Another reason to use a Mac for Lineage

I think this picture speaks for itself...

Notes:

• The Background (Desktop) has been edited to not show what is on it.
• My HP/AC/MP/EXP and hotkeys have been edited out on Zagurim.
• Both Clients are running at the same time in this shot.

Some drops...

Here are some recent drops. Nothing too special, just a little interesting.

From The Ship Graveyard

Also from the Ship Graveyard

Giant King Squid (lame drop)

Contaminated Orc Area.

I find the Contaminated Orc area very interesting. It has a good spawn rate and is decent experience for 50+ level characters. The mops here kinda hurt, but they drop all kinds of weird stuff for the quests that are offered down there. I kinda of enjoy the area and look forward to hunting there when I have time to burn, which is, unfortunately, not that often...

-Z

Conal's Calculator with Minor Changes

I had almost forgotten about this...

Zagurim's Rap

[General Rommen]
One, two, three and to the fo'
General Top Ramen and Crazy Zag at the door
Ready to kill some boss, so back on up
('Cause you know me bout to beat boss up)
giving Top Ramen Immune first, so him can bust Fafu's bubble
Werldern and Aden together, now you know you big trouble

Ain't nuthin' but a "Zag" thang, baaaaabay!
Two damage dealin' brother we make craaaaazay!
Monster is the guy that paaaaay me!
Unendable, so please don't try to end me (Hell yeah)

But uh, back to Zag lecture at hand
Me and Zag is perfection, so me is let 'em understand
from the young fighter perspective
And before me join a pledge I have ta' find honest Princess!

You never know pledge could be earnin' a man
And learnin' a man - and at the same time burnin' a man
You know me ain't liking that shit, Lieutenant
Ain't no pledge good enough to get burnt while me is in it

(Yeah) That more realer than make Meat of Dragon meal
And now you low-level guy know how I feel
Well if it's good enough to get broke off big ol chunk
I'll take a small piece of some of that Dragon stuff

[Crazy Zag and General Rommen]
It's like this and like that and like this and uh
It's like that and like this and like that and uh
It's like this and like that and like this and uh
[S] Zag, creep to the mic like a phantom

[Crazy Zag]

Well me peepin', and me morphin', and I'm creep-in
But me almost get caught, 'cause my armor kept squeekin'
Now is time for Zag make big impression felt
Go sit back, make relax, strap on your troll belt
You never go on a ride like hunts with me befo'
knite who can rap and control how thing go
At same time with cool rhyme me is spit
You know, and me know, I get some more boss drop shits
Add to me collection, make selection
symbolize dead mop, me make joke, so make laugh but no choke
If you do, you are not have clue
on what me and my homey Top Ramen comes to do

[Crazy Zag and General Rommen]
It's like this and like that and like this and uh,
It's like that and like this and like that and uh,
It's like this...
[Z] And who make dead you on flo'?
[G] So just chill, til the next episode...

{*funky sample break*}

[General Rommen]
You are fall back on you ass, with a horrified dead man scream (arrrrgh!)
We get funky like knight after eat old batch "Dragon Meats"
It's the capital G, oh yes him fresh, E N E R A L Rommen see
Him show much flex when it's time to make the smite
Use only reds and get' drops like him name was super guy!
Yeah, and him not quit
Me think they in mood for some muthafuckin' Zag shit (Hell yeah)

So Zag... (What up Romm?)
Gotta give 'em what they want (What that, G?)
Gotta break off big somethin' (Hell yeah)
And gotta make maybe bumpin' (City of Aden!)

[Crazy Zag]
Is where it take place - so when ask, make attention
Moppin' like a muh'fucka, but me not flinchin'
Droppin' hard hit that makin' sucka pledges mumble
When me go make big fight, them is like cookie, ...all crumble
Try get close, and Zag smack you ass
Muthafuckin' homie Lord Valakas got Zag back

Me never make slip, 'cause if me slip, then me slippin' (????)
But if me have Tsurugi, then you know Zag straight trippin'
And me is continue make put the rap down, put you back down
And if you pledge is talk shit, me is have to put big smack down
Yeah, and if you not stop
You be just like dead man, make all day in wood box!
But me never off, always on, to make pic-nic on lawn
W E R L D R N, and big city dumb guy name Aden
make boss dead together
Like mage Snowboard, "No One Can Do It Better"

[Crazy Zag and General Rommen ]
Like this, that and this and uh
It's like that and like this and like that and uh,
It's like this
[Z] And who is make most coolest rap ode?
[G] So just chill, not tell you secret code...

Hoping u are like rap music style by Zag ^^ Me think is good. Is to music "Nuthin' but a G Thang" by Dr. Dre and Snoopy Doggy Dogg

Lvl 52 and beyond

Lvl 52:

Alright here are some updates. I am Lvl 52 now. I achieved Lvl 52 on 15 February 2009 at approximately 7:0am PST. This was during the Valentines day double-exp event. When the event started I was Lvl 51 with 5% exp. By the time sunday evening came around I had managed to gain something like 60% more exp, leaving me 35% to go. So I stayed up late, really late. 35% might not seem like much, but at ~4%/hr that is almost 9 hours of game time. I thought I would be done by 3am, but I grossly overestimated how much exp I would be able to pull per hour if I quit screwing around LOL. Oh well, I made the goal.

Mambo Rabbit:

So right after I get Lvl 52 I run into Mambo Rabbit, not once, but 3 freekin times. That was kinda cool. I first encountered it on the above ground portion of PI, and I was thinking, wow, I have heard about this guy, but never seen it myself. OK Time to die. So I killed it, and it dropped junk. I continued on and when to the elemental ruins and encountered it again, killed it again and went on about my business. Suddenly out of nowhere, there it was again, and I am thinking w00t! Its my lucky day, but alas, as usual, It dropped junk again...

Cloak of Poison Serpent:

This looked interesting, so I decided to do the quest. The cloak is +10hp and is 1 ac better than CoP. I dunno, it also looks nice, especially contrasted with my ddpm sitting right next to it :)

Cheers,

Zag

Some Old Stuff

Back in the day, I was a bot killer. Was this bot yours? I hope so :)

Level 51 & Dark ELf Holy Land

I have managed to get Level 51 now. That makes me happy. Hopefully I will be Level 52 before too long.

Here are some pictures from our latest tript to the DarkElf Holy Land
To get to the Holy Land, you will need to defeat all of the RV4 bosses. Make sure to collect a "Writing of Death Knight for each member of your party and distribute them before you talk to Dantes, as just talking to him will make the Writing of Death Knight disappear from your inventory!
The first creature you are going to encounter in the Dark Elf Holy Land is the Tyupon. These things are weird looking, and by weird I mean they are kind of creepy.
Next you will enconter the Otyu. These guys spit this green stuff out at you and come in both "single" creatures and large groups. The large groups hurt pretty bad, so make sure that when you go there you have a group.

And finally (other than Girtas) you will encounter Wyverns. They are pretty cool and they do a tornado spell.

As for drops? So far I have gotten:
Ancient Relic (x3)
Fragment of Summoning Device (x5)

As a group we also got a couple Spellbook:Greater Haste but, that's it. This is a fun place to hunt, but it does require high AC and high MR. if you want to survive for any decent amount of time.

As always, hope you enjoy peeking at my blog, and that you are having fun playing Lineage: The Bloodpledge! (Only the best MMORPG there is)

Working on 51

Hi guys and gals, I am working on getting to level 51. The event had stalled me however as do my frequent trips to RV with my pledge mates. But that's OK. We have a good exp event coming up, so I will get 52 before the end of the month. w00T!

Pics of Zag ;)

Here is Zag and his beautiful girlfriend...

Here is Zag getting ready to go skydive. Yup, it's my own gear too :)

Here is Zag's girlfriend after a skydive. HAPPY! :)

Trying to update more.

There is a lot that I could say about Lineage, the current event, etc. but, we have the boards for that, so I am going to drop some pics in and talk about those, because while the event is fun, this is more fun.
So there I was randoming around and who should I run into but Wanted Criminal Kuzak. Well, since he's a criminal I figure I better apprehend him :) He is easy and I am not really sure when or why he is in the game. I have killed him once or twice before and always got his food and wonder drug, but this time he dropped those two items as well as TQD, TQE and TQR. All in all, a nice drop from something that is very very easy to kill.
Pandora, all decked out for the Holidays....

RV4

The first "boss" we get to is Supreme Court Justice Kenya. Just getting here takes some work, but it is so fun and the potential for a good drop is so good, we do it often. This one is not very hard at all.


Here is, iirc the last boss of the first section of the 4th floor. NC has done nobody any favors on RV4. This whole is timed, and it is up to the players to not only figure out what to do to open the doors to move on, but additionally you only have a certain amount of time to kill 4 bosses or you get tele'd back to the start of the 4th floor to "try again".


Here is SCJ Ramias, the 2nd half of Rv4 was pretty cool, and it seemed that the bosses came faster which was kinda nice because we were all stoked to have made it this far considering our typical party is a pretty odd mix of people Ranging from Lvl 48 all the way up to Lvl 70.
SCJ Tiames... We rocked his world. Our two main mages just continually kick ass and take names. We would not be able to do this without them. Maybe someday when I am Lvl 90 or something, but that is so far in the future that I will probably be old by then :)

My pledgemates/out of pledge friends can correct me if I am wrong, but I think this was the last guy that we made it to. We were flying through here but we simply didn't have enough firepower to be able to kill the boss and then clear the room before the timer ran out. The mops here are hard, they have the potential to do massive damage and I think all of us have died in this area at least once. I could be wrong about that though. Hard to remember.

RV 4f

Today a few of us went to RV 4f, it was pretty awesome to say the least. This is the 2nd time at Viatas for this trip. Those of us that went included:

• Zagurim (Me)
• MugenAiJitsu
• Lumena
• Snowboard
• KaMaKaZiX

Originally ChrisElf and Symmetric were with us as well. Unfortunately ChrisElf died when we hit a big mob down on the first floor and then when we got to 4f Symmetric had to go :( We still had a good time though. Maybe next time we can make it further and have even more fun and get some good drops. The bosses were being cheap today and dropped 1 Large Cave scroll a couple times. Pretty lame as far as drops go, but a lot of fun nonetheless.

New ToS

Here I am in the New ToS. Not sure exactly where, but I am in that mess fighting somewhere. For those of us under 52, this is a place to level, and level fast. Boring place to hunt most of the time until you get something like this though...

ACCOUNT FOR SALE!

No, not mine silly, that is against the rules set forth by NC. But, seeing as how I cannot seem to get a message through to support, I figured I would post a pic of what I found on the Giran Messageboard here instead. If you are able to contact support and not get the create a new account each time you try, please download and email them this picture, it is from ~Jan 7 2009.

Darkness Dealer Plate Mail 0.o

So, I was finally able to get my hands on this item, and let me tell you, for all that is said about it being not such a great item, I love it. The stats and method of Creation are as follows:

Stats:

• Ac: -15
• Weight: 170
• Dex +1
• HP Regen +2
• Knight Only (LineageTimes, LineageDB)
• Black Mithril
• Enchantable (Safe to +0)

To compare it to APM... APM weighs 280, offers 16 AC and +50hp (I heard the +50hp was originally an LoA thing, that has not been removed)

So we have 90 less weight, and other bonuses that I think make it a lot better than APM overall, and it is enchantable!!! Even though it is safe to +0 only, I can tell you, I have made a +1 so I am not even losing any AC to APM :)

Darkness Dealer Plate Mail

So Zag, how does it actually work though? To be honest, I love it. I haven't figured out a way to quantify what I have noticed yet with hard numbers, but after switching from APM to +1 Darkness Dealer Plate Mail, i seem to be able to stay significantly longer in a given area with the same amount of potions. I don't know if this is just my perception, or maybe I am carrying more pots because of the lighter weight of the armor, I never really thought about it, but less weight is always good.

So, how do you acquire this item?

Get used to hunting places you probably wouldn't normally hunt, because you need Cimaera Skins. A LOT of Cimaera Skins. Here is the list of what you need to get this armor

1. Ancient Plate Mail (APM): (1)
   
2. Cimaera Skin (Dragon): (1000)
3. Cimaera Skin (Goat): (1000)
4. Cimaera Skin (Lion): (1000)
5. Cimaera Skin (Snake): (1000)
6. Pure Black Mithril: (5)
7. Potion of Wisdom: (100)
8. The Chinese Language Lineage Client or a friend that uses the Chinese Client

Collecting the Skins is probably the most tedious thing about getting this item, it takes FOREVER. TOI 3-10 and Giran Caves seem to be good places to hunt for skins, but I would recommend TOI as they seem to drop more there.

What about Pure Black Mithril? Where the heck do you get that? Some Monsters drop it, OR you can use Rough Black and refine it into pure black mithril. You can accomplish the refining by visiting "Frim" in Diad. He will require the following to make 1 pure black mithril:

• Rough Black Mithril (5)
• Volcanic Ash (1)
• Blob Gastric Juice (1)
• Dark Spirit Stone (1)

So, what is the total cost on this item just to make it?

APM: 10m
Chimera Skins (4k total, 1k of each type): 4-8m depending on how long it takes you to get them
Volcanic Ash (5): You need 5 of these, so figure 500k minimum if you don't already have some
Blob Gastric Juice (5): go hunt blobs, maybe 5k if you buy
Dark Spirit Stone(5): From Hunting Diad, cheap, very cheap, maybe maximum 500a each
Rough Black Mithril (25): around 125k I guess, maybe as much as 250k

So we are looking at 14,630,000a - 18,630,000a just to have all of the ingredients to make it.
After that, you will need to either acquire the Chinese Language client or find a chinese friend to make it for you.. There was a post on boards.lineage.com offering 5m adena for someone to make it for another person, so let's add 5m to our total for a grand total of:

19-23m plus however long it took you to collect all the needed materials. I figure that at around a week or so if you are lucky, so what is our time worth? someone thought 500k/hr in Lineage at leastWell, I doubt that anyone is gonna pull this off in 10 hours of hunting, or even 20 hours, but let's just use those figures, bringing our total to between 24m - 28m just for +0.

It took me FAR FAR longer than 10 or 20 hours to get the skins, probably more like 40, so I think that 20m of my time is a more reasonable guess, so that would put the cost at around 39-43m In my opinion, and I have seen a few of these for sale at gtz for 35-90m for +0, so I think that my estimate is probably more accurate.

Level 50 and some other miscellaneous

I am finally Level 50 LOL

There ya go, I made it to Level 50 after all these years LOL. To some, leveling is super important to the point of not having a lot of actual fun, but to be honest, with as much fun as I have had playing this game over the years, had I just done the level grind like a few people that will remain nameless, I would probably be somewhere closer to Level 60 or 65 by now.

So, here are some random pictures that I have sitting around and some items that I have got as drops fairly recently. I have edited stuff out the quick way. Cropping, because I don't feel like using Photoshop right now:

This was during the Thanksgiving event, I saw all these guys standing here looking down on the action, so I figued I should let them know they needed to go down below if they wanted to fight ^^

Antharus is still a 1 hit killer:

Sometimes I get tired of the level grind, so I figure I should go do something that is fun, like visit the dragons. Sometimes I am successful, sometimes I am not. This day, Antharus was in a particularly bad mood it seems.

Baby ToS (Land Of The Abandoned). Why it is called ToS I have no idea, but whatever:

I make jokes, what can I say ^^ There were a bunch there and I think I ran out of pots or something, either that or I couldn't target so I decided to make a little humor for myself.

Sorcerer's Temple (aka Sanctuary of Evil from what I have been told...so:

There it is, the Sanctuary of Evil. It is an area that is beautiful to look at. Whomever designed this did a fantastic job! Every monster here was Blue or Gold to me 0.0 which is pretty cool, and with the right group, they don't hurt too much. The ones that will drop you to the floor though in about .5 seconds are the litte frog lookin guys. They cast a sunburts that hits me for like 400+ It hurts.

Diad Area (3f):

I really really like this area. It is more fun than you can imagine, but extremely difficult as well. There is 1 more floor after this one, it has the Court Justices and such on it, and from what I understand, once you get the "Writing of a Death Knight" you can go visit the Dark Elf Holy Land, which I hear is where Girtas is. I have not gotten there yet, but I will ^^, and I will probably die when I get there LOL. Here are some more pics:

One of the many mini bosses you have to kill while you are in this area. There are also Gatekeepers and such. Each room reuires either killing a gatekeeper or a mini-boss to open the way to the next room. It is pretty crazy... On this hunt, there were only 4 of us and we did a pretty good job. 2 mages, 2 knights. I think that if we had a party of 4 mages and 4 knights we would have owned this place even more than we already did! More pics...

I just like the way this looks :)

Blood Rain Knight, makes a really cool sound when you are hitting it ^^ All the mops here look cool.

And finally:

!HELLVINE!

Yep, we made it here, but with such a small group, we just didn't have the power to kick his butt. Not that we didn't try though :)