Fighter's Mask

Black Mage:56 White Mage:51 Warrior:56 Thief:65

Yes it is. It's time to not mess with me cuz I got my Fighter's Mask and my Great Sword and I as my WAR have been lookin about as pimped out as I ever have. I think often of the many things I have left to do with WAR but since he is pretty good in his current gear, I try not to bring him out too often unless there is like a skill up party or something. He still has to get his AF feet.

His Archery is maxed tho so if I do bring him out and he starts to pull, I am going to use my Crossbow since it is just slightly below max at his level. His Axe and Gax skills still need serious work though but I am not in a hurry really.

I was partying with Tiduss from my Nobodyzangel ls and saw her using her GSD ws Spinning Slash for like 1k damage! Too cool. Man, I can't wait til I get to like 67 with my WAR which is probably when I will get it. That reminds me that I need to get some Skillchain charts from somewhere. I still have to use my funky old Brady Guide to look up skillchains and most of the higher level ones aren't in there.

The other day I was leading a party with my THF with Tiduss as my DRK and I had to tell her to use friggin po dunk Power Slash so the BLM could MB with a high level spell on Distortion. She wasn't happy. I couldn't find a decent skillchain and we spent at least 30 minutes screwin around trying to find one. Ughhh! I was so embarassed to be leader. At the time we were in Boyhada Tree killing Processionaires. Tiduss wasn't helping though. Before I invited her I asked her to sub-WAR and she says "Aww I do more dmg as DRK/THF with SATA." Well, um, first-voke [Can I have it?].

So, I let her go(btw,I'm not mean), and she tried to first voke using spells and it was just a mess for a while. Stun doesn't turn the mob so even though Tiduss has hate, it is still and not facing her, so as soon as the spell wears off, in like 3 seconds, it turns again to face her, which makes SATA for me impossible to pull of in a timely manner. Then the NIN just straight up starts to first voke without letting her use her spells to voke. Then the BLM starts straight up nukin like he's playing cards or something. Even the WHM ceases to Haste me like she was doing earlier. The whole party seems to fall apart and it probably has something to do with me. I start to blame Tiduss but know that if I would have had a skillchain chart right at the beginning we wouldn't have wallowing around in the mud for so long.

Well that's when I start to get creative on when to skillchain. I ask her to start doing it at start and it started(O.o) working great cuz getting the NIN to second voke was like talking to a wall. Then I told BLM to hold off on nukin till sc. He said that that was too long since we were basically starting the sc from scratch. I told him that I wasn't SATAing tho and eventually he agreed. He was like a rare-breed Rank 10. He listened and that helped out a WHOLE lot. The strategy was working. NIN would engage the mob and actually kept hate while me and the DRK quickly got our TP up to 100% which was easy cuz we were both using food. Then the DRK would start the skillchain with SATA Power Slash for 400 then I would hit mob with SATA Dancing Edge for 700, and then the BLM would MB with Blizzard III for another 700 and the RDM would MB with Blizzard II for 300 dmg. A ton of damage! The mob was almost dead at that point and BLM was free to finish it off all he wanted with the stack of hate I planted on the NIN. We were doin chain 4s and mobs were dying in like 2 minutes or less. We were on our way to 5 or 6k exp per hour. It was glorious. It was SO coming together.

Then I asked the WHM to Haste. Nuff said, end of party... harsh.