Angry Taru

Monday, August 25, 2008

Chipya (DRG)
Rane (BLM)
Rya (WHM)
Toefer (RDM)

Well we just did a single assault mission today. Rand had a headache and Rya thought her Monday assault nights were dying so she jumped ship. She only had one tag that night. I can’t really blame her either. Enginerds is just one of those dying LSes that doesn’t die. That’s right! We’ve been here since launch and are likely to stay.

Most likely anyway…

This is one of the few occasions in which I actually appear on a Monday. Chipya thought it would be best that we do one of the Chief Sergeant missions since that is my highest rank. We decided to do Deserter with our rag tag team of four people.

This mission was fairly simple. Essentially you go around killing Lamias. If you’re lucky and do a weapon skill, like Shield Bash, you may break the Lamia’s weapon and they’ll give up. In fact, you get more points when thy do give up. If you’re aiming to just do the bare minimum to complete the mission successfully, then all you need to do is defeat one of them. There are also skeles that roam about giving you no points. I believe we killed about 6-7 Lamias out of the possible 12, maybe more.

It was a pretty fun short time and my first CS mission. Who knows? Maybe I’ll get to captain one day… sometime next year. All in all, it was a good night.

Monday, November 26, 2007.

Chipya (DRG)
Keceltes (NIN or PLD)
Kutan (BLM)
Rane (BLM)
Rya (WHM)
Toefer (RDM)

I wasn’t really paying attention at all. I guess we were helping Rane and Kutan with some of the beginning Assault missions to earn their ranks for harder missions.

The first assault we did was Leujaoam Cleansing in Azouph Isle Staging Point. That went fairly smoothly. This was the first time I played as RDM since I came back and it was a bit tough to get used to. I noticed that I had some difficulty Refreshing 4 players at a time and sometimes Chipya too. Keceltes more or less remembered the whole path we were suppose to take and killing worms was fairly easy.

The second assault mission we did was Excavation Duty in Halvung Staging Point. This one went pretty well too, but I think it could be better. Rane did the solo work at the northern wall while the rest of us killed Qirin and the other walls. We finished with less than 5 minutes to go.

The third assault mission was aborted because Rane and Kutan didn’t have access to the staging point. It was unfortunate. Oh well. Next time I’m sure I’ll remember to get an I.D. Tag ready so I can do four assault runs instead of three.

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.

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

Monday, October 23, 2006

Looking through Elohidelu’s album and reading the forums has once again inspired me to start up my blog again. I figured I should redesign it or something, but I am a bit lazy. So for now, I’ve just taken to create new text entries. Maybe later I’ll figure out what to do with them and design something nifty. Or rip off some Javascript somewhere. Or even, heaven forbid, sign up on a blogging community.

So today was just our weekly assault run. Having recently receiving the SP badge, we can now do the third series of assault missions in the ToAU campaign. The party consisted of Chipya (DRG), Kathane (DRG), Keceltes (PLD), Rya (WHM), Searsay (BLM), and me (RDM). The assault missions we did are Troll Fugitives, Extermination, Escort Professor Clavauert, and Troll Fugitives again.

Surprisingly we beat all of the assault missions. It was quite an amazing feat if you ask me. Troll Fugitives we tried once before in horrible failure. This time I took the strategy of “fook it, I have convert” and started to nuke a bit more. For some reason, I just don’t like nuking on my RDM. If you want a nuker, you’d get a BLM right? Besides, I do so little dmg compared to my BLM that I cry myself to sleep. It’s just sad. But with five people (since Searsay was looking for the hoofprint) we managed to beat it with less than five minutes to spare. Neato eh? I also tried to conserve more mp for nuking, so I let Rya cure people, I only casted Refresh on people, and I debuffed fewer mobs.

For Extermination, Searsay caught up with us. This one was fairly easy. We were together as a team for the first half of the fight. Then Searsay had to leave and go solo some slimes for us. That’s what BLMs do, be the soloing powerhouse on non-linking mobs. The rest of us ran and killed the rest of the mobs and even the NM Doomed mob before Searsay killed the third and final slime. Only 5 nukes and a shitload of downtime ftw! Nice work Searsay!

Escort Professor Clavauert was, in my opinion, the worst experience ever. This escort quest was a bit frustrating. You have no control over the Escort, and he runs in random directions, resting at intersections, and aggroing ghosts and skeles. He also dies a bit easy, so we have to cure him and snag the mobs. Since there’s no time to fight, we just aggro and go run off into a tiny corner to die. Searsay died tragically in this Assault. Rya and I were close, but kept healing each other. I would like to say that I never want to do this Assault ever again. It’s hard when you have very little control and a high probability of death.

Troll Fugitives (round two) went much smoother. This time we had good nuking power. I hardly did anything except for Refresh and nuke a bit. We beat this one with about 10 minutes to spare. The only bad part was when I thought our mighty PLD had hate, so I converted and promptly died. Thanks Kec. All I had on the troll was Sleep II. That’s what I get for trusting a PLD that has a general dislike of all tarutarus.

Death Count:
Kathane – 1
Searsay – 1
Toefer – 1