The Guildmasters

Yes I haven’t been giving my blog the attention it deserves. This game is so addictive. I’m almost at Guild Rank 12 and I say almost because i’ve still got 3 million GR points to get, this sounds like a huge amount but it can be done in a day because i’m getting many more GR points per quest now.

The playability of this game is ridiculous, really. I’ve had this game well over 3 months and it just doesn’t get boring, you get to the next Guild Rank level and you just can’t wait to get to the one after that.

I love RPG’s as you know, I played Resident Evil 5 until I got burned out on it, i’ve played final fantasy games over and oblivion was a great RPG and although White Knight Chronicles isn’t as good as those games from a storyline point of view this game has been put together in such a way you just can’t leave it alone.

It’s only recently I realized how much work had gone into the making of this game. It’s definitely a MMORPG because without others you would find it quite impossible to complete many of the quests. They’ve also made it so you can’t just go for the best weapons in the game, you have to buy the cheaper weapons in order to bind them with other weapons or materials to make better weapons.

There is always something you need to get a better weapon or a better piece of armor and that one thing your missing is the one thing that is a 1% drop rate, then when you do get it you get loads of them, or you’ll find when you get what you want you’ll need a ton more to upgrade.

So yes even though there are reviews out there stating this game has only 20hrs playtime they are almost definitely referring to the story part. I would say up to this point I must have played well over 300 hrs and i’m only just going to hit Guild Rank 12 tomorrow. Guild Rank 13 is when I can upgrade my town again so that is miles away.

I’ve had a lot of late nights with this game, I certainly haven’t put these kind of hours into any other game i’ve ever played. Last night I got onto the map to start questing and two new quests opened up so the makers are keeping to their word about introducing more quests on a regular basis, this also helps to keep the game fresh, and it just so happens the two quests they put in was giving items I really needed which was cool.

I did enter a quest with a Guild Rank 15 member and I asked her if at Guild Rank 15 was she still having fun.
Her answer to me was “are you kidding? the fun has only just started”.
That’s all I needed to hear, i’m having a lot of fun now, even after 3 months of playing, imagine how much more fun it will be to own everything in the game, best weapons, best armor and i’ll probably get it all just as WKC 2 comes out, that will be awesome.

The only downside with this game is that I have neglected other really good games that I should have been playing and writing about. Having said that games like this only come by once in a while so enjoy them while you can is my motto and i’m really enjoying this one. I just can’t put my finger on what it is that keeps me on it so long, it’s a mixture of how everything is tied in, so well balanced and a great load of decent players who really team up and help each other out. Great stuff.

Tony🙂

After hitting Guild Rank 11 quite a lot opened up to me, 5 or 6 new quests were available to buy and they took all my money as they were 20,000 guilder each quest, wow.

I’m now finding a lot of items that i’d never heard of before and i’m also getting the required items needed for my more powerful weapons and armor upgrades.

There is now a Big Red 3 available which is pretty awesome giving around 45,000 GR points and a whopping 15,000 guilder as well as some decent items and level 10 pearls which now sell for 1,400 so i’m well on the way to more trophies.

I did get another trophy this morning called ‘Item Maniac”, this one was for collecting 600 different items. I’d actually forgotten about trophies as I hadn’t got one in over a week, it was a nice surprise when it popped up. This now puts trophy completion at 42%, yes I know, a long way to go still but i’m not bored yet.

I now have some generals armor(Cuirass), and even the Valiant leg gear (Cuisses),managed to get myself the Greede Steel Bow and a decent shield (Divine)for when I rebirth again for the 4th time and try bow and shortsword skills.

It shouldn’t take so long now to reach GR12 because of the access to harder quests which pay out much more GR points which really makes the grind from 10 to 11 probably the hardest, so far.

Tony 🙂

Yes I believe I can hit Guild Rank 11 sometime tomorrow, with just 1 million Guild Rank points needed for the next rank i’m quite looking forward to it.

I know of at least two quests that will open up to me once I reach GR11 and i’m looking forward to getting hold of some rarer items and some newer weapons and armor.

My invitation still stands for anyone wanting to run specific quests,even though I need certain items I don’t tie myself down to one or two quests, I like to run with newbies as well as the more experienced and i’ll pretty much try any quest out there in the WKC land.

I’ve now upgraded three of my best swords to the max which is going to help out a lot when re-incarnating again, yes I still have to rebirth a fourth time but I won’t be worried about that once I reach the GR11, i’ll probably just run through Boot Camp 2 as I’m now killing kibbles with one hit so i’ll get the max points on that and exp. I’ll probably get back to level 50 in a day now.

Met some well organized players on WKC online over the last couple of weeks and it’s a pleasure to play with an organized team, especially on the harder quests.

Recently i’ve been playing All In The Cards 2, Giant Headache, Station Attendant (which needs an organized group of 4 , still waiting for that very rare item drop the old magic turret),Desperate Defense (again 4 decent players needed), Home of the Knave 2 (I do Home of the Knave 1 on my own if no-one is about), and King of Dragons 2.

If your running a particular quest where you can’t find 4 people and it’s a struggle to complete with 3 just invite me (Assassin) and i’ll join you, if you want to run big red and kill golems let me know, i’m partial to a couple of golems, lol

Basically i’ll help anyone that wants it, i’m not looking for anything too special myself right now, just grinding anywhere (and everywhere) to get that next guild rank, I do need some more Devil Claws which I can only get in Desperate Defense but that is a pretty hard quest so if anyone wants to run that with me, let me know.

Tony 🙂

Yes i’m still grinding away for Guild Rank 11 but i’m not running Big Red anymore at the moment. I’ve decided to take on the harder quests and it makes a refreshing change, it also enables me to get some rare item drops.

I’m basically running the great headache and desperate defense. I met up with a good team last night on DD and a guy named “Red” was an awesome healer which allowed us to complete this quest with hardly any problem most of the time. I say that because generally you fail quite a lot on this quest because you have to spend the entire quest keeping the little kamakazee captain alive, if he dies that’s an automatic fail.

The other quest i’ve been running a lot is Station Attendant, we don’t get a problem on this one unless you end up with two lower Guild Rank members come in as these monsters can kill you fairly easy if your HP isn’t above 500.

I took some time out to help a few lower guild rank members on all in the cards quests when I couldn’t find anyone running the above mentioned ones.

Most of the time we’ve been getting S ranks which means more GR points and i’ve actually worked it out I would need to run station attendant 100 times to achieve my GR11 as that gives around 32,000 each time and I need about 3 million more points.

It’s easy to assume you would get bored of this but I still enjoy it a lot, I try out different weapons and tactics and because you get different item drops almost every time it’s not totally the same every time you do a quest, it also makes a big difference depending on who your playing with.

You can run the same quest 30 times and S rank it every time but if you get two people come in who haven’t got a clue you can fail really easily, you have to have a system to run these harder quests and you really need to work with each other, it’s no good doing your own thing.

If your new to a quest, an maybe even lower in rank than you should be for taking a quest the higher rank players don’t mind helping out, what you need to do is pay attention to what the higher rank players are doing, a good team always has a system, usually one good healer with a back up healer who can raise fallen players when needed and help the healer if he gets into trouble, i’ve seen some monsters specifically go after the healer, that’s when you have to be ready to help out, if everyone is healed up you can get back to attacking, to be honest you need 4 players running most of the harder quests and when one falls it really makes a difference.

Another thing worth mentioning for newer players is most bosses can be taken down, either to its knees or to a laying down position, this is when it’s at it’s most vulnerable and your attacks do more damage, four legged beasts are taken down by attacking two legs, either the left or right so pay attention to where everyone is attacking, if two are attacking a left leg it’s not going to help much if you attack a right leg, take both left legs out and he goes down to laying position, that’s usually when players open up with a stronger attack or combo, it’s also at this point usually when items can drop.

Dragon quests drop items if you hit the tail which is another good tip because you need these kind of items if you want to upgrade everything if your going for trophies.

Well i’m off again to run some more quests, I did see a GR 15 player last night and the gear looked awesome, I am looking forward to getting there myself and don’t think it will be a waste as i’m sure WKC2 will continue and allow you to keep your players avatar, my guess is WKC2 will go from GR15 up to GR30 or something like that, let’s hope so.

Tony 😉

This one is dedicated to all the older gamers, I really didn’t realise there were so many gamers out there the same age group as me, I’m 46 and I actually thought I was the lonely shark swimming amongst a sea of minnows.

It was actually pretty cool to read one of the posts on the Geo network asking for older gamers, I was quite stunned to find out there were so many players even over 50, and the 80yr old granny playing the xbox was brilliant, good on yer grandma:)

If any of you old timers out there want to reminisce about our younger days gaming times, what games started you out or just chat about how your preferences have changed over the years and what your playing now feel free to pull up a chair and start rambling, your all welcome.

At WKC i’m back to level 45 after rebirthing yesterday and i’ve been practicing with shortsword and shield instead of my trusty longsword, I can actually see me using all the weapons in this game, i’m at least going to put them all to the test, i’ll let you know how it goes.

Tony🙂

Well today I re-incarnated for the third time. Thanks to some decent help from other WKC players I managed to get the items required to get hold of a nice little shortsword called the Demonsword, there is also a longsword with the same name but I don’t think I can get that for a while yet which is why I decided to rebirth a third time so I can learn the shortsword skill.

A tip for anyone re-birthing or re-incarnating is on level 35 you can quickly achieve level 36 by doing the Boot Camp 1 quest in Balastor Plain, once you hit level 36 you can go onto Boot Camp 2 which will gain you levels fairly quickly, especially if you have upgraded a few decent weapons.

When I first re-birth I use the Castleguard armor which is fine for that level, I use the Grandsword for level 35 which is more than enough but as soon as I hit level 36 I then equip my Ornate Greatsword, i’ve enhanced this weapon to it’s max of 10 so it gives a whopping 115 Attack with an extra 23 HP and +4 STR and VIT -10, losing 10 on VIT isn’t a big deal at this stage as your just trying to get back to level 50 as quicky as possible, this sword has also been enhanced with water element so it’s ideal for Big Red 2 mulitplayer as soon as you hit level 41.

You can get hold of Arcanum Earrings from the shops and that increases your MP by 30 which is handy but you lose 30 HP which again is no big deal at this point.

Level 43 see’s me change into the Earth armor but I change my weapon at level 41 to the Evil’s Bane longsword, this one has been enhanced 8 times which gives an attack of 130 MAG 10 HP +17 STR+2 with VIT -16, this weapon is ideal to get you all the way to level 50 or you an choose to equip the Arondite at level 49 if you have it, this one is my favourite longsword and has an attack of 145 HP +11 and INT+4, this weapon is a little harder to get your hands on.

This time around i’m going to try out my new Demonsword and once i’ve upgraded as much as I can with this weapon i’m going to see how it stands up to my favourite longsword.

The shortswords don’t have the same kind of attack strength as the longsword but i’m betting it may just be a better option as you can hold a shield too because it’s a one handed weapon, i’m hoping that by upgrading both shield and sword it will probably even out but maybe the shortsword will outshine the longsword because you should be quicker, more agile and hopefully have a chance of better combo options, I will update as and when I find out.

I’ve changed my Georama town completely to try and achieve farming more of the rarer items needed for upgrading so instead of having a few residents of each trade i’ve just selected warriors and minors, this has put my stats up a lot compared to when I had something of everything and i’m farming much rarer items compared to my previous town.

Remember if any of you need some help either to get your guild rank up or get some S ranks for quests you haven’t managed to get yet just let me know and i’ll help out where I can.

Tony 🙂

Hi all,
Well i’m still grinding for Guild Rank 11, I managed to hit another trophy last night, 20 S rank quests completed which now gives me 34%.

A couple of things worth mentioning, first if you find yourself getting a bit burned out grinding away at the same old quests you may want to consider re-incarnating, as well as it being one of the trophies (to learn 4 skills) you’ll find that re-incarnating will truly help your attributes.

I’ve noticed a few players have totally learnt the longsword skill or the bow skill but didn’t bother with the healing skills, those skills are probably the most important in this game.

Although when playing with 4 players there is usually a healer it is always good to have the option of being a healer yourself, especially when some quests require you to split up. Another attribute of the healing skill is “raise” which is an excellent skill to have in your bar for when a player falls, and believe me it happens to even some of the best players.

The last few days saw a couple of new quests become available which are much more difficult than the earlier ones. One is “Giant Headache” which i’ve played with some excellent partners and achieved an S rank, as well as getting hold of some rare gold faces which was needed for upgrading.

The other new quest is “Greaver Hunt”, if you thought one greaver was hard this one is a real killer, it only gives you 30 minutes and there are six of them, i’ve only managed to complete it twice with 4 players and both times only managed an A rank, so far this one has been my nightmare quest.

Another tip for those wanting to complete “Dragons Heat” 1 & 2 in the Bunker Lode Caverns, there is a neat little trick for defeating the two dragons at the end, when the boss fight starts up if you all run back to the tunnel only the nearest dragon will follow, allowing you to kill one dragon at a time. I thought this was worth mentioning as I had a go on this one last night and there was only three of us so they decided to opt for only one dragon showing at the final battle, this obviously resulted in a lesser amount of items and guilder as well as guild rank points, I couldn’t tell the other two about the way to kill both dragons as I only have the ability to type via the controller and it takes me forever, at least you know in future even with 3 players both dragons can be killed.

At the moment i’m trying to take on several quests to acquire Knave Panels, Gold Faces, as well as trying to pick up some demon fossils and black iron ore along the way. So the two quests i’m mainly running at the moment is “Home Of The Knave 2” in the Dogma Rift and “Giant Headache 1” in the Flander Trail so if anyone wants to join me i’m always looking.

For those that know me now, if your ok with the way I play next time you see me add me to your friends and we can team up for future quests.

For those that haven’t played me yet I basically follow and fight, nothing special, I don’t usually take the lead unless it’s a quest i’m comfortable with, I usually build my combo up as early as possible but save it until I think it’s needed, usually from the middle of the fight or towards the end, hey i’m an assassin, I like to finish things off,lol

I’ve been the healer a couple of times but usually I only heal others as they need it while i’m fighting, I more often than not use the inspire spell to up everyone’s attack.

You can nearly always tell when i’m going to kick my combo on because i’ll always use inspire before the combo.

I’m not too interested in creating a room but am more than willing to join anyone in their room for questing, depending on the quest. I also don’t mind helping out lower GR players with quests they are finding difficult to either complete or are managing to complete them but without the S rank. Seriously, if you need some help i’m willing to do so.

If your wanting to contact me on the WKC server my players name is Assassin, spelt exactly like that, with a capital A, and if you still can’t find me my online username is Knightofthe9.

Will update some more as the weekend comes to an end, hopefully i’ll hit Guild Rank 11 sometime next week, i’m really looking forward to some of the weapons i’ll be able to get my hands on (hopefully).

Tony 🙂

Ok i’m still playing the old WKC, i’m nowhere near achieving GR11 yet, still about 6million away, and I would like to get to GR13 at least so I can upgrade my town, this will take a while.

A couple of points of interest, just for a change I decided to play out the last area again, which would be my fifth time through the game, I didn’t do the final boss as then i’d have to start it over and i’m not going there again yet, the point is that when I was going through that last area it did give me newer items, i’m guessing it was because my level was at 50 and my GR at 10 but it is worth noting that, it may even be worth trecking through the game again at my level just to see how many decent items I can get hold of, all boss battles will be that much easier.

My town has now started producing black ore which is a result as that stuff is 24,000 to buy but it’s free to find, at least until you need some then you can’t find it anywhere.

A lot of this game now is trial and error, i’ve seen some awesome weapons and armor but don’t have the materials yet to bind them so unless you want to search forever on your own the georama logs can be quite helpful if you post what item your looking for someone usually comes back with where to find it.

Every time I upgrade something like my armor or longsword I go and test it all on the quest “all in the cards”. My way of thinking is if I can do this quest on my own without any problems then i’ll be of more use to mulitplayer, as of yet I can’t do the final boss in that quest solo but i’m not far off it.

Now we’ve heard that WKC 2 is coming out in Japan soon but today while scouring the internet I saw a post that this game was part of a trilogy so if that is true this series could take a front row seat in popularity, i’m seeing new players coming in every day it seems so I picked this game up at just about the right time, if I can get to Guild Rank 15 by the time the second one comes out I should be in a good starting position for the second instalment, assuming our Georama towns will be able to upload to the second edition, hope so.

I’ve re-incarnated twice so far and when I get a bit burnt out questing then i’ll rebirth a third time.

I’m always looking for players to catch some of the other quests other than bigred, I know this quest is quick and gives you the most GR points for the time but it makes a refreshing change when I find players on the other quests, today I played Station Attendant quest a couple of times and it keeps you on your toes, you do need at least two higher graded players I think to do well on this one, certainly at least one good healer who knows what he/she is doing, if you get a good 4 players on this one it rewards well.

If anyone was wondering why I didn’t open my room up Monday as planned it was because I didn’t receive any responses at all so I assumed there are already a ton of rooms open, if I get more than a couple of requests to do so then I will.

After writing this update i’ll be back online for about 4hrs questing all over the place, i’d like to get some S ranks for “Dragons heat” and “Take your lumps” Quests if anyone is interested, i’ve done both level 1 solo but haven’t got an S for either of them.

If anyone wants me to post any specific info then just let me know and i’ll try and help out. Catch you all later, let’s go questing.

Tony 🙂

Well after reaching Guild Rank 10 i’ve decided to re-incarnate again, this will be the second time and for some reason it seems easier to get my levels back, i’m already at level 44 and I only re-incarnated last night.

I don’t know about you but there are so many unanswered questions on this game now and I can’t find answers anywhere, that’s presumably because it’s still relatively new.

I’d like to make the most of my Georama town and even though I was impressed with my layout it’s not right, something is missing because it’s not producing the goods I expected. I have 20 residents now but when I talk to the residents they keep telling me things like “if I had a farmer we would do better”. What doesn’t make sense is that it might be a warrior or a mage that is asking for a farmer or a lumberjack, does this mean you can put different trades in the same houses?

I was under the impression you got better stats and produce if you kept the same trades in the same house, i’ll have to experiment more on this.

Another problem i’m having is knowing where to get certain items, for instance, I know to enhance my longsword for the 9th or 10th time I need a massive hoof, I know which animal drops this and where he is only he never drops this item. I realize that the drop percentage is quite low, sometimes as low as 1% which is ok, but does he drop it on level 1 quests or level 2 quests? or both?

I’ve battled this creature both on level 1 and 2 quests and never got the drop, he always drops a massive tooth or something other than the massive hoof. I don’t mind grinding it out to get an item to upgrade but it would be nice to be able to narrow it down just a little.

I do want to take this time to apologize to the two players that attempted to finish a high end quest even after one player left, I was also a letdown here because I wasn’t ready to take on this quest, I know they was still going for it and I just wanted to say sorry for letting you down in there, I imagine the rewards for completing that quest were quite huge, i’ll hold off in future before taking on those high end quests.

Anyway to get my levels back i’m grinding away at boot camp 2, several reasons for doing this, it’s quick, you have to kill 50 monsters, each time you complete the quest which actually takes around 10 to 15 minutes at level 35 to 50 you get pretty close to 20k experience, that’s pretty quick levelling up, also they drop a decent amount of gilder which you need so badly in this game, also some of the items dropped can be sold for around 30g, doesn’t sound like much, but do this quest about 50 times to get to level 50 and that’s quite a bit, especially if you aren’t too worried about the S rank and go for more than 50 monsters.

It’s also a good idea to make sure you have a weapon equipped that will take them down in one hit, two hits slows the quest down dramatically and makes a big difference at the end.

I’ve also found it an advantage to shake the three trees with wasps in them, 5 come out which makes for a total of 15 easy kills and lots of bonus cash,items and experience.

Well that’s it for now, don’t forget to look out for my town opening up for 4 to 5hrs each night from next week, i’ll be running all types of quests to try and obtain all the S ranks, it’s just going to be a change from the big red for a week, it will also catch us some new items for use in binding etc…

Tony 🙂