Happy Halloween:

Horizon:

 

 Halloween Event had started, they had made some minor changes to Halloween Boss. This year is Gourdra and it will drop the followings:

 

Premium+ Character Item (1 Hour),
Spirits of the Hollow - Title,
Candle x25,
Anniversary Candle x20,
Halloween Token x25,
Halloween Token Box x5,
Faction Booster x10,
Faction Iris x1

 

Not sure why they would want to change the Halloween Boss and the drops, as the previous one seem fine.  We already got a lot of Faction Iris from last year Christmas Snowflake Laca, guess the price of Fraction Iris will drop even more. The interesting one is the 1 hour Premium Character Plus, but seem like the drop rate is very low like the Spirit of the Hollow Title.

 

Decided to use a new toon for Halloween Event this year, as the previous one is sharing the same account with one of my Pet Leveler. As I doesn't want to affect the progress of Project Ferrari, I had already transfer all the Gears and Candy to the new toon when I completed Project Phoenix as I am using it to farm for Pictorial Book stuffs. I had plan to transfer the gears of most of my Raid Boss Hunters to Phoenix Toons, but most of them seem ok for now.

 

P.S.:

 

Been having a lot of Memory issue recently, decided to try out the Game Booster App. It help to keep the Anti Cheat and Browser from hogging the Memory which allow the Game Client to run smoother and prevent lags and disconnection. 

 

Osiris:

 

Finally manage to get Merchant Profession for one of the toon, able to sell the two Character Rename Card and get Merchant Profession for other three toons. Manage to get Accessory with 10% MP Steal and 50% Cool Down Reduction, decided to equip it on the toon which I am using for Temple of Forgetfulness.

 

Pandora:

 

Very hard to get the stuffs I need or sell any stuffs due to the lack of players, but I am able to farm gold and stuffs. Got to mix and match different Accessory to get the 10% MP Steal and 50% Cool Down Reduction, but I could always keep making new toons to benefit from the stuffs from Newbie Package. The good things about playing on EU Servers are that I am able to use the Buff Codes, it doesn't really run out like when I am playing on US Server. 

 

 

 

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 3.0:

 Horizon:

Manage to get my pet leveler from Level 159 to Level 164 during the 500% XP Event, going to start leveling the backup pet leveler to Level 133 to equip the weapon. After complete another pet leveler, I will start on the other Holy Bless buff toon. I will try to farm Erebus Set for other class and try to upgrade and jewel it for the coming events, I will start with Ex Ranger and Specialist first and then go on to Archer and Arch Wizard, the only one left will be War Master as I already got Royal Knight.

Since I got so many projects in the planning, I could ensure that I will not get bored and also make the best of all events. I was farming for the Pictorial Book in Dratan before the event started, and will continue with it after the events end. As I had been having very good sleep for the past one month, I kind of put Project Secret on hold. As there are only two more toons to complete, I don't see any urgency to complete it.

 

P.S.:

Manage to farm 5 different class Erebus Set in a Day, the hardest to get is the Weapon for Specialist as I keep getting Weapon for Elementalist. Not sure if the drop rate is related to the starter set, but I do get Cross Bow for Ranger and Dual Sword for Royal Knight easy. I also manage to get Axe for High Lander, Wand for Cleric and Staff for Wizard too during the process, my initial plan is to complete the set for only Ranger, Specialist and Archer. But I manage to get the Staff for Wizard and Sword for War Master, so I decided to finish all at one shot.

I was lucky enough to get the Weapon for Specialist at the last mins before the Jewel Event start and able to complete the Upgrade to +30 as the Upgrade Event is still running, since I had already completed all the sets I might as well finish with the jewels. For the last 30 mins I skip through most of the mobs and go straight to the Boss and manage to do about 7 runs before I finally get the Specialist Weapon, usually it will take about 30 mins per run to complete all.

Manage to get the other pet leveler from Level 131 to Level 136 during the remaining two days of the XP Event, I was just trying out the Level 133 Weapon on the second day and gain 3 levels just playing casually farming for stuffs. Guess I will be playing this toon whenever there is any XP Event since I had run out of pet to level, I will move on to the Cleric after I manage to get it to Level 164. 

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.

How To Train Your Dragons:

 

 

Horizon:

Going to level two Drake to Level 31 for passive buff, I usually use it for Magic Defense for Kami Killer but now it is more for Attack. The other one is usually just use for Pick Up but the Archer already got the Pumpkin to do that, all the Farming Toons are using Linko Lizard for the same purpose. Decided not to transfer the gear and accessory to third set of farming toons, but just transfer the Pictorial Book stuffs instead.

Or I can just transfer all the Pictorial Book stuffs to the 2nd set of farming toons since I am using them more now, it will also be more convenience to do Advert Laca on one toon instead of three. I can also transfer the stuffs between the 2nd set of farming toons with 3rd set of farming toon so that they can also get some SP and Affinity too, but either way doesn't really make much different to me as they do not affect my other setup.

The 2nd set of farming toons are sharing the same account for my toons on Pandora Server while the 3rd set are link to Osiris, so either way it still doesn't really affect my game play much as I will not be playing on Horizon when I am trying out some theory on other server. I also never realize that my setup is so perfect until now, I guess trusting my instinct had been the right choice all these years.

The first Drake is ready after about 5 days, 2 days ahead of schedule. As the progress is good for the first Drake, I foresee it will be the same for the remaining pets. Not sure if I want to level my Scorpion Mantis on my Goldie Hunter from Level 26 to Level 31, as it will only take about 3 days I might as well get it done. 

Manage to complete the Scorpion Mantis in 2 days, from the progress it is really faster by about 30%. Now I just have to wait for the whole project to complete before I can do the Big Data Analysis for a more accurate evidence that my theory is right, not sure if Caugs keep any record of his pet leveling progress if not it will be even more useful as his result might be different from mine. It will be good to know what are the factors that contribute to the different and then make some fine tuning to perfect it.

 

 

Manage to get another Drake from Level 5 to Level 31 in about 4 days, it will be a good timing as I can use another pet leveler for Project Ferrari just before the Pet XP Event. This will conclude this post with the completion of Drake and Scorpion leveling, I got another low level horse on another raid boss hunter which need to be level to Level 31 too but as I seldom use it so there is no urgency for it.
 

Note:

This post will conclude after completion of Drake and Scorpion leveling. (Post concluded with completion of Drake and Scorpion leveling. No further update in the future.)

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. 

Sarong Party Girl:

 Horizon:

Recently Hannah was not happy that nobody care or even notice that she had not log on for few days, she told me it is because of Voyeur. So I ask Voyeur what actually happen them, found out that Hannah say she like some guy and want to be in relationship with him. But she want Voyeur to help with getting her and that guy together, so Voyeur try to help and ask that guy to chat with Hannah. Then that guy told Voyeur that Hannah say it was just a joke, but she told Voyeur that she is shy.

This is not the first time this had happen, the last time was with Sly and Anaq. I don't even have to see the chat history as I had known Sly long enough to believe his side of the story, and after finding out more info from Anaq kind of confirm my suspicious. Anaq find Hannah not mature enough and keep thinking Sly favor Anaq more than her, Hannah also claim that Sly had been ignoring her and Sly told me Hannah is the one ignoring him instead.

After I told Hannah what I had found out she try to change her story and claim she was busy with work that is why she had been ignoring Sly, Sly also say it is very hard for him to maintain the relationship when  Hannah keep flirting with other people. Hannah claimed that she was just trying to be nice, but toying and hurting other people feeling already is a bad and wrong doing.

I am not sure if it was their culture as I had seen a lot of other girls behave the same, one example is that I was looking for a birthday present for my elder cousin. As we are going to have Korean BBQ Steamboat at Marina South, me and my younger cousin decided to go Marina Square Mall to get the birthday present. We decided to buy a Shark Tooth Necklace for Sean, and the sale girl insist on helping me put it on just to get close to me.

I guess they just have what we call Princess Sickness and always trying to get attention and expect other to treat them like royalty, I had been changing company every 2 to 3 years to maintain a safety distance from a few office girls since I got married. I find that sometime they are just too free and get bored and want to play with office politics, I don't really have so much time and effort to deal with them so I just ignore them.

Avatar had been very upset recently, he keep complaining about not getting Moonstone Box at 500K and refuse to farm for it himself. He kind of cross the line when he start claiming Fawkes going to ban the use of multi client, he might as well say they are going to merge the servers and do a gold reset which are much more possible to happen in near future. He was upset and say I had change when I told him off, he return the weapon he borrow from Hannah and had never see him log on for attendance ever since.

I guess both of them will not be miss by any players as they had been creating problem to the community, they rather choose misery than happiness so it is their choice that they had make. One should be just happy with what they have and just play and enjoy the game, why would they want to be jealous of what other have and bring misery to themselves?

karogue had been acting weird recently, I had already told her that nobody is willing to buy Coin of Master. But she keep wanting to do more Monsters Combo even though she doesn't have enough gold for it, she keep asking other players for help with a lot of stuffs. If she can't even survive on her own after so many players had give her a lot of stuffs to help, then this game is not suitable for her.

I was busy installing the new kitchen sink tap, and both my wife and mom doesn't believe that I am capable of doing that. I had been an engineer onboard ship fixing various type of machinery for so many years, what is a small tap going to hinder my ability? Even my cousin who is doing renovation was surprise that I am able to install the bath towel hanging rack with perfect alignment.

 P.S.:

Peanut as usual, a leopard never change its spots. Not sure why he must win the argument every time, there are too much pride and ego in him. A person who had real talent would be humble and always stay cool, calm and collected, only those who doesn't had any substance will always trying hard to prove themselves.  

Over Power:

 

Horizon:

Manage to upgrade and jewel my Night Shadow Level 120 Set, also manage to jewel most of my popular toon which I use often. They are mainly my four Raid Boss Hunter, two Pet Leveler and my Main which I use to kill Boss, each of them have about 60K to 80K HP while my main have 125K HP. With 100% Cool Down on Accessory and Gear and about 10% to 20% HP and MP Steal on Accessory, they can spam skills without much issue with Quick Potion as backup.

I started off to try out my Raid Boss Hunter first, most seem ok with only the Merac Toon have some issue with MP Steal at 5%. I make a few adjustment to make MP Steal to 10% to resolve the issue, the rest of the Raid Boss Hunter seem ok after some testing. I will be using them for most events as they can farm more stuffs at lower level. And since they are over power now, I can use them to kill higher level Raid Boss like last time.

I then try out both my Pet Leveler, they are able to perform even better after the upgrade and I am considering if I should lock the Witch at Level 137 for farming gear as planned. The Level 164 Ex Ranger also will not be lock at that level for long, as I already have a Level 185 Jump Box ready for it. I might consider replacing it with the Level 137 Witch or Level 150 Cleric later, since the other two have the Rein Deer Pet with 2 hours Cool Down too. It will not be advisable to create a few more new toon for that same purpose.

I think I will delay the plan to level other toon and try to lock them at lower level for Raid Boss Hunting while farming for SP and completing Affinity, like the Level 67 toon will be lock at Level 30 first. The Level 137 toon will also be lock at Level 40 first for Halloween and Anniversary Event, while the Level 164 toon will be lock at Level 53. I am planning to make all of them Phoenix to see if there are any noticeable advantage since they got extra 25 slot of inventory space now.

I also did save up some Additional Bag Keys to be safe as most of the Phoenix Quest stuffs are character bound and non tradable, some can't even be store or trash too. As they are in the same account as my Windy Buff Toon, I already had plan to create another set of buff toon to resolve this issue. That is the main reason I am transferring my stuffs from my buff toons to the Project Zodiac toon for Merchant Mode, as I will be using them more often in near future.

I had also transfer the skill books and Pictorial Book Stuffs to the second and third set of farming toons as the existing one are on same account as my two Pet Leveler, I had already foresee this issue long time back and start to plan for the second and third set of farming toons. I think other than my trolling toon which will be use for testing in the future, all my other toons actually have their specific purpose on different aspect.

 

Sesame Street:

Horizon:

Daily trolling as usual, my new trolling toon are able to use world chat yesterday night but I decided to postpone the trolling till this morning. Basically I was just busy farming on other server, and notice that Peanut had not been that active and seem to have stop all his nonsense. He seem to be hook on to Affinity and Pictorial Book recently and had issue trying to get most of the stuffs he need, if he had been nice to most players it might be easier for him.

P.S.:

I was told that Peanut is looking for me, but since it is my wife off day and we are shopping at supermarket I would not be able to response to him. I ask the friend who message me to see if there is anything urgent about it, but she also doesn't really know as nobody response to him too. I guess it should be either Pictorial Book stuffs or he just need attention.

I thought he had finally getting smarter but seem like he is back to talking to a wall and punching water again, guess there is no cure for stupidity. I am also busy farming Easter Egg and Pictorial Book stuffs on other server, so he just have to continue doing his stupid stuffs and try harder to get other players attention. 

He use to log a few of his toon to spy on my activity before, but I notice he had stop doing it recently. Guess he finally realise that he is just wasting his time, trying to do what he is bad at. Actually it is a very simple task as I usually only log 2 toon for attendance, if other see that one of it is not in town then I must be active. Guess with his limited IQ, it prove to be a real challenge for him.

Aphelion:

Manage to get about 1K of each type for Easter Egg, will need about 10K to complete the weekly quest. I thought I could go Easter Event Map to get the quest every 10 days as I remember it require about 2.5K as I had completed it within 3 days before, but now seem like it will take about 30 to 40 days for me to complete it. 

There seem to be a lot of new players joining recently due to the Easter Event, but I notice they didn't stay long and I think most likely they are disappointed after trying for some time. It is very hard for them to get help these days as most players are not active.

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. 

Easter Event:

 Aphelion:

Easter Event had started, a lot of changes from the previous year. They had make a new Easter Event Map, but the draw back is players will have to buy Entry Ticket at 200 Cash from Item Mall. Guess not many players will be participating or just use it when they need to get the quest, I try out the event by farming while leveling pets in Tairan.

The new stuff I notice from the Easter Egg is the Achievement Booster, other than that the remaining stuffs are still the same. Not sure if I would try to farm for Pictorial Book stuffs as those toon below Level 165 are no longer possible, maybe by doing the normal Reborn might be able to achieve it but it will be a hassle to max the level for that purpose.

I am glad that I had created toons lock at different level for that purpose, I also have a few toons which I haven't level yet on other account which could be use for the same purpose later. Guess they never really put into consideration when they decided to start the new patch which let the players start directly at Level 165, not sure which smart ass actually suggested that.

They had start selling Easter Package, guess they are desperate to make money as it is almost the same like the Christmas Package which is similar to the Black Friday Package. Not sure if they are really making any money these days as there are less players joining the server, Phoenix is a major failure like Classic and seem like they did not really learn any lesson from it. 

 

 

 

P.S.:

 

 Was very surprise that I am able to complete all the 5 Farming Toon ahead of schedule, I was thinking of just doing one per day and complete it over a period of 5 days. As my Guardian Of The Galaxy Vol 3 require me to wait for 5 days before I can use world chat for the new toon, and I am lazy to level them to Level 100. I could have balance my farming toon here and trolling toon there by doing 1 per day on each side too, but I think if I focus more here due to the event I will be more efficient.

 

The trolling toons on the other side can actually wait, but I will see the situation and adjust accordingly. There are only 4 toons to focus here as the Level 33 Titan doesn't really had to farm on Sand Golem as it is not in the Pictorial Book. The Level 22 Rogue and Level 39 Royal Knight will be the main focus as the drop rate for Drake Scale and Thick Liquid are very low, the Level 4 Healer and Level 12 Sorcerer are easier as they just farming on Fox, Wolf, Jaguar and Sassy.

 

The easier one took about 2 hours while the harder one took about 4 hours, but the Elder Drake and Poison Myst are aggro so in some way it is also not that hard. I was surprise that all the Farming Toons had become even more over power after using Universe Accessory and Extreme Juno Rune, I think they should be able to take on any boss on their map without any issue at all. It is just like last time where I show Light Angel that I can use my low level farming toon to take on boss which is 10 times their level.

 

They also become more over power after I put summer pet on them, with just the Pet AOE they are able to farm faster on low level mobs. Manage to farm about 250 Easter Eggs of each type, guess I will be able to complete most of the weekly quest in about 10 days. I can save a lot by only using the ticket after I have collect enough Easter Eggs, most players would have use one daily.

 

I might be able to complete one trolling toon per day on the other side too as I still got enough time, but it will be better to do all in a day to keep the momentum going. It is the same for the farming toon here as it is kind of addictive when you get so many drop, and I might consider using them for most event if they decide to sell entry ticket for all event map in the future.

Guardian Of The Galaxy Vol 1:

 Horizon:

Anniversary Event had ended, seem like it will be back to the same old boring days till they start the Easter Event at the end of month. I was thinking of continuing farming for Pictorial Book and complete at least 1 set of my farming toon, but the recent drama cause by Peanut had prompt me to complete a few of my trolling toon first.

I could have just stop at Level 60 as it can already use World Chat and got the Level 60 to 62 +15 Set, but I decided to try a different approach to see how far it can go. The plan is to use 2 toons and chose different path to see if they end up with same result, the end result actually surprised me.

The first toon start directly with Level 30 Elder Drake until it get Event Weapon at Level 20, it then went to Prokion Temple and do Orcs until it get Level 30 to 32 +15 Set. It will do class change and learn some skills before it start leveling at Temple of Forgetfulness, it will try to clear the dungeon at one single run before it go Tomb at around Level 70 or higher.

As it did not do any skill point farming, it did not have enough skill point to max most of the skill. I just focus on passive and try my best to force my way to as high level as possible. To my surprise it manage to hit Level 88 after about 2 hours when the HP and MP Steal finally ran out, it still got a lot of boosters left over although it kill slower with much difficulty due to the lack of skills.

The second toon start with skill point farming at Level 12 Sassy, it only switch to Level 30 Elder Drake at Level 18 just to get the Event Weapon at Level 20. The rest of the journey is quite similar from Prokion Temple onwards, but to my surprise it only manage to reach Level 87 after 2 hours when the HP and MP Steal finally ran out. It also use up more boosters and progress slower even though it manage to max most of the skills and progress much easier.

I will continue to do the same for the rest of my trolling toon, it will allow me to see the different between various class which will help Newbie in their choice. I think it will be better to do it according to class but I got more toon with 4 Knight and 2 Mage class as compare to Rogue, Healer, Sorcerer and Titan which only one. But it will still be able to provide useful information even though some of the class does not have similar data to compare.

I think I will try to use the second path for remaining toon as it is easier with most skill max, the end results doesn't really matter much as long as they are able to hit Level 85 or higher. I will also be able to get some Certificate of Guardian during the progress as most of them doesn't need Merchant Profession as long as there are already one for every account to ensure most of the stuffs are able to transfer by storage and trade to other account. 

Anniversary Events:

 Horizon:

Anniversary Events had finally started, as usual they using the recent dupe incident as an excuse for the delay. What is worst is that they had remove the Socket Reset Card and Heaven Stone Grade 5 from the rewards, and replaced with 2 XPB for 5 Cake. The previous year rewards seem better as follows:

1x AGR - 100 Cake

1x Strong Med - 5 Cake

3x Medium Med - 3 Cake

1x Socket Reset Card - 30 Cake

1x Heaven Stone Grade 5 - 15 Cake

5 x Affinity Seed - 10 Cake

5 x Candle - 15 Cake

As this year event is bad, a lot of players decided to give it a pass until they improve on it. Hopefully the coming Easter Event next month will not be Nerf as it had become a trend as we had observed from recently events. Guess they had realized that the game become too easy for most players and now they start to give less buffs and try to make some of the stuffs very hard to get.

I had manage to get 11th horse to Level 56 and 12th horse to Level 52, now just trying to level the polar whenever there is 500% XP or 200% to 300% Pet XP Event. Manage to complete the Mond Entry for my Level 137 Witch with the potions I get from Valentine Event as the recent buff code doesn't give any pet buffs.  I also manage to complete the farming of Pictorial Book stuffs for Level 5 Healer and in progress to farm Pictorial Book stuffs for Level 13 Sorcerer now.

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.

Future Improvement:

 After playing for so long I think there are a lot of area the game can be improved, for starter they can improve the Hit Rate for Royal Knight as the buff should be related to their strongest qualities. The Rogue can also be given Evasion Buff too, or even better a Drop Rate Buff. All Class should have Stun Skill and AOE Skill, for AOE Skill the private server had been doing well with this improvement.

Next is to work on the Pets, for official server the pet HP and Stats had been low which make most of them useless at higher level. The private server had been doing it well in this area and even surpass it by the introduction of AOE Pets until they Nerf it. The Pets can be further improve on both servers by giving them more useful skill as follows:

Wing Tiger Speed Mount with Earth AOE

Wing Serpent Speed Mount or Chinese Dragon with Wind AOE or Speed Buff

Giant Tortoise Mount with Defense Buff or Water AOE

Phoenix with Resurrection Skill or Fire AOE 

Ox or Bull with Stun Skill or Attack or Berserk Buff

Nine Tail Fox with Charm Skill or Fire AOE

 

Golden Monkey with Drop Rate Buff

Garuda Speed Mount with Lighting AOE

 They can make the pet system in a way where we can fight them as a Boss and tame them to become pet, they should be able to battle each other with the Elemental System which is a waste just because most players are unable to understand it. The removal of Elemental System and the overly focus on PVP Balance had cause the PVE players getting Nerf.

For the official server, they should make leveling of both toon and pets easier and make use of the existing quest rewards better to suit the progress. The Pictorial Book and Affinity System should be design in a way that progress with the leveling so that the players would not have to make new toon for farming the production material or XP Lock to complete the Affinity.

 The private server lack of events can be improve by using official server events as an example which ensure that there are different events every months. And they should not limit the events to only higher level with separate Event Map but make good use of low level map and their existing quest like the official server to help newbie learn more about the game and enjoy it more. The single path progression and limited option had make most players quit at lower level when they encounter difficulty.