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| Cernunnos hits hard. |
spent the weekend at my parents' house, hanging out and sleeping and not doing much of anything except going to my sister's house for dinner on Saturday. When I got home this afternoon, I logged on to flag the escort and try to knock out some Campaign Ops before Neyla came on.
We hit the Necropolis and earned our scroll, but we stuck around to farm a coffer key down below. The undead were stubborn as hell, and an hour or so of monk-on-bones violence did little to change their disposition. We called our NPCs twice -- I wanted the protective buffs -- and eventually had to leave for a fight Neyla had scheduled.
He'd been talking to a tarutaru named Rari about the
Wings of the Goddess mission we're on, "Daughter of a Knight." We'd done all the running around and watched the cutscenes, but we needed more people to fight the NM treant Cernunnos in Jugner Forest. Rari had a Corsair friend named Aviana who needed it as well, and Aviana brought a Dragoon named Thereaver. The odds looked pretty good.
Neyla and I went as Beastmaster/Ninjas, since I wasn't about to try blink-tanking it as Monk and he didn't want to try it as Paladin. Naturally, we were the only ones to get through the fight without taking serious injury because we could use Snarl and transfer our enmity to our crabs. Cernunnos is a
prick, and he one-shot Rari and then killed Aviana for using Slug Shot. We killed it and got our key items.
Well, you can't argue with decent group chemistry. We decided to push on and try the next fight. We had a little running around to do for cutscenes. I had no idea you could use NPCs in other nations to transport you to all the Campaign battlefields, since the only NPC I'd ever spoken to teleported me directly back to Windurst. I ended up hopscotching around while everyone else was getting shot directly the North Gustaberg [S] from South San d'Oria [S].
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| One-Eyed Gwajboj hurt me. |
Battle for Jeuno was actually pretty sweet. You go in and fight beside a few NPCs from the different nations. They fan out to kill beastmen, and eventually they meet to battle One-Eyed Gwajboj in the middle. Neyla and I, on our respective Red Mage and Monk jobs, were tasked with babysitting Zazarg. It felt a little like Besieged, since I'd always stick with him. We took out an initial cluster of quadav and then moved on to another group, but I jumped in too quickly and they killed me. Neyla was forced to 2-hour to try to keep me alive. I popped back up when Gwajboj arrived and started hitting him in my weakened state; he spams Battle Dance, but players aren't affected if the NPCs have hate. Unfortunately, we lost.
We had time for another round, and that time was much better. I held myself back a little on the second wave to make sure Zazarg had the quadavs' attention, and so I was free to punch Gwajboj with full force when he appeared. I was the only player who hadn't blown my 2-hour in the last fight, so I used Hundred Fists to speed up his death.
We received Jeuno banners to hang in our moghouses for saving the city. We're now completely caught up until the next round of quests and missions are released in the impending update.
