Missions 8.1 & 8.2 were a success!  Thank you to Neila and Darkvalor for your help.  Congratulations on RANK 9 to Aerichimaru, Enkatsu, Rania, Vaudian, Fishy, Timofh and Quetre :)

We're going for Rank 10 tonight, if you're Rank 9 and level 65+, feel fee to join us.  Please be ready (mission active, talk to everyone required, rank points bar full) by 8:00 EST.  We'll meet at the last mission NPC before the fight (I think it's in Rabao).  Additionally, please set your homepoint in Bastok to cut down on travel time between missions.

Mission 9.1 involves fighting a slime in Gustav Tunnel that divides every time it's killed, and Mission 9.2 is a BCNM in Castle Zvahl Baileys throne room (same place as Shadowlord fight).  We will need to do the BCNM twice in order to complete it for everyone.

See you tonight for Rank 10!

First of all, thanks to everyone who has helped out, and great job on progressing through these last few missions so quickly- it really helps that everyone has been ready to go pretty much on schedule, and has been prepared for each mission.

After much death during a chaotic first attempt last night at Mission 9.1 during which we followed the typical "sleep extra mobs" battle plan, we came up with a really good strategy that involved Quetre running back and forth for 20 minutes and one taru sacrifice just for fun.