Iron Musketeer's last day

Black Mage:55 White Mage:51 Warrior:54 Thief:57


This is what I used to look like in my Iron Musketeers gear but now it's a done deal. I have sold it off to get money for my next piece of body armor.

Here in this picture, I am skilling up Great Axe with a linkshell pal of mine Angelsoul who was a NIN/WAR. I went as a WAR/WHM which came in really handy for both of us in this situation. I was surprised as to how much fun I had just skilling up. More on that later.

Anyways, no more IM gear. I have sold off the IM Cuirass and Armet. There is no turning back now. And incidentally, I was able to buy the Royal Knight's Chainmail! Yay. Only 170k. Boo. But oh well at least it will look killer on me. Too bad Im still level 54 and need to be 55 to wear it. What won't be so killer is when I have to tell everyone, that I don't have Rampage(Axe weaponskill) cuz I never leveled my axe skill. Even my AF Weapon, the Razor Axe, would at least give me the opportunity to skill up a bit but I was unsuccessful in getting that quest done. Oh well.

At least I am sure now that I can gain TP with the best of em. In Kuftal I was out TPing the THF even, but this was before he started eating sushi, heh. More importantly, at 55 I can use my Lightning Bow +1(DEX+3) and Army's Mantle(DEX+2) to boost my accuracy quite a ways. In fact, I may invest in some Meat Miths just to see, if I don't really need the boost, I can switch to dealing more damage with higher STR, as long as I have TP once a fight for the skillchain(sc).

I helped this guy with a quest this week and he has agreed to help me with my AF fight. I was doing some farming for bats and such in Rolanberry and he sends me a /tell that he needs help with a quest. Since when I tried to get help in Davoi with my AF weapon and just needed 2 people to fight for about 3min and go and they wouldn't, I decided to help him. It didn't take too long after we found the spot where he needed to fight. I hope I can find him online when I try to do the quest. He says he has a 67 BLM named Dragonsmight.

I just love my Greatsword, btw. Too bad its time to trade it in and the new one costs like an extra 100k.

I was able to skill up my Great Axe quite a bit. Though it needs to be at 166 like my GSD, it is only up to 86. Skilling up was a load of fun and with the NIN/WAR there we were able to get about 30 exp per mob. Not bad. We got bunches of skill ups and exp and had a good time. The only downside? It was like 5am before we realized we probably should quit. A THF in our linkshell came by and skilled up his Hand-to-Hand also that day. His name is Aust.

I am still quite a ways from having the GAX skill totally leveled however and it will take a LOT to catch it up I think. What is my Axe skill? Zippo!