#46 - My return?

Good evening bitches.

I was checking my email for some updates from Battlefield 3 Beta, and guess what I found.

I haven't seen this kind of email for a REALLY LONG TIME. The image is screaming, "JOHN, GET YO AZZ BACK TO GE, BITCH!". Kay, I get the message. That's a hell lot of cash stuff for a revival package. The goodness of having hiatuses in games. *smirks and pose like a boss*

I'll return to Granado Espada, but I'm not going to be all out, hardcore and trying to be powerful and shit. This time, I have a project in mind.. The revival package totally saved my life. I wanted to train a pair of pistol wielders for raid soloing. Still thinking which NPC to train though, I'm thinking between Musketeer, Brunie or Gavin. I'm gonna take my time to beef up these characters..

Dear IAH, I greatly appreciate the revival package sent to me, but in order for me to resume paying for GP, I wish to see promotions like, "Buy 2x Sacred Chaos Requiem Passes and get 3 Hrin's Liquor for free" or something like that. I'll gladly purchase some GP if that's the case.

I still fucking hate HCOF and PPL though. According to the IAHed blog, there are some kind of Korean investigation companies who are against mini-game-gambling in MMOs. I hope this would make IAH revise on what they've done for the past few years and actually make the game last longer not through gambling mini games. This year, many MMORPGs closed down because of fucked up cash shops and communities.

Anyway. Remember.

I'm nobody, until I succeed in my project in Granado Espada.

On other news, Battlefield 3 Open Beta released yesterday, and it's open to all. Download it from the Origin client from EA.

Happy gaming, people!

End.

John

#45 - Facepalm.

Quick post.

Firstly..

I DID NOT GET ACCEPTED FOR DIABLO 3 BETA.

I DID NOT GET ACCEPTED FOR PATH OF EXILE BETA.

i r sad. T_T

Anyway..

A forumer asked..

"Ok, so October is coming up quick. It's time for scary movies!

I've been watching a lot of zombie movies lately and I want everyone to tell me their top 3 zombie movies. Tell me why too if you have a minute.

I'm making my way through "Return of the Living Dead" for the first time and it's so awesome haha. Smart zombies add a whole new twist to a classic."

One of the replies were..

"Pokemon

Yu-Gi-Oh

Bakugan Battle Brawlers

Ben 10"

I'm like..

I know the guy's trolling. I should not take it seriously.

*trying to laugh*

No. Just no. That was the dumbest post I ever seen.

Funny how he was the only troll in a 5 page thread.

*lol*

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John

#44 - What's up with Cherry Credits forums?

Afternoon bitches.

Well, I haven't been playing Dragon Nest lately. I took over 3 hours to redownload Granado Espada, and then encountered an .ipf file problem. I raged and uninstalled the game, and then saw a post of the solution in the website. I'm like, "Fuck it..". Recently, I was playing Rusty Hearts, another MMO brawler from Perfect World Entertainment.. I reached the level cap in Rusty Hearts.. What's with online brawlers and their ridiculously low level caps? First was Dragon Nest, which has been stagnant at Lv. 24 for a month now, and then Rusty Hearts with the cap at Lv. 25.

My friends are asking me to farm ancient equipments in Dragon Nest with them.. I always refused. It was because the ancient equipments aren't that epic at all. I'd much rather wait for the level cap increase and get the Lv. 32+ stuff. Enhancing ancients is such a bitch too, having to use both Rough Topazes and Diamonds. Rough Diamonds are a pain in the ass to get. Hell, I'd rather try and max upgrade a War Priest equipment (Lv. 23 Greens) than try and get an Ancient to max! I have about 400-500 gold now, saving it for end-game equipments. In the forums, there are people who tried to upgrade a Lv. 24 blue equipment to max, failed several times, and spent countless Euros on the game. I'm not one who would question their insanity, but if that's how they wanna spend their money, so be it. And now that Epic stuff are released, is he gonna spend twice (or thrice) as much Euros than before?

In the Cherry Credits forums, lately, there has been threads of racism, about how Pinoys are generalised as a bunch of rude people, and many other pointless threads. You know, maybe it's just the SEA region. I never really enjoyed a SEA game, apart from Granado Espada because I had friends in-game, but I can't afford a spend another cent in the game (Previously, before I quit, everytime I spent money in the game, I feel the game's gonna fall someday).

I played 12sky and 12sky2 for almost 2 years (Both MAYN and AeriaGames versions). The community isn't that bad, a few minor arguments that evolve into major ones, but nothing as fucked up as Dragon Nest. I also played Atlantica Online for a year, the community was awesome (The game features revolves around helping people, so it's expected, more games should have features like Atlantica), I made a guild with online friends I found in-game, and soon after it became one of the better guilds in the game. Unfortunately, most of them couldn't be active after a year of playing, and we had to disband. I quitted the game as soon as it was merging with Nexon (Just a bad company). Sad to say that, even though I'm Asian, I tend to enjoy North American/European games better, because of the community.

Reading Cherry Credits threads makes me wanna choke someone.. There was that certain thread that was a wall of complaints (Not a wall of text, it was nicely paragraphed). The first post was an annoying, "Cool story, bro" picture. Hello, the person typed all of that to discuss, not to see a fucking picture of something irrelevant. And another person who stated his reasons to quit the game, and the posters were like, "Quit the game, one less person bla bla bla" or "Boring? Quit the game then". HOW CLICHE IS THE CHERRY CREDITS COMMUNITY?

And I don't find leveling 8 characters to Lv. 24 fun. (Go fuck yourself, I chose Priest, and I'm sticking with it).

There's a certain kind of thread I hate in the CC forums.

"This **** thread is for you" or "The **** thread is for people who ****".

What makes it even more facepalming is that the poster created the account an hour earlier (You know what I mean).

This is what I feel whenever I think of forum douchebags.

Geez. Back to Single Player games. Until I receive my Diablo 3 Beta *crosses fingers* <- Diablo 2 fan for a lifetime.

End.

John

#43 - New PC!

Good evening!

Another occasional update from me..

I got a new PC.. The main specifications are..

Core i5 2500k

8GB of RAM

ASUS GTX 560 Ti OC

It's really awesome, I tell you. Some uber-enhanced Dragon Nest screenshots coming up! The good thing about high end graphic cards is that you can force Anisotropic Filtering (This makes details and objects look better at a distance) and Anti-aliasing (Reduces jagged edges on graphics) via the Control Panel. I might try forcing some graphic enhancements in Granado Espada.

Here's an enhanced Dragon Nest screenshot.

Talking about Dragon Nest.. It's boring now. I did went back to Granado Espada for awhile in the dead of the night.. Played with my good old team of Gracielo, Adelina and the Scout. It was fun at first.. I was delighted to read that some roulette chests have updated loot tables. Hmmm. I don't know, man. I still don't feel like going back to GE..

About Dragon Nest.. The recently released PvP feature got me pumped at first.. But was overshadowed by imbalances and cocky little kids. I was having fun, owning some Archers and Paladins with my Priest.. Until Sword Masters came. In Respawn (It's a mode in Dragon Nest, it's pretty much the same as Team Deathmatch), my Priest gets constantly raped by Warriors, especially Sword Masters. It just seems that Sword Masters are able to make my Priest flinch with every basic attack they do, while my basic attacks don't do jack shit at all. I also hate it when my poor Priest gets gangbanged by the enemy team and then no one comes to help at all. Look below.

Of course, Priests aren't PvP lords. In fact, I heard that the PvP lords are the Paladins and Warriors (Both SM and Merc). This is why I got bored of Dragon Nest. The level cap hasn't been increased YET. I don't feel like doing Minotaur Nests with the public (The community is insanely immature). Thank goodness for the new PC, or else I don't know what to do with my holidays.. I wanted to level a Paladin to 24, but I found it to be tedious, because I already have a Lv. 24 Priest, plus a Lv. 17 Mercenary and Lv. 16 Acrobat. I only want the level cap increase please, Cherry Credits, unlock the cap fast!

Plans for returning to GE? Still unsure. I also want to make it clear to my friends that I do not give nor lend my accounts. I do this because I'm quite paranoid about people handling my accounts. It always happens to me. Once someone touched or meddled the account, I don't feel like playing that particular game anymore. Even I, myself, don't understand why I get this kind of feeling. I can give or lend items, but not the account.

End.

John

#42 - Dragon Nest Updates, and rants..

Good evening!

I reached the current maxed level (24) in Dragon Nest SEA a few weeks ago, but I didn't bother updating.. Here is a screenshot of my awesome Priest in Springwood!

This will be my endgame gear for now, I don't find crafting White Lion Galero/Cuffs/Shoes worth due to their minimal bonus stat. The Shirt and Trousers on the other hand have 20 and 17 INT bonuses respectively. The White Lion Shield was a lucky find on the market, it was +8 and Hidden Potentials = 5.8% Magic Attack with 3.50% INT increase, all these for only 70 Gold. It was a really, really lucky find. A +10 War Priest Wand is sufficient enough to last me till the next Epic weapon update. Crafting a White Lion Wand just isn't worth it due to again, minimal bonuses.

I was trying to reach 20k HP but only managed 15k, almost 16k HP. This is without cash shop gear, which increases stats.

So far, my life in Dragon Nest was fun. There were a lot of "WTF" moments with my classmates, really hilarious ones. The community wasn't that great though. I feel that it was full of whiny people who could care less and demand more. What most people fail to realise is that the game is in Open Beta state, it is still in a state for bug fixing. Daily maintenances are required to keep the game smooth going for players. The lack of appreciation and gratitude for the technicians fixing and conducting maintenances in the game really disgusted me. Most of the people (Forumers) I see either whine about how they got dc-ed in dungeons or how they were enhancing an item halfway or any other bullshit.

Ugh well, I could care less about what other people think. The fact that Cherry Credits are always aware of the exploits and bugs that are happening in-game gives me the sense of assurance that I won't be playing with those kind of players. The recent Bunny exploit in the game rendered exploiters permanently banned. That's the kind of management I'd like to see. I have to say it, Granado Espada's major exploit, which is botting, has yet to be fixed. Not to mention, the only form of justice which is the Report function is also broken (From what I heard during my absence from GE). Rion/Gehenna are definitely FUBAR.

I also had several major facepalm moments when I saw the recent GE events..

http://ge.iahgames.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?id=1675

Giving 2x ~ 3x EXP is what IAH should've given during their 4th Anniversary to show their gratitude for players (Who can't afford the Anniversary dinner at Fort *something*). 31st of August is reaching near and the Facebook likes hasn't moved to 20k (Let alone 25k) since the start of the event. This is such a facepalm event, I can't even stop giggling at this.. Unless there's a certain hardcore person who wants the EXP increase so badly and suddenly comes up with 20k Facebook accounts to like the page, I don't think I'll see the EXP increase happening at all. Geezus..

And another one..

http://ge.iahgames.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=1669

[Cash Shop] Lorenza's Birthday Pack

Really, just seeing the [Cash Shop] beside the title already made me cringe. Lorenza, she feels kinda missing in action though. She hardly updates her blog (Her blogging activity is like monthly or 3 months interval, it's so boring, compared to how Hrin updates hers weekly or daily), she hardly comes to forums (Ignoring her birthday post at August, her last post was at June), Xanxus was the only moderator roaming in the forums currently. She's probably having a hiatus I guess. Also, I can conclude that Lorenza knows nuts about the game. The event stated that she requested for a special set of items to be sold at a discounted price. The pack includes a 7 days HPS, 7 days Field Manual (WTF?), 7 days SCR (COOL!) and 3x 7 days Rose Wings (Okay I guess). This wasn't what bugged me. What bugged me was the statement below the description..

"This is the perfect leveling package for a whole week.."

(I totally facepalmed to this)

No, fuck no. If you played GE for years, you know you should make it a habit (And make your money worth) to enter premium dungeons with a COMBAT Manual, not a Field Manual. Even though SCR drops great stuff like Veteran Accessories and MA/LG, they don't drop very often, even with a Field Manual activated. Hell, sometimes I get more of those without a Field Manual then I do with one. Still, I have to admit, the package is really good, because aside from the almost-useless Field Manual, the 7 days HPS/SCR/Rose Wings are definitely worth more than 25k GP. If the Combat Manual 7 days was included, this will be a perfect pack for everyone in the game, and will definitely sell like hotcakes. I don't understand why the Field Manual was included.. *shrugs*

~

After roaming around in the forums, I saw that there was a new Grace outfit. C'mon man.. I'd much rather have a costume that of Velvet Assassin or a sniper outfit (She's a Flintlocker afterall) or a Beret-wearing soldier. But a bikini outfit, ran out of design ideas much? C'mon man. Really speechless. The White Vent is Grace's best looking costume for sure. 2nd is the Le Saggitaire Optimiste. I'm still hating that those cool looking weapons can't be crafted and only can be bought with real money.. Geez.

I'm done ranting.

End.

John

#41 - New "shots".

Good morning.

Old news is old. But I can't wait for a new Granado Espada update.. Especially the ones with the Unlimited Shot and another with the Wanted Shot stances. About time I brought my Musketeer and Brunie together!

Disappointing thing is that, the pose looks exactly like the Sight Shot stance (Except the angle of the wielded pistol is a little higher?). Also, I looked at Lisa's future exclusive Expert stance and it looks like Raid Assault. Hmm, IMC running out of ideas? Hopefully the animation of Wanted Shot isn't too bad. Time to show some love to Brunie, uhmm, when the time comes.

Sigh, I wished that IAH would hold some in-game events, preferably free ones, after all I spent quite a lot in the game (Up to a point where I could've used the money for making a new gaming rig), but there isn't any in-game events lately. All I've been seeing are HCOF updates, even with the launch of PPL, the event page still seems a little dead. Another thing I find kinda pathetic is players asking for compensation (Like 2x EXP) after some server problems arose. It pretty much intensifies further the extreme lack of events in Granado Espada.

On to other stuff, Dragon Nest SEA is going into Open Beta at 16th August! 9 more days left! Oh my God, I can't wait to train my Priest again.. After lurking around Youtube and several gaming sites, it seems the Dragon Nest took online gaming to another level! Famous Youtube commentators are playing the game and also received excellent reviews. I'm happy for the developers of Dragon Nest! Now I hope that Cherry Credits isn't gonna make Dragon Nest boring.. *crosses fingers*

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John

#40 - A short update.

Evening.

It's been 4 weeks since I last stopped playing Granado Espada. Looking at the IAH website, there aren't much interesting events lately. Majority are cash shop updates related to HCOF. There were gamer glasses for sale in HCOF, and to be honest, that accessory looked really useless. Description said that all it does is sharpen the game's graphics and also protects your eyes from the long hours of gaming. It doesn't look like it would cater to gamers who wear glasses (It might look stupid wearing or trying to wear both glasses together). Anyway, currently, both glasses are sold out in HCOF. Happy gaming to those wearers.

I'm more pumped and anticipated for the opening of Dragon Nest SEA. I played the Closed Beta of it and I was very, very satisfied. The satisfaction of defeating countless amount of monsters and using skills of my favorite element, which was lightning. Yes, you guessed it. I'm a Priest, going on Saint for my main character.



The good thing about the Priest in Dragon Nest is that it's not totally a full support class. Nuh-uh. Unlike other games where full support classes get verbally abused by other picky players, in Dragon Nest, Priests or Clerics as a whole, are the main tanking class. Other people might prefer Warriors as tankers, but Clerics hold a shield, and have blocking capabilities so in my opinion, Clerics are tankers in Dragon Nest.

I love characters with shields. The last game I played which has incredible looking shields was Dekaron/2moons. Cabal's shields were okay too. Dragon Nest shields looks pretty good to be honest.

I'll be playing both a Priest and a Paladin, and will be juggling both characters. I'll reveal my IGN once Open Beta is released. See you in Dragon Nest Open Beta!

I also played the Closed Beta version of Rusty Hearts, which was more or less, a clone of Dragon Nest (Dungeon/quest Grindfests). The problem with Rusty Hearts was the camera, there's literally no freedom of camera movement at all. Skills were okay, not mind-blowing like Dragon Nest. To choose one game from both, Dragon Nest hands down, no doubt.

Plans for returning to Granado Espada? Currently none. Probably when I get tired of Dragon Nest or something. But I have plans to turn this blog from a GE blog, into a MMO-gaming blog, seeing as how I lost interest in Granado Espada.. It's sad yeah, but I can't doubt my feelings, right?

Anyway, ciao.

End.

John

#39 - Taking another break (Again?)

Yeah I'm taking a break.. I can't connect with my faction mates. I feel like I'm non-existent at times. Maybe I need a month or two to regain my "sanity" in Granado Espada because I just spat nonsense on my mates. That previous two weeks of hiatus just isn't enough. And to that person whom I once again asked the same question, he probably got frustrated and never replied. I apologize for my action.

Bye readers. Seeya guys after a month, or two again.

(Anyone in the faction who needs the FL role, please inform me. And DLFs can edit anything they like, the Notice, or Faction Description etc.)

#38 - Really? Seriously?

Good morning y'all.

Before I start my huge rant, here are some screenshots of my highlights of the week (Or 2).

Firstly, the nicely chipped Dragon's Fury Rifle.

=)

Awesome eh? NO! That's actually the state it was last chipped. I gotten a couple of *facepalm* stats, namely 20% ASPD and 80%+ Undead and another 3AR with maxed Accuracy. The number of chips used has gone up to such a high number, that I don't even feel like counting anymore. What's the point? I tried using Enchantment Tranquilizers on it, but I get several yellow stats and crappy blue stats. The chipping process has drained my Vis from a high 100m to a measly 9m. Time to earn that Vis back and chip again? I don't know. I'm really, really tired. Please wish me luck, readers, because any further bad stats in this cursed rifle is gonna make me snap.

*breaks pencil into half*

Secondly and much more happier one.

The beautiful Castilla Temple.

I went for the first Relic raid with my faction after my hiatus. It was chaotic as usual, with all the monsters butt-raping us. In the end, I gotten the best loot from the roulette, which was an E96 Piernoente. This was already mentioned in my previous post. But I had something else to rant about.

We took well around an hour or so to finish Relic. All that hardwork and time placed into Relic to get crappy loots. I'm not referring to myself as I already have a good loot. I'm referring to my squad mates. Granado Espada's way of rewarding players after a raid which lasted for an hour is giving them e84 crap. *facepalms*

I know this issue was mentioned many, many times. But I can't just take it lying down. How's a regular player finishing the raid and getting these kind of loots gonna react? "Oh, bad loots again. Next time again then. *more potion keyboard mashing against a bunch of spear-poking fuckers and oversized king-kongs*" I had a chat with a faction mate earlier this afternoon. He said raids are mostly here for the fun. How's it fun anyway? Most of the time I went into Relic, I almost broke my keyboard into half with all the keyboard mashing and getting irritated with poking spearmen. I can relate with teamwork, since you have to resurrect downed families and constantly dealing with the poking spearmen to help other DPS families.

About the Tempest and many other bosses, why are all the bosses so huge? I had to zoom out to the maximum just to see Tempest's graphical cues of a Snow Storm or any other instant KO AOE. Hell, sometimes, you can't even see the cast bar of Snow Storm (I fucking hate this Tempest skill, it doesn't show an AoE range, it has an almost instant cast time and the graphical cues are to hard to see sometimes because the cue camouflages with Tempest's armor or you are too busy avoiding poking spearmen and knights).

Fighting Tempest isn't a challenge. It's a CHORE. Resurrect, buff up (Optional), fight, die, rinse and repeat. There is definitely satisfaction upon completing Relic. The faction beaten it with a 5 men squad previously, and with the additional me, 6. It's quite an accomplishment that most factions can't do. However, that satisfaction gets overshadowed with bad loots and bad memories. Period.

I was playing this other game. It was a dungeon raid that lasted for 1.5 hours. I was very tired, but I was very, very satisfied. I gotten a good loot plus money, experience and getting through tough obstacles. It was a very challenging raid nevertheless. People who claimed Relic to be challenging (How's Relic challenging anyway?), please think again. The raid I done in that game had lots of challenges, for instance..

"There was a boss who was able to instant KO the Tank. But there is a cast time for the KO skill, and you can prevent it by using a skill that stuns. Upon failing the stun, the Tank dies, loses all aggro, and the boss will recklessly attack any character who's aggro-ing it. Cleric has to be alive at all times. Melee/Ranged DPS-ers serve as bodyguards for the Cleric."

"The boss can cast a debuff on the Tank that allows the boss to convert all the damage dealt by the Tank into health. The Cleric, healing the Tank, has to watch out for the debuff on him and use a skill that dispels the debuff."

"DPS players have to keep their DoT (Damage over Time) skills up to effectively overrun the boss regeneration rate. DPS players also help to eliminate any monsters summoned by the boss so that the Cleric can focus on healing the Tank, and the Tank can focus on holding the boss aggro. A lot of teamwork is happening here."

"Every time a boss casts an AoE, all players within AoE range must escape immediately."

Any of that matches any of Granado Espada raids? I only know a few, namely Byron raids and Chateau de Bourgogne. Bounty Hunter missions and Castilla Mine/Relic are some of the most boring raids I have ever been to. Let's face it, Byron raids (The one with the mad Gluttony and the other with the NPC bosses) and Byron itself and Chateau de Bourgogne are the best and fun-est things in Granado Espada and it doesn't have huge fucking bosses like Dekaravia or Tempest. Who ever created Byron, and the future Byron updates, is awesome. The rest of the raids in Granado Espada are mediocre.

Sigh. I'm finished with my first rant. I typed everything that was bottled up in my heart. I feel good now. But I'm not finished.

~

Thirdly, Panfilo's Potluck. Or should I say, Poopluck.

http://ge.iahgames.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?id=1652&groupName=General%20News

What is IAH thinking? Releasing ANOTHER gambling web game to milk cash cows again. This time, the game is a hybrid of HCOF and ABS. You have to pay 1000 GP for every try, but here's the good thing, you won't get Tickets. Instead, you get previous ABS loots like Lollipops, Ores, Status Ampules etc, for a try that didn't succeed to get the good loot. Although it's a good alternative to spend GP compared to HCOF, it's STILL A MONEY BASED GAME. Rich people prevails once again. I was hoping for another free event of some sort, since there was a double EXP week event previously..

..you know what. FUCK THIS. BRING BACK ABS GODDAMMIT.

ABS was probably closed to allow PPL to come in. Geez! Due to this, I'm not gonna purchase any GP cards until there's some sort of buyer reward system or an appreciation event or feature to all cash users. I'm even not gonna purchase the Le Sagittaire Optimiste costume for Grace. I'm only gonna focus on 5 characters and that's all. 2 Musketeers, 1 Trooper, 1 Fighter and a Scout. That's it really. Customer satisfaction going downhill gradually..

Lastly.

I'm ready. EVER READY. FUCKING READY. READY ANY FUCKING TIME.

Somehow, the picture auto-cropped or something.

Just give me Dragon Nest already. I'm very tired of Granado Espada and I need good break away from this game.

JUST GIVE ME THE GAME ALREADY!

Lost post I know.

Glad you enjoyed.

End.

John

#37 - Back.

Good afternoon y'all.

I'm back on Granado Espada, hopefully to get more lucky and more powerful than before. Well, the lucky part wasn't what I expected. The Dragon's Fury Rifle chipping record has risen to 420. The best stats it gotten so far was a 80%+ Undead racial and another which has 14 Crit, 3AR. I desperately need a rifle with the ATK and AR/Racial stats.. Can't the Enchantment Lady grant me that simple, simple wish? *sobs, still trying to stay optimistic*

Upon my return, I went for a Relic raid with my faction mates. The only best loot I gotten from the raid was an Elite Piernoente (e96). Everyone else gotten crap, which is the norm for most Granado Espada raids. Also in Occulta BH, I gotten a Elite La Ventisca (e92). Shouldn't those be taken out by now? Those e92 robes are as worthless as their recipes. Other BH missions and Castilla Mine raids, all crap loots. The Castilla Relic roulette table has to be revised, because for such a difficult raid, there has to be some DECENT RETURNS, like a package of Ancient Star Orb Boxes x5 or Shiny Crystals? Not e84 equipments..

I'll post more screenshots in the next post to get back my habit of picture blogging!

End.

John

#36 - Missing Granado Espada already?

Good evening y'all.

After playing much MapleSEA and other bullcrap MMORPGs, I missed Granado Espada. Somehow. Just recently, I received news that the faction completed the Relic raid with just 5 people. That's such an awesome accomplishment, too bad I wasn't there.. Seems that good things never happened for me at times. Honestly, I'm jealous but nevertheless, awesome job, my faction (Since I'm the faction leader =3).

Despite missing Granado Espada, I still need a break away from the game. Just 1 precious month to keep up with all the newly released games. People told me that I can switch on my laptop and just leave GE on AFK-training. No way, I haven't bought a cooling pad for the laptop and there's no way I'm gonna overheat it. (I could put my graphics to low, but no.. I'm a very graphic-sensitive person. If I see my Alexa with low-polygon models, I'll freak out).

Aside from all that, I might change my hiatus end time.. To the release date of the Le Sagittaire Optimiste costume for Grace Bernelli in HCOF.

*I hope it won't be happening any time soon, lol*

Have fun playing Granado Espada!

End.

John

#35 - A short hiatus.

Good evening y'all.

I'll be taking a break from Granado Espada for a month. I have to get away from the game for awhile. The damn game has gotten me pretty upset for the past few months. Well mainly the usual stuff.. My Dragon's Fury Rifle is on its 351st Chip and it still hasn't gotten good stats. Another few equipments are my Golden Fist, which is on its 157th Chip (I was chipping this behind everyone's backs lol) and a couple of e92 equipments, having used over 300 Chips. Lots of Vis, time and patience wasted. My patience has a limit.

I haven't played Granado Espada in a week. Because I broke my keyboard into half. It's dumb I know, but who the hell could endure having farmed countless amounts of chips and STILL not getting what he wanted. I couldn't.

Also, having spent over 600-700 SGD on this fucking game, I do not get anything from the game's Anniversary event. No freebies, no nothing. No thank yous please, I just want freebies. There's probably an in-game event of some sort, I'd still prefer a freebie event. Look at MapleSEA, they're having their 6th Anniversary event and I'll tell you, it's amazing, despite all the recent latency issues the server's having, it's still pretty fucking amazing. Look at Granado Espada, their anniversary event consists of players still having to pay 500 bucks for a plane ticket to some area, and then a package full of game-breaking items. Another pay to win event by IAH. And that's the ONLY event planned for their anniversary. Kinda pathetic don't you think? What about the kids and teenagers who are playing this game, supporting it with whatever leftover change they have from their pocket money?

I'm starting to love MapleSEA, but the lag and the amount of immature players kinda kills it. Wouldn't it be wonderful if both games' best features combined? Sigh.

That being said, I'll be on a hiatus away from Granado Espada for a month or so. I decided to not purchase GP anymore. If I can't even get anything in return from IAH, what's the point of buying more and more GP? I don't wanna be recognized as a cash cow.

I'll be playing MapleSEA mostly. The other games that are coming out soon, namely Rusty Hearts, DragonNestSEA and most E3 games, I'll be playing them.

Thanks for all the Granado Espada memories, but I rather control my spendthrift-ness away from this game. I'm still saving up for a Playstation 3.

End.

John

#34 - Unlucky week.

Good evening.

I can't help but accept the fact that I'm a super, duper, fucking unlucky person (Or player). I just.. blew the 320th Chip into my Dragon's Fury Rifle and it's still clean. After that, I just freaking ragequited. You have no idea.. The anticipation.. The expectation.. That I have upon chipping this fucking piece of shit. There's literally no one to share my agony, even if I rage and rage on about my chipping woes, people would keep silent. That's how it is anyway. I only want people to say like, "Go John, you can do it" or "Don't worry, I'm pretty sure your time will come". A word or phrase of assurance/encouragement is way fucking better than silence, don't you think?

I also ragequited in MapleSEA. It's a little embarrassing, but I admit it anyway. I did play Maple, because the Big Bang patch got me excited. I played the game for a few days already, I kinda love it. That is until the new jobs released. The kids gotten WAY MORE immature. Fancy hogging a 4-spots map for all 20 channels. Frequently there are hackers who hog the popular maps on all 20 channels 24/7 (Probably a LAN shop or some fucking nerd who have like 100000000 computers). And then you have the infamous phrase, "CC PLZ" or whatever variations it has. Seeing that phrase after quitting MapleSEA for 4 years just pisses me off. It goes to show that MapleSEA players WILL NEVER LEARN THEIR FUCKING MISTAKES. After the new jobs patch, came the 4-5 days of FUCKING INTENSE LAG. Great fucking game huh.

~

Days after I became the new FL of my faction, 4 people left the faction. It is very heart-throbbing knowing that because of you being the new FL, people are just gonna leave the faction like that.

I don't know man. I'm growing rashes at my back of my head and it's killing me too. These two fucking games, GE and MapleSEA are driving me nuts.

I'm gonna take a break tomorrow..

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John

#33 - New change.

Good evening y'all.

A new change. For the blog, and in Granado Espada. First off, I'm getting the Faction Leader role of my nearly dead faction. You know what I hate about getting the Leader role of an already dying faction? Finding new blood to keep it alive, damn it sounds vampire-ish. Well yeah, that's pretty much the major disadvantage of it. To be honest, the former Faction Leader didn't really perform well as one. Most of the new members were brought in by a semi-active Deputy Faction Leader, which then more newer members brought in by the former new members. (Geez, I have no idea how to rephrase this, but you get the drift) After the former FL left the faction, I gotten quite suspicious. 3 members left straightaway. Either the 3 of them were close with the FL or whatever, I don't know. All I can describe of it is that, it's a DICK MOVE.

I can pledge my loyalty for this faction because I grown with it, had good moments with it and most importantly, made a lot of new friends with it. I'm not the kind who joins well-to-do or powerful factions, although it did crossed my mind a few times back, but eventually I chose not to leave my faction. I don't see factions as a tool to get more powerful but rather get more friends, nurture each other and help out. What's the point of being in a faction filled with powerful families? Shouldn't the great power be used to help others?

Currently, I'm still not the FL of my faction, but soon I will. The dummy FL (The person who got passed as the FL) is having frequent disconnections and couldn't login to pass it. I have been planning stuff for the faction, and hopefully everything turns out fine.

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Ever since the new personal buff implementation and new upcoming personal buffs.. I have the sudden urge to train my Ania, Lisa and Brunie.

For Brunie's Fatal Blues, it doesn't seem to work for bosses.. Well it's only tested on Demonic Skull, the boss from Demonic Skullic Dungeon. So it's unconfirmed. Fatal Blues having a 150 second cooldown for a 20 second buff is pretty ridiculous, but somewhere in the future patch notes, the buff will get an increase of 90 seconds instead of the usual 20. Pretty nifty of IMC.

For Lisa's Grinding.. It's a godsend pretty much. -1DR and -11DEF for monsters at Lv. 11, pretty much self-explanatory. I'd take Lisa over Soho's lame shit heal anytime, unless Soho is teamed up with Romina.

For Ania.. Oh my God.. You have no idea how much love Ania's getting from IMC. First off, her Psychic self-buff from Gorgeous is already powerful. It's able to max the ASPD of any non-ASPD statted Tonfa. That's confirmed maxed DPS, checked. 30% more ATK, always welcomed. AND NOW, she's getting a personal skill called Beast, which is a watered down version of a Hrin's Potion, but hell, it's still pretty awesome. Too bad it's a SELF-BUFF. Ania's made to be kinda selfish, but who cares.. She's awesome!

So, Ania, Lisa and Brunie will soon be added to my Big 9.. or rather.. Big 12.

On the side note, the blog's layout is changed. I would like to have feedback on whether reading the blog strains the eyes or anything relevant. Do post on the comment section below. Thanks!

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John

#32 - Terrible, terrible loots.

Good evening y'all.

This week's update.. well. Pretty much none. Okay, I have been practicing with some tutorials on Autodesk Maya and Houdini 11. It's part of my course modules, so I have to become good at them. Thankfully, this 3 years old computer of mine is able to run both programs smoothly..

On Granado Espada, nothing great happened. As you can see..

There weren't any mighty or awesome loots. Just the same mighty pieces of crap. And just recently, the God of Luck trolled me, with 5 different racials on the Dragon's Fury Rifle, with no ATK nor ASPD. 2 uber high Daemon stats, 1 100% Human stat and 2 Undead stats. What a damn troll really. Got me so excited for nothing. Still, it's good to see my luck building up SOMEHOW. Damn rifle's been emotionally hurt for 2-3 weeks already. I have to get a good stat on it before Lionel is up for recruitment (Which is gonna be a goddamn long time, since we're just starting to get the v6.7 update next week).

Currently, sGE is having a 4th anniversary event, well not in-game but outside. Geez, really? Only showing appreciation to those who would pay 500 fucking bucks to just celebrate the anniversary with an obvious target? (Target would mean the free in-game goodie bag, which consists of 2 Asoka Character Cards, 2 Sect of Moonlight stance books, 2 Javelin weapon costumes, 2 Black Tiger Pets and 6 Rose Wings (30 days)). What about the rest of us, who bought GP for in-game necessities and for HCOF costumes? Are we just gonna pushed aside for all the support we gave to IAH just like that?

In the forums, a moderator did mention of an in-game event. It SOUNDS GOOD, but I'm having my doubts on this one. It's either gonna be another milking event (Like the Ponfilo event, with stupidly created concepts for an event) or is there gonna be a giveaway (Like the Valentine's Day event where only the rich gets the love, how idiotically unromantic) or the highly doubted "Everyone will be happy" event? You know, IAH doesn't have to do much for everyone to be happy. They can just conduct an occasional double EXP day (Like many, many other MMORPGs, it's the company's gratitude towards cash buyers) or give freebies weekly (No harm really, a Hrin's Potion weekly, I'll still gladly accept). All we get is double EXP/stance EXP/drop rate for 2 fucking hours on a Sunday. Nice isn't it. Where the hell did the previous free Soul Crystals (Attendance event) or anything free went to?

On the side note, HCOF is having a comeback event of re-releasing past costumes. I'm probably gonna get back my Black Wisteria costume which I stupidly sold the other time. Adelina's White Rose and ATP's Gerbera costumes doesn't seem to be releasing anytime soon. Grace's Le Sagittaire costume might get released anytime, but considering IAH, they always leave the best for last. Ugh. More GP spending again. Or maybe this time, I shall work for my costumes, using Vis instead. I'll see.

Some random screenies. Really missed those days with the usual raid gang.

Damn chicken so imba.

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John

#31 - Happy Mother's Day!

I've been busy with assignments and shit. Really no time for Granado Espada. How sad.

Well, to begin, Happy Mother's Day to all mothers out there!

I don't know what to blog about anymore. Granado Espada's getting really boring. Well for me, boredom = getting lame loots from raids (Same lame loots every single time, such terrible luck), boring chat topics, dying a lot (Hate getting butt-sexed by Merman Eaters and Dreamblades), people's indecisiveness and lots more.. I really want either TERA or Dragon Nest Online to be out soon.. If only I could play Vindictus or Mabinogi, but too bad it's IP-blocked in Asia. AHHH damn it. I wanna play an active game now.. A game where I can grind for 2 hours, put the items for sale in a Market Manager and go to sleep.

Not to mention, chipping my rifle 5 times a day has brought my Vis count from 70m to a measly 10m. The best stat I gotten from all these 60+ chips is a 90% Undead racial, that's all. I never gotten leveling stats. Pathetic. Even when friends chip my stuff, they couldn't get any luck at all. Geez.

Testing out a UI skin from Starstorm. Looks pretty slick.

Yes I use Angel Buff and Hrin's because my characters are weak.

Time to do some Photoshop homework.. =/

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John

#30 - I can't think of a title.

Good evening y'all.

Feast your eyes on the new and awesome Blue Serpent for Male Scout!

Above is the latest screenshot of my current main team, which consists of Harley (Gracielo), Louisane (Adelina the Pirate) and Darius (Scout). Alexa (Bernelli) was taking a break as the Enchantment Lady polished her Dragon's Fury Rifle way too "clean". The screenshot would look so much better if I enhanced my +5 Golden Feet to +6. Unfortunately, I failed the +6 upgrade on my Golden Fist and thus, using up the funds needed to enhance the Golden Feet for the 2nd enhancement of Golden Fist instead (Which passed anyway). I also wanted to upgrade my Bloody Feast ring today, but there wasn't any Triumph Fillers available at the Market Manager. Opened up two Letizia's Shiny Boxes and gotten a 2nd Otite Perfume and Devil Wings (1 day). Geez.

The only good thing that happened these few days was FINALLY getting my 3DR stat on my Le Noir (Scout).

The Le Noir was +5 enhanced and slotted 3S upon crafting.

Some analysis.. The 5 Evasion is uber lame.. but might come in handy for Martial Artists, especially Fengling/Soso as her advantage is Evasion (Due to her personal buff). For Movement Speed, it's good in Occulta BH (Bounty Hunter) for getting through the monsters. Mind and Mental RES are the 2nd best stats here, it reduces damage from various bosses, like Chaos Dekaravia/Necroshaman/Chaos Argus and many more. And not to mention, the 3DR stat. It's a pretty decent armor overall, although with the lack of the DEF stat, the 3S (7% HP up each) makes up for it. I'm happy with the armor (Because it wasn't cursed with the single 3DR stat). It will be shared between Harley (Gracielo) and Darius (Scout).

The night is long and boring. My friends and faction mates were either offline and out partying or something. I guess I'll grab a drink or two later tonight. Tomorrow's Good Friday, and most of the people in Singapore will be having it as a public holiday. Hopefully there will be raids conducted tomorrow or I'll be so bored, I'd be watching TONETTA with his.. ugh.. singing. Geez.

Some lame shit. A guy was selling his Growth Stones, broad-ing that he'd be selling all his stones at 8m each, FIXED, emphasis on the word FIXED. The Market Manager was selling stones from other players, below 7m each. *majorepicfacepalm*

What's saddening is that he's been broad-ing since I don't know.. 5 hours ago? Can't he like check the manager for price updates? He's just wasting his Microphones. How stupid can people be?

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John

#29 - Future plans.

Good morning y'all.

My sincere apologies for the lack of updates. I've been busy lately. I started to lose interest in playing Granado Espada when I received news that I've been posted to the Programming class in my school. I was really upset, and immediately thought that me, playing games was the cause of everything. My friends encouraged me to appeal for the Art class (Which is the route I personally chose, but did not get) and my appeal was successful. I had 2-3 days of undying stress due to the delay of results and could not even play any games. I slept really early those days, and the stress was depriving me of sleep.

Now, I regained my "consciousness" and went back to my old self. But due to studies, I'll be semi-active in Granado Espada. Which roughly means, I'll mostly go for raids and missions that I can finish, not hardcore, probably to earn enough Vis for the upcoming patches. I will do some AFK training at times, but there are times I have to use my computer for my schoolwork too (Photoshop, Houdini, Autodesk Maya, programs which require high usage of computer RAM).

I also decided not to focus so much on leveling unnecessary characters. Not gonna waste Promotion Recipes on them too. I'm deciding on my main NINE characters, and I've been pondering about it these past few days..

After much thought, this is what I think a typical family should have..

Ranged Character(s) - Ranged Characters are a must in any family. In raids like Castilla Mine, Uraeus and the infamous Fury Uraeus require these kind of characters. I've decided on Grace Bernelli, Musketeer and Calyce to be my official Ranged Characters. Grace for Hound, Flintlock and Superior Blaster a.k.a Crowd Control, Musketeer for OS and FL and Calyce for World Cross PVP, increased survivability as a Leather Armor user and incredible DPS damage. Grace also uses Leather, but it's Basic Leather and the best Leather you can get for Grace is the E84, Elite Ring Mail. Might try and get an imba ERM..

Melee Character(s) - For some raids/missions that mostly require skilling like Castilla Relic, Byron raids and the upcoming raids like Clocktower, Melee Characters are a top priority in any family. I've decided on Gracielo and Adelina the Pirate (The two most infamous Dual Weapon stances, Martial Arts Compendium and Bloody Feast). Gracielo for superior skill damage with the MAC stance and Adelina the Pirate for undefeatable DPS and strong skill damage.

Tanker Character(s) - For Tanker Character(s), there aren't many choices.. I decided to abandon my Fighter and chose Trooper as my main Tanker Character. Trooper is the only character that anyone would bear to max the HP stat. With his 100 HP at Master, he makes an incredible tank with Metal or Leather Armor. The good is that you can focus on getting HP for Trooper and not care for anything else. All you need is super duper high AR for higher Provoke chances and a more successful Temple Breaker for the ever-so-popular debuff, Armor Crasher.

Healer(s) - I can't survive any raids without a Healer. Some people find Healers a nuisance in their team, but I found them to be very beneficial. For one, you're helping your raid/squad mates a favor. They can't be resurrecting "24/7" for you, and if you have a Healer in your team, you're giving your mates some ease when raiding, since they don't have to keep track of health in the top right and fully concentrate on the raid. I decided not to train Valeria, because I'm not a fan of Robe users. I've decided on Scout and Emilia Guliano to be my main Healers. Scout for increased survivability and Pseudo-tanking with Arnis, Emilia Guliano for everything a Scout has with RES buffs and Darkness.

Magic Character(s) - As I said above, I'm not a fan of Robe users. They die too quickly (Depends on gear though, but the fact that Robes have the lowest DEF amongst all Armor classes is a major disadvantage, in my opinion), most raids don't have magic bosses. I don't find them a necessity in any team, but that's my own personal opinion, do not take it to heart. I've decided to choose Reckless Emilia as my one and only, Magic Character. She's a very useful character, with RES buffs to boot, debuffs and her exclusive stance is a levitating stance which is useful for many instances, like Prison de Joaquin, Basement.

As you can see.. My main NINE characters would be..

1. Grace Bernelli

2. Calyce

3. Gracielo

4. Adelina the Pirate

5. Trooper

6. Scout

7. Emilia Guliano

8. Reckless Emilia

9. Musketeer

I will fully concentrate and optimize them to the best of my ability.

Hope you had fun reading this post.

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John

#28 - The future me.

Will this be the future of my main team?

Picture taken from a Japanese blog named Virgin家の女たち2：So-netブログ

Well except that Darius isn't gonna get a sex change..

Gotta love those Angel Sabres and Angel Shotgun..

Random.

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John

#27 - Lifted Cursed Pattern.

Good morning y'all.

The faction and a few others did the Crow Forest raid.. also known as Lifted Cursed Pattern. Surprisingly this time, we managed to complete the raid without much difficulties. The roulette loots were decent, it was all Lv. 100 items..

Just before the raid.. We bowed down to the faction's Gawd.

When only 3/4 of the raid squad was around..

Epic!

Roulette loots.. I got Elementalist items.. -.-

Aside from all that..

I'm trying to focus on crafting a Constellation weapon.. My focus always seems to go elsewhere. There was once I said I wanted to craft a Constellation Sabre.. then a Shotgun.. then a Great Sword. A bit too indecisive. So I went to analyse the worth of crafting these weapons.

I gonna concentrate on Naiads and also bring Ania to Master. Naiads is a must for Ania, because of the inherent 5 Block. It is very useful and it brings Ania's block (With her Psychic buff) up to 53 Block, which is very imba for a shield-less character. Also comparing e92 Tonfa and Naiads.. (DHR crafted Tonfa is a waste, because it's quite expensive to make and has no inherent stats).

+6 e92 Tonfa = 212 Base Atk with 32AR

+6 Naiads = 230 Base Atk with 35AR

The best thing about Ania is she can reach max ASPD with a regular pair of Aiming Gloves. Without any ASPD mods on your equipments, she can reach 23 ASPD. The point is.. You don't have to be choosy about weapon mods, since you can still DPS well with just a pair of Aiming Gloves. ATK + Racial is good enough. And yes, she needs at least 90+ accuracy to be awesome, which I have yet to achieve. With the e92 Tonfa alone, she deals 2x 5k criticals, which is the highest I seen, what more with the Naiads? =P

A random player told me if you can reach 10k damage on each Reverie hit without the Counterstrike buff, your Ania is imba.

I'm gonna make Ania imba. =D

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John