SAM FTW

My trek to 75 on another job is done. Samurai is now 75! It was a long and kinda fun journey that is finally over. There were many ups and downs in exp but I don't think anything was worse than 74. I literally went from about 5k into 74, all the way to 75 just in campaign battles. It was painful but I was able to do it. Once I broke into 75 I decided to splurge and buy myself a bunch of the other gear that a 75 SAM should have: Wyvern Helm, Brutal Earring, and my long awaited Hagun.

Once I dinged into 75 I was excited to buffer and merit on it but sadly I wasn't allowed to since I had 0 merits. Since then I got a quite different merit party which did about 30k in about 2 hours. It was 3xBLU, RDM, BRD, and me as SAM/DNC leaving up Aspir Samba. This party was actually really fun and got me a 20k buffer on SAM and 2 more merits to play with. My merits for SAM are now up to 2 GK and 2 Store TP. Once I finish Store TP merits I need to work on Overwhelm and GK skill because I will have my 6-hit set up so more damage and accuracy is what needs to be worked on next. I would like to keep meriting to have a very respectable SAM before I get back to MNK but I dunno, I could probably try to sneak in both at the same time but I know how doing multiple things at once is such a pain.

My next job will be MNK which means I have to keep my eye out for gear that I should snag to get it to 66. From now on all jobs are just going to 66 because I am quite overloaded on gear right now so I can't handle any more 75s to gear up. As for some of the random gear I still have sitting around from other jobs, I will just keep it for now as long as I can use it in the short term for a next job that I will be leveling. So like I plan on doing DRG after MNK so I will hold on to my Assault Earring for now since I will hopefully be using it in a few weeks.

Ugh, a few weeks per job, that does not sound fun. I still have a very long trip til Maat's Cap but at least I have something to look forward to after all of my hard work.

Something actually Sky related though, I got N Body last night. Kirin was nice enough to drop 2 to us since there were 2 of us hoping for N Bodies. That leaves me at 2 R/EX pieces of gear left that are worth getting in Sky, N Hands and W Hands. After those 2 I will be becoming a strictly part time member or an as needed member as there will be very little that I need from the sky shell besides gil and possibly an Osode that is basically way out of reach right now since there are so many outside farmers that leave me in the dust. I have accepted that there is no way for me to get an Osode in this LS so I will just stick to my plan of weekly payouts and 2 or 3 days a week of sky and then working on my next jobs to 66 or meriting my current jobs a little better.

One thing I do have to learn to do is try to make some gil. I have my RDM/NIN all ready to roll but I have yet to try to use it to do something like Despot. Getting Despot just once will get me some good gil that would easily buy me another nice piece of gear or a cursed item or something along those lines.

Anyways, I need to get back to work because I'm so far behind from going to class the past 2 days. This weekend I will also be visiting my gf for Valentine's Day, so no gaming at all until Sunday. Then Sunday I get to jump right back into a hopeful Dynamis-Beaucedine and then up to sky. Hope we mow through our team we play on Sunday for volleyball so I can get back ASAP to rape some mobs and maybe (year right) get a RDM body. :D .... yeah, I'm dreamin.

Quote of the Day:
[Reservations on Saturday at] 4:45 is pretty early, I was going to study in the afternoon for my tests.
- my gf after she told me that I was supposed to plan the evening ... guess she left out the part of telling me when the evening starts.