General: Weekend Accomplishments (Oct 15-17)

Achievements for the past weekend were getting Grym's RNG and Kiki's BLM from 10 to 18, Kiki took the woodworking test for level 10 (did you know the guild sells workbenches for less than 300 gil?) and the culinary test for level 30, we helped an LS member get his Palborough Key for Kazham when he was doing part one of Mission 2-3, and we picked up the tele-crystal for Yhoat (just for fun).

We levelled our RNG and BLM from 10 to 12 mostly on Rock Eaters in the Konstadt Highlands. It's a good combo for fighting worms. Saturday morning we switched to WHM34 (Grym) and WAR35 (Kiki) and walked from Bastok to San d'Oria, where we did some woodcrafting, and Kiki picked up the Teleport-Holla scroll quest, since she hadn't picked it up before.

We decided to head to Windurst so we could try levelling RNG and BLM on the worms in Shakrimi. The airship pass sure makes it easy to run around now. We headed up to the Maze and joined up with a MNK12 from our LS who was tired of not being able to get into parties in the Dunes and was on his way back to Windurst. We fought a couple worms with good success (200 exp per kill is nice), but got a link in the ghoul room off the east tunnel and had more than we could handle even before the ghoul spawned. So Grym and I HP'd to Windurst, while Brokensword had to make his way back from Mhaura. When we got back to the Maze, things were going pretty well, and we made it to 13 before we lost Brokensword again. He gave up at this point and a WAR13 in Bubu sent a tell asking if we had room in our party. He came along with a BLM friend who was around level 50 and PL'ing him, and our EXP came quite nicely. A BST14 (Wotan) also joined us, and we had a nice little party that got us up to 15.

We headed back to Windurst to resupply and take a break for a bit. The two of us figured we'd head to Bastok later to try the worms as a duo in Korroloka, but before we got around to doing that, Wotan sent us a /tell asking if we'd like to join a party in Korroloka, which was even better. We had a nice worm killing set-up: BLM/WHM, RNG/WAR, BLM/RDM, BST/WHM, NIN/WAR, WHM/BLM. The NIN was a bit too high for us, and after a level or two, she left and we replaced her with a PLD. Then our WHM had to go join her static, but we kept going. The PLD decided he didn't like our party the way it was and left, but the 4 of us kept going. Then the other BLM got DC'd, and Wotan had to take a break to eat, but Grym and I kept killing worms were able to get a chain 3 for 260 exp with just the two of us before Edwardisedward and Wotan got back. Grym was shooting the worms, and I was out of worm-spell range and just keeping Grym's health up. She ended up going through 5 or 6 stacks of iron arrows and at least 1 stack of bone for the evening, but we finished up at 18 with a buffer. We didn't buy enough iron arrows for that sort of shooting, but Wotan had over a stack that he gave Grym to use. We also picked up a Power Bow +1 in Bastok before heading into the tunnel for when Grym hit 16. It's a nice bow!

We finished the evening when Grym ran out of arrows, and Wotan hit 19(?) and needed to run off for a BCNM40, but Grym ended up getting killed by a linked worm that rasped her and stonega'd us when we thought we were a safe distance. Quick trip home for her, and Kiki got to use Warp for the first time.

Sunday morning, Magery, our newest LS member, was ready to start Mission 2-3, so we met up with him in Bastok and helped him get his Palborough Key when he was in Palborough to get his Mine Sand for the mission. Locmari (RDM35 at the time) came along with us as well.  

Later in the day, I took my WAR to the Highlands to try to level archery and marksmanship a bit on some rock eaters, but 2 stacks of arrows only took me to 20 from 12, and 2 stacks of bolts took me to 22 from 12. I'd like to get marksmanship levelled for my DRK (crossbow+acid bolts = easier to kill mobs), but I think it will be a bit slow. Maybe I need to level my RNG using crossbow only.

Later, Grym and I figured we'd head to Yhoator Jungle to see if we could find the Tele-Crystal there. I'm not sure we'll ever need to use it, but it would be fun to explore a bit (on chocobo) and find it. So I subbed BLM on my WAR35, and since I'm a Taru, I had 103 MP - enough for Warp with 3 to spare. Grym went as a WHM34/BLM17. We didn't really have too much trouble finding the Crystal. There sure aren't many people around in Yhoator except those exp'ing near the Yuhtunga zones. Got to see a few different Tonberries and some scary Goblins (Reapers and others) as well as those cool Coeurls.

Once back in Kazham, we headed to Norg (went as RDM25 for sneak) just to drop off some rusty subligars and do a quick check on mobs in Sea Serpent Grotto to see if they'd be suitable for EXP at level 35 (doesn't seem like it).