Ringin in the New Year with a new post

A little cliche, I know, but who cares, this is my blog.

Finally got home form Florida and was able to get some guilt free time in game. Only problem was what was waiting for me back in NYC... work! As much as I wanted to put in long nights the reality was I wasn't going to be able to stay on much past 10:30pm EST. It seemed at the time that everything was popping after 11pm, but stuff moved back and I finally hit my days off. A quick update of what has happened in the past week or so.



First thing as soon as I logged in my first day back I fought Tiamat. To me, Timmy's always been easy but for some reason there was some trouble with this fight. It wasn't a WW fight, it was an assisted fight but the tanks were all over the place it seemed and at 3%... it flailed. Of course going on SMN I wasn't harmed and only about 4-5 people died overall but still, Timmy should be an easy fight if you have the right resist gear on and it didn't seem the PLD/NINs did. Was a messy fight and crappy drops. Wyrm Horn onry. lawl.

After that it seemed like either I was missin stuff or we weren't doing a whole lot. I got Behemoth one day, 1x hide (wtf is with my luck), then we did a Dynamis-Bastok which produced this:

Open lotted MNK feet 15 seconds apart. Yay. SMN hands did drop and I high lotted... then I found out I needed like 6 more Dynamis' to be able to lot. They of course went to someone who hasn't logged into the game or attended a LS event in over 2 weeks. Yes, I am that lucky.



We did an Tier III Einherjar where we cleared the first 3 waves in seconds, then got raped by King Behemoth. Before the fight I was meditating and attaining a true level of nirvana, as eveidenced by my levitation above.

I started to work on WAR a little bit in Campaign. Seemed like easy enough XP, and if you die you don't even lose any XP. Lots of people around, I can quietly just slap around a few mobs and steal a few thousand xp a fight without any harm, right?

Seems not. Stupid ass Orc MNK NM. I was determined to get my revenge and not soon after I sure as hell did!

HAHA! Took down the Orc King himself Bakgodek. Not so cool now with that big goofy gold crown now, are we?! Even sent em running back to Davoi with their tails between their legs.



Then on New Year Eve we pulled out all the stops. Camped and claimed Khimera (5x Lightning Crystals YES!!), then camped and claimed Aspi (2x D.Feet YES!!!!), and finally we ended the night by camping and claiming Nidhogg (N. Legs WHO CARES, I'M NOT A THF!!!)




Finally, I decdided to take up a craft. I know most crafts really don't make money anymore but I'm not really a farmer with a 37THF so I figured I'd take up fishing and cooking. There's no real outlay for fishing and cooking is always gonna be used and you will always have repeat customers. Sell a Haub+1... sure you make a shit ton of money (if it sells), but then you're done. Want more money, make another one. Yeah right. My last charcater had 93 cooking and 89 fishing so I know what foods (as of August 07) were in high demand and what I need to fish/cook up to be able to keep some form of a steady income coming in. Well that is all, I leave you with my results of almost 2 hours of fishing straight last night. Nine stacks of Moat Carp down... 824 more to go for the Lu Shangs!