Joe's Noob Blog

Kent siege 4/5

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Mon, 04 May 2009 03:10:00 +0000

Good morning,

I went to the Kent siege today and it saddens me that Zen lost kent this will mean I have to run down to mlc 3 to get caspa pack.... that is quite anoying. There is also the fact that slm continues to own most castles so overall I am quite sad.

It has been a while since I have had such a busy wis panel, however I will cover the siege first as the rest of the stuff is a lil daft !!!

Someone mentioned to me that I am a jinx and I never come to the sieges where SLM get beaten :( ..... it is quite frestrating for me as well as I get wis saying I missed awesome siege :(((

Maybe I am a jinx o.o !!!

Eternety BP is not one to give up and it was another spirited performance from the pledge who are emeraging as a talented set of siegers a few people mentioned that to me today as well Meph and his boys are doing a good job.

For the most part they keep trash talk to a minimum and go about there business in a well manored way. It was SLM today that could not resist a good gloat !!

I want to point out it is really easy to sing when your winning and with the odds stacked in your favour it is easy to invite then to the other side of the flags knowing you have so much support... Troje you were doing this all day it does not suit you..... you do not strike me as a person who goads the opposition then when they come running you hide behind the 3 level 60 tanks !!!

I wis him afterwards :)

This siege started off with Zen lining up his boys, however SLm quickly arived in numbers and quickly took charge of the seige area. This Siege was only going to go one way as SLM had 8 60+ chars roaming around.

Eternety came at SLM time and time again, with too much luck. After fully securing the area they moved in a prince.

After this there was a stand off as SLM were too great in numbers. Just when I thought we were going to see an uncharateristic white flag I saw an awesome move....

Speakers is brought onto the field all of a sudden the SLM camp was calling for buffs and quickly getting ready for the coming assalt from speakers who as you know I am quite a fan of. Yes he is botted but he causes lot of problems for SLM and can often turn a battle on it's head.

Up pop speakers at the main gate .....

Then a quick sneak round for Chrysis and Swordhunter to the side gate for same gate smashing.... unfortuatly the did not make it through, however this very nearly worked... it deserved to !!

By the time Zen arived SLM had got enough people back to defend.

This was another victory for SLM, however a glimpse of what's to come from the promising blood pledge eternity.

Thankyou you to both sides for not attacking me, apart from my abligitory trip arrow from darkcasm (lol!). On a side note can I please remind people at the siege that Silver Radiance is a neutral pledge and that I do not siege.

Justi has given us all instructions that if we want to siege we leave SR and rejoin afterwards. Whilst syni and others may wish to siege in the near future I am not sieging. There are still a few who like to remind me I am fair game in the siege zone and that is true so I accept it :)

Idle Gossip

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:28:00 +0000

Hello everyone,

The server has been quite quet this week I attended heine, giran and kent sieges and nothing really up to much a few castles changed hands but there was not much of a fight.

On the forums I posted about the pledges that are strong at sieging and Crysis was all to eager to point out angel club as a silent but deadly pledge i.e when they turn up in numbers you should hand over the keys to your castle or they will take it..... and so it was the case with heine angel declare 10 mins later MUT no longer holds castle.... I did not see the fight however syni tells me it was quick and painless ^^.

Sieges

Congratulations to Eternity for 2 reasons.

Kicking franse out of the pledge as he multi users. I have never been so insulted over something so trivial... note to fransance MANNERS COST NOTHING !!!!

The other reason is that they have left kent open like they said they would do...... I hope you keep kent for a while longer however I fear taht when SLM next come knocking there will be more then 2.

I was having an interesting converstion regarding sefiroth who braved th entire eternity defense by himself and it is amazing how much damage he can take he has 6 guys pounding on him and he still managd to walk away

.... anywaythe interesting point came when the person said.

"Sefiroth is kinda wierd"

"how so I reply"

"he can somehow hit me from 4 cells away.... x.x"

The person in question is not your normal hate monger or cheat accuser so this was quite interesting for me !!! why do I miss all of these stuff.... I have not seen this particualr hack on sef but will keep an eye out :)

300

So I thought that when papi moved on and Sua took over that 300 would be on the mend.... out would go the huge over extended ego's and trash talk that filled global under it's previous prince. To a certain extent I was right and it has been kept in check. I have seen the likes of Kantor, ravensky. Blackjack21 around and about and they are the model preffessionals being gentlemen they are, however all to happy to grab there sword and smack you a few times if needed :)

So the 300 we all know and love ..... erm not quite !!!

Unfortunatly it is people like Sua who let the server and himself down with stupid actions that hurt his pledge and his own repuatation... lets recap.

Duringthe giran siege Syni wis me and said something had happened that was a bit wrong !!! so I had a chat with the player as I like to get both sides of the story. I was expecting for him to be some stuck up kid that deserved it and Sua did us a favour..... unfrotunatly not !!! He was a nice friednly person who was new to tha game and had lots of questions I even lent him some armour until he gets on his feet.... I had to force him to take it as he wanted to work for it and not be given stuff for free (a breath of fresh air!!)

He went on to explain that he had also visted the grian siege and was taking a look around the castle when he came across lucky who after chatting with him escorted him to some where safe where they chatted some more.

Then up comes Sua apparently ends him in 3 hits then just runs off without any kind of appology !!!
Syni tells me that he came back 2 mins later and appologised and Lucky ressed him, however it does seem that old habits die hard !!!!

I am sure that after this I will get countless wispers saying how bad it is I wrote this, however I have a screen shot and transcript... the truth hurts sometimes !!

Millamare return from lineage rehab

Welcome back Milla and corro who also came along for a while. We went to hunt lasta with ZwarlordZ aka maddog and had some fun..... until I accidentily subbed escape scrolls for escape scrolls..... hunt ended :(

Sorry again guys :\

Thankyou to Maddog for running through some pledge hunt formations ^^

No sooner had milla come back that she says something very funny :)

Milla confesses that she and corro are recovring Lin addicts he he !!!

Interesting !!!!

I was trawling the internet for various bits and peices on lin looking for some inside knoweldge on the next big thing.... I came across this little beauty !!

Omg.... totaly busted !!!!

Final note

SR seems to be the place to be with another elite player joining the already swollen ranks.... welcome AmericanGirl.

With the new players in the pledge I have found time to hunt with some genuinly talented players which has helped me learn a lot more about hunting/pledge hunt dynamics, however I still enjoy my hunts with conal ^^

I had the chance to link in with AG and Augi who I had heard about, however not hunted with. We went up for a mummy lord and after 3 mins had already started teasing me about the fact I need a GPS ......

We got to 60 in the end did'nt we :P

Then he left me with little nugget !!!! .... some people like cheerleaders, some like fat girls (see previous post) other like Augi are MILF hunters !!!!

maybe you should change aftershave !!! :P

Giran Siege 21/4

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:53:00 +0000

This Giran siege was only ever going to go one way with SLM having far superior numbers, howver it was a good fight and 300 got stuck in once again.

This sige was however a good siege for several reasons..... I saw some people sieging using there heads not there swords...

1. Someone using the back door.... forgive me for being stupid but if there is a shit load of 60+ at one gate.... why not try the other one !!!!

Some good initiative from Susponte !!!

2. Buri Buri in crawling hand poly.... nice move !!!

Unfortunatly with no ac he died a few times..... but it made me laugh when 5 SLM were playing chase the hand through the garden only for him to go and hid in a bush ha ha !!!! very funny ^^

During the sige there was some death..... No one likes to see dead mages :(((

The siege was over SLM had a confortable victory, however that was not the end >.<

Heine Siege 15/4

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:13:00 +0000

Thankyou once again to everyone who lets me drop in on Sieges.

I checked in on Heine seige that saw ZenSword from bloodpledge eternity defend against SLM and rings. When I normally swing by I see all sorts of preperation going on.

.... Knights checking pots
..... Mages checking M-Gems

However this time I saw this o.o !!!

This made me chuckle and made me wonder what stype of a siege this was going to be !!!

The siege started off with some light skirmishs and a few deaths, so I thought I would stay and see how things progressed.

Eternity BP were defienat in there defence who bravly faught chars superior in level, however could not hold them off forever..... right lets take the fight inside.

Bizzarly SLM were reluctant to take the crown, I am not sure if this was tactical or that they did not have a royal to take the castle :\. SLM formed up ready for the incoming attack.

And it certainly came with Eternity re-taking the tower area and forming up, hower you always know that with time still left to siege there were always going to come back... and they did.

Shortly after SLM took the castle and formed up at the front of the castle.

I only got a few snaps of this siege which does not show how brave Eternity pledge was and that they are shapping up to be a nice little siege pledge...

Angrim caused lots of trouble for Eternity... that is until he got decay pot by BlackJack21 and venzed >.< ..... however Agrim always re-appeared 2 mins later ready to rain hell (until he got decay pot again!!!). I have said this a number of times now and that is mages and elfs cause a lot of problems in a siege yet they are not often see non ken ..... When you look at LOA siege videos they are the ones causing the death :\

well done to ZenSword for putting in a good fight.

Lyz drops in

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:52:00 +0000

it has been a long time since Lyz has visited me, and still the wait goes on :P, however she dropped in on Conal who I was hunting with to say a few things about the up and coming stat redo.

I would like to point out that this blog was the first blog to break the new guidlines on the stat redo. I have seen a few other blogs dropping the material I dropped 5 months ago :P

Here is another exclusive from Lyz with a few further details and refinement on how Hp will be worked out... If you suffer from knight envy then look away now, this ain't pretty !!!!

A huge Thankyou to Lyz for dropping by it is always great to see you :)..... Conal also put a lot of effort into making the forecaat spreadsheets to help the community and he also makes lots of posts on the forums. I feel his contribution often gets overlooked :(

Good job with this Conal !!

It's been a while/ Idle gossip :)

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:25:00 +0000

Hi Everyone,

Lineage has been a huge rollacoaster ride for me of late. my wireless internet connection is slowley sucking the fun out of this game for me which is a huge shame as I like playing it so much.

Further more I have gone back to uni and have not had that much time to play, however the main reason I have no updated the blog to be honest is taht I have been a bit lazy I have continued to collect content in my capture folder that is now 700mb big o.o !!!

Also I have spent so much time camping caspa pack then some babo goes and gets a merk cap !!!! god damn !!!!

So lets start with a few funny bits from around the server.....

Global fun

Other funny bits .....

You know when a joke is so bad it is funny !!!

Grats to Synyster on getting to level 52

After a large amount of being teasted about beeing a noober Syni finally reaches level 52. He has been getting there slowley but surley until he decided that enough was enough and did a 18% day o.o to leave him at 98%.

He then finished off that morning before going to work :)

Grats Syni you really do deserve it... maybe now you can afford to buy some MR :P !!!!

Come one Come all !!!

I huge welcome to the new commers to Silver Radiance in addition to Sk8, Cossa, War, Augi, DL we also have Trevor, Moli and Friar Joe which makes SR a busy place nowadays. I have always said SR is a fun place to be and now it seems we half the server in our pledge..... It seems just's recruitment strategy of

" If you press /join I will give you n-zel " works on high level players as well as noobers o.o

Lasta 4f

Whilst some babo was raiding caspa pack for a merk cap I was in lasta 4 having a great time... although it was quite tough for me I had a lot of fun. I was kindly donated a DK scroll as well as I was able to go to the holy land which was really cool....

The migits with 6 packs made me laugh so much I nearly fell off my chair and the ootyu were really cute... until they attacked at which point I was running around shouting " get it off me.... get it off me, I did'nt mean all those mean things Mad Dog.... get it off me" he he !!

Thankyou very much for inviting me along, although it will need to be a treat by the time we finihsed it was 6:30am for me x.x !!!

Note to anyone going with this lot..... DO NOT LET MAD DOG PULL THE MOPS !!!

Aden siege 27/3

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:24:00 +0000

Well what started off as a day of me trying to get to 10% resulted in lag deaths all around :(.... I was just getting bored and swung by kent to see what was going on and I saw this .....

This was a little strange to say the least.... any prince who fancied kent could have it ( even Justi who would no doubt d.c 5cm from the crown and still claim it >.<). I thought this was very strange becuase it was an SLM owned castle and they are rarley so charitable with there castles !!

Then I got a wis saying there was a siege going on in Aden.... and boy it was a big one.... On one side we had the juganaut that is SLM with rings submitting there heavy hitters... rings are also very experienced holding IGG now for a good 6 months on a very regular basis and showed it... SLM lack strong bow elfs so it is a good job rings brought theres ^^

The other team were formed up of 300 (now headed up by Suasponte) Pilimit who can boast a range of talent including Speakers, royal family who largly provided fodder for Oin :( and noob club who are not afriaid of a fight and have 037 umungst there ranks.

This was always going to be a good fight and I predicted a close encounter.

SLM are very patient they will happily sit for hours and repel waive after waive with no appearance of bordom there stratagies are largly based on atttrition and form very strong defensive units.

The tactics the sieging side used were very smash and grab and frustrated slm for long periods slowly drawing them out and using up their pots.

It started off with a standard siege layout with around 10 a side with SLM forming around the main tower.

But it soon it became apparent that this was not going to be a pledge dipping there toes in the water as each side got more and more people involved.

SLM, as you would expect were very diciplined and experienced and set out there stall early claiming the tower as the ground to hold and forming a cube around it, however there are always 3 people that can really do some damage it tends to be the same 3 names....

And do not get me wrong SLM are packed full of talent with many 60+ but these 3 once were like a thorn in SLM's side all day !!!

Here we see Oin and next to him is 037 drawing a few SLM out into a small skirmish on the edge.

More and more people got invloved with SLM around 30 in number franticly defend the tower against a repeated onslaught each time they came a few more pots were used up this was going to be a battle of attrition and it was one that SLM were very prepared for.

Despite the best efforts of Pilimt and Co there first wave was repeled... round 1 to SLM.

On so many occasions SLM has outlasted there opponents by stobernly defending the tower using what seems to be an endless supply of pots with the ability to absorb damage and deal it in equal measure..... not this time !!!

By this time there were ring side seats available and I would just like to say thankyou to both sides for not attacking me whilst I was taking photos :)

.... there was one ( there is always one)... chance you babo E-bind me once is an accident but twice is just stupid >.< !!
Pilimit, 300, royal and noob came back and had a plan... it was a good one and it worked well.... mages send in wave after wave of LS and MS as the tightly packed SLM group just stayed resolute.... they had to they had no elfs to repell the mages !!

This led to 2 things !!!

1. SLM coming after the mages and engaging knights on the edge of the square, which created this beauty of an opportunity !!!

2. death of mages .... no one likes to see it !! (lol!)

Me and syni(babo) were commenting throughout and slightly after I said about speakers and 037 and then this happened ..... after SLM broke rank 037 and Speaker came through the middle !!!!

WITH 20 MINS to go !!!!!!!!!!!! the breakthrough happened !!!

Then came the call..... from Loushah !!!

come one come all..... with SLM on the ropes now was the chance to take up arms.... for every time you go to kent to find it closed, for everytime you want to hunt giran for every time Beleth takes your fancy only to find closed doors... now was the time to defend !!!!

I have no idea who LuoShah is as I asume that is not his main char but it made a refreshing change from the trash talk going on on global !!! I have had the pleasure of chatting to LuoShah when he was in noob tos and was a nice guy... maybe you will wis me with your real Identity batman !!!!

The previosly imperious SLM had fallen there battle of attrition was lost due to the sheer determination Pilimit and Co !!!! with SLM's weakness bare for all to see !!!!

For the first time Pilimit, 300, Noob club and Oin were is possetion of a 5m a week castle !!! they formed up around the tower ready for the inevidtable SLM attack that was assembling outside. 10 mins and they would be the first alliance to break the iron grip of SLM !!!! GAME ON !!!

If SLM showed that they miss elfs and mages from the pledge as there weakness, they sure as hell showed what there strength was. Wth SLM not needing to sit tight and out pot there opposite number they set about slaughtering all in there path with the array of talent they have at there dispossal.

SLM made short work of the defenders and reclaimed there castle with 5 mins to go in show of brute force.... with so many 60+ there was unlikley to be any other outcome !!

I like rings especially there prince who I think is very down to earth and of course high lev ^^ so it is funny that he should wis me and remind me that speakers is bottted... yes he is but he is still a bloody beast !!!! (this was in responce to me shouting on global that Speakers is a monster!!)

Whenever I see him at a siege he causes a lot of damage !!

I would also like to point out that NO PLEDGE !!!!! are 100% angels every pledge has the occasional botter or brought char or adena buyer or uses scroll macro's.

Overall another SLM win, but this time they had to fight for it !!! I was a great siege even better then the giran one a few months back !!!

* on a side note I cannot help but mention Nowudie.... I have hunted with you before and yes your a strong and skilled char, however please remember that once upon a time you were bad mouthing on global at SLM when you were at 300 !!!

No.... I do not need to ask for directions !!!

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:32:00 +0000

As anyone who has gone hunting with me will tell you I have certain drawbacks...

1. I am worse the a girl.... I take sooooooo long to get ready for a hunt... like really long !!
2. I get lost take me to TOI and I garentee you we will get lost if you follow me !!!
3. Running away from bosses ... shouting help help help * see point 1 about being a girl*

The first one people have got used too. Even the pinicle of patiance that is Conal accepts it takes me 10 mins to set up...he know gives me 10 mins notice of the hunt whilst he goes to the toilet and gets something to eat.... at least when he gets back he only has 5 mins left to wait >.<. I was hunting in TOI and as per normal got lost.... very lost and somehow ended up here....

Things got worse....

A lot worse....

SR has become a very interesting place to be and when Milla gets back it will be even more fun with more take the piss out of Joe days :P

A very warm welcome to our new arivals !!!

Just when I thought things were getting quiet !!!

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:51:00 +0000

Hello everyone,

It has been a long time since I have posted which is not ideal I have been very busy with uni at the moment and to be honest I have no had taht much stuff to post. I will promise to update on a more regular basis from now on... I have a feeling things ar going to get a little more interesting.

Since hitting level 52 I am now involved with a lot more boss hunting and a curious addition to the pledge has got me on a steep learning curve once again.

Needless to Say I am averaging around 1-2 deaths per night though bad internet connection, boss hunting... hunting or just plain stupidity e.g

I think I tele home to regen so I alt tab out of game and go look at gamespot for some bits and bobs.... what actually happens is I go AFK at south drake spot, and die !!! (lol!)

I am really looking forward to the exp event as it will be a chance to break my 5% duck I seem to have aquired.... got to 4.9x and few times but not past 5% yet.... worse still of all the times I died non of them were on Friday the 13th >.< >

Ep U part II/III preview

Today after what we all thought was nc going on a lunch break and forgetting to switch the servers back on turned out to be a real treat... well kind of.

The good things

- Everything according to nowudie drops condensed OJ's as seen in global.... about 7 times !!! - Yes they drop pots but we already have OJ's on server !!!! small things amuse...... (lol!)

- Bears... I got some bears. Not only are they super cudley and cute but they still have the 3 cell attack range, which is very handy.

The bad things

- Oh My GOD !!! the LAG ..... where did it come from ? I was on DI after I dc the first time, but it was so so bad... even worse is when conal said

" I hope they did not trial new death system >.<" - Thankyou for that conal that makes me feel so much better !!!

- Conals Titan belt is broken from updte (he has to feel mortal for 1 hour!!).... no wonder he can carry so much !!! if carry anymore then 50 pots I have to use Str spell to regen >.<

NERF ALERT !!!!

Bear summon do not seem to be as good as current dire bears in terms of damage dealt.... "yay!!" becuase mages need more balancing....

*flashback*

NC lacky 1: We must do that update sometime soon that GM is breathing down our neck

NC Lacky 2: What a ball breaker !!

GMLyzira: I heard that !!!! Stop chatting like girls and get my update done !!!!

NC lacky 1: mutter mutter *sip cofee*

NC lacky 2: Mutter Mutter Mutter *sip coffee* *eat cookie*

1 day later....

NC lacky 1: *says to himself* Good job finally finished the update no bugs what a masterpeice....

NC Lack 2: Hey, I just seen the update....

NC Lacky1: It's great is'nt it, amazing what we can do when stop drinking cofee !!

Managment Laky: *burts in* Dude.... your update is crap... Mages have more HP and more MP, what is going on...

NC lacky 1: Well we nerfed Destroy so it as strong as e-bolt and we discuised well by giving mp discounts on spells noone uses so I think that balances things out, you know we have been pretty tough on mages afterall !!

Managment Lacky: WHAT.... WHAT did you say !!! mages are the source of all problems they are lucky they have an ac at all !!!... with the increase in HP and MP there is a serious balance issue.... mages should not be able to hunt outside of SKT....... MAKE THIS RIGHT !!! I WANT ACTION NOW.... oh and make sure you add a few bugs we need to justify our jobs !!

NC Lacky 2: But GmLyzira said that the update should be bug free and should be kinder to mages ....

Managment Lacky: I don't care what she says.... she has been listening to too much construtive feedback !!!! I GOT IT.... THE SUMMONS..... nerf them !!!.... don't forget about the bugs..... Bugs mean jobs, repaeat after me " bugs..... means..... jobs" !!

NC lacky 1: but but....

Managment Lacky:..... DO IT !!!!

Ok I have got to confess getting excited about stat re-roll now.... it is coming soon !!!

Idle gossip !!

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:13:00 +0000

Hi everyone,

Just a quick news round up from carebear Ken,

Lastavard pledge hunt

Firstly Welcome back milla. She has not been very well recently, however is back on the road to recovery... nothing is more soothing then playing lineage :P

Me, Syni, Milla and conal went to Lastavard trying to find our past the genrals that lie beyond... After numerous attempts to kill Laia we have decided that we do not have the right tools to beat her down so out attention has turned to the slave king !!!

He hits HARD !!!!

Our first attempt was not as good as it could have been after a bad pull.... pulling a pull with about 5 other mops is never a great idea.... somehow we got out alive ^^, not sure how but we did.

Then back in for round 2, after killing most of the spawn pockets first time round we quickly navigated back to the slave room and got a much better pull this time, however after 10mins of beating his arse he was still standing and with neither mages able to cast on him we retreated.... this time we were not so lucky and felt the full force of Slave :(

I am coinfident that after the re-roll when I roll int we will have a much stronger chance of beating him unless NC beef up the bosses again :(. For the time being we either need 2 elfs or another tank to take him down as we are just can't seem to out do his regen and beat down his 16k HP >.<

We will be back Slaven !!!!

Has he has'nt he ?

There are some rumblings going on in the Credance camp and after sk8's desire to take a break for a while... I think he summed it up well in this little caption.

I have no idea what he is up too but "he looks like one'o dem sneaky types to me" ha ha !!!

Maybe I will be lucky enough to find one of the "golden tickets" when I next buy a willy wonka bar :D.

It is good to see him back...... I wonder how long it will take cosa to sneak back into the US from mexico after her "holiday" in mexico. I hope for her swift return too !!!

Chance the fence and the mine field..... swimming is too well guarded o.o !!

Zyxial is bored !!!

It looks like after a long time Zyxial is finally quitting lineage.... He is certainly one of those marmite people i,e you either love him or hate him and I have to confess that I have had my fair share of run in's with him, however he is a lineage institution and is the highest level legit mage Ken has.

This made me laugh anyway.....

Syni hits level 50 !!!

Grats to Syni who crawled to level 50 after a serge from 60% to 100 in a few weeks :)

I had great delight in saying that 52 is the new 50 (lol!) :P... but he still hits pretty hard o.o

He is going to be mean when he hits lev 52 !!!

Well done you you deserve it :)

Coronis Quits !!!

After Milla's bout of ilness Corro has seen his life come into focus and the original Lin addict has gone on sebatical. He asured me it is temporary until the stat re-roll comes, however he is selling is sayha bow.... so I am not sure he is coming back.

Coro.... we miss you !!!

Make sure you come back soon :)

Unfortunatly this means that my blog needs to become more informative (yuk!)..... Gossiping is so much more fun !!!

Anyway I will see what I can publish about the up and coming ring enchants that are on the way... I have a feeling the ring market is in for a real shake up !!!!

Lyz Still loves Ken

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:50:00 +0000

I have been slow with updates as I am having so much fun with 52 at the moment, however I can always make time for our special Super GM Lyzira :)

Trying to work out a time/date I can fit in with uni to have a chat but the interview is happening soon !!!

Hitsugaya loses race to level !!! Joe Levels to 52

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:46:00 +0000

After a 15% headstart and swiftly closing in on the next level hitsu just did'nt log on few quite a few days giving me an opportunity to gain some ground and eventually overtake him and win.

This means that I get to title hitsu for 1 month with what ever title I want and the title I have chosen is.... well go and see for yourself :)

Once again that window I thought I would never see finally came up..... After an exausting few weeks of grinding I finally crawled to 52.

I has taken me about 4 weeks to level up which is not particually fast, however most of that was done in large chunks as I have not been able to play much. As you can guess I went for int and 20 int is a lot nice then 16 I can tell you that much.

Dire wolfs are very strong and so much better then gargs and also the DK poly is tasty... very tasty :D

Thankyou to everyone who helped me on the way especially protein who supplied me with a lot of TU scrolls to give me a little boost to get to the finish line.

Thankyou to everyone who put up with me in ToS and for the encouragement.... Dreadlord you can't be far away now.... your monitor see's more of you then your bed !!!

A lot of people help me and continue to do so and it is really appriciated, I hope I have made mersia proud.

I have no plans to see 53 anytime soon so I can just relax and enjoy some hunting with conal :)

N.B Syni is closing in on 95% GO GO GO !!!

Heine Siege

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:12:00 +0000

I have not been to many sieges recently, however if I see some action I will usually turn up to take a peak at what is going on. I was getting bored of hunting so I went to see what was going on in Heine.

Troje was the current owner of the castle and X11 were attacking. I was lucky enough to catch some of the action and not get attacked by X11... which I was quite thanfull for since I have not been in there good books for some time now.

Earlier in the week there was a thread started about the best PvP pledges and X11's name came up... un-surprisingly. There opening skirmishs resulted in one of the SLM elfs getting ended. and repelling some strong attacks from SLM/rings.

X11 held there own and justly proved that if pledges went 1 on 1 very few peldges would cross them on the battlefield !!! Go and take a look in the forums it is quite a clean thread... unless you have " people who do that for you" ha ha :P

SLM where amassing more and more supprt as the siege went on X11 continued to repel the attacks for a number of waves as X11 emphasised there ability to work well as a balances team they asumed defence formation in front of the bridge.

No seige is complete without a bit of trash talk. I used discretion this time since the 2 mages at the back refrained from double destroying me !!!

X11 retired after a number of waves knowing they proved then can hold there own, with no apparrent intention of wanting the castle they retreated back to hunt. SLM moved in on the tower and ensured that the castle was safe for the remainder of the siege.

I find it tough to keep up with who is on who's side nowadays with some noobclub helping X11. All I can try and do is speak to people from both sides to try and get the full story. It was a fun siege and the first I have been to in a while. I hope I will get a chance to do it again soon.

Bits from around the server

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:15:00 +0000

Bot Watch !!

Right best way to start.... Bot end pictures

No pain "no Gain" ha ha..... yes ok that was bad !!!

Christmas is a time for giving and being generous !!!!

Syni likes his pets !!!

I have not been visiting the poly lady as much as I should do one of these days I will get dopel poly instead of unbrella lady or lich. I went the other day and got a tiger which could cast and attack.... it was'nt the super fast one though :(.

I love the way the tigers head bobs up and down whilst it licks it's paws !!!

You can imagine what this looked like ;) !!!

(Almost) Farewell to a good friend

Earlier in the Week Kossar decided to blow all of his items in an elaborate attempt to give up the game. He said he wanted to get banned as well.... good luck with that I have no idea what you have to do to get ban round here...

Swear on global - slap on the wrist
Bot/cheat - Get a hug/pep talk from mon !!
Change you name to something rude - Get 5 mins of fame on global but still no ban >.< class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">lil off about trying to quit lin...I can't fault him for his logic (below)!!! (lol)

The funniest thing is that normally when people pop all there stuff at least one of the items goes and extra +1..... no such luck, ALL WENT POP :((

Times are hard !!

I often question my princes tactics when he manages to gain a new recruit. Classics such as FeverNova and Nellawafers have left me wondering where he gets these people and what he says to them. My concern it seems is not misplaced....

Sutsuki who is one of justi's better recruits gave us this little nugget !!!!

I can just imagine the conversation...
New recruit: I want to join a pledge
Justi: I am a prince, join me
New recruit: Is your pledge good
Justi: I am a prince, join me
New recruit: What is the name of the pledge
Justi: I am a prince, join me
New recruit: Do you go on pledge hunts often
Justi: Look.... type /join it will bring up a help screen and make you level twice as fast.
New recruit: *types away*
Justi: Wohoot, welcome to the pledge. I got to go I got owl bears to kill !!! have fun
New recruit: What is the name of the pledge again ?
Justi: Must..... Killl...... Owlbear !!!

It all makes sense now..... hmm I sure hope justi does not know command /kick :\

Beware of GayPower !!

You have been warned !!!

Sk8 and Cosa have Quit !!!

It looks like the famous Duo are not no more. After a heated discussion they BOTH decided to take a break from Lineage. Either that or they have run off into the sunset together.

I will certainly miss them both they have always been really really helpful when ever I have had questions and have always made time for me :)

I wonder how long until the 2 hardcore lin players turn cold turkey ????

I hope they return back soon... I miss you both !!!

Valentines Event

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:02:00 +0000

Soon after the fall out that was "OrcHunter-gate" NC buttered us up with a mouth-watering double exp event... A sure winner in everyones eyes.

Normally I would try and get some screen shots of the people who leveled up during the events but would not have been enough people to make something meaningful.

We got Valentines cards to send to "our loved ones".... So for me that is Milla and Syni ha ha ha !!! Syni's card was very amusing !!!

I only got a chance to take part in one day of the even and went about getting as much exp as possible after putting in about 10% I was still short by the end of the event by 4% :'(.

This is the sort of thing that makes me smile, we did not have to take to the forums in numbers to complain about valentines event (or lack there of). it was announced in good time in the right proportion - Well done NC !!!

I am looking forward to the next event already... I am sure this will be around the same time as they drop the next update on us !!! Excited already !!!

The "Christmas" event draws to a close

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:24:00 +0000

Well It seems that after a lot of complaining about orc hunters the much sought after antlers were kinda worth it, if only for this cool picture you get for turning in Rudolfs Antlers.

+7 Str, Iron Skin, extra long haste,shield and BW all made quite a nice little buff. the problem we have in lineage is that they think that in the past events have come few and far between so everyone feels that if they miss out they will never get another opportunity.

This is soooo wrong... we have an awesome GM who is not only kicking bot arse but has also pledged to give us events on a frequent enough basis to get us out of this 2 events a year mentality.... this is further supported by people willing to take time of work for events. I loved Lyz's response of....

" If you took time of for every event this year you will no have a job for long "
- Awesome !!

The Poly Spellbooks were introduced into the game with devastating effects... I am not talking about the fact that any high level mage can turn most chars into a milk cow/floating eye. No I am talking about the moaning like a little girl at how the game is unbalanced and the spell needs changing !!! ha ha !!

I wonder if the voices would mute if every mage petitioned for knights to have soft ac like every other class !!!!

They have certainly made sieges a very dangerous place, but the spellbooks are still based on level/int/luck and lets face it any high level mage is already dangerous enough. I am sure that we will see these spell books in another event sometime soon which should add a little more balance.

Suffice to say I am not looking forward to being a millk now o.o

I also witnessed something very surprising and I have to applaud Oin for doing this it cracked the final days of the event wide open.

Take a bow Oin... you deserved it !!!

This made me laugh as well.....

Ha Ha..... I think everyone should be made to do the Gludio to kent run by foot before they get given armour :P

The event for me was less about the event mops and more about the int snow rings that allowed me access to 7-12% exp days. I was lucky enough to guess that the orc warriers spawned every full moon and full sun on day 2 whilst I was not able to take advantage from this myself Coronis and Dakeebler elf snagged 7 orcs in the opening stages ( no Polly book though!!).

After people got more and more aware of spawn times and places we did not really get a sniff after that... although I went to TI from time to time the bases were already covered.

Thankyou Corro and Keeb for my antlers :D

Overall the event was quite good fun, I would supplement my normal hunt with the odd Santa sock and nip over to TI for the orc from time to time. I do not think that this event set the place alight, however I do think it is a sign of the good things to come!!

Mr Milk Cow Anyone ???

Wireless sucks

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:15:00 +0000

My race got off to a decent start but was not helped by 3 d/c deaths, despite that I still managed to get to 60%.... a 15% headstart is a huge lead, I guess I will just have to do as much as I can.... I should be heading towards 65% but dc's are expected with wireless connections I guess.

I also got checked by mon last night

It is good to see they are checking people :)

I'm back

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:20:00 +0000

Hi everyone,

I have returned after my few week break and I am now at university. I have gone from a trusty cable connection to a dodgy wireless connection which is a bit crap, but at least it works... just !

Connection or not I will be dammed if I can find one of the blighters !!!

It is suggested that the huntewr has several static spawn spots which are now boomarked and camped, I am not so sure about this as it goes against my theory of a random spawn and the faith I have in NC ^^.

I have been back one day and have already plundered 5% (-1 for lag death due to wireless connection!! *sigh*)

I was talking to Hitsugaya and randomly came up with this...

not only did this make me laugh, but the wager was also quite cool. Hits has a 15% headstart however I have 2 days free and will do my best to rattle towards 70% asap.

Game-on Hits ^^

Idle gossip !!!

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:51:00 +0000

I could'nt leave without having a good old gossip... because lets face it nothing beats a good gossip and today topic is Windawood !!!

Now there are always 2 sides to a tale, however last night it seems that a small rebellion happened at Windawood and PiLimit has been disbanded... in it's place is Noob. I for one am pleased.

Zyx has gone to SLM and after saying Silver radiance are just SLM cheer leaders as well.... The fickle world of lineage..... right here goes !!!

Give me Z
Give me a Y
Give me an X
*waiving pom poms*
Goooooo SLM !!!!!!

There see you were right :P......... erm maybe not !!!!!

I spoke with Noob and has promised to keep the castle always open so that everyone has access to the boss. Please give serious consideration to allowing Windawood to stand as it is with Noob at the helm. I for one am very curious as to how this new pledge will behave and I think they should be given a chance.

I encourage you to go down and hunt Beleth also you can use the telporter to go to SKT 4 easily now that it is bot free it is a decent mid level huinting.

On a final note...

SLM you have Aden and indirectly Giran/IGG you have stamped your influence on the server and proved yourself to be an incredibly strong well organised pledge but greed will turn influence into tyrany...

Bush or Barack guys which one will you choose to be ???

Lyz tricked us !!!

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:17:00 +0000

Good afternoon,

After a number of hints at sciccors, papper and stone it appears we will get a version of the christmas event that ran in 2005, however I am sure there will be a twist to it a well.

Take a look at the christmas items in lineage db (from xmas 2005) to get a taste of what the christmas items will do. Unfortunatly I will be away for the first week or the vast majority of it... which is a shame as I normally throw myself into events so I can get as much stuff as posibble.

Lev 52 ???

After last weeks mini event I have to admit to feeling a little wiery On Thursday, Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday I have managed to get around 60% which is around 15% a day !! and for all those people whjo say I can level that fast in new tos..... I put in A LOT of hours. Leveling is easy when you have time :)

As you can see I missed my target by half a %... damn you nice, funny, interesting people who wis me :D.

With the new stat increases on items I should be able to add another 25% to that without too many problems... Give me that level 52 shizzle !!!!!!

Stand up commedian with a sword o.o

On a slightgly lighter note whilst we were doing our regular hunt.... It seems it was pick on Joe evening (more then normal). Here are just a few of the one liners to come from our "grumpy" knight :D

Joe: So have you decided which way you will go with the stat re-roll ?
Conal: I have no other choice but to go con judging by the lack of healing I am getting !!
Joe: >.<

Conal: Milla.....Since Joe is going to be away would you mind using your mage so we can go on a pledge hunt at the weekend.
Joe: (Interupts) But Milla's mage gets one hit on Pledge hunts..... she will die :(
Conal: (already laughing) .... You normally get one hit and die anyway I don't see any change !! We know Joe is away but we don't want you to feel like your the second best mage.... Becuase your not !!
Joe: >.<

My destroy spell also got laughed at yet again as Conal muses.... " I do not even have my full MR on "

With Conal on top form last night it is hard to imagine a pledge hunt without him. I hope he sorts out his lag problems and we can get times organised for pledge hunts for him....

But I have to say......... you have been on 91% FOREVER !!!!! get it done !!!!

I am off to bruge.. I have no idea what is in Bruge but I know I can get drunk on the eurostar train so I am all good :)

Happy hunting Pledge !!!

Feb event

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:27:00 +0000

I have not had a chance to catch up with Lyz for a few weeks, however when I do I will be sure to see if I can get any more clues as to what the next event will be :)..

So far we have a clue of Rock,Papper, Sciciors.. which sounds very cryptic. I was regening (for a change) when I saw this and it made me laugh.

I am sure news will break soon.. surley lyz cannot keep us dangling forever.... come on, give is some more clues :D !!

lineage: The Pringle

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:03:00 +0000

They say that once you pop you can't stop and that is the best way to describe the game for me at the moment... on wednesday the best thing happened... ever ever !!!

Lyz and the team made a great killg ring that would tempt all mages by the +3 int whilst taking away 5 str... there fun was short lived. Lineage cannot interpret negativbe values so it cycles round from the top... i.e every mage made 254ish Str which means they could smack fafu with a wooden stick and it would hit him he he !!!

So the result a quick fdix in the form of the removal of the str penalty... awesome. Sooooo I have had fun mercislesly exploiting the ring farming over 12% each day. I could not ply on Friday, Sat or Sunday but I am still hoping to be at 50% before the killg ring is changed :D.

I can get a faint wiff of level 52 already !!!

and to top it all off this happened...

Awesome..... Level 3 is a bitch 40% exp and only 4% karma ... hmmmm I guess my TOS key will have to wait a while !!!

I got e-mailed this today which made me laugh so hard I nearly cried !!!

Funny Bits from around the server

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:05:00 +0000

Corro's baby bow

Our elf Coronis is getting itchy fingers again and is desperatly wanting a +8 Sayha bow.... I keep telling him that a k-bow is better... but it's like telling a 8 year old that this new teddy is better then the old battered one he has had since being a baby (lol!).

Anyway the last time he got like this he blew everything (well almost he made a +9 ETS) I am worried that the same will happen again, howerver corro's new ploy is to stock pile sayha bows so one of the is bound to go +8. When I asked him about it this is what I got...

Am I the only one who wants to see corro's happy dance.... I don't mind if the sayha's blow, however seeing his happy dance would make my month :)

Corro's new pet

At some point the language differnce in our pledge will get me into ll sorts of trouble and this nearly did. When someone offer to "show you there kitten" you do have to wonder weather it is related to any of the following

- Do you want to see a 1 eared elephant ? ( Pull out trouser pocket and undr flys..... )

- Do you want to see my Beaver ? ( hint: What animal is brown and bushy ??)

So when Corro asked me to look at his kitten I realised that I was not going to be posted a nude picture but instead I saw this

Question: Can cats get banned for impresonating GM's (lol!).... I got loads I can do with this.

- Stroking pussy ?
- Making her puur !!
- can't wait until she gets her claws into me !!!

Ha HA... I think if your going to name a pet after game staff use monitor'sas they are much more suitable.... are always around but never say a word !!!

Yet another new Bloodpledge

It has been a while since Troje made it into my blog and sure enough after a few hours of playing again he took no time at all.

It ws funny enough taht his pledge was call X11 is garbage but to then tutrn his own prince into a fanclub really made me laugh.. well I guess If noone else loves you then you have to take matters into your own hands :P.... they say there is someone out there for everyone he he !!!

Becuase Inferno's are like.... so last year

One of the things that makes lineage so great is the lengths people will go to to solve there bordom.. in this case The chosen One decided to go shopping for pets.... 2 Basil and a croc... nice !!!

Show off !!!

Sk8 has been a very lucky boy recently and has reaped the rewards for his constant ending of Grim... becuase apparently the end less supply of PG's is just not a big enough drop :P....

He showed this to me...

Sometimes he makes it so hard not to hate him :P... a few days later he showed me taht he had indeed got a 3rd book.... erm me thinks someone has been shaking up with the GM !!!! Sk8 by his own admission likes a good gloat (as do I, credit is due for this I think!!) and I like a good screen shot so we make a good pair :).

Not to be out done Sk8 moved in for some more gloating when I made several remarks to him... surfice to say sk8 did not gloat anymore :P which then resulted in this....

He he !!!! Pwned :)

Once a Noob always a Noob

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:01:00 +0000

Confessions of a Noober mage

The past few weeks have been quite interesting for me. After going on several boss hunts with conal my lev 60 damage slave I was starting to get used to whole set up and we were doing very well... so we thought we would take it up a notch and start hunting on 81f... which we did with not too many problems ( Besides trying to melee vampire !!).

Obviously feeling very pleased with myself having ended a number of bosses especially underwater ones with no hastle ast all we then took this further by getting together the peldge and going to lastavard. This is where things started to go a little off course.... we got totally owned. The reason..... becuase I am not high enough level to Weapon break/darkness some of the higher level bosses.

I was stuck.... having had a glimpse at the exciting lif of a boss hunter only to be told " not tonight lads" !!! This kick started a week lul for the first week of Jan until an opportunity to aquire Destroy came my way and after pawning my knight and elf items scrapped together enough to buy the mighty book.

This was a real eye opener for me... to compliment the fact I was too low level to be much use on anything more then a mainland hunt I found that my "mighty" destroy was infact a sleeping giant that needs several more levels to awake !!!

With everything point towards an exp push I crawled to around the 70% on the 8th Jan then made a real effort to push towards the 75% mark were I knew I was getting closer to that elusive level up....

Progress it would seem was not happening fast enough and I started to become frustrated again .... not for long it would seem, after getting totally and utterly bored I decided to see what was happening in orc town as someone had taken orc fort. I went down with Syni to see if we could get in to the dungeon for a hunt... we could not.... so we messed around for a bit !!!

After about 3 mins of quality time Oin hitting me with his DK sword I ran out of mp and I retreated back to behind the flags. I decided that now would be a good time to see how baby my destroy spear was....Turns out very !!! as Oin laughed ( quite hard I imagine) and exclaimed that the 100hp was hardly worth using pots for !!! ( Charming !!!)

After my outburst at Creeper who is one of the PiLimit prince's Zyxial was clearly not a happy bunny and was adement that the next time I was in a siege zone he would end me..... so as luck would have it I was at orc fort and Oin was getting more and more anoyed by the minute, so .....

Up pops Zyxial who's entrance included him popping out of coi and removing chunks of my hp with with destroy then continued to freeze me, causing me to tele then tried some erupt followed by destroy and a few other bits. Whilst it was all very fun wasting an hour and a half of there hunting time it made me realise that I am way out of my league !!!!

Playing with fire is fun.... but was not keen on getting burnt with Zyxial's destroy at 100 MR takes a lil below 400hp and Oin with his DK sword and huge amount of hp would take some moving.... so I decided to re-double my efforts at leveling and so the following exp timetable came about...

Oh and Zyxial taught me a really neat trick when casting destroy, nothing beats on the job learning.... Thankyou :D !!

Jan 8th = 70% exp

Friday 7%
Monday 5%
Tuesday 8%
Wednesday 12% (helped by killg)

* That includes a d/c death and one of those deaths where everything runs in slow motion as you just watch your hp slowley decrease until you get given 2 options... restart or quit... what a retard !

My choice..... " Medic " up pops kinthos for the G-res (what a hero !!)

After a lot of hard graft the screen I never thought I would see appeared in front of me !!!

When it came up I was surpirsed.... I knew what it looked like and that it was coming but it still made me jump.... then I was scared of clicking the wrong thing !! Thankfully I did not and another point of int was added to my char :D

And....... with an awesome level up of 8hp and 10mp !!! Loving that !!! :D

The calm after the storm

I thought I would go and have a root around GTV and see what was in the shops only to find a nice little bargain staring me in the face...

A silver cloak for 18m.... after having previous conversations with Conal about me getting a silver cloak as it will allow me to have 100% mr whilst also giving me regen was essential if I did not want to get 2 hit by a seer !!!

Thankyou to Syni for the small loan... Great got a silver cloak, but not enough money to zel it.... typical !!!!

The crawl to 52 begins...

I want a refund........

noreply@blogger.com (Joe) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:37:00 +0000

Earlier in the week there was a huge issue with all 3 servers suffering bad dc's so I thought I would write nc a lil note politly asking for my 1% back .... this is what I have so far

Hmmmm, it is looking good so far... got past the gatekeeper now just need to end the game support person and he will give me my exp >.<