Weak Legs the Vagrant

I had an idea I wanted to toy with for a while, but I never was able to get the items I needed. I wanted to make the absolutely weakest vagrant, and then find someone to help me kill a small aibatt (and hopefully I'd surprise them by failing). I finally got everything prepared, although I received some weird comments while I was shopping for the items, haha.

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This is my new character, WeakLegs the vagrant. He needs help leveling up; who will help him?

The aibatt looks so disinterested.

WeakLegs isn't one of those dependable types. His knees knock at the sight of blood. He's got to find someone to guide him and quick, else he may be the have the only vagrant tomb at the aibatts.

and his health.

WeakLegs asked around how to fight the mighty aibatts. There numbers were large, and he was only a mere vagrant. He hadn't the stamina nor the strength to fight them all (or even one).

Everyone is eager to help.

A Ringmaster stopped to help him. He was glad to have run into her. No one knew how to stay alive better than a healer!

He felt unstoppable with his new ally Alassara. Surely he could conquer his foes now!

He finds his enemies for the second time.

 She showed him where he could fight the aibatts, how to restore his constitution after the harsh battles, and even gave him buffs to make him stronger.

Alassara giving WeakLegs some high level buffs to aid him against the aibatts

But Alassara was unaware of WeakLegs' shortcomings. He wasn't your average vagrant. Heck, he wasn't even on par with bad vagrants! Out of them all, there was no one weaker, no one frailer than WeakLegs.

After buffing, Alassara gave WeakLegs her strategy. It was simple. Run up and kill the aibatt.

WeakLegs didn't like the battle plan.

WeakLegs had no where to run! Alassara stood behind him with unwavering confidence and the aibatt was blocking his only other way out. He swallowed his fear and held up his wooden sword. Surely he could defeat just one single, small aibatt!

Weak Legs never realized his potential...

WeakLegs was cut down swiftly by the aibatt, who looked in astonishment at what had just taken place. The Madrigolians had always cut down many of his people effortlessly, but now the tables had turned! It was time to take back his homeland!

He looks so innocent, but he's actually launching an attack on vagrants. Really.

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I may post some screenshots of other people helping WeakLegs. They're always baffled when the aibatt kills me. Even with full level 20 buffs, I still had 1 HP. And as long as a monster could hit me, I died!

WeakLegs has some really bad equips. But if you have a total of -700HP you'll be dead from almost anything. WeakLegs got lucky (I guess you could call it lucky) and also has a total of -200ATT from his his gear. He can't even deal any damage to his opponents.

If Alassara ever manages to read this, thanks for helping me, even though it was pointless. I owe you something, I just don't know what! (and you looked like you had more money then me, haha.)

Melted Snow Daddy Event

I wasn't really sure if I was going to do for the Melted Snow Daddy event, but I did, and I'm really glad I did! There's some stuff I had to learn the hard way:

• The collected event items are NOT tradeable.
• You can do the quest only one time per character. So don't use a silver/gold battery for collecting event items.
• Don't use a Collector that isn't a +4 or +5 (I didn't have this problem, but several others did.)

There is some good news You get a bit of penya/EXP as well as a Jimbo the Snowman. What's a Jimbo the Snowman you say? He's a CS buff pet. and he's tradeable! How do you get a Jimbo the snowman? It's easy!

1.) Talk to Danny the Snowboy

2.) Go get a collector and start collecting for Danny's father.

I only spent about 700k in batteries,

3.) After collecting all the pieces, return to Danny.

4.) Reunite father and son.

His dad is sooo small!

Awesome! It's a pretty easy way to get a CS pet if you have a Collector+5. Don't skip up on the opportunity!

Happy FlyFFing!

(Edit: Quite a few people have been asking about drop rates and where to find the items, so I figured I'd clear it up.

• All the items necessary for the event come from the collecting fields.
• On average it has taken me about 6 hours.
• The mittens have the LOWEST drop rate. Out of the 3 I've done, they were always the last item and took about 4 additional hours to get. (I've actually had to collect for about 20 hours for this last one! The key to getting the items is patience and consistency! Cheers/Yelling the item name over and over won't help you get them any faster. (Although it can be fun to do! :] )
• I believe the top hat or nose has the second lowest drop rate.
• Generally, you'll have all the items except for 1 within the first 2 hours.

I hope this helps!)

Five years of FlyFF celebration and events

Presents. :P

It's Christmas Eve! FlyFF couldn't have handed everyone a better gift than the 5x EXP event. Not to mention it's 3x for the rest of the week! There's rarely a time when we have a 3x event, so this week is still blowing my mind.

I started off the 5x EXP day trying to level Altaius (my Elementor) in Azria but it was too crowded on every channel. The smallest number of people at the Mammoths were about  21! Which was channel 3-2. Mobs continually teleported towards me, froze, and walked in random directions. There was nothing I could do..

I decided to level my other characters a bit since I couldn't do any large AoE stuff. I leveled:

Artaius (blade) : 75 -78
Amusei(knight): 67 - 71
Arthfael(int BP): 64- 70
Maik(Psykeeper): 18-51
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Even while the EXP event is going on, there is still plenty of things to do! The acheivement system gives some nice prizes, as well as the login event. The Naughty or Nice event is building up for the upcoming weeks, and then there's the Masquerpet Madness and the Melted Snow Daddy event.

While I waited on my partner for the 5x EXP event I did a bit of box hunting because, well, there wasn't a soul doing it! I picked up about 85 boxes and updated my tables for them. I'll re-post in them here so you don't have to go digging, so enjoy:

Updated: December 25th, 2010
Zombie Box(235 boxes total):

Item	Total found	Percentage
Lollipop	113	48.08%
penya	18	7.65%
Meat Salad	96	40.85%
Zombie Right Leg	2	0.85%
Zombie Right Arm	1	.42%
Zombie Head	2	0.85%
Other body pieces	0	N/A

(Updated  December 27th, 2010) 

( 105 total) Bloody Mary's Favor Box contains:

Item	Total found	Percentage
Lollipop(x3)	33	31.42%
Star Candy(x2)	21	20.00%
Pumpkin Pie(x3)	22	20.95%
Cotton Candy (Purple)	9	8.57%
Giant Mr. Pumpkin Trans	12	11.42%
Pumpkin Mask	2	1.90%
Baby Bang Box(7-day)	2	1.90%
Super Star Candy	2	1.90%
Cotton Candy (Green)	7	6.66%
Cotton Candy (Blue)	0	N/A

(Updated  December 27th, 2010)

(102 total) R. DeFeo Bounty Box contains:

Item	Total found	Percentage
Lollipop(x3)	25	24.50%
Pumpkin Pie(x3)	20	19.60%
Star Candy(x3)	24	23.52%
Giant Aibatt Trans	9	8.82%
Cotton Candy (Red)	7	6.86%
Cotton Candy (Blue)	4	3.92%
Cotton Candy (Purple)	2	1.96%
Pumpkin Mask	4	4.70%
Pirate set Male(14-Day)	3	3.52%
Cotton Candy (Green)	0	N/A
Super Star Candy	0	N/A
Baby Aibatt Box (7-Day)	1	0.98%

Total Cornucopia found: 12

Updated: December 27th, 2010

Item	Total found	Percentage
Chicken Stick(x10)	3	25.00%
Scroll of Sprint	1	8.33%
Pumpkin Pie(x5)	1	8.33%
Potion of Swiftness	1	8.33%
Bull Hamstern(x2)	3	25.00%
Young Luia Trans	1	8.33%
Super Star Candy(x2)	1	8.33%
Scroll of Amplification(x3)	1	8.33%

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Winter Break part 2

So after realizing I had a grand total of 1.4M penya left from the alchemy event, I spent today trying to figure out how to earn some money. I didn't feel like getting Christmas Spirits from the Naughty or Nice event, so that was out. I considered grinding in Azria but it's kinda hard to get there when you don't have the money for a ticket.

Farming some Red Crystals for the Alchemy event.

Maybe I could start collecting again? I still had my collector+5, and the 30 minute batteries are pretty cheap.

I grabbed my collector from the bank, ran to the collecting zone and stopped and stared in amazement.

I'm not that dedicated. I'm lucky if my shop doesn't disconnect overnight. There's no way I'm doing that!

I decided I really wanted to test out my new Arek+9 and Arek+15. Skooma is a full strength BP, so the 31 dexterity made a big difference. What better way to test it out than through gianting? The Giant Carrierbomb continually gave me problems, so I obviously wanted him dead.

The cliffnotes: He fought, he raged, he died.

I killed him a few times and went to sell the loot in Darkon:

Gross.

and then promptly blinked to Flaris and sold all the loot.

Much better!

I had fun killing the giant. It was much easier than I remembered. I didn't have to worry about his rage.

It's always good to check the sales tax if you're going to unload your drops from grinding/gianting to the NPC.
Had I sold it in Darkon, I would have made roughly 260k less and I didn't even have a lot to sell!

Happy FlyFFing!


(Maintenance note: I've got to redo the background and title because of the seasonal change, so expect it up soon!)

Winter Break part 1

Finally! I'm off for the next few weeks, and it couldn't have come at a better time. I was in school during the Alchemy event signups so I was unable to get in. My girlfriend was able to get in, but didn't want to spend the large sums of money to do it, so I passed her my stuff for the event.

I think I spent a sum of 400M on items I didn't have and used close to a full stack of sunstones and moonstones.Fortunately she was able to change a:

Mental Necklace+15 to an Arek Ring+15
Baby Bunny to a Baby Bunny 0/9


Kudos to the GM's for holding the event. It's generally one of the most anticipated events and probably the most taxing for the GM's as well. They spent nearly the entire day doing it for Lawolf, and not to mention that was only the first server (I don't envy them at the moment, haha).

I really wish I asked her to get some screenshots for the event but I completely forgot.


Happy FlyFFing!

Website maintenance

I tried logging in this morning but couldn't get past the character log-in screen. I'm going to assume FlyFF went down for some unscheduled fixes, and since I couldn't log-in, I decided to do a maintenance check on the blog.







A few things fixed:

• ImageShack (for some odd reason) has decided that a select few of my FlyFF pictures violate it's ToS, and they were removed. I've re-uploaded and fixed their links.
• Most people access the site with some large screen resolutions (1600x1400 and larger). It caused stretching with the background image.

Happy FlyFFing!

V16 is upon us!

Finally! I've been eagerly awaiting this update since August! Although I'm not really sure why I was excited. I guess I just find updates exciting.

Unfortunately, I will have to hold my excitement until I can get home for the semester, as all I have been able to do is setup/check shops.

Today was a bit of an exception. I was able to log in and gain about 35% with the event going on. I also took some time to peruse the marketplace for Shurand/Shuran pieces.

I don't really like him calling it a CS hat. It will sit in your mask slot. Heck, I'm not even sure that one was permanent!


I hear all this talk of an achievement system, but I didn't see any menus that I could pull up while logged in, so I decided to use the help menu to find out. Allow me to summarize the vast amount of material that the help menu covers:

Sweet. Forget enchanting. I didn't want to know about it anyway. I'll probably just get someone to cheer me. Most of the menus are blank or almost blank, and a few just say things like 'placeholder 39' or some other number.

Maybe it'll change in an update far, far away.

Have fun with V16!