Yet another milestone

So today was a POL maintenance which also required FFXI itself to go down as well. I log back on to see double earth weather, and KV's up. Uncontested. Ours for the taking! So as people logged in, we begin rallying the troops and proceed to claim him.

More people begin to log in and even a couple of outside people come out to help.

Our strike force is finally assembled, and our bards commence their buffing. We join up with the kite party and proceed to lay waste to the overgrown arthropod. Oh what joy that filled us seeing the loot pool once the smoke had cleared.

The one thing we came for. No more and no less.


There it was.... after several weeks of assisting others with getting this thing. Now it was my turn.

Once the others passed, I became the proud owner of an Ace's Helm. Something that I'd never imagined that I would see.



Many thanks to Devdas, Kaishen and everyone else in Beyond for helping make this dream come to fruition.

Dark knight revisited

After completing STR merits, I decided I was going to do something I'd wanted to do for a while - take DRK to 75. I've been exping on it in between events and KV camps and it's currently at 45. Yeah, I know... still a way to go. I need to ding into that abyss burgeonet that rotted to me in Xarcabard the other day.

As far as merits go, I still have yet to finish divvying up my combat merits and will likely hold off on that until I finish DRK. I must be crazy leveling this since my LS has 2 stage 4 scythes in the works, both of which looking to finish by year's end.

I can't say I'd NEVER get to use it, since I've been on SAM a number of times over the past couple months, even with an amano. Lately however, my PLD has been taken out for a spin for one or two events each week since getting those speedy pants. And yes, it still has zero merits put into it. Now I really, really, really hope I don't end up having to tank Odin next time we fight him. I may have been rebuilding my PLD in the past couple weeks, but I am nowhere near comfortable with that fight. If I do end up with such a burden, I'll be forced to rage-log that night.