Monster Hunter Outlander:

Try out a new mobile game recently named Monster Hunter Outlander, it is similar to the Monster Hunter game which I had played long time ago and it is adapted from the Movie. It is about killing monsters and get their parts for crafting strong weapon and armor.

Overall the gaming experience had been good with lots of places to explore and lots of quests to complete. The control of the fight is also much easier as compared to the Where Winds Meet which I try out not long ago.

Different monster got different weakness against certain element, just have to equip with the one which deal more damages. There are 7 different weapon to choose from, Heavy Blow Gun, Bow, Dual Blade are Easy while Long Sword, Great Sword, Lance, Hammer are Moderate and Charge Blade been the Hardest .

List of Codes and Rewards:

 

mho1029

Rutacoins x200

Zenny x20000

mhogohunt

Mega Potion x3

Antidote x3

Energy Drink x3

Zenny x2000

Verdant Dew x5

famitsumho2026

(NA, Europe, and Japan servers only) Zenny x2000

Energy Drink x3

Antidote x3

Mega Potion x3

Halloween Event:

 

   

 

 Halloween Event had started, Episode 5 Update also launch just few days before the event with New Huntress Class and New Sylvalis Map with Level 210 Level Cap. I am not so much interest in the New Content as I had try and found the 6 Sec Cool Down make it hard to level. I just focus more on Pumpkin Hunting as I still prefer the easier ways of farming stuffs with low level toon.

 

The pumpkin location now show on the map which make it easier for us, but I find the map interface kind of interfere with my line of slight often. I had found a way of using another toon to party and see the map on my dual screen for easy operation. After getting a lot of mask, I finally manage to drop a puppy leash. Heard other get it easier with Boss.

 

Pumpkin Rewards:

 

    10 Firecrackers.

    1 Curse Removal Scroll.

    1 Halloween Token Box.

    1 Experience Booster.

    1 Affinity Booster Seed.

    1 Mystic Moonstone.

    1 Higher Purified Rune Ore.

    1 HP steal potion (1 hour).

    1 MP steal potion (1 hour).

 

There are Golden Pumpkin which give 5 Pumpkins and also give Mask and Puppy Leash if you are lucky.

 

 

Halloween Boss Rewards:

1x Legendary Iris
1x Legendary Skill Pill
1x Platinum Affinity Booster
1x HP Steal Potion (2 hours)
1x MP Steal Potion (2 hours)
5x Lucky Scroll
5x Experience Scroll
5x Effort Scroll
10x Red Lucky Pouch
10x Experience Booster
10x Skill Point Booster
10x Item Drop Booster
10x Affinity Booster Seed
10x Gold Booster
“Keeper of the Pumpkin Night” title (once per character)
Halloween Puppy Leash
Halloween class mask

 

Phoenix Vs Non Phoenix:

 

Horizon:

Both Ex Ranger are planned for lock at Level 150 to farm Sio Affinity and kill Skeleton General, one is Phoenix while the other is not. Overall the Non Phoenix is able to level up faster as it is able to do Vald Quest as Phoenix Toon are glitch. Phoenix Toon are able to get Atk and Def Buff until Level 120 and also get extra Stat, but that doesn't really make much different at about 5% to 10%.

As there are Max Level Phoenix Ticket now and the Atk and Def Buff doesn't work after Level 121, with the ability to level up fast these days it doesn't seem to matter that much like before. Been busy with a lots of stuffs in real life and doesn't seem to get much time to play but the Anniversary seem to keep extending and I had already exceed the 1K Candles target long time back.

After searching for long time I finally manage to find some Level 13 and 14 Coral and Chaos Coral, but since I had already fully jeweled all my toon I will just keep them as back up for future use. A lot of new players are unable to get most of the stuffs they need, they are not willing to offer higher price for the stuffs. Most OG players would rather keep the stuffs for their own use or wait for economy to recover. 

 

Project Zodiac Part 2 and Project Recycle 2.0:

 

Horizon:

Make use of the 500% XP and 150% Dungeon Time Events to level up a few toons from my Project Zodiac Part 2 and  Project Recycle, of course I had manage to upgrade their gears during the 200% Upgrade Event before that. Both Project Zodiac Part 2 and Project Recycle are half way through with most of the toons which are Level 136 and below completed, only left a few toons which are above Level 136 prepared with Mond Entry completed.

The remaining toons are Level 150 Ex Ranger, Level 155 Specialist and Level 174 Ex Ranger, planning to slowly level them in Tairan when there are other 500% XP Event available. The Level 150 Ex Ranger and Level 155 Specialist are plan for Mondshine to farm Sio Affinity and Skeleton General Boss, the Level 174 Ex Ranger is plan for Tairan to farm HS5 on Ghoul. Although I had already had Level 150 Cleric and Level 164 Ex Ranger for those purpose, it will be good to have additional back up in case I need it in the future.

The same goes for the Level 185 Ex Ranger which I use for Lab and Rammy, I had also created another Level 185 RK and NS for the same purpose too. Still not sure what I am going to use for those Project Recycle toons yet as I had already had other toons that serve the same purpose, maybe just play around with them when I am bored and see how far they can go. There are also Level 102 RK and Level 122 Ranger from Project Zodiac Part 2 that need to work on due to some hiccup, but that is not really a big issue as I just have to wait for another 200% Upgrade Event and 500% SP Event to fix that.

 P.S.:

Manage to complete the Veteran Quest for the Level 102 RK, got enough Skill Point to learn the skill. Will slowly complete all the Veteran Quest for other toons, after all of them are ready I will start trying out their skills. So far I found that I can maintain continue Level 2 Ignition until Egeha, not sure if Project Power Ranger had the potential to continue. At least I am able to try out all classes and found that Ex Ranger are better with higher damage, even those classes with AOE are unable to maintain continue Level 2 Ignition like Ex Ranger. 

Project Zodiac Part 2, Project Recycle and Project Power Ranger:

 

Horizon:

The preparation for this project had been completed last year, as I am still in the progress of doing Project Zodiac Part 2 and trying to get the remaining three guilds to Level 50. I am not sure when I will start on this project, but I foresee it will be able to keep me occupied till the end of the year like the previous Project Ferrari. I will try to update on the progress as I am doing it like the previous projects, as I will most likely start doing it when there are no events so that I will be able to maintain a constant data for the final analysis.

At the present moment I had already halfway through another project which I named Project Recycle where I try to make new toon just to equip the left over Weapon and Armor Set, the Weapon are all -20 with -10 seal together with Level 10 Chaos Opal. I did try to give away some during the previous Christmas Giveaway but seem that no players really want it, and I had also manage too get a few more over the years and they are taking up precious inventory space.

I had completed the Level 89 and Level 113 Assassin, and there are still Level 110 Night Shadow, Level 113 Witch and Arch Wizard, Level 155 Specialist to complete. The Project Zodiac Part 2 also still in progress with Level 15 Mage, Level 30 Mage, Level 43 Wizard and Level 70 Archer completed, there are still Level 102 Royal Knight, Level 122 Ranger, Archer, Specialist, War Master, Level 132 Witch, Level 136 Night Shadow, Level 150 Ex Ranger, Level 174 Ex Ranger and Level 180 Night Shadow left to complete.

 P.S.:

Manage to level the first Power Ranger to Level 130 and complete the Mond Entry in just 3 hours, didn't want to start early but I need toon to be Merchant to trade the Anniversary Weapon Cover. Since there is 150% Dungeon Time, I can level fast and get over it before I leave it for testing later for higher level. I was planning to level the second one but I will stop at Level 124 after 2 hours and leave the Vlad Entry, Vlad Quest and Mond Entry for later as it is getting late and I got to wake up early for my course.

 1 : Goblin grenadier
2 : Nomad Berserker
3 : Wild Berserker
4 : Rotfang Demon
5 : Dominated Rogue
6 : Goblin Fighter
7 : Elite Goblin Knight
8 : Goblin Worrior
9 : Sobbing Soul
10 : Raging Soul
11 : Remnant Sorcerer
12 : Dominated Sorcerer
13 : Dominated Mage
14 : Dominated Titan
15 : Dominated Knight
16 : Dominated Healer
17 : Plague Harpy
18 : Claw Harpy

The efficient way to complete Vlad Quest are as follows:

Accept all quests in town and buy Red Charm

Kill Titan, Knight and Healer

Accept quest from NPC nearby

Kill Hacate and Submit Charm to Horn

Kill Soul

Kill Sorcerer

Accept quests from Fang and save location on Memory Scroll

Kill Goblin

Kill Aguares

Kill Berserker

Kill Moloch and Save Mine Location on Memory Scroll

Kill Rogue

Kill Demon

Kill Mazazuu

Kill Harpy and Bael and Save Center Location on Memory Scoll

Recall back to Town

 

Accept quests and buy Blue Charm

Kill Goblin

Recall back to Town

 

Accept quests

Kill Goblin

Kill Demon

Submit Charm to Horn

Recall back to Town

 

Kill Levithan

Recall back to Town 

 

Game Mechnics:

 Horizon:

A lot of players had been playing the game like no brainer, they did not have the curiosity to explore to understand more about the hidden secrets or how it is design to work that way. I had discovered a few over the years and decided to share it for the benefit of the majority, if they had been reading my blog they would have known a few which I posted in the Chaos Theory.

The charging of ignition is related to the amount of SP the mobs give, I had manage to discover it when I realized that I am able to charge and activate two different level of ignition when I am doing SP Farming on Sassy. I had also recently discovered that I am able to maintain continuous Level 2 Ignition with my Level 90 Ex Ranger on Cursed Weaver and Curse Lich at Egeha.

The coming Project Power Ranger will be testing different level mobs for SP Farming to see if this theory is correct, I had all the resources I need with different level armor sets and weapons with different weapon using Level 10 Chaos Opal which allow -10 Level and Level 2 Chaos Black Pearl for 15% Weapon Attack. I am also in the progress of getting my three other Guilds to Level 50 while trying out the AOE Skills for Project Zodiac Part 2, so basically I will be busy till the end of the years with so many tasks planned.

Recently they are having Artifact Event, there are a lot of dramas as usual. But why the wings are equip as an accessories instead of a back pack? As the event is design in such a way that the players need to combine the artifact, it is only possible to do it with accessories instead of back pack as the game had already design a accessories combination box at Merchant Geres like the other combination box for crafting minerals or upgrading Moonstones.

Now what about the Herb Knife, Energy Collector Pick Axe and Hammer for harvesting materials for crafting? As different class had different weapon and the harvesting tools are equip at the Weapon Slot, it will not be possible to design a common harvesting tools for all class. So that will be a thing that most players had to accept and continue to live with it for the rest of their life as it will be too much work for the developer to change such a minor issue.

And until now I still convince that the Pet Exp Gain is every 3 hits instead of 3.5 seconds as I had notice every dual class had different type of weapon which one is with lower attack but faster speed while the other is with higher attack and lower speed. Even the hit rate really make a different as I had tested with low level toon on high level mobs before.

The dual class are also design in such way that one is better for PVE while the other is better for PVP, a lot of players would disagree with it as it had change a lot over the years when they try to balance the PVP system so that all class will not have unfair advantage over the other class. Even the skills are also meant to counter each other like the previous elemental system which they had remove where a lot of players are unable to understand it.

There are a lot of good design which had been change over the years which they did it just to please the majority which is more towards PVP and it had affected those who are interested in PVE, and elemental system is one of those which help to reduce the effects between both side if they can really understand why the game is design this way before they decide to make any unnecessary changes which will bring more issue to the game.

The only thing I am still trying to figure out is why I can only upgrade the Pet Weapon and Armor with LSS, CSS and ES, it would be better if we can get those to +30 instead of just +15 if we are able to use Heaven Stone. I am not sure if Master Stone will work for that as I do not have the resources to try it out yet, also not sure if I would want to waste any PRS on it as it will only last for 30 days.

Really miss the good old days during Aeria time where we got so much more players and discuss about everything related to the game in the forum and can even come out with so many formula to calculate Upgrade Bonus, Pet Cool Down, Pet Exp Gain, Pet Hunger, etc. They should really give us a PHD for playing this game as it really require a lot of knowledge to prove a lot of theories. 

Future Proof:

Pandora:

Manage to find some Level 13 and 14 Chaos Corals, all my toon on this server are getting 60K to 80K HP. Situation seem to improve on this server after the transfer as it had become easier to get stuffs after some players transfer some of their toon and stuffs here, but the situation had become worst on Horizon with some Osiris players enforcing their bad culture and hogging limited resources.

The main issue is that they always offer to buy stuffs at half the market price and expect to sell their stuffs at double the market price, they are treating other players like an idiot and keep claiming that they are new with not much gold and expect other players to do some charity and give them stuffs for free. But since the situation had improved on Pandora with more players and more stuffs it is not logical that Osiris players did not bring their stuffs over to Horizon.

There might be another explanation for the current situation on Horizon, some old players might be using the opportunity to make new toon just to scam other players which I know a few of them who had done the same before. As I had encounter a lot of ungrateful players in the past, I had decided to ignore most of their request for help. This is not a very good sign for the server as there might be genuine new players who really need all the help they could get, but there are too many of them who display the same profile behavior that fit those old players who had disappear suddenly and haven't been seen actively on other server as they had claimed.

Since the situation had improved a lot on Pandora and I had get use to the lifestyle there, I guess I will be playing more on that server in the future. Unless the situation on Horizon start to improve I will continue to ignore all the drama they trying to start just to get my attention, it will also be good for me as they had no idea what I am doing now and start showing signs of them going crazy over it.

P.S.:

Notice a lot of players from IMPERIO Guild are farming at Wafe for the Easter Event, not sure if they are getting good drop rate for that. I think TOF will be a better choice as usually we get 50% more drop from dungeons, even those high level are farming in Dark Tomb and Lab. 

Notice a lot of new players start to get frustrated and want to quit, this is mainly because they are unable to get help from other players or get the  stuffs they need at lower price. They are also unable to sell any of their stuffs at higher price too, and all these had make it hard for them to survive.