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Misc Pics from the [S] Areas

Posted on April 1, 2008 by | Leave a comment

Found this while exploring Eldieme [S].  Its neat looking at least.

eldieme_box

This is the telepad for Recal-Merph.  It looks like a place where a telepad belongs, raised up above the ground, and with no monsters nearby, unlike Jugner which has a high chance of being jumped before the zone loads, and Pashow, where the location looks quite forced.

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Inside of the Nest, there is this sign.

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I know this is a worldwide game and all, but that really looks like Kanji with a reduced dpi to make it unreadable.  There are similar signs in Garliage.

If you have not done so yet, there is a mini quest involving a Lycopodium.  There are 3 of them, one in Garliage, one in North Gustaberg, and one in the Downs.  If you talk to them in the past, you can trade a flower to the spot in the present, and it will teleport you around the barrier.

I haven’t traded a flower yet, but I did get all 3 triggered, just in case.

lycopodium

Final pic for this entry.  I got myself promoted.  It was about a week ago, but I have not been playing too much lately.

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-pyra

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Summoner Performance in Campaign, Post Update

Posted on March 31, 2008 by | Leave a comment

As a summoner, one of the changes in a recent patch was one of the first changes for the positive the job has seen in a long time.

The change is that in campaign, any AoE buff hits everyone in range with tags on.

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12 people hit with a Healing Ruby II.  And I was not in a party.

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14 people hit with Ecliptic Growl.

The obvious advantage is that the exp a summoner can gain is greatly increased.  All of these count as a buff to a non-party member, which is 10 per buff, max of 300.  Plus, I think it counts as a self buff, which is 20 per buff, cap of 150.  So while avatar damage will never quite reach that of a heavy DD class, especially in a longer fight where MP becomes an issue, there are ways to even it out.

From this Campaign Battle, I got.

smn_campaign_exp

This is solo.  Summoner is a great job for solo exp in campaign now.  Sub White Mage, and you can even raise/reraise.

*grins*

-pyra

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Exploring Grauberg [S]

Posted on March 31, 2008 by | Leave a comment

Some of the new zones are quite amazing.  In some ways, SE really outdid themselves.  Then they forgot the content, but hey, its pretty.  That makes up for it all, right?

Grauberg [S] is one of the more amazing areas.  So here is the first in a series of 1 or more that just explores a zone.

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grauberg2

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From this overlook, you can see the Crag of Dem.  Maybe this will connect to the highlands someday.  And maybe there will be a patch where Samurai doesn’t get a buff.

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Look at that view, just breathtaking.  Well, as breathtaking as a computer game can be.

grauberg5

-pyra

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Apocalypse Nigh CS

Posted on March 31, 2008 by | Leave a comment

Quickie update.  Here are a couple pics from the CS that begins Apocalypse Nigh (which means, I’m all set for the fight, yay!).

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Yes, it is a good one.  Go, quick, finish missions, kill baddies.

-pyra

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Dancer AF1 and Campaigning

Posted on March 30, 2008 by | Leave a comment

I’ve been working on my Dancer.  When the AF was finally released, and I heard the weapon was in Grauberg, at the Witchfire Glen, I wanted to get it done as soon as possible.

Witchfire Glen is a really unique place where a handful of VT to 75 Pixies reside.  It is also where you go to reset ‘Pixie Hate’.

witchfire

If you’ve never been, I suggest going there, especially at night.

The Dancer AF1 quest CS shows the Dancer in Upper Jeuno as a child, with her mother.

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She is performing for the Pixies, and learning the “Spirit of the Dance” or some crap like that, I wasn’t really watching.

Then, for some reason, you fight a Hippogryph.

dnc_af1_nm

This NM was a complete joke.  My white mage could have soloed it, and hexa strike was just decimating.

dnc_af1_cs2

Awww, I love happy endings.  FFXI has so very few happy endings.

In the spirit of the dance, here’s a little /dance4 off.

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Well, moving along, Campaign has been interesting since the last patch.  The beastmen are more or less destroying the players.  But now, we can whack away on walls for lots of easy exp, so its not a total loss.

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And with the new summoner AoE buffs, ohhh the lag I can cause.  Its wonderful.  More on this in an upcoming post.

Complete with the glitch that was just fixed last week.

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I’m sure the Fortifications are at 1008/100 strength.  Really, I am.

And finally for campaign, here’s a good pic of Miz (we tend to campaign together a lot).

miz_rawr

That’s all for today!

-pyra

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New News! Only a Month Late

Posted on March 29, 2008 by | Leave a comment

I’m so far behind, where to start

Did a Proto-Ultima at the end of February.  It went well, and I got to play with some of my new chi blast gear.

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Yes, I know I was /drk, but I’m more focusing on the +80 part (with a mushpot on of course).

Which got me this nice blast.

pyra_chi_blast_ultima

It also got me dispelled, but c’est la vie.

There were also some really good drops!  I blame my 707 Chi Blast for them.

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The next day, I went and did Shadows of the Departed, in order to get ready for Apocalypse Nigh fight (soon I hope).

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It was a lot of fun, even with a lolPUP. 🙂

And, um… crap.

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I deleveled my whm 🙁 to 36 even.  Stupid job, about 200 shy of getting my level back too.  Oh well, its only a chi blasting sub.

I also finally, after about 2 years, turned in my magic trash.  Here’s a pic from the back room in Garliage.  If you go there in the past, bombs aggro you through the door (but it may be openable with the key, I didn’t have one to try).

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Sometime later, I did a couple avatars with Miz.  We do a bunch of avatar fights to help pay for our limbo runs.

And I noticed something.  The background that looks so neat in the cloisters, is a weather effect (same as the sky in the [S] areas, try it yourself, turn off weather and look at all the stars disapear).

Anyways, with weather:

garuda_w_weather

And without weather:

garuda_wo_weather

More to come!  Pics from the Cut Scenes leading up to Apocalypse Nigh, Dancer AF1, Cut Scenes, Exploring the [S] areas, Campaign, and the likes!

-pyra

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Welcome to the New Pyra’s Party Place

Posted on March 27, 2008 by | Leave a comment

The move is mostly complete, just a handful of links to update.

I chose to not go with wordpress.com for a simple reason: There was no simple way to move all my pictures. So, I moved it to here instead, since I had to move all the images anyways (in reality, its on the same physical machine as the previous site). Also, its easier to move at a later date now 🙂

-pyra

Wow, I need to make more real updates. Hopefully, I’ll have time this weekend. Boo life, its been way too busy lately.

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The First Appearance of the Homam Princess

Posted on March 27, 2008 by | 3 comments

Its late, I’m exhausted, but I wanted to post this.

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homan_pants 

Woot!  More pics coming soon, I’ve got to get everything organized, been a couple weeks of a picture backlog to sort through.

-pyra

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Back with a Vengeance

Posted on March 13, 2008 by | Leave a comment

And I am back!

Its been too long without a real update, so here is a good one.

About 2 weeks ago, KillerInstinct fought Dynamis Lord again.  This time for some good drops.

DL_Drops

Yeah, full drops from a DL, a very rare occurrence.

But the most important part is this–

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Yeah, 548, one of my highest weapon skills on DL to date.

But the best part is this.

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That DK was the kill shot.  For full drops.

Which of course has one obvious conclusion.

pyra_4tw

Anytime you want drops, just bring more Monks.

-pyra

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Merrit Planning

Posted on March 9, 2008 by | Leave a comment

Since I’ve had some downtime recently, I decided to get my merrit plan into order.

And I made a google spreadsheet, see here.

Its still a work in progress, but I wanted to share.

I cannot take credit for the idea, I found it via someone who linked to me. See Cyberstorm of Titan. I basically copied his general format, but I don’t have nearly the merrits he has. Actually, if I did, I wouldn’t need to merrit anymore.

Oh well. I don’t actually ever expect to get this list completed. I think I’d rather level Paladin or a tank job (boooo tanking) over getting the 2.7 million exp required to finish out this plan.

Real update sometime this week. Its been a while, I was in Boston all last week for a training class, and I have this week to work on getting my project finished — and I really do need to finish it, but its kicking my butt. Java sucks. Why, oh why, would you make a function return an object when its so clearly a String. Every other statement requires typecasting, and coming from C/C++, this looks like its just asking for trouble. And if you have an int, why the hell can’t JspWriter.write() just spit it out right instead of having to do write(“”+myInt). I swear, even obfuscated perl makes more sense sometimes.

-pyra

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