Where War goes, Whm follows

BLM:75 WHM:75 SMN:49 THF:75 WAR:75 RNG:44 DRK:39

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There is a lack of trust sometimes when I speak to customers esp with ones that repeat my name several times like I am some sort of demon with some true name. It is interesting to note that though some people use "handles" that let them repeat it to their hearts content, and still others like to use their full names in every sentence like as if only their first name is not sufficient to identify them. These people tend to be rich.

On other fronts, playing WAR is becoming more possible. I find that many people love to get into merit parties now and have even found more mages to boot. I also find that THF is more playable now. I love to take him to Nyzul Isle and play him against birds but honestly with Haste he is WAY too good for words. I cant use his WS with SA or TA as often as I would like and that makes it tougher to decide when to ws.

I tried THF/RNG 2 nights ago and I was a little plastered and we went to Nyzul Isle with this one guy that all of a sudden pulls out a Mandau and proceeds to go to town with like 1400 dmg from Mercy Stroke. I had a lousy time with it. He was even pulling and making me look bad. I didnt do too badly but I had on AGI gear and the /rng belt but for some reason I thought I would try Meat Mithkabobs.

This was horrible. I was missing like crazy and ws were not hitting; more esp my ranged attack was not hitting which was the main benefit of /rng. I was rueing the day and pretty soon I find myself coincidentally not able to SA the mob cuz the other thf had found a new hobby which was to make me miss SA as often as possible by pulling hate. I had never met this guy before and I would have booted him if I wasn't such a gimp for using meat with ranged attack. Later I tried to pull hate to get the birds to eat my food but I was totally unable to. When the food wore off, I switched to squid sushi and I was in heaven but just then the other thf ses brb 5min. Well I was wiser than to wait for him to make us all suffer for 15+ minutes or more like I had made them so I immediately said [disbanding party].

Next night I resolved to go with my /war since I had 2 merits in double attack and was all set to max out my DEX for max dmg. To my delight I found a BRD and RDM willing to pt. This is like the optimal pt for birds cuz BRD can sleep and RDM can Haste and that leaves all melee earning TP super fast without a lot of pull time in between. But then RDM ditched and we got SCH. This was fine since I had checked him out first for healing and he sed he was good. We had THF THF RNG NIN BRD SCH. We had been sitting there for a good hour with thf thf thf brd and could not find a nin and that is why rdm left, but eventually the thf changed to nin and just like that we were good and going to exp. One of the thf wanted me to get rid of brd so I told him w/e and sent him on his way but then he agreed to pt so I added him. He seemed a little weird and later that night he pulled a ridiculous mess of mamool ja and I wonder if it wasn't intentional.

I was totally doggin him with dmg tho. The Brd had put dual attack-up songs on us and with Berserk up and Warcry I was doing just as much dmg as the guy with Mandau. It was really just ridiculous. 1400 was one of them but I didn't record the top. As a matter of fact I think Mandau guy was hitting 1000+ far less consistently than I was, but that is thanks to the BRD.

I found myself loving /war and now I think I am just going to use /war from now on and forget about /rng for a while. It sucks since I earned the Shark Gun (using Imperial Points) for the sole purpose of using /rng with it but I will give it a rest for a while.

We got like 30k exp that night and I have about 1k left to get my 7th GSD merit for WAR after which I might start upping my double-attack merits to 5 and then maxing out my Savagery merits. Savagery has 2 merits on it now but the next one will cost 5 pts. Ouch.

I still have to max out Freeze II again since they upped the max recently but that also costs 5pts and I am slow to do it since I like using WAR.

I am thinking of using my WHM as a tank since I often find that one detail missing from my late night merit selection. Since I can Haste myself and heal myself and noone is probably going to take too many hits if I take them all, I find that the most important thing to that end is to find items for WHM without too much -enmity and spell interruption gear. I don't want to sound crazy but WHM/WAR works pretty good against Lesser Colibri esp with Flash and Provoke but it seems like overkill and since I haven't done 75 levels of tanking, I just know I am missing something important. I can't decide if Blink or Stoneskin is more important but I know I can't quick cast those spells during the fight while healing. I also wonder if /WAR provoke is more hate than WAR/ provoke. If it is less, then WAR/WHM will prob work better esp with all the +enmity gear out there. Sadly, the buttersheep doesn't get to use Flash which would really make him stand out and grab hate back from the rest of the hate pullers.

The hard part of /war tank is going to be to teach people to let me get into yellow so I can heal myself. The next hard thing is to get club up to max which is not TOO far off since it is at 210 or so but it is not going to hit very often without acc gear and without food against birds. I love to invent things and this is just another of my ideas since I think I know so much. I have that if I go with another war/nin and tank as war/whm, that it would be better for the sake of the party since I have so much skill with GSD that I would still hit enuf to keep +enmity effective and I could still use blink at the end of the round for at least a couple of shadows. Still I wonder if I should use evasion gear since it would useful due to have thf at 75 my evasion is maxed.