Cyberstorm’s Blog

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Ninja has been going really good! It gets party invites fast (much faster than Scholar was), and the parties I get are of much higher quality too. I keep hate really well with my High Breath Mantle, and there have been very few deaths since I started at level 37 (enough I can probably count on one hand).

I’ll do some past news first! I hit 46 and tossed my two AF weapons. They were nice while they lasted (6 whole levels), but sadly it was time for me to get something that would let me hit for more than single digit numbers…

Yesterday it hit level 51.

And now that I was AF level, it was time to get it over and done with. AF is something I usually dread doing, as for the most party, key drop rates are terrible, and then once you do get one (after sometimes hours of farming them), there is almost always competition trying to find and open a coffer. However, Ninja AF went really well…

First up were the pants! The quest was simple enough, just talk to a few NPCs then go take a boat ride at night and kill some lame NM. The only thing I was worried about was some idiot being on the boat who would beat me to getting to the top and kill it, thus making me redo the boat ride. Luckily, there were only two other people on the boat, and they were both fish bots (or what looked like fish bots). The NM is overly weak, almost as weak as the two spider NMs in the desert for AF1.

Next up, I decided to do AF3, which is the body. This quest is a bit lengthier than the AF2 quest. Luckily, this is one of the few AF3s I felt comfortable soloing. Usually the AF3 monster is too tough for me to want to even try to solo, but the Ninja AF3 monster is actually 3 monsters, thus making the 3 monsters combined as strong as 1 monster. The trick comes from how you only really have to kill one NM to get the key item, as with many other force pop multi-NMs. All I did was pop the 3 monsters, zone them, come back out and claim one and just drag it around in circles until the other two despawned. Once they were gone, it was a pretty simple fight (I was fighting the monk), and luckily bind/gravity weren’t resisted at all, so it’s 2 hour never touched me. All that was left after that was to get a Kuftal Coffer Key and pop it, which was really easy (key dropped after 3-4 crabs, and the coffer was close by).

After the body, it was time for the awesome feet! I got lucky with the key drop, as it only took me about 30-45 minutes for it to drop. One of my friends, Pururunnyan, said it took him about 10 hours to get his key when he was doing Ninja AF. I would have expected that from somewhere like Castle Zvahl or Castle Oztroja, as those keys suck. Also I was the only one killing coffer key monsters and looking for the coffer, so it was a quick find and open!

Next down the line, the hands! Simple coffer in Ifrit’s Cauldron, one of the my most hated zones. Rilian and Pururunnyan helped me get the key after we helped Pururunnyan get his Wyvern Skull for Opo-opo Crown quest, so all I had to do was find and pop the coffer, then go up to Castle Zvahl and kill the Dark Spark.

And finally on the list, one of the worst pieces of AF for Ninja, the head! Another very easy coffer, this time from The Boyada Tree. Coffer key dropped after about 10 crabs, and when I zoned back into the zone on Ninja, I was the only one in the whole zone, so the coffer was up and ready for me to pop. :3

Thus completing my 12th full set of Artifact Armor!

In Sky news, I have gotten two new pieces! One was a joke item I lotted just because it sucks and it went free lot, and one I spent 2 points on. The joke item being Skofnung. I already have a Subduer, which is a pretty good end-game Great Sword (apart from Perdu), and no one else wanted it so I thought “why the hell not” and got it. :3

The two points were spent on one of the better MAB pieces for hands, the Abjuration for Zenith Mitts!

And finally, in my Nyzul static, we finally beat our first 100 floor! Of course our leader, Rilian, used his fireflies before the last boss died so that the information wouldn’t be reset. Askar Head and the Bard Dagger (Dancing Dagger) dropped. Myraanda got the head, and I got the dagger!

Too bad a better weapon didn’t drop, like one that I will probably use. Bard doesn’t really have that good of a dagger skill, and plus as a bard I really like my staves for Elegy and Lullaby, so I really don’t see me meleeing in a merit party, or any party really. Maybe SE will be smart, and just add some useful stats to the dagger that would make it better than using staves.

…But don’t count on it…