Singing in the Grotto

These past few days have been pretty intense to say the least. Since Friday, we've been hit with a pretty large amount of snow leaving most of us inside for a few days. So far school has been cancelled three days for Oric and me and I've already gotten the message that we're cancelled for tomorrow too. I'm glad, I really needed this break from school.

On Saturday our typical group of people participated in Salvage for the very first time. Before we finished CoP each of us took an interest in trying out Salvage. Just so happens that our favorite Elvaan, Aylah, created a list of which cells would drop to who and in what order. Upon entry we had a few doubts but I'll admit it was pretty fun. Using Skype really helps organization during Salvage. All in all our run went well. We only had two deaths at the beginning but we recovered very well. We ended up not killing the Bomb NM on time but next time I'm sure we'll be able to do it.

Sunday we went ahead and attempted to camp another very notorious monster known as Charybdis. This blog title is in regards to our rather 'fun' experience trying to spawn him. I really cannot even begin to explain what all went on down there other than this song Oric and I wrote about our bad luck with parties recently. Before you read any further, I'd recommend going to YouTube and listening along with the song Bad Romance by Lady Gaga.

Bad Party by Oric and Anidrall
Look for a WHM, we need us a tank.
Ninja or Paladin, I hope they don' stank.
I want EXP.
E X P
I want EXP.

I want my level, 10k tnl.
Soon I'll be 75, I hope I don' fail!
Just want endgame
want endgame
I want endgame!

You know that I want you
You know that I need you
I want it bad
a good party!

I want your songs and your phantom rolls
You and me could kill a colibri
ohohohohohoh
Or do some FoV or kill some EPs
I really hope we don' die
ohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohoho
Caught in a bad party
ohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohoh
caught in a bad party!
rarahrah

Where is the camp at, what are we fighting?
How 'bout Eruca's I'm sure we'll be fine
Cast barfira,
Bar fi ra
Cast barfira

Where is our puller I forgot to ask
How 'bout our SAM or is he an ass?
Let's just start
pleaseplease please please
Let's just start please!

You know that I want you
You know that I need you
I want it bad
a good party!
I want your songs and your phantom rolls
You and me could kill a colibri
ohohohohohoh
Or do some FoV or kill some EPs
I really hope we don' die
ohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohoho
Caught in a bad party
ohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohoh
caught in a bad party!
rarahrahrarahrah

Buff buff, haste me baby, cure me now what are you crazy?
Buff buff, haste me baby, cure me now what are you crazy?
Buff buff, haste me baby, cure me now what are you crazy?
Buff buff, haste me baby, oh forget I'm dead already!

We have a tank and we have a WHM
Should have gone well, we're all not on the same page
damnittaru, You are such a noob,
damnittaru, what the hell did you do?
What the hell did you do? What the hell did you doo? A friggin.. A friggin noob!

I want your songs and your phantom rolls
You and me could kill a colibri
ohohohohohoh
Or do some FoV or kill some EPs
I really hope we don' die
ohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohoho
Caught in a bad party
ohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohoh
caught in a bad party!

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 ^^;;

Serket Breaker

Is Serket considered an HNM? I thought he was, anyway I didn't log on until later today after sleeping in and getting some much needed sleep.

Last night Oric and I hit level sixty-one with Puppetmaster and White Mage with an amazing party. A great group of people too so that made it even better. The Paladin had to leave since he was already late to Dynamis so we took Aylah to Cape Terrigan to do some FoV and get her level. While I was there I got club skill 200 and got Judgment. Only twenty levels more and I'll have access to Hexa Strike. Also, I finally capped out my Summoner's Tier I Merits.

Back to Serket! Once I logged on this morning I went up to Whitegate to get some of my missing spells. Well, really only Cure V and Esuna. Have yet to try them out in parties, well, maybe not Cure V in case its really needed :) I figured I might as well get to work on my Summoner's Tier II Merits so I made way to the past to do some campaign. I grabbed orders for Hawk Eye III. Only problem was the only place that was under Quadav control was Beadeaux [S]. I was up to it though so I headed to Pashhow and got my tags. Let me tell you, I hated that place when it was under Bastokan control. Breakga is a bitch. I didn't get much from that battle so after it was over I buffed up and headed out to Beadeaux. I got lucky on the way there. Everytime something was going to wear off I was always in a safe spot. This is, well, the second time I've been in this area so I wasn't sure what to expect besides Imps. I didn't know where the fortifications were and I didn't find out where they were so I just decided to warp out.

Before I warped out I got a message from Zumayriss asking if I could help with Serket. I figured, what the hell so I headed out. I've never killed Serket before and I've never seen anybody kill him but I've heard he's not too hard at all. At first we had me a SMN and another SMN, PLD, SAM, DRG, DRG, RDM, and BLM. I guess I wasn't paying attention to what had happened but after being there an hour or so the PLD, SAM, one of the DRGs left. I thought they just had to go leave for an event but I found out later why they left.

Then, not even ten minutes after they left he popped! I was down near where the undead mobs popped when I got the call in the party and Zuma saying HURRY HURRY ITS SERKET. I GOT CLAIM. I ran down there so fast and by that time we were low on people. Only one melee, and two jobs that weren't really suited for the situation. Right away, the Red Mage got aggroed by a Chamber Beetle. His sleep didn't stick and he died and the Black Mage got magic aggro by one of the pots in the corner. With just the three of us left we managed to get him to around seventy percent. I was pretty lucky on which day we ended up fighting Serket since Garuda perpetuation was lower from the latent on my relic body.

I was running low on MP so I used Astral Flow and got off a few Predator Claws before having to Elemental Siphon again. Near fifty percent I decided to call in back up, because we were going to need it. Seraphe, Aylah, and Umi made it to Garlaige as fast as they could along with other help from Zeuss, the Red Mage, and we killed Serket. Serket Ring dropped, and I was the first to say {Carbuncle}ations to Zuma, but then I saw for Zeuss to lot as well. Take note, he was dead throughout the whole battle and didn't contribute at all. He got the ring ;-; and soon after I found out that if Zuma had gotten the ring that her sister Seita would get it. Her sister that didn't help, that wasn't there, and said nothing but for her sister to fail, I was pissed about that. I warped out and got ready for Sky.

Sky went good tonight, Steamcleaner popped on the first pull. Killed and got drop. Did some water farming, no water though but we had a good time :) Shiva was kicking ass today with Rush, my highest was 1202 :D We made a new friend today, Khaiya, who is able to join us on Skype! I'm slacking, too much for to blog about for the past few days. I'll probably have another for tomorrow too. Good-night.....or good-morning where you live :)

Sky inspired me to write a song

Actually, its the second song inspired by Sky, the first being from when Oric and I went with DynaKnights. It goes to the beat of the song Party, Party, Join Us, Join Us, which is the end theme to the show Shin Chan, one of my personal favorites. Well, here goes nothing, hope you enjoy:

Went to Sky late this evening
Linkshell was goin' farmin'
Aura Pots were rainin' from the sky
Everyone is runnin' from me
This map seems awkward to me
If this keeps on I’m sure we won't kill Zip

But then I close my eyes and try to buff
I know things are bad and getting worse

But after all this I can heal awhile

But I'm not in a party

Party Party, Please invite me
Party Party, Please invite me
Party Party, Please invite me
I can buff and DD
Party Party, Please invite me
Party Party, Please invite me
Party Party, Please invite me
I need invited please


Yo, got the pop item, Mon
Oric is buffin'
and you're just not here
Think its just me and him standin' here
An Aura Pot be castin' Flare
and nobody is here
Why don't you listen to us



Party Party, Please invite me
Party Party, Please invite me
Party Party, Please invite me
I can buff and DD

PARTY PARTY
PARTY PARTY

PARTY PARTY

You can listen to the actual song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKgRbTaKAuo

We actually didn't do that bad for a practice run. The main problem is that some people just do not listen and do not come prepared. One of our Samurai didn't bring any Silent Oils, which is uncalled for especially since we announced it to the linkshell that everybody needed them. Our Ninja, Woven, was dead for nearly a half an hour due to him and Lome getting aggro. On the plus side, we managed to get the Aura Pots to drop two Ro'Maeve Waters. One of which we used to pop Olla, which actually went very smooth.

Besides Sky, I decided to do more campaign and some Campaign Ops. Mainly Hawk Eye III (Bastok), which is incredibly easy and gives 904 Allied Notes in return. Got my Mythril Wings of Service ∮∮ and I am now 10k away from capping out my Summoner's Tier I merits.

Aside from FFXI, I want to replay Parasite Eve just by listening to this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kPYCwe6Vu4

Take care :)

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!