General: More Odds and Ends

Moat carp count: 287/10000

Spent a couple of evenings farming for recollections in the Promyvions. One evening was with Manon in Dem, and another with just Grym and Kiki in Mea, though we had a BST join us, since she was doing the same thing, and it was easier for the three of us than for her alone and us as a duo. She had died once while soloing and getting aggro from a spawn. So we're all set with a set of the three animas for a Promyvion boss fight. Hopefully I can do one or more of these soon with ClanBEB. That's my main reason for levelling NIN, to be able to do Mea as a WAR/NIN.

Saturday morning I continued levelling NIN, getting it to 6, then grabbed Emith, Grym, and Dalubhasa to do the SAM quest for me and Dalub. We headed to the Sanctuary of Zi'tah, quickly dispatched the treant (900+ from Emith's Freeze finished it off). Off to Konstadt Highlands to fight Forger again for Dalub, then sneaking to Norg to turn in our items. 3 hours later our great katanas were ready.  

Kiki's fame in Norg still wasn't high enough for the Utsusemi scroll quest, so she bought 10 rusty subligars for the rusty subligar quest, and that was enough to push her up to the right fame level. Hurray! It only took about 124 yagudo necklaces too. So I did the Utsusemi quest as a PLD48/RDM24, sneaking past all the ghasts and sahagins and everything else in Sea Serpent Grotto, only getting lost once. It's always so stressful doing sneaky quests. The scroll's currently going for 250K on the AH - it will be tough reading it when her NIN hits 12. Also picked up a couple of other Norg quests that I couldn't earlier.

We spent Sunday morning and evening levelling Kiki's NIN. She's now about 1000 exp from level 12. Dual wielding is pretty fun, but the low level weapons for NINs really aren't all that great. Still using the level 1 Wax Sword +1 in her off-hand for the ACC bonus, since NINs can't wield Bee Spatha +1s, which would be better. Katana in main hand, and she's getting decent skillups on that.

We also helped a WAR30 do the Ninja Flag quest. It was a bit of overkill: PLD60, SAM50, THF48, PLD48, and the WAR30. The WAR sure got smacked badly fast at the start of the fight after touching the coral. The PLD60 was boasting about having two pairs of leaping boots (one on his mule), and about how he jacked the price up to 600,000 this week. We're never going to get a pair at this rate. It seems to me they were only 150K when we started playing. They just keep going up and up. At least Grym's closer to the point where she can get her AF boots.