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Last week, I camped the Aroma Crawler for my RSE Ammo and finally got the drop! Balm Sachet~ (INT+1, STR+1), good for my DRK’s STR gear and a suitable replacement for Morion Tathlum when I’m on my BLM. It’s rare/ex but rare drop. I think I’m like 1/20(1 drop out of 20 claims) ?

Levelled RDM to 38. Now I can sub it for DRK for ballista and soloing stuff. Phalanx is great. I managed to solo a "decent challenge" Fire Elemental and Air Elemental at Kuftal’s.

Spent a lot of time playing FF Tactics on Playstation while waiting for an invite on my DRK. I managed to get enough merits to pump my Great Sword skill to level 3 and now notice slightly better hit rates on Kirin with Bison Steak as food instead of sushi. Heh, also it’s kind of stupid to store 300% TP for a 1000 Ground Strike when I can get twice the damage done with 3x 700 Spinning Slashes.

I chose an attack food because I would be hitting for 0 if I went with sushi. Dealing 0 damage gives 0% TP!

I think I can relax a little now. (´ー｀)

 

By the way, I discovered that the front of my Hecatomb Harness has the face of an evil bunny!

 

Had a pretty good levelling session last weekend. Both lasted 8 hours and 10 hours each. Only 1-2 other members stayed throughout those 8 hours. So after both days, my RDM went from level 22-29. Nothing impressive actually. I’m just happy I got 7 levels in 2 days. Just want to hit 40 before I retire RDM for good. Trying to keep refresh up, enfeeble mob and debuff is not really what I look forward to.

Other than levelling RDM, I’ve been farming Buffaloes at Uleguerand Range. Nice snowy place where EPs can aggro near the entrance. It’s never boring fighting these. Pull with sleep bolts because they can run fast. Bring Acid Bolts because they have high defense. These things don’t have that "low defense" message when I check them for difficulty.

Other than that, Lowing from them gives Plague effect which can be removed by Viruna. Plague effects eats away your HP/MP/TP slowly. But Lowing has a long enough casting time to be stunned. But last night was plain shitty. Darn Buffalo used Lowing everytime I begin to shoot bolts or cast spells.

There’s also a stomp attack (forgot the name) which paralyzes you. I think there’s enough time to run away from it but I haven’t tested that. Was quite out of form last night. (´Д｀)

The first time I farmed these, I went as DRK/THF. After the 2 hour session, I got myself 5 buffalo meats (7k each) and 2 buffalo hides (100k each). I’m going to keep the meats for making Bison Steak either to sell or eat during my Sky runs. Last night I went as DRK/WHM because I’m bringing out my adventuring fellow for the first time there. Only received 5 pieces of meat after 90 minutes.

These buffaloes can be aspir-ed for MP! I’m surprised because they don’t cast magic at all. But crabs don’t cast magic yet can also be aspir-ed for MP… After discovering these can be aspir-ed, I have no downtime farming them anymore. Except when I get continuously hit into red HP. ( >_<)

Also had a nice +0.1 and +0.2 parrying skill up and hit 130~

I also think DRK’s AF Body and Leg piece are pretty good for solo-ing EPs. The body piece offers the best defense out of all the other body armor I have. Hecatomb is better but the added +13% slow is pretty bad for recasting magic. I would replace this with the relic body if I ever get it.

The leg piece gives +5 evasion and +10 parrying, which actually helps a lot when soloing EPs. If I ever participate in Limbus in future, this would be the first piece I would upgrade.

I macroed in the head piece when I cast drain/aspir/absorbs. I macro in the hand piece for weapon bash and I macro in the feet when I use Arcane Circle for my tanks in sky. So every AF armor for DRK is actually useful for something!

This Friday and Saturday was rather fruitful for me. Finally got my Hecatomb Mittens(+7 STR gear) and Culinarian’s Apron on the same night (both shown in this picture). I’m going to start skilling up my cooking skill again! (´▽｀)

Next up was Dynamis-Beaucedine. On 2 occasions I fell asleep and got left behind, but I’m glad no one decided to kick me out of dynamis therefore I managed to catch up before lagging too far behind.

We cleared the boss and I now have access to Dynamis-Xarcabard I think. Not a single DRK relic dropped though. (´Д｀)

Later today, after some good sleep. I tried seeking for an EXP PT. Tried putting a Japanese sentence in my search comment this time. "日本語少し解るのシンガポール人です" meaning I’m a Singaporean who knows a bit of Japanese. No luck.

During the 4 hour waiting period, I did some coding for work. Somehow it feels very stressful having to work at home especially during weekends. /sigh

So I hopped down to Kuftal’s to level my adventuring fellow and skill up axe at the same time. Henrietta (name of my adventuring fellow) reached level 60 today and did a few Tachi:Yukikazes.

After hitting 196 on Axe, it becomes harder to get skill ups so I went down to Gustav to level Great Axe on the lizards there. Before I begin, I went to check and found Wyvernpoacher Drachlox up and running! This is a goblin NM that drops Othinus’s Bow, which seems to be a good crossbow for rangers.

Cast reraise and buffed myself. While waiting for my MP to recover, the exp pt next to me pulled a goblin and it linked with Drachlox. I pulled Drachlox away from them and began fighting it. Had my drk/whm ass kicked in less than a minute. やっぱり一人でソロは無理なｗｗ

Feeling quite exhausted mentally, and with most of my friends not online, I went to fish instead. Seeked advice from a fisherman friend, bought a Halcyon fishing rod and some bait from the Auction House and made my way down to Qufim. Meh, I forgot how fishing went and hit the wrong keys. As a result, I lost my 4000gil bait on first try but good thing I bought a spare.

Pretty poor catches tonight, according to allakazham’s forums, it’s hard to get a catch near 50% moon phases and I just happened to be fishing at 48% moon phase. Oh well, I’ll come back another night…