Doddler's RO Journal
Finally Level 99
By Doddler on July 1, 2010 in category 'General'
So I'm a bit late with this post, but I finally hit level 99. It's a bit funny, that it's taken me so long, but I don't log many hours flat out leveling. In fact, I get really tired of grinding so most of my levels are just from doing random stuff.
Leveling in completely random places is what I do. It's surprising how few people wander out of the popular zones to, well... just play the game.
Sometimes, you get cool things!
I got to about 60% on level 98 before the dragons event came. I'm unsure what gravity's intent is with the dragon event, I guess they just want to power level players to 99 for the renewal update.
It's a pretty mobby place!
In a party however, the experience is patently absurd. I didn't stay long at abyss lake... under an hour. I was making 160 million experience an hour. >.>
Defeating Detardeurus.
Abyss lake is pretty busy when I was there. This is just people looking for parties.
There it is, the 98% shot.
In order to 99, I wanted to do something extravagant, something that other people haven't done before. Here it is, in a size that doesn't even fit my own web page.
Watch the video locally, download here
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Valkyrie Guild WoE Celebration
By Doddler on May 3, 2010 in category 'War of Emperium'
I've been unfortunately rather busy with work and life and haven't been given much opportunity to play. With the opening of the Ymir server, several of our players have left, and the future of war on the server is uncertain.
So what I wanted to do was to create a video to celebrate the two or so years of the Valkyrie guild, the people involved, and the fun times that have been had by all (and here's hoping the fun times that will be had in the future). Hopefully, the Valkyrie Guild will continue to be an important factor on the Valk server.
I do want to stress the point that it is a celebration of valkyrie guild, unlike my regular woe videos that I at least try to fairly portray the other guilds and what happened, this video is unabashedly one-sided.
The music is the Theme of Sengoku Rance, an awesome game by Alicesoft (though the game is NSFW!). The video is in part designed to mimic the opening video of that game. I think it turned out pretty well.
This is the most technically complex video I've made to date, with many cuts and effects. I used Sony Vegas to produce the video, it's a pretty powerful program although at least on my computer it runs quite slow. Quality kind of varies from point to point, you might notice, the reason for this is that lots of the footage is taken from my past WoE videos. Sorry if this is distracting. If you're interested, you can see the final timeline here.
Some of the clips aren't that interesting, I apologize to Sakura and Alpha n Omega members for their un-interesting screen time. I only had high quality fraps footage from 4 separate sieges and didn't have any other views of their guilds.
To valk members, I only got to name a limited number of characters from guild, but don't think that because you're not on the list you're not appreciated. Honestly the major deciding factor in who got into the video depended almost entirely on who I was able to see in siege without being blocked by other characters or effects. I only had 4 high quality fraps to work with, I filled my harddrive entirely while working on this project so I wasn't able to really get more footage.
I hope you enjoy the video!
Youtube | Full Size Video | High Res Download
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Nidhoggur Solo
By Doddler on February 12, 2010 in category 'MVP'
I apologize for the lack of updates these days, full time work and other things have kept me from doing much in the way of updating on the journal. I figured I'd do something special for a new journal entry, so here it is, solo Nidhoggur's Shadow.
It's actually not that hard, as long as you know what you're doing. I used god items but I don't think it's really required, though you'd use a lot more supplies. He's relatively slow and spends a lot of time casting, so you can avoid a lot of the damage if you get out of range before his skills finish. Not using a shield makes it harder, but you more or less require the defense bypass of the Gae Bolg to do any reasonable damage. Lucky for me, my high max HP partially makes up for the no shield problem, at least enough to save me from dying to regular attacks. I do die, but not in any situation where a shield would have saved me.
I think he actually becomes easier as time goes on. He has a fairly fixed cast order, and as he gets lower HP he gets new skills on higher priority. The thing is that if you hit a monster while its casting from a range, it will begin chasing you as if it's casting was interrupted, and there will be no delay on the skill when it finishes casting, even if the skill is still casting. You can use this to your advantage by keeping him interested in casting his long skills and not using his annoying ones, like stone curse and sleep.
If you're not familiar with Nidhoggur, what happens is that when he goes idle (below 60% hp), he starts casting life stream, which heals him to full HP if it finishes. It takes two minutes to cast, so it's not a huge risk and gives you some time if you need it to prep. Also what happens is that every 3 minutes you get teleported into one of the side rooms with some monsters and a specific status. You can't leave until all the monsters die, so you have to be careful or he'll finish casting lifestream before you get back. The yellow room, which I got stuck in annoyingly often gives you sleep and chaos status, which makes your movement random, which is what the panacea is for.
The video is uncut, the entirety of the instance run is in the video. The total cost was 542 mastela 366 strawberry, about 15 wind converters and holy water, and a bunch of kafra shop buff scrolls. Please pay no attention to the kafra shop stuff in my inventory, I might have over prepared! Oh, and the total time from opening the instance to Nidhoggur dying was about 44 minutes, battle time with Nidhoggur was just over half an hour.
I died twice but had no exp loss due to insurance. What wasn't shown was me being killed by a duneyrr outside of the instance and losing 11m exp. Oops. :(
I finally borrowed a PS2 and played through Okami (Yeah I'm a slowpoke), so the music in the video is from the Okami sound track. In retrospect I'd like to have put the twin demon's boss theme in, since it's my favorite theme in the game (and best boss), but I didn't think it fit as well.
On an unrelated note, I haven't updated the journal much lately but I've posted a few videos to my youtube channel if people haven't been following there. You can find it here.
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WoE2 : 15/12/2009
By Doddler on December 16, 2009 in category 'War of Emperium'
Now that I got a new video card I can start frapsing again. It was a fun woe, too bad the ending sucks! It's kind of a shame, cause I thought we played really well. I guess that's the problem that happens when you go into siege with really only two teams, if one team is stronger than the other, they can follow the other team arround and block them from getting castles. We probably could have held the castle but we prepared poorly for the last minute push. Well, you can't win 'em all.
Sorry for the lack of a web streaming version. The music used is more Touhou remixes by Sonic Highspeed Omega.
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