
Yesterday, a few of us finished up with some of the
ToAH missions so that we may take part in
Salvage. It was a conglomerate of
Moogle Army members and Rayneblood, a
Guts member. We first completed
ToAH Mission 13 which is an easy NM fight to get a coin to allow us onto the Black Coffin, the dreaded pirate ship lurking in the waters around Aht Urhgan.
Once complete, we headed off toward the Black Coffin. Sadly, it involved a staging point which I did not have - the last of mine to get. So, I slowed everyone down as I marched my little Tarutaru butt through the undead invested regions of the Mire and the Reef to get my Runic Portal. On the way, a Soulflayer decided to True Sound me and start casting Thunder IV on me. I ran out of range, without ever losing Sneak and Invisible, and continued. He chased me through the Reef, but continued

to try to cast long duration spells, allowing me to always run away before the spell cast. Anyway, I made it to the point without further incident, even with
Mr. Sunshine on my heels. (You may note that the link shows that a Soulflayer is 'True Sight'. Needless to say, he aggroed me from behind his back. Some people say there are literally true
sight and true
sound mobs. That being the case, this one is definitely sound based, or both.)

Once at the Black Coffin, we watched the cutscenes then tried to enter. Flotsam was missing the coin so he had to drop and we tried it with only 5 people. The only healer, other than the PLD's own healing skills, was a BLM. The basic plan was Jedi (WAR) and myself (THF) were to duo the mobs while the PLD, BLM and DRK focused on another. Jedi and I rocked through two of the mobs while Maddox (BLM) was on sleep/heal/nuke duty. We easily got through the first wave but failed to allow the BLM to rest MP back before taking on the second wave of undead. The captain was at around 50% HP when we wiped. We just didn't have enough healing power, and failed to sleep the second group as easily as the first.

We all returned to get some coins and fought the mission again, with only 5 - we picked up Flotsam (BLM) and lost a DRK. The fight went very smoothly with no difficulty.
Congratulations to everyone for a fun fight.
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