A triumphant moment!

I forgot take a picture when I hit 75, so this montage will have to suffice.

Yes, the SCH was meleeing.


DRG TP gear (gimp sub!):

Kinda meh, gold boots (god I really do go on about those damn things, I mention them every day I swear hahaha) would make it pretty decent and I'll upgrade the legs to something (Dusk? Pahluwan?) when I have money/time.

Wheeling Thrust:

I guess I could use some STR rings here, obviously Heca and Potent Belt would be improvements too. Pretty lame STR at the moment, but that is unbuffed and without food. (Also lame base STR, I might merit that after drg-specifics)

PentaRAWR:

Once again, Hecatomb pieces and Potent Belt - I'll probably keep acc rings on for this though.
(I'll keep trying UO shouts until I get a Peacock charm)

Also on the DRG to-do list:
Chanoix's Gorget Is a nice easy questable item that has a pretty zomg chunk of +Wyvern HP on it. Apparantly both RDM and DRG can solo it easily.

Impulse drive quest! Supposed to be a pretty lame WS (aren't all the quested ones?) compared to what I already have, but no reason not to have it!

Buffalo, Chigoes and Marids!

Silly Buffalo-herding event turned out to be pretty easy (despite being hit back to Windurst Waters twice) once I discovered they weren't all the same and ceased my efforts to round up the bulls.

The rewards!

Costumes that could actually be used outside of town led to some exciting chigoe-based adventures while waiting for Dynamis-Valkurm.


Many a brave chigoe fell during the long trek across the desert.


Isolated travelers stood no chance against the might of the chigoe horde!


As dusk approached, the valiant chigoe warband was ambushed by a scheming gaggle of adventurers. They fought bravely, and gave not one inch to their foes. None survived the encounter - the adventurers had brought Raid.




I forgot the exact number but at least I can tell from this I've over 400 beastman seals, along with 103 Kindred seals. Now if I could just exchange the damn things for a random chance of getting a Peacock Charm, it would save me the trouble of repeating the BC 10 times.

Iriz Ima?!

The vile beast was slain! Huzzah! ...no drops though :/
It really is ultra easy, I managed to do it in just over 30 mins without even trying to go all out, I just made sure I was making full use of convert. With /blm and a little more effort I see a rdm doing it in 25 mins, but you'd have to be alot more careful with only stoneskin and blink to rely on. I'll just stick with /nin so there's no chance to screw up in future, I can spare the extra 5 mins if I'm honest (but hopefully I won't need to go through tier 1 and 2 again!).

I'm ready to pop Armed Gears once more, just need bodies to throw at it, or another 4/5 hours to spare.

Fun with bombs.

...



...this is why I need to get a HQ soultrapper. 60 seconds between shots makes the whole process take far too long. I've got a good amount of Imperial Standing from exping now though, so I should be able to afford the coins.


New costumes! Not sure where they are from, but the Chigoe one is a consumable item rather than an enchantment.

First Lieutenant, First Xarcabard and First tier ZNMs!

Too many doing Nyzul...

Shouts for random assault clears are getting rarer these days, thanks to the improvements to Nyzul (or maybe everyone is Captain already?). Of course I'd like to work on my Runic Disk for when I want to get the new WS (you need to work off something absurd like 5~7k weapon skill points if your disk is at floor 1).

Anyway, this one had us getting various status detriments on us and talking to the NPC so he could analyze them. It's peculiar but not particularily hard, as long as you have a bit of luck on TP moves from mobs.


Promotion quest! This isn't something you see every day...


When I say first Xarcabard...


I do of course refer to our first Dynamis-Xarcabard post drop rate adjustment patch.




This was I think the second pull? Two mobs killed and we get a 100 piece and NIN hands, which gave alot of hope for the rest of the run. Of course, the drops after this point didn't live up to expectations, although WHM hands dropped towards the end, which were becoming something of a myth judging by people's reactions.





Cheesy Hedonist, lol.

One must take time to appreciate item descriptions such as these once in a while.

Also duoed Gigiroon with Arc (I appeased his efforts with a BLU sword, hope it comes in handy! '-'), and I've been busy farming zeni so I'm ready to pop Iriz Ima and Armed gears again now, best get back to praying for boots. And I'm not gonna attempt it again without at least 6 BLMs/ranged DD's.

People keep inviting my DRG to camps, and then leaving/disbanding/getting someone else before I get there without even saying a thing until I get there and ask where the hell they are. GAH.

...Well, I say they 'keep' doing this, it's happened about 4 times (but twice just this night)...my point is this never happened once from 18~70. Back to seeking in JP prime it is!

Hecatomb, humiliation and holy crap it's X's knife!

I missed the sale of a pair of cursed gloves for 360k by one minute, because I was bidding low, and ended up paying 390k. :\


At least I've got something to swap in for WS other than a belt now. It's sad that I never actually got to use Tarasque +1 since buying them (only in level sync parties, where they gave less attack than the Spiked Finger Gauntlets that I can't seem to get rid of (the price dropped by 90k in 3 sales). Waste of moneeeeeeeey :(


How do you die to Genbu?

I was on the phone and didn't have enough hands to move before converting. Seriously I saw that water breath coming from a mile off. Genbu is a clever bastard sometimes.



! First time doing the fight, too. It was really messy, but that just made it more fun :D I really enjoyed those fights, despite the trip to get there. Grats to Xarp for his shiny new toy!

There is no god.

Four and a half hours.

Never again.

Merits, yet more level sync and BCNM joy!

Will this level sync madness never end?!

(beats the hell out of sitting in Whitegate, but since buying my level 70 stuff, I've had no chance to use it thanks to level scaling)


Level 59 Lesser Colibri party go! Vast majority of the members were tarus, so I had to oblige and join them.


It was great for a while until the leader decided we had to change to level 55 for some reason, so kills slowed down significantly as we didn't have a bard.

I managed to get 50k exp (so half way to 74) today in Caedarva, and thanks to our SCH's AoE stoneskin, it was relatively painless. I'm burnt out from exping though D:
Seriously need to sort my gear out now before I carry on. Plus I need to catch up with my Polearm skill, thanks to having level sync parties almost exclusively since it came out, it's fallen behind.


Merits!


I found out drawdistance goes the other way too, so at least Bhaflau Thickets is less taxing on my eyes - I hate the crappy textures/colours in that area, looks so nasty and eats my cpu. I love how you can see the Alzadaal ruins from most places around Aht Urhgan areas though - the sea route from Nashmau to Al Zahbi is a strong contender for my favouite looking zone. I should make a list of them sometime.

Anyway, I have 9 merits stored now, ready to dump into four levels of Polearm skill when I hit 75.


Under Observation love!


Only decent drop out of three runs, but I might be able to afford a brutal earring now :O

I'm glad I got competant people this time, it's restored my faith in pickup BCNM groups again after the last two times...