(I'm back!) I guess...

It's been a while since I've really played FFXI, other than logging in to do events. And well, I quit most of my events. For a while I've been only doing Limbus and my Sunday events: Sky and Dynamis, and even that has been impossible at times. But after taking a somewhat total break from the game, I've actually felt like playing it again. Just not too much.

I decided to finish my project "get all subjobs done", and at the moment my job level list looks quite nice:



At the moment I have 6 subs leveled: WAR, NIN, DNC, THF, WHM & BLM. My last goal is to get my RDM to 37 as well and I'll have all the subs I need for now.

My latest achievement was to get my BLM finally to level 37 today! I soloed it almost all the way in pet camps, but I also duoed a bit with my husband. We had amazing time duoing mandies in the jungles:



I also used the yhoator pet camp which was amazingly never taken!



As you can notice, I had unbelievably gimp gear nearly the whole time... For example I used the xmas event boots until I could wear my RSE. And I didn't even bother to mule Seers since Elvaan RSE worked just fine.

I got my last BLM level in this amazing LS Qufim party (level 20) today. Our setup was THF, 2 x DNC, NIN, SAM and BLM and we owned the zone. It didn't start very well: I told our THF to pull before one of our dancers was there and before our SAM had any weapon...and of course I told him to pull a clipper. We almost died on that, but when we got all our members there and geared we succeeded to chain them. Then we decided to move to the pond to chain worms and we got chain #6 on them, which was pretty nice. Later my husband came to PL us, which made it even faster if possible. It was a great party!

I'M IN YOUR QUFIM, CLAIMING YOUR MOBS:



Then we had a Nyzul run, started from floor 46. Shokun kept d/cing for the first 3 tags and we failed two of them, but at least we got to floor 55. Boss run next time! We also got some amazing drops:



Also, our little limbus group is doing our first Omega on Monday! I'm soooo excited, can't wait!

Fields of Valor coolness and other stuff

Yesterday I did a bit Xmas shopping and it was so exhausting and horrible I decided to reward myself with a lot of playing... As a result I played a bit more than I actually wanted to.

Anyway, we tried that new Fields of Valor thing with a couple of LS members. We decided to go as a party and level synced to 22. We checked the level recommendations and didn't realize they were for soloers, not parties of 4 people, so we chose to go to Valkurm Dunes. We took the hardest mission available there: we needed to kill 4 sheep and 4 damselflies.





For a group of four, the EXP wasn't of course as good as it could've been, but at least we figured the system out and two of us got levels! One of us had to go and then we moved to Jugner Forest and chose to kill funguars and tigers there. It was fun and easy and I got 3 levels while we were there!

Today I decided to continue exping my DNC in FoV. My DNC was level 28, so I chose Qufim Island mission 4: level recommendation 28-30, 6 gigas and 4 pugils. The mobs were all EM or T for me so it was really nice EXP. Every time I got those 10 mobs killed, I got 735 extra EXP and gil. I was soon level 30 so I've got 5 levels in the last two days just with FoV! I think I'll take my DNC all the way to 37 like that.

FoV makes at least soloing and duoing so much easier and more fun! The system really gave me motivation to EXP my subs. It's so nice that I can just take OP, choose mission and then get all those nice buffs without spending any gil! For example today when I was exping my DNC, I had free reraise, protect, regen and attack food on the whole time. It's a really great addition to the game, thank you SE!

Yesterday we also did a couple of Assaults: Mamool ja Training Grounds PFC and Periqia PFC. It's weird that no one else but me ever wants to do assaults in certain zone, everyone just says "I don't care, I can do anything". I know I need certain points to get some pieces of gear I want but I feel bad if I make everyone else spam the same missions all over again...



Anyway, those assaults we did yesterday got me the promotion to Second Lieutenant! I can't believe I'm only two ranks away from Captain now... Well, two ranks and a million Assaults I haven't done.



After those assaults a LS member Lary asked if we could help him to get Destroyers from Double Dragonian BCNM. The assault party agreed to help and some of us got orbs too. I remember when we tried to get my Destroyers it took us 8 orbs so I wasn't too confident we could get them for Lary with our 4 orbs. But well, Larys orb was first and Destroyers dropped! Then on the next orb they dropped again and on the last orb again... They only didn't drop on my orb, which means that I just have a horrible luck with that weapon I guess.