Tuesday, May 25, 2010

First Actual Proper Skele Training

I logged on an hour or so ago and thought I might as well take advantage of the Welcome Back ring I have on my alt. So I found a Bowmaster I met over the weekend and a Bishop that wanted to Skele. I buffed both of them and trained with the Bishop in the Skele dungeon. With the ring mule and a 2x buff, I get 3.6x which isn't shabby. I got approximately half a percent per minute.

Since I was new to mobbing at high level monsters, it was difficult for me and my ship kept breaking, but I was glad the Bishop wasn't complaining about my kill rate. I didn't know how to compare my exp rate to Newts, but I think it's around the same. Towards halfway through the 2x buff, the bishop lagged and died so I finished off killing and he never responded back. Here's today's rank update of x804x. As you can see my poor NX expired! Sad!

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Newts, MoN, and Phil!

It's my first post and I'm already in late gameplay. I should have started blogging earlier, but I'm just going to start where I am and work forward. I'm currently maining my lv138 Corsair. He's got some above average equips, but nothing godly so I'm working at a steady pace.

No leeching going on, but I did take advantage of yesterday's 7.2x experience! 2x Card + Event/Family + Welcome Back Ring (adds an 80% to the exp received) and of course Holy Symbol. In 4 hours, I got 240% from level 136 at 0% to level 138 at 40%. Not too shabby eh?

Level 137 ゲットしました


Level 138 ゲットしました


Recently I got my MoN (11att 6dex!) with my new guild, Irresistible. Thanks guys! This really helped me since I'm stuck training at newts and still have some trouble 2hkoing Nests. With a warrior pot and SE (MW helps a lot too), I can consistently 2hko Newts.

I have a certain route when I'm training on the top level that I think many corsairs are unaware of since they have the mindset that any place where they can possibly get hit is dangerous.

If you didn't know, Corsair's battleships have a set HP based off of level and SP in Battleship (which is maxed at lv10). When training, it's devastating for your ship to break because you are pretty much limited to either burst fire or rapid fire along with your summons while your ship is down. Considerable amounts of kills are lost when you aren't doing the supposed legendary DPS that your class is well known for!

Anywho, before I jump up on the top, I'll jump off one of the ropes to freeze the first far left newt since regular newts are auto-aggro. I'll mount the ship and canon the first newt (2hko), then since it's my first kill, that same newt will probably respawn fairly quickly, so I'll kill it again (If you're in a party and they're doing considerable killing below you, you don't necessarily have to freeze the newt since you can probably kill it without it attacking you given you can 2hko it). After that, you move on top of the spawning point of the newt you killed (moving rightward), and kill the next newt which will transfer into a golem. Before it fully transforms, you have time to kill the newt behind that one. Immediately freeze the first golem that transformed, turn to your left and the first newtie should have respawned. 2hko it, turn around, 2hko the golem that just spawned, and optionally freeze the golem behind it, and kill it.

At this point you're free to summon octopus and gaviota and optionally dismount in the case that you might get hit upon the newt respawn (so your ship doesn't take damage). If you've been a few minutes into training with some partners, you probably needn't worry.

When all 3 newts should respawn, freeze the 2 to the right, and you should have enough time to 2hko the one on the left without it attacking you. In this time you can take out the 2 to the left and the cycle continues; freeze the first golem to the right, take out the newt on the left, and if you're strong enough, your octos might have put the golem to low enough HP to where you can 1hko it, and most likely take out the golem behind it without having to freeze it. Remember that freezing is time consuming! You also have to remember that in the long run, each hit to your battleship contributes to an annoying long cooldown time... probably the thing I despise most about pirates in general. But I still love my job! ...but the pay is horrific even for the scoundrel pirate I am.

Aside from my own gaining, I want to say Congratulations momoFP (Phil) for the first person I've witnessed to reach level 200! Also thanks CurryDevil (Kevin) for always making me feel welcome in the guild. Another thanks to FlamexHermit for being my new senior... or should I be saying you're welcome? Hahaha.