Odds an Ends

{I'm Back} Yeah yeah, I know, update more. I always want to but then get busy and not get around to doing it.

Well, I'm leveling 2 jobs atm to 75. They are both jobs that do not get a lot of pt invites. I enjoy playing them so the lack of invites is not a problem, annoying, but not a problem.

Paladin is one of those jobs. The only time I get to level this is on the weekends because I seem to have to seek for hours to get an invite. 2 weekends ago I was lfp for about 10-12 hours and not an invite. This past weekend I was lfp for about 2 hours when I got an invite. We partied for many hours and I went from 63-65 on Saturday. Sunday I partied with the same Samurai and Red Mage from the night before. I didn't gain a level but got some good exp.

Thief is the other job. This one I have been in a static on Saturday nights but I may have to leave that static so I can pursue Limbus more. I haven't really started lfp on this job yet because I'm still farming so I can buy most of my gear before I get my levels. I've been out in the Sanctuary A LOT lately. I've been farming tree cuttings and moss off of the goobbue's there. The best part is that I have been getting exp for every kill. It's not a lot of exp but it adds up and the Beastmen's Seal drops are well worth it. Even though it's not a lot of exp, it just a couple of farming sessions I made about 6-7k exp and a few hundred thousand gil. I also did this:


Hellllooo 57, so now I can wear this and be a sexy little Taru:


After I dinged that level I noticed that some of the goobbue were {Too Weak} so I'm in search of some new farming grounds so I can get exp consistently. I will still be farming them, just not as regularly.

Monday was Update day so I had to wait to log on. A {Long time} {Friend}(as in kindergarten long) of mine quit the game a few months back, and has no plans on coming back to the game. I spoke to him on Sunday about getting his old char. He made it to 47 whm with it and had gotten some of the tedious stuff out of the way so I plan on using this char as a telly-ho and a haste-ho when I level NPC's. He has his NPC so I've been in a 4-man party by myself(OMG am I turning into a freak or what). With this char came a 4 mules that have so many different items on them. He was taking up clothcraft, doing some bonework, and a little woodwork so there are all sorts of mats for lower level synths. Needless to say I've spent a good chunk of time this week figuring out what he has and then consolidating his stuff with the items I already have. I may just have to sell some stuff off, but anyone that knows me, knows I'm a pack rat. There are quite a few things I'd like to do with this char but it will be a while before I really do anything crazy. I'll be taking pictures more in the future so you'll get to see us in action. If you see a Taru named Glob running around give him a /wave or a /punt. =P

Also on Monday, a good friend of mine asked for a little help. In my last update I had gotten my Jelly Ring. Well, his main job is Paladin and he hadn't gotten this ring yet so asked if I could help. Of course I was willing to blow up the Sewer Syrup again. I had to see if I could improve my numbers. It was just like the night I got mine, kill a few PH's and POP! I was a little off on my casting so my numbers weren't as good, at least I didn't really notice them because I was too busy manually swapping gear, Thanks a freaking lot SE. The Update had changed some of the names for my equipment swaps so I had to check/change my gear quite a few times. In the end it only took a couple minutes and he got his ring. Congratulations Nycon on one more nice piece of gear.

Wednesday is Limbus day for me. I just started doing Limbus a week ago so it's all pretty new to me. I've made 1 run total, gotten 3 coins, and I'm now only 72 coins away from a Loquacious Earring for my Blm. Well this Wednesday would be an interesting one. We got a bit of a late start because our thief was fapping I think(just kidding, no real idea what he was doing). Well while he was away we talked about what we were going to do for the night. Well the leaders decided since we had a pop set for Proto-Ultima we were going to give it a shot. This was the shells first attempt at Ultima so start drawing conclusions to what happened.

Here is me shaking in my boots before the fight starts.


A few of our group:


And the results from our efforts:


I think they said we got it down to around 15ish% before is decimated us. We figured out where we went wrong so next time Ultima, you better be ready, because I know we will!

Thursday I did ODS with some friends from my LS. I had never done this BCNM but we kicked ass for only having 4 people. We did the run 4 times but not a lot of money drops. 1 person got a Serket ring and I got a Pole Strap. I also got a Heart Snatcher which doesn't look like a bad knife once the latent is broke. I might use it with the Sirocco Kukri until I can get the Blau Dolch and Perseus's Harpe. My thief has a ways to go before I need to worry about those lol.

Here's a few SS's from my first camping session for Jelly Ring... Evil taru's are everywhere!!



Thanks for reading

{Tarutaru} {Peace} {Outpost}
Shmed

Fomor's, and Gigas, and Merits OH MY!!

Well, I've been slacking again on the updates but this one is a day sooner than the last >.>.

Fomor's

Oh how I hate thee which has fallen in battle and come back to cause me eternal grief. From a previous post I had spoken about doing a Fomor Codex run. Well the time has come again to hunt down another codex. The same friends and I that got our codex's the last time decided to pop them on Friday night. 0/3 is about all I have to say about that. I don't think we killed enough to get my TH2 warmed up. Anyway, thanks to all that helped and here's a pic to show our group.




Gigas

These guys are the big dumb lugs you almost have to love around Vana'diel. This next one is on the lower end of that list just for the sheer aggravation he caused me when trying to cast a spell on him. His name is Gration and he can intimidate even the best. After our attempted Swift Belt run one of our helpers asked if we could help him kill this thing. Well of course we said "you bet your sweet ass petunia" we'll help you. This guy even helped us farm our codex's so it's only right we help as much as possible. So anyway, back to the fight. It was a long, LONG, fight. Dot's at 4/tick is a slow death. The Ninja, Paladin, and Monk were tp'ing on the critters around the area and then weapon skilling on Gration. He didn't go down easy, but we got him after about 1-1.5 hours of kiting, DoTing, and a few choice nukes by yours truly. I wish I would have been on my PC for it because I even got the kill shot. Either way our helper got the help he needed and recieved his Tatami Shield. Grats Skaw on your new shield.



Merits

We all love these things, they are just such a pain in the ass to get sometimes.



Well I busted out a couple more on Saturday morning to get to a total of 5 and then I got this:



My next planned set of upgrades will be my Ice Magic Potency. Only on stage 2 so it will be a while before completion.

Tuesday I farmed for a while and then went hunting. Hunting a smelly, slimy, ugly thing known as Sewer Syrup. My Paladin is 63 and can wear the nice ring it drops. My friend Passions came down to help me camp.(read: kept me company for the agonizing repop timer on slimes) Well after a couple hours Pass had to log and I stayed for a couple more pops, but no dice.

Wednesday was a whole new story. I went down there, killed a few slimes and then there it was, less than 45 minutes since my arrival. I was still resting from my last Mousse kill but was getting antsy to kill. Now I had read about how much hp this thing had so I was ready to Manafont at the drop of a hat. I got up, buffed, ate food, and rested 1 click. After that it was pretty much all over, but the crying from the Syrup. Grav, T4, B4, Stun, Bind, SS, F4, T4, Manafont, Burst II(2245 dmg^^), Stun, Bind, SS, Freeze II(2136), and done. Total dmg was 11093 in 6 spells, so an avg of about 1848 per spell. Needless to say I was very shocked at how weak this thing is to magic. A friend made the comment that it might have the same characteristics of the ring which make it so weak to magic. Either way I have a nice new shiny ring to play Pld with. Back to leveling =)



Well, it's been another longish update, so if you made it this far, thanks for reading and we'll see you next time!

Peace,
Shmed

Rockin', Rollin', and Dying!!

Well, I have been a slacker and not updated this thing in a week. I wanted to do 2 updates a week at a bare minimum so I'll try to get my act together.

Well, later last week I was still working on my goal of a couple levels on Paladin. Well it didn't quite work out as I spent most of the weekend seeking for a party and only got solo exp. My buddy Zoldof gained a level though while we were duoing. Soon he'll be level 40 and I can switch him to healer mode for haste. Here are a couple pics of one adorable Tarudin of Valor!!




A good friend of mine and I have been talking lately about how we need to get our Swift Belts. So, we found a couple others that wanted either a codex or subligar and we put my Tantalizing Tarutaru Treasure Hunter to work. We headed off to the Phomiuna Aqueducts for some Tauri and Fomor slaying. At first it was only 4 of us and we took down some of the weaker Tauri but we couldn't do fomors or the stronger Tauri mobs. One of the people called in reinforcements by asking a Beastmaster to come for the slayage. The Bst showed up and we killed for a little bit going back and forth between Tauri and Fomors. It only took 4 fomor kills to get our first subligar, a bst/brd one, and only 2 more after that to get our last one, a thief subligar. In between those we weren't having much luck with codex drops, but after a couple more kills one finally dropped. A Ninja showed up to lend a helping hand, and boys was it ever helpful. We were killing much faster and even cleared a couple rooms and had to wait for repops. All in all it was good run even though there was taru death. I like stealing hate from the tank but not just before Doom is cast haha.

My friend poking me like a jerk =P


Then he decided he wanted to sit down and have a soft spot to sit. >.>


It was a good time and we had some good laughs. Thanks to all that came out to help and Grats to those that got an item. Here's a pic of the crew, Kaete is the one on the right that got her name cut off. Now it's just a matter of getting a group together to brave the Sacrarium to pop our codexs.


I finally went up to the castle after beating the Dynamis Lord. I've been involved on about a dozen or so kills of DL but never went up there because we always ran off to farm right away.


Also in the news today, I went from 24-25 in fishing this week, and also 24-28 in Alchemy. Craftaholic must craft =P

Thanks for reading, and we'll see you next update.

Peace,
Shmed

The Antlion, The Dragon and some other things

The weekend was full of good times. I was such a slacker that I didn't take any SS's of the events, so I will just tell a little about what happened.

So on Saturday, I heard a shout for Titan and Garuda help and since I still need those avatars I was ready to go. We had some trouble finding a tank but then a tiny taru from Serapis said he tank them for us. Well he only had so much time, and a couple people forgot to get the tuning fork so he was only able to help with Titan. For Garuda we couldn't find another tank so I was nominated to tank since I have a 62 Paladin. Well, needless to say I didn't do so well. Garuda's Wind Blade pretty much owned me and I remember getting hit for 900+ at one time. We tried a couple times but had no luck. After 3 deaths I said I would take my leave. The last death was one that could have easily been avoided, but I will leave it at that. We warped back, I changed to Black Mage and by that time we had found another tank. We went back to fight Garuda and it was an easy win.

While I was doing the Garuda fight I received a tell from a friend asking for help in that hell hole I call Castle Atrocious(Oztroja). Mee Degi and Quu Domi were the targets. Well we spent about 3 hours there and claimed each one 3 times. Well, both were being stingy and we didn't get the drops wanted.

After that I went to farm some items cause I was running low on some supplies and also wanted some materials for leveling my Clothcraft. While doing this I checked my FL and seen a friend online that I hadn't seen for a while. We started chatting and we talked about going out to Attohwa Chasm to farm up some H.Q. Antlion Jaws for making the pop item for Rostrum Pumps. My friend came as Thief and I as Black Mage, and we started out saying we were only going to fight the lower level of the 2 antlions that drop them. That did not go as planned. See in order to fight them you have to aggro them by walking over cracks in the ground without sneak on and you never know which one you're going to get. When they aggro, they do this move that would rip though 4 shadows and do 200-300 pts damage minimum. Well, we make an awesome duo on these things. It didn't take long to figure out how to bounce tank these things so that we could utilize SA, TA and some nukes. We finished 4/7 on jaws and then went and got the rest of the mats for the item. Now I just have to find a LS making a run soon.

Sunday was full of crafting in the early afternoon and then my first uncapped Wyrm fight. I don't count Ouryu in the CoP missions a true worm cause it's a capped fight and he gives up before you kill him. We did Storms of Fate, which is one of the last few missions for the CoP and ZM storyline. I was quite a bit nervous but just followed what I was told to do things went pretty smooth.

A little pic of me dropping a nuke on Bahamut's head:


After that I went to Windy and met up with some friends for a little goldfish scooping. =) This was a lot of fun and many laughs were had.



Also on Tuesday night I dinged 63 on Paladin and hopefully get another level or 2 before the end of this week.


Now to some older stuff.

A friend in need. I came across this poor soul on my way to level NPC's with my friend Hornless. Needless to say we got the chap back on his feet so he could ding his level. =P



Well this next one is a friend and myself getting ready for Dynamis. You know how much us Taru Black Mages need our TP! lol



Here, there was a Voiure that was looking a bit hungry for a Taru steak in Dynamis.



Next is a little Soboro Sukehiro, Manaburn style! Some people from my dynamis shell were looking for help to get the GK and I was happy to help. Only a couple deaths the whole time and we did get 1 GK.




So we get to about where my blog started as far as timeline wise.

Rank 10, woot it feels good!!


Here are a couple pics of my first time in Sea.

The people that helped me get there. Thanks guys!


A couple of new friends:


Then our tango with the "Big Empty" himself, Promathia



Well, I think that's it for this update. Hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for reading!

Peace,
Shmed

The Ring Club

Well it was a very good week for me so far. Tuesday was mission 8-3 day for CoP. Passions and I climbed the Taru tower and got our key item so we could go fight the 4 pots to finish 8-3.

I had arrived in Sea early to do some farming. It was a good farming session for me since I got the last 4 items needed for this:




Wednesday rolled around and I went out to Sea to do a little more obi item farming while I waited for the rest of my group to gather for running mission 8-3 and 8-4 CoP. Everyone gathered and we set off. The 4 pots were an easy target, we just had 1 thing happen on our climb to the BC. This damn Aw'Grah was just being relentless. We would sleep it, go through a couple teleporters and then BAM! come out of a teleporter and get just slapped around until you get it slept again. It was kind of funny after the initial shock wore off.

After the 4 pot BC, we headed over to go against the big bad himself, Promathia. This guy has some moves that are so annoying, like silencega that you can't use echo drops to remove, and AoE damage + knockback + stun. We had a rough start, our ninja got owned, and then it was everyone else's turn to eat dirt a few times. We all RR'd a few times, but ended up running out of time. The 2nd run didn't go much better, and we couldn't quite keep Seltheus alive so we were ejected. A couple of the people in our group decided to head back to town, grab some supplies, and change a sub job. Well, maybe it was the break, the change of subjob, or something completely different. We went in and had a good run on Promathia and finished the BC with no problem.

Well after you beat the BC you have to wait until JP midnight to finish the cutscenes. You have to travel all over the world to get them, but it's worth the time and effort to get them. After you finish you have to make a choice.



Needless to say, since I am a blm. I chose this one.




Oh man does it feel good to put that item on. It is one of those items that is worth the wait and the adventure to recieve it is one that I will remember always. This adventure was 9 months and 3 statics in the making.

Thanks for reading!

Peace,
Shmed