Fiat Lux – The Battle Against the Shadow Lord

Let’s start with what just occurred recently. This past Tuesday I pulled off getting the Medal of Altana. Making all of that Campaign Battling I do pay off, lol. And with that came a real surprise.

This past Saturday, the Japanese player base on Carbuncle pulled out an all-out assault on the northland areas, and by some miracle, by the time 11am hit, San d’Oria had pulled off a major coup, and took over all of it.

With this, the chance finally came for a showdown with the Shadow Lord in the past. Of course, with all Shadow Lord gear being mostly designed for jobs I don’t have leveled up, I figured a Hecate’s Cape would be a nice consolation prize for not getting some crazy looking great sword.

I became the sacrificial lamb of sorts, and had to Diaga the shadows the Lord put out of himself, and go run to a corner and die. And die. And die some more.

All this dying helped out the rest of the group though, led by super WHM, Bubbo, and we pulled off the win in typical style of groups I’m in — at the last minute. We had all of 1 minute and 7 seconds remaining in the battle.

Our reward?

Maybe next time, lol.

So What Else Have I Been Doing?

Before going to the Throne Room [S], it was off to the present day Throne Room to assist my darling Destiney (<3 Destiney) in battling Riko Kupenreich in getting a new Moon Cap.

Much like the battle against the Shadow Lord later, I ended up dead somehow, but even with that shortcoming for me we still pulled off the win.

Also, since my last post, I have become part of yet another new linkshell, TranslucentArmy. With TA I have seen Dynamis for the first time in almost 18 months (although no drops for me just yet), it’s looking like I am going to see an Ultima pretty soon, and other assorted things. While getting a lesson in Spanish everyday, since most members do speak the language, I’ve been enjoying my time with them thus far. Now if only Ennayram would bring his Kiwi ass back online, lol

Leveling up other jobs in an attempt to try and mix things up. Samurai is now up to 21, and Dancer to 20. Will I level further into these jobs? Probably. When? Who knows.

Did I mention how awesome Destiney is?

That’s About It

And finally, I leave you with random screenshots. Enjoy!

So this being my first time stepping foot in Temenos, I was not entirely sure what to expect.  Another fun thing going in was me being asked to come as my RDM.  I will be totally honest and say that this was the first time I had gone to any “major” endgame activity on my Red Mage.  So going in, I was a bit tense, as I wasn’t sure what I would be asked to do.

Luckily for me, I just ended up as the Black Mage/Summoner party Red Mage, so Refresh x6 was the order of the day >.>

As for the battle itself, it seemed interesting watching everything happen, and seeing PLDs getting beat down in a flash.  Things appeared to go smoothly, even as I watched Paladins die, and then came the “21%” part.

For those that don’t know, when Proto – Ultima goes down to this range of hit points, it unleashes this ridiculous ability called “Citadel Buster”. After a generous 30 second countdown, it unleashes this totally unfair AoE attack that just kills everything in the room with him.

Some heroics by Akatosh, me finally landing my god damn Bio III’s, and a a little regrouping later, Ultima went down, and pieces for Nashira Turban and Gages were won.  And for me, 20 more Xbox360 achievement points!

All in all, this was a fun bit of excitement, that I eagerly await taking part in again.