so tired.............. 27 now... time running short...

open map click on waypoint, pay a few coin and tele!

the key to level is to spam events... WvWvW seems to give a lot of exp killing people too I guess

Personally much prefer staff with all those AoE and splash... Going for fire and water trait since I use them the most, damage mainly, heal support sometime during big boss fight (staff got 2 water area heal, and auto attack also heal people around...)

Guess we got around15 hours left but I really need a sleep now...

I even finished 15-25 human area (Kessex Hill), now almost finish the 15-25 snow Norn area... Guess there are no area beyond 25 as all the exit are shut...
Beta mah... get some experience now, later can minimize mistakes in release game...

Fk that... play for another while baru sleep lah...

This post has been edited by M1X: Apr 29 2012, 11:44 PM

* thank you for helping me out in some materials... but then I realize the trading post actually working LOL!
Lv25 Green set, craft level 125... found the recipe in Norn area instead...



This post has been edited by M1X: Apr 30 2012, 04:25 AM

Norn 15-25 Karma NPC sell all those amazing stuff... Trading post easier.

Hmm, people are talking about finale event somewhere at Snowden Drift... Hmm?

This post has been edited by M1X: Apr 30 2012, 11:52 AM

real or fake?

This post has been edited by M1X: Apr 30 2012, 12:43 PM

elementalist...

no not going to get into pvp but wvwvw is fine for casual break...

btw, finale event is f**king animal huntings

Even if got pic I see it will hardly understandable... zerg rush... mess... tough pigs, rabbits, birds, rats,... @.@

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4...=1&l=ac3be82c6c
(should be view-able I set that album to public)

ended. finally.

story in beta till level 20 only anyway =p not really a huge spoiler
mostly enjoying random events, exploring... automated quest reception & completion saved a lot of times and players can focus in enjoying stuff
wvwvw can be quite messy at the moment until they optimize the game and give option to disable certain spell effects...
32 kills in a weekend... not really anything great but enjoying all those siege, especially this (click spoiler):



Trading post is awesome, much better and more function than I expected but navigation still need some works
Crafting is surprisingly interesting, never feel such way in any other MMO before!

This post has been edited by M1X: Apr 30 2012, 03:35 PM

Hmm... Crafting...

1, material
Materials can gain through gathering. Gathering require different tiers of tools. For example axe required to chop wood have rough axe, steel axe, mystic one... If you use low level tool to gather higher level materials, you may just fail and get junk instead. Better tool can be bought from NPC but not every NPC actually sell them. Salvaging gear also another way to get materials. Salvaging with better salvaging-tools may increase your chance to get other valuable items like upgrade stone (mana stone in other mmo...). Mystic Chests (require key to open) sometime also gives materials.

2, recipe
you start with a list of recipe given, after you reach certain level new recipes will start to show automatically.
red : can't craft yet, higher level item
orange : give best exp
green/blue/white : lower level item but still give you some exp
grey : too low level it won't give you any craft exp

Karma NPC (those "hearts" dynamic events) some selling crafting recipe too, usually green items. I don't think those gears can be "discovered" by random mixing stuff as they have unique appearance and that [Shadow] set I crafted only require two materials (one raw material and one attribute item) instead of 3 components (see below).

3, discovery
By combining several basic components you can discover new recipe. These basic components are usually given in your craft list by default. Every *normal* gears have 2 separated main components (dunno about accessories). For example a staff got "head" and "body" components. To create a proper staff you need to combine these two components, and ONE item that will decide the attribute your staff will have.

These attributes items are insignia, inscriptions, etc.... They all appear in your craft list. (insignia for cloth armor, inscription for weapon, etc...)
Attributes we have are +power, + precision, +toughness, +vitality... there should be more I guess.

So the process is like any other MMO...
1, craft component no.1 (refined materials like leather, jute, wood block, etc...)
2, craft component no.2 (refined material + one material you buy from craft NPC)
3, craft attribute item (refined material + loot items like vial of blood, bone shard, bone chip, scale, claw, totem... each of them will give different attribute)
4, combine all these 3 components, you discovered a new recipe.

Crafted items always start with BLUE rank. Of course there are chance for better rank.

4, levelling...
The quick way to level craft skill is to craft completed gears. Of course before you can craft gears you need to craft their components first.
The craft skill probably have 999 levels? o.O...
About level 90+ I can start crafting lv25 gears, that set of [Shadow] gear (also Lv25) require Level 125 craft skill level...
Don't get stunned by the big level number though, this is not AION... Craft leveling is fast in here. Getting to 100 is considered very easy, one gear can almost give you one level (sometime jump 2 level at once).
And with the extra "booster speed crafting" lol... (speed increase if craft in large amount)

...........

"discovery" function hmm...
Actually once you know what type of component you can combine then it is straight away easy to know what you can do next.
I think it's more like a way to NOT let the NPC feed you with everything; in a way to make things slightly more interesting.

This post has been edited by M1X: Apr 30 2012, 04:28 PM

Gear from crafting might not be the best... But still they are slightly better than what you can loot (of course green loots are nice). Well we never go to any real dungeon yet so no idea... Guess we should loot [gold] item in dungeon.
Still the special thing about crafting is when you found that FULL SET of gear... muahahahahaha... Distinctively looks much much much better.
Still, I only reached Lv129 craft in this beta, maybe in higher level we got more interesting stuff to do? Like refine [green] item to [gold]?

This post has been edited by M1X: Apr 30 2012, 04:35 PM

I didn't check my balance but many claims they refunded. Just one dollar I don't mind... not 100 dollar...
2000 gem... spent in a few exp boost, turn them into coin (I desperate need some fund for crafting lol...)... Of course get a few keys to open those mystic chests.

This post has been edited by M1X: Apr 30 2012, 05:12 PM

I got quite a lot of chests, and sometime bad luck it didn't give me another key... Thoase potions to transform into animals are kinda useless

This post has been edited by M1X: Apr 30 2012, 06:23 PM