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[Darwock]

Did anybody else come back from Tavnazia with the title 'Dead body'? I reckon I must have picked it up from some creepy NPC who went on about being able to see undead things eating my soul!!

Loving the easter egg quest, I got my first 3 pretty quick, and have done the straight 8 - I've spent the rest of the evening just putting my free inital eggs up for sale and going through to play snake eater.. at the end of the night I'm up about 40K! First event ever that has turned out profitable for me.

[mikewl]

Promyvion Dem, Mea and Holla Complete.

Tobal you need to make an angry phone call to NTL, we waited about 40 minutes and then went in with the five of us, we lost and by that time I was in a mood where I wasnt going to give up.

Got another party going, Toxicforce and Kasha helped out and gave everyone clear directions on what to do for the boss, no one died and three of us ended up in Lufaise Meadows afterwards.

Must say the satisfaction of finally beating it was amazing and seemed worth the effort.

Tobal, Cesarion count me in for your promys.

[Tobal]

I finally got my connection back at 1.20am(which then went again 20mins after) , i was so,so,so ****ing pissed off. That network engineer best so up soon the dick turned up at the wrong house(2 doors way), ntl phoned me up to tell me that and that they would try to get someone round again ?_?

[mikewl]

I checked the NTL Status page and saw it said there were some problems.

[Tsingtao]

Wedge congratulations dude, you must have been up all night. It was 01:00 when I went to bed when the first run had just failed. Hope you like the Tavnazian Archipeligo we were very impressed. Looks like a great levelling zone as no one else is there and the drops sell well back in the 'old world'.

Interested to hear how you went about it, and how the direction in the BCNM worked. In the end Hic wrote macros and calls for all the actions in the BCNM and kept us co-ordinated whilst healing.

Well I'll keep pushing for 40 on the PLD and then that Minotaur is toast. Looking forward to getting us all together for that one, think it's a full alliance job.

On a side note, did a Garisson 30 last night with the most disorganized bunch I've ever seen. First they tried to trade to the outpost with someone from the wrong region then we got wiped out in Pashow. On the plus side no death for me asa I was kiting, for some reason the meles let the mages die. Interesting tactics, not.

[vwilsonuk]

Got another party going, Toxicforce and Kasha helped out and gave everyone clear directions on what to do for the boss, no one died and three of us ended up in Lufaise Meadows afterwards.

Must say the satisfaction of finally beating it was amazing and seemed worth the effort.

{Congratulations} {fun} {excitement} {Promyvion-*} Well done mate - will be interesting to see how the clear directions with the boss compare to the strategy Darwock, Talizker, Tsing and I used in our last runs.

Spent half of yesterday trying to get PostgreSQL set up on my web server and it all went to t!ts in the end. Really need to get it sorted this w/e, and I'll stick the video up as soon as its done. In the meantime enjoy the Taznavian Archipelago - its pretty beautiful isn't it?

[mikewl]

Party setup was RNG/NIN RNG/NIN WAR/NIN WHM/RDM (I know I need to lvl blm sub >_<) BLM/RDM SMN/WHM.

Rangers stood opposite sides of the room, Warrior in the middle.

War would tank for a bit, then the rangers would would start bouncing the boss around the room, someone used a terro anima which made it run all over the place.

2 hours were used near the end I think.

I think keeping the boss moving really cut down on the amount of times it used its AOE.

We got Promyvion Dem completed for Ces yesterday as well.

I am really enjoying them though, they are such a challenge.

[vwilsonuk]

Did anybody else come back from Tavnazia with the title 'Dead body'? I reckon I must have picked it up from some creepy NPC who went on about being able to see undead things eating my soul!!

I got the same title but I don't remember any NPC talking about freaky undead soul-eating sh!t

[aegen]

any of those peps playing WoW, i cant find a copy of this game. i searched everywhere, shops and online stores but was unsuccessful.

can you guys tell me how or where can i get a copy of EU WoW? and finally, will the US version work here in UK PC?

thanks!

[mikewl]

I think the game is not on sale at the moment, I think Mihki told me they were re-releasing it soon including some of the recent updates into the game.

[mikewl]

Update time.

About 4k exp away from lvl 63:

Have been spending a fair bit of time in the CoP areas unlocked after doing promyvion, all I can say is they are definetely worth the effort getting to.

Missions: Me, Tobal and Apathye tried for the ZM4 which kinda didnt go too well but as least I got a good idea of what we need to do for it, thanks to Rare's Katana runs clearing Tonberry Hate is essential.

I think a decent 60+ party can go farm the lanterns which we should think about doing sometime, just to get the ground work done for it, you need 4 lanterns to enter so not everyone would need one.

Cesarion and Tobal still need Promy mea and holla, if anyone else does lets get these done.

BCNM30 3 Person Battle sometime this week hopefully: Me and Ces are in and we need a 3rd person, two need to be able to cast Aspir, so I will go as Drk, Ces will probably be Rng so a Blm might be good.

Quest - The Big One: Tavnazian Safehold, lvl 45 cap, well balanced single party needed, an old guy wants to make his dream come true and catch the big fish but his fighting skills are not good enough anymore, so we have to go help him out, basically he fishes and reels in some NM's and we have to take care of them for him so he can catch the big one.

Basically its not a great reward quest but sounds enjoyable and something which we can do when we all have promyvions completed.

Ballista - Another two losses same goes for Cesarion, although at least he was managing to defeat a fair amount of the other team.

Brooker got his Mission 2 Dragon BCNM completed last night with me and Tobal, although Tobal and his now famous NTL connection came into play again and he didnt end up doing the BCNM, it went quite well, with a Nin and PLD also helping out.

My aims for now = lvl 65 then onto Missions.

Tobal Exp Tuesday night if your up for it do you wanna go to Bibiki Bay again, or if Apathye is online and wants exp go to Boyahda Tree.

Also I have been recording alot of videos of boss fights and stuff, if I can find a way to get the size down enough to make them available I will try and do so, I know Hicory is doing this as well and it would be interesting to see how promy holla went having both used fairly different methods to win, its something im likely to turn into a dvd later on with all the best bits of Rargh and MV.

I do feel over this last weekend, pushing to get promy finished has opened up alot of new stuff to the game and I have been really enjoying it, my equipment is good untill about lvl 65 and im just going on and getting stuck in on things, if im at a loose end I usually just hang around in Jueno and see whats being shouted, if anything sounds good I go for it.

Picture Updates:



Time for a rest.



The support stands up ready to keep the party alive.



Time for some healing, we all respond quickly to the needs of our melee friends, response time - Excellent.



Kasha's Summoner Fight







Bards doing our jobs, keeping people entertained, we had the music playing and onlookers chearing.



Praying for a safe journey before heading off to fight an NM.



Fighting the NM - It was easy







Sekai gives advice to fellow adventurers about Missions, BCNM, HNM's and Dynamis, drawing a quite a crowd.





Dont make Tobal ft: Anger Management was what came to mind at the end of this Ballista match, Apathye being part of the reason Those BLM Taru's being annoying as usual on the battlefield, one day I want to enter a Ballista match with all Damage Dealers which are Melee, that would be excellent.



Me and Apathye making a visit to Bastok.



Time for more BCNM60.



/joy /success /cheer - We made it through Promyvion.



Me and Ces ready for some PvP action.



Thankfully they dont agro me

[C']

Wedge, that post was excellent man.

Was so close (oh so very close) to getting me to come back online tonight.

[talizker]

Agreed - nice one Wedge

I've not been on all weekend and haven't really done much other than pick up a few Eggs for the special event thingy (would like a Fortune Egg) and have a wander around Misareaux Coast which I think is the most beautiful area in the game (both for visuals and the music).

It's funny really, i've spent so much time this past couple of months doing the Promyvion stuff, now its done I don't really know what to do next! It's not that I haven't got things I want to do, more like figuring out what!

I'd be happy to do BCNM30 as BLM but unfortunately I don't have Aspir yet (and I have only lowish Windurt fame - and not much gil left!).

Quest - The Big One: Still at level 41 so may be a little low but again, count me in if possible.

I'm still up for BCNM40 if anyone else is. Original plan was me, Darwock, Rare and Wedge + 2. Rare, is Wedge's post + BCNM40 enough for you to log on with your Ninja

I think other than BCNM40, the Fortune Egg and any quests/mission with you guys I plan to level from 41 and then go for Rank 5 with Tsing / Hick / Darwock etc.

....oh yeah, Ces, Tobal, give me a shout if you need a BLM for your remaining Promy runs.

[C']

A BCNM may just do the trick

Oh, and I watched Ces take part in a Ballista match on Saturday. It looked incredible and I have no respect for those people who whine about the lack of PvP as this game has a brilliant PvP system. I think what people don't like is the lack of an ability to be a level 60+ character and kill random "noobs"

Like I said, reading Wedge's post really got me in the mood to play but I?m scared of getting too into the game again. I?ve been having fun playing ?other games? lately becoming engrossed in games where there is no stress in needing endless supplies of gil. I?m afraid that if I get back into this I will forget all the other games again, which is not something I want.

It is really difficult situation.

[Darwock]

I went into easter weekend with 30,000 gil, last night I had 230,000! These eggs have been very profitable! Not as good for me as some though, I've seen people talking about 400K profit and stuff. I also got a fortune, happy and flower egg so it's been a very nice event all round

It's weird, I don't really want to tackle anything major at the moment. I've been using Windurst's current dominance to do supply quests all over the place, so it was back to Beaucedine yesterday, which was a successful though frightening delivery. I used it to test the teleport service (thanks for pointing me in the right direction Hicory!) which got me all the way back up there for just 350 gil! My plan was that it would then be an easy drop into Xarcabard, unfortunately only my BLM was high level enough to be ported into Fauregandi, and my BLM doesn't have invisible, only sneak. I got spotted by a Bat Eye and then my attempts to warp out attracted an ice elemental. Which unsurprisingly left me dead. I'm gonna go back up the long way tonight as red mage.

Other stuff I've been up to - mission 2-3 (again!) to help my friend but for the first time I went as summoner instead of black mage. It was good doing this an alternative way - we didn't have any healers at all so it was actually a bit tense! Claude tanked the dragon by himself using perfect dodge while we all killed the searcher. Good fun. Only took us 15 minutes to get his Giddeus chest key after that as well.