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.

Heh!!!!

Though I’m not a big fan of being a Warrior, I feel so delighted when I got Raging Rush Weaponskill.

Well, starting from mid May, I’ve been partying my WAR (61) with Lusian’s Blue Mage. Now my WAR is level 68. I’ve been using sub NIN and dual-wielding Axe & Sword in order to keep my Sword skill up-to-date. So, my Great Axe, mostly untouched, became out-of-date.

Um well, let’s look back….

Starting from last year, about late December, my brother was leveling up his Corsair, and Leonidus his Blue Mage. So I revived my Warrior, from maybe about 37 or 40 and joined them as WAR/NIN. We’ve been all over the world; Garlaige, Crawler’s, Bhaflau, Altepa, and Yhoator. With Level Sync system introduced, it was much easier to keep my friend’s company. All we had to do was gathering some of us, like Lusian, Kannatsuki, Leonidus, Brunestud, me, and sometimes Aikanana, Mitaonsya, or Kimji, and then fill the empty spots with other people seeking party.

Since most of us were busy with real life stuffs, not all of us could be presented at the same time. So someone would always be missing, on and off. I’ve also been changing jobs to suit the situation as well as PT setting. Roughly, I’ve used my WAR and NIN. Brune was COR, Leo BLU, Lusi RDM, and Kanna SAM as always.

It was not until one day that I realized the disadvantage of Level Sync…

In this party, where I rushed to the camp, I realized that my Axe skill was WAY behind my job level. I could hardly hit the Colibri, if not because of my Sushi/Pizza and my brother’s ACC roll. My damage was greatly gimp, not just accuracy. And my Sword/Axe were outdated. I felt very ashamed and started looking for help on updating my weapon, at least. Maxpeter answered my emergency call on the LS chat and delovered new Axe and Sword.

Thank you Max! You’ve helped me decrease my feeling of guilt by 30%!

After getting new weapons, my damage was much better, but accuracy was still suck. The other members of PT were very patient and didn’t say anything unkind about my gimpness. But well, that only made me feel worse.

Enraged towards my own ignorance, later that day I went out on my own to level up my Axe skill.

It was a long, hard-working day. It was also boring, but a must. And since I couldn’t solo safely, I had to summon Khuma for help, with Cure and stuff.

Oh, and a by-product was Parrying Skill….which was also (and still is) far behind.

My effort yielded a good result, though. I got a bunch of skill levels that day. But that was barely enough for me to hit the Lesser Colibri. My skill was still gimp that it resulted in me gaining so mamy skill points during battles.

Oh, and if my memory is correct, it was in this party where I earned Rampage.

Anyway, after getting Rampage, my life was much easier. I could party with my brother and Lusi without shaming them. Except for, maybe, the ugly armor.

Ahh, well, fast forward to May 2009, last month. I’ve again continued my Warrior from 61, to accompany Lusian’s Blue Mage towards 75. We were back to killing the birds, but this time the medium one, Colibri.

This party was really something. I got tons of skill points during the session. People said it was “Martial Master” Kupower in effect, but as far as I understand it doesn’t effect Aht Urghan Urhgan areas, no? Well it doesn’t matter, all I know is that I felt very lucky.

At that time my skills were like this…. I capped my Axe skill in that party.

Please note that my Great Axe was 106.

After capping my One-handed Axe, I wanted to update my Two-handed Axe skill too. But it was like half the level of cap…. Such a discouragement, you see. However, Lusian said he wanted to do FoV in Ro’Maeve and the mobs are like Decent Challence to Even Match, with some Tough if we look for it. So, I bought a Great Axe, namely Colossal Axe, and joined him.

Using Sole Sushi and a bunch of accuracy gears, I could hit them on a decent rate. My Great Axe skill level went skyrocket. And on 2nd June 2009, I finally got to 175. The last step before Raging Rush.

So we kept up, keep killing mobs in FoV Regimes. Yesterday we continued, and then had to move to page 4 for the dinosaurs, because my skill was 190+ and I almost never got any skill point when we fought Decent Challence crabs.

And these target didn’t fail me. I got a lot of 0.5 and 0.4 in skill. Soon enough, I got what I’ve been looking forward to!

Raging Rush!

Whee~~~~!! (^0^)/

My first Raging Rush ever!

And it went Critical hehehe!

This is a fun WS!! I like it already.

Tags: Brunestud, Great Axe, Leonidus, Lusian, Maxpeter, Raging Rush, skillup, Weaponskill