Back-to-Back Bhaflau Run: 2007/08/18

Summary of 2007/08/18 - Afternoon Farm
Bhaflau Remnants - Off Run
Participants:
Drew (Shaman) [DRK]
KenZSMasters [MNK/WAR]
Krenna [MNK/NIN]
Kistos [WHM]

Loot this Run:
Anu's Tiara (Marduk Head lvl 15) -> Kistos

Objective this run:
Farm Ramparts (1F and 2F)

Progress Within the zone:
Not much to really say this run, I took these people because they had tags ahead of time so they were able to do salvage still in the evening. I had to trio-box a rdm and thf but thf sat out mostly. MB was up and we took it out. So comes the chigoes...the endless horde of them...x.x no NM...booooooooooooooooooooooo
Went to 2F, did our usual, discovereda relic mnk with /war can rip apart a weak phy pudding faster than a drk and mnk/nin...:P The NM bee refused to show himself yet again...very depressing...; ; We were running low on time...so we figured...why not try and spawn 3F rampart since we never done it before? Kis aggroed a pudding and died...; ; I managed to pull one and took it down with Drew to 5% before getting kicked out, spawning this floor's Rampart seems quite easy.

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Summary of 2007/08/18 - Evening LBC Run
Bhaflau Remnants - Main Run
Participants:
Ayume [RNG]
Falcor [BLM]
Gremlin [BLM]
KenZSMasters [MNK]
Lordcaim [NIN]
Mandrake [BLU]
Rumari [RDM]
Seagalka [THF]
Sigyn [MNK]
Taekichi [BRD]
Waice [WHM]

Loot this Run:
Hoshikazu Tekko (Usukane Hands lvl 15) -> Rumari
Bhaflau Card -> Gremlin

Objective this run:
Defeat Long-Bowed Chariot

Progress Within the zone:
We decided to skip Ramparts and go straight for the boss kill. We cleared out all 1F, no MB spawn, took us approximately 30min.
On 2F, we cleared out the puddings for the abilities and magic. Then went southeast for the scorpions for stats. We wasted some unneccesary time by killing and farming more scorpions and trolls than we needed to. Wasn't keeping track of the time but it was at least 20min.
For 3F, we farmed some puddings as some needed some cells too. Again, we wasted time here because we killed more puddings then we needed to (cleared out 2 rooms). Spent around 10min.
4F, due to my success in pulls on gear, we were able to pick off 5 of them, one of them containing some nice gloves and a card. Some nice meds came from it too but we were running short on time, with time below 25min and felt we needed to begin on LBC incase we need to zombie it. Grem made a stupid dash across the middle room and got himself killed and then 2 more people hit the floor in result of it. that cut down our time even more, we had about 17min left on LBC alone.

5F - Mega Boss Fight: Long Bowed Chariot
Our first real attempt at him, we had 3 mnks meleeing him and what a mistake that was. It had drained our MP completely by the time we downed it to around 45%, it was just too much of a mp sink for the mages when we had 2x blm, 1x rdm and 2x whm. So this time we had 2 mnk/nin and a rng only for the DD. The TP moves were moderate, so it was manageable for mages. Only issue that arised, it kept on doing the steam move that binds and the timer on erase blows...><><>My Thoughts:
I'll be honest, I was not pleased with that run, I thought we wasted too much time on 2F and 3F. It was a lesson for myself to learn for next time on how to properly manage our time there. Its all learning process! I would like to gimp his missiles for Mondays attempt and hopefulyl be able to farm the rampart if we got 10min to spare.
Other than that, great job..! as I do see progress :D