No exp for me.

Logged on right before Aspi window so I ended up spending the night there, of course the bastard wont pop till last window^^

Cant do dynamis tonight, cop dynamis run so that gives me the night off to exp blm, maybe 75 is in my future ^^

Trying to get a cop static going or jump into an open slot and get that crap hammered out once and for all. Not so much for the sea/limbus/rewards but just to get that shit outta the way. The rewards are nice tho ^^.

Also trying to get ToAU missions knocked out, think i'm on the jody's acid part.

The last few thousand exp are the worst.

Bleh time to get that 75 outta the way after what? 2 years? think I started around 14k into 74

1st pt invite I didnt have enough IS to use the runic portal so while looking for a brd we went out and smacked birds, while we were out there the nin commented on what a great set up we had for EMN in boneyard so after some discussion we headed there instead. 1st trip up the mountain was pure comedy, everyone splitting up, getting lost etc.. took well over an hour. We started 5/6 waiting on the whm to show and after we got the key item and he hadnt popped I d2'd the nin to go shout for 6th in whitegate.

He found someone but they didnt have the item so we had to crawl back up a second time, only 15 minutes start to finish ...

Hit the enm, smooth as silk, no good drops and parted ways.

2500 exp is better than nothing.

Took an invite last night for Manaburn {Do you need it.}
hell yes!
Mount Z, 2blm, brd and rdm. we tore it up through an exp ring took on a third blm near the end. Party was kinda short I stayed with the last blm and duoed a few more so he could get a buffer then warped and logged about 15-16k tnl. With luck I'll hammer out the rest tonight, or at least a chunk Thunder IV {Yes please}. Not sure if I will bother spend merits on it, probably just try to cap out exp.
If all else fails I can just solo the exp.

After blm its time to focus on nin's 5 levels, maybe within the next month or two I'll finaly have 2x 75.

So thats that, less time messing around with lower jobs, focus on the two higher ones.

Maybe after they get knocked out whm and rdm will follow (both 60+)
RNG at 40 now going to try to get that to 60 or so for capped crap, designate a day of the week as Ranger Day, still sitting on crap loads of arrow/bolt heads so all its really costing me is the price for the lumber and some crystals the HQ staves I bazzar'd thinking I would take this fast and furious went towards blm and nin ....

37 rng!

Oh yeah!
May have a slot in a static soon so I gotta stop rng for a few days to find out>< I dont really want to tho, rng has been mad fun. I was going to stop at 40 to turn around and get thf to 45 but the prospect of a static may make me keep thf on the back burner for a while, its sitting at 28.
soooo...
Thank god most of the rng crap swaps to thf ^^ Actualy I need to start leveling up the galka again, I bought him those shiny new Strike Subligar for X-mas and I havent even gone out to party him. I'll have to post a fasion shot here since they are rather sexy ...

Back to rng .. Rng life has been fun so far my only real issue is that I'm not overly cofident in my pulling abilities all these job levels and I have pretty much mage/tank/DD skills, no pulling. Last night was the sink or swim in Garbage Shit-I-Fell up against 2 Legit parties and 2 RMT parties (no clue who was at the gate).

1st pull: Learn that pulling bats from across a hole in the floor causes the bats to follow the walking path through the rooms and NOT fly across the hole linking wing rats >.> No death but close.

Party went smooth after that little lesson^^

We took the right tunnel camp and that the RMT were pulling 2 then damage both sleep one so I ended up having to pull from near the banishing gate several times, this run sucks without risk of aggro+link+fall into hole of death and cozying up to the ghosts to try to wrap a shot around a corner aint much fun either.

Party semi-disbanded about 1k to 35 2 people hit jeuno to change jobs and snag new members and off we went again. With the new people in place we eneded up averaging 6-7k and hour once we got rolling and even tho the party didnt last long it got me about 1/2 way to 38.

RNG 30 /hurray

Cracked the big 30 last night. Fun/frustrating party, we did alright considering our setbacks (things like me blink tanking as rng/nin because the war/mnk didnt care to voke very often). Ended up duo rng for a good chunk of the night no epeen stroking here other than feeling obligated to note that I did out DD ( dd damage not ranged) the drk o.O, guess those archer knives dont suck for dd lol, also note I didnt have pt misses turned on in parser so maybe he just wiffed like a mad man.

My original plan was to hit 30, switch to thf and finish that to 30 then bounce back and forth a few levels at a time till I get them both to 37. However really enjoy rng alot more than expected so I might just carry it through to 37, lord knows I have the ammo for it.

After pillaging my mules a bit more and using up some extra synthing items I was able to afford my strike subligar for the galka not only do they give me a bit more kick they cover my damned thighs^^ I cant wait to parse them in pt soon vs. rep subligar. Common sense tells me that the reps will pummel them for tp gain dot, but they look cool ...... post a pic later

With a knick-knack-paddy-wack shooting arrows made of bone.

This hume ranger no longer calls 'Dunes home...

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Hmm... on my 16th job leveled through the dunes (15 "complete" as drg is 15 and can stay that way) I finaly got a good a.k.a. "Smooth" dunes party.

Yes it had a PL, but not an over zealous PL.
It was not a PL tanks the dunes set up, the nin and war tanked 90%+ losing hate from big cures mostly.

It was however a 5 man dunes wrecking crew ^^.

I almost DB'd from the start, I was actualy trying to solo the last 300 to 16 so I could log out for the night when I got the tell for it.
Him>> Party?
Me>> OK
Did a quick check on him and saw 14 Nin/War
aww crap, maybe the party is 15-16 and well... its the dunes if it sucks I snag my level and head out.
Took invite, checked pt 14, 14, 14, 14, Me 15 200 tnl -> 16 . aww crap the options now are over camping or severly under camping for the tanks.
Checked again 1 blm, no other mage jobs.
aww crap.
PT Lead>> bleh still need a whm.
aww crap. Finger on the DB button I ran to camp, imagine my suprise a high lvl brd was there.
Party sits around for a while in dead silence so I asked if brd was PL? Yes. Cool I said, I'm gonna start pulling.
And pull I did. The lead never bothered to find a sixth once we got rolling, no need for it. It was a smooth pt start to finish, not a zomg 12k per hr pt it was a good old 5k little to no flux party. Nobody begging to over camp, nobody bitching about 50-60exp T's we just killed as fast as I could get mobs to camp and I kept them as "simple" as possible since the nin was dual-boxing the bard and I have (had) almost 0 experience pulling next thing I know 4+ hours had passed and we had every Pt member to 20 (I hit 21!!). I guess the zomg part was not only keeping a party together in the dunes built of random invites but the fact that they came there to exp, not to piss and moan, brag, cry , whine, complain fake DC, drop party and so on.. and we all understood the reward was getting the hell out of there a.s.a.p.

The 3 parts of a Random Invite Smooth Party, from Xylos's Point of View:
1. Does not always mean "Uber" or "Standard" some of the smoothest parties will break the standard set, even spit in the face of party set logic, the exp flow ranges from average to zomg.
2. Does not require the "best" players, it requires the best teamwork. It does not take a Rank 10 multi 75 player to operate smooth, it takes the willingness to work with the strengths and weaknesses of your pt mates, sometimes it seems that the less people are set in their ways the better.
3. Requires a bit of tact. If the party is maintaining good exp per hour the smooth party players dont piss and moan about a few bad moments. (this happens to be my favorite part about JP pt's, not that they dont complain, I'm sure they do.. but that I cant read it so I dont get caught up in someone elses knotted pantyhose.) In my p.o.v. if a party memberticks around but runs their mouth complaining etc... the bad attitude spreads and it seems that sooner or later the majority of the party gets salty also, myself included.


So yeah, 5 crappy parties and a good chunk of solo to get from 11-15 and one good party to make up for all the frustrtation.

mwwwaaa haaaa haaaa rng does sick damage in the dunes, if he can hit anything ^^.