Different Progress

After I finished most of what I needed to do IRL last night I logged on and was planning on leveling my DRK. Well, plans changed as I was heading back to Jeuno.

First, I got stopped by Arckk because he wanted me to craft him some Mushroom Stews on Screamin which I had no problem with and did quickly. Second, I got side tracked helping Drivvt with getting some Kindred Seals that he needed for his Genkai 4 quest to raise his level cap to 70. I figured I needed to get a coffer key from a ton of places anyways so I might as well go help him get his KS while I'm abusing his TH2 tee hee. Beerman was standing in Jeuno just as I was heading out and he was really bored so I asked him if he wanted to join us for a little mob mashing and he was reluctant but came anyways, and I'm 100% positive he's glad he came.

So we get to CN and on the way to our camp (I always go down the N tunnel because no one ever camps back there except for key farming or skilling up) Beerman asks about Tiphia because she pops down there. I say she because her name is Demonic Tiphia, anything demonic has to be female ... right? Anyways, I tell him that she pops right around the corner from where we are camping so after we clear the room we can go try to pop her. After clearing the room twice, getting my coffer key, and getting 2 KS we finally got Tiphia to pop. I just about peed my pants because I was not expecting her to pop.

We're sitting there whacking her for about 3 minutes with no progress because of her like 2k Pollens. Then I tell Beerman, who is on SAM, to SC with Screamin to help boost our damage. Once we finally settled into doing a SC we started cruising again ... until 50%. Right at 50%, and I mean RIGHT AT 50%, she started trying to spam Cure V. That was something I just wasn't going to have so I just silenced her and we continued. At no point during this fight was I ever worried because I knew all we had to do was outlast her. I never ran low on MP on my RDM and Screamin only hit yellow a few times. So we did one more SC at about 25% and dropped her to about 15% or so I think and then she whipped around and targeted Beerman and did a Final Sting on him. That was probably the funniest part of it all because he got nailed with an almost 1300 Final Sting and him only being level 66 I believe died and actually deleveled too. He got what was coming to him though, because he came for shits and giggles and ended up with a Tiphia Sting.

After Tiphia we only had to clear the room one more time before getting the KS. Even though Drivvt's TH2 seemed to be not working, it worked when it mattered on Tiphia to make her 100k sting to drop. Beerman said he thinks he has another one of her stings lodged in his chest somewhere now too. lol

After that I decided to just call it a night since it was already like 1AM and all of us needed to go to bed. It was a fun night though. I have to admit for coffer key hunting and KS farming it ended up being pretty nice to just lay back and relax and get a little meriting in again while getting something other than just straight exp on a lower level job. Now that I am thinking about it, I think the week or two of coffer and AF hunting I'll be doing when I get to it will be a nice break before I get to my final Tier of leveling to 66 on all of my jobs.

Something else I think I decided is that I will level WHM last to 50 and then first to 66 because at 50 I don't get anything for WHM, but at 66 I will have Raise 2. So 50 is no biggie, but 66 is actually nice to have if some of my friends need an R2 somewhere to help save them some exp.

As for tonight and this weekend, I found out that my gf is thinking about coming home this weekend because she apparently can't live a week without seeing me. When I didn't sound so excited to see her I think she got pretty bummed out and may not come home now. So gaming this weekend will kind of be up in the air so I guess I will just have to make tonight count.

Goal for this evening: DRK to 41, yes its a low goal but I'm thinking if I relax tonight I can go all out this weekend ... hopefully.

Quote of the Day:
Seems like everyone got what they wanted tonight.
- Me, to Drivvt and Beerman because we all got something we wanted last night