16999 and counting

I had a goal last week to reach 17,000 Alexandrite before March. Per usual, I peppered in a bunch of in-game tasks with my relic/mythic farming.

Last week we had a Wildskeeper Reive campaign - and I hadn't seen it since I returned to the game. It was fun to run around with a mass of players and kill Tchakka, Colkhab, and Achuka over and over getting High-Purity Bayld, equipment to trade for bayld, stuff to NPC, and actual bayld as well.

It was also a good source of sparks, and a small but still nice contribution to CP.

I was hoping for a Sinister Reign campaign this period but that was not to be. There's still time for one though.

New Equipment

Carmine Greaves: I had this abjuration in my mog house for a week or two and was unsure if I wanted to acquire this piece. I had read on the ffxiah blue mage forums that these make a decent (not best) feet piece for TP when accuracy is not an issue. This is mostly due to the Store TP+7 and Double Attack +2%. They also have solid stats for Requiescat. I put these in for my TP piece (low acc set), but they were recently replaced.

Sanctity Necklace: Finally! Took me lots of kills of Quetz to get this to drop. And good thing I got it before the WKR campaign, as the dragons on our server are now pretty much getting ignored. This went into my MAB set as well as my accuracy and magic accuracy sets.

Henic Torque: Although I am really after the other drop from this Warder, this still is a nice skill piece I will use on Paladin for divine spells.

Odyssean Greaves: I was surprised to obtain this piece - especially since it was a direct drop. I didn't know last week there was a Reisenjima campaign going on where you get an extra personal drop when killing a Geas Fete NM. We were on a run where I was asked to tank Dolores and I did a good job on the first go, but on the 2nd one she leveled up a bit too much and we wiped. Was still a fun fight and a good time. I augmented these and they have STR, Acc, Att, and double attack on them currently. To be honest, I am not sure these are the kinds of augments I should be trying to get. I'm thinking I should put these kinds of augments on Valorous gear (like my Valorous Mask) and try to get more tank-type augments on the Odyssean gear.

Odyssean Cuisses: I got these while duoing Belphegor with another LS mate, who tanked it using his PUP. And it was awesome! He's pretty easy as long as you blank gaze (and have sufficient magic accuracy to land it, which I do :)) his Memento Mori, and the bonus to having an automaton tank is it can't be charmed at 25%. At 10% he chainspells and uses Mori before each spell so you have to spam Blank Gaze during that time. He dropped these on the 2nd kill. I augmented these similarly to the Greaves, but I have yet to try and fit it into my gear sets as of yet.

Herculean Boots: And these dropped on the 1st kill of Belphegor. Amazing piece. I spent a bunch on stones trying to augment these with Triple Attack. I currently have STR, Acc, Att, and Triple Attack +3 on them. I would like to see more acc on them, and hopefully the rarer Triple Attack +4. Still, they were a noticeable improvement on Salvage as I was regularly self-lighting nearly every time I CDC'd twice on the same mob.

Mythic Progress

I wanted to get to 17k Alexandrite before March hit, and after I was about to log out on February 29th I turned in my Alexandrite for the day and ended up needing to turn in 13,001 Alexandrite to Paparoon. Thanks for the troll :)

This morning I got 4 runs in, making it a habit to have a remnants permit on me before I log so that way when I go next, I can use that permit, buy another before the day change, go again, buy another permit, go again, and only have 10-15 minutes before I am able to buy another permit. It's working pretty well. I got 505 Alexandrite this morning in 4 runs. Both SSR2 and AR2 have been stingy on double linen and it has likely been 2+ weeks since I last got one. I am halfway through my Periqia log book and only have Leujaoam not started. The other three are complete and turned in.

17,504/30,000 Alexandrite

Relic Progress

I got more Silver a couple days ago and have been storing gil and being a thrifty spender with it. I almost have enough gil to get to 70 pieces, so I will need to make a stop or two over to Dynamis Xarcabard in the near future for the two items I need for stage 4. I am trying to buy discounted bronzepieces and silverpieces as I encounter them, but the last two days I have not seen any.

30/100 Montiont Silverpieces

We have a person in our LS who is working on Idris and is buying the HPB we get from Wildskeeper Reives, so I will try and get more during this weeks' WKR and increase my gil stock that way. It's pretty cool though that I am almost at the point of being a relic owner, and the mythic is getting closer each day. Hopefully I can finish this up during March, but it will more than likely happen in April for the mythic.

I will also be trying to fill out a few more gear pieces from T1 Reisenjima nms, as they have been pretty fun to fight especially lowman. I want to fill out my Valorous gear as well as Herculean gear. Odyssean would be nice but is not as high of a priority. Herculean hands and legs would be my most desired items. If I can just figure out how to get Selkit down easily.