W O L F S W I F T || howling at the moon…

I didn’t think reaching level 13 would take so long. We had a steady party with a RDM, DRK, WAR and SAM then Trisk and I as DRK/WAR and WHM/RDM (don’t ask me what possessed me to level RDM instead of BLM) but our WAR was a bit new. The RDM was too, but as a tank the WAR’s inexperience was highly noticeable. At first, he was snotty and wouldn’t party with us til I’d answered a 3rd degree, including whether I had Cure II or not. Of course I did. >.> But he didn’t know how Goblins agro’ed. I told him they agro’ed on sight, and the rest of the party got past a pair of them, but he pulled one and instead of zoning it (he didn’t know what that meant) he decided to attack. The party went to back him up even though I knew we couldn’t take it, so I tried to keep them alive. They were all on red health and I was out of MP, so I used Benediction. The tank didn’t provoke.

To be honest, it was me or them. The rest of the party laid into him for not provoking, and the other DRK said, “See, that’s what happens when you’re not careful. You nearly kill us and then when the WHM tries to save our lives, you get her killed.” They got into an argument, I told them it didn’t matter, it was a gamble anyway since Benediction pulls so much damn hate, and that at least only I died. I don’t know what happened to the Goblin in the end.

Trisk went afk while we waited for a Raise, and the other DRK got restless and pulled a tough Hare. Which linked. He died, the RDM died, the SAM ran away and got a teleport back to his home city to switch to WHM just as the WAR buggered off and died too. Then the Hares came back and killed our afk Trisk. I was a bit annoyed, but it was okay. Except the WAR went to homepoint and ran through the tunnels and brought bats, which, when we were Raised, arrived just in time to kill the DRK and myself again because we were resting, unaware that we had presents coming.

Trisk jokingly called him Batman, and he left, calling everyone but myself and the SAM (or WHM as the case may be) ‘queer’. Lovely. We replaced him swiftly with a PLD and got to level 13 much quicker without him, though I’m used to at least two levels in a few hours when you have a good party. Oh well, here’s to new things!

Got Traveler’s Mantle to drop, I lost count of how many failed attempts we had. Also got Martial Slacks at exactly the same time. They apparently go for 20k in Sandy, but I doubt they’ll sell for that. Worth trying anyway! Keeping the Mantle for now, but may sell it on as it’ll be helpful in getting us gear later on. Not long til server transfer! I get paid on either the 30th April or 1st May, so that’ll be when we transfer since I barely had enough money in my bank to get Nelnel a birthday present! I hate being broke.

If they were in red, even if all of them voked, you’d have died. The joy of Benediction I’m afraid. <3

Comment by Nelle April 27, 2008 @ 4:15 pm