Something about nothing.

You'd have thought six days would have been enough for me to write something interesting, but apparantly not. The Version Update comes later today, which is always worth a mention.

What've I been up to?

Dragoon is now just into 39, despite not having a party since 35. I've been using this guide to level, else I'd never have thought to use Vunkerl Inlet as a camp.
I stayed for an extra level so not to waste my Emperor Band, and exp was still pretty decent at 38 (majority of pops were DC, but a few birds would still be EM) but I failed to cap polearm skill, so that's a fair few levels behind now. Sigil Regen and Food Duration + are great additions, although Regen can kinda screw up healing breath triggers, it wasn't often. Sigil Refresh is awesome, and I never had to stop to rest thanks to it, as well as being able to keep Cocoon up 100% of the time.






Another alternative camp to this is the Dhalmels in Sarutabarura [S]. They aren't particularily dangerous and there were a good few even match ones at 37, but I imagine they're killable at 35/36 - just need to watch out for a silence gaze attack, which is possible to avoid if you're quick, I only managed it on one out of five attacks. Echo drops and /blu are more or less essential for here, since they have a defence down move as well that Cocoon overwrites. They were missing me alot as well, so either they have poor accuracy (loldrg evasion) or just Sigil offers the same evasion/defence bonus as Signet vs. EM and lower mobs.


This area can support a ton of parties, there are plenty of Dhalmels and they're on fast repops (I'd guess 5 minutes) so competition wouldn't be a problem (like there's any competition for WoTG camps anyway) just watch out for links and the occasional Yagudo that wander into the far East area of the camp.

I also teamed up with Flam and Xarp to level some jobs in the 30's - it'd been a long, long time since I'd gotten THF to 30 and I figured I might as well take the opportunity to get it closer to 37 in case I need it for DRG. We tried worms in Attowha Chasm, but these ended up being weaker than we expected so didn't give great exp - we fought some Hecteyes as well, thanks to the joy of a PL. Eyes were bastards, but gave better exp at least. And thanks to (2) dagger merits from RDM, I could use Viper Bite at 31 so I won't need to use swords on thf anymore! Huzzah!



Campaign still sucks, I'm very close to getting Cuddles level 60 (300exp to go) before I go and do G3 with him and start seeking parties again. To my annoyance, I finally got an invite on him when I wasn't seeking (this is after a good many hours of seeking with no invites) and only 2k exp until the level cap.
Kaya still needs to earn the final medal back before the update, so I'm ready for whatever WoTG crap they decide to throw in. Sadly, I didn't manage to finish CoP before they added new missions but I'm more than happy with what progress I have made since I finished ToAU.

Sky yielded another skillup:


Three more levels on club and I'll have another happy blue number in my combat skills. Next up will either be the agonising process of capping Archery or Throwing (at least I won't have to be engaged for those though). I'll level Staff on DRG, will only need that at around 110 since it's only subjob level (whm or blm) for RDM. Shield and parrying will need dedicated skillup sessions, which I've not found time for at all recently.

Falling under the 'other misc. accomplishments' catagory is my unlocking of the Chief Sergeant quest (which is yet to be completed, I've got to do something with mushrooms in Aydeewa Subterrane).


Lol, Abquhbah. Gotta pity the poor guy.


Aaaand finally, I got a Swift Belt.


Which I'm incredibly grateful for, mine was one of two that dropped (of 5 total pops). Sadly there were no subligars that anyone wanted (lots were after THF, all that dropped were 2 DRKs and 1 BLM if I remember) I secretly wanted DRG and RDM, but neither dropped anyway. There will be other times to grab 'em. A small thing that I think is worth mentioning: do not bring Dancers to subligar/codex runs, because they fucking suck. GOD I hate dancers.








...kidding! I don't like DNC anyway but that's not the point - fomors have a non-DNC friendly move that reduces everyone's TP to 0, thus making DNC pretty useless. Plus we were low on healing (2 RDMs, 2 DNCs) so it was even more noticeable.

This puts me at 12% haste in gear on RDM (and DRG when it's 75) but I'm not sure at which point I should start using haste gear on DRG. At the moment, I think I'll use the belt from 50~ as long as I have the spell Haste on me, otherwise I'll just use a life belt. I think that 12% is ok to use for TP, maybe when I cap Polearm merits.
Can't wait to try it out! :D

As for now, A campaign battle has just started, and Cuddles is gonna get his level and ding into that ever-so-sexy Strike Subligar he's had sitting around for ages.