Pipe Dreams

So today I joined my first Einherjar run. Was actually quite fun. It is early though and from what I was told I barely made it today since it is an open ls and it's first come first serve. So now I need to wake up even earlier on Sundays. Oh well 2 years from now when I get my mythic it will all be worth it. Until the following week when ffxi dies because of ffxiv. Still having a goal this big in this game really is keeping me playing right now. That and how much I love playing BLM.

Right now I need to finish up the ToAU storyline to get captain and get started on the first quest. Which is to kill 8 NM's. Well all you need is to have got the title at one point. So I am actually already 3/8 for the NM's. So I have Odin, Amored Chariot (last salvage boss for Blue to beat), and the Three Beastman Kings. The Beastman NM's are by far going to be the most difficult to do. The Einherjar ls I joined has already beat Odin so it's a matter of time before I fight him. The Salvage boss isn't a worry either. Eventually we will need a drop from it and I have full confidence Blue can take it down.

Getting people to do the other NM's is gonna be more difficult. While they do drop a few good items it's really only 1 a piece. It's also a hassle to do and out of the way but eventually I will figure something out. Then from there I need to gather 100k Therion Ichor from einherjar. Which as of today I am 1440/100,000. Still I should get that eventually without too much trouble. I am also about 22,000/150,000 for Nyzul tokens which also shouldn't be a big deal since I do that as well. Recording assualts all over again will suck but it can be done.

The big one is gonna be the 30k Alexandrite from Salvage. While I do Salvage the drops for Alexandrite are horrible. Even being the smallest amount of items to collect I am gonna cry myself to sleep every night when I start to collect them. Right now I am at 140/30,000 for alexandrite. That's after over a year of doing Salvage.

After that it's time to collect all 3 trophies from the Tier IV ZNM's which isn't going to be an easy task but since I also do ZNM's weekly it should happen eventually.

Anyway, after Einherjar I joined up with Itaz, Yev and Lp to do assaults. Piddle posted he couldn't attend and Lan is MIA for the second week in a row. So we ended up doing a couple runs for Assaults Lp needed and a couple farming runs. So no Nyzul for us again this week. Which is fine I still need points for a couple items and so I can keep up with salvage. I really do want to do some Nyzul soon though so I hope Lan is ok and comes back soon.

After a break it was time for Salvage. We decided that even though we were low on people we would try the boss anyway. Unfortunately we ran out of time right as we got to the boss. We should have had it but we messed up a couple times which wasted time. Also Itaz and Yev had a couple ill-timed d/c's. It was a little unnerving but I thing we should be able to take in on next week with no problem learning from this weeks mistakes.

Then it was ZNM time. All I can say is I hate this NM. The first fight took a long time. We ended up kiting it due to some d/c's and deaths. I actually think the straight tanking would have been the better method if we would have had a few more DD's. The tanks just had to hold the mob for way too long since we only had 2 BLM's and a BLU, I think, for DD's at first. And as a BLM I was holding back a lot to try and make sure I caught anything I needed to stun. Though since a lot of normal damage dealers were on other jobs that when we realized we needed more damage to hurry up the run we had to convert to kiting since we didn't have the jobs to support straight tanking anymore.

The kiting method was very frustrating for me as BLM. It seemed like over 60% of my nukes were interupted because it went out of range. Also for a good portion of the fights I barely even saw the mob. I'd stand in one place waitng for it to come back around and waiting for a over a minute sometimes it seemed then eventually went to look for it. Of course when I finally did go looking for it it was rarely in the direction I headed. Eventually on the last fight I just stayed in one spot the entire fight and only moved when I got hate.

It was still very annoying but a bit less stressful. Still when the mob got to about 5% and I couldn't get a single nuke off I felt like screaming. I think I might bring up next week that maybe the PLD could stop kiting when it gets that low so the BLM's can just finish it off. It was pretty ridiculous. But enough of my ranting.

As for drops no Nagerling dropped. Which btw is the coolest looking Great Sword in the game. Some yellow pants dropped which Itaz got. Two pairs on Enkidu's Mittens dropped. I won the lot on the first pair but then decided to pass them to Zisen. I am really hoping to get my Skadi's completed soon in which case I doubt I'll ever use the mittens again. Plus I don't think Zisen had really got anything from ZNM yet even though he has been to a few runs and Lp's used his character for runs before as well. But another pair dropped and this time I decided to lot again and this time try and get them. I have them now so my Ranger actually has a decent pair of gloves now until I get my Skadi's hands completed.

But wow this has almost become a book. I need to finish up some cutscenes for ZM's on tuesday so I am just gonna say goodbye here.