Another Franken creature on the rise?!

I suppose I should thank all this BH spammage...

I got an Intuition of Al Rischa recipe from BH Occulta!!!

<('.'<) ^( '.' )^ (>'.')>

Never would have thought I'd get a recipe, thought that if I did, it would end up being something I wouldn't use like a blunt. Never mind that symbol sets are barely worth anything nowadays, but still at today's price of 125m a set, that's still 125m saved.  :o

Nearing the end of all this BH spamming nonsense.  T.T

Let the Farming Begin

It's the weekend and I can be around to... farm...  >_>;

Today's BH was nice enough to give two Magic recipes, but one I already have and the other I prefer to craft after the more urgent ones first.  Still, nice to get them rather than Veteran and Expert Tokens!

New Difficult Project!

Prison went all right, although this raid is starting to lag on me again.  I *think* I killed all the left side mobs in the first room.  I *think* I killed the left Elite.  The Elite Bio was acting goofy and started going on a field trip, away from its usual spot.  I was running out of buffs, but had too many mobs on me that I didn't dare to stop to buff until reinforcements came.  I saw an Elite Fang of Steel flash on the roulette, but it was not meant to be.

CM didn't give me any chips today.  Chagrin!

Because I had time to kill before FF buff, I decided to do BH Occulta and Sedecram.  I forgot to put armor on Geia, so she died while Ana floated to the warp.  I had to SC and Geia's character icon was blacked out.  >.<;  I could put armor on her but I couldn't get her to Moonlight stance.  I had to let her get killed by Nechro so I could res and get her back on Moonlight.  I was too lazy to rebuff Flare, so I made do with only Principal and Strategy on Geia.  I goofed up at Sedecram too, as I forgot to have a White Gold Bar on me for a second Occulta.  >.>;

BUT!!!  The other account got a Silver Earring from Sedecram roulette (unpaid)!  *_*  Wow, awesome considering it's only my fourth solo BH run!  *does a couple ferret flips*

I also attempted Rafflesia, but no luck with Constellation box.  I swear my Blue Crane needs to be present when I do this raid for loot drop buffing!!!  *pout*

El Pat FF treated me kindly.  :)

I was done for the day.  :o

Or so I thought.  :o

I got out of the shower and saw in clan chat that Ophi-taichou was going to do the FC for the GCr Wiz and asked who wanted to witness the FC.  I had put in for it because I became eligible.  We sent in our top three numbers.  Two of my numbers were selected by others already, so my lowest number was my FC number.  >o<  I didn't think I was going to have a chance.  I made Salazar (Jose) and Dietric (Lorch) (who I had just taken out of SA Caeb to witness) do the Praying pose and I even turned on the game music (usually I have it on mute).  My number came up on the fifth FC.  *_*  But taichou kept FC'ing until Lab-puppy-san said, "a ferra ganho".*  ^.^;

"Only" 753 Mega Quartz, +7 Le Scarce, +7 ELB, and 50 Gold Ancient Relics to go.

Give me another year to accomplish this.  LOL

But I'm happy.  It's a sign that I need to work on WC for ToC.  :o ~!   AHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE!

*My Portuguese is poor, but "ganho" looks like the French "gagne" and Spanish "ganar", so I figured puppy-san meant "win/won".

Just something random that still makes me laugh when I read it.

Here & There

Today consisted of...

Circus, where I took too long to trigger Helena and kill Frost that LaRo-kun had already finished off Celine and Mario and had to come meet back up for Emily.  :P

Getting lost in Lightening Gate, because of the lag, I clicked the warp accidentally and lost sight of the group.  :\

Vesping Grenmah to Master while maxing out Nadia (F-Scout).

ToC where I got a Le Scarce, a ELBr Wizard (anyone have an ELBr Ele to trade with me?), and an Artisan's Leather Shoes Recipe.  But no quest drop.  I was even asked to take Frederic (Rio), which was a nice change from dragging Valencia (Calypso) to it.  Anastasia (Emilia) replaced Nadia.  I don't like standing idle... so I put Ana on Darkness during Queen.  >.<;

A break for dinner...

I took my lovely Muskies Katia and Etienne to Clan Raids.  I really want to use them more.  ._.  I discovered a pair of Musks on Flintlock look nice too.  I got a Scorpio and another Le Scarce!

Wrapped up the night by spending an hour and a half to vesp a Level 60 character to Expert 2 60-some%.  (Horrendously amazing work for someone who's never vesp'd before.  o.o!)  Valencia is up at Master 7 now, Ben is at Master 8, and Ana went up three Expert levels.   *_*  Thank you 30% Experience Buff Event!  And thank you Eo-sama and Eri-san for your guidance on vesping!

~Ferrie, out!

Out Raided

Umm yeah... So much for "I'm only going to go to Clock Tower today".

While we were waiting for Clock Tower squad to get started, we went to Viron Bloody Fog raid with a squad of eight.  I hadn't gone to this raid in ages!  I was a bit worried about Gluttony's raging, but we made it through just fine.  Nothing to exciting dropped, just a bunch of Books of [whatever].

For Clock Tower, we went to Floor 8, Floor 9, Floor 10, and then Floor 11! Dun-dun-dun!!!  That was exciting but confusing because it was my first time in there.  We didn't finish, but it was good experience.  I don't remember what floor, but I got a made Artisan's Leather Belt on a third roulette.  *_*

After this event, Erisia-san wanted to go to Prison raid.  I kidnapped glic-san and Alzeda-chan.  The four of us entered, but Eri-san disconnected!  Orz  The trio of us made it through to the end.  I couldn't really tell if I made any damage on the two Ogres I came across, as glic-san ended up in the cell with me.  Reckless Elsie (Alze-chan) and I took on the Elite Bioman together.  \(^.^)/  We still had plenty of time on the clock when Testormento had 25% left.  I think we would have made it, but all of us ran out of Soul Crystals.  >.<  All in all, it was a good experience.  I felt better knowing Felicia (Reckless) could handle the mobs.  I'm still not sure about my abilities in Ogre cell.  >.<

Some time overnight, my Family Level went up to 45!  \(^.^)/  But ugh...  I found out that each Master level only gives 3%.  All that work for a measly 3%.  I'll never get to Level 50!  D:

Onward to Gears!  Thank you glic-san, LaRo-kun, VANTZ-kami-sama (he who is Chipping God) for providing missing pieces towards the crafting of my Golden Fists and Golden Feet.  The Fists came crafted with 2S.  Woohoo!  Less to socket!  XD

Last but not least!  VANTZ-kami-sama worked his chipping magic.  The Lightening of Rotanev now has 28% atk with 96% Hum.  :o  /glompage to VANTZ  Thank you, thank you.  m(_ _)m

Eri-san, if you're reading this, yes, I still have your Crossbow, my sincere apologies for not returning it immediately after the raid.  I had to scramble off to dinner.  When I got back you went offline.  :x

Picture Spammage! 

Waiting for CT to commence

I like this one :D

 Eri-san's Val, blaming Ben for Floor 11 Phailure

High Impact!

So much raiding today, one after the other.  X.x

~Circus with LaRo-kun (we thought we got Helena, but had to go back to get her LOL)
~ToC, full run twice, back to back
~Alliance War, the entire duration
~Prison, immediately after

First ToC run gave me Magic Leather Boots Recipe
Second ToC run gave me Gold Earrings
Ranked #62 at AW
Elite Chevalier Sword from Prison

I got a DHr and Sagittarius from another raid
Elusive Pisces! >O

What else...
Nadia (F-Sco) made it to Master 10 as a result of the two ToC runs, my first Master 10! She's already at 20% so maybe in four more ToC runs she'll be maxed out and I will trade in Anastasia (Emilia)
Benecio (M-Ele) made it to Master 6 as a result of the two ToC runs, and is my next highest character

Next up...
Valencia (Calypso) to be Master 5
Etiennecio (M-Musk) to be Master 3
Portia (Adelina) to be Expert 3

And what would a post be without some images?

Kidnapping Eri-san for ToC

My drop from Hydrobomber 

Ophi-taichou gave me some Relics to try to get Feast Buff!  I got it on third attempt! :o

Flirty Ben :o

Goals Rambling

No highlights for today, which is perfectly fine because all the raids I went on the past three days wore me out.  I also don't know if I can keep up with all the vis expenditures on ToC roulettes.  :S

Plus, I was really exhausted from work today, even though I drank an energy drink (I only had one of these my entire life and that was twelve years ago) I was still really drained.  I might be coming down with something.  :\

Oh!  Miss Ophi-Star gave me an Elite Ziz Bracelet Recipe the other day!  *_*  So now I have that, the Elite Leviathan Bracelet, Elite Behemoth Bracelet, Golden Damascus, Golden Fists, and Golden Feet Recipes!

I also took a look at my weapons and I'm just short Star Knuckle and Elemental Bracelet to complete the 92e Cash Shop weapons collection.  There are too many 92e Baron weapons, so I don't care to collect those.

Some goal updates...

Gears

UAs and +6 Lacquers to upgrade BB to +7

UAs to +5 four 100e gears, five 96e/100 gears, 14 92e gears [undecided about Dragon Shotgun] – probably won't do anything about the 92es

Socket Flux to 2S three 100e gears, 3S four 100e gears [undecided about Dragon Shotgun]

EBs for Golden Guard, Elite Black Dragon, Elite Grim-Stick, Dragon Crossbow

What jewels to put in Dragon's Lumiere Rod and Serpent Revolver?

Characters

Quarter Slots for 24 characters

Create Angie, M’Boma, Alejandro for Extended Quests

 – Adelina, Lisa, Mia Extended Quests need to be done

Claire – Tested Guard

Grace – Flintlock

Helena – Occultism & Augury (need another Pisces)

Emilia – card spam to Expert then Darkness & Enhanced Tactics (need Scorpio)

Leveling

Lisa to Vet 3 – 71.4097% (Vet 1 – 76.7408% atm)

Soho to Vet 3 – 71.4097% (Vet 2 – 0.4379% atm)

Brunie to Vet 3 – 71.4097% (Vet 3 – 03.758% atm)

Claude to Vet 3 – 71.4097% (Vet 3 – 22.7840% atm)

F-Fighter to Master 3 – 2.8102% (Master 2 – 58.7568% atm)

Experts will depend on where Claire or Grace end up after finishing their Expert stances

 – Adelina, Ania, Vincent, and Nar will need to catch up

Hangover from Raids

X_x

Seriously... super raid days used to only happen between Saturdays and Sundays when I was in Core, and that was Clan Raids only.  This Friday*, I'm all pooped out from the following series of events.

♈ Prison Raid (no Inno) I died a lot less this time :x

♉ Circus (no Elite Ziz Recipe) used Ben (M-Ele) and he experienced a lot less knock downs

♊ A very high end raid... that I would never have attended because I'm usually at work

♋ Tower of Chaos (no Beholder, 5th attempt)... I inhaled dinner to during Queen's 2nd form and came back at 3rd form

♌ Madness Farm

♍ Mad Rafflesia (Dragon Heart Recipe!)

♎ Mad Uraeus

♏ Mad Griffon (Taurus!) I was surprised to see that I tagged on a few of the Griffon kills (one or two items had my name on it, just minor things, but my name was on it nonetheless!)

♐ Sharffengerger the Cursed

♑ Viron Crow (Devilish Blue Box)

♒ Went to Illier and was vesped to lv100 on all four characters (Thank you Eollica!!!), not enough Shiny Crystals to promote to Veteran, made half progress on "Defeat the Gang of Rogues" quest (Auch)

♓ Medusa for Sphinx kill... we all thought it was going to spawn today because of the emergency maintenance, but alas, no show

I took Katia (F-Musk) and Laurent (Lionel) to Clan Raids and Viron Crow.  I really missed using my Katia and watching her and Laurent on Outrage with the speed they were at.  It.Was.Pure.Joy.  I.Love.Watching.Outrage.  *_*  <3 <3 <3 

 I have a difficult time with this raid, same as Basement

Pew pew pew!! @ Mad Farm

Leveling Up on Illier

*Normally I'm not home all day on Fridays, there was too much snow and I wasn't about to spend an hour shoveling my driveway then drive two hours to work.

Valleria Added to the Family & Duo Tower Run

This little princess was added to the family today, the last of the characters I Secret Guarded on my alternate account.  Now if I could just get Innocentio Stance Book...

Went to Tower of Chaos up to Beholder with Mr. Bosspower (BossOverPower, more like!). *_* Super, duper ToC soloer extraordinaire!  I was only able to provide Refresh Mind and elemental Plasma buffs.

My Team

Valencia (Calypso) hatched from Tetrapod egg!

My team running to their death for a mock solo run at Jellyfish

From first roulette

Lucifer Castle

I finally got around to starting the quest line for Lucifer Castle, I still have a ways to go.  >_<  I used Felicia (Reckless Emilia) and Simon (Raven).  That Red Haired Woman is still a pain even though I've had armor and weapon upgrades since I last saw her for Raven quests.  >_>

 Protecting Beronif

 Outside Lucifer Castle

Went to Circus with LaRo and this recipe dropped!  Now I just need the Lightening one and Glacial Crystal recipes!  Maybe I should try to get Golden Feet and Golden Fists.

This evening, we had eight people interested in going to ToC for a partial run (meaning, as far as the squad can go), but it fell through because of people crashing and what not.  By the time all members were online, someone showed a Clock Tower key and then the squad started to disperse for that.  Unfortunately, that one fell through also because we didn't have enough members.  :S  We did go to another cool raid though.

Burning Lava of Looove (Fire Gate Session #5)

This is the fifth time I've been to Fire Gate and the second time I duo'd it with the amazing Miss Ophi-star.  ;D

She did all the work... Flavia (F-Fighter) passed out and napped, so did Nadia (F-Scout).  Although Ben (M-Elementalist) who usually is the squishest, survived through the ordeal... 

I need to get better practice with this raid... I stopped using melee for so long that I fail at using them.  Same with Prison raid.

I'm trying to build up my collection of Fire Gate weapons.  Currently I have two daggers, one sabre, and one rapier.  How come they're all melee?!  I want a shooting one...

I got this interesting recipe:

Other than that, I went to circus with LaRo using Arthur (Gertrude) and he wasn't too bad, though he's not good at mob control.  I hate those Honors!  I think I will stick to using range... or Geia (Asoka).  <3

No luck putting together a partial ToC squad after FF buff today.  One individual DC'd, another realized they had to do homework, another had to go to bed... and in the end, there just wasn't enough of us.  :<

So instead, I went to Fire Gate with Miss Ophi-star and instantly the World of Sword2 was a better place!  XD  <3

Death by Mario

Went to Circus with the lovely Bellza and her equally lovely Asoka to Circus today.  I'm still experiencing lags in this raid which makes it hard for me to control my characters!  Simon (Raven) got killed by Mario, which is not unusual.  Mario has a crush on him.

Today I tagged the loot and got an Elite Schvarlier Armor recipe.  Though crafting it will be a pain because of the cost of the Chevarlier Armor Piece and the Metal Armor Crystals.  >_> *sigh*

I also wanted to post up this lovely lady, Nurse Elisa from Castilla Garrison.  I'm excited to see she will be a character in a [much] later patch, though it looks like she will be Promotional?  She has a regular (white) version and a cadet (black) version (pictured below).

Clock Tower & Circus Drop

Yesterday I went to Clock Tower with Ophidiasteridae's Halcyon Clan and others.  We finished Floor 1 and warped to Floor 9.  We ran into some trouble when we got to Floor 10...  Ben (Ele-M) was stuck under a rotating blade and it was instant re-death when I used Soul Crystal.  Oh well... better luck next time!

Chandelier

Today I went to my regularly scheduled Circus raid with LaRochefoucauld (aka Mr. Stubborn) and I tried using Simon (Raven) with borrowed Intensified Croisment Rings from Tebbens.  Simon took quite a bit of beatings from Arsene and Hellena at the end.  I even tagged the loot, which I normally do not get because LaRo is too OP (overpower).  :)  I got the Elite Behemoth Bracelet Recipe from Round Robin.