Something Fishy This Way Swims

Looks like we finally might be getting a new person in to help out with calls. It’ll be a welcome addition after the craziness of the past few days. As long as he can be willing to simply try, he’ll be a vast improvement.

When I got home, I was going to go to Ro’Moaeve to farm up a few Illumininks for Ark Pentaspheres, since there’s been renewed talk about doing Divine Might lately. I got derailed halfway there with the news that we had claimed Fafnir and they needed all hands on deck. We made a good run of it, but we didn’t have the numbers we needed and couldn’t damage him fast enough. Fafnir went into rage mode and we wiped at 12%, after it regened from 9%.

There was a debate on whether or not we should have CFH’ed it. Personally, I find that to be completely dishonorable: if I’m going to wipe, I want to wipe with some dignity. We claimed fair and square, we made a epic fight of it and did the best with what little we had. We wiped fair and someone else took it fair. To CFH would be ruining it for others because we couldn’t handle it. That’s textbook asshattery, and it’s sad that others in my own shell can’t see that. At least we’re starting to claim a little more consistently, but we really need to make sure we have the numbers if we’re going to try to claim. We easily spent 15 of the 60 minutes before rage sleeping Fafnir and waiting for reinforcements. Would have been better to just keep ToD if we only have 8 people in the region when he pops than to doom us to wipe to a raged Fafnir, no matter how honorable the wipe. Just my opinion…

I passed the time before Einherjar fishing up Hamsi and the odd Kalamar in Whitegate, and got another .2 in skillups on the squid. The fish went to Keri’s mule to make CrabFamiliar and Courier Carrie soups, and the squid went on the auction block. All in all, I fished about 6 stacks of fish and a stack of squid before I boarded the boat for Nashmau. Once in Nashmau, I talked to a random Qiqirn NPC and got a cutscene involving that NPC and his fear of Tarutaru children. Pretty funny, I’ll have to look the quest up later.

Einherjar went better than expected – I did not die. We didn’t win, but I didn’t die. In fact, there wasn’t much death involved at all. It took us a little while longer to get situated than expected, and we got elementals and skeletons for the enemies and a bird for the mini boss. I’m not sure what all that is supposed to mean, but I’m told it’s important. The boss was a big fish that used TP moves in 3’s: he would always use 3 TP moves back-to-back-to-back. One of the moves was devastating AoE damage that if allowed to happen in 3’s would wipe the alliance. Stun kept these moves down for the most part, but we took too long on the bones and didn’t have enough time to kill the fish.

Dynamis is cancelled for tomorrow, so I’m glad I got to get in some pointworthy events. We’ll be staticing tomorrow night and maybe hit 58. Also need to get Colin started on picking up his room so I can shampoo his carpet this weekend while I have the house to myself.