Gonna try to update more often again so I don't go for weeks without updating and miss any good stories or whatever.
Started off on the 16th xping on BLU. I get invited to a pt that looks pretty promising and even has a bonus PLer which isn't really necessary but whatever, I wanna hurry and get these jobs to 37 and be done w/ them. However, 2 fights in and we get this!
wtcrap! Er anyway, the NIN and the PL (who was the same person dual boxing) never came back, so we're left without a tank. Being the resourceful fellow I am, I go swap to /WAR sub and come back and tank for a while. It goes okay, with Cocoon up I don't really take much damage. Members come and members go, eventually we get a PLD and I don't have to tank anymore. I make it about 1/3 of the way into lvl 23 and then the pt disbands.
At that point, I am without Poison Breath (lvl 22 spell from hounds) and Soporifc (lvl 24 spell from flytraps) so I figure I'll go pick those up. I start off going to Carpenters' Landing to solo some flytraps there. About about 15 of them, 3 or 4 of which used it, I picked it up. Hurray! After that, I chocoboed to Gusgen Mines to fight some Bandersnatches (kekeke) for Poison Breath. This turned out to be a bit annoying as they have one move (I forget the name offhand) that gives you the Virus status where you can't rest hp/mp and it lasts forever (10+ minutes). Luckily I only got hit with it twice and after the first use of Poison Breath I learned it! I noticed I was only about 1k from 24 at that point so I went to the skeleton mobs near the entrance and Bludgeon'd the crap out of them to hit 24.
That leads to today. I started today off by majorly oversleeping and entering Dynamis-San d'Oria late. I need nothing from the zone, but I try to attend every run regardless so I hurried my ass there asap after waking up. Turns out I picked up some relic afterall when these went to freelot. I waited and waited for someone higher level to lot and no one did so I laid claim to them. I'm wanting to level SMN anyway, so might as well since no one else wanted them.
After Dynamis, I made dinner and wasn't really sure what if anything I'd be doing for the rest of the day. Turns out Mirewen's evening was free so we went ahead and built a pt for our MNK/BRD static.
Everything seemed perfect. The pt setup was NIN, MNK, BRD, WAR, RDM, BLU. We went to fight Rumbles in the Crawlers' Nest and the camp was wide open. But unfortunately for us, the two most important facets of the pt, the tank and the main healer, both totally sucked. Everyone had to ask repeatedly for the RDM to Refresh them, he would wait abnormally long times to Cure if he even did, he would Curaga himself when no one was near him, etc. The NIN failed at holding hate and at Provoking, usually leaving myself and the WAR and BLU to tank.
The NIN decided to log to try to remove some lag. At this point, I was pretty frustrated with the pt in general and, with the pt's approval, decided to replace the NIN with a PLD that was seeking. The NIN eventually came back and I told him we repped him so he left, didn't seem overly bothered about it. Once the PLD joined, things got much much better. The RDM eventually started refreshing without asking (sometimes) and the PLD was really good at holding hate, so I could go nuts on the mobs without having to worry about pulling hate too much, and Counterstance and Dodge took care of the occasional hate pulling. We went from 45 to 47, and there was much rejoicing. Yay. MNK is fun, I'm already putting out some pretty high numbers even at this level..
Afterwards, I still wasn't overly sleepy so I suited up DRG in hopes of getting it up closer 25 (that's when BLU and DRG both get their next gear upgrades). I get an invite pretty quickly but the pt just sucks. Nothing worth talking about, and after 2 hours of pting I don't even get 3k xp total and disband still at lvl 21. Oh well, off to bed I go.
