Since my last update I have:
1) Got my Jelly Ring 
Dazor offered to help - but I had little hope of success as we headed down into the sewers of San d’Oria to battle the Sewer Syrup. There was a 73bst tarutaru there by the name of Littleboy, and when we arrived we asked him, and he said he was also camping the NM. He made the suggestion that we all team up, and simply lot on the Ring if it dropped. Half an hour later, the NM spawned! We were upstairs where the only feasible pets were Mousse (other jellies) who inflicted little/no damage on the NM. Around the area were other Mousse, bats and undead all of whom agroed Sound. It was not safe, although these mobs were EP. Had some dodgy moments where we agroed, but on the whole we were managing. I had bought a stack of silent oils (thank god). After about 15 minutes we returned to the idea of pulling the NM down to the lvl below which was full of leeches, higher lvl, and hopefully more likely to inflict more damage on the NM. Only problem with this was that the leeches were T to me, and so any agro would be significantly more disasterous. However the rate of the fight was tedious, and so we were game.
We were dismayed that the area was so crowded with leeches that casting sneak became very dangerous. LB persuaded us that once leeches started dying, it would become a whole lot safer. To our dismay, the leeches inflicted hardly any more damage on the NM than the Mousse had done, however we were here now and there was no way to turn back.
Hate was very shakey with so little damage being done. There was no oppertunity to melee, and Dazor’s summoning and Fight commands alone drew him so much hate that several times he was in very risky positions. When you’re surrounded by leeches and you’re not able to run away, but casting sneak will grab the hate of the NM in an instant, you just gotta cross your fingers and hope nothing agros you ; ;. I shared my silent oils with him, but even then using one was enough to grab hate >< ; The idea of bloodpacting, however powerful it would be, was pointless with the hate it would get. I did wonder if I shouldn't just straight tank it, but surrounded by the leeches it seemed a bit dodgy, and LB never suggested it although I was more than game to try, and since he has killed it before I decided to let his decisions stand.
Eventually Daz was grumpy and decided to 2hr Diabolos, he managed 2 astral flow, taking away 5,000 health of the 10,000hp mob, but he paid for it with his life and dlvled to 69 again ; ;. Soon after carby and a leech were meleeing and the bst started to DC. Carby had hate and was running out of hp fast :O When the avatar died there weren't any options left, I voked the NM and pulled it away from Daz, agroed about 3 leeches, Daz resummoned Carby as quick as possible but I got my sword out and hacked away at the stupid mob determined to make some kind of dent with my last moments. Thankfully the bst returned and I invited him back to the party as fast as I could, and I literally sent the invite as I hit the floor - phew! Daz raised me while the fight continued.
Took us an hour and a half to defeat the syrup, after which I won the lot and obtained my ring^^ Thanks so much LB!! Tigerlily bought her THF, and one of LBs rdm/nin friends tried to come at the end; Tiger was there to see it die (she found us with the NM at about 5% health), but the 75rdm/nin managed to agro a bunch of leeches somewhere and was dying before she even reached us ; ; Tiger and LB rushed off to help her while me and Daz agroed a leech back at camp and were struggling with it for a while, so we all got split up. The fight at the other end was going badly, so the 3 of them teled out leaving me and Daz hopelessly lost. When we finially managed to escape without any further deaths, we threw ourselves on the ground on Ronfaure in joy and relief XD. Thank you so much for your help Daz! And LB and Tigerlily ^.^ Yay for another -5% Physical Damage and a no-longer gimped paladin^^
2) Defeated the Shadow Lord, episode 1
Reifes told me in LS (fcuk) that there was a japanese shout for mission 5-2. Since I needed to do it so badly I kinda begged to join, and they said OK! Party was: 75brd 75whm 66whm 75nin 66pld(me!) and 74blm. O.o; so many 75s needed rank6!? I was very surprised. In LS reifes suggested that a lot of people actually buy their airship pass. But i pointed out you couldn't buy a sky pass, and reckoned it was their 2nd or 3rd countries. Everything went without a hitch, although I wasn't tank I wasn't about to complain. We floored him in 30 seconds XD Got my ZM 1-3 CSs... WOW! Awesome CSs :O
3) Defeated the Shadow Lord, episode 2
Dazor and Drazil still needed Rank6 on Friday night, they got 5.1 done that day, and they were starting at about 1am. They were stuck without a tank, but although I was sleepy, I was all up for doing it again First Drazil accepted the wrong Windurst mission because he forgot to donate crystals ; ; so he had to go and do that. But it was OK because I had to walk the 50rng to Xacavard anyway because she didn't have the tele crystal. This was a low lvl party, and yay! I was tank^^ 70smn (daz) 73war/nin(draz) 66pld(me) 50rng 50whm (balth) and another 55ish? smn.
Everything was going great in the first half of the first form - until he became {invincble} to physical damage, with me and draz hacking away for 0 damage we were unfortunately not making any progross and rapidly loosing hate. Balth Curaga 2ed, and breathed his last ; ; (I'm such an idiot, I didn't invincible -.-; what a noob, only remembered it long after we had won "why the hell didn't i invincble?" too late by then, i'm really sorry balth ; ; ). Metorite's from carby as fast as was possible meant that we defeated him with a whm down, and mp down at 20% marks, and health boardering red. Bring on form2. How no one died and we managed to win I have NO CLUE, but we did. Go us ^^ This was a REAL shadow lord battle, and I'm very proud of us^^
4) Levelled Warrior 33 -> 37
Partied with Pantherball’s WHM in GC for most of this. I was puller and I didn’t screw up once, go me! We were making pretty damn good exp with dual ninja tanks. The party next to us got wiped at least 6 times until they decided to move camp, it was very sad ; ; We were at the first banishing gate because everywhere else was fullfullfull, and they had camped right on a beetle pop ><;
We were opening the banishing gates for anyone polite enough to ask, however right at the end some 75nin ass turns up. I honestly didn’t notice him, until he started getting mad at us. The first I noticed of him was he complaining that he had asked nicely twice already and we still didn’t open the gate. I would have been happy to help him then, as we had helped everyone else, until he said “so since for some reason you’re refusing to help me, i’m gonna kill your exp mobs until you do”. And that’s what he did. NO WAY in hell were we going to open the gate for such an asshat now. Panth had to leave anyway so we decided to move to altepa, and so we left the NIN with his closed gate and his too weak mobs and his humble pie and left. We never got to altepa, we disbanded in Jeuno, and I immediately reformed with the same nin Blix for another party in CN. No problems at all, ding37, 2.5k into the level.
5) Defeated Promy-Holla
After my warrior party, Beowulf and Threed ambushed me asking if my whm could join their holla party. It was 5am, but I wasn’t sleepy so I said, what the heck? Sure. We went to holla to farm anima (thankfully I had my both from when Mears and I went farming them last time), but Threed was very sleepy, and decided he was too tired to join us in the final run. When they went back to Jeuno and get the anima, they added a pld/war to the party as tank, making the final setup:
whm/rdm (me), war/nin (beo), pld/war (morphius), blm/whm (roddy), blm/whm (intrepied), rng/war (laucian)
I took with me: a stack of poison potion, stack of holy water, stack of antidotes, 3 yag drinks, 3 hi-ethers, 3 hi-potions, 2 potions 1 x-potion.
I used: 2 yag drinks. and I finished with 250mp. No doubt the easiest run out of all the ones I have ever done O.o.
We had 2 deaths on the way up, Laucian lost all control and decided whether to test whether the mobs on the 3rd floor were truely not sight agro by running in front of the map-piece NM -.-; He had to be tractored and raised at great risk -.-; Intre also agroed on the 3rd floor and had to run to somewhere safe to die.
This battle was all about the anima. Without a SMN we didn’t have the mega damage from Astral Flow, but with a PLD we did have hate control. The mages spread out on the steps, no nukes were fired until the 2nd pld voke had gone off. I was a little concerned with the pld, he was cure-shy and tended to wait and cast a big Cure III rather than spam Cure and Cure II as I would have done. Cure III at lvl30 is not mp efficent, only recoving around 150hp. But he held hate, so I have no reason to complain 
We had a strict anima rotation - psycoanima (5 of them) were used in sequence at the opening stages to paralyze the mob from his normal attacks. As we reached 20% health, we used Hysteroanima in sequence to prevent trinary aborbtion (the weakness of a pld tank). He didn’t absorb nuffin’. Game Over.
Hellllllllo Lufauise Meadows and Chapter 2 CoP.
Finished at 10am Sunday morning. Slept all day.
!) and it proved my theory right - 8k an hour as opposed to 4k an hour I had be experiencing in a whm-plus-no-good-DDers pts. The rdm was even able to nuke between cures and refreshes, dispels, erases and silenas. Dhamels were dropping like flies, and the rng puller didn't understand the meaning of the word "downtime" or "rest". I love it. Hate was so shakey the mnk ended up tanking the final stages more than once, with me just covering him if things were looking worrying. But this is what plds should do - struggle to keep hate while DDers just rip things to shreds. When someone else takes hate, we {Flash} we {Cover} we {Rampart} and we {Cure} it isn't essential for us to have hate the entire time, its essential only that we keep everyone alive and generate as little downtime as possible.
