The Fox and the Blau

Well, it’s certainly been some time since my last update. I just survived the busiest week of the year at my job and every moment I’ve been on has been devoted to leveling Paladin. It’s been a goddamn blast! Since there’s maintenance today, I figured I’d update the ole blog.

Drgirlfriend and I went to pop the Parade Gorget NM. I told DG to bust out a heavy nuke, I Accompliced, she nuked it again, I popped a Dancing Edge and Goblin Wolfman died. Very easy with BLM75 and THF75. Gorget dropped, which made me 1/1 on it.

I solo’d the Earth Elemental fight for Paladin’s AF weapon, Honor Sword. I had gone out on THF/WAR with just my farming gear and actually got beat up a little bit. During the fight with Berserk up, it critted me for over 300 dmg! Either way, got my AF weapon done on the 30th.

As I stated at the beginning, I’ve been grinding PLD up pretty quickly. The majority of the time, I’m level syncing to the mid-30s in Garliage Citadel. Ordinarily I HATE this zone, but it’s made for a good bit of 8-13k/hr parties with and without EXP bands. Every time I get into a party, I seem to go up 3-5 levels. It’s made for a lot of late nights.

The best part is I’ve been doing it mostly with people I knew. It really makes the time fly by.

I synthed my first Hakutaku Eye Cluster for Kelton this past week. It’s weird synthing it now over a year since we originally farmed the eyes!

Took a short break last night to help Kelton’s friend do a Garuda run. On the way there, we found an NM I knew about but had never spotted before in game. We got pretty lucky on drops.

As you can see, there was a THF soloing it when we got there. We let him have his fair shot and even Raised him after we beat it down, but the damn guy was still all butthurt over losing.

So I’ve really spent the majority of my time in-game grinding Paladin the past week or so. I’ve made it all of the way up to PLD52 now and did my AF feet last night, thanks to Drgirlfriend/Kelton for staying up until dawn helping me get it done. I’ll probably grab a few more AF pieces today before Limbus tonight.

Here’s a few shots from the AF fight, which was a breeze with a couple 75s.