Beastmasters: Quicksand Caves (Level 58 -> 59)

On Monday, we were hoping to level in Toraimarai Canal. Before we logged out Sunday night, we got ready for exp, including using our Empress Bands. This way the timer would be ready for us to use them again Monday afternoon. When we logged in, another BST was in the Canal. Ulegeurand Range didn't look like a good option until 59, so we decided to go try using the Sand Lizards to fight Anticans in Quicksand Caves.

We're not big fans of fighting Anticans, since they have some dangerous moves, and they can just take so long to kill. However, time flew by, and it was really a pretty decent camp. Most of the Anticans were VT, and the lizards ranged from DC to T. We'd usually charm and leave the tough lizards to try to convert them to DC or EM, but we fought them from time to time as well.

We had a couple of close calls with the BLM types. Kiki actually got killed by one, getting hit by Magnetite Cloud as we were running away to heal ourselves after taking two tier III -ga spells in a row, but Grym made it out to the desert and came back to raise Kiki. Another time we were left with 13 hp for Kiki and 28 hp for Grym. If I hadn't had TP for Rampage, we both would have been dead.

We liked the Rangers the best - they were pretty soft, and less annoying than the BLMs. The PLD we only fought once. It took forever to kill him, and was a waste of time. The WARs were harder to kill than the BLMs and RNGs, but we didn't avoid them.

After we hit 59, we stayed for another 2k exp to get a safe buffer, and headed off for the night.