Down Goes the Jorm

On Friday, I xped on PUP once again with Tryxie's THF and Willian's SAM. However, there was no tank seeking so we decided to try out PUP tanking. The initial pt started off as PUP, THF, SAM, WHM, RDM, BST. The RDM wasn't very good but other than that, we actually did pretty well against Nest Beetles. Willian would be first voke then Tryxie SATA'd onto me and for the most part I could keep hate unless luck was bad and I got hit a lot. It was a pretty neat experiment, and worked okay. I'm sure it'll be much better once Calcobrena learns Cure 4. Anyway, we stayed a while, eventually the WHM left and we got a better replacement one that we'd partied with before and shortly afterwards the RDM left and we just got Ishaela to come on her WAR (RDM wasn't really enfeebling or dispelling anyway). Good times, and we made it to 40 before ending.


Of course level 40 means AF, so I promptly went and flagged the quest after the pt. Seems that a poor taru had his automaton swiped from him while he was too busy staring at girls' asses.


Skip around a bit and we get to where I have to fight a big blob guy in the middle of the Caedarva Mire lake near Nashmau. He was a pushover, quickly keeled him on WHM, though his hp was a little high.


So that was that. Found the automaton, though didn't actually take it back to the guy (won't go into detail in case you wanna do this sometime). Got my Turbo Animator. Yay for af that doesn't really do anything!

So fast forward to Sunday, where Element decides to try killing a wyrm for the first time. Jormungand is obviously the way to go for first wyrm kill since it isn't really sought after like the others. We gathered and after a late start things were going okay. We got it to about 85% then one of the tanks (Decidence, the NIN/DRK), had to go afk for a bit. The hate got wonky at this point and a few people died, myself included. As I was sitting by myself waiting for weakness to wear, I see a CFH on my radar. Oops, someone CFH'd Jorm. We all die/logout and then start to regroup.

Unphased by the CFH, we go at it again a bit later. Hate is very well controlled, and although the fight is a bit dull as the WHM in the tank pt (barblizzara, barparalyzra, rebuff after roar, paralyna spam during spikes, occasional C3/C5/Regen 3) it's somewhat fun watching that health bar go down. We do a really great job throughout the fight. Things got a little tricky from 20ish% onwards, but we kept focused and avoided making enough mistakes to cause a flail. We got the win and it took under two hours from start to finish. It was a great showing of what Element can do taking down a wyrm on the 2nd try after unfortunate mishaps on the first. Definitely shaping up into a good ls now. Plus I got the title, which I didn't have before and I heart new titles.


Grats to Nolie for getting the Mercurial Pole that dropped and grats to everyone involved for making it happen.

Monday was maintenance day. I was hoping to do datamining afterwards but the way that data is stored in the dat files changed so I wasn't able to. No biggie. Some super crazy good armor was added but it's going to be a huge pain in the ass to get so I'm not sure if I'm going to really put a lot of effort into it yet. Prices for needed items are skyrocketing and all that jazz. So after maintenance when Tryxie got home we went out to get a few of the new BLU spells for her. Duoed Wild Carrot, Blank Gaze, and Zephyr Mantle but couldn't get anyone else to come along for the others so after getting the crag-to-sky teleports taken care of we took part in the Christmas event.

It's weird this year. A Twinkling Treant pops in the town (god, I want the real treants back, best event EVAR). Massive /cheer spam ensues then a christmas taru pops and makes you find the fake santa. It was a good chance to get the Dream Robe and DR+1 that I missed last christmas, but it was a stupid event. Oh well, at least we got to look festive for a while!


Today my parents arrived from out of town to visit for a few days. My FFXI time will be pretty limited. I might hop on sometimes at night when everyone's asleep (ie now), but we'll see. As for now, Rappa's sitting around taking a beating from several crabs to try to raise Guard skill. Basically, a whole lot of what you see below. It's been about 45 minutes now and I've gained one level. Guard sucks.