I got online!

at frakking last! on a saturday evening no less!




i solo'd the last 100 or so XP i needed for 15 then set myself on seek.. fairly soon after i get the tell
Person>> {Valkurm Dunes}{Party}..{Do You Need It?}
so i heads off and promptly aggro three bats in the tunnel. ugh.
Person>> PL coming to {Raise}
..nice!
verily i was raised and joined the group, not on the beach but in teh trees by the OP. nice enough, fighting with 5 of us on crabs till the 6th joined, then taking Flies at a reasonable rate.
not your average party though - War/-, Mnk/-, Pld/Blu (me), Rdm/Blm, Drk/War and Blu/Whm.

which worked - oddly. even when the PL left with the Mnk, and we got another Whm/Blm to replace. no real proper tank, so the hate was going all over the shop, but it got the sub-less folks to level 18 and me to level 17, i set {Coccoon} (+3 VIT! how nice!), said my {Goodbye!}s and managed to make the run back to Konschat alive. although i did have to 2-hour to stay that way.

Pld/Blu is fun. I got stick for not being /War for {Provoke}, but my damage was reasonable and i was landing 50% of my {Sprout Smack} and {Wild Oats} spells - but fun nevertheless.
don't know if i'm going to keep playing PLD past the Dunes. Since my Blu is level 47 i can use it as sub for anything up to level 75.

(i may yet return to Drg/Blu...)