Sea Sonnets

This will be a very picture heavy post. My group has done it. We made it to Sea. We had an amazing group, we all put 100% into the whole thing and we have made it. There were more than a few close calls.. some that were really funny. A couple fights were literally decided by simple things like Counter or Shield Bash.

One very embarassing deal was going into the last BCNM before Sea as a PLD/WHM, and not figuring it out until I tried to Provoke the wayward Samurai.

Now that we made it to Sea, we played around a bit and discovered the wonderful inhabitents. The.. sharks... that fly around underground remind me terribly of the Chiggers in the new areas. You can see them comming, but you can't even target them until they pop up and agro you.

Still, we had Miisha and Duffdeliveryguy (the weird and creepy monk who's helped me out a lot before) come along and help us out with the next 2 missions. We first went to the four towers and managed to accidently.. spawn.. 3 NM that killed off a few of our members. But before long, we had the useful teleport safehold ring (something we coulda used before).

The next stop was the very strange maze that we have to walk through. In a few places we have to escort these very very strang people (how many times have I used the word "strange"?) in order to open these doors. But we had a very good group and the whole process was successfull.

Once we're done with these BCNM's, I'm gonna be very eager to take a short break from a lot of this. I know that SE wanted to make this as a "challenge" but I think they went way overboard. The game should never be so hard as to demoralize people to the point that they have no desire to continue. I know people tell me how wonderful Sea is; but I need to rediscover the fun first.. and then I'll go back.