Saturday started like a normal one. Get up, make some coffee, check the a few things and fire up FFXI. I had made plans to help a friend with G1. This friend works nights so normally doesn't log on until about 2 in the afternoon. He went out for drinks the night before so I didn't plan on him being around until late afternoon lol. To my surprise he logged on shortly after I did and was ready to go take care of stuff.
We met up in Jeuno and headed for the Necropolis. We had already gotten the mold the weekend before. I went running around killing Lichs for their papyrus paper, and after the 5th one a nice thief came into the zone and offered to help. 2 more kills and the paper dropped. I remember spending 8+ hours down there for mine.
Next stop was the bomb coal from Garbage Shithole. As we arrived I dropped into the wrong area and happened along a friend who was down there for Serket I think. He asked what I was doing and I filled him in. He helped me get through the banishing gate and proceeded down to help with the Explosures. He pulled one and I waited a couple seconds and decided to grab one myself. I pulled mine close to his and let the -Ga magic fly. Well, it was some strange luck because that first explosure dropped 2 bomb coal, so needless to say we were quite shocked and pleased.
Back to Jeuno, and time to slap the old man.
Well, this same friend was very excited to get his first piece of AF and since we had gotten done with G1 so quick we went and did his Warrior legs quest. He couldn't wear them yet but he got them.
We also went and got Merc status for him and my second char which was a walk in the park.
In the evening was party time. I spent a few hours in a party on my Pld and dinged 68. Only a few more LONG levels to go.
After the party was over some people in my LS were going to do some of the missions for ToAU. I'm way behind on those so I went along. It was a lot of fun, and we almost got Proteus down. It was at 2% when I finally went down. 1 more drain and it would have been ours. We did make time for sexy time and a little cuddling on the ship lol
Since my SS skills were lacking, Lanien is the elvaan and Sactowngirl is the hume. We were all cracking jokes and having a good ol' time. Thanks for the help with the mission everyone.
Sunday was a great day for me. I started out in Misareaux Coast leveling my NPC with the Tactics Pearl. I finished off some stacks of items and Zoldof dinged 47 and almost 48. On my way back to town I was sent a /tell asking if I wanted to party. I'm on my thief so you can imagine the surprise when I got it. I agreed and headed for Aht Urhgan. I was only 2k into 59 so I figured I'd get close enough to 60 that I could solo it. Well, I got 60 and about 2k into level. OMG, FREAK OUT!!! Assassin is MINE!!! I was so excited when I dinged I had to look at my traits IMMEDIATELY to see it and make sure I wasn't dreaming.
60 is where Thief really starts to shine and gets a really good weapon skill. Well, a couple people had to leave so we just disbanded. Before we disbanded though, the 2 peeps that had to leave asked me if I wanted to go skillup with them and help with Dark Spark. Well, being only 1 skill level from Dancing Edge, I surely said yes. After they got back from dinner, we headed for Kuftal Tunnel. The crabs here check from Even Match to Tough. We all brought out our NPC's and went to work. 2 crabs in I had 100% TP and got my last skillup. BAM!! that crab never felt so much pain! I was all over that thing like white on rice. Shooting bolts so I could TP faster and just WS'ing, and it didn't matter if it was TA'd and SA'd, I just wanted to WS. I did realize that Thief is better than I thought. I was able to solo the Tough crabs without a problem and it really felt good. Before we were done Zoldof dinged another level taking him to 48 and I had my dagger skill capped.
Next we headed for Castle Zvahl and DS. I've never fought DS as a purely melee job so this would be a first. We TP'd up on a couple of demons and then popped the little bugger. It was so much fun taking him down like that, I may just have to find people that need to kill him just so I can take him out. I even got the kill shot YAY me!.
Monday was Dynamis and I'm getting closer to lotting on Valor Suroat for my Pld. In the last 3 runs I've seen 1 drop each run and I'm starting to drool. Always good runs, and just glad to still be having a lot of fun doing it.
Tuesday..... Well, I logged in, did guild points with my mule and then... fell asleep LOL.
Wednesday on the other hand was filled with a few laughs and helping a fellow Taru blm get some pants. If you read Pasquale's blog, you know he doesn't have the greatest luck(read dies A LOT) He had posted about trying to get a coffer key for the Necropolis and not having any luck. I got a hold of him and we went down there and whooped up on some skelly's and shades. It took a little while but finally a key dropped. Well, I still had plenty of time before Limbus so I pulled up some maps and Pas and I set off to go find a coffer. It took about a hour to find one, and unfortunately we had a death in the party... yep, you guessed it, Pas. Silly bombs and their aggro'ing magic. Well, I got over to where he was, raised him and we set off, finding the Coffer shortly afterwards. Grats Pas on your new pants!
Thursday was filled with aggravation. I decided I wanted to go fishing for skillups. Well, not many were to be had. I switched areas, bait, and still had no luck catching what I was after... the elusive skillup. Well, finally I said to hell with it and went back to the old standby, the lake in Jugner Forest. Well after I went back I got a skillup and then another. By the time I was done I had gotten 1 more level in fishing to take me to 28. Time to go catch me a Giant Catfish to turn in for my test. I might even start guild points to get some of the items.
Well, another long LONG update in the books. Hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I had doing.
Oh, and 1 more closing shot!
Peace,
Shmed
