The progress is small, but the impact is big.

I've continued to make small bits of progress, but after having found more and more things to do, my Burtgang progress rate has decreased slightly.

Sure I am still making progress, and have hit some milestones since I last wrote.

Let's look at the major acquisitions since last time I wrote.

Aegis (85): I easily finished the first two trials of Aegis in the same day. The only complaint was that the mega boss pop item was not a 100% drop (but still high, like 67%). I did end up with a random M. Silverpiece after killing one of the NMs so that was a nice surprise. I'm stuck on Goublefaupe for now, but it's more because my login time has been limited as of late. When I do log in, I usually am doing other things like Salvage, LS events, or daily RoE quests. I have 2/5 of the required kills. I'm still hoping to get a lucky TH augment on one of the extra pairs of Odyssean Cuisses I have (more on that in a minute) but the DM campaign has given me nothing of note.

Loyalist Sabatons: From my first SR win. Unfortunately everything they offer is surpassed by gear I already have. My other choices were a DRG polearm and something else that did not fit my sets. They currently occupy a spot in my mog safe.

Lilitu Headpiece: From SR win #2. This was augmented with 9 STR and 9 DEX. It's a good BLU Physical spell piece right now, so that's where it is.

Asklepian Belt: PLD Divine Magic piece. Every little bit helps there.

Tanmogayi +1: Boom! Our LS did Sarama twice this week and our time on the 1st night was spent ironing out the exact strategy. Once we experimented with the setup and strategy, we clobbered him a bunch on the 2nd night. For the most party I was getting Sarama Hides and at one point the Haidate he drops (another Mog House slot). On our last kill before a few people ran out of accolades, the last coffer dropped me this sword - not the nq, but the hq. This sword is beastly. Since I have no plans on getting a Tizona (but haven't forgotten about the 90 Almace that is sitting in my mog house), this is my new main hand sword. I have retired my Claidheamh Soluis and put it in the mog house. I swung that sword a lot so don't really want to give it to the reclaimer. I am still using Nibiru in the off-hand on the DEX and Acc path for now. Sarama proved pretty evasive so I needed all my ACC gear as well as sublime sushi. My best parse was about 85% Accuracy. Of course, our mythic/empryean AG BLU wiped the floor with us, but that's what he's supposed to do :).

Cacoethic Ring (+1): I haven't used this piece just yet (finished upgrading it during Gain XP yesterday) but next time I need to adjust my accuracy set I will include this. Since I'll likely be going for max ACC, I probably will use Enlivened and this for a total of +19 accuracy in the ring slots.

Mythic Progress: I ended up getting pretty lucky and got 3 double linen runs since the last post I wrote. I crossed 20k Alexandrite turned in, and now have 7 assaults remaining in Leujaoam. I had two LS mates help me out with Orichalcum Survey because that assault is still super random with when it puts out the needed item.

Alexandrite: 21,203/30,000

Reisenjima gear/augments/NM killing: I have successfully and reliably soloed Belphegor multiple times, getting a 2nd pair of Herculean Boots and lots of stones. I'm not buying any more stones. He's an easy solo for me providing I don't get unlucky with sleepga (and even then, he's still very manageable). You need to remove his MAB boost because his magic damage increases significantly with this up. I probably should consider using poison potions all the time when fighting him just to protect against sleepga. I use Gessho to tank him and he never has any issues holding hate against me. I've gotten two extra pairs of Odyssean Cuisses and an extra pair of Herculean Boots, plus lots of stones. I've been using the Fern stones to try for better augments on my Herculean gear. At the moment, I have TA+10 total on my 3 melee Herculean pieces, along with nearly 90 accuracy.

My favorite, though, are these on Herculean gloves:



The feet are still a small work in progress, but I do have more accuracy on them now and the Triple attack +3 to go with them.

To do: I want another Herculean Helm to augment with melee stats. While I did significantly improve my Taeon head with +9 DEX, +15 Att/Acc, and +12 WS Acc, I know that Herc helm can have better overall augments as well as superior statistics. Unfortunately, I cannot solo Oryx with Gessho tanking. One of my LS mates also needs a helm and since I got Oryx to 30% solo, I am pretty sure we can finish him off as a duo. He also has Amchuchu as a tank and he is much better off tanking Oryx than August or Gessho (although both are preferred).

April is looking to be Burtgang month for me. It's getting closer!