The Flower Festival

Out of all the mini-events per patch, I'd have to say my favorite would be the Flower Festival. I'm a sucker for anything cute and pastel-colored, so what more could I ask for when we were given bunnies and flower petals? :D Not only that, they had some pretty cute outfits for sale and for prizes as well...I love this hat!

I love to jump in-game, it's the closest thing I can do to look like I'm flying, lol. I've made an obstacle jumping course in the Artisan guild castle to show my love for jumping, so when I saw that the Flower Festival involved a jumping course...I was all over it! By doing this we got a few event items, and an extremely lovely mount speed buff that stacks with the 30% mount potion and Galloping Gale.


Zoom!

It's a nice view from the top. Looking up I'm surrounded by pretty pastel petals, and looking down I can view the pretty glowing stepping stones that lead to the top of the tree. A few people found jumping up to the top a bit too difficult, and started spamming Zone chat for a port to the end ;] Cheaters!

Progression!

A momentous era in Artisan history! We have just, as a guild, cleared Raksha Temple: Diamond Mode! It was surprisingly easier than I had anticipated, I was afraid for a moment that our dps wouldn't be enough...but who was I fooling, even with two priests we had Reactive, Ragingsoul and Washnock to be our machine guns :]

All in all, it was a very smooth run. It took a little longer than expected since life happened to interfere now and again (yay for afk's!), but we had no wipes and got a few tasty OD gear; Raksha's Earrings and Lekani Handguards

Other than that...the stat and gear drops made me QQ a bit. :< We were hoping to get a Fury of the Defender of the Jungle for Reactive so he could finally ditch his noob Desert Bow! ;] One day, Reactive, I promise we'll farm this for you until it drops! :D

Old News, But Good News

I've been stocking up and saving screenshots for the longest time, but haven't been meticulous about posting them up :x!

RT Bronze Full Clear:

KT Full Clear:

[PPM] Pink Priest Model: Kaelisra

[Specimen #1] Kaelisra

The Black Bunny Brigade! Did a 420mem PK trade with Kaelisra from the guild Centurions - everything seemed to go right. Two kills and the item dropped, and two new and cute outfits from my customer!

Flopsy, Mopsy, and Peter Cotton-tail. And Kaelisra. :D

And now his evil costume, rawr! Unfortunately he has the Hunter's Aura, so maybe he's not so evil after all :x We went out of our way to make sure the scenery matched his outfit though. :] Choreographed shot, ftw!

Treachery Garden

Standard procedure. Move along.

PKed?

Then you never want to see yourself drop this bag.

THE LOOT BAG.
This seemingly unimposing little canvas bag may look harmless to anyone from a PvE server...but this little thing can bring a grown man to nerdrage for hours in Zone Chat. A PvE server player visited little Grimdal one day, and was shocked to see everyone in crappy gear. It's not crappy gear, silly, it's our off-gear. We swap to our junk set so that we don't lose anything we spent actual money on - and many of us get creative with our off-set! If you PvE-ers are ever bored, drop by a PK server and check out our off-gear fashion. :]

The Old Guard +1

Raksha Temple, full clear with a full Artisan group! This was extra special for me, since 5/6 present were among the very first Artisans to join when we first started more than half a year ago. We've come a long way, and the Old Guard will continue on into Kawak's Tomb!

We couldn't have done it without you either, Ragingsoul. You'll forever be my favorite dps troll ;p