Lineage Junkies Returns!

If you're visiting my blog, then it's more than likely you've already been to the return of one of the historically best Lineage I/II blogs out there. But in case you haven't, make sure to visit Lineage Junkies. It's been one of my most followed blogs for L2 and one of the mnore concise blogs with respect to information on the upcoming chronicles.

-AR

For Elune...

[Written in the spirit of The Eternal Champion/Elric/Corum]

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Grey wisplike forms gathered and dispersed in the distance, their ethereal forms beckoning at times and retreating at others. "How long have I been here?", she asked herself knowing there would be no reply. She willed her senses to comprehend her surroundings, realizing that her corporeal form was no more. She became unaware of the passage of time, the physicality of anything, even of what or where she was.

"She" existed as a thought, or a grouping of thoughts, a disconnected consciousness flowing aimlessly in this abandoned space for a milennia or a minute, it was unclear as time felt unfathomably nonlinear, but considering this existance that might be normal here. The catatonic state of being was calming, womblike, and insulating. "She" was content.

Periodically in this idyllic existance she felt pulses, or fluctuations in her being, which passed quickly but often brought with them sensations of another awareness. They would pass over her such as an arc of light would brightly illuminate an area and command all attention and then be gone to be forgotten moments later. Until this time.


The light and pulse grew stronger, brighter, and did not end. The light brought emotions and sensations, pain, fear, defiance, helplessness. As the light reached its pinnacle of brightness, searing its message into her essence, she remembered.

She watched a small line trailing in the distance, she watched it so far that her vision blurred trying to see the end of its trail. It grew in size and thickness, it spead wider and longer along the trail, its crimson path seemed to never end. Screaming and writhing in pain, Aleena lay on the field of battle watching her blood spread across the ground impaled on the blade of Sjipzor, herald and templar of Eva. A knight of the faction Nova, the light. Good and compassionate Sjipzor would end Aleena's life quickly and mercifully.

It was how she died, how she knew a brief moment of peace in her tortured existance. "Why have my memories returned?", she felt the thought, and she felt her skin and realized that she must once again have returned to the mortal realm.

She felt the fear grip her again, shaking, sweating, and sick with the omen of rebirth. Slowly a vision presented itself in her narcosis-like state, a second consciousness entered her mind. It conveyed only a brief thought "My daughter, the fight continues. I know you are weary, but I will command you to service once more. You will leave this realm. You have not always been Aleena, as I have not always been Shilen. In the multiverse, I am sometimes known as Elune."

She opened her eyes for the first time, felt the cold cobblestone and grass beneath her body. A tear began to form and slowly ran down her cheek. She stood slowly, shakily, and off balance. "For Elune...", she whispered under her breath and steadied herself and exited the grove in Teldrassil.

[playing wow for the first time ever...should be able to hold me over until Aion imo]

Waiting for Aion

So...I guess alot of you can guess from my last post that I've pretty much stopped playing L2. I quit a little over a month ago, so I think this blog probably will go into hibernation for a while until Aion is released. For anyone who's found my blog entertaining or a good distraction during their workday I'd just like to say thanks for dropping by and maybe we'll see each other again when Aion launches!!

I won't stop playing L2 completely, my guess is that I'll probably log in on occasion to see what the clan's up to or try out some new events, but it's unlikely I'll be playing in and normal/regular sense of playing...it'll be more for socializing if anything.

So...I leave with a few random screenshots of some future hair accessories, and a copy of a small newsletter I tried to launch last year that never made it past volume 1 :(

Demotivated :(

I don't know what it is lately, but I've just not been very motivated to play L2 these past few weeks. I log in, sometimes I get a group, sometimes I wander around aimlessly and get nothing accomplished. Most of the time I wonder about all the stuff I could've gotten done had I not opened up an account over 2 years ago. I was kind of looking forward to this installment, and it's got some great stuff but at this point in the game I'm not sure what else I can do to just keep myself interested. There's no goal left that's really (in my mind) reasonably attainable. All of the more modest goals, and even some not so modest I've achieved:

• attained my third class change and become a spectal dancer
  
• subclassed and attained my third class change as a sagittarius
  
• made a second subclass of warlock and become a noble summoner
  
• attended successful raids of all the epic bosses- Baium, Antharas, Valakas, Frintezza
  
• become hero (not by skill, but by the goodwill of those in my alliance)
  
• fought the most powerful alliance on the server, and arguably all of NA
  
• been part of the top alliance on Bartz (imo by default, since the top alliance went on hiatus)
  
• been given access to boss jewels

I don't see what more there is to do at this point. I had at one point considered trying to get to 80, or at least trying to farm s80 gear...another exercise in futility- here's the number of items you need to get just the mats and recipes (the s80 stuff so far is not spoilable or dropped by any mobs, only known way to get them at this point in the game is thru the farming of these seeds that cannot be dropped or traded). Copied from the CT1 forum on blah:


SEEDS OF EVIL NEEDED:
-where to get them:
Red/Blue = Chromatic Highlands
Green/Yellow = the rest of Isle of Prayer
White/Black = End bosses in Emerald, Steam, and Coral Cavern instances

ARMOR PARTS

HEAVY
Sealed Dynasty Breastplate Part x2
381 yellow, 191 green, 128 blue, 76 red, 1 white, 1 black
Sealed Dynasty Gaiters Piece x2
256 yellow, 129 green, 86 blue, 51 red, 1 white , 1 black
Sealed Dynasty Helmet Piece x2
160 yellow, 80 green, 54 blue, 32 red, 1 black
Sealed Dynasty Gauntlet Piece x2
120 yellow, 60 green, 40 blue, 24 red, 1 white
Sealed Dynasty Boot Piece x2
120 yellow, 60 green, 40 blue, 24 red, 1 white
Sealed Dynasty Shield Piece x2
120 yellow, 60 green, 39 blue, 24 red, 1 white

LIGHT
Sealed Dynasty Leather Armor Piece x2
299 Yellow, 150 Green, 100 Blue, 60 red, 1 white, 1 black
Sealed Dynasty Leather Leggings Part x2
200 yellow, 100 green, 67 blue, 39 red, 1 white, 1 black
Sealed Dynasty Leather Helmet Piece x2
160 yellow, 81 green, 53 blue, 32 red, 1 black
Sealed Dynasty Leather Gloves Part x2
120 yellow, 60 green, 40 blue 24 red, 1 white
Sealed Dynasty Leather Boot Part x2
120 yellow, 60 green, 40 blue, 24 red, 1 white

ROBE
Sealed Dynasty Tunic Piece x2
299 yellow, 150 green, 100 blue, 60 red, 1 white, 1 black
Sealed Dynasty Stockings Piece x2
200 yellow, 100 green, 67 blue, 39 red, 1 white, 1 black
Sealed Dynasty Circlet Piece x2
160 yellow, 81 green, 53 blue, 32 red, 1 black
Sealed Dynasty Glove Piece x2
120 yellow, 60 green, 40 blue, 24 red, 1 white
Sealed Dynasty Shoes Piece x2
120 yellow, 60 green, 40 blue, 24 red, 1 white

JEWELRY
Sealed Dynasty Earring Gemstone x2
126 yellow, 64 green, 42 blue, 25 red, 1 white
Sealed Dynasty Necklace Chain x2
165 yellow, 82 green, 56 blue, 32 red, 1 black
Sealed Dynasty Ring Gemstone x2
89 yellow, 44 green, 30 blue, 18 red, 1 white

RECIPES

HEAVY
Recipe: Sealed Dynasty Breastplate x1
1120 yellow, 561 green, 373 blue, 224 red, 2 white, 1 black
Recipe: Sealed Dynasty Gaiters x1
699 yellow, 350 green, 233 blue, 140 red, 1 white, 2 black
Recipe: Sealed Dynasty Helmet x1
419 yellow, 209 green, 139 blue, 84 red, 1 white, 1 black
Recipe: Sealed Dynasty Gauntlets x1
280 yellow, 139 green 94 blue, 55 red, 1 white, 1 black
Recipe: Sealed Dynasty Boots x1
280 yellow, 139 green, 94 blue, 55 red, 1 white, 1 black
Recipe: Sealed Dynasty Shield x1
294 yellow, 146 green, 97 blue, 59 red, 1 white, 1 black

LIGHT
Recipe: Sealed Dynasty Leather Armor x1
839 yellow, 420 green, 280 blue, 168 red, 2 white, 1 black
Recipe: Sealed Dynasty Leather Leggings x1
524 yellow, 262 green, 174 blue, 105 red, 1 white, 2 black
Recipe: Sealed Dynasty Leather Helmet x1
419 yellow, 209 green 139 blue, 84 red, 1 white, 1 black
Recipe: Sealed Dynasty Leather Gauntlets x1
280 yellow, 139 green 94 blue, 55 red, 1 white, 1 black
Recipe: Sealed Dynasty Leather Boots x1
280 yellow, 139 green 94 blue, 55 red, 1 white, 1 black

ROBE
Recipe: Sealed Dynasty Tunic x1
839 yellow, 420 green, 280 blue, 168 red, 2 white, 1 black
Recipe: Sealed Dynasty Stockings x1
524 yellow, 262 green, 174 blue, 105 red, 1 white, 2 black
Recipe: Sealed Dynasty Circlet x1
419 yellow, 209 green 139 blue, 84 red, 1 white, 1 black
Recipe: Sealed Dyasty Gloves x1
280 yellow, 139 green 94 blue, 55 red, 1 white, 1 black
Recipe: Sealed Dynasty Shoes x1
280 yellow, 139 green 94 blue, 55 red, 1 white, 1 black

JEWELRY
Recipe: Sealed Dynasty Earring x1
272 yellow, 136 green, 90 blue, 55 red, 1 white, 1 black
Recipe: Sealed Dynasty Necklace x1
364 yellow, 181 green, 122 blue, 72 red, 1 white, 1 black
Recipe: Sealed Dynasty Ring x1
181 yellow, 90 green, 61 blue, 36 red, 1 white, 1 black

So...to sum it up:


Bleah...just tired...tired of L2...I still log in, I still do "stuff"...but I'm kind of beginning to not feel like there's any point to it anymore, so you may see a bit of a decrease of the frequency of my posts.

Supplemental post- The Guild

This series has probably already been out for a while, and it might be old news to alot of you but a clanmate recently introduced me to this series of videos that's really funny for anyone who plays or knows someone who plays MMO's. Even though it has more specific references to WoW, we can all relate.

It's called The Guild, over at http://www.watchtheguild.com

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to re-post/embed their episodes on my blog, but I'll keep these here until I'm told otherwise.

Episode 1:


Episode 2:


Episode 3:


Episode 4:


Episode 5:


Christmas Special:

Yay more headgear!

More fashion accessories, at least overseas, here's some stuff copied over on blah on what we may be seeing over the next year or next installment, or next whatever:



Lineage SEA is having a double xp/sp/drop event starting at the end of the month according to Stratics, an even we probably won't have here. We probably don't need such an event across the board but like a double XP event for everyone that's like 78+ would be nice...god knows in the time it took me to get 10% on my 79 BD I subbed a warlock to 63, got an SE to 48, and a Kamael to 58...how does that make ANY sesne? Way to kill the game off at the high end...I know at least 3 people that just quit after they hit 80...I'm only at 79 and I REALLY have no desire to xp on that class anymore it's just stupid...and they somehow expect people to be motivated to get to 85?

I suppose if we all sat at home ALL DAY and didn't have jobs and social lives then maybe reaching level 85 would almost be a reasonable expectation.

Great weekend for sieges!

It was a great siege weekend on Bartz, at some point if I get a chance I'll try to compile a small set of fraps from the Saturday Sieges (I usually can only get the wife to let me escape for one day of weekend sieging unfortunately!). So, this weekend I most of TD's Siege action centered around Oren. There were a few small distractionary attacks on our other castles but the biggest push for most clans/alliances were for Oren for some reason.

There was a pretty good showing from both sides, strong skirmishes from the onset. Around midway through Oren was lost to the attackers. The incumbent clan, The Business, came back to cast within the last 15 minutes of the siege, was tranced, began to re-cast and completed casting within the last 5 seconds of the siege!

It basically came down to this:


I can't remember seeing a cast closer than that in my short history of L2.

Another major plus is of course being up 853 rep points by the end of the siege.
Here's our numbers at the beginning of the siege, and part way through. I forgot to take a shot of our ending numbers, but when all was said and done we were up by 853, basically that means if NONE of us died during the entire siege we were killing badguys at the rate of about 7.1/minute. But considering we did take deaths that number's actually higher so I'd consider it safe to say we probably killed the opposing forces of Nova and Dominus more at the rate of about 8-10/minute.



...speaking of killing Nova, here's some more random screenshots:





You'll notice that one of them is telling us not to bring 2 groups for their 1 in pvp, but if you look at the wartags you'll see there are 10 there along with a few other dead nova offscreen/out of range. So...clearly they had more than 1 group there already, AND they had the blackscreen advantage...

Lastly, if you read my previous post- I was trying to get a 4sep group going for like a week or so but never managed to coordinate it well so a clanmate just gave me the recipe in exchange for a few lifestones I had in my wh (he has like 238473298 torches from FoG, so all I had to do was SM him to the NPC)...so this week I just turned in my relics to the NPC for the random recipe and guess what recipe I got?


Oh, the irony.

ps- there has been some talk on blah about the new combine buffs in CT1+, such as Prophets will now be able to do shield3/might3 in 1 buff, btb6/bts6 in 1 buff, SE's can do death whisper3/focus3 in one buff, etc.

There's some details of it on this russian site: http://forums.goha.ru/showthread.php?t=160538 . However, not being Russian I can only use google translate to get a rough translation of it. If anyone can provide some better translation of it and post it someplace like on blah, it'd be awesome!