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This happens to be about my best fight I have yet to experience.

Area:
-Cape Terrigan

Levels:
-57-59

Party:
-White Mage (hume)
-Paladin (elvaan) <- Me
-Red Mage (taru)
-Monk (hume)
-Dark Knight (hume)
-Dragoon (elvaan)

The Dark Knight pulled a terror pugil and the battle started off pretty well, but slowly took a turn for the worse. I immediately took hate with provoke, flash, and a heal. The red mage had cast refresh on himself, me, the white mage, and the dark knight. I was using cures when I could to help keep hate, but things just kept looking like we were going to lose. At about half life, we were nearly tapped out of everything. I was around half HP (600) and the pugil hits me for nearly 150 per hit and the white mage was losing mp. The dark knight stunned the pugil when he could and the dragoon jumped as much as possible but the AoE attacks of the pugil had killed his wyvern and put everyone else at around 300 or less HP.

I knew I had to diminish the damage some how, so I used Defender and Sentinel to boost my HP and it helped for a while, but things were still going down. Finally, the dark knight was forced to use Blood Weapon because he was nearly dead and the mages healing was going to me so I could keep everyone else alive. By this time I couldn't afford to cure myself because as soon as I used a Cure III, the pugil would take it away, so I just disabled his attacks and flashed him. By the time the 1:00 cool down time of flash was down, refresh had JUST given me enough to flash him again. When the white mage was almost out of MP, I was forced to use Invincible which gave me 30 seconds of damage free hits.

During the 30 seconds, the white mage began to rest and the red mage healed me as best as he could and refreshed the white mage for faster MP regen. Finally, invincible wore off and I began to take damage again and around 120 hp the white mage used Benediction which gave her complete hate. Thankfully I had done enough to keep hate during the battle that she took 2 hits and my provoke was ready again and the provoke gave hate to me once again for the remainder of the battle. Everyone was tapped for MP and HP and I had to shield bash as soon as possible and put up Defender once again. I was put down to 56 HP and I shield blocked the next attack, then the attack after that missed me. Right before the pugil could attack one more time, the dark knight got the final hit and killed the pugil. No one died.

Awesome, I don't have that great of a story yet, but I am sure one will come.

A funny story though.

Area - Palabourgh Mines

Party - lvl 10-12

WAR (Hume)
RDM (Hume) me

We were just doing some lvling and we were probably running around where we shouldn't have. We were taking on Vet. and Greater Quads, but then had to rest after 1 or 2. We found a good rest spot and were chilling, when through an iron gate i saw a Quad. It was pretty far away, but I could still target it. I started to wave at it, and poke it, and say nasty emotes to it. Never thinking what would happen next would be possible.

It walked closer and somehow walked through the gate. I know they aggro, but didn't think through iron gate. It was only a VT so we started pounding away at it. But could you believe it must have been a hive or something because from behind us 4 of them came around the corner and our end was near. We both used JA's and killed 2 before we fell to a fast death. Now that I am lvl 25 i am gonna to to the mines to get some ores, so its time for some payback!!!