The way of Samurai – Part 1

So…

Yesterday has been a great day. I was resting for the first time at La Theine Plateau, soloing, when I received a /tell asking me to party at Dunes.

A quick /sea teaches me the guy is Rank 8, Paladin at the same level as me and leveled sub (don’t forget we’re talking about the Dunes) so I gave it a try.

Best move of the day.

Party setup was: PLD SAM PUP WAR RDM BRD

+ a RDM Power Leveler.

 I loved being the one who pulls hate only by his DoT, who has to pop Third Eye before every WeaponSkill because it WILL pull hate – if my Elvaan Accuracy allows it… That’s some fresh air!

We averaged 7-7,5k exp/hour and I went from 14 to 19 in a single evening, and capped my Great Katana skill at the same time.

So, it will soon be time to camp Valkurm Emperor… I’m not looking forward, trust me.

After this infamous 0/11 on Leaping Lizzy, who can pop twice within a hour, I can already feel the pain… Maybe I should try to hire some THF from the LS, or sacrifice 7 virgin Mithras at the top of Ro’Maeve at Midnight a Full Moon day, while touching Ebon Panels with my Justice Sword…?

Who knows…. I might need this kind of stuff to un-curse me…

Some News, and the way of Samurai

Wow, 4 months… I’m getting better at this game…

OK, so what happened since then?

Ohhhhhh, several things Ma’am!

Looking at the pic of my gear in the previous post, I can tell you there have been some adjustments…

Homam Cosciales – Homam Gambieras – Homam Zucchetto… yeah I know, Zucchetto… and Justice Sword.  My DD gear is kinda good now…

I also upgraded to Gallant Surcoat +1 and sold Adaman, since Xarcabard refuses to give me a nice Valor Surcoat…

Dynamis Xarcabard… We finally defeated Dynamis Lord, at our 2nd attempt… It still takes us too much time to sort PTs before him, but we should soon be able to get him down and continue to farm the zone…

On the news side, we also defeated Jormungand, to Kyata‘s great sadness since he couldn’t be there. That’s my revenge for Proto-Ultima, Taru!!!!

As you can see, Cetra is going well, we know have a big roster (40ppl yesterday at Kirin, I expect roughly the same number at Dynamis-Windy today…), we’re having fun and we are quite successful so far…

Now, my new love: Samurai.

I’ve always been attracted by this job, and I finally unlocked it last week. This is official, SAM will be my next 75. For the moment, I solo as SAM/WHM, eating Rolandberry Pies. Mobs die fast enough, and my Parrying skill is good enough too to make this combo efficient for the moment. This is relaxing, and I net 3k – 3,5k exp solo at lvl14, it could be far worst at Valkurm Dunes…

Special thanks to Tilion who loaned me his Leaping Boots!

Leaping Lizzy didn’t drop for me in… 8, 9 claims over a week-end? So we went to a BC run with Seedz and Tilion (and Pindaro a bit later), and Boots dropped at our first orb. Nothing the 5 next….

So let’s summarize what gear to camp and jobs to have to pimp my SAM:

Gear pre-50:

• Katayama Ichimonji, lvl10 GKatana
• Bounding / Leaping Boots (Thanks Tilion!)
• Empress / Emperor Hairpin
• Ochimusha / Ochiudo’s Kote
• Sarutobi / Fuma Kyahan
• Jujitsu Gi
• Subs: DRG – THF – RNG

Please note that all the equipements I have to camp are awfully famous for their crappy drop rate… But I will camp them with Kirst, since she wills to level her SAM too! This will be pleasent (and even better if we get our drops quickly lol).

And I’m crying in anticipation to level both THF and DRG to 37… Both can be asked in EXP.. But well I’ll need these for End-Game anyway so…

Next target: Empress Hairpin.

I need as many Accuracy as I can with my stupid Elvaan DEX, and this piece will be sexy at lvl. 24… I don’t want to be one of these STR-only SAMs who hit like a truck as often as Georges W. Bush receives a Peace or Physics Noble Price…

I’ll try to keep this up to date, with my recent claims, my undoubtful whinings about drop rates needing an adjustment, bla bla bla…