Campaign Sunday

Sunday was Campaign Battle day. The current Campaign system is broken in some way, because the beastmen have prett much the whole map in their grasp. I spent the evening trying to get cutscenes from NPCs in Bastok Markets (S) but kept getting interupted by the Quadav actually attacking the city.

It didn't matter anyway, because I didn't realize I was heading toward a Burning Circle fight that was pretty much impossible to solo. Val offered to help, as did Yev, but she didn't have the cutscenes to enter the fight. Getting them was difficult as the beastmen were attacking every 5 minutes. In the end it was too late at night to do the fight. Maybe next time.

This Wednesday is the first meeting of the Assault group I've tried to put together. Hopefully it all goes smoothly; I did research on the Assault missions and what not. I need to get in touch with Mateuns though, as I don't know any of his assault info.

Also today I may finally get to shelf Scholar at level 37 and sub it on my White Mage without feeling guilty about it, which is kind of exciting. I was experimenting with /SCH during Sunday's Campaign. I'm still learning the ins and outs of Sublimation. And Celerity is negated if I can't cast the spell fast enough afterword to warrant halving the casting time. It really is a whole new way of playing WHM, and I can see the benefits of the sub already. Once I get used to the new job ablilities I can see myself subbing it full time.

Maxed Merits, Assault forming

Today was quite productive. I decided to merit it up in prepartion for the new version update. There's some WHM upgrades on the way, and I wanted to be as prepared as possible. Well, my limit points are currently maxed out at 10.9999. You can't be more prepared than that.

The Assault group also seems to be coming together. Wednesdays at 10pm EST. I'd like to rush a run in this week, but that might be a little rude.

SCH, SAM, and Assault plans

Leveling SCH to 37 is proving more difficult than I imagined. Again, I could not find a party to level with and had to duo with my NPC again. Fortunately I was expecting this and got a tactics pearl for just such an occasion. However the exp was still horrible. I'm still a level 32 Scholar.

Yesterday was what might have been the last "Cult of Val" perma meeting, and I dinged Samurai to level 75 at long last. Most of the party was on Teamspeak (as well as a few other LS members) and it was quite entertaining to finally talk to these people with voice after all these years. I hope the Teamspeak trend will continue and grow so that I can chat with the whole LS on it. Good times.

I'm still working on getting a regular assault group going because Salvage is fast approaching and I simply do not have the Assault points to participate at the moment. Crazze and Tamyaa have expressed interest, but although they are awesome players, I doubt that every single Assault mission can be trio'd. We may simply have to make due, though. The goal of this group may be to simply get Assault points by spamming Assaults that we have mastered. My hope is that we try to do all the different Assaults, as that's the fastest way to move up the Mercenary ranks.