Monday, October 23, 2006
Looking through Elohidelu’s album and reading the forums has once again inspired me to start up my blog again. I figured I should redesign it or something, but I am a bit lazy. So for now, I’ve just taken to create new text entries. Maybe later I’ll figure out what to do with them and design something nifty. Or rip off some Javascript somewhere. Or even, heaven forbid, sign up on a blogging community.
So today was just our weekly assault run. Having recently receiving the SP badge, we can now do the third series of assault missions in the ToAU campaign. The party consisted of Chipya (DRG), Kathane (DRG), Keceltes (PLD), Rya (WHM), Searsay (BLM), and me (RDM). The assault missions we did are Troll Fugitives, Extermination, Escort Professor Clavauert, and Troll Fugitives again.
Surprisingly we beat all of the assault missions. It was quite an amazing feat if you ask me. Troll Fugitives we tried once before in horrible failure. This time I took the strategy of “fook it, I have convert” and started to nuke a bit more. For some reason, I just don’t like nuking on my RDM. If you want a nuker, you’d get a BLM right? Besides, I do so little dmg compared to my BLM that I cry myself to sleep. It’s just sad. But with five people (since Searsay was looking for the hoofprint) we managed to beat it with less than five minutes to spare. Neato eh? I also tried to conserve more mp for nuking, so I let Rya cure people, I only casted Refresh on people, and I debuffed fewer mobs.
For Extermination, Searsay caught up with us. This one was fairly easy. We were together as a team for the first half of the fight. Then Searsay had to leave and go solo some slimes for us. That’s what BLMs do, be the soloing powerhouse on non-linking mobs. The rest of us ran and killed the rest of the mobs and even the NM Doomed mob before Searsay killed the third and final slime. Only 5 nukes and a shitload of downtime ftw! Nice work Searsay!
Escort Professor Clavauert was, in my opinion, the worst experience ever. This escort quest was a bit frustrating. You have no control over the Escort, and he runs in random directions, resting at intersections, and aggroing ghosts and skeles. He also dies a bit easy, so we have to cure him and snag the mobs. Since there’s no time to fight, we just aggro and go run off into a tiny corner to die. Searsay died tragically in this Assault. Rya and I were close, but kept healing each other. I would like to say that I never want to do this Assault ever again. It’s hard when you have very little control and a high probability of death.
Troll Fugitives (round two) went much smoother. This time we had good nuking power. I hardly did anything except for Refresh and nuke a bit. We beat this one with about 10 minutes to spare. The only bad part was when I thought our mighty PLD had hate, so I converted and promptly died. Thanks Kec. All I had on the troll was Sleep II. That’s what I get for trusting a PLD that has a general dislike of all tarutarus.
Death Count:
Kathane – 1
Searsay – 1
Toefer – 1
