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[Daragon]

Merry Christmas everyone!!!111111

[talizker]

With a particulaly poor TV line up last night I ended up leveling my WHM and made 21 to 24 which will hopefully see me out of Qufim...

Tobal is trying to put together a group for one of more Avatar Prime fights tonight (doing at least Garuda as far as I understand). FYI I have Forks of Wind, Earth, Fire and Ice now. Were we looking at a 9pm start (after Top Gear^^) or something a little earlier?

[Tobal]

Start with Gaurda and see if anyone one else it up for the rest, got forks for all the fights bar shiva and Levi which i already done.

[Bayan]

Im Game

[Tsingtao]

I think I might be game, see how the day pans out. Got all the forks...

Ideally need them all bar Shiva that would give me all the avatars bar Diablos and Fenrir.

[vwilsonuk]

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[talizker]

Several important lessons learnt during tonights Garuda Prime run. 1st off, when the party form an alliance in Kuftal to fight Guivre (who I knew nothing about) then make sure you keep your head. I was running a little late and I arrived as most of the other party were dieing. After a few Refresh and Cure's it was obviously moving on to seconds with our Party and after Tobal went down, Tsing was running in my direction so figured a Chainspell+Escape would be the best course of action to try and save us both...

...unfortunately the wrong macro got pressed and I Chainspell+Warp'd. Tsing died and I ended up back in Jeuno. Oh dear.

When I finally arrived back in Kuftal Guivre had been found and was back for more killing so we quickly headed off to the Cloister of Gales.

The 2nd lesson is that Astral Flow will rip through a Lv61 RDM like a hot knife through butter even with Bar up... One hit, 1285 dmg, death.

Actually, it may not be that bad as when examining the logs it revealed that both Stoneskin and Blink dropped a split seconds before Whispering Wind hit.

I now have all my forks and look forward for the next Avatar. Tobal - can you post something here during the day if you plan to do a run, just incase i'm not planning to be on - thanks

[Daragon]

I wouldn't mind another avatar fight either. I enjoyed the venture tonight and could do with beating them so the work is done for when I finally unlock SMN myself.

[vwilsonuk]

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[C']

If more avatar runs are taking place tonight, I?ll be willing to come along if spots are free.

I need to collect all the whispers to fight Fenrir so I need to only do each battle once for now. Need to them all as I (kind of) accidently handed in my Frost whisper last week (I spoke with the Taru assuming I?d get a choice to hand it over or not but it did it automatically).

I only have 5 of the 6 forks (still need fire) so can do all but Ifrit. I think if you want to make it easy, Shiva (Fei?Yin) and Titan (Quicksand Caves) are the easiest cloisters to get to.

[talizker]

I'm good for tonight - all forks available.

[Tobal]

http://ffxi.killvoid.com/forums.php?m=posts&p=1888678&PHPSESSID=16879da4b76d8c083efdef1f4c158c23#1888678

Pic moot was talkig about, the best one being Tsing's 'peg it' pic, i can't stop laughing.

[talizker]

So, CoP Mission 3-3 Road Forks. Wedge, Darwock, and anyone who needs the NM's for this - I am hoping we can get this done tonight! I have done the CS in Windurst and San d'Oria so am ready to go. I'll be on about 9.30ish (hopefully a little earlier) but should also be available tomorrow evening if tonight is not good for people.

[Darwock]

Tonights as good as any night for me, I'll need to set my alarm to remind me though...

[mikewl]

So, CoP Mission 3-3 Road Forks. Wedge, Darwock, and anyone who needs the NM's for this - I am hoping we can get this done tonight! I have done the CS in Windurst and San d'Oria so am ready to go. I'll be on about 9.30ish (hopefully a little earlier) but should also be available tomorrow evening if tonight is not good for people.

Tonight is good for me too.

As far as I can remember I got the cutscene with Cid done and thats as far as I got, I will look up what needs doing and catch up to you two if needed.