Sorry for no updates, but we have been busy. Just motoring right along. Done lots of raids (2 ss provided), got a full S grade weapon drop, and used some Oly points to get me a Zaken’s Earring…
And finally, just in case NCsoft says there are no bots… got to love this screenshot of Giran townsquare…
Wanted to give props to MMOCrunch.com for an excellent first review of Aion. This is the new game by NCSoft that has already started limited closed Beta. Please read the review to learn more.
http://www.mmocrunch.com/2009/06/22/review-aion-beta-weekend/
Check out Aion’s main page at http://www.aiononline.com/us/ for the latest info on the game.
So will people leave Lineage 2 for this game?
Got another full drop out hunting (non Kama/Instance/Seed area) so that’s my 5th full drop (in or out of a party) since Gracia came out. So glad they put them back in game.
And crafted the second part of my Drac set… but tried another Drac boot craft and it failed again! >.< Sigh. Oh well, maybe 3rd time will be the charm…
And finally…
Because we rule! *cough* Ok, maybe we don’t…but we have more fun than anyone else. =p
Although these raid bosses have been around for awhile, we just never got around to ever doing them before. We finally decided we should at least go and try everything at least once before we decide to quit this game (at some point). So this weekend, we did the MoS raid boss and the raid boss at the bottom of FoG for some fun and to do something different.
No full drops but can’t get them every time. =p Sadly the Holy Grail did not give me eternal life… sigh, must look elsewhere I guess.
Real life jumped up and hit me so took some time out to take care of some things. Sorry for no updates.
Got a nice drop a week ago…
And my gear isn’t all that great but at least I placed 8th in my first Olympiad try.
And I still suck at typing when I type too fast…
In what surely has to be a brilliant piece of game design, I have discovered you don’t have to be level 75 to farm the new Compression stones in Gracia in the Seed of Destruction/Infinity.
Apparantly some enterprising person figured out that all you have to do is take a level 5 alt clan, put in a level 75+ char into the clan, fill up the alt clan with level 1 toons, give each level 1 toon enough red stones to buy a Summon-Agathon, have the level 75+ clan member summon an airship… the level 1 chars all pile aboard (they are all in same clan), set the airship destination to the Seed that is “open” to be farmed, drop off the level 1 chars… and let them farm away. Who cares if they get pk’d? They are all level 1. They just restart and get rezed outside. If anyone comes out to kill the rezzers, that person has to waste more pk’s and has to stay outside unprotected. Can’t kill everyone over and over all day, you know? And even if you have some level 10 char/whatever trying to kill them, it is easy to overwhelm them with numbers. Bascially, the farmers/botters can go farm to their hearts desire. And regular people can take alt toons and head there and do the same. Although it would sound easy to kill a bunch of level 1/low level toons running around the Seed collecting, it wastes the time of the people who were trying to farm it legit in the first place. I love it.
I have decided that this is the most ironic and hilarious thing I have ever heard. A Clan/Alliance can cry all they want about all the “hard work” (Hey kiddies, it is a game! Hard work is not involved in a game… go back to the real world and learn what REAL hard work is.) they did to open up the seed… acting all pompous, high and mighty… thinking that they deserve it all for themselves. And in steps NCSoft to the rescue! The people who have all the highest end gear crying they don’t get help to open up these seeds, not thinking that they don’t allow others to do things that would actually GET them the equipment that would eventually help the clan/alliance that cries in the first place. Oh, and of course, this whole game was designed just for you! Heh. Got to love bad logic and incessant egotism.
The bots have not made it there on Bartz yet, but they will.
Anyway, check this thread out… explains it more. I love this quote from Edge of Teon server….
“Yep, I am amazed at how much fail they managed to put in a system which was designed from scratch.
There is absolutely no excuse here, because this does not mix with anything already in the game. There is nothing to balance, nothing to combine – just pure awesome NONSENSE:
We get a few (15?) rectangular rooms, which are not a peace zone (but have no mobs), then we must wait for 3-5 minutes for a flame to appear so we have a chance to acquire a compressed stone of a random color…. of which we need 20 of the same color to get one crystal which might increase our element attribute by 5…. all the way from 150 to 300. Repeat for armor.
How could anyone get the idea that this place is for bots? /sarcasm ”
In what has to be a stellar bit of news for NCSoft, The Better Business Bereau (BBB) has given NCSoft of Austin, TX an “F” rating.
Yes kiddies, that’s right. You are playing a game that has one the best support staffs in the MMORPG business. (*cough*) I had to laugh when I stumbled upon this bit of news… thanks LittleRunRunner for the great link!
http://centraltx.bbb.org/wwwroot/report.aspx?site=40&bbb=0825&firm=58760
Sometimes don’t you wish you were this lucky… :-)
And Territory War on Saturday was… interesting and confusing at the same time. But we figured it all out by the end. Ran around to every territory and fooled around having fun. And the reward wasn’t too bad…I so needed the extra inventory space. Made 3 belts total. Best thing NCSoft ever did… since sliced bread of course.
A craft…. (failed Drac boots craft… bleh)
A new toy…
Another full drop…
A joke…
And a level 9 clan… not bad I think. Grats to all the members of Ruthless for your hardwork.
May be “old news” to some, but I had never done 4 Sepulchers until recently. Definately fun to run through and a break from the grind.
And got a little gift for myself at the end… time to craft one!
