Monday, November 29, 2010

Gogo~!

I have been busy with school and family over Thanksgiving, so I did not edit or crop these much. I just blocked out things from the whole screen shot to make it go a little faster. It will still give you something to look at though.

My pledge got a key for the Antharas Raid dungeon and ran through it a couple times hoping for either the new pet or the eye. We had fun instead though.
I wanted to see Antharas on live server so I went into his lair and waited. I had to venz pretty fast, but I did get screen first.
I leveled again, which is always nice. This time I was racing a friend in my bp, and I won!
He had to pay me for beating him^^. I had a slight head start and would have had to pay him double if I lost.
I won one of the 'Follow Me!' contests from the main Lineage website. Thanks GMNyx!
I will end the post with some of the bosses I have gotten recently. This first one is clearly not during the 2x drop event. Worst Ancient Giant ever...






This is the first Ice Queen Box that I have ever gotten. So much build up for an Ndai zzz.



Lots of things to get done for work and school now, but this was a nice break for me.
Take is easy.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Lineage and Confucius

I came across a site that applied Confucius' teachings to blogging. For those of you who don't know who Confucius is, he was a famous Chinese thinker and social philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period. Read more here. He died more than 2500 years ago, so if you wanted to ask him some questions, you will have to wait until you're in heaven.

His teachings are very interesting. So interesting that I decided to apply his teachings to Lineage - but they can be applied to every day lifeToday I am only going to share a few with you. If you want to learn more, I encourage you to google Confucius.

On a side note, a book I'd also like to recommend is Sun Tzu's The Art of War. This book has many translations and is one of the most famous books ever written. It is about strategies and the principles of war but they are also applied to every day life like business, social settings, military, etc.

Anyways, on to Confucius' teachings applied to Lineage:

1) Learning without Thinking is useless. Thinking without Learning is dangerous.

An example would be that when you enter a dungeon there are many monsters waiting for you. With all the monsters attacking you, it would be too much for you to handle and you will end up using many pots and possibly not kill all the monsters and the extreme case you end up dead. So you go back and get more pots and do the same thing over and over.

By using the environment around you, you can try to find a 1 vs 1 spot or a 1 vs 3 spot to minimize the damage done to you. The point is to learn from your mistakes and to use the environment and resources around you instead of attacking head on.

2) Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

This is not the exact translation but the gist of the idea is relevant. The idea here or what I got is that not everyone will agree with you or see things the way you see things. You cannot please everyone but however, that does NOT mean that you should write them off because sometimes people who may not agree with you but have wisdom and knowledge that you could learn from.

3) When anger rises, think of the consequences

Sometimes, Lineage is frustrating. The people you deal with are frustrating. Hell, I even get frustrated all the time and this is one of my many weaknesses. However, at the end you cannot control anybody but yourself.

When you get angry, you lose rational thought and unfortunate things happen. I remember once my friend told me someone he knew got frustrated with Lineage and decided to go on a blowing spree. In the end, that person regret all the hard work they put into their character and eventually quit. The point here is to make sound decisions. Don't make a decision without thinking.

4) Respect yourself and others will respect you

Well, this one is pretty straight forward. Don't be smug. Don't show off. Don't be arrogant. You may be happy when you get that shiny new toy but don't brag to the world. You can tell your friends who are likely to congratulate you. But when you show off to the world, you don't know the people who don't like you. They may use what you told them against you because maybe they are jealous or maybe they just don't like your attitude. On a side note, Karma is a bitch.

When others see the good qualities in you, they will respect you. You may ask, why does this matter? It's a game. Well. I believe that your in game personality reflects who you are in the real world. People will want to learn from you and admire your good qualities. Sometimes, even ignore your flaws. However, if you're arrogant, smug, a show off - people only remember these things. The key here is to be confident but not smug or arrogant. If you don't know something, figure it out or find out about it and share your knowledge when others ask you about it.

5)  I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Lineage was a pretty tough game back then before the 52+ polymorphs. Now with double experience below level 50, noob TOS, Tikal's prison update - leveling is easy now. All it takes is dedication, hard work and committment. You can learn and get tips from many sources as well as other people in the game, but you need to apply what you learn otherwise they will only be a theory.

Conclusion

Damn, it felt like I wrote a whole damn essay. Today I try to apply not just Confucius' teachings but everything that I learned in life to my own life. Some things are hard to follow like showing off but the whole point of all this is about humility. Thanks for reading.

-PD

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Short~!

I leveled again the other day. Gogo me! I want to thank Kallisto for all of the out of party healing she did for me :) Makes leveling way nicer, and less expensive!
I am always hoping for Destroy from this boss, but drop lines almost always look like this.
Ran through the Antharas raid dungeon the other day. It was pretty easy, but fun and something new. I hope to be able to hunt it more. I wouldn't mind the Antharas Eye buff or a new pet haha.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

More Bosses Shot Shot Shot Shot Shot

After event,I don't grind alot ...lol
Everyday log on just for boss check first,
or go Giran Dungeon if it is not boss time.
Here are some shortscreens:
#1 My Iris Lover
It's hard to find her on 70F
since there are more people checking her...>"<
Some 1v1 spots are very helpful to "do" her
























#2 Fat ass Demon
Well...Invisible helps alot here.
I usually go invisible to get rid of the creeps
then solo it.




























#3 Black Sheep Balphomet
No tips for this noob
Always drop crap


















#4Dead Death Knight
Regen fast,better find 1v1 spot for it


















#5 15 lines crap Elindaire
"................"
























#And the last one
Furious PooChat
Venz if you see him!!!


Sunday, November 14, 2010

Here it is with no particular order and way to long just like this title~!

Lots has happened over the last two weeks or so. I was able to do some leveling over the event. This was my first time hunting in Kent Castle dungeon. The exp isn't too bad there, but mainly it was a new place to do my leveling.
After the recent Tikal+Antharas update there has been a lot of grief play in the new Giran Prison area. I was sick of it and went chao on some prince. I forgot how sexy red looks :)
Our pledge took IGG castle this last siege period. Here are the two bosses. Nothing amazing, but new bosses are always fun. I also enjoy hunting the Wilderness area. The exp is good and drops are decent too.
A friend of mine owned Aden Castle over the event and let me hunt there since 4f is decent exp and I was sick of all my regular places that were crowded. Ran into this boss which I had never seen before now. She had terrible drops, but it was still fun.
As always I continue to do IQ runs, but the drops remain lame.
I was able to buy another charm off of a pledgemate. This is the first charm of mine that I had to buy, but I don't want to wait forever to get them all as drops.
I got another Thebes weapon over the event. I think this is my third or fourth, but I am not really sure since I didn't take many screen shots before being allowed on this blog.
LeChat got one of these the other day and we didn't even know it was a drop. Shortly after I got my own.
I didn't want to wait to sell it so decided to just dissolve it. Luckily it didn't evaporate because I really needed that 1m lol.
The new update opened up Giran Prison, which is where I do most of my leveling now. I have run into the new boss there a few times now. This is the first form of the boss.
After you finish with Klein it turns into this spirit.
The spirit drops you keys.
You use the keys to open chests that are on the 3f of the prison. I hear the chest can drop 1m, but my best drop so far is 100k.
That is it for now. Hope everyone is enjoying the new content.
Stay classy!

Saturday, November 13, 2010

More shortscreens of Poochat's event

Well,we had some lasta group hunt during event.
It was fun going through all lasta floors with cat polymorph.
Here is one shortscreen of our hunt.


















I did catch some bosses besides IQ and ID
Here comes the top 1 drop of the event.
(I know it still sucks >"<,but 9 lines drops is rare!)



































And more bosses soloed:


















































Well,during this event I did 1 level then got bored again...
I didn't get many candies and pies (less than 100 of each)
cuz I hate people dont kill mops in event maps...
They just hit once and venz
then you would see a lonely cat killing mops like a fool \ . /
On the last day of the event
I boomboom some masks...
It turned out:


































I made 2 +7's out of 28 masks
That's all about my event days ^_^
Have fun!


Opps...almost forget this baby...