MND BOW?!

Fuck you. Fuck you very much.

Pixies? In MY canyon?

It's more likely than you think


I don't know, so don't ask.

Now for the COOL SHIT I GOT:


1/1 FUCK YEAH


WHOA AWESOME (Had the ampoules for ages, need a Gleeman's cape now so I can sell prism)


I just can't get enough of these sweet augments (0/15ish now)



Aaand Juli helped me kill the WSNM for this, not had chance to try it yet :|

Okay so

I've been busy the past week, and went home over the weekend so no play for me. Even now that I actually log in, I've ended up spending my time afking in Whitegate again. Could be a sign for me to quit...or you know, get a LS/some friends.

Anyways, on a lighter but infinately more mundane note, I finally managed to break my Pole of Trails while doing FoV.


Petrify gets me every time; had to sit and watch my wyvern kill the fucker from 33% and it nearly killed me first.

I paid a visit to the Retribution WSNM, and it turns out he is popped in a fucking terrible area, with linking sight/magic/sound aggro mobs all around and nowhere really safe to kite while soloing on RDM, so I didn't bother poping it. It would probably be do-able straight tanking in a corner somewhere, but I didn't have haste crap on me for utsusemi timers, nor did I feel like going to the trouble of getting it into a 'safe' area only to have a bunch of bombs and bats wander in and gank me when I get the NM to 50%.


I also had a look at some pre-built MMM mazes, in hopes that I'd find a setup for the Mamool Ja earring NM that I want.


I saw one that looked like it had the right runes, but it also had 19 (Weakness) and 20 (Paeon) which make the mob inside weaker and (I think) lower item drop rates, or remove them completely. I only heard that as a rumour and can't really find anything on wiki to support it, but it would fit with the whole "Fuck you" design of the game, not to mention if people were capable of creating the right rune setup they would sooner keep the maze design to themselves and sell you the drops instead of sharing them for free.

As the screenshot above suggests, yes I went inside, and it was the right NM. I ran him around a little, found he attacks incredibly slow (like "I can cast stoneskin between your attacks" slow) with Slow II on, and didn't really hit too hard (150~ish and 230~ crits with -25% PDT). The question is now, should I bother trying to fight this if it won't drop, or just try and buy the earring for 1.2mil. The answer may seem a little obvious (free vs not free) but I have that whole no friends thing working against me, and do wonder what kind of setup I'd need to beat it with.

So, I heard you liek bonanzas?

It's been a while. I've been super with work and shit over the holidays so I didn't get much time to play/write stuff here.

So anyway, yet another mog bonanza just got announced, which is still some time away and nobody will win it, so it's not worth worrying about (until they announce the numbers, then I can complain about getting yet another statue for my mule).

So yeah, I'm on Cerb now and unsurprisingly there are a fair few more people here:

Not that this has helped me in any way, still not seen any shouts for missions that I'm on and more people only means more competition for FoV mobs (ugh), NMs, etc. I'll try putting together some groups when I have more time after I get my dissertation in.

Mainly I've being doing my most hated activity of camping NMs for the horribly time consuming Trial of the Magians quests, which requires me to kill a fuckton of trash NMs nobody cares about SEVERAL TIMES EACH (fucking hate that part, there's no reason for it other than to waste time), then kill a couple of new NMs that you can't kill solo, and your job is not even ideal for, so nobody wants to help you with it. Hopefully we can get together some sort of loljob alliance of DRG and PUP that need the kill so we can do it, otherwise I'm SOL.



The only thing this has going for it is that you can at least team up with whoever needs the quest and everyone gets credit for the kill, so thankfully the 4k+ people on this server aren't all potential enemies.



I saw some other neat stuff too, like the way frogs pop:


Gets kinda old though when you've been waiting on the NM to pop for three hours after the window opens (single placeholder lottery pops, fuck yes).


So far, I've had to kill:
Spendlix Spindlethumb x3
Herbage Hunter x3
Kirata x3
Intulo x4
Ramponneau x4
Keeper of Halidom x4

And finally, I have the last two to go until I get my DMG:99 polearm (relic-1!):
Shoggoth x6
Farruca Fly x6

Fuck knows how I'm going to finish this pair.

As for events, Lawz left the server so Salvage is in a 'wut' stage at the moment, I've not been on much either due to work but I expect it to go downhill unless we find a good WHM/BRD and or MNK replacement (preferably all three :|). Plus I don't want to lead runs and my memory isn't great at the best of times so keeping track of what cells people have/need is not going to work out, unless everyone actually takes care of things themselves, but I can hardly ask everyone to learn everything about salvage so I don't have to tell them what to do. In any case, going 2 times a week is not enough to get familiar with everything or get practiced enough to not suck, not to mention the issue of drops, I really don't have more time to dedicate to it either so all I can say is MEH D:

I got some cool shit from Limbus at least:


And I probably dropped about 10 places in the waiting list for nashi legs because of it, but this is worth the sexy.



And, I broke my previous Drakesbane-vs-Kirin record!



In between that, I've got the usual no drop (or even pop) from Timeworn Warrior, which I'm somewhere around 0/5 at now (and at least 3 occasions where I gave up camping because he didn't pop for over an hour...).

In addition, more failed MND bow augments:


And Lamian Kamans are 20k normally on Cerb, so that just got twice as expensive as it was.

Finally, it seems like some lovely people have taken over La Vaule [S]:


Sadly I don't really have the friends or contacts to start spamming Splitting Heirs for chuchu mantles, so no gil/gear for me!

Ok, I'm done dumping.