Trials & Tribulations

I’m writing this as I’m taking the airship from Jeuno back to Windurst so I can have Ibwam transport me back to Whitegate for me to take care of another mission. I have an appointment at Walahra Temple that I must keep so I’ll be writing this in spurts.

(Speaking of which… airship landed….)

[Some hours later...]

Well, I finally have all my running around done. I’ve been out to Ro’Maeve, out to Aydeewa Subterrane, Jade Sepulcher, and now I’ve traveled back in time to Bastok Markets to do a few campaign battles.

Over the past few days, I’ve been quite busy crafting, leveling crafts, and doing various quests and missions. Yesterday was the most productive where I assisted Karababa when we had to fight Khimaira 13. Do you believe she had the audacity to call me a loser?!?!!?

I was not at all happy with her after that, but I held my tongue as it rewarded me in the end with 5 Imperial Gold Pieces.
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As you may have noticed, it’s been a few days since I’ve documented anything about what I’ve been doing. I’ve been very busy with my Scholar studies and it has really taken a toll on my pocketbook. Now to recoup my losses I figured I’d start off by doing some mining. After spending, I’d say, about 5/6 hours out in Halvung, it resulted me nothing. I’ll have to make another attempt considering I bought 12 stacks of pickaxes and I can’t have them going to waste. Mount Zhayolm didn’t do much for mining either. If anyone has any other suggestions of where to mine profitably with my current Goldsmithing and Smithing stats [viewable on my stats bar], please leave me a comment and let me know.

Ok, so now on I go…

I gave up on the mining, for now and teamed up with my girlfriend and started farming. We first started off in Rolanberry Fields farming beehive chips and silk thread, neither of which was dropping too well. Looking at the moon phase then of 19%, I can pretty much gather why. Hoping drops would be better elsewhere, her and I headed off to Tahrongi Canyon. Drops were a little better, but still not great. With my alchemy as high as it is, I’ve been pleased with the number of high quality (HQ) synths I’ve been getting when making beeswax. Once I get a decent number of stacks, I’m placing them up on the auction house. While there, been farming saruta cotton and silk thread as well.

Looks like I’ll be doing this farming for quite a few days, so if you don’t hear from me for a while, this is why. If anyone has any ideas about how to obtain some decent amount of gil (keeping advised of my current stats), again, please let me know and I’ll try that method out. I would really like to go back to my scholar studies. Can’t keep Gunther waiting, you know.

P.S. I’ve had two fun deaths in Halvung, one by an NM and the other from Firaga III from a Friar’s Lantern. Good times! I learned the second death from a fellow scholar

Before I start on what this post is mainly about, I need to update you on a few other things that I’ve been up to.

As I last posted about, I was working on missions for the Star Sybil with an interim and doing a couple for Jeuno. One of those Jeuno missions was a debacle, as I last told you about in this post. I gave you photos of what my girlfriend, Ineyeri, showed you. Well, I was digging around a shoe box (where I toss all my photos until I organize them) and came across one I took.

Death by Archlich Taber'quoan

My deaths didn’t end there, though. I had more ahead of me. I just didn’t know of it at the time. The Full Moon Fountain mission had the same effect as fighting Archlich Taber’quoan. The mission seemed straight forward, head out to Outer Horutoto Ruins, kill a Cardian, head back to town. I even pulled my bow and arrows out of storage for this, but nope. That’s not how it went. It went more like this:

1. Accept Mission
2. Run to Outer Hurototo Ruins
3. Head to where Cardian Notorious Monsters are and pop them
4. Pull one of Jack of Batons (BLM), Jack of Coins (RDM), Jack of Cups (WHM) and Jack of Swords (PLD)
5. [Pull ALL but ONE to fight]
6. Death
7. Rest up, leave Outer Hurutoto Ruins and go back in
8. Repeat steps 4-6 another three times
9. Ineyeri contacts Werdxi to pull a Cardigan with Carbuncle
10. I pop NMs for a fifth time and run back
11. Werdxi uses Carbuncle and pulls a Cardigan
12. We all fight single Cardigan, others despawn
13. Cardigan dies… run to door… find out what’s going on… Success

Now, I’m not too good with taking photos while I’m fighting, but Ineyeri, has one of us (dead of course). You’ll have to check out her journal to see it.

Now, with all the things I’ve done on Red Mage, all the deaths I have taken, these last few fights finally took me down to where I was only half way into my level. That’s over 20,000 experience points I’ve lost over time. I could legitimately accept a party invite and be of some use to a party for a lengthy period of time. I didn’t do this. Instead I took some time away from the missions and took part in the Sunbreeze Festival.
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