Thursday, June 22, 2006 - Evade the lightning
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*Would have updated blog yesterday, but blog site was hardly accessible.  Hope nothing serious happened*
 Eagerly ran around doing cutscenes to
finish Chains of Promathia with a wide smile and a sense of big
accomplishment. No more lightnings stroke me and decision was finally
made to choose Tamas Ring~!! Having three mage jobs leveled so high
it'll no doubt come more handy than others.
Last cutscenes,
especially in Lufaise Meadows, were so heart-touchy and beautiful <3
Even decided yesterday to make some extra celebration at home - brought
Lithira nice flowers 
and we made pizzas +1, mmmmm.  
Our assault trio reached
20k points in Ilrussi Atoll region, thus we picked some new
armor pieces. Got myself Yigit Turban! It boosted nicely my
black mage damage. New record - on unbursted ThunderIV 
Our group priority number one now is to boost our black mages up to
perform better in limbus. We already did fine yesterday with few
members 71-73, reaching #11 chain on Ebony Puddings in Mount
Zhayolm. Got myself 2 merits and put it into lightning potency #2. Hope
to go there today again and maybe finally succeed in ENM Like the Wind.
 
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - CoP Complete!
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Slept only 4 hours - had a really momentous night. Memories and images of battles fought keep returning - such things remind me why I'm still playing the game for 3rd year.
Took a little nap while sudden maintenance took action and then gathered our Limbus static. Our 2nd run was really successful - with only 6 people everyone got 6+ ancient beastcoins. We would've killed Kaiser Behemoth, but ran out of time. Cleared every mob there except turtle and dragon - actually we tried killing it, but with little experience took Cynoprosopi only to 40% before few of us died. Decided then to try it another day with better strategy - no blizzaga3s next time :/
  And then there was the final battle with my dear friends versus Promathia. Loooooooooooong time awaited fight, which brought me unspeakable pleasure and of course reward I'll get this evening is more than a nice bonus. First time we tried it and wiped - ate way too many Meteors. After that we prepared more, I added some 'noticable' INCOMING METEOR INCOMING macro, checked on few filters and we did very fine. Outran 4-5 Meteors and this brought us a cheerful victory. Now only few cutscenes past Japan midnight keeps me from obtaining... Tamas Ring! Yes, I finally decided and will choose it unless lightning strikes me!
  
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Monday, June 19, 2006 - Tamas or Rajas?...
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Staying out of linkshells I get lots of time to spend for personal activities. Of course it feels somewhat lonely without seeing constant chat conversations of people, but I bet it won't take long till we find new home. Need yet time to relax and think what we want next. Let's see what I've done in the past few days:
Our Paladin, Bard and Puppetmaster trio keeps leveling at any opportunity. Still didn't hit 64, parties get a bit slower now. Two days ago we explored a lot - visited few areas to try out, even Attohwa Chasm for Tracker Antlions. Finally we found good camp in Mount Zhayolm killing Magmatic Erucas - just need time and skilled people. I keep dieing on those nasty Incinerations, they are something similar to Goblin's Bomb tosses - very deadly once 'thrown' at nearly full health bar. But exp is very nice, we shall go there next time and keep on it till 67s.
 -Tadaaaaaaaaaa!- slowly finished quest for Walahra Turban. It replaced my Opo-opo Crown, won't have to stuff any more Pamamas. Fits well, looks not so good tho. Wonder how my Black Mage will look in Yigit Turban - will get it in two days, have 18k assault points already...
 Our CoP static proceeded further on mission 8-3 When Angel falls - loved the deeper exploration of Ru'Hmet. Got our key items and then prepared for pot bcnm fight. Our party consisted of NIN, SMN, RDM and 3 BLMs. Had few deaths coming there through gauntlets of statues, but it's ok and hardly avoidable.
Fight was awesome, we wiped completely once because someone died one step too near statues. Second time we wiped after killing only one BLM pot ; ; Safely reraised and quite one shoted 2nd BLM pot with ga3s and then slowly killed remaining RDM pots. Afterwards you could've heard the shouts of joy and cheering each other all over the sea 
 
Now all that's left is the... LAST fight versus Promathia! We shall have to sacrifice some sleep tonight to fit into everyone's time, but it's worth it. I think we'll easily finish it, just the thing worries me - WHICH ring to choose?!?!?!?!?!?!! I can't decide for over 2 months already. Keep changing my decision over and over...
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Friday, June 16, 2006 - Jelly time
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As one could notice it's not the easiest time we go through now, but shall manage to forget insults and people we thought were friends. Best way to do this is look around and distinguish who are truely your pals and spend time together without any annoyance.
Few days flew as we partied with good people killing Puks, Defoliators and Puktraps without sweat. Yesterday tried some Aydeewa Diremites which turned out to be too dangerous foes for our level and we simply gone back to chain crawlers. Had 2 good monks in party and still they hardly ever took hate, which pleased my Paladin pride. Soon I did hit level 63 ta-daaa! and hastily equiped Jelly Ring 
 
This brought me to dillema - keep Vigor ring on mule or sell it for 1.3M. I would want to keep it, but then quickly remembered that I still need Chivalrous Chain. Thus I put my ring on sale, shall buy chain for 2M afterwards and replace my dusty Iron Musketeer's Gorget.
Each day we continue completing Lamia assault runs to get yigit turban and melee body. Also gathering finally friends to start doing regularly limbus runs, yay! Will go there tonight and bring you story.
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 - Crossroad
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YOU to the left and I to the right,
For the ways of men must sever
And it well may be for a day and a night,
And it well may be forever.
But whether we meet or whether we part
(For our ways are past our knowing),
A pledge from the heart to its fellow heart
On the ways we all are going!
Here's luck!
For we know not where we are going.
Whether we win or whether we lose
With the hands that life is dealing,
It is not we nor the ways we choose
But the fall of the cards that's sealing.
There's a fate in love and a fate in fight,
And the best of us all go under
And whether we're wrong or whether we're right,
We win, sometimes, to our wonder.
Here's luck!
That we may not yet go under!
With a steady swing and an open brow
We have tramped the ways together,
But we're clasping hands at the crossroads now
In the Fiend's own night for weather;
And whether we bleed or whether we smile
In the leagues that lie before us
The ways of life are many a mile
And the dark of Fate is o'er us.
Here's luck!
And a cheer for the dark before us!
You to the left and I to the right,
For the ways of men must sever,
And it well may be for a day and a night
And it well may be forever!
But whether we live or whether we die
(For the end is past our knowing),
Here's two frank hearts and the open sky,
Be a fair or an ill wind blowing!
Here's luck?
In the teeth of all winds blowing.
by Richard Hovey
Being myself man of word, honor and strong beliefs I'm standing
now at the next crossroad in this game. I believed in our small
linkshell of friendship, but we lost it with time, few people and
uncontrollable immaturity. Current left leader openly hates black
people (we have some in our group and they have to listen to this),
indians - one of the senior members in linkshell is native american and
leader disrespects him, too; and also loves to mock christianity with
passion. Most people are just afraid to contradict this immaturity just
because he's leader. We tried to do this and were met with:
"Please don't take this the wrong way Lith, but
that is what friends do... fuck with each other! Would you want to have
a friend who is serious all of the time and can't take a joke?
Personally, I think a friend is someone you can walk up to and go
"Hey, FUCK YOU!" then be able to laugh about it, knowing that nothing
is really serious. A friend is someone you can joke about and make fun
of. And that means you can handle them doing the same things to you. If
you're really friends you can fuck with each other and laugh about it.
My advice.. just relax and don't take everything to heart."
I know what's joke and love good humour myself, but is that where our
mankind is going? Those people don't live seriously anymore - love,
friendship, respect are filled with stupid rudeness, which should be not
taken serious? I wonder how do they differ when any people really tell
them to go the *uck up, tell me? If this guy is telling you're 'stupid
lol' - he's trying to befriend you?
Are some people really so naive
not to understand and think about most simple morals? They really think
one can go and bash your personality, beliefs, friends and keep telling
- "take it easy lol its just a game" (and let me insult you next time
even more)? That's where many people start exploiting relationships by
exceeding widely known dogmas.
So I guess it's clear why did we have to fight it and finally speak up
against. I was doubting where shall it lead me and my friends - but now
I'm sure of what we spoke and would do it again. We met allied side of
leader followers and understood that we're not welcome anymore nor they
will change their culture anytime soon... Guess life will teach them
hard. There always should be respect and something sacred among people,
especially those you call 'friends'. I'm quite sure many people still
know the values of certain things in life and thus I'm leaving Draugas
linkshell in search for them...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 - Last days of Draugas
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(Something I needed to post for our linkshell members to see, sorry for publicity and don't read it who don't know me)
Hello everyone,
Can't talk about any of you but I joined this linkshell only because it
had few people dear to me outside of irritating company. We came here
believing in better teamwork and leadership as we faced before.
Dayooper even named it Draugas...
I didn't came here out of
desperation or just to run after someone blindly. I kept watching
people, their relationships and where are we going. We changed a lot in
so short time and lost Dayooper and Twinyooper support of dedication.
If you didn't feel it then let me also indulge you that we changed our
moto from being friendly family team to push it to the limit. You know
why?
Any of you still remember why did we leave Fantajii? We
didn't like someone of the leaders becoming too influent in linkshell
administration? Someone who would lock and delete our posts on forums?
Someone who would stop controling himself watching what he talks? And
if we comment on that we're told to stop drama cause it's 'anarchy'
linkshell and kings know everything better? Yeah, I couldn't stand it
there anymore - leaders didn't look for compromises and felt that it
was best if arguing side would just GTFO.
Now let's look at
what we have inside. Doc was never known for controling his words and
was freely hating christianity, black people, anything else I didn't
hear, also our PoT 'enemies', which we agreed many times to forget
about. Being ourselves christians and mature people we hardly tolerated
it as much as we could - but we knew it was wrong. It was irritating,
but Lithira finally snaped when people started mocking our member and
her friend (mine too) Pichon on vent. When I joined yesterday vent I
saw new channel 3 potz of truth and 'archenemies' names on it
(impersonated by our linkshell members). Gizmosan, Gorion, Tigerlil,
etc. Besides them was impersonated Pichon, who had also insulting
comment /has penis.
Lithira sent /tell to Doc about it and that she
didn't like the 'funny idea'. Next day when I joined vent - we had
already 4 Pichons on vent...
Besides that Murdoc moves my, senior
member's, post about 'Linkshell News and Status' to closed area
'because it's not something he and Jay wanted me to tell to linkshell'.
Anyone find it funny?
After that Lithira makes post about
general respect and unnecessary rudeness, which is met with 'chill
out'. We disagree with the idea of uncontrolling what we speak and then
Doc says something that hits me hard.
WHY IS EVERYONE TRYING TO MAKE DRAMA AND BREAK MY LINKSHELL!?!?!
Woah - dejavu of Fantajii break... King is dead - long live the King!
If you don't change your attitude Doc - there might be few people not joining -your- new linkshell on Friday.
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Saturday, June 10, 2006 - Dienamis
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Dynamis - San'Doria had
visitors from our linkshell yesterday. We did it for our newly joined
members and casual af2 drops some members still didn't have. Broke my
Drain record 
Run was sucking pretty much till we killed boss easily and then it
started raining Valor Gauntlets. We got 3 of them in an hour, also monk
and beastmaster parts. I managed to get one pair of gauntlets too,
being highest paladin who would use it soon. It's really funny to have
main jobs set to blm and smn for Dynamis, but receiving ninja and
paladin pieces in a few runs... 
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my collection of af2 parts is:
Ninja feet, Paladin head and hands, Summoner pants and feet and Black Mage pants. Pretty nice, mm?
Now back to leveling Paladin and hopefully doing Uggalepih Pendant run tonight!
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Wednesday, June 7, 2006 - Lost druid
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"And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart."
Bible, Jeremiah(29:13)
The universe is designed to allow for a freewill. Which allows us to use our own reasoning to choose what we believe. But what usually happens is we use our reasoning to try to prove what we believe or what we want to believe rather than honestly searching for the truth. It appears that there may be no way out of this mental battle. Oddly enough at the point of balance, reason becomes unreasonable. It can help you gather information, but making the choice is up to you. Reason is at the mercy of knowledge. If there is any information that we are missing then reason does not help our search for the truth but it will hurt it. We may never know if there is some hidden information that would change our minds. Reason is a very useful tool, similar to a hammer. We can build a house with a hammer. However, we cannot live in the hammer.
Meh, I know - probably it's not something to write in some game-related blog, but in the end-game many of you will face that. I wouldn't even call that time the end-game, cause especially in the FF it means merely just another stage of gameplay, not some impending end. Many of the goals player dreamed about are reached, he creates new... reaches them again and eventually he quits (casual gamer) or stays for people and love to Vana'Diel. How I envy sometimes the new players who experience it as I did long before...
Thank god I still can find enough challenges and goals in this awesome game. Not only that, but more and more friends around really keeps you glued to having all that fun together. Only pity more and more of them quit... But when I look back time to time - understanding how it would be hard to ever leave adventuring in Vana'Diel comes itself.
I don't update my blog lately as I planed due to being kept real busy in-game and not. Changed position in my company, which actually leads to having less headache. Still being father and husband leaves you not so much free time and dedication as other teenagers have, especially during summer. And last year I started to love cooking, too 
Only one thing I miss in the game... Someone close with whom I could talk free seriously and kidding about anything in life - not only already bored to bone game mechanics, exp, items, NMs, gilsellers... Can't say it came naturally with time, mood or boredom - but my druid's soul feels unbalanced.
In my next entry I'll concentrate my thoughts on game and what fun I had inside since last.
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Friday, May 5, 2006 - Ekuspansiooonu!
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"...I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion, and elimination of ignorance, selfishness, and greed..."
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Those words mean really much to me, because they show my way of surviving through hardest tests of life and make me therefore happy. Truly or not - no one can say, just cause there're no one to tell what is it... Each creates his own.
Fantajii linkshell has pretty much died and we're living already new life, bringing to it same old principals we had long time ago. And now I'm completely sure we made right choice by strongly defending our opinions. New people are flowing slowly into Draugas linkshell and everyday we have something fun happening - be that expansion or other smaller events. And here's short summary of what I recall most.
 The long awaited expansion Treasures of Aht Urhgan is awesome addition to overall game experience. New areas, mobs, items, quests, music, overall feeling is so much different from what we began to bore with for a few years. I've done some stuff there already but it's still much alien to me. Alien not because I don't like it - just I don't hurry to dive in quickly and overfeed on what's not even yet fully tested and implemented. I still have so much to accomplish besides expansion and working currently on leveling jobs like Monk to 37, then Thief from 37 to 75 with my new dear friend Keyera  And we have a truely blast experience so far!
Everyone and their mothers are unlocking and trying out new jobs, so couldn't resist either to check what's it to be a Blue Mage. The hardest stuff at start is learning first set of spells, as my  screenshot with friend Varzya shows - he got so frustrated while trying to learn Healing Breeze for 8 hours, till I came and brought my lucky charm and comforting hand. Anyway - racing to level faster not yet finished jobs isn't my style - Blue Mage just crawled out of Qufim Island with most spells pre-learned. Up till this day it proves people rumours as very strong all-side job. Spells like Head Butt and Bludgeon quickly beats senses out of many exp mobs we encountered. But methinks I'll stop on it very soon, because I've read further this jobs starts showing itself as gimped due to lack of equipment with + blue magic skills. It gets pretty hard to land succesfull debuff or that 1000 Needles everyone dreams about. I'll wait for AF implementation, maybe torque set and like. And still can't decide on the subjob choice - varying whm, smn, nin. This job as PUP and COR still need a lot of improvements. But that's to be expected from SE with previous expansions experience.
While there is time I decided also to prepare my BLU better and camped CCC for awesome poisonous sword Nadrs. 1/2, yay!
Having free time me and my linkshell friends collect IS points for Walahra Turbans, do some assault mission, participate in besieged. What was pleasing that you get points in besieged not only for damage dealing, but also for any actions you do, that affects party. I was there with my summoner and ONLY buffed and healed my party. 616 exp and IS points, yummy and completely worth coming. Really fun stuff, not some annoying capped fights ;)
Variation is very big and it'll be long time till I'll think of boredom...
  
One of important new expansion things are staging points, which are distant Imperial guarded posts, where you can later warp to for 200 IS. They really come in handy when you do Assaults or just want to exp near those outposts. Me and my friend Keyera got them all and here're some of the moments we enjoyed.
  
And last picture shows how oftenly Dynamis runs are fun for some people... ; ;
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Thursday, April 27, 2006 - Late April
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Leveling other jobs and helping friends camp King Arthro or any smaller
scale linshell event makes you relax and forget all
you want. Also meeting new awesome people is what's worth staying in
this and any world. And seeing some linkshells like Guts wiping to
Serket, then King Arthro.
Gosh, why living not in North America or Japan makes so hard to
participate fully in this game >.> Timezone difference,
unavailability of expansion in stores, especially when you have EU
version makes you wanna cover ears when your friends talk their mouths
out how it's cool ;(
Somehow after long search I found solo copy in UK gamestore and ordered
it quickly. Man, was I joyfull watching order progress turn to:
We are pleased to advise that your order has been despatched
via your chosen delivery method and will be with you shortly!
Hopefully today or tomorrow I'll start unpacking it and entering that
long-awaited registration cd-key. Yup, I already found EU version
installation in some internet corner and updated my PC ;) And
I'll be able to unlock BLU at once and try it out - looks most
interesting of them all. Will also turn in my long-ass 4 stages quest
Lure of the Wildcat for a mythril coin!
But for now I'm relaxing with a few
friends and leveling my Ninja. It's already near lvl50 and coming fast
to my goal of 60. Having a lot of fun with it - just few lame parties
are sometimes trying to ruin it. Smiled now remembering yesterday, when
I had the best party in last weeks. I was invited to come to Garlaige
Shitadel to exchange some member - upon coming I saw paladin tanking.
WTF... god, not another lame ninja+pld party 
But actually it turned it very good anyway, because many members were
experienced old players. Another show that party balance and gils means
nothing - players skills, experience and dedication does.
Yesterday also tried my luck in 'crafting lottery'. Showed my interest
in obtaining Sai katana and my friend Brakapart offered his l337
smithing skillz. Tried to make 2 katanas, hoped for at least one +1 and
was unsuccessful in that 
And of course his next craft had to involve damascene ingot and come
out with...: 
Oh well, luck will be on MY side next time, for sure. Anyway, even simple Sai is a very nice katana ^.^;
Today I should endure another 2 hours maintenance at my best play time,
then we should go help one friend with Charybdis and hopefully then I
can level my Monk in Dunes with one new friendly person 
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Thursday, April 27, 2006 - Back on track!
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It's been month and a week since my last post...
Wouldn't say that
I forgot journal or was lazy - just it was a very rough time for me and
many people in Fantajii LS. Many of you probably know that any HNM
linkshells have their dramas, sooner or later. I still keep remembering
how people submitting their applications to join linkshell would
mention "I've heard this linkshell has no dramas" and it brings me up
episode of Matrix "ignorance is a bliss". Where there's many people
involved and organizing large scale events, spliting loot and stuff -
drama follows. People start becoming ambitious, fighting over
leadership power or influence, picking their side. It's inevitable. You
reach high levels and pick to participate in end-game stuff and join
HNM - you participate in drama. If you try to ignore it - no one will
notice you, thinking you're weak and can't voice your opinion.
All that is in the past of Fantajii. I can predict it's existance to
last very short - being deserted and consisting mainly of Prophetz of
Truth members, who mainly stay in their linkshell, but still claim
themselves Fantajii members. People are ignorant or just care for the
legacy of 500M ls fund. Even few members who left in there, acting
strong (or actually weak and undecisive) and 'being loyal to Fantajii'
are leaving it. Meh, it's a long story and hard to explain. Only name
remains...
All in all - Fantajii old members and actually
original creators have formed new strong ls Draugas. Without doubt I
joined it soon after some last stupid mistakes leaders did in previous
linkshell. Having people there whom I saw as a linkshell power when I
joined it year ago means much - bright future, strong and dedicated
leadership without main drive for personal gain of items/gil. People
are over the stage of recalling recent events and it's all sweet again
- had a nice first linkshell meeting, where we discussed main
directions and policies. Everyone enjoyed it and we had only positive
reactions. We'd move to stronger linkshell events already, but the
expansion makes it harder - maybe that's actually for good. People
forget the past faster having new things around. And bad times teach us
to value good ones more.
In that time I took some break from
the game - working hard, playing Oblivion, Kingdom Hearts 2, Final
Fantasy XII and simply having other fun in RL. It was pretty cool,
while it lasted - but I surely missed my friends and all the community
atmosphere. In all that 'side picking' process and whatnot I lost a few
closer friends - but hopefully will regain soon. It's always easy to
give up and go away - but surviving and fighting for your beliefs and
friends is not so.
Enough of my 'I'm returning' ramblings - will post my further adventures soon.
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Monday, March 20, 2006 - Another successful March weekend
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The last weekend was one of the most sad and joyfull I had in game. Won't go into details about depressing part - people who care know what happened, but lemme tell you about the fun.
 We visited quickly San'Doria Dark Dragon for
the Windurst mission. Had only 4 naked people and killed him very
quickly nonetheless. If anyone wants to know - you can buff yourself
with anything before the -Lv.25 capped- fight and they still stay. Bug,
exploit - I can't tell, but that helped us much. Lithira and
Ryutto Windurst ding RANK3, yay! After that Fantajii Bad Boys represented linkshell with the style in Dynamis-Windurst!
Long time we didn't have such a nice Dynamis run, tho we didn't get any
AF parts untill killing Main Boss. We still had over 30min left and
quickly started killing leftovers. In that time we managed to get... 8
AF2s! For some time I already have summoner pants from there, so now
coming there only for ls fun and loooow
possibility to get black mage gloves.
  AIRSHIP BATTLE!!! 1:3
It's hard to tell how much was me and Lithira glad to participate in
Airship fight with our old friends. Them and that wonderfully
challenged battle made my day. We tried it 3 times with similar tactic,
slightly tweaking it each time and finally made it. Party setup: Ninja Shena White Mage Berdine Red Mage Indyana Black Mage Lithira Black Mage Varzya Black Mage... Ryutto As you can see - very unusual setup. But we took the risk. Ninja was supposed to tank 5 mammets at once with us
quickly as possible killing mammets without pulling hate. All three
times Shena did a very GREAT job with it. Now the Omega... If you'll
ever go against it with mages the last 10-20% will be a big pain. It
starts going crazy (even after using CCB) and spaming that magic
shield, when ALL spells get simply resisted. Burst, Stun, Dispel -
anything. Don't use the 'finish it with 3 Flares at 25%' step. Slowly
kill it, if possible without wipe. We did wipe each time. After
reraising at safe spot we'd finish it off with ancient magic or two.
Ultima wasn't a big issue, tho we noticed it was much more weak and susceptible to magic and hate issues, sometimes.
Me
and Lithira are still very happy with the recent battle and are eagerly
awaiting our last simple battles to reach sea, at long last! And after
that - Raja's Ring for me and Tama's for Lithira in mostly two weeks.
  
GO GO GO!!
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - Geting ready for Airship
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 It's all in the past, but
memories still echo.
Being so busy last weekend I still somehow
managed to move forward in CoP missions, tho just a very little.
Lithira and few other LS members still needed Snoll Tzar fight, so we
rushed quickly to help with that. Had prepared always at least one
salt, but first two tries went really unsuccessful. Once it blowed
after a minute with just a 1%, another time it did enormous ~850 conus
damage - wiped 4 members middle-fight. Each time learning more about
the battle and what to fear most we cleared fight with joyeuse shouts on the vent
Next we rushed to the Movalpolos shaft to help with Bugbears fight. It
was soooo fun - group control is MUCH more enjoyable than unleashing
hell on the blowing bomb 
We did it twice, exchanging some unbalanced party members who needed
it. Soon after that watching few more cutscenes we ran to Dilapidated
Gates in Misareaux Coast and smashed couple of Warders. They could
bring trouble to unexperienced crowd with wicked AoEs, but not us. In
the end over 6 people ready for Airship fight again! Now off to farm
chips for lots of CCB polymers...  
But not all the time I
had crowded events going on. Each day I needed some relaxation
leveling my Ninja further. Reached 32
already - I'm feeling very competent with this job so far. Remember
debating with japanese Paladin player Arklight - who should tank
weapons in Sauromugue (me as Ninja30 or him, PLD32). After leting me
show off a bit, he quickly changed his mind. Anyway, I think to stop
leveling it at 34. Need to gather gils for Utsusemi: Ni, Peacock Charm,
Horomusha Kote, Jujitsu Gi, Survival Belt, Fuma Kyahan. Bleh... over
40mils here 
And I didn't even mention lots of tools, which I use constantly (slow,
blind, paralyze). I really enjoy leveling it pimped out - dunno if I'll
let myself being somewhat 'gimp'. Should take a month or two break on
Ninja, perhaps?
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - Long and happy weekend
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First - Fantajii LS paid Kirin a visit twice (each other Friday). No
doubt I grabed my summoner and ran there - got to Kirin's room on third
try 
There we prepared and started killing it. Can't say we had any problems
nor was it slow. All in all - 2 Kirins died in less than 2.5 hours.
Drops were really crappy this time, but anyway - can't say we didn't
enjoy. Second Kirin droped same things plus Osode. Had to leave hastily
before him dying second time, the reason - Shikigami Weapon!
  Ah, the infamous Shikigami
Weapon - summoners' wet dream. Drops Yinyang Robe, the best body part.
Been camping and killing him for past 6 months already. My heart
trembled of joy knowing the exact death time of it and also the fact
that only we do. Only one thing made me  sad, that all linkshell was
still killing Kirin and I couldn't get enough people to kill it safely.
2 Summoners, Warrior without Utsusemi: ni yet and a Black Mage. We got
him to 60% and wiped. Kirin was near death already, so few our friends
rushed to help us out, all the things being nearby. Few beastmasters
from Unrestricted LS saw us dying and tried killing Shikigami themself,
but died as well. Saw them hiting homepoint and rushing back, but our
ls was faster. Raised us and started killing it at the same time.
Everything ended well, but no drop 
 Having a lot of free time on
weekend, no doubt I was camping it another day, too. Had enough people
and even the competition from the same Unrestricted LS we had fun
yesterday with. So I decided to make two camps. Just like having sixth
sense I stood at the place where it spawned and got claim at once.
Surprisingly we managed to get 4-5 weapons link, but our incredibly
tough and experienced Bard Pichon managed to take care of them sleeping
very well. Dammit - no drop again 
But each fail makes you think next time luck should shine on your side.
With that in mind next day I was forming group again. People in
linkshell were pretty much unresponsive for support  request, but as I already
learned - some reasoned whining always helps. With 45min till the
window I had only three people, but in 20min eleven more came
We saw some group at the entrance and I was worried, that they somehow
learned the death time - but apparently they just wanted to kill Black
Halo NM and were looking for additional help. So we decided to quickly
help them out and make them get outta here without learning another
death time. Surely Unrestricted LS was trying again to get Valkerion
robe, but thanks to Gizmosan masterfull claiming we got him first.
Camping in different areas we rushed to him, making pretty big train of
around 7-8 weapons, but having enough black mages and bards we made it
through.  ZOMG, ZOMG - what is it droping?!?!?! Had so many people shout woooooootulations in my address, yay! At last I got it...  Austere set going to mule now, for sure.
 
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Thursday, March 9, 2006 - Sea push and leveling
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Last weekend was helluva one push to the sea. You don't even imagine
how I was tired in the end, for the third day going to rest at
6-8am...
We had a team of ~15 ls friends struggling forward. Starting from
Sacrarium I reached Three Forks 5-3C, last bugbears BCNM on Louverance
Path. Probably would've finished it, but Moblin Trixter wouldn't warp
me to Mine Shaft, because I'm doing ENM there each 5 days and end timer
was yet 3 days away. Simply hadn't any power left to go farm snow
lilies in Ule. Range to help me with that and surely there were none in
any AH, too. Next weekend is coming and I think it's the seawater salt
I smell already. Will keep updated how did it go. After all
the tiresome events I wanted somewhere to relax. No meriting, no
farming, no crafting. 
Got to know that Lithira and
Pichon were gonna level further their Bard and Paladin duo I decided to
join them with my Thief 31. Thief... oh god how much I adore playing
this job. It's so challenging and rewarding. Quick and skilled pulling,
doing (and not missing any) 2 SATAs in 10-15 seconds, pulling off
400ish Viper Bites with 200+ Distortions at lvl~35 is something that
soothes your soul and makes you smile. I had such a blast leveling
Thief to 37 in two days and only then remembered my Ninja was only 18.
Took off to level it yesterday... 
For all the pleasure I
had leveling Thief here came the backfiring crap. I had about 4 awfully
setup parties, some even with non-helping PL. We surely were killing
lots of worms - their Sand Spin and Tremors move made me cry, each time
blowing away my whole set of shadows
Somehow I managed to hit 21, equip my signed pieces of Beetle Armor +1
and Spike Necklace. It's a lot better now - Utsusemi is much easier
managable, hate is kept good with the frequent use of Hyoton and
Shurikens. Lets hope this evening I'll have much better experience... 
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Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - About Ryutto
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Name: Ryutto
Born: 2005.01.01
Jobs: SMN75, BLM75, WHM63, PLD56, THF37, NIN41, DRK18, MNK18
LS: Fantajii
History:
Once I started I immediately saw the power in summoner job and put all
myself into leveling it. Got all possible avatars from mini battles at
lvl20 - those tought me much about soloing. When I reached 60 I
started full-time soloing and since lvl63 I hadn't any exp party.
Uleguerand Range was my sweet home - it was all about challenge and
uniqueness. I killed so 
many Aglooliks that you
wouldn't imagine, had constant chains up to #5. And that was before exp
bands were introduced...
My
soloing challenges never include any usable items like ethers, yagudo
drinks or anything. Only free carby and sometimes Fenrir for quicker
pace, having mp surplus.
Playing alone made many things
accessible - soloing such as:
- Prime avatars Ramuh, Shiva, Ifrit, Titan;
- RDM AF hat doll NM in Garlaige Citadel;
- WHM AF body NM in Fei'Yin;
- Coffer keys hunt;
- Many other.
Found many friends in helping people with these, be that for free or
some gils. Summoner is really great job to solo with, tho maybe not in
all conditions. None job is, thanks god. Each has it's strong and flaw
side.
For example in Dynamis I felt very frustrated, weak and not
supporting enough. That's why my next job to 75 was Black Mage. I
always go there now on my Black Mage, standing at the front line, doing
all be that supportive or destructable -ga spells. Really better
experience than with Summoner job.
That's it about Ryutto's history, shortly. Think I missed few things, but I'll always keep updating as memory returns.
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Ryutto
NPC: 57
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Missions:
Bastok:10
Windurst:5
Zilart: Complete
Chains of Promathia: Complete (Tamas)
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