Snuggly, Slayer of Big Stuffs

Lately, I think I've been brought to kill huge stuff. Big baddies. Nasty creatures.

First one on the list was a Wyrm in Abyssea - Attohwa. That monstrosity was humongous!!! The only thing that kept me alive was my fast beating heart and my Fanatic's Drink. The moment the sweet nectar ran out, I was tasting dirt. And soon most everyone else was as well. Thankfully, some brave souls were still alive and kept the claim on the monster as it was a sliver of health from death, while the lot of us home pointed and ran back to deal a finishing blow.

I thank my lucky stars I stopped by the Bastion Prefect for a Fanatic's recharge. That saved my bacon as I unleashed the last barrage of spells to take it down.

Next was a chance encounter with the famed Adamantoise. I heard a single Beastmaster can endure that fight, so when me and Snuggleh stumbled upon it, we charged it off. Sadly, I didn't knew about its drawing in move, so trying to pull the turtle to the south zone line prooved my undoing.

Thankfully, Erinael came in charging to fight the shelly shally, so a Nexus Cape charge later, me and Snuggleh were back up the ledge to take it down. We went back for repeats the next two days, but so far no egg for Erin-sama.

Lastly, as we had a taste of some Black Belt hunting, as well as a hoard of Kindred Seals gathering dust, we agreed to try some KSNMs to supplement the turtle culling. We were supposed to do only one run, but I already got me and Snug-Snug a Thenemas Orb hoping we'd do multiple ones. That saved us, as Bootymaster left Jeuno too quickly, and our first run ended being a "learning experience". Second run, we were much wiser on when to use our different units, and we came out with a Wyrm Beard for our troubles.

And tonight's another Abyssea night, as well as tomorrow night. OH! And BST is really growing on me! We laughed hearthily when Long-Armed Chariot tried repetitively to charm my Nursery Nazuna to no avail. That really simplified that fight down to only having those who were better than my sheep getting charmed during the battle. Mei was happy I gather.

A Monk of a Beast

Okay, sorries, my last post was sent to the wrong blog. This is where I should put all that is "current issues" related, the other one relating my past endeavors. ...heck, I wonder if I'll ever continue on those, it's been so long that I lost the thread of where I was going, and I figure that if I'm to tell my tale, might as well write it all start to finish, then revise it rather than have my first chapter set in stone, followed by lots of "oh yeah, did I mention that such-and-such was a robot? Yeah, that was kinda important..."

....Mecha-Shantotto-zord... okay, my brain's officially fried.

Back to the current issue now!

Those who followed my adventures on Akai-Tenshi know that so far, I'm a career Monk and Bard, with the occasional outing as a Thief in Dynamis. More recently, I started specializing my Black Mage for Abyssea purposes, as most fights ended up being kite-spam. However, recently I have undertaken a pet project.

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Get it? "pet" project? ...I can't believe the puns I can come up with unintentionally. Anyways, I haven't event mentionned what it is, so the pun is indeed lost on those out of the loop.

But yeah, seeing... AARGH! Forgot his name! His fault for not showing up on the linkshell or Dynamis as often as before... Anyways, BSTyface single-handedly took care of Lamia 13 when doing assaults together. Well, more precisely, his pet coeurl (not me! I'm Mei's pet, remember?) handled most of the fight, my job being limited to dispelling the initial charm on the undead soldiers who fought alongside her.

Long story short, I wanted to dabble in the Beastmaster's ways. Just for that. Not that I'm tired of doing rat spy finding missions, but still, the idea of setting a pet on a mob then sitting back for five minutes was quite appealing.

A few months later, my Beastmaster's finally past level 76, which is when I finally got all those cool new pets at my beck and call. Ever since (which is last Firesday), I've been hanging out in Bastion battles speed-leveling that job. Even got to fight alongside Booty and Mei in a puppet royale battle, and the job's pretty promising.

The next day, we go into Abyssea-Vunkerl and defeat the Dverger that dropped the +10 MP/tick refresh Atma. The day after that, we go into Abyssea-Misareaux to take down the Iron Giant with the Razed Ruin atma, as well as Flame Skimmer for its +10 to stats abyssite.

...wow, we're getting quite strong rapidly, but only in Abyssea. For elsewhere, my Monk remains at the same strength, unless I spend lots of time investing in better gear, which I really don't feel like doing. However, my Beastmaster is showing a lot of promise... well, my pet is, which means...

I might retire my Monk in favor of my Beast.

Not to be fretting, I might continue improving it, however I don't feel compelled keeping up with everything anymore, gear and skill wise. I might even sell most of my gear in favor of better Black Magery accessories, seeing how Beast is pretty low maintenance.

So my main portfolio has become the following :
- Bard (Salvage, certain missions);
- Thief (Dynamis pulling, anything needing a TH4);
- Black Mage (Abyssea NM killing);
- Beastmaster (everything else).

...I think that's pretty reasonnable. Might add Blue Mage in the mix, but so far, those big four should be sufficient for my present needs.

Alright, room getting filled up, I'd better leave this at this. Ta-taaa!