Was gonna make a new thread but meh. This party was an achievement of fun!
You know your party is going to be interested when someone asks you how strong your healing breath is, and is a whm o_O... This is the start of what was probably my strangest, most fun and even best merit party I've ever had the pleasure of being invited to.
First of all, I was the only English player, not that it makes a difference, but these where players well above my usual pickup party caliber. After being invited, the whm party leader told me that it was my job to main heal with healing breath and to debuff every mob with Dia2. I questioned dia2 noting 30mp/cast and he said NP {Moonlight}! Right there I could tell something unique was going to happen. This would be my first merit party experience with a melee whm and frankly I was looking forward to changing it up. I actually checked the whm before setting up at the AH and he was wearing a lot of high end whm items like errant cape and novia earring, but pretty much nothing you would wear to melee. Obviously he was going to keep his set a secret.
So eventually the party fills up and we gather at the middle greater colibri camp. Probably out of laziness I rarely check the party setup before we start. After gathering I just quickly check the party list, 2 mnk 1 sam 1 whm/dnc 1 brd and me as drg/whm. Sure why not sounds like fun. Buff up and the bard starts pulling.
Here's where things get interesting... A few seconds into the fight I say in my ls Holy sh*t there's a kraken club in my party! o_O (Keep in my I usually get crappy pickups) The whm is wackin' away spamming moonlight and hexastrike keeping my MP full even though I'm casting dia2 on every mob. It was a really interesting take on a refresher lol...
It was a few fights later I realized that the sam is spamming Namas arrow. I asked my ls and friend to make sure it was the Relic bow WS because this party was so fast I didn't have time to check myself. This was only the second relic weapon I had ever partied with, the first being
Kittyn with a Kikoku. This was freakin awesome.
It was a very short time before the bard pulled a wirve and I realized we where killing too fast for colibri alone to handle. Even more shockingly, we would kill 3-5 before colibri would start to respawn. Eventually I realized the sam was jumping and the monks where using berserk. So here I am, main healing this crazy ass party full of raw damage.
By far one of the most fun parties I've had in a long time. Managed well over 80,000xp in about 4 hours including arround 20 minutes of break time for people to run to town to spend merits and excludes about 30-45 minutes of me being 43999/10/9999.
After the party the JP whm sends me a /tell saying I'm a very very good dragoon and that he wants to friend list me to party on future occasions.
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