Aphelion:
Farming for Pictorial Book had been smooth for low level, but it became challenging from Tomb onward. The Accessory doesn't really drop often and it take up inventory space as it doesn't stack. Decided to take a break and side track to level a few toon to Level 165, as I had the knowledge and experience it is a piece of cake and I manage to do it in about two to three hours.
I first complete the Starter Quest to get the Wing and Premium Character, it is a bit challenging to kill Newbie Hunter Boss at Level 20 with Event Weapon and Level 5 Ignition. It will be more advisable to do it at Level 31 when you get better gears, after that you can use the Premium Character for the Auto Pick Up and go Tomb.
Tomb will level fast without Platinum Blessed Iris, as I had Shiva on all the toon the whole process became so much faster and easier. The only issue is that the AOE doesn't work for Titan, so I can only use it as normal battle pet. I kill Screaming Zombie until I reach Level 87 and get the new gears set, then I move on to kill Skill Book Boss and other mob to complete the Starter Quest.
I will reach Level 100 and go back to town to get the Weekly and Veteran Quest, then I will go back to Tomb to complete the quest before I move on to Floriam Cave to continue with my other quest and level up. I will kill Lilit until I get to Level 121 and get the new gear set, then I will use about 150 to 200 Large Exp Tonic with PBI at Estella to get to Level 151.
I will go to Misty Crayon and kill Chaser until Level 157, it will give me the new gear set. Other than Titan, the rest of the other Class did not get the Helmet but got the Level 165 Set instead. It now give five Rune and three 5x Attack Accessory, I will socket it and meld some jewel do reform for Rune and Gear and Reforge for Gear.
As the Accessory cannot be reform, I need 15 Legendary Scroll, 15 Chaos Tourmaline, 12 Platinum Advance Reformer, 14 Reforge Catalyst and 2600 Golden Magnifying Glass for each toon. I was short of 45 Chaos Tourmaline and 18 Reforge Catalyst for two to three toon, but manage to get it from Foxy. He had been helping a lot of newbie recently, and I had help him farm a lot of AOE Skill Book.
I had manage to get War Master, Cleric, Wizard, Ex Ranger and Night Shadow to reach Level 165 by alternate between Tairan Center and Misty Crayon to complete the Starter Quest to get the Level 165 Set and do the Daily Quest to get the Chao Jewel and Token. With the Royal Knight, Specialist and Elementalist and my main toon, I now have 9 toons to farm about 18K of Token Daily.
Went to try out different toon, found that their MP drain fast when spamming AOE Skill. At least the 8.8K of MP Steal Potion now become useful, just had to find some purpose for the Super Haste Potion. War Master AOE had shorter range so I had to get close to mob for that, Wizard AOE had wider range and doesn't need target so it is much better for farming.
Cleric and Night Shadow AOE had a time delay, so had to target slightly before the mob so that it will get max damage when they move toward you. Royal Knight and Ex Ranger AOE is direction, Specialist and Elementalist AOE is Area Range so overall I find this four class are much easier to use.
Night Shadow, Ex Ranger and Specialist also not as Over Power as what the other player claim after the new patch, although their skill power indicate higher value but after trying them out I still find some disadvantage due to their defense, attack and speed in some way. Ex Ranger Buff is also very short and need to keep rebuffing very often, Elementalist Element Summon had been change to the Elemental Boss.
Found out that Cleric doesn't had Holy Bless, Wizard had Haste and Premium Character Windy Buff is Level 4 instead of Level 2, this had made all my buff toon useless now. Also now that the Egeha entry limit had been raise to Level 200 so I change the Witch from Egeha to Tomb for farming for Pictorial Book. Bloodymir also can be completed without any farming so I change the Specialist to farm in Trivia Valley instead.
The rest still remain the same for Mondshine, Chapel and Dark Altar, even Floriam Cave and Tairan also remain the same. The Four Realms and Summer Map would be very challenging, and I will not be doing those which require useful stuffs. Think it will take a few weeks or months to complete everything I had planned, so Horizon Server will be neglected until they start a good event.
PS:
Decided to change Cleric to Archer, did a try run on all toon to see how fast they can complete the Tairan Daily Quest. Ex Ranger did best at about 16 mins, then is Archer at about 17 mins and Royal Knight at about 18 mins. Night Shadow, Specialist and Elementalist complete at about 19 mins, Wizard complete at about 22 mins and War Master complete at about 25 mins.
From the above result we can see why some class are more popular and better for PVE, guess they are more into PVP when they say Night Shadow and Specialist are better than Archer and Royal Knight. Still prefer Royal Knight and Assassin better mainly for their Attack and Speed, don't really like other class due to their Low Defense and Slow Speed.
