Trials & Tribulations

Greetings my fellow Vana’dielians. I am proud to announce that after many, many, many years, I have finally ranked up to 75 on Scholar!

I wish I took a picture of the event happening, but sadly being too wrapped up in the mana burn party I was in, that did not happen.

Before I continue on with the events of yesterday, I want to rewind a bit to the day prior.

For the first time I tried out this thing called “Fields of Valor“. In various areas around Vana’diel there are these Field Manuals. I checked one out in Western Altepa Desert and browsed to page 5 where there were mobs I could fight. That page had a regime of me needing to kill 4 Antican Secutors and 6 Antican Lanistae.

The Secutors were simple enough to fight. It was too bad I couldn’t fight 6 of those instead of the Lanistae (BLM mob). The Lanistae are not only Black Mages, but were clustered about other Anticans so pulling could have been gone badly. As a matter of fact, it almost did once. Good thing for Sandstorm as I ended up running all about Western Altepa hoping some of what I linked would depop, but needless to say, I ran around and ran around, and finally decided to run to Rabao for safety.

I can’t say that I will or won’t attempt FOV again as soloing takes quite a bit of time, but the 1,140 gil was nice. Doing FOV in a duo or party might make it a bit more worthwhile.

Now back to the events of yesterday…

Yesterday, I started my day out back in Mount Zhayolm in a black mage mana burn party. I had a good bit of experience to get when I started out, around 18k. I really wasn’t expecting a whole lot as these parties go through quite a rotation of people and can whither away quickly if no other black mages are seeking.

However, after some much nuking Ebony Puddings, I obtained my first level 75 job. Now that I have obtained this level, it’s a matter of getting a good amount of experience as a buffer then switching to meriting.

Speaking of meriting, before I could even access this ability, I had to head to Ru’Lude Gardens and speak to the Nomad Moogle that stands next to Maat and have it cast some odd spell on me. Once it done this, I could switch over to merits when not obtaining experience.

So… I had the Nomad Moogle cast a spell on me, now back out to Mount Zhayolm. There is this cast iron plate I’ve been needing to get to open up the Gates of Halvung. Sadly, after looking in the accessible spots, I didn’t find what I was looking for. I’ll have to make a return trip and hope to locate what I need to find (whatever that may be). On the upside, Ineyeri invited me to mana burn for a while before she retired to her new home in San d’Oria (yeah, I’m in Windurst by myself now).

Before I end this post, I’m going to include some images of the merit ability that I’ve obtained. One includes the number of merits that I’ve already obtained just to see what it was like.

Take care everyone! I’m off to get some rest before I buffer some more and get some more merits!

Today I did some more leveling and I have successfully made it to level 74. OMFG! 74!!!

This is really epic for me. After the many years playing, I only have one more level to obtain before it’s just a matter of maintaining the level and meriting.

Also, I before I retired back to my Mog House, I climbed Delkfurt’s Tower to get ready for the boss fight in the Stellar Fulcrum. Maybe there will be some people that will actually want to fight the boss and not just zerg it. I don’t have a job to offer in regards to zerging it.

Well, I’ll leave that for another day for when it actually happens. Right now, I’m going to rest up and be ready for another day where I can obtain 38k exp and hit 75.

I’m shaking I’m so happy

Well, once again, it has bee a while since I have posted anything here. It has been quite busy for me and really hadn’t gotten back to my mog house as of late. Not only that, but I really haven’t had much to post about.

Been mostly wandering about hoping for parties that never came. Ineyeri has been doing her own thing and hasn’t spent a whole lot of time with me. I really don’t know what she’s been doing. Her posts on her blog are far fewer than mine.

Well, today I managed to be a part of an excellent party. We managed to make it up to a level 33 experience chain before we ended breaking our rhythm. In that time, I leveled to 73.

When the party broke, I headed back to Al Zhabi for a beseiged on the town. We were down a general, but managed to win against the Mamool Ja Savages.

I’m going to continue on my journey to obtaining level 75 so I can start meriting on Scholar. After such dedicate myself more towards dynamis and obtain more of my relic gear. Then, when time allows, level red mage to 75.

In all this I hope to finish the ACP missions, COP missions, more on AU missions, and also WoG missions.

I saw people shouting for ACP 11 in Whitegate today. I inquired and was turned down by both people saying I had my Scholar available for use. Why the scholar hate?

Well, I’m not going to worry too much about it as of now. I’ll get it done. As of now, I need some rest so I can hopefully have the energy to continue on later.

It’s that time again. The time where the M.H.M.U recognize those that have dedicated their lives to saving Vana’diel.

So, I have taken my travels from Aht Urhgan to Windurst, dawned my desert boots as I cast Sandstorm and went to go see the Moogle.

This is what he told me.

Adventurer Statistics

Well, there you have it and I now have my ring to help me obtain level 75.

So yesterday was a somewhat eventful day. I started the day off trying to rescue the AC from the Lamia without success. Didn’t even make it to where it was being held captive before the majority of our alliance started leaving due to poor direction by the one leading the rescue. I, myself even left because we had someone speak their mind about how poorly this was set up and was left to make it on their own. Luckily for them, they were a Summoner with White Mage abilities to teleport out of that dreary place and let everyone else that was left fend for themselves.

After such, I spent some time in my Mog House for a bit, then decided I would travel back into the past and try to rack up some experience and Allied Notes. It was at that time that I figured I’d switch over to my Dynamis Linkshell to see what was going on and have some chatter while I was doing my thing in the past. It was after chatting with them for a better part of the day that they asked me if I was going to join in. I was going to just let it slip by and hopefully become out of sight, out of mind. Yeah, that didn’t work out, I received a tell from one of the members while also being asked by another member if I was going to come. So after 3 times being asked, I gave in and went to South San d’Oria to take on Dynamis. I was reluctant because I was only 1.4k into 72 and really didn’t relish losing that.

The run went awesome. An ungodly amount of Red Mage Relic dropped, and after much begging and pleading from me, I finally got the Scholar relic that was given up.

YAY! ME!

Argute Bracers

This now leaves me at 1/5 to complete the entire set. I can’t wait! I am so glad I attended the run. It was well worth the one death I took during the run. I am still 800-some into the level. I’ll work later to reboost that up if not take it up to 73 like I would really like.