A hard-fought victory
At lasssssssssst I beat the (apparantly) underwhelmi1ngly easy WoTG 7 on the 8th try. I gave up on trying as DRG as it's pretty much impossible to avoid dying to Chaos Blade, so I made 4 attempts on RDM/NIN.
The first fight went well, despite him completely wiping my buffs twice, wasting a ton of MP then cursing me just after convert, so I had no MP for the last 15% of his life. I got him down to 1%(!) with just melee attacks until he petrified me (I didn't notice the move being readied as I was focusing on keeping shadows up). I didn't react well to this defeat:
If I remembered the Elixir that I had in my safe, I would have won this one...
The second and third attempts of the day were defeated each time by the retardedly potent (80% at least) Paralyze additional effect he has on one of his TP moves. I managed to survive for another 5mins+ each time despite this, but it just didn't wear off even with barparalyze on. I probably could have won here if I had remedies. I didn't want to spend a ton on meds though if there was still a good chance of me losing some other way, not to mention I wouldn't be surprised if I lost them all to paralyze.
For the final attempt I just used Chainspell at the end (but I had really already won by then, I just wanted to make sure it happened this time) and the Elixir from my safe (which was actually more detrimental than anything, because it took forever to use and shadows/stoneskin had been wiped by the time I could cast again) which was a waste because he just cursed me again after using it. Fight took 10 mins.
I'm glad this is over with, now I can get the new quests done and keep my WoTG progress up to date.
This is a pretty epic fight, and it shows how gimp I am for struggling so much with it, when a blm can just stand there meleeing it...
I'm thinking I should have gone /blu or something and supertanked it, because in that video he's taking 30~50 damage from hits, wheras I was taking 100~200 (250 crits) on both RDM and DRG. DRG would have been much easier if I'd eaten a taco then, I guess :\
Only six quests total to get through, three of which are just cutscenes (yay) and the others involve fights (for which you need to keep NPCs alive, so not soloable).
Impulse Drive progress!
I discovered that I needed a Sahagin Key to get the the WSNM, which is obtained through this quest. I needed beastcoins, and lots of them.
There was only one mythril coin on the Jeuno AH, so I had the mad idea that it would be easy enough to farm the others. I learn that the gobs outside the Altepa outpost can drop them, so I stab at those for the next hour or so. No coins at all, I get about 4k in gil drops (I changed to /thf at one point and they began dropping 100gil+ thanks to gilfinder) and give up. Only now it occurs to me that I could check each town's AH, and find 8 for sale in Sandy.
So off I go to Sea Serpent Grotto, and look who I bump into:
My old friend Charybdis! I'm not really being sarcastic there, we're actually on good terms. I don't have any horror stories about camping him, nor any epic struggle to defeat him before getting my Joyeuse. Chary is a pretty cool guy (or is it a girl?).
But anyway, apparantly intimidated by my fiendish emoting of the NM they're camping, they decide to claim it ASAP before any of them are ready and they're mid-fight with a water elemental. Needles to say they wiped, as well as MPKing all of the people there who were afk for the ToD. Kinda my fault for pressing them into claiming so early, but meh. Not like I did it on purpose, or expecting them to react like that. So I gave them a raise, went off to finish my key quest. I came back later to watch them fight it again (all died but for one RDM, who managed to kite it until they recovered - which was impressive, because he deleveled to 74 in the wipe earlier and was full-timing a shield/wand combo, along with most errant gear (which isn't necessarily bad stuff, just srsly don't use the body for Bind - I used to do this when I first hit 75, thinking INT still had an effect on potency for sleep/bind/grav. Fortunately I learned the error of my ways before anyone could call me out on it, so ha!).
Walk without rythm, it won't attract the worm.
Of course, you want to attract Sandworms in FFXI.
We got swallowed eventually and encountered Guivre inside - a great opportunity to avenge my death at his teeth so many years ago!
Full drops! :O
I got given 100k for helping, along with the (50k) skull that Xarp won & gave to me since I passed before they said it was free lot. Not a bad haul, especially considering they were doing me a favour more than anything; letting me fight something I'd otherwise never get to see.
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