User talk:ShadowKatze

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17 April
Sorry about last night. I had full intention to be online and play, but after my soccer game, my wife invited some of our friends/teammates over for dinner, etc. I ended up not getting to bed until after they left at 12:30 >.< So another very tired day for me. My wife works tonight, so I'll have no conflicts other than running Salvage. I'm glad that you got the Hydra fight done. I told Tso that I had ~30min until my friends were set to arrive, so I could've gone if you needed another. I didn't know you only went with 5, or I would've hopped in there. I assume you went on Salvage with them, too...if so, how'd that go? I have some overtime built up right now, so there's a good chance I'll be able to get off work early today. Even if I don't, I'll still be on with plenty of time before Salvage to do something...Assaults would be nice, as I really need points, and have 4 tags now. --Seeko 14:46, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

16 April (VOIP)
I totally agree that having a voice chat system would help us more than anything else to speed things up. The only problem I see with it is that it would potentially alienate non-PC users. As far as your comment about not being able to use it with playing the game in full screen: The programs I've tried using (TeamSpeak and Ventrilo) are designed to be background programs. You start them up before you log into the game, and then they just run in the background (minimal cpu usage) while you play the game. I had teamspeak set up a long time ago so that I could play Battlefield 2 with a friend, but it seemed to stop working for me. The part that would make it hard to run in the background is if you were hosting a server. Where I actually have 3 computers now >.> (need to give 1 to my father-in-law, though) I could probably host a server for our LS to use. My only problem is that I have tried in the past to do that, and have not been able to figure out how to do all the settings. It makes it even harder that I am not able to verify that it's working the way that it should work (because if I am able to access the server, is it via my network? or via the internet like it needs to be?) But, I think that I'll give it another shot. I have more experience with TeamSpeak than with Ventrilo, but I'll try them both out and see if I can't get something to work. Since I have at least 2 of my PC's turned on 24/7, The server would be accesible by anyone at any time (I'd password it for the LS, though).

Like I said though, it would suck for people like MrB, who I know would love to chat while playing, but is on 360. Unless they are able to have a laptop or something nearby to connect them to us, they'll be hosed on the VoIP. I'll still try to get it set up, though.

16 April (Salvage)
So, running with Tso's group was about the usual, except that the mobs on 1F actually decided to help us out and drop stuff. By the time we left 1F, we had gotten 3-4 head cells, 5-6 JA cells, only 3 magic, but that was all we needed then, and weapons for most everyone. I think that the only person who got overall hosed on drops has Hod, but he had his JA cell, and really didn't need anything more with how they used him. 2F we killed the qiqirn, no drop of course, 3F we completely skipped over. 4F we did gears for SJ, the qiqirn (no drop), and then they wanted to do that stupid Bhoot >.< We killed it, but it got Perdition (instant Death) off on Endymant, followed immediately by blizzaga 3, which killed me. Thano soloed it the rest of the way down, though. And of course, no drop. 5F did the qiqrin (no drop) and the chariot (no drop, see a pattern? :p). up until 5F we had done great. made it there in 60min, doing great on time to pop 6F qiqirns, kill the boss, etc. 6F...sucked. The fact that Endy got killed on the 2nd mob, and Tso right after (while Darkk d/c'd) is indicative that we weren't going to make the 7min time limit to pop the qiqirns. We got everyone up, and finished the floor out. Got about the normal assortment of 15's there, which I was glad of, because Hod got his Skadi hands, and even had Ares legs autodrop to him. He was ecstatic about that. As he said: "Not bad for following you guys around and doing a couple rolls every 5min." After finishing up 6F, ported to 7F, and the Mega Boss was a disaster. around 50% or so, it did Mortal Revolution, which is normally no big deal...but Endy's shadows were down, so he got hit, and it stuns, too. Right after that, it double attacked him, so he went down. With Endy gone, it was dying slowly, but Thano was doing ok. The Darkk got a little nuke happy (he was blm) and hate got screwed up. ended up a wipe/firefly at ~45%. Was the worst 6F/7F I've seen with them. Truly, we might have had a better chance on the Boss with a whm along too, but I'm not sure even that would have helped us last night. just had bad luck on the upper floors. I'll add something else on later (I hope, at least)

--Seeko 14:59, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

15 April (Assault Attempt)
That assault should not have been as hard as it was. I think we just had the wrong setup, even though it went really well both attempts (stayed up soooo late ;; I'm really tired today). Setup on 1st try was:

PLD/NIN, BLM/WHM, RDM/WHM, WHM/BLM, WAR/NIN, THF/NIN

Got the mob down to 18%, then it used "Fulmination" which is a pretty hard hitting AoE. Not too, bad, except it also adds a super-paralyzed effect. So, the PLD got hit, dropped to red HP, and couldn't cure himself. WHM was a little too slow, so PLD died->wipe.

Second attempt we switched the WAR to be a 2nd BLM. Actually went really well that way. My job in both attempts was to stand back and Ranged Attack, run in to TA, but mostly to use Collaborator every minute to drain some hate off of the BLM(s), so that they could be a little more liberal with their nukes.

The group seemed to think that Fulmination would only go off once the Khimaira was under 30%...it used it on the 2nd run at ~31-32%, catching everyone off guard. So, while the WHM had time to cure, she was resting because she didn't expect the move that early. Couldn't stand up and cast in time. I had drained so much hate off of the BLM's that I was next in line. I got yelled at a little bit because "No shadows?" Sorry, when the AoE strips them, and I'm Paralyzed, it's kinda hard to keep shadows up and stay alive. I bought them about 30sec-1min, though, but it still ended up a wipe. After that, it was so late that I just shut down POL...didn't even wait until the 3min to get kicked out of the Assault to log off :( So, when I log on tonight, I'll be dead at Ilrusi Atoll Staging Point (If you aren't busy when I log on, I may try to hit you up for an R3...otherwise I don't mind HPing).

That's my Assault story. I'll add more in a little bit (Along with my shift change, I also gained the ability to have a TON of time I can check/type here).

14 April
I'm so sorry about last night. I really tried to make everything as fair as I could for everyone. I know that I stacked my side more than yours, but I still think that both sides had a good shot at making it. I actually had MrB in my group initially, but swapped him and Merlin at the last minute, wanting to give you more DD power. I took my group last night to 6F. Because we skipped 1F frog, and just hurried up to 5F, we had a lot of extra time (hit 5F at 60min in, killed frog by ~75min in). So, we went up to 6F to try our luck with the gears there. --side note on 5F...had a good plan:in hallway before the gears, I had Lyd soul voice buff, cor rolls, etc. told them all to immediately run in and start fighting so that we wouldn't have a repeat of last week with me MPKing everyone with the gears. Great plan, except I failed to tell them to pull the frog into a far corner, so they were fighting in the doorway. Had to sac myself anyway, but it could work out better that way. On 6F, we all got ready (after Merlin finally got his photo of the chariot), then I sac pulled the chariot to pop the gears. like an idiot, I forgot to actually USE my other RR item, so I was dead (in a safe spot) for quite a while. This is also where Aldur (the new COR) made his 2nd mistake of the night (first was minor, read what I said wrong and lotted/used my head armor). Lydner went off to pull a gears, and Aldur decided to at the same time >.< and his linked. So he sac'd his, but did it too close to the fighting, so Psy got magic aggro. She managed to kite/heal herself, and the rest of the group made it through just fine. Aldur and I got raise, we continued killing. If not for that semi-wipe, we maybe would've cleared the floor, but as it was, not enough time= we killed 8/10 gears, 0/2 gear, and 0/1 chariot. Still, I was quite impressed that we did so well.

With that in mind, I think that a boss run could very well be doable. Plan I would do is thus: 1F: farm until all who need have JA and magic. SJ if needed, but not as vital 2F: clear the usual room (because of the ranged/ring drops). *maybe* do a little more gear farming, but likely not. 3F: head West, as usual. kill 1st room (for Int cells, mainly, but Dex and Agi are nice, too), -skip- 2nd room (drops Agi, str, and chr). kill 3rd room (str, vit, mnd...I think chr, too) hope for HP drops, if not many, keep killing to try and get more. Warp South 4F: kill rampart, warp up. 5F: skip, warp. 6F: *should* be around 45-50min in by here. even 60 would likely be ok. sac chariot. IF we have 12ppl, be split already into 2 balanced groups like we had last night. Each group picks a different camp corridor so we don't step on each other, and kill the room. Very important to limit # of DDers on gear(s)/chariot because of their deadly TP moves. On chariot: only allow Terr and Bal (or other main DD's) to melee. Even though B would hate it, I would sit his blu for that fight (his main spells each give ~40-50tp i.e. hysteric barrage, etc) 7F: time check should be ~70-80min here. 70 would be better for comfort, but I think 80 would be fine. DD would just be Terr and Bal again...maybe a Sam, too, if we had one. Everyone else gather inside discoid range, but outside normal AoE range. (I started to use windower a few weeks ago, so I can tell distance (I swore I'd never use it, but it's very convenient >.<)) anyone with RA can shoot away at it, brds and cors keep their rolls up. rdm's (or rdm and whm) would be on tank healing duty, while I'd put MrB on pt healing duty. I think that we'd honestly have a good chance at winning with this plan. also with 12ppl+2 pets (automatons), =314dmg/discoid. definitely doable. especially when you consider shell would reduce that, too, as well as diamondhide, etc. And discoid is only 1 of the TP moves it could do. *likely* wouldn't spam it, but just do every so often.

Regarding MrB and my comments up there for 6F and 7F: I value B as a heavy DD, but I don't know quite enough about BLU to be definitive on that. I'm basing the 50tp/spell comment on what Tso told me. Maybe if we had him switch to single hit spells, would be better? I dunno.

Regarding my comment on the 7F section about windower: I had a huge moral dilemma on that. It's blatant cheating, and I have no illusions or doubts about that. I've seen people argue "it's features the game should have anyway..." BS. If the developers wanted those features to be available for everyone, they would have implemented them themselves. I played for more than 3 1/2 years without using it, and I did fine. yeah, my macros spam recast in them, and I did TP calls all the time, but my game wasn't hurt any by not having the features that windower adds. I finally decided to try it out solely for the % feature on enemies. And, you know...I like it. It just is a convenience thing, and I still feel bad about using it, because I'm violating the ToS every time I start up my game, now. I keep thinking I should go back to not using it, but I've started to get used to the features it adds. (I know, I should stop now before I become dependant on them :p). Anyway...that's my moral dilemma...I hope I didn't sound like I was trying to justify my use of it, because I'm not. I know that it's blatant cheating...I guess I'm just ok with that for now :(

Assault: I need points desperately! after the run last night, I went to get a new permit...the only area I have any points left in is Lebros, where I'm trying to save for my last piece of Pahluwan (that I want). And I only had 6k there (4500 now...). I will have 3 tags tonight, and would be more than willing to do any run you're interested in. I just need points from anywhere.

If you change your alliegence to Windurst, i would gladly go through the missions with you. I've been wanting to get rank 10, but just never bother...all my time anymore is consumed with Salvage. I would like to do every nation...but I have every OP, and really don't want to have to redo them (especially the home nation areas...N Gutaburg and W Ronfaure. That's the biggest reason why I didn't switch to Bastok and run with you guys when you went for Rank 10.  Doing all the Past storylines was a lot of fun, and I would certainly not be opposed to doing something like a "quest night" where we work together to finish out everything that we want to.  Question regarding that:  Are you helping with ZM tonight?  or would you run Salvage (Arrapago short farm+boss) with Tso?  I don't know if they're going tonight yet, but they normally do, and i don't want to pull you away if you were planning on ZM.

One last thing: I just had a shift change today...I'm no longer working 7AM-7PM Mon-Wed+every other Thurs, but am now 7AM-5PM Mon-Thurs. So I'll be able to get on a little earlier to do stuff. It's a tentative schedule, though, as things come up that would either have me off earlier or latr than 5...normally earlier. Of course, with the weather getting nicer, I'll likely be spending more time outside, but I'll still be on the game a substantial amount. My wife likes to go on "walks..." (Thursday we did ~5.5miles, last night we did ~7.2miles...that is, IF my pedometer/pace count are still accurate). She's crazy :p

If you can leave another message on here, I'll look foward to seeing it. If not, I'll talk to you tonight (If you're on).

--Seeko 17:45, 14 April 2008 (UTC)