Onzozo Pillaged

Well, we did kill LoO the night before and were under the impression that the NM was 21-24 (half the members were convinced). So we head out there and camp for a few hours. Purpose shows up -- how did they know to come? Don't ya love being search whored? I wonder who they search for. We might as well put it in our search comments: Camping LoO come join us. Anyways we were killing, claiming, claiming, killing PHs as they came. In between, the 8 or 9 of us would camp EVERY SINGLE NM in the whole damn zone. We were killing every PH for every NM. That night we killed Mysticmaker Profblix x2 (2 moldavite earrings for Pathogen (random dude) and Tripods (Pauge's Alt)), Hellion (L' A'outrance to Wyle), and Peg Powler (Schwarz Axt, mine!). Congratulations to all. I just narrowly missed claiming Ose too. Oh well. We stayed at LoO for a full three hours without a pop. Now we can confirm for sure: LoO is on an 18-24 hour timer =P.

Also there was an ENTIRE alliance of gilsellers leveling on Torama. I was chatting it up with them, well more like probing them why they do what they do. They basically said, "It's not my fault, if you have a problem ask my manager." Whatever. It won't be long before these guys hit 75 and a new wave of gilsellers will be camping sky or HNM. Probably some of those characters will be sold on ige.

We also did sea. Killed Jailer of Temperence, Ix'MNK. Got a first virtue out of all that. You know, sea is one of the last bastions of this game left untouched by gilsellers. We ought to milk this sh*t while it lasts.

Bahamut, Swift Belt and Gilsellers -- Oh my.

Another Monday at work. Good news this week is that I will be going to visit my family in Poland starting on Thursday. One of my cousins is getting married. I'll let you know how it goes when I come back! Hopefully this Polish wedding won't be _too_ crazy.

This weekend was an interesting one.

On Saturday we spent a few hours at Ulli trying to pop him. He didn't pop. Instead I utilized my Chinese to give the gilsellers that were gathered there a hard time. I think I flustered them because one of them got aggro had to HP. On the other hand it really distracted our team and we couldn't kill PHs as fast as we should have been. So, I'm sorry for that XD. We'll work on getting some Ullis early this week.

"Ni ying gai zhao yi ge ZHEN de gongzuo"
You should find a REAL job.

After sky farming we tackled Bahamut v1. The hardest thing about doing these battles now is that it is really hard to form up an alliance of ppl to do this, especially on a Saturday night. Needless to say after pulling some teeth, grabbing some pickups and waiting for some others to actually flag the quest, we made our way to the BC. The fight itself was pretty easy. We had 6 blms, 1 pld/nin, 1 nin/drk, 1 nin/war, a couple whm, 1 rdm, 1 brd and some random melee. In fact the worst part about it is that we were trying to kill him too fast. He spams his flare every 10%, causing you to have to continually withstand huge damage. At about 50% we backed off on nuking to let mages regain some MP for the final push. Bahamut went out not with a whimper but with a bang. Mega-flare wiped half the alliance. Overall a fun fight! I can't wait for Apocalypse Nigh and some new earrings :D

Finished up BST AF and got level 54 this weekend. Been slowly working on that when both Wyle and I have time. I dread having to gear myself up with new DD gear. I don't have the gil atm to put myself in the latest and greatest. Hopefully at least I can get a Hauby, which will be useful for both PLD and BST and any other melee I decide to lvl.

BTW I've been an avid fan of gardening for about a year and half. But I've had enough. SE made changes to gardening that lessened the yield of tree saplings from cuttings. Instead of mindlessly producing saplings, you have to be more careful about when you harvest. You have to wait until later in the harvest before you harvest, and harvest on earthsday to get the full yield (like it used to be). Otherwise you're going to get a lot of rock salt and shell bugs. Well, I waited to long in my harvest and lost 75% of my crops -- an approximate 150-200k loss. My playstyle has changed too since I've been working a lot and now I don't have too much time to check my plants. I'm tossing in the towel on gardening. Not sure how I'm going to earn gil in the future, but I think I might just stick with fishing, ksnm and bcnm for now.

Also tried for swift belts this weekend with some current CK members and old friends. I spent a few hours (and few deaths) in Phomiuna Aquaducts farming up a codex (quite boring and dull), with every 2 hrs grabbing an oil spill to kill the BST fomor. We went to Sacrarium with 2 nin, 2 whm, 1 brd, 1 rdm, 1 sam, 1 thf. All the NM fights went really smoothly and we had only a few deaths. 0/6 on swift belts though. WTF. We'll be back there in a couple weekends. Hopefully, with at least SOME swift belts =P

I missed Limbus and no Assault this weekend. Instead merited for a little while, and then trioed my carby mitts with Pauge and Heilger. Thanks guys! Tried to get the Asklepios NM to pop but by that time I was about to pass out. So I did.

Hope you guys have a great week in Vanadiel. See you there :D

Beastmaster Artifact

This week I've been busy as all hell with work. Today is our self-imposed deadline so my schedule should ease up in the coming weeks. It has caused me to miss a few events I really didn't want to miss though!

CK attempted Jormungand last night with 32 ppl. I have to admit to all of you that this is about the fourth or fifth revision of our strategy and it's almost there now. Not only that, but our players have gotten a lot more equipment, merits, and experience since our first fight. As a result we brought Jorm down to 11% before someone CFH accidentally (that's better by 41% since the last time we tried). We were going to win -- how sad :( But still we know we can win and will beat it veryveryvery soon.

Meanwhile, I been logging in late so that all I really have time to do is finish up my BST AF -- all I need now is the garlaige citadel coffer. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP OPEN TWO GATES. As a consolation prize, I will offer the chance that old two wings MAY pop and we MAY pass him. Hey it could happen. Once I get level 60 and can wear all my AF I'll model for all ya'll to see.

I also camped Fyuu (F U MF!) for several hours without spawn ... and without my shrimp lure to fish. Needless to say I was very pissed. This NM is retarded and should be shot. Except, that would leave a hole in my monitor. ; ;

CANT WAIT FOR THIS WEEKEND. Bahamut v1, sky farming, Limbus and more assault! tgif tgis tgisAGAIN.

Ouryu Assaulted

On Saturday after a failed attempt at claiming Nidhogg and King Behemoth, CK decided to claim Ouryu -- ENM18 style. Luckily we were able to outclaim before Perseverence, Kaizen, Integralis, or Purpose got to it, so that was good. I used my dusty cloud evoker that I had gotten nearly 10 months ago -- THANK GOODNESS FOR MORE SPACE! We lasted pretty much all 60 minutes, but we had serious problems dealing damage -- only got him to like 75%. You can't build TP on Ouryu since he'll spam hella nasty TP moves -- you build it on the worms or elementals that randomly spawn around Ouryu. Just gotta be building TP and using it on Ouryu as soon as you and your SC partner becomes available. We'll try it again at a later date with a revised strategy.

Got to work on my BST AF. Got my Beast Gaiters and Trousers. Thanks to Wyle and Rigelus for their help. Only two keys and three coffers away from finishing that up. Should be cake.

Also assaulted was assault itself, by none other than yours truly including Rigelus, Nomar, Kinkkerbelle, Firebrand and Wyle -- a new static meeting twice a week on Sunday and Wednesday after Limbus. We failed our first one, which was escorting this prisoner around. We killed everything in the zone, but the prisoner still was sooo freakin slow at runnin and runnin the wrong direction a bunch of times. The second two we rocked, quite literally. Blew up and knocked down walls for one, then killed 15 worms in a row. I can see how getting all this equipment is gonna take a long time. At least im 5% of the way to some of those pieces!!! w00t? BTW let it be known that assault attack music sucks a$$.

An update on the frog trousers: 0/5. But, I did find out that I can fish there and earn like 40-50k gil per hour. So Imma fish and kill the PH every 15 mins. Only a matter of time now.

On one depressing note, I lent 30 ancient beastcoins to a friend a week ago who may be quitting the game this week. I had no way of foreseeing this. I hope that he doesn't quit because he's a good player and a good friend -- and also so I haven't wasted 2 months of building up coins.

Pictures will come, maybe.

First post!!!

Yea yea. I want to get in on this action too. Especially since I need to rant about a particular NM in a particular Grotto that fails to drop a particular set of trousers that I need to don. My gf cut up my other pair of pants.

I been really busy this week with work so I haven't had a chance to play as often as I'd like. I am developing a wish list of items for my pld and whm that I need to buy or obtain. Check it out:

Frog Trousers
Wood Gauntlets
Walahra Turban
Faerie Hairpin
Hedgehog Bomb
Atarctic Solea
omgwtfIce Guantletsbadass
IguessIshouldstartdoingTOAUmissionSentinel Shield

Starting from the top of the list been chillin in the grotto tryin to get my trousers. Hopefully knock those off soon.

I am also working on bst slowly with Wyle. 1 lvl a week gogo! And I still have to get my smn to 37 -- currently at 29. Lucky thing is. I enjoy seeking as smn because I get to dig in Yuhtunga Jungle. Man, I love digging.

Hopefully I won't forget about posting here. 'Til next time gadget.