The Guildmasters

Our first attempt at making a walkthru of one of the white knight chronicles quests, A Grave Matter III, enjoy.



Thanks to wildcuffy and death for their involvement in the making of this video, without them it would have been nothing. Thanks guys.

Tony:)

Yes, maybe a little too much, at least in the evening anyway, actually going into the early hours of the morning too. Don’t think i’ve got to bed before 2am at all this past week, lol.

Been signing in to WKC every so often but not seeing anyone there much anymore. Got over 70 friends on my list and today there was only one showing, that was Mr. Platinum himself, wildcuffy.

Even the forum has become quiet of late. If anyone is still reading the blog please feel free to join the forum and let us know what your playing, we are always on the lookout for more friends who like to help each other out or who need help.

At the moment i’m level 25 on the multiplayer section of AC : Brotherhood and even now I still can’t work out if I really like it or not, it’s fun but I think it would be better if I really knew what I was doing, lol.

If anyone has any tips on the game or any other game please come and join the forum and discuss it, all gamers welcome.

Tony:)

The last couple of days have seen me get quite a way on AC: Brotherhood. And i’ve managed to also find enough time to play a few friends on WKC too.

Didn’t get to play huge amounts on WKC but got one quest in with Ko Ko and around 5 or 6 quests with Tempesta and Face. Face managed to make GR 15 so congrats on that and Tempesta managed to get the gear needed for his shogun armor so he looks a bit cooler now.

If anyone wants any help regarding any of these games feel free to email me or ask in the appropriate section in the forum.

As soon as I get some extra time available i’m going to start putting vids up on youtube so if anyone wants to see a particular section of any of these two games just let me know.

Tony:)

Wanted to personally thank Tempesta and Face for letting me run with them last night, it made a refreshing change for me as for the last few days i’d been running very low GR quests.

I was a little disappointed when I asked for some help on the message board and only got one reply, was just about to quit for the night and Tempesta and Face showed up and we ran quite a few quests together, mainly HOTK 3 and we did run TOTG, it was pretty cool even though I didn’t get anything I needed it was still good fun, thanks you two.

If anyone can catch me over the weekend and feels like rotating some GR 12 quests i’m after 4 magic core+ and 4 lethal gallstones. I’m not so much bothered about stuff I need as long as I can run some higher GR quests for a change. I love helping the lower GR ‘s out but i’ve ran so many GR 3,4,5,6 and 7’s this week I just want a break and run something a little more difficult, then i’ll be back to helping the lower GR’s again during the week.

Tony:)

Well I had a couple of hours spare tonight and there was no one on, and I mean no one. There was one post on the message board asking for help to get an oil stained cloth so I said I would run HOTK, she got it first go then I spent the rest of the hour searching for someone, gets pretty lonely on there sometimes:(

I have managed to get a few mats myself but it’s not much fun on your own, I even popped over to saberlily to see if anyone was running anything there but that was less than half full which is really unusual, the ones that had players in already had 4 or 8 so will try again another night.

I cannot seem to get the two troll king crowns that I need or the fire beast tail+, that is a ridiculously hard drop to be sure. I did manage to get the wind dragon heart+ which I was after, broke his tail the first time and didn’t give it so I ran away, got some harvest points and AC back up, went back to him and viola, dropped heart+ very nice.

I’ve been trying to translate some stuff from Japanese to english but most of it is what we already know so no new info on WKC 2 yet.

Don’t forget to join the forum if your a WKC fan, we are still looking for more players to go into WKC 2 with when it does eventually arrive.

Oh well, off to bed I guess, hope to see some of you tomorrow or later during the week.

Tony:)

Hi all,
Well i’ve been pretty busy the last few days online and offline. Lost computer for a day but that’s back online now.

Managed to grind quite a bit of Big Red, now have 8.5 million towards my 10 mill trophy. Hopefully I will have chance to get on the game again today and tomorrow and finish that off.

The bind trophy shouldn’t be as bad as I expected as most of the stuff I need to bind is low level stuff so if any of you see this GR 15 running kibble quests and such you know why. I need some massive molars and troll king crowns so lots to get from the lower quests which is cool.

So what’s happened to Death and George??? Haven’t heard from you guys in a few days, still grinding? leveling? I did notice you Death in my room one day and was going to join you, went to check the message board and when I came back you were gone:(

I’m still on from 10pm till midnight my time and usually throughout the day at different times so hopefully will catch up with you guys soon.

There seem to be a few GR 11 players who seem to think that GR 15’s are invincible, had one player the other day start big red, just me and him which was ok, but then he ran and started the battle before I even had half my AC up, we eventually did the quest but then at the end he says to me “GR 15? you suck” I’m guessing that’s because he spent the first half the battle healing himself.

GR 15’s don’t mind helping but you have to help them help you, give both a chance by building AC, sometimes it’s better to wait an extra minute for a third person, the quicker you beat a boss the better/ more items you get in the reward screen, that’s why I don’t bother soloing big red so much because it takes about 5 minutes longer and I end up with hardly anything in the reward screen.

Having said that there are some pretty awesome GR 11’s coming in now, don’t mind chipping in with a heal or haste, pretty cool when everyone helps.

Well that’s what i’ve been up to, anyone else done anything interesting. Oh yes and I did spend a couple of hours helping some lower GR’s with some quests and made some new friends (i think). It’s pretty cool to see how bad things were at GR 4, I had forgotten and I was pleased to get a chance to help one or two out.

Tony:)

Wow,
I’ve never really bothered checking before but today I was running Best Served Cold 3 (big red) and before entering the quest I caught a glimpse of the stats, you know it says ‘Best Grade’ ‘Times Completed’ ‘Fastest Time’ etc..Well I noticed that ‘Times Completed’ was 1000, it’s now 1002, lol.

That is ridiculous, it doesn’t feel like i’ve ran that quest that much. It’s not as though i’ve run that over a couple of weeks but still it has to be the most times i’ve ever completed any kind of quest online or offline on any game, wow.

If only I had saved the items and cash from those quests I would have had the 10 mill trophy months ago. Incidentally although i’ve ran this quest so many times it has been since I was GR 11 so it’s not as bad as it sounds (yes it is). I’ve been playing this game now for about 6 months and I must admit i’ve probably played on it every day, now that sounds bad but i’m including days I only go on it for an hour but i’ve always managed to play some every day, apart from 3 I think.

Although there are and have been better games out there this one has to be one of top in terms of hours you can put in to get the platinum trophy. There are games which are harder to obtain the platinum, this one is hard in terms of time, there is no quick way even though some have got platinum at GR 12 or 13 we are still looking at racking up a minimum 1000hrs.

My hours played are registered at around 1800 but that is not entirely true as at times I just leave it on all night even though i’m not playing, plus it’s left on when i’m charging the controller. Having said that I bet my actual game play is well over the 1,000hrs.

I know there are many more players who have clocked up even more than me, I was just dumbstruck when I realised I had ran big red that many times.

How many times have you ran big red? 1, 2 or 3??

Tony:)

I think we are almost acceptance of the fact that occasionally we are going to get either ‘lag’ or booted out. When I say occasionally I mean, now and again, maybe once or twice during the course of a month, or even a week.

You don’t expect to see people get booted 3 quests in a row, I don’t expect to get booted 3 quests in a row. I expect lag sometimes but not 1 out of every 3 quests.

This is not a connection problem because it happens to many others, and my PC’s are just fine, my PS3 doesn’t boot me offline, just WKC servers.

I think the freakiest one was yesterday, we was running big red 3, we had 3 of us building AC and one running to start boss fight, we had our build up to around 6AC when it just froze, not completely froze, more of lag where you can’t perform any action but can still talk, at this point one person quit the quest, usually the game will continue, I have no idea why when someone quits the quest in this situation that the game continues as normal, it’s like it can’t handle a fourth person being there.

Anyway this time when one person quit the quest instead of continuing the game finished, came up ‘Completed Quest’ even though we hadn’t started the boss battle, hadn’t even got near big red or seen him but the quest ended, completed and gave us a B rank. I have never had this happen in the 6 months i’ve been playing this, very strange.

The point of writing this is to see if anyone else is starting to see ‘lag’ people getting booted or any other strange things happening more frequently now. It’s like since the release of WKC 2 in Japan there have been no more online quests released which was disappointing in itself but to see more and more of this being booted and lag and glitches appearing tells me that Level 5 or whoever isn’t bothering too much in keeping the servers up to date.

Some of us are still playing and enjoying the game, I see new players even now just starting and if your not going to keep a check on your servers to ensure they are running properly what makes you think anyone will buy WKC 2??? Certainly not these new players coming in now, if they can’t complete the game due to server problems your going to start to get a bad reputation and miss out on a lot of potential customers for WKC 2 when it does come out internationally.

Level 5, sort it out.

Tony:)

One of the most important things while playing White Knight Chronicles is to arrange your Combat Bars or what I call them “Action Bars”.

Everyone should know how to access this but just to make sure, hit triangle, then hit “combat setup”, click on your character and then ‘edit commands’.

You’ll see there are 3 bars each with 7 slots. I probably over use mine compared to most but this gives you 21 slots in total to use for different actions. If this is set up well, you will be playing at your most efficient in any quest.

I use two types of weapon, a Longsword for mulitplayer and Spear for soloing quests, the other skill tree I maxed was the divine magic. My action bars consist of 7 for the Longsword, 7 for Divine magic and 7 for my Spear commands. This isn’t a given as I often change them but you should consider this set up, or at least some of it.

Lets assume your a Longsword user but the same applies to all other classes too, apart from Mage which I cannot comment on as that is the only class I haven’t tried.

You should have 3 main attacks, these will be your favourite moves or moves which deal the greatest damage. I don’t recommend Deadly Fang on the Longsword as it’s not worth the cost in AC as a single attack. If you ever use Deadly fang it should at least be a finishing move in a combo.

Ok my 3 main attacks in the first 3 slots are Hack, Triple Fang, and something simple like Last Resort. Triple fang being the best damage dealing attack for the least amount of AC, using just 3 AC Triple fang can take as much as 1600 off Big Red 3, but having said that it depends on your weapon, armor and stats. Overall this attack is the best single attack for Longsword. Ok on with the rest of my bars.

First 3 slots taken with my fave moves, 4th slot has Icy Fang for an extra elemental boost on Fire Giants or Fire Dragons, 5th slot has Demons Aura which is like Inspire only better, it’s also quicker, 6th slot has Placid Heart which gets your AC up and my 7th slot has my longsword combo. Sometimes i’ll put in Firwyrm for Ice Giants and Ice Dragons, that goes in 3rd place instead of Last Resort.

Ok that’s one bar full up, good setup but we still have two more bars. Second bar is probably more important than the first, this has the Divine Magic. You should have at the very least Heal, Inspire, Raise and Haste. You can add other things like cure or revive but I find that if you have it put in ‘refresh’ instead, this cures you of any status ailments.

My ‘divine bar’ consists of Heal 3, +Heal 3, this is so I can heal everyone in the party if I have the time on my side, +Haste, +Fortify, Raise and Inspire, Inspire is a back up for others as I use the Demon Aura, my 7th slot has +Refresh for curing all party members of status ailments.

If your a lower GR than say 12 people aren’t going to expect you to do all this, this is my choice at GR 15. My objective in any quest is to make sure we complete the quest so I have all the abilities which are going to help the team succeed. Your own objective should be first to stay alive, then to help others stay alive, then thirdly to finish the quest. It’s better to finish the quest with an A or B than to not finish at all.

Your final bar can be made up of any extra attacks that your experimenting with. My third bar is for my Spear commands just in case we get into difficulties and I need to switch weapon. I’ve never had to use it yet but I keep this bar for my Spear for soloing quests.

My personal inventory is generally full up apart from 2 spaces, personal inventory is what you can carry and allows up to 20 items. Most of you will have at least 8 spaces taken with armor, weapon and accessories. The reason I have 18 constant items is because I carry 4 swords and a spear, a shield, some extra armor for a quick change and Elixirs and charge drinks.

One other item that can be of use is a Lifestone, it’s not too effective but if you use it during a quest then if you die it will bring you straight back to low health giving you a second chance to heal yourself, this saves waiting for someone to ‘raise’ you. It’s a shame you can only carry one but it can be handy.

I hope this helps some of you better arrange your bars to become more efficient when it comes to running quests with others.

Tony:)

Hi all,
I’ve noticed on many quests that I run that hardly anyone does the side quests. I don’t know if it’s because most don’t know the sidequests or because it’s just quicker not to do them.

The thing with sidequests it usually ensures an S rank although that isn’t too important to many but it also gives different items which can be very useful.

If your not really sure what i’m talking about i’ll give some examples. One that comes straight to mind is Material Advisor 1 or 2, i’ve played this often as at times I need a Massive Molar or Incisor so I go to this quest, it’s great for drops.

Whenever I play this one though a group of people just keep getting one Ahwanee, thing is there is a side quest which enables you to fight two at a time, same with the Treants.

Another side quest that I have only ever seen done once is Caravan Escort, there is actually an Earth Dragon on this quest.

There are quite a few more so over the next week or so I think i’m going to post all the side quests for each main quest, this will help newcomers to the game cover much more than just a basic quest, if you want extra stuff you can do the full quest or just go for the main quest.

Tony:)