Leveling: LLS in the Boyahda Tree (67)

Kitti joined the LLS this Sunday night with her SMN61. She's a bit low for the group, but as a main healer, that's really not a huge issue. If she decides to continue on with us, she'll probably level a bit to try to get caught up. Itera, Kiki, Elbo, and Grym were all 67, while Yobun was still 66, having not gotten any exp since our last LLS three weeks earlier.

Bibiki Bay looked full, and there was a party our level fighting lizards in the Den of Rancor (though without Stona, that might not have been the best idea), so we thought we might try Darters and Tarantulas in Dragons Aery. We trekked through the Boyahda Tree to Dragons Aery, and since there were spiders between us and the flies, we decided to try a spider on the Tree side of the zone, since they're probably slightly lower in level. So we buffed up and pulled a spider. Kiki ended up dead, so we decided that was a bad idea. It wasn't a problem with Sickle Slash - I got hit with that several times, but usually around 300 damage. It was just the double attacks and probably spider web slowness that kept me from getting cures off in time. Fortunately the spider was nearly dead when I died, so they killed it off with no further losses.

Note to self: don't eat three hour food when trying out a new camp.

We decided to head up to the upper level and camped near the Sleepga II quest spot and fought Steelshells the rest of the night, with one Water Elemental that aggro'd us. The prey were all VT, and we were killing them pretty fast, but never got a chain #5. We were a bit rusty, and didn't get our light skillchain going for a few fights. It wasn't the best camp, with crabs spawning on us while we were fighting, and Elbo ended up getting killed by one link. My provoke and flash weren't up and I never think to use Cover since Elbo's always running around. I feel so bad when someone else dies. Itera and I both ended up using our two hours to survive those two crabs.

I think we ended up with about 9.5k exp with rings for the evening (between 2 and 2.5 hours of fighting), putting Kiki a bit more than halfway through level 67. Level 75 seems so very very far away. I think we need to change the way we do things - we can be better than we are.