sky tower floor 10 completed =D

rares obtained = grenadier lvl 60 recipe (heard was crap) and a courage mastery...

the real rares are the yellow eqs most likely...11.5k sword and shield, lul

http://www.aeriagames.com/forums/en/viewtopic.php?t=2201951

hotfix screen freeze thread

endora book is out in paragon

u want eva? eva is more for endgame where usually def is capped and most melees only use eva

and by capping def i don't mean by adding stats, they make armors +X where x is usually above 15 and above then they pump eva

reason melee use eva is cos they are stuck to boss / players

aeria sold their company to prosbiensat i think, but i heard that it could be a good or bad thing, the good thing is always a fairer item mall and the bad thing is the mgt stays the same as now

but anyway, i think migrating to hk server isn't an awesome idea as you are stating afresh and u had already spent money here, of course, if u wanna continue spending it will outweigh a fresh start in hk, but party wise and etc stuffs that requires u to read may be more difficult

otherwise, i think with your current gold u have in here, most of the things u need already have, unless u wanna upgrade your weapons /armor to +20...which could be done by creating and deleting chars too

looks like the claim against AK can't run a week without downtime is pretty much confirmed, login is dead but game is still running (if only you didn't logout after u login)...forum is dead as well, lul

from what i heard:

create new char
get char to lvl 50
farm the quest which gives weapon and armor scrolls
you will get ard 6 weapon and 10 armor scroll
send your main char to your sub char to upgrade
after upgrade send back to your main
delete sub char
go back to step one

server still down, lul

This post has been edited by LostWanderer: Mar 20 2014, 10:50 PM

as for me, if prosbien is bring in more players / adjust the price of AP then i may support the game...if not, depending on whether i can farm the weapon and armor scrolls or not...if yes then i continue, otherwise, i may quit too (albeit i have nearly completed most of my set for my char, XD)

yup, but i doubt that is aeria's decision to reset the fortification potential as they mentioned that it is not their liberty to alter the game codes except the imall pricing

but anyway, hope that prosbien will have a better mall i guess

for f2p's, this is somewhat forseenable, but the gold to AP price has gone so much up increased it's really crazy, as in from 60:100ap now 120:100g or so just less than 1 week...XD

the only way you could afford stuff is still just to get lucky in OW's, otherwise, you need to buy and sell AP, which is a good thing if you don't mind spending

but yea, main reason prolly cos english = international language and is usually associated with USD, the mother of all currency, lul

not auto +1 to +20, but auto +19 to +20

you still need to spend a lot on forging your equips to get +20 though, and those people who express their thoughts to quit are those whom spent a lot making their gears to +20 with just blue scrolls (ouch)

pvp is unfair to non spenders but pve makes the game a lot easier

of course, those scrolls could be bought on siren for 5k-6k if you are rich enough from getting recipes...XD

also, those scrolls are in TW version as well, and i think they may put it on paragon after a while



anyway










what rm400 bought me that is end result...

from +9 codex and staff into +20

hat from +9 into +15

armor from +11 into +15

and i guess this will be all i spent on, in a way, f2p is somewhat being left out, like i mentioned, but scroll prices dropped to ard 3-4k now for weapon and 1.5k for armor, which could be affordable if you had a streak of luck in lament / otherworlds / ST

if u are focus on pvp, then yes, it will be difficult fighting the ppl in there, but if not, when more ST floors are released, without a decent set of gear, most ppl will fail too...if u spent a lot on blue scrolls to upgrade, then yea, it hurts, especially if u spent RM in it

This post has been edited by LostWanderer: Mar 31 2014, 08:57 AM

actually, if you play the game regularly, you can find a recipe "sooner" or "later", which in turn can help you generate your income

of course, if you play like 3 hrs a day and hope a valuable thing drop soon, well, it could or it could not, playing 1 hr a day is neigh impossible for stuffs to drop though (of course, playing 5hrs a day isn't gonna guarantee any drops too for maybe a week or 2 depends on luck)

the economy as bad as it is, but if you run into something rare, it's easily gonna afford you stuffs, but just don't enter pvp or you'll get one shotted most of the time if you don't have end game gears...even i get one to two shotted too by a "handful" of ppl (with almost 100k hp, 5X% def and 22% dmg reduction...reason? those food buff especially 2x / 3x dmg is too op, but oh well)

if you guys know autoban, he got like 5 titan coats in less than 1 week i think, and to top it off, he got other recipes and yellow stones too...and all i know is he plays this religiously...not to say that it is a healthy lifestyle, but luck is luck and some people especially the "already" rich have all the luck

as for pve...the only dungeons that may be difficult now is sky tower...especially floor 6 if your eq is below par...floor 15 is another gear check level, which many can't seem to clear now except i heard hurricane and panda's raid, which i'm not in

would the economy go better with DC? i don't think so, but if you just play the game and find the rares, it would buy stuffs that you need, but if you wanna rush for your gears and can't seem to find one, you will burn out soon

fp2 games as hard to believe is actually a hardcore mmo game, either you have a lot of money to spend, or a lot of time, or else you can't just get to the top that easily...=(, however, some games that encourages spending to basically win every pvp / pk match is not here though, as far as i can see for now...unless they force a pvp map into a pve environment, you can still survive in this game for now

within like maybe 2-3 weeks you could earn about 5k if your luck is below average i guess (due to lament, solo/pt and hell OW and ST(only if your raid group is good))



bought this with 7k just a day ago and was saving up for 1-2 weeks from less than 500g and still had some spare change left (due to mats price inflated and i have some leftover so i sold them and earned quite a bit too)

This post has been edited by LostWanderer: Apr 7 2014, 03:53 PM

best bargain bins are paragon items, and i am currently waiting for armor scroll 1s to be put up there (aiming for a full+15 armor set for now)

you do in fact most of the time pay for convenience and that although the drop rate is bad, most games drop rates are "bad" too, unless you are playing guild wars 2 which is a good game but it does get stale after a "while" if you aren't grinding for the legendary skins (which is almost the same as grinding in this game i guess?)...i mean, there isn't just much things to keep you wanting to play it after "completing" it with 1 or 2 chars...=(

anyway, top gold earning places:

lvl 60 receipes - OW, ST, Ozzy, Ghostweep, Lament
yellow SS - Lament
lvl 65 yellow weapons - OW, ST
lvl 65 yellow armors - OW hell, small chest from OW, obli wood daily mirabell
orange skills - OW, ST, Lament (weapon mastery)
lvl 65 yellow throphy - fish kings
orange body costumes - around 1k ea now
lvl 60 yellow accessories - ard 300g-1k now
crafting mats - ard 5-7g ea now, possibly 10g soon too
worn out penguin card - 3k?

and i can't remember anymore...anyway, the list is long but drop rates are low...so what can you do besides waiting for rng / buying from "lucky" people? play more and eventually get one too i guess? this game although has an inflated economy, but it's not like only 1or2 things that is inflating and everything can't cope with the prices, XD

sometimes, i think the term p2win is thrown around too easily, as in to those people who post stuffs like above...>.<

you have not really seen a game that is really pay 2 win before is it? ak has not reach that point yet except for pvp, and with pvp, all mmo's excluding of gw 1 / gw2 i doubt has any "real" balance at all...even a system like RO / WOW, you dare say no one buy's op equips with real cash and pvp with it?o_O - there, pay 2 win =D

anyway, if really, AK started with a pay 2 win business model when the game was launched anyway, since scrolls you can obtain "easily" only from imall...sure, there's lp and new char roll option, but who wanna do those cause it's so much easier with money, right?

so...my char, nothing much has changed since the previous pic eq wise, except gear score and a whole lot more hp and a slight increase in def =X...no buffs except my sigrun is on

"extended" maintanence XD

the economy is "ok" if you:

1) buy ap and trade it into gold
2) get lucky - which happens prolly 1-2 times in a week, or as much as over 4times in a week (lucky - sales above 2k each)

but yea, game is ok as well if you don't pvp much, otherwise, prepare to get 1 shotted much if you are under geared...XD

pve wise, it's pretty entertaining but some may say the content is limited, but by the time u reach over 60, i guess there will be more content?

if u guys didn't know yet, all the drops from st is back in, got a good run anyway:
extreame spd and zeal =D

if u guys didn't know yet, due to patch, recipe price plummeted to below 500g i think in siren...so yea