Friday, September 5, 2008

Busy, Busy

So, I've been really busy this past week in Novus! To start, we've just started tier 3 in Einherjar, and I'm already back up to around 5k ampoules, for my Omega Ring. Tier 3 is a bitch, though. We've had really bad luck with Ortlinde's Chamber for a few days now. The first time around we got bombs, which can wipe an entire alliance when they self-destruct. And on our last attempt, we managed to get Krakens. Woooo.
















As if that wasn't lame enough, we also got the lamest boss possible two timed in a row. Still, I think we do pretty well in Einherjar, and I can't wait until we reach Odin.
















We've also been doing quite a bit of Salvage lately, and as usual, I get nothing but negative exp. We were able to grab a few drops from Zhayolm though, and it was nice to see Zerojai get a drop, since the only thing she's gotten in Salvage that I know of is her Skadi's Jambeaux. Zero got a pair of Freya's Trousers from the 5th floor frog, and then a pair of Deimos's Leggings dropped from the 6th floor, which Abunaii took. I was really excited when I saw the little treasure pool icon pop up after killing it, but of course, it doesn't drop any Marduk. God fucking damn Enlil's Tiara. It doesn't exist. Seriously.















Lovely drops, right? This is what I get when I enter Salvage:














We also completed Matray's Marduk's Shalwar, and I took this screenshot of him in whitegate. Matray is actually a very good bard, and doesn't do stupid things, like wear Zenith Mitts... I won't name any names but, if you're reading this, YOU ARE RETARDED. He's also got a lot more merits on BRD than I do, so I'm not really sure why Legynd ask me to go BRD instead of him. Oh right... he's a BLM, yeah.






















What else have we been doing lately... oh yeah! We've been camping HNMs, since their windows have rolled around into NA times again. We've been claiming Fafnir really well lately, but we still haven't gotten a Nidhogg. All in good time though, plus, we got a beard from faf! wtf?
















It's too bad our resident MNK wasn't there to lot it, and we gave it to fucking Believ. FUCKING BELIEV OMG WTF Y DIS HAPN.









Believ was actually talking about leveling MNK though, so I'm sure he was happy to actually get a head start on that. The little bastard... just look at him.















We also got A. Feet from another Faffy like yesterday, and it went to Nehallenia, who by the way is one of the coolest person's I think I've ever met in any LS. Not only is she this really cute taru WHM, but she's also British! And as such, never leaves her house without her monacle.






















The LS has actually been progressing pretty well, but we recently had to kick a few people in our LS who were causing a lot of drama, and a lot of it was stupid. I mean, wanting to lot W. Legs to get Blood Cuisses when they had Crimson already kind of stupid. One of them was a sackholder, which left a vacant slot open for a new sack in the LS, so Legynd decided... to make me a sackholder! I'm not sure what he was thinking, but it is kind of flattering that he considered me for it, and he let me lead one of our last limbus runs, which was a lot of fun. Still, I think he might just be retarded. So you know the kind of leader he is, this is him irl:















Aside from HNM activity and LS events, I've also gotten back to my favorite past-time of camping KA. I know that sounds incredibly exciting, but I actually did run into a bit of a surprise on the way there the other day.



























Yep. He was just running around unclaimed, so I took a few screenshots before I finished him off. No drop, of course, but I'm hoping the karma pays off with a drop from KA pretty soon. Still, KA is sort of fun, even when we don't get claim/drop, because it's nice to know that people are actually willing to help you with it. Plus, Abu likes to kraken the Knight Crabs.



















Since I've been so busy, I still haven't gotten much done as far as exping MNK goes. I got 51 and Kick Attacks, but I'm still a long ways from using that Black Belt. I do have this to help me get around in exp areas though:






















Pretty, huh? I named her ScarletMelody, because I knew she was probably going to be red when I bred both her parents for the egg. What I didn't expect, however, was for her to inherit Gallop! I raised her to max strength and endurance from the start, and it only took me about 46 days to completely cap her in both areas. Since she has capped physical stats and gallop, she actually runs a little bit faster than rental chocobos, I'd say about 1.05 to 1.1 times as fast. It was kind of annoying to raise a chocobo, but I think it was worth it in the end, because not only does she just look really awesome, but being able to call her from anywhere in the zone comes in handy when a party disbands in Quicksand Caves or something, and you wanna run back to town in a timely manner, and without aggro.

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