About damned time?

It was looking to be a nice lazy night off, nothing on my plate and I was still after all this time sitting at +17k tnl 75 so I decided to try my hand at solo exp while seeking on BLM.

The last time I went to solo in this place I died a horrid death on my first pull and swore off solo exp. It should have been very easy exp, fight a rng type mob that wont melee me to death, add little stoneskin and a round of nukes for easy exp, unfortunately I linked a thf mob who stabbed the shit out of me interrupting my attempts to sleep/warp the hell out of there.

This time I packed a RR pin, no point in making potentially negative exp any worse than it needed be.

Arrived at camp, popped my exp ring wandered around till I found something that deserved to die and bam ...

O.o 414 not shabby at all, and I didn't die. It did take my entire mana pool to pull it off but the mobs have a 15 minute spawn time and with three in a room so I should be able to pace this out nicely. I managed to pull a few chain 2's and every other time I cleared the room a chain 1 never once coming close to death. Couple of hours later I was a little over 5k tnl when I got a party invite. I almost didn't take it, its been so long since I used Blm for anything other than friend or LS help, but I did. Traveled to the mire, met up with the party and proceeded to blow things up for a little bit when one member took off ; ;, his replacement arrived killed a few things then the nin and rdm wanted to go without finding replacements, we finished the rdm's {Last} and he warped then nin said it was time for her to go I was sitting at 1k so the nin stayed ....

{/Hurray!}
Nin disbands 2hrs and I look down and lead has been passed to me /sigh. I asked the party (all jp now) {Looking for members.}??{Disband}??{Leader} {Do you need it}?? and pretty much all at the same time "{Yes Please.} {No thank you} {No thank you.} ^^" So after all this time out of the "high level game" I'm no charged with being the leader of a party, what you say that doesn't sound bad? well considering I have been in a lead position few times than I have fingers to count on I wasn't exactly confident. After some begging/harassing/silent treatment and a sneaky nin who agreed to come than changed to sam before I busted him we were back in the game.

I ended up 8k into 75 with no Kirbyprime to spam {job} Thunder IV {You can have this.} to. Not a bad night at all. Ran to the AH to see if there was anything cheap that would show off my new status, a hat or staff etc.., sadly BLM gets the shaft with auctionable goods at 75 ... I was kinda hoping there would be a silly staff that ww's skill on or a crappy cap .. hell anything .. I think all there that I could find were some melee earrings so no sexy new anything /sigh.

Poked around with the merit box, not allot I am really interested in except maybe a Tier 2 AM or something since my career path is still blurry.

COP Madness. Die mammets die.

Good god this shit takes forever.

I suppose I could end the post there as it kind of sums up COP.

Got 2-5 done last night, waited on a LS party to form people were either no-show or busy or w/e. So I sent a /t to a person I heard was shouting for 2x nin help on 2-5. My old friend Vipricerpm had shown back up for the second or third time in about a year and needed the mission too so we told the guy we had his nin problem fixed. By the time we talked to him he only needed one so we sat around waiting on LS party to maybe form.

About 45 minutes later I get a tell from the guy saying that he did infact need 2 nin to fill up 2 parties so off we went.

After the comical sneaking around riverne avoiding mobs and gathering up DC'd members we made it to the Mammets BC. We kept the same party format as we did on the trip in broke allience and vip's entered. 10-15 minutes later they were dumped out very much dead.

My party went in and got shit out a bit faster than the first, we didnt even get one mammet down, a kiter lost his hold and I got gangbanged by 2x mammet oh and managed to fill the first mamets hp t full since nobody saw his transmogrify move or w/e.

Vips parties second run went much the same way as the first only quicker ^^.

Our second run smn blew off his 2hr, war did his smn forgot to take a mammet off the war kiting, war dies, smn outta mp, bst running like hell .... death. we did "almost kill 1st mammet.

Our mini-allience was pretty bummed at this point and 6 people took off, the remainder staying looked like a good set up so we agreed to do one more run and do it proper.

*at this point all meds, RR items etc.. were pretty much gone I think i had the one lone hi-pot*

NIN, NIN, WAR, SMN, SMN, WHM.

We kicked thier fucking asses.

Me vip, and the war took center, smns kited whm did his thing.
1st one down np, a little late on the yellow liquid stuck him in blm mode ...
2nd one down "I think" we lost one smn as we droppd 1st and went to voke #2, stook a bit longer than first he used the transmogrify thing twice if memory serves.
3rd 2 members dead both smn, vip and I did our nin thing and smoked his ass.



Started through all the cs into 3-3 got C.Landing NM done, did windy cs's and plan to get together to knock out the last nm and mountain climb. Probably farm up chips or w/e else is needed to prep for Diablos tonight!

We would have done the 2nd 3-3 nm but I had about 3-4 hours before work and had to log ><