Here they come. Couple of pictures of Sylvian's new identity :)

Who's big head, hyh?


I swear it was a juice only


Fear me

Finally my dream came true. Sylvian, from weak and gimp in term of PvP Bounty Hunter became Hawkeye :) *wicked dance*
First impression on playing HE was not so nice as i thought. I weared Plated Leather set, put +STR tatoo, equiped Shadow weapon: Akat Bow (in this weak i have to exchange my Orcish Poleaxe for Eminence Bow) and all i was doing is standing in the middle of spot, and just selecting new targets - 2 shoots, mobs dying and we select another one. What the hell is that, it's most boring ting i have ever seen. How all those archers don't get sleep after 30min of playing? o.O

Well i think i had bad mood that day :) Next try was way more enjoyable. Crits for 2k dmg on yellow mobs with middle grade weapon - are gold to my eyes. I started checking what this toon is capable to do when from nowhere BloodSoul (farmers clanm with which we have war since some time) clan members showed up *luck me ^^*. The bad thing was a fact that they had nuker, EE and high level untagged SE and when they noticed my presence, nuker attacked.
TBH that was faster then i thought, stun shot, double shot and nuler was down, in mean time EE started to healing him so went purple as well - so i started attak her and in almost the same time SE started to rezing nuker, stun shot on her failed, nuker was standing (EE runned away somewhere). 2 crits + double shot send nuker to his creator once again. So SE rezing him second time, but nuker didn't started attacking after rez. SE started to buffing him, so i just droped him for 3rd time becaming red. Things get more complicated coz 2 more BS where running in my direction.
That was best time to move back, especially that i was left on 20MP. We where running for a bit, me running away and 3 BS chaseing me *my buffs fading away so it's even more hot*. Because of my high run speen in compare with nukers i left them long behing and them BOOM in front of me i see that damn EE which left at first fight. 2 seconds and i'm sleeped then rooted and waiting for nukers. Those guys owned me pretty much at this point but the hell it's was damn wort of it ^^
40lev HE have a way more fun than 75BH and that accident showed me that choice i made was good one :)

But why Hawkeye...
In age of Necromants, Gladiators and Tyrants choosing archer can be not best idea uner the sun (especially that 90% of server population subing them and all of them can own HE pretty easy).
In fact first i wanted to sub Tyrant (i was dreaming about this since C4) but now there is way to much Tyrants. Also i wanted to try something new - whole life i was playing melee toons so I wanted something new. In addition while i was playing BH i got addicted to bow. Really, an no DD class, bow gave me a lot of fun. With bow i dropped Hardor when he was in IS, i dropped some IS necro and couple of BS robe users (of course not in 1vs1) but still killing someone on dwarf is really hard thing - i can survive a bit but there is no way to kill anyone.
So archer class was first thing which came to my mind. We will see after couple of months if that was good choice for me, after all i don't know anything about playing archer since now. But accident with BS show me a light in dark tunnel - this can work :)

Of course i don't have to say that dwarf doing Double Shot is most funny thing i seen last days ^^

PS. I upload some screens in couple of hours, when i come back to home.

I thought i won't be live so long but finally i last week i made it! Sylvian hit 75 level ladies and gentelmans. This is great feeling, why? Coz like some nasty orcs in my clan like to say "Sylv, now you will be able to sub something usefull" ^^

OK, now it's time to finish sub quests. Fate's Whishper, An Arrogant Search and Mimir's Elixir. An Arrogant Search quest - to enter cursed king Baium chamber, was pretty easy to fullfill. There was only one tricky part - get bloody fabrics from mobs on 7th floor in Tower of Insolence. But with helo of IIGioII and Lusana we made it pretty fast. Well if you can say that hiting one mob for 20min is fast (Lusana went asleep in mean time) ;)
Another one Fate's Whisper - in shortcut, you need to kill 4 Raid Bosses and at the end takse some blood from Baium. This part started really bad - first boss is Shillien Messenger Cabrio located at Aden Cementary. Because in casual week day we don't have enougt people online to drop this boss as clan (he's resist on dark attacks so our nukers team don't help so much in this case) alos this boss is kidda low level so some part of clan simply can't participate - i was forced to catch up with some random clan/ally. So i putted spy in front of Cabrio and was waiting for someone who gonna kill this RB. I was waiting one day, then another, and then another and then another one - at this point i was kiddaa flustrated as you can imagine. And then... siege come :D

Siege
Like last time we where defending castle on our own. IS signed all 2 clans and they where shouting on Blah that we gonna raped - so whole clan was waiting with hope that enemy shows up and we gonna have some good fights. Well we was simply stupid... only 1 person showed up on siege zone. So because there was no point of wasting our time at castle doors we decided that as clan we gonna kill Cabrio (Rohel and N1ightsh4de need it as well). We planned to do it in 5min (it means 5min to move from castle to RB, kill it and return to castle).
So Tomo went on Wyvern as castle lord should and flew to Cabrio in order to cast Clan Summon gates (gates which can summon every single clan mmeber to clan leader's location). And guess what happened? Gates was summoned correctly, but... clannies cannot be summoned durig sieg time... another briliant idea of NCsoft T.T
So our 5min raid idea failed. We all ported to Clan Hall, buffed and ported to Cabrio location - we you see correctly. We went on raid boss during defense of own castle. Boss was dropped quite fast so i was able to move on with quest.

Rush on ToI raid bosses
Another part of quest is killing 3 ToI raid Bosses located at 3rd, 8th and 11 ToI floor. This parts is simmilar to Cabrio - usually ppl wait for clan and after boss death they only speak with quest box. But waiting was killing me... Akki suggested to ask clanies for help. Of course we are to few to do it alone - so i formed tank party and asked ppl for help. We made 2 more parties (hal-full only) - nukers and melee team but this could be not enough, so fast PM to our good friends HoE solved problem. They was able to bring full nukers party. Because HoE needed to kill Cabrio as well, we agreed to help them and then move together to ToI.
Now funny thing starting to happen. Another friend of mine Taurendil (BD from polish clan AmberEye, send me info they going to kill Cabrio). So if fact we didn't had to come at all (we went for assistance only). At boss location we find out that another clan prepraing to kill boss... it was FlyingDutchmen (another friendly clan which we know since ages - cheers to CoberA, Painter4 and his crew and ). There was quite big mess coz 4 clans was camping one boss - people started to PMing me what is going on (i was raid leader), why some other clans killing our boss etc. etc. Cabrio died, HoE got box, we moved to 3rd floor.

It's hot down here...
When we arrived on 3rd floor, we noticed that we lost something... it was HoE itself ^^ Whole party dissapeared somehow and noone knew where they are. As you can imagin another wave of PMs flooded my screen driving me mad. So i'm PMing Demiurg "Guys where are you?". 5min and no response. People start shouting on @clan chat, "where is hoe", "where is hoe", "raid over?".
Finally Demiurg answered "We are at Hot Springs fighting with Nova alliance" (HoE joined in last weeks Vestigate ally which is in war with Nova). At this point i alomost had heart attack... "OMG clannies gonna kill me o.O I took everyone, stopping their PvP, PvE parties in order of what?". So i'm asking "Dem how much time do you need?" - no answer. Things getting hotter than ever, ppl getting mad, and PMing me like there would be no tomorrow, so it's time for little lie to get ppl calm a bit.
"Sylvian: All is fine, HoE is comming to ToI. So please rebuff and be ready". 5min passed and there is no sign of HoE at all. Another wave of PMs, finally HoE came to us. We killed RB Hallate, and started to moving to 8th floor when someone shouted "Nova is comming here for HoE". Of course out russian friends had to fight, so it was over. People soed to Clan Hall and in ToI stayed only tank party + Rohel and N1ghtshade. We decided to move on 8th floor - we could leave there our mains, put spy and wait for another opportunity to kill bosses. So we moved to 8th floor ppl almost soed when pink PM chat blinked to me again. "Demiurg: we are in ToI with 2 more parties - going to 8th floor"
I couldn't belive but looks like we will be able to kill those bosses. 15min of waiting (HoE had fight with Nova in ToI) and everyone was at 8th floor - our tank party (IIGioII, ChachaSound, Elidara, Logo, LadyAuryn, Rohel, Nightshade and me) and 2-3 parties of Vestige. Second boss died, and we moved to 11 floor for last one. At 10 floor another group of Nova showe up so HoE fought with them, in mean time our team moved to Longhorn. We summoned Tomonari andour brave boss created summon gate - so another 1-2 parties of Legends teleported to boss location in 2min. We started killing boss. That was was hardes - Gio lost agro 2 times (after boss stunn attack) and some ppl fallen :/ But in the end we killed last him. I couldn't belive once again - in one day we done all 3 bosses.
When everyone soed - some Nova hero showed up looking for Vestige just 3 seconds to late to get some soeing ppl :)
At the end Gio helped me to get my dwarven ass to Baium chamber gates (of course i forgot that i need first speak with NPC around Oren so i had to soe anyway). But i have to say that Gio was my hero that day ^^
Now just awaits for Baium spawn...

PS. I forgot to mention that at 3rd floor some IS showed up during fight with RB Hellate, so our melee team got rid of them.

Since some time we where preparing to start leveling Soul Crystals to level 11, 12, 13. They are still expensive stuff and not everybody can handle to buy them fast (especially if (s)he need second weapon).
There was couple of ideas to make rift parties and kill Raid Boss (which can as well level some crystals) but till now we didn't done such parties.
Anyway, 2 weeks ago Yvon get idea to just go on Lilith. Some ppl said that we can't handle on our own and farmers + stonger clans/alliances compicate stuff so hard it's impossible for us to kill Lilith.
But we (Yvon and Tomi mostly) started to track Lilith respawn time to be able kill thio boss if it only respawn in our prime hours. The hard thing with Lilith is that, she have pretty wide respawn time coz it's +/- 6h - almost immpossible to keep ppl for such long time. So the only hope was spying her and be able to organize fast enough to kill her before farmers do.
Well it worked better than anyone of us thought because we killed her 3 times in 3 days (which is 100% of Lilith respawns in those days). Of course we wasn't able to do this alone. We asked some other alliances for help, like UR, HoE, NC, Enraged. Of course crystals and drop where shared among clans which participated, but in overal everyone was happy :)

Castle defence
I wanted to write something about our last sige, but TBH there is nothing to describe. Legends defended this time alone, because HoE had own busines to do (also they truced war with IS and joined new ally). But unfortunetlly no one showed up - shame to IS.
That was really boring 2 hours and most stupid ideas came to our minds like in example PMing at once one desired person or watching like Tomo doing some sky acrobations on Wyvern ^^ There was a lot of laugh, but let be honest - most of us almost died from beign bored.