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[Tsingtao]

What does that give us

WAR/THF or WAR/MNK
NIN/WAR
NIN/WAR
WHM/BLM
RDM/BLM
BLM/WHM

Looks like you're off healing duties D.

Should be ok at that, skillchain I guess is blade:rin -> blade:retsu for distortion. Leave you to solo Sturmwind, thf sub would be good if you have it on WAR. I'll get some more DD kit for tonight, push up the damamge if we've got a debuffer and healer.

[djtickle]

My subs aint up to much im affraid only have Thf at 9.

I was going to come as War/Drk.

Or i could come as War/Whm but i dont think that would help much.

[Tsingtao]

Ok guess DRK it is, never played with one before so will be interesting to see how it stacks. Would recommend getting THF / MNK / NIN levelled for WAR mind. You'll strugle to level it to 40 without at least one of those 3.

[Darwock]

OK.. guys this gives me a dilemma. It means Mahisha will definitely be back tonight. I'm currently logged off in the Aqueducts... I see you have a proper healer available now so perhaps I can make my excuses (and hopefully convince some others on the LS to come in and help!)

[djtickle]

Yeah, i only plan on lvlin War to 38 as atm its my sub for my Drk.

I want to get Thf up as my sub for Drk, when i have some time, and then maybe nin/war but thats some time down the line.

[C']

WAR/DRK is actually a decent combination pre-WAR30 as it gives the WAR the Attack Bonus job trait. However, WAR gets this anyway at level 30 (and the 2 traits will not stack with each other) making the DRK version redunadant at that point.

[djtickle]

Didnt know they didnt stack. Well after tointe before we lvl again ill try and get thf up for next time we party.

[Tsingtao]

Have to see if Darwocks out might not be on, I'd rather all go together.

I thought the attack bonus trait was pretty heavily outweighed by boost pre 30 then SA is much superior for DD 30 and beyond. NIN starting to pay at 50 though it has it uses below.

[Darwock]

Alright, it's back on and right in front of me are 2 stegotaurs and 1 mahisha. I thought I might have to wait for a spawn but if I get this done early enough I can still join the xp group, question is can anyone help?

[Jei]

What level do you guys recommend getting to before transferring over to your server to have some fun

[Darwock]

You can't transfer a character, you have to start from scratch. In other words I'd recommend stopping now and starting on Seraph using a world pass (one was posted recently)

[Darwock]

Well, I apologise again I didn't intend to hijack the whole evening, I thought it would be a quick kill and out again. The minotaur kicked our arses though and by the time we were raised, recovered and done with Mahisha (no drop)... Tobal had logged off. So it turned into a mammoth aqueduct session and we crossed a few more things off the list. Tsing got his katana & a nin subligar, Rabs got his ranger subligar, someone got a fomor codex, etc. Quality evening although I am disappointed.

Most annoying thing is I've begun to even piss myself off by going on and on about this, and I'm gonna have to do it again. I really hoped it would be over at the first kill. Denied.

Thanks to all who showed support anyway ^^

[Tobal]

Yeah, sorry about that. I just couldn?t be arsed as knew how every LS event goes, which rarely smoothly and I wasn?t in the mood for aqueducts visit.

[Darwock]

The fun didn't stop there, Rabs & Saerik were in Onzozo in front of the Ose waiting for an opportunity to attack, while I was on my way via the boat from Selbina to Mhaura. There was only one other person on the boat, low level. Just as I was thinking how you never see pirates any more the low level person goes 'oh noooooo' and the music kicks in. I was really looking forward to kicking pirate ass like I've never done before, and I had started bombarding the crossbones with my biggest AOE nukes when I spotted a 12 foot tall skeleton coming up behind me.. Silverhook his name was, yaaargh. Very slow hitter but it still took me a while to respond to the fact he was hitting for 200~ each time, I started warping and when I arrived back in the safehold I only had 13hp remaining. Lucky escape!

[C']

Well despite the lack of a drop from Mahisha, I quite enjoyed another expedition around Phomiuna Aquaducts. I think it?s a really fun zone and the last few trips, it?s really clicked with me and I?m becoming used to navigating past the true sight Taurus mobs.

Beating Tres Duendes (and Duendes Amoruso) with 7 people was also really straightforward and I think a single party can beat it. Remarkably, we got the Niokioyotsuna again. Considering our next aim of him will be the Chiroptera Dagger, it is kind of worrying we haven?t a drop from it yet.

Also, regarding Mahisha?s pop conditions. Darwock, I know you once claimed that it isn?t a 24 hour pop but usually that means it can respawn anything from 21-24 hours after death. Have you considered this in your previous camps? If not, I think he was killed some time between 9:30pm and 10pm so could be worth checking from around 6:30pm ? 10pm if you have time. I realise that there may be plans to EXP tonight so this may not be possible but this is the one time where we have a definite time of death to work with. Even it means we can positively rule out 24 hour spawn rate, it would be useful.