Yes I eventually reached Guild Rank 10 last night at 1:30am so my original estimation of reaching GR10 from GR9 was a little bit off, all in all it actually took me around 10 hrs not 20 which I first estimated.
We had some good runs grinding it out on the Big Red 2 quest, played with some excellent players who were even forgiving when I let them down a couple of times.
I’ve started working on my Georama a bit, i’m not purchasing any download content so i’m trying to make the most of whats available which is quite a bit.
This whole game now is going to be based around how much money you can make, or I should say Guilder which is the in game currency. I read a review somewhere and it said don’t even bother with Georama until you reach the 10 million guilder mark, that’s a trophy by the way, at the time I thought he must be joking but since hitting GR10 and arranging some stuff in my town some extra stuff became available in my general store which I thought was cool, until I saw the prices, it looks like 10 mil won’t be enough for the things you can do here.
After thinking about it and trying to get it in my brain about how the georama town actually works I did start to make some sense of it all.
I’ve started off with miners and warriors and got a couple of chefs and also a couple of farmers, when I eventually reach GR13 i’ll be able to upgrade my town again and have more space and i’ll go for more specialist stuff but for now I have 7 houses with 14 residents, 2 chefs, 2 farmers, 4 miners and 6 warriors.
You need to put two people in each house with the same skill, it’s no good putting a farmer with a miner as they won’t produce much, if you put two together with the same skill your stats will improve a lot and you’ll get better items.
This farming of items is almost needed because it’s free stuff being produced and if your a little bit wise about how you work your town you can can some good stuff which may otherwise be hard to come by.
Also I have been at it again by getting a few more quests open to me since reaching my new level, no chance of completing them, at least not alone but I still popped in there to see what kind of loot I could get my hands on, turns out it was worth it, i’m picking up things i’d never seen or heard of before these quests and i’m sure they are going to come in handy for binding weapons and so forth.
Next week i’ll be opening my room up every evening to anyone who wants to drop in, a room gives other players access to your hometown in Georama and we can do some quests together.
Even though i’m GR10 and level 50 I don’t mind helping out any newcomers who need some S rank quests, I really don’t mind doing some early level quests if you need the help.
Most online questers know me already by my character Assassin and i’ll list my room as The Guildmasters or Assassins Hideout so keep an eye out for me, once I open the room it will be open for 4 or 5 hrs so plenty of time to pop in and have chat, nick some of my produce, it’s not heavy stuff at the moment but it’ll do nicely for some of the lower ranked players or just play out some quests.
I’m still looking for players wanting to do something different other than Big Red, i’d really like to work my way through all the quests and try to get the S rank if anyone feels the same, there is a trophy for 20 S rank quests and I think there is also one for 50 S rank quests so no excuse not to try them all out and you’ll pick up some decent items and hopefully get some decent coin in the process to start adding to your own hometown.
If you don’t yet have this game believe me when I say your missing out on one of the best games so far this year, the relatively short story mode is almost a preview of what is to come once you get online and start questing, of all the players in this game i’ve only come across one A’hole and that’s a real plus, jeez I met a bunch of em in resident evil 5 versus, the difference with this game is you have to enjoy RPG final fantasy type games to appreciate all this has to offer and you don’t really get idiots playing this type of game, at least not that many, so far i’ve enjoyed over 300hrs of this game and it really feels like i’ve only scratched the surface, with around 500 items to bind i’ve probably only achieved binding less than 100 and this hometown thing, this could be never ending.
As a last thought I read a little about White Knight Chronicles 2, not much info on it but there will be a dash mode which could come in handy, and it will be more dynamic with seasons being put in the game.
My own thoughts on WKC 2 would be you wouldn’t have wasted money building up your town, I would hope that you can upload your WKC town to WKC 2 and keep adding to it which would be awesome.
Before you say it WKC has been out more than 2yrs in Japan so it’s not too early for a second one, although it probably won’t reach other countries so soon it’s definitely something to look forward to.
Ok i’m back off to play some more and I apologise for not posting any other games at the moment but i’m so into this one and so are all the other players. I will post some more upcoming games later in the week but probably won’t get around to reviewing any for a little while, hey life is short so let’s enjoy it at least for a little while.
Tony 🙂