Pumpkin:

Horizon:

 Never  really play much since they Nerf the drop rate and having IP Block, the server are also not active during the weekdays. Avatar finally decided to buy the Werewolf Pet at 40B instead of trying to get from pumpkins, but he is still not happy after he got the pet. Well at least I don't have to keep my promise of giving him the pet when I get one, between Happiness and Misery he still prefer to choose the latter. There is nothing much I can do to help him, it is his own personal choice.

Aphelion:

Finally manage to get Rune of Fire, it was by chance that I encounter a Fire Serpent at Four Realm while hunting Boss. The Fire Trophy it drop are enough for me to get a lot of Paragon Box from Laca Ball, if I try to get the Shard from Daily Quest it will take about 25 Days with 200 Shard per day from killing Boss at Extreme Juno. Now I can level pet even faster, the pet shop business had been very good as there are a lot of new players joining.

 

Manage to get Avatar to join the Spawn Event, get a lot of Empty Basket and Pumpkin from the Halloween Boss Box. I am also not sure how I manage to get two stack of 9999 Box while I am killing the Pumpkin Boss, I ask Avatar if he get any but he say he only get a few pumpkin. I give him one of the stack and he got 100K of pumpkin from it, I only get about 50K of pumpkin so I think he lie about not getting any rewards.

 

Since there is a Pet Quest Scroll that need 25K of pumpkin, I decided to try it. It end up getting the same Pumpkin Pet only with 1K additional Cash, but it require 125 Voucher instead of 5. So it is still better to spend some time opening the pumpkin for rewards. The same goes with Token, Moonstone and Chaos Ball, it is better to use them to get rewards instead of selling them. The value of the rewards are always worth more than the price you sell them, unless you are really lazy to spend time to get the rewards.

 

I am not sure why a lot of players still prefer the other server than this, maybe it is because they are afraid of losing superior status. But if you already had the knowledge and experience, you will still be able to achieve what you had on other server. What is even best is that there are always helpful players who are willing to give you what you need, and you will be able to do the same after you had play for a while.

Nerf and Bingo:

  

 

Horizon:

 

The drop rate had been Nerf, usually it take 30 mins to fill up my inventory but now it took an hour. There is no point holding an event if they are going to Nerf the drop rate, might as well let players sit around all day and do nothing. A lot of lag spike and disconnection too, what even worst is that the IP Block is back again. Not sure how long will it last, but I really can't be bother to use VPN just to play a lousy game.

 

Aphelion:

 

Manage to be the only one to find Game Sage Didine in Dratan and also the first to find him  in Tairan in Bonus Round during the Race Event. He told me that I will receive a Mystery Key for additional prize on the website from the Game Master, I am not much bother about it as they always forget about sending me the prize. 

Game Sage Til Death came out with another challenging event call Item Bingo, took me a while to figure it out but still confuse when he actually hold the event. Only 3 player show up for the event, one is Game Master Nature Boy and another player named Outlast, he actually thought of just reward us with prize just for showing up but the Admin Goofy want him to continue with the event even though not much people show up.

Now is the confusing part as each item is link to a number, and we are suppose to make a card using the item we have. The number range from 1 to 75 and all the numbers ending with 1 and 6 are link to B, 2 and 7 is I, 3 and 8 is N, 4 and 9 is G and 0 and 5 is O. He told us to choose 5 numbers from our card for the draw, so I choose 8 16 23 42 and 49.

We then proceed with the normal Bingo game where he will call out numbers one by one and we will see who manage to get 5 numbers in line. Outlast won the first round, and I won the second round by getting the last vertical row with 10 25 45 55 and 75. Then the confusion start at third round when I got the second horizontal row with 11 32 13 29 and 25, but they say I should be using the five numbers I which I give from the start.

So I wait until I get 8 16 23 42 and 49, but they say my number should be 10 25 45 55 and 75 instead. I try to tell them that is the winning number from second round and not the number I give from the start, but since all of them insist they are right I will just accept it and continue with the game. Halfway through the game Til Death went over to Nature Boy to discuss something, guess they realize that they had make a mistake and decided to ask Nature Boy not to win it so that I will have a chance.

 

They cannot do much about the other player but it is still a very nice gesture from them, and seem like I am fated to win the last round I manage to get 10 25 45 55 and 75. Outlast get upset and leave the game before they announce the final result, he seem to behave a lot like Ankou who think he is the best. A call came in and Til Death had to take the call, he told me he will give me the prize later.

I went to settle a trade with other player in town who are looking for Midnight Werewolf and Vishnu for Pet Buff, make an easy 250B in just a short period. It was already very late at 3 am and I decided to setup shop and sleep, saw Til Death PM me the next day morning when I woke up at 7 am. I try to reply but he was AFK. As I will participate in many more event, so I am in no rush to claim the prize.

They had a new patch to help Newbie to level from 165 to 185, now the mobs it Four Realms will not attack players and they will get their 185 +28 Set with Level 6 Jewel with a new starter quest which only require them to kill 10 of each different mob. I decided to try using all my Level 166 toon to see how good is the rewards, to my surprise it even come with three accessory which boost Hit Rate, Defence and HP. It would be better if they also come with New Rune, so I will not have to farm Extreme anymore.

Now there are no need to complete Gilese Affinity to get the Quantum Tunneling Device to craft the Level 185 Armour Set, the only draw back is they still giving Perhnite for PVP instead of Tourmaline for PVE. Another draw back is that the weapon are mostly Weak Fusion with a few Strong Fusion if lucky, not sure if anyone will be able to get Godly Crafted. With this new patch, I foresee the price of 185 Armour will start to drop and the price for Godly Crafted Weapon will start to raise.

Away From Keyboard:

 

Aphelion:

 Been busy with farming Animal Heart and Paragon Shard at Extreme Juno for Rune, manage to complete my Level 200 Maleficent PVE Set. Manage to complete Extreme Juno Affinity too, still in progress of completing Red Bull Wing Quest and Gilese Affinity. I had collect 1K of Maze Token and 5K of Animal Heart, just need to get 5K of Sapphire and Emerald Shard from Jaguar and Polar Bear. I had also collect most of the stuffs for Red Bull Quest, just need to get 1K of Troll Mucus and Magic Ball.

Daily Routine for Halloween Event will  be hunting 30 Ghost and 250 Pumpkin, the tricky part is to get the Pumpkin Boss. But once you complete the quest once, you will get the summon scroll for the Pumpkin Boss. Found out that there are pumpkin in Gilese too, and you don't really need to wear Pumpkin Head as the AOE for both Toon and Pet will hit it without the need to see.

They had add Immortal Boss at Dratan due to its popularity in Juno, decided to try it out as will be able to use pet there. Took about 3 to 4 hrs to Level my toons from Level 165 to Level 166, the speed of leveling will depend on the Attack Speed. Pet Leveling will only work at close range, long range doesn't seem to work after much try.

Decided to make New Toon and see how fast to Level from Level 1 to Level 165, but encounter issue with Hit Rate at low level. Manage to resolve the issue with Rune that give better Hit Rate, got from Level 1 to Level 45 within 5 minutes. Pet also Level from Level 1 to Level 65 within 5 minutes, seem like a good option for Pet Leveling if the Experience Lock for Guild will work.

Same like Quest, the Experience Lock for Guild doesn't work. Manage to Level to Level 165 in just 5 to 6 hours, the speed is still three times slower than doing Starter Quest. But it does provide a good option for AFK Mode other than Merchant Mode or Pet Leveling. It doesn't help in Leveling those Buff Pet, so Temple of Forgetfulness and Tairan Center still the better option for that.

Horizon:

They had decided to start the Halloween Event early, a new Werewolf Experience Pet named Wolfrik had been introduce. It is very rare chance to get it from Pumpkin, think it is easier to get Pumpkin Pet by killing Pumpkin Boss and get Quest Scroll. 

They had also add Level 185 Jump Box to Item Mall, this will make it easy to get Windy Toon. It only cost about $100 to get one, so $200 will be able to complete both Specialist and Elementalist. But the item is not tradable, so you had to gift it to the Toon. 

The Weapon and Armour Set is +15, and give very good seal with Speed Boot and Cool Down Helmet. This had completely change the the gaming community, high level is no longer hard if you got the money to spend. $100 for a Level 185 Toon with Good Gear is very cheap as compare to almost $600 spend on Experience Booster and a lot of time to farm for the Gear you want.

Chaos Theory 3.0:

 

Horizon:

Fall Event had end, and a lot of players are complaining that the Drop Rate is reduce. Game Sage Smokey state the fact that the Drop Rate is set to have the mobs drop stuffs at certain percentage and then the different stuffs the mob drop will be split between the fixed percentage. This had proven my theory that green mob drop better, it may be had to understand but I will try my best to explain it.

Let say they had set the server to have mobs drop at 30% chance, out of this 30% about 25% will be Gear, 4% will be Token and Moonstone and 1% will be rare drop like Heaven Stone. If you kill white mobs, they will drop Manual and the Manual will take up a certain percentage of other drop and cause their drop to reduce. So since I do not want Manual I would prefer to kill green mobs for better drop of those stuffs which I want more.

Not sure if those Event Stuffs are include in the Quota, but if it is then less drop of those common stuffs should be encounter during most event. But so far I had never encounter any reduce of drop during event, so I can safely say that Event Stuffs should be a completely different Quota. But the strange thing is the drop rate for other stuffs had been better during event and it become worst after they end the event.

So it kind of make me pounder if they really Nerf the Drop Rate before any event to make it look like they increase the Drop Rate during event. It is like those sales event purposely increase the price and reduce back and claim that it is a big discount, like an item had been selling at $20 and they increase it to $40 and give 50% discount.

So if that is really the case, assume that normal time Drop Rate at 30%. They reduce it to 15% just before the event and increase back to 30% during the event to make it look like a 200% increase. This will not be a very wise move as players are very sensitive about minor changes, they usually will know how many stuffs they get in an hour and will know that the Drop Rate had been change when they doesn't get the same amount of stuffs in that same period of time.

It had become more Pay To Win than Free To Pay as I notice the recent changes they had made, Jaguar Collar cost about 65% less before the Migration but now Elephant Collar cost 3 times more. Even Costume Cover and the Extender had increase in price and the conversion rate for their In Game Currency had been always higher than the previous publisher even if they claim the price is the same with 10% discount.

 

They do not understand the important of having more players, if there are not enough players to support the game existing players will leave the game too. So it is very important to have a balance between Pay To Win and Free To Play players, if there are no more Free To Play players the Pay To Win players will also suffer. Pay To Win players need Free To Play players to farm stuffs, Free To Play players can earn gold through their hard work while Pay To Win players can take it easy.

Aphelion:

Been farming a lot of Empty Basket and Pumpkin, the Pumpkin mob even drop the Treat or Trick Box too which give additional rewards. The good thing is we can trade 5K of Empty Basket for 100 Pumpkin with NPC, we can also trade 100 Empty Basket to 100 Candy of our choice. But we still have to open Pumpkin one by one for rewards with Scarecrow, so I use the normal trick of positioning my mouse cursor at the selection and keep clicking to open fast.

They host a very nice event of Monster Spawn, with a lot of Boss and Pumpkin for us to kill. They even spawn a lot of rewards for us to pick up after that, although it cause a lot of lag but we still have a lot of fun. They also give all player 1K of Chaos Ball, it really help the game economy by having more stuffs so that the price could be cheaper.

The best thing that happen is they put in effort to make a Price List for players to refer, this will help to stabilize the game economy by having a fixed price for everything. Although a lot of players are skeptical about the benefit, but I did see a lot of improvement over the months.