I joined a party and we completed CoP.

Thought I'd start with a nice looking screenshot. I don't think today's topic takes much explaining, really.

Pot Fight!

Went very well, with a setup of NIN, MNK, BLU, RDM, BLM, BLM. I was subbing BLM for an extra Elmental seal/sleepga, which we didn't need in the end as the first three pots were dead before the second BLM's sleep wore off. Normally, this fight requires a party to purposefully wipe/reraise/recover before finishing but we managed to complete it without a wipe. I did nothing spectacular, just acted as a curemonkey for the whole thing.



As things went so well, and we were all geared up and ready, we went straight onto the final fight.


CoP spoilers! D:

Awesome BC, it has to be said. Slight change in the setup this time; one BLM changed to RDM and the other to RNG. We got dicked.


Well, sort of. On his second form, Promathia decided that all the DDs needed to die suddenly, so that happened. Us RDMs burnt all our MP & converts trying (and ultimately failing) to keep them alive. Got chased around a bit until Prishe finally got hate at which point nobody had MP to cure her. Fortunately, I'm awesome and remembered to bring my trusty Hi-elixir that I've had around since I did this quest so with a happy extra 500MP to play with, I kept her alive while our other RDM helped the DDs get up and recover to secure the win. Sadly I missed the killshot thanks to him throwing up magic resistance just as I start chainspell nuking. Well we won, which is what matters I guess...




There was a suspicious individual on the Manaclipper ride to Purgonorgo Isle, but it wasn't too bad if I kept to the opposite side of the boat.

I was thrown off by the confusion around Louverance's back story with the red mask Louverance and the purple mask Louverance and whatnot so I just assumed it all ended for the better.


New Gear!

So, after completing all the appropriate cutscenes, I opted for my long-awaited Tamas Ring (giving me +1 MND/INT on respective spells and -3 enmity & +30MP full time), and already regretting not choosing Rajas after 5 minutes of leveling Dragoon. As I'd promised myself I'd get a Loq. earring after completing CoP, I got a Loq. earring after completing CoP.


I paid about 617k total, which is a fair bit more than I wanted to part with, but I got impatient. :(

A tasty new fast cast enhancement, +15MP full time over my last earring, and new possibilities for convert ratio combined with Tamas? Let's see:

Uhm, not really? Before : After pic shows /whm converts now yield 1056 rather than the previous 1045, and /blm gives 1063 instead of 1047. Winnar.
I think I now need a serket ring or AF+1/Goliard body/Crimson scale mail to improve my convert ratio. I could always use a club/shield combo, but I really would rather keep a light staff on for curing afterwards (which is what I usually spend my surplus MP on anyway).


It's fine as it is really, I often find myself wasting alot of MP switching into enfeebling gear anyway. Besides, I'd rather start getting Communion earrings before a Serket ring.


Other stuff!
I've completed the Chief Sergeant quest, so I'm only two ranks from the max (excluding Captain, which I'm something stupid like 20/50 on). This time, had to make some rustkiller out of mushrooms from Adeeywa(?) Subterrane for Naja's 'spiky friend'.


I do enjoy my promotion quests.


Got a party on Dragoon, it was ok but didn't last long, we disbanded and I made another one a bit later on which was entirely Japanese bar myself, but Auto-translate was sufficient to decide on a camp.


I hesitantly invited a Warrior who told me his main weapon was a polearm (causing bad flashbacks of the ROFLWAR from the Jungles), which ended up working out very well - it turned out he actually knew what he was doing, and he consistantly outdamaged me on all but a few weaponskills, and part-time tanking with the Ninja (it might have been down to him having 2 levels on me, and my polearm skill being fairly underleveled). I was impressed nonetheless. I got 39~42 from that party, but still didn't cap polearm (was only over two or three hours). Eventually my members had to go to bed, so I went afk for a while.

Also, I observed 'lolDRG' jokes are valid cross-culturally:


Coming back later, I got an invite to an absolutely abysmal party which is still stubbornly dragging itself, half dead, its blood-filled lungs drawing in thier final, rattling gasps until the point where it will finally collapse lifeless along the long road to level 75. Then maybe I can be at peace, and go to bed.

And I'm still not going to cap Polearm before I level. What the hell am I doing wrong?

New development: our melee RDM just got himself killed converting next to a fly spamming cursed sphere, rofls.

Too late to proof read, another time. Waaah.