Happy One Year on T3Fun...?

I say that with hesitance.  :x

Today marks the one year of our transfer from GamersFirst to T3Fun (January 9th, 2013 8:00PM).  This is how that first day went for me.

I already rambled some things about life on T3.  I don't have much more to add, although it seems they are getting lazy since I've noticed that Lucky Shops, all four characters (Grandies, Ion, Veronif, Vincent) give the same rewards, they don't even bother to change it up or put any costumes.  Even the bonus rewards seem silly.  :p

Since the last post, I have obtained Lhote and named him Svensgaard.  Queen of Pioneering Grenmah also joined the family, her name is Katerinia, intended to be a variation of Caterina Sforza.  (Thank you!)  I added their Character Cards to the Tracker.  The addition of Svensagaard and Katerinia brings the number of characters in the family to one hundred and two!  (I just realized from looking at my Tracker...  I have yet to get Battle Medicine on my two Scouts!)

In other news, Francois (Ion) became High Master!  I was leveling Philip (Eduardo), Silvia (Selva), and Patricia (Idge) in hopes of getting them to become the next High Masters, however, due to a warring by an enemy clan, I've ceased afking where I was to avoid being PK'd.

Now I am sporatically leveling Reneia (Heyran), Sven, and Katerinia.  Depending on how things go, Reneia might be the next High Master.

After many, many, Lonely Musketeer hunts, enough Devil's Dream were accumulated to craft the recent Strata recipe.  \(^.^)/  Three more Stratas on wish list... a long ways to go.

Happy New Year from Ferret!

Wrapping up in the last ten minutes of 2013, in bullet points.

❀ Leopold became High Master, the twenty first one!
✿ Got Lhote card from Event, but don't have a name for him.  Looking for something Nordic.
❀ When I get Lhote named and leveled to Master, there will be fifteen Masters to promote.
✿ Wishing the price of Pioneering Grenmah would go down.  :<
❀ Still trying to get Royal Insignia from Durant daily, but he gives me anything but that.
✿ Ork is mean too, I only need Richard's Holy Sword to craft another Encyclopedia.
❀ Obtained a Strata Recipe!  The headache is getting the crystals for it.  x_x
✿ Didn't get to finish TP Neph crystals, one more run might have gotten the last eighteen!
❀ Haven't reached Floor 6 of Tigres.
✿ Enhanced Demonic Medusa made an appearance in BH Medusa.  But didn't feel it was worth the energy...

❀ The other account has recruited all characters except for Cano (not paying 100m for her).  Year end goal complete!
✿ Which means it has Veil (used at Montoro along with Lio) and can help buff at Tigres if short people for a run.
❀ Even got Viscount Ring for Grenmah card too.  :O

✿ Quested on other-other account to gain access to Lonely Musk.
❀ Beat up Raven and beat up Grandies with low grade gears (+6 ELB and two non racial 100e pistols).
✿ Did the MMA quest and even beat up Reckless Emilia using just +5 Le Noirs and Crescemento weapons.
❀ I guess I was "bored" and "challenged" myself by questing with low level family and low level gears and no ET!
✿ Recruited all characters that were available under GamersFirst (twenty two) except for:
Valeria - Wouldn't let me unless it was in a Faction
Lionel - Needs to go to CT Floor 7 & 8
Grenmah - Viscount Ring
❀ Has Marie and Vincent though!
✿ This one can do the White quest for Promo Scrolls on Sundays.  d('.'d)

Other stuff:
❀ Panfilo Event only gave three fire bracelets and costumes.
✿ Rudolph Event, that's what he said:
I will just take a picture in a field with beautiful scenery.
You cannot get a gift if you lie.
I can hear a clicking sound!
My nose is +8!
A gift will be given this year?
Ah! M... Merry Christmas!
I am... I am not really here to give you a gift.
A single person is a Capybara anyways.
It is Christmas... But are you single? Ah.... Sorry!
I will hide where you cannot find me next time.
GE is with you for Christmas.
Enjoy your end of the year ~

Been too busy questing and haven't taken any pretty screencaps.

Here is a slightly older one, but I like the scenery.  ^.^

Makes me think of Ruins Of Saint Paul's Cathedral in Macao.

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Looking back on the last 11 months

Last Monday, December 9th, marked eleven months since we transferred from GamersFirst (G1) to T3Fun (T3).  My thoughts and the things I've done over the course of this time.

When we transferred over it was exciting to get the new patches (we were a year without any new patches).  At times it felt very overwhelming.  There were a lot of raids and some of them felt like how do we do this without pro weapons?  We didn't have the past year to build up to it.  [Aside from the fact for many of us, our weapons came over blank!]  I rushed myself a lot to recruit the fourteen characters (what I call "The Viron Group", see below, under the cut).

Just when I finally finished recruiting them, yet another patch came out, the start of "The Kielce Group".  After recruiting the first three, the Kielce Dailies kept me busy, because I was trying to reach the goal of 10,000 favor rate for Back Alley Poor (surpassed by now).  I think it was probably at this point, the game started to slow down for me.

JD came out and I recruited him and excessively took him everywhere and he maxed out (I love Joey to pieces, he hates me for calling him Joey! *squish*).  After that, it was little patches of Olivia, Veil, and Kaisse.  These recruitment quests took less than two hours.

It's a mixed bag for me right now.  The first three to four months kept me busy with character recruiting, materials gathering, and leveling.  The busiest was when there was that 500 Bounty Hunter Event to get Cadet Elisa (I pray we don't have anything this excessive again, it was too much! I had to swear off BH for a month, the HORROR! /O_O\).

Then came focusing on Lonely Musketeer hunts for Devil's Dream for Strata Bracelet (something I put off because I didn't think it was possible in a million years to craft).  I was behind on the TP Rose for Dagger, though I managed to get that and helped co-run with another clan's leaders, which eventually led me to my Main-Gauche.  I'm a bit stuck on my second TP Nephtys.

For now I just have mini goals, which will probably be a joke to the pro-players.  I don't play this game to be the top player with weapons of mass destruction or for the PVP (I'm a pacifist!), so laugh if you want to.

*Level all characters to Master (last five)
*Level all characters to High Master (eighty, more of a goal for 2014 & 2015, if the game lasts that long)
*Keep working on Back Alley Poor favor rate (even though already passed 10,000; helps with getting non-tradable and tradable Artifact materials)
*Keep doing Durant quest for Artifact materials (still six more Artifacts to craft; second Rose and Selene sets and contemplating Sniper Ring and Clover Locket; no plans at this time to get Repairman as I don't use Summons)
*Keep hunting for Devil's Dreams (someday maybe a miracle will happen and I can get a Strata Ele recipe and Strata Musk recipe and Strata Pistol recipe)
*Get more Tigres medals

Squad things that I try to do:
*Crow (weekdays/weekends)
*Back Alley (weekdays/weekends)
*ToC (generally weekends, on WC duty, sometimes get invited to speedy five-six manned runs)
*Montoro (on Sundays, on WC duty)
*CT (seldom, as they tend to run too early or too late for me, really want a Punisher stance book)
*TPs (kind of a hit and miss, trying to finish my second TP Neph; might cheat and open Paradox Spoil Boxes before year end)
*Tigres (sometimes, I'm hoping to get participation to a regularity, so far that's been either a few hours before CW or in lieu of LW , because T3 still hasn't fixed it)

Tigres is kind of a good challenge, something to do that's not out of the usual reparative things like ToC and CT.  I'm hoping with more practice we can get through the floors faster and get good at Floor 5 so we can move on to Floor 6.

To sum up my thoughts and my observations of the game, the year started out well in terms of people being excited about new content, but it was damaged partly by the blank weapons which led people to be frustrated and couldn't quest and quit.  The ones that stayed regardless of weapons felt a bit overwhelmed and another wave of people left.

I have an impression there are also some players who already "beat everything" (e.g. raids) and got "the best gear" and became bored and quit.  Playtime Events were good in the beginning but now they are rather "meh", not worth the time.  This doesn't give players much reason to log in if they've been inactive.

The economy is rough for those who don't spend cash (such as me).  To be honest, I don't know how new players survive, even though in the forum some people gave suggestions.  T3 doesn't seem to care about players' needs and just keep rolling out Cash stuff after Cash stuff (Lucky Shop and Lyndon Box).  As long as the Cash players keep pouring money, the needs of the other players will be swept under the rug.  Much of this has been discussed in the forums over and over, so I won't repeat further.

Given all this, why do I still play?

I have put a lot of effort in this game to get me where I am today and there are still nice things in the game and there are still things I can still do or yet to do.  I'm learning to do things at my own pace and give myself small goals as I listed above.  I'm going to ignore the stupid things and not let them agitate me.  I'm not ready to throw in the towel.  Just like you can't change people, you change your reactions to people.  I will get out of this game what I choose to get out of it.

We still have Bahamar patch.  I also hope that they will expand/develop the story into other regions like Armonia and Absinia and other RNPC's areas.  I do hope things will improve, until then, Ferret will keep plugging away the best she can.

I also have someone I am grateful to.  They have put in a lot of time, effort, and patience for and with me.  It is, therefore, also out of great respect for them that I keep plowing ahead.  p( '.' )q

The holidays are coming up, so I wish everyone ~*HAPPY HOLIDAYS*~!  Two more weeks left in the year!

Some info about characters:

Of 107 characters (both male/female of stocks/Reb/Auch [14] + all Cathy robots [4]) currently available, I have 99.  (Plus, I have an extra Asoka who is a stand in for Mifuyu.)
10 stocks created under G1, 54 recruited under G1, 7 promos obtained under G1,
22 recruited under T3, 5 event promos obtained under T3, and 1 promo obtained under T3.

Midnight Snacks, it's what we do!

Here are a few highlights for the past week!

Went on a CT run and on the 12th floor Punisher was rolling, but alas, it was not to be.  Constantin (Kaisse) is without that stance.  :<  The poor guy only has Flintlock and was leveled to Master with Outrage.  ^^;  What can I say, I'm frugal, conserving my vis for other things instead of buying bullets for Flintlock.  In any case, Outrage is better to use for AFK leveling.

Still keeping eye out for last two old cash costumes and the hair for Mifuyu.  Was gifted a fiery weapon costume!  *_*  Except that Isabella (BSI) uses a greatsword instead of polearm, so not likely to see the costume.  Secret!Hidden!Weapon!Costume!  ;3

Crafted another Artifact!  I received help with the Soft Cotton Yarn.  (Thank you!!!)  I've been doing my best to keep up with Durant quests in hopes of getting Artifact materials.  Sometimes I get lazy...  It takes me about three ET buffs with Francois (Ion) and Octavia (Cathy INT) running up and down collecting up mobs and AOE'ing.  Next goal is to reach 100 Royal Insignia.

Attended Fury Sekhmet and got a Magama Storm Ring (Ludin's Efreet skill)!  :o  I've only started to go recently because I happen to be around.  From the sounds of it, the roll rate is low?  It's going to be like Pokemon, gotta catch them all!  (Ferret snatch!)  I have all the Frost rings because they drop in BH Ice Wizard, but I haven't paid attention to my Tempest rings, not really sure where I got them from because I don't go to Lightning Gate (I'm guessing this is where they drop?), plus I'm not a Beatrice user, so I'm not pressed to get them.

Another thing about clan raids, before the server transfer we took pride in keeping the number one rank on the server, but since the transfer, every week the ranking refreshed, and now we only do them when we get a new member who needs them for Family Attribute quests and the occassional member who isn't already Esmero.  Clan raids used to be the only time I really interacted with the clan.  They were short and kinda fun, and it was where I got my Books for Ion quest.  ^^;  (I kind of want to see us finish Curse of Red Sunset Forest, that was one we had difficulty under G1, I'm sure we would have no problem finishing it now.)

Nowadays it's only going to Montoro with clannies.  CT isn't fully clan and neither is ToC.  ToC I tend to have reliable people I ask* and we generally are able to start ASAP without the room having to restart.  (Thank you, timely people!)  Asking in Clan Chat is usually met with a wall of silence.  :<  The clan members for TP runs at night have started to shrink...

Which leads me to the last subject... that I will post next week.  Yeah, I'm pulling American Idol Ryan Seacrest, "The results... when we come back [from commercial break]."  Poor cliff hanger.  This post is getting too long, I figured I would save it for another week.  Or maybe I just want you guys to come back next week.  XD

[*I think I do all right when I try to organize Crow/Back Alley/ToC runs, a few times I did okay with Tigres, but CT takes too many people and I'm just not up for trying to organizing one.  Ferret is not a leader by nature.]

I leave you with pimp!Max, sitting on the couch at the end of Circus.

Why do I suddenly want to see Joey and Max faceoff?

JosephDominic: How many times do I have to tell you to refrain from calling me that name?
Maximilian: I'm sure I can beat pretty boy.  :D*  [grin with sparkle in teeth]
JosephDominic: [...]  I am surrounded by idiots.

Camel Express

I felt like celebrating and created the Asoka I got from the previous Playtime Event.  She became the 100th character!  I got the Sellasarse Bariante costume for her, though waiting on the corresponding hair.  I named her Mifuyu (perhaps uncreative, but I guess because we won't get her on this server, I wanted her to be represented).  Asoka is the only character I have double of.  (I don't consider my four Catherine robots "repeat" characters, as they have unique Expert stances.)

There have been a few times when I went to turn in my daily Viron box quest to Jun that Elminor was "fake alive" and standing but not attacking.  Here is Chelsia, whom I took out of Quarters to see if T3 let me keep her Summer costume.  (The Rosa Event was not officially announced and was active for a few days.  I managed to get in three days for three Rosa Notes and got the costume before T3 discontinued the event, but didn't know if they let us keep the costumes or removed them.)  Here it looks like Chelsia summoned Elminor with her book. :o

Speaking of events, the previous two weeks have been trying to do missions where roulettes gave Shiny Crystal Chests.  Did Castilla Mines and Castilla Relics and Max (Veil) went from Master 7 to Master 9 (took him during Clan Wars too and got 100% EXP).  Looks like he will be the next to get to High Master.  Currently waiting to hear results of the winners of event.

Lately clan and some allies have started back up on doing Tigres raid.  We took a break since September when it first came out, because we were stuck on Floor 5 and sometimes it was hard to find twelve people around to do it due to time and interest (and the usual difficulties of securing a tank).  I guess because there's not much else going on, people are looking for something to do and up for the challenge(?).  In any case, we have completed 5th floor (with less than a minute to spare).  Hopefully we will improve with more practice.  See Tigres Prison Raid Medals.  There is a Easy and a Hard version!  Just added 4th Floor Easy version today!  \(^.^)/

Celebration of Milestones

A bit behind on updates, but it's mostly due to things not occurring during the seven day period, so I didn't feel like posting just to fill up space.  ^^;

The blog has reached 50,000 Views!  *_*

I didn't think it would reach this point, since I've started to write in longer spans of time and don't have too many facinating things or pretty screencaps to share.  But some how, it has reached this amount!

~*Thank you to all my Chronicles readers for helping reach this milestone!*~

Another bit of exciting news:

My Family Level reached 60!  \(^.^)/  Hooray!  \(^.^)/

It's like some rite of passage to reach this point.  *_*  I haven't Vesped in a long time.  (I wonder if this means I lose my FrankenFerret™ title?*)  I used some EXP cards, usually when a character is at the last 0.50% to next level and I get impatient.  For the most part, the leveling was done from regular maps (only did about two weeks worth of CAA).

*On the flip side, I created a monster, FrankenSB™ (you know who you are!).  2013 is The Year of the FrankenSB™.  XD

(Not to mention the other account is only 25% behind.  Maybe I work too hard...  Personally I think it's quite a feat for a parttime player like myself.  Or maybe I have to attribute it to planning too well.  Always identifying characters to be leveled during AFK.  Standing in town idling is a no-no for me.  :X  Only happens when there's an emergency in real life and I don't have time to set up afk.)

Recently got a wizard armor, because really need it, there's not enough wizard armors for when I'm WC'ing (weakly still working with ELBs).  One chip and it came out with a 3DR!  If it could be nicer with the weapons I'm chipping.  Still have Mecha weapons collecting dust needing to be rechipped.  D:

And lastly, the two projects mentioned in the previous post were completed!  Yippie!  ~*Ferret cartwheels*~  To date, seven have been completed.  p(*_*)q

I'm really proud, happy, and honored to be a part the effort on these projects.

(Yes, I realize, I don't openly say that these projects are.  I'm kind of peculiar, working on projects, but seldom clear about what it is I've been working on.  I like to keep some things to myself, at the same time I can't help being excited about them.  :p )

To wrap up the celebration of 50,000 Views, Family Level 60, and the two projects completed, here is a shiny screencap.  :3

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Dragon Tears & Crunch Bars

Kielce Back Alley Poor favor rate goal was completed on schedule!  \(^.^)/

10,000

The rest of the favor rates look like this:

I don't plan to keep doing all five BAPs (Victor, Daniel, Rica, Simon, Ork) anymore, but I think I will continue with Ork books until he gives me a Richard's Holy Sword, which is the last page I need for a second Encyclopedia, since I don't want to pay four Elemental Jewels for it.

I will likely to keep up with Elizabeth painting, Serena bad boy, and John flyers for vis.  And maybe Jeremy/Cain dangerous delivery.  I probably should focus on Durant research because Silk, Soft Cotton Yarn, and Royal Insignia are pricey (the other mats are good to have too).

You can tell I don't do much with Laboratory, I got lazy about doing Kelly dark water.  I only do William government stuff from time to time.  I haven't done Anthony/Scott mop pirates in ages.

Status update from last month's "goals":

~I'm down to the last seven to reach Masters.  Family level is getting close to 60.

~TP Neph crystals haven't reached 300.  >_>;

~Still keeping eye out for a Dragon Shield to complete my Dragon collection!  D:

~Haven't gone to Bahia Room in awhile, so no new-old costumes for collection.

~Taking a break from the Farm.
Crops Lv 5 ~ 140/700
Fish Trap Lv 4 ~ 149/300
Fishing Lv 1 ~ 3/100
Weed Lv 3 ~ 728/1000
Hunting Lv 1 ~ 173/200

~New: Working on two projects, one of them near completion and the other is 80% done.  Looking forward to finishing them!  ^.^  Planning a third, but going to need vis for it.

"meat" you at the corner for a quick dinner

Mini updates:
✿ Added 99th character to quarters!  \(^.^)/  Her name is Heidia.
❀ Back Alley Poor favor rate is on schedule to reach 10,000 by the end of next week!
✿ If you want Wildlife mods, you can ask me to chip, I keep getting those mods on my weapons.  -.-;
❀ Legion War Titles are messed up, both factions and neutrals are lumped under one.  Plus, LW didn't even happen today, even though it announced the countdown.  Clicked, but couldn't get in!

I find myself finding few time and scenery to do screencaps.  :<
Repeat of same activities for the most part.

Incognito

The most exciting part of this week was crafting my second Strata weapon.  *_*
Exactly one month from the Strata Bracelet!

I choose the Bayonet for its uniqueness (even though it's a Rifle now), because Jurgen doesn't drop it anymore and the likelihood of Montoro dropping it is low (he mostly only drops SB manual...)

I will always prefer to be a shooter, but ironically been using magic lately.
*laments over my poor ASOs* boo hoo hoo~  T.T  (inside joke)

For example, at Prison... which we went with eleven people, not because we can't handle it, it was one of those, after Crow and Back Alley runs, an inbetween filler while we waited for more people for ToC, except this day everyone said sure why not.  Overkill.  XD  Yeah, that's me at the top with a magic team.  o.o  (Looks at the team below mine, makes me miss using duo melee!)

And speaking of ToC... every so often I get invited to a five-manned run... of tank/wc/dps/debuff/buffer (no prizes for guessing correctly which role I am :p) which take only fifteen minutes.  :O

I end this post with a screencap of Laurent on the farm.  This was from when he first got his new hair costume.  I mainly just wanted to capture the flowers.  ^.^;

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Hunt for the Missing Black Sock

I made it to 9000 Back Alley Poor favor rate!  *_*
The next 1000 points would take 20 days, I might not be able to do it consecutively, but maybe accomplish this some time in mid-November?

Two other minor things before I spam some cut screencaps...  ^^;

I finally reached Level 1 in Fishing on the Farm.  LOL...

I haven't been paying attention to my TP Neph crystals as I haven't been going to it consistently.
I currently have 247, this would take about 22 days to complete, but again, I don't make it to it often, so might be a end of November completion?  We'll see.  I think I would go for a LOE.

An unplanned project: I got "harassed" about making Artifacts.  :p  So far...

Had to craft both the Bloody Rose and Black Rose to craft the Elite Bloody Rose.

Must keep doing Port Union, Merchant Union, Back Alley Poor for Artifact mats...  (3400 points)

Other rambles, I don't chip things often, as I don't often have gears to chip.

This server seems to like to give me Wildlife...

Not keeping that 100e Fire, was capped just for records.

I'm a bit annoyed about the 100e Ice, I'd rather have something else.

I'm keeping the Evil Ice because I already spent too many chips on it.  Orz

Montoro number I don't know what anymore...  32?

Lake with Otters

A mini update and then a game of "Caption This" while you're waiting for maint to be over.

✿ Maximilian (Veil) and Constantin (Kaisse) made it to Master
❀ Cordelia (Cathy SUM) is High Master
✿ Aishia (Rescue Knight), Rico (Gracielo), and Julian (Baek Ho) working towards Master
❀ A very nice accessory dropped today!

And now...

CAPTION THIS!

     Laurent          Stella          Maximilian

I took this screencap during a rare random posing with friend.  Always scurrying around!  Ferret rarely idles in town!

Eat way out of pumpkin

It's the last day of the month!  A quick review of whether I actually accomplished any goals from last month's goal setting.

Back Alley Poor - Still working on it, goal is to reach 10,000 by end of November.

Strata LOE - Crafted!  Next Strata to be determined...

Masters - Shane (Liung), Alexia (Romina), Natalia (Soso), Bruno (Irawain) were promoted.  Maximilian (Veil) and Constantin (Kaisse) in the works.  Still trying to get Cordelia (Cathy SUM) to High Master.

Magic Leather Belt - No
Crafted Physical Necklace - No
(Earrings weren't on the list last month, but I think I need more of those too.)

TP Nephtys Crystals - Completed and got an Evil Ice!  Life schedule doesn't permit me to really be actively pursuing a second bracer...

Collection - Still looking for Dragon Shield, 100e Fire and Ice bracelets.

Costumes - Still looking for Spade Ensemble, Angie's Overalls, Thai Fighter, Desperado, and Bach.

Tanking - Only tanked once my whole career... up to Light Gemini in ToC with no dedicated WC team and three other DPSers (no debuff, no buff).

Random - Wants to buy a Montoro (Viscount) Ring since I have no luck at getting it from roulette.

Other news - There hasn't been any more Tigres runs, so might be awhile before I get medal for 5th floor.
My Farm has six plots for planting...  ^.^;
The Constellation Ice bracer keeps giving me lame chippings.  :\
Went to Montoro on Sunday; I lost count after 27th run, this one might or might not have been the 30th...

Screencaps I said I would post but never got around to...

Mr. Ion & Ms. Catherine

Starbox

Been hard at work with bracelets.  ^.^;  Got my third Evil Weapon, which I ended up picking Ice Bracelet instead of Fire Bracelet (not sure how many more late night TP runs I can make though) and also crafted my third ever Constellation (such a noob!) also Ice Bracelet.

The most amazing and awesome crafting... is my first ever Strata Weapon.  *_*  It came out +6 3S.  Upgrading took two tries, the first time, it stayed +6 then it went to +7.  I feel very, very, very lucky on both accounts.  To have it come out crafted like it did, on something like a Strata...  *_*  And not have to try to upgrade a lot of times.  *_*  Lucky, lucky Ferret!

In other Ferrety news:

Went to another Montoro run this Sunday and WC'd at it.  Also WC'd at another raid which was kinda difficult bosses.

So far have Floor 1, 3, and 4 Hard version medals for Tigres Prison Raid.  ^.^

Lovely Ladies of Summer

A few updates since last time and then regarding the post title.  ^.^

Made attempt at Naraka Alchemy...  Of the nineteen pieces I put in, I got seven for a 36.8% exchange rate.  :x

Some costumes became available for sale by Feso.  Buckled down and spent 300k on Adriana's glasses.  T.T  So ridiculous, she should come with them in the first place!!!  Her icon has it afterall!

Recruited Veil and Kaisse on patch day (the seven Elemental Jewels were very T.T and I had help with the Pure Otites <3).  Veil is named Maximilian and Kaisse is named Constantin.  (Updated Character Card/Stance Book post.)

Some screencaps from the quests.

JD faces off Kaisse.

The Zeppelin!!!

 The fighter was used to represent our family.

(Nice costume!)

Went on two Tigres Prison raids!  :o  We made it to fourth floor so far.  Someday... when we make it to the ninth floor... for...  Heavy Stinger Stance Book?!  Still need Punisher for Constantin.

Now, onward to the Lovely Ladies of Summer!  There's a Rosa Event at Bahia.  The rewards consist of Summer Hair and Costumes for Grandies, Beatrice, and Marie.  I used alts and grabbed the sets for Grandies and Beatrice.  (Marie's is not tradeable.)  Then I got myself the Bahia Mascot Medal which gives HP +1.  I will get two more.  :o

The initial quest is buying a Small Watermelon for Rosa.  Then the next day you get a different quest.  So far I have seen five different quests.

✿ Bahia Defensive Operations ~ You have to defend the colony from six waves of Level 130* mobs, after the fourth wave, the Martial Arts boys (a.k.a. Gertrude, Gracielo, Baek Ho, and Irawain) show up and assist you.  *Level of mobs is based on the team you use during the combat.
❀ Test of Rosa ~ You have to beat up the MA boys, they are Level 120*.  *Level of MAs are based on the team you use during the combat.
✿ Cleaning the Tourist Spot ~ Kill 15 Rusty Zealot, 15 Vedanobah, and 15 Hell Hound in Al Quelt Moreza Nartex.
❀ Dish for Stamina Recovery ~ Buy 1 Frozen Marlin from girl in Outside Bahia and 1 Emmenthal Cheese and 1 Silken Tofu from lady in Port of Coimbra.
✿ Local Products War ~ Buy 1 Ferruccio Milk and 1 Chocolate from lady in Port of Coimbra and Lisa, respectively.

To be updated if more to come...

Here are the Lovely Ladies of Summer!

Grandies' ponytail is a bit odd to me.

♥ ♡ Marie ♥ ♡

Beatrice is too smexy.  (Garter, really?)

Reminds me of Female Scout's bikini.

Ah!  I should screencap stock character swimsuits too!

Cottontail

Some happy things.  :)

Exchanged costumes with Sewing Boxes the other day and got a new addition to the collection! Just a five more of the old Cash Shop costumes to go.  :D

Was able to get the two items related to crafting, so I permitted myself to buy a decently priced Lionel hair.  :x

Got a Elite Ziz Bracelet from BH Medusa!  Now I just need the fire and ice bracelet for the set.  :o

Also today, got a ELNr Wiz from Crow raid.  Which... is like omg finally!  Something from this raid!  Too bad it's only worth 10m now...  T.T

The only other times I've gotten anything of worth...  Last year I got a Whisper of Forest from Prison.  This year got a Constellation pistol recipe from BH Occulta and a Serpent Cannon from BH Minotaur.  Otherwise it's been Dullahan, Kobold, and Werebear stuff.  Oh!  And a General Plate recipe from ToC.  :p  (Where's my GCr???)

I also been meaning to write about my dear little pets.  ^.^

Coco ~ Romecio - Rome, Italy (quest)
Poppet ~ Venicio - Venice, Italy (quest)
Moppet ~ Milania - Milan, Italy (quest)
Panpan ~ Turincio - Turin, Italy (Halloween Box)
Rudolph ~ Riminia - Rimini, Italy (Christmas Event)
Cockatrice ~ Hugo - named after friend who gifted as birthday present (Cash Shop, gifted)
Sys ~ Felix - Felix the Cat (Letizia Shiny Box, gifted)
Black Dragon ~ Velskud from Dragon Nest (Alphabet Box Event)
Red Tiger ~ Watson from Sherlock Holmes (Halloween Event, gifted)
Pigling ~ Shirley as feminized name for Sherlock Holmes (Feso Shop, gifted)
Acorchado ~ Joey because JD wouldn't let me call him Joey! >O (Cash Shop, gifted)

I have an Arctic Wolf pet box, but I haven't gotten around to creating it.  Might consider naming it Murakumo from Zone-00.

Random Screen Cap: Liung Twins!

Red Bean Mochi

Not a whole lot of new stuff since the other day.  Though I wouldn't mind another ToC tanking adventure.  XD

Crafted Cobra ring, aiming for a second!  Paired it with the Drunken ring and Leopold's (Barrol) doing well, might be the next one to get to High Master.  (He needs a costume...)  Have the complete set for Distortion Cube but no plans to craft it.  :p

Promoted Shane (Liung) to Master!  Slow poke!  Tried him at TPs but couldn't get Shock to land, though he landed Gravitation.  And now back to my regularly scheduled* leveling of trios to Master.  Current victims trios: Alexia (Romina), Natalia (Soso), and Bruno (Irawain).
*I'm not kidding about regularly scheduled; I literally have a schedule.  o.o!

Took Delia (Ludin) and Francois (Ion) to ToC.  It's so nice to see him in that costume.  I'm weird...  I can't stand his blue hair because it looks unnatural (same with Daria and Natalie) and his original clothing looks tattered like he's a pauper.  D:  The blonde hair looks funny with the original outfit and the new costume looks funny with the blue hair.  When I get around to it, I should bring Torsche out with her Belle De Jour set and pose her next to him.  Her hair makes me think of Gwen Stefani and the coloring on the dress...   >.<;  I'm hard to please when it comes to costumes?  ^.^;

Also bought a Grace Summer Hair.  >_>;  It was decently priced.  There's a decently priced matching costume, but... I'm keeping an eye out for something related to crafting instead, so will have to pass on the costume.  :x  I hope I don't end up with the opposite of buyer's remorse.  Always think, "I'll buy it when the price goes down."  Chances are it doesn't go down and worse, it never comes back!  T.T  Still... the little piece of hair makes me happy.  Because I think it's pretty.  ^.^

Now I'm finally going to get around to posting Joey's Magic Bean adventure.  But since it's been awhile, I don't remember what it dropped.  There were White Gold Bars...  Level 33 Melee Crystals...  Rumins...  I didn't get around fast enough and the Giant woke up.  I should have started off by turning on Shirley (Pigling).

 Magic Bean planted by accident... wasn't paying attention to the seeds in Inventory.

 Was a bit disappointed, I really wanted to see Joey actually climb up that bean stalk!  XD

You get five minutes to click on the boxes.  I had Romecio (Coco) out at the time.

Maybe next time I'll post my lovely pets.  <3
(Thank you.  You know who you are.)

*squish*Joey*squish*

JosephDominic: Unhand me
I'm a ferret... I don't have hands.  Perhaps you mean "unpaw" you?
JosephDominic: -.-'

翼を持つ者

Not too much news to share.  Kielce Back Alley Poor favor rate is over 7000.  :o  Though I don't have the Bristia Soldier Boxes to test if it makes a difference since last time.  Should probably just wait until I hit 8000 favor rate or 200 Boxes (could be awhile, laugh).

I recently treated myself to a Ion costume set.  :x  I haven't bought anything in ages and the set was much cheaper than what it was when it first came out.  My vis is primary used for materials for crafting and what not and few roulettes (like the last few floors of Clock Tower).

I really miss the Quinzel costume boxes from G1.  At least back then non cash players had more chances of either getting costumes or costumes from opening boxes.  Now it feels like this Lucky Shop put a gate and only the cash players are really getting the costumes and selling them for horrendous prices.  With the economy being the way it is, had to prioritize what vis is spent on.  (It's pretty desperate when you have to start NPC'ing drops from maps for vis...)

Which makes me sad because costumes were the primary reason I starting played the game.  Some people were in it for the PVP or super raids.  Raiding is fine.  I'm not a PVPer.  Everyone can enjoy what they like about the game.  But since costumes aren't readily available and affordable... well... the game starts to have less and less draw for me.  :<

I was able to get a few costumes in the beginning from a friend who had extras and I bought the corresponding Hair.  I stopped following what costumes came out after... Raven's Butler costume.  I think there's also Marie Summer, Tora Assassin, Grandies Summer, and Beatrice Summer sets that came with character card and stance book (or whatever).  I used to rely on Ashardalon's blog for Cash Shop stuff that came out, but I think he's given up on posting those for T3.

Some costume screenies.  Because it makes me happy.  T.T  (Then why am I crying?)

 I really like Grandie's costume.  ^.^

 Veronif looks like Velma from Scooby-Doo.

Ralph always looked rather hunchbacked to me in that costume.

Ion looks so much better in this than his original.  I like that little wing on his left shoulder.

The pants could be longer though and it looks like he's not wearing socks.

Vincent looks less creepy in this costume, though the pants look like ballerina tights.

 Posing with friend to compare Ion's outfits.

Costumes I don't have:
*Asoka Sellarsarse Bariante Hair & Costume
*Grandies Summer Hair & Costume
*Lionel Indigo 9 Hair & Costume
*Female Fighter Wedding Hair & Costume
*Mia Rainism Hair & Costume
*Adriana Sybis Hair & Costume
*Sharon Wavy Shaggy Cut & Shadow Robe Costume
*Raven Butler Suit Costume
And whatever else I missed.  >_>

[Oh!  And something super awesome was crafted today through collaborative efforts!  d(^.^)b]

Bunny Letter Opener

I haven't felt like writing lately.  As most people know, the game gets rather repetitive.  I don't do too many Kielce dailies anymore, though every once in awhile I do the Back Alley Poor ones to continue to up my favor rate.

Still doing the daily DD hunts.  Elminor is still twenty four hour respawn.  Orz  At least someone in the clan ends up having to do it and posts the timer.  I think I can craft the Strata LOE by the end of the year (laugh).

September is coming up in the next few days, so maybe it's time to check where I'm at with the last goals.  Not in any particular order:

Etienne (Male Musk) made it to High Master, so now I have a total of fifteen HMs!  No more are raising any time soon.  Right now working on getting Shane (Liung) to Master but he seems to be taking his time.  Slow poke...  :\  I still have fifteen (or five pairs of trios) to level to Master.  T.T

I got more two more sets of Magic type Gloves and Shoes and looking to make one more Magic Leather Belt and one more Crafted Physical Necklace.

Time Paradox Rose crystals were finished and I got my second Evil weapon (have a Dagger and a Main Gauche).  Currently a little over halfway on Nephtys crystals.  Can't find any groups for an afternoon run, so end up staying up late to go to the one at night.  z.z  Haven't decided which bracelet to craft, but I suspect it's going to be Fire...  (More on this under the cut.)

I ended up getting two more Incantation Rings, since the stance ring ended up being the same price as the Invulnerable skill ring.  (More on this under the cut.)  Have some other stance rings but haven't gotten around to upgrading them.

I finished my 96e Trump collection and just short a Dragon Shield to finish the 100e (though I didn't include the 100e Fire, Ice, Lightening Bracelets or the three Prison Series in this count).  I just like to collect and complete sets.  And it's good for afk teams.  :p

Costumes... I might start buying them off the MM (priced about 20m each).  Haven't made it to Bahia Room in awhile.  Spade Ensemble, Angie's Overalls, Battle Smith, Thai Fighter, Desperado, and Bach.  I would love another Cursed Fallen Angel Weapon costume.  D:

The other account got its Elisa, Heiran, JD, but not going to pay 100m for Kano.  Needs Montoro Ring for Grenmah.  And a Tora card.  Even finished Tower of Chaos Medals!  :D  Some of its Vets have gotten to Expert too.

Post got too long so I placed the rest under a cut.  Maybe another day I'll write about Joey JosephDominic and his climb to the top of the Magic Bean Stalk.  :3  [He jabbed me with his GS for calling him "Joey".  owie!]

Until next time, be good Granado Espadians.  Thanks for tuning in!

P.S. The post title is in reference to this .gif image.
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Attended Montoro #27.5

Some ramblings about teams and stuff under the cut!

Post #550: Stranger Than Fiction

Sadly to say, I don't have anything fancy to say about today.

It's more of a rant!  Today marks the eighth day in a row that I've had to kill Elminor (or fourth time in a row that I've gotten the quest) for the DD hunt.  It's getting ridiculous.  Yeah, you can just say I'm unlucky, etc. but a lot of people are stuck on this quest.  It should either be removed or Elminor should be moved back to one hour respawn.  It isn't right that it should be this difficult to finish this quest.  I didn't say it's impossible, but it's definitely difficult.  If you don't know the timer when it was last killed... well, you're out of luck unless you go kill it right after Maintenance.

On a different note, my Katia displaying the Al Rischa and Angel pistols.  So pretty!  ^.^

When the rain comes

Another ToC with Delia (Ludin) and Francois (Ion) and even tagged twice!  I didn't bring Lucrecia (Valleria) though, as I wanted to try out Cordelia (Cathy SUM).  I don't like some of the ET users that can't res...

Today was one of the rare days that I finished all the Kielce dailies.  I have gotten too lazy ever since they bumped it up to 100,000 and mostly just do Elizabeth/Serena/Victor/Cain quests.

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