Well on Friday a friend I recently added to my friendlist asked if I want to do the Fairy Augment battle in Grauberg (S), of course I want my Club as well as my Hand-to-hand augmented. So as Arkades said he’s willing to help, I agreed to join that friend. We finished our FoV page in Cape Teriggan slowly, and then gathered in Aht Urhgan Whitegate while he kept finding more members. Stefy said she would come to help so now we have the healer!

Arriving in Grauberg (S) I lead him to the Quest NPC, far north if I remember correctly. He said it was his first time doing this battle. Arkades tried with his first weapon as well. I, however, couldn’t trade my Deower or something maul which is WHM Club, so I guessed I already traded something… And yes it was an Obeuron or something Knuckles. Please don’t mind my spelling today, because those Sidhe weapons all have ghey names, very hard to remember!

So yeah the fight went smoothly. We had mages sleep the Wivre and Arkades the Paladin kite the Quadav boss until we were done with his pets. I picked the Wivre one by one and they /assist me. Doing this made me realize I could never be the main assist person in Dynamis, because I suck at changing target manually, LOL.

This NM is easy if you have good PT setup and everyone knows what to do. There are a few important things to remember;
1. Keep shadows up at all time, thus PLD/NIN tank is recommended.
2. NM will use Invincible 3 times at 75%, 50%, and then 25% HP.
3. When he has Invincible effect on, he will use very strong headbutt attack.
4. The super headbutt can one-shot anyone.
5. Therefore, we have to stop fighting and run around, kiting him until Invincible wears off.

He also builds up more defense, both physical and magic, as his HP goes down. Near the end of the fight my attacks only do around 5-10 HP DMG on him! And I Asuran Fists for about 25 >.> Wow, he is really a big bastard.

During the fight, Arkades died once on the 2nd Invincible. So we kited him around while waiting for tank to unweak. Was FUN!!!!! Was big fun! I usually came to this battle on my White Mage, so it was the first time I ever kite this NM with Monk. He doesn’t run fast, so we can keep Utsusemi up with ease. I could also spam Boost and then Cho Blast on him without getting hit from behind.

Sorry, no Arkades’ dead pic. Was too busy running around the stone wall.

Anyway, we defeated him, with the last 10% of HP going down in agonizingly slow speed.

So yeah we won…. But I didn’t get a good Augment result on my Knuckles.

Oh yeah, so it’s spelt “Oberon’s Knuckles.”

DMG+ was too low, thouogh Delay-% was quite nice. The additional effect was just…crappy.

So I declined and decided to try again later.

My friend, on the oher hand, got a decent result on his Grreat Katana.

Seems like Mousee also got a good one, but I can’t remember and didn’t take a sneaky screenshot.

Congratulations!!

Yes, that one, the Erlking’s Kheten which hasn’t yet made its way into the Auto-Translation system… (I was angry trying to find it in my translation system, but couldn’t find it even after several minutes.) Using the quest “Succor to the Sidhe.”

Great Axe, level 75 for Warrior only.
DMG: 91 Delay: 504

Hmmm, it looks nice. But last night I’ve just obtained a Byakko’s Axe from  Sky run with OverKill. Kitten’s G.Axe has 94 DMG. Same delay. ATK +5, plus Beast Killer enhancement and Additional Effect: Wind damage. It’s level 74 so I can wear it already. But I haven’t gotten a chance to try it on my WAR yet.

Well, yesterday Darks, Kim, and Earth asked if I wanted to do Augmented Items. So I said yes and – only after going through so much hassle in finding information on the quest etc. – hurled myself over to Whitegate and joined them. (Thanks Jan for the more accurate info, I was totally dumb when I couldn’t find anything with wrong keyword. =_=) However, we didn’t have enough people so we headed to Valleys of Sorrows for the Elite Training page 7.

Uh well…. Maybe I wasn’t clear enough in my statement, or maybe I made them wait for too long and they became hurried, or they were too excited about the activity….I didn’t get to trade my accessory. Anyway, I didn’t really want one, or I could have insisted we weren’t done. Last time I traded my Hierarch Belt on my first try ever, it turned out as lame Augment too. So, after 2 battles for Darks and then Earth, we left and went back to Whitegate to prepare for a Grauberg (S) trip.

They picked up 2 more people, either from shouting or from Friendlist. So we tried…. After a long trek to get quest and to camp, the campaign battle begun.

Long story short, I had to refuse for 3 times until I finally got a decent Axe.

Looks fine…. But I was thinking if I get other Augment instead of Lightning DMG, it would be better.

This one is so plain. Same total DMG as Kitten’s Axe, just with +4 STR.

Then….

Guess the 3rd one was maybe so lame or else I was so tired that I forgot to take any pic.

And last attempt of the day;

I liked the ATK+8 so I took it, thinking it was too risky to be greedy and went on for the final attempt.

Anyway, since these items aren’t (ra) I though I could try more to see if I get a better one. Then today, during my lunch, Earth actually called (I said in LS that I was going AFK for lunch and that if my assistance is needed, just phone me and I would abandon my instant noodles) so I had to finish my lunch (my mom was home and having her lunch as well, so I joined her instead of making instant meal) and rushed to the Grauberg (S).

I grabbed another Erlking’s Kheton on my way. Thanks Kim for logging a mule in Whitegate for a Retrace.

So I came to replace…um Gobbo? He left before I arrived, so boo.   We didn’t get to talk.

Since we already had 5 of us, the only stranger was Fair. Dark Knight. Having 2 Dark Knights really helped speeding up the kill. The Dispel duty was still a pain in the ass though. And today Elfi got it instead of Kim. Today she came as BRD.

So while they were getting TP, I could slack off.

Anyway, here are my Augment attempts result;

Again, looked fine, but imagine if the Additional Effect was something else.

This was also nice. But it doesn’t surpass the Kitten’s Axe.So I also refused.

Then, here comes the last attempt of today’s session.

Total DMG: 97, plus STR+4 and ATK+7. I accepted it without hesitation.

The only problem is….. My Warrior is just level 74, I can’t wear these yet!!!

The reason why I chose to do the Great Axe? Well, my Monk is looking forward to having Destroyers, and the White Mage’s augmentable weapon wasn’t sold on AH when I checked. So, yeah the WAR’s G.Axe was the only option.