Holy gear batman

Friday night after I posted I got into an EXP party with Itaz, Lp and Little on SAM. It was a pretty decent exp party at first until Little had to go to sleep and I replaced him with a THF because the RDM who was going to replace him backed out. The THF just wasn't very good and it really makes me sad everytime I see it because thieves like that are the reason it would take me hours to get an invite on THF.

Still we putted along and I was able to deal with it since I still had LP and Itaz with me in the group. After a while Lp got sleepy too and we decided to disband the party. I ended up about 9k exp until 68. We had synced the party to 48 and Lp was on DRG and I was on SAM. I was the top DD until the sync'd member hit 49 and Lp got Penta Thrust. That weaponskill is simply amazing which is the reason why when I fight birds on SAM I usually use a polearm.

After that I am not sure what I did. Probably more farming or crafting. Didn't spend much time on the game Saturday. Went and played CoD 4 and Infamous over at my friends house all night. Made it online today for Assaults and ended up waiting until around 11:30 am to start. Which was fine I was just playing around in Pankration until we started anyway. Got three of the assaults done that Lp needed since he only had 3 tags. Actually got all 3 done no problems which surprised me since all 3 are pretty much luck based except maybe Double Agent. Then Piddle, Lan and I did Apkallu Breeding x2 for points.

At that point I was almost passing out. I began switching gear to RNG to get ready for salvage and I guess at that point I actually did pass out because next thing I know I wake up it's 4:58 pm and they have already entered. I was less than half switched in between RNG and BLM and had a bunch of /tell's /poke'ing me to wake up. Sound was all the way up too so I just must have been exhausted from everything this week.

I ended up going back to Sleep and woke back up again late for ZNM. At least with ZNM I could join part way through though. I geared back up on BLM and headed out to the ruins without saying anything (I was embarrased already by sleeping through salvage, especially since main reason we are doing boss is for me). I arrived and the mob was ~40% and I got an invite and helped finish off the mob. Oracle's Gloves dropped and I was told to lot them. I refused since I showed up late to the battle and didn't feel like I had done anything to deserve them at that point.

After that we fought 2 more Armed Gears and another pair of gloves dropped. I felt a little more comfortable and decided that I would lot them this time. To be honest though I still feel bad about getting them but oh well. Afterward I decided to go farm organs with Piddle in sea. On my way there I stopped at the Auction House and picked up a pair of Igqira Lappa's. A cool quarter mil and they were mine. With those and the gloves my enfeebling magic gear now boosts my skill by a whopping 43 points.

My goals for my enfeebling magic set are an Altruistic Cape (+5) and to upgrade my Spider Torque into an Enfeebling Torque which will give me (+2). A more long term goal is to start doing Limbus and to upgrade my Wizard's Coat into the +1 version for another extra 2 skill points. Right now with my merits and gear I am sitting @ 277 enfeebling skill.

So we ended up in sea and I followed Piddle around as we talked to the black hole npc guys until one of them finally coughed up the map. By the time we were done getting map Tybodn had come up to join us in our organ farming. By the time Piddle had to go I think we had got him 2 Aern organs and myself I had got 2 tissues. After he left Tybo and I moved on to flowers and he said he would would help me out with map. We kind of did a run at both at the same time and basically went through the same thing we will be doing to get through CoP on Tuesday.

It took us a while to get through it but that was mostly because we were fighting flowers along the way. Unfortunately no organs dropped and only one more tissue dropped. It seems like it might take me quite a while to get my relaxing earring. Though I did get my map and now know how to lead our group through the area for our CoP static so it wasn't a complete waste.

Oh actually I did do something Saturday. Piddle and I failed the Brothers ENM for the first time. I think it was a combination of bad luck and an underestimation of how important both of us being /rdm was. I had forgot to change support jobs and Piddle was already sleepy when we started. >.< Still next week we should go back to our normal routine. I am fairly sure the lose was just a fluke.

Anyway this has become a really long entry and I need to farm zeni for Armed Gears next week.