Doddler's RO Journal
More of the Same
By Doddler on November 11, 2007 in category 'MVP'
Aaah, back to the norm.
**drum roll**
Well... I've gotten worse.
I decided that my OPB's wern't selling, so I decided I would open the ones I had.
By market value, thats about 6.3m worth of OPBs... will it be worth it? I guess its not a big deal, since each OCA I've opened was worth about that much, and I get all kinds of crap from them.
It's amusing being able to put an item like that on the skill bar for easy usage.
And here we go.
**drum roll**
Well damn. Only thing thats kind of cool was the funeral hat, which I've never actually had before. After wearing it for a few minutes though, I figured its pretty ugly and put it in storage.
I've been sort of hunting Lady Tanee and leveling my lif at the same time. Sometimes random things like this pop up.
Yay. Its not much but finding rare stuff is always fun.
So I've been doing Lady Tanee a lot... did I ever mention how much I hate her? Atleast she gives sort of decent drops. I'd have made so much more money if it wern't for the kafra shop foods though...
Its show-off time!
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A Story of One Not In His Right Mind
By Doddler on November 9, 2007 in category 'MVP'
Today, annoyed that neither Mistress or Lady Tanny were giving me the challenge I was craving, I started up on the drawing board for a far more ambitious project. Todays target would be Vesper, and it would be solo on LK.
The test was certainly hard... however, I lucked out this time around, because while I was contemplating how I would complete the elevator, a small three man party came by. I stowed away on the elevator with them and stole their MVP.
I must admit that this was very rude, and I do to some extent regret doing so, particularly because I'm sure they're very upset with me (apologies to them if they read this), for the following reasons:
1) I killed the MVP they were working hard to get to.
2) I probably wouldn't have been able to get there without their help.
3) I may have gotten their team killed with monsters following me when I first realized where they would be fighting Vesper.
So I did eventually get MVP, but my goal was not to compete, it was to solo, so I would wait another two hours for it to spawn.
In this shot you can see Vespers near mythical ten second interruptible cast meteor storm, a skill so rare that this is likely the first recorded instance of it ever finishing casting.
I am victorious! 
However, it was not really a good victory. For one, it was basically a Kafra Shop extravaganza. I'm sure gravity profited from my Vesper attempt. I won't go into details, but its not pretty.
After doing it once, I think that wearing a brutal for tanking vesper was likely the wrong approach. The mob was far more dangerous than he was, and if I were to attempt it again, I would have to use a peno stone buckler (that I have yet to make). Vesper's 7k crits didn't phase me nearly as much as the 3-4k elemental attacks from the billions of dimiks he summoned.
No drops though, but I'm proud that I did manage to completely solo him. All was not lost however.
I managed to get this rare gem from a passing Archdam. While not particularly valuable, it does give the trip some meaning, and might help cover the some 1000 whites I used. 
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'Tis the Season for Mad Rares
By Doddler on November 8, 2007 in category 'MVP'
So apparently I enjoy some kind of mental abuse, because I just keep coming back to Mistress and Lady Tanee. Mistress isn't so bad, but Tanee is crazy. I imagine some time durring development, a meeting took place as follows:
- Developer A: "I feel that there's not enough in our game to appeal to masochists. Leveling is hard but normal people are doing it successfully."
- Developer B: "How about we make an MVP that is incredibly hard to find, and when you DO find it, it always teleports away. After it teleports, it can also heal itself to full health, making it extremely frustrating."
- Developer A: "I like where this is going. We can also give her an amazing card so people will have no choice but to subject themselves to our torture machine."
- Developer B: "Brilliant!"
At least, thats how I think it would have gone.
Today was a pretty successful day though, as I found lots of neat things worth some good money.
I somehow found another Bao Bao headgear. Apparently they're quite common from Green Maiden.
And while this wasn't the Alice card I was looking for, it was certainly a pretty nice surprise.
It sells for a pretty nice amount. The item description is wrong, so I'll have to bug them on the iro forums about it.
My attempt to go kill valk mini's with Snowballs! didn't go very smoothly. To be honest I'm pretty bad at supporting. Snowballs is crazy though, with her brisingamen + mjolnir + meginjard cart ram, doing 16000 damage hits at 187 attack speed. Beats the crap out of the dps output on my LK...
I finally found out who was constantly killing White Lady, and I think we came to a pretty good understanding. I should be able to hunt it while she's not around now, which is good enough for me.
And I finally gave in and got Gym Passes for my biochemist. At least its a permanent, helpful boost.
Bonus:
Getting stuck in a wall. 
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A Random Pile of... Something
By Doddler on November 7, 2007 in category 'MVP'
So this article will be more disjointed since lots has happened since my last big post!
You probably know the drill by this point.
**Drum Roll**
...I think I'm going to cry.
But that's not all!
There was a second one.
**Drum Roll**
...Ok, now the game is just mocking me.
After all this time, I finally found the Gungnir from Mistress.
I'm not sure I've talked about my Gungnir plan. See, Gungnir is one of the only items in the game that provides "perfect hit", the ability to hit the target regardless of your hit or flee of the target. There are three things that can grant this. Gungnir gives 20% perfect hit, Mummy card offers 20% perfect hit, and the Archer set offers 20% perfect hit. If you can get a slotted Gungnir, it would technically be possible to have all 3 active at once... although the archer set involves sacrificing too much gear for a knight in my opinion. As a slightly less restrictive option, you could opt just for gungnir/mummy set and have a Titan Ancient Gungnir and Ancient Mummy Shield for a base 40% chance to hit the monster... any monster in the game, regardless of the flee. Dracula and Tao Gunka, here I come.
I already have my own Gungnir which I use at high flee MVPs, so this new one is made for slotting. Or at least, trying to slot.
**Drum Roll**
This game hates me, I'm sure of it. 
I decided to do some more MVPing after all, and check out some more of the new MVPs.
Ok, so it was a bit crazy to try to kill both at once, but it went pretty good. While Moonlight Flower has a lot of new skills, this means she spends a lot less time using the one skill that kills you, mammonite. This is a good thing, and I think her decreased usage of mammo actually makes her easier than she was before. Unless you're a wizard.
I got really lucky and found Evil Snake Lord. The people who were hunting it were probably wondering how the hell I found the spawn time, but in fact I just got lucky.
It did drop a hat though! I didn't even remember it could drop a hat.
Useless... but maybe I'll hold onto it for the new slot enchant system with episode 12.
White Lady is always a good time. She's so nice to me, that she uses sanctuary which means I barely have to use any pots at all.
As I figured, its impossible afterall. 
A friend of mine, Dark Tychon found a Despero of Thanatos card (Shield: INT - 5, increases int by refine rate of shield). He managed to sell it for 150 m zenny to one of the top potters on the server. It was at this time that I realized that the INT-5 could be used to actually further boost your stats through the use of marionette control.
It didn't take long to make the connection to the Green Maiden card (Garment: LUK - 5, increases luk and crit by refine rate of garment), and to realize that it would be even better for potting than Despero could be, even if used in a +0 garment or +10. So with this in mind, I decided to hunt green maidens.
They're none too happy with my appearance there, but why should they! No card yet though.
Notice the headgear though? I did find a bao bao off of one though. It looks almost more amazingly ugly on me than the Sunflower Hat.
Lets get a closeup of that.
Oooooooh Yeeeah. 
I need money! Anyone playing on Loki, remember to buy my stuff! 
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