Accomplishments abound...and failures

Got to do some new stuff in game the past two days, and the march for mythic continues with a few milestones reached.

Starting off with the new stuff.

I had posted in the forums on FFXIAH about easy to acquire magic set upgrades for blue mage. One person mentioned getting a Herculean Helm and augmenting it with MAB. This seems promising to me and when I mentioned it to my LS, I immediately got 5 people who wanted to help kill it as they wanted helms as well.

Unfortunately, we did not have the correct set up for the NM that drops it. We failed pretty badly with BLU GEO PLD RDM BLM WHM and it was definitely because I couldn't read wiki well enough to see that GEO makes it go crazy.

We tried again with PLD BLU BLU and trusts, but ran into trouble handling its TP moves.

I was encouraged seeing a video of a BLU soloing it with trusts using Amchuchu to tank and just CDC spamming it without worry of breaking the horn. He used echo drops to handle silencega, and it seemed that his trust whm was never hit with silence. But again, I cannot do that because I do not have Amchuchu. I'm hoping she's in the campaign for February because she is pretty awesome.

So no helm for me as of yet.

I also wanted to do a few upgrades to my TP/WS gear, but most of what I would want seems out of reach for me at the moment - either because it's too expensive (Adhemar hands for example), or drops from mobs I hardly see people in my LS trying to fight.

I have been reading up on the Dawn II fight and I think I want to try to use that to get the Gyve trousers and perhaps Gyve Doublet. I think my BLU can solo it on Normal using Sudden Lunge and CDC with trusts. I'll set TH with spells and use my Chaac Belt to give me the best chance at those gear pieces. They will be nice holdovers until I can procure Amalric slops and doublet.

This morning I finished my Nyzul tokens and got my Wyrmseeker Areuhat item for mythic. I figured out a solid way to increase my tokens per run by starting on floor 46 in the regular Nyzul Isle Investigation. With proper luck, I was able to make it to floor 60 for the 30 second boss kill, then exit. If I did this, I got almost 5k tokens and minus the 900 token cost to start on floor 46, that's a +4k token profit. Very nice for 30 minutes. But now that that objective is done, I can bid adieu and good riddance to Nyzul Isle for now.

I also got my Lebros Assault log complete and turned in. My system since I used my initial supply of assault points was to do 2-3 assaults after running out to replenish and give me points to enter Salvage. The last 5 assaults in Lebros were very easy to do, although I did fail Operation Black Pearl on the 1st attempt because I was too far away to hear the NM announcement. On the 2nd run, I stood near the NPCs and waited for mobs to come to me.

All in all, progress continues to be made. I will refine my strategy for Dawn II and hope to get those gear upgrades.

Burtgang Progress
10,766/30,000 Alexandrite
1/5 Complete Assault Logs (12/50 overall)
Wyrmseeker Complete
Eyepatch Complete

Aegis Progress
Stage 4
13/100 Silverpieces