SeraphPDH: Paladin Man!: December 2006

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Merry Christmas to all...

Friday, December 15, 2006

"I tanked Dynamis Lord, and Lived! ...and then died later to a fucking eye."

Well, it's been a little while since I've posted, lets get the big stuff out of the way...


So, ExplorerII decided to take a run at the Dynamis Lord again. As far as I know, their previous attempt ( before I joined the shell) ended with a wipe at ~20%. So, being more than a year later, a rematch was in order. The details are boring, but in summary three members got their Necrosythe item thingies for their stage three relic weapons from the dragons on the way to DL. A nice bonus if you ask me. I ended up solo tanking DL *gulp* and did fine. I only needed to live for about 10 seconds thanks to the insane RDM/DRK chainspell stunlock. Invincible kept me alive and DL distracted, and the rest of the alliance did the rest. Not a bad run for only 40 people, and a Shadow mantle droped as well. I didn't get it, but there is always next time... ^^

In other news, my choco-raising effort have finally payed off. I mated my now retired yellow female chocobo RadiantPlume to a friends dark blue (purple?) chocobo with interesting results...




So, apparently, mating a yellow female with a purple male chocobo gives you a red chocobo. OK THEN! Anyway, my new chocobo is a red male named ShadowFlare. I took him in the Strength/Endurance path, so once he grew up, he ended up with a bigger tail and larger feet than normal, thanks to that choco update awhile back. Needless to say, I've been told once I max his stats, many friends want a red chococard, my poor chocobo is going to be a sexual dynamo! ^^

In leveling news, I finally got NIN37! I must say, I really can't stand low level leveling anymore. There is just too huge a pool of idiocy, and not enough decent players to counter it. Not to mention that RMT is releveling after the last wave of bannings. I don't know how these morons get to 75 so quickly, after seeing how bad they do at level 35. It was nice, because the people I was partying with were able to wait until I hit 37 before disbanding. I didn't even get to try out my new scroll, and just as well. I was sick of NIN at that point.

I also was able to finally trade in some of my Limbus items for a pair of Gallant Leggings +1. It's nice to see artifact armor in a white box, and the +12 shield skill isn't anything to laugh at either.

Finally, sometimes I think the game hates me only to discover it has pity upon me occasionally. I have been trying forever and a day to get a Resentment Cape. It's just a decent level 40 cape with +2 Enmity on it, and a -5% magic damage taken effect outside nations control. Nothing insane to be sure, but it's R/EX and drops from yet another 21 hour repop mob (see Intruder Earring.) Anyway, I went with Akanea to go kill the Death From Above NM for the low delay dagger he wanted, and wouldn't you know it on the way back to the outpost I see the NM that drops the cape. It definately wasn't there when I came through not 10 minutes earlier. With the three people on hand we destroyed the mob, and the cape actually dropped. Everyone else passed, and I became the proud owner of a new Resentment Cape. ^^

On monday, the new update comes out. I am curious exactly how the announced PLD changes will be, and I'll keep you posted to all the other game changes as well...