Been a bit since my last entry about the game so this may be pretty long(or I may just sum up everything and keep it short. We'll see.

Beyond: Left. Great shell, got some great items in my time there and liked most of the people. Unfortunately a rule change thread turned into a discussion about what I felt was an unfair item distribution(I would not have been allowed to lot the item in question). Two people left the shell(one was the recipient of the item and the other was his maybe-gf? Not even sure). I assumed this was due to their issues with me. This lead to a lot of unnecessary drama that ended in a leader calling me greedy and saying that I had gotten more than I deserved in the shell. They also said I was ungrateful which I found funny considering I thanked the shell here on my blog and on BG whenever I got an item.

In order to restore peace, move on, etc. I dropped my pearl. Well, the two people who left never returned and they took a full Ultima set with them. I'm still curious as to why they left. Both of them received great items in the shell and supposedly had no problems with the shell up until my comments in that thread.

I considered quitting since I never had anything to do on the game after leaving Beyond. I despise most of the people who do endgame on my server so joining a new shell wasn't really an option. This has more to do with the attitude of the shells they choose to associate themselves with more than anything though so this wouldn't really be different if I changed servers. A friend returned to the game and convinced me to stay until we could both play FFXIV though so crisis averted. I had already sold a good amount of my more expensive gear so I retired a few jobs and now stick to BLM, MNK and DRK for almost everything I do.

In order to fill some of my game time I rejoined Calm for Dynamis. They're a great shell who can clear zones and get gear for their members without being complete dicks about job assignments and lotting rules(oh hai DynamisBums!). We've done two Northland runs and a CoP zone since I rejoined recently. Beaucedine(sp) was a good run with us clearing everything in the zone aside from the boss and a bunch of hydras that were out of the way. Xarc was even better with RDM and BLM and many other AFs dropping for us before we killed DL and got Ring, Mantle and a 100 piece. Cop was stingy as always but we did get some good drops with NIN Hands -1 x2, MNK Hands -1, BRD Hands -1, BLU cape, RNG belt x2 and a DRK cape. I'm probably forgetting something from Bubu as well.

I'm making some great progress with Crafting. I got Smithing to 82 and am now working on some subs that I need for common GP items and money synths. Clothcraft is up first and is currently 50.6 of 60. Next will be Woodworking and then Bonecraft. After that will be Goldsmithing and Alchemy. Alchemy would be easier but I need to do GS asap anyways so I may just eat the losses and power it to 60 from 27. I got a little excited when I was finally able to make a Haub and decided to just sign an NQ for now(my goal is a signed HQ). It was a painful loss but it's cool to have my name on one of the best DD bodies for my main job.

With BLM as one of my three jobs I have been trying to get that mythical INT+6 weskit. So far I've gotten an INT+3 and too many resist augments to count(with a few MND+ here and there). I'm starting to wonder if they removed it completely since I haven't seen any INT weksits in the augment thread in a long time. I'll keep trying though. It's only a 10k loss per weskit and I make more than that farming tabs most of the time.

I am attempting to start a Nyzul Isle static from Floor 0(I'm on 45) in hopes that I can get it to 100. A few members of the group are inexperienced with Nyzul but hopefully I can lead them well enough that they can keep up. Our first run is tomorrow so wish me luck. I'm not hoping for 0-20 but hopefully we can clear 5-10.

Sorry for the tl;dr/omg too much text entry. I'll try to have more pictures next time!

Dynamis-Buburimu tonight...couldn't decide what to go for. Two DRKs who were way ahead of me were going for Abyss Cape and someone was going for Wyrm Belt. I settled on Wyrm Belt since it dropped a lot in my old shell. Damn thing didn't drop once tonight. Only one Abyss Cape dropped too. But wait! Two Melee Capes dropped. One person was main-lotting it so they got the first but the second was up for grabs!



Awesome! Now to hope I don't get out-lotted...



All right! Now this is all mine:



Not on-par with the DRK Cape but still very nice. More VIT for Chakra and more MND for Chi Blasting. Not bad at all.

Our total drops were:

BLM Belt
RNG Belt
MNK Cape x2
DRK Cape
RDM Belt x2
BLU Hands -1

Gogo Calm.