Week in review <3

So whats happened. Week in recap~

-------------------------------------Hydra (CK Style)-----------------------------------------
CK went up against Hydra, the super secret HNM that no one ever kills. And with good reason. MFER IS ANNOYING!
















Stats on this creep...
Begins with 3 heads, each head boosts the mob. Gotta love AI mob defense mechanisms -.-

Either way, we died and gave up. It was a fun fight even though we totally got maulga'd.

------------------------------Dynamis-Xarcabard (Invictus-Style)-----------------------------
Invictus attempted Dynamis Lord on Wednesday. The run went awesome. Duelist Chapeau dropped off a normal mob, SMG ended up winning lot.



And Cher's victorious moment:
I had to brighten it because I toned my tell colors down so I could talk smack about my roomie without her noticing...
















But I will definitley say <3















Darkfalcon leading the pack XD!
















This time around Ying and Yang died at exactly the same time, by a aga from one of our fine blms! Good work guys! We got em down now =)





One of my only screenies from the DL fight. We got it to about 60%. Gotta do some adjustments on positioning and whatnot, maybe work out a few skillchains and stuff. It can only improve. Most of us pretty well knew going into this it was going to be a best-effort attempt. The leaders were all very satisfied with the run and can't wait to attempt it again very soon. When we killed all the dragons, we had an hour left going into Ying and Yang. Time meant nothing for us, work on the DL strategy and we'll have Xarcabard won!
















Side Note...
Attention to Invictus members lacking CoP access:
I'm planning out a Dynamis-Buburimu run sometime in November. Working out the lotting situation and whatnot, will keep posted on it. Try to get to chapter 4 (defeat CoP Diabolos) so that you can attend!

Chocobo =)

That is all =)

Jormykins

Second time CK has ever attempted it since I joined. One time was a few months ago. With the defeat of Nidhogg under our belts, our leader Anaeran wanted to test us on a target that was physically and strategically a bit harder. Nidhogg half the battle was claiming. After claim we were met with the real fight. Jormungand on the other hand is a lonely little Wyrm who sits atop Uleguerand range, typically for days because ... he has little value. The one thing about Jorm however, its a tough and durationed fight. He uses skills like an almost instantly casted Blizzaga III and Gregarious Wing. He also 2 hours with Blood Weapon, making tanking with a Paladin a bit frightening. Eulore tanked it like a pro though as PLD/NIN.

So we gather our troops up top around 7pm. Nice turnout. Decent sized Add party and a party completely of summoners. The add party is the most vital party other than the party keeping the tanks alive in the main alliance. If we lose the add party, the fight is over. They did an extrodinary job last night and hope that in the future can continue to.

We started off the fight with a lot of error. The placement wasn't right or something. Either way when she came in she nailed us hard and took down our tanks before she hit 97%. Instead of trying to recover early, we reset and restarted. The second time things went much better. The lowest we ended up getting the wyrm was to 52%, which is a vast improvement from the 73% we had previously gotten to. I have a few images but I'm currently at work so that'll have to come later.

The fight was definitley fun and was definitley a change from our typical gods/kirin Thursday nights. The progress was excellent. We'll take em down soon enough CK!

In other news, Invictus had Dynamis-Xarcabard on Wednesday. Drops weren't as spectacular as our insane 10AF2 Beaucedine run, but still we had a few interesting drops. Scout Jerkin (our first) and Koga Tekko dropped, going to Ariesol and Jibond respectively. Glad to see both of them obtain the pieces. Very happy to replace the koga tekkos that disappeared when JB left -.-.... Anyways!

Slated for this weekend is Dynamis-San D'Oria. Also is a Rostrum pumps run for CK and back to the grind in sky. Who knows what else we might stumble into ;)

Sea can and WILL drive you mad...

So CelestialKnights went swimming in Al'Taeiu last night. Target. Ix'Aern (DRG). Someone in my LS said, "You know, when SE was creating sea, they thought to themselves 'What can we do the most to piss the player base off?'" For reals, I think that was a factor in their creation...

We were down there from 8pm-11:30 (some of us more farming up Aern organs ^.^). The pop condition for this little jerk are relatively simple. But... you can spend up to five hours trying to get the thing to spawn. There are 4 rooms where this aern can be spawned. You kill the 3 placeholders in each room. If the appropriate placeholder is killed, Ix'Aern will spawn in the middle of the room.

So. After about 2 hours. We spawn him ^^b!!!! Then! We prepare to kill it! AND IT DESPAWNS T_T................................ So we pick on Aeron. Alot. And keep toughing it out.

At this point, someone mentions that another linkshell on another forum stated that if it despawns it will respawn soon after at another location. So we continue. About to give up, Aeron says 'Guys lets check one last point and we'll call it a night.' Thank god we did lol. After the first Aern was killed, low and behold he turns his evil little head. Rsouljah took no time and pulled it up. We killed it while kiting and sleeping everything else in the room.

Deed obtained too! CelestialKnight has obtained its first full tier 2 Jailer pop set =)

On another note, Naotakun got his Dalmatica synthed and uncursed the other day. Heres some shots of the Kiwi during the event. Note the one where Landstar's synthesizing it, Naotakun bites his nails nervously in the corner.






Little AzureWind has also grown into adolescence ^_^

CelestialKnights... are Nidhogg Slayers!

Stealing a few images from Eulore's blog; I had my game running full screen to cut down on lag so no images from me =(

M.Body and A.Body dropped. Koenig Curiass and Dalmatica.. Wow... Congratulations to Enz and Naotakun on these priceless pieces! Rigelus also has all but one item (Behemoth Tongue) for his Black Belt now!



CelestialKnights proved great team work and showed incredible skill last night. I'm glad to be a part of you guys and look forward to many things in the future!