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Looks like I am playing again – well after I get updated

Posted on July 20, 2009 by | 2 comments

On a side note, photoshop doesn’t appear to be handling my screenshots anymore.  It is really slow when opening anything over 6MPix in size.

Last Saturday while playing on my 14-day trial, I was invited to attend a Dynamis with the group I used to play with on Diabolos, now called LastBoss.  I went as a White Mage and it is the first time I’ve been a White Mage in Dynamis in nearly 2 years.

Not shown -- me letting everyone die

It really was like riding a bike.  I guess since I’ve been playing White Mage since summer of 2005 it was all muscle memory.  It probably also helps that I had a backup copy of my macros from my old computer and was able to get back to what I was used to quickly.

The group is new, and had some trouble.  They also only had about 20 people in the zone, excluding myself.

At least we got to the Angry Tuna…

Pictured -- everyone dead

At least it wasn’t my fault?

Anyways, after this, I was ready to restart the Pyra.

I logged on to Caitsith just in time to go kill Roc.

Its like the Rocky Horror Picture Show, except it isn't.ToD was sometime that doesn’t matter anymore because the server was reset.

I then got to go and do Limbus with my old group.  I missed them.  But lets not tell them that, it makes it harder for me to negotiate for more cookies.

I have to admit, losing my Thief and Monk macros made this tough.  I barely remember what gear I had to switch and when (if I remember right, both had significantly more gear swap macros than my White Mage ever did).  I was casting spells and using JAs and WSs from the menus again like a common noob.  I might be somewhat nooby again, but I’m far from ‘common’ :).  Limbus was really fun, and it was hardly about the items, it was just about having fun with some old friends.

On Sunday night, I went back into Dynamis with KillerInstinct.  We did a Jeuno.  After I’d spent half the day writing new Thief macros, I ended up going as a Monk.  However…

eesI was a little disappointed.  The other one only hit me for 700ish.  My monk has ~1600 HPs in Dynamis gear (and I was /WAR)

I noticed a few things after my extended absence —

  1. I can’t remember what is ‘good’ for damage anymore.  My asurans were hitting for ~450-500, and I was pulling hate, but I thought they should be double that
  2. The economy has gone crazy.  Most ancient currencies have doubled in price while I was away.  I’m sure not complaining though, as I had a bunch on Pyra which I’ve sold to gain some pocket change.
  3. Thief evasion is still as amazing as always.  Because I need inventory space, I went and completed the first two Young Griffons quests.  The second requires you to fight a NM with a high counter rate.  Well, he barely hit me on my Thief (ok so I added about +17 evasion skill and wore some of my normal +eva gear).
  4. I need to completely rewrite my Thief and Monk macros.  They needed it before, but it feels like such a daunting task.

Anyways, enjoy your Moogle Coup of State and update.  I’m going on vacation in a few days, and so won’t be even starting the 2 mini expansions for about a month.

-pyra

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Well that didn’t last too long

Posted on August 5, 2008 by | 6 comments

After approx 2 weeks in the JoA shell, I’m already ready to leave.

The shell is all about getting items. Items for only the founding members. Members who already have just about everything, and who the new item doesn’t give them anything they don’t have, over those who have very little gears.

Example — item falls, old member who could use it in maybe 2% of the time would always get the item over a newer member who could use it around 25-30% of the time.

Most recently, they started ZNMs. Well, sort of.

Sunday night I’m on, I see “OK we’re going to go pop some T2/3 ZNMs for Tinnin now”, I reply “What about T1’s?”, leader replies “We don’t need anymore, only T2/3 now”. So all the time I spent farming up my 9K zeni was wasted because the leader decided to #1 pop T1’s when very few were on, and #2 no one else was deserving enough to get T1 drops. Since it is a policy of ‘your pop, your pick of the drops’, they have essentially locked those who weren’t on during the who-knows-when it was they popped the T1’s from being able to pop a T2/3 and getting to pick their item.

On top of that, they ‘forgot’ to record the sky god kills from last week, and since it is a point-based system, I not don’t have enough points to lot on anything i could actually wear. All because around 30 points were not recorded because the leader was not paying enough attention (I currently have 19 points, so these missing 30 would bring me to almost 50, a respectable sum for a new member). I don’t even make the attendance rates now, all because a huge event was not recorded (also, those who got items did not have points deducted, so they can get the next item up for bids even faster too). Hurray.

So I’ll probably go to the ZNMs tonight, if they happen. If it goes like last week, I’m going to have to drop the shell for something new. No point in wasting all of my time like this.

Mood: Frustrated

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My Second Einherjar Run

Posted on July 29, 2008 by | Leave a comment

My second attempt at a T1 einherjar.

We got…. hounds and a wivre boss.

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It was much easier this time, although I ended up about 1.2K exp lower than I started.

It was fun, and another 960 iccy things.  Woot!  Need 15K for … stuff.

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My First Salvage Run

Posted on July 28, 2008 by | 1 comment

Last week after Dynamis – Tav, I got to try my first salvage run.

It was quite interesting, and I’m glad I got to go.

When I entered, I had less HP than a lvl 40 monk.  Let the fun begin.

salvage_enter

And, of course, I was running around naked.

Since I was the monk, I got my most important stats/gears unlocked first.

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Man I look cool >.>

We did Silver Seas, but only went with 6 people.  We only made it to the third floor, but was still a lot of fun.

salvage_fight2

OMG these imps suck.  I would (easily) hit 1K on asuran, but their health bar wouldn’t move.  And they just spammed the silence and amnesia move.

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But it was fun.  I would have gone the next day too, but I fell asleep when I got home from work.  Oh well, always next week.

-pyra

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Soboroboro

Posted on July 22, 2008 by | 2 comments

Quick update.

Since I was enlisted to help out getting some friends a few soboros, I decided that after helping others get about 20 of them, I should have one too.

soboroboro

My “Make the SAMs Jealous Pic”.  My SAM is lvl 37 at the moment. >.>

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The group I got the Soboro with, the AnimeFusion social shell.

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And of course the main reason I was there, to help ensure Miz got his.  He actually has a lvl 50+ SAM.

miz_gets_soboro

-pyra

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In Who’s Jar?

Posted on July 21, 2008 by | 5 comments

Last night, I did my second Einherjar run, the first having been way back when Ata was still on Diabolos and Pyra was on Caitsith.

It went a lot better than expected.

I went with my new sky/sea/einherjar/salvage shell, JudgmentofAsgard.  They combine with another shell for larger events.  The combined shell is called JudgmentofMidgar.  So I’m going to be adding a couple new categories for both of these.

Anyways, the group is fairly new to Einherjar, and I have absolutely no clue what to do.  I wasn’t even sure I would make the run, but after reading about Mischa’s Einherjar funtimes, I decided I had to go.

The group gathers.

ein_enter

As we get in.  Monsters are hounds, bats, and a boss wivre.

ein_hounds

I like this pic, everyone charges the boss.  I had this mistaken for the buffalo we fought before, and was wondering why we just charged it.

 ein_boss_pano

It had so many hit points, and the attack down sucked, especially since I was dual boxing a whm and trying to keep it off of my melees.

Amazingly enough (to me at least) we actually win on the first try.

ein_kill_boss

The boss has some spike flail like move whenever someone behind him gets hate.  This caused issues, although it was absorbed by shadows.

With many people dead (see my weakened icon at that top of that last screenshot?), someone had to step up and kill the thing.

ein_pyra_wins

At least we didn’t wait until the last minute or anything…

And of course the drops.

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E Legs.  I’ve never actually seen them fall before.  It is by no means an amazing item, but just seeing a KB drop on my first ‘jar was really neat.

After the win, came cleanup and raises.

ein_dead_people

I see a Cyana.  She/he (?) once told me that “I dont trust ppl with names that begin with P anyways… or E. Shady lot those ppl with names beginning with E!  BUT THE P’s ARE WORSE!” (link)

Haha, I’m in ur shell now.  :P.  Cy is fun, and I like to give people a hard time.

ein_icky_things

Oh, and I got 960 of the amps of icky things.

Fun times.  Can’t wait for the next run already.

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A Day of Highs and Lows

Posted on May 8, 2008 by | Leave a comment

I like doing big numbers, especially with my thief, who so rarely gets the impressive WSs.

This is from Limbus.

de_part1

de_part2

I was so surprised, as its normally the Samurai’s job to make with the deathening.

Maybe these had an Acid Bolt and Dia 3 on them, but that’s hardly the point.  The point is that I broke 1K on Dancing Edge on Limbus monsters with /nin :).

At the end of Limbus, I was asked to “Find some rdm in the chest”.  I tried my best, but I think everyone will agree that this is the biggest failure chest ever.

failure_chest

Yeah…  DRK, DRG, and BST in 1 chest.  What a waste of 3 AF+1 items.

Although this may have been 1-up’d by my failure /random for coins.

failure_random

At least the low randoms got more coins this time.

Earlier in the day, I had this.

failure_roll

I had just made the comment about how Nift was the most inconsistent lotter I knew, then I proceed to roll 1 lower than him on the one item (71 vs 72), and 20 higher on the other item.

Such an odd weekend (yes, I know this isn’t going to ‘published’ status until Thursday, I’ve just got a backlog of entries).

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Well Hello There Ugly

Posted on May 7, 2008 by | 2 comments

Woooooo!  I’m still excited about this, as this has been a thorn in my side for quite some time now.

I randomly went with a group of friends to do some Golden Salvage in order to get the one person a few points towards ranking up, when another member of the LS asked for help with Evisceration WSNM.  So we all went off to Gustav to kill the bat.

After the bat, we checked to see if Ungur was up.  He wasn’t, so we tried for a little bit to pop him.

ungur_standing_still

On the last pop we would have waited for (about an hour), he popped.  An amazing effort was made using 3 SMNs as DD and a NIN, RDM/NIN, and THF/NIN to try to keep hate off of the SMNs.

ungur_fight1

We got him to 50% before a couple lucky TP moves took out most of the SMNs.

A couple friends showed up to help, and we changed some jobs, and tried again.

Much smoother this time around.

hello_ugly

my_lot

That’s how you know I wanted it, I lotted an 890 :).

Later that night in Limbus, I was trying it out.

putting_to_good_use

I really need to level my throwing.

Special thanks to:

Drus
Nift
Sgb
Stimed
Toonces
Willowdream

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Subdivisions

Posted on April 27, 2008 by | Leave a comment

(note about the title:  being born in the 80’s meant I missed out on much of the great songs of that decade and am only now discovering some of the wonders of that time.  This one is from Rush.  It was almost titled “All you Zombies”.)

I love scaring people.  I’m sure this picture is going to be abused for the next year or so.

delete_pyra

Before anyone freaks out, there were (and still are) 2 Pyra’s.  One was (formerly) on Fenrir, but is now on Diabolos.

fake_pyra

Yeah, those are the legs of my galka mule.

Moving along.  Yesterday morning it hit me, a THF/COR has access to Slug Shot.  I don’t have Ranger unlocked on Pyra, so all of the XBow/Gun WSs are unavailable — or so I thought.

I then went to Rollan Fields and had fun Slug Shotting with Acid Bolts.

slug_shot

slug_shot_dmg

That was fun.

Other than getting my Dancer to 47 (woo!  50 by the end of the week, depending on how Mario Kart goes), there isn’t much to update on.

Except — I got to play a summoner in Limbus for the first time in about 4 months.  Apollyon SE.  If you are a summoner, you know what that means.

pred_claws_limbus

pred_claws_limbus2

Just a quick comment — some avatar melee hits (including Garuda and Leviathan) cause 0 dmg to these monsters.  Oh well, I still get the big numbers from the Blood Pact.

smn_in_limbo

Sadly, the Ranger was out damaging the summoners.  By a significant amount too.

But not on floor 3 :).

mountain_buster_limbus

The next day I went to play with some Colibri to get my summoner death buffer back (I lost my buffer a few weeks ago camping a NM Antlion in the Chasm).

predator_claws_colibri

I don’t think I’ve ever hit that high on a normal monster before.  Avatar Blood Pact damage is capped to an extent.  Before, people would try to get huge numbers on level 1-10 monsters.  Not that it really matters, the lvl 70 Blood Pacts will 1-shot any monster under level 30.

Oh, and I have a new least-favorite enemy TP ability:

nullsong

Total dispel and damage.  Fun.  At least it left me with my food.

That’s it for now.  And go listen to Subdivisions by Rush (and All You Zombies by the Hooters).

-pyra

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Dear Omega

Posted on April 26, 2008 by | Leave a comment

Its Pyra, you know, your favorite person on the Caitsith server?

Would it be possible to have your heart?  I know its a low drop rate, but this is getting ridiculous.  I’ve been doing Limbus for over a year now and have never seen you drop one.  Its really about time you gave us some shinnies.

Well I’ll admit, pants are nice, and I was thrilled to get them, its getting a little overboard.

double_leg_omega

Everyone has them now, but everyone wants your heart.  I think I’d even be happy with hands and feet for a little bit (with body once every other run for a little while).  Just hold back on the legs and head please, there’s almost nowhere to put them anymore.

Thanks in advance

-pyra

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