Slowing down.

I have nothing quite as epic to post this time around (really, how can you get much more epic than Omega/Ultima anyway on a regular basis), but it has still been a productive month.

I have been lvling SCH (slowly) and am sitting at 67 at the moment. While in Xarcabard doing some Fields of Valor with Thayos, I got a strange cutscene with Prof. Schultz in it, inviting me to bring him a testimony to finally prove my worth to him. Once I get 70+, I will farm one of them and fight him, just for completion's sake. It will not get me anything special, it does not even count towards a Maat's Cap, but I pursue story more than gear, so I will need to finish this final fight to prove to myself that I am a scholar worth my AF.

I have also been running through a few new assaults. I am happy to try out a few new ones, getting my static past the first two tiers that I feel I have spammed far too many times. We tried our first Superior Private missions today. Our first run went really well considering it was just two DDs and two WHMs. We got down to the last three trolls in Lebros Cavern. We went back to Whitegate and shouted for two more to join, and completed it with around eight minutes remaining. Piece of cake.

Even more noteworthy, I finally achieved a full 2o,ooo points in Leujaoam Sanctum. I picked up my Yigit Seraweels just a few days ago. Of course I was happy (I salivate over anything that contains MP+ while healing), so I took a shot of myself right outside the Imperial Palace wearing them. They look odd after getting so used to the Noble's/Blessed combo I am usually in, but I still love the look of them. And the hMP! =D

We also did the impossible (or at least improbable) a second time this week. Imperium stepped up one more time to face Omega and Ultima in the skies above Sealion's Den and Lufaise Meadows. Once again, we triumphed over them, though this time was a lot closer than the previous run. We began wiping so very close to the end of the battle. At the very end, everyone had died and was reraised except myself and one melee, when Ultima turned its attention towards me. I targetted it, saw it had only 01% life left, and began a desperate cast. I never finished. Ultima hit me the moment Verrick came to his feet and chainspelled it. Verrick's nuke landed the moment Ultima's hit did, so we died together. The funny thing was, I never feel to my feet. My HP was 0, my bar was depleted, yet I stayed on my feet for that short lag time between killing the boss and when the cutscene begins. Comedy.

I did another Dynamis run with TeamSuicide. This one went a lot better. I was able to follow people easier and it was less an all out zerg then the past one. I managed to snag a Cleric's Cap on my second run. Plus getting the win is good as well. Perhaps Dynamis is not as bad as I thought (I was also not the only WHM this time around either). After only two Dyna runs and an Einherjar, I can say I like the LS. They are not what I expected an endgame shell to be at all.