Kizmia's Island adventure

Yesterday I was alerted to the Pirates of Lok'Groton Lootin' Time which I had not attended for a few weeks because I didn't know it was still being held. I decided to leave the library in order to be a good pirate, unfortunately Stinkfist was no where to be seen. I was about to go back when Azel asked if I wanted to have a trip to Kizmia's Island. I hadn't been there in quite some time so I donned my Catsbane's Necklace and headed out.

The group consisted of Azel, Borzon, Brahtz, Ravenstorm, and myself. We started in Kizmia's Island Cove on the east part of the island and headed underground through the one-way path. Once there we hunted throughout the caves following Borzon's directions since he had a map. We even visited Groar's statue and its amazing glittering jewel.

Borzon wanted some tar for a future trip so we exited on the west side of the surface. We weren't able to spend much time there since Azel had to go, but we did scan a few of the snells in order to find the Albino Maha that can be turned into clothes or a rank (one-time only). The general consensus was that it was probably already found and killed, probably by Mujin-kun. We weren't able to find it regardless.

It was a great trip with enough challenge to not be boring and enough coins so that I started out with 2c and ended up with over 1,600c. Borzon and Azel also got some studies done.

I definitely noticed the improvement to my usefulness with the extra histia I trained over the past several months. If I was here with the 300 histia I had instead of the 450 histia I have now it would have been a lot riskier. Especially since at one point I got surrounded by junk and Lyfelidae and was getting low on health. Thankfully Ravenstorm came and freed me and I was able to get to safety to heal the fallen and myself. If I had only 300 histia I would have fallen and put the group at risk. After I finish getting to 400 faustus with AnDeux Faure I'll get to 500 histia before doing anything else. I thought I could avoid damage with proximus, and I did for a long time, but that's just not possible anymore.

I think I've said this a couple of times before and am sounding like a broken record. I just really like the extra health and how it keeps me from looking like a noob when I fall. Having fast reflexes and knowing where to run to avoid feraling mobs helps a lot too, but sometimes avoiding everything becomes impossible.

Kizmia's Island shouldn't be forgotten as a good place to hunt. It's great for experience for a long time, and if you have someone with good skea it's great for coins as well.

A Blind Amphibian was an odd sight.

Groar's statue hides secrets.

Glad to be there. ^_^

Random Estuary Screenshot

Talas likes Meshra a lot

We were talking about how annoying Flotsam Meshra are, which Talas is recently studying in order to get the morph. Talas is very excited about getting closer to morphing into them while the rest of us hate how they come in a group and feral everywhere.

I also turned on the settings option to have this post posted on Google+ which I thought would be automatically set to do it but I was wrong. Now Eviler Toaster can see how awesome Clan Lord is, especially compared to some Star Wars game. Who needs lightsabers when you have bloodblades, gossamers, and fell blades?

Estuary is still dangerous

Never let your guard down.

Azel's Estuary Team has been going to the Estuary for many months now and it's easy to forget how dangerous the place is.

Our rangers have completed many studies and morphs and with Mujin-kun's power and Lorikeet's durability one can be forgiven for assuming that nothing could possibly hurt us too badly.

Until today when we were in the newest area where the lizard boss resides. Mujin-kun had lured him out along with a few other beasts and it was already slightly difficult since there was so much stuff running around.

Suddenly Spicy Manders spawned everywhere. The above picture doesn't show just how many there were. Every free spot was filled with them and since they feral that meant that escape was nearly impossible. I chained a bunch and tried to run south where Lorikeet and Mujin-kun were, but there were just so many that I quickly fell.

I assumed it would be a depart but Mujin-kun found a healer in the library and got some other people to come out to rescue us. Fortunately this area is pretty close to the southern dock so it didn't take long for them to get to us. They were probably delayed by getting enough people out of the library and killing everything that spawned. Talas and I also poofed and came back much further south which also helped.

I don't think it was a natural spawn. Before the hunt started there was a huge spawn of Death Vermine in town which is also unnatural. I wonder if there will be future spawns of this type and what it could mean.

The perils of Ranger studies

I decided to quickly leave the library to verify Stylunk's correction of how it handles female Fen'neko hair dying and got pulled into an adventure.

At first it was just Gremlins, Eirian, Mork, and myself heading to the Basalt Passes (I'm not sure if this is the official name) on Metz. Seems that Mork wanted to study Ancient Greymyrs in order to get the full family bonus on Earth Elementals and had been working on it for quite some time.

There's an Ice Greymyr in the 8th-circle Fighter's Test, but you can't just study the Ice Greymyr and get 100% of your Gossamer bonus on it. There's actually a Captured Ice Greymyr in the test which means that you need to study other beasts in the same family in order to get a maximum of 50% of your Gossamer bonus with 5 studies. Ice Greymyrs are in the Earth Elemental family and there are very few of them which is why Mork wanted to study Ancient Greymyrs.

At first it went well and we made our way to the Basalt Passes with little difficulty. Then there were two greymyrs and a bunch of Twilight Wendecka and Gremlins and Mork went this way and that and both fell. I grabbed Eirian and fled to the cove only for her to have to leave.

At that point Stinkfist came on and I asked him to help. Baffina came along with Brahtz at her heels and then Eirian decided to come back. We slowly made our way to the Basalt Passes. Very slowly, even though we had more people and another healer. We made it to where we fell and I grabbed Gremlins and Mork and Brahtz and was heading south for a triumphant chain run victory when disaster struck. Suddenly there were Twilight Wendecka all around me and since I was too close to a wall there was nowhere for me to run to. I then fell and decided to depart along with everyone besides Stinkfist and Mork.

It went much better this time as we lured the Twilight Wendecka out and managed to kill them. Mork was difficult to raise but a potion got him up. Stinkfist was more badly fallen so Baffina got Great Pumpkin out of the library. I wondered why she couldn't have done that for Mork, but didn't say anything. Finally we could focus on the reason for the trip in the first place, Mork lastying Ancient Greymyr.

I directed Stinkfist to use Disable in order to make it easier for Mork to hit. The first greymyr didn't go smoothly since Stinkfist killed it even though it was on yellow. He was pretty surprised because he had his Bloodblade on Control mode. I reminded him that he did have 900 darkus. I also should have reminded him that yellow health is a huge percentage range so it could have been barely above red health, but I forgot.

With that lesson learned we lured the second greymyr and this time Stinkfist used Disable when it was at green health telling Mork to hit it right after he did. Stinkfist hit, the greymyr was surrounded with blood, Mork hit it, the greymyr fell down, and finally, victory.

It looks easier than it was.

More Fun in Estuary

Tabatha: Mirror Pond, Lorikeet: Bruised Sapphire, Azel: Floodwater, Moon Kitty: Gathering Dusk

Talas: Deluge

These are some of the pants you can get with a Caustic Gland (drops after you kill the Lord of the Undermarsh), Tangleberry, and 1500c. Both the name and the color are random, although he's only made shades of blue so far. You can see all of them on Stylunk, except for Deluge but it should be added soon.

Back to AnDeux Faure

Moon Kitty reached the 450 Higgrus mark a few days ago and is back with AnDeux Faure (2 respia to 1 faustus) until Faustus reaches the 400 message. After that I'll return to Higgrus until 500.

Borzon must be awesome at parties.

Lasties make hunts challenging.

Azel was afk and came back to this.

We fell to lack of oxygen. Sligh was never raised.

The first sighting of a Snowcat. Tabatha later learned the morph.

People still like hiding Stora. Why?

My first visit to Lugubrion's Castle

Lugubrion's Castle has two entrances. One is, I believe, somewhere in the Marsh and requires you to be a Thoom to use. The other is found in the Mountain Glen and requires a Mystic with sufficient illusion breaking skill to allow anyone to enter.

Recently Stinkfist had a Pirates of Lok'Groton & Friends Fun Fun Lootin' Time and I attended to lend my healing support. I'll put some pictures I took a bit later but I wanted to write down my thoughts and impressions of the castle before I forget.

Firstly, the only information I had about Lugubrion's Castle was from the Thoom hunting party that used to explore there. Maybe the Mystic illusion wasn't always there or maybe people just didn't know about it. The impression I got from reading their reports was that the castle is a dangerous place and the water guardians are tough. When it was suggested as an idea as a possible location for our small group I was a bit wary, but figured that departing was worth it to be able to go to a new place.

The gardens outside the castle were lovely and really connected you to nature. The rain added to the peacefulness and tranquility of the scene. I would have liked to explore more but we soon went to the castle itself and passed by two large lion statues. Feodoric explained that there several instances of lions used in the castle. I wonder why Lugubrion picked lions to decorate his castle.

Once in we discovered that Diotima didn't know much about the castle aside from pointing out one set of doors we shouldn't go through since they lead to the Ethereal Plane. Grateful for the warning we headed west and went in one door after the other.

For the most part Lugubrion's Castle was empty. Every room and hallway showed signs of extensive water damage. Sure it was raining outside but that didn't explain why so much of the floor was rotting away or why rooms were flooded or why mushrooms were allowed to grow.

We eventually ran into a few employees who weren't happy to see us. I guess they keep on doing what they were hired to do even though Lugubrion himself seems to have left the castle a while ago. We did find a weapon's room with a great looking glaive which I think we all wanted. Sadly they weren't selling them for any price.

We wandered around more and surprisingly were able to stick together for the most part. The few Watery Guardians and floating Watery Bolts were dispatched with ease. They probably would be more dangerous if we had a lot more of them, but then again I was the only one healing and we only had Stinkfist and Gremlins as our fighters.

Lugubrion spent a lot of time and effort making a gigantic castle only to fill it with absolutely nothing of importance and then he's letting it all go to waste. Is this on purpose because he has somewhere more important to be and figures he can just repair it when he gets back? He allowed Thooms to gain entrance which means that if he didn't want us exploring he could have shut down that entrance as well as the illusion that enables anyone to enter. I wonder if we'll ever get the chance to find out.

Regardless we eventually found our way to a huge library filled with all manner of books. Some were making noises, others were glowing and a deep mist covered more. There were books covering many different topics from navigating the water to the Ethereal Plane, magical barriers, creation myths, and more. Unfortunately some books were ruined by the water and others couldn't be read due to the language or them being blank.

We were gathering to leave and explore some more when we found something new and amazing. We found 2 scrolls and a book lying on the floor able to be picked up and read in-depth. One was on "Dwarven Satire & humor" another on "sylvan carvings and carving" and I have no information on what the third one was.

Stinkfist decided to return to town immediately and give them to the Castle Alliance which is looking for books to build a library. However, we ended up going back to the entrance and then heading east to explore a bit more but skipped going into the side-rooms along the way and didn't find anything of note.

After gathering in the Castle Alliance we found Dekkins the librarian to be eagerly awaiting our arrival, although he was a bit shocked at us stealing the books from Lugubrion. We assured him that if he came back for them we could handle whatever he threw at us. Dekkins turned out to have a bookish sense of humor, which makes sense given that he's a librarian.

He told us that we could keep the books while he prepared the library to keep them. Apparently he has let all of the shelves get dusty and damp and they were in no condition to hold books or scrolls. We also got some bonus experience for science.

Stinkfist decided to hold another book hunting party next Saturday at 2 p.m. and you can use this time link to find out what it is in your time. We have a list of possible places to find books and will decide where to go based on who shows up.

Not sure why the special scrolls and book decided to make an appearance now since Stinkfist told me they weren't discovered before. It has been a few years since the Thoom group explored Lugubrion's Castle so maybe the magic of the place just took longer to work. Whatever the reason it was exciting to be present for Pirate Science.

Debuffs on the way?

Repairing my Sungem.

I finally reached the 900 respia message after reaching 350 faustus which took a lot longer than expected. I had no idea my respia was as low as it was as I thought it would have been a lot closer to 900. That might explain why my self-heal was a bit poorer than expected as well.

I'm on to training with Higgrus now with my aim getting to 450 before returning to AnDeux Faure until faustus reaches 400. I think I need the extra health as my self-heal isn't one of my strong suits. My sespus is low and compared to other healers so is my respia. I have no plans on getting a lot of additional sespus, although I may get to the next message, and I think 50 higgrus will help me out a lot more than getting 50 respia.

Estuary is going smoothly. It seems that even if I hadn't decided to switch from Jeanne to Moon Kitty I probably would have had to anyway. The numbers of healers has not been high lately with just Lorikeet and myself many days. Even though Azel told me she'd switch to her healer that would have swapped an excellent fighter (Azel) with a mediocre Bloodmage (Jeanne). Even though Mujin-kun doesn't need anyone else to dominate anywhere she chooses to go most of the time, I prefer to enjoy fighting not watching someone else do the fighting while I lay fallen.

The next expansion has all of the required materials and I'm looking forward to it being done. Based on what Yappy has said on his blog, that is still being worked on which makes me happy just to know what's happening. So many GMs refuse to talk to the players that it's easy for me to think that no work is being done at all.

In fact, Slartibartfast actually posted on our forums to tell us that he's working on the debuffs as promised. All 3 debuffs in one trainer and he's tweaked the blood so that we get more spirit back based on our health. That means even if it's a slaughter we'll get more blood back than we used to which means we might be able to debuff at weaker areas even if we don't vanquish the stuff there. I say might because I don't know if anyone's tested it (I really have to do that.) which may mean our debuffs will be usable in more areas. It would be great to be able to debuff and use hemorrhage in areas where I vanquish stuff without running out of spirit.

Even though Jeanne is still going to get to 100 Crato Defeal (spirit trainer) because better to be safe than sorry if the numbers get tweaked as Slartibartfast threatened to do if they were too good. :-(

Time to go to bed. Sweet dreams!

Pretty in Pink

Parrots are almost as thickheaded as Mystics

Parrots can rarely be found in the Estuary and can be captured by Full Mystics and made their pet. It's not easy for them to be found because they attack anyone on sight and, try as I might to lose this one, kept finding its way back to us. I think someone ended up accidentally killing it when it wouldn't leave us alone and just got in the way.

Ooh la la!

Mephisto asked me to get him a pink shirt when I was in the Estuary and I must say he looks pretty darn cute.

I reached the first of many healer milestones when I attained 350 faustus, which makes me slightly faster than I used to be. It's no match for the real healer speed demons, but I'm out of newbie territory at least.

I was going to switch to training with Higgrus for 50 more lessons, when I decided to get to the 900-999 message with Respia which will give me a 2.57:1 respia to faustus ratio. It's a bit lower than the 3:1 ratio I'd like but I'll correct that in due time, and as long as I don't go under 2:1 ratio I'll be fine. I still haven't finished with Respia which surprises me as I thought I was a lot closer to 900 respia than I was.

When I'm done with Respia I plan on getting another 50 higgrus and then back to AnDeux Faure until 400 faustus and then another 50 higgrus. Maybe I'll be able to pass into 7th circle after this, since I've been healing her over 50% so far. Once I'm done with this I have no idea what to do so I'll probably end up with AnQuart Faure until I figure it out.

Why I haven't been going on hunts (long, semi-ooc)

A pause in the action.

It's kind of strange that the entry following the one in which I exalt at Jeanne finally getting out of the library I'm explaining why I haven't left the library at all in the past two weeks.

I'm going to be using some OOC (out of character) terms and explanations because I don't want to bother with finding an IC (in character) reason. Even if I did it might just muddy the issue which is contrary to what I want.

For a few weeks I have gone on Azel's Estuary Hunt from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and then Mujin's Hunt from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. That's a minimum of 4.5 hours every day devoted to Clan Lord and I began to feel that was too much.

Plus, I was getting a bit bored with healing in Ash City. There was some excitement, but there just wasn't much challenge. I could entertain myself with reading blogs or sites at the same time but can't easily do that on the computer I have. It's an old PowerMac G4 and a small 17" monitor and I have dial-up all of which add up to not being able to see the Clan Lord screen and the browser at the same time and any time I open up a web page that means I can't do anything in Clan Lord due to lack of bandwidth.

The only job I have that does pay me money requires me to write news articles and seeing an article I wanted to write get snatched up by someone else, thus denying me needed dollars, was painful.

Yes, I know I need a new computer but I also need a job and finding work is damn near impossible.

Besides, even if I could do this I'm not sure I'd want to after seeing Lorikeet standing off in the corner while fighters fall left and right and me being unable to keep up with the damage being done. That always frustrates me and I don't want to mimic that behavior.

Frustration is why I haven't been going to Azel's Estuary Hunts either. I found myself becoming very negative and saying only negative comments, especially to Azel, and I don't want her to think that I'm only thinking negative thoughts or are a negative person.

I just don't like the tagging mentality hunts seem to always have. It's tough enough having to keep in mind what you've tagged so you don't do too much damage before everyone else has tagged. Plus you have to remember what you haven't tagged so you can tag it before everyone else kills it. Then there's Mujin-kun who basically can kill everything in the Estuary just by looking at it and there's no telling when she'll decide something has to die even if it's at high health and you're trying to get to it to tag it first. There have been many times when I've been running to a beast or two trying to be able to hit and just as I get to them, Mujin-kun kills them before I have a chance to swing. I don't expect her to remember what everyone has or hasn't hit but she can see me running up to her if she's paying attention. Maybe she thinks "I don't need Jeanne to help me kill these things. I'll kill them before she gets here!" while I'm thinking "I haven't hit those things. Please don't kill them yet!

The tagging mentality also means that no one pays much attention to anyone else. It's as if the only things they see are themselves and the beasts. It doesn't matter if they make it difficult for you to get out of their way, thus trapping you and making you fall and miss tags. It doesn't matter if they lead a bunch of stuff to you which makes you fall and miss tags. It doesn't matter if a bunch of stuff is on red and attacking the healers because they've already tagged it. Then when you kill the stuff on red to help the Healers they then kill the stuff you haven't tagged before you can get to them. It's as if the minimal strategy Clan Lord has is just thrown out of the window and it's a purely chaotic environment where no one tries to work with anyone else. As long as Lorikeet and Mujin-kun are up they could care less about who else misses tags as long as they get theirs.

It makes me frustrated and it's no good asking people to be more considerate because the only thing they wait for are Rangers getting their last hits. If a Ranger wants to get a last hit on something it's even harder to tag because people will be focused on keeping that person alive and everyone else doesn't matter. I admit to doing this on Moon Kitty at times although I've tried to put a stop to it if there's a lot of stuff so the fallen doesn't miss out on too many tags.

It's not that I don't like missing tags because of the missed experience, although that's why I'm there in the first place and that is a factor in my frustration. It's just that after a certain amount of missed tags one begins to think that it would have been better to just stay in the library and that working so hard for no return is a waste of time and effort. One also thinks that they're not needed on the hunt at all and that maybe one's time is better spent elsewhere.

Although missing tags and experience are frustrating, I think that not being able to use all of the Bloodmage abilities is even more so. It seems like being able to use my Bloodblade damage as a big hit or over time could be useful depending on the circumstances. Being able to add extra damage with hemorrhage and weaken the beast with disable and/or cripple could help with healing. None of that matters because I have to keep on control mode to avoid doing too much damage, reducing the strength of a beast doesn't matter with regards to Mujin-kun, and hemorrhage uses more spirit than what I can replace with blood.

I'm reduced to running around desperately trying to hit everything before I fall without regard to tactics or what's stronger and should be killed first or the people around me and what they have or haven't tagged because I can barely keep up with my own tags much less everyone else and I can only hope I am not too inconsiderate in the process even though I try my hardest not to be.

THIS IS NOT FUN!

Anyway, I'm considering returning to Azel's Estuary Hunt but on Moon Kitty and not on Jeanne because I know that as long as the hunt contains Rangers who need last hits and taggers, it will continue to be frustrating for me. I also need to return the armor she borrowed from Azel. Well, Azel will have to accept me back of course and considering I disappeared without a word she may be very angry at me and not want me around. If that's her decision I will just have to accept it as my due for being an inconsiderate jerk.

Jeanne may as well be retired and I may just use her for role-playing purposes or if I want to revive the Sun Dragon Clan and/or Catenae for anything or if I want to go out hunting for coins. If I have the opportunity to go on a tactical hunt instead of a tagging hunt then I'll certainly go but I doubt those exist at all. I still like the Bloodmage class and it has a lot of nifty tricks and tools no other class can even approach, but being on a tagging hunt fills me with a murderous rage that can only remain unfulfilled.

Once Himitsu gets to a higher level and becomes a Ranger herself she'll be much more fun to run around and kill stuff with. Unfortunately this won't happen for a long while. I should give her some coins so she can spend time in the more expensive library.

As to Mujin-kun's hunt I'm less certain I want to return simply because her hunts are longer. Going on one 1.5 hour hunt every day is acceptable but then going on another hunt immediately after for another 2-2.5 hours is too much.

Therefore I think I'll apologize to Azel and ask to return on Moon Kitty and tell Mujin-kun I won't be going to her hunts.

Gosh this was a long post.

Monkey Line

Megan got her Gloaming Wendecka morph!

We went to the Metz Rainforest for the last time in a while as Mujin-kun's hunt is going to go to Ash City from now on. Apparently it's better experience there and since more people will show up that equals more tags which equals more experience for everyone and especially Mujin-kun.

We went to the Rainforest to get some more jungle vines to get access to Ash City (although I don't see why we just can't go in through the Rebel Cave) and to get Megan her Gloaming Wendecka morph which has the atkus she needs.

I immediately thought back to the accusations Asparagus had against Mujin-kun at that Estuary hunt and chuckled. How many other people would go to a place just to get someone a morph so they can go to where you want to go when you don't particularly need them there?

We all wanted to get a phial of disgusting liquid.

It's true that more people want to go to Ash City if this line is any indication. I can't recall seeing as many people in a Rainforest hunt so Ash City must be better experience by far or at least more interesting.

On this hunt I was able to free a slave and get to the Scrap Metal guy and turn in a shank thanks to Mujin-kun, but it wasn't enough. Even though some of the Rebel's messages changed I still can't get to the Rebel leader and need more esteem. I'm not even sure there's anything there worth getting besides more talking and being able to turn in the Phial of Disgusting Liquid for experience, coins, and more esteem. Of course I did miss two Blue Skulls which might have made a difference but oh well, there will be plenty more of them.

Since I'm going back to Mujin-kun's hunts I haven't had the time to spend more time on Himitsu aside from collecting her Evus ranks and writing down the messages from Atkus, Histia, and Swengus. Right now I've learned that 18 Evus = 10 Swengus which is close to Azriel's numbers. Maybe Evus hasn't been changed at all since he last researched him, but that's what I want to find out. Even if it hasn't I am going to stick with Evus since 125 effective ranks for every 100 trained is too good to pass up.

Random Pictures

Even Mystic parrots have healthy egos

 Asenath came on a recent trip to the Estuary and was lucky enough to find a parrot in the very last section. I thought we would leave empty-handed but fortune smiled on her. Later the parrot wanted Tequila and even nipped Asenath. I hope the parrot isn't too hard to handle.

50 Skea at last!

It was only 50 ranks and I got them quickly. I just didn't like getting ranks without getting stronger as well. It occurs to me I could have gotten 50 pathfinding but after getting Trillbane on Jeanne and Moon Kitty I really don't want to go through that a third time. I had one chapter of Book 1 before I reset and it just didn't seem worth it to continue. Maybe when I get stronger and the Rat Towers don't seem so overwhelming I'll reconsider.

I'm going to be training with him for a long time.

I wish Jeanne had trained with Evus instead of with the individual trainers. He has such a good bonus that it just doesn't make sense to train with anyone but him and Swengus for a long time. Too bad there's no a good way to selectively untrain and I don't consider the trainers in Trainer's Grotto a good way.

Two Pictures

I don't usually see such a strong reaction from her.

On one of Azel's Estuary Hunts it seemed Mujin-kun wasn't coming so Tabatha asked and got permission for Asparagus to come. I knew he used to be Blindkan-C (aka BKC) and a Dwarf, which I always thought was a really strange name, until he changed both his name and race. I didn't mind him coming and kind of hoped that his change was an indication that he was a nicer guy. Even though my interaction with BKC was limited he seems to be the same pompous and arrogant person he used to be.

Seems he gave Mujin-kun a ton of bad karma and criticized her on her style of leading groups previously and did so again in this instance. He actually said that she didn't wait for Rangers to get last hits which made me chuckle. It's true that when we're overwhelmed she'll kill everything and not wait for last hits, but she's actually very patient when it comes to Rangers. Sometimes a lot more patient than I am feeling at the time. Generally speaking I think she does a good job between enabling Rangers to get last hints and preventing the entire group for falling and having to depart. She's not perfect, and sometimes she kills when I think she could have waited, but she's a lot better than most other group leaders and fighters when it comes to last hits.

Anyway, Asparagus and Tabatha finally left after some awkward moments and the hunt went smoothly after that. I think Tabatha has bad taste in men but I think it's a combination of "It's okay if he treats others badly because he treats me like a princess" and "My love will make him a better and kinder man". So far her love doesn't seem to have made much of a dent in his personality.

My first day as a fighter!

Just in case you needed proof that I really did reset. Here's me as an undisclosed fighter.

Update

I haven't written in a while and don't want this to be one of those Clan Lord journals that end up dusty and forgotten so I'll tell you what's been happening recently. No pictures though, sorry.

Moon Kitty

I've stopped going to Mujin-kun's Rainforest hunt because I've been much too busy writing, but I've learned that she's disappeared suddenly and hasn't been around for three zodiacs. We all hope that she's doing well and will be back soon.

Her absence did make Azel's Estuary hunt more difficult since we didn't have strong fighters and so stayed in the first area. On the plus side that enabled us to find more Reed Cats for Azel and since Tabatha hasn't been showing up we didn't need to get to the frogs for her to lasty. However, I advertised and we've been getting some strong fighters recently including Stinkfist, Ravenstorm, Kalian, and Hel so it's been going much better. I hope that continues as it was easy to take Mujin-kun and her immense strength for granted.

Azel is down to less than 120 Reed Cat lastys so she'll get the morph soon. She said that once she gets the morph we'll continue the hunt and that I can switch to Jeanne and she'll bring out one of her healers. That would be nice since as much as I enjoy healing, I miss being able to kill stuff too and Jeanne has improved as much as possible while being stuck in the library.

My training is going well as I've been with AnDeux Faure for a while and will be training with him for a long, long, long time to come. What he trains is 2 respia and 1 faustus for every 3 lessons with him which are precisely what I need. I started out with 300 faustus and 800 respia which is pretty low for my level and when I'm done I'll have 400 faustus and 1,000 respia which is much better.

I don't know what I'll do after that though I have a few ideas. My original idea was to alternate between Sprite and Respia with some extra Horus every now and again but I'm not so sure now. My 500 horus is more than enough, and I don't really want to be a rod and many healers never heal me anyway even if I'm at low health so my 600 sprite is probably enough. I'm not sure if I want to focus on improving my radius healing since it is situational although I do have 100 ranks in it already. I was thinking of doing AnQuart Faure (4 respia/1 faustus) and/or AnDeux Faure and Higgrus for better healing and survivability. I really don't know how I survived with 300 higgrus all this time as I really underestimated how powerful having lots of health is and overestimated how much damage I can avoid by having lots of proximus. I still love proximus, don't get wrong, there's just too much stuff that ferals and no reliable way of tanking. Anyway, it'll take so long to get to my goals that I'm sure I'll think of what I'll need when I get there.

Jeanne

Not much has happened with Jeanne since she's been stuck in the library working on getting her Bloodblade to 200 ranks so she can then further increase Cryptus and work on other Bloodmage skills before returning to the Bloodblade to get a total of 400 ranks. Primarily I want to get enough Bloodblade to have the atkus to hit anything whether on high or low health and get most of my damage through hemorrhage.

This will take a long time and while I try not to be impatient, because without going on daily hunts to places with good experience such as Estuary, Rainforest, and Ash Barrens the amount of experience gained is small. However, I don't think I'm at the point where I'm ready to go on hunts to those places until I get the 200 Bloodblade and all of the Bloodmage skills that will make me useful in a group. Maybe once I get the Cryptus, Dantus, and Crato and am working on my second 200 ranks in Bloodblade I'll try to get in a regular higher-level hunt but I doubt it will be easy. People would much rather me bring Moon Kitty out than Jeanne.

Himitsu

I still haven't reset her but I'm pretty close to doing so. I just need a good time when I can devote some hours to taking her through the rat towers.

Back from a Break

Accomplished an easy goal, now to AnDeux Faure.

I came back after a brief time away since I wanted to go on vacation and was a little tired of the Rainforest and Estuary. They're lovely places but when you only go there they can get a little tedious and I just wanted a break from it all.

On the plus side my trip enabled me to get to the next stage of my radius healing development so now I'm on my long trek of learning with AnDeux Faure. The speed of my healing and spirit regeneration have been low for a long time and I have to focus on them. At one point I thought I could get all of the faustus training I needed through Sprite, but I need more than her teachings provide. It'll take a long time to go from the 300 faustus I have to the 400 faustus that's my goal since I'm not training with Faustus directly. I could and it would be a lot faster but then my Respia:Faustus ratio would be 2:1 and I'd probably would train with Respia after anyway. It will take a lot longer to get to my goal with AnDeux Faure but when I'm done I'll have 400 Faustus and 1,000 Respia which I think will make me a much better healer overall.

After I got back from the Estuary I decided to take the 6th-circle healer's test thinking that it was going to be another failure. After all I was told that most who passed were stronger than me, but I put on my Iron Breastplate and started the test. I had a feeling something was different when I only had a bear and a feral hitting me for the longest time instead of the three or four. I kept healing and healing and then she stood up. I passed!

How the heck did this happen?

I must not be dreaming.

There's not even a comfy couch to sit on.

Since I didn't expect to pass I don't have a visionstone or even pictures of the actual test, but I can tell you that I was healing her from the southeast and didn't move at all. The 400 higgrus combined with the full iron armor set and being in the right position were necessary for me to pass.

I tried the 7th-circle healer test and while I healed her more than halfway, much better than expected, I'll need more faustus and respia training in order to pass that test.

Accomplishments

After what felt like forever I reached 400 ranks with Higgrus. After exploring further in the Estuary and Rainforest, I wonder how I ever managed to survive with just 300 higgrus. Many times I've survived with only a little bit of health which means I would have fallen if I hadn't trained with Higgrus. It makes my previous assumption that I could avoid most or all danger by just having enough proximus as being naive and silly.

I may train more health in the future, but for now I'm getting a tad more radium until 100, and then getting enough AnDeux Faure until my Faustus is 400 since my healing speed is woefully inadequate at 300.

The next area of the Estuary has been released and it's incredibly awesome. Tons of folks to talk to, a new story with the Orga, new pinkish clothes, maybe even something new for mystics, and best of all there's a pier that needs fixing so the area will get even bigger. The folks who worked on this area definitely put a lot of love and care and it's gratifying to see.

Ansset came with us on our trip and I was glad he came because not only did he find a mystic illusion but he was able to get a cage and capture his very own parrot. It sits on his shoulder and makes a lot of noise but it still makes me a little jealous. As a pirate where is my parrot?

I want to write a long article about the Estuary but I'm afraid I have many other things to do today and can't spare the time. I will say that it's definitely a place that everyone should experience at least once.

Even Mujin-kun gets tired of the same look!

Finally I left Daimoth's clan and returned to the Sun Dragon Clan since he isn't clanning much or at all, isn't doing anything to expand the clan, and since only he did the inviting I didn't see any point to staying in it. Even though most clans are dead I'd rather have Sun Dragon Clan on my label than anyone else's.