It all started when myself, Trebla (BLM) and Sodalitas (SMN) were busy doing our own things when someone happened to ask on the linkshell if anything was going on. Since I had picked up my Zephyr fan last week, I offered up the Brothers ENM. I thought it'd take a while, but as it turns out, both Sodalitas and Trebla also coincidentally had their Zephyr fans as well. :D
So, our first order of the day was to plow through that ENM for some easy xp.
Unfortunately, nothing good dropped (drops were only worth 4k in total -_-), but it was the start of what was to come. We were contemplating what we could do with BLM BLM SMN when I offered Apollyon NW as an option, which was quickly taken up on.
I know Limbus has been around for quite some time now, but I've certainly been taking my own sweet time with it. Part of it is because I don't have a Limbus shell, but also because I prefer to duo Apollyon- just I don't have a fellow BLM I can go with on any regular basis. Thus, I take whatever duo offers I can take. :D
To be honest, I've only duo'ed this twice before (yeah, I wasn't kidding about the slow part). Both times we got up to Kaiser Behemoth, but couldn't kill him in time, probably due to unfamiliarity with him, but still net somewhere around 15 coins each for the run. This time, with a third person (SMN), I went in with the idea of killing Kaiser Behemoth.
It was Trebla's and Sodalitas' first time against Kaiser Behemoth as well, and while we did have a couple of mishaps, it was still a very fun fight, probably because of said unfamiliarity. XD
There was a point where a freak accident killed all three of us close to one another, so I ended up having to kite Kaiser Behemoth, weakened, while the other two rested off their weakness. Then, as Kaiser Behemoth was around 2% health, a Meteor-gone-wrong killed off both Trebla and I, leaving a weakened Sodalitas to fend off Kaiser. Fun times ensued. :D
But in the end, Kaiser went down! To make things even better, both Sodalitas and I went in hoping to get the BLM and SMN upgrade items, and voila, my Diabolic Yarn dropped off Pluto, while Kaiser dropped the Astral Leather for Sodalitas. Congratulations to him in advance for his Evoker Pigaches +1! :D In addition, after splitting the coins, I now had enough coins to purchase my first Limbus item...
Ta-dah! :D
(Too bad I only put it in my standing macro. >_<)
We then went outside into Al'Taieu to farm organs to complete Trebla's Hyorin Obi, since he was fairly close to completing it. In doing so, we also got the organs I needed to complete my Karin Obi. :D
And finally, all that ENM, farming and whatnot let me complete something I've been working on for a while now...
84 base INT ftw. :D Now to work on maxing out Elemental and Enfeebling skill! This weekend really goes to show just how much can be done if people really set their minds to things. ^^
4 comments:
Do you actually kill every mob in Apollyon NW, or skip some floors by just killing enough for the portal to show up?
How about the levelbosses?
I'm kind of looking forward to duoing this when I'm done leveling up BLM ^^
I was the SMN who went with Tuufless on that Apollyon NW run. As I recall, we only killed 2 or 3 Ghosts from Level 1 before killing the Pluto boss for Tuuf's BLM upgrade material.
As for Level 2 & 3, we only killed enough mobs to spawn the portal.
Level 4 was coin farming, so we killed all the NQs and left the boss alone, and Level 5 was a clean sweep.
Your newest post has inspired me to persevere in my ffxi career even with the giant timesinks that exist in the game. I can definately sympathize will your feelings in the last post but I know there is still alot I havent done and want to do in FFXI. Thanks Tuff! I wish you the best man.
Xaeith from
Ragnarok
Sounds like a fun day!
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