So, it dawned on me this weekend (well - yesterday) what a lucky dude I am. I have the greatest group of in-game friends, and I belong to a wonderful LS.
How did I come to this?
Myself and two friends decided earlier in the week that we would do BCNM20 on Saturday, the bats in Ghelsba Outpost. Let me just say that I was nervous as hell when we first decided to do it. I'd had one previous go around with a BCNM - the leeches in Giddeus. And we got WHOOOPED that time around.
This time I was even more worried. Saturday came and I was snapping up the right gear as quick as I could - lizard armor, the correct level earrings, rings - Icarus Wings, X-Potions, the works.
I was talking to my LS most of the day while getting ready for this (CelestialKnights by the way), and they were pumping me up pretty good, getting me hyped. I switched LS's for a few moments to get some advice, and what I got was...
"u n00b drg cant do bcnm!"
Et cetera. No names of course. :)
So that made me realize that I've got a great LS that I'm in. A couple of them actually came to watch our fight, cheering us on as we WHOOPED those bats into oblivion.
After this - I realized that my friends that I went through this with are some of the greatest friends I could ever have. We went back to Jeuno and got a few more orbs. One more BCNM20 with the bats. The Giddeus for the Crawler BCNM30 - which we won in 14 minutes and 53 seconds, 7 seconds short of being timed out.
It may not have been the most efficient way to go around this, but it was DEFINITELY the most fun.
I don't know - I felt like I had to share that. Shiva's got a great group of people, you just have to know the right ones! :P
P.S. - We didn't get much out of the BCNM's. I think the best item we got was a Platoon Dagger. Still fun as hell tho'.