The Black Coffin

Yesterday was patch day, and for the most part it was a great patch, I like the new gear additions for the betterment of the game (even if I never get a Salvage static), and most of the other changes are also cool (looking forward to what they do with the Kraken Club). For the most part I don't think the new gear will be replacements for the best end-game Ninja equipment, they may be equals but not clear winners for replacing anything I already have. The one thing I didn't like about the patch is the cost for each new head piece includes 12x Orichalcum Ingots! These ingots were already in high demand pre-patch and there are not that many ways of obtaining orichalcum in the first place. Ingots have already over doubled in price since the patch now and this is gonna skyrocket the price of Lv74 rings and probably anything else that uses orichalcum.

After the patch I quickly headed over to my chocobo stables in Windurst to checkup on my 3rd try at getting a coloured chocobo. It was Day19 and I was expecting until yellow youth but to my surprise my chocobo had blue tips! Thanks to Moev for the male chocobo that produced this egg. I will try to get a black or red one next.


I then went over to Al'Zahbi next to get ready for the Lv6 besieged that was about to begin. We ended up winning with 3 Generals left and it was surprisingly fun with only about 150 people in the zone and no lag to make it annoying. It was also my first besieged since SE introduced ballista items into the event which made for a great Mijin Gakure with 2600 HP.


And then came the main event, The Black Coffin. I only unlocked this mission about a week ago so I didn't have to wait as long as some might have to get this fight done. Geneviene was shouting in Whitegate that she needed a tank for this fight so I gave her a tell and we quickly went off to the battle. It went very smoothly and we beat it in record time no doubt. Thanks to Geneviene, Apoc, Rigelus, and Drizzit for their part in the smooth execution of this mission. Afterwards I headed back to find that I was invited to the Imperial Whitegate Palace, it's a great looking cut scene.


Towards the end of the night I went back to Windurst to participate in the new Christmas event. It didn't take long to get all three new furniture items and the dream robe, hopefully I will have time to try and get the Dream Robe +1 before the event ends.