Dissector

A gathering at night for tea.

Did KS30 BC, Double Dragonian for a Subduer. Out of 6 runs, we got 3 dissectors and 3 heart snatchers. orz

We had a few deaths in our first 3 runs. But zero deaths on our last 3 when we got used to it.

PT Setup: PLD/NIN, MNK/NIN, DRK/THF, RDM/WHM, BLM/RDM, SMN/WHM.

BLM kites while the other 5 attack the WAR dragon. Goes down easily. Only irritating thing is Chaos Blade, which gives strong curse effect. Sometimes reduces my HP from 1400 -> 700, sometimes down to 300. BRD dragon is a little harder but still defeatable.

After this, helped an LS friend with Soboro Sukehiro NM. We didn’t have a lot of people. About 8.

PT Setup: PLD RDM BLU BLM BLM THF MNK SMN.

First run, tank(me!) fell at 3~5% but we managed to kill it because our SMN used astral flow. We got the drop. Second and third run we wiped. If we had 2~3 more mages, I’m sure we would be fine.

Levelled NIN with my weekly static PT. Got it to 50! I still suck at utsusemi timing. :(
Friends tell me to cast Ichi when my Ni has 1 shadow left, and when I do this, there’s somehow a high chance I evade/parry the attack rendering my Ichi cast useless.

While working on my project, I decided to seek on DRK just for fun. Since I’m coding on my second computer and FFXI is running on my first one. Surprisingly, I got an invite. Unfortunately, it was 12am.

The PLD sucked. He would go AFK without saying anything. Provokes slowly. But seem to play better when we pull one of those huge wyverns (forgot the name) outside Mamool Ja Staging Point.

I think it ended at 4am with me being very very sleepy.

And with a few more besieged battles, I now have 8 merits ready to be spent after SE increases the combat skill maximum with the upcoming June update. I intend to increase Scythe from 4 to 8, and then shield from 0 to 4.

Until then…