The Zi'Tah Witch Project

This is what a long evening of duoing Scholar with Ixidor ends up like.
It was really good experience, nonetheless, but the Lesser Gaylas turned
out to be a pain in the ass. And then we died. Luckily, there was a White Mage
at the outpost . He and his friend ran right past us. :P

So, since nobody was available on the linkshell I asked him if he could raise Ixi and me.
No answer, so I asked his friend. They were standing right in front of us.
So, after giving me a /disgusted the White Mage raised Ixi and ran off. Too bad Ixi's Scholar
is only thirty-one and he can't raise. I sent him another /tell saying Ixi didn't get raise until
thirty-five. Thanks Gass :P

No raise, luckily enough a Red Mage was on his way to Sky and gave me a quick raise.
Aside from that, we managed to level. Ixi got 32 and I got 38 and 39 considering I was
only 600tnl at start. I think I'm going to level Scholar to 75 now. I'll see after I get Accession.

:)

Need Some Bait?

Carbuncle and I are really bad at fishing anything up besides monster.

If only we could fish up a Norg Shell.

I'm runnin' out of bait ;-;

Aside from the fact that I will never make a successful career out of fishing I must say that the rest of the Moogle Kupo d'Etat quests have been quite fun. They've introduced to some of the various crafts that I've never really shown interest in before such as using the HELM techniques for Welcome! To My Decrepit Domicile and chocobo digging for Shock! Arrant Abuse of Authority. However, my fishing skill is horrid. The last time I actually remember is fishing when I was still a new adventurer and I got a fishing rod off of a Goblin.

At least Bennei taught me how to properly fish. I was doing it wrong the entire time and Meph supplied me with free hatchets.

After catching just about every damn monster in that lake I ran out of bait. Trust me, I was pretty disappointed so I made started back to Norg when I realized that there was quite a gathering outside of the Ornamental Door. Before I knew it, the door had opened and I made my way through.

Off to Quicksand Caves I met up with the Goblin Geologist who, of course, needed me to gather all nine stones to put the Navaratna Talisman back together so I can help rescue my Moogle's beloved Kupuriru. Aside from the running around, gathering all the stones wasn't as bad a a level thirty cap ;)

This means that I am currently on Roar! A Cat Burglar Bares Her Fangs, bring it on Mithra. I'll end up completing a Moogle Kupo d'Etat with Bennei and Meph. That means group photo with new hats....even if they do look a bit silly ;)

Silencer of the Echo

So, as you may have guessed by the title, I have finally obtained my Royal Redingote.

After five attempts at retrieving the Omnis Stone and five attempts at fighting the Seed Crystal, my group won. I had in mind what I wanted to choose ever since I saw the list of augments.

I chose "Avatar perpetuation cost" -2 and Pet: Magic Accuracy +7/Magic Atk. Bonus +7.

Now, since most people gave a review of the expansion, I'll go ahead and give my two gil:

I'll admit that I didn't have too much of a problem with the first quests obtaining the Seedspall Lux, Luna, and Astrum even without subbing Thief. But I have heard that people have killed a ridiculous amount of mobs before finally getting the items. The second back-to-back fetch quest was, in my opinion, a bigger pain than the first quest. If I remember correctly, next was the Seed Mandragora fight which was great, especially seeing Ramuh one hit all of them round after round, and then was the first harder fight of ACP.

The fight againt the Seed Orc, Quadav, Yagudo, and Goblin. It was a challenging fight. Obtaining the Mark of Seed wasn't hard at all especially since Ixidor led the way with some Benny Hill worthy moments ;) But it was the fight that took us about four or so tries. But finally we won.

After the fight againt the Seed Beastmen we found ourselves venturing about and getting cutscenes and then we brace ourselves for the Lower Delkfutt's Tower portion where you have to ascend the tower under a level thirty cap. Thats was a fucking pain in the ass especially the one time I went as Dancer and died and didn't have any type of reraise.

In the end, though, we ended up winning and our final attempt went so well. The only person who had gotten hit was our Paladin, okay, our Red Mage may have gotten hit once or twice from a Seed Thrall but we all did a such great job. I was a bit disappointed with the story and the cutscenes though especially in comparison to Wings of the Goddess. As a matter of fact, the only cutscenes I thought were good was the first cutscene and the last. All of the others were a bit 'meh'

Onto Monday's update! All I can say is that it was full of win even if I don't have the final Bastok mission done to continue. Oric and I made a brave venture into the Northlands where we, surprisingly, didn't get ourselves killed. And the music track in Xarcabard [S] is simply to die for!

And on Tuesday....I got to kill the Amphiptere with a group of Summoners!

I'm off to work on a Moogle Kupo d'Etat since I'm only on Curses! A Horrifically Harrowing Hex. I really like this expansion a lot more than ACP. The cutscenes are cute and I don't really mind the fetch quests this time around.

Take care, I'll upload pictures later. I'm a bit lazy ^^;;

{Um...} BCNM

These past few days have been full of BCNMs and quite rewarding too.

Khaiya had been wanting to try Up In Arms and possibly get a Kraken Club which, if it dropped, we'd split the profits.

Khaiya and I had enough seals to get an orb and we headed out to Palborough where I continued to pull a huge ass train up to Waughroon Shrine :3

Turns out that I ended up getting the wrong orb so we only had one try for that day. Yeah, I fail ;)

The BCNM was eay, the only thing that could possibly give us problems was the time limit but for both of the times we tried, one that day and one the following, we won. No Kraken Club, but we still managed 20k a fight.



In case you were wondering, our set up was BLM SCH DRG. Khaiya leached as DRG but she was great, healing breath from Kocha when we were in lower health.



And on Sunday after months of Oric wanting Ni we got it!

I'll admit, I was a nervous going into Royal Jelly because it was my first time and because I hadn't played my Danceri n months.

Good news though, version update in three days.

New WotG Missions, I wish Let was back ;-;

J'adore DIORite

I need to quit procrastinating so much when I write my posts.


I'll go ahead and start with Sky. If you didn't know, I had my doubts at first but now that we've done more runs I'm really glad with how the linkshell ended up. I can say that we've accomplished more than any of the previous Sky linkshells I've had.

Seraphe had me come as Black Mage this time and I sort've enjoyed it. When everybody got there, we went up to Faust and had Seraphe explain the strategy. Easy enough, only one person didn't listen and engaged him. He died though.

Next with DIORite farming. Haha, the first time we farmed it with DynaKnights it reminded me of the Dior commercial with Charlize Theron: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezWJ_B7LxbY.
It was like a little merit party and we had both of the rooms open to camp in. After a few pulls we actually managed to get a DIORite to drop. Just one, but it was still a drop, none the less.




Seraphe figured that since we had so many people and a DIORite, that we should end the night with Ullikummi. I had to admit, I was just a little bit nervous but everything went as planned and we got all three of the drops. I think the Ulfheddin Axe went to Ixidor.

The next day was a bit slow, when I started with campaign and I got my next medal, so I believe I'm close to the highest available medal, until the July update that is. I did a bit of exploring this week after picking up my map of Grauberg. I picked up a Chocobo in Bastok to avoid the chigoes and hippogryphs. Grauberg is definately my favorite area in the game, hands down :)



Oric, Khai, and I then decided to start a party with Paladin, Puppetmaster, and White Mage and it was such a great party. I got my White Mage to level 65 and Oric got his Puppetmaster to 64. Three more levels til my Noble's Tunic :)

All Burned Out

Its been a while since I've posted an actual update, but I have a lot to write about.

Last Friday was CarpeNoctem's final Dynamis run. They had planned it to be as they had began, Dynamis - Bastok. Which, in a way, was ironic considering that is where Anidrall started his adventures. We entered a bit late, considering it'd be our last gather together and going over the rules. Plus, who doesn't like Goblin Ani and Goblin Oric terrorizing the citizens of Bastok.



It was definately a bit of an emotional night especially since CarpeNoctem has been running for nearly five years now. It was a quick run, as most of our usual Bastok runs. Nalya and Kennth were both of our tanks for the night and as usual the run went amazing. In the time I was with CN, I had never seen a failed run. The drops that night were plentiful, even though Oric and I didn't get any relic. We broke the record that night on relic drops which, if this wouldn't have been our last run, would have earned us an extre point :) We ended the run with a final {Elemental Seal} {Thundaga} III and linkshell pictures afterwards.





After that, the members who were online and of course wanted went to do some Ballista. It was my first time and let me tell you what, it was so fun. I went as Summoner and I loved using one of my blood pacts on somebody, especially when they decided to engage with me. I think everybody did four or five rounds and it wasn't over until five in the morning my time. CN said they'd like to do more Ballista so maybe the shell won't be completely dead.

Next on my list to tell you about is that I've finally maxed my Tier I merits on Summoners. I put two into Avatar attack and accuracy, two into Avatar magic accuracy and four into Avatar magic attack. I'm happy with my choices and even better I get to start on my Tier II merits now. After getting more than 30k exp in campaign and my new Wings of Integrity medal, I unlocked Heavenly Strike for Shiva <3

Now, the title of this blog post is a quote from Sano, another Summoner in my linkshell. It is in regards to the Astral Flow Burn party method. I have capped Summoning Magic and I refused to put any job in one of those parties because I don't want to be a gimp Summoner. On Monday he asked me if I wanted to merit using that method. I figured it wouldn't hurt and it'd be the fastest way for me to put max merits into Heavenly Strike. I was with a few other people I didn't know and after we finished the first pull Sano took the level sync off. I was horrified after watching the level 67 Summoner, Gohann, Elemental Siphon 54 MP back. Thats all. I was sick. After that he said he still needed Leviathan, Ifrit, Garuda, and Titan and if anybody was willing to help him....

I left and went up to Sky with the LS. We did awesome that night! We popped, claimed, and killed Despot without any deaths. Thanks to Lailu for the Taru sacrifice :)

Finally, we're on to today. I went out to breakfast with my family today which was a nice break considering I only have cereal for breakfast in the morning. When I got back, I went and got my map of Grauberg and went out to explore the area a lot more than I recently have. I thought about it today and if/when the servers close or when I do end up quitting the game, I want to log off in Grauberg. To me, its the most beautiful area in the game.

By the way, WHM is 63 ;)

Anidrall versus Shovel

http://tinypic.com/r/20hn9kx/5