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