Ok so anyways, I finally decided to pull out the old BLM and level with a friend. Since it was already 18 and he was 11, I set my Home point to the Valkurm outpost and suicided non-stop until I was 11, then we got level 37 in like, 2 or 3 days, I think. We were able to pull off some pretty insane manaburns, since we manaburned 11-37, with the assistance of a BRD75 character that I PLed us with and swapped in for Ballads for constant MP.

This was WITHOUT Empress Band by the way. Ya, the manaburns were that good.

This might or might not have been with Empress Band. Either way, still fun

Ok so anyways, on to BST. After checking Cemetery Cherry, I popped in on Vrtra, and did not teleport out in time.

Had some Narasimha action, and I still have a Hide that I got over a month ago that I should just NPC already.

We had some fun with Zizzy Zizzah while in Mamook. More on Mamook in a bit.

Tyrannic Tunnok, with Foshizzle getting completely owned and left behind.

Some Lord of Onzozo.

Citipati. Forgot to get pictures of the drop, but you already know what dropped..

Guivre.

We got some Hakutaku runs going on for some Monsters Inc members. Did seven in total in one day.

Lots of Xolotl.

With a lightning bolt going through Mozarts skull.

We’ve been trying to kill as much Dragonscaled Bugaal Ja as possible, and have already gotten 2 pairs of Beast Bazubands.

While there and with our Familiared Spinners, we pulled Hundredfaced Hapool Ja, but it uhm, didn’t go well.

We’ve been monopolizing some Serket as well. Even popping once with just 2 BST, but we were able to hold for 10 minutes before backup arrived.

We were also able to knock out some all BST/SMN/PUP Gration runs. Most of the time I was kiting BST/PLD >_> We went 3/4 on all NQ Shields.

Overall, been keeping busy. I made a video of one of our Serkets as well.

See you in a few weeks

Computer finally arrived, and after a day of slouching over putting it together, it luckily posted first attempt, no DOA items or anything. Gonna give it a week or so before I OC this Q6600 to 3.0

You may notice the nice 2048×2048, DrawDistance 20 screenshots, but then again you might not because of the size reduction.

Well anyways, uncontested Spook while checking on Cemetery Cherry.

Running into Woodland Sage on the way to the Cauldron.

We ran into Waraxe Beak on the way to the Tree, so we decided to have a little kiting fun with him, but got bored near the Zitah zone.

Citipati while checking on Xolotl.

Some fun with a guy who I haven’t seen in quite some time.

And after many many many kills, I finally obtain lolOctave Club. Possible DRK to 72, still thinking about it.

Then finally, a 100% true solo of Tyrannic Tunnok as BST/WHM, err I mean..

Well that was first attempt after some nice Bomb aggro, but the second attempt…

Oh and then trioed him too.

And finally I bring you to our complete monopolization of Xolotl for about a week, minus that one maintenance day on Wednesday.

Monsters Inc. continues to grow. Expect maybe some slightly bigger stuff to come, with Ash Dragon next week as practice!

We only went live on Friday, and currently have ~10 people on constant, with a peak of 17. We’ve already had one transfer and are hopeful that we will be welcoming more in the future. I understand that many have ties to their current servers, but if anyone has very little ties to their server and aren’t actively a part of any linkshell, we welcome you.

On our first day, members managed to get some NMs like Tyrannic Tunnok, Lindwurm, Ancient Goobbue, and the like. We even got a Biast and were able to take him down with BSTx3. We will be focusing on just having fun. We most likely will never be doing Sea or Sky, we just want to have fun and enjoy the game. Fun stuff like Gration, Hakutaku, Ash Dragon, etc.

So if anyone is interested, you can PM me on the forums for my AIM, MSN, ICQ, or Yahoo names to contact me, or just leave a comment here.

Well anyways..

Ancient Goobbue, duo with nub #1.

Ancient Goobbue, solo.

Aquarius. Free Fransisca’s for all.

And while I was at school one day, I happened to run into someone special just by chance..

Since we were hanging out in Kuftal Tunnel and we didn’t find much, we found our own lolwanna-be Guivre. Nub #1 needed practice anyways.

But we found Bloodthirster Madkix and had some fun with him.

And on the way to get some Bomb Coal, ran into this guy just chillin’.

Citipati being his/her usual self.

Waraxe Beak, no different.

Tawny-fingered Mugberry. His necklace was tossed soon after.

A lot of time spent in Ifrit’s Cauldron, which often resulted in this..

..and Vabian doing what he does best.

Lindwurm.

Tyrannic Tunnok, duo.

Followed by one solo, kind of. I had claimed, and fought until about 64%. I then went far far away up to Lindwurm to pet swap while Tunnok was far behind almost near the Bomb Queen pop. I passed a NIN on the way who was killing one of Tunnoks PHs. I assume he somehow got to the pop area without passing me by going the other way. Of course when Tunnok went by him, he stole it. Hes JP by the way, so I fully expected it. I went back to find him fighting it. Thank god to Numbing Breath, after about 10% taken off Tunnok, the horrible fucking JP NIN got paralyzed which resulted in..

He HPed short after and I was concerned he would come back to steal again, so I called in for backup. When backup arrived, he was already at 8% so I said to hold off so I could finally be able to say that I’ve soloed him. So, I ended up “soloing” him, minus 10% HP which actually hurt me more than if I had to have taken off that HP, since I lost 500 HP as a result of the steal since he hit me twice while he was still claimed by the NIN.

Tyrannic Tunnok, trio. He popped again, this time after 4 PH set kills. The other 2 were all popped after 1 PH set kill. Three Tunnoks in a week for only 6 PH set kills isnt bad..

And then, on MI’s first full day in action, we snagged ourselves a Biast, sitting up unclaimed! A WHM/NIN had wiped, so I claimed and kited, then lost claim after the WHM got it again. He wiped shortly thereafter, then we got it again barely over 2 other BSTs.

In closing, the last week was very busy. I expect everyone reading this to transfer to Ramuh and join MI.

And toads.

Oh and semi-FFXI related, finally ordered a new computer. Expect nice smooth high resolution pictures and many more videos.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
G.SKILL 4GB DDR2 800
EVGA GeForce 8800GTS SSC 640MB
ABIT IP35 Pro
Western Digital Caviar 320GB SATA

Aquarius.

lolSpook since this update is gonna be pretty bare without him.

Hadn’t done a BST burn in a while so had one of those.

Ancient Goobbue #1, duo.

Ancient Goobbue #2, solo. Must have been having a bad day or something, or just bad luck on charms, but wiped 3 times and cost a little bit over 6k exp to take him down. For some reason, I wasn’t mad, though usually I’d be furious that I lost so much exp. For some reason, I didn’t even care. There goes my no death Ancient Goobbue streak ._.

Fucking bitch finally gave up the goods, but I don’t like the way they look so I won’t even be using them >_>

And Monster Gaiters +1 blah blah blah. They’re nothing special but I use them anyways because I was sick of Dance Shoes and want more Charm+, and people will think I’m cool for having +1′s too.

Because nearly every other Beastmaster on the server is either lame or awful at their job. Sure, there are a few select Beastmasters, particularly the ones you’ll see in my updates, that don’t apply to this, but nearly every other Beastmaster is awful. It was the other day that I really realized this. Two days consisting of Guivre and Cemetery Cherry. For both, we prefered a minimum of 3 Beastmasters to even attempt to fight. Next time, we’ll do it with 2 because it isn’t even worth asking anyone I don’t normally do stuff with.

I’m not gonna mention any names, but first it was Guivre. None of our usual Beastmaster friends were on so we started searching level 75 Beastmasters. We see a few names we’ve seen around and chatted with or done something with once or twice, so we start asking people.

Beastmaster #1: “No Thanks.”
Beastmaster #2: “You need 5 BSTs to do Guivre”
Beastmaster #3: “Whats Guivre? What zone is he in? Whats he drop? Do we have to camp or is he up? What are we doing for the drop, all lotting or does someone get?”

Beastmaster #3 finally came down, and on the first pets (2 Familiar Tigers and 1 Sabotender) Beastmaster #3 puts on his melee gear and weapon, and is ready to run up and start attacking Guivre.. Me and Fosh have to instruct him that he can not melee.. This is fucking Guivre. You’d think by 75 you’d at least know what he is, where he is, and generally how hard he is.

The next day we show up in King Ranperre’s Tomb and find the Cherry Saplings up. Again, we are in need of a third Beastmaster and none are on, so we start searching again. We ask three Beastmasters, two who was doing nothing at the time, and still got no willing response to come help.. We finally did receive help from one Beastmaster which although I haven’t done anything with, I know knows his job since I’ve seen her around a bit. We ended up killing with 3 Beastmasters, just like Guivre.

Well anyways, my point is that I’m sick of fucking shitty ass Beastmasters. I’m sick of Beastmasters who look for party day in and day out while leveling the job, I have no respect for the partying Beastmaster, whatsoever. I’m sick of Beastmasters who sit in their Mog House, in town, and in some shitty zone and don’t go do things for themselves. I’m sick of Beastmasters that aren’t aware of the majority of BST-able NMs, whether solo or in duo/trio/quad. The very NMs that I go after and try to fight any chance I’m given, because they pose a challenge and are fun. I’m sick of Beastmasters that don’t explore. I’m sick of fucking ball sack shitty fuck Beastmasters who are afraid to try new things, fight challenging things, and are afraid of losing exp…Learn the job or gtfo.

/rant off.

So anyways, mini-update I guess while I’m here.

Citipati. 0/30+? Or something?

The mentioned Guivre..

And Cemetery Cherry..

So then I was on the way to solo the Spiral Hell WSNM when I ran into this useless garbage.

So then ya, I finally got around to getting Spiral Hell. Wasn’t too fun considering all 300 of the Weaponskill points were solo without Skillchain.

And very long overdue, finally was on for a Jailer of Temperance. Beastmaster finally ready for TP Burn.

And most significant, 304 Great Katana skill for Samurai and 247 Scythe skill for Beastmaster!