Walk on the ocean...step on the shore...

Sing with me! Gotta love Extreme! Well, as to CoP progress, all I can say is already explained here...And boy, did killing Omega and Ultima feel good!!! Go go RDM nuking, haha! And thanks to all who came: Eckardt, Vitehite, Azean, Mirrodin, Hediger, and our guest tanks, Giorgioarmani and of course, Victoriasecret! But that being said, of course that now leaves me to say even more, haha! Thank you Eck, for the wonderful pictures, truly you're the historian and photographer of our group! ((And the source of the screenshots that I'll abuse here without draining your server, heh!))

Well, the first run was...weird. Some kinda way, when the NIN had aggroed and was being healed, the WHM had drawn hate from them, and it rapidly spiraled downhill from there. Soon, the entire party was looking at a less-than-eventful view of the airship, and we chose to just be booted out of the BC at this point. ((Editing: Found out the aggro was due to healing MP by resting somewhat near the kiting.))

After raising up outside, we went in for a second bout, which went much better, but a beatdown by Omega halted that. We reraised and went into operation Burst, just for our amusement to realize that it had the Magic Shield up! I, for one, had a huge laugh at that, and we got up and Eck nuked it for spite and the CS begins, showing us with... 1 second remaining! ((And the apparant difference of lag from my machine to Eck's, he had 2... <.<)) No chance of beating Ultima there, I assure you! I popped a few hi-ethers out my tank, and passed the rest of my Yagudo drinks around, since we were low, and I just figured I would refresh only myself in case we got to that supposed point where MP would be scarce, and the RDM wouldn't have time to refresh the mages. Alrighty, now that we had a general idea of how things should flow, it went much better! Third time truly was the charm (Well, first non-dry run, haha!). Mammets went down quickly this time, as we had less MP and such remaining due to more nuking, and I was trying my damndest to avoid using Convert unless it was neccessitated. I was quite pleased that I didn't have to use it this section. On to Omega, who everyone did a great job on; we had, I think, something like 33 minutes remaining at this point? Oh yeah, much better than the dry runs. My job basically amounted to keeping the NIN and WAR hasted, which was ugh a bit at first, as I thought WHM was keeping the NIN hasted and I did the rest, oopsy! Oh well, once I realized that, we were fine the rest of the way, nearest I could tell. A bit awkward with my Haste cycle starting with the nin, but just did it every time I threw my refresh to make sure it stayed on, and pretty much was constantly casting some sort of Debuff on Omega! I converted about 1/2 way through, hoping it would be up again for Ultima, and I was appeased. :) Towards the end, I joined in on the nuking, and managed to pull off the murder of Omega!
Riding a high at the 22-ish minutes left for Ultima, we reupped our buffs, and charged forward through the CS into battle yet again! Ultima was pretty much the same strategy as Omega, and I should mention that Aspir is joyous for these, it's like a way that Eck and I would replenish our MP pools at his expense! Everyone did such a great job on these beasts that I actually kept a haste and refresh cycle for a majority of both battles, and only healed in fix-it spots when WHM needed a brief rest. Then of all the cheese --- I swiped the kill on Ultima too!


Enjoy the view, and we'll see you in sea! Which, ironically enough, I find myself to be in a small select few adventurers who have attained sea before attaining access to Sky. Well, ain't that something? Looks like I need to hurry up and fly! Zilart - Do you need it? Can I have it? lawl!

Lists of things and leaving stuff out

Sections:
1) Hunting fails. 2) CoP slows. 3) THF flees. 4) Pointy Hat! 5) Other

1) I have a love/hate relationships with NMs. Some, like Mysticmaker or Morion, love me, and drop items well. The counter to this has recently been my bane, the Valkurm Emperor. You see, VE and I go waaaaaaay back to when I was leveling Ninja in Yuhtunga Jungle...and before the item drop was even the femme fatale version. He drops a hairpin. Sounds simple enough, right? And yet last night I have reached an astounding rate of 0/97 in achieving said hairpin. I decided if I went under 1% accuracy (aka, 0/100) that I was going to hang it up for that drop, and likely just level without it, until perhaps I can do the BCNM "Dropping Like Flies."

2) Haven't done much with CoP -- Not sure if it's from the lack of the static members, or from the difficulties some have had going through the Snoll. At this point, I don't know if our whole static is up to the Airship, or if we have to get some people through the Snoll Tzar still...so we'll see what's going on with that this week...

3) THF static went wonderfully well the other night: Lanoire (NIN), Alcindor (SAM), Zaria (DRG), Valynne (WHM), myself (THF) of the usual crew. (Sumiko had other static and thus wasn't in attendance) We brought Eckardt's WHM on as a 6th member, and headed out to the Crawler's Nest, where with two excellent WHMs (Go go Val & Eck), we were never in any danger of death, despite the horrible puller (me) who managed to get a few links through the night, including a set of crawlers before we had gotten Sleep available from the BLM subs. >.>;; But we handled everything smoothly, so I was quite joyful with how it turned out. Now maybe Noire and Alci will like dual WHMs next time! ^_~ Luv ya! Haha!

4) Much thanks go to Lorddocster and the Lords of Hyrda HNM crew - Fade, Legos, Fullen: Team Taliban ftw! and so many others I can't name them all, haha! We did quite a few runs of Hakutaku, and i now have some decent skillup gear when coupled with the Assault body piece I posted about a bit back!

5) I've recently been duoing my BLU with Eckardt's NIN, figuring I'll go up to about 27 and switch to take DRK on up to 37...however, having a 37 BLU sub might just be more useful for RDM than the Chainspell Stun...to have Chainspell Head Butt/Bludgeon. I'm not sure about that at the moment, it will take a bit more thinking on the matter before I decide if the setup is worth it, but going O Hat and high accuracy, it seems at the moment quite a viable option for Stun-nage as well.

Ahh, the plight of the poor...Sorta.

It's been a long time since my last entry in my journal, but much of that time has been passed with my friend Eckardt, who takes much better pictures than I do, so I've been content to let him tell our tales recently. However, I recently got quite a windfall from an experience that I couldn't help but feel very n00bish on. Upon inquiring with Lorddocster about a few KSNMs, I got an Atropos Orb and a Lachesis Orb and headed down to the Waughroon Shrine to meet up with the LoH KSNM service. Did two runs, and ended up with a couple of D. Ingots from my first run, but in my haste ended up claiming the record as I forgot to let the BLMs have time to exit before I hit the chest. It was sad, the party message popped up right after I had clicked on the crate, and I had forgotten from reading on TT's report, I was just... ugh ><;; But with a drop like that, they weren't TOO ticked at me. I still felt bad about, geez. But anyway, that used up the majority of my KSes and brought in a decent bit of change, so I can get my gear back up to above par for RDM, and equip WAR a bit perhaps... We had a fun round of playing with the Feeler Antlion and its friends as we did a few Rostrum Pumps runs. Congratulations to everyone who got their pumps there!!! Hopefully this coming Saturday will be the Optical Hat run! Also almost got enough points for the Pahluwan Khazagand, which I think I'll pick up for skilling up my RDM, and when my THF gets to that level ^^ Looks like loads of fun and a cheaper skillup option than kicking out for a Scorpion Harness at this point.