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It’s Assault Baby!

{ Tuesday, December 12, 2006 @ 10:43 am } · { Assault }
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Monday, December 11, 2006

Chipya (DRG)
Kathane (DRG)
Keceltes (PLD)
Rya (WHM)
Searsay (BLM)
Toefer (RDM)

We sure do like to keel dem Trolls. We did Troll Fugitives not once, not twice, but four freakin’ times. That’s right. Four. Of course that gives us enough to do our assault promotion mission for Lance Corporal. Well, we only really needed three, but whatever.

Why did we do Troll Fugitives you ask? It’s because we cannot control ourselves whenever Kathane uses her feminine ways to persuade us. That and she needed points for a Chivalrous Chain. Also we didn’t care which assault mission we did. But using feminine ways doesn’t hurt. 0=)

The first run went quite smoothly. I think we beat it with about five minutes to spare, but hey, we can do better than that. The second run I started to cast more offensive spells in the beginning to use Convert sooner and we beat it with around ten minutes to spare. The next two runs weren’t as good.

I think it started with Searsay saying, “I didn’t die that much in Limbus.” That’s what we like to call Foreshadowing. For those of you who do not know what foreshadowing is and are too lazy to click on the link,
Foreshadowing is a literary device in which an author drops subtle hints about plot developments to come later in the story.

Now imagine that statement with a Tarutaru BLM that nukes like no other and a Troll MNK that just used his 2hr. That’s right, not even a PLD could save him. Searsay turned into a pudgy blob and was squashed not once, but twice. One time each for runs three and four. No harm done though since we still manage to beat these assault missions and we have a lovely WHM with R3.

Some notes about this mission, I should nuke more and early rather than less and later, Searsay’s manapool decreases much faster when he thinks he’s the devil incarnate, and Rya doesn’t actually use that much MP, mostly because there is a punk PLD that does a “wavy hand thing” and cures himself.

After doing all these missions, it looks like I’m a little more than halfway to getting some Yigit Crackows. Those are pretty nice for mage boots. Better than some AF boots that give me either a lower chance for Spell Interruption or Shield skill. Whoopie doo! Shield Skill! Yes… much better.

Nigh… Again… >.<

{ Wednesday, December 6, 2006 @ 11:41 am } · { The Tarutaru Life }
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Monday, December 4, 2006

Casolaus (NIN)
Chipya (DRG)
Kathane (DRG)
Keceltes (DRK)
Rekiconeki (BLM)
Toefer (RDM)

Damn… here we go again. So far we’re 0/6. Let’s try to make this one 0/7. \(>.<)/

OMG… we actually won this time. =0 We killed off Eald’narche fairly easily. Good Stunning people! I think it was a bit better since Reki was Stunning more instead of nuking since Eald was more magic resistant. Caso (aka Thed aka the good player) kited well. Reki died first, then Chip, then me. We all RRed and kept on fighting. Kec died then Kat a little bit later.

When we were fighting Kam’lanaut, Kec’s RR got dispelled. I guess that will suck-ga for him. I informed him, but I don’t think he had enough time to get it back up before he died. Oh well.

Nice. Now I get a Magnetic Earring. Woot. I guess I could have gotten a Static Earring instead, but that’ll only be useful when I’m MBing and that means I’ll have to pay attention more often while playing. I think it’s better for me to have Conserve MP and the HMP though, since it’ll be more useful for all my LV 72+ mage jobs.

Great job guys!

Assault… What? This again…

{ Wednesday, December 6, 2006 @ 11:32 am } · { Assault }
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Monday, December 4, 2006

Chipya (DRG)
Kathane (DRG)
Keceltes (PLD/SAM)
Searsay (PLD/SAM)
Toefer (RDM/BLM)

We had some time to kill before our big fight tonight so Keceltes suggested that we do a couple of Assault Missions for old time’s sake.

Saving Private Ryaaf

This Mission was fairly easy. There are only certain positions where NPCs are and what direction they’re facing. If it wasn’t an NPC, then it was a Fomor that you could outrun with /flee, Hermes Quechers or even some NIN AF boots. FFXI would have done a better job if they made it all random. Oh well. Yay for lazy programmers! No deaths on the first run and who knew PLD/SAM would own Chigoes pretty well.

The second run did not go as well. Maybe we got too cocky. Rya (WHM) arrived late and replaced Chipya. Chipya left, something about needing to feel clean again. ^^ Kat checked the Northern spawn location and died. We all ran off in different directions. Keceltes died in the West. Rya, Searsay and I regrouped in the South and checked there. We found an NPC. I would have ran around aimlessly until Keceltes pointed out that if the southern NPC had this name then we know where all the others were. So Rya and I went to the center while Searsay went off on his own to the West. I sacrificed myself so that Rya could run in and snag the NPC. But she didn’t know where the NPC was and was also unfamiliar with this quest. She mentioned that it was quite frustrating. After finding the NPC the Chigoes got her. Searsay had an epic battle with the other Chigoes. Apparently his ultimate AoE weaponskill missed one. He was down to 5 health when he killed it. Rya RRed and got the chest. It wasn’t so bad, except for all the deaths.

Troll Fugitives

Keceltes changed to DRK and Searsay busted out with his PLD/NIN. He was a pretty good tank for a Tarutaru. It was a slow and long process to kill everyone. Rya complained again that she didn’t know what to do for this assault, but we’ve done this one before with her… pretty sure anyway, and she just forgot. We barely won this one with less than 30 seconds left. Nice…

Tarutaru Deaths – 1

rdm xp time

{ Wednesday, December 6, 2006 @ 9:20 am } · { XP }
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Friday, December 1, 2006

Cwabs (RDM)
Juventus (MNK/NIN)
Nicholas (WAR)
Purewhitewolf (WAR)
Toefer (RDM)
Xrela (MNK/NIN)

Aw man… what kind of “F”-ed up party is this? It’s like we can split off into pairs and have a hoedown or something. But whatever, there are some Japanese people in this party and I have full confidence that they know what they’re doing.

We went to Bhaflau Thickets via the Mamool Ja Staging Point. The area was fairly packed so we headed a bit further into the woods to find our mobs. During the first few fights or so, a 2nd Skoffin popped and aggroed. I attempted to sleep it, but didn’t. The next thing I knew I was dead. The remaining members of our party killed it and I got a Raise I. T.T

After that, the party went along much more smoothly. There was a lot of non-stop pulling. These guys were crazy. They just kept grabbing mob after mob regardless of the amount of mp we had. I felt like we were going to die after every pull, but somehow we managed to survive.

The party kept bitching about Silena, and how we couldn’t cast it on them since both Cwabs and I were /BLM. Apparently Cwabs hasn’t leveled his WHM past 21 (he claims at least). I guess that makes me the fool that needs to change sub jobs. On my way back, my Sneak wore off while I was knee deep in Mamool Ja. I didn’t think of it as a big problem, except there was a raptor there that chewed my head off. Invis dropped and five Mamool Ja were on top of me. I can tell you this much for sure: it was not an enjoyable experience. I died again and got yet another Raise I.

Xrela made some crack about me dying a lot. Guess who was next to die? While I was resting, Xrela was Silenced. I stood up to Silena her, but she was taken down pretty quickly. Oh well. Juventus died soon afterwards. Well, I guess we don’t need our MNKs alive afterall.

Xrelia D/Ced and never came back. For a while I was wondering why we didn’t get a replacement, then I realized that I had the pt lead. Being my lazy self, I passed the lead onto someone else and hopefully they’ll notice after a while. I didn’t want to deal with this stuff anyway. After another 10 minutes or so, Nyankotan (NIN) joined us.

I must be the laziest RDM in this party. All I did was Cure and cast Pro/Shell on everyone. Cwabs was better at debuffs anyway (he had those second tier debuff merited spells). He also casted haste and alt healed from time to time. Every now and then I threw a debuff, but I was mostly sitting back and watching TV.

Earned around 23k probably closer to 25-26k if I didn’t die twice. >.> It was a good party.

ZM5 – Headstone Pilgrimage

{ Wednesday, December 6, 2006 @ 9:04 am } · { Missions }
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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Karmi (NIN)
Kathane (DRG)
Keceltes (PLD?)
Rahael (WHM)
Rya (WHM)
Kutan (BLM)
Aldric (DRG)
Toefer (RDM)
anyone else?

We went to Boyahda. Ran around for a bit then popped the Doomed mob. Killed it then moved on.

Then we went to Cape Terrigan. This, as it turned out as a huge bloodbath. Keceltes ran off and aggroed a gob. I casted Sleep on it then made a run for it. At one point we have to stop to resneak and reinvis. People started to run of, but Aldric didn’t have Sneak nor Invis on. He aggroed a Sand Cockatrice (I believe) then the “you’re screwed” feast began.

I attempted to sleep the cockatrice, but couldn’t since he was hitting it. Then he stopped hitting it and a Goblin behind him aggroed. I sleepga everyone, Sneak/Invis Aldric (who by the way says, “Thanks for the late Invis.”), then Sneak/Invis myself. Then we made a mad dash for the zone line.

Every now and then I had to resleep mobs, then keep on running. Eventually Aldric, Karmi, Kathane, Keceltes, and I died. There was just no use in stopping the mass flood of mobs. Luckily I used my rr gorget before dying. So when it looked like the coast was clear, I rr. Just then, a bunny started hoping around the corner. I was like fook, I’m going to get killed by a rabbit when I only have about 50 hps left. I made a run for it, but the bunny was not after me, it was after someone else. So after that other person died, the bunny disappeared. Whew what a close one. I sat down and five goblins came around the corner lusting for my blood…. and they got it. Damn… died twice.

Aldric did mention that he was a bit tired before going to Cape Terrigan, but after he died he immediately d/ced and was gone for the rest of the night. What a fooker… First he aggroes a cockatrice, blames me for not sneak/invising, and then leaves before we fight this last NM. Bastard >.<

I swear, the next time I see him, I’m breaking his pearl. It’s not just this time he annoyed me, but there are plenty of other times when he disregards the LSes advice, keeps talking for no reason, and pushes people too far. Sure we jest and insult one another, it’s like we’re family, but at least we stop after a while. I’ve had enough of him and I’m sure there won’t be a tear shed for the loss of this LS member, who, when he joined, said that he would leave once he hits 60 or 65 or something to join his friend’s LS. Yes… goodbye Aldric. No hard feelings, but I’m sure I would live a happier life without you. I just can’t take you in large doses.

Alright. I feel better now. Anyway, some people died, sad story. We killed the ZM dude easily and the people that needed it got the Wind Fragment.

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