At last, Its mine. 

Of course, naturally I went out to test the damage I would receive with the shield on.

Which brings us to our first picture, soloing Dark Lord on LK, something I've been looking to try for some time.  Coma is scary and I couldn't keep his dark illusions dead long enough but I came out alive.

Here's a nice shot of mobbing skeggiolds.

We attempted to take on Ktullanux as a team later, which didn't go so well.  Our strategy was fine, as you can see the scholar was holding the MVP on a cell where he could not be knocked back by SG, I tanked the mob separately, and a priest would re-assumptio our main tank as soon as it dispelled.

Lacking in our calculations were other players.  It seems that there was a naruto-sounding named ninja that thought that maybe by repeatedly killing the mob off of me, that it would help, but it didn't, it caused us to die painful deaths for over an hour and a half.  Also missing was an actual killer.  We had presumed that a SD sinx could hurt ktullanux, but it turns out an SD sinx doesn't have a hope of hitting him.

So we eventually gave up.  We didn't even summon him, a party had previously left it cause they couldn't handle him.

I feel pretty lucky now, but these guys will have ot wait till later.  Behold, the helms obtained from many Valkyries. 

However, that doesn't mean I didn't want to avoid chancing things.  I was looking for a new pair of tights for my hunter so he could 2 shot TI monsters, but the market for tights is apparently pretty slim.  Then it hit me, that I could simply make slotted tights myself.

2 of 8 A class armors at Payon slot enchanter.  Not a bad deal.  It averages out to 1.8m for s1 tights, which is a bit pricey, but not bad.

I did break one of the tights going to +5 though.  Whoops!

My hunter (no buffs at all), with all new Tights of Wild Cat, giving me +25 atk at the cost of 5 armor defense.  I figure that if monsters hit me, its going to hurt no matter how good my armor is, so I may as well kill them faster in the process.

Ooh yeah, thats sexy. 

I also convinced some friends in guild/vent to come out for some Odin 2 leveling.  Odin 2 happens to be one of the best place for a hunter, the exp is quite phenomenal.

Omake:

I'm sorry to say I haven't gotten any new OCA's! So I'll have to settle to a shot of my LK being killed by an Esked Wild Rose. 

Continuing Enjoyment

Back for another installment of journal action.  Todays issue is action packed, I guarantee.

Before I begin, I wanted to touch base on the MVPing topics.  I've had a few people ask, and even a few people stalking us wanting to know what is our secret to success.  It is a wonder how the party I mentioned in my previous mvp post could have killed it.

I must admit my selfishness here, and I apologize for this, that for now we aren't letting the secret out just yet.  I'm sure it will happen eventually, we have enough people involved that the word will spread, but lets be honest, I'm happy with there being only two Randgris/Ifrit parties on Loki at the moment.  The other team, Insurrection, does it by insanely stacking a champion and asuraing it.  Our method probably has more in common with the old icewall/ME trick, although harder and certainly requires a lot more active involvement.  Only thing I'll say is that its a trick that has been in the game for about 4 years now. 

Anyways, back to our regularly scheduled program!

So on a whim, I decided to start a crusader.  After giving it some thought, I decided I would make a GX build.  Grand Cross is a tough skill to use, but I figured it would be fun to try.

How do you level a character who has no strength?  Well, its pretty simple.

Bashing hill winds from level 20 to 54 when I hit job 42.  Overall, it took about an hour and a half to do, going back to the inn for buffs and SP when I needed it.  It took some tough gears to do, but I'm built for it.  Having no strength is a bit of a limitation, but using the pirate dagger, picky armor, bloody shackle ball, quad boned pike, and earth endow, makes for roughly 1700-2000 bashes.  Its usually 3 bashes, or 2 bashes and one regular hit.  A borrowed Maestro ribbon helped pretty good to keep SP under check too.

In all honesty, doing the crusader test took longer than it did to build the entire character.  The quest sucks pretty bad, I wasn't a fan of it at all.  Spelling mistakes, poor directions, its hard to tell what you were supposed to do at all.

...Is it just me, or does the crusader leader have no pants on?   He freaks me out.

So what does a new crusader do?

The answer is exactly the same thing as before, bashing hill winds.

Well I did finally get GX, which was pretty fast.  Unfortunately I ran the small problem that I was worried about, and thats that bashing hill winds is better and more efficient than anything I could do with GX at my level.

It does let me do stupid things like this though!

So apparently hiding behind the trees and spying on Kingdom of Loki became a popular pastime for our guild.  Its amusing to see none the less!

So finally I scrapped togeather enough cash to get an Alice card.  It wasn't that easy, but it was definately worth it I think.

There she is!

Unfortunately I ran into a rather rough issue, where I do not actually have a proper shield to put it in.  I hoped it would be easy but... apparently its not.  The initial goal was a +9 stone buckler, who's value should be 40-50 mil or so.

$Q^!@#%&^*^!!*$%^$!%

Seriously, I havn't had one, single success with enriched elunium.  Apparently getting people to pay cash to break their items is a common pastime at gravity HQ.   I wouldn't complain if enriched elu didn't cost a bloody fortune to use.

There was actually a fourth attempt, but I forgot to take screenshots of it.  I've blown practically the cost of a +9 stone buckler and havn't even gotten a +8 one using enriched elu.  I'm willing to settle for a +8 stone buckler of royal guard but... I have to get one there first. 

Its that time again, and more so than usual.  My luck fails in every other aspect of the game, how bad can it be?

**drum roll**

Apparently, my luck continues to fail.  Thats 2x argos now too... 

Doddlercon, Back to the Loki Part 2

You know I really like that picture... maybe I should make it my main site banner and replace the RO2 one.

Anyways, welcome to part 2!  This post covers everything that I haven't posted that wasn't MVP related.  Don't worry, I'm still doing the new server project, but I will post that every couple days when I actually play on the other server (can't play there all the time).

So a few things to cover then.  Since it was an experience event, I decided I would hit up Volcano Thor and get lvl 95 on my Lord Knight.

Is that a ripoff? A good deal? Only time will tell... but I do know one thing, and that its invaluable when it comes to Thor, because now it means I can mob kasas. 

These Kasas don't stand a chance against me! 

While Kasas are pretty easy, there's still plenty to worry about.  In particular, the guardians.  People who have been down there know that they always open up with spear boomerang as soon as they see you. They hit me for about 6k-7k with boomerang, which isn't enough to kill me (I have 16k hp), but it is enough to be annoying.

This however, is fatal.

I did get my revenge though.

One can only imagine the sheer amount of pain I endured, and more to the point, the number of potions I had to use to survive that.  But I did it.

Aaah, the Kiel Hyre quest.  I decided to do it on my LK over the last couple of days.  I must say, more so than the sign, the Kiel Hyre quest is a shining example of how a quest in RO should be.  There's a solid story, interesting characters... the direction is good, you can follow it easily without a guide... and there's a good finale that ties in perfectly with the dungeon you gain access to for finishing.  Its a good time to be had by all.

In typical Doddler fashion, I completely ditched the party that I was doing the quest with to see if I could solo the boss portion. 

Can it be solo'd?

He can. 

I of course assisted my group in completing the quest the few more times in order to get everyone done.  And then we had an OCA opening session.

**Drum Roll**

Exotic, but not particularly useful.  Chance to gain +3 stat food when killing angel monsters.  At least its rare.

Afterwords we went and killed real Kiel.  Maybe this should have been in the MVP post... but oh well.  There were no drops unfortunately.

So while being bored, I decided I would try to mob up Skeggiolds and kill them all at once with bowling bash.  I can't afford an Odin Blessing but they're common enough that I figured I could find the one I need.  Let me tell you that wasn't a particularly smart idea.  Those things hurt without a shield!

This is not the armor you're looking for.

I did eventually drag Momo on the high priest out to help kill them.  I question Momo's supportive skills, mainly because you have to remind him that he has a skill that can be used to recover HP, but its certainly easier than soloing the suckers.

And I finally got my odin blessing.

Also took some time to kill a Valkyrie that had spawned nearby.

Cry.

I did end up doing the Brando exp quest on some of my noobier characters since its so easy to do.  I must admit, the dialog is pretty amusing this time around.

Also had some time to mess around in WoE!

Its a shame my biochemist does not have guild approval yet on hahoe club, or he'd be owning up!

Breaking noob guild forts is an entertaining past time.  I did however, get in trouble for ditching the castle defense to break. 

So its that time again, OCA Time!

**Drum Roll**

I wonder why I bother at all!

Riding the High Life

So it turns out Renouille wants Green Maiden cards.  This isn't that much of a suprise seeing how much he paid for the Despero of Thanatos.

Oh yeah.

I'm rich yet again!

Not to leave you in the dark on the MVP scene, I've been (as usual) rocking most of the mvps on the server.

Ok, so thats not all of them... but its a good deal of them!  Almost all of the 60 min spawns.

Turtle General is really easy now that I have the ancient pike I found.  A lot easier than I actually expected it to be.  Go quad ancient.

I realized I didn't have any shots of pharaoh on the blog yet.  Well it will stay that way for now, because I wasn't fast enough to get the shot of him while he was alive.

I decided I would try to vend my Jewel Crown's earlier... funny enough, the 1.1m crown actually sold first!