Valley of Sorrows

Black Mage:56 White Mage:51 Warrior:55 Thief:57

Here is me in my THF gear. I had a great time yesterday with my THF leveling in the Valley of Sorrows for the first time. I got an invite from Spyke and left Qufim as I was out there again just about to pull out my NPC and hunt giants.

We had so far a WHM PLD THF and DRK and were having trouble getting 2 more mages. They, the WHM and PLD, said this would be ideal but the problem, after 45min of waiting, was there weren't any. Well what did pop up was another WHM and while thinking about it, that WHM got invited to another party. So we continue waiting. Then, another WHM pops up. (Trust me this usually only happens in the movies) And then, a DRK pops also. Well we think it won't work but I start asking what we will be hunting in the Valley of Sorrows and they say Velociraptors. I ask if they have buffs and they say no but they have naturally high evasion. So it occurs to me that with no buffs and 2 DRKs with good accuracy we should be ok esp with an extra WHM. Then it occurs to the PLD that both WHMs make for keeping Haste on everybody so we invite them and we're off.

It was totally not working at first cuz the DRK would first voke and the PLD would line up but as usual I would have to pass them and line up behind the PLD. So then I told them my theory of putting the Drk in front of the PLD and it started to come together. One time I blew it though cuz I forgot to SATA before the pull and I ran up behind the PLD and no SATA and boy was that a mess. No exp chain and everybody starts thinking that it won't work.

But then it DID start to work and we got chain 2s and then chain 3s and pretty much perfected our party and got about 3k in exp I think. Not bad, and I totally had fun visiting the new area.

One time I pulled past a Peryton but it aggroed me and I died. It was going fine until another party arrived and started pulling the same mobs as us. We ran low on mobs so I had to go past the Peryton. I don't know if we could have taken on the Peryton but the other party that was there did and survived so I can't see that we would have done that much worse. It's ok though they totally felt bad about it but even for our last fight, using our 2hrs, they didn't want to try.

Ah well. I hope my Greatsword sells before someone buys the other GSD I need for my WAR. I am not going to level him for a while and will concentrate on THF til 60 I think. I probably should level my BLM up to my THFs level but I dunno.