is fin-ding a freak-ing par-ty.
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Some kind of exciting stuff for me goin on lately. First up, was setting up Ventrilo (server and client) on my desktop. I haven't tested out the server yet, but it seems simple enough to get running. I've connected to Treu's server, but unfortunately we couldn't really test anything out because neither of us have a microphone. lol I DID use it with HellsBells at an event on Sunday; again, no mic, but it was still helpful to be able to hear ppl talk about what the game plan was and not have to wait to read what they typed 2 minutes after they wanted to get something done.
What I actually did with HellsBells on Sunday was NOT our normal Dynamis run. I went with them on my first Einherjar run. (Wing III: Gerhilde's Chamber) As most runs with these guys, it seemed like a cake-walk and we cleared it with 7 minutes to spare and 0 deaths. Well, 0 deaths for ME; I think a couple people may have died once or twice, but nothing major. I definitely plan on doing more Einherjar with these guys. Not that I really want/need any of the drops from here; I'd just like to experience something different for a bit and also get that Odin clear just to show off the Title in my AH page. lol
In other news, I finally got my DNC up to 30 using xp scrolls. only 7 more levels til I'm done with getting it up to full subjob status! Woo hoo! Another SJ will soon be out of the way!
Last night I got up to sky a little early for our normal farming... and then realize that pretty much noone else was planning on coming up. We had 4 or 5 DDs show up but no mages, so we weren't daring enough to head down to farm some waters or anything. A couple of us ended up just killing some Flamingos for like an hour or so, which at least capped-out my buffer again (so it's not like it was completely worthless).
While we were up there, I was also trying to compare my damage on my Destroyers with Larva's damage. For the most-part, it looked like I was doing just as much damage as he was so I think my Destroyers are finally broken... but I honestly don't know how to actually confirm that. Oh well. I'll still hold on to those Indra Katars for a little bit more in case the Destroyers aren't broken yet by the time we do our next gods... but whateva.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
Holy priceless collection of Etruscan snoods!
ok, so the title of this post really doesn't have anything to do with anything IN the post, but it's late and I really couldn't come-up-with/find a quote that explained my surprise for the happenings of this evening.
I guess I could have just used a non-quote and gone with something like "Man, Treu's gonna be pissed that his gf kept him from gaming tonight." (well, actually that IS a quote... from me... said in LS chat earlier tonight. lol)
So, I get up to {sky} around 7:00 tonight and just kinda camp out at Despot while I take a nap. (Figured I might as well get up to sky early and not have to worry about rushing up there at 9:50... and might as well camp out the ToD for Despot too.) So I get the ToD... yay. Everthough we didn't go after him tonight.
Well, it's REALLY late and just to make a long story short, we beat Olla, Suzaku, Mother Globe, Kirin, Seiryu, Genbu, Byakko, Byakko again, and then Kirin again. Yeah, so if you're keeping track of points... that's 15 points. So anyone that shoed up on time tonight and stayed til the end... got their 15 points they need to take a slice of our LS payout for the week. :-P heh, whatever. I'm just glad we had the ppl to DO all of these gods tonight.
We got a Haidate from the 1st Byakko we did, which was sold to Cyrel for 4,948,000 gil (woo hoo!) When it came time to do the 2nd Byakko, Drayco said he'd pass for now... and Niyah wasn't there... and Xzavier wasn't there... so... um.. wth?... are you f-ing serious?! ... no.. quit toying with me... SERiOusLY?! _I'M_ up for the next Haidate?!?!?!?! (/em pees himself with joy.) So, we start taking out Byakko again and everything's running smoothly... and then the unexpected happens: one of the monks we have swapping in-and-out of the alliance to Boost and Chi Blast ends up pulling hate, and so when he drops from the pt, noone else can attack. :-P This somehow just screwed EVERYTHING up and we practically wipe. (at this point I'm having flashbacks of this exact thing happening to Treu when it was his turn for Haidate. lol) Well, this time, we actually recovered... but still no Haidate for Khrone. oh wellz. At least we still got the kill and a couple other drops.
Well, we ran from 10:00pm til 4:15am so... it's time for some sleep for me. Damn, i'm glad i got that nap in for a couple hours earlier tonight; i have to be awake in like 1.5 hours. XD
I guess I could have just used a non-quote and gone with something like "Man, Treu's gonna be pissed that his gf kept him from gaming tonight." (well, actually that IS a quote... from me... said in LS chat earlier tonight. lol)
So, I get up to {sky} around 7:00 tonight and just kinda camp out at Despot while I take a nap. (Figured I might as well get up to sky early and not have to worry about rushing up there at 9:50... and might as well camp out the ToD for Despot too.) So I get the ToD... yay. Everthough we didn't go after him tonight.
Well, it's REALLY late and just to make a long story short, we beat Olla, Suzaku, Mother Globe, Kirin, Seiryu, Genbu, Byakko, Byakko again, and then Kirin again. Yeah, so if you're keeping track of points... that's 15 points. So anyone that shoed up on time tonight and stayed til the end... got their 15 points they need to take a slice of our LS payout for the week. :-P heh, whatever. I'm just glad we had the ppl to DO all of these gods tonight.
We got a Haidate from the 1st Byakko we did, which was sold to Cyrel for 4,948,000 gil (woo hoo!) When it came time to do the 2nd Byakko, Drayco said he'd pass for now... and Niyah wasn't there... and Xzavier wasn't there... so... um.. wth?... are you f-ing serious?! ... no.. quit toying with me... SERiOusLY?! _I'M_ up for the next Haidate?!?!?!?! (/em pees himself with joy.) So, we start taking out Byakko again and everything's running smoothly... and then the unexpected happens: one of the monks we have swapping in-and-out of the alliance to Boost and Chi Blast ends up pulling hate, and so when he drops from the pt, noone else can attack. :-P This somehow just screwed EVERYTHING up and we practically wipe. (at this point I'm having flashbacks of this exact thing happening to Treu when it was his turn for Haidate. lol) Well, this time, we actually recovered... but still no Haidate for Khrone. oh wellz. At least we still got the kill and a couple other drops.
Well, we ran from 10:00pm til 4:15am so... it's time for some sleep for me. Damn, i'm glad i got that nap in for a couple hours earlier tonight; i have to be awake in like 1.5 hours. XD
Thursday, December 18, 2008
My Spoon is too Big
So as usual, there is a ton of stuff I want/need to get done in game, and there just aren't enough hours in the day and days in the week for me to do any of it.
I need more/better gear NOW if we are going to finally start up our Salvage group. But some of the items I need require me to complete CoP and ZM and ToAU.... I also need to start cranking out Assaults just so I have enough Assault Points to get IN to Salvage. heh, not to mention the fact that I still need to finish that last fight or 2 so I can actually ACCESS Salvage. lol
And yet, I can't really work on any of that stuff right now because I need to focus pretty much all of my time in-game into LolFail and {sky}. I NEED more LS points so I can get my Byakko's Haidate sooner (I think I'm actually up to like 3rd or 4th in line by now!). I don't want to just do what some people seem to be doing and show up ONLY for God-runs. Yes, it seems like it's the most efficient way to get points per time spent in sky... but we still need to farm those damn pop items so we can actually FIGHT these gods. (ie. we ALWAYS need more Despots and Dios) I want to keep showing up, ON TIME, every night so that other people don't get discouraged and start dropping out. The past few evenings, we seem to have fewer and fewer people up there with us. Tuesday night we only had 12 people show up the entire evening. /sigh
But Haidate is the one single major item I REALLY need, ASAP. After that, I'll still be more than happy to keep coming up to sky to farm and kill gods (cuz I'd still like to have my Shura Head and Legs) but at least I won't feel like crap if I miss out on an evening because I'm trying to get Promy-Dem done, or am in a merit party, or am running a couple assaults, etc....
But whateva. It's not like this is something new. I've known I have a TON to do for ... heh, pretty much since I started a year and a half ago. XD
On to other things...
So, I was in Dynamis - Jeuno with HellsBells again last night. We were cruisin along, gettin drops left-and-right (as usual) but the drops apparently were just crap because people kepts groaning at every AFv2 drop and I think only 1 or 2 items were actually lotted on. I'm pretty sure we had 4 THF feet and 3 BLM feet drop and NOONE wanted them. lol Man, I really hope this keeps up with other jobs that I plan to eventually level. ANY free AFv2 would be sweet.
But on a sour-note, we ended up NOT clearing the city. WTH HB? That's 2 cities not cleared in the past 2 weeks. These guys are usually pretty sweet when it comes to rolling thru the cities, but last night there were just a few things that seemed off. Like, we had our 1st, 2nd and 3rd assists determined before we entered... and yet once our main assist went down, we all wipe because all melee are just standing around waiting to assist someone... and the 2nd and 3rds are just standing there with their thumbs up their butts like the rest of us. Don't agree to be an /assist if you don't know how to do the job! Apparently the puller screwed up a little on the boss too, cuz we were overwhelmed at the AH at the end of the run. (But then again, Jeuno is apparently kinda rough on the Boss pull. At least it was for AN... wait, did I just compare these guys to AN?!? I'm sooooo sorry. It'll never happen again.) I think I was the last man standing (well, the last one standing that DIDN'T manage to find a good hiding spot) and I was about to just drop my hourglass since we had already been given the 10-minute warning, but ppl were saying "don't drop glass!" "we can recover" blah blah blah... so I stayed and died along with everyone else.... And then AFTER I die they say "oh well. nvm. no time. let's just timeout and get R3s...."
/sigh
Jackasses.
Well, next time I see that we are about to wipe so close to the end, I'm just gonna leave. Hell, there was no point in me staying really anyways. I already have the city clear, and it's not like a MNK is of any use against the boss. Why were ppl telling me not to drop my hourglass? :-/
What else. What else. . .
Well, last night I got asked to join the HellsBells Einherjar group. They wanted me to come right after Dynamis, but I was just too tired, so they asked me to come on their next run on Sunday @6:30pm. I guess I'll try it out. It only takes like 30 mnutes (so I guess maybe an hour total of my time if you include the time it takes to get out there, etc...). I'd like to at least experience Einherjar, eventhough I really don't want/need anything from there. It'd be a nice change of pace to do something different from just sky and Dynamis, which is basically ALL I've done over the past couple months. Plus, you know, assuming we get the clears, I can show off a few more Titles on my AH page. And getting an Odin win would help me out in my quest to... ok, help me out in my fantasies of getting that Monk Mythic weapon. lol
I also did a bunch more reading up on Einherjar and Mythic weapons today.
The gist of what I've read for Einherjar: you need to come prepared (food, poison pots, eyedrops, whatever...); you should expect to wipe; when you DO wipe, die in a cluster; and apparently abjuration drops are pretty infrequent... like, so infrequent, I don't think any have dropped to HB in the past couple weeks. (then again, I have no real idea how often they have been doing these runs over the past few weeks...)
The gist of what I've read for Mythic weapons: they are like 10 times harder to get than relic weapons (already knew that tho); a lot of the weapons aren't really as good as they were expected to be (only a few jobs seem like it would really be worth the effort, and MNK is one of them); and the aftermath's don't work like people expected them to be.
The big problem with the aftermaths is that when it says "Aftermath: Increases Acc./Att. Occasionally attacks twice" what they actually mean is "Aftermath Level 1: Increases Acc. --- Aftermath Level 2: Increases Att. --- Aftermath Level 3: Occasoinally attacks twice". You can activate the various levels of aftermaths by doing the following:
1. build up at least 100% TP and WS - This activates level 1 AM.
2. build up at least 200% TP and WS - This activates level 2 AM.
3. build up 300% TP and WS - This activates level 3 AM.
So, basically the AM that they tell you isn't quite true; you need to build up to gaining the full AM. "But wait! There's MORE!" The AMs only last a certain amount of time. Level 1 lasts 60 seconds, level 2, 90 seconds and level 3 120 seconds. So, basically you only have a minute and a half to build up 300 TP oterhwise you're never getting that level 3 AM. "But wait! There's MORE!" On top of that, you also cannot "renew" level 2 or level 3, meaning that: say you have level 2 AM and you are about to time-out (85 seconds have passed) and only have 215% TP, you decide to WS before time runs out and before you hit 300% TP... you just get kicked back down to level 1 AM again. So, I guess if you plan on maximizing your AM, you really need to pay attention to the clock; you don't want to kick off level 3 too soon!
I need more/better gear NOW if we are going to finally start up our Salvage group. But some of the items I need require me to complete CoP and ZM and ToAU.... I also need to start cranking out Assaults just so I have enough Assault Points to get IN to Salvage. heh, not to mention the fact that I still need to finish that last fight or 2 so I can actually ACCESS Salvage. lol
And yet, I can't really work on any of that stuff right now because I need to focus pretty much all of my time in-game into LolFail and {sky}. I NEED more LS points so I can get my Byakko's Haidate sooner (I think I'm actually up to like 3rd or 4th in line by now!). I don't want to just do what some people seem to be doing and show up ONLY for God-runs. Yes, it seems like it's the most efficient way to get points per time spent in sky... but we still need to farm those damn pop items so we can actually FIGHT these gods. (ie. we ALWAYS need more Despots and Dios) I want to keep showing up, ON TIME, every night so that other people don't get discouraged and start dropping out. The past few evenings, we seem to have fewer and fewer people up there with us. Tuesday night we only had 12 people show up the entire evening. /sigh
But Haidate is the one single major item I REALLY need, ASAP. After that, I'll still be more than happy to keep coming up to sky to farm and kill gods (cuz I'd still like to have my Shura Head and Legs) but at least I won't feel like crap if I miss out on an evening because I'm trying to get Promy-Dem done, or am in a merit party, or am running a couple assaults, etc....
But whateva. It's not like this is something new. I've known I have a TON to do for ... heh, pretty much since I started a year and a half ago. XD
On to other things...
So, I was in Dynamis - Jeuno with HellsBells again last night. We were cruisin along, gettin drops left-and-right (as usual) but the drops apparently were just crap because people kepts groaning at every AFv2 drop and I think only 1 or 2 items were actually lotted on. I'm pretty sure we had 4 THF feet and 3 BLM feet drop and NOONE wanted them. lol Man, I really hope this keeps up with other jobs that I plan to eventually level. ANY free AFv2 would be sweet.
But on a sour-note, we ended up NOT clearing the city. WTH HB? That's 2 cities not cleared in the past 2 weeks. These guys are usually pretty sweet when it comes to rolling thru the cities, but last night there were just a few things that seemed off. Like, we had our 1st, 2nd and 3rd assists determined before we entered... and yet once our main assist went down, we all wipe because all melee are just standing around waiting to assist someone... and the 2nd and 3rds are just standing there with their thumbs up their butts like the rest of us. Don't agree to be an /assist if you don't know how to do the job! Apparently the puller screwed up a little on the boss too, cuz we were overwhelmed at the AH at the end of the run. (But then again, Jeuno is apparently kinda rough on the Boss pull. At least it was for AN... wait, did I just compare these guys to AN?!? I'm sooooo sorry. It'll never happen again.) I think I was the last man standing (well, the last one standing that DIDN'T manage to find a good hiding spot) and I was about to just drop my hourglass since we had already been given the 10-minute warning, but ppl were saying "don't drop glass!" "we can recover" blah blah blah... so I stayed and died along with everyone else.... And then AFTER I die they say "oh well. nvm. no time. let's just timeout and get R3s...."
/sigh
Jackasses.
Well, next time I see that we are about to wipe so close to the end, I'm just gonna leave. Hell, there was no point in me staying really anyways. I already have the city clear, and it's not like a MNK is of any use against the boss. Why were ppl telling me not to drop my hourglass? :-/
What else. What else. . .
Well, last night I got asked to join the HellsBells Einherjar group. They wanted me to come right after Dynamis, but I was just too tired, so they asked me to come on their next run on Sunday @6:30pm. I guess I'll try it out. It only takes like 30 mnutes (so I guess maybe an hour total of my time if you include the time it takes to get out there, etc...). I'd like to at least experience Einherjar, eventhough I really don't want/need anything from there. It'd be a nice change of pace to do something different from just sky and Dynamis, which is basically ALL I've done over the past couple months. Plus, you know, assuming we get the clears, I can show off a few more Titles on my AH page. And getting an Odin win would help me out in my quest to... ok, help me out in my fantasies of getting that Monk Mythic weapon. lol
I also did a bunch more reading up on Einherjar and Mythic weapons today.
The gist of what I've read for Einherjar: you need to come prepared (food, poison pots, eyedrops, whatever...); you should expect to wipe; when you DO wipe, die in a cluster; and apparently abjuration drops are pretty infrequent... like, so infrequent, I don't think any have dropped to HB in the past couple weeks. (then again, I have no real idea how often they have been doing these runs over the past few weeks...)
The gist of what I've read for Mythic weapons: they are like 10 times harder to get than relic weapons (already knew that tho); a lot of the weapons aren't really as good as they were expected to be (only a few jobs seem like it would really be worth the effort, and MNK is one of them); and the aftermath's don't work like people expected them to be.
The big problem with the aftermaths is that when it says "Aftermath: Increases Acc./Att. Occasionally attacks twice" what they actually mean is "Aftermath Level 1: Increases Acc. --- Aftermath Level 2: Increases Att. --- Aftermath Level 3: Occasoinally attacks twice". You can activate the various levels of aftermaths by doing the following:
1. build up at least 100% TP and WS - This activates level 1 AM.
2. build up at least 200% TP and WS - This activates level 2 AM.
3. build up 300% TP and WS - This activates level 3 AM.
So, basically the AM that they tell you isn't quite true; you need to build up to gaining the full AM. "But wait! There's MORE!" The AMs only last a certain amount of time. Level 1 lasts 60 seconds, level 2, 90 seconds and level 3 120 seconds. So, basically you only have a minute and a half to build up 300 TP oterhwise you're never getting that level 3 AM. "But wait! There's MORE!" On top of that, you also cannot "renew" level 2 or level 3, meaning that: say you have level 2 AM and you are about to time-out (85 seconds have passed) and only have 215% TP, you decide to WS before time runs out and before you hit 300% TP... you just get kicked back down to level 1 AM again. So, I guess if you plan on maximizing your AM, you really need to pay attention to the clock; you don't want to kick off level 3 too soon!
Monday, December 15, 2008
The power of the force has stopped you, you hosers
So, the other day I went back into Campaign for a bit and bought some Cobra Unit Leggings. I was planning on holding out for the body piece, but since it didn't come out with this latest version update, I decided to just buy the rest of this Cobra Unit set in the meantime. I figured, this set will still help me out in Campaign Battles and also it'll give me any extra accuracy I may need against gods or ... well, against anything, in case my Acc is lacking. (ie. Last night I was missing a bit against Byakko, so I swapped in the new leggings in place of my Wulong Shoes, and that semed to be just enough to make a noticable difference.)
I also finally hit one of my goals and capped-out my h2h merits. ^^ I so happy. Now I can put the next 4 merit points into Crit Hits and cap that out too. After that will most likely be Kick Attacks, but I guess we'll see.
Disdain was on this weekend and has been cruisin along with his DNC, so we decided to hit up the bird camp with my SAM37 and cranked out a couple quick levels in 2 or 3 hours. It was actually a little wierd getting back to SAM. Like, I couldn't remember what the various JAs were and/or when to use them. (And Treu made sure the whole pt knew that I was clueless too. :-P lol) So I got my SAM up to 40 now. I'll probably put-of leveling for now tho and focus any freetime into finally breaking the latent on my Destroyers. (Sush likes making the whole LS know that THAT hasn't happened yet. :-P lol) Man, everyone's so quick to point out my flaws. Gosh. I have nunchuck skills. Bowstaff skills. ... but i digress....
I hit up Dynamis - San d'Oria Sunday night with HellsBells. I was pretty impressed because only 70 minutes had passed from the moment we entered until the moment we had killed the boss. And we only had 1 wipe the entire time too. The drops were kinda unusual on this run. Every other run I've been on with them, we've gotten like 12 - 20 pieces of AF to drop, and yet last night I think it was only about 6 pieces total. And nothing dropped until it turned Firesday. The only reason I noticed that was because all of a sudden 2 or 3 pieces had dropped in a matter of 4 mobs, so I looked at the clock and noticed it was still the first hour and a half into Firesday. /shrug Maybe that has something to do with it... maybe not. Some ppl in the LS were just saying it had to do with the new moon or something. Who knows.
But at least I got my Melee Hose!!! Woot woot! Yeah, the first AFv2 piece that dropped were MNK Legs, so they went straight to me. ^^ And like 3 pieces later.... another MNK legs drops... which just gets autosorted. :-P Seriously. Apparently noone in this LS wants Monk AF. (So I made a point to tell everyone in LolFail as soon as we were done that, if they want Monk Afv2, they gotta join HellsBells. lol) I don't get it; Melee Hose are like the next best thing to Byakko's Haidate for a TP build for Monk, and yet noone wants it? (They ended up free-dropping to our main PLD, Carldiedrich, in case anyone was wondering.) Whateva. I got mine. I'm happy.
So, now I have the 2 AF pieces that I really wanted/needed from Dynamis (hands and legs) and I think I still might continue to come to any future runs that I have access to. Might as well keep collecting points for when I get a few other jobs up to 75 and, hell, maybe even start collecting on other items if good stuff is just gonna free-drop like this!
Finally, LolFail killed all gods last night. Got some decent drops and should make roughly 1.3 million just off of the AH items. Only Sunday and already makin some big bank. Nice! We also apparently have a buyer or two in line for Byakko's Haidate. We're gonna be selling those off for 4.75 million a pop. (oh so nice) So, we've already determined that, to make it fair to ppl with points in the LS, that we're gonna be trading off and on with sales. Member gets one. One gets sold. Member gets one. One gets sold. etc... This is obviously gonna delay my haidate a little bit, but then again, I'm not gonna complain about the amount of income we'll be making off of this stuff.
All-in-all, a successful weekend!
I also finally hit one of my goals and capped-out my h2h merits. ^^ I so happy. Now I can put the next 4 merit points into Crit Hits and cap that out too. After that will most likely be Kick Attacks, but I guess we'll see.
Disdain was on this weekend and has been cruisin along with his DNC, so we decided to hit up the bird camp with my SAM37 and cranked out a couple quick levels in 2 or 3 hours. It was actually a little wierd getting back to SAM. Like, I couldn't remember what the various JAs were and/or when to use them. (And Treu made sure the whole pt knew that I was clueless too. :-P lol) So I got my SAM up to 40 now. I'll probably put-of leveling for now tho and focus any freetime into finally breaking the latent on my Destroyers. (Sush likes making the whole LS know that THAT hasn't happened yet. :-P lol) Man, everyone's so quick to point out my flaws. Gosh. I have nunchuck skills. Bowstaff skills. ... but i digress....
I hit up Dynamis - San d'Oria Sunday night with HellsBells. I was pretty impressed because only 70 minutes had passed from the moment we entered until the moment we had killed the boss. And we only had 1 wipe the entire time too. The drops were kinda unusual on this run. Every other run I've been on with them, we've gotten like 12 - 20 pieces of AF to drop, and yet last night I think it was only about 6 pieces total. And nothing dropped until it turned Firesday. The only reason I noticed that was because all of a sudden 2 or 3 pieces had dropped in a matter of 4 mobs, so I looked at the clock and noticed it was still the first hour and a half into Firesday. /shrug Maybe that has something to do with it... maybe not. Some ppl in the LS were just saying it had to do with the new moon or something. Who knows.
But at least I got my Melee Hose!!! Woot woot! Yeah, the first AFv2 piece that dropped were MNK Legs, so they went straight to me. ^^ And like 3 pieces later.... another MNK legs drops... which just gets autosorted. :-P Seriously. Apparently noone in this LS wants Monk AF. (So I made a point to tell everyone in LolFail as soon as we were done that, if they want Monk Afv2, they gotta join HellsBells. lol) I don't get it; Melee Hose are like the next best thing to Byakko's Haidate for a TP build for Monk, and yet noone wants it? (They ended up free-dropping to our main PLD, Carldiedrich, in case anyone was wondering.) Whateva. I got mine. I'm happy.
So, now I have the 2 AF pieces that I really wanted/needed from Dynamis (hands and legs) and I think I still might continue to come to any future runs that I have access to. Might as well keep collecting points for when I get a few other jobs up to 75 and, hell, maybe even start collecting on other items if good stuff is just gonna free-drop like this!
Finally, LolFail killed all gods last night. Got some decent drops and should make roughly 1.3 million just off of the AH items. Only Sunday and already makin some big bank. Nice! We also apparently have a buyer or two in line for Byakko's Haidate. We're gonna be selling those off for 4.75 million a pop. (oh so nice) So, we've already determined that, to make it fair to ppl with points in the LS, that we're gonna be trading off and on with sales. Member gets one. One gets sold. Member gets one. One gets sold. etc... This is obviously gonna delay my haidate a little bit, but then again, I'm not gonna complain about the amount of income we'll be making off of this stuff.
All-in-all, a successful weekend!
Friday, December 12, 2008
Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'...
Well, not enough ppl showed up for our Kirin run last night, so we ended up doing a bunch of farming instead. . . which turned out to be a pretty good thing. We were rolling through NMs really quickly and relatively painlessly.
Pop-items obtained last night:
- Gem of the West
- Gem of the East
- Gem of the North
- Springstone
- Summerstone
- Diorite -> (didn't pop Ulli yet)
- Ro'Maeve spring water -> Winterstone
- Ro'Maeve spring water -> Winterstone
So basically we got almost an entire 5-gods popset. ^^
I've also been keeping track of attendance, pop-items and dropped items in the new spreadsheet. Sush already told me last night that it's a HUGE improvement over what he normally gets when someone else takes attendance. I replied with something along the lines of "Always glad to help out. Anything to make your job easier, thus keeping you and the LS around longer... at least til I get my Haidate. lol" But yeah, today I decided that I'll be keeping the Attendance and the Items Tracking lists in their respective spreadsheet tabs on a per-week basis; otherwise these sheets could get out of control fairly quickly. I also decided to add another spreadsheet to keep together a list of who wants what items and who's in the lead for those items. Check it out here.
This weekend will probably consist of just being in merit parties trying to get my Destroyers finally broken as well as get that last 7k xp that I need to finally cap-out my h2h merits. ^^
Pop-items obtained last night:
- Gem of the West
- Gem of the East
- Gem of the North
- Springstone
- Summerstone
- Diorite -> (didn't pop Ulli yet)
- Ro'Maeve spring water -> Winterstone
- Ro'Maeve spring water -> Winterstone
So basically we got almost an entire 5-gods popset. ^^
I've also been keeping track of attendance, pop-items and dropped items in the new spreadsheet. Sush already told me last night that it's a HUGE improvement over what he normally gets when someone else takes attendance. I replied with something along the lines of "Always glad to help out. Anything to make your job easier, thus keeping you and the LS around longer... at least til I get my Haidate. lol" But yeah, today I decided that I'll be keeping the Attendance and the Items Tracking lists in their respective spreadsheet tabs on a per-week basis; otherwise these sheets could get out of control fairly quickly. I also decided to add another spreadsheet to keep together a list of who wants what items and who's in the lead for those items. Check it out here.
This weekend will probably consist of just being in merit parties trying to get my Destroyers finally broken as well as get that last 7k xp that I need to finally cap-out my h2h merits. ^^
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
It's a Festivus miracle!
Good stuff! Good stuff last night!
1. I implemented and started using my new Google Spreadsheet to start tracking LolFail member attendance and item drops.
2. We killed LOTS of Gods: 1 Suzaku, 1 Seiryu, 2 Genbu, and 4 Byakko. Well, technically "popped" 4 Byakko, but only killed 3... that first one sucked. Not really sure whether it had to do with the fact we were fighting it on Lightsday or just the WHMs weren't playing thier role properly and keeping the PLD tanks alive. Maybe a little of everything. But whateva.
3. Treu got his Haidate! Which means it's time for him to start loot-whoring everything he can get his grubby little hands on now that he's not really saving up LS points for anything. He says he might start saving up for a D Body, but since there's not really a line for it, that shouldn't be an issue.
4. Exion got his Haidate!!
5. Lux got booted from the LS!!! (This was kinda funny cuz Exion /tells me "It's like winning the lottery! I get my kitty pants and Lux gets the boot!" rofl) Yeah, Lux has just been a really annoying prick lately. Last night he just wouldn't shut up and kept badmouthing pretty much anyone that would say anything in LS chat. The night before he wouldn't let us kill Despot; it was like he just wanted to take it out himself and keep the item to sell on his own or something... whateva. Apparently he ended up dying and we got it anyways. lol After we took a vote, the results came back: Should Lux be kicked out? 11 yes, 6 no. And then Lux procedes to say how those 6 ppl are complete morons and should be shot or something. So... the 6 that voted for him to STAY are morons... wth? O.o I don't know. I'm guessin this kid probably forgot to take his ritalin the past few days or something.
So... good stuff! Tonight, Wednesday, apparently is a night off so I'm not really sure what I'll do with myself tonight. Go out drinkin? Rock Band 2? Campaign Battles? Pop my 2 sky coffers? Dynamis - Dem? SO MANY OPTIONS!!!
1. I implemented and started using my new Google Spreadsheet to start tracking LolFail member attendance and item drops.
2. We killed LOTS of Gods: 1 Suzaku, 1 Seiryu, 2 Genbu, and 4 Byakko. Well, technically "popped" 4 Byakko, but only killed 3... that first one sucked. Not really sure whether it had to do with the fact we were fighting it on Lightsday or just the WHMs weren't playing thier role properly and keeping the PLD tanks alive. Maybe a little of everything. But whateva.
3. Treu got his Haidate! Which means it's time for him to start loot-whoring everything he can get his grubby little hands on now that he's not really saving up LS points for anything. He says he might start saving up for a D Body, but since there's not really a line for it, that shouldn't be an issue.
4. Exion got his Haidate!!
5. Lux got booted from the LS!!! (This was kinda funny cuz Exion /tells me "It's like winning the lottery! I get my kitty pants and Lux gets the boot!" rofl) Yeah, Lux has just been a really annoying prick lately. Last night he just wouldn't shut up and kept badmouthing pretty much anyone that would say anything in LS chat. The night before he wouldn't let us kill Despot; it was like he just wanted to take it out himself and keep the item to sell on his own or something... whateva. Apparently he ended up dying and we got it anyways. lol After we took a vote, the results came back: Should Lux be kicked out? 11 yes, 6 no. And then Lux procedes to say how those 6 ppl are complete morons and should be shot or something. So... the 6 that voted for him to STAY are morons... wth? O.o I don't know. I'm guessin this kid probably forgot to take his ritalin the past few days or something.
So... good stuff! Tonight, Wednesday, apparently is a night off so I'm not really sure what I'll do with myself tonight. Go out drinkin? Rock Band 2? Campaign Battles? Pop my 2 sky coffers? Dynamis - Dem? SO MANY OPTIONS!!!
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Dream, Dream, Dream
Vaguely remember my dream from last night... during the 4 hours or so that I actually got some sleep...
Something about Salvage gear again... although I don't think it was Usukane. Don't think it was really ANY existing Salvage set. Maybe I was thinking it was a new Salvage or ZNM set added in with the version update yesterday... whateva.
So, I'm going through these 3 sets of 3 rooms (thinking about Einherjar?) and haggling with other characters about prices for items that I need to get my gear. Sometimes it was gil. Othertimes it was LS points. Othertimes it was just agreeing to go on an NM run or something. One or two times were just me talking to the person and getting the item right away. ... I never got the final 9th item that I needed to complete my set.
Then there was something about either running through sky or lower delkfutt's tower... just CRUISING past mobs that should be aggroing but they were always facing a different direction and I'd just run right behind them with out being spotted. (obviously this part came from the dio farming the other night when i aggroed a stat.)
Hmmm. What else... I know there was another part....
Maybe it had to do with sea?
Maybe it had to do with a weapon? (h2h or sword or something??)
Maybe it had to do with Dynamis?
Maybe it had to do with ...
For some reason I'm thinking it had to do with "moss" or the ground/floor. ("Moss" was my "green thing" when Treu and I were playing "I spy ..." last night while waiting for Despot to pop.) Maybe I was recalling a conversation that someone brought up in Dynamis the other night asking why Elvaan are the only ones the die face-up and everyone else dies face-down? /shrug
Meh. Can't remember. Shoulda wrote this down earlier.
Something about Salvage gear again... although I don't think it was Usukane. Don't think it was really ANY existing Salvage set. Maybe I was thinking it was a new Salvage or ZNM set added in with the version update yesterday... whateva.
So, I'm going through these 3 sets of 3 rooms (thinking about Einherjar?) and haggling with other characters about prices for items that I need to get my gear. Sometimes it was gil. Othertimes it was LS points. Othertimes it was just agreeing to go on an NM run or something. One or two times were just me talking to the person and getting the item right away. ... I never got the final 9th item that I needed to complete my set.
Then there was something about either running through sky or lower delkfutt's tower... just CRUISING past mobs that should be aggroing but they were always facing a different direction and I'd just run right behind them with out being spotted. (obviously this part came from the dio farming the other night when i aggroed a stat.)
Hmmm. What else... I know there was another part....
Maybe it had to do with sea?
Maybe it had to do with a weapon? (h2h or sword or something??)
Maybe it had to do with Dynamis?
Maybe it had to do with ...
For some reason I'm thinking it had to do with "moss" or the ground/floor. ("Moss" was my "green thing" when Treu and I were playing "I spy ..." last night while waiting for Despot to pop.) Maybe I was recalling a conversation that someone brought up in Dynamis the other night asking why Elvaan are the only ones the die face-up and everyone else dies face-down? /shrug
Meh. Can't remember. Shoulda wrote this down earlier.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Company always on the run, Destiny is a rising sun...
This past weekend didn't even turn out remotely as good as I had anticipated.
CoP:
On Saturday Disdain wanted to start blitzing thru CoP and I still needed to do Promy Mea and Promy Dem. Well, we got our party together: Treu and Hybrid on SMN, me and Zspa on WAR/NIN, Disdain on DNC/NIN and Ramoth on RNG. Well the first Mea we failed, but that was mainly because we didn't have enough animas and didn't quite use the ones we had at the right moments. Disdain altered the plan a little bit for when we pop the animas and the 2nd run ended up being a cakewalk.
Then ppl had to start going their own ways to events or dinner or whatnot, so we were just going to put off Dem until Sunday. Well... we ended up not getting back together because someone was always busy the entire day. But we did farm up a bunch more remnants and memories so it shouldn't be that bad if/when we DO get around to Dem. Hopefully tonight around 9pm... but then again, since the update was today, everyone will probably be busy running around checking out the new stuff. Still not clearing my Promies makes me a saaaaaad panda. ; ;
ENM:
Sheep in Antlion's Clothing. Me, Treu, Sush, Hybrid and Drayco. Beat it with 5 minutes to spare. No worthwhile drops.
Dynamis:
Sunday night HellsBells went on a Dynamis - Windurst run. FINALLY I can get my 4th city clear, right?! . . . Wrong. :-P A n00b ended up not paying attention and pulled the deathhouse. We wiped, reraised and then realized we still had a couple ppl trapped in front of the deathhouse, so we had to pick them up before moving on. Paxton ended up organizing the BLMs to time-nuke the statues and then everyone took out the remaining mobs. I had to use {Hundred Fists} and before it even wore, the damn mob we were fighting puts up Perfect Dodge. /sigh oh well. We cleared the deathhouse without further incident and the lost members rejoined.
Another wipe took place a little later because someone pulled something they weren't supposed to. ({Welcome!} to {Dynamis}!) We raise again and by the time we were set to go, we had less than 15 minutes to clear the center and then kill the boss. So, we try to speed through the center and ... well, I think you know where this is going. Wipe once again. We start raising and see the 3 minute warning and just ended up giving up. No Windy clear for Khrone. And that makes me a saaad sad panda. ; ;
Sky:
I missed the first Kirin kill cuz I was in Dynamis. I get up there as fast as possible and miss a Seiryu as well. Then we just farm for Dios. By the time I get to the camp, they had already gotten 2 right away. I head back towards the entrance to open the yellow gate for someone... apparently was seen by a stat when I used up my last invis powder, was killed, {fun}. (this was death #4 in the past 3 hours.) Whatever.
We leave to hit up Kirin again now that everyone has their 2-hours back. It takes me 13, yes THIRTEEN, attempts to get to the Kirin room. Over a stack of sneak pots used up. Had to borrow more from Kota who was stuck in pretty much the same rut I was. One of the times leaving the pot room I hear him say "help", so I turn around and see that he's attacking a weapon. Why? I don't know. So I figure he just wants to do something while we're running in circles. I engage. I ask "why we attacking this?" He replies "aggro" and then promptly dies. I immediately turn and run for my life. Guess what happens next! (this was death #5 in the past 3 hours.) Whatever. Oh, and Kota said I was bad luck and that's why HE kept failing to get into the Kirin room too. So I choose a different path...
I eventually get into the Kirin room because I gave up on the western path and too the eastern (Water) path. That worked for me the first try. /sigh Gotta remember that from now on. We kill Kirin with a quickness. We leave. Kill like 2 stats outside and then take out Despot right away. Then it was back to dio farming til 3:45am. (yay 3 hours of sleep til i gotta get up for work again!)
Lots of death and lack of sleep makes me a very sad panda. ; ;
Version Update:
Yus! Version update is here! And it actually installed relatively quickly for me tonight. (20 minutes tops I think.) Unfortunately no new ranks (level 5) and no new campaign gear, so I guess I'm just spending my allied notes on a Cobra Unit Cap and Leggings for better Acc while WSing. /shrug There's really nothing else I'd need the notes for until I get other jobs up higher so why not, right?
But yeah. It's been a kinda depressing past few days in-game. Hopefully things will turn around shortly. (Like we plan on hitting up the bird camp [S] with Disdain's DNC37 and my NIN37 and SAM37 this coming weekend.)
On a good note: I put a 7th merit into H2H. w00t! Almost done with it!
And just to kill some time, I went and finally completed the Blade of Death quest for the Deathbringer (GS for DRK). Just had to run and trade the old GS basically since I completed the 100 kills over a YEAR ago. lol Yeah, finished the kills on 7/28/2007. I guess I haven't really even GLANCED at DRK since then.
CoP:
On Saturday Disdain wanted to start blitzing thru CoP and I still needed to do Promy Mea and Promy Dem. Well, we got our party together: Treu and Hybrid on SMN, me and Zspa on WAR/NIN, Disdain on DNC/NIN and Ramoth on RNG. Well the first Mea we failed, but that was mainly because we didn't have enough animas and didn't quite use the ones we had at the right moments. Disdain altered the plan a little bit for when we pop the animas and the 2nd run ended up being a cakewalk.
Then ppl had to start going their own ways to events or dinner or whatnot, so we were just going to put off Dem until Sunday. Well... we ended up not getting back together because someone was always busy the entire day. But we did farm up a bunch more remnants and memories so it shouldn't be that bad if/when we DO get around to Dem. Hopefully tonight around 9pm... but then again, since the update was today, everyone will probably be busy running around checking out the new stuff. Still not clearing my Promies makes me a saaaaaad panda. ; ;
ENM:
Sheep in Antlion's Clothing. Me, Treu, Sush, Hybrid and Drayco. Beat it with 5 minutes to spare. No worthwhile drops.
Dynamis:
Sunday night HellsBells went on a Dynamis - Windurst run. FINALLY I can get my 4th city clear, right?! . . . Wrong. :-P A n00b ended up not paying attention and pulled the deathhouse. We wiped, reraised and then realized we still had a couple ppl trapped in front of the deathhouse, so we had to pick them up before moving on. Paxton ended up organizing the BLMs to time-nuke the statues and then everyone took out the remaining mobs. I had to use {Hundred Fists} and before it even wore, the damn mob we were fighting puts up Perfect Dodge. /sigh oh well. We cleared the deathhouse without further incident and the lost members rejoined.
Another wipe took place a little later because someone pulled something they weren't supposed to. ({Welcome!} to {Dynamis}!) We raise again and by the time we were set to go, we had less than 15 minutes to clear the center and then kill the boss. So, we try to speed through the center and ... well, I think you know where this is going. Wipe once again. We start raising and see the 3 minute warning and just ended up giving up. No Windy clear for Khrone. And that makes me a saaad sad panda. ; ;
Sky:
I missed the first Kirin kill cuz I was in Dynamis. I get up there as fast as possible and miss a Seiryu as well. Then we just farm for Dios. By the time I get to the camp, they had already gotten 2 right away. I head back towards the entrance to open the yellow gate for someone... apparently was seen by a stat when I used up my last invis powder, was killed, {fun}. (this was death #4 in the past 3 hours.) Whatever.
We leave to hit up Kirin again now that everyone has their 2-hours back. It takes me 13, yes THIRTEEN, attempts to get to the Kirin room. Over a stack of sneak pots used up. Had to borrow more from Kota who was stuck in pretty much the same rut I was. One of the times leaving the pot room I hear him say "help", so I turn around and see that he's attacking a weapon. Why? I don't know. So I figure he just wants to do something while we're running in circles. I engage. I ask "why we attacking this?" He replies "aggro" and then promptly dies. I immediately turn and run for my life. Guess what happens next! (this was death #5 in the past 3 hours.) Whatever. Oh, and Kota said I was bad luck and that's why HE kept failing to get into the Kirin room too. So I choose a different path...
I eventually get into the Kirin room because I gave up on the western path and too the eastern (Water) path. That worked for me the first try. /sigh Gotta remember that from now on. We kill Kirin with a quickness. We leave. Kill like 2 stats outside and then take out Despot right away. Then it was back to dio farming til 3:45am. (yay 3 hours of sleep til i gotta get up for work again!)
Lots of death and lack of sleep makes me a very sad panda. ; ;
Version Update:
Yus! Version update is here! And it actually installed relatively quickly for me tonight. (20 minutes tops I think.) Unfortunately no new ranks (level 5) and no new campaign gear, so I guess I'm just spending my allied notes on a Cobra Unit Cap and Leggings for better Acc while WSing. /shrug There's really nothing else I'd need the notes for until I get other jobs up higher so why not, right?
But yeah. It's been a kinda depressing past few days in-game. Hopefully things will turn around shortly. (Like we plan on hitting up the bird camp [S] with Disdain's DNC37 and my NIN37 and SAM37 this coming weekend.)
On a good note: I put a 7th merit into H2H. w00t! Almost done with it!
And just to kill some time, I went and finally completed the Blade of Death quest for the Deathbringer (GS for DRK). Just had to run and trade the old GS basically since I completed the 100 kills over a YEAR ago. lol Yeah, finished the kills on 7/28/2007. I guess I haven't really even GLANCED at DRK since then.
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