Farming in Uleguerand Range...

Almeth and I popped an Empress band before we logged off Thursday night, in anticipation of partying as soon as we logged on Friday. Unfortunately, Amedelie and Reflaa were busy until much later in the evening, so we had a dilemma on our hands: since Empress Bands will run out if you don't use them in a set amount of time, we needed to find something we could reasonably kill for decent experience with just the two of us. Having recently triggered the quest "Past Reflections" to increase our Adventuring Fellow bond, we were in need of some different food items to complete the quest. I had the cooking covered (I knew leveling cooking would come in handy someday!) but there was one ingredient that was going to be a bitch...Buffalo Meat. It only drops from mobs in one zone, and the mobs were at a decent enough level that we could both get our Empress Bands in and try and get the meat I was gonna need. That being said, we made our way out to Uleguerand Range with our eyes on the prize...

"Why, hello there Mr. Buffalo! Can I have some meat, please?"


"Whoa!"


"OH GOD IT'S GOT ME!!!! SHOOOOOOOOT IT!!!!!!!!"

Did I mention these things are huge? So huge that the camera didn't know where to put itself, shit, so huge that the freaking buffalo didn't know where to put itself. We spent most of the time fighting these things with views like these on our computer monitors:

"Is it hitting me? Can you tell?? Aw what the fuck?!"


"Are you fucking kidding me?! How am I supposed to fight this thing like this?!?!"


"Aw COME ON!!! This is fucking ridiculous!!!!!"

Sometimes, and sure as shit not very often, but sometimes, the buffalo would actually get up off of our nuts for a second so we could actually see something. Of course, it wasn't things we particularly wanted to see, mind you...

"Holy shit OWWWWWWW!!!!"


What a cutie!


"Well, this is kinda awkward..."


"Um, yeah, anytime I can get out of this thing's ass would be cool with me..."

This is the same zone where I shot the "Mountain Sliding Fun" video a while back...which is actually pretty fun to do, provided you can get passed all the really pissed off shit on your way up the mountain. In leaving the immediate area where we found the Buffalo, we passed right by the bottom of one of the two hills you can slide down...and this is what we found:

I have no clue what the hell happened to this bunch, but they somehow managed to die on the side of the mountain. This is no small feat, considering there are no mobs on the side of the mountain. If they aggro'd up top, how'd they manage to make it to the side to die and slide down to the bottom? The world may never know...

Shot from a different angle, for the lulz. They were prolly like "Who the fuck is this guy taking pictures of us laying here dead?!" At any rate, I /cried out of sympathy, but in reality, Almeth and I found it fucking hysterical...

In the end, we managed to get 2 pieces of Buffalo Meat, which is all I needed for the synth, and I didn't even blow any up (although I did HQ one...why can't I ever HQ when I want to?!?)...good thing, too, as the drop rate on the meat fucking sucks. I'm serious, it's such a pain in the ass. Oh well, "all's well that ends well" and all that shit...

L8TRZ!!!!! ^^

Level 44 Party, Eastern/Western Altepa Desert

Tuesday was our obligatory "Reflaa" day, and because of some issues finding mobs in the 50's for us to work on for a reasonable amount of experience, we decided to change things up and try a different combination of jobs so we could cap at a different level and find better mobs. That being said, we formed up a 4-man party of the following: Almeth as NIN, Amedelie as DNC, Reflaa as WAR, and me on my WHM. Amedelie was good enough to do some scouting by the outpost, and mob levels were good so it was a go. Sandy controlled Altepa also, so Reflaa was able to do a Supply Run and unlock the outpost, another big plus.

Let me just say, this combination is freaking awesome! We started off taking it easy, working on T's and the occasional VT...but they were dropping so fast and with such little effort we started focusing on IT's and were most definitely kicking ass. The experience was great, I had zero issues with MP, Ame was doing great on TP; all in all, I look forward to partying again with this configuration next time Reflaa plays.

Getting to melee and spend the majority of my MP on enfeebles and buffs, instead of healing, was tons of fun...and I got lots of skillups as well!


This poor BST tried to level here, but we were just mowing through mobs. I almost felt bad...almost. We were here first and all...he quickly moved on.


Drain Samba II makes me very happy... ^^


"Annnnnnnnnd, you're dead. Nice try though!"


The Gobs quickly turned to crap (how the hell do they go from all being IT to T in like an hour??) so we ran out a ways to check Anticans. Unfortunately, they were dumpy, too, so we moved on up to the next camp...our trusty Beetle camp by the plateau in Western Altepa Desert.


The beetles started out T (wtf?) but quickly shot to the VT and IT end of the spectrum once we cleared them out. They were a bit more of a pain in the ass then the Gobs were, but we got good experience from them.


Nice profile shot of me while my peeps beat down another poor beetle. Oh, the humanity!


"Oh no, it's charging!"


Half of my enfeebles didn't stick on these fucks...I really need to work on my magic skill.


Ame comes through with the Quickstep; Evasion Down {You can have this.}

At the end of the day, everybody got a level (don't remember the specifics but I got 55 on WHM, woot!), and had a great time. I can't wait to do this again; like I said, this combination rocks. Until next time... ^^

More Random Screenshots, Garuda Prime Fight...

Having received some new Maze Runes through the course of our many runs, I received the "Dragon" Rune, and due to our being burnt out on fighting Elementals and other ridiculous shit, we decided to give it a go. I continued to come out as my 22 SAM for ease, and outside of some angry Petrification that really crimped our style, it wasn't too bad.

Just chilling out, waiting on Almeth...


"OMG Hurry!!!!!!" :)


"Please don't petrify us, Mr. Dragon sir!"


"Yeah, beat that ass, Almeth!!"


"Oh Yeah?! Well, you're ugly!!"

Been pretty quiet in BD lately. We've been doing some Campaign, working on some Assault Missions (no screenies of that, yet, been more worried about completing them and living lol), a couple random trio's here and there...typical shit. Here's some random pics from the last week:

When doing Campaign battles, NPC's will show up to help with the fight. During this fight in particular, however, I think they went a little overboard. There was so many freaking NPC's the fight lasted like 3 minutes...


And then of course there's situation like this, where there's no NPC's, and we get our ass freaking handed to us. You know it's bad when the Orc's leave a trail of bodies behind them as they push through. Thank God for Reraise and no Exp loss...


WAR/RNG/WHM trio in Garlaige with Amedelie and Reflaa. This camp was clear when we got there (amazing in itself since it always taken), but people kept showing up and staring at us. You'd think they'd never seen a trio before or something...


"Yeah, Ame, chase his ass outta here! OUR FUCKING CAMP, ASSHOLE!!!"


Now Reflaa's gotta start chasing people away...what the fuck is going on down here?!


The Beetle's were VT, so it took us a while to beat them, but the exp was good, and I even managed to land one swing in 5 with my staff. Staff skillups FTW!!!


Dropping Haste on Ame while fighting some Bats...


And now a fucking Beastmaster decides to camp on top of us. Did common courtesy go out the fucking window or something?


"OMG Ame shoot it!!"


Break Time!


Reflaa and I both dinged, and overcrowding/poopie exp forced us to move on. We tried running out to Quicksand Caves, but there was already a party. Finding trioable mobs at 54 is tough, so we said "Fuck it" to levelling and decided to help Reflaa get his Maws and Wings of the Goddess shit unlocked instead.


Cheering Reflaa on as he gets his Red Recommendation Letter to be able to participate in Campaign...


After an hour of running through the past, we take a quick break before we finish our run through Jugner Forest (S). Unfortunately, not minutes later, Reflaa caught some aggro to an IT++ Orc and that pretty much ended our night. Oh well, guess we'll just have to come back another day and finish it up... :)




And, for everybodies viewing pleasure, Kamiku, Almeth and I fighting Garuda. Kamiku pretty much whooped his ass, Almeth helped by stabbing her in the ass, and I just kept everyone alive. All in all, Almeth got his Garuda's dagger, and Kamiku and I walked out with 10k. Not bad for a 10 minute fight...although, the run to her took a while.

And so ends our saga for another day. Adios, Adieu, and all that good shit... ^^

Just a Video...

Last night we had a new moon, so we took the opportunity to try and get Amedelie a Selene's Bow. It drops off of a pair of NM's, named Black Coney and White Coney, which spawn only on New and Full moons, respectively. In order to spawn them, you have to trade a San d'Orian Carrot to a set of "Rabbit Footprints" in Uleguerand Range. I had read about people going 0/10 on the bow previously, but luckily the NM can be respawned every 15 minutes, so we had plenty of time to keep trying...but it turned out we didn't need it anyways, as we got it on our first try. Treasure Hunter ftw!!!! :)

We were 75 THF/NIN, 75 WHM/BLM, 62 THF/NIN, and 62 DNC/NIN. Amedelie focused on DoT's and buffs/debuffs, I took care of healing and paralysis, and Almeth and Kamiku took care of beating it's face inside out.

At any rate, here's the vid:

For a little ol' rabbit, this guy was a bit of a pain in the ass. He has a move called "Snow Cloud" that he likes to spam, which inflicts Paralysis, not to mention the other standard rabbit attacks like Footkick and such. He hit pretty hard, too, but it wasn't anything we couldn't handle...

Laterz!!!!

Some More Screenies (and ANOTHER Vid )

Almeth and I, at a loss for something productive to do with just the two of us, decided to give a new feature a try: Moblin Maze Mongers. Basically, you go talk to a dude and get Tetris blocks and a "Tabula", then you put the blocks on the Tabula in some random way, then you take the Tabula to the Shopfront and "order" your maze. Then you and the rest of your party can go in and kill the monsters (which are random types, although I'm sure there's some method to it) to get Marbles, which are used to buy more maze stuff (like runes for controlling the mob types, etc), and also exp scrolls and some gear. It was all very complicated, especially to me, since I have this reading comprehension thing working against me. At any rate, I had read that these mazes tailor themselves according to your party, so I figured me and Almeth would be ok as 61 THF and 61 DNC.

Almeth was attempting to order his very first maze, when he got the error, "The hands of darkness are preventing you from entering..." Not sure what the hell that meant, I tried mine, and it worked, so I have no fucking clue...his worked just fine later, anyways.

By the way, did I mention you only have 30 minutes to complete the maze? Before going in for the first time, we joked between ourselves, "Gee, wouldn't it suck if we got Oozes or something highly resistant to physical damage?"

Great. Fucking Oozes. Oh, the irony of it all.

"Um, yeah, there's no fucking way we're getting this done in 30 minutes..."

We gave it our best, and actually managed to put down all the Oozes in the 30 minute time limit, and then we noticed the next type of mob they had given us: Magic Pots. I didn't get any screenshots of them, because I was busy getting my letter bomb ready so I could mail it off to the Square Enix headquarters. I dunno how we did it, but we managed to get two of the worst types of mobs 2 melee's could hope to get. After that bitter failure, we tried Almeth's Tabula, which worked this time, figuring that we can't get something worse than Oozes, really.

"Well, shit, this is much better. I mean, we're hitting them harder at least, but they keep crushing us for like 600 damage. What a kick in the nuts..."

"Alright, we're getting there. Time is ticking, but we're not doing too bad, we just might make it!"

"Alright, Sea Monks are all dead, let's see what the next mob is...ARE YOU FUCKING SHITTING ME?!?! ELEMENTALS?!?!?!?! THAT'S JUST FUCKING PERFECT!!"

Needless to say, we didn't complete either maze in the alloted time, because we got the big dick. Amedelie was about to log on, and Kamiku was finishing up his stuff, so we decided to go get a band in out in Wajaom Woodlands before we logged out for the night.

After the beating we took in the Mazes, the game owed us an easy party, in my opinion...

Quick, someone remind me why I play this game again? I mean, I might as well pay someone to just come kick me in the nuts repeatedly...

Back in business, Thank God...

We called it not too long after that. All in all, nobody ate any more deaths, so that was nice.

Upon logging in yesterday, Kamiku had some free time before his Limbus run, and Almeth was keen to get his last piece of THF AF. This involved running out to Garlaige and killing a bomb-type NM named Chandelier (awful name in my opinion but whatever). I geared up as WHM to better assist Kamiku, and we made our way out.

In order to get through the Banishing Gates, you need 4 people, and since we were only 3 of us at the time, that meant we needed someone to come for 2 seconds and stand on a switch. Asking politely didn't work. Offering 1k didn't either, nor did 2k. It cost Almeth 5k to get someone to come stand on a switch for 2 seconds...how nice.

Video of the fight. There was a couple "OMG HOLY SHIT KAMIKU'S GONNA DIE!" moments, but we got it done, and Almeth got his spankin' new Rogue's Poulaines...{Congratulations}!!!!

After the fight, Kamiku had to run off, so Almeth and I decided to give the Maze thing another try. In reading about it, apparently the maze will give mobs that check as DC-T to the lowest member of your party, so I geared up as my 42 PLD to give that a shot. We figured that, with Almeth being 20 levels higher, he'd be able to blow through whatever they threw at us. We wouldn't get any experience, of course, but we're more concerned with getting the marbles, so we can make better mazes. At any rate, we got our shit together and gave it a whirl...

Great. More elementals. Why does this game hate us so much?

We were at the very end, killed the last mob with like 2 seconds to spare, and waiting for the treasure chest to pop when the Maze collapsed and we got warped out. Needless to say, we were pissed off...and a new strategy was in order. Since being a 42 PLD wasn't low enough for Almeth to effectively put these things down, and since we kept getting stuck with goddamn elementals and other nasty mobs, I bit the bullet and decided to come out as my 22 SAM. I figured, if we can't kill these things in time with them being in the twenties, then something was just fucked up and we were obviously not meant to do this.

Letting Almeth take care of business while I sit on my ass and do nothing.

"We finally completed one! Now let's get the hell out of this shit hole!!"

That's all I got for now, cheerio!