10.29.2010

Zugzwang


Sighted between (H/I-8) during Full Moon (95%) on Iceday between 0:00-4:00. Either it's triggered by the Lunar Phase, day of the week, or it has a high repop timer. It wasn't up the following 2 nights, and since no one killed it when it first spawned, I'd imagine if it goes unclaimed past 4:00, its respawn timer is reset.

Such a shame no one was around to kill it with me.

10.08.2010

Losing My Edge


Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.

But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.

And they're actually really, really nice.

9.16.2010

Job Rebalancing: Who Goes Where

Above, BLM AMII Damage,
Restoring Original RDM < BLU < BLM Damage Distribution

BLU was a pretty weird job. A lot of its high MP cost/Area of Effect spells were supposed to parse it somewhere between RDM and BLM as magical nuker. Of course, the mistake (or perhaps success) the developers made was to make the damage differential between physical and magical spells too low, the MP cost spread too large, and the cast and recast times of the physical spells too attractive. BLU became a DD, not a nuker.