Excuse Me, You're In My Face !

Recently I've been invited to join a HNMLS xJOKERSx , they are quite a good team of players with many relics/mythic among them.

Well, one day as I was wandering around, I got a message from linkshell chat that Khimera had popped and was up unclaimed. I pulled out my warp scroll and started running toward Caedarva Mire.

Khimera is one of those HNM that is a pain to get to as you have ot run tru alot of true-sound VT-ish monsters like flayers and imps, aggro en-route to camp is very common, resulting in having to make it as far as you can to camp before dying, and getting a raise.

But today I actually managed to MGS (Metal Gear Solid), a term I used to dodge pass those monsters, and made it to camp without aggro.

It was my first time tanking Khimera and together with a Rdm/Nin, a Brd and Rdm, we managed to hold it till other members got here. I didn't have to tank long as Ryuta had just logged in and he came over as Pld to take over the tankign job as he has Aegis and Excalibur, leaving me to change job.

I got to say, Khimera hits pretty damn fast without debuffs, but it was fun and exciting to be able to tank a HNM like that.

I guess I got alot more work to put into my Pld if I want to tank anything outside "lolCampaign".

My Name's Not Timmy !

I bet that's what Tiamat always say whenever I call her that.

So I happened to check Attohwa Chasm last night, and found quite a few familiar names there, most likely camping Tiamat, so I send a tell to a friend there asking if she poped or not. He said CLAN had claimed but had wiped and his LS was {Fighting right now!}, so I noticed they were rather low on members and asked if they needed help. He said ok so I geared up Blm and headed over. But its a rather long way to have to walk to Tiamat.

Town > Teleport-Mea > Tahrongi Canyon > Maze of Shakhami > Attohwa Chasm

But I had a secret weapon... well it's not really a weapon, but a cape. Nexus Cape ! Nexus cape teleports you to your current PT leader's location ragardless where you are, provided the PT leader is in one of the specified zoned the Nexus cape can teleport you to, which, Attohwa Chasm is one of them.

But now you have a problem, I wasn't in the PT in the first place and since Tahrongi and Attowha is in different regions which means they are unable to invite me for me to use my cape. Aha ! But all's not lose cause Meriphataud Mountains is the same region as Attohwa, and I just used the outpost warp to Meriphataud and got invited into the PT and poof it became coacoapuff .... er... I mean I teleported to Attohwa.
Well now that I am at Tiamat, its time to fight! Its been a while since I fought her with Resurrection LS, but then my Blm wasn't geared well at all and like 90% of my nukes were resisted to the crappy dmg like 80ish.

Today, however since I have upgraded my Blm gears, my nukes were mostly unresisted doing on average 500ish dmg, which was nice to see on something like Tiamat. With only a few Blm nuking non stop when Tiamat takes to the air, Tiamat took sometime to kill, with the Blms having to "hold back" abit near the end as we kept pulling hate and getting drawn in.

In the end we killed Tiamat, but all she dropped was ONE FIRE CRYSTAL for all our effort. Oh well, better luck next time. But I got to say, even though we got nothing today, I was quite happy that my Blm has improved and is able to take on Tiamat.

Snow Covered Shadow

What do you find in the cold desolate region of Xarcabard[S]? A big bad flying dragon, that's what.

I was invited to help kill Zirnitra recently, and I got to tell you, it was a fun fight. We had summoners spam Garuda on it as it has this Aoe knockback TP move that it uses alot and it resets hate as well if you get hit by it, although it does no dmg.

The first 50% of the fight was easy with each Garuda's predator claw doing 2% off its hp. Below 50% it did this AOE that silenced everyone in range and did alot of dmg, killing a few people, knocking my hp down abit as well.

But we recovered and kept on sending Garuda to keep knocking off its hp bit by bit.

It dropped some materials and two Ebur Pigment, but sadly it didn't drop the Hightail Bullet they wanted. I got one of the Ebur Pigment since no one really needed it. At least now, I can make my Ebon Jerkin into a Ebur Jerkin.

Please Be Gentle, It's My First Time

First time always hurt doesn't it? Well, not this time.

We found Cerberus up, and as we were gathering (including job chaning), another LS had claimed, but they were low on members. They were doing alright untill I looked away for a moment, looked back and their paladin was down. Cerberus proceeded to rampage the rest of them.

We claimed shortly after the other LS wiped, and we managed to hold it till the rest of the members changed to their respective job and came back up. I was kind of scared being my first time on paladin taking Cerberus, although I have tanked him as Nin/Drk before.

After a while, we got a Drk/Nin to co-tank and I was asked to get Rdm/Drk. The time it took for me to run back to town change and run back, they had gotten it from 80% down to like 25% (Gate of Hades mode). I barely made it back in time to be in the second stun cycle and good thing I did he was in a GoH spammy mood today.

Cerberus went down pretty fast after that and Algol dropped.

As for the screenshot, I couln't get a better shot when you are tanking something this big.

Did You Get The Number Of That Horse

That's what most people will say when they get killed by Dark Ixion, well, it's either that or "MAN DOWN !".

Ixion is one of the HNM I like very much, only cause it is the few times I get to come as Ranger.

I'm starting to move towards Rng/Sam for long fights over Rng/War cause SAM sub-job gives me a 5-hit built letting me WS more, which is bad sometimes cause I end up pulling hate alot and I always keep forgetting to use my seigan/third eye macro before Ixion plows me down.

Spamming sidewinder is so much fun, 750 dmg a piece (if it doesnt miss), with arching arrow hitting on average at 600 dmg. Although this isnt the best dmg I've done on Ixion, the best being a 1,600 dmg sidewinder with WAR sub, I do seem to be putting out more WS over time so I guess the dmg adds up.

There are still some stuff I'm missing on my ranger, namely Vali Bow (I hate you Eastern Shadow) and my {dream} {gun}, the Annihilator. Something that I am slowly working my way towards, for those of you who know me, yes I know its been three years but I'm still trying, its just that money isnt as easy to get as it was three years ago before the great RMT slump.

Ah well, another Ixion down, doesn't look like anything else to do, I think I'm going to skillup my shield.

Om Nom Nom Nom

That's the sound Sandworm makes when it sucks you in, well, at least I think it does.

{Time for Work}

We got Lambton Worm inside and other than a few unfortunate death (including mine) we took it down rather well.

We were low on members so our black mages had to nuke and nuke and nuke. Well Lambton worm didn't like it and ate me up (litterally). Blm exp buffer going down.......

The same can't be said for the drops though.....

A pair of Oily Trousers,
Guivre's Skull,
Damascene Cloth
and a Venomous Claw.

I was hoping for an Ancient Torque though but at least we got the kill.