General: The Week in Review

No big events to post on, but thought I should keep up my habit of posting weekly at least.

The new update last week introduced huge changes to the fishing system. It's really pretty fun now, but certainly not an idle passtime that you can do while watching movies or chatting away with your friends or linkshell. We've found that we catch many more fish. Everyone in Lakshmi decided they wanted to try fishing now, so fishing gear is scarce, and there are a lot of fish up on the AH. Since the amount you get for turning in moat carp is now one-tenth what it had been (10 gil each instead of 100), the price of moat carp has come down. Supply has also jumped. However at the new rates, I don't think I'll buy any fish unless it's 1K a stack or less.

Up to 1526/10000 moat carp now, and have about 8 stacks on hand to turn in later tonight. With the fishing changes, I may have the quest completed well before Christmas.

Elboron and Manon were trying to put together a party for level 34 on Friday night, but they couldn't get a tank. They spent about 2 hours looking for people, then looking for a party. Grym and Kiki have jobs at 36, but we felt that was just too high to work well with them. We suggested getting Elboron's items in Beadeaux for Mission 4-3, and so we did that instead. It was so easy to kill the NM Quadavs now we're level 51!

Kiki was in Windurst Saturday afternoon and saw some shouts for Ecowarrior. She thought that would be a good way to lose some EXP on her Warrior and get a Dragon Chronicle page for her Paladin (to get a safe buffer above 51), so she joined the group. As usual for such things, it took a long time to get the full alliance, and we actually ended up with just 16 people doing it, but the 3 parties were well-balanced, and each had a WHM and a tank. We had two escorts that kept us safe, but we were so disorganized and got split up in the Maze. I was sure we were all going to die. However, things went very smoothly, and we won! With no deaths! So Kiki's warrior is still just 2.4K to 37, but the 843 EXP she got for her Paladin was very nice. As was the 5000 gil.

Did a outpost supply run to Valdeaunia (Xarcarbard) with Grym and Manon. Upper Elshimo (Yhoator) is the only one besides Gustaberg and Ronfaure that I have left that I can actually use (the others are higher level). Made a couple other supply runs and turned in some rusty armor that we fished up as well. I did one of those to Meriphataud Mountains, and spent an hour killing Boggarts and Coeurls to get some Staff skillups. It's probably time to try to organize a Yuhtunga skillup party.