Leveling: Smaller Static Heads to Gustav Tunnel (38-41)

We were able to level on Saturday during the day! Hurray! It would be nice if we could do this every other weekend or something. The four of us were all 38 (PLD/WAR, THF/NIN, RNG/WAR, SMN/WHM), and had decided to give Gustav Tunnel a try. We had hoped to start out at 1PM, but it took awhile to get two more people.

Locmari was able to convince Cognac, a WHM/BLM, and Kingmog, a RDM/BLM to join us in the "unusual" levelling spot. Again, we didn't get a first voker, but amazingly Hell Bats don't aggro, and would spawn in our camp, so we still were able to start off several fights with SA/TA on me. /cheer Even without that, hate was pretty well under control.

I have to say I really loved this camp, and hope it's good for a few more levels. The only trouble was the occasional goblin being zoned past us, but again, we never had too much to handle (though we did zone once when a hawker spawned behind Manon as she pulled another). I think that might have been the time that Manon was down to 7HP before getting back to camp. Yikes. We also needed an Invincible/Benediction one time when we had a link, but we all survived.

We fought Hawkers and Hell Bats, with an occasional Goblin thrown into the mix (Poachers, Robbers, and Reapers). The Reapers are DRKs and drop DRK scrolls, so I was able to get Stun to have on hand for when my DRK hits 37.

And I must say, having a RDM at 41 with Refresh was awesome. No need to rest for MP until after a crisis!

We levelled for hours, and took a break for about 30 minutes around supper time. Not sure of the final exp count, but it was probably close to 15K in about 4 or 5 hours. We ended up with Grym less than 100 short of 42, and Kiki less than 600. I can't believe we're nearly 42.

We gave linkpearls to both Cognac and Kingmog, but their first introduction to the linkshell was a very grumpy Emith arguing with Magery. Hopefully they'll realize that isn't typical. :-)