A Tour and some new goodies

Well, I figured it'd be kinda fun to show off my Mog House a bit ^_^  I'm a crap collector and my MH shows it :S;;;  It's a lot like how my actual room is in terms of being pretty much packed with decoration and lots to look at~  I've got each of the various fish tanks, 3 Hobby Bo's, some eggies, my Emeralda from Alchemy and some miscellanous bottles in front of it to make it look more alchemisty.

  All that Alchemy stuff is behind the folding screen in this pic, where the Behemoth statue is.  I also have all my Chocobo Circuit trophies and the storyline trophies on display :D

Got my mannequin sporting Askar and some miscellanous gear I have lying around unused, looking at the Gold trophy and the Marriage Certificate above it ^^  Or maybe she's wondering why my fish disappear from the tank occassionally... You can kinda see my Christmas boot on the left side in the back... yanno, just in case Santaru decides to come early 8D

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Clave and I picked up our Matrimony bands/rings the other day too :D  lol and he was on THF and didn't have an snazzy gear with him for screenshots >:(

 

Finished A Shantotto Ascension the other day as well with Clave, Cellfish, Boatsoap, and Klia, all from my social LS lolMatrixlol ^^  Was a fun final fight with THE best cutscene afterward lol but I won't spoil it for anyone! Go see it yourself XD  Got myself the Tatsumaki Sitagoromo augmented with Haste+3 Accuracy +7 to be my new TPing pants on WHM meleeing :D

 

 

Been doing MMM a lot lately with Clave as I've said in the previous post when I got my Heron Ring and we get Brigand's Charts sometimes and both of us finally got our Penguin Rings from it ^_^ Yay.  Still need to fish more though... fish fish fish.. 

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Flame is my favorite asian.

J-J-J-Jubbah!

Was given a nice surprise in last night's Zhayolm run!  We mainly did the run for the sole purpose of getting Cellfish the 15 Morrigan hands he needed in order to finish 'em, but we met the requirements for my 5th Floor froggie and lo and behold!  She actually dropped!

^__^ And Clave had already bought Ingots to save up for his own Usukane body, but since he doesn't have all the parts yet, he gave them to me (with the condition I keep a sharp eye out for more ingots for him of course~) ^^ Yay!  Finally that drawing I posted a few months ago with my char in Marduk's Jubbah is accurate ;o~

In other news!  Clave and I have also been fishing a bunch as I mentioned in the last entry -- got ourselves some Lu Shang's and my fishing is currently 43 now and so we've been doing the newest Moblin Maze Mongers Voucher 08, Aquatic Depopulation Team to try to get some extra Brigand/Pirate's Charts as well as (mainly) the Seagull/Heron Rings added in the update.  Clave's already got his ring set and we've been workign on mine but with no luck yet.  Also been fishing up Bhefhel Marlins for the Inside the Belly quest and Clave got a few Pirate Charts the other day from his.  And as ya can see from the screenshot, we got a Mercurial Kris on our very first one!  Sold within like an hour for ~3.77M I think.

After doing the far-too-pansy-to-even-be-called-a-fight against Ramuh for ASA, I decided to solo Ramuh Prime as Whinja.  Actually was a nice challenge because Shockspikes kinda pwned me with KClub when Stoneskin and Barthundra were down lol ;~; Stun ftl. He got me down to like 6HP at one point because of that, but I soon recovered and beat him down npnpnp

It seems I'm starting to gather a fanbase :O

Update!

Well! Late last week Clave bought both of us Lu Shang Rods since he got em fairly cheap on AH, so we've been fishing a lot since then -- He's around 32 and I'm almost 29.  Nothin' to boast about just yet, but I did come across an interesting scene at the Fishing Guild in Windurst...

It would seem that Babubu is to short to be able to sprinkle fish flakes into the tank so they all died.... Poor fishies ;~;

I also got my Marduk Tiara this past week as well, having gotten the 25 off the Arrapago boss.  I quickly bought all the ingots I needed off the AH and turned em in ASAP so I could get my pretty headpiece :D

Nothing else really new in terms of gear (aside I guess from buying a Sniper's Ring +1 for my WHM melee set to use in conjunction with Toreador's), but been doing a lot of camping with these new NMs!  Aiming mainly for the +12ACC 2 ring set as well as the HP/MP ones which would be a lovely replacement for Sniper's/Vivian's which take away my precious Taru HP and the +100HP overall would really help with my Sublimation pool too!

 

 We fought Rapido a few days before the update -- nu drop of course.  heck, no good drops off any of these NMs we fought below just yet aside from the STR thingy from Corrido, and another doohickey off Jenglot and a Likho Talon off Likho, whatever that's for.

 

 

In addition to all these, we also fought the Dyna-something Beetle in CN, Hyakinthos in Sauromugue [S], and Belladonna in Saruta [S].  Again, no noteworthy drops but we're gonna be persistant until we get them rings!

Kyarutaru vs. Kalokoko FIGHT! + other crap

While doing FoV and helping Clave unlock Empyreal Arrow for his newly attained 75RNG, my NPC Kalokoko finally dinged 61 so I got to do possibly the most fun quest in the line of 'em!  Fighting her one on one!  It's kinda like a Maat fight 'cept versus my own personal midget -- I had to zoom in my camera in order to get good screenshots lol.

I went WHM/NIN of course which deermined her job to be RDM/NIN but she didn't stand a chance.  I Hexa'd the hell out of her and she only got me with two spells, Sleep II and Water III, when she used Chainspell.. and the Water III only did like 30 damage since I had stoneskin up and all too.  I have her in Seer's gear because on my own laptop I used to have those DATs swapped with a cute schoolgirl uniform and I just haven't swapped em on this one yet.

In other news, I got my COR to 75, having taken it up with Clave's RNG for a nice boost with Hunter's Roll.  It's a shame I'll never really get to use COR since I have relic/KClub WHM, but it was still fun to level nevertheless!  Got to put my Cobra Harness to use and my full AF2 set and Denali Jacket after getting 75 in that awesome party ^^  Could have gotten a higher chain but we had to get going.




Lately, Clave and I have been helping our LS friend, Phatdade, with his Windurst missions and, now that he's switched to Bastok, those missions as well, so I took a few screenshots along the way of our records and Dade's silliness:

 Take that Tatzlwurm and Shadow Lord!  Easily broken records with our small group!  I melee'd against Shadow Lord but went RDM to Moon Reading, but having Clave there with his Amanomurakumo = rapeage in any situation.

Clave and I have also been trioing Limbus runs lately since the group we were in stopped going and we still wanted some upgrade items for our main characters and for Rydiah.  Already got the RNG pieces for Clave and one of the BRD pieces for Rydiah and a RDM for me in just the few runs we've been doing whenever we've got the chance.  ^_^ Getting around 20 or so ABC's each run too which isn't a bad profit for just being able to beat up the Elementals and various Enhanced beasts in Temenos or Slimes, crabs, and bones in Apollyon!  The challenge of pushing through it together has been pretty fun (even if we did have a bad run-in with Shiva that one time...)

Trio Triumphs!

Long time no post!  Not much interesting over the past few weeks I suppose other than getting to Maat's Cap level, though today, Clave and I had some fun with trio challenges

First up in order to prepare for the second, Clave & I trio'd Bomb Queen, utilizing my Kraken Club to gain TP fast so that I could immediately switch to the summoned Bomb Princes & Princesses and swiftly finish them off with an assault of flying hammers with Hexa Strike.  The fight was long, probably a little over 20 minutes, and we had to contend with sleeping the Volcanic Ash that repopped, but we easily kept it slept with Lullaby and Repose handy. 

And so we got the ring for Clave, which he would use on his DRK for the next fight!

TENZEN!

Well, I suck and was too busy to take screenshtos during the fight, but I managed to get one at the end where Tenzen shamefully hung his head in defeat after we took him down in a little over three minutes, beating the former record of 3m26s held by 5 people, and we were just 3!  Bwahahaha!

So now finally Rydiah has Sea access and can spend the Ancient Beastcoins we've been saving to get her Loquacious and Musical Earrings.  Finally~  Also will be a good help to have her around when we low man farm Limbus with just us.

Next order of business is just more EXPing.  I'm still hoping to aim for Maat's Cap but would also like to finish my COR to 75 (current 63 -- leveling together with Clave's RNG~).  I've also been wanting to take advantage of the whole Astral Burn craze before SE figures out a way to nerf it so I can get my SMN up fast with little pain.  Hopefully I can mooch in some SMN Burn parties on BLM too in that case....  I just want those dreadful jobs out of the way since I don't really have any desire to suffer through hours of lfg as a gimp WHM or undesirable old-fashioned nuker who has no place in the TP Burns of Today.

Until next time! 

Updated WHM Melee setup

All right! Well.. the post from before with this info was from back when I only had stage 4!  Update time!

This is for WHM/NIN while bearing Mjollnir & Kraken Club! 

 

Melee TP Set:

• Tiphia Sting (HP-25 Accuracy+2 Attack+2 Evasion-4)
• Walahra Turban (HP+30 MP+30 Haste+5%)
• Peacock Charm (Dark-10 Accuracy+10 Ranged Accuracy+10)
• Suppanomimi (AGI+2 Enhances "Dual Wield" effect Sword skill +5) (When /NIN)
• Brutal Earring (Enhances "Double Attack" effect "Store TP"+1) *If No KClub
  
• Swap: Minuet Earring (STR+1 DEX+1 Minuet: Accuracy +3)
  
• Swap: Diabolos's Earring (Accuracy+3 Dark weather: Accuracy-3 Magic Accuracy+2)
• Swap: Fenrir's Earring (Daytime: Attack+10 Nighttime: Ranged Attack+10)
• Goliard Saio (DEF:42 HP+42 MP+42 "Conserve MP"+5 Enmity-5 Haste+4% Set: "Magic Def. Bonus")
• Blessed Mitts +1 (DEF:19 MP+18 MND+8 Haste+6% Enmity-4)
• Sniper's Ring +1(Accuracy+7 Ranged Accuracy+7 DEF-12)
• Toreador's Ring (DEF:1 HP+10 Accuracy+7) ~3M
• Bellicose Mantle (DEF:3 HP-10 Attack+6)
• Swift Belt (Accuracy+3 Attack-5 Haste+4%)
• Tatsumaki Sitagoromo (DEF:31 INT+2 MND+2 CHR+2 Aug: Haste+3 Accuracy+7)
• Blessed Pumps +1 (DEF:15 MP+20 MND+4 Haste+3% Enmity-5)

Alternate swaps based on day/time are Fenrir's Earring, Fire Ring and Thunder Ring.

Hexa Strike Swaps:

• Selenian Cap (DEF:19 MP+20 "Conserve MP"+3 WS Accuracy +15 STR+4 Attack+5 Accuracy+10)
• Light Gorget (Latent effect: Increases weapon skill accuracy and damage)
  
• Royal Redingote (DEF:40 MP+20 INT+5 MND+5 CHR+5 Aug: Attack+10 Accuracy +10)
• Triumph Earring (STR+2 Fire+11 Ice+11)
• Swap: Fenrir's Earring (Daytime: Attack+10 Nighttime: Ranged Attack+10)
• Healer's Mitts +1 (DEF:14 MP+15 STR+7 MND+7 Healing magic skill +15 Enmity-4)
  
• Marduk's Crackows (DEF:20 MP+3% MND+10 Enfeebling magic skill +5 String instrument skill +5 Summoning magic skill +5 Enmity-4 Set: Enhances "Fast Cast" effect)
• Royal Army Mantle (DEF: 9 STR+2 MND+2)

Randgrith/ Mystic Boon Swaps:

• Selenian Cap (DEF:19 MP+20 "Conserve MP"+3 Aug: WS Accuracy +15 STR+4 Attack+5 Accuracy+10)
• Breeze Gorget (Latent effect: Increases weapon skill accuracy and damage)
• Triumph Earring (STR+2 Fire+11 Ice+11)
• Swap: Fenrir's Earring (Daytime: Attack+10 Nighttime: Ranged Attack+10)
• Royal Redingote (DEF:40 MP+20 INT+5 MND+5 CHR+5 Aug: Attack+10 Accuracy +10)
• Healer's Mitts +1 (DEF:14 MP+15 STR+7 MND+7 Healing magic skill +15 Enmity-4)
• Rajas Ring (STR+2~5 DEX+2~5 "Store TP"+5 "Subtle Blow"+5)
• Triumph Ring (STR+5)
  
• Royal Army Mantle (DEF: 9 STR+2 MND+2)
• Potent Belt ( DEF:5 STR+3 Accuracy+8)
• Blessed Trousers +1 (DEF:33 MP+30 MND+7 Haste+4% Enmity-6)
  
• Marduk's Crackows (DEF:20 MP+3% MND+10 Enfeebling magic skill +5 String instrument skill +5 Summoning magic skill +5 Enmity-4 Set: Enhances "Fast Cast" effect)

Marduk Crackows ゲットだぜ！！！

 

Yay! Finished my first piece of Marduk gear, Marduk Crackows! Thanks to everyone in Rub Club for helping me get these pwn bewts!  They'll be in my enfeebling and divine sets mainly but I might have em in my standard base set for awhile just to show off... even though nobody can really see shoes on a taru to begin with....；－；　　And Clave calculated for me that the Marduk would be slightly better than Creek F Clomps for WSing by 1DMG & -4ENM versus the 2 Attack the Clomps have over it.  Thanks for the numbers Clave!


And grats Cell on the 25 Morrigan's piece that ya missed out on the last time since you weren't there and I got em instead!  lol but I'm glad you got em this time ^_^  You deserve it!  Even though we only drag you as THF now ＾＾

Also did a bit of campaign the other day and just like taking screenies~  Which, honestly, the main point of this blog is because I like to post my pics haha and to show that I can be pretty effective as melee WHM and have tons of fun doing it!  These two pictures were in mid-Hexas and were just cool poses while Clave and I obliterated the Yagudo forces.... though I did eat dirt quite a few times in FKN against the NM hahaha... we all did lol;;;


Well! We'll be doing another Salvage run tonight and I'll be updating this post if we're lucky enough to get anything more!