Could this be true?

May 31, 2009

While my Blacksmith character — [BS] Lilac — was vending in Prontera, I happened to notice that someone shouted that GM Anael was on South-West Prontera so I was curious to find out who he was, and got information on him. Then I found this http://anaelsprofessinalism.blogspot.com/. It’s a Blogspot blog committed to expose his “proffessionalism” or rather unproffessionalism as the blog’s author explains.

The case is about some person creating a character by GM Anael’s name — and was silenced 30 minutes later — to somehow irritate the GM in a prankish way but was surprised on how the GM responded unpleasantly.

I don’t know if this is true but the blog’s screenies are rather authentic. And yeah, the name ·Anael™· is the GM’s in-game name.

And also, another could-this-be-true scenario is the sale of MVP cards starting on June 3. The anouncement was made a couple of times on the Valhalla server. But I believe that this is rather true. I wish that the cards won’t be way too expensive though.

Finally! We’re now on Google!

A week ago, I submitted this site to Google’s web crawler — that’s the thing that web search engines use to index web pages so that they could show up on the search engine’s results when someone types certain keywords — and now I am here to announce that this site is officially on the web! That’s because we’re now on Google’s Index.

How I wish that, with this, this site would have more traffic, visitors and RO fanatics so that our writings and thoughts won’t be just put to waste.

Oh, I would also like to make point that we’re now also on MSN Search — that is the three search engines where I submitted this site, the other being Yahoo!.

I wonder when would Yahoo! have us.

a wallpaper

Well, just found this very cool and beautiful Ragnarok-themed wallpaper — actually, it’s now my computer wallpaper.

It features a female Crusader.

 

Getting Rich as an Acolyte → Priest

May 28, 2009

As I’ve promised, I’ll tell you guys the secret of getting rich as an Acolyte turned Priest, and chances are that you’ll be even richer than those of the Merchant Class.

Warping

This is the most popular and easiest way to get rich.

Firstly, buy hundreds of blue gemstones from Prontera Merchants at 480z ~ 520z. Don’t buy anything higher than that price because I promise you, the price will get lower. And also don’t buy from the Geffen Magic Tool Dealer because it’s just way too pricey: 600z. Remember, at this point, every zeny counts.

Step 2, stay — don’t sit — near the Priests’ area; that is the area near the Merchants’ Corner where most people, Acolytes and Priests stay to find parties and offer or request warp and boosting services. Create a chat room saying that you’re a warper, and make sure that you really are a warper — have your Warp skill at Level 4 and ensure that you’ve memoed the popular leveling spots; I’ll enlist these later on. Also, watch out for people who’ve created their own chat rooms requesting for warp — they are your costumers. Remember what I’ve told you? Don’t sit when creating you’re chat rooms. Why? Because sitting will only slow you at getting to your costumers first. Remember, there is always competition.

To get the Warp skill, first get Ruwach. People from iRO, there is no Teleport skill in pRO so this basically makes Ruwach the only prerequisite skill for Warp; I don’t really know if this is an upside or a downside to the Acolyte class as this makes getting Warp skill easier and giving the Acolyte extra 2 skill points, which would be rather put on maxing out Teleport that is needed for Warp, but having no telport skill is quite disadvantageous, especially for escape purposes, and that only makes you have Fly Wings as your only hope.

Popular warp destinations are listed in order of popularity.

• Ice Dungeon — commonly referred to as id
• Moscovia  — commonly referred to as mosco/mosc
• Geographers — commonly reffered to as geo/ein
• Lighthalzen — commonly reffered to as LHZ/lighthal/light
• Droseras — commonly reffered to as dros
• Veins — commonly reffered to as thors

When you’ve already spotted you’re potential costumer, don’t enter his/her chatroom. Deal him/her right away for it is a common mistake for Acolytes and Priests to talk to their costumer first which leaves their costumer vulnerable from deals and offers from competing Acolytes and Priests. However, if you’ve managed to deal him/her first then, almost always, his/her is already yours; this is because no one can participate in multiple deals meaning you’re costumer may only have a deal with you, and dealing offers from competing Acolytes and Priests are automatically rejected by the moment of their request.

Your offering price should range between 2,000z ~ 3,000z. However, you have the right to raise it up to 10,000z when the costumer’s destination is Lighthalzen, Droseras or Veins. This is because only a few number of Acolytes and Priests memo there, and the costumer has no choice but to accept you’re price lest he/she’ll be forced to stay in Prontera for the next hour finding another Priest whom he wishes to pay at a very low price. And the chances of finding that kind of Priestis quite low.

Pasundo service

This is pretty much like warping except that you’ll consume more than 1 blue gems stone. This is because this service requires you the go pick-up a character from a certain location — a location where warping Priests are rare — and deliver him to another location — this is usually a city like Prontera.

You don’t need to offer the service yourself through chat room creation; they will come to you.

This service should almost always cost 10,000z, and anything lower than that is a rip off.

Boosting

Boosting requires a bit more effort than the other services, as such this usually costs something around 300,000z ~ 700,000z every 30 minutes of this service. Yeah. That’s a large number. But don’t come into thinking that this is very easy. Chances are you’ll even die a couple of times while boosting your costumer. As such, only high level Priests may offer this service; usually, Priests around Level 60 ~ 99 offer this service.

There are two types of boosting: Heal boosting and Tanking. Most of the times, you’ll be tanking. 

Heal boosting is practically healing a low HP, low level character or his/her mercenary while he/she or his/her mercenary is attacking a certain monster. Resurrection is very much needed in this one.

Tanking means you’ll attack a monster while he/she or his/her mercenary is attacking the monster that is attacking you.

Having a costumer with a mercenary in hand means faster kills and less trouble for you. Likewise, costumers without mercenaries should have their boosting cost higher.

The Nameless Experience

May 27, 2009

Well this is pretty much a documentation of our very miserable experience while trying to complete the prerequisite Veins Siblings Quest for the Nameless Island Entrance Quest.

It really is hard and discouraging.

Well, I’ll tell my side of the story. Our misery started when leveling in Nifflheim and Anubis as an ME Priestess got dull — dull meaning that you’d have to consume a thousand blue gemstones for ME in Nifflheim mobs or kill a hundred Anubis before you could level.

So we sought a new place to level. Naturally, ME Priests would go to the Cursed Abbey next where they would stay up to 99. That was the plan. As simple as that. So we rode an airship to Rachel and walked all the way to Veins and the field south of it where the boat NPC going to the Nameless Island is located; the Cursed Abbey is on the Nameless Island. Already on the way to the boat, we saw a huge mob of agressive monsters attacking us. I, having heal, continuously healed myself and my companion while he, having Endure used it so he could still walk through the mob. But it was all useless. When we got to the boat, it doesn’t respond. So I gave up and died. I soon discovered that a quest was needed to be done so that we can access the Island. So we set foot to finish the Nameless Island Entrance Quest.

The Quest has 3 prerequisites: The Curse of Gaebolg, Rachel Sanctuary Quest and Veins Siblings Quest. It’s a good thing that I already had the Curse of Gaebolg done when I was still on Level 60 while my companion had the Rachel Sanctuary Quest done on his early levels. So we agreed that I do the Rachel Sanctuary Quest, and he do the Curse of Gaebolg until we finish those and do the Veins Siblings Quest together.

By that point we already knew that it’s going to be hard, especially the Thors part; parts of the Quest includes going to the Thors Volcano Dungeon 2 times, and the Dungeon is filled with very deadly monsters — deadly even to Level 99 High Priests. But obviously it was harder than it seemed.

Now, at this point, we’ve already finished all the prerequisite quests except the Veins one. So started gathering the required items for the quest. The only problems we encountered here is the Unripe Apple and the Green Herbs part; the first one being rare and the second one being hard to gather — my god! you need 100 Green Herbs to finish the Quest, and that is if you’re lucky.

As I’ve said, we needed a hundred Green Herbs to finish the Quest so we headed to Hevergelmir’s Fountain — that is the map going to Nifflheim that is filled with herbs, actually this map has the highest spawn of herbs. Just getting there has been already troublesome. Unlike our previous visits to Nifflheim — we went through this place to go to Nifflheim — this time, by some reason, the Umbala Dungeon was exceptionally mobby; I’ve even manage to die a couple of times by just passing through this Dungeon!

And now, we’re on the Fountain. We hunted down all the Green Herbs that we saw. However, by some stroke of bad luck, my friend, while killing an herb near the one-way Fountain-Nifflheim portal, accidentally managed to have entered himself through the portal all the way to Niffleheim. Bad luck as it is, the portal is one-wayed; that is, you can go to Nifflheim but not back. So I’ve advised him to go to Nifflheim town itself and do the Piano Keys Quest which will give him free warp to Umbala. But, again by misfortune, being not even half-way through, he died and respawned in Alberta. This forced him to go back again to the Fountain through the exceptionally mobby Umbala Dungeon. As if that was not enough, the accident happenned again. And again, he died and was forced to respawn to the very far-from-Nifflheim Alberta. We’re so lucky.

At the end we managed to hunt around 150 Green Herbs. We stopped when we found out that we don’t only need a hundred herbs but hundreds of them. Since the quest requires the quester to use 20 Herbs to gather poop, and one needs 5 poops, optimally one would need a hundred herbs. But there’s a catch, this poop-gathering-by-herb is only by chance, and that is a very low chance. So I’ve headed to the forums to find the likely number of herbs that we would need. As I’ve read one used 200 while another one used up to 700 herbs just to gather 5 poops.

At that point, we no longer hunted but just bought the herbs from overpricing players. I believe I have spent 100k zeny just to gather 800 herbs which I distributed evenly to ourselves. I’ve also discovered at this point that herbs, at great quantity, are extremely heavy; it even caused me to be overweight all the time.

Now, armed with hundreds of herbs, and really bad luck, we actually started to do the Quest. For ease of transportation, my companion, who is also my in-game husband, bought a teleportation scroll which he used to get himself to Veins, and thereon call me — it’s a wedding skill, which only the married can use, and allows the married one to call on there partner and teleport them to the spot where the calling partner is.

There, we’ve talked to NPC’s and headed to Thors. My companion decides not to walk all the way to Level 2, where the Quests requires us to be, but use Giant Fly Wings — these are usable items which teleport the whole party to a random spot on the current map — which he believes that, by chance, could actually teleport us on the portal going to Level 2. So we teleported again and again but we’re so unlucky that we didn’t even manage to get close to the portal. We’ve stopped as we are stuck on a dungeon filled with deady monsters.

A few moments late, we managed to cross paths with a kind Level 99 High Priest together with a High Wizardess that he’s boosting — yes, it’s Wizardess, as contrary to popular belief, it’s actually wizardess is to wizard as witches are to warlocks. He offers his assistance to deliver us to the Level 2 Portal. A dozen of deaths later — I went there as Lvl 75 - 20%/Jlvl 44 - 65%, and ended up with both 0%’s — we didn’t even make it through the first level, and the HPriest and HWizardess died with us. What a sad ending.

It would also be a fine addition to the story that I gave all my gemstones to the High Priest, and saved myself at Veins where I am now stuck in the middle of nowhere for eternity with no gemstones to warp myself back to the civilisation of Prontera. This sucks.

As the Abbey is Cursed, and the Island Nameless, this experience is Cursed, and this post must remain Nameless.