Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Tell me Brother, will I dream?

Well, more posts, as promised.

These have actual substance now! With 25% less spellung errurs!

....oh well. Can't say I didn't try.


Had a really great past few days in Vana'Diel. Bart got a Bahamut no.1 fight (Storms of Fate) organized, and I got to come as my nearly deceased Black Mage (Promathia ate a sizeable chunk of my exp AND buffer, leaving me 5000 exp to 75...again), and despite being a bumpy ride, pulled off a miracle win.

Though I have to say, I REALLY wish I had brought a ReRaise item with me. I died a lot.

Especially at the end. Who knew he could Gigaflare as he died :/


On Sunday I was supposed to be in sky for god pops, but was feeling generally crappy and sick (much like the rest of the city) so I opted to pass. Bleh.

Monday greeted me with more sickness (and a short work day), and because of a ZM16 run, I missed my Assault Static. We've been on a bit of a hiatus for a few weeks, so hopefully we can muster 4 new runs on Friday.

On the ZM16, the 1st form of the midget Zilart is rather straightforward; sleep the orbitals and nuke + melee down his shield. Not too bad an issue right? Right. Second form, oi.

He resets hate randomly (much like the Wamoura in the ISNM "Tough nut to crack"), so tanking is pretty much a non-issue here. He teleports around like Nightcrawler on crack doing various WS that to terrible things (terror, for one). Lost the first try with him nearly dead (I forgot I have nukes and chainspell...) and mowed him down the second try. Sweet dreams shorty.

Blue Mage is 63 now, and with my HNMLS needing more BLU, well, I write off not being in sky as "leveling BLU for the greater good". Or something along those lines.

My spell list is looking peachy too! Got Frenetic Rip (1/3 not counting the imps that never used it), Spinal Cleave (1/5ish Thank you Amii and BB, I kidnap you guys for spells far too often), and a few others. My spell list still has a few holes in it, but that's nothing compared to my TO LEARN list, IE spells I can learn within my level range. These are:

Yawn (Apkallu)
Voracious Trunk (Marid)
Frost Breath (Ugly Range Raptors only)
Diamondhide (Trolls)
Enervation (Also Trolls)
Warm up (Mamoolies)
Firespit (unhygienic, but from Mamools too)
Tail Slap (Merrow)
Hysteric Barrage (Lamia)
Amplification (Flan)
Cannonball (Wamoura {the roachy kind})
Heat Breath (Kirin minors aka Manticore)
Disseverment (Dagger wielding Aern)
Saline Coat (Squids! Also known as Xomit)

As anyone with eyes can see, I have my work cut out for me. Oi.

Til next time folks~

Friday, January 19, 2007

I'm Baaaaaack

Supposedly.

With a new year here, I figured I'd resolve to update this thing a lot more.

Also to stop running people down with my van.

One thing at a time eh?

I'm currently attending my last semester (wooo) of college, so this is grounds for celebration!

Since my last post, I've accomplished a LOT here in Vana'diel, most notably, I finished CoP!
Angels sang from the heavens as I got my last Cinema Scene in Lufaise Meadows, trumpets blasted, virgins threw themselves on m-

Okay. I made that last part up. I'm sure they've been around the block a few times.

They funny thing is, I did from the Mithra Trackers BCNM to the End BCNM with Promathia in UNDER A WEEK. I know. Let that stew in your head for few. Some people take over a year to go that far. I had a stellar group with some people from Sleeplessknights, the whole affair was very well executed.

BCNM:

Mithra Trackers: 1/1
Snoll Tzar: 1/2
One to be Feared (Ultima/Omega): 1/1 (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
A Warriors Path: 1/1 (MUAHAHAHAHA)
When Angels Fall: 1/4 (I was gimp and didn't have Sleepga II til the last run >_>)
Dawn: 1/1 (SUCK IT PROMATHIA!)

I must say either we were very skilled, or stupid lucky. This does not mean the battles were easy though.

On a side note, I hate Zdei.

Hate. Zdei.
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I also got accepting into the prestigious endgame linkshell "Death List V", whom I attended a Sea god run with. I was excited to fight a god again, but much to my chagrin, Jailor of Temperance is a GIANT ZDEI. Seriously. GAH.
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My Dragoon is now level 70, and my Blue Mage (new main >_>) is now level 61. I will take BLU to 75, mainly for because the AF is just so damn sexy. My spell list only has a few holes in it (Radiant Breath, Frightful Roar, Stinking gas, Frypan, Body Slam), but I've got the most important spells for the next few levels.

This includes the terribly hard to get Frenetic Rip.

Damn Imps.