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.

Fafnir Readies Spike Flail...


Fafnir Readies Spike Flail...


Sunday morning Fafnir was the the most Insane camp that I ever have been to. I was there from around 1:00AM EST to around 5:30AM EST. Sleep deprived, tired and having to wake up 8:00AM I still kept on pushing. Finally the bastard popped 5th. Window.

SweetBlueBerry, a I also belive this was their first or second Fafnir Claim, I could be wrong. They some mistakes, but I won't go into they did this wrong and that wrong and things like that. The bottom line was that they couldn't kill it in the 1 hour time frame before Fafnir went Hyper. They did give it their all and tried their best. I am sure their next Fafnir will be a kill.

So, Fafnir goes hyper and everyone is trying to get claim, lol I don't know why. JDA gets it, but they go down fast.
Guess which noob was the first one to fall?


Don't laugh at me yet.


Now you can lol, haha. #3


The biggest noob in the arey. I miss Stoneskin, these days I am coming as /SMN for Aerial Armor. Note to self, don't ever take off HP gear.

Another nub goes down, lmao.


It looked like a graveyard in there after Angry Fafnir was done with his feast. I finally unweaken. I get Vill and we "RUN THE FUCK AWAY."


During the time we were rushing to get back JDA(Integrails) Calls For Help. The bastads made their move to stall it until they re-assembled. Well we get there and we're ready for the CFH to go away.

Boshi is in the pit skating around thinking he is Sarah Huges trying to claim it for us as soon as it goes yellow, but he get aggroed and falls ; ;

It regens to full and goes Yellow and JDA, YES JDA gets the claim. At that point I knew we didn't have any more chances of getting claim so I hit the sack at like ~5:30AM only to wake up at 8:00AM for RL obligations. It was a crazy morning, will I do it again? Hell Yes!

Completion

Finally did it. After such a long time I finally Hit 75 on my Thief. Thief was my first job when I started on this server a couple of years ago. It had always been tough getting Parties. Most of the time I was making my own parties. New exp areas really boosted my experience points. Buffalo Ticket Parties were great high 60s low 70s.

My PT was a great too. We did up to chain 25 a few times without bard, without Rdm. Thanks Kris for the invite.

DRG=GOD!

Not much going on excepting for PTing. I leave you with another interesting conversation with my good friend Kenji. Enj0y



Have a great weekend.

Ouryu Overwhelmer!!11!one

The much looked forward to Ouryu fight finally happened! I missed the last one, but we didn't win it anyway. We didn't quite wipe, but ran out of time. This one we did great and finished it in 45 minutes. Record is 28 minutes.

Every Linkshell has one of these guys. The one guy who never brings oils or powders. Who always gets aggro from things that don't even aggro. The one who you have to waste so much time giving raise after rasie after raise. Getting to the camp is like climbing Mount Everest for them. Yeah we have one of those in our shell, but we still love him. :D (Note:Sorry images got resized somehow, That is DEMIR)




Team Gathering in front of the BC Portal!



Team AK Ready to go!



The thing about Ouryu is that he is Earth based. So no light Skillchain, blast him with Burst and Thunder. (Edit:Looks like Valkyrs[on their ouryu fight] did do light Skillchain and they Burst with Aero and it worked alright). We had a simple skillchain going, Distortion. Even then the MB from that wasn't the main sourse of damage. Basically just nuke the damn thing down while controling the elements and worms around you. It is a very fun fight. Most intese fight I've done so far. It's like a freaking Warzone, shit coming at you from all directions. EXTREMELY FUN!




Diablos vs. Ouryu Action shot!



At 1% it Breakga'ed us. And then all shit broke loose. The worms finally made their move and got some nice damage on us(StonegaIII) and I think Ouryu got one on us as well.



Ofcourse we put him in his place!




Drops were good. Hey nice Orb you got there. :D



WAAHOOOOOO!




I want to give thanks to my kick ass linkshell for doing this fight. It was some of the best times I've had playing this game. Last, but not least A very special thank you to Rooi for filling in our missing tank position. We could not have done this fight without you. Let me add, he was a Grade A farmer Best Extra jumbo large tank.

-Note:Write stuff in JP when I get home-

COP

I am finally back on track with COP. Last night we did Promy Vahzl. This is the second time that I have done this. Surprisly(not) one of our members didn't show and CMDRFLY came to the rescue. Thanks bud for helping us on the fight.

I've been in a few statics to get this thing done, but they have all fallen apart. I hope this one works out good.

O_O!

Finally!

Angel Knight finally got a claim on Fafnir. This is the second one in two months. I am happy for for that, but what what sucks is that I haven't faught(i.e. put my lips on a horn and blow) Fafnir in 2 months. I missed both of them.
Congratulations to....

-=COMEON=-


-=PHARANX=-


お祝い私の友人!

Stay tuned my next update will cover our Ouryu v2 fight.
#(*$&#*(*& YEAH!

TaRuTaRus Take Over The Arey! ('-'/)/

What fun today in the Arey. ShadowShip got the claim and they took it down pretty fast. The did some things that normally some LS don't do to Fafnir, which is DOT it. About 15 mins for the kill. BLM POWER at its best. Congrats. Speaking to Mizukj, they got Aegisj, A. feet, Andrs. Good job guys!


Look out these little guys are mustering their forces :o


Recently I've been putting on as much HP as possible on my Bard for Spirits Within on Fafnir and other NMs. It is a good damage bonus from someone who usually doesn't do damage(in technical terms). Most Linkshells have 1-2 bards atleast present on camps and a Spirits Within from both of them can yield close if not more damage than a Burst II.

I hope more bards start to explore this. I hardly if ever see other bards build TO for Spirits in the Arey. Right now I am close to 1400 HP. I can break 1400+ easily, but 1500 will be hard without spending a good amount of cash(which as you can see something I am short on). Merits will definty help me on this, but I haven't been PTing on Bard much until this weekend. Getting 1600+ will be my ultimate goal! :D

Chocoboko!

So Everyone has been "raising" Chocos and I decided to try it out. I had one of the ex eggs from the ISBC for a while now. Finally the thing hatched.


I took out out for a little walk, aww isn't he cute?


But that Galka is so stupid. I don't think he's been taking care of my little guy very well. He says he has been, but BULL GALKA SHIT! Just look at these stats.


I am telling you, that 7 day care plan is total garbage. ;/

Any ideas on what I should name it?

WHITENESS!

I've been leveling my BLM with Neo's DRK lately. It has been very fun. BLM is a very enjoyable job. I just want to MB anything. MB MB MB. Give me Scission, I'll MB it. Even if you do it by mistake. So thinking ahead I decided to start camping Centurio X-I which drops Stonega II, Quake, and most importantly Shaman's Cloak.

A little tip for anyone who is camping this NM. Go there kill the Place Holder(Antican Signifer) a few times and thats it. If it pops after killing the Signifer 3-5 times good, otherwise come back another time. I think that is the easiest way to camp this guy without killing yourself. He is pretty easy at 74, just need to keep your Hit Points up otherwise his Ga can and will kill you. Oh yeah DO NOT forget to bring some Echo Drops and you can't sleep him. I dunno about Silence.

Lucky for me I went 1/1 on the Cloak. I think Sucker Neo was like 0/14 on him. Laff!! I still have to go back to get the scrolls though.