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I did it!

I got my Aegis this past Thursday after two straight awesome days of WKR.

It seems my entire server is on the WKR train right now given the 4x HP-Bayld, chance at boxes, etc. I was able to take full advantage of this and sell about 3 stacks of HP Bayld to an LS mate at a discount. The gil I earned from that was enough to purchase the remaining Silver I needed. In addition, another LS mate who finished his Aegis not too long ago was willing to loan me the last 30 pieces.

I had to go to Xarcabard to get my last pieces as well as hit Davoi to get my R. Goldpiece. I got the Animated Shield pop item on my 10th kill and easily dispatched it to get my fragment. I then got my Necropscyhe on the 1st kill.

Then the trek to get my shield - starting with a Teleport-Holla :).

 And then the awesome trade. I had never watched the CS before and I kind of predicted that owl was gonna be part of it.

I have used the Aegis a few times and still am completing trials with it. It's a great thing, but I know that my other two shields will still see use. Unfortunately, the one that is least used by me for anything significant is the Ochain.

I have done the first two trials and have 2/5 kills on the level 90 trial.

New Equipment

Herculean Trousers: Selkit finally put out with these trousers for me on Friday morning. A summoner in our LS helped me and another ls mate with a few kills of Selkit and I was able to get this super awesome piece. I also was lucky to have great augments on it relatively quickly.

So long Taeon Tights! Thanks for the memories.

Valorous Hose: This morning we did more Reisen mobs - particularly Belpheagor and Taelmoth. I got to put my Aegis to good use on both and we were able to win all of the pops. Kind of unfortunately, it dropped 3 of these and I got one. I will use them on my PLD's lolDD set. I threw a few stones at it and they have Store TP at the moment, but nothing else notable.

Herculean Gloves: Another direct drop for me. I got very fortunate because as mentioned above, they did not drop as loot. I will be augmenting them eventually with Triple Attack, but the fern stones I did have so far put WS damage +4% on them as well as solid DEX, Acc, and Att. Those will hold me over until I see a TA+3 or better. These will go into my TP and WS sets on BLU, which will allow me to relegate my Rawhide Gloves to strictly MAcc.

I soloed Cunnast three times last night because I would like to pick up some Despair Finger Gauntlets for both my PLD and BLU. I want them for my PLD because currently I do not have capped gear haste in any of my sets. These hands augmented on Path B would be enough haste to put me back at 25% and free up my waist for my Windbuffet again. On BLU, these make good physical spell hands and since I lack Adhemar for them, I will be able to put them to use there. The only draw back to soloing Cunnast is it takes some time. I can safely kill him on PLD with trusts but it takes 8 minutes. I have to use my Priwen because Aegis does nothing to mitigate his Radiant Breath so the DT helps there. On BLU I lack August and Gessho did an ok job but I did pull hate frequently. I don't have the same kind of DT gear on BLU so even though I didn't die (thanks Mighty Guard), it's a bit more risky to kill.

Mythic Progress

Salvage is salvage. No change there. Almost done with Periqia Log. Wake the Puppet is next.

Alexandrite: 18,719/30,000

This week: Get Cunnast to put out those gauntlets, more salvage, unity/sparks tasks for JP/gil, and hope for an SR campaign.