Clears until Captain: 12.

Searat Salvation is only a Corporal assault, so it wasn't hard to get people for it. While it looks easy on paper, the fish can really ruin your day, especially towards the end of the assault. Makes it worse that you can't make the rats follow you again until the fish stops chasing them. We cleared in plenty of time, I cheated a bit and forced the qiqirn to run towards the objective (Aaahhh! Dooon't eeet meeee!). But we still stayed until the end trying to get the last 3 rounded up for extra points, finally getting them there with less than 30 seconds remaining. Exciting stuff :D

This was followed by another Nyzul pick-up group doing 1~5. Once I had joined the leader filled up with 5 DDs, which nearly made me rage quit right away. I stayed in hope of numerous and humerous deaths to soulflayers because I was feeling spiteful and wanted to say 'I told you so'.

We gathered.

Now I normally don't post gear shots of people, but this is probably the worst case of "SELL THAT CLUB AND SORT YOURSELF OUT YOU MESS" I've ever seen. WAR/NIN by the way.


(so much for anonimity, orz) That said, the run actually went well and we cleared successfully (which was down to awesome luck really, no lamps, no soulflayers - the only 'hard' floor we had was all slimes and I had a casting time pathos). Killed 2 NMs, both dropped a NIN katana (lol) and the only NIN there already had it. Both ??? drops were also appraised as the NM drops which were junk anyway, so that person has wasted all their appraisal luck on a Malflood ring and Nightmare Gloves so is doomed to get nothing but bone earrings for the rest of eternity.

But the fun doesn't end there!


I did the last Bastok Wings of the Goddess mission with another pick-up group, which was pretty difficult with just the three of us towards the end, when we got swamped by three waves of Quadav, the NPC would have died (it was hard keeping hate off her for some reason) if I hadn't used chainspell to cure her and sleep everything. Definately wouldn't have done it if I wasn't /blm.

SE are doing a good job with these cutscenes as well, they seem a world apart from the stuff that you got in the old/zilart even CoP zones. Definately on par with the Aht Urghan stuff.