New Directions

This has been a bit late in coming, but I thought I had better wrap this blog up as I won't be writing any more posts in it. Many of you know I decided to transfer servers to have a bit of a new direction, a change of pace and scenery. I was getting bored with what I was doing on Ifrit end game wise, and decided to join a HNMLS on Cerberus to see what that was like.

I have a new blog now to document the adventures and happenings on Cerberus, so if you're reading, please visit : http://cerberusatemycookies.blogspot.com/ ^^

I miss you guys on Ifrit, please keep in touch with me as you have been, I love hearing about what your'e all up to :)

Love Alsha xox

Of Rocs and Dragons

Interesting things we have done in the last few days:


We kirred the Roc NM.

It was a bit funny, we were going to the [S] area from Garliage Citadel and I ran outside and saw the NM. I also saw a dead Red mage, but didn't think too much of it. Sonnia, Crinan, Darkmenion and myself killed it in about 5minutes, and then this other LS rocked up, they said they had wiped to it due to no healers. (who was that RDM in their LS then? >.>)


Anyway, no dorp. :\




That was last nite. Tonight we did KSNM30 Double Dragonian, it was interesting. We won 5/6 orbs, I still dont understand what happened but shit happens. We still cleared 900k and 5 destroyers :\



We gave the last pair we got to a random person standing in the hot springs. Congratulations Roma! Due to the fact we all had them already. Go go warm fuzzy good samaratin feelings!

Congratulations to Hitorisan, Darkmenion, Crinan and Vanyaledin for their shiny new DESTROYERRRRSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woot.

We also received 2 orichalcum ingots and 1 damascus ingot just to note the er, noteworthy items.. Time to sell some shinies on the Auction house.

Double Dragonian... My how i hate this KSNM. Sorry Utamari, no Dissector for j00 ._.





Moving on to later this evening, we decided Sonnia really needed a Dryad Staff, so we went back to Sauromugue Champaign to wait for Roc to get out of bed.

He was a bit late today, he popped exactly 2 hours into the window.



Heres a pic of the lolNM we stabbed on the way through Garliage Citadel.

Wind spear and Cockatrice Skin for the win.

So with Roc tonight. About half an hour before the window opened this other LS pops up again (how convenient) and took claim from under our noses. It must have been the BLM that claimed him (they had a BLM and THF out side) because he ran around in circles and tried to kite it (albeit unsucessfully) and then died. They lost hate and we snagged it from them and killed it. I sort of feel a bit bad about it, but when you think about it, they would have not hesistated to do the same if roles were reversed. They nicked Serket from a few of the TRS guys a few days ago so mabye we're even?

Who knows. loldrama {No thanks}

This is one of us /dozing waiting for something to happen.

Edited, for your anonymity.

And did I mention no dorp again?
/sigh

Now we get to go down again tomorrow and I'll put my next months paycheck down on that other LS appearing as well. Go go unfriendly competition :3

Welcome back?

This picture best sums up my blog:

So much for new years resolutions XD

Anyway... things I have been up to :

Finished my Marduk pants~ (and boots and body but I think I may have mentioned this before)

Rawrr.. I think the pants look a bit silly, but they are growing on me slowly. They give me more MP as white mage, I could still macro in the AF2 pants for cures to make them more potent, but I have a lot of healing magic gear already and well... Im lazy.

Only need my tiara and my gloves now, I'm 2/3 on both. Needing to visit some frogs in Zhayolm Remnants for my tiara, and then the Chariot NM in Arrapago Remnants. He's really stubborn, every single run I go to, it doesnt drop, and the 2 times I was too tired to go.... Both dropped my gloves. /wrists.

One day... One day....

I've also gotten back to Paladin lately, now Lv 42^^

I think i look like an alien ._.

But it's fun, shame I suck at it though. My perma (Ingram and Farris mostly) always play very late at night for me, so {I'm sleepy} alot of the time. Its tricky because I'm pretty sure that they have enmity merited (and Ingram plays Dark Knight! o.O) so it's interesting to try and "tank" for the party. (read: stab the mob with my sword occasionally when I'm not missing more than the DRK) I changed to sushi recently, I noticed a big difference. I cant wait until lvl 52.... ICE GAUNTLETS!!!

Well I'm excited about them... Shhhh...

I'm also levelling up my lolBard. I'm lvl 60 now^^b

I have newer gear than this, its an older photo.

I think at the moment I am wearing my AF pants, and cobra pigaches. Because I traded Enlil's pants for Marduk Shalwar. And I got off my bum and bought decent shoes lol.

Well thats most of the interesting stuff that I have been doing lately here. There are other things, but really can't be bothered going into that right now.

Toodles for the moment, watch this space for more uninteresting posts >.>

*deep breath*

Okay, I'm sorry I have been away so long, that thing called "Life" took over for a while.

It's okay, I'm back !

Ive recently moved house and dont have any internet or any phone at the moment, I feel like I'm in amish country.

Anyways, my new ultrafast cable speed instanet is getting installed on 6th of feb, so in the mean time I am trying to leech wireless internet from my neighbours, I managed to get on for a few hours tonight so catching up on all the news.

Hoping to spend more time on my blog this year (think: New years resolution, none of that getting healthy and saving money crap, its all about the blog).


So this is it for the moment, going to try get something interesting to post this week and see how i go wrestling for the internet connection. I wonder if the neighbour will ever find out im stealing his wireless..

Adios for now~

Kraken Club Madness

Was chatting to a friend tonight about the K club and remembered I had pictures. Ingram lent me his one day for a skill up session.

XD XD


The most fun I have ever had on whm. Ever.

Thats all for the moment.

Even more new things! Buy now and you'll get this shiny new set of steak knives... D:

TRS at sky. Awe, how pretty ^_^ It's a nice view at the top.

Now, onto the more interesting things.


In the new update, they are letting us invite people into our mog houses!
I think this was in Aussie's house, Crinan and I invaded :P

We did a LS skill up party this week too, it was actually fun. I really dislike skilling up its so boring, but with the LS guys it wasn't too bad hehe. I got my club skill up to 199.something and I must have been really tired because I fell asleep :3 Oops. Sorry guys and thanks for the teleport lol. I dont like the Boyhada tree....

Action shot !

Today was quite exciting at Dynamis-Beaudecine! I got my Sorcerer's Coat for Black mage ! XD

Its gorgeous.

Sorcerer's Coat [Body] All Races

DEF: 41 MP +12 Elemental magic skill +5 Enmity -2

Adds "Refresh" effect

Lv. 74 BLM

Basically at this stage it will just replace my Black Cloak for when I want Refresh. But still pretty ^^ This pic is my 3/5 Sorcerer's Attire set, just need the boots and gloves. Both of them I can live without, but the gloves will be nice to macro in for Dark based things. Reminds me to get my original artifact set out of storage I'm too lazy to grab it each time and put it away because I dont have room. I'd be much more effective if I used it to macro in certain things.

Buvian, Crinan and I did a manaburn party today it was so much fun. And quite fast too. We started trio'ing and then we had a gate crasher trying to solo so we just invited him to join, would have been better xp for everyone than if he was trying to compete with us. And less fun. Then a duo showed up and we just invited them too, they were japanese and quite cool to pt with.

If you cant beat them, join them. That should be a blm motto :3

Pic of me and Crinan on our way to the manaburn party. New gear rocks! Whewt!

Also, speaking of new shinies, I recently got the drop for my Enlil's Gambison, completing my 3/3 equip items for Marduk's Jubbah body armor. I'm very excited. I have been hoarding Khroma Ores and I'm about half way there I think.

Hopefully we get some good sky drops today and I can get a bit more cashflow happening. I'm really excited about getting this body piece It's been something I have lusted after for a while now, and its within reach. I'm going to get Ingram to make me some of the ingots soon, so I can stack them and make room in my storage.

Marduk's Jubbah [Body] All Races

DEF: 40 HP +3% MP +3% MND +12 CHR +12

Enhances Fast Cast effect

Adds Refresh effect

Set: Enhances Fast Cast effect

Lv. 75 WHM / BRD / SMN

The Fast Cast effect on this item (not the set) has been determined to be 2%

It's sooo beautifoool... I want it :3

I'm trying to work out if it would be nice on bard or not hmmm.... I think for BRD/WHM it is really good but for BRD/NIN I would go Kirins Osode. I'm next in line any time that I want it in my sky LS but I keep passing as I physically cannot equip it yet lol. I dont see the point of it going mouldy in my mog house when someone else can use it.

But if i could get a :

Sha'ir Manteel [Body] All Races

DEF: 42 MP +14 CHR +7 Haste +2%

Song Spellcasting Time -12%

Lv. 72 BRD

mmm.....

or...

Sheikh Manteel
[Body] All Races

DEF: 43 MP+16 CHR+8 Haste +3%

Song Spellcasting Time -13%

Lv. 72 BRD

But I think that is very very far out of reach... Like there is 2 recorded in existence that I know of on my server. I doubt that I could even get a Sha'ir Manteel without dropping up to 5mil on it.

And then I look at pieces like the Yigit Gomlek:

Yigit gomlek [Body] All Races

DEF: 40 Evasion +7"Magic Atk. Bonus" +5

Song spellcasting time -10%

MP recovered while healing +5

Set: Adds "Refresh" effect

Lv. 72 WHM / BLM / RDM / BRD / SMN / BLU / SCH

And wonder if the Sha'ir and Sheik are even really worth it. I mean yeah, beautiful pieces and they are basically Osode+Yigit in one, but is it worth that much moolah? Hmmm Hmm... I think not.

I'm planning on levelling up bard soon too, but not sure when but I like to plan ahead. And it amuses me to check out all the cool gear available. Quite a lot of it is out of my reach, but I do what I can.

Cheers for reading, have fun and be good. xox

New things and something something...

Some new things!

I got lvl 75 BLM :D



yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!





Check me out~ This is when I hit 73- new body armor Igqira Weskit mm... Most definately one of the cooler looking pieces of gear in my opinion.


Igqira Weskit
[Body] All RacesDEF:35 Elemental magic skill +5 "Magic Atk. Bonus"+6 "Conserve MP"+2 Physical damage: "Curse" effect on opponentLV 73 BLM



Its very nice.



I'm really loving Black mage lately, its so much fun to just nuke shit and not have to worry about whether my party is dying or not. Although it's a mage job, it's a far cry from White mage. But very fun. And solo'ing is cool.. Sort of... When I dont die a lot... Hmm....

I'm 8k xp into my level I'm going to try cap it out before I start taking it to events, or else I'll delevel and that's not fun for any one.

I put a merit into Burst II and Freeze II :D :D :D

And 2 into elemental magic.

Muhahahhahahhaha...

So anyway, on another interesting note, I roped a few of our sky newies into coming to farm sky gods with me. Gamex and Evalen have just gotten access, and on their first run they both went home with something.

Gamex got the:

Seiryu's Kote RareEx
[Hands] All RacesDEF:26 HP+50 AGI+15 Ranged Accuracy+10LV 75 WAR MNK BST BRD RNG SAM NIN

And Evalen got the:

Martial Abjuration: Head

Which is:

Koenig Schaller (Head) All RacesDEF: 40 HP +30 STR -5 DEX -5 VIT +10 CHR +10 Shield Skill +5 Lv. 73 WAR / PLD

Congrats kids! As much as I hate sky, I only go to help friends. I don't even really lot on anything because only thing i want at the moment is zenith hands, and the rest of the gear i want i cant use yet so im happy to wait.

The Almighty Genbu!! Rawrrr!

And Seiryu!

Aint he pretty?

Also, I have new sunnies. How badass am I now? Huh!!??

That's all for now, this stuff was from last week, so will be doing a new update shortly for this week gone. Ciao!

Lazyyyy.............

Ooooh I've been so lazy lately, I havent updated in ages. Faulsey would roll over in his grave if he found out.



I had written some other stuff here but it didn't save properly, sooo..... I blame my lack of blogging on Shaun, so feel free to throw things at him.


The Shadow lord!



See below for awesome pictures.




This is us all crammed together in the cutscenes ( i wasn't in the cutscene, i just like to be close to people >.>)



I'm actually doing something! :3

Yay! We won! Congrats to Humphrey and Xnightwolfx for this one. Im thinking back, and im pretty sure everyone else had it already. Thanks everyone for helping! Now Humph and wolf can join dynamis and sky and all that really horrible stuff XD

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There was a new event around for that Halloween thing.. We dont do that here in Australia. We know of it, but we dont like go trick or treating or anything. It's just weird... Asking random strangers for lollies and things. I mean, if i had kids, I wouldnt let them wander the streets at night going up to strangers houses... Do you read the news? Lots of terrible things happen to kids out alone. Halloween also makes you fat. So there. :P

I is teh fomor! Gwarrrr!

Ok thats my short and lazy update for the moment. I have to dig out more interesting pictures to entertain you with.

Ooooh and I have good news with some groovy gear I acquired recently... So I'll do a seperate post with all my cool new threads.


And I'll dig through the last lot of screenshots I took and post a few of the things I've been doing.

Been really busy irl though, work and all that jazz, haven't had time to play that much lately. You'll usually find me online but idle away asleep or working.

Ciao everyone for now

Ice Adventures Part II and other tidbits

So I went back to Uleguerand Range.

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I'll just stop here maybe and let you see for yourself.

Ok so basically what happened was, is that we were going to get the ENM key item in Uleguerand Range. For the Bearclaw Pinnacle ENM.

I have never done this before so had no idea where to go, and had no map, so I was just following Ingram blindly pretty much. We got to the spot where we had to slide down the mountain (first three screenshots) and I had no idea what to do, but there was a ledge we were meant to drop onto at the bottom. You can see this in the next couple shots. Unless I wanted to try and go back around and do that again (no thanks) so I let myself die (see tiger) and get tractored up there.

Now that I was in the right place, time to get the key item.

Oh, wait... No. Sorry Alsha! You didn't talk to the NPC at the start. At the start of what? At the entrance to the zone. Oh, I see. That information would have been useful at the start.

It's ok, I got quite good directions from Ingram as to how to go back to the start, so I got my cotton pouch item from the NPC, and then backtracked to the ledge. Where I got to kill myself again to get tractored lol.

Oh how I love this place, let me count the ways.

This time I got the key item, the bag of ice shards needed to enter the ENM.

Now I get to come back here sometime soon to actually do the ENM... *runs away*

Oh, we camped Roc again! Got Nyoko's Dryad Staff the other night, but last night was no drop. We camped again today and got a Damascus Ingot for the six of us to split. Today's group was Crinan, Nyoko, Takeno, Ataka, Shaunmc and myself. We scored 84k each from that. It's niice! I love Borat lol. It's just so wrong...

Oh and we fought my NM again, we got a drop this time, but not mine ._.

I have bad luck, me thinks.

These pics are from the last time, when I got kirred by the rampaging frog army.

And one last funny pic in Dynamis of me and Aussie, we sort of got fused together...

Oh, and Im really annoyed right now... I found out that two certain individuals somehow wormed their way into my end game LS. I detest one of these people in particular, and the other is her boyfriend, who called me a c*** one day so they are both in the same box. She hurt a friend of mine in a very bad way and even before that she hated me and I never knew why. I was always nice to her in the old LS we were both in. But she said nasty things about me to people I knew, so with that on top of the way she treated my friend, pretty much means I will never look upon her favourably again.

And now they are in my end game LS. I have talked to Ingram and he said he will ask him to leave as he thinks I'm more important (lol) but I know he wont, as he is too nice to people he doesnt even know.

We shall see what happens. At the worst I will just stop going to events if they decide to go, as I have better things to do than stew about how much i dislike them. This game is supposed to be fun, after all. Psh.

Commentarus?

(I started writing this as a comment reply to Faulsey, but then decided it was too long and decided to make a new post)

I hated it more than I hate Beseiged. (Talking about Sacrarium mission)

You know what that means.


And lol@fr00blet. (Oh my, that seems to be an email address, i wonder what will happen if we send something to it)

And Cavil's great, we loves him.

Then I log on to thf and want to kill myself.

We tried the NM at Zhaylom Remnants again last night and we kirred it!!

And out thf was dead so no drops!!

/hurrays....

Wait, let me get onto thf so I can sharpen my knife.

We are trying again on Sunday.

Oh and if it drops, you all better buy stuff from my bazaar, as I'll be selling everything I own.
That's right. I have to sell almost everything I own to afford even half the mats needed for that upgrade. 800k per ingot (that's synthing it, as there aren't many for sale).

And I need 12 of those.

My calculator told me that means I have to come up with 9.6million gil.

Then i broke it, so I'm not sure any more.

Maybe I'll start crafting...

All bow down to the mighty frog queen...

I'm pretty sure I started writing a draft of this post, but I guess I didn't save it :3

Whoops.

Anyway, here are some of us in the ruins before Salvage, standing around looking fat.




Soooo we went to Zhaylom Remnants. Ingram said he worked out how to pop the NM that drops my Enlil's Gambison, so we tried that for the first time. The zone is strange, like in each room on the first level, only 2 of the 4 mobs drop anything, so if you kill 2 mobs and they both drop cells, then you just move on to the next one.

To pop the NM on the 5th floor I think we needed to clear pathos from 3 players (thats unlock all equip for 3 ppl). It took a while to do this, we got to the fourth floor and had to kill the correct rampant to go up to the 5th floor and we had 5mins left on the clock, we kill it and....

Repop on the 4th floor. We killed the wrong one. Good job guys!

Killed the correct one and moved up, 3min left on the clock, find the NM, start punching her and we have 1min left shes down to 60%HP.......

Charmga.

/sigh.

Shes a bit of a bitch.

We needless to say, ran out of time. Fingers crossed for next time that we do it right and have time to kill her.

On another note, I completed PM4-3 ! Thats the nasty LV50 cap Sacrarium one. We had a few dramas with it, unable to find 2 more ppl to come help, being one of the main issues.

We farmed the 2 coral keys with no problem and then Rikoro and Faulsey were tired so we scheduled a meet up time about 9hrs later. We all came back, and there was four of us that needed it, Me as WHM, Sonnia as PLD, Rikoro as RDM and Faulsey as RNG.

For the life of us we couldnt find anyone to help, I shouted for an hour in Whitegate and no one on the LS could help. Finally we dragged Tyger and Annes over to help us when they logged in later, and then Sonnia disconnected and couldnt log onto the game so we had Angelise come help us instead. We all cleared our hate, and went down to do it finally. Andromida came to help too but had max fame so we had to leave him at home. So we entered the Sacrarium, with Tyger coming as BLU and Annes as NIN, and Ange as THF. We only got aggro about four times :3 Damn true sight Tauros'...

We made it to the classrooms, and the ??? was in the first one we looked in. Unfortunately I didnt' realise that touching it popped the NM. (yes, i should have known better) and we weren't quite ready, so we wiped outside the room and got up to try again. Also, Annes accidently WS'd a fomor when the NM teleported.

But..This time we had a strategy, Riko was kiting the pupil's so Annes could tank the Professor.

Win!

Here are some screenshots. I'm being lazy today so you can work out what screenshot is about what.

(this one was with the NM at 1% and me freaking out because of no MP and everyone was going to get slept and die)

And the mysterious statue~! (Don't worry Im not going to ruin anything for those that haven't done this. But its good!!)

Group shot!

/end.