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.