First I took a pretty good break from the game(2-3 weeks) and got to enjoy some of my other games that I haven't had a chance to finish. After a few weeks of my break, the "Crazy B!T@^ " Incident happened.(see FFXIAH.Com for details) So I was needed a bit more in game, SoV in the mean time was pretty sick of farming by that time so I decided to make my return.
Then the update. ah the damn update. Abyssea, Walk of echos, massive exp to gain.. I would have rather /wrist than to exp rdm to 80. (I'm still in debate on if I level it further.) So I pretty much stuck to events and figured I'd get exp as I go. Well I got tired of levelsync parties very quickly on pld. So I started looking for other methods. I tried Promy zones, I tried getting into merit burns(lolpldmerit) and then finally Abyssea.
Ah the glory that is Abyssea! When I first started doing Abyssea, someone told me that there was a rumor that you can get around 50k/hour in the zone with a full alliance. Excited, I jumped into the next farming group I could find. Well to say the least, levelsync parties would kick it's ass. I didn't know what was going on and I'm pretty sure neither did anyone else. Sadly, I was let down again. A few days later I figured I would give it one more try. I jumped on the first shout I seen(lolshout parties; ;). Big difference was that this time we knew how to get the exp. This time I went drk and got some major exp. I went from 75-78 in a few hours. We averaged about 30-40K/hour. After that I have been on a mission!
Last weekend I figured I would try my hand in leading an Abyssea farming run. I grabbed Breathem, and who ever else I could in a shout, then headed off to kill some mandies. Fastforward from 8:30Pm on saturday night to 6:00AM Sunday morning(yeah I passed out), I was fully capped on Drk, and Blm with 10 merits... Yeah I lacked sleep but holy hell on the exp! Best of all I wasn't gimped after. I had capped Scythe and Great sword on Drk and I'm only 2 skills away from cap on Blm. Thats what I'm talking about!! I think our average was around 70k/hour. I came back to the group later on to get some more merits, and the same group was still killing at 2:00PM that night. Not quite 24 hours, but damn close.
Later on I caught Dierdren and talked her into getting me into an EX party. After waiting around forever(I'll never get that time back ; ;) We finally get started. I was excited to get my Pld to 80 so you can imagine my dismay when they wanted my Mnk. F_%K!!!!
Oh well, I needed to level it anyway. So I geared up mnk and away we went. That was around 9:30ish. Fast forward to 1Am( My sleep hates me, wife isn't to fond of me either) and I went from 75-80 cap + 2 merits. I found out a few things last night. Number one: Either my mnk isn't horrible or EX DDs aren't THAT great. After parsing the entire time last night, Kakeshi was first, I was second, and the rest of the DDs started falling off as the night went on. Now to explain further, I was third most of the night untill one of the other Sams left, but we were neck and neck the entire night. This was a shock to me, as I expected to be blown out of the water by EX. I consider Mnk to be my secondary DD to my Drk, untill I get Black belt at least, so I was quite hopful after seeing those numbers. Maybe, just maybe I don't suck so bad.
During this time, SoV decided to go into Abyssea with out any knowledge of the zone, and we met "IT". IT is the thing that we all know as a fact in the FFXI world. That fact is that "no matter how strong you think you are, there is always a bunny that can kick your ass."
That being said this is IT:
After we picked up our teeth(and our pride) we left the bunnies alone and went for the birds. That was going well untill their big brother flew up and aggroed. Round 2 SoV 0- Abyssea NMs 2.... So yeah our first adventure wasn't very good, but we all had fun and it was a change from sky.
Again I apologize for not blogging for so long, but I'll be back to my normal posts as of this one.
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