Well, as expected, I completely forgot about this thing until now. Time for a brief update-

CK is in the process of recruiting select jobs to round out our roster for the next big content push. We've been fortunate enough to have some quality players apply recently and we'd like thank all those who have put in applications.

Kill wise its been pretty quiet the last couple weeks. We passed our Kirin week to Rawr due to somehow mixing up our alternating schedule, so we popped a buncha sky minis instead. They yielded some more of that basic sky gear we're using to equip mostly secondary end game jobs at this point.

Dynamis has been steady thanks to Typhus holding down the fort while I'm focussing on my college work.

Rsouljah's limbus group will be spawning Ultima this coming week as well, so that should be fun.

We also tried our hand at Hydra for the first time (Unfortunately I'm not computer savvy enough to figure out how to format my screenies for this yet) and though he spanked us twice, we managed to bring him to 9% and 5% respectively before going down. We'll be back to finish the job soon now that we know how the fight works.

Aeron and Rsouljah [CK Officers] brought CK into Sea Monday night for some Ix Drk + Jailer of Faith action as well. Tier 2 is just around the corner for us now.

Minor news:
CK Website- We're in the process of transferring our website to a new database (I think that's what we're doing anyways) so we may soon have a new URL to our page. I'd like to thank Tsavi (Origionally Oferi) for several years of maintainence on our website, we really appreciate the work she's done for us. /salute

My Purple Chocobo recently mated with Nomar's black chocobo so we're hoping for some special babies. Egg hasn't hatched yet so we're not sure what to expect.

Also dinged PLD to 35, somehow finding time to level it between massive loads of work. Auto refresh is fun.

Other than that, keep those applications incoming as we look to finalize our end game roster for that next content leap.

Ranka out.

Starting one of these blog things...

So after reading about a few Quetzalcoatlian's (close enough) blog adventures I finally decided to create my own. I'm not 100% sure how this works yet, so this may not even be posted. I'll be playing around with this trying to learn the basics enough to keep people informed about the ranka and his CK crew.

A little about me:

I'm Anaeran, "the Ranka", and Leader of the CelestialKnights end game linkshell. I've been playing FFXI since Novemberish 2003, and have a little over 8 years of MMO leadership experience. I came over to FF with FiresofHeaven guild friends from Everquest 1, and created the shell I've come to love so dearly in CK.

After a year's break between CK1 and CK2 (wasted on a relationship gone sour) I'm back doing my thing, once again trying to bring a new group to the top. It has been a difficult road. Recruiting the right mix of talent, personality and dedication has proven to be much harder the second time around, however I feel as though we now have a team capable of succeeding on the ultimate end game level as we continue to push through new, challenging content here on Quetz.


CK in review this week:

SKY:

Kirin died twice Thursday night. Congrats to Genjuro on his N.Body and gil split on a shining cloth, as well as some other things.

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SEA:

Jailer of Faith proved to be a nasty little critter but CK prevailed once again. Congrats go out to Rigelus on his Faith Claws as well as the entire CK linkshell on our 5th/6 tier 2 spawn set. We'll be setting sights on Hope and company in the next couple weeks. Way to go guys^^

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LAND:

Also, after a few months of drastic changes to improve the quality and competitiveness of CK play, it finally came together for us in a big way when we claimed Nidhogg this week. This was our first ever attempt at either Fafnir or his older HQ Brother and we brought this baddy to his knees^^

Apparently the majority of the server thinks we're botters and/or extremely lucky noobs despite the fact that CK has and always will be a legit, respectable shell- but that didn't stop us from feeling the satisfaction of declaring CK's rise to the real end game scene in a big way.

BIG Congrats to Enz (M.Body) and Naotakun (A.Body) on the first ever Land King abjurations in CK. Rigelus also got his wyrm beard, leaving him 2/3 of the way to his black belt. Behemoth time real soon to finish that up.

We also ran Dynamis -Beaucedine this week with PinCKs to farm and generally work on learning attestation routes. Naotakun, who is currently holding a stage 3, almost 4, relic horn, got this little diddy to help him along:

Props to Typhus (my PinCKs dynamis co-leader and CK officer) on his incredible execution in reaching the trigger as the rest of the team worked on spawning it. We cut it a bit close timewise, but managed to pull the Test mob after salvaging a botched pull prior to moving camps. Awesome job PinCKies.

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That's all for now. I'll try to continue to update this thing as CK continues to improve every day. I'll probably forget though, so try to remind me. Ranka out-