DC's Daily Lineage

It has been a while...

2006-08-30T09:24:00.000-05:00

Sorry for the lack of posts as of late...Did the vacation thing the 2nd week in August. When I came back they created some major problems at work, so I have been very busy trying to get all of that back into order. Didn't play Lineage for two weeks in August due to this, but finally getting around to posting some screenshots from this week and last.

This first screenshot was from a trip up to visit seer, seems we have been hitting 20f alot lately. Got this on the way up one of the times. Cdai though =] Seer was not up on this trip.

Kaya, Requa, and I made a trip up to 20f again to check on our multi-eyed buddy, yet again he was not up.

Went on another trip with p4, requa, maliton and kayanow to look for seer. We had a bit of misfortune as Maliton was caught off-guard by the Seer and took him down. I Immuned up and started wacking on him to seek revenge for Mal. I was the only one tanking this thing lol, shame there were no drops to speak of though =(

Asked MerryXmas if he wanted to go 10th to check for ZQ we made it there, just no ZQ to be found =/ Sigh not having much luck find the bosses up. Merry was a little green that we couldn't find the ZQ.

Gates to Diad were open and I heard that "the tank" of our pledge Huhs was down there with Dave. I decided to go join them. The Spawn there was getting freaking insane...and what is even more insane is the amount of mops she can tank...OMGG Granted Dave and I were healing her like crazy...but still she has to be able to take the hits and such. Needless to say I am more and more amazed everytime I hunt with her. I forgot to take a screenshot when the screen was loaded with mops, I was too busy healing!! Only got this drop its the equal of a n-zel.

Thats all for now, hopefully there will be more exciting things to come at some point. Maybe after we get the LOA Ruleset!! Looking forward to the 1% deaths, No Soft-Ac, and boosts to my various magic. I should be able to level alot faster when the new rules hit =] Almost 60% closing in on DK!

-Firebug

Yup, Definitely Back...

2006-08-09T19:38:00.000-05:00

So yeah... I did it again. With some help from Chillin and Halliwell this time...

And yes, apparently Dire Wolves "DO" drop Holy Walk.

DC

Im Back....Sorta

2006-08-04T21:53:00.000-05:00

Hey everyone. I'm back to Lineage (as I always knew I would be) although I might not post as often as I used to. I'm not gonna waste alot of time so here come the drops. This is all since I came back a few weeks ago...

No, I didn't solo this guy....or did I?

Always fun to end bapho, even if he drops junk these days.

Actually found this lady twice in two days. Dropped ok once.

And now some other random drops..

So here are some of my more recent drops. I have been hunting the resistance village area quite a bit lately. While I haven't quite gotten rich, it still has paid off pretty well. Oh, and I've been hunting down there for about a week, but all three of these dropped within one 24 hour period. Go figure...

And what would a post by me be without embarrassing Clink just a bit...

To each their own fetish I guess...

Until next time...

DC

This week in Lineage...

2006-08-02T08:03:00.000-05:00

I have been doing my normal leveling routine, trying to get at least 1-2% a day. I am really hoping for 50% by this Sunday. I need to kick it up a notch if I want to reach that by then though. KOD owned Diad the seige before last so the gates were open. Clink and I meet up with Dcwalker down in the Resistance Cave for a little bit of hunting. I had never been into Diad before it is a pretty big place, this screenshot is inside of the gates where we were looking for the Resistance Cave teleporter. We did not get anything to speak of during that trip, but Dcwalker has been spending alot of time down there. They have gotten a Beast Tamers Robe, and a Black Wizard Robe recently. Dc seems to have all the luck =]

A friend of mine just reached a nice milestone in his level up quest. I have been throwing him bless weps and heals randomly when I saw him leveling. Congrats 6oldenn6reek on the BIG 60!!!
Went on a TOI hunt with ZHansZ, P4anormix and new pledgemate Haterade. Had been a while since I had traveled up the 11-20 section of Toi. It was much easier than I had remembered it. Made it to the 20th floor and we headed toward the big room. We rounded the corner and I noticed I got hit for around 250-300 dmg!! We knew Seer was up =] I retreated healed my dmg cast Immune and jumped back into the action! He dropped pretty quick. No great drops to speak of, but it was the first Seer end I had been a part of. ( I even pulled some drops =] )

Pillhead seemed to be on a Boss Finding conquest last night. He called the Caspa Crew was up. Clink, ZHansZ and I were in the area so we decided to take them out. Best drop out of the four was a Cancel spellbook, forgot the ss. While we were ending them Pillhead called for Ancient Giant. Although, by the time I made it to the entrance of TOI Huhs and David had already made quick work of him. Nzel was best from him.

I was part of a blog interview yesterday. It can be found here: http://linblog.secnet.org/

Hope to have one more update before Monday. As I will not be on Lineage all next week, vacation time for me. Cruising the Caribbean =]

-Firebug

My Drop Luck Continues =]

2006-07-26T12:35:00.000-05:00

Here are some screenshots over the past week since the last update. Chillin called for dark elder up, we tele'd in and found MerryXmas there as well. We made quick work of the DE. Love how MR makes a huge difference on being able to tank bosses =]

No drops from that Dark Elder, par for the course...Asked Merry to go on a DVC6, never been on a hunt with Merry so was a cool first hunt with him. On the way down to DVC5 we were talking about tames and such and we decided to get me some of these for the hunt on 6th. He explained that they are almost or as strong as direwolves. I hope this holds true =]

They are a big pain to tame! Even with him casting Erase Magic on them I had a hard time taming them with 14sp. Granted it would be harder for me as I am not a Int based Mage to begin with (headed in that direction though!) They Muryans had to be at almost 0 hp to tame them, was a pain but worth it.

They made quick work of the Queens and regular Scubbus on DVC6, only drop worth mentioning from down there is a Dark Robe. Still no Lightning Storm SB or that elusive Ring of Teleport Control. After coming back up to the surface another DE was up, well I wanted to see how I could fair against it solo...needless to say my muryans died =/ and I had to tele. I think if Direwolves are a little stronger I will not have any problem taking him on solo =]

Did a DI hunt with Clink...him and I get some of the best drops possible where ever we go!!

Should have an experience update for everyone soon...I have been slacking a little bit on this level experience wise. I am hoping to reach DK sometime in September. More to come...

-Firebug

Old Screenshots (Round 2)

2006-07-21T09:16:00.000-05:00

Decided not to install photoshop on the other computer but rather transfer all of the screenshots via my jump drive. (Which I had misplaced, it was in a cargo pocket in my shorts and it got washed!!!!! It still works, so I have a clean jump drive now! =]) So I scanned through the 400ish old screenshots and pulled out a couple of the more interesting ones...well at least I thought majority of them were not that interesting as I was a lower level then, and was limited to my hunting locations due to my connection at the time (stupid dialup). Anyhow on with the screenshots...

This first screenshot was taken with a good friend of mine during a Poly event, when he moved to LOA he left all of his items to me. He is the one that won the Lineage Compendium Scavenger Hunt back in the day.

This shot was taken on DI during a dragon hunt event, it was alot of fun it was so crowded you could not even walk around! The dragon ended a bunch of peeps multiple times in one hit! I think they spawned 3 of them, although I did not have screenshots of any of the others.

Here we have a Giran DM crew making it to the end of the DM and ending probably one of the toughest bosses present at the time. Funny part was after all of their effort they got no reward!!! Not much has changed in that department it sounds.

Someone had way too much time on their hands, I did not make it so merely took a screenshot. xSirensx--and you thought I had alot of time on my hands making that little heart.. lol

I really wish these types of thing went on more often in Lineage, as I feel they are good for morale and generally lighten the spirit of many.

Here is another really sweet item these boots are worth like 40 million I think...He said he blew multiple pairs to make them, that is just insane!!!

This was during a poly event, such a sweet morph! I may get there one day (years down the road haha)I should have some more up to date screenshots next week, Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

-Firebug

Old Screenshots

2006-07-18T13:21:00.000-05:00

Was fairly bored last night, so I was searching through a Lineage folder on a computer that I used to play on...I found a couple of interesting screenshots, I have to install photoshop on that computer so I can view all of the other files, alot of them are still in the .tga format that Lineage used to create screenshots in. The first one is probably the rarest weapon in Lineage

This other one was a pretty decent ac item, this item was around 3+ years ago, and I would still feel comfortable saying there are still not that many of them around.

I have yet to get some of the more recent in-game screenshots from the other computer I play on. I promise I will get them sometime! If I come across any other interesting ones from the old Lineage file I will gladly share them.

-Firebug

In Memory of Scott Justin Hutchinson

2006-07-16T21:58:00.000-05:00

I do not post personal things on this blog as it has only pertains to lineage things, but I felt this is a special and different situation.

Today(7/16/06) marks 5 years since my cousin Scott Justin Hutchinson was killed by a drunk driver. He was only 19 years old at the time, hurts me so much that I know he never got to experience life as an adult. There is not a day that goes by I do not think of him, I miss you greatly buddy I will catch up with you again one day. Love you man.

-Thomas

Two Posts in one week? Look out!

2006-07-13T07:26:00.000-05:00

I got this sweet screenshot of a very rare drop that two of my pledgemates were lucky enough to get. So I figured this deserved a special post! I doubt I will ever see a drop like this as I have some of the worse drop luck on the server =]. Congrats you two!

Was helping a friend level out in Oren Wasteland and I kept bothering a bot who kept stealing our mops! Needless to say the program was not smart enough to venz or pump enough pots to keep it alive to an Elmore General...HAHA

On to some sad news...

Two friends of mine just recently left Lineage...Eisley who was part of Eden just recently quit due to various personal reasons. Good-bye Eisley!

Another friend of mine who just recently made DK, Brownknight quit as well. I am not sure his reasons behind this...I can only speculate that he reached his goal of DK and just wanted to quit. You too will be missed. I greatly appreciate the gifts you left for me! Thanks for everything you two!

-Firebug

Sorry for lack of posts =]

2006-07-12T08:37:00.000-05:00

Hope everyone had a safe and happy 4th of July (yes I know I am a little late =] )This will not be a very big update as most of the interesting screenshots are on the other computer I am able to play lineage on. Someone please remind me to take them off of that computer this weekend!! This was a cheap Phoenix, although I think a rof dropped to someone else.

Someone called DE was up, got there and we ended it fairly fast. I am glad I am able to tank the damage from Phoenix and DE now =]

Ele from our pledge called that DK was up so I called Anju and we went down as fast as we could! (I have never been on a DK run, as I do not know my way through the MLC and end up getting lost and by the time I find my way again its dead lol...) Anyhow...I actually made it this time! Although, this one dropped us an awesome drop of 0, not a single drop line!!WOOO

Will try to track down those other screenshots as soon as possible =]. Hopefully the orginal creator of this blog Mr. Dcwalker, helps provide everyone with more posts as well (if you see him in game tell him to make some posts!)

-Firebug

SoE = Hard but Fun!

2006-06-23T09:29:00.000-05:00

First I would like to send a congrats out to a friend of mine who reached DK this past week. I helped him gain his last .5% as he was dc'ing alot that day.

Grats Brownknight!
Another friend of mine xSnowmanx, who happens to live somewhat close to me reached DK status as well. I do not have any screenshots of him though.

Saw this little weapon, I believe this is most likely every elves dream wep...until some new bows come out at least.
Now on to the main part of this post, paid a little visit to the Resistance Caverns, traveled across to the Ancient Giant Plains, then ventured into the Sanctuary of Evil.

Clink and I were just hunting right outside of the town waiting for our hunting party to assemble...
Finally got our party going and started to head towards the entrance of SoE. Huhs couldn't resist killing this guy as they drop Gran Scrolls which is the equal of a Bzel. Our party consisted of Huhsooabi, Davidking, Dcwalker, Clink, and myself. A fairly solid group in my opinion...So we went in and the fun began (yes it was fun but very hard)This screenshot was right as we started in to the main part of the SoE.
Mops there hit really hard, luckily we had two great tanks, and 3 healers (Clink is NB Elf now)

This Demon takes a while to kill...I wanna say it took around 3-4 minutes of steady attacking to end it! Look at the awesome drop we got from it!Couldn't have asked for a better drop I don't think...Risk vs. Reward is a beautiful thing!

After this guy alot of mops spawned on us, I was too busy healing and immuning to take a screenshot, we had to flee back to the entrance...I would estimate that there were 4 Bapho / Beleth, a Lessor Demon of Varlok and a Varlok. Luckily no one died, as we all made it back to the entrance. Did some regening went back in and found 2 of these guys all alone!

We did not hunt much after this as people had to go, I remained in the caves one more day...but I had to get back to leveling. It was definately worth the 500k to visit this place. Looking forward to a trip back to here someday =]

-Firebug

Slow week...

2006-06-15T08:21:00.000-05:00

Really have not had much excitement as far as drops go this week...

Here is a better late than never congratulations from one of my good buds.

Dc and I went up to 25th TOI to try our luck at getting a couple of Fire Rings, no luck before we called an end to our hunt we checked 26th TOI for a Reaper. Needless to say we found two!

Both dropped nothing, although it was pretty cool seeing two up at the same time...

Got a little bored so I decided to go to the Elven Mother Tree, while sitting there I remembered how tough I thought the Elven Guardians used to be ( they were to me in beta at least ;) ) Here are a couple of screenshots =]

Huhs, Dave, BlueMilkTea, and myself got pheo again the other day...No Met Strike:SB, once again (maybe one day =]) Treated us a tad bit better though than before.

Would like to end this update with a ss...No explanation needed.

More as it comes...

-Firebug

Level Up & Hunts

2006-06-08T08:57:00.000-05:00

Yes it is true, I have finally reached Level 51, it seems like it has taken such a long time. I had awesome help the last .75% of Level 50 though.
Clink was with me the entire .75% and Eisley (She says im her hero ^_^) logged in and immediately joined in. It is very awesome to have elves healing that heck out of you. I believe i got the last .75 in less than 45 minutes (which in my opinion is pretty decent for a mage)

Finally on 6/6/06 I attained this:

I received alot of congrats,although, being the silly mage I am; I forgot to screenshot alot of them. So I included the congrats of the ones I had. Sorry for those of you who I missed. I was pretty distracted at the time. Yes I did indeed add to INT, which brings my base stats to 18 CON 18 WIS 17 INT. (Best mage build for 50+ I believe anyway)

I would also like to make mention that Dcwalker is indeed back to lineage. I am very happy to see him make his return. He remains one of my very close friends left in lineage (and he is cool for letting me post here). Went on a short hunt with him but forgot to take a screenshot, sorry!

I got a couple of decent drops (for me anyway, I already made mention of my horrible drop luck) on the way to Level 51.

Bdai
After fooling around for a little bit yesterday Clink, Eisley and myself decided to go meet up with HuhsooAbi and DavidKing who were already down in the Elemental Caverns. HuhsooAbi is one hell of a friggin tank. It seemed like (well to me) that it was very easy down there with the group we had. We got no noteable drops to speak of, but it was the first in-dept hunt in Elmental Cavern for both Eisley and I. Just took a couple of screenshots while on the trip there.

Expower from our pledge called Phoenix was up so Huhs, Dave, and myself went there. Did not get a screenshot of Huhs fighting it, but got the drops. Huhs tanked it herself for 90% of the time, the only drop she did not pull was a zel and 8 blues. Shame no Met. Strike: SB, maybe next time =]
Ended my adventures yesterday with a hunt down to DVC6 with Huhs and Dave, we were trying to snag a L-Storm:SB or a ROTC again my drop luck followed, we came back with nothing.Ill have more when I can.

-Firebug

Bringing us up to date...

2006-06-01T08:05:00.000-05:00

Ok, so I have a wide range of screenshots here, many are old, as I have not had a chance to post in a long time. This first screenshot was taken down in DVC, Clink and I was killing a lot of Succubus Queens in an attempt to get a Lightning Storm: SB and or a ROTC. None the less, we both have horrible drop luck so we came back empty handed. Here is a usual shot of a cheap Ifirit and a cheap Dark Elder, although that was my first time killing a Dark Elder.

Clink and I were doing a hunt up on TOI:24fl and we decided we would go check if The Reaper was up. He was and dropped us nothing, again I will stress Clink and I have the best drop luck ever!!!!Was leveling in Fire Valley, and I have must of killed 10000000000000000000 bomb flowers by this point and have yet been able to snag a Fog of Sleeping: SB. Although, according to LineageDB this drop is of the same drop rate of Fog of Sleeping...Go Figure >< Someone within the pledge called that The Ant Queen was up, we gathered a few members and went down. Her new earthquake attack is really annoying...not the best drops, but at least we came back with something.Brownknight, Clink, and myself were on PI busy completing the quests there and we were on our way down to the Elemental Caverns when we found this thing... We got awesome drops....
I would also like to extend congratulations to a friend of mine: LegsatLast : , he has been around for quite sometime and he has finally been able to make it over the horrible LVL49 barrier. CONGRATS BUD!!! Now get to 51 so you can use a faster bow morph....A fellow mage also wanted to praise this blog, although I do not feel like i deserve the credit due to my lack of updating...anyhow.I have other screenshots on the other computer I am able to play Lineage on, I will try to track those down sometime soon. ( I do not have a stable connection to play at home, so I am forced to play elsewhere when I am able.)

More to come...

The Posts will be starting =]

2006-05-31T08:07:00.000-05:00

Yes I know you all are all probably thinking yea...yea...yeaa thats what you said last time! I have finally tracked down a copy of photoshop to do screenshot formatting with (I can not stand using paint), so as soon as I can get the screenshots off the computer I play lineage on (love thumb drives), I will be able to provide some posts! I hope to update 2-3 times a week, we shall see.

Im still around...

2006-04-03T12:06:00.000-05:00

I know this blog has been lacking some posts as of late, I am finally recovered from quite a busy holiday season (yes I know its April now) and on top of that, I recently started a new job and have been trying to get adjusted to that as well. I finally have some time where I am playing lineage on a semi-regular basis again. Hope to have some posts for everyone soon.

-Firebug

The End

2006-03-11T15:32:00.000-06:00

The End is coming...

Watch for a big post soon.

Absence...

2006-02-10T20:53:00.000-06:00

Just letting you all know I will not be posting for a bit as I have other things going on right now. Hope everything is going good for you all!

DC

Fire Valley = Erase Magic

2006-01-17T23:08:00.000-06:00

So I got lucky again in Fire Valley yesterday. It would seem (at least for the moment) that the erase magic spirit crystal is either pretty common or I am having another one of my lucky drop streaks. Either way, I can't complain since they are fetching a nice sum right now. (Check out my cool Taurverus bonfire!)

I have gotten both mine from Taurverus as you can see however I hear they drop from Astagio and Ifrit as well. Anyone else got this crystal from something different?

I also noticed that the price on the Mass Slow spellbook has been going down quite a bit. Within a few days it will probably be under 100k I would imagine. The reason for this is because the update made the availability of Dire Bears go through the roof and they drop Mass Slow. I think they have always dropped it but before episode four they only spawned on the mainland in very random areas so it was like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Now that they reside in most corners of the great cavern the book is dropping quite a bit more. Needless to say I went down to try my luck and ended up with this...

What the hell?? LOL! Are you kidding me? I had no idea they dropped this book and I bet you didn't either.

Thats all for now. Good luck in the new episode!

DC

First Drop of New Episode is....

2006-01-14T22:35:00.000-06:00

Woot!

Quest's Complete

2006-01-14T11:57:00.000-06:00

Well, it took me a few days but I finally knocked out the new quests on Pirate Island. The only reason it took me this long is in order to finish the Final part of Drake's Quest you have to actually kill the Pirate Drake. He isn't too tough but he spawns like a boss and isn't always up. Finally ran into him this morning..

If anyone has any questions about any of the new quests, feel free to whis me in game. They aren't to hard but without any walkthroughs available yet they can be a pain to figure out.

So does anyone know what this key does? I have been told it won't be used until the NEXT episode. If thats the case..I guess its stuck in my inventory until then. Meh!

DC

Are You Kidding Me???

2006-01-10T20:50:00.000-06:00

Look what stopheart got from a ORC WIZARD!!!

I included his story on how he came upon such a treasure. That had to be the luckiest Ntele ever in the history of Lineage. If not, please tell me what could be luckier. LOL

Congrats Stopheart, thats an amazing drop.

DC

Wow, they really do exhist!

2006-01-03T13:12:00.000-06:00

I was hunting today when BlackAngelv globaled for a price check on "Boots of Dark Forester". Well, since I had never heard of anyone having them before I said on global that they probably aren't in game yet. As you can see from the shot below...BlackAngelv proved me wrong.

-2ac, +30hp

These aren't the absolute best boots out there but they are definitely unique and the extra 30hp is incredible from something like boots. I'm glad to see they really are in game after all.

On another note Clink and I logged over 2% on FI the other day and actually didn't come back empty handed for once.

Not much else going on right now. Focusing alot on leveling so not many drops worth posting recently. Hope you are all having better luck!

DC

Holidays Over...

2005-12-28T02:16:00.000-06:00

All the craziness that is associated with the holidays are pretty much over for me now so I can get back to posting. Not a whole lot to post since drops have been pretty bad recently. I've logged alot of exp of late but that's about all I can say. I did get a piece of this guy the other day..

It was a nkat. I honestly should probably have nabbed more drops off him than I did but right as i started hitting him my windows update popped up and caused me to drop to the desktop. Luckily I got back to the game in time to keep myself alive but I missed alot of "swing time" while two others beat him too. At least I didn't end, that would have looked really stupid probably. LOL

Clink did have a bit of luck however with this drop..

I had never seen one of those before and I hunt down there ALOT. I managed to land a black tiger claw once, but never a fang. The claw I got sold immidiately for 1 mil so these things have got to be super rare. (Which is stupid since you need an ungodly amount to make just about anything down there)

I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome Firebug01 to my blog. He will be posting here from time to time as you saw below.

That's all for now. Hopefully more to come soon!

DC

Hunts & Drops

2005-12-17T16:37:00.000-06:00

All of these screenshots come from about a week or so ago, just now had a chance to post them. The top one to the left is a nice display of Lifestream that I created soon after I crafted the spell. The next screenshot below is from a recent pledge hunt down in Oum caves. Although we did not have any successful drops, it was a fun experience because it was my first time down there. The final screenshot on the very bottom is my favorite out of this group. I was hunting in FV with my good buddy Clink, when we came across Phoenix. Luckily Clink is very uber and kept the wild beast at bay! I believe he might have even got the best drops from that Phoenix. More to come.

-Firebug

First Post

2005-12-16T23:54:00.000-06:00

Just wanted to let all the readers know that I will now be posting here. I do not have quite the drop luck DC has, although I will post any interesting things I may across in my travels in Aden.

-Firebug

Ok, now Im just being unfair to others

2005-12-15T18:33:00.000-06:00

The funny thing about this drop is that Clink and I were both hunting for this and he decided to log about 30 seconds before I did. Glad I left second. : )

Current New Spellbook Count:
Immune (3), Holy Walk (2), Firewall (5)

Kurtz

2005-12-14T15:05:00.000-06:00

I was working on my mage this morning when someone globaled that Kurtz was up on TI. Normally I don't jump when someone on global says that something is up but since I knew
the person globaling I quickly grabbed DC and headed over. At first i couldn't find but after only like three n-teles I appeared right on him. A couple mages were there but I was the only damage dealer so after trying for a bit to take him down and doing nothing but wasting pots I drug him over to town and once there others showed and he eventually fell.

He dropped nothing.

It's not Meteor but...

2005-12-10T10:11:00.000-06:00

Current New Spellbook Count:
Immune (3), Holy Walk (1) Firewall (5)

Ok, no big drops yet...

2005-12-09T17:48:00.000-06:00

...but this is kinda like a drop.

Not Much...

2005-12-03T12:08:00.000-06:00

Not much happened the last few days. I've been pre-occupied with a side project and trying to get that character to 45 then I'll be back on DC. Hang in there, I feel a good drop coming soon.

DC

Quick Update

2005-11-27T14:00:00.000-06:00

So I ended up finding Ant Queen last night AFTER I had already said I wouldn't post anymore. I was too tired to put it up here last night so here it is.

It was a bzel so out of all the bosses we ended yesterday, the easiest one dropped the best. The last few Ant Queens have actually dropped pretty well actually.

Im gonna go play a bit now so maybe I'll have some more posts tonight.

DC

Mummy Lord

2005-11-26T18:03:00.000-06:00

Was hunting some of the lower floors of ToI today with Clink when Huhsooabi whispered and said Mummy Lord was up. With the exception of Lich and Grim Reaper this was the only ToI boss I hadn't had the chance to end so we grabbed our clears and headed up.

DavidKing did a great job healing and taking care of the mops around us and the fight went pretty clean.

There are no drops listed because there were none. BLEH!

Was still nice to cross him off my list. Next up...Baranka! Mwahahaha!

DC

Mixed Emotions...

2005-11-26T00:03:00.000-06:00

So I had some luck tonight but it came at a price. I decided to another one of my "blowing sessions" and this time i decided to do something a bit more extravagent. Recently Clink made a very nice piece of AC and I'll admit it made me a little jealous so I decided to try my own luck and got to work. First i grabbed some homr, then I stripped my mage clean of all his gear.

I don't have the balls to blow my knight stuff since I've spent 4 years aquiring it, but I had four decent items sitting on my mage and I figured If I could get just ONE of them to go I would be a very happy camper since they were all pretty valuable. So here's a list of what i started with...

+4 homr (4)
+6 snow gloves (1)
+7 mage cloth (1)
+5 bomp (1)
+4 cloak of mana (1)

Of course the first thing to go are the buffers....

Can you believe this crap?

For those of you counting at home that is FOUR IN A ROW. I paused after the third one to take a screenshot, then tossed a zel on the fourth. Wow!

Ok, so now i have the following...

+5 homr (4)
+6 snow gloves (1)
+7 mage cloth (1)
+5 bomp (1)
+4 cloak of mana (1)

I really have not even started yet at this point since nothing has blown, so I begin once again with the helmets. Unfortunately I forgot a screenshot here but the first one went +6 and the other three blew. Feeling pretty good about my chances now I begin the big stuff.

Damn. That kinda hurt and also ticked me off a bit so in frustration I put another zel on the +6 homr...

I swear this happens every time i blow stuff. Why the hell to do I even bother using "buffer" items when they are ALWAYS the ones that do the best. I should just blow the items i want and call it good. Oh well, I figured I made just a bit of money on this since I blew alot of other stuff...

**Blown**
36 zels (1.1mil)
+7 mage cloth (2mil at most)
+6 snow gloves (2-3mil)
+5 bomp (1mil)
+4 com (500k)

**Made**
7homr (8-9mil)

Total Profit: Around 2 million. (give or take)

Oh well, win some, lose some. That is Lineage and you learn to live with it.
C ya later!

DC

Happy Thanksgiving

2005-11-25T18:18:00.000-06:00

I've been busy with Thanksgiving stuff but I'm back now so should have a post soon.

DC

BIG POST!!!

2005-11-20T22:40:00.000-06:00

Well, this should just about catch me up on all the stuff I wasn't able to post over the last couple months. Theres actually more but the post was getting pretty big so I had to call it quits it some point. Let's get down to business...

With some of the profits from my recent luck I grabbed 35 t-shirts and some iron boots and ended up with this.

I spent around 6.5mil blowing stuff and ended up with that. So I actually came out on top for once with armor. Usually I only make money on weapons.

A couple days prior to that I was on my junk prince (the one that holds all my useless items) and realized I was probably never going to need a +4 red cloak so i decided to blow it. Of course it went +5, I had already figured it would do that since murphy's law states that all red cloaks are so incredibly useless that they have a 100% chance of going +5. What i didn't figure on was what happened next...

So I made a +7 red cloak with nzels... WHAT THE HELL IS THAT??? Are you kidding me? If that had been just about any other piece of ac I prolly could have made some money off it, but not a freaking red cloak. I put it in shop for 1mil and only got laughs so I added the last zel and poof...my ordeal was over. LOL.

Ok, now lets hit up some bosses.

Found Ancient Giant alot recently...doesn't mean I'm rich though...

Probably the most loaded Bapho I've ever ended. They were both blessed!

A very pathetic Z-Queen -.-

I've killed several Ant Queen's that have dropped nothing. So while nothing uber came from this one..it was still a nice surprise to see that many drops.

I ended to this guy unfortunately. We had to make a return trip to finish him off.

And last but not least. This was a Pheonix from a few weeks ago. Please note the number of people who were in on the kill...and then note the number of drops I got. I don't usually brag...but damn that felt good.

And thats it! Im caught up and can now post in the present once again. Oh, and for those of you that are wondering... I have been hunting my ass off up in Ivory Tower for the last week without any more luck. Looks like things back to normal. LOL

DC

About the comments...

2005-11-15T14:36:00.000-06:00

I did not know I had it set up so only blog members can post. Somebody's gotta tell me these things. I have fixed it now so anyone can post.

Sorry about that! Now let's see some comments for clink!

2005-11-15T10:02:00.000-06:00

It was just over two years ago that I introduced Clink to Lineage. I think it's safe to say he liked it. On Sunday evening Clink reached what many players only dream of...official DK status! He accomplished this feat not with bots, or cheats, or hacks, or multi-users....but with determination and hard work. If you want to find a true player in this game, one who plays the game the way it is meant to be played, then look no further than this guy.

Congrats Buddy! The student has become the master.

Ok guys, let's see some comments here. I want to see comments from anyone who knows him. Give this guy the props he derserves! Listan, Xavy, and anyone else who I know still reads my blog but no longer plays...let's hear ya! Clink did it!

LETS HEAR SOME SHOUTS!

Tired of me yet?

2005-11-11T20:49:00.000-06:00

As much as I'm sure people are tired of hearing about my luck, it is my duty to report my drops here on this blog. So here is my lucky drop for the day.

That makes 3 Immune books and now TWO B2S crystals in about a week of hunting. This is the kind of week you only dream about. Just to show you that I am still human...I hunted about another 4 hours up there and got nothing so average is dipping a bit. LOL

I got this backscratcher a few weeks ago also. I've never landed one of these before and although it's not used for anything right now, I hear it may be in the near future so Im glad I picked one up now.

And finally, awhile back i finally decided to sell my beast summoner amulet. I had been taking offers for several months and finally got one I could live with. This could possibly be the first sale of such an item on Dep. Hard to know for sure.

I'm not sure if the buyer wanted to be known or not so I removed the name. Hopefully this sale helps set a price for this item. It's awfully rare and I'm sure they won't change hands too often.

Time to head back to the Ivory Tower!

Cya's!

Im now officially a lucky bastard!

2005-11-09T23:46:00.000-06:00

Ok, as if 3 Immune books in one week wasn't enough, today i got this...

I think these things are going for almost 4mil now on Dep aren't they? I am having one hell of a week. I got nothing at all during the event though so now I don't feel quite as cheated. (I still thought the event was awful...don't get me wrong)

Also gonna post this even though it was a few weeks ago. I think this is the best drops I've ever gotten from a Dopple Boss.

It was only an Ndai but since 75% of the time they dont drop anything at all...I was pretty pleased with this one. I'll continue to add my older screenshots in the days to come as i continue to catch up to where i left off.

One more thing before I go. It seems as if our prince likes things a bit kinky...

Sorry Comah, but I just had to add that here. It was too funy to pass up!

Goodnight for now,

DC

Let's Play Catch Up

2005-11-08T23:26:00.000-06:00

I decided that instead of making one huge post i would slowly catch up on what I've been doing with a bunch of smaller posts. (yup..im lazy)

So let's start it off with probably the best luck I've had in this game...EVER!

All of these dropped within the last week! After months of not getting one I decided to spend ALL of my hunting time in the Ivory Tower until i got one. Long story short...now i have three. I sold one, gave one to a friend who REALLY wanted it, and i have yet to do anything with the 3rd one. Wow... ^^

Another note about my blog. It seems my chatbox on the right is no longer working and I've decided to leave it off. It was constantly abused by spammers anyway so I won't miss it much. You can still leave comments below every post and I would welcome anyone to do so.

Again, sorry for such a long period with no updates. I'm gonna try to do one a day now till i get caught up on all my screenshots. (this could take months) LOL

-DC-

Will start again soon...

2005-11-05T17:40:00.000-06:00

I will start blogging again soon. I've still been taking screenshots all the time but life sometimes only permits for so many projects at one time...so the blog had to be put on the back burner for awhile. Now that winter is here again, I will have more time. Look for a very large update soon.

Sorry for the long time with no postings.

DC

I'm Baaaaacckkkkkk

2005-08-15T20:01:00.000-05:00

After an 18 hour drive I'm back from my vacation and ready to get back to real life. I hope everyone has had a good Lineage week. It's weird to log on after over a week with no Lineage.

So I suppose I should share my luck streak with you all. I didn't get any drops but I have recently made quite a few over enchanted items that really helped pad the old pocketbook. I'll start with my first enchanting session...

So I have a +8mb and +8rap in storage and figure I'd go for a +9. Of course the first thing you do in this situation is get some "buffers" to blow first. So i grab a nkat, xbow, h-bow, and another mb. The h-bow blew right away, the rest went as follows..

At this point my mouth is on the floor. Two of my three buffer weapons went all the way to +9, while the mailbreaker blew at +8. So now i have a +9nkat, +9xbow, +8rap, and still another +8mb. I decided that was enough for one day and sold the nkat and xbow for a nice little profit. The luck is not over however...

The next day, still craving another enchanting session, I take the 8rap and 8mb and get down to business. This time I decide to blow a piece of AC first. My results are as follows.

Once again the mb blew but both my buffer item and the rap went. Should i push my luck further? See below...

That's it. Thats as far as I'm going. Making just one +9 weapon is hard enough...but making 4 in less than a week is just crazy. I realize they aren't TSU's or some sort of uber item, but I think you have to admit I've had some unbelievable luck. I've used the profits from my ventures to pick up some nice item's I've been wanting for a long time. Sometime's it pays to gamble, sometimes it makes you feel like quitting. I've been on both ends now and damn it feels good to come out on top for once!

WOOT!

Ack...so busy

2005-08-03T21:52:00.000-05:00

Just wanted to let you all know I will be leaving tomorrow for a vacation and won't be back for at least 12 days. I know your all waiting in suspense over what type of luck I had but it's just gonna have to wait. Mwahahahah!

Good luck and I will see you in game soon!

DC

Celebrate!

2005-07-28T21:39:00.000-05:00

This is about a week or so late but congrats to Clink for reaching his first decent bow morph! For those that don't know Clink is a real life friend of mine who just lives a few blocks away, and I got him hopelessly addicted to this game about 2 years ago. Now he is on his way to DK and I might have to stop calling him a newb. HaHa!

I have alot more to post, and most of it is pretty interesting but i think I may have to again push it back a day. I promise to get it up here shortly.

-DC-

More Diad & Dark Elf Hunting...

2005-07-28T00:04:00.000-05:00

I continue to spend alot of time down in the Dark Elf Caves (3rd floor) and in the Diad area. Drops don't come very often but because the area is still so new and most items are so ridiculously rare, everything I do get always makes people go....what? Most recently I pulled this little trinket off a Black Wizard...

This item looks really cool but alas...it really doesn't have much value as it's purpose is uber GAY! Right now a Ring of Summon control costs about 2.5 million on Dep server. So why in the hell would anyone spend months hunting up these rings trying to craft one? (If you don't know you can craft an ROSC by collecting 5 different and extremely rare rings) Thats all this ring is...just a crafting item. Is that ridiculous or what? I'll just hold on to this and hopefully someday when they realize how dumb this ROSC crafting quest is...maybe they make this thing more useful.

I have also been keeping an eye out for the hidden chests in the Dark Elf caves. Sometimes you can actually pull some interesting stuff out of there...

That's me next to a chest if you haven't ever seen one. Normally they are't that easy to see. If your hunting down there always run your cursor along walls and such and watch for it to change to an attack icon. If you see it change...then there is a chest hidden there. I'm still waiting for it to say... gave you spellbook: Meteor Strike! LOL! Yeah right

Watch for my next post, hopefully tomorrow. It is gonna have some amazing stuff in it. Best luck I have EVER had in Lineage. I just don't have time to post it all now.

-DC-

Good Luck Saturday!

2005-07-24T02:09:00.000-05:00

Got a good chunk of hunting time in today and it paid off. Drops from today are below. Take special notice of the last one. :)

This is the 2nd firewall book I have landed now, the first one sold for about a million but this one will be used on my mage. (thanks to the generosity of Wickedliquid) Actually that's a funny story too. Wicks was looking for a good spot to hunt for Holy Walk so I took him to my favorite spot...where i had been hunting it for about a month. Long story short...Wicked lands a Holy Walk book in less than a day of hunting there. Damn you Wicked! LOL

Anyway, he let me keep this one as a thank you for showing him "the spot" for Holy Walk hunting. Thanks Wicked..will come in very handy on my new mage.

Thats all for now.

-DC-

One BIG post!

2005-07-18T00:08:00.000-05:00

Ok, sorry I haven't been keeping up with my blog. Summer is just an incredibly busy time for me and the time I do have I usually like to spend actually playing. As fall arrives I'm sure my blog will actually become more "daily" like the name implies. LOL

I went through about 75 screenshots since my last post and pulled out the best ones. This is gonna be a long post so grab some popcorn. :)

We will kick things off with a screenshot from 67th (i think) floor of ToI. We have been pledge hunting up there alot recently just for something different. (Coming back with 100 maples isn't to bad either. We ran into quite the spawn once as you can see below. Believe it or not..we finished them off.

Speaking of the pledge. It just keeps on getting bigger. It's not uncommon to log on and see this...

I have been having some amazing luck again with my over enchanting on both weapons and AC. One of my most recent enchanting sessions turned out especially well. (see below) The only thing that blew was a +6 H-bow. Damn!! (dripping with sarcasm)

I have gotten the rare opportunity to help end the Death Knight alot in the last few weeks. Unfortunately I can only locate two of the screenshots. The first one was incredibly hard and it took Stopheart and I several tries to finally put it down. (with some help from Plouks...thanks Plouks!) The other one wasn't to bad at all. Wickedliquid and I were able to dispatch it quite quickly. As you can see, we are all rich now.

Also got in on a Demon with former pledgemate Huhsooabi. (yeah, the one who levels insanely fast and will most likely hit 60 in a month or two.) She's gonna be a force to be dealt with very soon...if not already. Go Huhsoo!!!!

As you can see, I had no luck taking any drops from her...lol.

A Bzel is ALWAYS worth posting, no matter how insignificant or how many times you've all seen it before.

And just to wrap things up here are some random drops that I didn't really wanna seperate into seperate screenshots.

I have also made alot of progress on my mage. Just hit level 45 a couple days ago and eventually hope to hit 48. This mage is purely for fun which is why i went Charisma and have four summons. I was still able to give myself decent INT and WIZ though thanks to the Amulet of Beast Summoner which gives +2 charisma. So far its working out great.

Ok, thats all for now. Hopefully I'll get a few more updates up here a little quicker than last time. C ya's.

-DC-

Not a whole lot..

2005-06-29T17:44:00.000-05:00

So where have I been?? I've been playing alot actually but I'm currently working on a side project most of the time. Even though I already have a mage, I decided to make another with some adjusted stats. Because of this, I don't have a whole lot of great screenshots to show you guys. Hopefully I get some bosses soon but right now this little mage project of mine is taking up most of my hunting time.

Here's a quick screenshot of a group of us from ProtossII pledge defending Kent awhile back. Pledge keeps growing and growing..pretty cool!

A little bit of FI

2005-06-07T10:30:00.000-05:00

Went to FI for a couple hours. No drops worth mentioning but I did finally get to see the Greater Mino. The drops were a kick in the pants but I didn't expect much else i guess.

This is how luck goes bad

2005-06-04T10:53:00.000-05:00

So I was having such good luck awhile back I decided to try to keep it going by blowing some items and hoping for something nice. Eventually I decided on T-Shirts since they are a very marketable item and there value seems to keep going up.

I began with what you see here below. 20 +0 T-shirts and 100 Nzels. The first step was to create +5's.

Imagine my surprise when SEVEN of them went +5. Up to this point my luck was definitely still on the upside. Feeling pretty good about my chances now I went to GTZ and literally bought all 7 Bzels that were for sale at that time. I took a deep breath and looked at my inventory one more time..

So you would think with 7 chances a person could make at least one +7ts.

POOF
POOF
POOF
POOF
+6
POOF
POOF

So thats where my luck comes crashing down. Oh well, it's not like I've never blown anything before and I'm sure I will again. And yes, the +6 went "POOF" a day or two later.

I think I'm caught up for now with all the stuff worth posting. Hope everyone enjoyed the event and see ya in game!

-DC-

Thanks to my sponsors!

2005-06-04T10:50:00.000-05:00

Ill just start posting..

2005-06-04T10:26:00.000-05:00

I have so much to catch up on that I don't know where to start so I guess I'll just start going through my screenshots and put them up in the order i find them.

Here is a nice little drop we got on a hunt near Diad fortress. I hunt down here alot and this is the first time I have ever seen one of these..

Later on while hunting solo I found a very generous Plate Worm and Middle Oum...

Unfortunately Clink and I had to miss a good portion of the event, but we did make it out to FI a couple times for some good exp. This was the only drop we could scrounge up. :(

Ok, gonna keep wading through my screenshots and see what else I can find. More to come...

-DC-

Goldnchild reaches DK!

2005-06-04T10:11:00.000-05:00

Congrats to my longtime friend Goldnchild on being fitted for his shiny new super suit! Goldn has been playing even longer than me and his DK status is long overdue. Good Job Goldnchild!

Im slow

2005-06-02T00:49:00.000-05:00

Its been a long holiday weekend with alot going on. I apologize for not posting much. I have alot of backlog and should make a rather large post very soon.

Oh, and if your wondering...no my luck did not continue. It actually came crashing down...lol.

3 Days of Luck?

2005-05-19T00:02:00.000-05:00

I didn't think it was possible but a few minutes after logging in this evening I had 2 Bzels and a Bdai. That's three days in a row I've cashed in now...how much longer can this go on? Check back tomorrow and find out! Mwahahaha

I'm selling that Beast Summoner Ammy too if anyone is intersted.

Some More Luck..... x 1000

2005-05-17T10:40:00.000-05:00

While I'm not sure yet, this may be one of the most rare drops I've ever landed in Lineage. Take a look below..

I'm sure most of you are like "what the hell is an Amulet of Beast Summoner"? Well, I said the same thing so rather than ID it i went and looked it up. Apparently it gives the following.

+2 Charisma
-1 Wiz
Mage Only

Now I'm sure most people could give a crap about the -1 wiz so that isnt all that bad. What I'm wondering however is what benefits can come from +2 Charisma? The only thing I can think of is now a player can create a mage with 9 charisma and still get 3 summons if they wear this ammy and an old red knights cloak. Am I right here..or is there something I'm missing?

Also picked up a few items down there I haven't seen yet such as the Black Tiger Claw and Plate Worm Venom. (gee..now i just need like 49 more for it to matter) LOL

TELL ME IF THIS AMMY IS ANY GOOD!!!

Some Good Luck (for once)

2005-05-16T10:00:00.000-05:00

Had a nice run with zels yesterday! Usually I only make enough from my blowing spree's to break even, but this time I actually pocketed about 6 mil!

Also, if you don't read Ahmda's blog..you should. We share alot of the same viewpoints in this game...especially about cheaters.

Read her "Monday, May 16th" Rant here..
http://ahmda.2ya.com

Just a cool shot...

2005-05-11T13:25:00.000-05:00

Took this the other day while some mages were showing off in town. Thought the lightning storm spell just looked cool enough to post...

A Belated Congrats and a Current Goodbye...

2005-05-11T13:18:00.000-05:00

Sorry this is so late but for those who don't already know, Brownknight hit 50 a few weeks back! He worked hard to reach this goal and even overcame a multitude of disconnect deaths to reach his Baphomet morph. There was only a short celebration however as Brown also informed us he was moving and would not be able to continue on in Lineage anymore.

Brown was a great hunter (smart) and knew what it took to be successful in this game. We're gonna miss ya BK!

Love Nightmares!

2005-05-11T13:12:00.000-05:00

Just a quick post with a few drops I've gotten recently. Ive been hunting on DI alot since leveling...just kinda taking it easy for awhile. Most of you have seen plenty of DI drops but these are a few really nice ones i just had to post.

That ice golem is one i bumped into accidentally...Glad i did :)

Out of Town

2005-04-26T16:44:00.000-05:00

Sorry for the long delay. I have been out of town the last couple days and I have been taking a nice little break since leveling. Ill be back soon.

-DC-

Relief

2005-04-20T17:37:00.000-05:00

Black Knight

More Later...

Spellbook #3

2005-04-16T12:13:00.000-05:00

Picked up a third new spellbook last night. This is probably the most rare one we have come across to date, and it definitely gives firewall a run for it's money as far as how cool it looks when it's cast.

I hunt on 24th almost every day, sometimes for hours and this is the first Counter Detect book I've gotten since the update so they gotta be pretty rare. Whisper me in game if your interested in the book.

Under 10% remaining...

You Go Girl!

2005-04-15T10:18:00.000-05:00

Huhsooabi has been a good friend since I first started playing many years ago and after playing around with her mage for several years she started a knight...and made the rest of us knights just look silly. 8 months! Thats all it took her to go from level 50 to 55. WOW!

I did my best to try to stay ahead of her but she came charging hard and ended up beating my by 14%. That is truly impressive since sh hadn't even hit 50 yet when I was already a DK. You go girl!

In other news, we went up to 61st floor to mess around and ended up with a couple of these. Not to bad.

Now I just gotta hurry and up and level before Huhsooabi hits 56..lol

The Usual Stuff

2005-04-13T10:23:00.000-05:00

I've been making a strong push to level up soon. With less than 20% to go it should only be another week, maybe two..depending on how much time I can put into leveling.

Anyway, heres the drops from yesterday. I hit for the cycle with Zels. One Blessed, one normal, and one cursed. While that's nice, I'd still prefer all blessed. :)

O.o

2005-04-09T23:54:00.000-05:00

Thats the second new spellbook I've been present for when it dropped. It's not worth as much as some of the others but it still made us pretty happy. Haven't decided whether to keep or sell it yet. It would probably have to be a very nice offer otherwise I might just learn it on my mage instead. It's not the most usefull spell but it looks so cool after its casted that I want it for that reason alone.

Ok, i gotta rant just a moment. After we first got the book I decided to take some offers on it and see what it might go for. Long story short i got a ton of whispers and while some were legit..others just bugged the hell out of me. First of all, it's a brand new item and the price hasn't stabilized yet so i DO NOT KNOW the the actual price on it. I do have a rough idea but to the 20 people that whispered me 100 times asking how much I want for it...STOP! Like I said before, I'm actually thinking about keeping it for myself so Im not gonna set a price on it. If i get an offer that tempts me I might let it go, but otherwise don't whisper me 20 times asking me to "set" a price. There is no "set" price on this item....yet. Maybe a couple months down the road there will be..but not now. Ok, rant over.

Also picked up the following today and yesterday. Nothing exciting..just posted them in case your trying to figure out what drops them.

Posted about the Dark elf General because thats actually a pretty nice drop when you think about it. Brings on Dep right now are still going for 1k or more, so that general dropped 12k! Not to bad. I've seen them drop anywhere from 8-12 bringstones, and they drop them quite often. Makes it almost worthwhile to make the treck down there to hunt more often.

Nothing Exciting..

2005-04-06T11:02:00.000-05:00

People keep asking me to update the blog and I just want to remind you all that because I don't include "real life" or non lineage related stuff here, I don't update as often as others. Only my lineage stuff is being posted here so if nothing exciting happens in game, I don't really have alot to post.

The last couple days have been pretty uneventful as I have just been working over the Living Armors in Ivory Tower and doing my FV/ToI leveling trips. I did bzel a pair of +5 IB but that went as expected...lol. Also, my boss hunting has gone down as I approach level 55 so I don't have as many boss shots to post right now either. Sorry. :(

Once today's maintenance is done, I should get a few hours of hunting in before work. Hoping for something worth posting today...hehe.

-DC-

Generals and Armors

2005-04-03T23:18:00.000-05:00

I spent most of this weekend with one purpose in mind. Get some new spellbooks! So Saturday we went down to the Lastabad caves and hunted some Dark Elf Generals for a few hours. Besides an insane amount a bring stones..we didn't get anything from the generals worth noting. However, we did pick up one of these...

Then on Sunday I literally spent hours on end in Ivory Tower hunting Living Armors trying to pick up a "Immune from Harm" spellbook. Needless to say I failed there, but I did get alot of exp and all the following stuff..

All together i got 8 Black Blood stones, 1 hqd, 1 hqe, 1 hqs, Blessed Banded Mail, and a Bronze Plate Mail. Thats from an afternoon of hunting those damn things. It's nice to see they still drop gems, although quite rare. I'll probably spend some more time up there in the coming days as well.

-DC-

Good Luck Day

2005-04-02T02:13:00.000-06:00

Was finally able to play for a few hours today, and had a bit of luck to go along with it. First hunt was with Clink on DV 6th. Didn't get many good "drops" but did find a little something in Antharas lair...

Before you get to excited....NO the slime did not drop the scales. The scales were on the ground and just given to the slime to take a screenshot. Not long after went with Elanes pledge to 20th to end vamp. No screenshot for that but Bdai was best drop. I then left and a few minutes later they found another vamp. -.- (that one dropped junk though also)

To cap the evening I went with FireBug to 31st in an attempt to get him the new Berserkers spellbook.

Was pleasantly surprised to actually get one. I think Ill work this area a bit more and try to collect a few more for my own mage and some other friends.

Nothing much else worth noting. Hoping to hunt alot on Saturday to make up for some lost time this week. Good Luck!

-DC-

Bad Luck

2005-03-28T08:39:00.000-06:00

Started with this..

+7 Bkat (3)
+7 Rapier (3)
+7 Dama (1)
+7 Nkat (1)
+6 Nkat (1)

Those turned into this...

Out of all those weapons, of course it's the cheapo Nkat that goes +9. Doh! I haven't blown the rap yet. Gonna wait till i have some more +8's to blow along with it.

-DC-

In Comparison..

2005-03-27T10:20:00.000-06:00

So I'm hunting TOI yesterday and I get this..

Not to bad. Sold it right away for 500k which i thought was pretty reasonable. Even though TOI mops don't drop adena (which i hate), one drop like this equals 3333 Succubus dropping me an average of 150 adena.

Lol. I try to look at the bright side of things.

-DC-

An interesting evening to be sure...

2005-03-25T00:48:00.000-06:00

So I began the day at 54%, and five hours later im logging off at 54.50%. Yet in the span of that five hours I actually logged 3%. You do the math on that and yep..you guessed it...I hit the floor today. Thank you Mr. Seer.

Clink and I were up hunting the 20th floor when Seer popped out right at a bad time. Lots of mops on the screen and I made the mistake of trying to tackle Seer with several other things hitting me. Click venzed once I went down but the good part is we did end up killing it after running back up. You can see the drops below, as well as my other drops from tonight.

Take special note of the Phoenix drop. There was about 4 of us tackling that thing and after it ended, everyone else said they got nothing. NOTHING!!! Please don't tell me this boss is nerfed now too. It was one of the few good bosses left out there that still dropped decently most of the time. Has anyone else ended Phoenix since the update? I cannot believe that it only dropped a blank level 4 and two rez scrolls. BAH!!!

-DC-

More Episode 3 stuff..

2005-03-23T22:36:00.000-06:00

So today I figured I would spend most of my time in the new Oum Dungeon area. I ended up logging almost 1.5% down there and you would think after spending that much time I would have something to show for it...right? Hahahahaha...

Wrong. My only two drops worth noting are below..

So I used probably 400k in pots down there today...and thats what i leave with. I'll try not to spend it all in one place. Im also inching closer to being Black Knight. Just another couple weeks hopefully.

-DC-

Episode 3

2005-03-23T03:16:00.000-06:00

It's here! After spending the last couples months waiting... episode III has finally arrived. I downloaded the update after work so I didn't have any problems and logged right in smoothly. (Clink on the other hand had a horrible time and ended up having to delete the entire game off his computer and start fresh)

I'm not gonna go into my likes and dislikes quite yet..as I want to spend some times playing before I make any final judgements. I will say one thing though...

"Why do they feel nothing should drop adena anymore?"

LOL. That's all Im gonna say about that for now.

After a couple long hunts down there I think the following was probably the most rare drop that we got.

No, it's probably not great... but it was definitely harder to get than all the other materials we gathered. Also notice the spawn...it can get pretty nasty in the Oum dungeon area.

I'm sure Ill have more screenshots for you in the coming days. There is a TON of new stuff to craft, as well as new drops. Hopefully Ill have something more exciting to show soon.

Oh, and thanks Semia!

Monday wasn't so bad...

2005-03-23T03:09:00.000-06:00

Got this late Monday night but was to tired to post it.

That"s two bzels from Fire Valley eggs in just over a week. Not bad.

Knight Vald

2005-03-20T14:37:00.000-06:00

Got a call today to help take out Knight Vald. This was my first trip this high so it was a great expirience. Knight Vald went down pretty easy, in fact he never even summoned any Black Knights of Darkness.

The drop wasn't very big..but I had alot of fun during the hunt afterwards. One thing i didn't realize until today was how commonly the wind crystals drop up here. We must have gotten at least 10 wind walk and eye of storm crystals during our hunt. Anyone need?? LOL

Now i just need to add a mummy lord to my list and I will have every boss on my resume except Lich and Grim Reaper. (Still need a few more levels for that)

-DC-

Fat Pony

2005-03-19T02:04:00.000-06:00

I normally haven't been including drops from Dream Island because we've all seen them a million times. However I just found this pretty funny to say the least. If you had told me before I killed this unicorn that it would drop me 10 lines...I would bet good money something outta that 10 would be good. Nope..i was wrong..

It was an Ndai. I guess the point of this post wasn't to show off my super rare ndai drop...but more to ask the question...

Where does a horse put all this stuff anyway?

-DC-

Two days of leveling...

2005-03-17T00:42:00.000-06:00

Well, I had two days off from work so I got a good chunk of leveling in. I still don't know how I ever got 7% a day like I did back on level 51. 7.05% is my record for one day and I don't think I will ever come close to that again as right now i consider 4% to be pretty darn good. Picked up a little over 3% today which puts my total at...

So, what does someone get after two days of leveling? My uber drops are below.

Am I rich yet? I can't complain to much though since one of those was a bzel, however I really was hoping for a little more. Oh well, at least Im starting to sniff the Black Knight morph now.

Good luck and see ya in game.

-DC-

Another day...Another dopple..

2005-03-15T01:53:00.000-06:00

Like I've stated before, it seems like every time I look for this guy (or girl?) I always seem to find him. Sometimes it drops nothing..sometimes it drops decent, and sometimes it drops so-so. Today was a so-so day.

Ran into several of these also. This was the best one. Both were N.

And also, due to some different reasons, Clink, myself, and Brownknight have left Eden Pledge for awhile. Im not gonna go into all the reason for this...only gonna say I'm sure it wont be a permanent thing. Just need some time away right now. Our new pledge is called PeaceCore and we now officially have the brightest pledge emblem ever! LOL

Im off tomorrow so hopefully I can get alot of hunting in. If so, I should have alot of drops to post. (wishful thinking but you never know)

-DC-

Progress

2005-03-12T00:08:00.000-06:00

I haven't been able to play much the last couple days. Just an hour here and there. I am making progress though...

It's not really the pace I was leveling at before i hit 52, but Im taking more time now to enjoy the game...rather than just spend day in and day out in FV. Definitely looking forward to the Black Knight morph however so that keeps me motivated.

Also found Dopple Boss again today.

Theres nothing listed as a drop because...well...nothing dropped. Oh well.

-DC-

Sorry Clink...

2005-03-12T00:06:00.000-06:00

You should really watch what you say around someone with a blog.

Two Years Later...

2005-03-09T01:21:00.000-06:00

Never figured it would take me this long to land one of these but finally tonight was the night. Granted they aren't worth what they used to be, but this is more about just being able to say...

"Yeah, I got one of those once"

The funny part about this drop is we were all ready to leave FI for the night and had walked to the western teleporter. From there we decided to make one more run and walk to the other teleporter instead. Needless to say it was a very good decision.

Thats all for tonight...

-DC-

Glad that's over..On to the drops!

2005-03-08T11:35:00.000-06:00

If you haven't read the post below this one...plz do! Once you've done that, enjoy my junky drops list. lol

About the Scammer on Dep

2005-03-08T11:12:00.000-06:00

So here is how it pretty much breaks down. A few days ago people in Eden started to whisper me and let me know that someone in the pledge was asking for weapons and account passwords. I of course advised for all of them to not give anything to this person and started to become suspicious. I had read on RiffRaffs blog a few days earlier that someone had been running a scammer operation on Dep recently and I wondered if perhaps that scammer was....in our pledge???

To make a long story short, we narrowed it down to one person in our pledge. An elf named ET2 had recently joined and nobody really knew much about him. We did know however that his other characters were theelf1 and theelven1. This is important because that very same day I saw Arsun globaling for theelven1 to whisper him. Thinking perhaps it was related to the scammer, I whispered him and and asked if theelven1 had scammed something from him. Of course as we all know by now, Arsun had lost EVERYTHING to him. Once finding this out I immidiately sent out a pledge letter warning about ET2 and I also explained on global what was going on...in order to keep others from suffering the same fate.

Now this is where it get's interesting..

The next day I log in and someone in pledge tells me Im now possibly a suspect as being the scammer. What the Hell? After some digging I find out that Arsun had talked with theelven1 on ICQ and was told that I share accounts with "someone" else in the pledge, and this other person was the scammer. Well, this little bit of information made me really mad. ANYONE that knows me at all knows my feelings about cheaters, bots, hacks, and account sharing!! I have played Lineage for just about 3 years now. It took me over a year and a half to get to dk, and in the next year and a half Ive only gotten to 54. I DONT SHARE ACCOUNTS WITH ANYONE.

I immidiatly whispered Arsun and set up a meeting. I wont go into exactly what was said, but I offered to open my linweb for him if he doubted anything i said. My account has also only been accessed from my home IP address which could be proved by NC. I was only trying to help stop the scammer and so the scammer decided to use me and another pledge member as his scapegoats.

Arsun if you read this, please realize that guy is feeding you lies. I don't know what else he has told you but I know for a fact he pulled the "sharing" thing out of thin air. I'm sure he is fabricating many other stories as well.

And there you have it...probably the longest post I will ever have in the history of this blog. These particular events just struck a nerve with me because I have a reputation on Dep as being a "good" guy, and to have something like this blamed on me (and a fellow pledgemember)is just upsetting. I've said my peace now...

See ya in game!

-DC-

Nothing Uber...

2005-03-04T09:29:00.000-06:00

Just a quick post with a few drops from yesterday.

Level Level Level

2005-03-02T23:16:00.000-06:00

My luck with bosses and drops has been down this week. Sorry no screenshots this time but I just don't have anything interesting to put up. I try to keep this blog about Lineage only so if I dont get drops or find a boss, then I dont have much to post about.

I have gotten some DI drops this week but I think everyone has seen plenty of zel and dai pics from DI. If i ever get anything more than that from there I will post it. Oh, and for those that are curious these are the various things (besides scrolls) I have gotten from DI since it's creation...

Ring of Summon Control (Uni)
2 Int Ammys (both Uni)
Belt of Mind (Fire)
Wind Ring (Wind)

And i got that ROSC back when they were actually still worth something so i would consider that my best DI drop. Still no elixers for me...yet.

Ok, back to leveling...

-DC-

What Dark Elf Army?

2005-02-27T16:58:00.000-06:00

After many attempts over the past couple weeks, Eden was finally able to reach the end of the current dark elf caverns. It's really to bad more people can't get down here because it is a really fun place to hunt and it just looks damn cool! This is us at the final gate...

Down on the bottom right you can see the "Head of Guards" npc that just stands there. I had read on another blog that you can end him so we decided we better end him too..lol. It took awhile but he finally went down.

This hunt lasted around two hours I think, maybe a little more. We never lost a single person the whole time which also makes this hunt more successful. Although we weren't able to land a Meteor or Decay book, we did grab one of these...

There were some other minor drops as well like zels and dais but nothing worth taking a screenshot of. The drops aren't the greatest down there but you feel a real sense of accomplishment when you make it this far. I just have to say that this is what Lineage is all about. Teamwork got us to the finish..and i have never been more proud to be a part of Eden!

-DC-

I swear I'm trying!!

2005-02-26T15:23:00.000-06:00

I've been hunting alot but no tremendous drops or boss fights to speak of recently. Found the dopple boss again but still haven't been able to land anything other than wiz pots and rez scrolls from it.

Have also spent alot of time on FI leveling with Brownknight and Clink. Again...no drops. : (

See ya in game!

-DC-

Sad

2005-02-23T23:16:00.000-06:00

A longtime pledge member and good friend has left Lineage for good. Although I'm not exactly positive, I think I first met Soviles close to two years ago. He had just started and was looking for a pledge so I invited him to Eden. To make a long story short today he had to leave the world of Lineage forever as real life was keeping him to busy to play. His wife some of you may also know...Alyssaelf, has also sadly decided to say goodbye as well. Although Alyssaelf never joined Eden, I would talk with her often in game.

I just wanted to say it was great knowing you and I wish you luck in whatever you do from this point on!

On a side note, before he left I asked him if he had any secrets in Lineage. (like any secret characters or big items he never showed anyone) The answer was pretty amusing...

Although the spellings a bit off...I'm pretty sure I know what you mean.
LOL! I never exptected something like that to come from you. Funny stuff man.

As for me, sorry for not posting yesterday but honestly there wasn't much to post about. I was on quite bit but didn't find a single boss and just spent most of my time leveling. Until tomorrow....

-DC-

Boss Drops? Not quite....

2005-02-21T23:39:00.000-06:00

Only had time for two real hunts today. One for Zenith and one for Seer. Didn't find either of them but ended up getting drops anyway...

Sorry for the short post today but just didn't have as much hunting time as I would have liked.

-DC-

Congrats Clink!

2005-02-20T23:42:00.000-06:00

Clink is a real life friend of mine that I got hooked on this game about a year and a half ago. It was a long road...but worth it I would say. Clink reached 49 awhile ago but took a break to level a character on LOA before returning to finish the job. He began leveling just after the Halloween event and hit 50 early evening on Feb 20th. Not quite four months of total leveling time...pretty good for an elf!

Welcome to the Lineage Elite Clink!

Alot of leveling

2005-02-20T00:16:00.000-06:00

Spent most of today leveling in TOI. I have been having trouble focusing on leveling after hitting 54 but I think i got back into the groove today. Found a boss and got a nice present too!

Tomorrow night i should be able to post about Eden's newest Bapho! (Assuming of course they don't mess it up by dying...lol)

-DC-

New House!

2005-02-20T00:08:00.000-06:00

Eden Pledge has been growing like a weed lately and due to this we decided it was time to re-invest in a house. We had one in Aden awhile back but let it go when our numbers dwindled. Our NEW house is located in Giran right next to the west pot shop. The location in my opinion is awesome and we actually bid on this smaller house instead of one twice the size just for the proximity to a shop.

We have since removed the trees. Made it just a bit too crowded in there. Oh, and on another note...we made BurnBurn mad by outbidding him on this house so now he gonna attack us. Meh...whatever. -.-

Finally some action...

2005-02-18T00:18:00.000-06:00

Gathered a group together today for a 2nd floor dark elf cave hunt. Actually got to see a few areas of the cave I had never bothered to look at before. Pretty cool stuff.

Aside from the interesting terrain, we also got to leave with a few goodies!

While not the absolute best drops from the dark elf caves...it's still nice to come out of there with something more than a round shield. The robe really isn't all that bad either...especially if your leveling a mage and you haven't reached 45 yet.

Afterwards Brownknight and myself ran up to 10th and once again ran into ZQ right next to the steps. Man i love it when that happens. (not just ZQ, any toi boss)

And what blog would be complete without random "cool blog" quotes from players in game. So heres the first two blog compliments i have recieved...although Im not sure if one of them is a compliment. O.O

Question for you all...

2005-02-17T00:30:00.000-06:00

Is my blog fun to read or does it need improvement? I'm still planing on adding a few links but otherwise I'll just continue to post in the manner i have been. Is this good...bad....ugly? Just curious. I just started this blog and I want to keep it going down the right track.

On to other things...

I played my mage mostly again today. Just taking a short break from knight before i work on 55. I actually recommend to anyone trying to gain high level to take a break and mess around with another character sometime. It's a nice way to break up the level grind.

Sorry no pictures again today. There just isnt as many screenshot opportunities when your killing golems on di, or playing the role of a heal mage. I promise lots more boss shots are in the future for this blog.

-DC-

Mage stuff...

2005-02-16T00:15:00.000-06:00

Just messed around on my mage today helping some pledgemates level. Nothing to exciting. Hopefully more interesting posts tomorrow. : )

Demon, Ant Queen...full day

2005-02-14T21:42:00.000-06:00

So as my last post stated, i found Ice Queen this morning. Over the course of the day i also found Ant Queen and Demon. Not to mention some drakes and several caspa groups. So what was the best drop from any of them?

Your looking at it...

But I'm not a complainer. Ive had good luck and Ive had bad luck. Today was a bad luck day. Also sold my +6 homr I made the other day and bought 50 zels. Ended up with another +6 homr. LOL.

Ice Queen

2005-02-14T10:33:00.000-06:00

After logging on this morning I started doing my normal round of boss checks and ran into the Ice Queen. There were about 7 people online in my pledge but only ZSoulstealer wasn't in "shop" mode so we grabbed our gear and headed down. This particular Queen died extremely fast so it must have been a pretty weak one.

Oh well, at least it wasn't a blinding pot...the mother of all insults.

Fun!

2005-02-13T21:58:00.000-06:00

Fought our way down to the 3rd floor of the dark elf caves today. Was great fun although we ended up being over-run by a huge swarm of Elementalists just outside the city. I think we had a total of 14 people for this hunt...probably the biggest hunting party Ive ever been a part of in all my years playing Lineage. Heres a shot of us gearing up at the steps on 3rd floor.

Also checked ZQ once today and found her right by the stairs.

Considering I still have about 10 of these belts from the Halloween event, I wasn't very pleased with the drop. Oh well..Ive manged to get a tsu and charm from ZQ in the past so I can't complain to much.

See ya later..

-DC-