“POP!!!! Upper middle!!!” I yelled as I was running towards the spot, Arkades sticking right on my tail.
“I’m your glue.” He said when we first arrived tonight, for my 4th hunt on this NM. He had to stick near me, to let me track the bastard, and to keep me alive.Other friends are all spread out, because we have competitors this time. One of them was the Thief who kindly offered help on last hunt. But today his SMN friend is back into the claim war battlefield, so we had to compete.
As I ran through the Weapons around the area, I stopped to cancel my wearing Sneak and popped a bottle of Silent Oil.
So we followed my compass there. Other players were near there too, but it seemed that no on knew yet that the Shiki was right there on the stairs. I glanced around quickly to see the distance between me and other Weapons. Clean pull was not possible….
I was too nervous and panicked, so I rushed to cast my spell to aggro the NM without telling Ark first that it was RIGHT THERE.
1st mistake. Duh!
No that wasn’t all yet, I made an even worst mistake, long ago since I left my Mog House. I forgot to select the macro set that fits my job!!!
So yeah, when I finally aggro the Shiki, making it cancel its Invisible, it began to slap me around while casting Thunder III! WTH!? HAX!!! All my Blink shadows were gone. I think I had Stoneskin on too, but that didn’t help much against this beast anyway. It took me like 3 seconds to turn my camera and really spot it. Mean while, other 2 Weapons were also trying to kill me. No matter what, I had to claim the Shiki first, so I hit my Flash macro.
No sub-target cursor came up, WTF!?
All I saw at the very moment were competitors who’re surrounding us, staring eagerly at the NM.
Arkades helpppppppppppppppppp!!!!! No I didn’t even have time to type that…..It just rang in my brain as I was fumbling with my macro, not realizing what went wrong with it. My heart pounding at such speed and intensity, my hands shaking from excitement, and my brain felt frozen from the peaking stress due to the sense of competition. Then, in the split second where I thought we would lose the claim, it was claimed to us.
I checked later and saw that Chihiru cast Dia on it while Arkades Flash it. But what landed first seemed to be Ark’s Animated Flourish, lol!!!
Seeing that, I could rest assured. So I started trying to cast Repose on the 2 Weapons. What came out in the PT chat was my Viper Bite macro. @#@$%@#$%^@ Only then did I realize my 2nd mistake that could have been the cause of losing claim war. Thank Altana Chihiru and Arkades were there to cover up my noobness.
Other pt members gradually arrived, but all of that were oblivious to me at the moment because I had to see to my macro problem as soon as possible. Then I could Repose 2 of the Shiki’s underlings (lol) while Izia summoned his avatar to kill the 3rd Weapon that was added when Arkades or someone cast something during battle.
Arkades and Chihiru tossed me some big cures because I looked 75% dead. Meanwhile, I tried to cast Pro and Shell on the PT, but I think I was interrupted by the AoE from NM. Uh, I can’t remember what I did next, probable a cast of Auspice, Haste on someone, Regen III on someone. But I checked chatlog and noticed that I Devotion on Izia for his MP and then Cure V on Fugiwara for 819 HP.
I really can’t remember any detail of the battle (all I said here are mostly from checking chat log), not to mention the people who’re there for us. I was shaking. Yes I was trembling, probably due to overwhelming excitement from claim war. I think I went malfunctioned ever since I stripped Invis off the NM.
All I could say in PT was “Me shaking…..” and Arked LOL’ed, then said “I told you this NM is your crack.”
Yeah…crack it seemed. And you fed me overdose of crack.
Wait, no, it was me feeding myself the crack. LOL
I remained silent and half idle for like 5 mins after it died. I was trying to calm down so that my arms would stop feeling weak. I think if I had stood up from my chair, my knees could have been wobbling. Oh right, it felt like the time when I drank a cup of coffee that was too strong and had this weird heartbeat. Uhhhh… It feels stupid to get overwhelmed by a mere claim war. And I just realized how strong the impact was when I tried to squeeze the spray cap on a bottle of rubbing alcohol. It failed… I couldn’t apply the liquid on my itch because my fingers were still weak and wouldn’t do as I command. So I was like WTF!?! #@$%^$%&
After a long moment, I got a tell from Stef so I went back to Bastok.
Sorry Cornie ; ; I didn’t let you know what happened and that we were done…. Thank you for heading there though.
I checked the chat log later and saw that Nikkichan was also there. Oh right, I ran into Nikki while running to camp! And Genome! How could I forget about him? I was on /follow behind him while we were in Zi’Tah because wanted to go to WC and we were running out of time, so I didn’t want to spend any second AFK at camp.
Uhhh…well, again tonight I’ll go back for that dose of crack. Hopefully Izia gets his drop soon so we can get Nikki and Tay one too. ^^ hehe
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