Fury of the Defender of the Jungle

Our very first Fury of the Defender of the Jungle drop, and it was OD! We've finally made it to the point where we can farm RT Diamond for gear instead of spending an insane 40mil on that stupid bow from a non-guidlie.

Congratulations, Reactive, on the bow! This makes up for all the previous times your gear has been ninja'd from you :x!

Artisans, ftw! /proud

The Ancient Dreamland, Part I

The Ancient Dreamland, located directly in front of the entrance to Forsaken Abbey. The door of the instance belays the actual prettiness of its interior. This is the first time this mini-event is available on US servers, so I was very excited to try it out :D Unfortunately not many guildies were on earlier in the day when I made a group for AD - I brought a knight, rogue, mage and druid along with myself. Turns out mages are fabulous in here, lots of AoE for the trash mobs!

Turn around from the shiny portal into the Dreamland, and you're greeted by a crowd of floating houses and Eye of Wisdom researchers. It's a neat little place to go, even what's above us is rather pretty...just pray none of the houses decide to smoosh you like the Wicked Witch of the East :x

I always make it a point to look up, just to make sure I don't miss anything interesting or worthwhile. I'm also infatuated with the sky, and this is a fine specimen of a magical night sky! I'm a sucker for shiny things!










For Part I, I'm posting up a few screenshots I thought were rather sparkley :D Each of the shots below were taken in a different type of arena in the Dreamland. Part II will have some screenshots of the bosses that spawn every 5 levels, and some of their special attacks to watch out for. Enjoy the eye candy, and never forget to look up!

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.