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Jan. 4th, 2008 | 08:06 am

Think I'm done playing FFXI, at least for now. No real epic reasons or anything to that effect, just ready for something else.

Finished out my final Omega last night with the Homam folks, wish them well in the future. Got some sweet drops, so that was nice to end on.





Congrats to Calysto on the body, we've been waiting a few months for another to drop. Grats to Shul and Rail too, hands are sweet imo.

And of course, a fitting skillup right before I logged out:



If you see Draxyl logged in, it's probably either Pettra or Mijin playing.

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Beastmaster 63!

Dec. 10th, 2007 | 09:20 am



Since Mijin helped me ding 61 I've been hitting up Caederva Mire pretty hard, went from 61-63 this weekend super fast. No wonder so many bst's say this is one of the best camps in the game, its pretty easy xp, no aggro, and right near town. Gonna be sad when I leave here at 64-65 for other TAU camps.

Mostly doing self chain4's here, having a hard time lining up chain 5 solo. I was able to hit that with a duo I did on Saturday though. Some random bst showed up to my camp, and he saw me and was going to head elsewhere - but being the nice guy I am, and enjoying the random duo's, I invited him to join me and we had a good time hitting constant #5's for an hour and a half or so.



Hit up Salvage w/ Nekki's group on Wednesday, had a somewhat decent time - more enjoyable than the first run anyhow. This run had more of a purpose, and maybe that's why I enjoyed it more. We ran up as fast as we could in order to spawn the Madame frog, and had a good time playing around with her. Figured out the fight mechanics after a few deaths, but we ended up timing out with her at 18%.



Not much in the way of Limbus updates this last week, I got pretty aggrivated on Monday's run and skipped Thursday with Mijin playing drax on monk. Need some chips for the next popset, so we'll be farming SW, NW, and NE this week.

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Etc.

Dec. 5th, 2007 | 09:34 am

Weird title for this entry because I wanted to write down some technical shit I had to do last night in hopes Google will find it and it might help others, and I wanted to post some FFXI happenings as well.

First, I was trying to install a 750GB Seagate drive into my main file server, and I'm at the point where I have too many disks so I had to expand to a spare 2 port card - a Silicon Image 3112 SATA RAID card. Now, the bios on the card was somewhat out of date, and the machine was hanging on boot up right where it was detecting the 750GB drive. Just sitting there blinking a cursor. Obviously this card doesn't like playing with the new larger capacity drives...

Off I go to download the newest BIOS from the Silicon Image site, and their DOS flash update utility. Unfortunately, in order to flash the card I needed to make a DOS boot disk. You can do this on floppy, cdrom, or usbkey. I chose usbkey since I'm lazy, and I don't have a CDRom or floppy drive hooked up on the fileserver. HP actually makes a real nice USB key formatting app, so I snagged that and also the latest install for FreeDos. You just point the HP util to your FreeDos install BIN directory and it formats and makes the DOS boot partition for you. With the key done I had to move the card into a system that was USB bootable, and then I was set to do the update. Straightforward from there, boot up, run the flash updater, move the card back into the fileserver, and voila....no more hang when booting up.



Went out and farmed a Tungi on Saturday, got lucky and picked it up first time. NM was insanely easy to solo on thf, just kept him blinded and attack'd down and evaded a ton - never did get a hit in on me. After using the Tungi for a bit on BST I think I still prefer the Wrath tabar...a bit slower TP gain, but hits harder per strike and on WS. I was pulling hate off pets with the Tungi, since the DPS is higher than the tabar. Oh well, I'll keep it around for kicks and maybe prefer it in the next camp.



I've been doing lvl 60 at the tree, mostly been great xp so far - was a fast level. Using EM funguars and spiders vs T of the same. Got most of my level, and then Mijin was bored the other day and misses Asura, so he logged on Draxyl and I was logged off out there. He's never played BST, so he goofed off and teamed up with another BST out there, picked up my last 5k xp and dinged me into 61.

Now I think I'll move onto the Caederva Mire camp, and hopefully get some duo action out there. Seems to be a pretty popular BST camp, so I hope I don't step on any toes and I hope people are nice to me while I'm out there.

Supposedly going to do Salvage boss NM fight tonight, and I'll end up tanking on MNK I expect. We'll see if I enjoy it more than the previous Salvage run I did.

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Omega #17

Nov. 30th, 2007 | 08:37 am

Boo! No body drops continue, picked up 2x head and a Smalt (SE) chip:



Not entirely undesirable, some new members actually had 2 heads wishlisted, so grats to Imperial and Railieca on their head gear. This makes Imp 4/5, and he's not going for body so he's done. Guess we'll have to invite him on lolPup from now on for farming to maintain his interest :P

Cleaned up the wish lists a bit too, removed people that haven't shown up in a long time (soup, jersey, randoma) and nuked some folks that moved servers (mijin). Lines are shorter than ever now! :)



Tried some of this new fangled Salvage shit on Tuesday, my first ever run. Guess I'm one of the few that isn't all that into it. Part of it is, I know I don't want to spend time doing Assault for points just to go do Salvage...I'm trying to reduce my play time these days. Because of that, the gear from the zone isn't the huge carrot it should be, and I'm left just wanting to enjoy the experience - which frankly, I didn't enjoy. The textures in that zone give me a headache, and those crafty Easterners used the same repeating designs on every floor :( Sassi says the zone looks gorgeous and I'm incorrect, but I think it looks like ass and there is too much repetition.



Had some decent xp in the bit I played last night post-Limbus, which led to:



Ding. Got my sexy AF pants on now. Question for other bsts if you read this - anyone use the AF body over the Gaudy Harness? The +Charm doesn't seem worth it, I'd rather have the 3 chr.

Time to go farm a Tungi now, and then play around in the Boyahda.

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Why the Recording Industry is going down the tubes

Nov. 27th, 2007 | 01:48 pm

First, here's the link to the interivew in question, with Universal Music's CEO Doug Morris:

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/15-12/mf_morris?currentPage=all

And here's my favorite quote, and reply, from off Techdirt:

To make matters even worse, Morris is so clueless that he chooses the worst possible analogy to explain his position. Lots of entertainment industry execs have thrown up their hands and ignorantly stated that "you can't make money from free." That's wrong, of course, but Morris takes it one step further up the ridiculous scale, with the following example: "If you had Coca-Cola coming through the faucet in your kitchen, how much would you be willing to pay for Coca-Cola? There you go. That's what happened to the record business." Hmm... and what is coming out of your faucet in your kitchen? That's right... water. And how much are people willing to pay for water? That's right, billions. In fact, it's a larger market than (oops) recorded music.

Anyone else find that absolutely hilarious? With a moron of that caliber helming the largest music companny, that doesn't even understand how much money people pay for the "experience" of drinking high quality water, it's no surprise to me that they can't figure out how to make money off the music "experience" instead of little plastic discs.

Good thing they can run to the government and get the laws changed to prop up their dying business model.

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Apollyon NE & NW

Nov. 27th, 2007 | 10:29 am

Not a fantastic run at NE last night, but we got the job done. Rdm/whm who was our main healer forgot to get soap, and realized it after we all zoned in. Had to rely on a blm/rdm and brd/whm to heal everyone, which mostly worked out ok but we did have a few deaths. I also caused a wipe on the pots floor by aggro'ing a pot as I pulled the doll...never knew those pots were aggressive, just always ran up and voked them. Evidently, they are not like normal pots lol :)



Got the clear though, and the pair of blm's we sent up NW killed off all the nq behemoths but didn't take out the boss - no big deal. Nice to get the added coins from NW even if we didn't get the chip. Oh, and Caly died because he forgot to zone up from the birds floor as our thf flee'd to the last time chest and zoned up...and didn't have RR. Shame on you Calysto! :P This completes the current pop set, so we've got an Omega to run on Thursday.

Took my coins and sold them last night, and picked up a Haub this morning for a nice 310k - price was too good to pass up. D. ingots are selling for like 450k on Asura, so the Haub market is just a little bit out of sorts right now with crafters dumping nqs. Time to xp some bst tonight and put it to use I guess, probably just head back to the Canal for the rest of 59, and I'll probably even stay there through 60 and then move to TAU at 61...though, then I'd skip the Boyahda tree, and I love that zone so much. I always wanted to play bst there, so I'll probably at least do some xp there, maybe make a little gil on the side - Solsovly said its still decent there, just slower xp.

RE: Heroes last night, wow what a disappointment this season has been overall. I hate quite a few of the plot lines they have going, and last night was another "setup" episode. This time for the 2 hr mini finale that's happening next week. The problem with this season was they tried to do a remake of season 1, starting back at square one and reintroducing new characters and taking everything slow. This boggles the mind. They had GREAT momentum after the wrap of Season 1, and instead of hopping right back into the thick of things, they decided to flash forward 6 months and slowly reveal things. Weak sauce.

My only hope is that due to the writer's strike, they've had to quickly wrap this current story arc. They might be able to do another half season starting to air in March if the writer's guild settles the strike by the end of December, and if that's the case I hope they have learned their lesson about what their fanbase wants. We don't want slow episodes with new bullshit characters that cry and kill people. We want badass characters you've already developed from last season, coupled with new characters who are rapidly introduced, and an overall plot line that ties everyone together.

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More Beastmaster

Nov. 26th, 2007 | 08:15 am

I didn't really play all that much over the long weekend, but when I did play I was playing bst. Been having a lot of fun lately, really getting the hang of exp in the Torimarai canal. Since I'm getting close to lvl 60, I decided I should go ahead and get the AF3 done - the pants are arguably the nicest piece of AF.



I went 75 nin/bst for the fight, since it pops 2 NM tigers you can charm and one NM undead hound - and only the hound has to be defeated. I charmed one of the tigers and tasked it to fight the other tiger, while I focused on the hound. After I got hate on the hound, I helped my pet finish off the other tiger, and then we both took down the hound. Pretty easy fight this way, glad it worked out - was my first time subbing bst to anything. I probably could have just gone mnk/nin, and hundred fisted the hound down by itself, but I wanted to try and do it with style :)



Picked up lvl 59, and as of last night I'm about halfway to 60. Still using a SH+1 because I sold my Haub awhile back and haven't picked one up yet. I have enough gil to get one, but I'm not convinced the purchase is worth it at this point. For now, I'm almost always wearing the JSE Gaudy Harness while xp'ing in the canal - the mp refresh is just too nice. It kicks in for me anywhere under 49 mp, which I've heard others say is all you really need as bst - and I agree. I just keep regen up almost all the time, remove paralysis & blindna, and keep dia on the mob. Never have to rest, and you can roll continuous chain 3's & 4's, yielding some pretty sweet xp/hr down here - even without xp ring. Nearly 5k/hr solo is hot:



In case other bst's actually read this LJ, I've been loving the little camp @ F-8. There are 4-5 skele spawns here, plus 4 bat spawns. I generally swap the bats in the canal area out to DC/EM, and leave the bats back by "A" on the map at T level - that way I can kill those off on my second chain while waiting for the main group of skele's to respawn. I would advise against using the leeches that are close by, if you mischarm they can Plague your ass - and that shit can take 2+ hours to wear off :(

Limbus: Need Apollyon NE tonight to complete a pop set, and probably do a NW with the extra folks for more coins and to start the next set.

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Thanksgiving

Nov. 22nd, 2007 | 09:56 pm

Fried me a turkey :P



More Turkey Pics )

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Weekend Update

Nov. 19th, 2007 | 10:13 am

Had a good weekend, productive too. Went out for Thai and a flick on Friday night, kinda a double date but with another married couple - saw "No Country" from the Coens, fantastic flick. I don't know if it's worth all the praise its garnering, but for what it is it was done extremely well. Guess I didn't care for the ending, especially since it took a long time to get there. The journey was fun tho :)

Got supplies for frying a turkey on Thurdsay, never done one before so wish me luck. I'm following the Alton Brown method, which you can watch on Youtube. Basically brine the turkey overnight, dry it off, then lower the bird into the hot peanut oil out in the middle of my yard. I put together a "Turkey Derrick" as well, using my step ladder and some carabiners as ghetto pulleys, then I just use some rope to raise/lower the turkey - that way I don't have to be right over the hot oil myself. Here's hoping I don't burn down the yard...

Hung out with Pettra on Saturday night, played some more Galaxies and Woods '08 - controls for Woods weren't all that tight, need to play some more to get the hang of it. Watched Pettra play some 60 cap sam/rng on Fenrir - unreal the size of the Ballista they have there, something like 18 v 18. Pettra only died once out of 3 matches, was really owning people with sidewinder and using a byrnie+1 & soboro.



Sunday, I spent far far too long running around doing the series of quests in Windhurst to obtain access to the Torimarai Canal - typical SE. Really not enjoyable to run around for 3 hours, but now I've got access and the xp is great.



Been having to charm these T triple bats and fight T/VT skele's though, so there is a bit of risk. Had one come uncharmed on me, right as I got paralyzed by ice spikes, failed charm = death. Still, the xp/hr is worth it...I wasn't that impressed by Ule[tab] range @ 58, and I had a duo partner @ 59 - said everything was basically T to him, no nice VT snolls. Guess I'll check it out myself at 59, because there weren't that many EM bunnie pets to be had @ lvl 58.

Limbus tonight, and then postponed on Thursday due to holidays. Need a NE to complete our current Omega set, so we'll do that one and probably a NW for coins and another chip to start a new set.

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SMG

Nov. 14th, 2007 | 07:49 am

Finally got SMG working on Pettra's Wii - man, it's awesome. Definitely hands down the best game I've played on the Wii, and the most intuitive control scheme. In addition, its friggin' Mario and the graphics are the best for any game on the system. Very impressive. Might just have to go see my pimp and get some cash to buy a Wii now.



Also, if you get any type of motion sickness while playing games, avoid this one lol. You're constantly running upside down and the perspective for what is "up" changes.

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Omega #16

Nov. 13th, 2007 | 09:53 am

Made our Omega run significantly harder on us by not paying attention. Entered with 1 of our 2 rdm's still in Sea, evidently went afk for a phone call but didn't say anything in party chat...so I missed it when I had trade window up. And then one of our tanks, pld/nin, forgot to get soap. So, we only had 1 nin/drk tank, and 1 rdm/drk healer. We had Mijin alt tank as drk/nin, and Sassi voke occasionally on war. Had a mnk/nin grab hate and tank for a bit. Quite a few deaths, but we managed to pull it out in the end.



We got Hands & Legs, and a NW chip for our troubles. Hands went to Nekki, who is up to 3/5 now. And legs went to Shulula, much deserved and long awaited. 2/4 on the next set, so hopefully we finish that one off with NE/SE runs on Thursday (my favorite runs coincidentally), and get another Omega either next Monday or Thursday.

Still fiddling around with beast, trying to take it slow and let Jaeger catch up. Here's my personal best rampage, down in the Obliette:

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Geeky stuff

Nov. 9th, 2007 | 09:44 am

Totally geeking out over here, but I'm stoked about what I made so I wanted to share it. In a nutshell, you can purchase relatively inexpensive components and modify a Wii to play backed up discs yourself - very cool. Even the firmware for the chips is open source, and they support a fairly wide array of chips (side note: using Open Wii for firmware). I won't cover the actual modding of the Wii, since I don't want to get into any issues w/ Nintendo, and there is plenty of info out there should you want to do it. But, for our purposes I ended up choosing a PIC 12F629 microcontroller to use as the modchip (about $3), and then built my own programmer for it (about $5 worth of overpriced Radioshack parts, should have cost about $1.50).

Here's how the programmer looks:



I worked on this with a tech at my work, during "lunch time". Basically an old Serial -> Parallel adapter, that left plenty of room on the inside to house the various resistors and MOSFET components needed. Got everything wired up yesterday, soldered the connections and used some heat shrink tubing over so nothing would short out. Taped it shut to test it out initially, but once it worked (first shot FTW ^^) I went back and superglued it shut. We're using a USB cable to get the 5v power source - which you see coming in to the side of the adapater in that shot. So, when you want to program the chip, you just seat it into the socket on top there, plug the serial end into your PC and the USB connector, and you're set to go. Pretty slick and compact imo.

Here's a pic of the circuit diagram, for fellow geeks:

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Apollyon SW, Bst xp

Nov. 7th, 2007 | 08:37 am

We did a quick SW run on Monday to finish off our pop set, cleared with no issues. I had to go afk once we finished the run since my wife's mother in law was over, so I lotted the chip and left. Later on, I came back to find out I had been warped before the chip dropped to me - woops. Looks like we inadvertently started another pop set because people can't pass treasure :( Guess we're doing another SW to complete my set on Thursday, and some other zone...maybe I can sneak in as a melee to SE.

I've been xp'ing beastmaster lately in the Labyrinth of Onzozo, having a good time. Started to get real sick of the Garliage Citadel basement area, so this was a good change of pace. Seems like pretty decent solo xp 56-58. Using scorps and manta's as pets, versus scorps, mantas, and gobs.
Here's a shot of a sexy self chain 5:



Hitting 57 last night, so now I can wear my lame SH+1 for 2 levels:



And, this NM that owned my face hard. Got him to 52%. Drops an interesting GAxe, but it's only for war/drk so not exactly the end of the world, just hate to lose ^^

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Apollyon SE & NW

Nov. 2nd, 2007 | 10:11 am

Farmed SE/NW zones last night, everything went pretty smooth. I was bummed out though - really wanted to bring thf/nin to SE and put up some good numbers, but I ended up leading the NW team instead. Basically just had Jaeger as the only real experienced member on the run. Bummer, I wanted to try Destroyers on the crabs over dual wielded warp cudgels :)

The NW run went pretty smooth, got kinda fucked on the vortexes first and second floors, and we had a bit of a messy time w/ Cyno so we ended up leaving him around the 50% mark and zoning up. Killed off KB with about 8 mins left on the clock though, so that was nice. Clearing both these zones brings us up to 3/4 on the next set, just need a SW.

Sent out a feeler to the old Eminence folks that were in the Goliath Limubs shell, guess they are breaking up. Lots of talented players there, and I wanted to give them an opportunity to come with us if they so choose. I know a few folks over there still hold a grudge against me for creating my shell in the first place and "stealing" some players, but that doesn't really bother me if they are willing to move past it. By and large, the folks I stole were either RL friends (bella, pettra, jaeger) or folks that had zero interest in Nashira gear (soups, jersey).

When I created the shell, it was with the inspiration from the Kaeko folks to do small #'s limbus farming, spamming Omega as much as possible. We've been able to execute on that pretty well over the ensuing 9 months or so, doing 15 Omega's and obtaining lots of shinies for folks. The other nice part is that I've been able to slowly pull together a wide range of friends to make the shell, and everyone seems to enjoy the shell's atmosphere - makes me feel warm & fuzzy ^^

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Crysis Single Player

Nov. 1st, 2007 | 09:24 am

If you haven't checked out the new Crysis Single Player demo yet, I strongly urge you to do so. You need a decent machine to run it in all its glory, but if you have the horsepower...wow, next gen title. I've done the "hack" on my system so it uses the super high detail settings, even though I'm not in Vista - folks are calling it ghetto DX10. Honestly, feels like I'm getting 95% of the DX10 features, without the performance penalty for running Vista. I even have Vista installed on my box as a dual boot, but I loathe it so if I can avoid it I do.

A few anecdotes from my play through last night. The demo is the complete first level of the game, including the intro movie. The first enemy soldiers I came across, one guy dove into the water behind some boxes for cover. I sprayed bullets at him, and as the bullets are striking the water - plumes of water are shooting up all around this guy. Then I finally tag him, he's a mid-air death roll and comes splashing down into the water. Impressive. The environment is destructible to a degree - including the trees. This is fairly impressive as well because they are doing realistic lighting effects from the trees, and they render the shadows correctly even as the tree is falling.

I was in the multiplayer beta for this as well, but I was playing at the slightly lower graphical settings. The concept here is basically like Battlefield:1942/2042, where you have different classes to choose from and objectives to capture across a large open map. Once you capture certain objectives, you can produce offensive vehicles (ex: tanks) for your team, or add alien technology to your current weapons, and even call down airstrikes on the other team's base (again, very impressive - fully rendered in game mushroom cloud with the smoke rising into the air).

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Failed Faith

Oct. 31st, 2007 | 08:49 am

Tried to do a small #'s Faith last night, using a rdm and 3-4 blms. First, just finding the ??? was a pain in the ass...of course it was at the last spot we checked, far north tower. Then as we were gathering, it moved to the SW tower. Finally we gathered, and rushed the pop while we had some unexpected aggro trailing folks coming to the area. Wiped and sac'd Faith until we could get back up.

We did decent damage to it while we had gravity on, but we still ended up having a few problems. I was checking hate with /assist, and despite not having hate I got too close to it and it dropped me with some fast hits - wasn't expecting that. Same thing happened to the other blms when Pettra had hate, they got too close and were dropped with hundred fists spam in a second. Obviously I'm showing my "new"-ness in Sea here, since I thought if an NM had hate on someone else it would be safe to get into proximity of it and start your next spell (ala the KB in Limbus, start casting right as he gets close to you so your spell lands with him at distance 15 or 20).

I had read strategies of 3 blms, rdm, and pld doing this fight np, and I thought we could just remove the pld and have a blm with hate kite Faith until another blm pulled hate off. Guess I need to rework my strategy...if anyone has some advice, serve it up.

This was unfortunately the last fight for Pettra on Asura, he's hopped to Fenrir for Ballista motives. I'm not sure if I'm going to follow, so it's a sad goodbye for now. If I do end up wanting to leave Asura, I feel the need to lead HomamLS for a bit more and get some of the members their drops first...ideally I'd like to see at least another 2 body drops before I move.

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Old...

Oct. 29th, 2007 | 12:46 pm



An old school picture back when I was leveling ninja. I kept wearing the lvl 50 JSE body for a bit there because I liked it ^^, think that shot is from me in the upper 60's or low 70's.



And this is a shot of my old static, sitting on top of the bard. Good times. Thanks for sharing Sassi.

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Omega #15

Oct. 26th, 2007 | 09:32 am

As smooth a fight as ever last night, took a bit to pop the 3rd gunpod though. Was about to give up on it after holding for quite a few mins around 7%, but then it finally popped. No chip drops though, which sucks...pettra has a set at 1/4, and I really wanted to get another chip so we could complete the set next Monday. Oh well. Drops were kinda shitty, especially since we had a TH3 and TH4 hanging out in zone.



Feet went to Jaeger, and the head went to bella - bringing him to 5/5, congrats to both.

Afterwards, I headed out to Garliage Citadel with Jaeger for some beastmaster xp. Surprisingly no other bst's were in zone, so we had the hellmines/skeles to ourselves. We both dinged 56, and got a fair bit into the lvl before calling it a night. Not really enjoying this camp as much as I had hoped, and I can't wait to move on. Got my horns though now - so I'm looking SEXY.

Anyone got good recommendations on where to go 57-60? Been looking at the Torimarai canal and possibly hitting Ulegeurand range. The canal looks nicer, similar to the mobs/pets we used in the Obliette. Not a lot of feedback online about the camp though. Also, I don't know if we have access from Windy, so we'd have to go the back way from the Inner ruins.

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Goodbye Eminence

Oct. 22nd, 2007 | 01:53 pm



So, the big news of the day is I quit Eminence last night. I had been talking things over w/ friends the last week, and talked a bit with Soup last night about what my options were. It's been a long time since someone just went dormant in the LS, and the LS was overstocked on NA's as it was - so just decided to go ahead and have my privelages removed from the forums. I believe a few officers wanted to break my linkpearl last night, but that didn't happen. Still had my pearl working this morning, so I tossed it. No secret I've been actively avoiding camps as of late, Mijin usually jokes with me about it, but obviously that rubbed quite a few people the wrong way. Guess I was just done with the camps is all. From here, I'm just going to take things slow, still do Limbus twice a week, and just do whatever sounds fun to me.

Right now, what sounds fun is leveling Beastmaster :P Played a bit with my duo partner, Jaeger, this weekend. Hit up the Crawler's Nest:



And then we ventured to Bostaunieux Oubliette around 53/54 - wow, great xp spot. This is one of the reasons I <3 bst, you get to go to these backwater camps that no one in their right mind would use. HP and sound aggro all over the place, but you get to use slimes vs bats, which is a huge advantage. Was taking down VT bats no problems with DC/EM slimes. Then again, I always bring my 73 rdm char along to prevent nasty death/links...quite helpful.

Unfortunately, you need to come bst/whm here...and I really prefer going DD style and bringing /nin to most camps since I have my personal rdm. Oh well, the xp is well worth it, and dia helps make up some of the difference.





Once I dinged 54, I headed to Garliage Citadel for a bit to do the bombs in the basement. Lo and behold, look who popped:



Watched some noobs take it down, and in a brilliant mistype they exclaimed to all in the area that this was their first HNM taken down. Ah, to be young again eh? Too bad some Eminence folks missed out on claim, would have been nice to split the drops before my exit from the shell.

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Omega #14

Oct. 16th, 2007 | 10:15 am

Another smooth Omega run last night, really high #'s of course. Still, need to have someone come thf when Shulula isn't around. Missing out on drops on the Gunpods sucks. Picked up 3 AF upgrade items off them last night, no coins and no chips :(



Legs went to Makaveli and Akildas, both newer members. Congrats to both. Here's how our current wishlist is looking - quite a backup on body these days:

Wishlisted:

Homam Head (Omega's Eye):

Homam Body (Omega's Heart): Soup (4/12/2007 [lower priority]), Randoma (6/14/07),Calysto (7/16/07), Mijin (9/10/07), Jersey (9/17/07), Hosien (9/17/07)

Homam Legs (Omega's Hindleg): Shulula (7/30/07)

Homam Feet (Omega's Tail): Jaeger (6/14/07), Guinness (9/17/07), Pettra (10/4/07), Akildas (10/15/07)

Homam Hands (Omega's Foreleg): Davidvietle (7/12/07), Nekki (10/4/07), Makeveli (10/15/07)

And here is what we've gotten during the life of HomamLS. Not too shabby, makes me feel good to look at all that gear that we've gotten for folks (myself included).

Obtained:

Homam Head: Shulula, Draxyl, Phobia, Randoma, Jersey, Lionsheart, Calysto, Makeveli, Nekki

Homam Body: Jaeger, shulula, Bella, Draxyl

Homam Legs: Corsandryth, Calysto, Jersey, Randoma, Ghostfaced, Draxyl, Mijin, Pettra, Guinness, Makaveli, Akildas

Homam Feet: Draxyl, Randoma, Bella, Mijin, Jersey, Nekki

Homam Hands: Corsandryth, Soup, Draxyl, Calysto, Jersey, Pettra

And, here's a fun shot of some more Gustav BST xp (note the high xp/hr with no xp ring), after KB camp and Heroes - of course. Stopped and went to bed at 800 tnl, close to apollo's staff woot.

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