Valkayree wrote:
1. Get the Laevateinn (3 week long goal)
http://xivdb.com/?item/7357/Laevateinn
2. Get the Novus Shield for paladin, begin work on Novus Curtana (1 week goal)
3. Try to get alchemist desynth to 70 (1 week goal)
4. Clear turn 6
1. I had some really great runs this weekend. had the great privelege to get leader in an upstart hunt linkshell a week ago that I was able to get the FC into. It has blossomed into an empire, with some really great and helpful folks who are "in the know" so to speak. I built a macro to call out hunts to my party, fc, and linkshell all at the same time. I drop it on every monster when I get there, but sadly sometimes that means it is too late.
/p <t>, <pos>
/fc <t>, <pos>
/l3 <t>, <pos>
Anyway, downed 7 S ranks on saturday, got a few lucky bloodied log drops and made me enough to upgrade my black mage chest with a sands, store another sands for my future leviateinn, and am about 50 seals shy from another sands I will use to upgrade my blm pants. Still unsatisfied with looking like a damn jester, no matter what the color, I decided to keep the cashmere / allagan pants look and upgrade to the augmented version. Now I'm glowy. Not too many folks have the glowy. I like that. So: Next weeks goals are to get the UAT from syrcus and cap soldiery. Then the final week I get the remaining 100 or so soldiery and get my weapon.
2. Thanks to Kat, Illsaide, Mal, Evebont, Jim, Daewin, and countless others in my FC I have my Novus shield. I like the effect. The protect honeycomb glows in yellow on the surface. I capped accuracy, got determination 2 from cap, and put that 2 into parry. Now begins the long road of going for the Curtana Novus. 56 alexandrite to go. I have 3 maps from yesterday. I gather about 6 (one opened, one on my person, one on each of 4 retainers), beg my friends for help, then reward them with a peisteskin map on me with free lots (since SE gives crap for rewards on mysterious map hunts). So.... much.... work.
3. I did get alchemist to 70 desynth. Actually I think I got it up to 73 or 74. I got a battlecraft demimateria III off of a moogle tome that I am holding onto. I desynthed pretty much all of the titan and moogle junk I had. This desynth stuff has really thinned my inventory
. It has also, in combination with the fact I dont run dungeons as much, contributed to essentially shutting off my flow of gc seals, meaning that I am running dangerously short on ventures
. Looks like I need to do a few more turn ins.
4. Oh turn 6... Spent 2 hours there last night. Now while I occasionally don't see the damn bulb when it spawns in the middle, I am comfortable in knowing that the frist blighted boquet starts at around 66% and the second is firmly rooted in phase 2 right after someone gets the honey and that stupid wasp spawns. I also realize that every other thorns you shouldnt move apart right away, but wait to see who has the sun icon on them. Then everyone moves across the boss away from that guy, and that guy with the sun, as soon as the icon disappears, haul *** though the boss and no one gets eaten. Now...the tanks knew that. The healers knew that. One of the monks and I knew that. But our pickup DPS and the other blm in our group kept getting eaten and blighted over and over and over again. Hornets double spawn and the 30k hits. Not enough dps alive to kill the things. Can't even get to slugs. So basically, we need a few solid dps. The blm kept asking if it would be ok if he joined up with other groups to try to clear it (we carried this dude through t5 too). Erghh. Anyway, we need better deeps.