PEW PEW PEW!
Seems like this job just flew by really. Couple days of hard xp here and there with some breaks for AF and gear-gathering and subjob xp. Final push from 60 to 75 took what…2 weeks? Others could have done it faster I’m sure but I can only really xp a few days a week. I finally understand why people find campaign fun and worthwhile though…PLD can be a beast in campaign but my 73COR got consistently higher xp than my PLD ever did. PLD gets a bit more AN from cures and stuff but when(if) I finish my DNC sub that problem should fix itself.
I spent lots of time (usually at work) researching gear setups and stuff so I was ready for joy/martial gun slug spam at 72. I also got EXTREMELY lucky with a high lot on the one Enkidu’s Harness to drop from our 2 Tinnins. Then I got even luckier when a Denali Jacket dropped from our Nyzul spamming. So really my COR is almost complete the day it hit 75. Of course there are some things I’d like to upgrade…AF2 hat, relic belt, Skadi legs (2/3), Faith Torque for when I can’t melee for TP, Breeze Torque for Slug, Denali legs for TP. Still trying to decide wtf to do with feet options…AF1+1 or Skadi? Skadi has 1 more r.acc and acc but 2 less STR and no AGI. AF1+1 feet seem like a more well-rounded piece. Also Denali feet for QD might be awesome. So yeah, most of the stuff I want/need is either a totally random drop, requires hours of item farming, or comes from an event I rarely do. None of it is make-or-break for me since I’m set up well enough now.
Just…so….CUTE.
Now that I got 75, I’ll spend the next week or 2 doing nothing but merits. It really is sad that as long as I’ve been playing and having 2-3 essential merit pt jobs, I still only have about 200 merits. I need to, at the VERY least, cap PLD and WHM merits. WHM is my freaking main ls job so it’s retarded that I haven’t finished those, and PLD well…relic PLD with uncapped merits is pretty lol. In my defense there I got it to 75 only 4 months before I finished shield, and am a leader of a busy endgame ls. EXCUSES! Ok here’s what I absolutely NEED to get:
Merit: Upgrade level(s) – merit points
HP: 7-8 – 10
Shield Skill: 3-4 – 6
Enmity: 4 – 4
Enemy Crit: 3-4 – 7
Cure Cast Time: 5 – 5
Barspell Effect: 1-5 – 15
ShellraV: 2-5 – 19
Shield Bash Recast: 5 – 5
Sentinel Recast: 4-5 – 9
Chivalry: 3-5 – 15
Fealty: 1-5 – 22
That’s 117 merits…and only caps 2 jobs. @_@ Then there’s COR merits to worry about…I’ll probably do 8 sword/marksmanship. Or maybe 8 sword 4 marksmanship/archery because I know I’m gonna do RNG after make good progress on merits.
Tanked Tia a few days ago. I find it mildly hilarious that the 2 Aegis PLDs in HB can’t get IR body for lack of points and/or medal rank. Neither of us has a decent fire-resist set (or even a half-assed one). Really all I did different for this gear-wise was put my BQ Ring in satchel so I wouldn’t have to comment it out of spellcast. I should have gone into Valhalla set now that I’m giving it more thought. Usually I only use that for JoL since I’m /rdm and not counting on shadow timers but…even though we go PLD/NIN to tia we don’t really use shadows except for the few seconds between when it lands and gets slept and then the ~30 seconds between when it wakes and flies. Yeah yeah, we sleep on the ground. The fight is more stable than other ls on our server who don’t sleep it, and we still manage to kill it faster (on the 5-6 claims we get per year). On a somewhat humorous note, I know exactly how many times I’ve fought Tia – 6! Once for each 75 job. I’ve never come as the same job twice, and have now been on each job. Kinda funny/sad. Actually, what’s really sad is the one time I went on BLM and showed up at like 15% and immediately threw a FreezeII on it. Who’s the moron? That’d be me.
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