The Guildmasters

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 😉

Yes i’ve decided to open up a category for this fairly large online multiplayer game. It grabbed my attention in the first place and now I can’t seem to put this one down.

Here’s a re-cap of what i’ve done and what i’m up to now, initially I played through this game 4 times, it didn’t get boring but at the same time it wasn’t doing much for my levels so i’ve decided to run through to the last section on the 5th time and hold off from completing the game again as there isn’t much point.

I managed to achieve a few of these trophies which are not so hard as they are time consuming, one trophy being awarded for achieving 10 million in gilder which in itself is going to take a fair while but not too bad once you start reaching the higher levels.

I’ve also managed to get my Guild Rank up to 8 (and i think it goes as high as 15 ) my character level is at 48 (max 50) and as soon as I reach level 50 I will do the reincarnate thing.

The thing that really keeps this game going is the online multiplayer quests which are fun to do and for a change I haven’t come across any idiots on this one like I did on versus, it’s been a pleasure to play online and almost impossible for me to achieve my S ranks if I had done some of these quests on my own.

You do have the option of playing the quests solo but if your thinking about it then you really should try the multiplayer option.

I’m now in the process of trying to bind weapons, armor, items etc..but more importantly (at least i think so) enhancing my weapons and armor, this can get quite difficult as the more you enhance a weapon the more rare items you need to enhance it more but it’s worth it.

Another fun aspect of this game is the ability to build your own town in what’s known as Georama, you can create it offline and upload it to the Geonet servers, other players can visit your town and you can visit theirs.

This town building is also worth having a go at because it doesn’t end, you get buildings, hire people or residents for the buildings, add scenery, trees, bushes, grapevines etc…but they are not just scenery, keep visiting your town and you’ll get rewarded with items you can dig up from a tree or a herb garden you’ve planted, some of your residents will give you stuff from time to time, it really is limitless.

Another great thing the developers have done is to offer new quests every couple of weeks, some quests will be permanent, others will only be temporary so you’ll have to complete them within a couple of week time frame or lose them forever, and they are free, they just appear whenever you sign in to play the multiplayer quests.

It’s definitely handy to have a keyboard or a headset or mic as the typing via the controller is slow and inconvenient, you really need a mic, the playstation eye works great, as you sometimes need to discuss strategy before running off to do a quest in multiplayer, I say this because with four players there is always several options and if you don’t communicate you could all end up running off in different directions and get no-where.

A good example is the “All in the cards” quest, I played this quest one time and no-one communicated and everyone ran after the troll they usually go for and there are about 8 on this quest. Another time I played and we just said a few words to each other which meant we all knew to go after the troll king on the south side of the area which resulted in an S rank in pretty quick time because all four of us took this beast down together, it works really well.

Ok enough for now, i’ll keep adding posts to this to show my progress, i’m leaving other games alone right now as i’m really enjoying this game and I think i’ll be on this one for at least another month, probably longer.

If anyone wants to join me, I don’t mind helping anyone who wants to try to achieve S ranks on their quests, or we can just grind for a few to get our levels up, you can visit my hometown that i’ve started to build on Georama or post here.

My username as always is Knightofthe9, just in case you can’t find me with that my characters name is assassin.

Tony 😉

I don’t think i’m going to be writing a play by post on this game, instead i’m writing the review even though I haven’t completed the game yet.

A play by post would probably do the game an injustice as the main game offline isn’t really it’s full potential and I don’t think it was a game that was intended for offline play.

From what i’ve read so far from others who have completed the game is that the main story mode offline is fairly easy and quickly completed, the main idea of this game in particular is they have turned it into a MMORPG (massive multiplayer online role playing game) which is cool and makes for a game which can be played forever more, a bit like world of warcraft, the difference being is it is a more final fantasy type rpg.

For the game itself,for me personally there were a few disappointments but on the whole I was impressed. I was pleasantly surprised that it was so much like a final fantasy type rpg. Being bought up on final fantasy type games it was cool to have one on my ps3 and I will definitely finish this game.

I will also try the online play once i’ve finished the main game and write a seperate review on that also.

Anyway the game so far is very graphical, the storyline is fairly basic and nothing new, princess gets captured by bad people and the good kid has to rescue her, it was the storyline which disappointed me most as I thought with such a long time in the making they would have come up with something a little more original but it’s not a big deal as the gameplay will satisfy any final fantasy fan.

Very open ended, many different sections of the map to explore, many different types of monsters to fight to get your levels up which is where i’m at right now, it didn’t take too long to work out how to use the combat system although there are still elements of it I don’t quite understand.

You can switch characters and learn different abilities, use a points system to learn extra abilities like archery, longsword, healing, magic etc..I’m not going to give any spoilers away yet as I would rather people ask questions and i’ll answer them as I go. As before I will only write a walkthrough if enough request it but I think the real gameplay is going to come into effect on the online play.

You can also visit guilds in this and buy quests and I believe that is probably how the online part will play out but will update as I reach that point. So far it’s definitely worth playing if your an rpg fan and are waiting on FFVIII which should be out later this month I believe.

There are trophies in this one too for the added extra playability, I picked up a trophy last night and I haven’t yet checked what they are but i’m guessing it’s the same as most trophy games, there will be some easy ones and some hard ones, will update that as I go along.

Tony 🙂

I know The Guildmasters is pretty much surrounded by PS3 talk and games but occasionally something different springs up and I check it out.

My latest exploration found me investigating something i’d seen advertised on my frequent visits to gamefly, an online game called Evony.

I couldn’t be sure if it was any good just by reading some reviews so decided to pay Evony a visit, to my surprise it was more popular than I expected it to be, somewhere in the region of 10 million players give or take a few thousand either way, probably more now as I witnessed “newbies” arriving daily while I was there.

Anyway I signed up for a free account and yes actually it is free and always will be, that’s their guarantee as well as their slogan ‘free forever”, although you can deposit real money if you wish to advance quicker but I don’t really see the point unless your impatient, then this game probably isn’t for you anyway.

Ok so I know your all asking why on earth have I got involved in something completely away from my usual stuff, there is a good reason.

I played a game on my PS3 called civilization and obviously expected too much from it, my own personal view on that game was that it was rubbish, I played it for one day completed it once and sent it back the next day.

Evony is what I expected from civilization, it’s a brilliant game of strategy, alliance, independance (if that’s what you want), and creation.

You literally build a city, your city, from the ground up, you start with a plain piece of ground and start building, cottages for your people to live in and so your population can grow, upgrade the cottages to house more people, build barrracks to train your army, or concentrate on defenses only, you can build and upgrades walls around your city with archer’s towers.

Outside your city is your resource fields where you can build farms to feed your growing population, build quarries to acquire stone for building, build ironmines and sawmills for the timber. Each building requires a certain amount of timber, iron and stone so you have to manage everything so that it is well balanced.

If you don’t generate enough food your people will leave you, your actions determine how high your prestige gets, and how loyal your people are.

You can demand a “levy” if your short on a particular resource but if you use that option too much your people’s loyalty will drop and they will show grievance towards you, if you don’t correct this, again they will leave.

There is an unbelievable amount of things to do in Evony and it’s a wonderful adventure. I’ve been with them for around two weeks now and i’m addicted.

You have a world chat so you can talk to fellow Evonians or if you join an alliance you can chat in alliance chat so you can discuss strategies, an alliance is good for protection against other cities who may want to attack you for your resources.

To start out you get 7 full days of peacetime in which no-one can attack your city, this gives you time to build your city and make it secure and to start creating defensive or protective measures such as archers, archers towers, traps, foot soldiers or cavalry.

Also there are quests which you should follow to begin with as completion of the quests actually reward you with items that you can use to speed things up or apply to other quests.

This is not a hugely time consuming game either, i’m really hooked on Evony but I don’t have to spend more than an hour a day playing it, you can play all day if you like or just 15 minutes here and there.

As your city reaches higher levels the upgrades can take many hours so at the moment I usually log into my account, upgrade a couple of things, have a chat with my alliance, then upgrade one of my higher level buildings which may take up to 30hrs real time, then I can go and do other things.

Sometimes I leave Evony running in the browser while playing the PS3 so I can keep an eye on upgrades and even my alliance friends will keep an eye on my city when i’m offline, it’s really cool.

In all honesty i’ve never felt like playing anything online, but this game is really unique, you get a great sense of accomplishment out of completing quests and a great sense of achievement when you conquer your first city.

There isn’t much sense in reading this review without giving it a go, it really is absolutely free and i’m not trying to sell the game to you, I found it, I loved it, and now i’m posting it on my blog as it is a game that in my book deserves a mention.

Evony has been getting a bit of a bad rep recently due to a number of people heavily spamming in forums and so forth, if you’ve been seeing Evony ads in your face everywhere then it is a minority of idiots that are abusing the system, please don’t let that put you off trying this one out.

You all know by my reviews i’m an rpg fanatic and adventure games make the cut sometimes, although this is probably not a full on RPG it has elements of RPG, Adventure, Strategy as well as a certain amount of skill and organization.

If you do join and give it a go, you can look out for me, my username is masteroftheguild and i’ve even named my city morrowind, i’m on server 126
To visit Evony just go to www.evony.com

If you have any questions about Evony I can help you with you can email me at masteroftheguild@yahoo.com

Tony