Horizon:
9th Horse almost complete, 10th Horse also going to be Level 53 soon. The constant harassment from Elemental Boss Hunter doesn't seem to affect me much, but I did notice a lot of pet leveler had given up. Caugs was surprised that I had level more horse than him, guess I got more determination than him and my method of higher hit rate work better than his method of weapon penalty.
Manage to find another 3K of Chocolate cheap at 600K, guess Jouzsi and Voyuer doesn't really see the value of it. Even Just Shot also get bored of wrapping his 3K of Chocolate, from his initial offering of 65% and 35% split to his recent offer of 50% and 50% split can easily see that he doesn't really had the patient to do it.
Got about 2.8K of Potion and Scroll, 2.2K of Moon Stone Box and 70 Extreme Stone, from the data collected we can see that there is about 77% Chance of getting Moon Stone Box and 12% Chance of getting Extreme Stone. Those Potions should be able to last me for more than 10 years instead of the original 5 years which I had expected.
Spending about 5.4M for 9 Chocolate and getting 5 x Moon Stone Box (1M), 5 x Effort Scroll (1M), Experience Scroll (5M), 5 x Power and Berserk Potions (50M) and getting stuffs which worth about 100 times more is still worth the effort. Although economy is not really that good right now, but I foresee those stuffs will worth 10 times more when the economy finally recover.
Aphelion:
Still enjoy the game play better as it is an improve version of official, the biggest mistake that official had make is to remove Cube Buff and the Elemental System. By doing so they had affect PVE a lot while they try to balance PVP, I didn't really see much issue on private server even though they do not have any Elemental System. The ease of getting Buffs, Golds and other stuffs like Gear and Accessory doesn't really affect the economy much as they monitor the situation closely and make changes accordingly to bring it back on track.
The excess of stuffs also make the server more friendly with players willing to give stuffs away free to help other players, this is completely opposite on official server as most players are more selfish and mostly think about their own gain and loss. The improvement and changes also seem to be very slow and minor on official server and they seem to take longer time to resolve issues, this is something that they are unable to surpass the private server even though they had more resources.
Valentine Event had started, it will run for a week. I had brought 2K of Large Chocolate cheap from Trading Agent during Christmas last year, it will give about 1.1K of Potions. As it take a lot of time to wrap the Chocolate and put it in Box, I decided to do about 400 per day. The drop rate for chocolate is very low, I only get about 3 to 6 of it after an hour of farming.
I finally realize why my potions almost run out before the Christmas Event ended, I was able to save some for my pet leveler. Found out that the Loyalty Costume is not tradable, but at least it is permanent. Now I got to wear skirt, don't think I will be able to wait till the new design to come out. Not sure what I am going to do with the Level 185 Jump Box which I will be getting next month, think they will be giving Speed Mount instead of Experience Pet this time.
I am keeping all the stuffs from Loyalty Rewards till the economy recover, guess a lot of players are going to had a hard time getting the stuffs they need. I think they will have to do a Gold Reset before they are able to fix the economy, but I foresee some smart ass will spend all of it on Golden Magnifying Glass again. I am not sure why they are so obsess with getting good seal fro reform, even jewel seem insignificant improvement to me.
Aphelion:
The new patch had remove a lot of useless stuffs, it also improve the stuffs we get. But I still feel the Level 165 direct start is a very bad idea, as it is very easy to achieve it. Notice a lot of new players seem to be lost without the proper quest to guide them on the usual game play, and they seem to lose interest fast and quit. Guess they still got to strike a balance between easy game play and content to keep players interested, the lack of events is still a shortfall which they are still unable to overcome till now.
I still prefer the time before the Level Cap increase to Level 220, I feel that the game is still better before they Nerf the AOE Pet. A lot of changes they make after that seem childish and stupid to me, and I have not really done much of it till now. So far I still like most of the stuffs as compare to official, but I didn't really see much improvement after the Level 220 patch.
Horizon:
Been busy with Chinese New Year for the past weeks, haven't been playing much since then. The server seem death with not much activity after Peanut keep asking players to shut up and quit, doesn't really bother me much as I got better server to play. He is just digging his own grave as he will suffer more as there are less players to farm for stuffs and the economy will never recover and he will not be able to sell or buy any stuffs.
Guess I had trigger his rage again just by making a witty remarks which is related to the question other player ask, the is nothing wrong with my comment as the question ask for the location of a Missionary Boss for the Vald Entry Quest and position is another name to replace location. I foresee he will either quit or get banned after some time and the server will be better without him around.
As the saying goes Love is a Sensation that is caused by Temptation, when a boy put his Location into girl Destination, to ensure the Population for the next Generation, do you understand the Explanation or you need a Demonstration? Some people just doesn't have a sense of humor and decided to bring his own misery to others.
Aphelion:
Other than the normal routine of going around killing Boss in the morning, I pretty much spend the rest of the day AFK at Immortal Boss. I think I will start farming for B8 Gears again and complete my Level 220 Rune, or start farming for Level 200 Gears and Level 190 AOE Skill Books since they are on demand these days. Just waiting for Easter Event as it is boring on both side without any events at the moment, not sure if there will be any changes for the upcoming events.
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Horizon:
They had ask for suggestion for the next Loyalty Rewards Costume, I make use of Meta AI from WhatsApp to create some design which I think are awesome. As it is not really very smart to understand my idea, only 2 out of 6 are chosen while I Google the remaining. I will predict that they will be asking for our suggestion again when they plan to come out with the new Loyalty Rewards Pet, guess the Game Sage they had choose are not able to give them better suggestion as they had copy most of it from private server.
Peanut had been throwing his temper these days, he had been asking a lot of players which he doesn't like to shut up and quit the game. I am not sure why he still think he own the server and not sure why they even choose him as a Game Sage in the first place. He is the reason most players decided to leave the server, and most players think he should be the one that suppose to shut up and quit the game.
He must have been facing a lot of difficulty in real life, but he should not have bring his emotion into the game. I guess he had finally realized that he had been losing out a lot by selling his Loyalty Rewards stuffs cheap and end up with not much gold to buy the stuffs he need now. It doesn't really take a genius to figure that out early, but it really goes to show how dumb he is to only realized it now.
Think it wouldn't be long before they remove him as a Game Sage when they realize that the server is dead after a lot of players left because of a few lousy Game Sage who doesn't know much about the game. Or he might decide to quit the game himself after he realized that he is not the most popular guy on the server.
Aphelion:
A lot of players are back after they decided to finally shut down the Phoenix Server, guess Goofy had finally realized that his direction that he is moving toward making it more like official server had been a bad idea. Not sure if he manage to find out who is the one who had been leading him in the wrong direction, but we are grateful that things are going to be slowly going back to normal.
Have been busy preparing for Chinese New Year for the past few weeks and had never been active much on both server. As there are no interesting events happening on both server after the Christmas Event end, there are really nothing much to do other than farming for stuffs and leveling pets.
P.S.:
Never see Peanut talk much after a few days, I am guessing either he got warning from the administration or he finally realized that he is the one that should shut up and quit the game instead. But at least it is a good thing for the community as the one that keep making issue is gone, it is more like a Karma thing as you had to consider the consequences before you act.
I really like the layout of the map with NPC at various location which cover most of the area so that we do not have to waste time running around, it even have portal which allow teleport in both direction to make it easy. I find the quests are a bit off as I seem to level pass most of the mob before I complete the quest, and the level of the mob for the same quest seem to vary more than 6 levels which make the lower level mob already turn blue before we complete it.
This is very obvious from the start where I had to go back and kill lower level mob after I had already level pass it, and I try to repeat the process just to get a confirmation. The most obvious example is when I finally get the quest to go Velpist Temple after killing Level 27 Blood Wolf, and the quest in Velpist Temple require me to kill Level 10 Wandering Zombie, Level 12 Ancient Zombie and Level 14 Berserk Zombie.
As the mob had already turn blue, it will not give any drops which defeat the purpose of the quest. I am also unable to kill Level 27 Blood at Level 15 or lower so that I could ensure that Level 10 Wandering Zombie will still be green, so I foresee this will be a major issue for most players. The rewards for the quests had also been change to ensure we get better stuffs that are useful, it also give us the option to choose between different items depend on which one we think we will need more.
But overall I will say it is still not Newbie Friendly, as I also face difficulty at lower level before I complete my apprenticeship. The new update that the official server had make seem to be the better option with +15 gears at different level which allow us to complete apprenticeship easily. I notice that the Starter PBI and PSSP had been increase from 1 to 5 but the level limit did not increase from Level 35 to Level 50.
This will make it useless as we only able to use 1 when we do Prokion Temple and we will encounter a bottle neck at around Level 40 when we went to do the Jail Dungeon at Merac. Official Server ways of giving LI and Boosters seem to backfire when they are unable to stop Spam Bot from using World Chat as they are able to get to Level 50 easily, and stopping low level from using World Chat seem to be a bad idea all along.
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.
