Lol, Abbey parties lately.
There is nothing quite like the feeling you get when you see a pally devo an LK.
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Status repo
Haven't been on in a week or so, ever since the patch broke my copy of RO. Timmie fixed it recently, though, and...sadly, I've pretty much been on ever since.
*clears throat* Anyway. Character status report:
Tettsui - BS lvl93
Kannya - HW lvl94
Kyrim - Hunter lvl92ish
Astarael - SinX lvl89ish
Sephirael - LK lvl82ish
Spent entirely too many hours today getting my BS and Hunter (and LK) to where they are. I want to trance them, but all of the Abbey parties lately....well.........let's just say it's not pretty.
In other news, while I was on my hunter today I accepted a guild invite to a tiny little guild called Harmony. Turns out one of the players in it (sniper lvl99) has a high priest (also lvl99) who's in the guild that my LK just joined. Not sure if I screenshotted the lols or not.
"Hey, [their HP's name], do you know a character named Sephirael, by any chance?"
"Yeah."
"That's my LK. I'm Rae. XD"
"LOL."
And yes, I'm in two guilds. Was in three, actually, but the third one never did anything. I also haven't been on my HW lately, so I think they booted it for 'inactivity.' Which is fine, since my HW turns out to be pretty hard to use. Magic tends to lag things, which means my wiz lags himself, and everyone knows that squishy, low-HP chars + lag = bad times.
On that note, I'm contemplating making a creator for pots, and a monk for tankness and Asura. As you can see, though, I've got plenty to do as it is.
"And miles to go before I sleep."
...But it's 4 AM, and I've a pset due to-...day that I haven't started yet. The miles can wait for a bit.
*clears throat* Anyway. Character status report:
Tettsui - BS lvl93
Kannya - HW lvl94
Kyrim - Hunter lvl92ish
Astarael - SinX lvl89ish
Sephirael - LK lvl82ish
Spent entirely too many hours today getting my BS and Hunter (and LK) to where they are. I want to trance them, but all of the Abbey parties lately....well.........let's just say it's not pretty.
In other news, while I was on my hunter today I accepted a guild invite to a tiny little guild called Harmony. Turns out one of the players in it (sniper lvl99) has a high priest (also lvl99) who's in the guild that my LK just joined. Not sure if I screenshotted the lols or not.
"Hey, [their HP's name], do you know a character named Sephirael, by any chance?"
"Yeah."
"That's my LK. I'm Rae. XD"
"LOL."
And yes, I'm in two guilds. Was in three, actually, but the third one never did anything. I also haven't been on my HW lately, so I think they booted it for 'inactivity.' Which is fine, since my HW turns out to be pretty hard to use. Magic tends to lag things, which means my wiz lags himself, and everyone knows that squishy, low-HP chars + lag = bad times.
On that note, I'm contemplating making a creator for pots, and a monk for tankness and Asura. As you can see, though, I've got plenty to do as it is.
"And miles to go before I sleep."
...But it's 4 AM, and I've a pset due to-...day that I haven't started yet. The miles can wait for a bit.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
No pics because I'm laaazy
After Timmie's post about pets, I thought I might try to get some of my own...but after looking at the list, the only two that appealed to me were Bongun...and Baphomet Jr. I thought I'd start small and go for Bongun first, but my sin got partied by some cool people, so I ended up leveling (to 81!) with them instead.
We started out in the Clocktower (too hard), tried the coal mines (too easy), and eventually gathered a group and ended up in Amatsu level 3. Or at least, I think it's 3. Shinobis and Papers and Tengus and everything aggros; it's a very scary place. We had two sins, two priests (one tranced), and a taekwon, and we kept dying. The problem was, the taekwon kept pulling stuff...though even after he left we had plenty of trouble. So much aggro. @_@
On the bright side, I ended up getting a Shinobi Sash (the tranced guy got it as a drop and gave it to me), and another of my party members gave me a matching Ninja Suit later. Nice people. :o
Anyway, we left there and headed to Rachel Sanctuary, the place Timmie and I had leveled in before. Turns out, the place is really good for the assassin skill Grimtooth - the monsters are slow and (most) can't detect you when you hide, so you can gather up a bunch of them, hide, and Grimtooth them to death. Easy exp...the clicking gets tiring though.
After a bit of that we tried Sphinx 4, because our tranced priest said we could try Anubi...He had Turn Undead, which had a chance of instantly killing them, which is much easier than wearing down their high HP. Turns out two sins with Grimtooth can fare pretty well in there, though - our priests were on the other side of the map for a while and we did fine.
At that point we'd all hit about 80, so we decided to call it a night.
...Wow, that was a long aside. The point of this post was actually to ask for help: Taro, Timmie, if either of you have a chance, or are on when I am, would you mind helping me gather the stuff for Bongun/Baphomet Jr pets? I've got nothing so far, as the long sidetrack-story kind of implies. (I did kill a few Marduks while headed toward the Anubi, but none of them dropped a book.)
We started out in the Clocktower (too hard), tried the coal mines (too easy), and eventually gathered a group and ended up in Amatsu level 3. Or at least, I think it's 3. Shinobis and Papers and Tengus and everything aggros; it's a very scary place. We had two sins, two priests (one tranced), and a taekwon, and we kept dying. The problem was, the taekwon kept pulling stuff...though even after he left we had plenty of trouble. So much aggro. @_@
On the bright side, I ended up getting a Shinobi Sash (the tranced guy got it as a drop and gave it to me), and another of my party members gave me a matching Ninja Suit later. Nice people. :o
Anyway, we left there and headed to Rachel Sanctuary, the place Timmie and I had leveled in before. Turns out, the place is really good for the assassin skill Grimtooth - the monsters are slow and (most) can't detect you when you hide, so you can gather up a bunch of them, hide, and Grimtooth them to death. Easy exp...the clicking gets tiring though.
After a bit of that we tried Sphinx 4, because our tranced priest said we could try Anubi...He had Turn Undead, which had a chance of instantly killing them, which is much easier than wearing down their high HP. Turns out two sins with Grimtooth can fare pretty well in there, though - our priests were on the other side of the map for a while and we did fine.
At that point we'd all hit about 80, so we decided to call it a night.
...Wow, that was a long aside. The point of this post was actually to ask for help: Taro, Timmie, if either of you have a chance, or are on when I am, would you mind helping me gather the stuff for Bongun/Baphomet Jr pets? I've got nothing so far, as the long sidetrack-story kind of implies. (I did kill a few Marduks while headed toward the Anubi, but none of them dropped a book.)
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
The Endless Tower
The observant reader will notice that I have no part in Timmie's story of reuniting with his friend. The reason? I was probably out cold at the time. My sleep "schedule" has been so messed up lately that...well, here's an example.
This post is being made at 12:20 PM, which feels approximately like 12:20 PM, since I went to sleep at a reasonable time last night. The pictures in this post come from approximately 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM yesterday...which at the time felt something like 5 in the morning. Never mind when I went to sleep before that.
Onward.
So I logged in at my 'ungodly hour' to see what mischief I could get into as long as insomnia wouldn't let me sleep. Instantly I got a party invitation for some party called "Endless." Turns out I'd logged in right in the middle of the gathering place for people headed for The Endless Tower - a special dungeon of 101 floors filled with the hardest bosses in the game.
As people gathered, it became pretty obvious that I was outclassed: everyone here had 'tranced' - trancended, or rebirthed into the next level of character.
They also came with killer equipment, where I was using the basics: here's screenshot of one guy's equips (he'd unlocked it briefly to show a party member his helm). The pic was, if you couldn't tell, taken out of envy for his sprint ring...
Eventually, once people stopped arriving, we set off for the tower. I didn't take any pictures of it, but basically you go south a little way from where we were in the last screenshot, talk to a captain guy, agree to pay him 10k, and listen to his story. After he's done talking, he'll take you to a tiny island with a rock on it. If your party leader has created the instance already, click the rock, and it'll let you in.
Here we are on floor 23, blasting things apart:
We had some truly amazing priests along with us, by the way. There were three of them, and keeping track of who had been buffed with what at what time, who needed what at any given time, and who had done what so they didn't overlap buffs is an unenviable job. I don't have screenshots of it, unfortunately, but they also did an amazing job of keeping everyone alive - healing people (and yourself!) in the middle of a gigantic battle is no mean feat.
Of course, this is hardest dungeon in the game, and they couldn't protect us from everything:
I believe that's floor 45, with the Samurai MVP (Most Valuable Player; a kind of boss where players get prizes depending on how much damage they do to it) and his loyal Shinobi followers. Never mind the little guys, that boss did some kind of AoE attack and BAM everyone but the Lord Knights was dead.
As it said in the picture, we had to wait for one of our priests to run back up the tower - I think it's possible to skip to floor 25, 50, etc, if you've been there already and use Ashes (special item automatically acquired in the tower), and the floors are extremely small maps. That said, floor 25 to 45 is still a bit of a jog.
Eventually they began to cautiously revive people, starting with those furthest away from the (offscreen, fortunately) gigantic boss.
I wish I had a picture of him, but, well, this will have to do:
So we moved on. In the course of climbing the tower, it'd become apparent that I'd have to frantically bail out my inventory as we went: items are acquired automatically, and if enough built up, I wouldn't be able to regenerate HP and SP any more. For a mage, that means a swift, magicless death.
Losing items didn't really bother me, as I was in Endless for fun and exp, but there was one item I was really sad to part with: a massive 250-pound weapon known as "Bardiche." Given that Timmie had created a cast of Nanoha characters...well, who wouldn't want to see Signum with a Bardiche? ('Fate sama' wouldn't be able to use her precious weapon because she's a mage and this weapon is only for swordsman characters.) Alas, 250 pounds was too much for my feeble mage. It joined the litter on the floor.
Much bailing later, we arrived at floor 50, home of a motionless monstrosity known as Amon Ra. You would think that a monster that never moved and was unimpressively sized wouldn't be much of a challenge. You'd be wrong.
It's kind of hard to see, but take a look at that max HP: 1,214,318. What you can't see is the reason those people are dead: Amon Ra insta-casts Meteor Storm on anyone in his range. Additionally, he summons a deadly group of peons if provoked.
The fact that we got him down to anywhere near half HP is a testament to the kind of firepower we had, and the awesomeness of our priests. Apparently we were supposed to have brought a sniper along; when I looked up Amon Ra I discovered why. If you're in range, as I said, MS and summon. However, there's also a list of certain spells that will set him off (50% chance to summon more monsters). One of those spells was Storm Gust, which one of our High Wizards had been casting as much as possible on him...Add to that the fact that Amon Ra is weak against fire, not water, and you begin to see our problem. (Which is to say, most of us didn't know what we were doing.)
Add to that the fact that half of us spoke one language and half another...
...Well, in short, we didn't beat him. Around the time that picture was taken, our priests began to run out of blue gemstones (necessary to resurrect), and people began to give up and leave.
So while I was impressed with our group's firepower and priests, the teamwork and preparation left something to be desired.
I'm looking forward to trying this tower with a guild.
This post is being made at 12:20 PM, which feels approximately like 12:20 PM, since I went to sleep at a reasonable time last night. The pictures in this post come from approximately 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM yesterday...which at the time felt something like 5 in the morning. Never mind when I went to sleep before that.
Onward.
So I logged in at my 'ungodly hour' to see what mischief I could get into as long as insomnia wouldn't let me sleep. Instantly I got a party invitation for some party called "Endless." Turns out I'd logged in right in the middle of the gathering place for people headed for The Endless Tower - a special dungeon of 101 floors filled with the hardest bosses in the game.
As people gathered, it became pretty obvious that I was outclassed: everyone here had 'tranced' - trancended, or rebirthed into the next level of character.
They also came with killer equipment, where I was using the basics: here's screenshot of one guy's equips (he'd unlocked it briefly to show a party member his helm). The pic was, if you couldn't tell, taken out of envy for his sprint ring...
Eventually, once people stopped arriving, we set off for the tower. I didn't take any pictures of it, but basically you go south a little way from where we were in the last screenshot, talk to a captain guy, agree to pay him 10k, and listen to his story. After he's done talking, he'll take you to a tiny island with a rock on it. If your party leader has created the instance already, click the rock, and it'll let you in.
Here we are on floor 23, blasting things apart:
We had some truly amazing priests along with us, by the way. There were three of them, and keeping track of who had been buffed with what at what time, who needed what at any given time, and who had done what so they didn't overlap buffs is an unenviable job. I don't have screenshots of it, unfortunately, but they also did an amazing job of keeping everyone alive - healing people (and yourself!) in the middle of a gigantic battle is no mean feat.
Of course, this is hardest dungeon in the game, and they couldn't protect us from everything:
I believe that's floor 45, with the Samurai MVP (Most Valuable Player; a kind of boss where players get prizes depending on how much damage they do to it) and his loyal Shinobi followers. Never mind the little guys, that boss did some kind of AoE attack and BAM everyone but the Lord Knights was dead.
As it said in the picture, we had to wait for one of our priests to run back up the tower - I think it's possible to skip to floor 25, 50, etc, if you've been there already and use Ashes (special item automatically acquired in the tower), and the floors are extremely small maps. That said, floor 25 to 45 is still a bit of a jog.
Eventually they began to cautiously revive people, starting with those furthest away from the (offscreen, fortunately) gigantic boss.
I wish I had a picture of him, but, well, this will have to do:
So we moved on. In the course of climbing the tower, it'd become apparent that I'd have to frantically bail out my inventory as we went: items are acquired automatically, and if enough built up, I wouldn't be able to regenerate HP and SP any more. For a mage, that means a swift, magicless death.
Losing items didn't really bother me, as I was in Endless for fun and exp, but there was one item I was really sad to part with: a massive 250-pound weapon known as "Bardiche." Given that Timmie had created a cast of Nanoha characters...well, who wouldn't want to see Signum with a Bardiche? ('Fate sama' wouldn't be able to use her precious weapon because she's a mage and this weapon is only for swordsman characters.) Alas, 250 pounds was too much for my feeble mage. It joined the litter on the floor.
Much bailing later, we arrived at floor 50, home of a motionless monstrosity known as Amon Ra. You would think that a monster that never moved and was unimpressively sized wouldn't be much of a challenge. You'd be wrong.
It's kind of hard to see, but take a look at that max HP: 1,214,318. What you can't see is the reason those people are dead: Amon Ra insta-casts Meteor Storm on anyone in his range. Additionally, he summons a deadly group of peons if provoked.
The fact that we got him down to anywhere near half HP is a testament to the kind of firepower we had, and the awesomeness of our priests. Apparently we were supposed to have brought a sniper along; when I looked up Amon Ra I discovered why. If you're in range, as I said, MS and summon. However, there's also a list of certain spells that will set him off (50% chance to summon more monsters). One of those spells was Storm Gust, which one of our High Wizards had been casting as much as possible on him...Add to that the fact that Amon Ra is weak against fire, not water, and you begin to see our problem. (Which is to say, most of us didn't know what we were doing.)
Add to that the fact that half of us spoke one language and half another...
...Well, in short, we didn't beat him. Around the time that picture was taken, our priests began to run out of blue gemstones (necessary to resurrect), and people began to give up and leave.
So while I was impressed with our group's firepower and priests, the teamwork and preparation left something to be desired.
I'm looking forward to trying this tower with a guild.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Adventures of 3/2/10
Massive post, with lots of screenies! =D
So, yesterday (Tuesday) we met in class for a little bit and discussed some plans and such, but didn't really have much time to play as both me and Colleen had to leave. Our plan instead was to meet back online at around 11:00 or so.
Unfortunately due to some bad timing, I ended up not really being able to log on until closer to around midnight, but all was well and I met up with Colleen, Natalie, and Kotaro in game (Michelle was MIA for the night =/).
Here's all 4 of us. From left to right: Kotaro's knight (notice the freaky headgear), me as high priest, Natalie as a wizard, and Colleen's hunter.
After running around and buffing colleen while she leveled for a bit, we met up with Natalie and went to one of the MvP rooms, I think in search of a Ribbon (so I could look cute =D).
We met this guy named "Bendalene" who apparently is from Singapore and doesn't play with other singapore people. *shrug* I think this was the first person I charmed with my oh-so-cute character and giving him buffs. He was lvl 255 so he was tearing through the monsters pretty quickly, and just randomly came up and asked us where we were from. After answering "USA" he just said "wow" and then said he was from singapore, etc etc. Then he gave me an Angel Wing, haha. And told us we should go to pront dungeon for ribbon[1] (which makes sense, I vaguely remember getting one there when I played RO before).
So then I had my cute ribbon!~ And slotted it with a Mistress card from Natalie so now I can cast ME/Safety Wall/etc without any catalysts. Yay! I remember not really liking the ribbon quite that much when I played RO before, but I actually am kind of fond of its look now. (of course, I always prioritize cuteness over stats when picking out equips ^^;) This Bendalene guy also friended me, apparently.
Meanwhile Taro was off doing his own thing...and we didn't really know where he was. He was using beserk all the time, which meant he couldn't chat with us, so that caused a bunch of 9_9 from us.
Astarael: Whack that thing, Timmie
DDRKirby(ISQ): that's what she said
FireJade: dang you
We also had an "I lost" moment happen earlier ^^;
More running around buffing Colleen to help her level. I'm really liking my role as a priest--supporting people is really fun! It -does- get slightly monotonous sometimes since you're not killing anything, and since you're just casing the same buffs over and over again...but eh, it's fine.
The top of Morocc has become our informal meetup place, for some reason or other. We also had some interesting issues, with Natalie and me not being able to trade for some reason (I think it was just because we were too far away from each other at the time), and also for some reason the spam filter doesn't allow you to say "olol". -_-;
Eventually Taro told us what he had been looking for (some card drop i think?) and Natalie went to help him out. Naturally, Natalie ended up getting the drop after her first kill xD...
Eventually Colleen called it a night, and Natalie and Taro found a Valkyrie, so we met up and formulated a plan to take it down...
Random: I thought the Angel Wing looked kind of cute, but it jutted out a little too much and was too flashy to fit the rest of my image. Plus I wanted the Ribbon (the Mistress card was useful anyways).
We managed to kill the Valkyrie without too many problems =D. Though, I don't think it ended up dropping whatever it was that we wanted. The actual boss that would have that drop apparently summons Valkyries as slaves T_T
We kept running into the "orcface" problem on certain maps, which was really annoying since we didn't know how to cure it, other than just running into a mob and dying and respawning xD. Taro looks hilarious here though.
One thing about RO is that if you go to a crowded area like Pront, you always see all these other chars and they have such flashy and flamboyant avatars; it's a real stark contrast from the simple look that I always went for. In a way it's slightly intimidating for newer players to start off and see these people walking around with huge gargoyle wings or whatever. I guess that also makes the newbies easier to pick out...
xD
At this point we just started looking for accessories. The lower angel wing ears, added to the regular angel wing, was really weird since you have 4 different wings on your head xD
I really liked them though. <3~ They complemented my look perfectly, and matched the cuteness of my outfit while still retaining the simplicity. Hooray~
/ho became my most used emote. And, as Natalie is pointing out here, I was kind of a people magnet since I would just buff random people sometimes (though, other times they came up to me and asked). One of them gave me a horn card too, haha. They probably think I'm some cute girl...=X But, I guess that's sort of the point. Being able to have an image like this is one of the main reasons I have so much fun in RO in the first place! ^_^
Also note the chat filter message when you try to type "lolol": "Yeah, uh, I don't think so buddy..." o_o;
I went to Abbey Dungeon and ME bombed for a while until I was at level 221 or something, so that I would be able to share experience with Natalie and Kotaro. At one point Kotaro helped by just aggroing a bunch of mobs and then bringing them back to my ME bombs xD.
After that we went to Thor Volcano Dungeon for a while, to level, and because I think because Kotaro wanted to look for Ifrit. We never found him, but we did manage to go through the entire map =D. We didn't have too many problems either, except for a few times when we got caught off guard. The first time I was actually alone IDing some items when some monsters mobbed me. I frantically teleported to some random location where a hunter proceeded to finish me off (I was only at like 10% hp anyways xD). There was also a time when a Sage came at a bad time and got me and Taro pretty quickly.
After finishing, we were all lvl 255, so yay us. Interactions with other PCs (player-characters) have been interesting I guess. Most of the time when I run into them as I'm soloing I just give them a quick buff as they run along their way. Well, except in Abbey, where I just cast another ME bomb and then teleport away xD. There was one point where Kotaro (?) randomly attacked some hunter who happened to also be in the dungeon with us. And I remember Natalie tried to Storm Gust me once, haha...
After that Taro went and...did his own thing for a while again. Meanwhile I was with Natalie, who had gotten a pair of Arctic wings and was looking through different clothing styles. I went through different styles briefly as well, but honestly don't think I could find anything I liked more than my current look.
And, at this point Taro realized that it was almost 5 -_-;
More messing around in Pront. I think this stemmed from when I pointed out that Natalie and I contrasted nicely with the Blue vs Red color schemes.
Astarael: Taro be the priest XD
Void_Eternal: o.O
Astarael: ... wow role reversal
We -do- kind of look nice together. Natalie pointed out that I need flame wings though xD.
Though, we had some issues with Natalie's wings chopping through my forehead. Owww...
Eventually we stopped goofing around and called it a night. We ended going to bed way too late, but I don't really regret it--this was the first time I had a real group to play an MMORPG with anyhow, so it was really nice. And I can't stop feeling happy about how cute my character looks <3~
Our presentation is...uhm...tomorrow -_-, so I'm not sure how much more we'll be able to do between now and then. Perhaps we'll actually get to see Michelle in game, or finish leveling Colleen...or maybe kick ass in some WoE fight =X. Natalie and me also randomly got invited to join a guild, but they just ended up spamming a bunch of nonenglish messages in guild chat, haha...
Most (?) of us have expressed some sort of interest in continuing with RO after our project is done, most likely on a different server that's not as high rate, and where less people speak weird languages xD. I'd definitely be down; I always manage to "generate" enough time to have on my hands to do all these kinds of things anyways...
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