I already mentioned [SAND]'s 100th T6 run last month (and shared my screenshots to boot), but Moon ([SAND]'s BDFL) recently gave an interview on the 100th T6 run and I wanted to share it:

[SAND] CELEBRATES 100TH CONSECUTIVE TIER-6 DRY TOP RUN

Go over and check it out :-)

I wrote a bit last month about the Wintersday events. But one thing I glossed over was the Festive Imbiber achievement, and how dastardly it was...

The acheeve has you drinking 10,000 Wintersday drinks (mostly alcoholic, but the costume tonics also counted), which was an insane number of drinks. Considering that most drinks averaged around 8.5 silver during the event, that would mean it could cost you a staggering 850 gold if you were to buy all your drinks.

Now, while they did say that the acheeve could be done during the 2016 year, these drinks were mostly available during the Wintersday event (after the event was over, the only source for drinks would be the Wintersday presents which could be obtained once per day per account, and only for those people with the trees in their home instance.) Which meant that finishing it during the event was the best possible bet.

The reward for this acheeve is a pretty nifty shoulder item (well, technically, it gives an item that you use towards it) that gives your character a snow effect. Since ice/snow is the new theme I'm working on for Cor, I wanted this shoulder skin :-)

The drinks were a possible drop from the Wintersday gifts that dropped from just about everything during the event. The drinks have something on the order of a 75% chance of dropping from a gift. However the gifts were going for roughly the same price as the drinks. Thus, my strategy was to sell all my gifts and use the money from those sales to buy the drinks I needed. I may have lost a tiny bit due to differences in costs and listing fees, but it wouldn't have been much... and it certainly would have been much less than the 850 gold I'd need to buy them all outright. I also farmed the presents like crazy and got pretty damned sick of the Wintersday activities by the end.

But I did manage to get all the drinks I needed, which resulted in me being flat-out drunk during much of the event:

Trix and I have been doing Living Story Season 2 missions. I'd already done them, but needed some help getting all the achievements, so we've been working our way through the missions to get him to where he can help me. It's been pretty fun so far.

Had more [SAND] Dry Top runs. They were fun, as usual. One was particularly noteworthy because not one but two rare mobs (think NMs from FFXI-speak) spawned during the event.

One was Grit, a rare sand elemental:

The other was Sol Eater, a rare colocal:

I then spent some time in the HoT zones doing events there. I've been farming experience there as well as mastery points so that I can unlock everything in the HoT mastery line. One event sequence I love is the defend Tarir sequence that happens in Auric Basin, which culminates in a big battle with the Octovine:

I also went out to work on some Living Story Season 2 acheeves with Polly Darten from [SAND]. I know I said I was going to do these with Trix, and I still plan on it, but PD was doing them and I needed them sooooo......