Otakon Distracted Me!

Yeah, totally Otakon's fault. Although one of the main things I was looking for when I went to Otakon I found, so it's all good. I now own a copy of the Misuran Tarutaru doujinshi! >3 /perv

I'm so backed up on screenshots that I need to edit up. I started a few before I left for Otakon, but completely forgot about them. Some really neat one of Nemain Lion in Al Zahbi, my first level 8 Beseiged. Normally I could never get in the zone for one, which really sucked.

Been leveling THF with a static, which is interesting when two people are dual boxing. One dualing the PL and the other dualing his MNK and BRD for exp. Needless to say it's kinda hard to SATA when your tank is dualing as well. Mob kind runs all around and turns every which way.

Oh, I also made a dat before I left for Otakon. Nothing to detailed since I'm a beginner and all. Just a reskinned Scorpion Harness with Vrtra skin. It looks pretty good with the BLU AF. If you want you can download it here: http://www.ffxidats.com/page.php?id=2030

Which reminds me, I need to make it for other races. I had a taru wanting it to be ported, so I might as well do the other races.

Anywho, just wanted to make a quick update. I will finish up those screenshots and post them eventually.

07/07/07 - Lucky 7's

I'm not exactly sure what to say, but we sure got lucky lately. From Aery to Salvage, the luck of 07/07/07 must of truely kicked in for us in Ridexiru.

We'll start with Friday night's Aery camp. Well technically it was Saturday, July 7th. Ever since I arrived here on Bahamut over 2 weeks ago, Fafhogg has been around 3AM EST and hasn't budged one bit. It's been popping last window or second to last EVERYtime. We had two Fafnirs in the week before I believe and were hoping for a Nidhogg. We finally got our Nidhogg claim. Unfotunetely our WHM had fallen asleep and left us hanging with no healer/haster of the tanks but we still pulled through with only one death of a BLM.

While my linkshell was dissappointed in getting yet another pair of Neptunal Legs, I was quiet happy. I wasn't sure who all needed or if I'd even be able to lot, but my heart was kinda racing waiting for the decision. Hearing them talk on ventrilo I just kind of stayed quiet not wanting to speak up about needing them cause I didn't want to ask for something so soon. But Kanivas did it for me and I was told to lot. Finally finished with Hecatomb set! Thank you everyone in Ridexiru~!

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Now our luck didn't seem to follow us over into the daytime where we had planned a Jormungand playtime around 12 EST. It seems someone beat us to the big ice dragon. =/ Ah well...

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We've been doing Salvage pretty regulary now as well. I believe it was two days ago we finally got a Macha's Coat off the Qiqirn in Arrapago.

The lucky 7's decided to strike again though tonight. We started off with a really crappy cell drop rate as we did on the last Macha's drop run. But it started to pick up and look decent although we were a little behind on time. The first Qiqirn managed to warp after getting a Sleepga off due to a misscommunication causing a preemptive aggro. Things seemed pretty crappy at that point as we fought our way to the next Qiqirn.

So we DoT the little rat and let him run his way over to us where our MNKs began to completely rape him. Expecting it to come back after it's run it's route I stayed by the start waiting to throw Carbuncle on him to make sure he makes it back over to our RDM claimed. Waiting for it to come back I just hear an uproar on Vent and a spam in party chat as I see the text scroll up of a Macha's Coat drop. Our second Macha's Coat in 3 days.


The run's not over yet though. We head up to the Archaic Chariot like normal and expect nothing like normal. Fight went smoothly and everyone expecting an empty loot pool once again gets a surpise and Vent explodes with laughter and "OMG"s. Full 35s drop. Freya legs, Enlil hands, and Hikazu legs.


All in all we've gotten 5 level 35s in three days. And 4 of those came from the same run.


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Everyone laughed when I pointed out the fact it was 07/07/07 and about it being lucky 7s after Nidhogg and getting my Neptunal Legs. But I guess the drops from Salvage made them think otherwise. Hey, gotta believe in something.

Here's some extra screenshots I've edited so far. Still got a lot I haven't yet.

Fafnir Flails and Tiamat Tales?

It's been a rather interesting week.. to say the least, here on Bahamut. From some fun at Aery with Fafnir to a rather interesting Tiamat in Attohwa Chasm.

The past week in Aery; I think I've seen about 5 or so wipes to Fafnir. One of them even including a flail. I've never seen Fafnir flail personally and I'm kinda sad I missed this one. Right as he flailed he dissappeared from my screen but I did get to see the aftermath of all the bodies on the floor. There were also two almost raged Fafnir's, which would have been a first as well for me to see.

It was rather nice though, seeing the random take place. When the shell fighting is in trouble or looks like they are going to wipe, a /random is proposed in shout to the other linkshells there. Each linkshell then sends a tell to the person who proposed with a representative of their linkshell who will /random. A place is then announced in shout where the representatives gather and a time is called. Whoever wins the random gets Fafhogg when the linkshell wipes and Fafnir goes unclaimed/idle. And whoever had the second highest will get it if that linkshell wipes, and so on.

Unfortunetely we lost every single random, lol. No biggy though. We managed a claim last night which was a really fun fight. We took it from 100% > 0% in about 8 minutes, including the initial sleep at the start while everyone got into position. Was rather amazing. I don't even remember a kill that fast in Apathy, maybe 10 minutes ~ 15 minutes, but never under 10.

So onto Tiamat, which I'm sure people read about on BG forums. Zigma decided we were going to go try Tiamat since the shell fighting it was wiping. But before most of us could get there it was taken by Kazoku(sp?). There was a lot of say drama, the two shells going back and forth at eachother. Some of the other shells there were joining in on it. Then it got even more interesting as Siste, the shell who had claim originally, began to run Tracker Antlions through Tiamat making her spin and run around. In total about 45 minutes of spinning and running Tiamat. Of course the GMs showed up late around the time a lot of people started leaving to head to Dragon's Aery.

So, leaving the Wyrms behind. What else have we been up to.

Ah yes. We did an Omega on Monday I believe. Nothing to interesting, a typical Omega fight. Well, if you don't include the fact it was tanked by RDM/NINs and a PLD. Oh yes, incase I haven't mentioned. We like to tank things with RDM/NINs in Ridexiru. Heck, it seems most of Bahamut does and so far it's been really freaking good.

Other than linkshell stuff, let's see. Been leveling some random jobs. I got MNK13 » 20 in like 2 hours thanks to Pawky's BRD PLing. Heck we even got a Chain 16 at level 16 I think.

Some random BRD leveling which only got it to 68.

I picked up PUP again just for the heck of it. Bought random attachments and picked up the Ranged Frame at 20. It's currently 22 now, god I hate Qufim.

DRK's sitting at 64. Currently seeking party on it but don't think I'll get anywhere tonight before Fafnir.

That's about it for now.

Goodbye Remora, Hello Bahamut!

For those who don't know or haven't noticed, I've left Remora.

Server transfers became open last night around 2AM after the Registration Maint. was complete and pretty much everyone I had just done Salvage with transfered or is going to today.

First thing I got to do on Bahamut was camp Fafhogg. Would have been a nice first day to come to Bahamut had be claimed Nidhogg when he popped, but we didn't.

I was quite surprised at the random welcomes I was getting when I logged in on my new home. A random /welcome in Whitegate to a /tell from someone in Siste(sp?) welcoming me. It was kinda settling as I was a bit nervous not knowing anyone but Geno and Kanivas who went to Bahamut as well.

People don't crowd Fafhogg, they show enough respect to stand back and watch. They random for claim if the linkshell fighting wipes. This is so different than Remora. Everyone stood on the foot, it was a mass spam and MPK fest...

Anywho. I've been a little busy for me in the last week, sorry for no posts. Still not even done with my art lesson yet despite working on it when I can.

That's all for now. Must get to work.

Einherjar from Saturday

Yes, Einherjar is about a week old now. I missed the Einherjar run Apathy did after the update last Tuesday though, Tuesday's being my night out with some friends to play MtG. So I caught a run we did on Saturday.

I had been reading up on it as people were posting information, so I kinda knew what to expect. We had about 30 or so people who came and it was planned to Chainspell Stun and SEBWKC the boss. I didn't think it would be that great of an idea from what I read, but I didn't voice it. It was worth a shot to try so we would know in the future.

So anyway, we entered Rossweisse's Chamber and got about 6 Buggard-X and Nihhus, the Wivre boss. Buggards weren't a problem. I had my free Fenrir out and watched for the random Bird/Tiger while the others took out the Buggards. We got a Tiger somewhere around the last two Buggards and killed it. No message, no chest.

The boss was pretty.. interesting. I had mentioned about the high HP and stupid high defense of it's horn and to stay along the sides. I also mentioned how I didn't think SEBWKC would do much, so we kinda hesitated. I believe around 60% or so all the DRK let loose the SEBWKC which failed.. miserably. I think overall it took about 6% from it.

In the end we killed it with 5 minutes left. Nothing but normal Wivre drops; tail, horn, hide.

Overall it's like Dynamis meets Limbus with an HNM, but only lasts a half an hour. It's quick, kinda fun, and can give great rewards... sometimes. Was enjoyable, I mean seeing a Wivre flail and kill a few people.

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In other news, I'm back up and running. I've got a working copy of Adobe Photoshop, for now till the trial runs out. Still lost a lot of great screenshots in the reformat, but hey.

Hmmm...

It seems I've gone and forgot about updating for a while. As I've said in a previous post, I've never really been on for the whole journal thing. I've started a lot in real life and a few online that I would let die rather quickly.

I will try and pick things back up here. I updated somethings a bit, but others still need some fixing.

I just recently had to reformat my computer and I lost a lot of my screenshots. What I have on photobucket is pretty much all I have left sadly. I did have a folder full of screenshots yet to crop/edit waiting which I completely lost.. some really good ones, too. First I need to get back Adobe Photoshop before I start updating again!

Anywho. That's all I really wanted to say. I'm still alive, honest.

Just a Quicky!

Just a quicky update.

Been having some fun testing out Dragoon solo with my new gear. Got my Ethereal Earring from Apocalypse Nigh sometime ago. Not having to rest for MP is soooooo nice and makes for nonstop exp. But since I'm a bit rusty and unexperienced I started out on some EP Lesser Colibri to chip the rust off before heading to some DC Puk.

I love Puk. Intimidatable, weak to piercing, no real horrible TP move. Oooh they can Blind you! Oh no! They can cast Blink!? Windshear and Crosswind do maybe.. 40 damage? Once I get the hang of it, I might be suicidal enough to try some Sea Puk. I've got capped buffer on Dragoon now thanks to a Greater Colibri party, my first time out there on Dragoon too, so it's not like I have much to lose!

Oh, also got capped buffer on Summoner thanks to a Greater Colibri party.

Let's see, let's see. Major things that have happened. Ah, yes! King Vinegarroon!


What fun he is. What a pain in the ass to camp. We've been following him for about two weeks now with a total of 10 kills. Out of those 10 kills we have gotten 7 Ace's Helms, 2 Venomous Claws, and a Heavy Shell. Congratulations go out to: Trix, Sinus, Iulus, Ashbey, Papy, Skittles, and myself on Ace's Helm! And an extra grats to Trix for Heavy Shell. And of course, more to come if he decides to pop at a decent time when we're not in Dynamis/Limbus/Salvage...


That's it for the quicky update. I'll try and post more from now on, specially all those screenshots I've got.

Wups...

Like most journalsI start... I have neglected to update in a while. My bad.

Been a rather busy week(s) and I keep putting it off to do other things.

I've got about 20+ screenshots waiting in my screenshot folder that I need to get to as well. I'll take the time to update/fix up screenshots tomorrow.

What's Full Breath?

So, apparently GMs don't know about full breath... or he was just showing us that GMs can indeed die. But that kinda made my night despite us losing our Nidhogg to SadPanda. Go, go, outside solo claim by one of our Japanese members who's new to the linkshell. Not his fault, he just didn't get invited fast enough and didn't know he should have been in a party.

Alrighty. So. Didn't really update yesterday cause I was tired. What did I miss, hmm. Ahh, yes! Vrtra fun! My final Wyrm title obtained. I wasn't in alliance the first time we killed it due to getting other Corsairs in, so this time I was the last Corsair to be invited. Love how I got the title for Vrtra on a level 3 Corsair. Beat that bitches! >3


As said previously, got Dark Knight to 25 yesterday. But who cares about that!

While leveling Dark Knight though, a few from Apathy decided to go 6 man Jormungand. I didn't think they were serious, they even went off in their own little vent channel and claimed they were doing "ENM" all secret like. So over three hours go by, I'm out in Yuhtunga Jungle on Dark Knight and my party disbands. I figure it's time to go to bed. Then I realized they were still up there in Ulegeurand Range and hopped up in their channel on vent to see what was going on. Little suckers.. I didn't think they were serious. So I ran up just to watch the last 15%~ of Jormungand. By now they had a few more people, about 10, I think.


So in under 4 hours, starting with 5 people and ending with 10ish, they killed Jormungand. Typical ore drops and Mercurial Pole. Congratulations Iulus on the pole!

Ok, ok. Now on to today!

Started off with a Sea Farm which I caught the end of. Two Prudences to be exact. Both dropped Virtues. Then we took a break while some decided to watch the "Pro Bowl" on TV. So I leveled Dark Knight again waiting for the next Sea Farm. Buuuuut, we all know what happens when I try to do something... *pop* ohi Cerberus! Death warp yet again, I really need to carry Instant Warp Scrolls on me.. lol.


Was an easy fight, lots of Gates spam attempts with only I think two getting off. Full drops and another lost lot on Algol bringing me toooooooo.... 4 total? I don't remember.


After that it was back to Sea. Popped a Temperence giving us a Virtue, two Faiths giving us one Virtue, and two Fortitude's giving us just a Torque.

Then it was fun in Aery, which I already talked about at the beginning of this post. Now.. SCREENSHOT DUMP!

Double Dragonian!

Waaaaay to tired to make an actual post.

Or post screenshots.

Quick rundown of today: Beat Vrtra down again under 2 minutes, leveled DRK to 25, and watched a bunch from Apathy 5-10 man Jormungand.

I didn't actually get screenshots from Vrtra, took two from the last 5% of Jormungand when I arrived. I'll post more about it later. Kinda crappy day irl, I need some sleep.

Bad Screenshot Day

I completely forgot to take screenshots of everything we did today, minus Khimaira. Dunno why but I just completely forgot. What a horrible Linkshell Photographer I am! ; ;

Anywho. Had some fun in sky today. Well, most of Apathy did. I was stuck camping Ullikummi with a few others while they had fun with Gods. Unfortunetely he didn't pop before we left for Kirin. Melee/Kraken burned Kirin was fun. First I've seen it. Damn did his HP drop fast. To bad Shiva on Iceday kinda raped all the melee and the three DRKs we had Krakening him at 16%. But we picked it up and killed him no problem after that. God I love not getting one shotted on SMN, <3 HP gear.

After that we did Proto-Omega. Yet again does he drop no Heart for the many wanting Homam Body. Just Hands and Legs dropped, which happens to be the favorite drops for us Blech.. ah well, there's always next Omega... x_x.

So yes, finally some free time to level! Can this be, a party invite on DRK?! Alright. Wait a good 15 mins for the guy to fill it up and get out to camp, some guy dies. Typical for Qufim at night. Get out to Delkfutt's Tower and... "POP" .. wait what? Khimaira pop! Orz... *death warp* uuuugh, damn my luck.

Uncontested(lol) Khimaira. With the Astral Candescence gone, no one was there camping it. Not even a rival linkshell mule. So we took our time running through Alzadaal, killed off the imps people accidently aggroed on the way, and recovered. Then we kicked some Khimaira ass.

I noticed something though. I'm not sure what did it or why... but he put his wings down at one point. This is the first time I have ever seen him with his wings down. Another observation was he didn't use Tourbillion while he had his wings down the whole fight. He had used it previously that fight, but once his wings went down he didn't use it at all for the rest of the fight. My guess is something just like most other ToAU mobs, something triggered his wings to drop like a critical hit during something. Not necissarily that, but you get the hint.

Someone had mentioned that it was night time, 20:00~, when I said something on Ventrilo about it. I had figured maybe at night he put them down, but like I said, this is the first I've seen it. In none of my past screenshots does he have his wings down, they're always up. But I know in Model Viewer there is a dat of Khimaira with his wings down, I'm just not sure what triggered it. Anywho, back to the "night" idea. He made it till morning, well atleast 4:00 game time. I figured if it was the night trigger it would be 20~4 like undead timer. But they did not go back up at 4:00. He didn't last till technical game "Dawn" time.

We couldn't think of what or why, just that we liked that he didn't use Tourbillion anymore after that.

Anywho, that's all for today. I'm trying to be a little more detailed about events from now on. Normally I'm so dead tired and want to quick post to get it done with so I rush it.

Behemoths, Gigas, and Dragons!

Wheee, another fun filled day in Vana'diel! *cough* Seriously, though. Started off the morning with a 2 man claim King Behemoth in which I was summoned for. By the time I got my half awake/asleep ass out there it died though. I got to see the last 3% drop! Needless to say I threw myself back in bed after that, and didn't get much sleep at all.


Dynamis day! We couldn't decide which Dynamis to do and Xarcabard was taken, as well as San d'oria and Bastok. So we had some fun with a CoP zone again, Qufim. And yet the Apathy drop luck strikes again. I swear, I have never seen a shell get such little in drops from Dynamis. Let's see, we got: Melee Cape, Wyrm Belt, Monster Trousers. I believe that was it. BST and DRG went free lot to anyone, go figure, lol. We got the win for those who needed, farmed a bit more, then ended with a dropped glass due to a massive link of Krakens. Gotta love Dynamis links...


Decided after that I was going to pre-skill my Scythe, Great Sword, and Marksmanship for Dark Knight a bit. But what's this, I want to do something!? Oh hell no! Can't let Xiani do something! Tiamat pop! Away to Attohwa Chasm I go!


I must say, Garuda totally tore Tiamat up tonight. I got my first 1k+ Predator Claws on her as well as like 3-4 other 900+ ones. She was rather Wing happy, but atleast she gave full drops.

Lots of screenshots tonight! Tiamat and a random Yagudo I was skilling up off of. I thought it was cool, so I saved it. >>;

Sailor Powers GOOOO!

Another rather slow and free day for us. Did Limbus and pretty much had the rest of the night to ourselves.

I got to do the Valentine event today, wheee. I had mentioned to my friend last Tuesday about the event coming up while we were out playing Magic. Said how I wanted to do it but didn't have anyone this year to get my Wands signed by. So he told me he would do the event with me.

It's pretty much the same as last year, except you get points this time for matching up the pairs. The points, as I noticed, are completely random. Despite matching them up perfectly, I got anywhere from 70-108. My partner, Dar'kalan, managed to get the Miracle Wand+1 on his third attempt. I, however, only scored 70 points on the third try and wasn't able to get it. He made the guestimate that you need a total of 250 points, if this was true I was 10 points shy. So we waited a Vana'diel day and tried again, this time I could get it.

Call me a silly girl, but it really made my day to get those wands with his name on them. ^^;

I forgot to get a picture of us together with them. I wanted to do the hurray motion together and be all silly. Come on, they look like magical girl wands... heh. But I was in a rush to get to Limbus so I wouldn't miss it. ; ;

I got nowhere on DRK tonight... god I'm reminded why I don't level low level jobs anymore.

Anywho, here's two screenshots from yesterday's Dynamis-Buburimu. Not that great but all I took. I'm still rather upset with myself for being a bad camera-girl and fucking up the Vrtra video by not targeting it and being so far away. I'll have to redo it next time we kill it.

Vrtra Vanquished

Everything else we did today doesn't matter much. The main highlight of the day is this battle. See for yourself above or you can download the HQ video here: http://files.filefront.com/ApathyVrtrawmv/;6688384;;/fileinfo.html

But seriously. We had a rather busy day. Tiamat in the morning which I unfortunetely missed cause I was sleeping and later that day some Dynamis-Buburimu. I'll post the screenshots from Dynamis tomorrow. I never got around to them with all this pushing to get the video made. And for the haggling I made an extra bit at the end just for it. >3

But here's some screenshots of the after Vrtra party at the Kokba Hostel!

Slow Day

Was a rather slow day today. Started out with a Cerberus in the morning adding another Algol to Apathy. And another lost lot to my list. I wasn't feeling all to well so I took a nap after Cerberus. (Sorry, no screenshots from the battle.. wasn't feeling good.)

Once I woke a little more refreshed later on I helped my friend Steve, Darkalan in game, out a bit. Headed out to Valkurm Dunes and power leveled him while waiting for word on Vrtra or another round of Bahamut 2. And yet again, everytime I go to help him something ALWAYS pops... Khimaira decided to rear it's ugly head. So I had to take off. But by the time I arrived it was already claimed by AtG. Rawr... what a waste.

After the long battle another Bahamut 2 round was setup, and yet again the record was broken even further. I sat out once again, I can't remember what the exact time was... I believe it was 1minute and 24seconds or something close. Once again... no Bahamut's Staff. /cry

At this point I was thinking it was a rather unproductive night, and I cannot stand feeling unproductive. So I decided to finish leveling a job I had started months ago and got side tracked from, Dark Knight. Didn't get very far, goddamn Valkurm Dunes. I got from 16-19 having soloed most of it.

Other than that, not much else. Took a couple scenic screen shots and got around to saving some older ones. So here you go.