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 :|

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.

It just occured to me

I've spent at least 120k on lamian kamans. I'm STILL 0/2 on Timeworn Warrior, because it's not fucking poped at all the 3 or so hours (3 separate occasions) I've spent camping it.

Hate Augments.
Hate NMs.
Hate myself.
Q_Q

OH JEEZ VanaFest and updates!

So it's been a while since I looked at the playonline site, or talked about news or anything really.

SO, VanaFest 2010 is imminent and so far there's been a bit of hype before the actual event, such as:

- (Nomad) Mog Bonanza. Free relics for no-one!

- Some stuff about a competition on twitter to win a cute hat. I have enough hats already, am cute enough and I don't like twitter so I won't bother signing up. Plus I'm slow and won't be able to reply fast enough.

- And today, the announcement of a new version update planned for mid-march! (ie. April)


Going by the picture, it just looks like mundane crap (synergy, more WOTG missions, campaign adjustments). I'd be happy for missions, but I've fallen behind on the current ones, and nobody does shout groups for them, so I'm pretty much shit out of luck.


Considering they're announcing the details at the event, it's likely they'll have at least something impressive (avatars?!). Here's a picture they put up as a massive cocktease to contribute to the wild speculation:

"Making macros for some of the stage demonstrations."

Even though the macro text is blurred, from the rough size and shape of the letters it looks like /ma can'treadthis < me >. This is clearly absolute proof of a new avatar, and s1= SUMMON 1?! Again, concrete proof of there being more than one avatar planned for release in the next update.



So anyway, I've been trying my luck on the Jasper Tathlum NM again, now 0/3. I included the whole log to show the silly damage you can do with 300%TP Full Swing :3




I found my Hume equivalent guarding the Xarcabard 'outpost' (by outpost I mean flag pole with 2 people stood by it).






Almost there for RDM combat skills! Shield is stupidly hard to get compared to parrying for some reason, but once I've capped that I'll just finish parrying with an earth staff.



An interesting, but ultimately useless augment. I have now sucessfully augmented bows with every stat EXCEPT MIND. It makes me very sad, especially considering that when I finally do get MND it will be negative.

Hero among Heroes.

YESZ

Now my mog house is sporting Aht Urhgan, Jeuno, Windurst, Bastok and Sandy's flags.


I had to make room for Bastok's though, and this painting is probably my favourite furnishing :( More MH space please, SE?

And now unless they add something new (probably the Kupo d'etat expansion) this may have been my final visit to Castle Zvahl's throne room.


The fight was a little messy because we aggroed him twice before getting a 1st nuke off, but luckily I managed to squeeze in a convert without dying (volker took hate for a second) before getting in a final nuke for the win! We broke the record too, but a group of 5 or so JP players entered just after us so they'll probably beat that record, even if it was only 3 or so mins.


I'll be switching back to windy soon, I'll wait for the next conquest tally because Bastok is in 3rd and Windy in 1st, so it can't get any more expensive than it is now D:

Although I do prefer the salute for Bastok/Sandy, I like my outposts more and Windy just feels more 'homey'.

As far as storylines are concerned, Bastok >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sandy. It's been a long time since I did Windurst, so I can't really compare but I have the feeling it was on par with Bastok, if not better. And certainly much better than Sandy's limp excuse of a story, which accomplished nothing more than fuel my loathing for the dull, arrogant inhabitants of San d'Oria (except them sexy elvaan ladies :o).


Gration (NQ pop) duo! Took us less than an hour to get it to 5%, at which point Juli went to swap to THF while I kited. Somehow, I lost all hate and it ran off while I was on the opposite side of the house we were kiting it around. I ran after it, eventually caught up to him to find he had regened to 50%...

So, if you're going to duo this and have someone change jobs at the end for TH, use a warp item. Or just make sure the kiter has enough hate, since we did the same thing when we got it to 5% for a second time, I just made sure to spam sleeps/dispels/blind etc to keep it on me.

I only got hit by one thundaga III (plus one that juli tried to mpk me with ._.), which don't kill you outright with stoneskin and you may be able to survive as RDM with shell and a little over 1k HP. I didn't get any magic damage gear because it's still on a mule and I'm that lazy. There was one point I got trapped in a corner and only -just- got out of range from the -aga, so pay attention to where you're kiting and always leave room to escape an -aga cast at any time. Duo is much, much, better than solo because you can nuke more freely (partner doesn't have to wait for it to cast spells, and don't have to mess around trying to time it well) I found T4s were eaisest to time nukes after, and poison/bio can be done any time he's not casting since they're fast enough to cast before he gets to you.

It's also possible to get a raise off while kiting in full fast cast gear when he stops to cast an -aga III or Burst (don't ask how I know).

No drop of course!