Recently we’ve been having a ball in our Salvage group. We completed 4 pieces in Monday’s run… Mart’s tiara, Eiden’s Skadi feet, Ure’s Usu body (FINALLY!) and…. my Marduk Hands! Making me 15/15 and now 5/5 on my Marduk’s Jubbah set!
Yay for the best Salvage friends in the world!
Completed Marduk Set
Right, I’m trying to find things to do which aren’t ALL Abyssea. This is almost impossible. I’ve been using SMN a lot recently, especially for small pet groups. It’s a lot of fun. I have the caller’s pendant from the Iron Giant and have really been enjoying putting my gear to good use. SMN was the second job I levelled but got outstripped by BLM and BRD in terms of usefulness. Now it has a role again. Encouraged somewhat by Kendamarr and the whole PUP/BST/SMN army we have now. Everyone is levelling a pet job… Read More…
I’m not complaining. I’m both happy and frustrated. I love that frankly Salvage has been awesome for me however I do not love that we really, really need 3+ pairs of Usukane feet, an Usukane head, some Usu hands and various bits of Skadi. Is it awesome that through 4 different salvage groups I now have 13/15 parts of the Marduk set? Yes. However it’s getting a bit stupid that we cannot get melee 35s for love nor money. We’ve seen.. 3? Now realise we only go reliably twice a week (although some of us did some extra pickup runs with a friend in the autumn resulting in more 35 mage pieces). However today we went 1/3 on Marduk head 35. Awesome. Except that we have done a Bhaflau run pretty much every week since I don’t know when and seen one usu feet and one skadi mask. We’re talking about since August. We’ve had one skadi feet, one usu feet completed. BA got his Usu legs 35 but quit the game. We’ve killed a lot of rats, gears, ramparts, chariots and bugs. Yes, we should go more often. But please, for the love of Altana, drop something else someone else wants… One pair of skadi feet, one pair of Usu feet and one Usu head is not fair. Yes, the marduk head is great for my SMN and BRD and useful for WHM. However in many ways I wish we’d seen almost anything but…
Enlill's Tiara
I’m scrabbling around putting money together for the o ingots. This is so that when the 25 drops, I can upgrade fast. I have 5 ingot already, with the money for 2 more and enough stuff on sale to fun at least one more. I am doing the signature collecting quest in the past for another and dyn gil will pay for yet more. That leaves me having to find enough gil for two more. Which shouldn’t be too bad at all. At this rate I will seriously have to consider upgrading the body. Even though on some levels its stupid.
Maybe I should only take WHM, BRD and SMN beyond 75… despite all the work I’ve done on BLM. I think SE is trying to tell me something.
Tonight in Salvage, we ran Arrapago. It was a good run. We took Niamh, Bergi, KD, Pharm, Stunmonk and of course Mart and me. No Ares body 35 as usual but went up to the Boss and finally got around to killing him. We just hadn’t bothered before to be honest. He’s a really easy kill… and I’ve actually as a result completed 1/3 quests towards Yagrush without actually trying. I doubt I will try if I’m honest, I can’t see me raising 90-120m ever, but still nice to tick off.
Ea's Doublet
The result was that we got a bunch of the usual 15s and a couple of 25s. One was ares (feet?) and the other was the marduk body 25. Which actually makes me 3/3 on the Marduk Jubbah pieces. Of course now… I’d need 14m or so to upgrade it. I could cut down the cost by spamming ISNM etc but is it really worth it…? I love how the piece looks but that’s a lot of work and part of me wonders if it’s really worth it. I play WHM and BLM most and Morrigan’s body would make more sense. Except now these pieces have fallen into my lap…
