General: The Week in Review

I took a vacation day on Tuesday (car had to go in for repairs), and spent a couple hours fishing on the Mhaura-Selbina ferry. It was a nice change of pace, but uneventful. No Sea Horrors or Pirates. We caught 2 stacks of Nebimonites, since Kiki should be using something better than Crab at this point, and Nebimonite Bake seems to fit the bill for her "every day" food. I'd like to start having Seafood Stew around as the "good" food, but I think it might be awhile before we get Qiara up to that level of cooking skill.

Kiki's up to 529/10,000 moat carps. Still feasible to have Lu Shang's Rod before Christmas, but we'll have to do a lot of fishing.  

We helped Manon fight the Dragon to complete her Dragoon flag quest. It's a really quick fight for a trio of level 50s!.

Then we spent Saturday afternoon in Promyvion Dem and Mea, farming recollections and levelling Grym's WHM and Manon's RNG a bit. Grym's WHM is now 36, so she can now do teleports to Mea, Dem, and Holla. We've done the Teleport-Yhoat quest as well, but that's a level 38 spell. Three ClanBEB people joined us in Promyvion, and we decided to head up (in?) a level to fight tougher stuff. It was a bit tougher than we had counted on. Our party was WHM/BLM, WHM/BLM, RDM/BLM, RNG/WAR, RNG/NIN, and WAR/NIN.

Tanthalus hit 24 Saturday night, so Grym and Kiki took him to Yhugott Grotto to get his first Kazham key. There was a duo there trying to get another key, so we allied with them and got both pretty quickly. I'd be inclined to say TH2 helps there, but we never took long to get that key anyway.

On Sunday, Grym ran around with Manon working on Manon's Crawlers Nest map quest. Having the teleports helped a bit, but it got even faster when Emith joined them so Manon could get D2'd back to Selbina. Sounds like Manon only has two monuments left to pick up.

Kiki decided she'd head to Qufim to level her THF a bit more (was 400 exp into 19). It went a lot better than I expected. I got a party within 15 minutes of putting up my flag, and less than 4 hours later was 400 exp into 21. And that included a raise-less death, and all the waiting around for people to regroup after the banshee and giant aggro that is so common in Qufim. I think most of the people in the group each had a death, but despite that, it was a pretty successful Qufim party. We started out was 2 WHMs, NIN/WAR, DRK/WAR, RNG/NIN, THF/MNK, and mowed through the worms until the RNG got DC'd and didn't come back. The NIN/WAR, Zabaq, is the same character model as Kiki, only with darker hair. It was cute having two little taru sisters fighting the worms. We replaced the RNG with a DRG/BLM, and the WHM with another WHM and continued on until too many of us had to leave.

Anastasia came by and tossed us a few cures and protects, and killed Banshees around us for awhile, and later, Vynala did the same. It's nice having high levels pass through looking out for the exp'ers.

Worked on raising Kiki's woodcraft skill a bit, and got it up to level 36. Making arrows for skillups is nice, since you can at least break-even on them. Qiara's up to level 63 for cooking. There's a crafting timer page now that seems to really help with crafting for skillups. Qiara was making pumpkin soup (sells for NPC for a loss if you count the fire crystals, but not too painful), and got a skillup on nearly every synth.