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

Ding Ding Ding!!!

Well, it was a good weekend. I basically only did one thing all weekend, but it was a goal I set last week. I leveled Ranger to 40 over the weekend to finish it out as a sub for NM camping, and get my Marksmanship up a bit higher for Thief. I was very fortunate to only have 4 parties that took me from a Jungle nub, to a Desert raider, and finally a Nest destroyer.

I started at Lv.27 in the 1st party about 10a.m. on Saturday in Yhoator Jungle. By a little after 6p.m. I was leaving the jungle on one more job at Lv.32. It took a few hours, but we had a few people need to go and no reps avail, so we fought as 4 and 5 for a while when we couldn't find reps. The exp actually stayed pretty decent the whole time.

After a much needed 2 hour break, it was off to The Altepa Desert for some beetle and dhalmel destruction. This party had a few rough moments from a thief that was extremely slow on SATA, and a whm that liked to burn their entire MP pool on the first fight. After we tried to talk to the thief multiple times about them being a {Slow} {/poke}(yes we were being nice about it) we had to let them go and get a monk to replace them. After a few more kills, our Summoner spoke with the whm about casting banish and some other unneccesary spells, and things took a drastic change for the better. we started getting higher chains, and the whole exp flow was much better. So, by about 1 a.m. I dinged 36, had a small buff, and the party disbanded.

I recieved an invite for a party in the nest. The party was just forming, and the leader said we had a PL. I would have taken the invite regardless, as I'd rather not have a PL. So we get out to the Nest, and it's empty O.O, yeah, that's what we did. The first sac room completely void of life except for the creatures that inhabit the nest. Pull's were a little difficult at first cause of all the crawlers bunched up but soon I had pulled out certain ones and made it easy to pull fast and hard. A little later a couple parties showed up and exp slowed, but I was able to ding 38 in this party before we disbanded.

My last party was another Jeuno formation. This party will have it's first for me, a Paladin tank. Every other party I've had, was with a Ninja as tank. Anyone who's played ranger knows how much hate can be generated, and Ninja's just can't hold it so you have to hold back some on your damage. Well, we head out to the Nest and start fighting Soldiers for generous amounts of exp and I could go all out with all of my /Ja's and Ws's. We all ding 1 level before our Paladin got a little wife aggro, and had to jet out. He was replaced by a Ninja, and unfortunately exp slowed cause the damage was reduced some, and our 2 rdm's were healing the rest of us more. The Ninja told the pt he had to go soon, he called out he had 5 minutes left and wouldn't ya know it, he dinged his level, we did 2 more kills and he was gone. There were no other tanks available, but luckily our Paladin that left earlier happen to return 5 minutes after the Ninja left. Shouts of joy and excitement were all over the place, and I was eager to start pulling again. Everyone dinged a level or 2 more before we disbanded, and I left a very satisfied Taru. All of my skills capped and a great buffer on Lv.40

After warping back to my palace in Windurst, a friend of mine and an uber nuber, needed some help with the Summoner quest. He had asked where to find ice weather, I told him Beaucedine Glacier, but he had no idea how to get there. He was out leveling in the canyon when I finished party so after a little teleporting and warping we met in East Ronfaure for the trek to the glacier. Well we got there without a problem, he got his ice weather when we zoned in so now all he has left is fire weather. We tried to hit the deserts but no luck and the weather person in Rabao said it was just going to be sunny and not hot. I only play with this guy on the weekends since we work different shifts, but if he doesn't have fire weather by the weekend I'll take him around to find it.

All in all it was a good weekend. 1 more sub job complete, and even more reasons to get my thief to 75. More things planned for this week so there should be some more updates soon. Thanks for reading.

Peace,
Shmed

First of many posts(I hope =P)

Well, where to begin. Hmmm... Well it was a cold winter's day.... naw that's not right.

For real this time. This blog has been a work in progrees for some time now. I'm still not happy with the layout but I have to start somewhere.

The last couple of months have been a crazy winding road in game and a lot of my hard work is really paying off.

The last 2 months worth of things obtained in game.

Gear:
Sorcerer's Petasos, Sorcerer's Coat, Rairin Obi, PCC, Sniper's ring, Scorpion Harness, a couple pieces of AF for Thief, Ochimusha Kote, Sarutobi Kyahan, a couple of items to help me towards Brown Belt for monk, and a Federation Aketon. I know i'm forgetting something but not sure what.

Missions:
5-3 thru 8-2 of CoP. What a ride that was and I'm almost done!
8-1 thru 9-2 for Windurst. This was a fun time and I'm still pumped about it every time I put on my Federation Aketon.

Getting Sea access was one of my favorite accomplishments. Ever since I found out about Obi's for blm(read over 1 year ago) I have wanted them and now I can farm until I turn as blue as the water in Al'taieu(which I did my first time trying to kill a Ul'Xzomit and it's kiddies). I actually just got my Rairin/Lightning Obi last night and it felt good even though I haven't got to try it out yet.

Rank 10 was very exciting for me cause I got to see the babe of my dreams, the Star Sibyl. ^^lol The CS's were awesome and I sat and read through them a couple times just to relish in the fact I had completed another short story in this novel of a game.

I have been running with Limitless Dynamis for the last couple of months and I never enjoyed Dynamis so much. Getting my AF2 hat and coat are truly the icing on my cake. Getting my last 2 pieces will be worth any wait for them as everyone in there is fun to fight alongside, and we have a good time.

Been in the process of looking for a sky/sea shell for a while now but haven't decided on which ones to apply for. It's not an easy choice cause there are a few good shells out there and I don't want to make another hasty decision like I did with my first endgame shell. They were a good group, but I just got involved with endgame at the wrong time.

Well, this first post is long enough I think, so I will stop now and leave some things for future updates. Thanks for reading!

Peace,
Shmed