Transformers:

 Horizon:

Seem like they have underestimate the botter and decided to end the Christmas Event early, a lot of players are very unhappy about it. Even after the introduction of Anti Cheat they found out that some players are still able to find a way around it and continue to farm a lot of snow flake, it doesn't really affect the US server much as there are not much active players.

I was surprised that Spam Bot had YouTube Channel, not sure what kind of video they going to show. As usual they are in Merchant Mode and there us nothing much I can play with, I just have to ignore them until they come out with a solution to get rid of them completely. A lot of players think they are going to increase the level limit further from Level 50 to Level 100 for using world chat, but that is going to cause a lot of issues for other players.

For example god had start to feel lonely when he can't chat with other while he is SP Farming with his low level toon, a lot of newbie also unable to get any help which will be back to square one of them quitting the game. Raising the level limit also not effective as I had try before and prove that it can be done in just 4 to 6 hours, and delay of account registration also doesn't seem to work.

Overall we can see that they are just lazy to do the check themselves, and keep finding excuse that they are short in manpower. They also doesn't trust the Game Sage to give them more authority, and their selection of Game Sage prove to be doubtful after hearing a lot of players feedback that the Game Sage seem to target certain players without any reason and take thing personally just to show their power.

Aphelion:

Got another Rudolph pet, and I think I am going to get about 2 more when I transfer stuffs with merchant toon. Thing start to head in the good direction after they start to focus more, and the recent Christmas Event prove to be better as compare to Halloween. They should continue to improve and dare to be different instead of following other people footstep, that is what make them unique from other server and attract more players.

Happy New Year:

 Aphelion:

Manage to get 9 Rudolph, think will be able to get more before the event end. Anti wanted to give me a Legendary Dual Sword, but I had been happy with the normal one as I do not want to encounter any damage limit which most players had encountered. Manage to get Level 200 Armor Set for all my alternate after completing 6 sets which include 3 for Rogue, 1 for Mage, 1 for Sorcerer and 1 for Healer. Now the only thing left is to get the weapon for few of them.

Horizon:

Got about 3 Laca Costume so far, for Knight, Rogue and Mage. The one god give me when I give him the Baby Goat Pet was for Healer, guess I just need to get Titan, Sorcerer and Night Shadow to complete the collection. Still got about two weeks before the event end, mostly doing farming and pet leveling. The Laca Costume most likely will be giving away when I do Marie Kondo again before Christmas.

Hopefully I am able to get more potions from the Easter Event as I had transfer most of it to my pet leveler, at the moment I just try to get as many Heaven Stone Grade 5 as possible for future upgrade event. Been playing causally for the past few months and had built a reputation for myself as I had give away a lot of stuffs, guess the stuffs I am going to get from Loyalty Rewards will be mostly use for the Giveaway before Christmas too.

Spam Bot start to appear when New Year us near, guess they got some quota to meet like those scammer who keep calling me on my phone. They are smarter this time and set themselves in Merchant Mode so that a lot of my previous trick doesn't work on them, so in the end all the players had to just add them to Ignore List. It is a surprise to me that they still think it is worth the effort even though there are not much active players here, maybe a lot of players decided to give up on EU server and stay here for good.

Merry Christmas:

 Horizon:

Got 3 Laca Costume this year, Knight, Healer and Rogue. A lot of players claimed it is harder to get this year, but it doesn't really bother me much as I am not into cosplay. The other two horse are Level 56 and Level 53, guess I should be able to get two more horse mount by year end. Not sure if I want to continue leveling more horse after that, as I notice more players start to target pet leveler for no reason.

 P.S.:

 

 

Peanut got into a big fight with another player, as usual both of them think they are right and others are wrong. They can't really understand that it is just a game, they treat it like it is some kind of competition or their livelihood depend on it. Guess a lot of them had notice the increase in price for lot of stuffs as less players are going for the loyalty rewards and they are making it harder for players to get stuffs, they finally feel the pain of not much stuffs and not much gold while the OG just sit back and enjoy the whole drama.

Aphelion:

Been able to get 6 Rudolph this year, that is twice the amount I get as compare to last year. It is mainly because they give Token for every hour your toon stay online, and to my surprise the offline merchant get it too. I didn't even bother to do the Christmas Event Map this year as I am able to complete most of the quest from other means of getting the Decoration and Fragment, the Santa Claus one is harder to complete but I also manage to get 500 of each Fragment just from leveling a few pets. Now my only problem is to save up 30T of gold to get enough Curse Book for the pets to learn Buff Skill, I did get a lot of Pet Weapon and Armor from the Laca Ball.

They had come out with the Christmas Package this year, although they finally list the content of the package on Discord but due to the lack of Reborn Skip I am not really interested in it. Guess they are really worried about the drastic drop in players, and they are trying very hard to get all the old players back with rewards. The lack in management had cost them to lose a lot of loyal players over the months, and they should not have split their focus on two different server in the first place. Now Phoenix Server is completely dead with less than 50 players, not sure if Warth and Anaq still insist on staying there. Although Aphelion Server had seen a small increase in players to about 300, but most of them are old players which got bored of Phoenix Server and return instead of new players.

Advent Laca 2.0:

Horizon:

They had changed the Laca, but only White Token. It give Heaven Stone Grade 8, Socket Reset Scroll, Sublime Scroll, Red Lucky Pouch and Party Defense Potion. I manage to get 5 x Heaven Stone Grade 8, 14 x Socket Reset Scroll, 84 x Sublime Scroll, 291 x Red Lucky Pouch and 856 x Party Defense Potion from 1250 White Token.

They had increase the Christmas Tree Buff to Lvl 4 as usual, and mobs start to drop White Token. They had encountered a lot of botters for farming of Snow Flake, and there are players who had a few full stack of Fraction Iris. They decide to remove those full stacks as it will affect the economy of the game server, but not sure if it is really effective as the issue had been there for months.

P.S.:

Peanut seem to have a lot of hate in him, but he doesn't realized that nobody listen to his advice because it is bad. OG like god and Rick had been crazy about farming in Dark Tomb during Christmas Event since Gamigo time, but they had change their focus to Snow Flake since last Christmas. The reason behind it is that the rewards are better and it is so much easier, even after they Nerf the Christmas Event a lot this year still doesn't really change the fact.

After he realized that he will be stuck with all the stuffs he farm from both Christmas Event and Loyalty Rewards, he start to change his attitude and start selling them at higher price now. He should have realized that earlier since he had been having a lot of argument with Rick over the price of stuffs for months, so I am not sure that his recent changes is due to his fit of anger or finally open himself up to accept reality.

Pet Experience:

 

Horizon:

Had try out using Experience Pet to level P2 Pet using Pet Cool Down, from Level 1 to Level 40 still level normally. Start transferring experience from Exp Pet to P2 Pet from Level 40 onward with every kill and using Pet CD after that, it will need about 33 Pet CD to get to Level 50 and 63 Pet CD to reach Level 60. Manage to get two Kai to Battle and a Ursus to Nanook, now in progress of getting 4 more Elephant to Level 60 and 2 more Polar Bear to Nanook.

Try killing Christmas Boss with other players as usual, but the drop rate is bad with only Rick getting a Rein Deer Pet Collar after few days. That useless Game Sage had been trying to argue that the drops for Christmas Boss are different from Halloween Boss, it is that same as saying that the Christmas Candy are different from Halloween Candy. Christmas Event is just a Copy Cat of the Halloween Event, and as usual they try to boost about the minor changes as if they had put in a lot of effort into making the new patch.

The Seven Wonder of Horizon still continue to think they own the server as they continue to offer low price for buying stuffs, and the OG continue to laugh at them and keep their stuffs for their own use. We can see a lot of them are unable to get the stuffs they need during events, and the OG just ignore them and enjoy the fruits of their labor with all the stuffs they had save up over the years. And seem like a lot of them are also not prepared for the Advent Laca and start to envy the OG for getting so many good stuffs from it, guess they had only themselves to blame as they do not believe or listen to the OG advise when it was reveal to them few months before the event start.

 

Aphelion:

Manage to get another Rudolph with 20K Tokens, think should be able to get another 1 or 2 more before the event end. Now the issue is to save up enough gold to get the Curse Book for the Buff Skill, been using a lot for getting B8 gears for my Royal Knight, Ex Ranger and Arch Wizard.

Christmas Event:

 Aphelion:

Christmas Event had started, they try to follow the Official Server this year. There is Ornament Decoration to Christmas Tree and it will drop Christmas Gifts and give Christmas Buffs, but due to the lack of players and the Christmas Quest that require Ornament and Santa Fragment I don't think it will work out well. They had put out Christmas Package this year and claimed that it is better than Black Friday, but as the players doesn't know what they are going to get from the package most still waiting for more information before they would buy it.

They had come up with Instant Level to Level 165 for new toon with Level 165 +30 Gears to help Newbie, but they did not consider the farming of Pictorial Book stuffs. So I think all my toons which are lock at different level for farming seem like a very good idea from the start, it is not that it is not possible to do so now but using Reborn would seem like a hassle as you need to reach max level for it.

The other game Lineage II Revolution which I had played before also hit rock bottom when they start Instant Level, it was still not so bad when they let Newbie jump direct to Level 80 or 90 but it become bad when they raise it to Level 260 and Level 320. A lot of Newbie are lost as they did not really farm Core from mobs and have no ideas on how to use them or how to progress with Daily Quest.

Horizon:

Christmas Event had also started, nothing much different from last year except Christmas Boss Mythrandor which is similar to Halloween Boss at Tairan Ice Lake which got chance to drop Reindeer Collar and Christmas Title. Overall Christmas Event still much better as compare to Halloween, as it give Drop Rate Buff and better rewards. Players will be divided between farming in Dark Tomb and farming for Snow Flake again like last year, but their main focus will still be Christmas Boss like what happen on this year Halloween.

They had start a new Ascension System and rework Alber Map with new Boss, Ascension System still cater to high level players as it just give better buff with the amount of experience over a short period of time, but Alber Map rework is a expectation from most players for years. They had a lot of plans for the future to make the game into higher resolution, but their progress still consider very slow as we have not see Codeless Migration and Pet Transfer until now.

It might be another empty promise as usual as they had already finding excuses on the delay on new update before they even started, but as long as they are still making improvement to the game there will always be a few loyal fans who ignore their short listings and start singing their praises for the small achievements. As long as they keep the players happy and not make any stupid mistakes they should continue to survive for another few more years, this seem to be a living nightmare for most private server as a few of them who try to copy the ideas didn't really end up well.

Advent Laca:

 Horizon:

Advent Laca has started, a lot of players try to clear the Dark Orb one before they Nerf it. Guess most players had more than 10K of Dark Orb due to SP Farming, Booster Farming and Sin Killer Affinity, a lot of them try to sell them cheap as they might not have enough time to clear it themselves.

There are six Advent Laca, Rain of Streiana which give Pet XP Pot, Super Lucky Draw Box, White Token, Butcher Box and Chicken Noodle Soup. Sand of Dratan which give Jewel Box for Hero, Oscar Precious Box, White Token, Chaos Jewel Pocket Grade 2 and Grade 1.

 

Super Lucky Draw Box:

• Large Defense Potion
• Large Attack Potion
• Lucky Smelting Stone
• Rejuvenation Potion
• Platinum Refining Stone +1 to +5 (1 Day)
• Blue Rune of Protection
• Greatest Mana Potion
• Heaven Stone
• Rune of Protection
• Silver Rune of Protection

 

 Jewel Box for Hero:

• Jewel Pocket Grade 1 x 25
• Jewel Pocket Grade 2 x 20
• Jewel Pocket Grade 3 x 15
• Jewel Pocket Grade 4 x 10
• Jewel Pocket Grade 5 x 5
• Chaos Jewel Pocket Grade 1 x 10
• Chaos Jewel Pocket Grade 2 x 8
• Chaos Jewel Pocket Grade 3 x 6
• Chaos Jewel Pocket Grade 4 x 4
• Chaos Jewel Pocket Grade 5 x 2

 

Oscar's Precious Box:

 

Health Potion

Mana Potion 

Great HP Boost Potion 

Great MP Boost Potion 

Experience Potion 1-Day

Medium Medicine x 10

Strong Medicine x 5

Rejuvenation Potion x 100

Platinum Tool Aid x 10

Curse Remedy Scroll 

Summon Book x 3

HP Steal Potion

MP Steal Potion 

Pet Name Tag 

Blessed Iris 

Platinum Training Spell 

Random Booster 

Platinum Adrenaline 

Memory Scroll Expansion Card 

Ascadia Chest 

Ascadia Box

 

Treant Fruit which give Platinum Pet XP Pot, Candle, White Token, Pet Fairy Box 1 Day, Holy Water of Charge. Platinum Rune of Protection which give Heaven Stone Grade 3, Sublime Scroll, Gold Rune of Protection, Platinum Medium Quick Mana Pot, Golden Mag.

Cracked Spear which give 5 x Darkness Key, Strong Med, White Token, Medium Med and Holy Water of Miracle. Dark Orb which give Platinum Super Skill Pill, 5 x SP Booster, White Token, Effort Scroll and Platinum Dual Recovery Large Pot.

From the above we can see that they still didn't put in much effort on the planning of Advent Laca, the most obvious one being the Platinum Rune of Protection getting a lesser reward of Golden Rune of Protection. The good thing is that they actually use Dark Orb as Advent Laca, but I would predict they will start to Nerf it again like last year after they realize that players have too much of it and could exploit it and cause further damage to the weak economy.

From the rewards of White Token and Butcher Box, we would expect Pets Parts to be one of the Advent Laca soon. If not it doesn't make any sense to have so many Pets Parts as the Dragon Weapon and Knightmare Armor doesn't really serve much purpose unless they make some improvement on it.

 

P.S.:

 

 Got about 40 Platinum Super Skill, 12K White Token, 1.7K SP Booster, 2.6K Effort Scroll and 6K Platinum Dual Recovery Large Pot from 10K Dark Orb.