General: The Week in Review

Moat carp count: 2759/10000

The Egg Festival pretty much preoccupied Kiki and Grym from Thursday evening through Saturday morning, but after getting all the items, it got pretty boring trading and selling eggs from all of our characters, so we started getting back into our usual routine.  

Kiki joined in a ClanBEB linkshell event on Friday night. We headed to Pso'Xja for a general exploration and see if we could pick up one of the items for Gobbiebag VI and for a later Promathia mission. We started out with 11 or 12 of us, and ended up as two parties of 4 each: PLD62/WAR31, RDM69/BLM34, WHM52/BLM26, PLD51/WAR25 and MNK62/THF31, PLD54/WAR27, PLD50/RDM25, RDM52/BLM26.

Note that the first party had two means of escape (teleport from the whm and escape from the rdm). Originally the other party also had 2 members capable of escape, but they had to go earlier than the rest of us, and we didn't reconfigure the groups.

It was a really interesting area, and I love the music there. We had to spawn two sets of NM golems to get key item bracelets to get through a few doors, and we fought tonberries, lizards, bats, magic pots, and treasure chests. I got a cyan chip from one of the chests we killed, which will sit in my mog safe until PM 3-5 or something like that.

The treasure chests have a nasty AOE move with a strong poison (10 hp per tick) that was unpleasant. We had lots of keys, and tried to open the chests, but as soon as someone would get close to the chest, it would start attacking.

The area is quite confusing and puzzle-like, and we finally got to where we thought we wanted to go - an open elevator platform that would take us down to where we might find the GB VI item dropping mobs. As we dropped through the levels, a number of Diremites of some flavor jumped on with us and started slaughtering us. My party managed to escape, leaving the others to a miserable end on the Elevator of Doom.

Fishing has been going OK. Kiki's at level 37 (shining trout from 35-37), and can't seem to find a good combo for skillups now. Tried fishing herring in port Jeuno with lugworms, but got more colbalt jellyfish, tiger cod, yellow globes, and bastore sardines. Grym tried worm lure in Kazham for Coral butterflies, but didn't like that. Elshimo Frogs using a fly lure in Yuhtunga was much better, but she caught 24 and didn't get a single skillup. I'm planning to try lugworms at the ice pond in Qufim tonight.

Kiki broke her 25K gil Mithran Rod (and lost a sinking minnow) on a catch that was "you have a good feeling about this". I was shocked. Fortunately, Qix found another one in a bazaar in Bastok for 22K, and Quincy was able to sell the broken one for 22.5K, so there was little loss (the lure is about 700 on the Mhaura-Selbina ferry).

Kiki made about 24 stacks of scorpion arrows over the weekend and got about 2.0 skillups for the 72 synths - woodworking 55.1 now. Skillups sure seem to slow down after 50. At least the arrows sell pretty well. Trow's having a lot of trouble levelling from 62. The demon and bodkin arrows are big money losers, and that's when you can even find the arrowheads.

Kki's HQ rate on arrowwood is a bit disappointing, but not too bad really. She did 7 synths and got 3 NQ, 3 HQ1 and 1 HQ3, for 39 sticks of lumber from 21 logs. I love getting 12 sticks from one bundle of 3 logs.

Kiki offered to escort a Bastok ecowarrior group on Sunday, and when they seemed to be close to being ready, she headed to Gusgen from Jeuno, planning to meet them there. After an hour of killing bones, ghost and undead dogs and getting little to show for it (a wolf hide, 5 bone chips, and a scroll of gravity), she was informed that the ecowarrior wasn't going to happen after all. So she toddled along to Bastok, coming across a dead body with a level 50 galka paladin healing next to it. Kiki cast raise and made the galka cry. She feels bad about that. It might even have been his first opportunity to raise someone.

Qiwi's been running short on space, so Kiki headed over to Rabao and bought him 18 water jugs for an extra 18 slots of storage. At 188 gil each, that's certainly the cheapest way to get more space, as long as you don't mind having overwhelming water energy and have to use storage rather than mog safe space, which means being in your home town all the time (fine for most mules).

Last night Grym and Kiki headed to Eldieme Necropolis to help Ryrra (MNK49), Wendell (WHM49), Itera (PLD50), and Muirnan (THF50) get their ancient papyrus for G1. Vawn (PLD75) was allied with us and soloing in another part of the zone, and Muirnan arrived late and had to just stay near and entrance and be left out of the fun. Yobun was PLD62/RDM31, Kiki PLD/RDM, and Grym THF/WHM. We fought things for maybe 2.5 hours, but only got 3 papers. Muirnan will need to try again. Best bonus - Muirnan found a treasure chest and we all got over 2K gil from it! No deaths or close calls even, so it was kind of fun. Yobun was trying to tank without provoke, but would usually lose hate if Grym used SAnTA+backhand blow on to me (usually did over 500 damage, and even over 600 once. Good for Kiki's evasion and shield skillups, and got a few magic skillups as well.