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Woot!

By Doddler on November 14, 2007 in category 'General'

So I was performing my routine of killing White Lady and the bunch of Green Maiden's that spawn down in Lyouyang dungeon, something interesting caught my eye.

WOOOO!

Ohhhhh yeeeah. I didn't expect to actually get one. Its a pretty nice card, and while I to be entirely honest I don't personally have much use for it, I do know there are a good number of people who do. Score.

But thats not the only thing I got. I heard at random that an odium of thanatos had been spawned south of prontera, so I put on my icepick and ran south and took him down pretty quick. 26000 damage bowling bashes for the win. And lo and behold.

Oh yeah.

I should mention that woe today was actually quite a bit of fun, I enjoyed it a lot more than I usually do.

I might even be able to say that I was somewhat useful.

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Shikieiki Yamaxanadu, the Little Lif that Could

By Doddler on November 13, 2007 in category 'General'

This particular shot is not really related to the rest of my post, its simply that a rogue actually DB'd on me specifically while I paused while heading down to Green Maidens. Damn people.

Anyways this post was going to be a lot more elaborate but my browser ate my post.

So I felt that since Shikieiki 99'd me on my Alchemist by killing Evil Snake Lord (video), that she herself should 99 by killing him. This was easier said than done... it took several hours to track down the spawn time. Once I had the time, the kind priest/hunter that were there let me have it so I could 99 my Lif. Unfortunately we messed up, Lif died, and Snake Lord wiped our party with power up magnum break. With Lif having died, she didn't get the exp for killing him. Woops. Next time we came back, we were stunned to see a Gypsie and Priest already killing it. I discussed what we were doing with them, and they offered to give us a hand.

Third times the charm I guess, and on our third Evil Snake Lord run, we successfully gave lif her level.

WOOOO!

I do want to take a moment to say how proud I am of Shikieiki. I know that sounds kind of lame, but I do mean it. She's come a long way, and she's always been at my Alchemists side from the start, nearly from back when I first started RO. She's been great, and I don't think I could have gotten my biochemist this far without her help.

The AI she runs on is a custom job, a massive hack of Soukosa's great AI. Its really weird, and it makes her kind of quirky, and almost a unique personality. It takes a bit of work to control Shikieiki, but she's great.

For who ever that wants to see it, the video.

My very own glowing Lif-sicle.

In other news, I decided to continue doing my MVP rounds, checking on other MVP's I have not yet tried to mess with. This brings me to Dark Lord. I can't do it on my LK unfortunately because of his agility up, so I brought my biochemist to the show.

He's honestly not much different than before. His lower VIT is annoying to my biochemist as is his increased HP, but his only new attack skill is Hell's Judgement. It only hit me for about 4k or so, not much to be worried about. It does have the same cast time as Dark Blessing however, so I wouldn't want to stick around if I have the mob on me.

Double KO!

I've been thinking about how much I want an ancient weapon for the LK, so today I got fed up with the lack of mummy cards on the market that I simply got up, went down to Pyramids 4F and went hunting mummies.

I didn't get the mummy card, but I did find every ones favorite undead king, Osiris. He seemed easier today than I remember him... he didn't seem to be able to dodge my death dealing bowling bashes. Not that I'm complaining!

But just my luck, I found the exact object of my desire vending today. I was short 3m zeny however, so I had to borrow some from Kilian.

I am now officially broke! And in debt, no less.

Support the Doddler cause! Buy my stuff!

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For Love of Leveling

By Doddler on November 4, 2007 in category 'General'

So today, driven by my mad desire to get that last point of STR, I decided I should make use of the 1.5x exp event and get my LK another level.

Thor is a pretty scary place... its a bit frustrating, especially when you have no shield for the job. I died frequently, and used an obscene amount of pots.

This kind of scene isn't entirely uncommon. I have this kind of unnatural desire to mob up monsters, including big scary ones that hurt me a lot, which generally isn't very good for my health.

Level Up~! That puts the LK at level 94, and I finally got my STR to 99, and put the remaining points into AGI. From start to finish, I used about 5000 white pots (4.6m worth), 5 battle manuals, 19 insurance, about 120 stays at the inn (600k worth), taking just under three hours. Final EXP rate is approximately 20m/hr. Not bad.

I don't usually use battle manuals but I do sometimes indulge for exp events such as this. Aren't those things terribly expensive? Even on jRO they're much cheaper...

A completely off topic screenshot. I've been doing some Atroce lately, and usually either I die, or he dies, but not usually both. Apologies to the Defiance MVP party I fought against today too, it was rather cruel of me to trick the sniper in their party into getting Atroce to activate defender by hitting him while trapped. I don't usually play so dirty.

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For Great Pumpkins

By Doddler on October 31, 2007 in category 'General'

This is my story. Two of the three accounts are down and I can't pay for them. Hopefully I get paid for my recent work soon so I can get them going again.