Side Track 2.0:

Pandora:

Drop Rate seem to be better on this server, manage to get both Speed Boots and Cool Down Helmet within 50 drops. Also manage to get Wolfrik Leash with just about 500 Pumpkins, as resources are scare on this server the prices of most stuffs seem to double as compare to other server. As I could not get enough Heaven Stone Grade 5 for the Upgrade Event, I can only bring the weapon to +27. The good thing is that I get to farm open map on all channel and is able to farm gold and get drops in Egeha, the bad things is that I find difficulty in getting stuffs.

Osiris:

Situation seem to be different on this server, I am able to get the weapon to +30 and the armor set to +25. Went to try out the new set and found that the defense is already enough to accomplish a lot of different tasks, the only bad things is that there are too many players and it is very hard to get a good spot for farming. The only solution is to farm in Temple of Forgetfulness, at least I am getting 50% more drops in Dungeon.

 P.S.:

Had been playing mostly on both EU Server since the Drop Event started, manage to ensure all my toons had good Accessory and need to get some jewels and upgrade stone for the next event to further improve my gears. Osiris is very crowded, so I mostly using my TOF toon. Pandora is less crowded, so I can use my Egeha toon most of the time.

Able to farm for most of the stuffs on Pandora, while trying to get stuffs at Osiris through trade. So far I had been able to survive well with the optimized setup, will be spending more time to stock up on my resources during Gold and Drop Event and spend time improving my gears during Jewel and Upgrade Event. Think I will only play Horizon when there are Experience Event as I had already had a lot of stuffs there, but so far I still find it more fun and challenging with fresh start on the EU Server.

 Avatar manage to get Wolfrik Leash with the 200 Pumpkins I give him, guess I bring him a lot of luck. He will help me get 200 Heaven Stone Grade 5 for the next Upgrade Event, with Osiris out of my mind I can focus more on Pandora. 

Manage to get another Cool Down Helmet within 100 drops and Wolfrik Leash within 200 Pumpkins as expected, this had proven that the drop rate for Pandora is really so much better than other server. I am guessing that they had set a fixed quota for the amount of stuffs for every server, and those server with less players will get a better drop rate as the fixed quota is spread evenly among the players. It will also affect the drop rate a lot if certain players decided to keep some stuffs as those will also counted toward the total quota, so when a server got a lot of hoarders or players who quit and let all their stuffs go to waste it will be bad for the server.

Manage to meld more Jewel to the Gear and Accessory during the recent Jewel Event, it bring the HP to 30K which will ensure my toon to survive better. I will continue to improve the Gear till it is near to perfection like what I did on Horizon, but it will be much easier to do that on Osiris than Pandora due to the difficulty to get stuffs on Pandora.

Side Track:

 Horizon:

Trying to get my other pet leveler to level from Level 136 to Level 150 as there is 500% XP Event, mainly is to equip Level 149 Weapon and learn AOE.  Going to complete another two horses as they are already Level 54 and 55 before the 300% Pet XP Event start, it will bring the total to twelve after the 300% Pet XP Event end. I am surprised that they did two Pet XP Event in a month and it will kind of speed up my progress for Project Ferrari.

Had been collecting data on both Osiris and Pandora last week after some players post comparison of different server, I also need to confirm some theory about Treasure Chest and Raid Boss on both servers. True enough the amount of Treasure Chest is determine by the number of players log on to the channel, and I am able to get about 4 to 6 of them at 4 different location on Osiris which come to about 16 to 24 of them.

I am unable to get the same amount on other servers like Pandora and Horizon, usually I can only get about 30% to 50% on Horizon and about 10% to 20% on Pandora. Osiris is very crowded with not much place for players to farm on both Dungeon and Open Map, so the best strategy is to make a Level 60 farming toon for Temple of Forgetfulness. It is also advisable for Newbie to make a Level 90 toon for farming gold at Egeha, and the bonus will be getting a lot of Treasure Map and get pay for spawning Grand Gold Dragon.

Players are willing to pay about 10M for Wooden Chest, but it will be better to open them for items which can be sold at higher price. Players are also willing to pay about 500M to 1B for spawning of Grand Gold Dragon, and farming and selling of Event Item from Temple of Forgetfulness will be a good idea as it drop 50% more for Dungeon as compare to Open Map.

 Also did a data analysis of God Hands and found that about 10% chance of getting Warrior Hand, 20% chance of Guard Hand and 35% chance of Bravery and Protection Hand. It is also easier to find stuffs on Osiris as there are more active players as compare to Horizon and Pandora, but I found that a lot of players from Osiris had been bringing the culture of offering higher price when selling and lower price when buying at about 20% to 50% of the market rate.

Had been noticing that some players sound very sour on both World Chat and Discord recently, I had heard that they had encountered a lot of bad luck in life. They are whining that life had been unfair to them, but I think it is just consequences or karma as they had been doing a lot of bad deeds. Most of them had to make new toon and pretend to be noob just to scam for stuffs, I think they are going to suffer even more as more players start to ignore them. 

 P.S:

Manage to get my other pet leveler to Level 152, guess the AOE help a lot to gain two more level than what I previously expected. Not sure if I am going to continue level this toon to Level 164 or start with another one and bring it to Level 150 too, but there are also another Cleric to level too for Holy Bless. There is a few other toons to level from Level 131 to Level 137, but that will be very fast and easy with 500% XP Event. Might consider to level one of the Royal Knight from Level 137 to Level 175, so that it could equip the Level 170 Set and farm stuff in Lab. 

Heroes Challenge:

 

Horizon:

Hannah told me that the recent Heroes Challenge is to spawn and take Screen Shot with Kami. As it usually take 3 hours to spawn Raid Boss after server reset and I was planning to sleep, I was not very keen on participating the event. But since I am the Best Raid Boss Hunter and a lot of players might need my help to complete the challenge, I decided to stay up late to help.

As expected a lot of players are not familiar with the spawn habit of Raid Boss, and I manage to be the first to complete the challenge showing others that I actually live up to my expectation. I even continue to spawn Kami on other channels to prove my ability and experience on Raid Boss spawning, I could have also done the same on other servers just to prove my point but I guess sleep is more important.

I had completed farming of Larva Shell and Larva Liquid with the conclusion of the Heroes Challenge Event, and just in time for the 200% Drop Rate event to start on my third set of farming toons. Manage to completed the first toon in a day or two and move on to second toon just in time for the 100% Dungeon Time Event, guess everything had been going well for me without even planning for it.

Avatar had been playing Osiris for weeks, think it will be better for him since he is more interested in selling stuffs these days. A lot of players had been having a hard time getting the stuffs they need these days, guess it is just the consequences they had to accept for harassing other players and making more players quit. They do that initially because they do not like having too many players AFK and make it hard to get the stuffs they need, and their actions seem to back fired and make the situation worst for them.

Had seen them whining a lot recently and even want to quit themselves, they could choose to play Osiris but it seem to be too lag for them. Not sure if it was Karma or other unknown reason, they had been losing Castle Siege since I start my Witness Protection Program for my Pet Leveler. And I had noticed that it is driving them crazy when the server is dead without much players active and giving them the attention they need or letting them have Imaginary Enemy, that doesn't really affect other players much as we still continue to enjoy the game as usual.

Level Up:

 Horizon:

Trying to level up my main so that I could wear the Level 190 set which Zed had made for me, I use Premium Character so that I could at least wear most of it with the 3 level reduction. It got more Attack and Defense compare to the Level 170 set, it make the leveling so much easier. I am planning to do it slow as I need to use up those Character Bound items to clear up more inventory space, I also transfer some XP stuffs which I am lazy to sell and try to use them up.

My style of leveling is very much like god where we prefer to level slow without using too much premium stuffs, we can get more drops and would not get bored so easily. But the only different between me and him is that he seem to enjoy the grind a lot while I still prefer to farm for drops with my lower level toons. But either way it is still better than most players who want to rush through the game without enjoying the finer details that the game had to offer, this is the reason why a lot of them do not have good knowledge of the game and were unable to answer a lot of simple questions which their apprentice ask.

I had try to play the game in hard mode so that it will suit more towards those Free To Play players, I seldom use Lucky Scroll or Item Drop Boosters when I drop hunting so that it will not affect the drop rate too much and affect my data collection. When I actually use any premium stuffs, I use those which are really value for money and give the best result. That is why I give away most of the Loyalty Rewards I get so that other players will also get to enjoy the same benefits although they did not spend much on the game, I think not many players can actually do that and from what I had seen I found that a lot of them are very selfish and only care about themselves.

The biggest joke is about a player making sarcastic remark about another player about how he is not getting any help from his guildie while that player is actually from the same guild as her. And I had notice that a lot of other players that mix around with them too much start to talk like them after some time. I still try to help them as much as possible by using other players that are related to them indirectly so that they will not know that I am the one that is helping them behind their back, as I know they are ungrateful I also didn't expect them to change for the better.

 I had been using the power of suggestion more these days and I foresee a lot of them will do what I wanted them to do more often in time to come, they are not really that smart as they had thought themselves to be and keep falling into the trap I had set for them every time without fail. I hope they would not find out about that so soon as it will only bring them more misery, they should just enjoy the game and be happy like the rest of the community and not keep thinking about hate and revenge.

 P.S.:

Manage to gain a level after 1.5 days or 13 hours, been playing casually these day as usually 13 hrs will only take 1 day if I play constantly like before. Been taking long break after every few hours of gaming and do some stuffs while I take a break from the game, as there is not much to do these days and most of the target I set for myself doesn't really need to rush for completion. The remaining 3 or 4 levels I will try to do it whenever there are any XP Events to save on resources or do it when I am bored with nothing else to do.

Will be going back to farming for Pictorial Book as I still got 2 more toons to complete, one of them is lock at Level 40 for Halloween and Anniversary Events while the other one is lock at Level 53 for Raid Boss hunting at Merac and most other events. Both toons will be farming for Pictorial Book at Dratan as there are nothing for them to farm at Merac now, Goblins and Larva will be fast as compare to Poison Myst and as there are not much players hunting Kami I would predict the whole process to be slow with a lot of break in between.

 

Manage to complete the Mond Entry Quest for the remaining 3 toons from the Phoenix Project, as I still got some time left I decided to level my main a bit. Base on the progress I should be able to complete the leveling of my main by tomorrow, not sure what I am going to do for the remaining 1 day of the 500% XP and SP Event. I will go back to farming for Pictorial Book stuffs after they start the 200% Drop Rate Event, guess it is still the most efficient to adjust the schedule according to the events.

 Finally manage to level my main to Level 190, also manage to become Phoenix and get Ascension. Don't think I will ever want to do it again as it is a very long and boring process, I think the time are better spend on farming stuffs. It is already able to do most of the stuffs I need at Level 185, and I would prefer to keep it that as Rammy will still drop. But now other than using it for Events Bosses I don't think I will be using it much, I can still use it for farming in Dark Tomb but the drop will not be good.

Noticed that a lot of players are trying to get Jump Pot, guess the new patch are not going too well for them. They try very hard to convince the OG to lower the price but had not been successful so far, and if they are going to level their toons using the usual XP stuffs it will cost a lot more. I foresee a lot of players will be interested in the next Loyalty Costume, and there will be a lots of Loyalty Rewards stuffs selling in the market again.

 

Aphelion:

They are going to have a new patch soon and I will have to complete my Easter Quests before that, heard there will be a lot of improvement coming with the long waited update. So far I still try my best to complete my daily routine of going around killing Bosses, but as I had change the timing from early morning to late afternoon due to my commitment on other server most of the Bosses are already taken by others players when I reach them. But that doesn't really affect me much as I still able to get a lot of stuffs within an hour or two which is still more efficient as compare to the regular farming I did in the past.

 P.S.:

Manage to complete Easter Quest before the patch, not sure why I am getting less gold but more experience. Only get about 100B gold as compare to previous 300B, but getting 83% experience as compare to previous 17% experience. Manage to complete Battle Pass 3 times, get a lot of stuffs as usual. Manage to kill Easter Bunny Boss a few times, guess I will be busy clearing a lot of tokens for the next few days.

Pictorial Book:

 Horizon:

Insect Collection Event had ended, manage to get 180 Platinum Adrenaline from 90 Boxes. god is able to get 9K of SPB with 360 Boxes, which is about 4 times more than me. Even if I decided to go for the lower rewards I will not be able to beat his record, I had been playing more casually these days and taking longer breaks in between. Manage to finally complete my home improvement projects during the past few weeks and just enjoying the fruits of my labour.

 Manage to get about 147 Drake Scale so far, another 53 more to go. The remaining will be easy until I do the Thick Liquid from Poison Myst, at least there are always something to keep me occupied when there are no events. Now it become so much easier when my farming toon are able to kill Raid Boss without Ignition, I do not need switch toon which save me a lot of time and effort.

So far the drop rate for Drake Scale is also about 6 to 7 Green Orb to 1 Drake Scale, there are also Lucky Spell Book Buff from GM Buff and 200% Drop Rate Event to take into consideration. But overall it seem to be better than during Christmas Event using Christmas Tree Buff, so now it kind of put me in doubt whether Christmas Event is really a good time for farming.

 Peanut seem to have give up on harassing my pet leveler after few days, guess he had realized that it was not really worth his time and effort. So far he is the only one that hold grudge against me even though Crossy had claim there are 6 other players who are unhappy about my gaming blog, so I still think the other 6 players are most likely Peanut Alternate.

 

P.S.:

Finally complete my Specialist and my second set of Windy Toons, now just waiting for the next Upgrade and Jewel Event to get the Specialist gear set ready for Bosses. It will be good to have different choices of class to try out, but Royal Knight will still be the main as it already got Loyalty Costume. Not sure if I want to get Loyalty Costume for the Ex Ranger and Specialist as it would mean I will have another two Level 185 Jump Box which I may not be using. 

Easter Event:

 Horizon:

Easter Event had finally started, new Easter Bunny Boss Poki will spawn every 2 hours on Channel 2 and 4 with low chance of dropping Bunny Leash and Big Event Box. Had try killing the first one at Channel 2 with other players but we all got nothing. They had make some changes to Easter Egg and Quest Rewards, haven't really start on that yet as I want to wait 2 hours for Raid Boss to spawn.

They had finally introduce the long await Auto Ignition and Auto Pick Up to new Premium Character Plus at 645 Cash (10B), and even allow selection of spawn location from the option setting. Premium Character Plus also allow unlimited Teleportation for Friend List, guess Premium Character Plus will be in demand and the price will go up.  

P.S.:

Saw something funny, Peanut actually take effort to use some of his alternate just to prove that god was wrong. I told him that he is just wasting his time talking to wall as god had already completed the quest 3 times last year, and he even got a toon name The Wall. He kind of get what I am trying to say and stop doing what most players would not even bother, think only a Narcissist will really be bother about that and keep trying to prove that he is right about everything.

Kind of see some improvement that he actually get my hint, everyone that had known god for years would have known that he just talk about the topic that he is interested. The argument will have go on forever if I never step in, and the world chat will fill with useless spam instead of meaning conversation.

Egg Inc:

 

Aphelion:

Back to farming for Easter Egg after completing Guardian of the Galaxy Vol 3, the setup is over power as expected. Each toon take about 2 to 4 hours to farm for Pictorial Book stuffs, the whole process occupied whole day. But the result is fulfilling as I get lots of drop over the process, I did not understand why I had set this up a year ago but now it all become clear.

Now the stuffs will become rare items as most players did not have low level toon, they have to get the Drop Accessory from Item Mall which allow drop for mobs of lower level which cost 7K Cash. The Transformation Scroll at Merac are also very hard to get, got to do two run with full inventory of all 6 additional bags to get enough for Pictorial Book. The Pilferer one is even harder with only 20 of it after two full runs, at least the Blood Frenzy one is able to get 50.

I am not sure if I should give up on Titan if there is not enough time for the day, as it is not really that important according to the Pictorial Book. Still getting about 250 Easter Egg of each type, so will still stick to the plan of going to event map every 10 days to complete the weekly quest for the Premium Bless. I can get Premium Bless from Bloodymir Boss too, but it is a rare drop like the Affinity Booster of the Egeha Boss.

My focus will be on this server until the Easter Event start on the other server, I might balance between the two when that happen. But the main focus will still be mainly on this server as the rewards are better, I also got a lot of stuffs on other server which should be able to last me for few years.

P.S.:

Had notice that they had change the storage of Easter Egg back to 1, guess there are too many players botting at Easter Map. It is a very effective way to prevent cheat too, and I had also notice they are using the same method like the recent change on official server where the hitting of mob or picking up of item are block at certain angle.   

Horizon:

Peanut had been changing his schedule on his mission to bring misery to other players, guess he had fell for the trap after I troll and agitate him. He will drain himself out in no time and it will affect his health greatly, guess it is kind of a retribution for him for doing bad deeds. The new trolling toons will be able to use the world chat in 3 days, I could have level them to Level 100 and use it now but I feel there is no urgency in it.

The 12th horse is already Level 56 with 1 more level to go, the 13th horse is Level 39, due to the time zone different Peanut harassment on pet leveler did not bother me much. I am still able to level my horse at a slower pace, I don't think he can stay awake for 72 hours like what Cleri or Try Hard did. He will realise that all his effort are a waste of time, if most of the players continue to troll him daily he might become angry and start to do stupid thing to get himself ban.

If there are too many players complaint and quit, the management might have to step in and interfere with the harassment. The exchange of harsh words on world chat might also trigger the management attention, they might even consider removing the useless Game Sage even though he is the only one active now. Smokey and Crossy had step down from the Game Sage position, guess Warth and Anaq might be able to come back and enjoy the game. Crossy is the only good one so far with good knowledge and helpful to other players, now I know why Kry didn't want to take up the post even though she is over qualify for it.

Another situation might also happen when a lot of players keep reporting various issue with the game, then the useless Game Sage will be too busy handling the problem and quit after he cannot take the stress or work load. He might be able to continue to make other players misery his mission in life but he would not able to continue pretending to play nice and think he own the server.  

P.S.:

Have notice that some Fire Ore is still there when I wake up every morning, I thought Peanut kind of miss out a few due to tireness. But after I saw a few pet leveler idle on the spot, I realize that those spot just respawn early. I thought Peanut usual style will be doing it from Channel 1 to Channel 6, but from the recently observation he had change it a bit and start from Channel 6 instead.

It is still within my expectation as the slight change in his schedule and sequence seem very predictable, guess he is limited by his brain power and unable to adapt well to my random style of play. It will continue to agitate him after seeing that I am still able to level horse despite his change in style, it will anger him even more when my 12th horse is finally complete.

The decision for Fawkes to change Channel 6 into Non PVP is a really wise choise, it give us more choice and kind of limit Peanut ability to harass other. Guess it is like putting a leash on a dog and all it can do is just bark, that is why I say he remind me of Van Wilder movie but guess he didn't really get the point. Even if he is able to respond to my trolling, he will also fell into the trap of admitting that he is a dog himself. 

Serious Lag:

 Horizon:

Been encounter serious lag for the past few weeks, mainly with the browser not loading. Guess is had become a yearly event like Halloween, we just got to get use to it. The Anniversary Event had not start, but they had introduce some 5 x Hit Rate and Evasion Accessory and new Loyalty Costume with recent patch. As they are having Drop Rate Event again, it might be a good time to farm for some Pictorial Book stuffs since I had already finish 2 Elephant during the last Pet Experience Event.

There are still much to do, as I still have a few Trolling Toons to level. There is also a Polar to Evolve to 3rd Evolution, another set of Buff Toons and two more sets of Farming Toons. Not really sure when I will get bored of it, as I only play for about two years last time and it is almost three years now this time round. A lot of players had already encounter difficulty in getting the stuffs they need, the recent 5 x Accessory might boost the amount of Loyalty Stuffs available in the market.

Aphelion:

Encounter serious lag as usual, I got to set my DNS to Google Public. I remember I had manage to set it last time except for Laptop which encounter some issue, but recently ISP maintenance had seem to change the IP Address for few days and reset some previous settings. This time I didn't encounter any issue on any of the Desktop and Laptop, and the connection issue seem to improve a lot after I did it.

Seem to have a lot of new Spanish players joining the server recently, but since my bad encounter with Light Angel before I rather ignore them and let them learn things the hard way. They are having a hard time trying to get a lot of stuffs they need and they had to pay high price for it as not much players are farming them. Always see them keep spamming the chat looking for stuffs but still unable to get it after a few weeks, the same seem to happen on official server too.

Happy Valentine:

 Horizon:

 Valentine Event had started, it will run for a week. I had brought 2K of Large Chocolate cheap from Trading Agent during Christmas last year, it will give about 1.1K of Potions. As it take a lot of time to wrap the Chocolate and put it in Box, I decided to do about 400 per day. The drop rate for chocolate is very low, I only get about 3 to 6 of it after an hour of farming. 

I finally realize why my potions almost run out before the Christmas Event ended, I was able to save some for my pet leveler. Found out that the Loyalty Costume is not tradable, but at least it is permanent. Now I got to wear skirt, don't think I will be able to wait till the new design to come out. Not sure what I am going to do with the Level 185 Jump Box which I will be getting next month, think they will be giving Speed Mount instead of Experience Pet this time.

I am keeping all the stuffs from Loyalty Rewards till the economy recover, guess a lot of players are going to had a hard time getting the stuffs they need. I think they will have to do a Gold Reset before they are able to fix the economy, but I foresee some smart ass will spend all of it on Golden Magnifying Glass again. I am not sure why they are so obsess with getting good seal fro reform, even jewel seem insignificant improvement to me.

Aphelion: 

The new patch had remove a lot of useless stuffs, it also improve the stuffs we get. But I still feel the Level 165 direct start is a very bad idea, as it is very easy to achieve it. Notice a lot of new players seem to be lost without the proper quest to guide them on the usual game play, and they seem to lose interest fast and quit. Guess they still got to strike a balance between easy game play and content to keep players interested, the lack of events is still a shortfall which they are still unable to overcome till now.

 I still prefer the time before the Level Cap increase to Level 220, I feel that the game is still better before they Nerf the AOE Pet. A lot of changes they make after that seem childish and stupid to me, and I have not really done much of it till now. So far I still like most of the stuffs as compare to official, but I didn't really see much improvement after the Level 220 patch.

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.

Class Skill:

 Horizon:

They are focusing on making Emote for dancing move,  kind of useless to most players. Mostly focus on leveling Horse and my farming toon, whole server seem dead quiet until Mother Nature is back. Most players are going on their summer vacation as usual, and only a few regular one are farming for Curse Heart for Laca just to get as many high level jewel as they can. Item Drop Booster seem to be in great demand because of that and the price had increase to become higher than Experience Booster.

My Buff and Merchant Toon setup seem to be very effective, but as I did not really use them much I just try it out for a week and resume back to weekend active as before. Avatar keep wanting a Level 57 Horse, but he don't really play much these days other than log on for Attendance I don't see the point of him trying so hard just to get one. It will be more of a white elephant to him and it will just be something to show off to other as not much players had it, but as a lot of players are leveling it now it will become a very common item in a few months.

Aphelion:

Mr yl ask if Elementalist is good for PVE, as nobody seem to response to him and I am doing my Tairan Daily with my Elementalist at that moment I just try to reply to him. My theory is that all class have dual class which is good for either PVE or PVP, that is how the game had been design to work. So Specialist will be better for PVE while Elementalist will be better for PVP.

I also go on to say that Wizard is better for PVE while Witch is better for PVP, it is mainly due to their skill as Wizard and Specialist AOE Skill work better while Witch Stone Skill and Elementalist Spirit Summon work better for PVP. The same goes for Archer better for PVE while Cleric better for PVP, or Royal Knight better for PVE while Temple Knight better for PVP.

I am not so sure about Rogue and Titan as most prefer Ranger and Warmaster for both, but I think Assassin is better for PVE due to the Death Motion and Taunt Skill and Highlander is better for PVP due to higher HP and Perfect Body Skill. But Warmaster Bellow Skill is almost the same as Witch Stone Skill so I could be wrong about that. I had only seen a few who prefer using Assassin for PVP as they like the skills better, but overall still a lot of player prefer using Ranger due to it's range attack.

Both Mr yl and Ankou laugh at my theory and Ankou claim that both Elementalist and Specialist are good for both PVE and PVP depend on how we use it, but they didn't really play all class like me and Anti so it will still be a slap in their own face when they only play those popular class and assume they know it better.

I had been an Engineer most of my life and we are always paying attention to minor details to figure out why certain thing are design the way they are, we also work like scientist and record a lot of data to analyze before we jump into conclusion. I can create two completely similar toon and spend a lot of time killing few thousand of mobs just to prove the drop rate for normal server and recommended server are the same, the drops also allow me to calculate the chance of getting different type of moonstone from moonstone box.

It take a lot of patient and diligent and that is a valuable quality that not many people had, this is also something that a Beta Tester must have and most players just want to skip through most part of the game and judge other on the numbers of max level toon they have. It end up that they would not realise the finer detail of the game design and would not be able to help newbie as they themselves had skip through that part when they first started.

P.S.:
This is the same reason why harvest tool had to be separate into different class as they are using the weapon slot and can upgrade with tool aid like weapon using upgrade stone. The only thing I haven't figure out the reason for it is why Artifact is design as an Accessory instead of gear like Back Pack, it could be due to the ability for Accessory to be combine which the Back Pack cannot fulfill the same requirement.

Easter Event:

 Horizon:

Pet Exp Event as expected, manage to level my Holy Bless Toon to Level 145 and Elephant to Level 60. Switch to my Haste Toon for the Drop Event, hopefully can get some Speed Boot or Cool Down Helmet.

Aphelion:

Finally found the Care Package at Frost Core after long time, it is good that the Gilese Affinity Shop sell the Entry Ticket for Gilese and Frost Core at 10M, it help me to save a lot with the 490M discount. There is a Titan name Killian Mbappette going around killing players, I am not sure what is the point of doing that, maybe he just want to boost his PVP Ranking. He had kill me serveral times at Channel 3 at Tairan Center while I am trying to complete my Daily Quest, he finally got bored and give up after a while.

Easter Event had started, there is also a Level 220 Patch coming. This time the Easter Egg give better rewards, but still not my favorite event like the Summer Event and Christmas Event as Halloween Event still give the best rewards. Not sure if I would want to level up any more as I can already do most of the stuffs at Level 185, it will be a very slow and hard journey with similar encounter like Mushroom Land.

Anniversary Event:

 Horizon:

Anniversary Event had started, they had 300% Drop Rate, 200% Gold Drop, 250% Upgrade and GM Buff. They promise more to come as the date get near, so we expect  800% Jewel and the collection of Ingredient for Candle and Cake. Hopefully they will have a Laca Ball for the Ingredient later after the Anniversary Event ended, not sure if they are able to surprise us with better event as there are still a lot of disappointment with the schedule of the event so far.

There had been a lot of delay and postpone for the event due to technical difficulty as they had claimed, but it seem like they don't really care much about the game from the tell tale sign so far until now. They did improve the game by fixing a few bug, but they care more about their own rest time more than ensuring the proper running of most events.

There seem to be someone using the same name as me, but he is using Hydros with a S behind as the name Hydro had been taken by my Knight Phoenix Toon. I also have another Rogue Phoenix Toon named Nitro, not sure if it was Avatar or Zed but imitation is the greatest compliment. Even my Merchant Shop Farm Mart also encounter copy right issue too last year, but they could not duplicate my personality of my toon or the price of my shop as it will cost them to lose a lot.

Had been playing with my Haste Toon Acid Burn since the start of the Anniversary Event, manage to get it from Level 76 to Level 87 but have not been able to get any Cool Down Helmet or Speed Boot so far. It was having much difficulty killing Goldie and had a tough time surviving getting mob, after upgraded the armor set to +30 it only improve the situation by a bit.

As I still need to use some potion to boost my attack and defense to survive getting mob or killing Raid Boss, I guess I will be playing more on my other two Raid Boss Hunter for Balrog and Skippy more in the future. The Raid Boss Hunter for Kami is not perfect as the highest level mob for Dratan is still about 5 Level different lower than the Raid Boss, maybe I will try to make another toon at Level 65 but I hope the Level 75 to Level 77 armor set which I also got it to +30 will be good for Temple of Forgetfulness.

Manage to upgrade the weapon for most of my farming toon to make it more over power, the only thing left for me to upgrade will be the Level 95 to Level 97 armor set which I might be using it for Egeha Raid Boss Hunter. Have to fuse some Element Jewel to the Level 69, 149 and 157 Weapon which I got it to +30, hopefully I will  be able to get some Element Jewel before the Jewel Event start. 

Aphelion:

Cheeh had join the server recently, I had give him the Newbie Package. As he had already play for few days, a lot of stuff which I give him will not help much. Been taking it easy and start farming for my Pictorial Book stuffs again, as the Tomb one really took long time I decided to do the Travia Valley one instead. The Travia Valley one will also take long time but at least it stack and would not take up inventory space, each Chapter took me about few days and I expect to complete it by few weeks.

They had start a New Season for Battle Pass, I had not explore much about it as I only know they give New Electric Blue and Fire Red Costume. As I only manage to complete it few times and reset it during Halloween Event when the Pumpkin give a lot of Battle Pass Booster, I guess I will have to wait for the next Halloween Event before I can explore it further.

Pet Peeve:

 Horizon:

The drop rate is back to normal with recent patch, the bug that doesn't allow us to sell stuff to NPC is also fixed. Been leveling pet for the past one week since the drop rate is bad, and also back track some quest for my Level 185 Royal Knight since I got nothing better to do.

I start with the Back Pack Quest first, then go on to the Veteran Quest. Both Quest are easy without any issue as I had already did it with my Specialist before the migration. I move on to the Entry Quest for Mondshine, Lab and Dark Tomb, Mondshine Entry Quest is quite straight forward with killing some mobs in Ebony Mine, Misty Crayon and Floriam Cave.

Lab Entry Quest is also easy with killing some mobs in Tairan, but the Dark Tomb Entry Quest is a bit tough with killing some Boss in Lab. I had manage to kill all the Boss on the first level, but I had heard a lot about the Boss getting tough at the Basement. I also got a few Quest to kill Elemental Boss, but I will have to get some help with that when I find the time.

Leveling pet at Tairan is fast with Kanuta and Tarvox, but as they are blue they don't drop any stuff. It would be better to make a Level 164 toon for pet leveling where I could farm some stuff while I level pet. But my other option of using my Level 53 Assassin and Level 33 Royal Knight to level pet while farming for stuff and hunting Raid Boss seem to be better for me.

Aphelion:

Been giving out a lot of Newbie Package and I am running low on the stuffs. I give 5 Newbie Package to Blue Rum since he is the Guild Leader for Java, as there are too many of them and I doesn't really have much time to level the Buff Pets for them I just give them the collars and let them do it on their own.

Music had decided to join the server, I give him the same Newbie Package which I give everybody else. It will be better for him to stay here than to harass other player on other server and keep spamming the chat. I had help him to kill some Boss in Four Realm for the Leveling Quest, he had manage to get to Level 194 and want to do some damage test.

It doesn't really end well for him as he keep missing due to low hit rate and only hit about 9K to 10K once in a while. I am able to one hit him with 71K damage as his status is not max out and he didn't really bother to improve his gears. As I had more than 300K of HP, it will take him a few minutes to kill me even though my HP reduce to below 50K due to the unequip gear bug when switching channel.

 There is another Italian Guy name Thunder Storm which ask for my help, I give him Newbie Package. He later ask for my help to complete the Quests in Four Realm, but I can't help him with the Collection Quest as the item are not tradable. He kind of just give up and never see him log on much after that.

Legolas also decided to join the server, I guide him on updating the Direct X files as he is having issue with Black Screen when he try to load the game. I also give him the Newbie Package when he finally able to log on when the other server is having maintenance. I told him that if he need any help with Four Realm Quest he can ask me or Sushi, he just level until Level 160 and go back to the other server when the maintenance is over. Not sure if he is planning to just play this server whenever the other server is down for maintenance, but I felt it will be much better for him here as he is a very hardworking farmer.

 Recently saw another player named God Slayer join the server, not sure if he is the same Blood Mage who had not been active for long time on other server. I will try to help him by giving him whatever I had left for Newbie Package, and I will try to farm for more stuffs to replenish all the stock for the Newbie Package.

 

Yesterday Once More:

 Horizon:

Christmas Event had ended, as expected they remove the Santa Hat. Another thing that I had expected is that they Nerf the Drop Rate again, this time is even worst than Halloween. Usually it took me about 30 mins to fill up my inventory, it will took 15 mins during 200% Drop Rate Event. It took 7 to 8 mins with Christmas Tree Buff, but now it took an hour even with Christmas Tree Buff.

 So they didn't just Nerf the Drop Rate by 50%, they even disable the Christmas Tree Buff. This is bad for the Free To Play players, as their livelihood depend a lot on the stuff they farm. If there are not enough Free To Play players to farm for stuff, the Pay To Win players will be sitting around and looking at each other with nothing to offer.

Soon the server will be dead with not much Free To Play or Pay To Win players, as most of them will be just sitting around and waiting for miracle to happen. And players will only become active whenever there is good event, most will just log on for attendance when there are no event.

Aphelion:

Penkichan need some Paragon Shard for his Extreme Juno Affinity, and since I got more than 100K of each type I give him about 50K of each type to clear up some space for my inventory. A group of players from Java Guild request for help to kill Boss at Four Realm, they are Blue Rum, Katt, Zep, Sling Blade, Death Dagger and Dagger Dancer.

It is good to see them trying to level up together, kind of remind me of the good old time where I spawn and kill Raid Boss with my Guild Member 12 years ago. We have a lot of fun doing a lot of stuff together, I might get one of my alternate to join them and help them level up their Guild to Level 50 and get all the Guild Skill maxed out.

I still got 100 Bless of Guild Book which I save up, always plan for future. Think another player named Dark Art was also helping them, as I saw him at almost the same level as me and in the same party. Beamer told me he is busy with work, didn't have much time to play. Theo is angry with him because he did 4 Reborn and then stop there for very long without any progress, I told him I got a Reborn Skip which might help a bit.

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.

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.

Christmas Events:

 

 

It is the holidays season, spam bots are very active. I got like 2 to 3 spam bots almost daily, and they are getting smarter. They check the box on Refuse Trade and Refuse Request from the Option to prevent other players from adding them to Party and Recall them to other Location. But they still can be Summon using Summon Book as they did not uncheck the Permit Summon box and can still be added the the Friend List for Private Message. They later became smarter and put their status as offline to prevent us from activating their chat windows.

A Mage name Just Me start to buy Wooden Key from me, seem like now me very well but I am not sure who until now. Could be Zedan from the way he like to teach people stuffs, could me Mother Nature as she is drop hunting on Drake like me. Could also be Jo Beth too as he is always value in game stuffs a lot, could also be Long Shot too as he might finally decide to come back to this server.

Long Shot had not been log on for days, guess the losing of Castle Ownership really did a big blow to him. But there is another Moon Knight I met which behave very much like him, hopefully he really decide to stay at this server for good. Moon Knight also had a lot of toon, he also seem to know Colombo mimi very well. So Just Me could be Blood Mage too as he keep saying I had been very good to him or her, but there is also a possibilities of so many other players including Game Master Ingwulf or lcusinfo weebly site Eiv or Sarong as i recently give her a lot of Tool Aid for the Pet Food she sell Murph.

A lot of new players appear out of nowhere, I had help a player name Purple Shadow when she need to get Skill Point for her Merchant Profession. I lend her the Level 55 to 57 +15 Set from Mercury Venus and give her a lot of potions and golds which she will need. She later decided to return the unused potions and even give me more gold to make up for the kind gesture, but later only see her in Merchant Mode for few days selling some stuffs and then disappear for good like what Blood Mage did before.

Zedan ask me to let Char418 join my Guild, he told me it is a Newbie and need someone who is always on to help. But the way this Newbie behave is really unpredictable, he always log on when I am Away From Keyboard and log off after I am back on. He only manage to Level Up from Level 7 to Level 15 and then never see him appear again. I check on the internet and found that his In Game Name actually mean I Am A Tea Pot, so most likely he should be from Europe as America drink Coffee more.

 

 Had been drop hunting on Pictorial Book stuffs, was surprise that Harpy only took me few hours as compare to few weeks for other mobs. I am now doing Dark Goddess with Hydro Static at Level 25 and will be doing Treant, Sand Golem and Salamander with Old Alpha Light after I complete the Dark Goddess. Still got Goblin Scout and Poison Myst to go for Old Hydro Dynamic, then will go back to do Dungeon again as don't really need so many Wooden Key if they already cancel the World Cup Festival.

Still no news for Advent Laca Ball yet, and the Christmas Event should be running for the Whole Month as there are not Maintenance done on Thursday. Now a lot of players are worried about the server shut down instead of server merge, but the game had been running for so long so better enjoy it while it last.

The coming Christmas Events are as follows:

17th Dec 200% Drop Rate

18th Dec 200% XP and SP

23rd Dec 200% Upgrade

24th Dec 300% Pet XP

25th Dec 500% Jewel

26th Dec 350% Jewel

27th Dec 250% Drop Rate

28th Dec 250% Upgrade

29th Dec 400% Jewel

30th Dec 300% Pet XP

31 Dec 300% Drop Rate

Castle Siege:

 

Guild Advisor:"We should take part in Castle Siege."

 

Me:"That is Mission Impossible."

 

Guild Advisor:"Well, Mission Difficult will be a Walk in the Park."

 

Me:"There are only two of us against the whole guild."

 

Guild Advisor:"This is Spartan!"

 

Double Drop Event on Saturday and Double Experience and Skill Point on Sunday, got to plan for the best toon to do drop farming. Since Guild Advisor want to participate in Castle Siege, I will have to give him my full support no matter how crazy the idea sound.

 

Since he doesn't use Discord and I haven't got the chance to meet him in game, I can only use the Guild Notice to inform him of the Events. That is what I do for the last Upgrade Event too, and due to our different time zone it is going to be the most effective way to inform him of anything upcoming.

 

Manage to get two apprentice, one of them is really new to the game and I had spend quite a lot of time to guide him in the basic of the game. The other one seem experience enough and know about XP Lock and SP Farm, so I do not have to worry much.

Taking it Easy:

Finally got a Rare Accessory from Grand Balrog on 12th kill on the new server, Pierce of Wind is suitable for Rogue Assassin. Although it is not as good as Stone of Shadow, but it is better than nothing at this moment.

I manage to link up with my friend wife yesterday, still unable to link up with my friend until now. From chatting with her I found out that most player do their Skill Point Farming at Level 15 by killing Level 12 Sasquatch.

I feel that it is not that efficient as they do not have the Level 21+15 Event Weapon yet, at least they should do it at Level 17 for old player and Level 20 for new player. As they will still gain 1 Experience Point per kill with 100% Experience Lock, I guess they do not have much choice if they want to make good use of their limited levels.

As the drop rate is really bad for the new server, the price for most stuff is almost 5 to 10 times higher as compare to the other server. The drop rate is also about 10% to 20% of the other server which kind of make sense on the economy of the server here.

I got a new idea from my past experience, I decided to create a new character for farming Transformation Scroll. It will help to get more drop while having fun, it will also help to boost the economy of the server as resources are more readily available.

Operation Transformer:

Kill about 5500 Dire Wolf from Level 7 to Level 8, got 42 Transformation Scroll. The drop rate use to be 1 scroll per 100 kills, but it became worst after getting about 17 scrolls. So now it came to about 1 scroll per 130 kills.

Got about 800 Skill Point and manage to level up Pet from Level 1 to Level 7. Got 7 Hand of Bravery and Protection, 2 Hand of Guard and 1 Hand of Warrior. 1 Heaven Stone are from drop and 2 Protection Potion are from Wooden Treasure Chest.

Got 60 Moonstone Box, manage to get 32 Poor, 16 Average, 7 Normal and 4 Good Moonstone from it. Poor will mostly give Level 3 Minerals, Average and Normal will get Level 6 while Good will get Level 12.

As you can see the boxes mostly give Poor or Average Moonstone, so the price of it should be same for Poor or Average Moonstone instead of Perfect Moon Stone which most players are selling. As they give different level Minerals, the price of the Minerals should also equal to the relevant Moonstone price.

Got 75 Copper Token, it will mostly give Greater Mana Potion. Manage to get 6 Gold Token, 2 Castle Siege Token and 1 Chaos Ball from it by luck. Gold will give Lucky Scroll and Experience Scroll and sometime Effort Scroll if you are lucky. Castle Siege mostly give Level 2 to 3 Jewels and Chao Ball mostly give Level 12 Minerals.

Please take note that this was done at Recommended Server where the drop rate are better. Will proceed to other server to prove that the drop rate are really bad in near future. Make a mistake by completing some Quest at Level 8, it contribute 63.69% of Experience.

 

 Surprise Outcome:

Got 38 Transformation Scroll, not much different from Recommended Server. About 1 scroll per 144 kills, drop rate also use to be better at about 1 scroll per kill from the start. It become worst after getting about 21 scrolls.

Got about 500 Skill Point, guess it is because the lack of blessing which give 50% more. Manage to level pet to Level 8, mainly because the lack of blessing which increase attack too.

Got 8 Hand of Bravery, 6 Protection, 2 Guard and 2 Warrior. 1 Heaven Stone are from Wooden Treasure Chest which surprise me, usually only got potions from it.

Got 53 Moonstone Box, manage to get 29 Poor, 17 Average, 5 Normal and 2 Good from it. Got 70 Copper Token, manage to get 7 Gold and 3 Castle Siege from it.

The conclusion from this experiment proof that the drop rate are almost the same for both server. The only different is that Recommended Server will allow low level players to progress faster with all the blessing which boost Experience, Skill Point, Attack, Defense, Healing and Drop Rate.

I was surprise that the drop rate is not 10% to 20% as I have expected, it is not even close to 50% which I have anticipated too. Instead the blessing which increase drop rate by 10 times actually doesn't serve much purpose to get more drop.

I guess the main reason that this server pricing are more expensive is mainly because there are more high level players which are rich and can afford to pay more for the same stuffs. This is actually very beneficial to new low level players as they are able to earn more gold from selling stuffs.

As there are also less players at the Recommended Server, it is also harder for new players to find Guardian. So base on the outcome of the experiment, I feel that I can do more good by playing at the Recommended Server as I can help more new players to enjoy the game even more. 

 

 Top Gun:

The game had migrate to Glyph Platform during the recent update, it is able to open multi windows and log into multi account now on the same PC. Last time we would require two different computers to log into different accounts for transfer of stuffs between different characters. Now we can log in to two different accounts to form Party, left one selling stuffs in Merchant Mode and use the other one to kill monsters.

Encounter some issue with the XignCode3 Anti Cheat System yesterday, didn't get the game to work even after trying to do a repair patches. End up had to uninstall and reinstall the Client for it to work again. Did try installing the UK version and found the same issue too, but had also setup accounts for it for future expansion.

Been trying to get Grand Balrog to spawn after I am able to login to the game again, found that the Elements of Iris Event had change to Grass of Juno which give good accessory for Titan and Knight if I manage to collect 999 of it. The next event will be Sand of Dratan which will give good accessory for Rogue.

Been killing so many Elder Drake until I was given the Title Maverick, think need to kill about 32000 of it on PVP server for that. Able to get Stone of Life Rare Accessory from Grand Balrog on 24th kill, so the drop rate for Rare Accessory is still about one in every 12 kills for this server. It is not as good as the one in every 4 to 5 kills on the recommended server.

 

 Hard Work Get Rewarded:

Got a Rare Accessory at 29th kill, that show that the drop rate start to improve to about one drop per 5 kills. It is a much better accessory compare to the two which I got before, but it is more suitable for Archer.

There seem to be some fierce competition from some high level players, saw a few of them mass killing low level monsters at Newbie Area just to spawn Grand Balrog.

Their level also about 20 to 30 levels higher than the Raid Boss, so I don't think they are going to get any Rare Accessory drop even if they manage to spawn and kill it.

They should focus on Level 50 Grand Red Dragon at Merac or Level 70 Grand Devilroad Kamira at Dratan. I remember I use to kill hunt Grand Red Dragon with Level 53 Rogue Assassin Mercury Venus and Grand Devilroad Kamira with Level 53 Royal Knight Apollo Mars.

The reason Apollo Mars is able to kill Level 70 Grand Devilroad Kamira at Level 53 is because I manage to get Level 55+15 to Level 57+15 Armour Set which give an additional 250 Magical Defense against it's Magical Attack.

Of course I also use a lot of Attack and Defense Buff from Level 12 Minerals and Large Potions to speed up the killing so that I can reduce the damage receive from it.

Don't think I will be able to achieve that glory from the past days as there are so much less players now. I use to be able to spend the whole morning shopping between different channel as the town area are full of players in Merchant Mode selling various stuffs.

Now most of the shop are only concentrated at one server and most of the stuffs are what I don't really need due to my low level. I use to buy stuffs at lower price from those noob players and then resell them at higher price to those higher level players.

It is like playing with stock market if you know the price and value of the stuffs very well. Now it is very hard to do the same due to the limitation of resources and assert. I had to slowly get it back on track by killing more monsters and getting more drops.

 

 

 

 

Ridiculous Pricing:

Saw a player selling Heaven Stone, Skill Point Booster and Large Attack Potion at a Ridiculous Pricing of 300 millions. So far the average price I seen are about 10 millions for Heaven Stone and Skill Point Booster and about 1 millions for Large Attack Potion. Don't think any players will be dumb enough to buy it even though they really want to help.

Price Guide:

Mineral (3): 100K to 200K

Mineral (6): 250K to 500K

Mineral (12): 500K to 1M

Perfect Moon Stone: 1M to 5M

Good Moon Stone: 500K to 1M

Normal Moon Stone: 250K to 500K

Average Moon Stone: 100K to 200K

Poor Moon Stone: 50K to 100K

Moon Stone Box: 100K to 200K

Candy: 1M

Physical Attack Potion: 100K to 150K

Physical Defense Potion: 100K to 150K

Tool Aid: 500K

Large Attack Potion: 1M to 1.5M

Large Defense Potion: 1M to 1.5M

Holy Water of Strength 1M to 1.5M

Item Drop Booster (30% DR): 10M to 15M

Experience Point Booster (400% XP): 10M to 15M

Skill Point Booster (400% SP): 10M to 15M

Chaos Smelting Stone: 180M to 260M

Extreme Stone: 5M to 10M

Lucky Smelting Stone: 50M to 70M

Heaven Stone: 5M to 10M

Drake Egg: 10K to 20K

Pan Flute: 10K to 20K

Level 31 Dragon: 35M to 45M

Level 33 Dragon: 45M to 55M

Level 31 Knightmare: 50M to 60M

Level 33 Knightmare: 60M to 90M

Level 37 Knightmare: 300M

Lucky Scroll (200% DR 10 Min): 1M to 10M

Experience Scroll (150% XP 10 Min): 12M to 15M

Effort Scroll (150% SP 10 Min): 2.5M to 3M

Chaos Ball: 500K to 1M

Tear Of Knight: 50M to 150M

Eye Of Spirit: 50M to 150M

Crest Of Rainbow: 50M to 150M

Stone Of Shadow: 50M to 150M

Rage Of Demon: 50M to 150M

Pierce Of Wind: 5M to 10M

Chain Of Tiger: 5M to 10M

Eye Of Wiseman: 5M to 10M

Stone Of Life: 5M to 10M

Primal Earth 5M to 10M

 

 

 Deja Vu:

Got another Stone of Life from Grand Balrog at 47th Kill, so the next Rare Accessory I am going to get will be Eyes of Spirit again? Surprised that I manage to get Rare Accessory drop from Grand Balrog so soon, was expecting getting another drop at around 55th to 60th Kill according to the usual drop rate.

 

Good Luck:

Finally got a Crest of Rainbow from Grand Balrog at 50th Kill, luck is improving and drop rate had been good.