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First I want to apologize for my poor english, I am really from Sweden so please bare with me and listen to my story.
Today I had my first real Notorious Monster experience.
A couple of houers ago my friend and I decided to camp the infamous Valkum Emperor. The reason was because we were so dead tired of farming mobs with no drops, so ofcourse we thought why not camp a NM it will make things so much funnier ><;
Anyway we came to Valkum Dunes not long after that, my friend decided to change job to BLM52/WHM26 and I came with my WHM40/SMN20, somehow I did not feel very poewrful compared to him. On the other hand I felt that we were very powerful togeather.
Since I had never camped a NM before in my life he had to lead me to the spot where the emperor usualy spawn. As he was running suddenly he just stopped and said "Here it is." and I was like, "is it really here?" because there were not a soul to be found. On the other hand just a few meters away I saw a bunch of people gathering around some trees so I told my friend if he might be mistaken but he said "No it is here, but ocationaly it will spawn there aswell". He also told me with absolutely no camping experience to try and compete with the others while he covered his own "spot" by himself. Obeying as I am I did what I was told and went into the masses of people waiting for the beast (By masses I mean like 10 people and by beast I mean the emperor).
From there on it was most silent, sometimes a mob spawned but got killed pretty fast by a RNG in his late 60 if you know what I mean.
Once in a while my friend killed a damselfly because he claimed it to be a "place holder" I dont know if this is correct but I beleve him. Anyway I remember this particular time when I felt that I was going to fall asleep when he did his macro "Casting Dia on Damselfy <call14>" and I almost got a heart attack because I was so tense. From that time I started to shake, my entire body was shaking and once in a while he did a <call> just to destroy my nerves.
A couple of mins later something hit my mind. I had completly forgot about macros, I stood there waiting and if it was to pop should I then start looking for Dia in my magic list? I could really have messed myself up there. When the macros was finally done something terrible happend. I pressed alt+0 to "/targetnpc" as my new cool macro was supposed to do and I accidentaly target a goblin, now to unselect him I pressed "esc", dont ever press "esc" when you hold "alt" key ><; Needless to say the game crashed and I was furious ^^
Some mins later I was back in the game and I had to remake all my macros because they didnt save after the crash but now some DRG was in the way and his wyrven was taking all my "/targetnpc", so I had to move closer to the trees, now I was very close to the trees and I was standing next to the high level RNG whom I was speaking of earlier.
I asked my friend for how long we had been there because I thought it had to be like 20mins atleast because I was so tired.
"One houer" he replied. I was like, omg what am I doing here.
Then something happend, a Damselfly spawned but it was not like the others, I could not read the name because my eyes were so blurry because I was so tired but my /targetnpc macro was on it and I could clearly see that the name was splitted in two words.
It didn't take long for me to realize that this is it, this is the Valkum Emperor and I quickly pressed my Dia button and as the spell was charging I was stunned to see how no one else did anything, it was like the time was going slower than normal and I could see how my Dia landed on the Emperor before anyone had even moved.
At first I was in shock but I soon realized that I needed help, my friend saw my macro because it said "Dia on Valkum Emperor!" But in all panic I started to type things like "I got it!1!!!!" and "Hurry!".
From here on I ran, as a matter of fact I ran like hell. I knew I could not solo this thing being a whm with only weak smns as sub so I desperatly tried to find my friend. I was typing more messages like "Help me!" and "Where are you!" as I saw my life dropped rapidly, I saw that he answered something but I could not see what he wrote because it all happend so fast and I could not focus. I saw the crowd of people started to follow me in the thought that I would die and they could steal the emperor, at this moment I was terrified, I did not even try to heal because I could not think! My hp was just dropping and when it had reached 28 it was like the Valkum Emperor just stopped.
If you can image a train hitting a mountain or a very hard wall something like that it felt, this thing coming after me and just stopped that instant.
What I am telling you now happend very quickly but for me it seemed like the longest time imaginable. After he stopped I could slowly see how the emperor was caught in this frozen hell and since I had him targeted I saw how his life was drained out of his body like when you pull that plug in the bottom of the sink and you see all water just get sucked away.
In the log I could read, "Kanash casts Freeze." "Valkum Emperor takes 900+ points of damage."
I was just staring at it and people started to applaud me, and thats when I realized that I had beaten them in a way, that was also when I started to feel a little proud of what I did ^^. In one way the camping is the real competition, people started to examin me and emotes came from all around and I felt happy and proud and I also was very proud of my friend who saved me and killed the emperor. Later on I told him that he is the best blm ever excisted, which may be to exaggerrate a little but at that moment thats what i felt.
I know what you all want to know, what did it drop.
Well, it didn't drop anything good at all...
But that doesnt matter, because I won the duell, "me vs the other who camped him" and I also made an impression on Kanash who told me that from now on he always wants me with him on NM hunts and that was both very fun and important to me.
I think I would like to do it again sometime, but the truth is I did not stop shaking until some houers after that event. It was one of the worst AND best thing which have ever happend to me in "Final Fantasy XI"
Thank you for reading and taking share in my little "Adventure".
Today I had my first real Notorious Monster experience.
A couple of houers ago my friend and I decided to camp the infamous Valkum Emperor. The reason was because we were so dead tired of farming mobs with no drops, so ofcourse we thought why not camp a NM it will make things so much funnier ><;
Anyway we came to Valkum Dunes not long after that, my friend decided to change job to BLM52/WHM26 and I came with my WHM40/SMN20, somehow I did not feel very poewrful compared to him. On the other hand I felt that we were very powerful togeather.
Since I had never camped a NM before in my life he had to lead me to the spot where the emperor usualy spawn. As he was running suddenly he just stopped and said "Here it is." and I was like, "is it really here?" because there were not a soul to be found. On the other hand just a few meters away I saw a bunch of people gathering around some trees so I told my friend if he might be mistaken but he said "No it is here, but ocationaly it will spawn there aswell". He also told me with absolutely no camping experience to try and compete with the others while he covered his own "spot" by himself. Obeying as I am I did what I was told and went into the masses of people waiting for the beast (By masses I mean like 10 people and by beast I mean the emperor).
From there on it was most silent, sometimes a mob spawned but got killed pretty fast by a RNG in his late 60 if you know what I mean.
Once in a while my friend killed a damselfly because he claimed it to be a "place holder" I dont know if this is correct but I beleve him. Anyway I remember this particular time when I felt that I was going to fall asleep when he did his macro "Casting Dia on Damselfy <call14>" and I almost got a heart attack because I was so tense. From that time I started to shake, my entire body was shaking and once in a while he did a <call> just to destroy my nerves.
A couple of mins later something hit my mind. I had completly forgot about macros, I stood there waiting and if it was to pop should I then start looking for Dia in my magic list? I could really have messed myself up there. When the macros was finally done something terrible happend. I pressed alt+0 to "/targetnpc" as my new cool macro was supposed to do and I accidentaly target a goblin, now to unselect him I pressed "esc", dont ever press "esc" when you hold "alt" key ><; Needless to say the game crashed and I was furious ^^
Some mins later I was back in the game and I had to remake all my macros because they didnt save after the crash but now some DRG was in the way and his wyrven was taking all my "/targetnpc", so I had to move closer to the trees, now I was very close to the trees and I was standing next to the high level RNG whom I was speaking of earlier.
I asked my friend for how long we had been there because I thought it had to be like 20mins atleast because I was so tired.
"One houer" he replied. I was like, omg what am I doing here.
Then something happend, a Damselfly spawned but it was not like the others, I could not read the name because my eyes were so blurry because I was so tired but my /targetnpc macro was on it and I could clearly see that the name was splitted in two words.
It didn't take long for me to realize that this is it, this is the Valkum Emperor and I quickly pressed my Dia button and as the spell was charging I was stunned to see how no one else did anything, it was like the time was going slower than normal and I could see how my Dia landed on the Emperor before anyone had even moved.
At first I was in shock but I soon realized that I needed help, my friend saw my macro because it said "Dia on Valkum Emperor!" But in all panic I started to type things like "I got it!1!!!!" and "Hurry!".
From here on I ran, as a matter of fact I ran like hell. I knew I could not solo this thing being a whm with only weak smns as sub so I desperatly tried to find my friend. I was typing more messages like "Help me!" and "Where are you!" as I saw my life dropped rapidly, I saw that he answered something but I could not see what he wrote because it all happend so fast and I could not focus. I saw the crowd of people started to follow me in the thought that I would die and they could steal the emperor, at this moment I was terrified, I did not even try to heal because I could not think! My hp was just dropping and when it had reached 28 it was like the Valkum Emperor just stopped.
If you can image a train hitting a mountain or a very hard wall something like that it felt, this thing coming after me and just stopped that instant.
What I am telling you now happend very quickly but for me it seemed like the longest time imaginable. After he stopped I could slowly see how the emperor was caught in this frozen hell and since I had him targeted I saw how his life was drained out of his body like when you pull that plug in the bottom of the sink and you see all water just get sucked away.
In the log I could read, "Kanash casts Freeze." "Valkum Emperor takes 900+ points of damage."
I was just staring at it and people started to applaud me, and thats when I realized that I had beaten them in a way, that was also when I started to feel a little proud of what I did ^^. In one way the camping is the real competition, people started to examin me and emotes came from all around and I felt happy and proud and I also was very proud of my friend who saved me and killed the emperor. Later on I told him that he is the best blm ever excisted, which may be to exaggerrate a little but at that moment thats what i felt.
I know what you all want to know, what did it drop.
Well, it didn't drop anything good at all...
But that doesnt matter, because I won the duell, "me vs the other who camped him" and I also made an impression on Kanash who told me that from now on he always wants me with him on NM hunts and that was both very fun and important to me.
I think I would like to do it again sometime, but the truth is I did not stop shaking until some houers after that event. It was one of the worst AND best thing which have ever happend to me in "Final Fantasy XI"
Thank you for reading and taking share in my little "Adventure".
