Friday morning, I decided to go back to try and get the Thief's Knife pop item again. Soon after arriving, my newly established choice of tactics to let Carrie tank the Tonberry's for me, sort of backfired.

Seemingly our summoned pets share the Beastmaster's hate, so she was killed nearly instantly to about the same damage I would have taken from Everyone's Grudge. It took me nearly an hour to calm her down and make her forgive me afterwards, the poor gal.

Eventually the pop item dropped and soon thereafter Carrie and myself, found ourselves fighting Sozu Rogberry. The fight is relatively easy using Snarl, but as a word of warning to any other Beastmaster's out there that might be inclined to go and do this.. either reset your Tonberry hate or bring multiple jugs.

Near the end, Sozu Rogberry decided to Everyone's Grudge Carrie again and I nearly wasn't able to make her come back out when I tried to use Call Beast, but I had to wait a little while for her to cool off. Anyways, Sozu died, and I now have a Thief's Knife ready for my future Thief job ^_^)/





Later Daca and I decided we would go do some escort quests together, since quite frankly Beastmaster's are pretty awesome for that kind of things. On the way to pick up my quest in San d'Oria, I stumbled upon Lumbering Lambert walking around in the La Theine Plateau, as I was riding through on the Chocobo I had rented at the Crag. Wanting the horn it drops, I jumped off and quickly killed it together with my lovely Carrie.

This brought back memories of finding the Morbolger in Ordelle's Caves once, and getting the Morlbolger Vine drop. In fact I am getting quite close to being able to upgrade to a Black Belt now, and Monk is also a thing I have been thinking about getting up into the higher levels eventually.



While in San d'Oria however, we learned that Cerberus had popped and had been claimed by another linkshell who wiped, so we decided to put our escorts aside for another day and head to Mount Zhayolm instead, to try and help claim Cerberus if we got the chance. The linkshell that had wiped, ended up grabbing Cerberus again before we could get there however, and thus we spent the next two hours watching it's health slowly trickle downwards before they finally killed it.

Afterwards it was "late enough" to start farming in Sea, so we went up there and started off with the obligatory Ix'Aern (DRG) farm pop (we always do this one as we really needed the Deed for a month now). Afterwards a group of people went to try get the map for the Grand Palace of Hu'Xzoi and some others for organ farming. But then for some reason, it was suddenly decided out of the blue to go pop Jailer of Temperance instead of the scheduled Jailer of Prudence that we had cancelled (lack of people)! I was of course thrilled to hear this.. hehe.


It was ages since I had done Temperance (some years in fact), and it was really fun to go back and do it as a Beastmaster this time around. In the end, Carrie even delivered the killing blow! Good going, Carrie!

I am very happy over having finally gotten the Temperance Axe, as I had been passing it multiple times back in the days when I focused my time on playing as a Red Mage, and it has been agonizing me ever since I got Beastmaster to 75 and decided to turn that into my new main. The same goes for alot of equipment I want to be honest.




The rest of the night I spent getting a bit further on my Treasures of Aht Urhgan missions, and are now in need of a group to do ToAU 29..

...but then right before going to bed, I stumbled across something pretty awesome, and even for a pretty cheap price at that! Dusk Ledelsens +1, mine!

My haste setup has gotten a bit better with these new boots, and they weren't so hurtful on the wallet either. I believe this was quite possibly the best friday I have had in Final Fantasy XI for a very long time now.


Also, with the various gear I have been aquiring lately, I have been starting to feel the need of upgrading my inventory limit, with the two new Gobbiebag Part VII and VIII quests.

And since you can get the more expensive items of those two upgrade quests from a couple Wings of the Goddess quests, the following morning I travelled back into the past, for the second time since I got the new expansion.

After deciding I wanted to ally myself with the Bastok of the past as well (as I am allied with Bastok of the futu- err.. present as well), I proceeded to complete the intiation quests and recieved my commendatory Sprinter's Shoes and Bronze Ribbon of Service § medal. Remind me to do some Campaign Ops and battles from now on!


I then had travel to San d'Oria of the past, so I could actually do the two quests that rewarded the items needed for the gobbiebag upgrades. My travels took me through some familiar and also some new areas, including Jugner Forrest, Vunkerl Inlet and East Ronfaure, before I finally arrived in
Southern San d'Oria.


I did the first quests needed, and recieved my Deathstone. But at this point in time, it was getting near our evenings event with Chroma, so I had to wait with completing the following quests to aquire an Angelstone for the second upgrade. I did however travel back to the present, over to Jeuno and increased my gobbiebag limit to 65 slots!




This evenings event was to be the KS99, Early Bird Catches the Wyrm. Before entering, the people with Themis Orb's rolled, in wich I managed to get the second highest roll, meaning I would be the second person to go in. My gut was screaming a belt is going to drop.. but not on your orb `nyanya-njy-nya-nyah`!

Sadly, my gut is never wrong, and on my orb there were no Speed Belt and rather mediocre drops at that. But however..


..I was quite right about the feeling of someone else getting the Speed Belt drop though. Breemer was the lucky git this time, so congratulations on your new 20 million, Breemer! In total I think we ended up doing around 8 or 9 runs. Drops were decent for alot of people, some had totally horrible orbs, but eventually we got through them all.

To end the day, the Nyzul Isle Assault static did another run. This time with another guest and old friend of mine tagging along, Lordwafik. Our regular static Thief were still unable to log in, and so we required (ideally) another Thief to come with us.

On the first run we bumped into Taisaijin alot, and when I saw it cast Refresh on itself, I just had to take a picture as I found it rather funny..



..but other than that, there were no drops this evening. Probably since we did so well last wednesday. It has been such a great week thus far though, with some very nice upgrades for my Beastmaster. And I can't hide the fact that I am very happy about it as well ^_^)/



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