Productive Day
Dec/081
So, today has been productive. Last night I made sure to sleep early, at 9 so I can make it to the Dynamis this very early morning at 2:30am. My ls consist of mostly American, so… :/ though when I got on the ls leaders were still trying to find a place cause all of the dynamis zone were used and there’s a possibility that our dynamis time might be moved to afternoon CST which means just the right time for me, yay. After waiting for half an hour to decide where to go, the leaders said Dynamis-Xarcabard. I didn’t take any screenshot in there cause my macro was broken and I had to do every spell manually
After dinner, I logged back in again and put my flag up. I really need to start working on my merit points. I have no time to hunt for those rare/ex item anymore which means my blm gonna be so poor equipment wise and i’m trying to make it up through my merit points. I set a limit that I can only play for three hours a day but you know… I did that with leveling my RDM and in the end I got it anyway, as long as I put in the effort
Not long after, I got a tell from another black mage suggesting a duo in Mt. Zhayolm. We joined up with other BLMs there as they come and go. I only got one point during my stay and had to disband cause Cerberus was up. I was baffled by the fact that Gate of Hades attack did not show up on my chat log while his other attack like Magma Hoplon and Ululation showed up fine… I guess I need to tweak my chat filter again..
Long way to go…
Dec/070
So, I’m done with getting a red mage subjob and there lies an even heavier task of getting merits for my black mage. Judging from the amount of persistence and hard work that I will need in this path, I’m considering a few alternatives. One is to solo my merits, hopefully joining manaburn parties, the other one is to level Red Mage to 75 and then join tp burn parties.
A few advantages and disadvantages follow: taking the black mage route means that I will not be dependent on getting a party to get the limit points, might be slower, but more consistent. Another thing to consider is my short irregular playtime and constant parents aggro during my playtime. I dont know if my mom has some special kind of radar, but she tends to aggro me right when I got a party and arrived at camp and she can be quite persistent. Leaving a manaburn party as a black mage is easier than leaving a tp burn party as a red mage (never been in one but I’d imagine that would be the case).
Typing all these reasons might make some people say “Then what else are you waiting for?!” There’s another big reason for me needing a party…. I am completely useless at soloing and an utter disaster at avoiding aggro, which is why I don’t do melee. I’ll end up MPK-ing my entire party I have to pull (probably). I can only guess at the reason, maybe I panic way too easily and end up never getting the right macro at the right time. Though I made sure that I have all the enfeebling equipment I can get. If there’s any reader (I don’t even think this blog has one :p) who have joined both burn parties, maybe you can give me an insight?
As for what to merit, here’s the list copied from Nerull found in KillingIfrit forum:
- Elemental Magic => 8
- Lightning Magic Potency => 5
- Ice Magic Potency => 5
- INT => 5
- Enmity Decrease => 4
- Max MP => 8
- Freeze II => 2
- Burst II => 3
- Flood II => 1
- Enfeebling Magic => 8
- Spell Interruption Rate => 4
- Evasion Skill => 4
So judging from the amount of limit points that I need, It’ll probably be 2009 before I can finish BLM Merit *joy*