Dark Knight and the new HNM career
Just a couple of days I finished my latest pet project DRK (well ahead of Xmas which was my original goal. Much of this is of course because of campaign, I had a brief party at 72 but besides that it was all solo. I'm insane I know.
Here's my DRK at one of the more typical places that brought me here lol. These are my (full attack) DoT sets for Scythe and GS specifically, GS using Ecphoria ring for DoT and lolAttila's earring for WS to complete a 7 hit setup with /sam. Scythe WS is for Guillotine in this picture, I still need Flame Gorget for both Insurgency and Drakesbane so I guess I should get started on that soon. Speaking of WS, I got all of them fairly quickly thanks to several friends, most notably Yondaime and Delicieux.
I have one little mindcracker and that is for the occasions where acc does not allow for wearing Askar Korazin: Should I go with Haubergeon or Homam Corazza? I've done a little research on it and while Homam normally comes out the victor over a long period of hits, the inconsistency of triple attacks may just as well be outweighed by the reliable attack boosts that comes with Haubergeon. Thus far I've gone with consistency and used Hauby, but hmm... What do you think?
In other news we got a lucky break the other week at Nyzul, got both an Askar Head for Kirei and Askar Body for the Hooker, so with a little luck I should have my Askar head soon, maybe friday. I also managed to pick up NIN and SAM weps, so now I have all weapons for the jobs I have + for the job that would come next if I ever decided to level another job.
Another big piece of news is that I'm once again part of a HNMLS, part of me feels this is a natural step to take to keep the excitement of playing, though part of me is naturally concerned about the effect on real life. I had a conversation with the leader about this before applying, and it appears they are very understanding of being away for whatever RL reasons, just not doing other stuff in game during events, which is perfectly reasonable to me. So either way I joined this ls called DeathTax, whose leadership consists of server transfers coming to Rag in search of a place called home. LS is quite small atm, having trouble massing even a single alliance, but it has a core of very old veteran players so with a little luck it might actually get somewhere. And thus far things have been going fairly well, even for me. At my first event I managed to pick up
which I've been wanting for salvage for a long time. (Did I mention I went back to doing salvage with Zen also? no?)
Additionally we killed Aspid just the other day, with decent drops.
Congrats Mattchoo on Dalma, he seems like a reliable fellow btw so it wasn't a waste. What would have been a waste was the BLM main with Sorc coat who threw an emo-fit about not getting it and left the linkshell (only to come back a few hours later). Grow up jeez.
There are a number of things I like and a number of things I'm concerned with regarding the ls. The things I like are that I am essentially free to go as whatever melee strikes my fancy at every event: I joined as full time DD! Pwnage. Secondly I actually do see a good chance at character development in here, stuff like Black Belt, Ace's, Torques and maybe even E.body does not look entirely impossible anymore.
Some things I am concerned about however are primarily that lots of attention goes to BLM damage and very little to melee DD in terms of getting healer/bard support. I feel like they are wasting good melee potential. I've already discussed this with the leader so we'll see, I think it'll work out fine. Second is the low member count and essentially competing with lolCG over EU-time members. We all know what kind of people mostly comes out of EU/Arabia, seriously -_-
A third concern is that the ls leadership come from other servers with alot harsher end-game rules, in terms of what is okay to claim or not. They just grudgingly agree to the "silly" escape-random rule on Fafnir, and think it's nonsense to let a mob heal to 100% before claiming if another party wiped. It also don't matter to them if they are buying time with weakened zerglings, if it's yellow it's fair game. I'm not entirely sure where I stand on several of these issues tbh, but if I see something I don't approve of I will do something about it. At least they aren't botting crap like CG.
Until next time,
Gathzel
Here's my DRK at one of the more typical places that brought me here lol. These are my (full attack) DoT sets for Scythe and GS specifically, GS using Ecphoria ring for DoT and lolAttila's earring for WS to complete a 7 hit setup with /sam. Scythe WS is for Guillotine in this picture, I still need Flame Gorget for both Insurgency and Drakesbane so I guess I should get started on that soon. Speaking of WS, I got all of them fairly quickly thanks to several friends, most notably Yondaime and Delicieux.
I have one little mindcracker and that is for the occasions where acc does not allow for wearing Askar Korazin: Should I go with Haubergeon or Homam Corazza? I've done a little research on it and while Homam normally comes out the victor over a long period of hits, the inconsistency of triple attacks may just as well be outweighed by the reliable attack boosts that comes with Haubergeon. Thus far I've gone with consistency and used Hauby, but hmm... What do you think?
In other news we got a lucky break the other week at Nyzul, got both an Askar Head for Kirei and Askar Body for the Hooker, so with a little luck I should have my Askar head soon, maybe friday. I also managed to pick up NIN and SAM weps, so now I have all weapons for the jobs I have + for the job that would come next if I ever decided to level another job.
Another big piece of news is that I'm once again part of a HNMLS, part of me feels this is a natural step to take to keep the excitement of playing, though part of me is naturally concerned about the effect on real life. I had a conversation with the leader about this before applying, and it appears they are very understanding of being away for whatever RL reasons, just not doing other stuff in game during events, which is perfectly reasonable to me. So either way I joined this ls called DeathTax, whose leadership consists of server transfers coming to Rag in search of a place called home. LS is quite small atm, having trouble massing even a single alliance, but it has a core of very old veteran players so with a little luck it might actually get somewhere. And thus far things have been going fairly well, even for me. At my first event I managed to pick up
which I've been wanting for salvage for a long time. (Did I mention I went back to doing salvage with Zen also? no?)
Additionally we killed Aspid just the other day, with decent drops.
Congrats Mattchoo on Dalma, he seems like a reliable fellow btw so it wasn't a waste. What would have been a waste was the BLM main with Sorc coat who threw an emo-fit about not getting it and left the linkshell (only to come back a few hours later). Grow up jeez.
There are a number of things I like and a number of things I'm concerned with regarding the ls. The things I like are that I am essentially free to go as whatever melee strikes my fancy at every event: I joined as full time DD! Pwnage. Secondly I actually do see a good chance at character development in here, stuff like Black Belt, Ace's, Torques and maybe even E.body does not look entirely impossible anymore.
Some things I am concerned about however are primarily that lots of attention goes to BLM damage and very little to melee DD in terms of getting healer/bard support. I feel like they are wasting good melee potential. I've already discussed this with the leader so we'll see, I think it'll work out fine. Second is the low member count and essentially competing with lolCG over EU-time members. We all know what kind of people mostly comes out of EU/Arabia, seriously -_-
A third concern is that the ls leadership come from other servers with alot harsher end-game rules, in terms of what is okay to claim or not. They just grudgingly agree to the "silly" escape-random rule on Fafnir, and think it's nonsense to let a mob heal to 100% before claiming if another party wiped. It also don't matter to them if they are buying time with weakened zerglings, if it's yellow it's fair game. I'm not entirely sure where I stand on several of these issues tbh, but if I see something I don't approve of I will do something about it. At least they aren't botting crap like CG.
Until next time,
Gathzel