W00t! I'm a Spectral Dancer!

It's been one really hectic month with lots of activity. First I've completed Fate's Whisper and Mimir's Elixir to gain my Hawkeye subclass. Now, with that out of the way and a little more grinding I've also completed my third class change on my main from Blade Dancer to Spectral dancer. So many people to thank for this, first and foremost L2girl for writing the guide so long ago so I could get ALOT of the grindy parts out of the way. Without her guide this would've taken MUCH longer, but thanks to her I already had my Cryolite, the Level 2 alliance, as well as the magical power of water quests completed. All that was really left to to was finish off the quest mobs and do the 700 ants and scarabs.

Huge thanks to my allymates in FCA who had already completed their third class change, without them escorting me behind enemy lines to complete the magical power of water quest I'm not sure I would've been able to even attempt this part alone [actually, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have been].

Wooohoo! so I'm a Spectral Dancer now! Now all that's left to do is become noblesse so I can finally quit and say I've done it all :) [doubtful, but a nice fantasy nonetheless]

So I celebrated by oe'ing my hex, so I have hex +1 chance, yay!

Lastly, I also went to Branded to train some bots just for no particular reason at all. Woohoo, apparently there are some that still don't know how to forcelog well. So here I am sitting over a 8 man bot party, all dead thanks to my train (kekekeke)

Yay I finally have a scammer too!

Now, now, don't take that too literally. It seems that I've finally become popular enough that someone has scammed my name and is trying the old weapon scam on people with it, so keep an eye out for "AleenaRasron" on Bartz. It still surprises me that the old "xxx is me id, take down the weapon so i can test the damage of the weapon on yyy, i will give back" scam still is used. I feel like this has got to be one of the oldest running scams Anyhow, a clannie got a screenshot for me and here it is! w00t! I feel like I've made it now that I finally am worth some farmer making a fake account mimicking my name!

I was even in party with my clannie when the scammer tried to get his kris! Thanks so much for the screenshot, Lenkin! This made my day! =)

All done, I'm an archer!

The second of the two quests, Mimir's Elixir tends to go by pretty fast if you've already prefarmed the moonstone shards and other mats you'll need in order to perform all the alchemy that you will need to to create the Elixir. The most difficult part of this quest is the journey into DVC for the Blood Fire from the Bloody Guardians. The rest of the quest is pretty much your kind of fedex agent type tasks [bring this here, get me that, etc etc etc].

I farmed alot of these while I was waiting for Baium [I had my prophet waiting at Baium spawn chatting with other 75's waiting]. So once this quest is finished, you get a scroll of EW-A, which of course I had to apply to the "free" kesh*kesh I got from the first part of the quest and whap! Got the kesh*kesh up to +4 (woohoo!). I'd like to get it up to +12 like my tsu*sls, but I doubt I will be risking that kind of money anytime soon.





















So, as dawn stretches across the Tower of Aden castletown, a new hawkeye is born!!

Baium Camping!

Soo...based on mixed reports I was forced to start camping on Baium at 1:30 AM my time. For anyone who hasn't researches subclassing yet, the last part of the quest requires you to stab Baium once with a special quest item to collect his blood and then bsoe. There's a few challenges to this-

• Baium only first respawns five days after his last death. And from those five days he will respawn within 1-8 hours of his last death. So, you have to know his last time of death.
• If by some freak chance you are the only one in Baium's chamber and NO ONE comes in [ha, ha] you or someone else will have to wake Baium. There is a good chance that Baium will automatically kill whoever wakes him. There are some people that have been able to wake him and not die, however if you've already gone through the trouble of getting the bloody fabric and camped him out and researched his spawn time, are you willing to take that chance that you'll wake him and not be able to finish your quest? Doubtful.
• once someone starts attacking Baium no one else can port into the chamber where he is. Unlike with the otehr raid bosses, you can just show up at any time as long as you are there when they die. Not true with Baium. Once he gets attacked, the port to Baium closes. byebye, see you in 5 days.

Yeesh, no wonder why people hate this quest. All in all I waited about 10 hours from 1:30am until 11:30am EST for him to spawn, and thanks to teh helpl of Cogency and Uprising I was able to whap him once for 0 damage and get his blood, woohoo!!!













This is a pretty expensive quest to do also, since afterwards you also have to submit a top b grade weapon and 945 B crystals which end up getting melted down. In exchange for this you get a mid-low a grade weapon [I traded in a sls*sls]. On Bartz this ends up costing about 43M adena. But you can get it back pretty easy though by just reselling your new a grade weapon.

I won in Bingo!

So, as part of the subclass quest we're also supposed gather up 100 Moonstone Shards, 2 Quicksilvers, and 10 Volcanic Ashes which can all be acquired from Blazing Swamp. It's a bit of a grind to get all the shards since it comes from reagent pouches that are dropped by Hames Orc Shamans (some other mobs on TOI 3 drop them also, but those mobs are deep blue to me at 75 whereas these shams are still white and 1x mobs, so they're solo-able).

Well, the reagent pouches can randomly open into one of 3 or 4 different reagents so you also end up with a ton of lava stones, and volcanic ashes, etc as well. I hunted a bunch of other mobs in the area also which yield the Stolen Infernium Ore which are used for playing Bingo.

So there was so much grinding to get the 100 Moonstone Shards I also actually managed to get 100 Stolen Infernium Ores and play Bingo, and amazingly enough I actually won! Well, actually I lost so badly that I actually ended up with more prizes than if I would've won! If you win, you get 4 a grade weapon mats, if you lose so bad that you don't even match a single row you get 10. So for once my bad luck ended up being good luck.

Onto subclassing!

Wow, where to start- After hitting level 75, what's the next logical thing to do but start on the really painful road to subclassing!

First off, the wait for Cabrio. This one's not too bad compared to what comes later- I only had to camp him for about 5 hours. On Bartz I'd really like to thank my friend Marthax who was able to mobilize a ton of people from his clan (Immortal Legends) on really short notice to come help us 75's start our quest!

About an equal amount of people from my alliance, FCA, made a showing as well to support us. Wow, so much love or at least so much empathy from others who have also been through the pain of subclassing!

[Screenshot TBA, I don't have one on this computer at the moment]

After that it went somewhat smooth as I then went on to camp TOI for the 3 TOI raid bosses, I ended up getting lucky and getting all three of them within the span of 5 hours.