March Forward
It's been a great couple weeks for us overall, and despite a few mishaps, we're going stronger than ever. I honestly thought I'd have to struggle to find stuff to update about regularly, but as I learned tonight, unsorted screenshots build up really fast, and become a pain in the ass to sort; in any case here's what we've been up to since I last posted.
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We went back to sky last Tuesday to pop our first Kirin, and while I don't have any screenshots, they wouldn't really be worth posting anyway, haha. We had 16 people present, and the summons overwhelmed us too much, just didn't have the people to kill them quickly and reliably. Not too big of a deal, and it didn't seem to get to anyone too much, we just brushed it off and decided to make the best of the night by claiming 2 Despots, farming a 2nd Autumnstone, and popping some kitties!
Our luck with Byakko just blows me away, but I'm definitely not complaining.
Insane drops, big congrats to Ayvaen and Finalizer on B. Haidate, and Shura Haidate respectively. Also, congratulations to the ground on Earthen Abjuration: Feet.
NO ONE wanted them, a bunch of people passed them (which was basically everyone but me) and I didn't have inventory space for them, so...yeah. I'm starting to wonder if we angered the gods by doing it, because we got this on our 2nd pop of the night just to spite us.
We were definitely due for junk, so no one was too disappointed, especially given the drops beforehand. That puts us at 4/5 on Byakko's Haidate, 2/5 on D. Legs. And yes, this E. Feet hit the ground too.
We hit sky up again Friday night, but it didn't go well at all. In fact, we accomplished absolutely nothing at all, sad to say. A group of 6, including a THF, farmed for Diorite all night(and never saw a drop), while the rest of us ran all over the place and watched RMT kill things. Seriously, these RMTs are like a roach problem, except there's no exterminator to call. I guess I can be thankful for being on Lakshmi, where our RMT are mostly contained within sky.
In any case, to make up for the utter failure, I went up with a party to try and farm some triggers on an off night, and it actually turned out very successful. We went to Byakko side Enkidus, and got a Diorite drop off the 2nd Golem, haha, that's the 2nd time I've had that happen to me, perhaps I have the magic touch! The real highlight though, was Dragonis turning around to leave, and yelling "OMG ZIP, SHIT" and running back at us, haha. It caught us all off guard, and he was screaming at us over Vent. Got claim, and held him with 3 people while the other 3 showed up to prepare to fight him.
Even though we'd killed Genbu 4 times previously, our LS had never actually killed Zipacna...the reason being that claiming him was such a chore, and initially we could trade an Autumnstone for both pop items, so why waste our time camping? I wasn't sure how we'd manage with 6 people, but everyone was on the ball, and we pulled it off!
After that we had our usual fun at Ulli to finish up the night.
So overall a very productive night, I'm really happy with what we got accomplished, especially since we finally took down Zip. :)
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Moving on from sky, we were back in sea for our 3rd night in action! Having triggers from Fortitude, Faith, and Ix'MNK, we were aiming to get Temperence, Ix'DRK and Ix'DRG down last night, and things went really well for us, surprisingly.
We started off with Ix'DRK, which proved to be annoying right from the get-go. I got sheer animosity in the first 15mins, and just as I got it...the ??? moved. Hoorah. So we ran around to find it, and I ran to click it...only, just AS I was clicking it, sheer animosity disappeared. So back to killing Aerns! Half an hour later, finally, we got the thing popped and going. With our numbers I didn't expect to be able to take on Ix'Aern and his assistants, so we screwed around with them to get JUST the NM, and that proved to be a bit annoying, cause a lot of deaths, and just overall a headache. In the end though, it was all worth it, after only one RR too!
From there we went back into the palace to seek out our good buddy Jailer of Temperence, and get revenge for last week. Lucky for us, he came out to play on the 2nd PH we killed this time, instead of 2 hours later.
Vengeance is sweet. ;)
2/3 goals for the night down, 1 to go! Back into the garden, we head up a floor and start killing Aw'Aerns, until this guy shows up.
Just like with Ix'DRK, it wasn't really the fight that was hard, it was the pull...at first I honestly thought we might have to just let this one go, but Ayv sac'd it a few times to hold it while we recovered, and we got things going after that.
I was actually a bit disappointed that we didn't get the deed, but at the same time it was nice to finally get an equipment drop in sea. Congrats to Aylith on the Astute Cape! This fight was definitely one of the most hectic, with the wynavs running all over the place, as well as Ix'Aern, but it wasn't as bad as pulling him, really...we ate a lot of deaths last night, despite accomplishing everything we set out to do, and I just hope that on future raids things will go smoother for us. As the leader I feel really stupid when my initial plan doesn't necessarily work out, or people start dying, or things go wrong, whatever the case may be. I do apologize for all the lost XP last night, hopefully next time won't be so bad. :(
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I've been missing Dynamis a lot lately because of work/school, finals coming up, bleh...in any case, they managed to clear Dynamis - Buburimu Sunday for the first time, I wish I'd been there, but apparently the run filled up to the point that one person had to sit out anyway, so no big deal. ;P
Been keeping up with Limbus despite everything going on, which has been going well I suppose. Did a couple Apollyon runs to work towards completing 2 more Omega sets to use up real soon.
Omega sets are definitely coming in a lot faster than Ultima, which is fine...out of all the times we've done Omega (which is a lot, we've been an LS for over a year now) we still haven't seen a heart drop. :/ It's getting a bit ridiculous, and a few of my good friends could really make good use of the body.
On the Temenos side, we did another Ultima run on Saturday, which went well up until Citadel Buster mode (as usual). I don't really have any pics, but we pulled out a win and got cerebrum and tail. Tail went to a non-SB member (our Limbus LS, Lumoria, is a mix of a few linkshells, since it was created long before SB existed), but the turban went to Stayhigh, so big congrats buddy, I know you love it, and I'm happy to see you with it. :D
Regarding the run itself, I DID manage to take one screenshot, and it's of me finally getting the chance, after many, many runs, to be the target for Citadel Buster on NIN. And yes, I managed to survive.
I know it shows me dead on the side, but the chatlog shows that I lived through that, I just went for my usual Mijin killshot at the end. ;P I know this is nothing huge these days, but for me it's a big deal, especially with all the times I've been told there things I just *couldn't* tank because of how low Taru HP is...well, I survived Citadel Buster with that HP, so that has to prove something, right?
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Been squeezing it meriting between events if I have the time, and that's been going pretty well. Generally I always go NIN, but the other night I played RDM for a change, which wasn't bad. I try to stick with friends / LS mates for my parties, but sometimes we have to grab a pickup or 2, which is no big deal.
Finally capped katana this past week, and now I'm 5/8 on HP merits (I'll be cancelling that MP one in the end). Also hit this in a party last week, nothing super-impressive, I know, but a record number for me anyway. ;P
Also doing Besieged when I can as per usual, gotta help maintain Lakshmi's undefeated record! Well, that's not really the main motivation, mostly just because it's fun, but being undefeated is still bragging rights, no? ;P Took this picture during an Undead Swarm Besieged last night, thought it turned out pretty good.
Great for IS, which at the moment I don't really need more of...I need more Mercenary Rank, mainly. :( Currently sitting at Corporal, and I have a feeling that "Perdu Katana" that was discovered in the .dats could be released in the June patch, and I don't wanna miss getting one!
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Whew, that turned out to be a lot more stuff than I thought, but I think I'm starting to understand why Rukenshin puts off updating his journal so much. >.> To wrap it up I've got some random pics I took that I thought turned out well...the only thing is the TParty stuff that sticks there, even after removing the HUD, anyone know of a quick way to make that disappear without unloading the plugin?
Lastly, thanks again Lordwafik on the image advice, I downloaded Faststone and it worked well for me, as you can see with this update. :)
That does it for now, hope you enjoy!
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We went back to sky last Tuesday to pop our first Kirin, and while I don't have any screenshots, they wouldn't really be worth posting anyway, haha. We had 16 people present, and the summons overwhelmed us too much, just didn't have the people to kill them quickly and reliably. Not too big of a deal, and it didn't seem to get to anyone too much, we just brushed it off and decided to make the best of the night by claiming 2 Despots, farming a 2nd Autumnstone, and popping some kitties!
Our luck with Byakko just blows me away, but I'm definitely not complaining.
Insane drops, big congrats to Ayvaen and Finalizer on B. Haidate, and Shura Haidate respectively. Also, congratulations to the ground on Earthen Abjuration: Feet.
NO ONE wanted them, a bunch of people passed them (which was basically everyone but me) and I didn't have inventory space for them, so...yeah. I'm starting to wonder if we angered the gods by doing it, because we got this on our 2nd pop of the night just to spite us.
We were definitely due for junk, so no one was too disappointed, especially given the drops beforehand. That puts us at 4/5 on Byakko's Haidate, 2/5 on D. Legs. And yes, this E. Feet hit the ground too.
We hit sky up again Friday night, but it didn't go well at all. In fact, we accomplished absolutely nothing at all, sad to say. A group of 6, including a THF, farmed for Diorite all night(and never saw a drop), while the rest of us ran all over the place and watched RMT kill things. Seriously, these RMTs are like a roach problem, except there's no exterminator to call. I guess I can be thankful for being on Lakshmi, where our RMT are mostly contained within sky.
In any case, to make up for the utter failure, I went up with a party to try and farm some triggers on an off night, and it actually turned out very successful. We went to Byakko side Enkidus, and got a Diorite drop off the 2nd Golem, haha, that's the 2nd time I've had that happen to me, perhaps I have the magic touch! The real highlight though, was Dragonis turning around to leave, and yelling "OMG ZIP, SHIT" and running back at us, haha. It caught us all off guard, and he was screaming at us over Vent. Got claim, and held him with 3 people while the other 3 showed up to prepare to fight him.
Even though we'd killed Genbu 4 times previously, our LS had never actually killed Zipacna...the reason being that claiming him was such a chore, and initially we could trade an Autumnstone for both pop items, so why waste our time camping? I wasn't sure how we'd manage with 6 people, but everyone was on the ball, and we pulled it off!
After that we had our usual fun at Ulli to finish up the night.
So overall a very productive night, I'm really happy with what we got accomplished, especially since we finally took down Zip. :)
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Moving on from sky, we were back in sea for our 3rd night in action! Having triggers from Fortitude, Faith, and Ix'MNK, we were aiming to get Temperence, Ix'DRK and Ix'DRG down last night, and things went really well for us, surprisingly.
We started off with Ix'DRK, which proved to be annoying right from the get-go. I got sheer animosity in the first 15mins, and just as I got it...the ??? moved. Hoorah. So we ran around to find it, and I ran to click it...only, just AS I was clicking it, sheer animosity disappeared. So back to killing Aerns! Half an hour later, finally, we got the thing popped and going. With our numbers I didn't expect to be able to take on Ix'Aern and his assistants, so we screwed around with them to get JUST the NM, and that proved to be a bit annoying, cause a lot of deaths, and just overall a headache. In the end though, it was all worth it, after only one RR too!
From there we went back into the palace to seek out our good buddy Jailer of Temperence, and get revenge for last week. Lucky for us, he came out to play on the 2nd PH we killed this time, instead of 2 hours later.
Vengeance is sweet. ;)
2/3 goals for the night down, 1 to go! Back into the garden, we head up a floor and start killing Aw'Aerns, until this guy shows up.
Just like with Ix'DRK, it wasn't really the fight that was hard, it was the pull...at first I honestly thought we might have to just let this one go, but Ayv sac'd it a few times to hold it while we recovered, and we got things going after that.
I was actually a bit disappointed that we didn't get the deed, but at the same time it was nice to finally get an equipment drop in sea. Congrats to Aylith on the Astute Cape! This fight was definitely one of the most hectic, with the wynavs running all over the place, as well as Ix'Aern, but it wasn't as bad as pulling him, really...we ate a lot of deaths last night, despite accomplishing everything we set out to do, and I just hope that on future raids things will go smoother for us. As the leader I feel really stupid when my initial plan doesn't necessarily work out, or people start dying, or things go wrong, whatever the case may be. I do apologize for all the lost XP last night, hopefully next time won't be so bad. :(
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I've been missing Dynamis a lot lately because of work/school, finals coming up, bleh...in any case, they managed to clear Dynamis - Buburimu Sunday for the first time, I wish I'd been there, but apparently the run filled up to the point that one person had to sit out anyway, so no big deal. ;P
Been keeping up with Limbus despite everything going on, which has been going well I suppose. Did a couple Apollyon runs to work towards completing 2 more Omega sets to use up real soon.
Omega sets are definitely coming in a lot faster than Ultima, which is fine...out of all the times we've done Omega (which is a lot, we've been an LS for over a year now) we still haven't seen a heart drop. :/ It's getting a bit ridiculous, and a few of my good friends could really make good use of the body.
On the Temenos side, we did another Ultima run on Saturday, which went well up until Citadel Buster mode (as usual). I don't really have any pics, but we pulled out a win and got cerebrum and tail. Tail went to a non-SB member (our Limbus LS, Lumoria, is a mix of a few linkshells, since it was created long before SB existed), but the turban went to Stayhigh, so big congrats buddy, I know you love it, and I'm happy to see you with it. :D
Regarding the run itself, I DID manage to take one screenshot, and it's of me finally getting the chance, after many, many runs, to be the target for Citadel Buster on NIN. And yes, I managed to survive.
I know it shows me dead on the side, but the chatlog shows that I lived through that, I just went for my usual Mijin killshot at the end. ;P I know this is nothing huge these days, but for me it's a big deal, especially with all the times I've been told there things I just *couldn't* tank because of how low Taru HP is...well, I survived Citadel Buster with that HP, so that has to prove something, right?
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Been squeezing it meriting between events if I have the time, and that's been going pretty well. Generally I always go NIN, but the other night I played RDM for a change, which wasn't bad. I try to stick with friends / LS mates for my parties, but sometimes we have to grab a pickup or 2, which is no big deal.
Finally capped katana this past week, and now I'm 5/8 on HP merits (I'll be cancelling that MP one in the end). Also hit this in a party last week, nothing super-impressive, I know, but a record number for me anyway. ;P
Also doing Besieged when I can as per usual, gotta help maintain Lakshmi's undefeated record! Well, that's not really the main motivation, mostly just because it's fun, but being undefeated is still bragging rights, no? ;P Took this picture during an Undead Swarm Besieged last night, thought it turned out pretty good.
Great for IS, which at the moment I don't really need more of...I need more Mercenary Rank, mainly. :( Currently sitting at Corporal, and I have a feeling that "Perdu Katana" that was discovered in the .dats could be released in the June patch, and I don't wanna miss getting one!
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Whew, that turned out to be a lot more stuff than I thought, but I think I'm starting to understand why Rukenshin puts off updating his journal so much. >.> To wrap it up I've got some random pics I took that I thought turned out well...the only thing is the TParty stuff that sticks there, even after removing the HUD, anyone know of a quick way to make that disappear without unloading the plugin?
Lastly, thanks again Lordwafik on the image advice, I downloaded Faststone and it worked well for me, as you can see with this update. :)
That does it for now, hope you enjoy!