Busy weekend

Busy weekend in game again... On Friday we had ZNM where we popped 3 Obs, 1 Iriz Ima and 1 Dea. I tried Dea as PUP for the first time and Comedies damage with ranger frame was ok.



It was a short event because we didn't have that many pops or that many people, so after we ran out of pops we decided to go kill some Ufos for organs. We decided to kill only the lower level ones and as a result we only got one organ.





Saturday our linkshell statics CoP run got canceled so we decided to go do a bit Campaign with LS party. I've never done Campaign with a full party before, it was really fun!



We also did the hagun ENM Sheep in Antlions Clothing. Our original setup was 2 x BLM, PLD, 2 x MNK, BLU but the other BLM couldn't make it so I decided to go PUP with BLM automaton instead of MNK... Unfortunately I managed to die which took my automaton down and gimped my damage a lot. Well, at least we won, even though the drops sucked.

Saturday was also the day for our second Nyzul run, this time with mostly new people. We have 10 people signed up for Nyzul so not everyone can come to every run. Anyway, this time there was me and Pythean (we both were on the last run too) and then Shisui, Shokun, Bukyja and Wasch. Our setup was WHM, BLM, BLU, SAM, MNK, DRG. Our goal was again to get to floor 5, but we were really unlucky with floor objectives. On our last run, we didn't get the "light lamps in certain order" objective once, this time we got it two times...and it took a while to figure out a good strategy for it. One of our members only had 3 tags too, which meant we only had 3 tries to get to floor 5. Well, luckily we managed to do it on 3rd tag, like we did on the first run too. This time we finally saw some weapons drop too: congratulations Shisui on WHM and SCH weapons!

After Nyzul we decided to go farm some Swift Belt pop items since many people in our LS need the belt. We spent two hours farming and only got two Fomor Codex during the last 20 minutes... Next time we'll bring TH for sure.



Yesterday (Sunday) I asked if my friends Sky LS wanted help on their run. I went there as BRD and we popped some Ullis and waters and a couple of Genbus and Byakkos. I had heard some horror stories about their runs so I was mentally prepared to wipe to Genbu but both gods went really well. And I got to lot Aquarian Head for myself because it was about to floor:



After Sky I went to Einherjar. It was our second try on third wing and we ran out of time again. On both tries we've had only one minute left for the boss and we'd need at least 3 minutes I think. I think we were just lacking people.

We also had our first Dreamlands dynamis yesterday! We did Dynamis-Valkurm and it was...well...interesting. We had some weird problems with the flies right at start which resulted in people getting lost and dying in weird places, which meant we lost a lot of valuable time. So we ended up just farming a bit. Too bad our only drop was BRD cape... Anyway, it was fun and it will go better for sure next time.

Syrup Wiping

I've had a really nice weekend! On Thursday my mother and my brother came to visit us and I enjoyed spending time with them. And on Saturday there was a club party where me and my husband went to meet some of our friends, and it was great too. I was supposed to be studying but oh well, I had such a great time! I just need to hurry up a bit with some books and essays now.

In game I've done some Goldsmithing. On Friday I decided to start with the Mythril Earrings. I did 12 synths before and 12 synths after the JP midnight.




First 12 synths:

Time: Lightningsday, New Moon 7%
Starting skill: 39 (synth cap 42)

1. 0.1 skillup, success
2. 0.1 skillup, fail (lost 1 ingot)
3. success
4. success
5. fail (lost 2 ingot)
6. 0.2 skillup, success
7. 0.1 skillup, success
8. success
9. success
10. success
11. success
12. success

Ending skill: 39.5
Success rate: 10/12

Next 12 synths:

Time: Watersday, New Moon 5%
Starting skill: 39.5 (synth cap 42)

1. 0.1 skillup, success
2. success
3. 0.1 skillup, success
4. success
5. success
6. success
7. 0.2 skillup, success
8. 0.1 skillup, success

DING Goldsmithing 40!

9. success
10. success
11. 0.2 skillup, success
12. success

Ending skill: 40.2
Success rate: 12/12

I have ingots for 12 more Mythril Earring synths, but I doubt they will take me even to skill level 41. The next synth on my plan is Reraise Earring which caps at level 45, but it's quite expensive so I'm not sure if I want to move on to that yet. Well, I'll synth the rest of the earrings and think about it then I guess.

On Thursday I helped my husband camp Sewer Syrup for Jelly Ring for his PLD. I went there as PUP/NIN and my husband was PLD/WHM. I seriously underestimated this NM and we wiped after a very unfortunate blood aggro. Well, a LS friend came to help us as MNK/WAR, we recovered and tried again. And wiped. Our friend just took too much damage as /WAR and we couldn't keep him alive. That time we also got some nasty links. Finally, we did a quick job change and decided to try it one more time. My husband stayed as PLD/WHM, but I changed to MNK/NIN and our LS friend changed to /DNC. We killed the thing and the ring dropped!





On Friday we had a ZNM run which was a bit of a disaster. No one really focused on the run, me neither, because my family was here and I was just busy to end the run to watch a movie with them... I apologized from our leader later, I should've either just focus on the run or not attend at all. Anyway, we killed this NM I hadn't fought before:



And I took a pretty pic from Mount Zhayolm:



Yesterday I helped the Secret Fellowships CoP static with mission 3-3. We killed the Antlion NM and climbed the mountain in Attohwa Chasm. It was fun, no one even fell down on the way up!

After that I did ENM with Europa. We got lucky and got Haguns from 2 of the 3 runs! Then we went to Sky. We killed Zip, popped a few Olla, Genbu and Suzaku.





We did a first wing Einherjar again to get second wing access for some members. We won again, but it was a bit messy. Second wing on Wednesday!

Also, my chocobo chick WildRhapsody has grown to a young chocobo. All the color tricks I tried on her unfortunately failed, but I'm still trying to grow a nice digger choco of her.

Playing dead

An angry and short post is angry and short.

I had a horrible day in game yesterday. First of all, for some reason, I slept like 14 hours, voke up around 4PM and missed the first part of our HNMLS event (ENM and Einherjar). When I logged in there was a nice LS message waiting: "You guys are late." I have no idea why I slept so long and I felt really bad about coming late to the event.

Well, we went to sky and did a couple of BB, a MG and four Suzakus. Suzaku decided to be a bitch and 2hr firaga III just when I was singing for the tanks. I died.



In the evening we had Dynamis-Xarca which went about as badly as it can go. I lost around 6K exp. Good times.



This DL quote kind of summed it up for me:



I'm also having some personal issues with one of our dynamis LS leaders. I'm concidering leaving the shell, no point for me to be there if it only gets me in a bad mood. And I don't want to be lead by a person who thinks our linkshell rules don't consern him and he can do whatever he wants and be rude to other members. But well, I don't want to create any drama so I won't post anything else here.

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: