Savul-Kivul

My beloved adventuring fellow. Let me tell you something about him.


2005 ed.

I first met him at level 41. The quests to be able to call him, and the subsequent NM fights which I remember having trouble with as the poor little guy kept dying trying to tank them.

I also remember the queues. Oh god, the queues. Looking back on it now, I'm quite impressed that people actually waited in line with nothing more than common courtesy forcing them to do so. I wonder if people would do the same nowadays.


Alot of early leveling (30~40) was done in Rolanberry due to its proximity to the (then) busiest town, Jeuno, and the abundance of farmable mobs (bees, crawlers, Goobbue).

I first gave him a Great Katana, entirely because I thought it looked cool and progressed through the higher level GKTs (at immense cost might I add) only now I've realised that it does nothing more than change the weapon's model.
I later swapped him over to Great Axe, because of the utility of some of the weaponskills (Weapon/Shield/Armour Break) and because Sturmwind, and later Raging Rush was pretty decent damage. Iron Tempest was really the only -bad- WS he could do. As I'm unable to find any relevant screenshots of him from around this period (likely 2006/7), here's an artist's impression of what he might have looked like:




Currently he's using Axe/Shield because I was using him to tank when I levelled a few jobs to 37 (DRG, BLU, SAM) earlier this year. Most of the WS's suck though, and even Rampage does crappy damage, so I'll change him back to a 2-handed weapon when I finally get him to the cap. He should have access to Tachi: Gekko or Kasha I think, which are broken weaponskills so I might have him back on GKT.


2008 ed.
I've only really logged on this week (midterms coming up and I need to revise more) to level him in Grauberg [S] which is a really nice camp exp-wise, he's gone from 65 to 67 in 4/5 calls. I found that subbing /sam and depending on him to heal was more cost-effective than a mage sub, and made for faster kills (although the downtime for MP might even that out). His current armour has been the same since level 40, while it looks pretty cool, I don't think it accurately reflects his high level, so that's another thing to look into after changing his weapon. Hopefully I'll have enough fellow points from calling him here to be able to make his appearance more impressive.


I got a couple of merits out of it, and managed to cap Polearm. Now onto Group 2, dump a couple of spare merits into jump recasts (not sure which ones yet) and I'll be done.


And finally; an Assault I did at some point, but can't quite remember:


32/51 to captain! (I'm not in the shot because I'd just used Super Jump before taking it)


Today's entry was brought to you by team Kaya

(I could have sworn they added more than just one fellow emote, but all I could get him to do was /bow)