Beta Tester:

 Cricket had invite me to help him test his server, I had agree to it after the Christmas Event end. He had change it in a way that we would get enough SP from quests to learn our skills, I like his ideas of making players work for something instead of giving it to them direct. After trying out for a day I manage to complete the Apprenticeship and level the guild to Level 6 for XP Lock, I also make another toon to try out the system twice to confirm some doubt.

I really like the layout of the map with NPC at various location which cover most of the area so that we do not have to waste time running around, it even have portal which allow teleport in both direction to make it easy. I find the quests are a bit off as I seem to level pass most of the mob before I complete the quest, and the level of the mob for the same quest seem to vary more than 6 levels which make the lower level mob already turn blue before we complete it.

This is very obvious from the start where I had to go back and kill lower level mob after I had already level pass it, and I try to repeat the process just to get a confirmation. The most obvious example is when I finally get the quest to go Velpist Temple after killing Level 27 Blood Wolf, and the quest in Velpist Temple require me to kill Level 10 Wandering Zombie, Level 12 Ancient Zombie and Level 14 Berserk Zombie.

As the mob had already turn blue, it will not give any drops which defeat the purpose of the quest. I am also unable to kill Level 27 Blood at Level 15 or lower so that I could ensure that Level 10 Wandering Zombie will still be green, so I foresee this will be a major issue for most players. The rewards for the quests had also been change to ensure we get better stuffs that are useful, it also give us the option to choose between different items depend on which one we think we will need more.

But overall I will say it is still not Newbie Friendly, as I also face difficulty at lower level before I complete my apprenticeship. The new update that the official server had make seem to be the better option with +15 gears at different level which allow us to complete apprenticeship easily. I notice that the Starter PBI and PSSP had been increase from 1 to 5 but the level limit did not increase from Level 35 to Level 50.

This will make it useless as we only able to use 1 when we do Prokion Temple and we will encounter a bottle neck at around Level 40 when we went to do the Jail Dungeon at Merac. Official Server ways of giving LI and Boosters seem to backfire when they are unable to stop Spam Bot from using World Chat as they are able to get to Level 50 easily, and stopping low level from using World Chat seem to be a bad idea all along.