Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Bleh

Ugh, school needs to be over right now.

I am up to my head in school work and it's not fun!!! I just want it to disappear... I mean it's not going to, but a guy can dream can't he? I don't even know why I feel so unmotivated this semester.. I feel like I'm losing interest in my major. Thoughts on being a code monkey don't sound to bad, it's a pretty decent job, and it's work I guess. I just feel like there something more. I mean I could sit around and stare at the sky all day, but that doesn't make money or pay bills. I need to go to sleep, however I still need to study for a test... I'll elaborate on my problem with my sleep cycle in a few days, but meh. I'll go study for that test now

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Monday, December 3, 2007

Winter Break!!

So school is almost over woohooo! Only have to study for finals now!

In other news I'm kind of sad because my manager had to fire two employee's from where I work, both of which I really liked working with. :( The owner of the store is a real hard-#^! when it comes to not doing certain stuff like giving discounts, money, etc. The bad thing about one of the employee's is that his girlfriend's sister was one of the ones who got fried so now his girlfriend hates the manager, who really was only doing his job. I still blame the owner... so yesterday was kind of sad since it was her last day working. Looking at the entire situation makes me realize how much I wouldn't fit a manager position at any workplace. I'm not used to telling people how or what they should do... even worse I could never imagine firing someone! :(
Sometimes I can't wait to be out of college so I can start working at a real job... and other times I kind of like just going to school and learning. My mind is caught between them both, but I will try and enjoy my time as much as possible in college. I mean I have my whole life to work. :)

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Friday, November 16, 2007

So... um....

I can't help but think that this blog will turn into a blog about my life, and daily activities. Not like anyone would want to read about what goes on in my life, but this does give me a chance to improve my writing, which sucks horribly by the way. So until then this blog will probably be re-worked a little. So, it won't be about just monster hunter, but about personal things, feelings, and occurrences in my life.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Akantor video

If you don't like standing under big dragons for 20+ minutes then grab a couple of friends and beat on his face! :)

posted by Cubby @ 9:39 AM Comments: 0

Akantor downed!




It was quite a trip to the last HR urgent, but it was well worth it! This time I was up against the giant dragon Akantor, who resides in the volcano area, once where crimson fatalis was. I heard from a lot of people that he was easy because he didn't move very much, but it didn't seem so when I fought him. The first thing he does when the set you on the battlefield is charges. Now normally you could avoid this by using the pansy jump technique, but it doesn't seem to work very well against Akantor, because ummm... HE'S FREAKING HUGE! Yeah, so you usually end up still getting hit. So to counter this I made some Basarios U armor, which gives you guard+2 with some decorations. Guard+2 allows you to block stronger attacks with less push back and less stamina used. Although Akantor still has some pretty rough attacks. I completed the fight using Auto-Guard, Guard+2, and the Gun Chariot, which is an awesome gunlance by the way. The whole fight consisted of me staying under his crotch... like literally, and poking his hind leg, until he got hard skin and I had to poke his face. Not much of a fight eh? Yeah well he has some nasty tricks of his own too.

- He submerges undergruond every often, if he is enraged it is a one-shot. Sometimes lava will shot up out of the ground if he does. With 150 health it does about 1/3 of mine and I have 350 def. Unbuffed it is a one-shot.

- After he submerges he will usually roar, not normally, but a roar that will one-shot you if he is enraged, this roar does a lot of damage even if you are blocking.

- He will do a normal roar, causing lava to shoot up out of the ground, I used auto-guard to block these, because they are random.

All of his other attacks are pretty easy to block or just not be in range to be hit except the charge, but they are all pretty devastating. I've found a way that makes the fight a whole lot easier, and it requires using 4~5 farcasters every quest. So with Akantor down, all that remain as of now are crimson fatalis, and rajang until I get some more downloadable quests. I soloed Fatalis the other day with the Akantor bow. I will post about him this week or next.

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Sunday, October 21, 2007

Chamelos Video

Another way to make Chameleos visible is to beat on him repeatedly like these people!

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How do you fight something you can't see?

Eh? It would seem almost impossible, but it takes really careful eyes and precise actions. Chameleos the only dragon that can make himself invisible to the naked eye. It's the only reason he not a push over. When he's visible, you can predict almost every action he will take, but once he camoflogues it's a whole new game. He will turn visible for a second and only a second, which you must predict what action he will take next. Make a wrong move and you could be put in a very dangerous situation. He has a couple an attacks that need to be watched for.

-He will spit gas out that decreases your stamina to the minimal amount, and it will not go back up even after the effect wears off. While under this effect you can not eat any stamina increasing items. You won't be able to run or anything, so it's best to never ever be hit by this.

- He will spit a ball of acid at you decreasing your armor, not as bad as the stamina one, but bad if you get hit by it.

- He will leap in the the air and poison will spew around from him. Very hard to predict or see when he will do this unless you can see him.

- Last he will flick his togue at you and STEAL YOUR ITEMS!!! I really hate this ability, because he usually will steal your stamina items. :(

So for this fight you have to stay on top of him at all times, being far away from Chameleos is very dangerous as most of his attack are from a range. Breaking his horn is also very important in this fight because he will not be able to stealth as much if you do. I found out that if you can't find him on the map you run around until you character does the normal running motion(because when you run away from wyverns you run like a scared little pansy :) ) and that's how you find him, but if he hits you with that gas it over. Running away and towards him becomes dangerous then. After a couple atempts I got the strategy down, he was down as well, I'll have a picture up sometime soon, but until I'll post a video. :)

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