Chains Of Promathia « Red Mage Rules

I never want to see him again.

August 5, 2008 at 7:04 pm | In Chains Of Promathia | 5 Comments

Wow, Its august, on the 13th I’ve been writing this blog for a year! Holy moley o_O doesnt seem like more then 5 months. Guess l’ll need to do something special!

Anyways… are you ready for a long, boring retelling of events?! YES?! WELL OK THEN! KEEP READING!!

Yarr, tas been a wee while since I last updated about my CoP static. Mainly because I didn’t want to write too many updates that sounded somewhat like this:

“FUCK YOU OURYU! WHY WONT PEOPLE CORDINATE PROPERLY AND STOP LEAVING EARLY!? GA! STOP KILLING US MOTHEKJGDJHWRBGFJGFBER!”

Ohohohohoh sweet Ouryu. It wasnt as dire as we all thought, it just seemed like a kick in the balls as the static had cleared all the other missions on its first proper run, loosing 3 times sucked! That coupled with Kroeger always leaving early alot >_< making it feel like we’d wasted the night. Really, we lost due to not knowing what we were doing, we didn’t have a clear strategy.

However a major issue that surfaced again in this fight was we had no BLMs and no backup tank for Livija but after a few lengthy debates Kroeger levelled up Warrior to 50, Kim got Black Mage to 50 as did Spankey. That caused a long delay in the CoP schedule but it was smooth sailing from there Our final setup was; NIN, WAR, BLM, BLM, BLU & RDM, still far from ideal. However Livija did a brilliant job at tanking (using hi-potions really helped) and hate was shared with Kroeger. Me and Lee were on sleep duty. While Kim and Spankey nuked.

We Mellee’d him down to 80%, at that time the DD’s created a Skillchain to Magicburst two Aeroga IIs, then popped an Icarus wing and did it again. After this we swapped to the sleep nuke strategy, first with x2 Freeze and then spamming whatever

Spankey spammed a tad too fast and died ^_^; but upon seeing Ouryu was at like 25% we just thought ‘KILL THE FUCKER! DO WHATEVER’ and we won!

A bit I found funny in our test run with the new setup; when I noticed Kroeger wasn’t Provoking at all and told him to do so as he needed to be second on the hate list he said, ‘What?! No one told me I needed to be second on the hate list!’, lol XD you just spent the past three weeks levelling warrior to be our backup tank XDD Thats not a dig at you dood hahaha, but I had to mention it for the memories <3 Funnies.

So there. Screw you Ouryu. I never want to see you again! 1/4 Still allot better then most people I think

Sooooo finally onto bigger and better things! The story of CoP just keeps getting better and better~

This time our heroes set out to find Promathia. Prishe let them in on a secret, she had seen the God of Twilight in ye olde Sacrium!

Just like toast always falls down on the buttered side so did our plans to get this done fast. Also, Spankey, Kim and Lee didn’t show up for the run. Its great having such dependable members. Oh so much butter there was…

THE PLAN:

1. Farm one key thing from fomors.

2. Farm one key thing from an NM.

3. Fight next Sunday.

Yup.

Kroeger decided to NM it up first, so our fomor hate would remain low at first or things would go balls up. We epicly struggled to the NM, against all odd. Preparing to fight I got a /t.

Toji >> CoP 4:3? [Team Up?]

After making sure they understood we just wanted the key…

>> Toji [/nod] CoP 4:3. [Key]s [Yes, Please], NM [No Thanks.]

Toji >> [Key]s OK

Ok! Lets team up! I’d normally say no to things like this, but cant hurt! can it?!

YES! kinda.

Moral: Auto-translate blows. Somehow they didnt get we just wanted the keys and no matter what we couldn’t get this across >_< Bless them as they were all so sweet, and prolly just thought we didnt know what the hell we were doing hahaha. In the end we just gave in and helped them with the entire mission which took alot longer to do then we wanted D:. A fomor key dropped out of an agro so wasn’t all bad ^^:

I guess theres more of a story to that but icba writing anymore Lets wrap up fast!

We farmed our key after we finished the mission.

Yay, Mission compleated. Now we have to do it again for the members that didn’t show…

They were nice, wonder if they understood what we ment or just thought we were retarded, trying to get keys and lot on them when they had all the ones we needed.

Good times.

Twist! All very cool. When she spoke to Promathia I got tingles

Woot! I finally get to see the paintings Daymn, CoP story wins so much! CS’s followed!

Mr. Barthezz-face-man, I DONT LIKE YOU!

END

Red Mage rules: Refresh cycle goes; Yourself > Whm > Pld > Others. When it wears on yourself you know the next person in the cycles is about to go, so cast in that order again. Obvious but hasnt been a rule yet

Playtime: 155 days, 0 hours, 23 minutes and 45 seconds.

Sm Vs Diabolos

April 1, 2008 at 1:12 am | In Chains Of Promathia, SM Events | 6 Comments
Tags: Evasn

[Rawr!]

Pwnage >;D

On our test run, with no Meds, Food or 2hrs we got Diabolos down to 40%. It was then we realised we could win~ with a shout to [Full attack!], a spam of meds, food and 2hrs fired and we kicked his ass!

One close call with a sleepga ^_^; Livija got down to 40Hp. Luckily we woke up just in time and spammed vokes + stuns left right and centre xD

CoP is uber fun at the moment. I really look forward to the mission days Staticing with SM is mint, its proved to be a great way to spend some time with friends and actually get something accomplished in FFXI for a change! A friend of mine, Pod, used to complain when it was his CoP static night as he didn’t like the people in his party. For me CoP has been Fun+1 so far, I feel hes really missed out on a great FFXI experience. Why bother with it if the ride isn’t fun? ‘Its not the destination that matters, its the journey’.

Only thing I’d alter relating to CoP is to plonk Spen in the static, so that all my in real life friends who play FFXI would be along for the ride. I also think he’ll never get the CoP story done now too -_-; Mind you, not that he can never be assed with story anyway. To Rank him up I have to drag him by the heals!

[The important thing is, the missions ended with a sunset. Perdy.]

[Ooo, chapter 4! Is that half way there?]

Next mission is Ouryu. I’d like to hope Ouryu will keep up the winning steak (1/1 Mammets and 1/1 Diabolos)… but we have no Blms or Smns ^_^; Eeep! The fight is on the 30th, what will I do till then?!

~
Off topic… *Job changes to Dark Knight*

yesterday it was a year ago Evasn quit the game ;_;

*/Souleater*

*/cry*

Come back damn you!

While I’m in my Dark Knight gear, Ding 61, with 1.3k dmg on Guillotine! Shame I’m quitting for Rng hahah >_<

Mammet Madness!! CoP Static Update~

March 30, 2008 at 1:50 am | In Chains Of Promathia, SM Events | Leave a Comment

???: ‘Enough Bahamut!
We are alive! We were born for the purpose of living!’

*fades to white*

Date: 21st of February

Location: Tavnazia

Purpose:

<MillionsKnives> Woot woot! CoP Static day!

<Kroeger> Let us all go kick some Mammet arse.

<Spankey> PLd POWer lolz i,m so hIgh

<Othelia> I forgot my food…

<Akaimajikku> what cs do i need?

<Datsuki> O_o

Scary scary Mammets! It took a good two to three weeks of planning to get our final line up for the fight.

Soooo long.

It wasn’t even funny.

Seriously three weeks!

We have such an odd array of jobs in the static it was impossible to follow one of the standard guides. Plus Kroeger was adamant he could tank a Mammet as Drg/Blu, but I was having none of that! After much debate we managed to get a set-up everyone agreed on, kinda a mash of the ’standard’ strategies.

Nin/War (Datsuki)

Blu/Whm (Othelia)

Drk/War (Me)

Pld/War (Spankey)

Whm/Blm (Akaimajikku)

Smn/Whm (Kroeger)

The idea was to split into three teems:

Mammet 1 – Solo tanked by Nin, with assistance from Whm (haste & cures)

Mammet 2 – Carby kited by Smn

Mammet 3 – Tanked by Pld, DD’d by Drk, Blu acts as dual DD and healer.

Team 1 & 2 are to just hold the Mammets. The idea was to get Mammet 3 down as fast as possible to make life easier. To do this the Drk gets 100% TP and uses Berserk+Last Resort+Souleater+Blood Weapon. At the same time the Pld uses Invincible to keep hate. The Blu is emergency healing, but Invincible should minimise healing needed. In theory the Mammet goes down very fast.

Now that only two Mammets are left, the situation of the Nin and Smn are evaluated and the next target is chosen accordingly. From there on out, standard killing, keeping the Mammets locked in Drg form.

So we had a plan. A mix between the kite, Nin+Whm strategies along with an old school Pld+Drk addition. Now to put it into practice!

As is tradition is SM, almost everyone was late, some with CS’s not done. But we got there in the end! Beautiful zone, I needed to take a moment to admire the view. Unlike anything I’ve seen in other games.

Makes me wish FFXI hooked up to my brain like in GitS:SAC. I’d love to be there and feel the icy air brush over my face, sat resting as the sun sets, tired from the long walk to get there.

Smooth getting to the Linn, even if it did take an awful long time ^_^; None the less we arrived at the arena. One test run was planned with no food, meds, 2hrs or items, just to see what we were up against. Kim being a Whm would reraise once we were out and then we go for the final kill!!!!!!

In we goooo!

To be honest I was actually kinda sceptical. I thought we didn’t have enough shadow jobs to pull it off buuuuut

Everything went quite well! Considering we didn’t use food, meds, 2hrs and only tested the liquids it went very well! Team three’s Mammet got down to 40% before we wiped due to positioning issues – too close to eath other so people got caught in -ga spells, plus Kroeger had no clear kitting space. Easily remedied though. All confident we waited for the 3 mins to spit us out when…

Akaimajikku uses Reraise.

<MillionsKnives> kim wait!!1

<Spankey> NO KIM!

Mammet-19 hits Akaimajikku for 152 points of damage.

Akaimajikku falls to the ground.

<Kroeger> NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Laughter, tears and face palming followed. Sweet Kim didn’t realise she needed to wait till we were kicked out, so we’d basically wasted an hour and a half lol! Funny now but at the time I was lost for words XD

*fade to white*

Date: 9th of March

Location: Tavnazia

Purpose:

<MillionsKnives> Woot woot! CoP Static day take 2!

<Kroeger> Let us all go kick some Mammet bottom.

<Spankey> uuuurg, im hung over

<Othelia> I forgot my food… again…

<Akaimajikku> at least i got my CS done

<Datsuki> o_O

Got to the arena, explained the strategy, test run take 2, kim knows not to reraise till we’re out, new standing positions, BOOM!

In, out, shake it all about. Test run 2 went very very well. Time for the full Monty!

Everything went to plan! I remember at one point saying to Livija with a nervous shocked giggle ‘We’re actually gonna win!’

‘So he did, Lloyd Grossman sources’

No deaths, first real try, take that ‘possibly the hardest CoP mission’. SM kicks yao ass! Great teamwork guys and gals We were so smug Kroeger and me added the strat to FFXIwiki heehee.

At least 3-3 (also known as ‘the annoying mountain one’) was easier to plan! Not much to note other then the EXTREME STRESS OF CLIMBING THAT F**KING MOUNTAIN!!! …. *deep breath* … it seems so simple once you’ve got to the top tho~

So simple me and Spen decided to do a boneyard gully NM every week, however on our first try that kinda failed due to well… us not knowing we both needed the key item to get into the BCNM ^_^;

Diabolos tomorrow wish us luck!

Playtime: 129 days, 18 hours, 12 minutes and 48 seconds.

Red Mage Rules: I went as Dark Knight D: so idk.

Campaign Exp record and Barthezz is back :O!

February 17, 2008 at 5:15 pm | In Brenner, Chains Of Promathia, General FFXI, SM Events | Leave a Comment

I made a personal record today My previous record of EXP gained from a single Campaign Battle was 3200 but I broke that by getting 3600 from a Pashhow Campaign. Spen (74 War) and Izzy (60 Sch) were with me got 1500 and 750 respectively from the same battle. Rdm really is the best job for getting EXP from the system. We can gain points for exp in all the fields, I also tanked mobs through that battle as Rdm/Whm. Sure Rdm/Nin would do better on the tanking front but Rdm/Whm can hold those mobs fine plus it doesn’t cost anything, has Erase (which is a godsend against Quadov NMs who AoE knock back gravity), has -Na’s and keeps me self dependent as I have Reraise. When tanking Divine Seal + Convert not only keep me going but keeps ze hate on me if some other fool tries to come and steal my exp *angry fist motion* The point is I <3 Campaign and Rdm lol.

One complaint is the faultly Mobs in Pashhow and the frickin’ NPCs. The Npc’s randomly charge out halfway accross the map to kill the mobs. Sonia ran and claimed Adamantking miles from the fort which pisses me off to no end xD they do this all the time at Pashhow. I’d always thought they followed player who were out to hold Mobs but she really did just run off.

Also the mobs are faulty, we were waitng 15/20 mins after the first wave for a 2nd one, eventually I ran to 1/2 down the map to see a Quadov NM stood still until he agro’d me, i ran for my life linking about 5 other quadov and dropped dead xD. He then headed towards the fort. I got up straight away and chased him, as soon as hit got to the fort 50 NPCs swarmed the NM, killing the it in 10 seconds, I shit you not. Its early days yet so I’m sure it’ll be fixed.

Ooo Ooo, another tip is you can lock the bastard Quadov NMs that AoE Gravity+Knockback into just constantly Protecting themselves by dispelling them constantly lol, makes them allot easier to kill.

OTHER NEWS!!!!!!!!!!

Theres been two 40 cap Brenners in the LS. They’re allot more hectic then the 30 cap we’ve been doing and very fun. Ive gone as both Rdm and dark, Rdm cant hold out but Drk/Whm is hella fun! Blink helps a suprising amout and diaga really screws people over.

I love this shot of me killing Maruk >=D The way he’s kneeling down, falling to the ground with Livija stood staring while I drain the last bit of life from him. Seems like it has a deeper meaning xD

We’ve had a few brenners with 12 people and then they get down to about 6 of us as people have to go. Im really not sure which I prefer, 6 a side is so hectic and mad which makes it fun. However I like the 3 Vs 3 as it feels more personal and you can really analyse the other team.

I’m also gonna point out how insanely overpowered Sam is in 40 cap Brenner, freeking Seigan makes them untouchable. I’d never leveled Sam and i dont know much about it, but id always thought Diaga got rid of Thrid Eye/ Seigan but apparently not xD. We took subjobs off for the last round which totally screwed me over as Drk/Whm but Sam was still strong as ever >:| DAMN YOU TROOPER!

Look who should pop up two days ago…

Barthezz xD

He’s back and transferred to hades As soon as he got on he was back to helping me which I feel bad about >.< We went to skill up in the Tree and I finally got 240 sword skill and this:

Then the next day he’s on helping me camp Ose and get some WS points on it @_@!

We are at the Ose for frigging ages and didn’t see it pop. I’m at 90/300 points from it though can’t wait to get that WS! Also while there I treated myself and got me this:

yes, yes, its kinda late as I’m 75, but what the hey. At least it made up for not getting the Assault Jerkin.

Barthezz comming back makes me realise how little I accomplish in game without him >.>; My last major breakthrough was Rank 10 in Bastok and that was with his help. When he logged on I thinking ‘hmm, I should really go to the AH and get some better gear xD’ because nothing has changed since he left lol. In the end there wasn’t really anything I could get except Wooden Gauntlets and l’ll be fooked if im spending 700k on them. Oh well… I did plan to have Nin at 37 by now, but Ni has jumped from 270k to 350k just as I need to buy it. I saw it for 270k and thought, ‘It’ll fall in price.’ -_-. I burnt the last of the seals I had with Lee and Spen on PP in the hopes of Ni but we didn’t get anything useful at all.

CoPs being slowly going ahead. The Minotor fight was allot easier then I thought, Livija back-tanked making it easy as hell. Even getting there went very smooth ^^ We tried to farm a few subligars after but didn’t have enough people.