The Fortification Nerf

The

Neyla and I took the bones while Shmedley tanked the Weapon.

latest update had an unfortunate effect on Campaign: attacking the Fortification now gives a paltry amount of XP. A typical round of punches would bring in at least 1-2k, but now it's more like 80. Ugh. I understood it when they nerfed the /BRD song spam because those leeches weren't contributing to the fight, but now they've taken away any incentive I had to punch a fort. When that part of the battle comes along, I'll leave and look for mobs elsewhere.

I don't think the mobs are giving as much XP, either. It's harder to tell, since the fights tended to be kind of short today.

We finally left Campaign and decided to retire our Delkfutt Keys by getting the new key item replacement. We anticipated having to ride up to the top and killing the gigas NM all over again, but we only had to unlock the door and walk through. Handy, if a bit disappointing.

We ended up climbing the tower anyway to do Neyla's AF fight for Dark Knight. Shmedley came along, since there are three mobs and it seemed best to split them up. He fought the Gerwitz's Scythe weapon while Neyla and I fought the Scythe Victim skeletons. It was an easy fight. We had a harder time just getting back down to the first floor, ha-ha.

Goblin Belt

I started my day by watching the big battle cutscene at Fort Karugo-Narugo for the latest Windurst mission and was immediately blown away. Seeing a mithra with a handful of grenades going after a bunch of demons is awesome to say the least. I'm now ready for the big fight against the demons and ahriman when we can get some people together.

Windurst

Neyla and I killed Ranger goblins in Rolanberry Fields and Batallia Downs.

lost control of most of the past zones, so I did my Campaign Ops as Warrior by setting off bombs at the tower in Sarutabaruta. Between that and the escort, I dinged 38. Neyla hit 40 on Warrior when he used his escort scroll, so we'll probably start duoing some levels in the next week or two.

With the escort out of the way, we started farming for the Goblin Mess Tin. I can see why he was getting so frustrated on Friday. There's a lot of running around to get from one spawn to the other. We ran from one end of Rolanberry Fields [S] to the other with no luck and switched to Batallia Downs [S]. There were more goblins and they were clustered a little closer together, but it was still annoying. Add to the mix another duo who was killing every goblin in sight, and it was easy to get fed up with the entire mess.

We finally retreated to Jeuno and bought the damned things.

Bastok's storyline is the one with the least emotional resonance for me, but I like the reward from the new "Quelling the Storm" quest. It's a Goblin Belt that gives you a goblin costume. I love stuff like that. It's too much to hope they'd give us a Yagudo Belt at some point. The quest involved a lot of running around Vunkerl, but it was more time-consuming than dangerous. Again, I'm ready for the fight when we can get some people together.