Monday, July 29, 2024

Jump:

 


 

Horizon:

Use the Level 120 Jump Box on Night Shadow, Witch and Ex Ranger, going to level Night Shadow to Level 121. The Witch will go Level 137 and the Ex Ranger will go Level 164. There is another War Master which I am going to level up to Level 111, after that I will have all the toon at different level to farm gear.

Finally manage to get another horse to Level 57, will be leveling a lot of horse until all the regular is able to give horse buff to most players. I have been doing whatever that benefit the majority, Avatar told me he still got Stone of Wise left over after giving buff for 5 months. Now I am wondering why Zed manage to finish it in just a month when I didn't even seen him buff other players much, Hannah refuse to accept the Stone of Wise but she already got a lot of pet from me. 

I had given the same to Kry after seeing her running to NPC to buy it everytime she give buff, I still got more than enough to give buff myself and should last for a year or so. My highest record is giving 4 rounds of buff recently on yesterday morning as there are too many players that need it and most buffer are not around. Usually about 1 or 2 round should be enough to provide for most players, but it seem like a lot of new players had appear some from Osiris while some are return player from Aeria time.

Still haven't seen any of my old friend return yet, there are a few that play with their family but after chatting with them for some time I found out I didn't know them from Aeria time. There is a girl which I thought is Sirynda when she told me her mom also playing, and another guy which I thought was Psycho son when he say his father use to play.

It is good to see a lot of old players return, but those coming from Osiris seem to be causing a lot of drama on both side. Most of the time they demand other to give them free stuffs and make empty promise that they will repay the kindness when they level up, but some might also be those unpopular players alternate create to scam other.

From the sales of skill book, there seem to be an increase of player for Royal Knight, as for the other server is seem to be Titan and Elementalist. This is mainly depend on new patch which make certain class much better, I hope this trend will continue as it is benefit the server with more variety of different class and not having a few popular class which dominate the whole server. It will make the gear for certain class harder to get and make it more expensive and rare as everybody would want it.  

I had start stocking up on Quick Healing and Mana Potion and Mineral recently, it is just a gut feeling like what I use to do for Skill Book and HP Steal Accessory right after Migration. The same goes for World Cup Festival Box when they are cheap during the event, actually I did stock up on Quick Mana Potion just before Migration but I had give most of it to Zed. I am not sure if he really share them with Gonads and his guild, but from my previous encounter with him I highly doubt so.

Aphelion:

Speedy is trying to farm for stuffs for Pictorial Book with his Archer Arrow Go Brr Brr, guess he is starting to get bored of all the Kill Steal on Wonder or Summer Map. He didn't know where to find Dark Orb as Prokion Temple had become Constellation Crypt, he didn't understand well and went to Death Goddess instead.

The low level AOE Skill Book doesn't seem to sell well after they increase the drop rate for it, I can almost able to get for all class during my daily run. Compare to previous time I can only get about 25% to 30% of what I get now, guess another source of income getting destroy after the pet business.

The version II skill book seem to sell well after they remove the Frost Core Map, I got few millions of Online Time Point to get the Skill Book Box to top up my stock if I manage to sold out all. So with the skill book I stock up before the patch, it should be able to earn about 500B to 1T of gold daily for a year or so before I start using my Online Time Point.

P.S.: Beef Thong had been arguing with me about how the server recognize our IP Address, I told him that different device is using different IP while he keep insisting that the IP is common for all through the Router. I had provide a lot of different situation to prove that I am right but he just keep insist that he know better.

A very good example is that a lot of players had been playing with their family member together, husband and wife or parent with children. And there is also an temporary IP Ban when we switch channel too often, and this issue can be resolve by some players by turning off and turning on their Router again.

Another very obvious situation is that when we try to open more than 3 client on one pc it will prompt us that we had already open too many client, but when we try to open a few more on other pc it doesn't prevent us from doing so or prompt any warning.

All I can say is that ignorance is a bliss and never argue with an idiot, they will just drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. A few of them had been ganging up and try to bully other players, I think I am being targeted after I try to defend Avatar.

They can do whatever they like but they will regret some day, they only respect those who had a lot of max level toon and look down on low level farmer like me. Soon they will chase away a lot of players and the server will be dead with them playing by themselves.

Insect Collection:


 Horizon:

Insect Collection Event had start, but this time they change the rewards. As they remove the Chaos Smelting Stone, both me and god doesn't think it is worth our time. The rewards are as follows:

1-25 Super Haste x 2 (12M)

26-40 Medium Med x 10 (150M)

41-55 Strong Med x 10 (250M)

56-70 SPB x 25 (250M)

71-85 IDB x 10 (150M)

86-100 XPB x 10 (150M)

101-115 HP Steal (200M)

116-120 MP Steal (200M)

121-125 Plat Adrenaline x 2 (800M)

126-130 Red Pouch x 10 (500M)

131-159 Curse Removal x 10 (500M)

160 JPS x 3 (1.2B)

From the above breakdown of the rewards, seem like Strong Med, SPB, Plat Adrenaline and JPS are better. But it is very hard to get 160 points, so I guess more players will just go for Strong Med while I would go for Plat Adrenaline.

Friday, July 26, 2024

Raid Boss Hunter:



Horizon:

Complete another Level 97 Ex Ranger just a day after I complete the Level 67 Royal Knight, it had become easy to level with the Legendary Iris and Experience Booster. I am only using Level 60 +15 Gear and keep spamming skill with Cool Down Reduction and HP and MP Steal.

Try it out on Goldie, the attack still weak like the Level 87 Witch but the defense seem better maybe because of evasion. So far only the Level 67 Royal Knight seem to perform up to my expectation, guess those map from Egeha onwards doesn't really good for farming as the mobs are harder to kill.

But only two Raid Boss are enough to keep me occupied, so Kami will become back up for Balrog if too many players are hunting them. Not sure why a lot of players doesn't like to hunt Kami, maybe it is because it is the hardest due to the magical attack.

Now I got two options to choose for all the four raid boss, it should be able to cover for most of the events. The most troublesome one are still Halloween and Anniversary as they require mob to be same level to drop, all the other events still drop good with green mobs.

Thursday, July 25, 2024

Optimize Setting:


 

Horizon:

Create a few new Level 60 toons for pet leveling and farming at Temple of Forgetfulness, the Wizard and War Master should perform well with AOE. Not sure what to do with the Archer and the Specialist at the moment, but i am sure they will be useful in the future. After trying out pet leveling with both my Skippy and Kami Hunter, I decided to create two Ex Ranger for pet leveling. Having range attack can position them at a distance which allow more location, the level will be just nice so that it will not cause too much damage and also not make pet hungry fast.

With three Eye of Spirit, the hit rate is high enough that doesn't miss like my raid boss hunter. I can also keep it continuously working without any disruption to kill raid boss. I had also created another Kami Hunter at Level 67, at least it can farm on Sphinx while it try to spawn Kami. Although it might not be as effective as the original Kami Hunter, but at least it will be able to get drop from mobs as they are not blue.

I am considering whether to create another more effective Ex Ranger Goldie Hunter at Level 97, or just continue using my Level 87 Witch as it can also get drop from mobs as it try to spawn Goldie. The only problem with it is that it still getting damage from mob even though it is wearing +30 Armor Set, it also take long time to kill the boss due to lower attack. The situation will become worst after they remove the Elemental System, so I foresee I will still be using Balrog and Skippy Hunter more for most event.

Aphelion:

Light Angel had been trying to cheat by party with his Alternate Hello Castro 2 at Tairan Center for Daily Quest, I am not sure why he need so much token or gold for. It is same like Zed or Moza Lito on official server, what is the point of having so much stuffs and gold while a lot of players dislike you. Moza Lito recently got a few of her old account back, she had been trying to sell a lot of stuffs at cheap price. But I do not understand why she would want to keep buying a lot of stuffs which I don't think she will be using, I am doubtful about her motive until it can be proven wrong.

Game Sage Mine Lyric had been trying to do Hide and Seek like previous time but no player seem to response, I took some time off from Immortal Boss to help a bit. Not surprise that Ankou and his Alternate Absynth are the first to find us, I told Game Sage that it had been so since I join the server and he told me he will try to investigate further. I think having players who try to cheat and exploit the system had cause a lot of other players to shy away from most event, if they do not do anything to improve the situation the server will be dead in no time.

What is the point of being the richest player with the most stuffs when all other players quit and you were all alone with nothing to show, all the gold and stuffs you have would be worthless when the server is dead with no other players. I had not been very active since I hand over most of my stuffs to Speedy, I guess I am going into semi retirement after I found someone else to take over the helping of newbies.

Sunday, July 14, 2024

Pet Level:

 

Horizon:
 

Been leveling horse for the past few weeks, discover a few things. According to Caugs, he manage to level a Level 37 Horse in a week and claim it took him about 6 to 7 weeks to level a Level 57 Horse. But base on my progress it doesn't really match what he had told us, so I decided to do a calculation to see what is the issue.

Turn out that his calculation is based on his daily gaming time of about 18 hrs, so I try to do a recalculation based on my daily gaming time of about 12 hrs. It will took me about 12 Days to level a Level 37 Horse and about 11 weeks to level a Level 57 Horse.

All these are just an estimation as there are a lot of other factors which affect it, a good example is disruption from those Elemental Boss Hunter. Due to increase in PVE Damage, both my Knight and Rogue had been able to kill the Dratan Flower or Merac Volcano after some time. The situation become worst when they get Server Buff, I was thinking if using Herb Knife instead of Level 5 Weapon will improve the situation.

Most players prefer to use Lust Trum Stone Statue after they increase the level from Level 90 to Level 190, but my pet leveler level is too low and I get lost easy so my pet leveler will die before it even reach it. The Dratan Flower and Merac Volcano are already Level 185, the 5 level different doesn't really make much different so it is not really worth the effort.

Sunday, July 7, 2024

Narcissist:




Horizon:

4th of July Event had started, we had 150% Drop Rate, 500% Experience and a lot of Server Buff. As usual the overlap in both events had cause our inventory to be insufficient to cater for the stuffs we get from drops, but we are still happy as they are going to improve the buff for Stars and Stripes on next patch.

Black Dead is whining about Server Buff not getting 2 full hours, it ended about 35 mins after he received it on one of his toon. I try to explain to him about how the new buff doesn't overwrite the old buff if it is not finished, but he insisted that both his toon had been in party with each other so it is not possible. But he did mentioned that the party with the other toon is on and off and not constant, so I don't know why it is such a big deal about one of his toon not receiving full buff.

I had known him from the start as lancelot, he later also reviled his other alternate as customizer. He had join Gonads I Am King guild before the migration and recently join Light Bringer. I remember him mentioned about being a Eurasian working in Hong Kong but later claim he is from Malaysia, his inconsistent in his words had made me doubt about his true identity.

He used to be a very humble guy trying to sell low level gear drop, but kind of became more proud and arrogant as he level to higher level. Same like Moza Lito they had become a Narcissist and start to show their toxic personality as time pass. They like to think they are always right and doesn't care whether what they are doing actually benefits others, they only care about their own and doesn't really bother about other.

Narcissist is a term from Narcissus which is Greek God of Vanity, he admire his own look at reflection from a pool of water and die with a flower grow in his place. The best way to deal with them is to ignore them and let them suffer the consequences of their own actions. I have grow up to encounter a lot of their kind and realized it is not worth the effort to reasons with them as they will never agree with other.
 
There is a new player named Whis, he is having a hard time trying to farm some pictorial book stuff. As I am running Legendary Skill Pill for SP Farming at Procyon Temple, I can only wait for it to finish before I log my other toon to give him the stuffs he need. Most of the stuffs are harder to get like Dire Wolf Scroll, Twig, Horn Beast Hide, Drake Scale and Thick Liquid, the only stuffs that are easy to get is Blade as he had already level pass it.
 
I told him to make a new toon to farm for those other stuffs and  told him it will be easier to farm it during Christmas Event when we got 4 times drop rate buff. Finally complete the redo of all my farming toon, now I just need to sort out the stuffs and farm for some which I am short of after giving them to Whis.

Thursday, July 4, 2024

Newbie Level Guide:

 

Horizon:

I am leveling horse with both my knight and rogue, the knight horse was about level 41 when the rogue horse was level 29. Now the knight horse is level 52 and the rogue horse is level 47, it still feel like rogue level pet faster than knight whether it is AFK or killing mob. So I still think it is 3 hits instead of 3 seconds, but a lot of players still insist it is what they seen on Weebly Site.

24 Blaze didn't know about the new change in rule that allow AFK Pet Leveling for P1 Pet, I guess he is hunting Elemental Boss like Criss using his Night Shadow Omega. Elemental Boss Hunter and Pet Leveler had been hating each other as they had to share the same resource for both their purpose, this issue can be easily resolve if they put the Lust Trum Stone Statue at a location which is easy access for Pet Leveler.

They had post a Newbie Level Guide on Discord, I had read through it and found it to be very generic for most players who wanted to level fast. It mainly encourage players to use Elephant Pet Buff, Jump Box, Legendary Iris, Legendary Skill Pill, Experience Booster, Skill Point Booster, Random Booster and +30 Weapon. As they only give Legendary Iris, Legendary Skill Pill, Experience Booster and Skill Point Booster for new players, it still make them look like they are trying to make profit from Item Mall sales.

We cannot really blame them for that as they need to make money in order to maintain the server, but they should not be greedy and increase the price by so much as compare to previous publisher like Gamigo and Aeria. It will still be better to sell it at lower price and try to boost the amount of sales using events, it will at least make more players happy and decided to stay with them for long.

A lot of things they posted on their Newbie Level Guide doesn't make sense, they never mention anything about Affinity and Pictorial Book which is a mistake a lot of players realize after they level pass it. Although Affinity can still be done at higher level but it will not give drop, and Pictorial Book can be done by making another toon for farming but it will still end up wasting the time. 

They had increase the Skill Point for Egeha Curse Weaver and Cursed Lich and also Akan Temple and Ramslo Lab, but they only recommend Skill Point Farming on Sassy at Level 12. So it will still be the fast track which most players prefer, and they don't really get to know a lot of low level stuffs as they progress.

Their Newbie Level Guide can be summarize as follows:

Level to Level 12 and get a Level 6 Guild to Lock XP for SP Farming on Sassy

Level to Level 31 at Procyon Temple

Level to Level 60 at Temple of Forgetfulness

Level to 115 at Tomb or Level 90 at Curse Weaver or Curse Lich at Egeha

Level to 123 with Vald Quest

Level to 146 at Troll King at Ebony Mine or Level 134 at Sorcerer at Trivia Valley

Level to 150 with Mondshine Quest

Level to 160 at Chapel or continue with Mondshine Quest

Level to 175 at Seeker at Tairan

Level to 185 at Ramslo Lab

Level to 190 at Dark Tomb

As we can see they really left out a lot of finer details, few of the important one like Chaser at Misty Crayon and Rawhead at Tairan which most players prefer over Troll King at Ebony Mine and Seeker of Darkness at Tairan. They should increase the Skill Point for Spider at Temple of Forgetfulness back to before so that players can farm for Skill Point while they level pet and also mention Tarvox and Karunta at Tairan which is also good for pet leveling when they complete Mondshine Entry at Level 140.

Monday, July 1, 2024

A Bug's Life:

 

Aphelion:

Light Angel had slowly become another Ankou, he try to chase me away by spawning Ice Boss at first on my Royal Knight in the morning when I am trying to complete my Tairan Daily Quest. He later spawn Decendor of the Devil on my Elementalist in the afternoon, but it doesn't really affect me much and I manage to kill 3 Boss and get some drop for free. Elementalist is one of the weakest toon in all my alternate but it only kill slow and doesn't really take any damage from the Boss, the only issue is the Stone Effect will remove the buff and got to rebuff often or counter it with Buff Lock.

I could switch to other stronger toon to kill it and then switch back to complete my daily quest, but I notice there is another toon which could be his alternate trying to kill it too. He also slowly become like Zed which try to buy stuffs at lower than market price and try to resell them at higher price, but at least he is buying tokens for Laca Ball and selling the stuffs he get from it.

Discover a Bug when trying out the Summer Pet Scorpion and Cockatrice, it is very similar to the Titan Pet AOE giltch. Notice that it activate the Shout of Concentration Buff Skill instead of AOE Skill, decided to switch over to Titan and notice the same. The glitch become normal after I relog, but the same glitch still remain for Titan.

There is another Bug which affect both server, it happen when you try to use skill on mob when they are at a location that is blocked or bugged. Usually the common solution will be using another skill which buff yourself so that it will cancel the last skill, but it is not very effective and fail most of the time and had to relog to fix it. The new method I use seem to be more effective and work most of the time by pressing the Tab Key to switch the target to  other mob nearby which is not blocked or bugged.

By discovery of this method, I realized that I can play normally without using the mouse to click for target. And other players might be able to bot if they setup a macro which alternate between tab and skill key or attack key. At the moment I had seen a lot of players using key jamming using those class with targetless AOE Skill, so AFK farming is still possible even after they Nerf the Pet AOE.