Loss

Sunday night our usual group got together to do a few Royale Ramble runs and I must say that we've pretty much perfected it. Our group tonight was Meph as PLD, Bennei as WHM, Oric as PUP, Sheeshmaru as SAM, a Mithra from the LS as MNK, and me as SMN. All in all, the runs went incredibly well except during my run. We had one wipe but it was nothing that we couldn't recover from. We ended up winning and I had Oric hold some of the items in the treasure chest for me but then the unimaginable happened. Items dropped fast and filled up my inventory and I ended up losing my O. Ingot. I'm just lucky that I'm not piss ass broke or workin' on Marduk's Tiara or something along those lines. I still made 30k from doing runs and other items that dropped to me. Better than nothing, right.

I was hoping that Monday would end up better and in a way but not much better. It was TraumaCenter/KurokajiSyndicate's first Dynamis-Beaucedine run in a while and I was @1 for the Cleric's Briault which is, really, the only piece of WHM that I really WANTED aside from the Cleric's Pantaloons. The run went absolutely fabulous with Oric finally getting his Pantin Tobe and Bennei getting her Duelist's Tabard. It was on one of our last few fulls when I see that the Cleric's Briault dropped. I honestly, jumped and was so ecstatic. Oric, along with Bennei and Lavera all sent me /tells saying to "Go, go, go lot! Ani lot!" Its common rule for Astrael to announce who can lot first so I waited then she only said Lchan, the other Mithra who was @1 for WHM. I thought there was a mix up and that she missed what I wanted. So I asked and just then she broke the news that, "I'm sorry, Ani ;-; but Lchan has more points" I was devastated because I completely forgot we only had points for the Northland areas and I'm pretty sure if I was able to lot I would've outlotted her. None the less, {Carbuncle}ations to Lchan. Hopefully it will drop next time.

Enough bitching for one night. Its time for mine and Oric's first ever Limbus run ;)

P.S. Best quote ever while we were on the discussion of Oric taking my gil BUT he paid me back for the Condenser and half of the Azoth

"I'm like the drug addicted, alcoholic cousin that needs money all the time in our FFXI relationship. And he's the rich uncle."

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 ;)

Now, {Viper Bite}

I finally ended up getting some sleep this morning. Even though it wasn't much, it was better than running on nothing the entire day. When I woke up, however, I was sad to hear that the Dynamis LS was going to split after this month's schedule was over. I almost regret not going to last night's run, but what can I do. Real life comes first. This Tuesday is Xarcabard and that upcoming Friday will be the last run, Dynamis - Bastok which is the first Dynamis run they did.

Its funny, when we first applied we were constantly waiting to be accepted and the day we did, I got this hilarious message:

"OMG! We're in! Now we have the pleasent task for getting to CoP 3-5 to be able to do any Dynamis. We wont be able to go on Saturday becuase its in Beaucedine and we have to beat all the cities to be able to enter that =/. oh well, that just gives us more time to get the CoPs done and get a nice buffer ^_^. I think Opinyu said that there would be people who would help us on CN get to CoP 3-5. Omg, i think i have carple tunnel or something, my wrist started hurting really bad when i was typing this. PS Hope you got your braces off ^_^"

Its sad they're splitting but in the mean time, I'm glad I got to experience these short six months with them. CarpeNoctem was such a well ran linkshell and the people there are great as well. I also can't complain for getting 5/5 Summoner relic. Its gon' be sad to see the linkshell disband though ;-;

Continuing on, Oric and I put together another Puppetmaster and White Mage party today. It was at one of those odd levels though, so we just decided to level sync down to level 56. Overall, it was a nice party. The PLD, however, kept bitching and complaining about refresh and how the Corsair's Evoker's Roll wasn't good enough. He ended up leaving and saying he needed to go. Of course he did, we saw him on the way to Oric's PUP AF3 BCNM. By the way, we fucked that Automaton up >:D

Do you feel fierce?

I didn't go to Dynamis tonight either. I don't know what it is but I haven't been able to sleep at all this week. I figured it was better to sit out this run and try to get some sleep but that didn't work.

Instead, I was on Skype with Oric the whole time telling him that he was going to get his Etoile Casaque. Oric, on the other hand, said he wasn't going to get it.

At 1:39 AM I get this message on Skype:

[1:39:10 AM] Oric: OMG idhngfidsnwe
[1:39:14 AM] Oric: ETOILE CASAQUE
[1:39:21 AM] Andrall: DID IT DROP
[1:39:48 AM] Oric: ITS MINE
[1:39:54 AM] Andrall: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
[1:40:55 AM] Oric: difhidwgnegnidrgnhiefrnifnb
[1:40:59 AM] Oric: IM GONNA VOMIT
[1:41:24 AM] Oric: I BIRTHES A SOLAR SYSTEM
[1:41:26 AM] Andrall: YOU SO FIERCE AND NO MORE SH FOR YOU
[1:43:26 AM] Andrall: Girl! {Carbuncle}ations
[1:47:55 AM] Oric: birth of lamb
[1:47:57 AM] Oric: OMG BLOG
[1:58:10 AM] Oric: It's so pretty ;-;
[1:58:14 AM] Oric: I wanna wear it now!

Yeah, too bad he can't wear it now. He's in Dynamis-Xarcabard for another three hours as his Scholar. Its the one piece of relic that he wanted the most, as soon as he got the CarpeNoctem pearl hand the WotG relic was released. He had that on his priority list and now its his. Now he only needs the Etoile Tiara and he'll be 5/5 on his Dancer relic.

I think thats all. Oh, yeah, I really need to work on my entry for the Stratics quest contest. I want that Shadow Lord statue or the baby chocobo plush ^^

Wajaom Woodlands ate our tanks

I kid you not, Oric and I lost at least two tanks and multiple party members to Wajaom Woodlandss today. We were up earlier and set up a party with a rather good set up. Our Thief continued to pull and on chain five our Ninja just randomly says that he's sleepy and he needs to go. Luckily, I found another Ninja replacement who did nothing but bitch that I wasn't hasting him. I believe haste lasts three minutes, and I normally haste Ninja tanks at the beginning of every battle. As soon as he hit 75, he said he was called into work. I guess being called into work means going and leveling your level fifteen Dancer. I can't complain, I got level 58 on the last mob, but still thats bullshit.

Party disbanded so Oric and I took a lunch break and decided to go farm my Tavnazian Bell. I was dreading this, considering it took us three hours to farm two for Yukkari and another member from our old LS, TheEmeraldSpiral but Oric and I got lucky going 1/4 on the bell.

After that we made another party, which included a PLD, RDM, BLU, PUP, SAM, and WHM. Nice set up, right? I thought so too. Oric and I thought the RDM was dual boxing between herself and the RDM and especially since they both started disconnecting after a few pulls. After that we lost our Samurai. Would Oric every get 58?! Of course we would :) We found reps and most would consider it an unorthodox party but it was NIN, WAR, PLD. BLU, WHM, and PUP. We destroyed, it was such a great party.

Then after wearing that damn Seer's Tunic from level twenty-nine to fifty-eight, we finally went and fought the NM for my WHM AF3 quest and in all honesty, I was rather disappointed with the WHM AF Quests. The BLM one was decent, loved the SMN quests, but this one was just boring especially the final cutscene! Special thanks to Hatsuharu, Blackodin, Azalynn, and Oric for helping me :)

ZNMs were cancelled for today due to lack of people showing up :( but instead I went to help Az with Shiki. Haha, that was the most fun I've had camping Shiki. I was standing on the stairs with the Dancer and I noticed something pop behind me! It was fucking Shiki! I could've shouted out every obscenity when I saw him. I quickly threw a Carby at him and engaged and hit! I got the claim! During the battle though, the other group we were camping against decided to try and kill us by pulling a train of weapons through us. Dumbasses didn't succeed and got theirselves killed and didn't get a raise before I warped out.. We ended up killing Shiki but nothing dropped. Hopefully, tomorrow will be a better day. More NM killing, went to help Oric with Valkurm Emperor but he didn't pop and we had Dynamis in an hour so we decided to call it a night. In the end, I decided to sit out on Dynamis-Xarcabard because my BLM's buffer is low...really low, I'm talkin' three digits. I need to work on that. I hope you get your Etoile Casaque, Oric! Good-luck!

Of Puks and Men

The current LS I'm in now actually had a really nice number of people show up for ZNMs yesterday. I'm guessing there were around fourteen or so people. The people who had a pop item for Chigre, Anantaboga, and Gigiroon so it ended up only two Vulpangue and an Ob for Aylah.

Now, most people know that I've been wanting the Karura Hachigane for my Summoner, well which Summoner wouldn't want it. Everybody was /NIN as recommended and we made our way our to the site. Aara and I did a /random to see who went first. Aara won.

The battle went pretty smooth until he was around 25% and he wiped everybody except the Summoners we had there. He was down to about 5% when I was killed. Haha, I only had like eleven MP left so I summoned Carby and got beat the fuck down. That was the only time I was hit during the battle. I can't remember but I'm guessing it was either Aara or Sano who finished him off with a Predator Claws and whaddya know, he dropped the K. Hachigane. So, {Carbuncle}ations to Aara. Even though I'm jealous its nice seeing another Summoner I started leveling SMN get a great piece of gear. After that we raised the dead and rested up for me to spawn the next Vulp. This fight went a lot smoother and I used Astral Flow just to be sure. Take note, only for a free Garuda, not Aerial Blast. Sano followed and we destroyed him that time, with less deaths than the first. No drop, not even a wind crystal. /sigh, at least I got the item for Sanraku. Aara's great though, she sent me a /tell afterwards that she had enough Zeni for another pop item and gladly help me out with that.

In regards to Ob, he's really week at least with a PUP in the party. Nothing dropped, just Ob's Arm. Better than nothing though I suppose, plus Aylah already had her Guignol Earring

After that there really wasn't much, Oric and I went to skill up Serenade's ranged and magic and my club skill because lets face it, I want Hexa Strike when my WHM gets that high. Once Serenade's ranged and magic were capped we decided to get ready for Dynamis - Beaucedine and take a nap before. We'd need it, 12AM to 5AM.

We went in about an hour late and I decided to go ahead and put points down on the Black Mage body, thanks to Hohito, whose blog I found as well ;) We did really good with drops that night, We got three or four BLM, three or four PUP, COR, BST, RDM, DNC, THF, two SMN, and I thats thats all. About half way through the run the power of Oric's street went out. This happens a good bit in Pennsylvania, ya' know because its shitty here. I did end up getting my Sorcerer's Coat after Hohito....yeah, I won with three points. Around 3AM I had to log off, my dad was bitching at me =/

Starting today of though, Oric and I made a party. A party that was a lot better than the one we had yesterday, only three deaths. First caused by my shitty as fuck router and the other two to aggro. Putting that aside, it was a rather nice party. I'm now WHM47 and Oric is 47 :)

Thats bound to change tonight though. lol

Waking the Beast

I know I haven't posted in a while, but I've been incredibly busy. Now that school is finally out for the summer, I can blog on time.

Last Friday, it was Dynamis - Windurst time and I still needed my Summoner's Spats. I don't really think they're the best piece out of the relic set, but since the Evoker's Spats don't stack with the accuracy from the Summoner's Gloves, I'd figure I'd go ahead and put points n them so at least I'd match :)


It was really one of our better runs yet, I think. Aylah got her Pantin Dastanas and Oric got his Argute Loafers which made them both 5/5 on their relic sets. On our last few pulls the Summoner Spats dropped and they were mine, making me 4/5, I still need my Summoner's Horn.

On Saturday, I woke up pretty late and got one of the best tells from Oric:


Oric>> zomg! Somebody is shouting for Waking the Beasts, go, go, go, go!


I ended up joining their alliance and over the next two days, I got all the eyes for the final battle against Carbuncle, whom we'll be fighting this Saturday. So far I really like the storyline associated to this quest as Carbuncle being a false God, and I'm excited to see how it plays out :)


Now, this week so far has been amazing. My last day of school was on Tuesday and my ZNM LS decided to fight a few NMs. We had two successful Obs, {Carbuncle}ations Aylah on your Gunguil Earring and we also had a successful Chigre fight, that almost went bad. Real life things happened so we didn't get to fight Vulpangue. I will have my Karura Hachigane one day >:)


Later that night, I did the Up In Arms BCNM with Sano and Fki since Fki guaranteed 300k even if we didn't get the drop. After that was Dynamis - Xarcabard. I only had four points for Tuesday's Dynamis and somehow I got this beauty:



I'm so happy, that makes me 5/5 on my Summoner Relic!

And on to other news, FFXIV is revealed and I think it looks awesome so far. Very reminscient of the FFXI original trailer. So, I think I'll try it out when it gets released, just everybody being a beginner in a large, vast new area excited me, plus everybdoy from my static says they want to try it too. Starting out with friends is always good :D Can't wait for SE's Booth at E3 today.

Oh, and I love the logo :)

So much relic, so little of us

So, tonight was CarpeNoctem's Dynamis - Buburimu run and just about all of us needed either a piece of relic armor from the zone or an accessory piece. Lets just say there was a lot of tension. Those of you that are familar with the Dreamworld Dynamis areas, there is only thirty-six spots available, eighteen for Tavnazia. Well, since its accessory pieces that drop there and its limited more people tend to show up earlier than they normally would. Well, there were fourty-three out of the possible thirty-six allowed in Dynamis - Buburimu. Some words were said and well, only one of us made it in tonight and that was Aylah. We talk over Skype and she noted that these were the first drops, they dropped together:




Oric needed his Argute Loafers to be 5/5 on Scholar Relic, and the gauntlets were really the only piece of PLD Relic Letira was worried about ;-;

These dropped soon after for Oric's DNC:

All three of them wen t free lot as well.

On the plus side, {Carbuncle}ations to Aylah on her:
and the Dynamis - Buburimu win :)