided to stay there for a while and have a picnic!



After our little picnic we decided to do a parade gorget run because 3 of our members wanted the item. We had heard the drop rate could be horrible, so we took 12 pop items with us. One of our linkshell members offered his THF for TH, which was really nice. Amazingly, in the end we were 3/3 of the item!



Yesterday I didn't play much because I have the iaido presentation thing, but I did do Bahamut v1 and v2 (we broke the record on the first one and lost to the second one) and Dynamis. For the first time ever, our dynamis leader was unable to attend the run, so he left it to two of our leaders. Unfortunately, one of them didn't seem to feel like leading anything at all, so one of them got all the work to do. Because I'm one of the sackholders in the LS, he asked me to help him with the setup. After that experience I now respect our leader more, it was really a nightmare to try to build a reasonable dynamis setup for the first time. But anyway, the setup worked (at least in my opinion well), we did the boss (at that time our leader was able to attend the run too) and got several drops too. I couldn't believe my luck when this dropped and I got the right to lot it:



That was my first Dynamis-San d'Oria run as BRD on my lot list (it's my second lot job). That was also the only piece of BRD relic I want. And it dropped. And I got it. Amazing!

Now I'm only missing MNK body and head (I'm first in line for both!) and then the PUP relic, when it comes out, if the pieces are as good as I'm hoping they'll be. Then I can just save my points until I have some other job leveled to 70+.

Killing big meanies (and some players too)

I have only one week of vacation left before my studies at the university begin again. I'm really looking foward to studying again! This year I'm studying whole new subjects, mostly education (I'm studying to become a teacher). I'm also planning to start studying Japanese, but I'm not sure if I'll do it at the university or at an adult education center. Anyway, I've been thinking about taking a little break from FFXI to focus on my studies again. Maybe a week or two, maybe more, I don't know, but I definitely could use one. We'll see.

Anyway, on this week I've done quite a lot in game. On Monday we had a great Limbus run. We did Apollyon S/E with 11 people, it was an easy win and we got a nice amount of coins. Also there were several drops, though half of them floored. Anyway, I can't remember when was the last time I've had such a great time doing Limbus! People seemed to be on a relaxed mood, no one complained about anything, we were joking and it was really fun.



Also, I did the biggest damage weapon skill I've done so far:



For some reason the mob got mad at me after that. ^^;

After Limbus we had an assault static run with two of our members missing. We got replacements for them from out linkshell and decided to do a Lebros Cavern PFC assault Lebros Supplies which I still hadn't done. That assault sucked more than any assault I've ever done! I mean seriously, on wiki it seemed so easy (just run from NPC to NPC avoiding aggro) but somehow we got loads and loads of aggro and people just kept dying. On the first try we lost it and I felt really horrible, because I knew no one wanted to do it and the only reason we did it was because I hadn't still done it (I was ill the last time they had done it). Well, we decided to try again, and we made it on the second try. There were still deaths though, and I felt really horrible about them. After that everyone swore they'd never ever do that assault again, me included.

On Tuesday I decided to get a bit EXP for my BRD. I got a nice merit party (the setup was a dream: RDM, BRD, NIN and 3 x SAM) and the whole colibri camp area was empty! I dinged 75 before I could say it and got a really nice buffer too. Next I'll focus on getting my PUP to 75 and gearing and meriting all my jobs like crazy.

After exping I asked if one of our linkshell members still needed help with his PLD AF weapon fight. He said yes so we decided to go do it. I had just done the fight a while ago for my husband, so I knew where it was, how it was like and so on. So I geared PUP/WHM, met my friend in Jeuno and teled us to Holla. I remembered that the mob (an elemental) had hit my husbands char very hard when he had popped it, so I told my friend he should Flash it so that it will miss him. Well, I have to say that was a horribly stupid idea. I had no idea flash would generate so much hate. So, my friend died, and I felt like a total idiot. The saddest thing was, I was PUP/WHM but I didn't have enough MP for raise and no MP gear with me... So I had to ask my husband to bring his character to raise our friend. Well, at least he got his AF weapon, even though everything went wrong.



While we were waiting for my husband to come to the rescue, I had fun playing with my BLM puppet. I haven't used it for a long time, so I had never seen it cast tier III nukes before. I decided to tease some bunnies and test them.



Yesterday I helped a new linkshell member with his Sandy rank 2 mission. I also showed him how to get to the Dunes, and we got him tele-dem and holla crystals. He seems like a great guy and I had a great time with him.



When my friend Shokun logged in, I asked him if he'd like to come farm some sea organs with me again. We spent maybe 2 or even 3 hours in Sea and this time even got some drops. When we were just talking about how we were starting to get bored with organ farming, a friend of ours who was camping Charybdis told us it had popped. So we ran to help him. We had a NIN, RDM (who wanted the joytoy), BRD (me) and WHM. Things were smooth and easy until our NIN had to go afk in the middle of the fight and he died. And then the rest of us died too... So we called some reinforcements (another NIN and a THF(?)) just in case, reraised and rested. At one point I was moving to a safer spot to rest when my sneak suddenly wore. I kept running becaue I thought I didn't get aggro. When I was next to our WHM, something smacked me hard and I died... and then it proceeded to kill the WHM too. I felt so sorry, it was such a stupid mistake from me. Anyway, when we all were gathered and unweakened, we claimed and killed it again and of course got the sword for our RDM friend. A happy ending is happy.



After the Charybdis we had to hurry to our HNMLS event. We were going to try Bahamut v. 2. The fight went really well for some time, but (in my opinion) we didn't have enough stunners and WHMs, so after a couple of Gigaflares got off, we wiped. We got him to 20% and he didn't summon anything in that time, so I think it was ok for our first try.



After failed Bahamut v. 2 we decided to do Ouryu, which went a lot better. It was a long but a fun fight, I was there as BRD and was quite busy the whole time.







Today I haven't done anything in game. Our social LS has ENM + promy run today but I left myself out of the setup because I had to do it to someone. I have limbus and assault this evening, but before that I think I'll just do something else than play.

Big Fish (not the movie)

On Friday I asked if my friend Shokun wanted to farm some sea organs before my ZNM run. We spent 2 hours in Sea but didn't have much luck: we only got 2 or 3 drops, I don't even remember. Anyway, it was nice and fun, and I got some skill ups for Comedies magic skill.





After Sea farming we had a ZNM run, which went a lot better than last week. First we headed to Arrapago Reef again (/sigh) and we popped 2 Nuhns. This NM turned out to be extremely easy one, and we got some good drops too (3 pairs of Oracle's Pigaches from 2 pops!). When we were fighting the thing, I couldn't stop thinking the movie Big Fish (a great movie, by the way).



On Saturday I got this amazing JP party which took my BRD from level 72 to 74. The party lasted for four hours, the setup was great and all members were good players (it seemed to be a LS static). All other members were japanese but they did their best translating everything they said for me, which made me happy. It was such a cute party too, because all our melees were tarus! We had a taru DRG, taru SAM and taru NIN, sooooooo cute!



Yesterday was my busy LS event day again. First we did ENM (got a Hagun!), then Sea farming (on an area of which I had the map, yay!) and then Bahamut v. 1! The Bahamut fight was a piece of cake really, I thought it would be more difficult. Our strategy was to zerg it and it was dead in 54 seconds if I remember correctly. No one from our alliance even died. But well, I'm looking foward to Bahamut v. 2, should be more challenging.

It was funny to run across the capped area with the LS, almost everyone without any gear (should've brought my new bikini!).







After Bahamut it was time for our Dynamis run. When we were gathering, our LS leader asked me if I wanted to take some leadership tasks in the LS. I answered yes, because I was glad to be able to help the LS. I really like our Dyna LS, I think it works very well and our leader does a great job with leading our runs. So, I was made a sackholder and asked to check the applications, give pearls and post news when needed. I'm very happy that our leader felt that he could trust me with those things, and I hope I can make his job as the LS leader a bit easier by doing them.

Lately I've been thinking somewhat a lot about my role in the linkshells I'm in. In a group situation, I always tend to give people advice, even orders. I know I shouldn't do it as much as I do, but that's the way I've been used to. That's my way of trying to help the group and I always do that when I'm excited about something. I do know it can be very annoying at times and some leaders may feel like I'm trying to take their role. Also, I know I can be a real bitchy with rules and other stuff at times, so I can understand if people find me as an annoying person. So I think it's something I need to work on, to try not to become a total bitch who tries to overrule the leader every time I get excited.

Raging Flamingos

I've been a bit ill for the last couple of days so I haven't really done much but played. My sister and her boyfriend were going to come to visit us this weekend but I had to cancel it. I was really looking foward to seeing them so I'm a bit sad about it.

Since I've been ill, I haven't done much anything else but played FFXI. On Wednesday I helped a LS member with his Rank 5 mission. Now all of our active members are at least Rank 5 and we can do Rank 6 together soon. I took this screenshot when we were doing the mission, meet Evy the Galka:



On Wednesday evening we had a Sea run which didn't go very well. I felt really ill and tired and found it difficult to concentrate. I guess I should've just logged out but I hate missing events (in fact, I've never missed a Dynamis run or an event of my HNMLS). Well, we killed the Ix'Aern DRG and Ix'Aern DRK and the DRK dropped the RDM cape (and only reraised once!). But when we were hunting another DRK, somehow many people got lost and died, and that's when the chaos began. I got lost and died too and for the first time ever I was told not to reraise (I was BRD/WHM) but wait for a R3. I guess our leader wants my BRD to get to 75 really bad. ^^ Well, anyway we were splitted all over The Garden of Ru'Hmet, some of us dead, and most of us didn't seem to have any idea about where to go. So our leader told us the event was over and we warped away.

The thing is, our leader said that people should've studied the maps and know how to move around. While I agree with him, I'm really horrible with all maps. I mean I can get lost in East Ronfaure, seriously! And it really isn't that easy to move around in a place of which you have no map (that's the only Sea map I don't have). I always have the map open on my laptop when I'm running around there, but it isn't that easy to try to follow someone, check my position from the in-game map which I don't have, focus things on my screen and check the map from wiki... I guess I should really get the map of that area, but it's impossible for me to solo, so I'll need to gather a group maybe.

Yesterday I decided to get my PUP a little EXP and skillups. I headed to Sky and decided to try to fight Flamingos there.



Yeah, they look all cute and pink but I'm quite sure they have some kind of hidden rage mode. At times it seemed to impossible to keep my shadows up because their attack speed just seemed crazy. But it was ok when Comedie kept Slow, Paralyze and Bio II on them most of the time. The birds checked Decent Challenge - Tough and they weren't too difficult. Exp wasn't amazing, but it was ok, and skill ups were great!



The best thing was, these birds dropped 3 coffer keys for me and I left Sky 50K richer! ^^ Hunting for coffers was fun, too, I don't know any other zone where coffers are hidden like they are in Sky.



After I got bored with exping, I asked if anyone in the LS wanted to do a BCNM run. I didn't have enough my seals for an orb myself, but I knew other people had, and I also know some of our LS members have never done BCNMs before so they might be a bit shy to organize a run even if they wanted to. So we did Royal Jelly, 3 orbs, and one of them dropped Utsu: Ni. That person is now 2/5 on those, he seems to have a very good luck. I think most of us have had a Ni drop from this BCNM (well, of course, not me), so it seems to be really worth of seals. And the best thing is, it's really easy and can be done in (almost) any setup, we haven't lost it once.

After the BCNM I decided to go to farm a bit, this time on my level 11 SAM. I had almost two hours to spend before limbus and in that time I got two levels and a nice amount of silk, beehive chips and honey. I also noticed I like SAM more than DRG, and I think that may be the job I level after I get my BRD and PUP to 75.



When we we're on our way to Limbus later, one of us got ufo aggro and we decided to kill it. First it seemed to be going really well, but then melees (me included) succeeded to get some nice links from the TP mobs and we all wiped. I really hate those things!



The Limbus itself was just epic! First of all, our puller pulled too fast leaving two of our members outside (and one of them was one of our tanks). However, anything went really well before the last floor, where the puller pulled ALL the mobs at the same time. It turned out that those gobs really didn't feel tired enough to stay asleep and we all wiped after killing some of the mobs.

So we were all dead and we didn't have much time left (we had less than 10 minutes). So we had no option but to chainspell and R1 all. When we were all up, we got the 5 minutes notice. There were 3 mobs left, so we decided to rest full HP and zerg them as weakened with our 2hr. I was sure we'd wipe again to the first Bomb Toss, but the plan seemed to work surprisingly well. In fact, we were already killing the last mob when we got the 1 minute notice. The bad thing was, at that moment, the gob decided to cast Sleepga II and we all fell asleep... My heart was beating so fast, I couldn't believe one stupid sleep spell would prevent us from winning. But you know, miracles do happen! The gob was stupid enough to use Bomb Toss soon after the sleepga, so we all woke up and succeeded to kill it and win with I-don't-want-to-think-about-how-many seconds left. Good times!

I also got the MNK item, so I now have both items for both MNK and BRD! That means I can't lot anything for a long time, but I need to save coins anyway.

The usual stuff with some friend list drama

On the last couple of days, I've spent a few hours farming in Saruta on my DRG. In those few hours I got many stacks of wind and earth crystals, silk, honey and beehive chips. They also took my DRG from level 10 to 14 which I'm happy about.



I also ended up removing a person from my friend list. The person had been on my friend list for a while (like 2 months maybe) after one party we both were in. He didn't talk to me often but every time he did, he seemed to want help with something. I really didn't enjoy being the person you only talk to when you need something, so I had been thinking about removing him from my friend list almost as long as he had been there. Well, the day before yesterday he finally crossed the line.

He had just dinged 75 on his highest job so he wanted Walahra Turban. He then realized he didn't have enough imperial gold coins, so he (logically???) decided to ask if I want to give him some.



So... First of all, I don't even know this guy! Yes, he's on my friend list, but he has only talked to me when he has needed help with something. So what makes him assume he has the right to even ask me to give him items worth of nice money? Sure, I don't mind borrowing my friends (the people I know and who also help me every once in a while) something like that, but this guy was talking about giving the coins to him and I don't even know him! He has never ever helped me with anything, or even wanted to know anything about me. Some friendship, huh?

I think the funniest part was when he said about not being able to buy the coins because he's saving gil for his (Shura) togi. This person doesn't even have Sky access! And I have three Shura abj. in my MH at the moment, waiting for me to save enough gil or points for the cursed items. But of course I should use some money for his Shura gear first, right? ...right...

Anyway, I logged out, removed him from my friend list, and logged back in. After that, I politely told him I was sorry but I felt like he was just using me to get things he wants, and that I don't like people like that being on my friend list.

On Monday we had Limbus which we won easily even though one of our two PLDs got d/c just before the last floor. We did Apoyllon, and a BRD item dropped. I got it, so I now have both items for one AF+1. I think I'll do the hands first, I just need some coins.



Yesterday was the first run of the ENM static I organized! We did a level cap 40 3 person ENM Fire in the Sky in Monarch Linn. I was a bit nervous but we won extremely easily. Our setup was RDM/BLM, BLM/WHM and BRD/WHM (me). BLM had only time to cast 2 nukes before the mob died so it was a fast win. Unfortunately nothing good dropped, but at least we now have experience with this ENM.



I also got to a merit party with my BRD. I was nervous because I had never pulled in a merit party before and I had never been to this camp (Mamool Ja staging point) with BRD. But it went surprisinly well, exp/h was around 15-20K and I pulled fast enough all the time. My highest chain was #42, then the melees didn't kill the mob fast enough (yeah, blame the melees! ^^). I still need practice with keeping all songs up and chains going, but I think I did well enough for my first merit party.

Byakko = serious business

Yesterday I woke up relatively early. After breakfast, I started to go to climb the mountain at Attohwa Chasm to get the key item for the ENM our LS does every Sunday. When I had done the climbing and was going to Boneyard Gully, I ran across this guy:



He was just chilling out there alone, and there were almost no other people in the zone. So I told my LS he was up and we decided to kill him on next night. Last time we killed him he rewarded us by dropping this:



This time the drops were a lot better: we got two dark crystals instead of one!

I think we all are a bit frustrated with this NM at the moment. We've killed it a few times now and nothing good has dropped. And many people have his drops on their wish list, so it seems we'll be wasting a lot of time with this guy.

Anyway, after Xol we did ENM (surprise, surprise, no good drops) and then we headed to Sky. We did 5 Genbus and 6 Byakkos. Genbu gave us 2 x A. hands which were the reason we popped it, and Byakko gave us some nice haidate and a pair of Shura legs. We also did 2 Zips while we were near his pop place. It was a nice Sky event!



Also, I learned something new there. While I was singing for tanks, I suddenly experienced this:



For a while I didn't realize at all what had just happened, but it turned out I hadn't payed enough attention to my log. So, if you're reading this, here's something you should always remember: when your log says "Byakko redies Claw Cyclone.", run away as fast as you can!

After my HNMLS event I had Dynamis-Jeuno which was a bit a disaster. Everything went really well at first but then we somehow managed to get an amazing amount of links and wipe with too little time left for the boss. And the drops weren't nice either. But well, that's how Dynamis is sometimes.

Today I did a little farming with my level 10 DRG in Saruta. But almost as soon as I'd started, my friend Shokun told us in linkshell chat that Rose Garden was up and I decided to go kill it. One other LS member Potato came along too. We claimed and killed it but unfortunately it didn't drop anything.



Also, I got the new swimsuit for one of my mules today. She seemed very happy about it:

Manaburn bard

Yesterday was the worst ZNM run ever! We decided to pop Experimental Lamia which pops in Caedarva Mire, but you have to go through Arrapago Reef to get to there. So, we took a lamian key, like the guide said, and went to the Arrapago Reef. The thing is, I really hate that zone. I think, everyone who plays this game has a zone they don't enjoy being in at all. For me, it's the Arrapago Reef. I mean, the place is huge, the map is confusing, there are tons of undead mobs and imps everywhere, I always get lost there... So I wasn't too surprised when some people got lost and / or died on the way through the place.

However, I was surprised when at some point we found out no one had any idea about where we were supposed to go. Finally, we found a door which seemed to take us to right place, but the problem was, we didn't have another key to open it. The guide only mentioned one so we brought one. And there we were, in the middle of Arrapago Reef, stuck at a door which might be the right one but even if it was, we had no way of opening it.

So, we farmed a key, and after some time, we even found the right way! It only took us like.... Two hours maybe? Anyway, we finally got to the mire and people were feeling very tired and annoyed and some people started to complain in /l. I felt really bad about the whole thing, because I don't like people fighting over nothing. I know this game and the people who play it seem sometimes very annoying and frustrating, but then I just try to take a deep breath and think positive. I don't see any reason to start ranting about it and make other people feel even worse than they already do.

Anyway, we go to the pop place, pop the NM, and..... guess what? We wipe! We didn't have that many people on the run and I think we all were really tired and couldn't focus, so that may be a part of the reason why it happened. Losing to this NM certainly didn't make us feel any better so we decided to call it a night. I felt really sorry for the person who lost his pop item. After the event I felt like I had just wasted hours of my time for something completely stupid. I usually don't feel that way even if events go wrong, because I try to think that we all make mistakes sometimes and we can always learn from them. But this time I didn't feel that anyone really learned anything. But anyway, I'm sure the next weeks run will go a lot better. These things happen sometimes.

Today I woke up feeling really tired. I had a really hard week, maybe a bit too hard, and I don't feel like I've recovered from it yet. I wondered if I was in a mood for playing at all, but then I asked if my husband wanted to do a BCNM run with me and he said yes. I asked a friend to come along too, and we had a great time together. We did Royal Jelly again, that's the BCNM we've been doing a lot lately. No good drops this time unfortunately, but you can't win every time.



After the BCNM, I finally helped my friend Shokun to farm Illuminink for DM pop item. He has been asking me to help him with it for a long time but I've always said no because I've been in a horrible hurry with my studies and haven't had much time to play. And when I've had time, I've wanted to spend it on something relaxing, not farming something. Anyway, we killed statues at Hall of Gods zone and it didn't take long to drop so I guess we were lucky. It was fun doing something with my friend, we haven't really played together much lately outside the LS events.



After we got the item for my friend, I decided to go lfp on my Bard. It took me a long time to find a party (!), so I spent time working on my study schedule for this autumn. I was surprised to notice that most of my lectures will be at the evening after 4PM. I'm not complaining though.

Finally, I got an invite to a manaburn party. I haven't been in a manaburn party ever, so I had no idea what was a BRD supposed to do there and what kind of EXP I would get from it. I was of course curious, so I accepted the invite. There were 2 BLM/RDM, 3 BLM/WHM and me as BRD/WHM. The only thing they wanted was double ballad, so my job with song was really easy compared to melee parties. I also pulled which was nice and easy after we found a camp with so many pops we couldn't clear them all. Exp was good and I pulled chain #5-7 the whole time. I felt really relaxed and enjoyed playing my job, so I really liked that party! I don't remember when was the last time I've been in an EXP party where I could just enjoy playing the job. I dinged 72 in that party and we disbanded 45 minutes later, so I got a nice buffer too.

When we were gathering at the camp, I noticed for the first time, that the sunset at Mount Zhayolm is really beautiful:



Also, here's a picture of our party in action:

Feeling guilty

I had a horrible day yesterday. First of all, I waked up at 8AM and I was tired as hell. I just wanted to go back to sleep but I had some important things to do so I had to go out. When I came back home, I started to study. I didn't get one book for my exam until yesterday so I had only one day to read it. So I read until I felt my brain was going to explode.

At 10PM my time we did a Limbus run in Temenos and a BRD item dropped. My BRD is only level 71 at the moment, but I've been asked to use it mostly in all events. I haven't been doing Limbus long and I wasn't sure about our lotting rules, so I asked who could lot it. One person wanted the item, but it turned out that he already had one piece of BRD AF +1 and our rules say that in those situations persons without any AF +1 should be able to lot first. So they told me to lot, the other person passed, and I got the item.



I said I hope we'll get another drop on the same run so the other person can have the item too. Then they told me it was a really rare drop and he had been waiting it for 6 months... I felt so bad for him, if I had known that, I would've passed the item. But it got even worse... Our point person said that I had a right to lot it because BRD was my main lot and only the secondary lot of the other person. Well, BRD isn't my main lot... He had messed it up and in the end it wouldn't have been my lot at all. So a person had waited for an item for half a year and then some noob in the LS comes and lots it even though he had every right to lot it. I felt so horrible, so guilty the whole evening because of that. I really hope another BRD will drop soon and he'll get it.

But I also have some happy news! Yesterday I decided to spend all my gil for Ancient Beastcoins so I could get something very nice for my Bard:



I'm loving it!

Also, yesterday after Limbus we did four assaults with our static, and I finally got promoted to Sergeant Major (I don't think I've done any new assaults for this promotion so it certainly took some time). The promotion quest was one of the most disturbing ones I've seen:



I'm so happy it's weekend now and I finally have some time to relax and play. We'll do some ZNMs today and I'm looking foward to it, but before Sunday I don't have anything else planned. I think I might farm a bit and maybe level my Bard.