“Carpe Diem” – ArcheAge 1v1 arenas PvP video, Kyrios server. Recorded by Desiree, lvl 50 tank-spec Blighter Discussion: http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?163077 ArcheAge: http://www.trionworlds.com/archeage/en/ Kyrios (NA): http://forums.archeagegame.com/forumdisplay.php?56-Kyrios-%28NA%29 Contains various random 1v1 arena PvP footage as a Blighter. I got bored of 5v5s and only recently decided to start doing 1v1 arenas again so my skills are still quite a bit rusty. You’ll notice me missing the Shadowsmite backstab a few times and a few other dumb mistakes, but being in tank gear really helps with that leeway. Now that I’m finally done with Serpentis and have 10-man Dahuta on farm, those on Kyrios …

“Sea of Drowned Love” – ArcheAge 10-man Dahuta-boss PvE dungeon clear video, Kyrios server. Recorded by Desiree, lvl 50 tank-spec Blighter Discussion: http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?159744 ArcheAge: http://www.trionworlds.com/archeage/en/ Kyrios (NA): http://forums.archeagegame.com/forumdisplay.php?56-Kyrios-%28NA%29 The “Sea of Drowned Love” dungeon consists of a single boss (Dahuta), who has 4 stages. Stage 1 is waves of mobs, Stage 2 is a regular tanking with more waves of mobs, stage 3 (“First Declaration”) requires a secondary tank to switch aggro with due to her stacking debuff while waves slide across the screen, and stage 4 (“Second Declaration”) involves more waves and more mobs. This was a video of …

“Heaven’s Fall” – ArcheAge open world PvP video, Kyrios server. Recorded by Desiree, lvl 50 tank-spec Blighter Discussion: http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?157755 ArcheAge: http://www.trionworlds.com/archeage/en/ Kyrios (NA): http://forums.archeagegame.com/forumdisplay.php?56-Kyrios-%28NA%29 Contains various random open world PvP footage with Last Resort. First clip was an impromptu 5v5 that TWO invited us to, which was unfortunately interrupted by PRX just before we finished the fight. Second part is some group PvP in Hasla since it was war time, in which we pretty much wiped the area of reds and kept them spawn camped for a short while. Third part is some more group PvP in Cinderstone where we …

“Kyrios Ravens” – ArcheAge castle siege video, Kyrios server. Recorded by Desiree, lvl 50 sword-shield Blighter Discussion: http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?146417 ArcheAge: http://www.trionworlds.com/archeage/en/ Kyrios (NA): http://forums.archeagegame.com/forumdisplay.php?56-Kyrios-%28NA%29 Contains material from the castle siege attack by The White Order against Mostly Harmless for Marcala. The Mostly Harmless side consisted of a mixture of MH, PRX and Marked members, with myself being borrowed from Marked, fighting for the MH side. The first half of the video contains castle siege footage in which the defenders attacked the front gate with trebuchets and glider bombs, to which the defenders responded by suicide destroying the trebuchets and Imprison-blocking. The …

“The Keeps of Kyrios” – ArcheAge Conquest of Auroria keep claim video Recorded by Desiree, lvl 50 sword-shield Blighter from Mostly Harmless Discussion: http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?115731 Mostly Harmless: http://mostly-harmless-guild.com ArcheAge: http://www.trionworlds.com/archeage/en/ Kyrios (NA): http://forums.archeagegame.com/forumdisplay.php?56-Kyrios-%28NA%29 Contains material from the launch of Auroria on 2014/11/04 on the Kyrios (NA) server and footage of PvP fights in Sungold Fields map mines and the subsequent keep claims. The Auroria map server was extremely overloaded and laggy that day, making PvP extremely difficult and even impossible in the case of the claiming of Marcala’s keep). Also had to click a lot of my skills as keypresses would …

See this post for the introduction. In case you didn’t know/notice from my previous blog posts, I am a huge Gundam fanboy (to be fair though, I actually don’t blog all that much about Gundam, mainly cause I never find the time to build all those gunpla kits gathering dust). I grew up watching Gundam Wing as an elementary school kid (somehow convinced my parents to ignore all the “Rated T for Teen” warnings) and went on to watch (and enjoy) all the older series from long before I was born. So when I heard about The Art of Gundam …

See this post for the introduction. Continuing on from the Fushimi Inari Shrine visit, I went to meet up with sorrowmoon for a visit to Volk’s Tenshi no Sato. Tenshi no Sato was a dedicated Super Dollfie museum and “den” for Dollfie owners, complete with a Japanese-style garden in back and had always been a must-see for doll owners (reservation required, passport needed for foreigners). I had previously visited the location before and took some of my first Dollfie photography there, but that was before I had completed Arcueid, so this would be Arc’s first photoshoot there. Arcueid posing outside …

See this post for the introduction. This was the first actual do-stuff day of this Japan trip, and the plan for me was yet another visit to Tenshi no Sato, but this time with my completed Arcueid Dollfie. sorrowmoon had scheduled our visit for the afternoon, so I decided to spent part of the morning with the rest of the group visiting the Fushimi Inari shrine yet again. Arcueid chilling at the Fushimi Inari shrine Japanese breakfast at the ryokan/hotel! Consisting of tofu, fruit bits, cheese balls with some sauce, preserved radish, bowl of tea, some spinnach?, piece of fish, …

After visiting Japan the past two years, I’ve decided to return once again this summer. The 2012 trip was right after graduation and my first time being in Japan and, thanks to rigorous planning by my friends, was a full blown tourism trip, with me doing tons of random figure/gunpla shopping and starting my figure collection. The 2013 trip was still partially a tourism trip, but I had money saved up from working for a year and ended up also partially being a shopping trip, buying figures from my wishlist and starting my Dollfie Dream adventures. This third time around, …

This came in one of the huge AmiAmi boxes that I finally got around to unboxing along with the rest of my June 2014 backlog loot. I’m a huge fan of mechas and mechamusume, so I was pretty excited way back when AmiAmi Zero announced their Infinite Stratos line (though right now all they have is Akatsubaki and Blue Tears). While I was ultimately quite disappointed with the show (especially its sequel, “Infinite Fanservice 2” as I call it), the IS designs are apparently inspired by various Mobile Suit Gundam designs, with Akatsubaki very likely inspired by the ZGMF-X19A Infinite …