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Adventuring

We had to fight a desert manticore.

has been sporadic at best. Neyla and I have popped on after work a few times to burn through some Fields of Valor pages, but that's it. Today was our first full day of gaming in weeks, and it felt pretty good to be able to cut loose and kill stuff without having to worry about sleeping or getting ready to go to work.

We were at Lv. 44 on our Warriors when we started, this time crossing over to the Western Altepa Desert do tackle the first page. We had to kill seven Desert Spiders and three Antican Essedarii, which are Ranger-type monsters. It wasn't too bad, although the spider poison was a little more potent than the eastern variety.

We did three rounds of that before hitting the necropolis for the escort, and then returned to the Eastern Altepa Desert to try Page 4 of the Field Manual. We had to kill five Antican Decuriones (Paladin), two Antican Saggitarii (Ranger), two Antican Speculators (Black Mage), and the pièce de résistance, a Lesser Manticore. Those were trickier because they hit harder and because there were undead and goblins roaming all over the place. I thought the Decurio ants would be a big hassle, but they hit like infants.

"The next set of jobs we get in this range," Neyla added as we were dodging mobs, "we're going to level somewhere else."

I agreed. The desert has provided a lot XP lately, but I've spent so much time there I'm ready to turn Fremen and start worshipping Shai-Hulud.

Neyla

Death Scissors sucks even at lower levels.

was using an Empress Band for the workout, but I used my Anniversary Ring. I'd just learned the moogle in Windurst was giving out fresh ones, and I still had two charges on last year's ring to burn through. As a result, I got ahead of Neyla pretty fast. He's probably going to stop working on Warrior when he hits 50, but I'll probably keep leveling it while teamed with his Ranger. I'm tempted to try leveling Dancer or Puppetmaster again.

Speaking of Anniversary Rings, the moogle relayed some gaming stats before he forked it over:

Chat Frequency: 298,611
Conversations with NPCs: 76,127
Parties Joined: 2,127
Alliances Joined: 266
Battles Fought: 52,427
Number of Times KO'd: 931
Enemies Defeated: 29,668
GM Calls Made: 2