Leveling: All Over the Map (31/33 and 34/35)

Our attempts to party in off-the-beaten track places this weekend were disappointing.  

Friday night, the 31-33 "static" party headed to Norg, picking up a BLM30 to fill the sixth spot. Poor guy got killed a couple of times trying to get through Sea Serpent Grotto. The idea was to camp at the zone and fight Ironshells. Unfortunately, the ghasts made it difficult, and we broke up after only 90 minutes (BLM dc'd and didn't come back either).

One ghast fight went really poorly, and Manon got killed. Not sure why she didn't zone - shouldn't have to die when you're on a zone line :-(

Saturday night, we took out our other jobs for a 34/35 party at Behemoth's Dominion. We had BLM34/WHM17, BLM35/WHM17, WHM34/BLM17, THF34/WAR17, WAR35/MNK17, and picked up a RDM34/WAR17.

Here the idea was to fight Lesser Gaylas. The place was empty to start with, but we got off to a poor start with doing our viper bite -> gale axe = distortion skillchain followed by 2 aero ii magic bursts from the BLMs too close to the start of the fight. This meant I lost hate and poor BLM Magery was the target of Jet Stream for something like 388 damage. This happened twice.

Another failure was trying to get SAnTA set up with the RDM voking. One fight the SAnTA missed and I couldn't get hate off of the RDM and he died.

So with the three deaths and waiting for weakness to wear off, we were off to a slow start, but we got into our groove and things improved. Then another party showed up.

Manon had trouble pulling since the other party had 3 pullers working against her. That place just can't support more than one party.

When Magery hit 36 (and it was getting close to 6am his time), we ended up disbanding, since the RDM had to leave soon too.