My highest wheeling and penta thrust so far, only food and Angon for these so there's alot more potential there with Hasso, Bard/Corsair buffs.
Three runs of PFC, and we disband with me at 15000/20000 points toward my next objective.
After that, I'll go for Captain (31/51 ...sigh) and look into Nyzul (primarily to make progress on my disk, but I seem to have missed the boat as far as statics are concerned).
Well, shortly after that assault party disbanded, I see another shout for a FL assault in the same area.
Wasn't the most complex one I've done to be honest. The objective was pretty much 'kill this hydra lol' with no adds, no wierd gimmicks to find it or make it spawn, just go in and kill (well aside from the spike flail-esque move it can do if you give it TP at the wrong moment, but we were prepared for that!). Penta still outdamaged Wheeling, I'm yet to encounter a situation where Wheeling is preferable. 1500 points + first time bonus left me only 2500 from 20k points. I'll just finish off by getting the clears in that area (unless I get no intrest from shouts, then I'll just spam PFC some more).
Adventuring Fellow Action!
Maat fight from Maat's perspective?
I crushed the poor guy. I meditated to 300% TP before entering, which was wiped upon entry (thanks wiki!) and I was dumb enough not to wait for the recast to be ready, so had to make do without it. He was some kinda crazy BST/NIN combo with a Great Sword, and a devastatingly powerful pet (read: lolcrabs). I got lucky with interrupting Jubaku and Utsusemi with Jumps and Penta Thrust, but after 1 WS and a couple of Spirit Surged jumps he gave up. Dissappointing performance, Savul! (I expected better from him...) :(
I dumped a bunch of Fellow Points into his duration - since there's not much else to spend it on, other than silly hats (that said, I might get a chef's hat or opo-opo crown for him).
I helped someone with their WHM AF3 fight too. Well...tried to. I was reluctant at first after seeing what else they had brought with them (60-something THF and horrendously gimp NIN, who ended up spectating for some reason) and having heard of unpleasant encounters with this NM.
Needless to say, it didn't end well. Dimensional Death rapes hard, and it spams -aga nukes like there's no tomorrow (which for us, there wasn't). I could have offered to come back as RDM or something, but even then I didn't see myself winning without resorting to kite/DoT crap.
I spent some time leveling with Savul, but not as long as I would have liked due to a few unfortunate deaths and disconnections. He's just short of 66 now, with Grauberg Hippogryphs being level 71-75 he should be getting some nice exp. I've gotten the art of fighting them down pretty well now, I'm usually fine if I save TP for after they use Choke Breath (Silence and Paralyze) so I can WS to trigger Remove Paralyze from the blue rat, use echo drops (if it's not nearly dead) and carry on all smiles. Until it uses the terror move on me and another one links while I'm immobile. It would be nice to set NPC AI to "Don't cure me, but remove status ailments and buff etc." which would fit DRG soloing fantastically, but kind of too well to be fair on other jobs. Pffft. Or set him to only cure when I'm in red HP! That wouldn't be too bad at all...
Hippogryphs suck, but they die fast. I've been trying to think of safer, squishier alternatives to level him on, but nothing else comes to mind. But as these are lv. 71 minium, then they're ideal for leveling him to the 70 cap (they will always be Tough~).
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