Robocop:

 

 

Horizon:

Been catching Botter since Get Loose told us that he discover it at Merac. At first I thought it was my usual farming spot, but after visiting the location I realized that it was another location nearby. Both the location are good spot as the pumpkin spawn faster, but I prefer the other location as there are two pumpkin nearby to each other.

The one which Get Loose told us is XChardoX which is doing it at Channel 6, I found another one on Channel 5 which is named Mpox. XChardoX shift to Channel 2 after getting PK by Rick after he saw the Screen Shot which Get Loose posted and the Video I post. Another Rogue named Poetic Justice get PK by Rick too as he was nearby and could be the main toon monitoring his own bot.

Then drama started as batman claim Rick PK one of his friend and they start to PK each other alternate. But either way the whole PK drama is nothing related to the botter in my opinion. Sly had confirm that XChardoX is one of Rinsh alternate, but we are not sure if Mpox is in any way related. XChardoX is a Level 88 Arch Wizard and Mpox is a Level 71 Arch Wizard, from the video I can see that both are using Choas Nova AOE which is targetless.

XChardoX seem to have longer interval between the activation of skill, I think it is because he does not have any Skill Cool Down Reduction. But from the video it can be seen that both of them activate the skill before the pumpkin spawn and non of the active players would ever do so. They can argue that they are not really AFK as they might be monitoring it with another toon or using dual display.

Manage to win the Halloween Spooky Story Contest, the other player who won is Just Shot. Athena and Just Shot also won the Pumpkin Craving and Spooky Baking, Just Shot also won the Creepy Costume and Horror Film too. As there are not much players on both Horizon and Pandora, some prize are left unclaimed.

The prize for Spooky Story are 3 Safe Socket Scroll, 15 Legendary Scroll, 15 Socket Reset Card and 300 Curse Removal Scroll. Pumpkin Craving prize are +30 Weapon, 500 Pumpkin and Basket and 300 IDB and Gold Booster. Spooky Baking prize are 100 Strong Med, 500 Pumpkin and Basket and 300 IDB and Gold Booster. Creepy Costume prize are Costume, 500 Duration Extender, 500 Pumpkin and Basket. Horror Film prize are +30 Weapon, 500 Pumpkin and Basket and 300 IDB and Gold Booster.

 Guess the biggest winner is Just Shot, but that is what most people expected as he had always been very enthusiastic on taking advantage of anything that come along his way. Moza had been trying to buy Easter Bunny for 1B, who in the right mind would even sell something that value at around 20B to her at that price. A few of them had been thinking that they own the server after they found out that only 7 of them are active and had brought Fawkes Gems to get the Loyalty Rewards.

Future Improvement:

 After playing for so long I think there are a lot of area the game can be improved, for starter they can improve the Hit Rate for Royal Knight as the buff should be related to their strongest qualities. The Rogue can also be given Evasion Buff too, or even better a Drop Rate Buff. All Class should have Stun Skill and AOE Skill, for AOE Skill the private server had been doing well with this improvement.

Next is to work on the Pets, for official server the pet HP and Stats had been low which make most of them useless at higher level. The private server had been doing it well in this area and even surpass it by the introduction of AOE Pets until they Nerf it. The Pets can be further improve on both servers by giving them more useful skill as follows:

Wing Tiger Speed Mount with Earth AOE

Wing Serpent Speed Mount or Chinese Dragon with Wind AOE or Speed Buff

Giant Tortoise Mount with Defense Buff or Water AOE

Phoenix with Resurrection Skill or Fire AOE 

Ox or Bull with Stun Skill or Attack or Berserk Buff

Nine Tail Fox with Charm Skill or Fire AOE

 

Golden Monkey with Drop Rate Buff

Garuda Speed Mount with Lighting AOE

 They can make the pet system in a way where we can fight them as a Boss and tame them to become pet, they should be able to battle each other with the Elemental System which is a waste just because most players are unable to understand it. The removal of Elemental System and the overly focus on PVP Balance had cause the PVE players getting Nerf.

For the official server, they should make leveling of both toon and pets easier and make use of the existing quest rewards better to suit the progress. The Pictorial Book and Affinity System should be design in a way that progress with the leveling so that the players would not have to make new toon for farming the production material or XP Lock to complete the Affinity.

 The private server lack of events can be improve by using official server events as an example which ensure that there are different events every months. And they should not limit the events to only higher level with separate Event Map but make good use of low level map and their existing quest like the official server to help newbie learn more about the game and enjoy it more. The single path progression and limited option had make most players quit at lower level when they encounter difficulty.

Pet Peeve:

 Horizon:

They had completely stop those below Level 50 to use World Chat, think it is a lousy move to stop the spam bot on Osiris Server but it will greatly affect all players as it will prevent Newbie from getting help. This move is very similar to the previous incident when they try to remove Pet Pick Up to prevent AFK Farming using P2 Pet, it just show how lazy they are to check on the server and prefer a more lay back approach.

Aphelion:

Finally manage to get most of the pets back, as it will be easier for them to give me the Buff Pet Package I don't mind losing out on about 30% of the pets just to gain a Rudolph Pet. The only issues is that I had to level all the pets again and it will take a few days, but the server seem dead with the lack of management with only a few active players so I don't think any Newbie will really need my Newbie Package.

Phoenix:

Speedy heard about my plan to save up on Cash to get the Phoenix Pet, since he got a lot of Cash to spare he gift one to me. I was thinking that I would be able to mount it at Level 50 after Evolution, but I was told they change it to Level 100. I don't think I will live long enough to see my Phoenix Pet become mount, it is like I almost thought I had to marry Lilit at Floriam Cave to continue my legacy.

Manage to win the second round of Hide and Seek, they give out Event Reward Box like what the Official Server do. It had some nice stuffs, but because the Training Game Sage had something important to tend to in real life he only had 1 winners for each round. Not sure if it was the first event host by Game Sage, but it kind of remind me of the Hide and Seek on Official Server where I am the few lucky one to win the prize first. 

Servers Dead:

 Been getting a lot of Disconnection on all 3 servers, it is so bad that make the game unplayable. I was getting Disconnection every few minutes, I can even reach the Teleporter or Map. Although both server claimed that the DDOS Attack are over, I don't really see any improvement till now. It is not just me having the issue, a lot of other players also encounter the same.

I can understand that the private servers encountered the same as they are using the same host, but it puzzled me when the official had the exact same issue. What puzzled me most is that the Dance Emote which the official had been working on had already been implemented on private servers recently. 

They might had send spy to copy each other ideas, but I think they might also had send spy to influence the decision making process too. This is the main reason that the official server had become more and more like private server with better rewards and more newbie friendly, while the private servers are becoming more and more like official server trying to Nerf a lot of stuffs to make it difficult so that it can boost the Item Mall Sales.

The private server had been declining since the Nerf of AOE Pets, from the glory of 600 players it drop to 300 players and then further drop to 100 players now. Although they claim that they will try their best to restore the former glory, nothing much had been done until now. A lot of players could had gone over to the new server, but the numbers just doesn't add up with only about 200 players there.

Phoenix Rebirth 3.0:

 Phoenix:

Halloween Event had started, try out the event for a while. It is still very hard to kill mobs at the Event Map, so I will just hunt pumpkin on Juno instead. The rewards for the event are good, with PBI, PPSP, Booster, Med and Curse Removal Scroll.

Had also discover the rewards for the God Hand after playing for a while although it is very rare, the rewards for God Hands are as follows:

Warrior: Devil Rune x 2, Master Stone +17, Diamond

Guard: Prem Drop Booster x 2, LSB, Diamond 

Bravery: Effort Scroll x 2, PSSP, Diamond

Protection: Lvl 14 Chaos Jewel, Lvl 14 Jewel, 5 Cash, Diamond

It had become tough after Level 140, had try using AOE at Tairan Center and also Seeker of Darkness and found it take long time to kill and easy to die and lose exp. It is like taking a step forward and then taking 3 steps back which doesn't really make any progress, the only better options is killing Kanuta and Travox while leveling pet.

Most players will quit after reaching Level 140 like Aphelion at Level 165 when they found it difficult to progress any further without help from other players, this server had become worst with limited content and limited option which seem to follow the same singular path for leveling.

Phoenix Rebirth 2.0:

Horizon:

Halloween Event had start, nothing much had change other than a new boss named Grimvine Jack which need party of few Level 185 Players to kill. It spawn every 6 hrs on Ch 2 and 4 at Top Right of Juno Map at the top of East Side Drake Nest, and randomly drop Wolfrik Leash, 25 Candle, 20 Anniversary Candle, 25 Halloween Token, 5 Halloween Token Box or Halloween Title.

Phoenix:

 

Found out that the Laca Ball and Moonstone Statue are Auto by default, after trying it out and found that most of the stuffs are not really helpful. Lucky to find that there is a Cash Shop in town which sell some useful stuffs at cheap price of about 1M.

There is no Pictorial Book, it is replaced by the Achievement instead. Found out that there is another Newbie Quest at Level 100 which kill some mobs at Floriam Cave for Rune and Master Coins for Monster Combo Accessory. As I start to make a few Raid Boss Hunters, I found out that Egeha Curse Lich and Curse Weaver drop Boosters and Summon Book.

I also found out that Raid Boss will drop even though the toon is higher level, so it is not necessary to be within 5 levels. Because of that it is very hard for low level toon to get drop as a lot of high level will use boss recall to kill steal.

The leveling guide on discord also not very well written, it recommend the following path:

 

1-30 = Juno 

30-50 = Maradaguum Jail 

50-70 = Egeha

70-115 = Tomb

115-145 = Floraime Cave 

145-165 = Tarian either Seekers (best EXP but hard to kill) or middle of Tairan with AOE.

I found out that the better path for leveling are as follows:

 

1-20 = Juno (Newbie Quest and Elder Drake)

20-57 = Temple Of Forgetfulness 

57-87 = Tomb

87-140 = Floraim Cave 

140-165 = Tairan

It can be also break down into finer details as follows:

 

1-20 = Juno (Newbie Quest and Elder Drake)

20-31= Margardaam Jail

31-60 = Temple Of Forgetfulness (Back Pack Quest)

60-100 = Tomb Zombie and Sphinx Commander 

100-140 = Floraim Cave (Newbie Quest)

140-165 = Tairan Seeker or Rawhead 

The former path is harder but faster, while the latter path is easier but slower. It is design base on the Weapon we get at Level 20 with Guardian System and the other Gear Sets we get at Level 31, 42, 57, 87, 121 and 157. It is also taking into consideration of the Dual Class at Level 31, and other skills and additional gears and accessory at different level from other quests. 

With HP and MP Steal and Skill Cool Down, the strategy is to keep spamming skills. Leveling is fast till Level 100 and become slow from then onwards. It is good to know that the level cap is 165, but the lack of space to allow so many players to level make most of the popular spots very crowded.

The Phoenix Anti Cheat also cause a lot of issues as it recognize other version of the game, and the worst is that it doesn't reset when the client crash. Due to that reason, it might not be a good choice for replacement for Official Server. 

Phoenix Rebirth:

Been trolling a lot lately, below are some of the example:

Rogue going around PK

Crussty is looking for her

Spank her

Fifty Shades of Crussty 

NPC for Upgrade 

Same for Self Pleasure, Right Hand

Some call it Ex Sin

Original Sin will be Antonio and Angelina 

Halloween is coming 

I am already celebrating it

My wife wear mask before sleep

 

Phoenix:

 

Try out the new Phoenix Server today, don't really like it much. It is like a hybrid of Sanctuary and Aphelion, and after complete the Newbie Quest there are nothing much to be done other than Expedition. The stuffs they give also not impressive, and most of the good improvement from Aphelion are not implement.

 

It is like putting Aphelion Soul into Sanctuary Body, the look and feel is like Sanctuary while some of the concepts are from Aphelion. I get 1.5K of Cash for voting for Aphelion but only get 100 Cash for Phoenix, I get about 25 Cash per hour when I log on to Aphelion but I only get 5 Cash on Phoenix. There are Auto Ignition, Auto Pick Up, Premium Buffs, but there are no Auto Laca, Instant Moonstone, Offline Merchant.

It give +15 Set at different level instead of +20, and it only give Emblem and no Accessory. The only good thing is that there are Raid Boss at the 4 Basic Maps which drop Rare Accessory, so I might consider this as a replacement for Official Server. But I will have to make a few Raid Boss Hunters lock at different level to ensure they drop, it will be a repeated task as I already have the same setup on Official Server.