Tal I need to skill staff from 135 to aobut 215 and its starting to get an urgent need. Its anoying now when I coudl really use whiping out the staff to be unable to.
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4.5 hours in Valkurm last night for a level and a half.
And still I am logging back in (despite having many other things undoubtedly more constructive to do).
Why do I do this to myself?
PS. Though more importantly, why do the supermarkets shut early on Sunday, the ba$tards? It is the bane of my weekends. I have to put down whatever I'm doing to go and do the weekly shop!Comment
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I have decided to call it a day for today, Its been a really annoying weekend as far as experience points go.
About 5000exp lost on Bard and just gained about 2800exp on Bst to lose it all again, had enough for today.
I know there was an ENM planned for today but feel free to replace me, not sure if I will make it on again.Comment
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Maybe you should do your weekly shop on a different day of the week?PS. Though more importantly, why do the supermarkets shut early on Sunday, the ba$tards? It is the bane of my weekends. I have to put down whatever I'm doing to go and do the weekly shop!Comment
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Now why didn't I think of that?Comment
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You have got to love the optimistic times quoted by SE for the update... When has any update taken a mere 20 minutes ><Windows Version
Downloadable file size: 18MB
>>Analog modem (56Kbps) users
Volume check: 7 minutes
Download / Unzip: 1 hours, 19 minutes
Installation: 1 minutes
Total: About 1 hours, 27 minutes
>>DSL (1Mbps) users
Volume check: 4 minutes, 30 seconds
Download / Unzip: 14 minutes
Installation: 1 minutes
Total: About 19 minutes, 30 seconds
Nearly forgot. I will likely be ready to tackle Lv10 > Lv20 with Ninja at the back end of the week and with the two new guys (sup Akida / Menion) and several others with jobs in this range it would be top plan to get some LS parties together. We can do some Korroloka Tunnel / Buburimu Peninsula to spice things up a bit and Akida and Menion will get a solid introduction to partying before they head off to Jeuno / Qufim Isle.Last edited by talizker; 10-10-2005, 08:38.Comment
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Very interesting weekend I thought. Never got level 69 as I hoped for (nowhere near in fact) but took part in some events which is always preferable.
Friday?s ENM was perhaps the poorest run through Promyvion I?ve ever experienced although the person who let the side down was the 6th member not from the LS that Wedge grabbed from OT. The number of mistakes he made was shocking but Wedge has assured me that he is a good player so I will refrain from judging him on one poor performance. We all have our poor days. The battle against that Gorger on the 3rd floor was quite exhilarating actually. I thought we all performed admirably to beat something that tough with only 5 of us. We may not have a massive playerbase in Rargh, but in terms of player ability we are incredibly strong.
Think it was around midnight when I got back to Jeuno after ENM and I stuck my flag up whilst changing from level 30 gear back into my main equipment. If I got an invite I would accept it, if not I would log off (not much of a late night player usually). Sure enough an invite comes. Sadly it takes about an hour for the group to get fully made. Our setup is NIN, RNG, THF, BRD, RDM, BLM. Just as we are set our BLM disconnects and after more waiting we replace them with a SAM and head out to Cape Terrigan, our prey being Manticores (new EXP material to me). However, things don?t go according to plan. We get to the Manticore area but our THF aggroes a Sand Cockatrice and we start to fight (with a couple of members still not at camp. During the fight a Manticore finds us making things more awkward. The RDM sleeps the link and we manage to beat the cockatrice. However, I got petrified and couldn?t provoke the manticore so it killed the RDM and the SAM pulled it away from us and died too (very admirable). We had no Raise with the RDM dead (BRD was subbing /rdm -_-
. The THF got onto her second character and spent about 30 minutes getting to us to Raise the people who needed raising. In the meantime the RNG went afk in the tunnel near camp right where goblins spawned every 5 minutes. I spent my time soloing goblins to make sure he didn?t die.
My hopes weren?t high for this party. Eventually (over 2 hours after getting the invite) we got to our proper camp and began EXPing. And it was great. Manticores have a lot of HP but they are some of the slowest hitters and tanking them was cake. I was able to do Ni > Ni transitions so many times rarely having to use Ichi.. We even killed a NM named Frostmane (no drop). Think I logged off at 4am only because my eyes refused to stay open.
Sadly that was the last of my EXPing that weekend. No invites at all despite seeking all day Saturday and Sunday until early afternoon. This meant I had to occupy myself.
Started in Ordelle?s Cave hunting Stroper Chyme in the hope of getting a Shikaree Ring (lvl30, Accuracy+2, Ranged Accuracy+2). Much more fun to do without the gilseller presence and for the most part I was camping without any competition. Droprate is still bobbins though and despite figuring out the spawn pattern and basically getting every claim, it took me 5 hours to get a drop. Still good to get and I hope to get a second to pair with it soon.
Then there was Shiva Prime. An absolutely incredible fight. Our first run saw us getting completely totalled by an incredibly damaging Diamond Dust attack. Luckily a WHM was outside the protocrystal and gave Raise 3 to those of us died. There was an awkward period where there was some disagreement about whether to try again. With most 2 hours used up some people weren?t too confident about a second attempt. However, reflecting on our first run we spotted the mistakes that could be rectified (having me as main tank whilst wearing an item with Ice Resistance-20 was not too smart). Even second run didn?t go according to plan. Well it did, but our plan was flawed. From the looks of it, the avatars aggro to magic (like arcane type mobs) so our idea to not case Barice until near the main arena led to us havng to start earlier then planned. Other than that though, a much better run. I panicked when I saw Astral Flow being readied but was much weaker this time.
Whisper of Frost obtained.
Was good to have a difficult battle instead of simply overpowering it. Felt much more rewarding. I?m going to save my Whispers so I will be ready for Fenrir once I get into the 70s. He has a couple of nice looking items for NIN (plus obviously the summoning pact).
Finally Sunday. Quiet again. Hung around Quicksand Caves looking for NMs (saw none) then in the further absence of a PT bust out my Nin. Tetsimony and handed it to Maat. Wasn?t planning on completing Genkai 5 until 70 but boredom meant I needed something to do. Again the nerves were strong but I decided to go with minimal meds (1 Hi-Potion) to use it as a learning exercise more than anything. Well he got beat down good and proper. My main worry (him using Mijin Gakure) was unfounded (400 damage only) and when he used that he gave up. 13 seconds off the record too.
Looking forward to reading the update notes later today and the next time I play the game (Tuesday evening I will be on work annual leave for a week and a half).Comment
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The best thing about the update will be the lists of new equipment the day afterComment
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Innit.
I love seeing what new equipment has been added.Comment
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Well people are already poking around inside the DAT files and are pulling up what new equipment they find.
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Perhaps most intriguing is HQ Artefact armour. I'm not talking about the 71-75 relic sets but bonafide Artefacts with evern better stats and a +1 on the name. This is looking cool!Comment
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Just seen Ninja Tekko+1 in the DATs.
STR+6 DEX+6, Ranged Accuracy+20 Ranged Attack+20.
****ing fantastic. Me wantsComment
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Looks good, the new set of AF1 sounds ace and totally unexpected, now where's them new weapons ^^Comment
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I just hope you don't have to replace your old Artefact set to get the HQ ones. They are useful for BCNM60Comment
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Rather not, AF1+1 are all lvl74 equipment, so you would lose a lot of gear if ou needed for other things like CoP or Bcnm's.Comment
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ZZOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGG
FINALLY SE DO SOMETHING RIGHT!!
gonna raid limbus tonight
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