Hybriddelever

I mean Hybridkiller, deleveled last night for 1 reason and 1 reason alone ... stupidity. Now you might be thinking that I am talking about his stupidity but I am not. There was just always 1 person not following directions and breaking bind on Zip. Here's something you might be thinking; Zip isn't too hard, you can either zerg him with melee or solo him as a RDM/NIN. You are correct in your thinking right here, but when you don't have enough to zerg him and no RDM/NIN it can be difficult because everyone thinks they know how to do everything aaaaaaaaaaand they don't.

When I first got up to sky they had already claimed Zip and were attempting to kill him by nuke/zoning, another good strategy for doing Zip. Well, when by the time I got there they had wiped to where I figured they would've wiped in the middle of the stairs or so. Nope, they wiped at the zone. It was pretty funny actually because Mac can solo almost every NM in sky but yet with half an alliance they wiped to Zip (w/o Mac is to be noted). So we raise up and try Zip again. Everything is going smoothly until people started just nuking at will JUST after a bind landed leaving no time for the recast timer to cool down. Then people were all standing gathered together right at the zone line where the BLMs are trying to zone out making it hard for them and also painful for themselves because Zip has 3 AoE moves that can do some serious damage. Apparently people don't realize that you are supposed to kite Zip after the BLMs nuke and zone since they were all trying to keep him at the first turn right by the zone. I had to drop a few luckily unresisted Blizzard III's before I got hate locked on me and was able to kite him away from everyone else. I even got to bring him all the way down the stairs so when the BLMs zoned back in they wouldn't have to worry about gettin whooped on while resting and getting a feel for where Zip was.

This is how Zip should be done using the nuke/zone technique, let the RDMs get some hate so they can kite effectively. Then let the BLMs nuke and zone because they will obviously get lots of hate from their nukes. No problem with letting Zip try to chase down the BLMs as they zone out because all that does is give the RDMs time to get some distance between themselves and Zip so they can rebuff and be prepared to bind. Once I had hate and was able to pull Zip away from everyone else it moved much more smoothly because there was much more space to work with and less people around Zip to mess up bind. Hopefully that was a learning experience for the newer people in the LS.

Another little problem after that was at SC when we were sleeping the detectors to let it try to pop SC. Well someone decided not to turn off autotarget and then attacked the detector. There were 2 DRGs with us and they tried to claim it wasn't them when it was obviously one of them since there was a wyvern attacking the detector. Then out of nowhere, after having the detector slept with like 1/4 health, someone just turns and kills the detector ... wtf?! We had only killed 2 pops from the detector at that point and to be honest I wasn't so pleased because I was the one pulling. Anyways, on the next detector we got SC to pop on like the 2nd try.

Overall it was a pretty good farming day for the LS. I believe we got Zip, BB, Olla, 2xUlli, MG, SC, Faust, and Despot. Hehe, now that I look at that, that is a full god set which also is a Kirin set. Not too shabby for a regular farming night.

Oh, yesterday I also put in an app to HellsBells for Dynamis because I figured I would at least give it a try. As of now there have been 30 views of it but only 1 comment. They are making comments on another guy's app still that had been accepted a couple days ago though. Throw me a friggin bone here, I'm trying to get in the LS for tonight's Dynamis. Oh well, guess that means I will just have more time to level my SAM tonight.

Speaking of SAM, I did a little duoing with Hybrid yesterday on Goblin pets in Gustav Tunnel and it was just unfair to those pets. There were a few pets that only landed 1 hit on us before it died which means it got 3 swings off. I think we may try doing some more duoing on Goblin pets because it was pretty good exp and we weren't having any trouble with them. Screamineagle was sitting there in case something went wrong like a Goblin link or something but other than that he really only saved us some time resting.

Tonight I have a wake to go to which will take up the early part of my night, but then since I have yet to hear anything about HellsBells Dynamis I will just go level SAM. Hopefully I can hit 66 or if I'm really lucky 67 tonight. I just want some more progress on SAM because I want to be 70 by the end of this weekend. Once I hit 70 I am going to be all jittery because I will have 75 in sight and from 70 to 75 I have a lot of gear upgrades that I am excited about. Well, off to stare at the gear I will be getting from 70 to 75 and reading more about Store TP and see what I need to take off an extra swing to get 100 TP.

Quote of the Day:
Here's a quote for you. I don't have a short temper, I'm just allergic to stupidity.
- Hybridkiller as per his request