I finally got the crystal after Sneaking and Invisibility use and having had some Blink thru Xarcabard. I was so proud of myself that I went back and switched my party invite messg board to say that I had done it and left it at that. Then surprisingly, I get help from level 75 RDM and we go and I got the last bit of LB1 done! I am very happy, or was.
Later on I decide I would do some partying as WAR/WHM. It's pretty tough to get a party as a war/whm. I waited 3 hours for one and I know, it's not so tough if you are the one to start the party. Anyway we finally make it there and it's not your best choice of ppl in the party but, hey, we partying. We have SMN healing 2 DRKs, BLM, me and another WAR. Normally this would be ok if me and the WAR trade vokes and the BLM MBs off the drk sc. But it didn't work that way, one of the DRKs didnt want to sc, the other sed ok to sc with the other WAR who was sc with me but I was using Defender and casting Barpoisonra and Baraera and Blink so it was not working very quickly TP-wise; all this with me and a SMN/WHM healing. It was ok though cuz we were making exp at about 100-180 per monster but no chains.
Later, the BLM, trying to figure out if he is EVER going to get an MB off since noone is sc, finds his repl and sends us a RDM. This new setup works great but then they decide that I should tank. I said ok since I have a bunch of VIT stuff on me. It works out pretty good. As a matter of fact I got to be really good after I got used to tankin. I used some Fish Mithkabobs to boot. The other WAR figured out when to voke and we started building 2 and 3 chains of mobs, we were getting better. Later however, we pulled a Hornfly that was one notch too tough. Our SMN died and then our RDM died. There was a group that was next to us killing stuff but would not raise our healers; they just kept pulling monsters past our 2 people that were dead. After about 15min we wondered if we were gonna get a raise from anybody. Well, that's when our other WAR went and did something rash.
I won't say what, but if you were there, you may have saw it. I just want to say, I had nothing to do with that.