Roc Stars

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Roc takes a beating.

vaguely seem to recall a time when Roc was a regularly-hunted HNM on our server. I remember being dragged out to Sauromugue Champaign during my failed membership in Notorious Hunters and standing around with my thumb up my tarutaru ass while another linkshell claimed and killed it. Oh, the excitement! Now that Roc has been stripped of its Healing Staff and the gil it could bring in, the great bird can barely get arrested.

Neyla and I were back on the Campaign trail today, mostly focusing on Windurst areas and making trips to the Necropolis. The latter area is hit-or-miss, because at one point we were fighting -- or rather, whacking ineffectually at -- a gnole that was healing much faster than we were damaging.

By far the worst experience was in Garlaige Citadel, but only because we couldn't find the fucking NPC to start the battle. We know where it's located when Windurst controls the region, but the prick was hidden away in a storeroom this week. On the positive side, we were able to kill a steady stream of imps for impressive numbers with minimal effort. I could get used to that.

While we were doing that, Khrystal sent out a message over the linkshell asking if we wanted to help kill Roc. I missed the first message because I was making a sandwich, but I wasn't too excited when I read the follow-up invite. I was ready to log out and didn't feel like getting involved... but I did.

Khrystal was trying to duo Roc at first, but there were five of them teamed up and mostly dead when Neyla and I emerged from the Citadel. They seemed a little low on firepower. One had to leave because he'd deleveled and lost the ability to equip his sword. We partied up and killed it. The Dryad Staff didn't drop; I wouldn't mind having one for those rare times I'm on White Mage, but I would've passed anyway when there are others who could make more use of it.