Update, Astral Burns, and Jorbs
Playing catchup here for nearly a week, so I’ll be fairly brief today.
On Monday, SE released the Summer update and I’m personally pretty pleased with it (alliteration is fun). They’ve finally finished Campaign, with the bodies, new ranks, and Union system. I snagged an Iron Ram Hauberk the first day because my WAR had nothing like it. Unfortunately, since they added drops to campaign, a metric shitload of people invaded the usually peaceful campaign battles and cockblocked anyone from making much that night.
So Drgirlfriend, Keithdragoon, Kelton and I headed up to the tree to mess around/skill up. I went WAR/SAM to put it’s tanking chops to the test. I had leveled SAM to 37 pretty much solely on Fields of Valor a couple of months back and basically shelved it. After playing around with it that night, and tanking the majority of the mobs, I’m really looking at Paladin again. Oh, and Sword 206.
We also explored Beaucidine (S) and Xarcabard (S) briefly, unlocking teleportation to those zones and watching people being eaten by the new flying dragon, Amphiptere. It was cool seeing some of our server’s most elite players dying to simple things like aggro. Overally, this was a blast. I know that there won’t be many/any new areas that give off this sense of exploration for the rest of XI’s life, so it’s also bittersweet. I can just remember how fun it was running around Aht Urghan’s areas that first night…
Later that night, I got invited to be the syncee for an lsmate’s Astral Burn party. It involves training a LOT of mobs into a tiny spot and having a few Summoners Astral Flow all of them to death. I’d never done it before, so I said sure. The pictures below show the end results!
As you can tell from the last picture, the second run did not go nearly as well. I still got 5 levels on my BLU, though!
I now interrupt our regular blogpost for a blast from the past!
We now return you to our regular blog post…
The next day, I gave Drgirlfriend a small loan to push her over the top and she bought her Terra’s Staff. She’s now 8/8 on HQ staves. We also farmed her Garliage Citadel coffer key so she could get her last piece of RDM AF, the Warlock’s Tights. Now that her RDM is approaching 70, she’s using it in campaign a bit on the side and seems to finally be enjoying campaign more. I know that’s pretty hard to do on BLM.
As I stated earlier, PLD’s got my fancy currently, so I geared it back up with what was available from the AH and my mules, and duo’d with Kelton last night. We got a few levels (@28 now) and burned some rings with FoV in the Dunes before calling it a night on that.
WHO WEARS SHORT SHORTS?!?
We finished off the night with me showing Kelton how the FoV Augments work. We hit up Behemoth’s Deminion and duo’d the mini-Behemoth Gudanna there with great ease. I got crappy augments on my Warrior’s Belt +1, so I NPC’d it. Kelton got Earth resistance +2 on his Legionnare’s Mitts, so not bad, but not necessarily great, either.
