Friday, May 25, 2007

Whittling

After reaching the 160's in sword skill and attempting some rather dangerous solo skillups in the Eldieme Necropolis, I eventually formed a bona fide skillup party in Kuftal Tunnel, which went rather well. I once again had the privilege of playing with Raikoh for awhile and got my sword skill into the 170's.

Robber Crab reminds himself to bring a Reraise scroll to Kuftal

The next skillup session took place in the Boyhada Tree with Feon and the DarkEden group. They were all exhausted from a long Dynamis run, but we stayed together for awhile and I managed to reach level 183 while also whittling away the latent points on my Pick of Trials.

The Tree

A few nights later, DarkEden did a series of Tier 1 assault runs on Periqia (Seagull Grounded). The AI for the NPC we were escorting through the zone was quite annoying and unpredictable. Even when he took a good path, he would stall in cleared rooms or backtrack for no apparent reason, wasting a good chunk of time. We were successful on 2 of the 3 runs, however.

Joytoy builds TP like crazy... Feon out-Rampaged me on every fight

Excaliace's turn-on's: Wearing ruffles, staring at walls, and commenting on people's breath.

Lexxi and I duo'd some EXP in the dunes last night, she on her MNK (16) and I on my WHM (19).

Lexxi vs Goblin Butcher... Fight!

Frohike dispenses bunny wisdom

It was peaceful and fun, and I think the first time I've actually EXP'd with Lexxi. To my embarrassment, I kept fat-fingering my macros (laptop keyboards suck), and at one point ran out of MP on a particularly tough Goblin, resulting in death for both of us. She hit 17 early in the process, and thankfully had enough of a buffer to maintain her level. Raikoh nearly joined us when he logged in around midnight, but Lexxi and I were both passing out mid-battle and decided to call it a night.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congratulations on the Joyeuse!!!

But what were you fighting in the Necropolis that was dangerous solo o.O?

Moe said...

I'm sorry I haven't been around I'll try to rescue you in those kinds of situations >.>

Paul Bauman said...

Traipsing around deep in the Necropolis is dangerous to a solo Warrior because of blood agro, and massive linkage. Since I was going as WAR/NIN, I could get in pretty hot water if I dipped into the yellow mid-battle in an area packed with undead mobs. Throw in a few status effects such as Paralysis, and it could get riskier than I liked.

And even when I wasn't risking death, regaining all the HP was taking more time than I liked.

Anonymous said...

I know what you mean. Find a place where you can safely "camp". When I solo coffer mobs there I stick to Tomb Warrior and Mage only. With capped evasion on WAR I can go Ni to Ni on shadow timers.

These skeletons will get your sword skill to roughly 205 ish. As for resting times Signet takes care of that.

Paul Bauman said...

/slaps forehead. Signet!