Partying and...partying.

I meant to do some Assaults this week, but found no time to do it and ended up riding along on 4/4 tags. Irritatingly enough, I'm seeing alot of shouts for Leujaoam Cleansing, specifically asking for a RDM - naturally only when I'm otherwise engaged. A shame, because I'd like points for that area.

I got an invite on RDM (woo). Seeing it was from a BLM, I think "Ok, no super-awesome TP-burn megaexp, but a manaburn is still good for a bit of a change" so I accept. The next guy he invites has fairly low MP, which I thought was odd - but then again maybe it's a bard or corsair. I check his job - a paladin. "Oh my, maybe he's going to change jobs?" Next was a thief, and then a warrior, and hi2u 2005 pt.


I concluded that the guy was either a sadist trying to torture us with a slow party, or he just hadn't played for a while and assumed that was still the done thing. We did get a bard though, poor thing.

I stuck with it for old times' sake, and really shouldn't have. It felt pretty much the same as any other merit party, just with less exp to be had. Probably the desired state of nostalgia would have been achieved if we went to fight something in Ro'Maeve or Bibiki Bay, but we instead went to Mamool Ja staging point. Also, needed moar organised skillchains and magic bursts... if I remember, Mistral Axe and Shark Bite could have made a Light skillchain. The paladin wutted me slightly when I saw him using his RSE II over AF boots, not an optimal choice in my opinion, but not completely thoughtless. Besides, he did a good enough job.
After a couple of hours of brushing the dizzying height of 8k/hour, I get sleepy and head off to bed.


Better parties were to be found on BLU the following day. Better parties with better screenshots (shame I forgot /names).


Looking very cool using Burst Affinity to magic burst Bomb Toss, resulting in the same amount of damage, for more MP than if I'd just used Bludgeon.

Party was nice though, much better than what I've put up with before now. Our PUP was tanking for most of it, until we invited a Paladin a while later, but I was really impressed with it, the Automaton was debuffing, healing its master and nuking a bit too, not to mention the pair of the skillchaining frequently (although it did require the master using the hideously weak One Inch Punch weapon skill).

I do like PUP on the whole, but I'm not particularily interested in leveling it myself, for a start it seems pretty complex with all the different elemental manoevers and attachments and frames and heads and whatnot. Secondly, if I was to level it, I'd want to play the job at its best and appreciate all the versatility it has, which means craploads of attachments to buy and mess around with. Thirdly, I just plain don't like the clown-suit AF, and finally Automatons are creepy:


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Pros for the job is that it's rare and interesting, and that pet /emotes are cool, but DRG has pet emotes and has more sexy.