Some more artifact armor.

Over the past few days, I've had the opportunity to collect some more of my BLM AF; specifically, the pants, from a coffer in Eldieme, and the coat, from Monastic Cavern.

Eldieme was interesting, yet uneventful. We got the key to drop on the second mob we killed, and then we searched for the coffer. I stupidly wanted to take on a DC bomb, and I did so with no backup there... it was fantastic. I got to very very low red HP, and no MP left... hit Manafont in a desperate attempt to save myself when... *cue music* Tarai to the rescue! After resting up, Acacia found the coffer, I ran to it, popped it, and walked away with some lovely new pants. THEN I went and dinged 56 (see below) ^^










Monastic Cavern was interesting at first, and quickly turned standard. I went on WHM to farm the keys with Asher (who also needed one for his coat), Acacia, and Sephelia. They had been there for a little bit before I had, since I had just logged in and was visiting with Bea, who just came back from quitting. After giving myself a Teleport-Holla, I chocoed over to Davoi, ran through Monastic Cavern, and met up with the rest of the group.

The main farming camp was taken by a SMN soloing, so we decided to stay on the island with the house. Since we had 3 NPCs out and we were all level 75, the monsters died very very quickly on the first floor, so we decided to go up.

Asher wanted to take on the NM for Windurst 7-2. I was convinced it was a bad idea, but we did it anyway. After opening the door to the house, we discovered it was not only the NM... but also two or three of his buddies!

I was the first down, and after putting up a valiant fight, the others all dropped as well. Thank goodness for Reraise III. I raised up, rested up, was able to Tractor Acacia a grand total of one time, then I got aggro. After an ES Sleep, I Escaped, and ran back in.

Long story short, I tractored everyone to the elevator (with much invising) and eventually got everyone up. We kept killing, got 2 keys within 5 minutes, and I warped back and got my coffer. ^^

YAY 56!

56 is a big level for BLMs the world over, but I feel like it's bigger for me. Shaman's Cloak, Wizard's Tonban, Burst, and Sleepga II awaited me... I was uber-excited!












Plus, I look hot. ^^

































Now I gotta level RDM as a sub... {joy} ><

{Pso'Xja}!

Today was my first real experience in the Pso'Xja BLM solo camp from 54-58.



















I gotta say, I'm very excited about this camp. While MP is a bit stretched at 54, my new hobby of killing stuff not with Freeze, but with Quake, is certainly great for me. As a bonus, the exp is... well, insane.


























WITHOUT ring. ^^

250 base exp at 54 makes for very nice killing overall. On a neutral day and weather, my gear (including Republic Circlet, since Fauregandi is Winduristain this week), my Quake does ~970 damage to these pets, which is probably overkill (I hope).

Life in Pso'Xja is good.

Black Mage = fun.

There's something about BLM that I find absolutely irresistable.

What it is, I honestly have no idea. It's probably a multitude of things; some of the best spike damage on the game, on demand; the ability to solo mobs other jobs can only dream of; and of course, the fashion.


















Sure, I may only be level 53 right now, but hey, everyone starts somewhere. Soloing leeches in Gustav has been my most recent favorite hobby. While there can be some competition for the camp, it's one of the few things I can do in the game while I only have a {Short time}. And as my life has been lately (crazy, hectic, and crammed full of all sorts of wacky activities), sometimes a {Short time} is all I have.

So whenver I encounter this quandry, I just head to Gustav and kill some leeches with Freeze. For 880 damage every time (except the time I got affected because of fire weather... even then, Stun + Drain killed it nicely), I can get consistent, even good experience (the empress band can wear off even faster while soloing than it can while in party). Sure, my gear isn't exceptional, but it sure doesn't suck either; and besides, if your gear sucks when you solo, all you're hurting is yourself anyway.

I'm about 1800 to 54; new gloves, Quake, and the Pso'Xja bat goblin pet camp await!

{Wizard's Gloves}{Found it!}

FINALLY got my Wizard's Gloves not 2 minutes ago.

It all started in {Garlaige Citadel} a few days ago... that coffer is so awful. Dragging 4 people with you just to get AF gets old after a while. Plus I had to keep warping out to do various things... including CoP, as it were.

So after a few days of struggling to get people to help with the hellish coffer, I finally got it tonight. After the minor falling out I had with Acacia over the whole Tenzen's path affair, I decided I was in the wrong and apologized. I do stupid stuff when I'm angry, and I felt bad about it... but apparently so did he, so he kindly came along. Tarai was hankering to help from the beginning, and Oufnev kindly came along as well, so, with a party of 4, we set off for Garlaige!

The whole thing was rather interesting. After gathering at Gate #1, we passed through and ran north to Gate #3 to check behind that one. All of the spawn points were empty, so by process of elimination, we ran south to Gate #2 to check behind that one.

Of course, as we run there, we see a BRD sleeping a Droma that had apparently aggroed him in one of the rooms with the switches... a quick /search revealed that he was a party leader, and I assumed he was in a party with a RDM53! Annoyed, since RDM has AF in Garlaige as well, we quickly opened the gate... of course, he followed. He stopped to cast Sneak while I ran west to the point on the stairs next to the drop and the rest of the party headed east. After verifying that it wasn't at the west point, the race began.

Tarai confirmed that it wasn't in either of the spawn points in the cave section behind the gate, so once again, due to process of elimination, there was only one place it could have been: the last spawn point, after the bombs and weapons. Running as fast I could, I frantically pounded the 0 key and eventually saw it:

Treasure Coffer.

The BRD was right there, waiting for the RDM to pop it.

Panicking again, hoping that the RDM wouldn't get it, I opened my menu and quickly scrolled down to "Trade". Once I was in range, and I selected my key and BAM!






^^

After that frantic race, we Escaped out, and headed for Jeuno. Oufnev logged, while Tarai, Acacia, and I went off to kill Dark Spark.

After dropping the gloves off in the Port, I hit Teleport-Vahzl and we ran to Castle Zvahl. We ran to the torches, I buffed us up, and popped the bomb.

No screenshots of the action, but I DO have this one!









YAY!

So after a Warp back to Whitegate and a silver piece to Ru'Lude, I ran to the Port and traded in my musty old gloves and shadow flames for...













Truly the best piece of the set. More elemental magic skill = less resists, and that's never a bad thing! ^^

I made a blog :o

K, so this is like my fourth FF blog. I know, I know, it's annoying, but... eh. I'm actually going to update this one.

So, I'm Espera. On Odin. Surprise! I took WHM to 75... I'm kinda masochistic for that reason, I guess. But I love it, so all is well. I haven't been meriting it as much lately... possibly because I've gotten bored of it, or I'm sick of all the TP burners treating me like crap, or something. ANYWAY, I've taken to leveling BLM, which I love to death, since it's amazing. I'm very much in love with my linkshell, Rakuen, since they're also amazing + they're my CoP static (on 5-3, freaking long missions -_-; and no, I obviously don't have Al'Taieu access... yet), and Celestria is about the best leader you could ask for. So this blog will be full of my daily ramblings about life on this game and out of this game and such, and... yeah. Hope you enjoy!

Oh, and in case you couldn't figure it out, CoP is basically my biggest priority in game, so that's probably what much of this blog will be covering.

Today was... irritating. I had to get together with some study mates to not fail classes, and my static went ahead and did Tenzen's path without me... I was annoyed, but I guess we'll do it again sometime, so no worries. Tarai helped to comfort me (what a wonderful friend she is!) and helped me to calm down by talking about... random stuff. Yeah. So I logged back in later after cooling down a bit, my intention being to help Tarai with the Mithra BC she missed in Ulmia's path earlier. (Our CoP static is nearly two full parties, so me, being the only WHM [and the only BLM for 50 cap missions now as well, since Chaosx lost interest in CoP], I often do each BC at least twice.) The time I won, we did the 2x SMN 1x BLM Astral Flow cheese method, which worked effectively. Sadly, those who missed the first run lost the second, since we lost a SMN and... well, people didn't come prepared.

Preparation is the key to CoP.

Anyway, I logged in again tonight intending to help Tarai and the others with the Mithra BC... but of course, they replaced me. So as we (well, I) speak, I'm sitting here in Whitegate, bored out of my mind, hoping they get done soon so Tarai can round up some people for round 3 of {Garlaige Citadel}{Gate Breach}!

They're entering the BC now, so I guess I'll find out soon how it went.