Bastok - Rank 7; NMs!

Darkcow and I had a sloppy night on Saturday night. We made our first attempts at duoing the Mission 5-1 fight, vs. Taber'quoan. We had one reraise earring between us, which allowed for 6 fights.

We ultimately realized that we needed more MP drinks if we were to be successful.

So, tonight (Sunday @ 9CDT), he and I made our way, again, to Fei'Yin and fought Taber'quoan. Our first match didn't go that well, and then our second we timed out at 2% health! It was awful, haha. We thought we won, but there was no cutscene. But we had our strategy down.

After we got the two mages down, Darkcow would focus on Taber'quoan and I would MELEE down the incoming warriors and Head Butt/Bludgeon Taber'quoan inbetween, rather than waste MP on battle dance, meanwhile helping keep Darkcow (and myself) alive with Curing/Divine Waltz.

We won on our third attempt of the night in 12min 25sec.

We did not celebrate long, and quickly made our way to Castle Zvahl to fight the Shadow Lord to get Rank 6. We made quick work of him, duoing as RDM/BLU (me) and WHM/BLM.

Darkcow was hopped up on energy drinks and I never sleep, so we decided to aim for Rank 7. The first fight was very simple. Darkcow Teleport-Altep'd us to the desert, and I sneak-spawned the two sphinxes, and we only fought the Eastern Sphinx. The Western Sphinx had despawned by the time we defeated the other, and we received our key item from the ???.

Bastok Mission 6-2 was a little more difficult, and more time-consuming, but it was still easier than anything we ever had to do in Windurst. We traveled t'Norg, talked to our old friend Gilgamesh, then we took our 30,000gil adaman ore and sneak-spawned Magma, a NM bomb. He hit like a truck, but we outlasted him, especially after he spammed berserk instead of self-destruct. We made quick work of him, defeating him in 4 minutes.

We returned to Bastok after turning in the frag rock to Gilgamesh, and now Darkcow and I are one rank closer to never having to see Bastok again, at least unless we have to do some silly side-quest there at some point in the upcoming expansions.

As for other adventures, my BLU is now 51, closing in on 52 so that I can wear the AF boots that I got from doing the BLU AF2 quest, defeating an Immortal Flan in Navukgo Execution Chamber.

Also, after losing to Taber'quoan on Saturday night, Darkcow and I went up to Upper Delkfutt Tower as THF/NIN and WHM/BLM and farmed Jotunns up there for gil, Gigas socks, Gigas necklaces, and the rare/ex items used to spawn NMs Alkyoneus and Pallas. In due time we managed to get both items, and we duo'd both of them. They both dropped socks, but not their heavily-sought bracers.

On the bright side, I often HQ the desynth of the socks.

Gigas socks + 1 lightning crystal =
(NQ) 2 wool thread
(HQ1) 4 wool thread
(HQ2) 6 wool thread
(HQ3) 8 wool thread

We gathered 2.5 stacks of wool thread out there, which sums to 28,000gil alongside the gil dropped by the gigas (~150gil per kill).

And last, but not least, I did get the Spellcaster's Ecu from Mucoid Mass in Ranguemont Pass. I went 1/2 on that 25% drop.

Longest post I've had in a while, eh?