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.

No Guts No Glory:

Aphelion:

I was thinking of continue farming for boots at The Wonder Desert Zone when I encounter the Ultra Boss Wonder Superior Kaligar at the Jelly Fish spot, decided to give it a try and found that it took me 50 mins to kill it as it had 500B HP. 500K HP Vs 500B HP, it is not like the movie 300 Vs 300K but it can still be consider as Spartan Level.  It is also able to 2 hits me with damage of about 300K per hit, so I got to keep it stun to prevent it from killing me. After killing it I seem to get The Wonder Event Buff for the whole guild, a Level 220 Weapon and Armor Box.

I decided to try killing some other Boss which I am unable to kill last time, but I was unable to find the Ancient Lava Tortoise near Till The Last Treant in Juno. I proceed to find the Enraged Magical Angler Fish in Trivia Valley, I use to suffer from its Stone Debuff and get 1 hit after that but now even I still get Stone with all the Anti Stone Jewel equip at least I am able to survive and kill it. It drop 50 Chaos Ball and 50 Magic Lamp for Level 7 Jewel, didn't manage to get any Master Stone +27 or +28.

I went on to kill Deceitful Scorpion at Bloodymir which I had kill before which took me about 15 to 20 mins, I was able to kill it much faster this time in less than 5 mins. It drop 50 Chaos Ball and 50 Magic Lamp Season 1 as usual, but I did not get any Premium Bless. All these Boss are supposed to be kill by a party, but now I am able to solo it on my own. Guess that is the main reason I prefer Royal Knight and Ex Ranger mainly because of their Stun and Snare Skill.
 

Sign of Revival:

 Aphelion:

Another new player name x[N]ight need help on leveling from Level 200 to Level 220, I was wondering why he doesn't know about Teleporter Rhonita, Mushroom Land and The Wonders if he manage to reach Level 200. After guiding him on the exact location, he manage to get to The Wonder. But his attack seem weak and unable to do any damage on the mob there, so I give him some stuffs to help increase his damage and leveling.

I thought he doesn't have good gear or accessory, but after he show me what he have I don't see any issue with it. After getting him to kill mob with Hans I notice he still lack a lot of stuffs, so I ask Hans to pass him a AOE Pet and I give him some Pet Fairy and Buff Pets Collars. Although I notice he already got a lot of Buffs Potions, I still give him some just to help with his leveling.

He later want to try out his new setup at the arena to test his damage, as Hans already AFK and go sleep I went to help with his damage test instead. I notice he keep missing hits and ask about his Hit Rate, after comparing it with mine it doesn't seem much different, I try remove all my gears and accessory and ask him to try again and he finally manage to hit me and do some damage.

I did ask if he already had all his stats and perk max out, and he did confirm about it but later I found out that he did not understand or know about perk. So I give him some perk when I heard he was trying to get some and also some Level 175 Jump Pot since I don't have the Level 200 one he was looking for. He also ask for some Title Transfer Scroll, so I think he is planning on making another new toon of different class to try if the same Hit Rate issue persist.

Hans had also make another Night Shadow to try out, I also give him some Level 175 Jump Pot to help him speed up the process of leveling. Night had already complete his 8 Reborn using Reborn Skip, not sure if Hans had done the same as he told me he brought the Black Friday Package or VIP. But since both of them already join my guild and had form a party with me, they should be able to level without any difficulty.

Heterodox Apprentice:

 

 

Horizon;

The server was down for very long period of time, a lot of players start to suffer from withdrawal syndrome. They finally got the server up and repeat the 200% Dungeon Time from Day 2 combine with 200% upgrade for Day 3.

Since I manage to find some Heaven Stone Grade 5 at 20M, I thought I might as well finish up the six Level 61 weapon for my alternate. I was short of 142 Heaven Stone Grade 5 and ask if god got any for sales, but I guess he was too focus on doing his Level 70 set so I didn't get any reply from him.

I overheard someone is selling it at slightly higher price of 25M, so I went over to Channel 3 to get the remaining to finish my weapons. Now that I had completed all the task I had set out to do, I don't know what else is left. Guess I will just continue to enjoy whatever events that come and just farm for some stuffs in case some other players need it.

Aphelion:

Hans56 still obsessed with farming of Token Box at Tairan Center, I told him that the event had already ended. He ask me when will be the next event, I told him it usually happen for about 3 hours on every weekend.

As he very interested and wanted to try out the AOE pet, I give him the three different summer pets to fuel his obsession. He had already level up from Level 165 to Level 200 but instead of farming for Level 220 gears and level up further he still prefer to try things out at Mushroom Land or Tairan Center.

He show me his pet AI setup and I was shock to find out that he use 5 Co Op target arrow to link with the AOE skill. I told him that it will not work as there are Cool Down time for the skill, but he insisted that I should try it too.

I feel stupid to believe what he say and actually do the same setup to try, as expected it did not work at all as I already knew about the skill cool down issue since the first Easter Event. I remember even telling Foxy Daddy about it as he was not aware of this limitation.

Chilling with Homie:

 

 Aphelion:

Manage to meet a player named Hans56, I thought it was my Horizon Apprentice Hans Solo but turn out he is from Malaysia. I didn't know that after he add me on Discord when I give him the usual Newbie Package which I had not give out for very long time. I also give him some XP stuffs to help him level like what I had given to Shadow.

He seem to like it a lot here and didn't take my suggestion of going to try out the official server although I told him there are a lot of helpful players there too. He is very impress with my YouTube channel and my blog and ask me about a lot of things in Game and in Real Life.

It is good to see new players joining the server, and I hope there will be more in the near future as it would really help boost the economy. Still trying my best to farm for Rogue and Mage Boots and Mage Pants, but the drop rate is really bad.

Have been taking it easy and observing the events on both servers, and try to choose the one which I am interested to be active on it. But I still watch the chats once in a while to see if any players need help with anything and try my best to help them if it doesn't take up much time.