Fabulous Friday Fafnir!

It has been almost 1 month now since we got Fafnir/Nidhogg claim. Today we finally did it. It popped first window and my man Loire got it for us! I got my share of the claim too, lol.


We claimed with only 9 people present.


Around 80% the rest of our guys came, all 3 of them, lol.
Some action shots:




The Final Angel Knight Blow(TFAKB)! Good bye Fafnir!


I know what you are thinking. I can hear your loud mouth brain, "oh get to the drops already." You clicked on my blog and I should show you the drops now? Well Fuck you very much here they are.

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At first I was like, woah woah woah wait a second only 3 Fire Crystals dropped? That can't be right. A split second later the saw everything else load up on my screen. No Ridill though :( but lookie what we have here, Neptunal Abjuration: head.

I got the N. Head. Although I think a some others may have benefited from this more than me, but they were not present and Pharanx told me to lot. This is probably one of the few and rare cases of where a Thief got a N. Head before any other N. piece, so I am very grateful to my LS. Thank you AngelKnight for all the hard work.

Also congratulations to Yamasemi and Bramd!

Next up, saving money for Cursed Cap. lol, I r teh g1mp!

Proto-Omega #1

Having recently gained access to Al'Taieu access I joined a Limbus Linkshell, "UlimaUndressers(UU)." Thursday was my first run with them and we did the Proto-Omega fight.

Fight wasn't bad at all. Everyone who could, slept to 300% TP for Spirits Within. I did my part, but kinda screwed it up. lol. I'm such a noob.

A stack of Sleep pots down the drain. I'll get the bastard next time...

The fight itself was fun, not that exciting or challenging though. I hear Ultima is much harder so I am looking forward to that.


Drops were very good.

I think this was UU's first Omega's heart.
Congratulations to Osyris on the Legs. Vang on the Body and Starafur on the head.

That is Cix on the right side. He is such a cam whore :P

I really like limbus. It is fun to do, it is short and the rewards are outstanding. SE has really done a great job with it as compared to Dynamis. You can spend a year in Dynamis and not even see a particular AF2. Looking forward to more Limbus action and UU, they seem to be a good bunch of folks.

Zethren's Funnies!

I had this PT the other day with this guy who'll remain anonymous. He was the PT leader and our Ninja. He wasn't a bad ninja at all. It was just that he would loose focus of what was going on in the PT because of things like his linkshell "is talking about underage sex." Towards the end of the Party it happened again and I called him out on it. Very funny to try to watch him make himself look like the truthful guy. Notice he's just randomly pressing his TP macro without even looking at what is going on.

Next one is just plain Apathy gone wrong by Zander(75WHM), lol.

SEEEEEEEEEE!!!

I am sorry for the lack of updates for the past week or so. The truth is nothing worthwhile has been going on. I got Black Mage to level 44 last night. Went from 41->44. Thanks to my good friend Raijun for the excellent party
I've progressed in COP very well. We got Sea access last week. It was very fun. I just have the PM8-3 and 8-4 left to do and then I get my Raja's Ring.
I have some cool shots for you. Enjoy!

Mamets
This was a fun fight. There were 5 of these against us all. Not a bad fight at all. Just keep them out of BLM form and you're golden.


Omega
I was on bard and provided March and Mambo to our tank. It was cake. We used 3 CCBs at 60% 40% and 20%. No problems at all. It was like cheating


Ultima
This one was a little harder than Omega. He had some nasty moves, but still we used the same strategy. Mambo&March on the NInja and CCBs at 60%, 40% and 20% HP.

I want to try these fights in the future again, but with a PLD tank and using not as many CCBs. That should be a better challenge and more fun. Seemed like we breezed through that BC very easily.

After the fight. Bahamut went ape shit and tried to kill us all with Mega Flare.


Tenzen saved everyone by absorbing the damage via his Samurai Sword. But it changed him and we would go ahead and fight in Chapter 7 of COP. Ofcourse we beat his ass.


Next up...


Which threw you in a strange place called "Al'Taieu." Also known as Sea. It is truly amazing to step foot there for the first time. It is kind of like Sky, most things don't aggro and the terrain is very nicely done.


Mission 8-1 is simply getting access to "Grand Palace of Hu'Xzoi" via a bunch of pop ??? NM fights. PM8-2 was really a bitch. It took us like 4 hours to do it. Total pain in the ass and if things couldn't get any worse guess who came out looking for revenge because we were killing all the pots, Jailer of temperance lol. It was very funny. We died, but got right back up and kept moving.

Next week is 8-3 and hopefully we can kill the Final Boss the same day as well.

Sky Exp. PT

So I was getting ready to go to Gustav Tunnel last night to join my LS mates for some skill ups and Hobow NM when I get a Blind invite. I usually don't take blind invites, but I was like what the hell let me laugh at this noob.
Blazeoffury invites you to join his party.
What could become of this PT? To start it off, DEATH. Blazeofnoob vokes Despot on the way to camp. Crosis our Healer was far away. So I was stuck there with like 150MP left to cure them all . Way to go Blaze... XD

After that 'incident' our PT turned out to be pretty good. Thanks to Crosis I've just about mastered the main deco weapon camp. Good tips. Hadn't exped on Bard for a while now so it was very fun, especially getting away from TAOU areas. Something tells me I'll be PTing with him the future, damn 71NIN. lol

Yeah, Nid!

So Nidhogg popped today, first window. We had only 6 people there. I am glad it popped when it did, would have been a total waste of time camping it with such a small turn out. I don't know who got it or what dropped. Congrats to them.


Sup Suppa!

I finally got my Suppanomimi Earring. A very special thanks to Sep's Army for letting me tag along on their run. And a even greater thanks to my good buddy Cherron for hooking me up with his Linkshell's Event. I am very greatful. Thanks guys. ^^

Evil Taru :x

Zethren's Funnies

Redneck

This one one of those nights when LS mates were "Bonding." Note: I edited it to take out shout and say crap that was going on, but nothing was taken out of the LS CHAT.



Kraken Club

I am sure you read Neo's post about us skilling up in Kuftal Tunnel the other day. Here is a different take on that night. I send him a tell to join us and I tell him that I blew my last paycheck, bought a ton of gil and got a Kraken Club.

Although Surprised and Shocked by my actions he belived me. So he rushes over and I trade him my "Kraken Club(Shell Buster)."



Please feel free to submit any funny screenshots or chats that you have. You can reach me via PM on qcdn or e-mail: Zethren_ti@yahoo.com. I appreciate it and I'll gladly meantion your name. Thanks.

COP Update, PM6-4.

Update coming tonight as I forgot to bring the pictures with me to work today. We sooo owned this fight. Thanks Neophytal for letting me borrow your Royal Cloak. I need to get one of these, it rocks. ^^
lol Forgot again.

JP BUTTON!

I've added a new special feature, "JP Button." I get feedback from Japanese speakers all the time saying they like the pictures, but they cannot understand the English(followed by ;;). That is where the JP Button comes in. Press and VIOLA ze Blog will now be in Japanese.
Google Translate For The Win!.

Enjoy and thanks for reading.

Goodbye my Friend

This post is dedicated to the ex-Leader of "VanadielFamily" Linkshell, Aluveru. I joined this Linkshell in the middle of 2005. I was the only English person in the shell. Everyone was Japanese, but that did that matter at all. Everyone was very nice and treated everyone with respect and we had A LOT OF FUN.

Aluveru knew how to run the linkshell and truly made it a family atmosphere. Back when I had no Sky or HNM Linkshell I would really look forward to his Weekend events. They were fun and helpful in getting everyone what they wanted. In this Linkshell I killed my first HNM, Simugrah.

I will truly miss you my friend. I wish in the future you get some time to play again. For now Syonara.

New Blog Idea

I've been thinking about doing for a while now, but was having problems figuring out how I'd do it. "Quetzy Interviews." I'd speak with different kinds of people on the server and interview them. For example, interview with different End-Game Linkshell leaders. See how their thoughts are different and similar. Interview with a qcdn mod, interview with a random player, etc.

For my first part I am thinking about interviewing a few End Game LS leaders. Maybe some will refuse, who knows, but sounds like fun. My request to everyone is help in generating questions, after all it is you who will be reading. What kind questions would you like to have answered? Any other suggestions or thoughts would be much appreciated as this is a new thing for me.

Thanks for reading.

We're Famous!

I've been progressing very well on COP. Players from my static are very skillful and competent. We've tore through all of the Three Paths BC fights.

First up were the Moblins. (1/1)

Party Setup: Zethren:BRD/WHM, Jediknight: MNK/NIN, Maxzz:NIN/WAR, Sdavtaker:THF/NIN, Zanderheizen:WHM/BLM, Dragod:BLM/WHM

This BC was not that hard. The thing about this BC is that there are 4 Moblins and 1 Bugbear. We had out THF kite the Bugbear. Our Nin took on 2 moblins, the MNK took on one and the fourth one we just bound or I kited around a bit.



Second Mithra Trackers (1/1)

Party Setup: Zethren:BRD/WHM, Jediknight: PLD/WAR, Maxzz:NIN/WAR, Sdavtaker:WHM/BLM, Zanderheizen:BLM/WHM, Dragod:BLM/WHM

Now this BC was hard. Most people do this with the SMN or BLM burn. We faught these staright up. These guys are a pain and they inflict a lot of damage when they do their Darkness skillchain. We started off with killing the BST and her Pet and then proceded to wipe. We RRed back up, recovered and killed the rest. Wiping on purpose was a great idea. It guaranteed us "starting the BC" type of situation, but with only 2 Mithras left and one Wyren.

A few things to note about this BC. Yes the Mithras and their pets are sleepable, but the Mithras themselves quickly become resistant to sleep. The pets however you can keep on sleeping over and over. Although I think they develop some resists where don't stay asleep for as long, but you can still sleep em. Oh yes and you don't have to have the pet or the dragon dead to win the BC.

Phishe getting ready for the fight(but doesn't really fight lol)


All dead!

The unMighty Snoll Tzar! (1/1)

Party Setup: Zethren:THF/DRK, Jediknight:PLD/WAR, Maxzz:WAR/NIN, Sdavtaker:WHM/BLM, Zanderheizen:RNG/WAR, Dragod:BLM/WHM

Most COP parties seem to flunk at this fight their first try. However, we did outstanding. You have 45 seconds to do 8000-9000HP worth of damage to the snoll. You can use a special salt to give you 15 seconds each. We used 2 salts, it died as I was getting ready to use the third. I found this fight to be very easy. Heck easier than the Tracker battle.

People told me over and over again that a THF is not that great for this fight. Bent on proving them wrong. A THF can be very effective for this provided. Heck in this case as effective as a WAR..YES A WAR. See for yourself.

Went in, used SATA, Soul Eater, Last Resort, Hide and popped a SATA on the TANK. During this the WHm used a salt. After he was done, the PLD popped his 2hr and started to use his salt. And we just beat him down during and after that. I didn't even get to finish using my salt. I am I sure I could have done better damage on that SATA with better gear. I couldn't find any DEX rings so I used STR and a NQ Darksteel Kukri.

I told everyone that if we go 1/1 on this fight we're going to be famous. As soon as the fight ends Sda yells, "WE'RE FAMOUS!" hahaha...

I am veyr proud of my COP team. Everyone did a great job. I hope our sucess and fame continues when we do the airship battle next week. Oh yeah, I forgot to meantion...You can't have a BC without Zander Dying now can you?

After that I did all of the CS and took pictures of some nice moments.

Poor Galka(SMN with Great Axe)), sad to loose his Moblin friends...

The inFamous CID laugh!

Some very cute Tarutaru Pics for Zylia.

Last but not least a special Thank You to Zaltana for helping be kill The Chapter 6 NMs.

Next week, Airship!

No Claims for us this weekend. Kaizen got Nidhogg today. Grats to them. Drop was a A. body.
I fininshed Dark Knight Subjob over the weekend. I got into a really nice PT which took me to level 41. I won't be touching this for a while now.
So far I have the following subs done
Mage: WHM,BLM,SMN
Melee: WAR,NIN,SAM,DRK,THF

I am pretty much done with the subs that I really want to have. There is only one sub that is really left for me to level and that is RDM and maybe RNG(MAYBE).

Currently working on getting BLM to 75. Hopefully it will be done in 2-3 months. Then I'll go back and finish up WAR(47 atm). After that go on a Merit Frenzy and spend like a month or so Maxing out Merits for everything. Good Plan, ja? Haha.

A very big congratulations to my buddy Xan on his New Novia Earring.

Zethren's Funnies!
This is a new section that I am going to try to do on a weekly basis. Basically I'll post all funny things for your laughing pleasure. Today I bring you...

Spanish PT ONLY!!

Run Baja Run!

This is from a while ago. Cythe invited me to do some ISBC with him. Bajaratt DCed during the middle of the fight. He came back during the time when we were all charmed.

Lol, OWNED!

There I am standing proudly on the big guy's paw, singing my songs when I see a little Golden Tarutaru running away fron Nidhogg. What the hell is she doing I think to myself, where the hell is she going? Not long after I see a couple of Darters running after her...I put my hand on my face, shake my head left and right, "not this again" ;/

Shoo Fly Don't Bother me!
(Thanks Neophytal for the title suggestion)


It was another fine Saturday in the Arey. Angel Knight was prepping for the 6th day and a very high chance of a HQ King popping.


Ofcourse Nidhogg did pop. We had like 15 members there when we claimed. Even without a full alliance we did very well. We brought it down under 50% before the rest of our members came(Stupid Dynamis, I skipped mines though. shhhh...Don't tell Daveman).


Toasty


Everything was going very well. It went down to 10% or so and the rest of our members were there. We were doing great, but Nidhogg goes ape shit and Wings 2-3 times back to back. I've herd of people in other Linkshells going to red HP even.

Not that bad. We recovered fine, but something happens. One of our Paladins, bent on not breaking Angel Knight tradition missvokes a Darter.

We do out very best to take control over the changed situation. Sleep, timed nukes, sleep, nukes, etc. We managed to take down most of the darters. I belive in the end there were 1-2 left, but we simply ran out of time and Nidhogg went Hyper. That was the end of that for us. Perse got it next while it was still in Hyper. Then Kaizen and then finally JDA killed it(I belive it went regular for them).

I was very annoyed at first. Pissed...How come something like this happen[again] ? I can understand during the pop while trying to voke the NM you voke something else, but towards the end of the fight? But after a couple of days I realized hey mistakes happen. There is no sense in feeling bad and angry over something like this. There are way too many problems in life to feel sad about. The last thing a person should feel angry about is over a Video Game.

One of these days, we'll show everybody that Angel Knight doesn't only kills Nidhogg, but exps on Darters at the same time as well.

See you next week.