Day 16 - What rhymes with orange? Who cares Im famous!

Almost took 60 hours to fill up that little orange fame bar, but its been a lot of fun. I took a look back at my wizard run to see how long it took to get 2k and it was only about 40 hours. My wizard was a lot stronger much earlier in the game tho, so Im guessing that has something to do with it.

Also finally got the 2 remaining vitality pots that I needed for 6/6. Life and mana are coming in slowly, but I'll get them, just a matter of time. I dont want to make it sound like a guarantee tho. I've come close to dying each and every day including flashing red in the last tomb I was in. Death is inevitable in this game, lets hope I can max before that happens tho

As some of you may know, tombs can get sort of messy, sketchy, shit your pants scary, and well... sandy. Sand in the pants can feel far worse than shitting your pants. If someone asked me if I liked toms, I'd have to say tombs make my arm pits all moist. You can say what you want about certain parts of this game, and no game is perfect, but when a part of a video game makes your pits moist, thats a good game.

This tomb was hairy from the first minute in when the rogue rushing was forced to bail or be eaten alive. Luckily he bailed in time. Slowly clearing a butt ugly layout of a tomb, we had another 1-2 nexusers. TJ was in there too, luckily he wasnt one of the nexusers. By the time the big guys were activated(hopefully I remember this correctly) it was TJ, myself, a knight, and another archer. I think that was it. The other archer and knight are in same guild and I know their names but sometimes peeps dont want names shared for whatever reason.

The fight itself was relatively smooth. Two bosses were active at same time, but that doesnt really cause extra risk, just slows things slightly. I *think* I had the killing blow on Bes, but I also feel like I probably did the least in terms of damage for the entire encounter. So I sort of feel bad about the drop because the other 3 peeps were kicking ass. Not only that, but as an archer the place is much less risky. So I did less damage than them, while keeping my risk levels much lower, and yet still I was rewarded with...




Thanks to my homies for carrying my noob ass to item 3 of 6 of my top wanted items list!

Good for you!

I was the rogue that got smashed.

You can use my name freely.

I allow it

Still dude... Congrats again on the killer drops.

That's pretty awesome I must admit, I'm super happy for you. I love it when friends do well.

I am slightly frustrated with my own luck, or lack thereof I should say. I wouldnt normally care because I am very fortunate in terms of items already but this is an NPE!!!

I've done hundreds of dungeons including labs, abyss, tombs, etc and no real white bag to speak of while every guildy is getting multiple dblades, dbows, pyras, expos, etc a day.

I am not giving up for sure but I'd like to see that pretty white bad for myself soon!

I need to post an update soon when I have time but I'm progressing fairly well. I'm 10 life pots away and 12 mana pots away from 8/8. Chugging right along but no gear upgrades to speak of yet

Also, my warrior surpassed my other warrior in fame so he is now showing up in realm eye

http://www.realmeye.com/player/TehTeej

Check out that blue and white striped badass walking around with a snake for a pet.

But ya man I felt that frustration for days until just recently. I was really hoping you'd get an ASS to drop in all those oryx runs you've been doing since the early days. I know it'll turn around for you tho. In the mean time, you're warrior is still a monster.

meh, it's not useful but it's a white i guess... I'd have preferred just a life pot lol

WoW very nice

Day 19 - The Plot Thickens... Well, not really.

As more and more things and objectives are crossed off my list, I'm left with less to do from a progression stand point. And most of whats left isnt as easy to grind. So, instead of pushing towards one thing or another, I'm taking time to run around the mad world killing whatever I feel like. The game can be a lot of fun doing this, maybe more than some might think. Its a nice change of pace from - 'Ok I need 25 of X type of pots and if Im not getting at least 5 per hour this is no fun and Im wasting my time' - or something similar to that. Maybe thats a slight exaggeration, but I know some people, including myself, get stuck in that mind set at times.

So if you look at whats left, the two places I need most at this point are Trenches and Tombs. Since Hermits and Sphinx only spawn once per server, the way I've hunted these in the past was server hopping. But server hopping falls into that 'must get as many pots as fast as possible' play style that Im not so interested in anymore. I actually tried for a short time and realized I wasnt having any fun. Luckily there is another way to find these guys that is indeed fun. The way to spawn Hermit/Sphinx on a server is by killing other event or quest gods and randomly, a new event has a chance to spawn. Its a slower process, but I've been doing my best to run around killing any and all quest gods, even taking the time to blast Cyclops, Ents, etc knowing they wont be dropping anything I want.

I did my best to get some action shots of a skull and cube god, but since I know how deadly these are I was trying to focus and keep moving, so they arent anything special. Skull shrine pic is totally lazy on my part and should have taken another, but oh well. At least you can see my black arrow flying straight into the cube for a direct hit.