Zylia's Adventures

The Imperial Age

2007-11-07T12:28:00.000-08:00

After a 7 month break from FFXI, 6 months of which I spent playing World of Warcraft, me and my boyfriend decided to come back to the game, together. We are currently in Imperial and enjoying the relaxed environment.

I joined up with Dejavu's limbus shell. Very good way of running the shell, on average we pop omega every week, farming chips to work toward a new pop set. I also love that he splits up our group for several different zones, allowing us to cover more ground faster. Not to mention, the ability for black mages to low-man my favorite zone - the kings! It also boosts the overal coin count at the end of the day, which rocks. While I do want some pieces of what Ultima has to offer, Homam gear in general seems more time efficient to do. The Omega fight is much more clean. The Omega gear is much more beneficial. Either way I have to give kudos to Dejavu for bugging me and Drac to join his group XD.

I tried doing Salvage with Liefe's group for a few weeks. Wak said it'd be a good opportunity for me. I think I jumped the gun in joining though. While it was really fun to do and I enjoyed it, I really don't have time to reliably do assault. I'll infrequently attend Ariesol's assaults, but as far as a static I really don't have one. Rather than staying with the Salvage group and ruining my assault points I had already earned.. I backed out early. I have no Yigit gear at present time and really would like to work on it, as well as getting a few other pieces that might benefit my thief. Even if I could do Salvage reliably... I really don't have the time to farm for ores or anything once I do begin collecting the equipment pieces. Good luck to DeltaEnforcers and sorry that I couldn't remain a part of the group!

After dropping Assault from my schedule, I picked back up my Invictus pearl, attending Wednesday and Saturday. I've always liked Dynamis, and for Invictus it still is free and has a strict time limit. I feel bad after leaving Salvage for it, but Dynamis doesn't require extra time outside of the event, making it realistically less time and money consuming for me. I also have two jobs at 75 that have minimal equipment in terms of dynamis gear, with a third almost 75. Invictus at present time is one of the longest remaining linkshells on the server (has not been reformed or changed names, Peregrine quitting did not affect the linkshell other than a co-lead making a new pearl). While everyone likes to point at the fact that they haven't beaten the Dynamis Lord, the group itself is pretty content with how they are doing. We can take most Dynamis town-zones with minimal people (<18, did Dynamis-San D'Oria with around 13-15 people the other day). We can successfully win Beaucedine also with minimal people. Dynamis Xarcabard is farmable, defeating all NMs with the exception of Dynamis Lord himself. Most of us have a lot of different jobs, and while a low number of people may sound risky, overall most of us are more content as we have less competition for Relic. The bank has also began taking hundred coins when necessary, which for most of us is fine as long as we don't have to pay to get in. I have always loved and still love this group.

Alot of people showed up between the time I came back and present. Rigelus and Genjuro came back almost the same day. Jediknight was back playing again when I came back. Rsoul and Eulore managed to find a way to play again. Shaw came back the same day me and Dracoden did.

It seems that Wings of the Goddess is promising to deliver in ways that CoP and ToAU did not. Two new jobs have been announced, dancer and scholar. I intend to level dancer when it comes out if possible... but aside from that... the storyline looks amazing. I've researched some of the history of Vana'diel and it will be incredible to see how they adapt us adventurers into the Crystal War... It will be nice to see more of the heated rivalries that existed as well as see some familiar faces in situations that we had only heard about. I'm just so excited. Lacking content my ass =P... They're suppose to have a Conquest system similar to the current world's, based on how successful the factions are. It comes out in a few weeks, and the trailers look extremely promising. Just walking through zones like Batallia Downs, Rolanberry Fields and Sauromague Champlain and seeing their fortifications whole will in itself be an amazing sight. I'm very excited.

Anyways! I'm back after mooooonths.... and feeling much better about everything <3

Not a farewell...

2007-02-25T08:06:00.000-08:00

Over the last 3 years, my character Zylia has grown tremendously within Vana'diel. But all games come to an end. All of them have a finishing point. FFXI is created to have stories end, but the journey never ceases.

In the last 3 years I've given up a lot of opportunities and caused problems within multiple areas of my life. Because of this, last week I decided that when presented with the opportunity to resolve all of my problems, that I step away from the game and move on.

In the next few weeks I will be cancelling my Content ID and I will be moving out *hopefully* to an apartment with someone very dear to me. Over the years i've had multiple people trying to tell me that the source of my depression and unhappiness was the game, but in reality the game was putting over a false veil of happiness, while I turned a blind eye to the world around me crumbling.

The game in recent times has become a source of drama and stress, originating when Rsouljah left the game, and continuing and heightening when Anaeran attempted to pin me as the reason for him quitting. The guy never liked the game. One job to 75, underequipped. He found more joy in putting the people together than playing it. The hatred and drama he attempted to pin me with really made me ask myself 'Why am I putting up with this game and this kind of drama in my life?' I let this game take over my life and now that I haven't played it for almost a week, I feel so much more happy and content with how things are going.

This game is a drug. It is an addiction...
Addiction is a chronic disorder proposed to be precipitated by a combination of genetic, biological/pharmacological and social factors. Addiction is characterized by the repeated use of substances or behaviors despite clear evidence of morbidity secondary to such use.

Final fantasy puts you into a social world in which you can earn money, benefit, prosper. Real life puts you in a social world where you can earn money, benefit, prosper... the problem with Final Fantasy, is one day, everything you work hard on and try to obtain will one day disappear. Friends from across the country will become lesser friends as you leave the game. The friends in game wont come to your wedding, wont be there for you when you have a problem. Can't house you if you get kicked out of your apartment. Can't go to a bar or movie with you. They can't go on a vacation with you. They can't travel to a nearby town. They can't pick you up if your car breaks down.

The social ties in Final Fantasy is what makes it addicting. The storyline of the game wholeheartedly is not that impressive. The interaction and group work is outstanding however.

Someone told me they didn't understand how it could become so addicting. I compare it to people who go to college parties all week instead of studying. They thrive off the social interaction, the feeling of belonging, the comfort and fun they get. FF wraps up all of that into a square room where the most you need to do is eat sleep and use the bathroom.

I'm not leaving FFXI because I want to. I love the game, theres so much I haven't achieved, theres events I've wanted to do, fights I've wanted to do, gear I've wanted for well over a year. I led a Dynamis shell for over a year and the time flew by. I'm leaving the game because there are things more important that I need to place a priority on in my life.

My advice to anyone looking to play FFXI... don't bind yourself to events. One of my biggest problems in the game would be that I would handcuff myself to the schedule. Not everyone does it but it can be a serious problem. Its what caused my relationship to suffer. It caused problems with my parents and sibling. There is a reason that the warning screen comes up before you enter the game. I remember when i first played it, I took a screenshot and showed my good friend and we laughed about it.

That warning is there for a reason. Don't ignore it.

With that said I will not say goodbye to my friends, but I will ask that you contact me with your AOL/MSN/Yahoo! screennames or emails. My biggest problem in quitting is that I'm scared I wont ever talk to you all again. I will still keep the internet and AIM and I will check up on the forums. But I think as far as the game goes, Zylia's spent her time in Vana'diel long enough. She was a good thief, a damned good black mage, with talents in other areas of magery.

I'm going to miss Zylia alot and miss interacting with everyone. I will still be reachable however, be it IM or email and I will keep in touch.

You guys have made these last three years absolutely unbelievable and brought me so much happiness. I'm 21 years old now and I just can't bind myself to this game any longer. It's liberating to step away from it and smile.

~Zylia

Rising up from the tulmult

2007-02-09T05:55:00.000-08:00

This is my final fantasy blog and as such I will speak my mind on the recent events within my linkshell.

During the month of December to the month of January, I basically powerleveled my WHM staticing with Anaeran and Wakmidget, picking up anyone within the level range as we leveled. We worked on AF quests together, picked up a few close friends (a Japanese BLU named Fley was one of our almost static members lol). It was fun times. I'd melee and get picked on, but I was having fun with it. I built the parties most of the time. Things were easy when forming a party with a healer a tank and a refresh build into the core. When Wakmidget quit the static because of money things began to get hard. We had to spend extra time finding refreshes. A few parties I knew I could go without one, but my paladin was getting frustrated with the inability to have massive amounts of MP to hold hate with in a party. It caused a few serious stressing moments. One time I was told I could no longer form the parties because I would try to make do with two mages instead of aa refresh. This point of stress led to longer party formations and less progress ultimately.

Finally it came down to a time when I wanted to xp one night with a few friends. I'm not sure if it was to get a level or if it was to wind down from the day, but I wanted to xp sort of bad this night. I formed the party and at the time my RDM was a bit high for the static, but I was a refresh. I took Javir, Moriarti and Pauge who were all around level 68 and took them too Mamook, which was beyond my time at this point. The experience was a bit slow because of this. When proposing the idea, Anaeran was preoccupied spending some time with a newly found close friend in the game, leveling some low level jobs. I asked him if he wanted to experience with us, saying I'd go whm if he came, rdm if he didn't come. I was met with a response saying that I was jealous of his new friend, that I didn't want him to level with them, that I was trying to force him away from the static. The hostility was unnecessary. That night the xp wasn't exactly that great, and after all I would still have my WHM to static with him. It wouldn't hurt our melees to be at least a level higher, thinking things will die fast. I never thought it would be that much of an issue. Anaeran came out to the party, grudgingly. After about 10 minutes arguing with me about issues of jealousy and outleveling, he almost died. A bit tempered now, I told him with a bit of spite in my words to be quiet and tank and not worry about things now that he was here. He took great offense to this, and logged in a party of 4 members of the linkshell he loved. It hurt. And I was being blamed for it.

Maybe I deserved it. Maybe I tried to push him to come unknowingly. Yes I wanted him to come level, but this basically came from all of the times he told me about how hardcore he wanted to be 75, how he wanted to be 75 before he went back at the end of January. He wanted to be up in sky tanking gods for us and being the leader of the linkshell, making decisions and defending his team from our foe as a Paladin.

That dream will never come to be. After this night, the stress between him and me began to grow. At the time I was being discussed for an Officer's position within the linkshell. I was promoted based on my ability and trust. After this, one slight problem with points which was a legitimate mistake caused me to be met with a 'Zyl this is bullshit' comment from the leader. I forgot to add points earned for a night when the person was present, by doing so, this person was able to bypass another on Haidate lot. It was a mistake that had to be corrected but no one asked me straight up where the points came from. I was met with anger. None of the people questioning points went to me, the last person to update points. Instead they went to Anaeran, feeding his anger and bad interpretation of my character. The person whose points I messed up was someone who is really close to me now ingame and out. Because of this, people felt I was rigging points. I wasn't, but it didn't matter.

The next week brings up the downward spiral of the NFL toward the superbowl. Our shell has a Ventrilo server. During Dynamis-Bastok the game was on. The entire Vent channel which is usually spammed with comments like 'clear chat guys' 'focus guys' during dynamis, was filled with people getting excited about plays and passes and talking about players and talking about the superbowl and all types of things. Pulls were slowing down, things weren't being slept properly, pulls were mistimed resulting in links that focus needed to be placed on. I got a bit frustrated with this, but the people who were discussing it in vent, knowing that I'm not exactly a fan of football, took my attitude toward the screaming/shouting discussion of it during an event as 'Oh, Zylia's just a bitch when it comes to us watching football.' This added more to Anaeran's disgust with me. I tried to rein in focus, and was once again met with acid.

Then comes Vanguard.

A post was made on the officer forum discussing how Anaeran believed FFXI, a game he's played almost since release, was lacking in endgame content and the player base was full of hackers and cheaters to the point where people like CK who have no known botters (I say this because we do not endorse it, anyone who was doing it would've been removed no matter peoples tastes for the person, if they are uncaught or unadmitted, how does CK know?). He said that the old CK he knew also was gone and that all the new faces just don't add up to the old CK he knew. At this point, on the Officer's forum, he asks us to all go try this new game out and establish an 'Elite Endgame Guild.' The servers went up the day of his post, meaning there were no pre-established players, no bots, no at the top elite groups. Rsouljah had already declared his break from FFXI for a bit, but he and his irl friends picked it up. Typhus who was a Jr. Officer of CK picked it up. Rimare who was our website admin and one of our most frequent attendees picked it up. Nyyankee who is our main Dynamis tank picked it up. Also several others.

At the time, tension was high. It was viewed by many that this was an attempt to pull the shell over to Vanguard. Me and Moriarti at the time were the only acting leadership after this, and we had only been promoted 3 weeks earlier. Rsouljah was the foundation for the shell eventswise. It hurt very badly to see CK's core being lured to another game. When we told the LS where Ana had been, they were confused and we had the only explanation that he was playing another game and had made a post on officer forum encouraging people to try it.

The next few days we try to consolidate popsets of the fallen leaders. When Anaeran logs in, I have a few words for him. They weren't the right words to say and looking back I was a bit harsh. I was met with a 'Zylia blacklisted' comment in linkshell. I typed in 'Coward' on the linkshell and my pearlsack was broken. Wasn't blisted.

Later that day, after I apparently ruined Anaeran's goodbye to the linkshell, I was told by him that I was the reason he left the game. I pushed him to leave. Being pinned with the blame also caused me to be blamed with the reason for other people not being overly upset with his departure. I was called ugly, and other fowl names that I never expected to come from Anaeran.

Things have calmed down now and we remade the linkshell into 'MaliciousIntent' lead by my Moriarti <3

A disclaimer however, I was never upset with the departure/testing of Vanguard. The fact that the members were not equally exposed to it brings about the question of favoritism and a curiousity of cowardice on Anaeran's part. Anaeran and I are not on positive terms, and for this reason it is apparent that no arguement that involves himself and I would result in anything but venom. The initial reaction against Vanguard primarily was a fear that people had that all their time and efforts would go to waste and that we would no longer be able to funciton without a rennovation. After a week or so of cooling off, people are going about their business and moving on :)

I'll take the blame for him leaving if it resolves it. I want my linkshell to go back to being the prosperous linkshell who defeated Nidhogg on their first attempt. Though CelestialKnights is gone away, the family is still there. Ninya returned the other day and with the departure of a few members, some old members are seeking us out to rejoin now that the area of conflict they had has dissipated.

No linkshell will ever be drama free. I had a discussion earlier about how it is amusing when linkshells post 'Drama-free' on their recruiting sites. Any MMO, be it WoW, FFXI, Vanguard, EQ, all of them have the element that isn't present in a console game. People, personalities, attachments, friendships, rivalries. All of them play a role in the MMO, ultimately locking into it an element of drama. The most you can do is take it, confront it, and dismiss it as quickly as you can. To let it build and unresolve it will only cause your linkshell more pain and stress.

With that said, welcome in the age of Malicious Intent (which is lead by 4 thieves and a dragoon! lol) Last night we did 6 minis, 2 of each other than byakko (fing autumnstone..) Nothing overly great dropped other than ahands, but the fact that we are still rolling, still killing things, still going on with the day to day activities makes things that much better.

This post is my opinion and my viewpoint. I'm sure there are biases entailed due to my experiences. Do not color your attitudes of what happened based on what I have said in this arguement. I looked up to Anaeran for a very long time and being bit by him and thrown to the floor caused me to react negatively. Anyone would've. Anaeran still was a good leader for CK and built a hell of a linkshell. I still admire him for doing that much, but my personal and private opinion of him sits lower than most due to what I have had to endure.

With that said, the new linkshell's website is located at http://www.maliciousintent.info if anyone is interested :)

Sorry for all the words, just wanted to get my story out ._\

A goodbye to one of my best teammates and best friends

2006-12-17T10:11:00.000-08:00

Half of Quetzalcoatl is probably cheering at this post if they read it, but that doesn't matter. Last night was Invictus' first real attempt, thought out, planned attempt of a CoP Dynamis. I've worked this strategy out for quite some time. Laid out my own personal maps. Figured out where I can cut corners and where I can't. Last night was the test.

When we got there I was so nervous, esp when the ??? was at the monument and not one of the nearby locations. After that, on my way back, I had them pull the first dragon. The dragons are more of a mess than the mega boss lol. Especially the Heavy Stomp and Body Slam ones. Alot of the team was unprepared, as was I, but we persevered through it. I had a strategy laid out to pull Avitaras, Barong, Fleshfeaster, Taraesca, and Kuschel (sp on all those lol) By the time we got to my last one, which was Kuschel, time was low. Thinking we were going to lose anyways, we pulled Apocalyptic Beast as it ran by. Went down quickly with little or no problems, Thornsong being Dispellable (thank GOD). So we went farming after the win^^ Managed to get a BLM belt and a DRG belt. Probably 70ish coins. Not bad. More than I thought we'd get lol.

Anyways. During that one of my best friends and co-leader of Invictus logs on to say he has an announcement. After the win, he comes on and states he's leaving the game. He's not sure why, he doesn't have a real reason. But he's leaving.

I was a bit upset with it. I had opened up a spot on our 36/36 roster for him to come, he logged out prematurely so i called the said person back to the run. I was upset. He had promised he'd make it ; ;

I searched Peregrine later and he was in North Gustaberg. Nekoi sent me a tell asking if I could at least come to the graveyard of DFK (which I was never a part of). I silently made my way there, getting spammed with tells of support and questions about the direction of Invictus. Several members also made their way to the resting place of DFK. It's a very somber event. It was kind of nostalgic though, seeing Nekoi, Whitecloud, Durandarte... then many Invictus members showing up to say goodbye. Daveman waddled up that hill, Masa, Kaleia, Duffman... Reishu few others. It means alot to see this kind of support when the generalized opinion of my good friend Peregrine is negative. Alot of people only know him as the drama instigator of QCDN. My friends and my lsmates know him as so much more than that. He always found a way to make me smile or support what I was doing. He got me into Dynamis, he gave me tips on thief. He was my role model when I was a lower level thief in KoB.

I'm in CK and alot of them try to tell me that its a good thing he's leaving. They said the server will breathe a sigh of relief. These are all people who generally never knew him at the personal level.

The thing about Peregrine that most people don't understand is that he plays this game for the people in it. And he has a very important point. Your gear, your Ridills, your Adaberks. While they look nice and put out effective stats within the game, they don't compare to having someone who will make you smile when you are feeling down or upset. When Peregrine assails people on QCDN, generally its for 1 of 2 reasons. Firstly, he judges your character as one of greed and manipulation rather than one of caring about your fellow members. I'll demonstrate in this example. My linkshell leader Anaeran was one of the last 5 osodes our linkshell has obtained in CK. He's the leader, yet he allowed his members to feel the benefits ahead of himself. That to me means a lot. Quality person. Non-greed seeking. Etc. Secondly, he hates to see people who belittle other people. I once made the comment as I was pushing for CoP Dynamis in my shell (that looking back on it was completely unacceptable) that "Anyone who doesn't have Promyvions done is a joke" and I was railed for the comment.

As much as everyone hates him on the forum, theres a big chance that you've rubbed him the wrong way if you've been met by him with aggression. He's 90% more caring about the people in the game than the majority of the server, and I personally am going to take this as a huge loss.

I'm leaving my blog at this, at these comments. Just know that I'm hurting right now at the loss of a really good friend within the game.

To Invictus members: I'm working on picking things up and keeping it going. I have many of you who I can't afford to let down. You've all put so much into this shell, I can't see you walk away empty handed as long as I'm capable.

Keep in touch with me Pere. You know how to reach me, and Zylia will still be around if you ever find time to return. :)

We'll miss you Pere!

Kreutzet(s)..

2006-11-22T08:54:00.000-08:00

In my previous post, I eluded to the idea of getting myself a Sirocco Kukri. The day after that post I wandered my ass out to Teriggan, no idea when ToD was, and pitched my tent. No one was around which kind of worried me, but kind of didn't. I sat and sat, always got very excited when wind weather appeared. I was there for 9 hours, and figured the window had to be open... 3 hours later still no pop. I ended up spending 14 hours at Kreutzet before he popped. When he did pop, CC had JUST shown up and pulled a manticore. Thanks to Wakmidget's sleepy but vigilant eyes...

7:30 AM (this is a few days ago so don't even bother ToDing this XDXD) it died... >.o thats the longest camp of an NM I've ever endured.

And boom!

Thank you so much to all the members of CK who either touched base with the camp or endured the entire thing. Mine as well as my linkshell's efforts to camp this thing paid off greatly. The next spawn CK returned there. I had a Bahamut BCNM to go to, so I missed this one. Moriarti and a smaller group of CKs not attending Bahamut claimed Kreutzet (I'm told Nekoi claimed) and Moriarti's Kukri dropped. The next window we were outclaimed by a 66 THF.. next window again (but by a friend so I can't beat him up for any reason! but you meanie you outclaimed my ls! lol). The next morning we had no CC so we got Rimare's alternate character Voxx his Sirocco.

Chantal, Typhus and Pauge still need theirs, but I think we've lost the ToD ; ; We'll work on it again. The knife is definitely well worth the effort.

We also did some sky farming on Saturday in CK. Two BB's, Two Seiryu (2 A.legs, 1 W.hands, 1 Seriyu's Kote... I think that was about it..), and a Faust. Not bad but Ullik and Zip are the two we need most right now ; ; ahands where!!!!

Saturday night was supposed to be Invictus' Beaucedine, but ThirdStage once again dodged us, so we said screw it and just literally winged Valkurm XD It was fun as hell. We got RDM boots too so it wasn't a complete waste! lol...

Sunday was Proto-Omega night. Hoping and praying for a Homam Corazza, our wishes were not met;; but still Omega Hind Leg and Tail dropped. Eulore won the lot on the Hind Leg (which i want!!!) and I somehow won the Tail with a 600 lol. 2/5 Homam now! Starting up Temenos and Proto-Ultima path next week... good times!

Last night Gaillardia (our Japanese member whose practicing his English to an extent^^) was logging in Mamook when he stumbled across a mamool ja NM called Hundredfaced Hapool Ja. After looking up info about it, we rallied CK and took about 12 people there. We already had a manaburn in progress, so we ended up having 6 black mages in attendance, awesome! The photos speak for itself, its a crazy NM that clones itself >.<

TKO first round lol...
Second round go!!!

To my understanding... it drops a Katana. Not a ninja so no idea how good it is. Just one of those you hear about it and you just want to go beat it up type of things XD Gaillardia was shocked to see that so many CK showed up XDXD.

Kirin Revisited

2006-11-17T11:37:00.000-08:00

With our newfound ability to manaburn down Kirin and his adds, with some coaxing and poking around at the leaders, they let me go thief and finally use my damned armlets lol.

Now, I have a slight theory about the elusive Treasure Hunter. Realistically, (lol yes I said realistically), when you think about what Treasure Hunter does is cause a mob to drop more items. A thief 'subbed in' at the last 10% of a kirin or a byakko only hits him a few times, doing maybe 400-700 DMG depending on turning, placement, speed of kill, etc, maybe a little more. Damaging a mob this much, how many items would you carve from his carcass? When you aren't in the entire that severely limits the time a thief would have to concentrate on pulling items from the mob. Now off from the realistic crap. I think the amount of damage a thief inflicts or at least time in the battle on top of the amount of treasure hunter really impacts how much treasure hunter influences drops. Though keeping a thief in for 100% rather than 10% of the fight may only increase the amount of Treasure Hunter by 5% or so (not good with numbers, don't ever quote those figures lol) that still increases the likelihood of good drops by some amount.

I'm at work for the moment so I'm lacking pictures, but I did take alot ^_^ I'll leave placeholders and eventually swap in my photographs later.
Our byakko was kind of crappy. Typhus was subbed in at the last 10% (but was told he would be dropped for the duration of the fight even though he died :P) and all we managed to get was e.feet which went to Briddy and a behemoth hide I think. Moved onto Kirin and I managed to be allowed to come on thief with my Treasure Hunter+. I think a few people were a little annoyed but I was happy ^^. I stayed in the fight the entire time, pulled hate a few times, outparsed the ninjars (lol but only because they died a few times and I had sam sub lawl!!!). It felt so good to actually be on thief again. We didn't drop him as fast but I think for 1 it was Earthsday making Kirin stronger, and Naotakun's Wild Card didn't score as well as it did last time. Kirin still died in about 9 minutes, which is better than our old hour time lol. Drops were superb ^_^

Kirin's Osode to Pauge, Shining Cloth to gilsplit and boom!!! Neptunal Abjuration: Body to meeeee!!!

I almost blew 1.4M on a cursed harness because I was so excited. After some coaxing from Moriarti and a few others though, I browsed Batallia Downs and got one for 1.1M. Sold my 100c for a bit less than I could've, but its okay, I can make gil easy enough if I work at it. I need to finally uncurse my N.hands now too. I really feel alot better about my thief after last night, and I think I'm going to put a few of my other jobs on hold until I start pouring some gil into it.

Me and Moriarti need Sirocco Kukuri's too D:

Anyways! Dynamis-Xarcabard on Saturday was a little sloppyish, but it was okay. Had a bunch of new people and we were a bit chaotic. But to no matter. Congratz to Beckham on his Sorcerer's Petasos and Suavdok on his Scout's Jerkin. Oh yeah, I won another 100C too >.>; Dynamis-Beaucedine wednesday I believe, see what kinda goodies we can get there ^_~

We went sea farming for a few hours last night. Got a merit point which I think I'm actually going to start pouring into my thief a bit. I have some points into my black magic, so why not start working up my baby job and make it better. I'm more inspired now. Though the merits still may come via BLM... though Moriarti is hitting me up for a thief burn to try out ma new harness ^_^

Going to get some work done I spose while its quiet! Pictures will show up later, so check back!

Kirin

2006-11-10T17:59:00.000-08:00

Thursday was Kirin night again. Working out a new strategy for him, we managed to melee zerg him down. Erring on the side of caution, we let him pop his minis first to see if this was possible. Kirin himself took 5 mins. Minis were about 20 mins (took forever to pop -.-)

I'm really down about my thief as of late. I miss it really bad. I miss being able to go thief. Worked my ass off for a year to get my relic that pretty much collects dust anymore.

I should've let a thief who could actually use the armlets get them.

Just kinda frustrated.

Small update

2006-11-08T11:42:00.000-08:00

Eulore says I don't update my blog enough. So I'll do a mini-inbetweentheactuallyinterestingstuff blog entry!

Yesterday I had class so I missed the first two windows of Fafnir. He ended up spawning second window, Kaizen claimed and ripped him a new one in about 15 minutes. Might miss the one tonight too which kinda blows-_-...

Yesterday was kind of lame. I got my Dark Torque finally. Been staring at the AH for a few weeks now trying to find one. Three were on the AH last night so I finally snagged one for about 200k. Problem is now I am broke again. Joy. So I spent most of last night fishing......

Much to my great disappointment, apparently I'm profitting more off of my side-sale cash now than my main fishing goal. I used to get a ton of squid and chop them into sushi for some major profit. My HQer is busted or something as of late, therefore the 20k/stack fish oil broths seem to be netting me more gil than my squid sushiNQ... 11k a stack for them is really really lame. :(

Trying to work out a few things I'd like to acquire in the near future for my BLM...
A.hands for sure...
Nashira feet or body...
Yigit stuffs...

Enhancing I need:
Augmenting Earring
Merciful Cape

Dark I need:
Merciful Cape
Sorceror's Gloves
Nashira Manteel <3
Dark Earring
Diabolos's Ring

Elemental I need:
Elemental Earring (iffy)
Merciful Cape
Ice Ring
Sorceror's Petasos
Druid Slops
Nashira Crackows...

Magic Atk Bonus really need to work on.. meh...

One thing I definitley have a new appreciation for is Conserve MP. I never really realized the impact it had until I managed to obtain my JSE feet. with my weskit and my huraches I have a total of +6 Conserve MP. With Magnetic Earring I could bolster that to +11 Conserve MP... with Relic Feet that could go to +12 Conserve MP. Really some other aspects of BLM that I've been looking into as of late. I'm contemplating obtaining a few of the Avatar rings as well. Water Ring on Watersday has a +15 Conserve MP bonus... Situational items are always a plus when its prevalent to use them. Some come at a cost though, would the Conserve MP bonus really take place over a snow ring? I'm not sure... An Item like the Duende Cotehardie which grants Conserve MP+4 rather than the 2 given on Weskit is not worth losing the skill and MAB that the weskit grants. With the huaraches, I'm losing out on a few intelligence, but my MP is being partially conserved... Cost/Benefit relationship that I still need to toy with a bit. I really think once I get my Sorcerer's Sabots it'll be very likely that I will only be using my huaraches for my dark and enhancing set, leaving them on my feet most of the time. Comparing Rostrums to the Sabots is kind of iffy. The Rostrums grant a bit of MND and INT, with a fast cast bonus and some MP. Fast cast is nice, but not always 100% valueable, and the +30 MP they grant may be conserved in a Conserve MP activation. It's a big toss up on some equipment...

Want to continue to build on my enhancing set as well. It seems like the closest one I can get to completion. Merciful Cape, which I think I'm up next for, and Augmenting Earring which isn't that expensive and I think I have just about all the gear that a BLM can have to bolster Enhancing. I probably wont even think about meriting it, but I have a very fond appreciation of swapping on my enhancing skill+ set when casting my buffs.

Works over, may add to this entry later but must depart for now! Sorry no pictures =P

Fafnir Slayers!

2006-11-07T07:25:00.000-08:00

After watching for a few days now some hardships at Fafnir... IE: Fafnir CFH killed (see Eulore's blog for a screenshot of him at 0% Orange -.-)... along with a few iffy-started kills by the regular shells (with a Spike Flail happening the day before our kill, even though they managed to pull it back together), it felt really good to hear Rsouljah scream 'I GOT IT!!!!' Kill took us about 40 minutes, which compared to the last few days went pretty smoothly. Apparently we got the 'hard Fafnir' last night, as my friend counted 14 wings, 3 right in a row (which managed to not obliterate us somehow XD). Positioning was good, attendance was good. Very proud and extremely happy to have finally claimed this biotch after waiting a week and some days to finally snag him again.
Drops are as follows!

More Pics!

Only more to come!!!

Monday was sea farming but got a late start due to our Fafnir claim. Ix'DRG was being an asshat and didn't pop. Still happy about our Fafnir claim, we just called it a night. Oh well!

CK also did a Proto-Omega run. We ganked him in about 4 minutes. Drops are as follows:

Congratulations to my fellow thief Moriarti at owning my lot XD and getting the Homam Corazza. Eulore and Daodao both botained Homam Gamberias (sp?) feets! We'll get more of them no worries!

Invictus went to Dynamis-Jeuno on Saturday. Awesome night, 49 attendees. I pulled for the first time in awhile. We cleared the mansion twice, the lower area twice, then had over 50 minutes remaining AFTER all of that when we killed the boss. Unfortunately some pulls linked badly and we ended up partially wiping, but Jeuno generally is annoying to pull after the win regardless of positioning. Drops were extremely well: whm whm whm blm brd drg drg mnk thf thf thf and possibly a few more that I'm forgetting >.>; 100c dropped as well and I lotted a 995 on it XD!

Welcome to all the new people! We'll get you set up for Beaucedine/Xarcabard as soon as possible.

After Limbus the other day I ran out to Onzozo to help 2 of my best friends in the game. I knew my 66 DRG friend wanted an Assault Jerkin pretty badly. While harassing the RMT CO: Wyle translating for me, we camped Ose. He popped after about an hour and dropped!!! Congratulations to you Durandarte on your Assault Jerkin!!! (forgot to take a screenie ; ;)

After that it was getting really late but me and Nekoi had ToD for Mysticmaker Profblix so I hung around. Finally spawned right behind me and I nailed em with a stun. After our 2-3rd kill it finally dropped for Nekoi ^^! Congratulations on your earring hun! Now level BLM !!!!!

Really eventful week but at least it made me smile.

CelestialKnights vs. Jormungand (again)

2006-10-27T09:09:00.000-07:00

Last night we took the night off from sky to go pay a visit to our dear friend atop Uleguerand Range. Jormungand was waiting for a beatdown.

Little brat seemed to be spamming Sleet Blast more than she did the previous times we've fought it. Annoying move, Gregale Wing too. Me and Aeron were on stun duty (competing to see who could stun Blizzaga III first >.>). Everyone did a really great job. Our tanks, Eulore, Rsouljah, Truegrave and Daineko did an awesome job working together.

The most important role of the fight, of course, the pop party, we owe a lot to. You guys did a really good job and only had problems maybe twice. This fight would be impossible without the effort given by all of you who participated in that party.

Anyways, we got her down to 11% and the pop party began to struggle a bit. Trying to help them out and not realizing the consequences, someone in main alliance ended up calling for help on a bomb, calling for help on Jorm. Mistakes happen, we'll consider it a severe lesson and learn from it. She would've gone down to us that night, and I'm sure we'll plan on paying her back again very soon =)

Also a big welcome to Tomasello to CK trial =) Very nice job on your first night with us^^

Pics!

CelestialKnights also had a very productive night on Monday. We popped Ix'MNK (Gratz Aeron on the Merciful Cape, I'M NEXT!), a speedy Jailer of Faith (extreme improvement from our last two), and two Jailer of Hope, which are a tier 2 level of Jailer. Out of all of that we got a Merciful Cape, obviously 3 Jailer weapons, I think Faith dropped >.>, and we have 1/3 on a Jailer of Love pop now. Very good job on Sea guys! Hope to see more of you down there soon!

In Invictus news, we finally payed Windurst back and got our members a long overdue Windurst win. Several members acquired Beaucedine access. Congratulations to those who did =) Bastok on Saturday!

Now for my personal achievements! RDM is finally 60, and I will say, Zylia makes this job look good. Anyway, after having a few parties with WHM or SMN who aren't necessarily bad mages, but aren't as quick to notice mob-abilities affects (such as Paralyna or Slow), I've decided to pursue a WHM career, with SMN on the side. I think I will use SMN as my job to level up on my own time when nothing else is going on. WHM will be leveled hooooooopefully with a group of people I love and trust.

I think I'm going to swap my Dynamis main-job to BLM afterall. I was going to hold out and swap to RDM when I hit 70 on it, but I really would like to start getting my relic for my seemingly most-used job.

I also must thank my friends in CK and Invictus and my social KnightsOfBastok for helping me out to get my Igqira Huaraches. I had over 15 people attend a quickly amassed run to get this thing. We killed about 5 of them before it finally dropped. QM 4tw.

A huuuge thanks to Allexxa for synthesizing my Huaraches (and not HQing them so I didn't 1) go broke or 2) sell them and split gil with her some way and go find another shell ; ;). Full Igqira set, with all the yelling at me for getting boots that give +2Enmity! =D

Lovin' the Conserve MP+ on them though =) Mainly got them for situational equips such as drain/aspir (darkness+) and stoneskin/blink(enhancing+). We'll see how the set works out.

Also solo'd Snow Maiden yesterday for NO drop (and I was late to class because of it ;_;)

Thats all for today! ^^

Week in review <3

2006-09-29T08:25:00.001-07:00

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 =)

2006-09-20T17:15:00.000-07:00

That is all =)

Jormykins

2006-09-15T11:37:00.000-07:00

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...

2006-09-12T06:03:00.000-07:00

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!

2006-09-10T07:31:00.000-07:00

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!

With the holidays over...

2006-01-03T12:44:00.000-08:00

Been awhile. Heh! What have I been up to? I managed to earn myself a 100c a few weeks back which allowed me to buy my Reverened Sash^^. Also bought a Pent. Rope for my BLM even though... I've only made it to 52 so far.

Yup. 52 already. Was only 42 a little while ago. Moving into AF now... and I'm angry at it! lol

In other news.. the economy of Quetzalcoatl has gone to hell in mere weeks. We all shout boycott but we all know that can only do so much. Scorpion Harness are 16M, Jupiter staff are 10M, Thief's Knife is probably well over 100M for the desperate... Haubys, Cloaks, anything... all way overpriced now. I cringe at the value of 1 gil anymore. *sigh*

C'est la update!

2005-12-13T07:12:00.000-08:00

Yesterday Square had a 6 hour maintenance with a ton of new additions. Much to my ... delight and disappointment as well, they added three new Dynamis areas (Buburimu, Valkurm, and Qufim)

#1 These areas coincide with the normal town/field dynamises of the past.
#2 Completion of CoP 3-5 is required.
#3 ... No sub jobs while in this zone.

Also, these areas will give way to belts and capes that are dubbed Artifact. Our Dynamis Artifact gear can now be upgraded too! During the update, some were using data examiners to determine that indeed there were new HQ AF2 pieces in the .dat files. Very cool. Down side though, since these new Dynamises run concurrent with the old ones, coins will not be more numerous. They have gained new usage as well, so I can only invision the price of coins increasing further yet. Still, very positive update.

They also tried to avert MPK attempts by making mobs return home when unclaimed or unaggroed out of their radius. This kills BST players. All of them that I have spoken to are quite upset and I hope that SE does something to fix this hardship.

Cooking!!! This update provided two new Key Items for my craft ^.^ Patissier and Stewpot Mastery. I managed to get Patissier for 8k, but Stewpot I need to rebuild my GP which are still recovering from the recent purchase of my Culinarian's Apron. I tried out a few recipes, didn't get a screenshot of the gorgeous cakes I made, Gateau aux fraises (Strawberry cake in french) and the HQ Midwinter Dream. Here are some of the other Patissier related recipes. I was kind of disappointed on the stats on the said cake above. I still need to find where these new items are and attempt these, they are Adeptish level so may prove to be at least somewhat useful.

I gave Landstar one of the Gateaux aux Fraises just to show off my Patissier. He wants me to make him a HQ or High Level synth with my name on it, but I haven't the GP right now to do it. Still building and I'd love to get Stewpot Mastery asap. As a christmas gift, Landstar synthesized me a Tactician Magician's coat +1.

I could really use this as my blm is 47 and when I get home I hope to get it to at least 60. I camped Moldavite earring with the boyfriend a few days ago, claimed once, no drop. Second time some people came and CC'd right on its spawn time and ended up with claim. It kinda sucked but its not like our name was on the Gobby.

Dragoons also got a huge overhaul. Call Wyvern became an ability, while they earned a new two hour, Spirit Surge. This makes their jump abilities more potent. Jump lowers defense, High Jump kills some TP, and Super Jump reduces the person behind them's enmity by 1/2! I heard some complaining about the new 2hr, but to be honest in a fix it would be great. Thats what most of our two hours are for... sticky situations. Paladin can avoid all attacks and keep a mob on him while everyone else goes all out and he wont have to worry about hate problems. Thief have Perfect Dodge to get out of those fights where you just gotta get the hell out. White Mages have a full cure mechanisms. Black Mages don't need to rely on limited MP. Red Mages can repeatedly cast spells without delay. Warriors can knock off critical damage on mobs, Ninjas can try to finish a mob off by sacrificing themself, Samurai can use TP over and over again. It's not practical for full use during battle. Of course it isn't. In fact 9/10 times the only time I see a 2HR actually used is for impractical reasons. A person is fixing to leave the party so they 2HR. Black Mages use it to quickly D2 a party if they're going to bed. Red Mages use Chainspell to escape fast, rather than cast spells over and over again. White Mages randomly spam Benediction at the end of a fight when they dont feel like healing. 2HRs for the most part only truly come in handy in a fix. Dragoons in the slightest should not be complaining. This new 2HR is 40x more useful than just getting a Wyvern out every 2HRs. Now theres no reason that you will be gimped, as if your Wyvern dies you only have to wait a short time to regain your full strength. I applaud square for this change ^.^

Diabolos was added as a Summoner avatar. Also you can fight Bahamut now. I heard someone last night defeated him. I saw Diabolos last night and he is quite big when compared to Shiva or Garuda or the other summons. Very cool that a dark summon finally was added. We had Light, Wind, Water, Fire, Stone, Thunder, and Ice. Nice job getting a dark into the mix ^.^

They made some changes to the NPC system too, but to be honest, Yufafa is level 35 and she isn't going to level very quickly. I only level her when the opportunity seems good. I might level her pre-Dynamis Beaucedine when we start doing those. But I'm not going out of my way to level her.

My intentions when I get home are to get thief to 75. I really would love to be officially done with that job for a bit. Once I'm done with that, I may or may not pawn off some of my many equipment. I have so many slots I use for thief gear. Its overconsuming. With BLM staves on the horizon... I really need the extra space.

I can't wait to get home and be able to participate in alot more things.

Bringing back the black mage!

2005-12-05T05:12:00.000-08:00

After a long long break, Zylia the black magic caster is back! I think... lol. I've been wanting to get away from thief (at least something thats a break, I'm not retiring thief and I plan on getting 75 over winter break). It's hard for me to xp thief when I'm at college. Theres just too much to do outside of the game and lately parties I've been have been extending to 5 hours or up. I can't afford that especially with finals approaching.

So, I got really good gear for my black mage, at least the best that I could say I'd suffice for. Not the absolute best, but if someone checked me, they'd at least comment slightly that I was well equipped. I bought my eremites+1, morion earrings and all the +1 seer's gear (minus the body piece, as I find 1mp insignificant for the price of the +1 version). The one item that I wanted but didn't get was the sash, but it cost upwards of a mill and I just can't justify it just restarting the job. If it was my thief, I'd probably not doubt it. I like to have a little bit of a surplus of gil too, incase a 600k sushi binge is around the corner ^.~.

So I wandered around and skilled dark a little with Yufafa. Left my flag up the whole time. I was killing a Goob in Rolanberry fields when I got an invite. Ran out to Crawler's nest at less than full mp. When I got to camp the thief had pulled a link (which they were managing kinda.. the beetles were falling out of our level range). Suffice it to say... we didn't stay at the beetle camp long when I got there. We moved toward my favorite crawler camp at the end of the tunnel leading to the exoray portion of CN. I asked Drkstr a ton of questions last night. I've always been confused on the bio vs dia thing, but Shyrra corrected me and now I feel quite stupid for not reading the captions on the spells. Drkstr helped me a ton with timing MB's. I always found Tier I spells really easy, just cast upon the skillchain animation! Tier II however I hadn't really had any experience MBing. I had just received Blizzard II, which is probably one of the first REAL Tier II MB since distortion nearly became a standard around that level on my thief. I leveled to 42 during a ENM run, so its only natural I never had practice. It was so much fun MBing that, and I only missed 2-3 (2 because my boyfriend called, I primarily missed them because they were at the start of the fight and I was just routinely elemental debuffing and I messed up >_<) All in all I'm definitley getting the hang of BLM. I want to keep my spells completely up to date though as I go. I hate not having a complete spellbook.

The party went pretty well, well the first group of people that is. We had a JP ninja tank and that was a blast. The whm had almost full mp all the time. Our RDM was a newbie though... he didn't realize what Convert did and when he dinged 41, much to my dismay, he didn't have refresh with him. It's ok though. An exoray mold dropped and he said he needed it, so thats when I took him to the side and told him about Convert. Can't expect them to learn on their own. I had to get taught how to use SATA. I warned him heavily that its not free mp and that its not safe at all to do that near mobs who AoE or during bad situations. its HP<->MP not HP->MP. After the ninja left, we got a pld and from that point on things started slowing down. Eventually we lost a few members. By midnight, I was the last member fromt he old party in the party. This party should've ended when 3/4 of us left instead of replacing almost everyone. The party configuration switched from nin thf war blm whm rdm to pld sam sam rdm blm blm(this one was otw). Really nice set up at this level really. Phraust one of the SAM's, pulled a link and didn't realize an exoray had also linked on him. I told him on his way back, not to worry about the two crawlers linking because I had sleep and wasn't a big issue. On his way back... I saw the exoray clomping behind him and screamed 'Exoray nooo' 'Exo exo exo' but I guess it was too late and he started running in. I was resting at the time, so the exo ran right up and nailed me. They're almost impossible to sleep I tell you -_- at least at my level. So yeah, we wiped. A friend had just came to CN though so he sent his RDM's over to raise us. We got raised up. After being raised... the taru samurai went afk.... and didn't come back. We waited around, killed a few using Phraust's two hour and otherwise very slowly. Then the tank was having connection problems and disconnected. Don't think he came back ever. Oh well.. we all were kind of tired. I tried my hardest to find a new tank (seeing as I got dumped with leader once again...) but it was late and I had to go soon and I couldn't get anything. Phraust finally said to cut our losses and call it a night, though I had just called a black mage out to replace me and he had just arrived. Way to make me look bad to a JP... :( Anyways, the original party was really good. The second one had a really good potential..... but it never reached it.

Tonight's going to be somewhat limited play time. I know that for sure.

Dynamis-Bastok

2005-12-03T21:52:00.000-08:00

God those scorpions are a pain in the ass. Royally. We wasted a good 10-15 minutes on them. Just couldn't get control over them. Plus we saw a rarity tonight from what Peregrine said. Apparently bards can knock you back and out. Fun stuff. Tiny bit of pulling. I wish I was more confident. I always get nervous when I have to pull. Love to try it on my own but I'm still worried my pace will result in failure. Toward the end an argument broke out over an AF piece. Kinda sucks. I kinda attribute the argument partially to the way Dynamis ended, not so much our loss, but the fact that we wiped unnecessarily. The mages were arguing, melees trying their hardest, shit just went to hell. Oh well, its a stressful time of year. Alot of us have finals and whatnot. Can't expect miracles. Only two thief, myself and pere, were there tonight. 2 Monster Jackcoats that no one wanted, one Assassin's Vest that went to a sub lotter, one Red Mage Gloves, and Melee Gaiters, which parsed because we were all dead.

Alot of the regulars haven't been showing up lately. Kinda sucks. We lost our powerhouse. I personally think we all need to level up. Dynamis-Bastok monsters are always particularly defensive of us. I don't know if its the shell or just their mob type but we're always crunched for time with them. I don't know. Part of me wishes Pere would take a mini-break until after New Years and regroup then. Its alot of stress right now, even for him. Oh well.

Cheerful thought of the night: Vyyuke can suck my left ***.

Ro'Maeve Water

2005-12-03T15:58:00.000-08:00

Went to sky today despite my better judgement to farm. Aura pots for water. How annoying. It wasn't so bad until another sky LS showed up. Little bit of competition never hurt anyone I guess. They left and we got the water shortly after. Little tedious. Overall not bad.

Dynamis-Bastok tonight. Wonder how that'll go. I don't have my paperwork out so I'm kinda hoping Peregrine doesn't pop a 'Zy, your up tonight.' tonight of all nights. I think when I'm off on Mid-semester break it'll be easier. Either way I hope that it goes really well tonight. Last week was a disaster.

Party status

2005-12-02T12:50:00.000-08:00

Party is: Me, Busso, Cherron, JP BRD, TaruBLM name I don't want to type and Apu. Light SC is pretty good on these vultures. I just accidently pulled a link... and died. So far no net gain.. it sucks.

Note to self: Tavnazian Rams use Petrify.

I'm now 6k down from where I started. What a great way to start off this blog huh.............................. On a better note, our bard has a lvl 70+ whm so we're all getting R3's, not to bad :D

Oop, people have to go. I died 3x (twice was my fault... I need to develop a failproof way to pull there -_-) The other time we took on a ram (purposefully) not realizing it petrifies...

I can't believe it...

2005-12-02T11:37:00.000-08:00

Well so far today's been a slap in the face. I flew to Windurst this morning and low and behold the Guild point item was 'Smoked Salmon' which I had made two days prior to put into Salmon Subs. It was still on the AH last night. I arrive at the Auction House to find out it had sold minutes before I got there. So upsetting :( Just now I came to San D'Oria so that I could get some walnut logs and salmon to finish up my stuff. Low and behold I arrive 1 hour after the guild closes. And I'm in an XP party thats 5/6 members and about to leave.

Going with Cherron, Busso and Apu, all members of Invictus which is kinda cool. I need to get my thief job to 75. If I do that, I can start to relearn Black Mage. I learned hard last night that when I was working Black Mage up to 42, I really didn't fully understand the job. I nuked and debuffed, but part of me wasn't really sure exactly the effects of it. I'd really love to have something thats remotely 'desired' in terms of a job. No one goes looking for thieves. We're all over the friggen place.

Let's see if I can stick to this...

2005-12-02T09:42:00.000-08:00

I've always thought about making a blog for Zylia. I'll take a stab at documenting my adventures from now on!