Category Archives: Dynamis

All good part 1’s need a part 2.  And here it is.

After we crossed the bridge at the end of part 1, we fought some Hydra.  They were nasty, but the Black Mage, White Mage, Red Mage trio were not too difficult.

The Melee trio of Monk, Thief, Warrior proved a bit more difficult, and I ended up tanking during the Monk’s Hundred Fists (at least for a couple seconds)

The Monk had some TP move called Shackled Fists.  It looked, and hit, like a renamed Final Heaven.  If you’ve never seen a Monk get 1-shotted before, here you go.

A closer look at the damage.  OUCH!  1468.

A pic of the Hydra Beastmaster and his pet Hound.

On the next floor, we ran into some Kindred.  Of course no dynamis would be complete without a summoner.

And some AF!  This is only the second pair of these I’ve ever seen fall.  Cool.  The person who got this is now 5/5 on White Mage AFv2.

More shinnies in the treasure pool.  Hydra Gaiters.

I just thought this picture was neat, so I included it.

As the run came to an end, we got out first big link of the night.  But with under 10 minutes left, we were basically finished already.  Notice how in these pictures there are usually only 3 people alive, myself, Irons as thief, and Mptythoughts on his Warrior.

This is Pyra’s final stand.  Vae Victis!

-pyra

Here we go, at long last, my pictures from Dynamis – Tavnazia.

From the opening CS.  Unlike the other Dreamland Dynamii, this one is much darker, and Diabolos is barely visible, surrounded in a very bright light.

And part of the text, weird.

I’m not sure anyone knows what the ‘storyline’ behind dreamland dynamis really is.  I know I’ve got no clue.

Anyways, you enter, subless as always, and have to get time right away (start with 15 minutes, only allowing 18 members inside).

After he is dead, run up to the middle floor.

One of the time monsters is a Nightmare Worm.  Think Phantom Worm on steroids.  He likes to do draw-in then immediately stonega4 or tremors.  Luckily (for me at least) he only used tremors.  1600 HP comes in handy when he uses a 400 damage to all move twice in a row.

Mages were not so lucky.

Hey look, NPCs in a dyanmis.

Running across the bridge in the safehold.

Sure, send the cats in first.

Nightmare Hornets, nasty guys that have a TP move that gives them Hundred Fists.  Wouldn’t be too bad, except the zone is full of them.

End of part 1.  In an effort to not have huge posts, this post was split in two.

-pyra

Before runs, it is apparently tradition in KI to do a wall of taru.  Enjoy!

-pyra

I know at one point, my goal in migrating to Caitsith was to become somewhat less busy, but the opposite seams to be happening.  I’m more busy than I was before, but its fun, and I’m having a blast.

But anyways, moving along.

Dynamis – Valkrum

First entrance, and death.  We had a bad sheep link which caused us some problems.  Also, no subjobs yet.

Yay the non-aggroing boss.  Then we aggroed it.

And the win!  That’s 3/3, giving me access to Tavnazia.

After the win, its off to farming *grin*

And we get a Bard Cape.  Neat.

And 3 AF’s in the treasure pool at the same time

Ohhh shiney CS at the end.

Part of the final CS.

Coming up soon, Proto-Omega, WotG Mission Pics and Dynamis – Tavnazia Pictures.  They were going to be in this post, but it turned out to be too long (again).

I’m doing so much I can’t keep up with the pictures, but I’ll try.

-pyra

For me, Buburimu was a return visit, having last been there in … um … early 2006 (was in one of the first linkshells to win this one, way back in the day, but those screenshots are on my old computer, so finding them will be hard).

Needless to say, it has been a very long time since I was in Bubu, and it was Pyra’s first trip there (Ata has 3-4 wins there).

This is what happens when body slam doesn’t get stunned.

The two people at full health are the 2 THFs in this alliance. The rest who have HP just accepted Reraise.

This was the aftermath on the mage hill.

I’m just including this because I got a kill shot. It doesn’t happen that much on THF, so I’m posting it.

And the win! Just need Dynamis-Valkrum for access to Tavnazia. Although, I don’t know if I’ll be in the group to do the Dunes. Either way, the Dunes is like the Windy of Dreamlands — it kind of sucks and there is no guarantee you will win. Things can and go bad at the last minute and cost you the win.

But anyways, after the win, we had about 70 minutes of farming. First up, Nightmare Crabs. No really, Nightmare Crabs.

See? I didn’t lie. Although the jokes about Nightmare Cockatrice are much, much worse. I’m just glad we didn’t have vent for this, I probably would have lost concentration.

Here are most of the drops. At least we got two really nice items. I think this is the first PLD Cape they have ever seen, making this PLD the first 6/6 in the LS. The only other drop was a DRG Belt, which some lucky DRG was happy to get as it made him 6/6.

And another picture. Buburimu really is the death dynamis, although *crosses fingers* I have yet to die in a KillerInstincts Dynamis.

After dynamis, I was about to go to bed, until I noticed it was only 9 pm. So, since my DRK had just hit 20, I went to quest my Aspir scroll.

When I was there, I found this, which I thought needed to be pointed out.

It is a targetable item behind the door. It is 4 letters and is called simply, gohu. The first letter is lowercase, which doesn’t happen anywhere in this game. I thought it was odd.

Finally, I saw this picture and thought it needed to be shared with more people.

I was technically there for this event, so I can repost to my blog too. Original can be found here

That’s it for me. Now to unlock Dancer, as soon as this update finishes.

First is first, something I’ve never seen before, AF (rdm even) falling on the first monster killed!

And if that wasn’t weird enough, AF also fell on the 3rd monster (which was MNK pants, and I got them which is the oddest thing). So the RDM (who I know) and I cleaned up early (although he also got RNG hat and SMN boots).

I got to have fun later. A NIN NM charmed me right after it kaboomed. Since I came as MNK, and hit like a truck, this happened.

Mrbojengles (who is in the social I’m in with Bmberman) was a BLM, so killing him wasn’t all that hard. But Bigdog was a PLD, so I was proud of that one.

This was somewhat funny, since in Limbus the night before, the NIN tank got charmed and started beating on me. Those 1600 HP come in handy as the NIN couldn’t do enough damage fast enough 🙂 .

And finally, my Monking buddy on Caitsith, Mptythoughts. Very nice guy, and a lot of fun.

So yeah, I took the haidates off long enough to take this picture. The +kick attacks really does make a difference, but I missed a lot more, and WS damage went down without haidate on.

-Pyra

The drops were insane. I’ve never seen so much in a single city run.

For starters, there were 60 people at the start, and we even had 64 at one point! The group has been together for the better part of 2 years now, and many leaders have 3-5 75 jobs.

The pulling is handled very differently than any other LS I’ve ever been in. They just pull large groups (sometimes 10+ monsters and a statue or two). Very different than what I’m used to.

The drops were great, although quantity does not always imply quality….

Woofie is the leader of the ls. She admits to trying to kill people. Shame on her!

We nearly emptied the zone, including all repops. With 15-20 more minutes, we probably could have made everything dead.

There were some good drops too…it wasn’t all DRG.

Final count was something crazy, I know there were 3 WAR, 2 RNG, 2 DRG, 2 THF, 1 BLM, 2 RDM, 1 DRK, 1 WHM, 1 NIN, 1 SAM. There were 3 AF drops on the steps at the beginning of Jeuno. Normal drop rate for cities for this group has been about 10-15, with a high of 25 one dynamis sandy (but 11 of those were BRD).