Easter Event:

 

 Aphelion:

Finally decided to go Easter Event Map, kill a few Easter Bunny Boss. Manage to farm about 1.2K of Easter Eggs and manage to complete the daily quests twice. The Experience, Battle Pass Point and Gold are higher, manage to gain about 19% Experience, complete Battle Pass twice and farm about 100B Gold. The hard part was to kill 20K of Easter Rabbit and Chicken, the body count is so much higher than the John Wick Movie.

As I am able to complete the Battle Pass, I decided to get Premium for it so that I get get more rewards. After considering for a while I think the $200 Easter Package seem to be the best option with 10 Premium Battle Pass. Try out the Legendary Weapon on a few Boss, didn't really notice much different as the B8 Weapon with 2 more seals seem to make up for the lower attack. The only advantage is that it could be reform for better seal, not really worth the effort in my opinion. 

 

 

P.S.:

Realized that I got a lot of 2B Gold Card from Chaos Ball, decided to trade it for the Caraxas Mount from Trillionaire Club. It need 10K of Gold Card which cost about 20T, guess it is just a way to show off how rich I am. The other pet named Legendary Incubus is cheaper at 1k Gold card which is only 10% of the price, it got better stats and did not glitch like Caraxas which is similar to Buffalo. Most players would go for the title instead which is 12.5K to 25K Gold Card, the more expensive one are with better stats.

 Realized that I got too many Chenille Fabric and decided to trade them for costume and weapon cover, got the White Western Costume for both at 100K Premium Chenille Fabric. For Ex Ranger I choose White Gun Weapon Cover to match the White Western Costume for 25K Chenille Fabric while Blood Sword for Royal Knight at the same price. 

Manage to save up 1M Cash and 10M OTP over the months, and with the $200 Easter Package I manage to hit 3M Cash and 17M OTP. Not sure what to spend it on as I had already spend 5M OTP from another account to purchase 100 Guild Light. Usually can get 3K Cash from voting daily, that will be about 90K Cash per month, by staying online will get another 100K to 200K Cash.

I usually just spend about 100K per month just to get the Tier Spender Rewards and then save the remaining 200K for about 5 months for it to reach 1M before I complete the Tier Spender. But since they had increase the limit for Tier Spender, it will need additional Cash of 500K to complete the final tier.

 

Horizon:

They had make it possible for Night Shadow to be able to become Phoenix, I foresee the Level 190 Phoenix Ticket will be in demand. They had limited 5 Account log on with new patch, not sure how they going to manage it as a lot of players are still in doubt. With the new limitation I guess not many players are going to get buff as those with buff toon will find difficulty to comply with the new rules.

A new player named Star Light indicate that she is having problem leveling and ask fro help to power level her from Level 70 to Level 80. I was wondering why it is so hard to level when I had already done a few toon to Level 90 to 109 in just 2 hours when I was doing Project Zodiac. Even when I am doing Guardian of the Galaxy, most toon are still able to reach Level 85 or higher without any issue. 

P.S.:

A new player name karogue need help with potions, I close my merchant mode to give some quick potions. Guess it will be enough to last for few years, not sure why nobody bother to help.

Later she need help with joining guild for XP lock, but can't really understand her well. End up I finally figure out that she need me to join her guild and make me advisor so that her other toon can join guild.

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.

 

Project Zodiac 4.0:

 

Horizon:

Start with War Master, had been familiar with is as I did ot in I Am Legand. Manage to hit Level 100 as per expected, still better than High Lander with a five level different. Power Magnum seem to work better than Ground Charge, think it is because the skill will increase damage with every hit. War Stamp AOE is similar to Mage Flame Storm, the only different is it is targetless like Chaos Nova and it can only be learn after Class Change. So Mage still gain an unfair advantage with AOE at very early stage of the game.

Specialist had been a popular class for good reason, it had surpass Elementalist by three level to be on par with Ex Assassin at Level 104. I guess Ex Ranger still the most popular due to it's OP and simplicity, Specialist and Elementalist still require a lot of additional operation for the skills to be efficient as possible. Don't really see much players use Assassin as Ranger range attack does had advantage, the Death Motion Skill also doesn't seem to have much use like the Temple Knight Telekinesis which is just for fun.

Fire Wind Evocation are more popular due to it's higher damage, but it does not have high defense like Earth Sea. I am able to use single target skill Inferno Volt to lure mobs close and then use Lightning Shock AOE to kill them in batch, I had try to do the same with Earth Quake and Sonic Break but it does not show good result. When doing Sphinx Commander I had to keep and eye on the HP and constantly use Stone Skin buff to prevent from dying when I get mob by three or more.

Royal Knight had been my favorite due to the balance between attack and defense, I do not have to worry much about dying like other class and can just leave it AFK and get mob. But it is still consider weaker as compare to War Master due to the lack of AOE, and it seem to have the worst hit rate while still able to give buff to improve hit rate to other which doesn't really make sense. I guess they should give Rogue a buff to improve Evasion too as all other class had buff that related to their best quality.

Triple Bash and Dash still work well for me, I am not sure why a lot of players say Double Bash seem to be faster with shorter skill animation. The other skill is Two Hand Pierce at higher level but most seem to prefer Kick instead, but after I had try out all the skills I still find my own preference work better even though the damage and skill description say otherwise. Guess it is same like Arch Mage Flame Volt and Rogue Double Strike which I think most players should take consideration of the multiplier for the skills.  

Overall Ex Rogue and Sorcerer are good choice for new players as they are additional class that was added to the game, but Arch Mage doesn't seem to have much advantage as Regular Mage seem to be better with AOE at early stage. Still prefer Witch over Wizard due to the self buff and debuff which make it easier in most situation, but notice that there are scroll available for Keron Affinity which are able to do similar debuff.

I actually wanted to do Regular Ranger, Witch and Wizard to prove some of my theory, but guess I will leave that to a later time and conclude Project Zodiac early. I will continue those in version 5.0 later when I find time as I am using those account to setup Merchant Mode to fulfill my legacy during Aeria time.  

 

Project Zodiac 3.0:

 

Horizon:

Started off with Cleric so that I can finish up all the difficult one, but to my surprise it is not that bad. I am still able to bring it to Level 100 without much difficulty, what really surprise me most is the Soul Purification AOE Skill. It had a really wide range and can almost cover the whole Zombie Room, so I just had to stand right in the middle and use the skill to lure mobs to me. I am able to level it fast with a few Zombie getting killed in batch, but the difficult part and most disappointing part came when I got to do Sphinx Commander.

The single target skill Judgement Strike perform much worst than Terra Spear and Ice Spike, so even though I am able to hit Level 97 before I go back town to rebuff the remaining three level became a drag. I should have stick to Zombie all the way and maybe I could have level it more, but since it is just to try out the skill I got to do it the hard way. After I reach Level 100 I am able to learn the skill Call Lighting, I decided to try it out and still the damage is way too low than what I had expected.

Arch Witch was another major disappointment, it doesn't have AOE skill as early as Regular Witch and the power of the skill seem to be nerf as compare to Regular Witch and Arch Wizard. It's single target skill Flame Volt also seem to be weaker than Arch Wizard too, I am only able to level it to Level 93 before the HP and MP Steal ran out together with the Cool Down Reduction.

The next is Archer, although it still perform as per what I expected and able to reach Level 101 and the Paralyzing Arrow seem to work well as AOE but because it is also consider a stun skill so it had a cool down of 2 sec. Arrow of Blue Wind also perform worst than Poison Arrow and Rapid Arrow only work well at lower level in TOF, basically if it is still able to reach Level 100 or higher I will still consider it as playable character.

So far only Temple Knight, High Lander and Arch Witch are unable to reach Level 100, but I did enjoy the skill of Temple Knight and High Lander as the damage is still very high as compare to magic user. I had save the best for the last and will be trying out War Master, Specialist and Royal Knight for the Grand Finale, as some may have notice a few of the toon actually pay tribute to some of the old players which I had known over the years.

The Rock is related to Mohawk which I always say that he just had to stare at mobs and they will go kill themselves, that is why I choose Deadly Stare as the custom title. High Voltage is link to Zeus who had always trying his best to teach other about PVP at the Arena, although he is not very good at it but I must say he got a good knowledge about Jewels. Ragnarok is an extension of God Slayer aka Blood Mage, he is crazy enough to play hard mode and level to Level 100 with only +4 gears.

The last class I try out for this series is Ex Ranger which most players had already been very familiar, it is simple with just using Dark Arrow and manage to go all the way to Level 109. I notice that when I go back town to rebuff I lost the Elizabeth as the GM Buff will remove it, the Middle Level Buff will also overwrite it too. And to make things worst the Legendary Iris and Legendary Skill Pill will be gone after re log.

So I decided to forget about getting rebuff and go all the way with just Elizabeth Buff which had been double after getting GM Buff, it actually still got about three hours left when my HP and MP Steal run out and if I continue with the level with the second set of potions I might even be able to reach Level 113 or more. This had been tested with War Master before when I record the fast leveling guide named I am Legend, and now I manage to perfect it even more with enough SP to max skills from TOF Quest and using +30 Platinum Refining Stone on Level 61 Weapon. 

Project Zodiac 2.0:

 

Horizon:

I started the 2nd stage of the project with Ex Assassin, mainly because I need a toon with Merchant Profession on every account to ensure most of the stuffs are tradable. At the same time I would be able to compare it with Regular Assassin to see if the result end up the same as I had expected, but to my surprise it actually surpass Regular Assassin with a 4 level different. The skill is very similar with Ex Rogue able to learn short duration buff which will be useful in most situation, but Ex Ranger seem to be more popular with the benefit of attack speed and range.

High Lander is another surprise for me, I never expect the Axe Crasher skill is as good as the Wrath of Light for Temple Knight. But as expected due to their attack speed they are unable to level pass Level 100, but getting Level 95 still better than what I had expected. Never really use the Wild Axe AOE skill much as I felt that Axe Crasher seem to work better as it got shorter skill animation, it is also able to hit mob at a distance with range attack.

Overall Titan still a very powerful class if players knew how to use it wisely, it had higher DPS as compare to Knight and the higher HP seem to offset defense as compare to the Knight. I also never really had the chance to use the Perfect Body Skill much as I am lazy to keep unequip and reequip the Accessory with Coral to activated the skill, but since the duration is short I guess it is not really going to make much different.

The last one which I decided to try out is the most controversial Elementalist, not much had been said and done since the new patch had make it more powerful. I guess most players are still skeptical about it as not much improvement had been done, but to my surprise it is actually very powerful after the revamp as now the summoned spirits can actually deal the same damage as the player itself. This is what Elementalist is suppose to be in the first place and not the usual weak spirits which can only kill low level mobs, and to my greatest surprise is that the AOE Skill Chain Lighting when combine with the Soul of Fire of Fire Spirit and Hand of Earth AOE of the Earth Spirit actually make the whole gaming experience extremely enjoyable.

I didn't think much about Soul of Fire much as the skill description say that the spirit will explode and sacrifice itself, but the spirit did not die after the explosion and continue to attack the mobs. Although it still have a 2 sec cool down like those stun skill even with 100% cool down reduction, but it is reasonable for them to keep this powerful skill nerf at certain level to prevent Elementalist to become too OP. Ice Spike is disappointing as the Terra Spear of the Wizard, but since I got other better and more powerful skill to use it doesn't reallybother much.

I manage to hit Level 94 just before the server is down for maintenance, as the GM Buff are almost finish and I am also going to go abck to town for another rebuff I foresee it will be able to cross the Level 100 limit when the server is back online. From the above experienceI do not think players really had to level as Specialist and then later do class change any more, and I hope the same would happen for Cleric when I try it out later. But it is just a very slim hope as Temple Knight situation still remain status quo after all these years.

 P.S.:

Manage to level Elementalist to Level 101, as expected most magic user are better with AOE instead of single target. Melee Class still got higher DPS as compare to most magic user, so magic user are abale to level fast if there are no mobs that debuff. They had make a lot of changes with new update, an additional inventory space, auto Laca and Moonstone, ability to open multiple box, P2 Weapon and Armor become permanent, quest and shop slot increase.

A lot of these changes are suppose to occur earlier but seem like they keep delay the schedule until now, but it is still a good direction and hope for more to come in future. With all the new changes, the private server would have to start worrying on the lost of players as the official will continue to improve to become like private server. 

Project Zodiac:

 

Horizon:

Easter Event had ended, manage to setup another two Raid Boss Hunters for next year as the existing one had already completed the Affinity. Didn't really like to play on the other two as the mobs are aggro against the pet, I had to level the pet at TOF and only use it for buff. Despite the existing two are slow at pet leveling due to the level of the mobs, at least I do not have to worry so much about pet dying.

As per my plan, I decided to start a new project and try out all the dual class to learn more about their skills. The main focus are on those which are not popular and find out the real reason behind their disadvantage as compare to the more popular dual class. They are mainly Elementalist, Cleric and Temple Knight where most players choose to level them as their other dual class and later switch class.

As I need to use a toon to setup the guild, I also decided to make the same toon as Merchant Profession. My only worry is the lack of SP as I don't intend to waste an hour to farm 15K of SP before I level, I am going to use the method which I had perfect during the Guardian of the Galaxy to see how far they can go within two hours, but the result really surprised me as I still got a lot of SP left after getting Merchant Profession, create a Level 6 Guild and even max out all the essential skill which I need to use.

The first toon I start with is Assassin, the reason I choose it is because I am familiar with it like Royal Knight and Ranger. Had a little set back of disconnection in TOF when I hit Level 69 and lost the Elizabeth Buff, but I decided to continue with the progress and try it with Mid Level Buff instead. It had been done before and I am sure a little set back will never deter my plan based on my pass experience.

Manage to reach Level 100 which is already so much higher than what I had achieve in Guardian of the Galaxy, guess proper planning and good knowledge really goes a long way. At Level 20 I decided to focus on maxing the Hawk Strike Skill which is similar to Ex Rogue Multiple Attack which is available at Level 15, this will help in TOF until Level 60 where the Double Strike Skill is available at Level 38. I did try another skill name Splitting Field which is suppose to have 4.5K of Skill Power as compare to 3K at almost same level, but I guess twice the Skill Power seem to make it having more damage and the Skill Animation also seem to be shorter.

The skill actually last all the way until I finish Tomb and it got shorter cool down and using less MP which make it a better choice if Skill Cool Down and MP Steal are not available. I later realized that skills really make a lot of different at the later stage of the game and choosing a dual class wisely is mainly choosing the right skill. Of course I also discover a lot of advantage and disadvantage of different dual class as I try them out later, this will help a lot of newbie in the choice of the dual class they want to play.

I had not play with Temple Knight for more than 17 years, after I switch to Royal Knight I never look back as it was like switching from Apple to Android. I repeat the agony of slow killing speed and unimpressive skill with buff that seem to benefit other more than self. Temple Knight is a very supportive role which are being use as Tank for Castle Siege and Boss Fight, they are good at taking damage but not really good for DPS like the Royal Knight. That is why most players are able to level Royal Knight faster than Temple Knight, and later choose to switch class after it reach higher level.

I initially thought the Weapon Break and Mana Break Skill would be good but I was wrong, turn out that Light Spear actually work way better due the the shorter skill animation. The skill was good until Level 60 where another skill name Wrath of Light become available, I was surprised that this elemental skill actually work better as compare to Royal Knight Sword Wave and Whittling Spray. I guess the same theory that Triple Bash work better than Double Bash, Two Hand Peirce and Kick due to the multiplication of the damage even though the skill power indicate lower in the skill description.

The good thing is that they had remove the need for energy crystal to cast the skill like they had remove the wear down of dura weapon and accessory to make thing simple for us. But I still hope they would bring back the Elemental System and Cube Buff as it is what that had help to balance the PVP without affecting the PVE. As expected I only manage to reach Level 90 due to the slow progress and I would say those class with AOE skill does have a major advantage although I prefer melee over magic.

The moment of truth came when I start playing Arch Wizard, they are really powerful with Chaos Nova skill at Level 70. But due to the debuff risk of the Occultist in Tomb, it only work well in TOF and Zombie. The Terra Spear doesn't cause much damage as it was expected and the Flame Volt only work well at lower level, use to prefer Flame Field over Chaos Nova before they make 100% Cool Down possible. The Meteor Fall prove to be even more powerful at higher level with skill cool down taken out of the issue, so there are three different AOE being use at different stage of the leveling process which make it enjoyable if not of the Occultist debuff risk.

Manage to reach Level 101 with Arch Wizard but I would say Mage is still better than Arch Mage if you are going to choose Witch Dual Class instead of Arch Wizard due to the Flame Storm AOE available at early stage which would help a lot. The other class would be Sorcerer and Titan which have AOE skill available at slightly later stage as compare to Mage. Arch Mage still got certain advantage like Ex Rogue over Regular Rogue due to the availability of short duration self buff.

But having short duration self buff would also mean a more complicated gaming experience which players had to keep operating the keys and monitor the duration before it expired, they also design for certain advantage like higher damage or faster speed to cater for the lack of buff like what Regular Ranger had over Ex Ranger and Archer. But the starter armor set for Ex Rogue and Arch Mage does help a lot at the early stage of the game before they start giving +15 set and good items to help with leveling.

The project will continue further with twelve different dual class, I would consider Ex Rogue and Arch Mage to be similar to Regular Rogue and Mage as their skills are almost the same in many aspect. Like the Horoscope which represent by the different star constellation, each have unique qualities which attract different players to choose what they like most and provide a variety of choice to make the whole gaming experience more vibrant.

 

Knowledge Is Power:

 Horizon:

Recently encounter a return player named Lavus, he was trying to get some help with the game and he happen to approach my toon Apollo Mars which is supposed to be AFK. He was very lucky that I was tending to my pet leveler which was log on the same laptop and I happen to check normal chat while I was doing that. I give him Phoenix Ticket and Pan Flute which he say he need, and advice him to go other channel for windy buffs as I saw Elvis is saying on world chat.

Not sure if he actually got buffed as I see him standing idle in town when Elvis had already finish giving the buffs and Kry is offering it at another corner, but I saw that he had already been recruited by Kry into Light Bringer Guild so I think he should be OK. I had been a talent scout in game and all the big guild seem to trust my instinct and try to recruit most of the Newbie which I had encountered everytime I mention them on the world chat or my gaming blog.

He get even lucky when Hannah heard about it and ask Elvis to do another round of buffs just for him, and I heard Hannah had try to help him a lot by giving him a lot of good stuffs. He never really ask much on discord whenever he got doubt about the game, instead he seem to trust me more and prefer to seek my help.

He manage to level up fast with help from mostly Hannah and me, he seem to reach bottle neck like most players at Level 128 when he use up all the leveling stuffs which he get free when he create new toon. I give him some LI and XPB to help him continue with his journey, and also give him a Level 120 Jump Box which will be useful for his Night Shadow.

Been supporting god, Avatar and Zed a lot during the Easter Event, as they got high level bunny and will be able to help farm a lot of stuffs for the server. It will still benefit the majority as the more stuffs we have will contribute to cheaper price, so on the long run more players will be able to enjoy the game more without having to work very hard to get enough gold to be able to use some premium item which use to be only available to Play To Win Players.

I guess that seem to affect Peanut a lot as he doesn't seem to be able to sell a lot of his stuffs and also make him jealous of Avatar and Zed, but his claim of farming 2.8K of Easter Eggs on Day 1 of the Event seem doubtful as god is only getting only less than 30% of that even though he is the top farmer. Peanut claim that he is using low level toon to help him farm faster, but that would hardly bring the different by such a wide gap.

It is the same during Halloween and Christmas Events where god only able to farm 2K of Pumpkin and Snowflake per day while some players are able to get 8K of it. I think Fawkes should start to look into all this if they are really so much into prevention of cheating for the game, but so far they seem to focus more on Osiris server as the problem seem to magnify much more as there are more players there.

Happen to log on for my daily attendance and saw Tremi trying to twist a quote from a popular movie, I can't help but to correct the mistake as I had some knowledge about it. Tremi had been one of the oldest players in game with an age different of about 20 years older than god and me, the other one would be mimi from Romania which I remember is even older by about 10 more years than Tremi. 

Most players in game are very old as the game had been around for 18 years, even if they start playing when they are young they would have been mature working adults by now. We have seen a lot of players gone as years pass by and we could only remember them by the things they did to help other players move forward, they had become a legend and most of us will continue their legacy.