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.