The Guildmasters

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 🙂

Well here we are again and for my latest trick I decided to re-incarnate, which as you know put me back down to level 35.

Initially I didn’t like this idea as I knew I wouldn’t be able to equip the weapons i’d been using at level 50 and I also wouldn’t be able to do my grinding at big red 2.

I needn’t have worried though as it only took me 3 hrs to get up to level 40, i’ve just stopped for the night and i’m now at level 43, so from level 35 to 43 took about 5hrs, much quicker than the first run through, this is due to the fact you have a lot more equipment, access to many more areas which brings me to a little tip I found out.

When you re-incarnate and go back to level 35 I found the best place to go was the “boot camp 2” quest to get your levels up pretty quick, the quest is to kill 50 monsters but what’s cool about it if you got a decent weapon you can kill these in one hit, two at the most, each kill gives you around 200 experience.

Once you get to level 41 you can go back to “Big Red 2” on solo, you know your not going to get an S rank but what I did was run around for an hour killing all the scorpions, each of those is worth around 300 experience points, I leveled up twice here from 41 to 43 just using the scorpions and the wasps, the wasps are even better as you can kill those in one or two hits and still get 300 experience.

Another tip for rarer items is to enter quests even though you can’t complete them, if you get a quest which requires you to be level 30 and Guild Rank 8 you know your not going to complete that solo if your just level 30 and GR8 but it’s still worth going into it to check all the areas for items, you’ll end up with items you wouldn’t normally get until much later in the game.

In case you were wondering, from level 35 I hit the wind dragon quest but didn’t bother with the dragon, if you go to the sandy areas of the map you’ll find the giant spiders, if you can equip a decent enough weapon at that level and maybe hit a combo those spiders are worth around 1,000 experience points and from level 35 to 36 only requires 9,000, level 36 to 37 requires 11,000 and so on.

I’ll be trying to hit level 50 again tomorrow, then i’ll be grinding for Guild Rank 10, when I hit GR10 then i’ll re-incarnate a second time.

If anyone is interested in grinding on a few of the other quests instead of just Big Red let me know and i’ll join you, I actually only have 11 S rank quests so if your interested in going for all quests as an S rank i’ll do that too, just let me know. There is a trophy for completing 20 S rank quests I believe.

Also my hometown at Geo is open for anyone so if you want to stop by there feel free to harvest yourself a couple of items, not much there at the moment, i’ll probably wait until I hit the 10 mil trophy before I upgrade that more.

I’m actually working on my armor and weapons at the moment, i’m fully skilled in longsword and I know there is some kick ass weapons and armor out there, it’s just finding the right items to do the binding.

Also if you haven’t tried it yet, make sure you check the armory shops for enhancing your weapons, get the right items to enhance your weapon and you can really add some power to it, just be careful when you add elemental to your weapon, I made the mistake of enhancing my longsword with fire only to look like an idiot in a big red quest as when I hit big red I was only taking 60 off him because he’s a fire giant.

The best way is once you find a weapon your happy with get two of them, enhance one with the element of fire and one with the element of ice, having two opposites to switch between will come in handy, hitting an opposite effect enemy can take as much as an extra 50 points per hit off.

To make it clear, let’s say your fighting a lot of ice elementals, you’ll be better off using a weapon which has the added effect of elemental fire, where as if your hitting big red who is a fire giant then hitting him with a weapon that’s been enhanced with ice element can take up to an extra 50 points or more off him.

If anyone wants to post any tips here please do so, or if you just want to let everyone else know where your at, or have any questions or just need some help let us know, this is a cool game and without players helping each other out it can get a point where you get burnt out on it.

Will update more as and when I get to the various levels and upgrades.

Tony🙂