A continuation of COP Chap 8

After going through the COP missions chapter by chapter, and a further trigger by this Chap 8, Peach is thankful that Zaan was not eaten up by the wonders in {Sea} after all. Seriously...without Zaan, how are we able to climb the tower without getting lost??!!

This tower is so confusing, partly because Peach can't find a decent-marked map in the internet. And without owning a map (have to talk to don't-know-how-many NPCs in the tower), it made matter worst as all tunnels and rooms look the same to Peach. Anyone had a link to a decent-marked map? Let Peach know, prettyyyy pleasseeee?

After doing 4 NPC escort quests, we finally reached the area where we had to fight a Ix'ghrah. This mob can change it's form from a ball to either bird, spider or human. The fight wasn't that bad with our 8 members alliance.



And we were treated with a nice cutscene



After this, we still have to climb another tower to get back our lost light. We slept the mobs on our way and dashed for the elevator. After 3 levels of climbing and running in and out of "tunnels" & rooms, we finally reached our portal to collect back our lost light.



TO BE CONTINUED!

Windurst Mission 8-2 = The Jester Who'd Be King

This EVIL Shantotto! EVIL lady! EVIL Taru! EVIL Laughter!



And her EVIL Words!

Saying Peach a busybody!! How dare her!

Windurst M8-2 is easier than what Peach thought. By clicking on the cracked door in Ruins with Sneak, the 2 cardians which popped will not aggro the clicker. And Grey, who sub SMN, pulled one of the Cardians using pet. The other Cardian will still stand infront of the door, ignorant of the fact that his companion is chasing intruders! :D

We Killed the Cardian slowly so as to wait for the other Cardian standing outside the door to de-sprawn. As such, we only need to fight one Cardian instead of two, and we could get our cutscenes and our Rank. Nice one!



Peach is Rank 9!



Yeah! Gil! $_$

SEA!

Nice place...nice music..all things are new to Peach.



The "Gold fish" in game behaves the same as of real life! They follow you around. {That's interesting}

And we thought that we could fish, so Zaan volunteered to be the bait...



But before Zaan can be eaten by the wonders in the sea (and we can all rejoice), GM stopped this fun... boohoohoo!

;p

COP Mission Chap 8!

We were ported to {Sea} immediately after the cutscene of Tenzen's airship battle.

We went to fight 3xNMs in the 3 towers. These Ru'aerns are like beastmen..each have their own class of job. And they use their 2-hr ability.



Noticed the "UFO" in the above picture?

After defeated the 3x3NMs, we went back to the gate to gain entry to Grand Palace of Hu'Xzoi :



The gate opened, with very awesome cutscene :



And we got our Tav Ring!

TO BE CONTINUED.......

COP Mission Chap 7

One more Chapter to Al'Taieu! The {Sea}, they said.



Before the final Airship BCNM, we have to go 3 places to fight the sprawned NMs there. They are Carpenter's Landing (Cryptonberry), Bibiki Bay (Sea monk) & Misareaux Coast (Bugard).



It's time for the airship fight!

Together with Vot (PLD), Lare (RNG), Ces (WAR), Grey (WHM), Zaan (BLM) and Peach (BLM), we stepped into the airship. This battle is against Tenzen, who had the 3 tarus supporting him. We have to defeat Tenzen before he has a chance to do his level 4 skillchain (which means instant lost and party will be bounced out of the BC).



The battle went well and with skillchain and magic burst, we managed to bring Tenzen to his knees during our 1st try.

Tenzen :



The 3 Tarus on top of us :



After winning the battle and a long cutscene, we were ported to Al'Taieu!

Congratulations to everyone! :)

Nooooooo~ Don't do this to Peach :(

T-T

:(













Peach miss the warm Galka huggys



Yet another adventurer is leaving the game.

Peach miss you, Mata (aka Leliel)...if you are still reading this blog..

The galka PLD who was ever self sacrificing...



But, Peach wish Mata all the best in rl :) Take care!

Peach's Bowyer's Ring!

Still remember the post which Peach mentioned about "Quests to complete for easy access to Mine Shaft #2716"?

We finally had a chance to gather 6 in a party to complete the quest "Return to the Depths"

It's a capped 40 BCNM, against a DRK Bugbear and 6 Moblins, who support their King with heals and cheerleading (NOISY BUNCH OF MOBLINS!)

We thought it will be easy..but not quite...we ended up trying THREE times.

And each battle, we used more and more medicine, in order to get win the Notorious DRK Bugbear.

First Try, we tired the FULL ATTACK method. Ignoring the 6 moblins, we focused all our attention on the Bugbear. Bad mistake! Probably our damage output were not strong enough(PLD, 2xRNG, WHM, 2xBLM), or some other reasons, we could only bring the Bugbear down to 60% HP and helplessly look at it's HP bar "refilled" when the moblins healed. And the Bugbear's special ability is really EVIL!

Second Try, we decided to get rid of the moblins so as to eliminate the healings and support. In addition, it will be easier for the PLD to kite the Bugbear when it used the special ability. (The 6 moblins will do a "Drawn-in" effect which made it impossible to kite the bugbear around the area). We nearly succeed, but oh well...

Success Run : We went back to town to top up our food, drinks and medicine. Now we know why the Bowyer's ring is at 400k(or more) on Auction House. It's not so easy afterall. This round, it was a close fight too...but all of us were able to pull through the end to win this battle. When PLD {Sacrificial Chamber}, the 2 RNGs took turns to "tank" until PLD's weakness was over. When WHM was low in MP, BLM took turns to heal etc etc. Good job done!

Surrounded by a bunch of evil ones :


Battle ground :


Death, and the formation of the 6 Moblins:

COP Mission Chap 6

Chap 6! Getting closer to "Sea"!

The 3-Tarus walked in crying...



Cry Babies ;p

We fought 3 "UFO"s (that's the way we term it), and they had very powerful "knock-back effect".



ONE TO BE FEARED

This BC is terrible hard, in Peach's opinion. We have to clear 3 battles in 45mins (including cutscenes time, except for the last wining cutscene).

The airship view :



1st Battle - 5 Mammets

This battle was relatively easy as these Mammets were quite weak. The PLD will run in to aggro all the 5 mamments, and the rangers will pull the mamments one by one. Except for times where the BLM mamments casted -ga magic, this battle was a breeze.



2nd Battle - Omega

This battle is terrible! Omega has all sorts of AOE attack, numerous status attack. It went crazy at low health. And the Hate reset move (similar to Tonberry's move) is just so evil.



We failed at this stage for the first run. We managed to win Omega on our second run, with 2-3 death. We had to spend 5 mins for the weakness to pass before we can proceed to Ultima (which may be the reason that we lost run 2 due to time out). The 3rd time we tried, we clear this boss without any death! Peach thinks that beside good defense required from the PLD, hate control from the other damage dealers are also very important. In addition, Peach kept casting Haste on the PLD, which peach thinks that it helped the tanker pretty much.



3rd Battle - Ultima

This boss hit hard, Peach would caution all. Peach had to heal and heal the tank, as one hit from this monster could bring the tanker to yellow hp. It was a very stressful fight, due to the amount of healing and status heal needed.



The E-Attack which Ulitma spammed near to it's death was a terrible AOE and could instantly kill Peach (Taru)! It's single attack was also very strong, which killed most of the members.



For the success run, all of the members were lying on the deck and Ultima was left with 5% or less HP. Peach reraised but was discovered by the evil Ultima before Peach can run to the back of the ship.

Iio and Kai reraised and fired their Barrage and Eagle Eye Shot. Behold! Iio managed to finish him off!

And this was our HP when we won the battle :



The Hero Iio... (actually Iio wanted Peach to mention he is a hero in this blog..HAHA!) ops!

We finish Chap 6! Wow! This battle is super expensive! For Peach, about 200k or more were spent on medicine. But it doesn't matter, as long as we win this battle! Yeah!