Leveling: Static Party Reaches 50 (Yhoator Jungle)

We were all hoping we'd be able to get to 50 on Saturday, and happily we did! Locmari was just barely 48, while Grym was the highest, at about 4K/7600. We really didn't know where to go, but decided to try to get people who would be willing to try going back to our favorite spot in Yhoator. There wasn't a lot of choice for people at 48 LFP, but I spotted Maechen, SAM48/WAR24, and thought he might be the guy we partied fighting Furriers when we hit 29, and he was interested. With no RDM or WHM looking, I asked Locmari if he minded being the main healer (SMN/WHM), especially since we were fighting "easier" things than we might usually. He didn't mind, so I invited Bigbadbear, a Galka BRD/WHM (who had over 200 HP more than Kiki).

I told them we planned to head to fight gobs in Yhoator, that they would be T to IT, that we loved the camp, and that we all really wanted to be 50 before we finished partying. They were in full agreement, and so off we went. About 5 hours later, we met our goal, and disbanded, all quite happy to have reached that milestone.

It was really pretty uneventful. SAM would get crazy TP, so there were lots of skillchains. The Bard songs helped everyone. We got a couple links, but handled them with no problems. We did get our HP blasted a couple times with gobbie bombs, but since those also killed the goblins, we weren't in any danger. For some reason Grym's Viper Bite macro didn't always work. We're not sure if it's because of spell/song animations happening when she's trying to use it, but it meant Maechen would end up tanking a few times, since he'd be first voking, then landing a Tachi: Enpi, and Grym's SA/TA without VB wouldn't turn the mob. So in those fights, I'd usually end up casting Cure III on him a few times before getting hate, if I did get it.

I do find that the easier the mobs are, the harder time I have holding hate on them.

We pretty much plowed through the goblins, but I believe we only got one Chain #6. Mostly ended with a #5. Had really little down time, it usually seemed to be from not having enough goblins to kill rather than needing to rest for MP.

As usual, we had the camp to ourselves, but then about an hour before we were done, a party of 43-46s showed up. They camped right in the middle of where the gobs spawn, so we figured they'd get wiped out at some point, but they managed (had a black mage with sleep). After the BLM hit 47, he warped out, and they didn't get the party going again until right before we left. I hope they enjoyed the camp as much as we have.

It's nice to have Raise now! I got to raise 2 people on Saturday, one in Yuhtunga, another in Qufim. There's so many things we have to do now with being 50. Mission 5-1, Genkai 1, start in on our AF quests, and so on.