dropulicious!

Pretty good day today. We camped Boroka and got another friggin Kote. This has sadly become a bit of a joke. Seven kotes have dropped in a row, and we have gotten six of those seven. Hell even I ended up with a pair for my 28NIN. The earring is now the rare item it seems. We've gotten five earrings out of thirteen kills, and about nine kotes out of thirteen kills. Too bad these damn things don't sell on the auction house. Oh well... I was never camping it for the money.

Later I headed back into Palborough Mines to finish up the boring part of Rank 2-3. I brought 3 pickaxes this time and after finally spending 20 minutes running to the "Mythril Seam" I started to mine. I did this twice before, once for Sandy 2-3 and also as Tyrhanny's rank 2-3. Both times I used 1 axe and got my "mythril". Well... of course this time had to be more difficult.

"Your pickaxe breaks!"
"Your pickaxe breaks!"
"Your pickaxe breaks!"
"You find nothing."
"Your pickaxe breaks!"

You've got to be friggin kidding me. I mined in Oldton for years. If anyone were to have any hidden "mining skill" it should be me. Well I just got frustrated and warped out. I've done this mission twice before as a much lower level RNG and RDM and never had this much trouble. Hopefully I can finish this thing asap, and get my Master Caster Bracelets.

Finally at the end of the night I got to do what I was looking forward to do all day long. Limbus! We hit up Temenos West with 15 people and I decided not to lock out all our tanks this time (good thinking). We mopped the floor with those mobs. We really didn't have any missteps, and we got some nice yet weird drops. We ended up with 2 SAMs, 2 BRDs, 1 DRK, and 2 RDMs! I got my Ruby Silk Thread and we finished with 65 coins collected. We got 4 each and as soon as I got my coins I warped back and traded my items to the NPC. Word to the wise, you need the 2 rare/ex items and an item from the Auction House. I, of course, rushed in and thought the stupid NPC stole my coins when in fact it was the stupid player who didn't read the text all the way through. After I traded my Warlock's Chapeau, Ruby Silk Thread, Cardinal Cloth, and Rainbow Cloth I was told that I would be able to pick the Warlock's Chapeau+1 up Sunday when the next Conquest Tally is done. Yay! Pretty good day when it all comes down to it.

daily recap (no witty title tonight)

midday - got Boroka again, he dropped his 7th pair of Kote in a row. RMT's undercut it from 10M to 7M in a week and after 4 sat on AH for a week, RMT's undercut to 2M. What a bunch of idiots. We claimed 6 times in last 7 days, and have gotten 6 kotes, but our poor WHM Arcia hasn't seen earring drop since last Thursday. Hopefully we can get it for her (an throw in the towel on this NM). Today's Kote went to our DRK who never casts lots over 200, and sure enough he won today's with a 116 (mostly out of pity from the rest of us). Then when I left Riverne I went into Sacrarium and did the Cookbook xp scroll quest. It was easy stuff, I just had to sleep and log for 2 Taurus mobs and check 4 rooms. When I got back to Tavnazian Safehold I got my scroll, and I was all psyched up to get around 1200 xp, but I got 864. What a gyp. I read it varies between 700 and 1600. I'm hoping for a better result on Sunday when the new Conquest week starts.

afternoon/night - Speaking of conquest, I did that Sandy portion of Rank 2-3 and was almost done with Bastok part when I realized I needed a pickaxe and didn't have one, so I warped out and decided I'd do it again later. Next is that stupid lv25 capped fight against the Dread Dragon. Later on I did Dynamis - Beaucidine, and I was even the high bidder for AF2 (Bard's Justacorps) but of course they didn't drop. We did get a record number of drops though. Melee Cyclas, Sorcerer's Coat, Summoner's Doublet, Saotome Domaru, a Montiont Silverpiece and 3 (three!) Lungo-Nango Jadeshells! That makes 11 AF's in Beauc and Xarc the past 2 runs and our 27th set of full AF! Pretty impressive.

nighttime - after watching one of the best episodes of Lost all season (anyone catch the hatch map?!?) I decided to get my cooking GP's and do some leveling up. Well 1st I got my GP's and was able to buy key item Patissier. Now I have key items Raw Fish Handling and Patissier for my cooking which is pretty much all I need for sweets and sushi. Then I decided to take a shot at snagging some Taru Rice. I always lose out to the campers for this stupid item but sure enough, I got all 12 boxes! First time that's ever happened. Good stuff. Finally I muled over all the ingredients for my San d'Orian Tea and made 2 stacks. I went from 63.9 to 64.8 in about 15 synths. It was the best skillups I've gotten in months, and it was facing NW on lightningsday waning moon... go figure. I'm finally in the clear to make Melon Pies on a consistant basis but I'm more ineterested in skilling than selling right now. Soon as I hit 66 I'll move onto Pear Au'Lait, another non-stackable synth for skillups (yay) but hopefully that brings me into the 70's so I can start skilluping up on Navarin and finally make some good money on skillups.

tomorrow - thursdays are Limbus days and boy am I looking forward to tomorrow. Not only are we hitting Temenos West again but I think we should have the same people which will mean an easy win but quite possibly I could get my 2nd RDM item. If I do get Ruby Silk Thread as soon as we're done I'm warping to have my Warlock's Chapeau+1 made.

meh, nuff said...

Word to the wise, if you enter Limbus and pull anything before everyone is in the BCNM, they get locked out. Also, the only way to know they are in the BCNM is if you can visually identify them since on the party list you show as being in the same area whether you are in, or out.

Having said that... I have learned a new lesson. Amazingly we still got to the last floor and killed 2/6 birds. We also did this with no NIN tanks and 3 people missing (2 NINs and a MNK). We ended up with 36 total coins (3 each) and I even walked away (somewhat embarassed) with my 1st BRD AF+1 item. Now I need Temenos RDM and Apollyon BRD and I can make my AF+1's.

btw, that was a surprisingly good movie... not oscar-worthy, but funny nonetheless.

I still, still, STILL hate stupid NM's...

So today was a kinda crappy NM day. We gathered at Boroka about 5 minutes too late and a bunch of RMTs claimed, almost wiped, and from some dimensional portal of hell 4 more RMTs show up and they alliance and get the kill. Not only the kill but the kote as well. Oh well, I got my earring and we have our H.Kote on the AH.

We did a Rostrum run and got 5 people some Pumps. Took about 3 hours and I died 4x but it was fun none the less. I even got another kill-shot in:

After a overcrowded MNK pt which ended in a wipe, I decided to head back to Valkurm Dunes as Tyrhanny. That is my other character who is a 48RNG, 30THF, adn 28NIN. I am really starting to need a hairpin so I decided I'd spend a few hours camping Valkurm Emperor today. I lost claim at 2pm and 5:30pm before I headed to Attowha Chasm for Rostrums. When I switched back to Tyrhanny I killed 2 PH's and sure enough... the Emperor popped right in my face. I've read up about how it pops and it's place holders recently and it seems to be legit. I took him down easily, tho all I have to show for it is this stupid Insect Wing...

Relaxing Earring is done, organs are lame...

Finally got my fifth and final Euvhi Organ. I spent far too much time in the Grand Palace trying to kill Eo'Euvhi for 130xp when I should have been in the Garden killing the Aw'Euvhi's for 280xp (I solo'd them and didn't use an xp ring).

Traded in my Silver Earring, Black Chip, 5x Luminum Tissue and 5x Euvhi Organs and got my Relaxing Earring. Great resting earring to have, and I tested it out after I got it. I now gain 41mp per resting "tick". After I got my earring we headed back out to Borroka. Good thing too. We hadn't claimed or tried for Boroka in a week because RMT's had gotten ToD and were just more prepared than we were. Well for some reason they passed on it today. Their mistake. We had 7 people which was overkill but it was a breeze. WHM's mp never got below 75% with RDM and BRD there. Our THF got the killshot and drops were the best we've ever had.

Finally tonight is Limbus, our 2nd attempt at Temenos West. I think we can do well if the same number of people show up again. I've kinda been appointed puller which suits me fine. Last time we had a miscommunication and we MPK'd ourselves because we pulled 3 mobs when we had 2 sleeping at camp. Hopefully I get my Ruby Silk Thread and I'll be able to make my Warlock's Chapeau+1. Crappy thing is I've been told that I'll need to acquire another one through quests if I want to store it in storage...

Taking a break, short time...

I've become kind of blah with this game the last week or so. The people in this video game have taken it way too seriously, and I have been treated like someone who doesn't have any feelings nor would react to being treated poorly or rudely. When it all comes down to it I pay to play and enjoy my time in this game, and when a person (or a group) of people try to make me feel like shit because of things they've heard about me but do not have any first-hand experience about me... that's my cue to back away. I don't need to pay to be verbally abused, ignored, or mistreated. I can get that for free in the streets of NYC.

I'll play maybe 2x a week for short periods of time. In all likelihood it will be for Dynamis and for Limbus but other than that I don't have the desire (not right now at least) to feel like shit because of a video game. It's just not worth it. If I do come back on over the next 2-3 weeks it may be to level a low-level job and have zero interaction with most people... Maybe things will change, maybe people will get this giant sized chip off their inflated ego shoulders, or maybe a world emmigration will open up. We'll see. Until then...

Wark! Wark! ("Chocobo Talk" for crafting stinks!)

I came to the realization long ago that crafting is a pain in the butt. At one time many many moons ago I thought I would be a blacksmith. I crafted, and crafted, and crafted piles of useless crap. Arrowheads, subligar, greaves. Low level stuff that no one ever wanted, and half the time I'd just attempt to desynth the materials back to try and get something of value back. Every now and then I'd hit an item I could profit off of. Turning Iron Ingots into Iron Sheets could net a 10k profit per stack, 5k if I had to buy the crystals. Then, of course, SE added a tax that is paid to Jeuno shortly after I reached this level. So I pressed on, and finally made it to the Darksteel stage of blacksmithing.

Eventually RMT's started to realize you could make 100k+ by turning a stack of Darksteel Ingots into Darksteel Sheets. Soon after I saw the same people in Palborough Mines and Oldton Movapolos... synthing DS Ingots right there on the spot. Prices started to climb, and profit started to dwindle. Ingots are more useful than sheets, and eventually the price of ingots matched the price of sheets. So long profits... Then finally the straw that broke the camel's back. IGE's Christmas blowout. Stacks of DS Ingots jumped from 400k to 800k in mere days. People tried buying up everything they could get their grubby little paws on because they thought with all this newly bought gil, hell they'll level up smithing! Seeing as I capped my smithing at 55 synthing DS Ingots from DS Ore, I threw in the towel. Sheets were now less than ingots (wtf) and getting from 55-80 just went from 5M to 10M+so I just gave up and/or gave in. I still garden on my mule which yields me elemental ore, but it takes 3-4 weeks to grow and usually yields about 1M-2M each harvest. It's a nice payoff, but takes quite some time (and some luck) to make gil from gardening.

So a few months went by, SE countered with their gil capping delivery box idea, and they deleted 30 billion in RMT mules. Prices dropped some, but not to what they were at or should be at. So a week or so ago I started thinking... "What am I gonna do to make income? I know I can cook on my mule but my main really has only 1 craft". I started up fishing my first 3 months in the game, got it to 13 and then I hit some kind of wall. Its at 13.3 currently... I leveled Leather up to 13 as well so that I could make some Smithing things that required a leather base. Then there was "The Aquarium Disaster of '05". They released fresh and saltwater aquariums during an event. I had someone craft my saltwater aquarium which was awesome (until I got hacked into last August and it was stolen).

To make the simple Goldfish bowl you needed Woodworking 10/Smithing 4/Achemy 7. Well after spending nearly 10 hours farming, synthing, and getting ready for my synthesis, I got this:

Critical failure! All right!

It would seem that crafting and Goro are a dish best served seperatly. So last week I decided that I would take up Chocobo Digging! I did a lot of reading about it and it seems like it can be profitable, you just have to put mind-numbing hours into "leveling it up" and be kind of lucky since there are many "high level" diggers that can clean a zone out in minutes. I got Eviljoker to synth me some Chocobo gear (+1 gloves!) and I've pumped about 75 atcks Gyshal Greens into it so far. From the reading I've don it can take up to 10,000 stacks to max out digging and around 4,000 stacks to start to get your profit rolling in. I'm at 75 stacks... The profit isn't really there yet. My average run is:

Chocobo: ~350g

Gyshal Greens: 5,628 (67gx12 = 804g per stack x 7 stacks)

5,978g

Average return:

12 Pebbles: 3,000g

10 Bone Chips: ~4,000g

4 Tin Ore: 200g

1 Wind Crystal: 300g

7,500g

Now these are average estimates which are modest at best. You can clearly see I don't get much of any type of return on investment really but that is to be expected in the first 1/3rd of any type of craft. So if you see me running around Vana'diel on choco for hours, know that I am not lost, I'm just out wasting time and breaking even with my money. Wark! Wark!

I leave you with one of the funniest (and possibly insulting) pictures I may have ever taken. A taru on chocobo got bored while we waited at the Yuhtunga zone for our 6th person and decided to show me how they make taru-sized chocobos... Enjoy.

Funny commercial

It's late, I'm tired. I'm not gonna post about LB and AV. Everyone knows about that now and the Benediction heard round the world.

Anyways, LimitBreak gave it there best shot, thought outside the box, and did everything humanly possible to beat that NM. Problem is that NM is broken or isn't programmed to be beaten yet. It wouldn't be SE's 1st time putting something in the game that can't be completed. Back when CoP Mission 8-3 was released you could climb any tower, get your amultet, run through the stupid gauntlet of pots to get to the elevator, navigate through the teleports to get your "Dawn" and "Twilgiht" but when you got to the BCNM door that had the 4 pots it was either not ready or glitched but you couldn't enter. The leg work for 8-3 leading up to that point is about 3 hours and SE awarded people with a "locked door" message. I truly think this is what is going on with AV. More info and/or tactics will be introduced in ToAU and until then you have to try and fight a mob with almost 100,000 hp that can 100% regen at any moment's notice without being stopped. lame...

Anyways I found this commercial on the net and laughed my ass off so here is the new Japanese drink named "FinalFantasy 12 Potion". Enjoy:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qv99JmJdto8&search=potion

Breaking news! The Apocalypse has been averted!

Well we finally did it. It took us about 3 weeks but we were able to go from 5-3 to 8-4 in under a month. What an incredible group of determined people, hell we even set the record on Airship. Getting to Promathia was a bit of a pain. Not skill wise, just long and drawn out. We had to run up and down towers in the Garden of Ru'Hmet and all around to get our "Twilight" and "Dawn" so we could go to a stupid BCNM with 4 pots.

We initially tried SAM, WAR, NIN, BLM, RDM, WHM but soon found out you need 2 ES Sleepgas to make this fight not such a pain. We swapped the WHM for BLM and I became main healer (yay!). We ran to the far side of the room, gathered the pots and ES Sleepga II. I Chainspelled onto the 1st pot and I pretty much solo'd it after using Convert. We moved to the second pot and I got 2 spells off before I totally used all my MP. The 2nd BLM ES Sleepga II and we finished off the 2nd pot with the BLMs at about 20% MP. We took the 3rd pot to 50% before we wiped (which we knew we would) and reraised after they returned to their platforms.

We were 11 minutes in and rested for our 7 minutes of weakened state. At about the 18 minute mark we were fully rested and pulled the pots. I used ES Sleep II on the pot @ 100% and everyone focused on the one at 50%. The melee made short work of it and we went all out on the final pot, killing it at the 20 minute mark. Next was Promathia.

I have never had a more fun fight than Promathia. The battlefield is gorgeous, the NPCs talk and they are even VERY useful. Prishe is a MNK/WHM that uses both 2 hours (all right!) and even has Ambrosia which she uses and will toss a Cure V out to your tank if need be. Our 1st run failed because you have to speed through the CS or else Prishe will start attacking. Our tank died and even though we got to Promathia v2 we still were playing a badly dealt hand. We died but had all our 2 hours. We went back in and mopped the floor with Promathia. We kited him, allowed time to stop and let Prishe beat the hell out of him for a while, our SAM ran around Meditating till he had nice TP and would Gekko, trying to SC with the WAR at times. It was a smooth fight. I ran around refreshing myself, the SMN, and the WHM and followed the kiters around making sure they were hasted and cured. With so much hate towards Prishe and the kiters, you have some time to rest and look at the scenery.

Such a fun fight, and a lot of CS's afterwards. I will gladly return to fight Promathia for people that need him, it was that much fun! Don't ask me to go back to airship though... having my name as the record holder causes me to get 5-10 tells a day about random things, most of all asking if I will go do the fight with total strangers.

I'm so proud of my static, they did a great job putting XP and LS events aside to make sure that we got to the finish line. Not just sea access, not just Promathia death, but all the way through getting our rings and the great CoP ending CS.

NIN - Xerxes "For starting with a 75NIN and finishing this with a 73NIN you are the man. You never complained about XP loss or the fact that we were doing something stupid."

WAR - Aenarion "For joining us up at Airship (which you had beaten) and dying so many times until we got to Tenzen... and also realizing that your old static were a bunch of lazy mofos."

SAM - Ultimateplaya "For being my right hand man in this organizational mess and farming with me 19 straight hours after we opened Al'Taieu access, you rock."

WHM - Lilliana "For putting up with 5 guys always complaining that the WHM isn't keeping us alive. Your patience and understanding helped us get through all this. Airship record is ours thanks to that unbelievably timed Benediction."

SMN - Gimmeone "For never complaining, always being there right after work, and allowing us to use you for your BLM even though I know you are a true SMN at heart."

Thank you guys, 4.5 weeks until Treasures of Aht Urghan... lets see what the future holds for us.

Still some fun fights out there

Well I'm feeling a little dumpy because I was told by a BRD in a LS I spoke to about joining, that I am a greedy player for owning a Manteel and a stupid player for having only a March+1, not March+2 instrument. So yeah, some people are taking this game way too seriously. I screenshotted the whole conversation because I just found it so ironic yet pathetic, so maybe I'll pull those out some day.

In the meantime, Boroka. Today we headed out to our favorite hungry hungry hippo and we decided to take him on with 5 this time. We thought that 3 healers would be enough... we learned that 3 melee aren't. Anyways all started well till about 70% when old Boroka wanted to start Hoof Volleying. We used our patented, disengage, ES, Sleep II on him to buy us 45 seconds of resting. Well he just got pissed at that. We took him to 40% until our tank went down and I was ready to call it off and port to the safe island, but people wanted to fight it out.

Our WHM dropped and RR'd and I thought we were done for. I told her to wait until the NIN's weakness wore off and then to use Benediction. We were able to kill 7 minutes and when NIN was unweakened the WHM (like a champ) ran in and pretty much suicided. Everyone was at full and withing 8.35 seconds the WHM was dead. SMN Astral flowed, RNG Eagle Eye Shot, hell even I used Chainspell getting a measly 2 Fire 2's off before running out of MP. We finally brough it down with 2 dead. Drops today were better than ever before. Cape, H. Kote, and Boroka Earring! Our SAM got his Kote, I lotted a 512 which was enough for the earring, and we gave the cape to the SMN (mostly cause every mage that as gone has gotten a cape already).

So happy day, I can finally replace my (although impressive) somewhat useless Diabolos Earring with this very useful Boroka Earring.

Minor gear upgrade

Ever since I have finished my Sha'ir set the rest of my BRD gear has begun to look a little gimp. I haven't updated any accessories in almost a month when I was in the 60's. After last nights BCNM40 runs (8 runs, 2 Erase's, 0 charms) I am now 0/16 getting a charm using my orb and 1/27 overall seeing a Peacock Charm in an Armory Crate. Sometimes my bad luck even baffles me when I take a step back and examine my statistics. Anways, we split the 1.4M from the two Erase scrolls 3 ways and walked with 460k each. Blech. I also finally decided to give up trying to get my 2 Fire Beads true value of 800-900k and just sell them for market value of 700k each. That was another 1.4M last nigth which just brought me to 3M in gil. The most I've had since paying off my Sha'ir.

Moving on... I checked the AH again for my one "gotta have it" item that's never in-stock and sure enough it was! I grabbed it for 100k, the price it's been for over 4 months.

This will be a nice addition to the Jelly Ring (-5% Physical Damage) and the Earth Staff (-20% Physical damage) when I go into MNK parties. Since my HP will stay in yellow alot, that gives me -55% damage reduction with yellow HP. Not bad. Since I now had 2 Melody Earrings I sold them both and bought one single Melody Earring+1. Finally I realized that since I use a Harp for Lullaby and sleeping Spartoi Warriors/Sorcerors is pretty important, I bought a Wind Torque that is String Instrument skill+7. With the Manteel and Minstrel's Ring I also now have -37% songcasting time when I am in yellow HP. The whole point of this gear is to help sleep things fast and effectivly. Overall, the BRD gear is finally starting to be finished. The only missing thing is a better ring for normal XP. I have a Loyalty Ring which is CHR+3 but it's a level 36 ring and there's other rings out there that are better... but their values begin at 1.4M and only go up from there. Fortunetly, most of my XP parties are spam parties where I pull so I use the Minstrel's/Jelly combo and never worry about the 3rd ring.

Boroka's window opens in 2.5 hours, cheap ass better drop something better than that damn Skulker's Cape.

update: Well, he dropped more than the Skulker's Cape, but no earring. I got my cape, (since Lill and Arc had already gotten the last two, and Xerxes got his Kote. Nice little item, it's the Horomusha Kote. It's the same level as Ochiudo's Kote with 5 less attack so I don't know why anyone with O Kote would want H Kote... but oh well. We try again tomorrow.

update's update: Well we killed again and I'm too lazy to make a new post. Dropped cape and torque this time. LS MNK got the torque because STR+4 in MNK parties with a BRD will be quite nice. I also realized why H Kote > O Kote... I never knew O Kote had -5 evasion, so it seem H Kote is the preferred kote for NINs since they offer 5 more evasion and 5 less attack.

meh, accomplishments starting to mean nothing to me

So yay, I helped kill Boroka 2 days in a row. In two kills we got 2 Skulker's Capes and a Auditory Torque. No Boroka Earring, no H. Kote and so even though we are 2/2 in two days I feel kinda, meh. I got a cool title that shows we killed it, and I even got the killshot today, but I'm still kinda down.

Today I found out that Senrez is in TeamKANICAN which blows my mind because after Sen broke Envy he said he wanted to have nothing to do with HNM LS's and camping. Also, Sen rubbed quit a few people the wrong way, yet there he is, in tK. Recently I've had some concerns about Furiousx. It's a LS that reall wants to grow, but the maturity level can be lacking at times and communication is lax (to say th least) sometimes which is painful because decisions are made without informing the LS and then when the new rule is put into effect the leaders don't understand why the LS is surprised, caught off guard, and sometimes upset. Anyways I asked tK's leaders if they thought I could get in, and after a few questions the leaders and members took a vote. Supposedly 1 person's no is all it takes...

I was told I got 3 no's.

Now I know about 4 people in tK, all of whom I know from Obsidian, my Dynamis LS. The rest are Japanese or people I just don't interact with. It's just bothersome to know that people may not like or approve of you. It's like them looking at me and saying, "We don't want to be friends with you, please go play over there". I know it's not that simple, but it's just an analogy. It's weird about this game, you make many friends on your way to becoming a higher level player. When you get great gear, cap out your job, clear all your missions, things can get pretty lonely and unsatisfying.

So much to catch up on...

OK, this might end up a huge post, so much has happened in the past week. Man this is going to be long, I'll try not ot overindulge...


SEA

On Thursday night we tackled airship again. This was our 4th try where we really tried to win. Before the fight I said to one of my static guys, "I feel good about this one tonight". Sure enough, after not letting anoyone die...

We actually broke the record... We were dumbfounded, and incredibly happy. We went ahead and got our map and started farming organs. By the end of the night I had enough organs to make my 1st Obi, and I ended up deciding on a Hyorin Obi. My decision was made because I live and die by paralyze, and this Obi will help boost that spell, as well as Blizzard nukes in snow weather or on Iceday. I am farming Euvhi Organs now for my Relaxing earring, (the drop rate sucks) so until then I wear my Obi proudly.
After we got Sea access and Grand Palace access we decided to do Limbus. Unfortunetly the startup LS we joined had only a handful of people go. We cleared the 1st floor with 2 minutes to go and go 12 coins and one crate had a Square of Cardinal Cloth. It is 1/2 the rare/ex items needed to upgrade AF1. All I am looking for now is Ruby Silk Thread and some coins. Twenty coins upgrades hat and 30 coins upgrades Tabard. I'm still undecided which to do. Hat gains INT+3 and Tabard gains mp regen+5 (same as Errant Hppl.). We'll see.

BRD

So I finally got my BRD to 72+ and full Sha'ir is so gorgeous. I get a lot of /checks and on my first day I even got three people to call me a gilbuyer! Then after toiling away at BRD for weeks I did a full day of xp and went from 72 > 73 in two parties. One was a tK spam party in Ule Range and the other was a MNK party in KRT. Something like 48k in xp in 4-5 hours. Since then I have obtained Sea access and been incredibly lax about leveling BRD. So far BRD hasn't been super useful in Al'Teau but we'll see later. Until then I run around Jeuno in this:

Owning the Manteel has gone straight to my Turban, er, head and dammit I earned it and made it all, why shouldn't it! Anyways half my Dynamis LS calls me camel jockey and half my social LS calls me a gay Barney impersonator. No love for the belly shirt... I'm sad you can't see my elf shoes in that pic, everytime I see that pic I think of the Lollipop Guild Munchkins from Wizard of Oz.

NMs

I also killed Boroka today for the first time, earning me the title Boroka Beleaguerer. I've wanted to camp this HNM for so long because of his earring. It was a fun fight, although they made this BRD NM have horrible accuracy, and even on 100% Full Moon Lightsday his drops were Skulker's Cape and Auditory Torque. He also drops the Boroka Earring (MP regen+1/INT+1) and the Horomusha Kote (Attack+15). Our BLM/WHM got the cape and our SAM got the torque. We spent 2 hours trying to get the people out there and wehn we had all but one person on the NM's island another HNM LS member popped through the Spatial Displacment and our BRD freaked, so he tried to sleep Boroka, and failed. We gathered ourselves though and took him down without any deaths. We might take a shot at him tomorrow, though the other LS saw us pull him so I do not doubt that they will be there as well when the window opens to try and claim him.

Random pics

This was a fun fight, got Ultimateplaya his organ too!

My 1st killshot in a long time, been gettin lazy.