Woo, after a day or two of technical difficulties I was finally back in time to do a little adventuring. Although I won't be on as much due to all the work I'm gonna have \@_@/ I'm still gonna try my best to be there for me peeps and help them out as much as possible! So on to the stories! First up is the NM that Arnor wishes dropped stuff! The tonberry drops a nice cape for an emnity build and with cerb. mantle a little out of reach due to price, Arnor has been trying his best to get this one. The drop rate hasn't been kind to him and now he has some competition from other players. Sadly we didn't get the drop when we claimed it. Hopefully next time! Totally forgot whether I said it or not but we were able to get Arnor his YY robe! Woooo! Congrats Arn! Knew you really wanted that.
Rose Garden! Out of my 6 years of playing the game I had only seen the mob once before so when Hye told me she found it I ran my butt off to go help her. The ring it drops is super duper nice but supposedly the drop rate is awful. I'll just have to lend as much support as I can to get Hye that fancy ring!
NM thingy! Iriz Ima! A fancy Marid that makes a tarutaru walk fast. Hooooly moly. This is honestly one of the slowest mobs I have ever met. When Hye's gravity would land, I think you could kite it walking and then you would still have to stop from time to time to let it catch up. Its that bad. Anyhoo, Hye and Cyprias helped kill the NM for me since it now put me one step closing to Dea! I was really hoping the boots would drop for Hye since they're actually not that bad of a pair for red mage. Sadly my TH stunk and all we got was the seal item. Its alrighty, I'll see what I can do to get another marid pop for Hye.
Vampire thingy! Ok...this by far took the cake on the most longest and annoying ZNM fight ever! lol...With me, Hye, Arnor and Cyprias as mages, we tried nuking, smn pets, and DoTing it and then zoning. The only problem we had was that the darn thing kept regening faster then we could damage it. Krystala and Gimpers came to the aid and even then our current strategy was no use. Finally I thought of zoning in groups and just rotating out. Although there was a tiny improvement we still had trouble with keeping the NM's HP down. Finally...I think after an hour or so of attempting, Cyprias thought of a brilliant plan that we could all just zone all by ourselves not in a party since the NM has alliance hate. Sure enough, after a few minutes we could see the plan working like a charm. Although the battle was pretty long, and a few peeps had to give up their trusty experience, we were finally able to kill the NM! To top it off Cyprias was kind enough to donate the Enkidu Legging's to me since his Usu boots put em to shame. Thank you very much Cyp cyp! The boots seem very fancy and the little results I have had with them made me super happy that I was lucky enough to recieve em. Kind of stunk having so many people die for em though...I'll have to give em all something in return!
Those are my stories for now. Expect Salvage, Dynamis, and more fat tail soon!
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Back in...Red?
Friday, September 19, 2008
Standing By. . .
I leave tomorrow to go back to the Windurstian Polyalchemy University of Tarutarus and Mithras of the Ifrit's Coast. (lol get it!? Only two peeps probably will. . .). Anyhoo, I'm leaving for college tomorrow and its just my luck that my computer dies on me. So now I am currently scrambling all over the place to try to fix it. Supposedly there is something I need to replace in it so I'm going to the store with a computer wizz to see if I can hopefully get the parts and be up and running before I go off to college. Regardless, I apologize for all the activities I'm gonna have to sit out and I promise to make it up to you peeps. Right now, I'm just standing by. . .
Monday, September 15, 2008
Miry's Tale. No, not the fat one.
As Fraggles would say, Christ on a bike! Just to warn you, this is gonna be the super duper most longest post ever in the history of Miry's tail. Heck, I'm changing the title to Miry's Tale. Just to make it sound catchy. There we go, much better then what I had before which was just "Wow, lot of stuff" XD. So! Lets get down to what I've been up to! So much to talk about!
First off salvage! After doing salvage for quite a while I have finally met the super rare NM bee that you see in the picture. The mob is so rare whenever you take a picture of it battle stuff gets in the way and blurs the picture! I swear I have 10 pictures and this is the best one of it. Anyhoo, a very interesting thing about this NM is that when it does spawn, it spawns a bunch of times! I think we killed the NM...4-5 times? I know it was a lot and I totally lost count. Heck, it might be more! Anyhoo, the ls finally got to walk away with another 35 piece so congrats to Jdogg for his new sexy usu 35 boots! Besides that, salvage has been doing pretty good despite having some trouble on a saturday run. But all in all, still the greatest darn salvage linkshell I know! And I know two of em! Sort of. . .@_@; We're the best darnat!
CoP Missions! Dun dun dun! I haven't really gone back to them since I beat em but Korbon and Shylo needed help with the last two and as the KoalaPandas spirit goes, you gotta help your friends in need! With the help of Arnor, Cyprias, Talliah, Lilyoda, and Sorreah (crud...am I forgetting anyone else? @_@;) and me, Shylo and Korbon were able to beat 8-3 and 8-4 after a few fights so we could first learn the strategies of not dying. XD Congrats to those two!
New topic! Although I love my new linkshell I made KoalaPandas super duper a lot, I don't want to push activities on the linkshell. Its really meant to just be a relaxing ls to laugh and chat when you're not doing those stressful endgame stuff. Anyways, I admit I missed having stuff to go to and salvage is really a short activity every few days so I wanted to see what other end game stuff I could find. After talking to smartest elvaan I know Evaine, I decided to join a dynamis ls that dabbles in a few other things. So after a little discussion with a few of the members, and a nice chat/interview with the linkshell leader, I'm now a member of SpiritEvolution. They seem like a very friendly bunch and its very nice talking to them ^^;. Hopefully I can learn more about em as I continue doing my best in the ls.
Anyhoo, the first thing I got to do with them was limbus! I have done very few limbus runs and they went to one of the promyvion looking areas. I was very intimidated since we were fighting the king NMs and I really haven't gone up against many other thiefs damage wise and all of a sudden I was up against 2-3 of em! And guess what! I kicked booty! My damage wasn't the best out of all the DD's but I'm pretty sure I was dealing more then decent damage @_@b. With a little sigh of relief I was able to follow the linkshell to the top and we got some chip to boot. Woo!
Dynamis. I won't lie. My past two dynamis linkshells left a very bad taste in my mouth and even though Talliah spoke nothing but good things about the linkshell, I was still worried whether or not I would enjoy my time there. Dynamis is even more crazy then I imagined with people and mobs running everywhere. Spells flying left and right and people rushing from mob to mob under the time limit. My job as red mage was to keep the black mages alive and I was able to do it alrighty...sort of @_@;. I felt really bad though since I think the linkshell leader died like what? 10+ times? >_<; I was spamming my sleeps, cures and refreshes as fast as I could but so much was going on and so many peeps were running around I think i got overwhelmed. On a super awsome note though Talliah got her blm a new pair of gloves and I got myself a super awsome bst helm! I totally need to level bst now...but I also wanna level cor! @_@; So much to do! 
More helping peeps! Onekuo needed help with G2 mobs so with a smirk from Cyprias, we decided to see how high our WS could go! XD With Onekuo there to make sure we didn't kill ourselves silly, we were dishing out high dmg like people grabbing up fancy pants at the 80% off sale! I even got off a 3.3k Evisceration! Woo! *Flexes*. Anyhoo, after dealing some damage that would one shot certain mobs, Onekuo was able to walk away with G2 completed! Congrats Onekuo!
Like I said before, I'm trying my super best to help as any peeps as I can to make Vana'Diel a better more fun place for everyone! I gotta give back to the community kind of thing! This time I didn't help one but three peeps! Dangertaru, Elbe, and Villaresch all needed the 9-2 final fight for Windurst. I was the first one to agree to help and I admit I was a little worried at first. They were not super high levels and we were having trouble finding a tank. However, by pure chance they found Thursday the amazing rdm taru and Alexandrite, the omg buff pld out of no where. I mean Alexandrite could only speak japanese and they somehow randomly got him to help by just asking politely. XD Even with a mess up in the beginning and the blm dying, we were able to finish the fight with 15 minutes left. Congrats to those three for the win and if I ever see them again, I want to thank Thursday and Alexandrite again for showing so much kindness to strangers. If ya see them give em a hug!
Assaults! Talliah and I both want us some sexy Phl. body and with super helpful Hye, we got us a small static! With twin rdm powers and super awsome cor, the Lamia #13 assault is cheesy cake! At first I was thinking naming the group Kittypals and Catnip but Talliah thought of one of the greatest names ever! So without further ado, the Talliah, Hye, and Miry team will now be known as Pimphats and Pirate! XD Hopefully in a week or two we will all have some awsome armors! Heck! We might even do different assaults! Only time will tell o.o
Nyzul Isle! By pure chance me and Hye had an extra tag left over from our assaults and with Zaine willing to take us to the top, we decided to give Nyzul Isle Investigation a go at it! We kicked super duper butt with Zaine leading Cyp, Korb, Shy, Hye, and me to the top. Sadly we got really unlucky with the debuff we got from the dungeon on the boss (really!? No weapon skills allowed!? What the ef!) and we ended up not killing the boss. However, I amazingly got a rng crossbow! XD Now I have to level cor, rng, aaand bst! Holy moly thats a lot on my to do list @_@;. Good job on the run peeps and wow Zaine! You led us through like a veteran! Very awsome!Most of you are like wowy! That was a long post, but there is more! Lots more! Like helping Talliah farm the item for the Teleport-Yhoat scroll. It took a little while but it was super nice to talk and chat with Talliah eating cookies now and then and poking lizards. Good times!
Oh! And KoalaPandas' first big event was a motto/catchphrase/battlecry contest! We had a contest to create one of items listed above that depicted the linkshell. It actually came down to two and it was super close! I liked all of em so much I actually sat out of voting since I wanted to see what the linkshell wanted. By a single vote, Cyprias won. \@_@/ So congrats Cyp and hope you enjoy the muffins! XD Anyhoo, lets see what the linkshell thought up of!
2. KoalaPandas - It's not Panda Express, but it will do. - Korbon
6. Save some bamboo, shoot KoalaPandas. - Audiopistola
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Waaahhh~! Camera Broke!
I'm so sorry peeps! I haven't been taking as many pictures as I should be. B-bu-but I have a reason! Yes yes! See, I was doing some alchemy synths and then I tried using a fire crystal instead of an earth crystal when making firesand. And we all know when ya add fire and firesand ingredients @_@;. Kaboomy! So uh...I broke my camera but I got a new one! So much has been going on in Vana'Diel and I'm gonna talk about them with pictures or not.
First off, helping those in need! Pimptarutaru was asking for help with a single blue mage spell so I offered to help. Eliteos and Darkstar also came to help and we easily got the taru his spell. So easy in fact that we then went on to get him three other spells! So four spells in a little over an hour. Not bad at all I think. Congrats to the taru!
Two part story! First part is about Hye. She was waiting for a friend and decided to camp a NM while she waited when a blue mage decided to give her some trouble. Maybe he doesn't like the color red or perhaps he has something against mithras. I don't know, but hearing someone giving a friend of mine trouble is a no go in my book. So Frag and me decided to run out and help Hye camp the mob. Even the amazing taru Pan came to help! None of us needed the item, and Hye honestly was only there to help one of her friends with the Genkai quest. Regardless, after a little bit of bickering back and forth, the other group with the blue mage decided to leave. We stayed a little longer but the NM never showed up. We decided to leave so the one camper who was actually polite could get it. So we didn't end up with any new item but we defended Hye and that felt good. Nobody messes with my kittypals!
Part two! While we were camping Bane ran by saying his group was helping someone do the Pld quest where you gotta fight the two orcs near the well. I ran over to help them really quick just to see Bane die to about 7 orcs. Some of the orcs depopped but I still fought four of them to help out the group @_@;. Anyways~! The fight was pretty simple and congrats to whoever needed the quest!
Assaults! Hm....I still got to talk to them about a group name but Talliah, Hye, and myself have decided to static Lamia No. 13 and we did our first three runs! Having three dispel-ers makes things super easy and we had relatively no problems. Except for when all three of us got charmed @_@;... But its a super fun fight and we get a lot of points. In a week or two Talliah and I should be sportin new sexy body armor! Wooo, cant wait ^^.
Last but not least. Super duper big announcement! I was kind of in a down mood for a bit when I got into a nice chat with Hye. We were discussing where we were in the game and what we wanted from the game. Maybe it was the melon juice but while talking to Hye I got a bold idea. Many peeps who have been feeling down lately were only feeling gloom because they felt they were missing something. At first I thought it was because they were not going to be able to do end game events. But talking to Hye, I totally realised that wasn't the case at all. People were just sad because they were losing friends and they were not sure how they were going to keep in touch with them. Although tells are nice, some people feel akward using nothing but tells. Again, not sure why but out of no where I got the idea to make my own linkshell. I would fill it up with people I could trust and care for. People who were respectful yet still super duper fun to be with. A cozy linkshell where people could come to relax and chat for a little bit. After asking a few people if they would be interested I recieved nothing but heartwarming YES!!! over and over. It took me a while but with the help of a few people, I chose a name that I think displays the attitude of the linkshell. So without further a-do, may I present to you KoalaPandas! We're still in the infancy stage and there are a few more peeps I need to talk to, but the linkshell is turning out to already be a wonderful place to stay and chat ^^. I can't wait to see what the linkshell becomes.
Monday, September 8, 2008
The Foggy Future~!
Ok, today's title is totally random because I didn't know what to call today's post. I mean...well...the first picture has a lot of fog? Like some super duper evil was lurking there! I dunno. Anyhoo, I was farming for only a few minutes when I got a tell from Audio asking if I needed to do the bahamut fight. I jokingly told him I don't need the fight but I would be happy to come thief if he needed me. Totally was a joke because seriously, when does a thief get invited to boss fights you know? XD But amazingly he said sure and I got the last spot in the alliance o.o;.
Everyone there was in the linkshell...uh...I think it was RisingMoon? It had a moon in it...I think...I'll have to double check. Anyways, unlike the last time I fought this, the group seemed quite prepared. I think only four peeps died (I died first! XD) but it was that darn megaflare move. I probrably wouldn't of died had I ran quicker but I really didn't do my research for the fight. Oh wells, I learned my lesson @_@b. But yar, the linkshell took down Mr. Wyrmking as if he was uh...erm...as if he was one of those too weak mobs in besieged! Sort of! Thats a bad example...I gotta work on those.
Arnor was busy doing dynamis (Its ok Arnor, I have a stack of seals put to the side when you're rdy ^^b) so me and fraggles tricked Cyprias into helping us with the Royal Jelly BCNM. Something about peanut butter jelly sandwiches and Frag willing to dance for gil. I dunno which it was but Cyprias jumped at the chance to join us. The drop rates were kind of stinky but we all came away with a little gil in our pockets. Congrats to Fraggles for getting phalanx! Wooo~! Next time we'll hit it big!
Look Look~! My corsair is finally becoming more like a uh...corsair! I finally got my first hexagun! Its soooo cool! Its shoots super fast and it still does good damage! Even with a lot of ranged acc. and marksmanship merits, my bullets were not hitting as often as I liked. Although I save money making the bullets, they're still not cheap. Luckily at 30 I got another little ranged accuracy boost so my damage output got a wonderful little spike! I don't know how far I'll be able to duo this job with Cyprias but its super fun! Super excited about the next few levels with more equipment upgrades and new dice rolls coming up. Go go super gambling job!
Thats all I have for another little update! So many fun adventures lately! Although I do miss having a linkshell to go to, my friends are still out there to go on wonderful adventures with.
Hope September is a wonderful month for everyone. Oh, and to put a smile on everyone's face, a funny quote from one of the greatest peeps ever, Frag! His War and Pld be buff and scary, but he one of the funniest peeps to talk to. Here is a quote discussing a monster we both hate, spiders!
Frag: I pretty much shrieked like a schoolgirl when I saw it.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Little Update, Big People
Although I'm not gonna be able to be on as much soon with school coming up, I have decided to try my best at attempting something silly. Every day I'm on, I'm gonna try to do something nice for a stranger. Be it a free tele somewhere to helping someone farm something up. I know some peeps say I'm crazy for helping strangers but when you meet the really nice ones....well...it makes it totally worth it. Like Okwaho for example! I was just walking by when I randomly checked him out. His little bazaar comment said he was new to Vana'Diel so I gave him a super duper welcome to the world. He thanked me but seemed a little down since he was short on gil to buy powders and oils to do the blue mage quest (He needed them to get there). I told him if he could wait just a minute I could see what I could do for the big guy. Sure enough, after a little bit of crafting and buying from the AH, he had a little over a stack for each. Galka was so happy he even asked if he could be my friend. I said of course so now I got a galka buddy! Anyhoo, his pure happiness totally made it worth it and I'm gonna make sure to hunt down other players like him and help them out as well.
Speaking of other awsome peeps, I got to help Audio! The hume was having trouble getting a moldy earring so he asked for a helping hand. This NM is probrably the kindest NM I know since I have only not gotten the earring once....maybe twice. Anyhoo, we took down the NM with no trouble and Audio now has a fancy new earring! Woo~! Congrats! I believe I'm somewhere near... 11/12 or 11/13 on the earring, so if you're going after it and need help, feel free to ask ^^b.
And now the amazing puppetmaster & corsair duo~! We call ourselves punch and fish for short. Out of pure luck we found an amazing little duo spot that works perfect with our combos. We just have to make sure we dont stray past a few boundaries or else we get to eat tasty dirt thanks to the friendly beastman. Unfortunately Cyp found one of them for us XD. Anyhoo, its amazingly very relaxing and fun to duo. Its nice just relax and get some exp with no stress. And there is a nice pixie there to boot. It cures Cyprias a lot, but it doesn't cure me enough. I'll probrably pay the pixie a visit on my thief...darn pixie.
I keep forgetting to take pictures but more salvage! I don't know what the drop rate is on the NMs but they are honestly super duper low. My linkshell as been at it for quite a while to get some 35's and we still have no luck on em @_@;. Its alrighty though, because that just means they will drop next time! We're also gonna have some boss fights soon so it should be interesting to see what we get from there ^^.
Thats my little update for today. Hopefully more fun adventures to come.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Training!
There is only one way to get better and that is to practice! With a super duper fun fight coming up, I wanted to be sure to at least give Kallo a challange. Cyprias was nice enough to kick my butt for a bit to show me what works and what doesn't work in Brenner. I still have more ideas I need to practice and see how they work. It is very interesting to see what counters what and how even the useless moves come into play. Can't wait! Oh yeah, and Cyprias beat me 2-1 ~.~;
After recieving a tell from the amazing kitty known as Hye that Biast was up, me and Hye ran out and decided to give the mob a try. With the super buffs and enfeebles from Hye, and the speed of my little daggers, the dragon gave us almost no troubles at all. It did petrify me a few times, but a kind whm watching the fight cured it. Probrably just really wanted the ToD XD. We didn't get the drop but it was nice to chat with Hye and get a little gil in our pockets. Next time Hye! For sure ^^b.
Decided to do a little more campaign to also practice for the fight. The way I see it, equipment can only take your character so far. Sure, having 2X as much +dex is gonna be noticeable, but if you miss your SA, TA, or can't control hate in a party, well, your stats are not gonna be able to help you out all that much. What I have always loved about thief is the movement and importance of positioning of yourself in the party. Unlike some DD that just stand there and press a button now and then, thieves actions have to be fluid throughout the whole fight. Standing behind for SA and your accuracy boosts. Getting behind a tank or DD to ensure hate stays on a specific person. Or side stepping to grab hate off a mage. Although the numbers are not super duper wow amazing, thief is still in my opinion the most amazing blueberry pancake job there is. Alone they're not the greatest thing for breakfast, but when ya mix em together they're sure darn tasty.
Anyhoo, back to campaign! I decided to help the Bastok front since it appears they are the most heavily hit. Fighting them for the first time, I understand why Bastok is having trouble pushing back the quadavs. Unlike the yagudos who are super squishy, quadavs tank incredibly well. Most of my hits from a dagger barely hit them for anything and I can almost never get enough TP off the darn things. Luckily the beasts the quadavs bring are squishy enough and I was actually able to solo a wyvern with just the help of my bolts. A very challanging yet fun experience. That and its always fun shooting mobs through those little slits. Yay for walls that protect you for two seconds! XD
My most difficult training so far is solo farming in sea. Sharks are quite random on their difficulty ranging from not even landing a hit on me to killing me. Depending on what moves they use and how often their hits land, I can solo them with little to a crud ton of trouble. I literally fought a shark that didn't hit me once, and the next one then had 10 straight hits in which I couldn't even get utsu back up. Great mob to practice thief on though. You have to count your shadows, have your fingers ready to steal it's shock spikes if they get em up, and you have to be decent with your crossbow. I'm actually trying to farm me up a breeze gorget. Cyprias helped quite a bit but I'm still three shark and one UFO organ short. I'll probrably need help killing the UFO but it shouldn't be too hard finding peeps to kill one ^^.
Welp, thats my little update for today. I changed the music again and this time put on a whole album! I saw these peeps in concert and they were really really good. Who knew connecting electric guitars to gameboys and super nintendos would make good music. Anyhoo, their music probrably isn't for everyone, but their little beeps and boops have been cheering me up lately and I hope they work for you as well. ^^