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.

Halloween Event:

 

 

 

 

 

 Horizon:

 

They had decided to remove Cube Buff for the recent patch, a lot of players had been very upset about it. It had make Leveling more difficult, and a lot of players decided to just sit around for attendance and not going to do anything until they bring the Cube Buff back. It is not really all bad new, at least they did update the Item Mall with new stuffs even though some of the pricing doesn't really make sense. 

The Fall Event had also started, I was actually planning to farm some Boosters to help with the server economy until I encounter IP Block. It was not for a very long period, but since the Halloween Event is going to start on other server I decided to give this event a pass. Since there are no more Cube Buff, the Game Master Buff doesn't really appeal anybody much.

Aphelion:

Halloween Event had started, as expected the rewards are much better. I had save up all the Halloween Candy from the Tier Spender Rewards just to prepare for this event, manage to complete 4 Daily Quest with just 10% of the Candy. The remaining of the Quest would require me to collect Empty Basket and Pumpkin, as it require killing of same level mobs it will be a good time for me to do Extreme Juno for the Rune.

I might also consider doing the Red Bull Quest for the Wing after I had finish with the Rune from Extreme Juno Quest, then it will be Frost Core, Gliese and Maze. Manage to get 6 Costume Box from the Daily Quest, 3 for Night Shadow, 2 for Rogue and 1 for Mage, decided to dress up a few of my toon to match the Halloween Event. Hopefully I will be able to get Knight, Healer, Sorcerer and Titan one to complete the whole collection, with the amount of candy I had left I should be able to complete Daily Quest for another 18 more days without any effort.  

Manage to see Beamer join the server, I give him the same stuffs which I gave Mad Spring before to help him. He had been very grateful for all the help I gave him, but it is really nothing much as there are always abundance of stuffs on this server. They will understand after playing for some time and they will do the same for other new players in the future when they got enough stuffs.

Till Death Do Us Part:

 

Horizon:

Rain Drop Event had ended, manage to get 2 Heaven Stone Grade 12 and 3 Legendary Iris. Give the 3 Legendary Iris to my Apprentice Hans Solo as he will need it for his Vald Quest later, he had not been playing much as his parent only allow him to play on weekend now after one night he play late and cannot wake up the next day morning.

New patch had introduce new rewards for the Attendance System, the new rewards that replace Ace of Diamond are as follows:

• Day 30 - Gold Token x10
• Day 60 - Pet Fairy Ticket (7d)
• Day 90 - Skill Point Booster x50
• Day 120 - Key for additional bag 1
• Day 150 - Key for additional bag 2
• Day 180 - 90Lv Jump Potion
• Day 250 - 5 Legendary Skill Pill
• Day 300 - Item Drop Booster x50
• Day 350 - Warehouse Storage Card
• Day 400 - Memory Scroll Expansion Card x1
• Day 500 - Experience Booster x50
• Day 600 - Gold Token x15
• Day 700 - Snow Leopard Leash
• Day 800 - Advance-Grade Reform Potion x15
• Day 900 - Legendary Scroll x5
• Day 1000 - Jewel Pocket Grade 25 x15
• Day 1200 - EXP Pet CD Remover x10
• Day 1400 - 120Lv Jump Potion
• Day 1600 - Legendary Iris x5
• Day 2000 - Jump Potion Lvl. 185

The rest of the rewards for Attendance Token and Title remain the same from the previous time, they also allow Merchant Profession above the limit of Level 55 now. Most players are able to make their Night Shadow and Phoenix to become Merchant, if not there are a lot of stuffs they are unable to trade. The rewards from the Attendance System also make sure players are able to get some premium stuff like the Phoenix Quest, at least we are able to expect more improvement in time to come.

Alphelion:

 

Been farming for Coin of Master the whole weekend, manage to get another 45K of Coin of Master which bring my total number to 95K. Also manage to farm about 55K of Token over the 4 Days as they start the event on Friday and end it on Monday, I will be spending another few days to clear the Token. During the process I had help two Newbies named Nightmare and Nekone, give them a good P2 Pet which will help them in their quest.

 

I join the Hide and Seek event and mange to get a Platinum Event Ticket, it give a Master of all Event Title which give good Status Boost and cool Artifact Wing. Guess it is because I am the only one who manage to find the Game Sage Til Death at Mondshine during Round 3 and the 2nd Player to find him again during Bonus Round. 

 

This Game Sage had a habit of hiding high up in the mountain at very hard to reach place, most of the time players will be getting stuck at the slope and unable to reach his location. It is the most challenging Hide and Seek event I had ever participate, and it kind of improve my skill of mountain climbing in game over the months. 

 

It is a good way to explore the map and discover new things through all these events, if not most players only spend their time in Juno, Tomb, Floriam Cave, Misty Crayon, Tairan, Four Realms, Maze and Extreme Juno. Egeha had become popular after they introduce the new patch to make it Level 200, Frost Core had also become popular when the mobs drop new skill book. Dratan, Merac, Streiana, Bloodymir and Mondshine remains empty with nobody to explore unless there are events there.

Rainy Season:

 

Aphelion:

 

MadSpring had decided to try this server, he manage to join my guild. I give him a lot of stuffs which I think he will need, mainly are Shiva Pet with AOE, Blue Cube, Ignition Lvl 4, 14D Buff, Phoenix Ticket, Reforge Catalyst, Platinum Reformer, Chaos Tourmaline, Legendary Scroll, AOE Skill Book. He manage to get a lot of drops and ran out of storage space, so I give him Warehouse Storage Expansion and all the Extra Bag Keys to help him with it.

He manage to get to Level 155 in just a day, and I see him become Level 162 on the next day. Guess he manage to finish all the starter quests and get his Level 165 Set, now the hard part will come when he reach Level 165 and had to do the Four Realms. I never really complete the Red Bull Quest for Phoenix Wing, also never did Extreme Juno, Frost Core Ruin, Maze or Gilise. I will try to complete those with their Affinity when I find the time.

Horizon:

Rain Drop Event had started, to my surprise they give better rewards as follows:

1x Advanced Grade Reformer 25%
1x Heaven Stone 5 17%
5x Red Lucky Pouch 14%
5x Candle 14%
1x Attack Speed Booster 11%
1x Legendary Iris 11%
1x Heaven Stone 12 8%

I manage to get Heaven Stone Grade 12 by Luck, so far haven't got any Heaven Stone Grade 5 or Legendary Scroll yet. Hannah told me she need Elephant, I give mine to her since I had never really use it since migration.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly:

 

Horizon:

 

When I went back to farm some World Cup Festival Box, the event had ended. Check with Estella to see if I won any prize for the Spain Flag but get nothing. While continue with my Pictorial Book Farming, I also try using my new Farming Toons. But the result doesn't turn out to be expected, higher level mobs had a very bad drop rate. Make some adjustment as some high level mobs doesn't drop the production material as stated at Weebly Site, like I got 36 Tail from Silver Fox but can't seem to get any Hide. Even Clever Fox only drop Hide after getting 24 Tail, so lower level mobs are much better for farming production material. But at least they are ready for the coming Halloween Event, but I am not sure if I will be using them as the other server Halloween Event might be much better.

 

There are banning of 50 account on Orisis Server due to duping of items, and a lot of stuffs had been removed. It had cause a shortage of stuffs on the server and the price of stuffs sky rocket to a crazy level. A lot of players start to quit and come over to Horizon Server as the economy is more stable as compare to other servers. The lack of events also bring some unhappiness to the players, most of the time there are not much active players. I just kill Raid Boss as usual to get more Tool Aid for god and also trying to stock up more Lucky Scroll for the coming Christmas Event.

Aphelion:

Although Horizon Server is having XP, SP and Drop Rate Event during the Weekend, the Aphelion Server had much better event with mobs dropping Coin of Master again. So I decided to spend the weekend at Aphelion for the better events, I also going to try the new Battle Pass System that come with the new patch. To my surprise I manage to farm 60K of Token in a day due the a glitch in the Battle Pass System which give Premium Rewards instead of Free Rewards, 40K of the Token come from the bug until they patch it on Sunday Night.

Other than the Token I also manage to get a lot of good stuffs from the Battle Pass System, 20K of other Token and 10K of Moonstone Box and Chaos Ball. It will took me a few days to clear them all, and I will have more stuffs to sell after that. At least there will never be any shortage of stuffs on this server, and I had seen quite a few common stuffs selling cheaper due to the new patch. Really impress by the effort that the staffs put in to design the improvement, guess it will slowly pull more players from other server in time to come.

May the Force be with you:

 

 

Horizon:

Met a Newbie named Hans Solo at Burbank Farm while I am hunting for Treasure, he had manage to spawn Balrog while he was killing Jaguar. I switch to one of my Raid Boss Killer to kill it for him and give him the drops. I teach him how to use World Chat and told him to ask for help if he need, as he need to complete the quest I switch to my Royal Knight Alpha Light and make him my Apprentice. As I might be busy at other server for the Halloween Event, I told Hannah to take good care of him when I am not around.

He will update me on Discord about his progress and I will try to meet him again when he is Level 50 and help him get his Merchant Profession. He manage to join a Guild named Too High Gaming for XP Lock to SP Farm in Procyon Temple, they also told him to join Cube for Buff. He had been spamming my Discord Chat frequently to tell me about his adventure, I cannot focus on my Token Farming on other server and had to guide him on a lot of stuffs.

He told me he did Monster Combo with MC Hammer and got 115m from it, and later Hannah also give him 15% HP Steal Accessory with Coral which boost his HP to 7K. Hannah also give him 200m, and he manage to sell 600m worth of stuffs and will become a Billionaire soon. I log on during Lunch for my Attendance to check on him, I give him a Phoenix Ticket which I brought for 200m since he keep asking me about it. I also give him a Level 30 to 33 +15 Weapon and Armour Set which I kept as spare and the two Level 120 Jump Box which I had no use for it anymore.

As I had already give all my Level 37 Knightmare Mount to other players, the Level 31 Horse will which I am having now will not give good buff. I will give it to him when I find time to level it to Level 37, he should be doing fine as he will be getting a P2 pony when he reach Level 31. I told him to make Ex Rogue to try out as it will be much easier, he can just use the 120 Jump Box after he get Merchant and can make a Phoenix toon or Night Shadow after he had a toon which is Level 100 or Level 90.

He told me someone named lagger give him 12B, after finding out some details about it I think it should be Beamer. I told him not to keep taking stuffs from other players, he had to work hard to prove himself worthy. Give him a Fish and Feed him for a Day, Teach him to Fish and he will never Starve for Life. His Encounter had been very interesting indeed, I am able to learn some new stuffs from him too. I encourage him to write a blog like me to share his knowledge and experience, but he doesn't seem to be very interested in that.

Aphelion:

 

They have a new patch, it make Laca Ball run faster. Last time I will need to spend about 6 hours to clear 10K of Token, now I only need about 3 hours to clear 30K of Token. The Speed increase by about 5 times, and I can farm about 15K of Token per day using 10 different toons.  They have not start the Halloween Event yet, so I guess I will be back at Horizon to farm more Soccer Ball as the World Cup Event did not end at 20th Aug as they announced on Discord.

Half Time:

 

 

Horizon:

The mob start dropping World Cup Festival Box on the third day of the event, I am able to farm about 25 to 50 Boxes per day. With a 4 weeks event, I should be able to farm about 700 Boxes at least. I can farm about 300 to 500 Wooden Key per day, so I should be able to open one Box every 2 to 3 days. At that rate I should be able to open 700 Boxes by 3 years before the next event.

Found two location with very high spawn rate for Soccer Ball, one of them is at Horn Beast site near the waterfall near the Top Center of Juno Map and the other one is at Dratan outside East Gate near Dark Goddess at North East of Town. Manage to get two England Flag and one France Flag, hopefully will be able to get US, Germany and Spain Flag by the time the event end.

Because of the World Cup Festival Event, I realized that I had to start preparing for the coming Halloween Event. As most of my existing farming toons are lock at a a level that match the Dungeon Mob, I decided to create new farming toons which match the level of open map mobs. I try to lock them at a level where I can farm on higher level mobs which drop the same items for the Pictorial Book, it will resolve the issue of having to party with another toon to prevent the experience gain.

Level 9 Healer Libra will be farming Level 4 Dire Wolf and Level 8 Jaguar. Level 17 Titan Taurus will be farming Level 12 Sasquatch, Level 14 Berserk Zombie and Level 17 Elder Werewolf. Level 22 Sorcerer Capricorn will be farming Level 18 Drake, Level 19 Aged Treant, Level 20 Harpy, Level 21 Shadow Jaguar, Level 22 Red Godeys and Level 22 Dark Goddess.

 

Level 29 Mage Virgo will be farming Level 24 Great Horn Beast, Level 25 Corpse Sergeant, Level 26 Treant, Level 27 Orc Axeman, Level 28 Sand Golem and Level 29 Orc Sergeant. Level 33 Assassin Pieces will be farming on Level 30 Elder Drake, Level 31 Salamander, Level 33 Silver Desert Fox and Level 33 Pilferer. Level 39 Royal Knight Aquarius will be farming Level 37 Goblin Scout, Level 37 Blood Frenzy, Level 38 Brutal Deer and Level 39 Poison Mist.

Give a new player Ra0h two Knightmare Mount and three Tear of Knight and Stone of Shadow for his Knight and Rogue, help farm Erebus Helmet and Shirt to complete his set a few days later. A lot of players kind of ignore him due to his rude attitude, but he and a few new players seem suspicious trying to get a lot of pets and other hard to get stuffs. They could be the Developers who are trying to learn more about the game, so I try to help at least one of them in whatever ways I could.

Give Mother Nature 50 Gold Soccer Ball on her Birthday, that is what I manage to get in just half day after I manage to find the two location with very high spawn rate. She doesn't really have time to play these days, so it will at least help her get a Flag for the event. god told me he had farm 4.9K of Tokens, I told him it is just an indication of him playing for about 3 months. I am able to farm about 50 Tokens per day, so when you do the math it is not hard to get the period of time from the data.

Aphelion:

Haven't been playing much other than doing Merchant Mode, manage to sold about few Trillions worth of stuffs. Although I didn't won the Merchant Mode Event, but I am happy that Foxy won it. Maybe it is a blessing in disguise, I manage to won the History Event with my story. Receive a lot of Event Tickets to get more Experience, Pet and PVE stuffs, but I did not get the Cash and Title which they stated for the event. I ask GM Blood Fiend to find out what is the reason behind it, hopefully they will reward me with the Cash which might finally let me complete the Tier Spender.

They had announced the upcoming plan for the server, a lot of improvement and the start of Halloween Event. Guess I will be spending most of my time for the Halloween Event on this server after I had farm enough World Cup Festival Box on Horizon. I hope the Halloween Event will be as good as the Easter Event as the Summer Event and the Pre Patch is kind of disappointment for me.