I Love Grinding Levels.
Posted by: Anexia in BLM, Dynamis, General Game-Related, RDM, Synergy/sarcasm.
Anyways!
Right after maintenance was over on Monday, we got a group quickly and ran out to Mamool Ja — the exp was nice at first, but slowed to a painful speed as more and more people came out and camped on top of everyone. I needed ~6k exp for my third merit though, and a few others needed some EXP to finish as well, and we got that at least! We sucked it up for 3 of us to be able to complete LB6 and headed to Jeuno. Then we went out to Castle O. [S] as suggested by Campsitarus, as previously posted. The exp was ok, but nothing fantastic. Good enough for most of us to get 76 with a decent buffer though!
Ever since though? I’ve been in Misareaux Coast. VERY nice exp from 75-~77 or so, and we’ve just been syncing to there. Everyone I’ve talked to has wanted to keep it hush hush…but it’s posted on BG, that’s how we found it. So whatever! It’s like greater birds, but the vultures don’t reflect or steal our food! The one complaint the melee had is that one of their mobs causes like a ~10-11 sec stun. Pretty much the same party set up as greater birds though works great — DDx3, BRDx2 (or COR), and WHM or RDM to heal. Our best exp though was with only one bard to pull, and in place of a second bard getting a dancer. That party hovered at 23k~ without band, with other parties being closer to ~19k without band. I know greater birds can get higher than that, but the “normal” I’ve seen there is closer to 17-18k/hour without band. Anyways! All but living there has proven effective…
^^b It was a long grind though — I was out there and on one day partied so much my rank 10 signet wore off :< I don’t know what was worse, not having signet or realizing that I had partied long enough for it to wear off!! So many people camped on top of us too — anyone on my twitter knows ALL about that. I’ve been bitching about it for days. I mean, I know that camps are hard to find…but seriously. I know it’s a good camp and all, but for ONE party, but not two. With two parties there, both parties get shit exp, and at that point you may as well be off some place else. Instead, no, you just HAD to camp on top of us and force us all to have shit exp. It’s just so rude, there’s absolutely no reason to go “hey, I’m going to get crappy exp…lets make this other party get crappy exp too!!” So rude. I’m sure they were trying to force us out of the camp…but yeah. We all know how THAT works ^^b
It’s been a bit of an off week — we’ve canceled salvage so we could all focus on 80. It’s so weird to not have salvage stories to write about! Instead, I’ll write about dynamoose!
I love the Orc NMs in Beaucedine SO much. Nego, btw, is our sole galka in the linkshell. The Orc NMs have the most amazing names ever though, seriously. Our runs have gotten a bit messed up lately — we were hoping to get a Jeuno and a Beaucedine win before the end of the month, but someone sniped our Jeuno on Sunday and Beacedine was taken, so we went to Xarcabard instead. That left us with two runs left in the month, and it would have been so nice to do Jeuno > Beaucedine…but Beaucedine is taken for Sunday :( We at least got that win on Thursday though — and oh boy, have we become pros at spending as much time farming as possible before getting the win. We typically finish clearing the Yag NMs at the pond when we get the ~10 minute marking, TYPE OUT SOME DIRECTIONS while everyone books it for camp, and have Z run to pull assuming everyone will be in the right spot by the time he gets back with the eye/dragons.
Z’s so mean to me ; ;
Thursday, since I had RDM at 80, I was actually something other than BLM. When I’m on black mage, I’m usually at the 20′ marker to nuke, and as such if charm goes off, I don’t get hit with it. IE, whenever charm goes off…I’m usually the one everyone chases after. Thankfully I has +8% movement pants on black mage and can usually get away! Tonight though? Not so lucky.
As a red mage, I was standing with the group, and so I got charmed with everyone else…the stupid thing was at 3% too. Unfortunately, my charm wore off and I went “hey, lets nuke this down!” I realized everyone else was still charmed about the same time I decided to eat snow.
Other than that? I did see a few funnies this week. I loved seeing “So&so delevels to 75.” That was on Star’s screen though, so no screenshot! It just highly amused me :] That was before I even dinged 76, when I was working on my 3rd merit. Funny stuff! I also saw this gem as I was zoning:
The only thing that would have been better is if they were combined — someone getting killed by the furnace and deleveling to 75.
With Red Mage done though…now it’s time to continue grinding. Black Mage will be the next to 80 for dynamis, and then White Mage soon after since I use that quite often in limbus and used to full time it in salvage — I tend to go back and forth between White Mage and Red Mage, so it’ll be good to get up there. Plus, it’s one of my favorite jobs! Then…idk. I may just get Ninja to 75 before taking another to 80, it depends on how sick of fighting for camps I am. That can at least get synced down without me feeling bad! For now though…not looking forward to the grind on Black Mage.
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