The Taru's Get a Facelift

Well, I finally upgraded the template for this blog to their "new and improved" system. It broke all the customizations I had done to the previous template, but it wasn't too painful adding them back.

We also added some other fun things like pics of ourselves and a new banner. More to come!

Small Update

Ok want to say thanks to several people for helping me get spells or try to get spells. My blu is 40 now and i have all my spells with the exception of mysterious light. I am starting to understand the pains of BLU and its spell learning. I have an desire to just level like many other BLU's and worry about getting spells later. Some say that if i level to far past a spell its harder to get, i can see how that would matter in some ways. But it would seem that if i am high level skill cap that i should be able to learn easier. I am basing this on me learning sand spin a level 1 move while i was in qufim solo'ing worms at lvl 23.

Last night we had a Promie Mea farming party we got 5 drops of anima plus some ppl already have some. So with this many anima and 1 possibly 2 SMN's this for for Mea should be a WIN. Will have pics of event and hopefully a win tomorrow.

Quest for Diabolos Whoreing!

I have put my 61 War down for a short break while getting Blu to 40. This move is a two fold attack. One allows time for all my old gear to sell and allows me to get Blu to 40 which will make getting past COP Diabolos fight very easy. My goals are closing finishing up after having a nice long break over the weekend. I was able to get blu from 9 - 25 and camped most of the spells i logged out last night at the right spot for my next spell. I camped a NM for a sweet sword on my Blu and got the drop.

Check out this one last screen shot of a Gigas i think its pretty funny and speaks for itself.

Evisceration

This post won't be the most exciting because I do not have access to all my screenshots - so, no fun pictures. However, when almost 12 people tromped on down to Gustav Tunnel to help me out with the Evisceration notorious monster, it was a ton of fun (and death).

After Jedi, and Lopsider for a portion of it, helped me break the latent on my trial dagger I just had to fight the NM to get my weapons skill. So, one night I mentioned it in the linkshell and Jean agreed to help. Soon, we had a few other people. A bit later, we had a full party. Jean was the only healer as a RDM/WHM. Also attending was Bassetto (MNK), Aricelia (DRK), Jedi (WAR), Coldwind (PLD) and myself. We didn't have a tele, so I changed to THF/WHM and teleported. At this point I realized that I had no way to warp back. So, we decided that it was okay for me to continue on as /WHM.

We headed down in to the tunnel and made our way to the camp. We cleared one crab from a tunnel and proceeded to pull the NM. The fight was going well - despite the fact the bat hit very hard. Unfortunately, a Doom Mage got too close and decided to drop two people with a Thunderga III. Slowly, we dropped one by one. Luckily, my /WHM saved us. I had cast reraise before the fight. After waiting for the skeletons to move out of blood aggro range, I raised up, quickly healed myself and got enough MP for sneak. Once done, I lurked in the middle of the little tunnel we called home. The crab popped again shortly after complicating the matter. Oy! Through some quick thinking by Jean, we were able to get her back up - so, Jean and myself were alive, but still in danger. At this point I enlisted the help of another player who was camping a NM in the area. He pulled the crab long enough for us to get people up and in relatively decent shape.

At this point, Hyourin (PLD) and Ron (SAM) decided to join in the fun. Also, SaintsFan was also in the area and traded my assistance for his. I sac pulled the PH for Unger for him and he agreed to help us out - although we had plenty at this point.

So, we returned and pulled the bat again. We stayed inside the tunnel more this time and won easily.

I'll post the screenshots soon! Thanks again to everyone that helped out!

I'm Alive!

It has been a slow time for the blog lately, although I have been getting a lot done in the game.

To name a few items:

• Camped Valkurm Emperor and got my Empress Hairpin. So, I was able to sell my Emperor Hairpin for some much needed cash.
• Bought my Harpe and my Behemoth's Knife +1
• Hit level 72 on THF
  
• Broke the latent on my Trial Dagger - I just need to fight the Baronial Bat for the actual weapon skill now. Anyone wanna help? =)
• My NPC leveled to level 50

Those are just a few of the things which have been going on in the game. While there is a lot of gil to be spent at 72 (Blau Dolch, Dusk gear, oy!) I am going to push onward to 75 first, then backtrack for the items. Or, I will at least get 74 so I have access to Ni with my /NIN. Then I can tank some otherwise untankable NM's.

See ya in the game!

Weekend Goals

Real Life Goals:

Dinner and movie with the wife tonight. Kids at the grand parents WOOT.

Finish up porch railing and making gates.

Start to put up chain link fence now that the post are solid in the ground.

Game Goals:

War AF set completed

Attempt BCNM for Assault Earring

Attempt BCNM for Spike Finger Gaultents

Attempt ENM for Kshama Ring No. 8

Craft Cooking to 60+

Warifick!

My march to 60 might be paused for cash making. After, being given next to 9 mil gil i have blown thru it with items that are resell able at a later date but leave me currently semi poor. After tonight i will have close to 1 mil on the AH. Last nights party came quite quick and i have hope for the party. The first setup was Drk/nin, War/nin X2, Pld/war, Rdm/whm, Whm/blm. I was puller for most of the parties and when i checked the mobs they compared as neutral evi or low evi so i figured i could pop some meat and be good. This was a mistake and half, my acc for the next two hours (yes two i ate a 1 hour meat twice because i didn't pay attention) was around 68%. However with 1 sushi and 30 min my acc climbed to 71% so i was very impressed with the results this also allowed me to pass the dark who was killing me before.



Then after the Drk left we changed over to a Blu for about 3 fights, he was quickly replaced by an even worse THF. This setup didn't last long just long enough for replacements to come to remove the bad seeds.

Finally we got down to a set party that was good. I forgot to reset the parser so there are some left over numbers in there but you get the idea from the numbers.


Some key moments from the party i am very proud of:

This is what happens when you pull to much hate and the entire party is silenced and the poor mages have run out of echo drops. =( But thru my death the rest of the PT lived so it was worth it.

Moving on UP!

Got to 48 over the long weekend. Taking a break to get new gear and sell old stuff. Had a very lucky weekend also, an in-game friend quit and i just happened to be in the right place at the right time. He's leaving allowed me to purchase some very nice added bonus for my War and Blm.

Anyway had two great parties yesterday first party was in the morning was with some LS mates. We had a brd in the party which was amazing but sadly the brd DC'd and after about 10 mins of waiting we got a 6th memeber from the LS to come down to camp we kept going for about an hour longer.

Second party had me kinda shaking in my boots, from a damage stand point wasn't sure i would be able to keep up. Our party had a war/nin, rng/nin, nin/war, war/nin.