Been busy building my new computer and getting everything working well. So far it's awesome, I was able to kick the graphics up in FFXI to twice the detail, and it looks great! I hadn't done Campaign in a couple days, so I logged in after I got everything configured and ran into this guy...I've never seen this shit before:
Nothing is quite as awesome as getting tags, taking 4 steps, and biting it to an angry AOE. As a runner up is laying dead underneath the thing for 20 minutes waiting for a raise. Yeah, it was pretty fucked up...
My death, later that same evening, in a Besieged. While I'm actually able to hit the mobs now, I still do 0 damage most of the time...not too good for TP gain.
I hope to have more posted later, after I get to play around with everything some more. L8trz!!!!
We've been doing a lot the last week or so, leveling and questing and such...it's been hard to keep up with screenshots and all, but I tried to snag as many as I could:
Level 46 Party, Quicksand Caves. DNC/NINx2/WAR/WHM...was very über ^^
Quick shot of the ferry as we shove off :)
"Alright, nothing blew up so far!!!"
The beginning of yet another long ass cutscene, during the quest Embers of His Past. It was a cool cutscene at least...
"Oh snap, somebody's 'bout to get fucked up!"
"I'm a tree!"
"Ohhhh Kayyy, somebody forgot their medicine this morning..."
"I'm a TREE, Goddammit!!!!"
"Ok, fine, you're a fucking tree! Shit, woman!!"
"Yeah, take that, simple bitch!!"
"Oh Noes!!!!!!!"
"AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH MY BALLS!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!?!?!?!"
"You done fucked up now, bitch!"
"OMG FAILSAUCE Q_Q"
"You've got 20 seconds to start cooking me up a Chicken Pot Pie, or you can kiss your face goodbye!!"
We've been doing the usual over the last few days; had a kick ass level 46 party in Quicksand Caves, level 67 party in Bhaflau Thickets, got some quests done, etc etc. Almeth got his Ninja to 50, so we started working on his Ninja AF...first up was the quest "I'll Take the Big Box", which among other things, involved killing a Ghost type NM on the Selbina-Mhaura Ferry:
Poor little guy...
At any rate, it was pretty easy, as we expected. A random RDM watched us fight it; I'd like to think he was keeping an eye on us to make sure we were ok, but he never said anything, so who knows?
Since my last post, we've been running around doing all kinds of shit. Aht Urhgan Missions, Wings of the Goddess quests, Campaign, unlocking jobs, camping NM's...we've been a busy bunch. I've got a lot to cover, so let's just jump right in, shall we?
First off, Almeth and I were finally able to unlock Puppetmaster and Corsair. It'd been a while since we'd attempted to do it the first time, and it was a piece of cake this time around. We actually did it the right way, and got the Lamian Fang Key beforehand...last time we attempted, Almeth tried to pick the lock to the door and blew through an entire stack of tools. I don't know why we didn't just get the key last time (all you gotta do is click a ??? on the ground in Caedarva Mire to get one) but regardless, we got it this time and got it done. As PUP is pretty much on the way, we got that banged out, too. I can now finally say I've got every job unlocked...WOOT!!
It isn't often that we go into Arrapago Reef, so I took a screenshot while we were there:
Pimpin' ain't easy...
In my last post I had the video of me fighting Peerifool; the beginning part of quest "One Good Deed?". The conclusion of it involved running out to Attohwa Chasm and getting a few cutscenes, so Almeth and I finished it up together. While there, we ran out to Boneyard Gully to look around (neither of us had ever been there), and also explored Attohwa some. There was a scary moment when Almeth aggro'd a Trench Antlion (those fuckers hide in the ground and spring up on you, scared the shit out of both of us 'cause we so weren't expecting it) but he was able to Flee away with it and survive. While we were in the area, Almeth asked if I was willing to try and pop Citapati, a lottery spawn from the Corse that spawn there at night. Although the NM seemed like it would be a little angry, Almeth is very keen to pick up a Harpe, so I agreed to give him a hand. Due to some Scorpion aggro the moment we started killing a Corse, it ended up like this:
Figures...
The next night (or maybe two nights later, I don't quite remember to be honest), Almeth and I started working on some Aht Urhgan quests and missions. We were able to complete the mission Royal Puppeteer pretty easily, as this involved killing Ameratats in Wajaom Woodlands until we got a Vial of Jody's Acid for each of us. Lucky for us, we got the acid after 2 Ameratats, although we did have some Tiger aggro that was pretty fucking annoying (goddamn those Tigers and their paralysis move!). The did drop a Rusty Medal, which is used in long chain of quests to get some Imperial Standing and some Imperial Gold Pieces. As Almeth and I wanted to expand our Mog Locker some more, we were all about getting some free Gold Pieces, so despite the fact that the cutscenes were long as shit, and involved tons of running around, it was well worth it. We also attempted to do Aht Urhgan Mission 13 - Lost Kingdom, but that didn't work out so hot.
Building some TP before we attempt to fight the NM for Aht Urhgan Mission 13.
The fight itself. We were doing pretty well, but enmity control got away from us, which left me in a bad spot as far as healing us goes. We're gonna try this guy again with Amedelie; I think we'll be much more sucessful with someone else to take hate and deal damage.
Getting my face kicked in by Jazaraat was a little discouraging, so we ran around and took care of some other quests in the Aht Urhgan area. The first one we tackled was When the Bow Breaks, which just involved killing some spiders for a Frayed Arrow, and trading the arrow to a ??? in the same area...which rewarded us with more long ass cutscenes.
"Yeah, spider webs! Awesome!!"
The beginning of the longest 15 minutes of my life...
Alright, Threesome!
Make that foursome! This might not be so bad after all!!
"Oh, stop fucking around and just shoot somebody already, shit!!"
F-A-I-L
QQ, bitch...QQ
"YEAH!!! OFF WITH HER MOTHERFUCKING HEAD!!!!!"
What? He didn't kill her? What a rip off!
There was many more cutscenes, but I'll spare everyone from the rest of that shit. Needless to say, I got Carpal Tunnel from mashing the Enter key over and over again.
Yesterday, Almeth and I started the day off with a Besieged...it went ok, although not having reraise items and Wizard's Drinks really sucked a fat one. At any rate, it was a little rough starting out, but as more people showed up, things got easier. People were really friendly yesterday:
"Umm, could you stop grinding your crotch into my back? What the fuck kinda perverted shit is this?!"
Since we were already in Aht Urhgan, we finished up a few more quests, expanded our Mog Lockers (70 slots, woot!!) and then made our way to Sandy past to do some Campaign Battles. Amedelie showed up not long after, and joined us. Almeth tried to do it as his 48 Ninja, but the experience was just too broken at such a relatively low level, so he switched to THF. We banged out a Granite Rose I as well; since nobody ever does it we got a fat exp bonus for it. For the most part, it was just battle after battle, though:
This battle was so fucking crowded that the NPC's had to go up in the trees to attack. Nice...
Since we just so happened to be in Jugner Forest (S), we decided to give Fingerfilcher Dradzad another go. Now that we had gained 6 levels on him since our first attempt, we figured we had a far better shot at finally killing him and moving on in the Wings of the Goddess missions...and we were right. Having Amedelie along to use ranged attacks on him when he started countering made the fight a joke, and we were ecstatic that we finally got our revenge:
Yeah! FUCK YOU!!!
Amedelie had to log out not long after that, but I stuck around a little while to finish up the quest line Fingerfilcher was involved in, and got treated to one of the cooler cutscenes in the game:
"Huh?"
"Oh shit..."
"OH SHIT!"
"OH SHIT!"
"OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK..."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
Well, look who it is...Cait Sith!
"Aww pretty kitty!"
"Yeah? Well your character sucked in Final Fantasy VII!!"
That was pretty much the whole cutscene. Creepy cool shit. The next quest's cutscene was boring by comparison, but I did manage to snag a good pic during it:
I've been lazy the last few days with the whole blogging thing, but as we all know, Bahamut's Dreadnought never sleeps. Since my last post, we've lot of experience parties, did some quests; all the fun stuff that we do :)
At any rate, here's a video I took of me soloing Peerifool for the quest "One Good Deed?"...the reward for which is the Map of Attohwa Chasm. Almeth discovered the quest the other day, and it wasn't hard to convince me to tackle it myself...
The fight was very easy, but it was long. It took me about 20 minutes to finish off all six of the mobs, plus the two Alraune that linked during the fight. I had to speed the video up to twice normal speed just to fit it into the 10 minute limit Youtube imposes...but it is kinda funny to watch... :)
Our first order of business Wednesday was to travel up to Fei'Yin and get the Ice Fragment for Zilart Mission 5. This just involved some traveling, no fighting or anything, so I changed to WHM and teleported Almeth and I out to Vahzl so we could start the long, boring run through Xarcabard and Beaucedine Glacier. I decided to wear the pieces of my AF that I could, the hat is pretty damn stupid looking to be totally honest. I never see people wearing the hat...go figure.
I know it's kinda dark...but seriously, is that not the most retarded hat you've ever seen?
Making our way to the headstone was a piece of cake...I'm finally getting WHM to a level where everything isn't going to one-shot me, so that's nice. There are some angry weapon type mobs directly in front of the Cloister of Frost, but it's easy to sneak by them. At any rate, we got our fragment and moved on to our real goal of the evening...some serious Adventuring Fellow leveling...
{Recall-Jugner}{You can have this.}
I love the fact that the chocobos in the past are black, it just makes them look meaner...
When we got back to San d'Oria (S), I quick changed into DNC, and half heartedly talked to the Campaign Evaluator...I have been kinda lazy lately and haven't been doing Campaign shit, so I was shocked as shit when instead of telling me I sucked and to go die in a fire, they gave me the next medal, the Sterling Star. I really think they made a mistake, but hey, I ain't gonna complain...
"You sure you don't have me confused with someone else??"
After that surprise, Almeth and I headed out to East Ronfaure (S) to get started killing Ladybugs like mad. The plan was to start off with our Signal Pearl, then as soon as that was completed, to pop our Tactics Pearl over and over until that was spent as well. It worked out damn well, I would say.
We started off in the same spot we'd been doing it before, on the eastern side of the zone about halfway down. There was a BLU there killing ladybugs by himself that started crying about how we were killing all the mobs and all that crap, so rather then tell him to fuck off, we decided to move over south of the fortification, and it was the best thing we ever did. Since fighting 6 at a time was no big deal, we decided to up the ante, and the efficiency, and just pull as many as we could find...
Raka and Fhig, just before the mass Ladybug extinction of 2009.
We started off a little slow, only fighting four mobs in this picture...
...then we started getting crazier and crazier as the night went on. I think there's 9 here.
It was ridiculous how many Ladybugs we had at one time...at some points, they couldn't even path correctly so they'd just kinda fly in circles around each other.
This silly bitch thought some stupid Noisome Powder would stave off it's annihilation.
I did still have to Curing Waltz from time to time...nine of these guys hitting for 30-40 each really adds up.
Dancing Edge was enough to pretty much put one down completely, and Almeth had plenty of opportunities to do it...
It was funny as fuck in the game, but really, this would be fucking terrifying if it happened in real life.
People running by gave us some funny looks...
Towards the end of the last charge of our Tactics Pearl, we'd actually started to attract a crowd of people watching us fight all these Ladybugs at once. We had so many, that they were popping as quick as we killed them, so Almeth would just run off and grab more as he saw them while I just kept working on the ones we had. Good samaritans, on their way to Campaign, stopped to ask us if we needed help, but a few people actually stayed just to watch and chat with us while we fought. I mean, really, how often is it you see a couple people fighting like every Ladybug in the zone at one time? When our Adventuring Fellows despawned for the last time, a few people /cheered and /laughed, and everyone waved goodbye. It was a good time, and it was kinda like we were performing for people. Fun stuff ^^
All told, we each got our NPC's a couple levels (level 43, woot!) and came away with 15k worth of Ladybug Wings each...a nice bonus in itself. Almeth and I headed back to town to turn in our loots, and at about that time GodzillaX showed up to hang out with us. Almeth elected to hang in town and work on some campaign ops with his Ninja, while GodzillaX and I ran off to do some Campaign battles. I should have come out as my WHM, but my DNC is a little behind Almeth and Amedelie so I decided to try and catch up instead.
There was a ton of people doing Campaign tonight...as soon as the battle ended it was like a mass exodus of people sprinting for the Campaign Arbiter.
GodzillaX helps me tear down the enemy fort in Pashhow Marshlands (S), meanwhile this slug thing is really freaking me out. I ain't never seen that shit before...
Some random person getting owned by an Orc...they were kinda pissed off today, but there were plenty of us to handle it.
Although GodzillaX bit it at one point (sorry pimp, I tried to save you!) it was a pretty successful run. I got a little closer to Amedelie and Almeth, and came away with a good amount of Allied Notes as well. I've got 30,000 so far...only 140,000 more (and 4 more ranks in Campaign) and I can pick up the Cobra Cap set; it looks like it'll be really hot for Dancer. I can't wait...
Nothing is quite as awesome as getting tags, taking 4 steps, and biting it to an angry AOE. As a runner up is laying dead underneath the thing for 20 minutes waiting for a raise. Yeah, it was pretty fucked up...
My death, later that same evening, in a Besieged. While I'm actually able to hit the mobs now, I still do 0 damage most of the time...not too good for TP gain.
Level 46 Party, Quicksand Caves. DNC/NINx2/WAR/WHM...was very über ^^
Quick shot of the ferry as we shove off :)
"Alright, nothing blew up so far!!!"
The beginning of yet another long ass cutscene, during the quest Embers of His Past. It was a cool cutscene at least...
"Oh snap, somebody's 'bout to get fucked up!"
"I'm a tree!"
"Ohhhh Kayyy, somebody forgot their medicine this morning..."
"I'm a TREE, Goddammit!!!!"
"Ok, fine, you're a fucking tree! Shit, woman!!"
"Yeah, take that, simple bitch!!"
"Oh Noes!!!!!!!"
"AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH MY BALLS!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!?!?!?!"
"You done fucked up now, bitch!"
"OMG FAILSAUCE Q_Q"
"You've got 20 seconds to start cooking me up a Chicken Pot Pie, or you can kiss your face goodbye!!"
"OMG PWND LOLOLOL!!!"
"Dammit, you were my best ho! Those Bastards!!"
Killing Moblins in Oldton Movalpolos, waiting to see if Bugbear Strongman spawns...
Yay, invisible elevator!
Clearing out Quadav's, before spawning the NM's for the quest "For the Birds".
As annoying as Elementals can be, they're great for TP gain... ^^
Pimpin' ain't easy...
Figures...
Building some TP before we attempt to fight the NM for Aht Urhgan Mission 13.
"Yeah, spider webs! Awesome!!"
The beginning of the longest 15 minutes of my life...
Alright, Threesome!
Make that foursome! This might not be so bad after all!!
"Oh, stop fucking around and just shoot somebody already, shit!!"
F-A-I-L
QQ, bitch...QQ
"YEAH!!! OFF WITH HER MOTHERFUCKING HEAD!!!!!"
What? He didn't kill her? What a rip off!
"Umm, could you stop grinding your crotch into my back? What the fuck kinda perverted shit is this?!"
This battle was so fucking crowded that the NPC's had to go up in the trees to attack. Nice...
"Huh?"
"Oh shit..."
"OH SHIT!"
"OH SHIT!"
"OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK..."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
Well, look who it is...Cait Sith!
"Aww pretty kitty!"
"Yeah? Well your character sucked in Final Fantasy VII!!"
"God, what a big baby! Walk it off, Asshole!!"
I know it's kinda dark...but seriously, is that not the most retarded hat you've ever seen?
{Recall-Jugner}{You can have this.}
I love the fact that the chocobos in the past are black, it just makes them look meaner...
"You sure you don't have me confused with someone else??"
Raka and Fhig, just before the mass Ladybug extinction of 2009.
We started off a little slow, only fighting four mobs in this picture...
...then we started getting crazier and crazier as the night went on. I think there's 9 here.
It was ridiculous how many Ladybugs we had at one time...at some points, they couldn't even path correctly so they'd just kinda fly in circles around each other.
This silly bitch thought some stupid Noisome Powder would stave off it's annihilation.
I did still have to Curing Waltz from time to time...nine of these guys hitting for 30-40 each really adds up.
Dancing Edge was enough to pretty much put one down completely, and Almeth had plenty of opportunities to do it...
It was funny as fuck in the game, but really, this would be fucking terrifying if it happened in real life.
People running by gave us some funny looks...
There was a ton of people doing Campaign tonight...as soon as the battle ended it was like a mass exodus of people sprinting for the Campaign Arbiter.
GodzillaX helps me tear down the enemy fort in Pashhow Marshlands (S), meanwhile this slug thing is really freaking me out. I ain't never seen that shit before...
Some random person getting owned by an Orc...they were kinda pissed off today, but there were plenty of us to handle it.