Semi Retirement:

 Horizon:

Server is almost dead after recent update which cause a lot of players to encounter issue with Microsoft Visual C++, those who manage to log in also encounter a lot of lag and disconnection. Initially I can still do some pet leveling in the afternoon, but it became worst and I can't even log in for few minutes to complete my attendance without getting disconnection.

They are going to start Halloween Event next week, not sure if they are going to do a make Mooncake Event after the Halloween or completely skip it this year. From the way they run the events, we can see that they do not put in enough effort to plan it properly. Most of the time they just run events according to what the players wanted, it is not a bad thing but it will surely backfire on long run.

Aphelion:

The similar issue of constant disconnection had make me wonder more if this server is secretly related to the official server, even if the official server start to copy some ideas from this server it could not have the same server issues at the exact same period. I had been trying hard to complete my daily and then spend the rest of the day doing Immortal Boss.

Haven't seen Weed log on for more than a week, Speedy and Anaq have also switch to another private server named Sanctuary. I had try it out for a day but don't really like it as it is very similar to Reboot private server, so I will wait for the new Phoenix private server to launch and try it out.

Hopefully the new Phoenix private server will be better, or the Aphelion private server situation will start to improve after the launch of Phoenix private server. Rose Mary had join this server, I let her join my guild and give her the Newbie Package. As expected she is not really serious about this server and only play for a while and decided to go back to official server.

If there are really no improvement on the official and private servers, I might be thinking of quitting both completely and go back to Final Fantasy. There had been a lot of rumors about the Admin going to abandon the server when news leak out about him starting another server, although he had clarify it many times that the rumors are not true but his neglect about the server had seem to prove otherwise.

There are a lot of issues not resolve and a lot of tickets not attend to, a lot of unhappiness among the players and the situation just getting worst days by days. A lot of them had say that it was greed to make more money that had made him decide to run more and more private server, and he already unable to cope with the management of just 1 or 2 servers.

Laca Ball:

 Horizon:

 

Mooncake Event had ended, they had a new Laca Ball for the left over ingredient. The rewards for the Laca Ball are better than the Mooncake itself, foresee most player will rather keep the ingredient for Laca Ball instead of trade for Mooncake. They had Legendary Iris for Lotus Seed, Legendary Skill Pill for Egg York and Platinum Pet Pill for Flour. Other rewards are Pet Fairy 7D, Blessed Iris, Resurrection Scroll and Large Chocolate.

Other than that they also had Laca Ball for Black Token, rewards are Griffin Birdie, Safe Socket Scroll, Mid Grade Reformer, Platinum Adrenaline and Heaven Stone Grade 2. At least they didn't Nerf the the drop rate this time, and a lot of players are happy with the Laca Ball rewards. 

 

P.S.:

They had start the Advert Laca Ball with new patch, Element of Iris are getting rewards like Affinity Booster, Candle x 3, Affinity Booster Seed x 3, Party Attack Speed and Party Attack Power. Cracked Spear, Zombie Nail, Forgotten Talisman, Zombie Skin are getting rewards like Theos Chest, Darkness Chest, Darkness Key, Party Attack Speed and Party Attack Power.

 

Mob are dropping White Token now, and it had more choice of rewards like Polar Bear, Warehouse Storage Card,  Level 15 Jewel, Platinum Rune of Protection and Charm of Sio. Or you can choose the second tab of Safe Socket Scroll, Legendary Scroll, Jewel Protection Scroll x 3, Sublime Scroll and Jewel Fusion Scroll x 5 or the third tab of Advance Grade Reformer x 5, Mid Grade Reformer x 5, Socket Reset Card x 2, Chaos Jewel Fusion Scroll x 3 and Golden Magnifying Glass x 3.

Kind of disappointed with the Advert Laca Ball as the rewards are cater more for the higher level, but the White Token is good with wide variety of choices for the rewards which you prefer more. Think more players will choose the first option for the White Token as the value of the item are worth more.

Aphelion:

Manage to get the Phoenix Wing for Healer and Night Shadow, also manage to get a lot of Troll Mucus and Animal Heart. The Boss Killer doesn't really work that well as expected, it kill slow and will die once in a while. But the Pet Leveler are working very well, manage to level 26 horse to Level 130 in few days.

Ghost contact me on Discord, he need some help and wan to trade his stuffs from Horizon to stuffs in Aphelion. As I do not wish to see him quit Horizon Server, I give him the same Newbie Package which I give other. He already have a Level 200 Specialist name Death God, now he is trying out new Ex Rogue name kane.

He doesn't have much patient and keep asking if I got Premium Battle Pass or Level 200 Sorcerer PVE Gear. Not sure what other had told him but he had clearly overestimated my ability, I am only doing Solo and does not have so much resources like those big guild. If he really need that much help, he should have join those big guild, I am only able to help Newbie till they reach Level 165 or 185.

Mooncake:

 

Horizon:

 

Mooncake Event had started, but it also show the bad economy of the server. A lot of players are trying hard to sell their stuffs cheap but still nobody really buy them, it had been very quiet since Halloween Event even though there are a lot of new players joining. Some players even start going to less populated Pandora server and there are rumor that they are going to merge the server, some got bored and start doing weird stuffs to keep the game interesting.

Aphelion:

Beamer try to get my help to get a Shiva Pet for Valence, I wanted to just give him the pet directly but he prefer to learn about it. As he didn't know a lot of stuffs, I had to show him that he need two collar to complete the pet quest. He also need to get the Curse Book from Tairan NPC, I also give him Premium Bless Skill Book for the AOE. As he doesn't have much stuffs, I give him the same Newbie Package which I give Mad Spring and Avatar so that he can pass it to Valance.

Manage to get another Rune of Fire for my Pet Leveling Toon, not sure if I am going to level it to 185 so that it can wear the Peacock Wing. Since the Pet Shop Business is good, I might consider making another Pet Leveling Toon to cope with the supply and demand issue. Not sure why Pet Business had always been good, don't really see much new players join. Maybe it is because they recently updated the Guide and a lot of old players suddenly realise that they do not have some pet for buff.

They going to have another new patch soon, it will make the Extreme Juno Card able to trade for useful stuffs. I wonder why I am unable to get Spade for 2 to J, it will be an issue when they start the new content. The remaining rune which I get doesn't really make much different after I reform it, even though the Weapon Attack had been increase from 20% to 40% I didn't see much different while killing Boss.

I am also in progress of getting Phoenix Wing for all class, still not sure if I am going to use Rainbow Wing with Legendary 5 x Accessory or use Phoenix Wing with Gift of Star. At least I start getting Godly Crafted Weapon whenever I see them cheap, once everything are in place I will start leveling them one by one to Level 185. After I had done all that, the only thing left will be Reborn. Still can't decide if I should take the pain to level from start or just use the Reborn Skip, six time for the permanent buff is really a crazy and expensive progress.

Speedy Gonzales:

 

 A lot of happening recently, mainly due to the holiday season I think. A young player name Vinai add me to her friend list, mainly because she is curious about the Bad Boy song which put on Channel Chat. She say her father always like to sing it, so she is guessing I should belong to the same age group.

She break her Witch Staff during the Upgrade Event, she took the risk of 80% Success Rate. She is considering buying the Reset Card from Item Mall just to change the Class to Wizard because she only got Weapon for Wizard. I feel that it is a bit too extreme as it will be easier to just find a Weapon for Witch, so I ask her to wait while I try to get help from some of my friends.

I was unable to find Long Shot on the other server, so I try to get Colombo mimi to help. But I am not sure why she didn't approach Colombo mimi for help but decided to make a new Healer instead. Guess she decided to just use her Witch as Alternate for Haste Buff, and her Healer should be using for Cleric Holy Bless later too.

What worry me most is that she wanted to complete her Skill Point Farming fast and also Level Up Fast, she manage to complete her Skill Point Farming in just 2 days and Level Up to Level 120 in just 3 days. She had been staying awake and addicted to the game without any sleep, this will affect her health condition a lot. I had help her with getting her Merchant Profession with the Certificate of Guardianship which I got from Moonstone, I also give it to The God Slayer as he also need it for his Merchant Profession.

To my surprise The God Slayer is actually Blood mage which I had help long time back during the first Fall Event, I am glad that he did not really quit the game. But his style of playing is weird to me as usual as he still want to Level Up fast, he still doesn't want to get the benefit of the Guardian System and join Guild for Experience Lock and do Skill Point Farming.

What even puzzle me more is that he doesn't even bother to upgrade his gear and prefer to use +4 gears he got from Elite Monsters drop. But the good thing is he finally start to explore about Jewel and focus more on his Skills, he also mange to Level Up fast and became higher than the Old Apollo Mars in just a few days. He refuse to do Extreme Cube to get the Buffs and also refuse to get Windy Buff from other players, so although both he and Cleri is similar in some ways but they are also totally different in two extreme opposite ways.

Spam Bot seem to be very active these days, I manage to find the previous Spam Bot still at Till the last Treant when I Recall another Spam Bot to the same location. So they kind of spamming each other and also keeping each other company at the same time. Kind of funny to see that, but still had to thank TuckerT for discovering the method 12 years ago. Now it had become a tradition for me to do Operation Tele Tubbies in memory of an old friend.

Game Master did a Pet Hide and Seek Event, I manage to be the second one to find his pet. It is a location which I use to like when I need some quiet time, it use to be a Drake location but had become a Dimension Gate after the Map Update. Manage to win a Goalden Ticket from the event, I try to give it away but nobody actually want it.

As I am not staying in America or Europe, I didn't think they will send the prize overseas even if I manage to win it. As I had already had a lot of Keyboard and Mouse, it will be better to give to those who really need it. Krystael Dagger assure me that the prize will be send to any countries as the event is open to all, so I just had to stay up late for the 2nd December Twitch Live Stream again for the Lucky Draw.

Since I already had a Goalden Ticket, I thought I might as well participate in the Screen Shot Contest. I also participate in the Take a Hike Day and Shuffle Event, think I mange to win 2 Grade 8 Heaven Stone from the Shuffle Event as only Sly and me actually participate in it. I think Sly mange to figure out the second location after he saw my post for the Screen Shot Event, I also manage to figure out the fifth location after I saw his post for the Shuffle Event.

If I really did win the 2 Grade 8 Heaven Stone, I will give it to Sly as I got not much use for it. I had been giving all my Item Drop Booster to Mother Nature as she told me she need it, this is also a way to thank her for all the Windy Buff she gave which help in my drop farming. Now I just had to find out what Elvis need to return the favor of his Windy Buff, but that will be a bit difficult as he seem to had everything he need.

After the Mooncake Event, the 16th Anniversary Event start. What surprise me is that the Mooncake Event never actually end and is running together with the 16th Anniversary Event together. We had to collect Sugar, Flour, Egg and Cocoa, 25 of any Ingredient Type will be able to get Candle which give 100 Skill Cool Down and 40% Attack Speed for 2 Minutes.  5 of each Ingredient Type and 1000 Golds will get Chocolate Cake which give 50% Experience and Skill Point for 5 Minutes.

Guess Candle are much better than Chocolate Cake as Chocolate Cake is just the same as Stripe during the 4th of July Event. I think both the Mooncake and Anniversary Event are better than the Fall Event as Mooncake is selling from 25M to 50M and I think Candle will be selling at 100M to 150M. I can get about 100 Mooncake per day and 50 Candle per day, so I will be able to make around 2.5B per day and 5B per day just by selling Mooncake and Candle. Fall Event only get about 1B per day with Boosters while Insect Collection Event get about 3B per day with Chaos Smelting Stone.

Long Shot is worry about the Server Merge again, this time there are some players who also heard about it too. He is going to lose some of his toons again, and he is not happy about that. He also told me that got one Level 178 Sorcerer is going to challenge the Merac Castle Siege, so we might lose the Castle Ownership next week. Actually I don't really bother about it that much as there is nothing we can do about it, but he seem to be too much involve in the game and see it as a competition. I hope he and the others will be able to enjoy the game like me as a casual past time, it is just a game after all.

Social Experiment:

 

Had been busy farming for Boosters during the Fall Event, they had extend the event by another week as usual. Had been doing a Social Experiment during the event by selling the Boosters at a higher price, it is still a reasonable price with Experience Boosters at 18M, Skill Point Boosters and Item Drop Boosters at 15M.

Diesel doesn't understand why I am selling my Boosters at higher price while other players are selling at lower price just beside me, he was very surprise when I still manage to sell all my Boosters in the end even though the price is higher. It is very hard for me to explain the theory behind the whole experiment, but at least I manage to teach him how to sell his stuffs at a more reasonable price.

It is a sales tactic that most of the retail business use in real life, they will put similar products at different pricing side by side and it will help them sell the cheaper product faster. So what I am doing is actually helping those players beside me sell their stuffs faster, and since there is a demand for Boosters and not enough supply of it most players would not mind the slight price different and still buy my Boosters.

A few smart players who buy stuffs regularly from me will still ask me to lower the price for them, so they are the one that really understand the theory behind my Social Experiment. Overall I still make more gold as compare to previous event even I didn't really farm as much Boosters compare to previous event. I am more focus on preparing for the Advent Laca Ball in December and farming for Pictorial Book items, never knew there are a lot of items which are overlook by me as I do not have much information about it.

Found out that the following items are use for Advent Laca Ball: Fireworks, Pan Flute, Drake Egg, Sasquatch Fur (Sasquatch 12, Red Godey 22), Treant Fruit (Little Treant 15, Aged Treant 19, Treant 26), Horn Beast Eye (Horn Beast 16, Great Horn Beast 24), Rusted Shield (Corpse Ranger 16), Ghoul Poison (Ghoul 17), Drake Scale (Drake 18), Bandages (Mummy 19, Corpse Sergeant 25), Harpy Tear (Harpy 20), Orc Ornament (Orc Fighter 25, Orc Sergeant 29), Raw Wood (Treant 26), Soft Sand (Sand Golem 28), Salamander Tail (Salamander 31), Goblin Ear (Goblin Scout 37), Grass of Juno, Stones of Egeha, Rain of Strayna, Snow of Bloodymir.

There might be more items for the Advent Laca Ball as I had heard players saying Myst Eye and Thick Liquid from Poison Myst 39, I will update on the list after I actually participate in the event next month. At the present moment I just keep farming for those items I need for Pictorial Book and hope that they are also the same items for Advent Laca Ball. I had trash all the Fireworks as it is not useful at all and sold all the Pan Flute and Drake Egg, but I still got those Elements of Iris on a few toons.

Mooncake Event had started after the Fall Event end, we are able to collect Flour, Lotus Seed and Egg to make Moon Cake with Lorrine. 10 Mooncake Trade for a Full Mooncake and Full Mooncake Trade for the Following Prizes with Domain Merchant Landy:

10,000 Gold

50,000 Gold

200,000 Gold

500,000 Gold

2 Heaven Stones

Mooncake give 20% Attack Speed and Movement Speed Buff for 5 Minutes, so since the prizes are not attractive enough most players would prefer to use the Mooncake for the Speed Buff instead of trading them for prizes.