Tentacle Rape and Scorpions (Also, a Scholar update!)

Catchy and disturbing enough title?

(It's probably only funny if you played FF6, called FF3 in the US)

Oops LS did a run of Dynamis - Valkurm on Tuesday and, like leveling a job through Valkurm Dunes, it was pretty painful. First, a Funguar NM named Fairy Ring gangraped us, then we went to do the Mega Boss. A tentacley Morbol NM with an unspellable name.


I think it went pretty well. You can see the Manticores and Goblins that somebody ran off and aggroed in the second shot that helped the Mega Boss finish us off somewhat.

I Homepointed, and decided to go see how the notorious Gnats are for Black Mage solo EXP. In my thirty minutes wandering around Meriphataud Mountains [S], I found some pretty gold Scorpions.

Interesting Fact: Blizzard IV does the same thing to gold scorpions that it does to the regular kind. It makes them look sad and die. :-(

So, I found some VT Gnats by the barricaded entrance to Castle Oztroja. And lots of VT Yagudos as well. I wandered around some more, and found an abundance of Gnats in the Southeastern corner of the place. So as it turns out, Gnats are largely immune to Dark and Wind elemental magic. So, two Sleeps and Gravity resisted, and my Gnat killing dreams evaporated pretty quickly. I had brought a Reraise Scroll, so I just went to Mount Z to slaughter some Ebony Puddings instead.

Dynamis - Beaucedine

We did a farming run of Beauc last night. A DRG body nobody wanted dropped, then much later a Summoner's Doublet that went to Drue, and right after that a 100 Byne Bill dropped.

No pics, but it went pretty well and due to apparently missing a time Statue, ended in less time than usual too.

I has Book.

I've been leveling Scholar some more, and only need about 7,000 EXP to get it to level 37.

Which is probably where it'll stay for a while. Until after SE updates it adding AF and hopefully some additional spells. And until after I get around to leveling Leathercraft some more to make myself some signed Desert Boots.

I could probably take care of that second part now as nobody has invited me to party in over an hour.