RED update thoughts and feedback

I was at 3K mastery or so as a Meister yesterday.

Just woke up and got on Maple maybe an hour ago and I had dropped to Craftsman. Lost around 7-10K Mastery. It didn't take much to get back to Meister but they don't give you any breaks. You either have to craft a lot in advance for when you think you might not be on Maple for some time or you are going to drop back to level 10 easily.

Well that's lame. They should have at least given people up to a week to craft something to not fall. I read you gotta craft one item every 17 hours or else your mastery level falls. That technically makes Maintenance and Unscheduled Server Checks really hellish for Craftsmen and Meister players.

I am extremley pleased that I can still partipate in these events. Real glad a lot of them are actual minigames instead of "collect x to get Y daily to turn it in for Z at the end"

Would have been hell to do on a hellbaned char...Just need to be careful not to open any of the yut or kite runner boxes till the hellban is lifted.

People are vac hacking in Kite runner.

OMG like that thing is hard, if you want to be a pimento just keep your points low till you can steal and you won, unless you get more stuff the more points you get(I dont think so).

Was surprised to find that Commerci Trading reset my energy at some point other than midnight PST; I suppose I should learn what the actual reset times are. Anyway, I did a pair of runs at something like 10 and 11:30pm EST and noticed that somewhere between them I was back to 100. The purchase items, on the other hand, didn't reset.

That or it just gave me a free Herb Town run and I didn't notice, idk.

[edit] or the servers crashed...

Was surprised to find that Commerci Trading reset my energy at some point other than midnight PST; I suppose I should learn what the actual reset times are. Anyway, I did a pair of runs at something like 10 and 11:30pm EST and noticed that somewhere between them I was back to 100. The purchase items, on the other hand, didn't reset.

Yea I thought I noticed that too, but then I swore I read that it reset on midnight from quest dialouge and thought I just miscounted my runs.

Guess I'll do a detail check of this after the 16th.

I got a free run this morning, too.

After I did a 2nd Rosa run I saw that my energy was still at 85. I think server lag has a lot to do with whether it actually subtracts the energy or not.

OMG like that thing is hard, if you want to be a pimento just keep your points low till you can steal and you won, unless you get more stuff the more points you get(I dont think so).

That is the most annoying part, most people just try to do that. It does not always work, but it is so annoying to be thousands of points ahead and then lose it in 10 seconds.

The herb and mining bag and the coin purse are the only thingsworth buying in the New Year Coin Shop. Scrolls too, if you are a scroll person. But Yut Wars is much fun.

When you are facing people who are going for the low score aura hax, you both have to compete for having the lowest score when aura comes. The aura will be useless if we both have zero points.

Well I can now officially say Route 5 Rien is insanely good for drop rate on SW items, I didn't get drops from reg kraken and reg levi, but the moment i killed my first Red kraken, I got 3 SW weapons on the first run, second run only 1. So Tally for tonight is 4 weapons: 1 SW 2H sword, 2h BW, spear, and pa. So to those who have had poor drop rates once you hit rien you should be good for drops.

Well I can now officially say Route 5 Rien is insanely good for drop rate on SW items, I didn't get drops from reg kraken and reg levi, but the moment i killed my first Red kraken, I got 3 SW weapons on the first run, second run only 1. So Tally for tonight is 4 weapons: 1 SW 2H sword, 2h BW, spear, and pa. So to those who have had poor drop rates once you hit rien you should be good for drops.

Weird, I've had the complete opposite luck. 12th voyage in Rien netted me my first SW Weapon in the area (a 2H Axe), while I've gotten 1 from Mu Lung (25 voyages) and 4 from Rosa (20 voyages).

Also, I noticed something strange about Red Grosso Polpo:



You can see Soul Seeker bouncing off of Grosso Polpo, but also bouncing off of the bottom of the boat. It hits in random places in that general area, and does no damage to Grosso Polpo.

Weird, I've had the complete opposite luck. 12th voyage in Rien netted me my first SW Weapon in the area (a 2H Axe), while I've gotten 1 from Mu Lung (25 voyages) and 4 from Rosa (20 voyages).

Also, I noticed something strange about Red Grosso Polpo:



You can see Soul Seeker bouncing off of Grosso Polpo, but also bouncing off of the bottom of the boat. It hits in random places in that general area, and does no damage to Grosso Polpo.

Thats not so weird, it happens on the reg one too, don't know why but yeah, thats odd o.0 only 1 drop in all those rien runs? Today was my first 2 runs to rien ever and both times I gained drops.

Well I can now officially say Route 5 Rien is insanely good for drop rate on SW items, I didn't get drops from reg kraken and reg levi, but the moment i killed my first Red kraken, I got 3 SW weapons on the first run, second run only 1. So Tally for tonight is 4 weapons: 1 SW 2H sword, 2h BW, spear, and pa. So to those who have had poor drop rates once you hit rien you should be good for drops.

I got a crossbow from Livyatan on my first Rien run, nothing on the second, and 3 weapons (Katara, Bow, Wand) from Red Grosso Polpo on the third run. Considering up until now my total was two items in all (Desperado and Polearm), that's a very big improvement.

T> any of the above for a SW Sword (1h) in MYCK.

Finally got my first piece of Sweetwater armour (the hat) from a Rien voyage.

Can't wait to check out Lith Harbour tomorrow.

Is Rien's red Grosso Polpo easier than Herb Town's Livyatan? Cause... I don't even get close to killing that one (like, it has over 80% hp left. Maybe 85), so I haven't bothered doing so many Herb Town runs.

I got a crossbow from Livyatan on my first Rien run, nothing on the second, and 3 weapons (Katara, Bow, Wand) from Red Grosso Polpo on the third run. Considering up until now my total was two items in all (Desperado and Polearm), that's a very big improvement.

T> any of the above for a SW Sword (1h) in MYCK.

Dammit, where were you 3 days ago when I had a 1h sword and lacked a Crossbow?

Is Rien's red Grosso Polpo easier than Herb Town's Livyatan? Cause... I don't even get close to killing that one (like, it has over 80% hp left. Maybe 85), so I haven't bothered doing so many Herb Town runs.

More HP, but you get a lot more time compared to Livyatan. I think the estimates were around 3-4 minutes.

Is Rien's red Grosso Polpo easier than Herb Town's Livyatan? Cause... I don't even get close to killing that one (like, it has over 80% hp left. Maybe 85), so I haven't bothered doing so many Herb Town runs.

Yes, in the sense that you have a far longer timer for killing the red grosso polpo.

Also no stupid iframes and super kb.

Hmm, sounds like I should just go for it... fewer brown Grosso Polpos for a couple days, but the exp on Herb Town runs are 2x as good anyway, and a lot of why I'm doing it is to steadily progress past 200.