Duo BST

Seeing as you can get new Anniversary Rings I decided to take a break from WHM so I could try to speed up the slower road. The other reason I am doing BST now is because I can level sync duo with Screamineagle's BST and I would love to get his BST to 75. Another thing with Screamineagle is that he still had a full 10/10 charges on his Anniversary Band from last year. Seeing as I wanted to get a new band before they stop giving them out, I needed to burn it fast.

Yesterday it took me a little while to get used to dual boxing duo BST, but I feel that I am getting the hang of it now. Crawler's Nest at 51/52 is really easy and slow exp duoing. I'm not really sure what people were talking about how duo BST is way better than soloing because I remember getting more like 3-4k/hr as solo and I was only getting about 2-3k/hr last night duoing. The bonus is that I am definitely getting used to BST and how to release a pet and grab a new one without getting hurt because of having a 2nd BST there to keep hate. Basically every mob one of my chars would swap pets and I would just cruise.

With my anni band on I was only getting between 180-300 per kill which is total crap and anni band gives double exp for up to 3k exp. I was knocking out as high of level mobs as I could with what level I was at and still having mobs to easily charm. I will just be more than happy to get into Garlaige Citadel and fight bombs because I know how good that exp can be solo or duo and I'm banking on rolling through anni band charges as I was only able to burn about 3 charges last night. One of these nights I will probably completely skip sky just so I can burn through these bands because it HAS to be done by Thursday since I will be out of town from Friday til Monday and they stop handing out the rings on Monday. So Thursday or bust!

Last night I was also able to be in sky while soloing Screamin's BST in sky doing Flamingos on pots. It was actually pretty easy and only a few times would I really get messed up because I would release the pet either too late or after releasing the pet I would have a -ga3 or tier4 cast on me and I didn't realize. But I must admit, not once while duoing or soloing did I die! GO ME! Something else I realized last night is that with this anni band I will EASILY get Screamin's BST to 75 with a good buffer and maybe even start meriting a little on it. I figure I'm about 19k from 75 now with 7 charges left (6k needed for a charge to be used up) which puts me at 42k total before finishing this anni band. So if I just let all of it go into exp I would end up with a 23k buffer on his BST which more than enough. Actually, that would leave me at a very good place on his BST because I would expect to leave about 15-20k buffer on there and if I do more soloing in sky I can also use Fields of Valor and get about 1400 free exp every 11 mobs. Now that I have also gotten him some tabs I can give him a real refresh from the tabs and not have to worry about constantly swapping in Gaudy Harness when he get super low on MP, which also means I could melee more for faster kills.

Yesterday I was really excited about BST but the super slow exp really killed my high hopes for it. Tonight I'm really hoping that I can get to Garlaige and get some good exp flowing. The duo guide says 2 bats can easily take down the mines which is great because the level gap between myself (and my pets) and the mines is much higher which means I should actually be getting about 150-200 exp per kill which would be just grand. Here's to hoping no one is down in the basement of the Citadel because I WILL be taking their mobs, sorry.

Here's to hoping tonight I can get through at least 3 more charges tonight and maybe even a 4th.

Quote of the Day:
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.
- Demetri Martin
(Khrone found it as the google quote of the day)