These are those occurances that just make my day that little bit better.
After two minutes of flagging up on Dragoon, still getting my gear ready:
Like I need to be convinced to join, I'll take anything as DRG...
The AH is also being kind to me:
I'm going to be selling these as soon as I get Tarasque +1 mitts, but the person who has the only pair on the AH at the moment thought it would be ok to mark up the price by 15%, so I'll wait a bit more. Also, selling my Dark Mezraq which has gone up again since I bought it! Shame the new (Colossal) lance looks pretty plain.
I had a little adventure in Nashmau as well when I went there to solo in the mire a few days ago. I forgot my AF so I ended up talking to every NPC in the town looking for an armour storage NPC. I did not succeed.
I did however develop a liking for the Qiqirn and their amusing dialogue, especially Pipiroon boasting of his (her?) non-existant array of weapons.
I also encountered some Galka being Harrassed...
...which turned out to be part of a quest I never finished, the subsequent completion of which netted me a shiny imperial silver piece. Using my amazing talent of logical thinking, I traded the silver piece with the currency NPC to obtain 5 bronze pieces, three of which I THEN traded to the Ashu Talif quest guy, to flag a BC I'll never do!
Obviously, we can't neglect the things that I don't like to see either, of which there are many. Campaign, as a whole, being one of them (although I don't hate it quite as much now I've achived the max rank and no longer feel obliged to take part).
Why is this picture so unpleasant? Well, we can see that a new wave of Yagudo have shown up, this is not neccessarily bad as without them Campaign would be a bit tame. The problems lie in that there are hardly any Allied NPCs (there were about three left, half-dead from the previous wave) to help fight them, so it's down to the rag tag bunch of adventurers to kill a horde of enemies with what only can be accurately described as a metric fuck ton of HP EACH. Also note that there are a large quantity of said adventurers in the path of the beastman onslaught, who are naturally going to start running around in a blind panic towards anyone else, usually the weakened people resting to one side (read: me) apparantly bonus points are awarded for MPKing large clusters of half dead/low level/afk people. Moo Ouzi is an absolute pain as well, so his presence is just salt in the wound, and this is already a pretty big wound, with a compound fracture and it's turning gangrenous.
This is how campaign makes me feel. I also hate the tedium of having to wail on Fortifications for 30 mins+. It's great if I have something else to do and just afk while I'm at it, but that's not often.
But even I will admit there are worse things than messy Campaign battles, such as parties caming in Nyzul Isle/Caedarva Mire (Hediva Isle I think it's called). It sucks.
The fact that I arrive to see a 5 front line/ 1 back line party set up makes me want to start up an internet hate campaign against the leader, only encouraged by the fact he decides he's suddenly sleepy as soon as I arrive and is going to disband. Why the hell invite another person for 10 minutes? It's not even like it was another member who suddenly was leaving, but the very same guy who invites me. Also, pulling in this camp sucks, because there's Soulflayers about, which aggro magic, job abilities, true sound, everything - and can happily wipe a party of 75's without a bard (guess what we didn't have :D). Of course, I have two different parties here (why did I come back a second time...?) and in both, a mix of Warriors, Samurai, Dark knights, etc. - none have a ranged weapon. Seriously, I don't care if it's any good or if they have their skill with it capped, just something to pull with if we don't have a dedicated puller. I'd do it, if the only ranged attack I have available wasn't pebbles... people really need to consider what they can do with their jobs outside of just hitting mobs.
Oooooh it makes me so mad. Anyway, it seems I've managed to regress into whinging about stuff again (and I was hoping for a positive post :() so I'll just carry on with that now. DRG is going downhill in the damage department, maybe (hopefully) because my lance was getting outdated, I wasn't winning parses by such a large margin any more, and in fact Samurai are starting to out damage me (Tachi: Gekko seems to effortlessly do more damage than I can manage with either Penta Thrust or Wheeling Thrust) but I've still technically been top of each party by a small margin if I include my Wyvern's damage in addition to my own.
Having reached 70 now, I need to finish off getting the gear I want in the 70's (in particular I need to make a bigger effort getting Aurum booties and Paluwhan head/legs).
Anyway, the September version update is going to be occurring on the 8th, which is great news for my pessimistic side was expecting it to be set back to late September. I'll probably do the obligatory update highlights post while I'm updating or the day after, assuming I have nothing on. Now here's hoping that there is something extra to this update other than the annoucements they already made, because those are pretty epic enough already. We'll see.
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