The revision to the current raid system can be found here on the forum. Kindly read it carefully, especially the people that will be involved together with me in handling our guild items.

Also, last night a total of 19,000,000 vis was used from the guild fund to upgrade our large number of item left overs in the guild bank. As a result we have a number of +5 and +6 items up for loan. Do refer to the list for these available items.

On a side note, good luck to all those participating for today’s 15v15 War of the Factions event. All members, please be on early at 3pm for a some last minute trainings and tactical briefing. Thank you.

Another chain of level 100s to join the ranking table- Mina (25th) and Zeny (26th). Congrats to the 2 of them!

I believe there are few more that will be hitting 100 today. Please let me know or post it here. Thank you.

Haven been updating news around the guild for a while, so let’s get the ball rolling again. A couple of news for all Yakisoba members to take note off.

Firstly, I’ve updated our Treaty page with our new alliance with Norgard. xXMiRaClEXx, the leader of Norgard used to be our biggest enemy in the past, but it’s all over now and I’m very proud to say that we will be able to work out a strong alliance between us. All members, please take note of our new ally and do not Baron their members. Should there be any conflict of interest, please inform Tsubaki immediately and we we will discuss with them.

Also, it seems the TheEmpire is no longer active and we will drop them from our list of allies. RakiChanneru, our buddy faction is still regarded as friendlies.

Next up, our guild bank has close to 300 items and each member is now entitled to borrow up to 6 items at a time. Also, each member is limited to only 1 elite weapon or armor at a time. We work on building up item bank so that everyone can get what they need, so please be active in our raid sessions.

Waker, a ForeverVN member was caught de-leveling RavaNa while he was AFK-ing his characters. RavaNa lost 2 levels from level 100 to 98, and…. we’re back in the business of returning favors. It’s been a while since we de-level people. The last time someone tried to mess around with us lost 15 levels in a night.

We’ll try to break this record again. But honestly, we don’t go around de-leveling people unless someone starts first.

And lastly, Yakisoba recruitment is now closed. We have enough members for now. It’s probably going to be a long while before we open up our recruitment again. To our applicants, we thank you for taking time to apply, but we are closed for now.

Another chain of level 100s to join the ranking table- Mois (22nd), Crimzama (23rd) and Isaya (24th). Congrats to the 3 of them!

All members, when you have hit level 100, please make sure you inform Tsubaki asap so we can add you to our table of level 100s!

Another 3 more members joined to Lvl 100 rank, Stalwart (19th) , Pyros (20th) & Renji (21st). What’s nice is that Stalwart and Pyros, our newest recruits have really proven themselves to be as hardcore as the rest. Hahah, keep it up guys! Also, Renji’s the 2nd dual Elementalist to hit Lvl 100 here.

A big congrats to the 3 of them!

It’s been a while since we opened our recruitment drive and since then we’ve welcomed a number of new players into our family. And we have been observing these new players, from how they treat other members to their activeness in participating in boss raids to even simple things like conversing with the other members.

I’m pleased to say that some of these players have met our expectations, and as a sign of our trust, the following recruits have been promoted:

Sakiyurai
Pyros
CruSannz
Stalwart
Stormbringer
Delphia

Voyage has informed me awhile ago that he has decided to step down from being a Squad Caption due to personal reasons. His squad will be managed by Crimzama until we can find a suitable candidate.

I’ve also decided to remove the need for Raid Captains, since most Captains, and even active members are calling for members up for raids, thus reducing the need to rely on RCs.

Members are also reminded that after 10 days of inactiveness, you will be removed from the faction unless you inform either me or Crimzama about your absence. If you’re going to take a break, go for a holiday, etc, the least decent thing you can do is to let everyone know. If you disappear suddenly, we’ll assume that you have quit the game.

Congrats to Majere for becoming the 18th Yakisoba member to hit Lvl 100! He can finally patrol the whole of Granado Espada as a policeman now, with his hot police girls. And yes, Majere’s a real full time policeman.

So don’t fuck with him, or you’ll get arrested! Lol.

IAH threw yet another surprise Colony War yesterday, something that everyone is starting to get tired about. We’ll get the annoucement for Colony War 30 minutes before the war starts and then have to start mobilizing everyone down for war. This war again, took us by surprise and I had to send a mass sms to all Yakisoba members to inform about the war. It’s practically like reservist call up and all members were summoned back from the real world back into Granado Espada.

We already had 8 colonies from the previous war, so we could choose to either defend, or expand. No guess to which path we chose. Presenting the Map of Cervantes:

17 Colonies. Could have been 19 Colonies if we didn’t lose Deserted Quay to Cloudnine’s Orb breakers and ran out of time at Old Port of Combria’s orb. OC’s orb was down to 2%, it was such a waste. But still, we had a lot of fun and we were really testing our limits, to see how far we can go.

It’s really awesome to see Yakisoba plastered almost all over the map and it certainly was thrilling for me. On top of that, it was my birthday and the timing couldn’t get any better. Contrary to what most people think, I did not wish for the entire map to belong to us. I just wanted to see how much we can push ourselves, aggressively attacking and defending at the same time. And it seems like we’re able to juggle them pretty well.

A couple of interesting points during the war- Dominion was surprisingly silent. They were nowhere to be seen, and the only time we established combat with them was at Tetra Hills. GoD and CARNAGE on the other hand, were very aggressive in defending their territory. It was definitely very fun to fight with them, and I would say CARNAGE certainly gave us a run for our money.

Also, I think it’s necessary to clear up the misconception that having 17 colonies do not give us a monstrous amount of HP. There’s a cap of 65% MHP, and that’s capped to 10 colonies. So to those people broad-ing that we have like 2142452895% HP boost, stop scaring people.

We’re… not that scary. I think.

Another 2 more members joined our Lvl 100s! Takeshi takes the 16th place on the Yakisoba Lvl 100 table, and Valkrice trails narrowly with a 17th. Congrats to the both of them. I’m really happy to see so many of our members hitting Lvl 100 legitimately, and that’s something we can really boast about- We don’t use bots.

There’s been a major bot crackdown by the GMs on Lvl 100 players who bot in Cervantes and this has caused a lot of factions to lose their “top players”. We didn’t even have to break a single sweat since we’ve always been the mad human grinders that everyone hates. Lol.

But anyway, cheers you guys!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROAD FLOOD DETECTED!

Lol, I want to thank everyone for your warm wishes. I really appreciate it. Thanks for making my 20th birthday so memorable. Heh, and thank you all for the nice gifts. Now down to the guild related news. Plenty of good news today, and I must say it’s totally awesome, it’s almost like a gift from everyone in Yakisoba to me.

Firstly, our emblem is finally up on the server. Press Alt-T and you will be able to see our hot Yakisoba Fairy of Death. Just in case some of you don’t know how this emblem came about, the stock image was provided by our dear Hera-chan and I photoshopped it to give it the color.

Unfortunately for some reason, the transparent 255 0 255 layer doesn’t seem to work in Granado Esapda and I’ve to use black instead. This has caused some of the details to be lost, which is rather unfortunate, but I’ll fix it in due time (once I’m not grinding, lol).

Click to view a larger version of the map

Next, IAH DID IT AGAIN. They sprung up another “Ad-Hoc Trial Colony War Test” again. I daresay they actually forgot to switch it off. This is the second time already, and this time we were totally not prepared for it. We only were able to recall 24 members for this war, but we did pretty well considering the situation.

I believe some other factions have it worst with their leaders not being online (a lot of people were out watching Harry Potter! Lol) so it was a crippled trial between all the factions. We managed to get 8 colonies with just 2 squads, and I think it’s fantastic job. Well done Yakisoba!

We’ve also been raiding the more big ass bosses in Granado Espada. We can nail a couple of them easily now because of our stockpile of guild raid weapons and equipments. We have over a 100 items worth of 92 equipments and above and members have full access to borrowing these equipments. But unfortunately, we’re still far from being able to raid this bastard here:

Vergo, otherwise more commonly known as Shiyapen. He’s minions are a complete pain in the ass and there are 3 minions that he has that can never be lured away from him. Bastard. We’ll be back as soon as we get better gears for everyone.

Guess that’s about it. Stay strong Yakisoba! BANZAI!