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And after seeing some nifty rendered stuff .....



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Dynamis-Booby Prize. or, The place with the Zu's from Hell

Went on my first Dynamis-Buburimu last night and actualy enjoyed it.

Suprisingly simple to get to the {Mega Boss}, we wiped on the first try at him when he tore ass towards the mages from the start. Smoked him after a RR. Pulled Nightmare Crabs after that, another very easy section.

Then came the birds.

I dont recall their name, most likely blocked from my memory like a tragic childhood event. I wondered why a dozen or two were following the puller, I decided that the puller wouldnt mpk us and tried to sleep them, I noticed they dont sleep very well and hit very hard.

I RR'd up after a minute with a good chunk of the allience dead assuming I could use RR item then ele seal sleep them. I never got to see my char stand completely up before I was toasted again. Eventualy the allience got raised up agreed that if thats the way things were we had to at least kill the one that floated around the bodies preventing RR and forcing an allience to be tractored.

That bird died fast.

Then like a dark cloud racing towards us from the horizon came wave 2 of the Evil Zu's.
I did manage to seal-sleep a good chunk of them before I hit the dirt. Wipe #3 and it was decided the night was over, at least I got a cool new title^^

Lol side note: Only 36 allowed in on this and I think we had 7-8 BLM's show up, previous dynamis experience in the main cities I saw 3-5, almost never a full party. Glad I couldnt lot because I would have been depressed with the odds.

Afterwards a few of the blm's got together and went for a burn. I popped my merit cherry, not sure were I will spend it tho. I was shown a sexy new solo/burn spot in Mt. Z, on the way there every camped was maxed, I figured we would be fighting with at least 2 other parties but no we had this tasty little area all to ourselves.



In NIN news:
Hit 72 the other day and had to log out, logged in got trial weapon but I was mini-dc'n so bad I couldnt duo latent with vip and was forced to log. Logged in the next day and decided to run to kufftal to begin unlocking/KS farm. A LS Sam joined me for some Gekko->Ten fun and we broke latent extremly fast. Sam offered to help on NM as a BRD, King came as his nin and I went nin of course and we smoked the NM. Hopped, skipped and jumped to Norg and got my shiny new WS.

Moments after unlocking Ku (I was still building tp outside of norg to try it for the first time) I was invited to a crazy jp 12-13k an hour no ring party. I was also humiliated both tanking and DD'n by a pld/nin ( joy toy having bastid) forgot to save parse but I think I barely edged by him in dmg. I Dc'd 12k tnl and got hit with the version update so I couldnt return ;;

Ouryu here we come, and Sneaky F'n Asshats

Diablos received a can of whoop ass....

on the 4th try ^^

Went 2 rounds (failure) outside of static to get a feel for it., a few hours later I went with static and on the second try we beat his ass into submission, if vip the nin hadnt 2hrd for the kill we would have made it with zero deaths, hell not even a close call^^

In other news ...
72 NIN! Gotta go get my Trial Kantana tonight and start working on that.
Started knocking out a few limit points on blm solo, slow work indeed. Not really sure what if anything blmish I want to merit, with whm and rdm both in the 60's and slated to start exp when nin hits 75 I think I would be wise to throw everything into stuff I can use across the board, MP etc... after at least one fancy AM II thats is.

Helped Lilwoody with the Yin Yang Robe NM, I guess that stupid weapon was running around for 20 minutes unclaimed while he was gathering people, got the claim, got the drop. Woody had called on some random people outside of his LS, cop group to help, one of these was a jp blm. Now this BLM waited till the bitter end to pass then JPBLM outlots woody's poor 110 with a 850 >.> with mere seconds before auto lot kicks in. Thank god whoevers pt he was in had a leader on the ball because the second that bastard got kicked woody got his robe.
Wtf. JPBLM had the balls to start bitching about it in /say

Now had this fucker actualy thought it was random lot why did he time it to steal? I mean c'mon literaly seconds before it passed, this guy hit the button as items started falling from the add that was killed moments before before YY nm died, hell even one of the YY nm's items showed up as auto-lotted before his lot. Greedy fucker.

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 ><