Wtf?

Fwee, update? Maybe? Yeah.

Ding, Samurai is now capped on all relevant merits, Great Katana 8/8, Overwhelm, Shikikoyo, Meditate Recast and Store TP are all 5/5. Next on the list? Dragoon. Black Mage is... relatively capped already, only thing I really should work on there is Enfeebling skill and MP, but those aren't high priority as I'm not being a sleep whore in Dynamis anymore.

Um... other stuff?

Grats to Zac on his Kitty Pants~ Got those about a week ago, and a bad shitstorm of drama followed him around. His BRD, though it can wear them, was retired at the time, and his SAM was 66. Yeah. People were spamming him in tells "Why did you lot that, what jobs do you have?" So now he's going to be regearing BRD, finishing up SAM as well as finishing THF. Kid's got a lot on his plate.

Stupidity knows no bounds, does it? Sky LS is farming Despot, as we're trying for a giant Byakko bender, seeing as like 15 people need his fucking pants. So, farming Despot. We have 4 BLMs up there. Myself, Stoopie (<3), Brandyn and someone else I can't remember (sorry!). Eti pulls a Groundskeeper PH and everything's going fine, we're killing them kinda slow, so I decide to nuke to speed things up. Now, if you've never, ever, fought a doll-type mob... they have this wonderful move called Meltdown. They explode. Meltdown has a ~6 second charge time, and has a very recognizable animation, and is also stunnable.

THE DOLL STARTS FUCKING LEVITATING AND CURLS INTO A FUCKING BALL.

The other 3 BLMs know they should be doing something, but apparently their brains have blown into smithereens already. They freak out and panic. WTF DO WE DO YON!? OMFG

Me: STUN IT.

BLMs start casting----BOOOOOOOOOOOM

3/4 of the ally keels over dead.

And then, to shit more on us, fucking Despot pops.

Fuck stupid people.

Kirin Burn... How does it fail.

How, exactly, does a Kirin burn fail?

Let me list the ways, in order of how badly it fucks things up.

1: 2 gimpass BRDs who can't be arsed to properly merit and gear their damn job.
2: A BLM in the kill alliance.
3: A SMN in the kill alliance.

Had 25+ people show up for Kirin tonight, and somehow managed to cock it up at the end because 2 of the 3 BRDs didn't have fuckall for merits in Nightingale OR Troubadour, leading the oh-so-necessary songs to fall off about a minute and a half into the fight. This fight is supposed to last less than 3 minutes, to not allow Kirin any time to summon the mini-gods. Well, since the BRDs didn't feel like doing their goddamn jobs enough to merit them, we ended up wiping with Kirin at ~8% after he summoned Byakko.

If you don't have a properly merited and geared job for a Kirin burn. Don't fucking show up. I'm all for diverse strategies and making sure everyone has an equal shot at gear they want, but if all you have leveled to 75 is BLM, don't fucking show up and expect to do a damn thing. Your spot is better used for another melee DD that can do more than 50 damage every 15 seconds.

Also: To any BRDs out there. Merit Troubadour and Nightingale TOGETHER. They go hand-in-hand. One doubles the duration of all songs sung in the duration at the cost of 1.5 times the cast time and recast time. The other? Halves the casting and recast times with no penalty to duration or song potency. There is a REASON BRDs use Soul Voice, Nightingale and Troubadour TOGETHER when in a BRD rotation for any sort of TP zerg fight.

CoP Progress O_o

So, Makare and all the awesome folks in PandorasBox (my sky/social/everything LS) decided... fuck it. Let's do CoP. Let's get everyone in the LS who wants it Sea and their ring. After 2+ years of languishing on 2-5 because I had a horrible experience going 0 for fucking 10 on the damn Minotaur and Phomiuna Aqueducts SLOG, I've made more progress in the past 2 weeks than I had in the last 2 years.

Let's see here.
3-5, Darkness Named. 1/2 (Loss from a pickup group)
4-2, The Savage. 1/1. Broke record.
4-3, The Secrets of Worship. 1/1

Next up, Promyvion-Vahzl. Not nearly as horrid sounding as the original three Promyvions, due to it being 50 cap. After that? The single longest (and some say hardest) mission in all of CoP. Three Paths. Two dungeon-crawls, an uncapped NM fight and 3 50-or-60-cap BCNMs.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee

Missions are fun.

1/2 on CoP 3-5 :D

Though, I only got to fight Diabolos once... The other one is from a failed group that didn't even get to Pso'Xja to run through it before people started bitching and moaning.

Diabolos was... easy. Really fucking easy. Like, we got Nightmared once, the tiles fell, Kristi2 (Makare, sky shell leader) ran in and Bene'd us all... Then we went back to whooping his ass.

I guess 2 Blue Mages, a Dragoon/Blue Mage and a Dragoon/Warrior is too much for the devil copy to handle :)

On to Ouryuu, which we should be doing later today with an apparently "easy win" setup. Then, the bloody Sacrarium. >_>; I hate Fomors and Tauri.

Other updates.

Um...... Regeared 40-cap BLM (which, coincidentally enough, is the same as 30 and 50 cap BLM...) for a set of Under Observation BCNMs. Me, Junglebrotha and Zac were planning on burning literally all of our stored seals in an attempt at getting PCCs, but no dice seeing as JB got called away to do part of CoP 5-3.

Oh, well. I got a scroll of Utsusemi: Ni out of the deal, which sold and paid back the 130k I spent on regearing BLM... Plus some :D

Also been working on finishing off my BLU sub for Dragoon, so I can solo stuff easily enough. Getting whomped by Lesser Colibri out in Bhaf is not my idea of fun, so I really need this sub finished. Thankfully, I left it at 27, it's now 36. Only problem? I left it with absolutely NO gear.

Fuck me running.

So... there goes most of the rest of the prize money from Ni. At least my BLU isn't gimped now :D