Walk on the ocean...step on the shore...

Sing with me! Gotta love Extreme! Well, as to CoP progress, all I can say is already explained here...And boy, did killing Omega and Ultima feel good!!! Go go RDM nuking, haha! And thanks to all who came: Eckardt, Vitehite, Azean, Mirrodin, Hediger, and our guest tanks, Giorgioarmani and of course, Victoriasecret! But that being said, of course that now leaves me to say even more, haha! Thank you Eck, for the wonderful pictures, truly you're the historian and photographer of our group! ((And the source of the screenshots that I'll abuse here without draining your server, heh!))

Well, the first run was...weird. Some kinda way, when the NIN had aggroed and was being healed, the WHM had drawn hate from them, and it rapidly spiraled downhill from there. Soon, the entire party was looking at a less-than-eventful view of the airship, and we chose to just be booted out of the BC at this point. ((Editing: Found out the aggro was due to healing MP by resting somewhat near the kiting.))

After raising up outside, we went in for a second bout, which went much better, but a beatdown by Omega halted that. We reraised and went into operation Burst, just for our amusement to realize that it had the Magic Shield up! I, for one, had a huge laugh at that, and we got up and Eck nuked it for spite and the CS begins, showing us with... 1 second remaining! ((And the apparant difference of lag from my machine to Eck's, he had 2... <.<)) No chance of beating Ultima there, I assure you! I popped a few hi-ethers out my tank, and passed the rest of my Yagudo drinks around, since we were low, and I just figured I would refresh only myself in case we got to that supposed point where MP would be scarce, and the RDM wouldn't have time to refresh the mages. Alrighty, now that we had a general idea of how things should flow, it went much better! Third time truly was the charm (Well, first non-dry run, haha!). Mammets went down quickly this time, as we had less MP and such remaining due to more nuking, and I was trying my damndest to avoid using Convert unless it was neccessitated. I was quite pleased that I didn't have to use it this section. On to Omega, who everyone did a great job on; we had, I think, something like 33 minutes remaining at this point? Oh yeah, much better than the dry runs. My job basically amounted to keeping the NIN and WAR hasted, which was ugh a bit at first, as I thought WHM was keeping the NIN hasted and I did the rest, oopsy! Oh well, once I realized that, we were fine the rest of the way, nearest I could tell. A bit awkward with my Haste cycle starting with the nin, but just did it every time I threw my refresh to make sure it stayed on, and pretty much was constantly casting some sort of Debuff on Omega! I converted about 1/2 way through, hoping it would be up again for Ultima, and I was appeased. :) Towards the end, I joined in on the nuking, and managed to pull off the murder of Omega!
Riding a high at the 22-ish minutes left for Ultima, we reupped our buffs, and charged forward through the CS into battle yet again! Ultima was pretty much the same strategy as Omega, and I should mention that Aspir is joyous for these, it's like a way that Eck and I would replenish our MP pools at his expense! Everyone did such a great job on these beasts that I actually kept a haste and refresh cycle for a majority of both battles, and only healed in fix-it spots when WHM needed a brief rest. Then of all the cheese --- I swiped the kill on Ultima too!


Enjoy the view, and we'll see you in sea! Which, ironically enough, I find myself to be in a small select few adventurers who have attained sea before attaining access to Sky. Well, ain't that something? Looks like I need to hurry up and fly! Zilart - Do you need it? Can I have it? lawl!