I finished off the Rank 9-1 and 9-2 missions today, completing not only Bastok's storyline, but all the starting nations of Vana'diel's stories. While the nation missions past Rank 6 were never anything amazing, I do feel that Bastok's story was the weakest of the three. It involved lots of emo galkas and a very underwhelming final boss. Zeid was angry at Volker because his uncle killed a galka thirty years ago, challenged him to a fight, and when he lost all was right somehow as long as he learned the meaning of friendship with his Mythril Musketeers. On a more interesting note, I used Zeid II trust companion from the Rhapsodies of Vana'diel storyline in the fight with Zeid. In the end, Zeid was guaranteed to win.
Zeid on Zeid violence.
I had been having trouble killing things quickly playing on WHM. With trusts that can heal, it felt a bit of a waste to play WHM in a non-party setting. So I went ahead and leveled my black mage up to 99, and used that to plow through the missions. I completed the Bastok missions with BLM, and have been using it on Wings of the Goddess as well. I am roughly halfway done with WotG now, and have been pleased with how the story is finally starting to pick up, and not just seem like a bunch of fetch quests and cameos of future important figures.
DINB!
Killing mandys in a jungle setting brings back fond memories of xp parties in Kazham and Yuhtunga Jungle. Ceizark Battlegrounds is a beautiful place when you stay near the beaches.
Not everything has been done on BLM lately. I attended a mini-LS event on WHM to kill some anticas for a SCNM. While doing so, I accidently stumbled my way into a Moogle Kupo d'Etat mission I had not completed there, and we ended up fighting a famous cat burrrglerrr and her goblin lackeys.
"meOW!!!"
I picked up some eminent weapons with sparks from Records of Eminence, and they are a godsend for skilling up underleveled combat skills. I took out an eminent scythe and was able to hit things that were lvl 100 reliably even though my native skill was merely 61 (when I started, its 100+ now). It made me want to start a melee character up. I have always toyed with the idea of playing one, I just never quite settled into which one I wanted to devote time to: PLD, DRK, DRG, or SAM. I am leaning towards PLD or DRK at the moment, but we will see how I feel when the urge to level a lowbie class comes along.
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