05-14-06 Second Jungle Hell and Another NIN Coffer

Sean is diggin NIN. Personally, I think it is because his character is way sex-ay!

He partied in Cape Terrigan with a really unusual party formation: NIN, BLUx2, WHM, RDM and BLM. It went really well! Go figure.

Sean was tank and puller. The BLUs took turns doing a move that bumps the mob and disoriented it for a split second while Sean casted for blinks. They chained really well on crabs and even better on the pugils.

He said that the Scorp Harness makes a world of difference. Sex-ay and practical!

Meanwhile...

I really don't like that meriting is the only option for my character these days... So I decided to dress Bliss again and gear her up for partying.

And then I changed my mind.... again!

This is not the first time that I have hit a point in this game where I'm a little bored and not sure what to do with myself.

When I was dressing up Bliss, I started to think about all the things that I would like to do with her: Play SMN, BLM, RDM, and even rebuild BRD. Then I started to think about all the work that it would take to get all of the fame need to get each avatar quest... and the gobbie bag quests that I would need to be able to hold all of my instruments... and the rank missions I would need to do to not feel like a complete n00b.

I talked myself into taking a party as Bliss' BLM. A couple of things should have clued me in that the party I was joining was a dud. When the party learder is the WHM and says to you that you may have to backup heal: Run! When the party leader says to you that they will be fighting in Yhoator Jungle as a 25-26 party: Run! But no.. I didn't run. I stayed.

Half the party went AFK every other fight. The WHM didn't cast cure to wake others in the party after Dream Flower. Most of the time being put to sleep as well cause he didn't move out of range. The WHM didn't have Barsleepra. The party was impressed with the 200 xp we got for each fight but didn't notice the 5 minute wait between pulls due to very low mp at the end of each battle. I was resisted on almost every elemental cast (just too low in level for the mobs in the second jungle).

It was terrible.

After I left the party, I decided to park Bliss for now. I play FFXI to relax and have fun. And I WAS NOT having fun in that party. And I can't imagine that any future parties were going to be any better.

Later...

Sean decides that we need to pop a coffer in Ifrit's Cauldron for his NIN AF Hands. This is the first part of the quest. The second is killing Dark Spark.

With his key (I double checked before we left^^) we head out. I went as WHM/BLM and he subbed WHM for Sneak and Invisible. With Sean hanging out at the entrance, I went in to locate a coffer. Having mined out here in the past, I am really familiar with the layout.

As luck would have it, I was able to find one fairly quickly. Below is a screenshot of me hanging out in a safe spot while helping Sean find the coffer.

We were really lucky because the coffer was on the end of a ledge and there was nothing around to aggro as he popped it. We escaped and home free.

By this point it was pretty late in the evening and Nuker was already in a party. So Sean was ok with waiting until another night to kill ol' Darky.

I did decide on what to do instead of meriting all the time: I will level my BLM on Jenmist.

Why not? It is level 49. I have a Moldy Earring (don't recall how to spell it's real name!). BLM is a fun job. I have fame and some of the expensive spells out of the way already. I have a fully leveled sub... 2 if you count SMN as a possible.

I couldn't think of a reason not to do it. So once again I was shopping! Which I must say is my favorite part of this game :P

And that is where I left the game for the night... with my 49 BLM dressed and working on my macros.