EVENT: 4/1/2006 {ZM Sky Raid}

[Haushinka]

Saturday 4/1 we will be completing the ZMs for those members that had previosly started them.

We will be thatering together in Jeuno at 10am EST and fighting through all of the ZMs until 13 is complete and we have sky access.

The people that need it are:
Paman
Vilicant
Guenhwyvara
Gingerfish
Haushinka

Please free up the whole day as this will take a while and will be a lot of hard work.

[Haushinka]

We sucessfully obtained sky access for:
Guenhwyvara
Paman
Haushinka
Gingerfish

Congradulations to everyone and a special thanks to Mystral who helped us through ZM6-8.

The whole event went pretty smoothly save for a monor hiccup in Ifrits Culdron where death visited us more than once. This is also where we lost vilicant >.<

This is something that we can do again once more people get to Rank 6 with their nation. All together it isn't very difficult, it would just be eassier to do in parts instead of all at once.

Everyone please email me your pictures from this event. I'm especially interested in any pictures from us fighting that crazy PLD guy!

Event start time: 10:00am EST
Event end time: 11:00pm EST
Total event time: 13 hours with about 3 hours of breaks in between total.

[Haushinka]

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[Paman]

this has most definately been one of my best weekends playing FFXI. i've completed so much and i owe it all to this wonderful Linkshell

here are a few pics of the event that i took. unfortunately i didnt get any good shots of Kam'lanaut since i was busy trying to back us up.

enjoy

[Paman]

haus you requested a pic of kam'lanaut... here is one i made with model viewer

[raneman]

;)Congrats to everybody that got it and welcome to sky

[Mystryl]

YAYZ!!!!!!!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS ALL!!!!!!!!

Tu'Lia is so pretty place ; ; I remember my first time entering Ru'Aun Gardens.... The tears of joy brimming my eyes and clouding my vision inspired me to write a poem to one of my friends, through the quick message function. I wish I'd written it down on a piece of paper so I could post it here ^^;

Accomplishments like these feels so amazing and doing it alongside dear friends is what makes it all wortwhile.

I'm glad I could be of some assistance even though I was dead tired at that point^^

[Vilicant]

congratulations guys, i wish i could have stayed for the whole thing, how long did it take after i had to go, im curious cuz now i gotta do it with shouts in jeuno lol, well...congratulations once again

[Paman]

you know imo ZM5 was really overrated... it was really easy. just the 4 or 5 of us could have killed all of them no problem. btw vili after you left we still struggled for over an hour in ifrit's cauldron trying to get to yuhtunga jungle. once we got there it was childs play. we took a few hours break after ZM5 and after that did ZM6 in quicksand caves. Myst was really helpful and joined us in the BCNM. he also helped us with ZM8 in delkfutt's tower. that fight was a bit tougher, i think a secodn tank would have made it a little bit easier. finally we won that BCNM, even though haus and guen went down (guen got raised and finished the boss). Myst logged out as soon as we came out, he was really tired as he just said himself. next we had to do a lot of travelling, took us a good while before we were ready to fight the last fight before tu'lia access. back to quicksand caves and pop the NM magic pot, it was really easy though some people said we needed stunners. he got haus down to prob 100 hp once but other than that he was [too weak]. all that was left now was a few cut scenes. at the end we gathered together at the hall of gods and entered tu'lia together. we took a few pics (as you can see above) and then went our own ways.

all in all i think it took a good 1hr+ for each mission, so maybe a good 5-6 hours for the missions (ZM5, 6, 8, cutscenes and 12) plus 3 hours in breaks.

*pant pant* sorry for the wall of text

[Haushinka]

Thanks for the pics Paman, and thank you again Myst for helping out.

I think the most over rated part of this fight was the ZM5 Fetid Flesh fight. We brought along two BLM with us because the guides suggested he was weak to magic. Well I ended up doing move damage than both of the blm combined as PLD and guen did 55% of the parties damage. He did over 10k damage total. This could have easily been done with the 5 of us.

Ifrits Culdron was without a doubt the hardest part. Everytime we turned around someone was dead. In the end we escaped back out and went in again. After this it went a little smother. I had run up ahead at one point and was waiting at the last 2 flame spouts for everyone and was lucky enough to run back in time to save the party from another death. It looked like death was likely to happen.

The BCNM fights were simple with Myst there. The first required sleeping three mobs and wouldn't have been possible without Myst. THe second was still a tough fight even without Myst and I don't think could be done without 5 poeple. As Paman mentioned an additional tank would be helpful. The party that fought him before us had both a PLD and a NIN for him. He is in general easy except for one TP attack that does about 900dmg a hit.

I went /nin for the whole ZM run and found that to be very helpful. With Vili gone I needed to make up extra DD and I was able to hit harder with /nin. One thing I really need is a Joyeuse. I would be so much tougher with a Company Sword in one hand and a Joyeuse in the off hand.

No problem about the wall of text Paman, this thread will be used in the future by us to determine what we need to do these missions again. Even as it feels a relief to have these finally complete, I know that others in the linkshell still need them. Many of them are still Rank 5 and will need 5-1 out of the way before we can begin helping them.

In the future I'd like to work on the ZM missions slowly so that we don't need to just make an entire day of them.We could take a slower more relaxed pace to sky for those that can afford the slower pace.

[Vilicant]

so haus, do u think that i can just do shouts in jeuno and ask for people for ZM5 or wait for everyone else to get their mission 5-1 and ZM4 done?

[Haushinka]

You can try shouting but I tried that to get extra people and didn't have much luck on the ZMs shouting. It will prob be a good ammount of time before we do these runs again. It would be good if you can get them done some how.