Bi-Quarterly update!

So a ton of stuff has happened for me since I last updated. I am now a 75 RDM! Dang ok how long has it been since I posted. Well I just dinged 42 on my BLM on my long road to 75 on a second job. I did get to 41 on DRK before I realized that BLM might be more of a sought after job in my new end game ls. That was until I got my Patroclus's Helm earlier this morning.
This was after we had just killed Bune (no drop ; ;) which we killed after we lost claim to gil sellers then got claim back from after a call for herp. But prior to that we actually did lose claim of Baobhan Sith to a group of taru blms in the area. I have a screenshot of our interchange after I was murdered(which brought my buffer to an all time low of 1.3k >.>). The good news was right before that we got claim on Wyvernpoacher Drachlox. Now what the hell were we even doing out there? I don't even know Talbain was leveling drg down in Gustav and pointed out that the bow nm was up and so Vit and I made our way out there right before a thief did and got jooed on the drop as always. After all this was done I went back to windy and then got another call, Biast is up! So off I went to the Vahzl OP to claim a reason to keep whiffing as a dark knight and bagged me a Patroclus's Helm.
Ok so I haven't slept yet but I also killed Cactrot Rapido on Sunday.

I'm back

Sorry for the lack of posts. This really happened too a few weeks ago. Coming up soon my Jormy fight and more frilly Elov!

Jeanhair ftw!

1. Bored
2. Late
   
3. Sleepy
4. Impossible Drop

I know for many of you one or all of those factors bring to mind NM camping. I know personally that SE hates me because I was 1/38 on my Moldavite earring. Screw 1 thief, 2 thiefs, 3 thiefs, a 75 thief with TH4 or even a full alliance helping me(btw the rdm & thf duo got it from us). I am now currently 3/41 on Moldavite.

So when Blutengel suggested we go camp Sozu Rogberry , what did i say "HELL YES HELL YES"! 1% drop rate with all the mages subbing gimped war how could we lose?

The hunting party consisted of Blutengel, Itachikun, Arcaus and I. Not the cream of the crop but hey, you normies like to sleep. We get to that tiny cell that the GS must love(reminds them of home) and setup shop. And from that second on all we do is spam voke. I spam it till Mr.Righty cramps up and I tape a chopstick to it and keep spamming with that. I slowly start to drift away thinking of my next all new awesome purchase Forest Rope. Only to be awaked by my death screams OMFG I got Sozu.

We concentrate on keeping Blut alive not too hard with 3 gimped mages mind you. Then disaster the other party in that room decides it's not hard enough for us so they decide to pull Bonze Marberry on top of us. The thf decides to bring us a present, now who's dead mage doubting hater.

And of course no drop, could I have been Seriously Madaru? Yes but it was too much fun :)

Action Shot

Just wanted to post something since it's been a while.

Bahhh ram ewe

Time to make gil. I've decided that doing all my teleport scroll quests will net me enough gil to help me out till after christmas. Since all i need will be mea, dem and holla i can sell the other 3 for money. Arcaus and I were doing the holla one and i accidentally got us tele-holla by mistake. So we decided to check out the area for Bloodtear, by luck he was up and just stomping around. I like a fool just attack it. Unlike last time tho he's a pushover. I get him to 40% before I decide we need more manpower to finish it off. A quick shout on the ls and lovslayer along with Capone come to finish it off. No drop but it was fun. That fight was Seriously Madaru.

7 amaru!

So i get woken up at 7 am cause Mogwae's LS Kazoku get this fellow. By the time i show they have a solid dozen there to help so i watch FI twiddle there thumbs. If i pretend its only JST then its midnight and I should be playing so I start my day early really really early. 

O-Hat.... O-Noes!

I've done two ohat runs in the past and they're generally chaotic situations getting 18 or so people through a zone with monsters that aggro a 75 to get to a spawn point that's surrounded by even more dangerous monsters but this run yesterday was fairly better. First off it was organized by Jean who did an excellent job and we actually got everyone to the spawn point with only a few deaths. Nextly for at least half the time there was another LS called Templar that was farming eyes so they were taking care of links and keeping the area cleared.

When we were organizing the run we didn't have enough people in Moogle Army to do the run alone so jean picked up a bunch of random people to help, unfortunately the only reason they were really helping was because pretty much every last one of them had a cluster wanted an ohat of their own. This still wasn't enough so we coordinated with Itachikun and teamed up with the CoVs LS to create a full alliance for the fight. Only downside to this was they also had 4 people who needed their ohat.. so adding the 5-6 random people, the 4 people from CoVs, and Jean, Bermont, and I that was roughly 12 to 13 Ohat runs. Shit.

Well knowing that it was extremely unlikely this alliance would last for all 12 fights I volunteered to go first and be the "wipe tester" figuring I'd be the one to take the risk (losing my beloved cluster) but also be rewarded first if we succeeded. Well they say the first run is always the worst because people need to warm up with what they're doing and this is no exception. It started out nicely, going slow (compared to runs to come later), but steady and I was very optimistic.


I don't quite remember the particular order of events to follow during my fight but it went something like this: The tank died, which sort of started the chaos. Now stun is a very important part of the fight, this is why when you go on an ohat run.. you make sure you have plenty of people who can stun. Well the stunners somehow managed to miss stunning a Firaga III... twice.. followed by missing a Flare. This killed more people and created more chaos, however the whole time the kind Templar LS was looking on and prepared to jump into the fight. We cycled Templar members into the alliance to replace those who had left or died or disconnected and slowly but surely we took down the NM to get my ohat. I think we scared the main tank because he disconnected and never came back, we had to bring some new ninjas after that.


After that the rest of the fights improved with each time, we continued to bring more people down to fill in for gaps and ended up having a surplus of people wanting to get into the alliance at one point. There was a bst there who helped take care of links once the Templar LS left. We managed to do 4 more fights after mine, Bermont and Jean both getting to do theirs that night. There was a run in which someone called for help on one of the random peoples run which was pretty chaotic as we all had to logout and start all over again (took about 30 minutes to). Jean's run was similar to mine because by that time a lot of people had left and we only had 1 tank and less manpower but eventually he got his too.

Rant Warning:

I would've happily stayed until every last person who brought a cluster had got their ohat and that was the plan. The only reason we stopped was because CoV was getting annoyed that their members weren't getting their ohats and they decided to leave. Tso start, we /random before each and every fight to determine who goes first, highest going first. Yes.. that means every person going whether you're in Moogle Army, CoVs, or a random member has a fair chance at getting to go. Nextly, CoVs wasn't fully capable of doing this run by themselves, neither was Moogle Army, that's the whole reason we teamed up and grabbed some pickup people, together we were all able to bring down this NM, no one is entitled to go more than another person, whether you had this as a scheduled event or not. Jean was the one who led and organized this entire run in the first place and also got low /randoms on nearly every run we did.

CoVs made the accusation that Jean wasn't entitled to an ohat because he couldn't wear it yet... ... ... ... ... ... I find this kind of funny because someone from their LS attending to the event... taking up a valuable spot in the alliance (for the first run).. happened to be a lvl 49 monk. Not only was that a waste of space in the alliance, a job that was 21 levels away from being able to wear an ohat (not even the halfway point), but if anything a person that didn't need to be there. He was kicked from the alliance and made to watch the rest of the battles never getting a chance to go, but again had the chance to /random every battle regardless. Leaving an event just because you're not winning the /randoms and getting to go right away when we were all willing to stay till everyone had their ohat is immature and selfish of CoVs. Besides they have one of their members that got an ohat who did manage to win a /random against the 10 other people that needed it... could've won more if they stuck around.

End Rant.

I can't say I was seriously madaru at CoVs because all the Moogle Army members got their ohat! Bermont, Jean, and myself, congrats! And I thank bass, sey, ita, the Templar LS, random people, and CoVs.... for helping out. :)

Blackhook and Silverbeard

I really hate Blackbeard and Silverhook, they're perhaps the most annoying 21-24 hour NM spawns in the game. These two NMs each have their own 21-24 hour timers, however that really means nothing because when the window of one NM is open, there's a chance that EITHER NM will spawn on the next pirate attack of either one of the ships. So really, in one 24-hour period it's possible to see 2 blackbeards or 2 silverhooks instead of one of each. It's impossible to camp both spawns too, while you're on the boat from Mhaura to Selbina, the boat from Selbina to Mhaura is also going at the same time, and even if you use teleports and catch every single boat that goes from Mhaura to Selbina, there's still a chance you'll never see Blackbeard because Silverhook could've spawned in Blackbeard's window! argh!

Me attempting to solo Blackbeard

I've only seen Blackbeard once, which was the very first time I decided to camp him. That's whats been driving me crazy, I've yet to see him again and due to the way the windows work, there's a big factor of random luck involved. It's pretty easy to tell if pirates are coming right when you zone in. If the chatlog appears above the black screen for several seconds when you zone in and the doors are immediately targetable you know the pirate instance is loading. I've now made several attempts at trying for this NM with various LS members, the latest being half an alliance, and I've never seen Blackbeard a second time... even right after a maintenance when both windows are open...

Blackbeard camping with the LS

Yes... I really do hate Blackbeard and Silverhook... and the damn nice whm clubs they drop. But I haven't given up yet. I will admit, I'm Seriously Madaru!

When camping meant smores and Beanie weenie

I recently went farming with Lopsider. Running through Korrokola killing slimes, checking to see if Dame Blanche was up or beating a certain fataru dragoon galka to the ???. Thanks to my trusty Bano del sol I was doing some nice damage to the slimes. I feel it's a must have dagger if you spend any time killing jelly type mobs for slime oil, for silent oil synthesis. So that night we got about 4 stacks of slime oil. That's gonna net us about 40k per stack of slime oil once all is said and done, might be a bit more if he only synthed on firesday facing 3 degrees north by north east. Ya know everytime he uses a silent oil I sorta feel like hes dipping into our product, he might have a problem O.o.

Later Loppy was on and I was bored as usual so we head on out to Kuftal. We also trick Doctordub, Dmkamikaze and Xenojin into coming. Not wanting to feel left out I sub my gimp 12nin. We get to camp(which is 3 square feet of safe space) and just start killing. It's slow going since I have only so much MP, Utsu is useless, and there is just so much Galka NPC to cure >.< . Let's just say i got the 1k I needed to get 68, 10 exp at a time. At about 4 in the morning Mogwae comes by to show off his new Rain Hat. By this time Dm has already died once, His fancy ninja moves did not impress that sabotender. Mog bids farewell at about 5:30 cause this thing won't pop. Then true to NM law it pops 2 minutes later. We are fighting a cactuar while it pops and Dm vokes it for claim and i sleep the add. Dm is tanking pretty well till we get two more adds. NPC main heal ftl. Xeno HP's and starts running back. I ask this RDM who has been afk all night for a raise and we're back in the game. After a lot of screaming, escaping, and zoning we get back to a unclaimed Mariachi. With GS standing by we didnt want to chance them taking our rare/ex dagger, so we aggro it and wipe. I had 1 charge left on my rr hairpin so my plan was foolproof. So I wake up Mog and he heads back to come help us wipe again. Once the GS raise us all and cure us we wait till the time is ripe to strike. 8 minutes later Mog's 2 hour is up and we go crazy cheering Mog on as he solo's the Nm for us. So 14 deaths later and thousands of exp lost we get:

I was Seriously Madaru!