March Madness
Please ignore the blatant copyright infringement, but that's the only thing I can think about when I reflect on my adventures this past month. SD has been fairly busy getting involved in things such as new Dynamis death marches, Sea scuba diving, King camps, Sky soaring, and our brand new attraction, Wyrm watching. Aside from that, my personal adventures of npc leveling, samurai leveling, and finishing up my ultimate monk template.
Our Dynamis runs haven't been all the great, with only one victory to this date. The new areas are really not for the feint of heart, or the nerves of straw, or whatever cliche rocks your boat. However, our normal area Dynamis have become more of a routine. I've been trying to get my hands on blm af2 body, or hat and monk af2 head. However, it's been so long since they've dropped when I was around, that it doesn't really matter if I get them or not. Maybe I can start eyeing out those samurai af, or maybe the new jobs.
Our Sea trips usually consisted of running through limbus, grabbing coins, and running out to afk. However, this month marks the start of Sea gods. Farming for drops here makes sky look like a walk in the park. The linkshell has been pretty ambitious with it, and just recently won over Jailer of Hope. Unfortunately, our hopes were shattered when hope decided not to drop the virtue we needed. So, it's back through the gauntlet again for more drops. However, the good thing about doing gods over like this is that we have more chances to win some rare torques. In my case, I won myself the Faith Torque. I'm pretty happy with it, and it really helps my monk template.
King camps have been going on as usual, but this month marks the first time I actually claimed something! Even though it was just Behemoth, it was my behemoth. It was also a show of what a true taru monk can do. I ended up tanking it, thank god for the cure bombs. The linkshell also managed to grab a few kings in as well. Aspid was won with our ninja sneak abilities to confuse our competition on when the pop time actually was. King Behemoth was a result of a few people holding it while SD army flew in from Dragon's Aery. Finally, Nidhogg was won just because of the pure numbers lagging the competition. I'm sure people got some stuff, not going to go into it, it's posted on the linkshell website.
Our Sky trips have picked up since Emulsion decided to take over and actually organize some runs. Hopefully, he can organize something that will let me get rid of these seals I've been holding on to forever. With all these sky runs going on, I was able to obtain another piece in order to upgrade to Cait 3.0, a d.head abjuration. The cursed kabuto has been sitting in my mog house for a good while, and was quickly uncursed soon after that sky trip was over. Now I'm just waiting at my chance to fight byakko for a d.leg so I can complete my monk. Soon, my samurai will start looking for a chance to win a damascus ingot so I can get a haub crafted. Stay tuned when my samurai starts to become as powerful as my monk.
SD has now gotten itself involved in the extermination of the world wyrms. To this date, we've taken out Jorg, Vtra, and Tiamat. My friend Semma hacked her lot to get a pair of those Herald gaiters. However, she has much to learn if she wants to matrix kite like me. I just find it more exciting and interesting when we do wyrms as a ls, because I know the people who get the drops will be there for the next wyrm.
So, that covers my linkshell activities. Now on to my personal ones. First, I finally got my npc to level 65, which is the level cap at the moment. Zoldof now has Adaman armor, however, I'm still working on getting his adaman gloves, boots, and legs. He's on his 7th weapon upgrade and has all the headwear. He's also completed all his missions, and all the bond quests. I've spent alot of gil upgrading his weapon, yet he still misses a good amount. I'm hoping that the new expansion will allow more usage of these guys.
Finally, I've been working on getting my samurai as my next 75. This past month, I've managed to get it to level 46 as of this writing. At level 50, I get to wear my kraken gkt, which is the sole reason I've been leveling like crazy. When I get 50, I can look forward to 60s when I sub my thf. When I'm 60s, I can look forward to 70s and wear that cool hachiman gear. Then at 71+ I look forward to reusing my monk gear! So overall, I never get bored and there's always something to look forward to.
Our Dynamis runs haven't been all the great, with only one victory to this date. The new areas are really not for the feint of heart, or the nerves of straw, or whatever cliche rocks your boat. However, our normal area Dynamis have become more of a routine. I've been trying to get my hands on blm af2 body, or hat and monk af2 head. However, it's been so long since they've dropped when I was around, that it doesn't really matter if I get them or not. Maybe I can start eyeing out those samurai af, or maybe the new jobs.Our Sea trips usually consisted of running through limbus, grabbing coins, and running out to afk. However, this month marks the start of Sea gods. Farming for drops here makes sky look like a walk in the park. The linkshell has been pretty ambitious with it, and just recently won over Jailer of Hope. Unfortunately, our hopes were shattered when hope decided not to drop the virtue we needed. So, it's back through the gauntlet again for more drops. However, the good thing about doing gods over like this is that we have more chances to win some rare torques. In my case, I won myself the Faith Torque. I'm pretty happy with it, and it really helps my monk template.
King camps have been going on as usual, but this month marks the first time I actually claimed something! Even though it was just Behemoth, it was my behemoth. It was also a show of what a true taru monk can do. I ended up tanking it, thank god for the cure bombs. The linkshell also managed to grab a few kings in as well. Aspid was won with our ninja sneak abilities to confuse our competition on when the pop time actually was. King Behemoth was a result of a few people holding it while SD army flew in from Dragon's Aery. Finally, Nidhogg was won just because of the pure numbers lagging the competition. I'm sure people got some stuff, not going to go into it, it's posted on the linkshell website.
Our Sky trips have picked up since Emulsion decided to take over and actually organize some runs. Hopefully, he can organize something that will let me get rid of these seals I've been holding on to forever. With all these sky runs going on, I was able to obtain another piece in order to upgrade to Cait 3.0, a d.head abjuration. The cursed kabuto has been sitting in my mog house for a good while, and was quickly uncursed soon after that sky trip was over. Now I'm just waiting at my chance to fight byakko for a d.leg so I can complete my monk. Soon, my samurai will start looking for a chance to win a damascus ingot so I can get a haub crafted. Stay tuned when my samurai starts to become as powerful as my monk.
SD has now gotten itself involved in the extermination of the world wyrms. To this date, we've taken out Jorg, Vtra, and Tiamat. My friend Semma hacked her lot to get a pair of those Herald gaiters. However, she has much to learn if she wants to matrix kite like me. I just find it more exciting and interesting when we do wyrms as a ls, because I know the people who get the drops will be there for the next wyrm.
So, that covers my linkshell activities. Now on to my personal ones. First, I finally got my npc to level 65, which is the level cap at the moment. Zoldof now has Adaman armor, however, I'm still working on getting his adaman gloves, boots, and legs. He's on his 7th weapon upgrade and has all the headwear. He's also completed all his missions, and all the bond quests. I've spent alot of gil upgrading his weapon, yet he still misses a good amount. I'm hoping that the new expansion will allow more usage of these guys.
Finally, I've been working on getting my samurai as my next 75. This past month, I've managed to get it to level 46 as of this writing. At level 50, I get to wear my kraken gkt, which is the sole reason I've been leveling like crazy. When I get 50, I can look forward to 60s when I sub my thf. When I'm 60s, I can look forward to 70s and wear that cool hachiman gear. Then at 71+ I look forward to reusing my monk gear! So overall, I never get bored and there's always something to look forward to.
posted by Caitlin at 5:58 PM
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