General: Frustration with Probable RMTs

While we were wandering nearly aimlessly, looking for places to level as BST25s, we ended up heading to Pashhow, figuring at least we could farm dark crystals and mushrooms and get a couple points from marsh funguars. We had a funny fight with a Goobbue (with a probably RMT Dragoon watching closely, hoping no doubt for it to go yellow when we got new pets so he could steal it from us). For some reason, Kiki couldn't lose hate, so she started running around one of those big round rocks, with the Goob in pursuit, and the pets chasing the Goob. When Kiki was directly opposite the Goob, it started jumping up over the rock to get her. It was very funny.

We had a very close fight with a tough Malboro. Ran out of handy pets and had to use our jugs. I think we'll avoid those in the future.

Then we decided we'd head up to the NW corner, where we liked to go as small groups in the high 20s for farming and a bit of EXP, way back in May, before Kiki existed. It was always empty, with leeches that drop Beastmen's Blood, crawlers that drop Silk Thread, and even a NM leech that drops the Bloodbead Amulet.

We got up there, and what do you know, there's Bloodpool Vorax! Looking around, we see there are plenty of things we can use as pets, so we attacked him. Suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, Elishya, a highish level RDM (Cure IV at least), starts hitting every mob in the area and immediately calling for help on them. Since you can't charm mobs that have been called for help on, she removed our ability to successfully fight the NM leech. She ended up pulling it away from us when it went yellow. We were so very angry that someone would be so very mean. She's obviously used that tactic frequently in the past.

So we headed home to Windurst (outpost teleports are awesome), switched to PLD43/WAR21 and THF43/WAR21, and headed back to Pashhow to kill stuff that Elishya farms. Emith joined us as well, so we spent maybe a couple hours running around grabbing what leeches and crawlers we could, though she still got a lot. We managed to grab Bloodpool Vorax too (no drop), and at that point she had to call in her DRG friend to help her (the one who had hoped to get our Goob earlier in the day).

Overall, I'm sure it didn't make a dent in their overall gil-take for the day, but it still was kind of fun doing it.

I don't know if they're part of a larger group or not, but Elishya has a bunch of sales in the Jeuno history list for both stacks of silk and stacks of beastmen blood, just like Mywhm in San d'Oria, Mywar in Bastok, and Nologout in Windurst. Seems they've decided to make their money off of things people need to craft, and jack up the prices while they're at it.