Gurfurlur the Menacing, Ouryu + misc events

I've been fairly busy lately, but too busy to write anything decent here, plus just writing about events is yawn.



So, sea LS did some rampaging in Halvung on our way to Gurfurlur. Attendance wasn't great so it was a late start unfortunately.


I was on adds duty again, and they're complete pushovers to tank (2 RNGs and 2 PLDs). Not that I actually tanked them, but Ranger mobs are the easiest thing in the game to hold, and Paladins aren't exactly very offensive.


Hate on the adds was messy throughout (RNGs were being jerks for some reason) and positioning didn't go as planned, so they ended up running around and linking random trolls which we then had to have the DDs deal with.


But the fight with the big guy went smoothly throughout...until the last 20%


At this point he starts using a fun AoE-"every bad status effect you can think of" move, and we lost both tanks to something, so he moved into AoE range of everyone and proceeded to do what he does best: menace folk.


And boy, were we menaced.

More Recently...
...Limbus didn't drop any AF materials I need, limbus sucks.
...Salvage gave us skadi x2 from LAC, and skadi + marduk junk from BC, which wasn't wasted at least but nothing we have 35's for. No 35's dropped of course (and we took the wrong porter after fully unlocking for 5fN on our last ZR run, orz). Zhayolm needs more practice, and we need to be faster (plus I want to do 6f!) and I need more assault points, argh!

...Campaign lost me a medal, I'll try to make an effort this month not to lose another else I'm going down a rank. Lousy event.

Tarutaru galore though!

...I've started helping DaFunk with Einherjar, partly because I'm nice like that, and partly because I get to leech Therion Ichor for some nice items; mainly Morgana's choker and Aslan cape for converts/MND builds. Downside is I won't get any abjurations or Vork but it's not like I'd be able to seek out a successful einherjar shell that wants me anyway.



Most Recently!
Did some Ouryu killin'. I was in charge of kiting elementals and babysitting melees as they killed worms and just generally take damage.


The elemental gets kind of annoying after 20 minutes, it starts resisting sleep and runs out of MP so you can't aspir it anymore. I ended up just casting slow on it and letting it hit me with ice spikes on (added paralyze effect!) so I could just ignore it after that with stoneskin/phalanx absorbing damage. Suggesting that the melees kill it because there's no reason for it to be alive anymore was met with a 'lolno' until Gohan said they should kill it, then promptly did. No wonder I'm so hostile to people who don't pay attention to how back line jobs work!

And completely unrelated, I'm meeting ALOT of RDMs recently who have a dalmatica but no relic hat. WHAT IS WITH THAT?