[EMS] Oh Snap!

THE LIONSUIT IS BACK! GET HYPED.

(took me only almost 7 years to wait for it's long overdue return!)

 

Now I have the "quadruple wombo combo" of FallenAngel, Ribgol AND the Lionsuit on my Hero at the same time. That is something that refused to happen prior to today - it was either FallenAngel and my Lionsuit, Ribgol and FallenAngel, but never all of the good stuff simultaneously. BUT THAT CHANGED STARTING FROM TODAY!

 

(If you want to know what will happen with my signature bamboo hat, of course I will still use it!)

 

Anyway, that's it for today - I'll see you guys again next post!

[YT] What the heck am I doing

Just to get a 30 seconds recording of the GameCube version of Animal Crossing for an upcoming random (totally-not-a-filler) video, I had to bring out my good ol' CRT Television (the TV on the right) from the dusty haystack that is my attic. This isn't really an important blogpost, I just find it amusing to look at because it's so damn ridiculous for some incredibly short and simple recording so I wanted to share it with you all.

In case you can't follow what is happening on the image (a rather complex story simplified):

If you would run an American version of a game on an European console, your television shows the game on screen all fine. A television is just a method to display images from your console. Your console does the converting automatically. However, most capture devices that are directly connected to your console cannot record or display in a scenario like this because the capture device wants to pick up the encoding for an European console, but the game runs on an American encoding.
 
So in order to "make this work", I have directly plugged in my console to my old CRT Television, which has the (nowadays considered) rare ability to have a "TV in" and "TV out". This means that I can literally record whatever shows up on the screen (whenever it's something like your local news, or some DVD/VHS player or a console that is connected).
 
So the "TV in" is the input where my console is connected, which may vary between European, American and Japanese encoding. However, the "TV out" never changes and remains the same encoding, so this allows me to record games that have this "messed up" encoding which I shouldn't be able otherwise. The "TV out" goes in my capture devices. The newer TV in the back is just to verify if the image is being captured correctly.

When will this filler video be released? Probably around the end of January. I'm tired now, you'd be surprised how heavy that CRT Television actually is... aaaand it's way past 3 AM anyway so I better go to sleep.

That's it for now - I'll see you guys again next post!

P.S. #BringBackCRT

[EMS] Level 218!

Phew, that was rather soon actually. It's the 17th of January and this is already my second Level Up on Rayque this year (well, the time between 216 and 217 was 12th of December and the 1st of January). While I don't really train on Rayque in the past few years like I've done often before Level 180-ish (i.e. a four hour session with a party somewhere), most of my current levels are gained through daily bosses.

However, the experience gained from daily bosses is much higher with the Global template than prior to the migration. Yes, it kind of sucks that a lot of World Tour content is different in Global and that Veracent has been closed and all of that (especially for characters such as for Skill Links, prior to the migration, it was rather easy without any EXP modifications), but there is just no comparison between the EXP gained from bosses such as Hilla, Krexel, Chaos Mori Ranmaru and Horntail. Most of these bosses actually give between two to ten (!) times the original EXP that they are in other versions.

Anyway, there are some other factors to include as well. The fact that I can run four Lith Harbor Commerci Voyages, doing Road of Vanishing daily quests and three times Hard mode of the Hungry Muto Party Quest gives me a few percentage a day in addition to all of those daily bosses.

While I know that the experience curve is going to be steep (especially after Level 220), 5th Job has helped me a lot with gaining that extra advantage over bosses to tackle them much quicker, but also opening certain other possible sources such as Pink Bean or Chaos Mori Ranmaru, which used to be too time consuming on a daily basis to even try. Heck, I wouldn't even risk doing Pink Bean if we didn't have stuff like those daily Safety Charms (which we also did not have prior to the migration). While I still find it rather hard to believe, chances are I'll reach Level 220 before this Summer.

At least for now, a friend of mine who expected me to become Level 218 before the Beyond update, has been proven right. Because y'know, the update isn't even finished in Korea yet and I've already did two level ups in just barely a month! Ah well...

That's it for today - I'll see you guys again next post!

[EMS] Amaterasu's Cape - Finished scrolling

Hi guys! The scrolling on my Amaterasu's Cape has been finished as of recent! Man, the luck on upgrading this cape has been rather in my favor. You'd be surprised how difficult it is to land that many +Weapon Attack through Incredible Chaos Scroll of Goodness...

I can know, at least, I assume I do know it because I have landed well over sixty of these in a lifetime... Anyway, I am very satisfied with the stats on it! 62 STR, 50 DEX and 23 Weapon Attack is a lot for "just a non-Superior Cape".

Yes, in case you are curious, that is 3% All Stats of Additional Options (AO) on my cape. I did get my Amaterasu's Cape before the source of Additional Options retired - and this may be one of the very few Amaterasu's Capes in EMS to have AO's at all. Well, let's be fair, that is not too difficult to achieve, right?

That's it for today - I'll see you guys again next post!

[EMS] Level 217! Dreadnought Level 10! Spirit of Freedom Level 8 GET!

Sup guys! Starting 2017's first day immediately with three milestones! No, this is just pure coincidence to be honest.

Maple had an event just after "New Year" where players could get five 3x EXP Coupons for 2m mesos each between (for the UK) 12 AM and 1 AM. So I thought that was a good investment to combine with my daily bosses, and indeed did result in me just rushing that last ten percent to get to 217.

Note: because the EMS servers are currently running in UK time instead of the previous Central European Time, stuff like the daily reset happens at 1 AM now instead of at 12 AM here.

At the same time, I managed to do the final Lith Harbor runs to suffice to level my Dreadnought to Level 10! This doesn't mean that I'm done with Commerci however (because the loot there is just way too good), but it does mean I shouldn't have to worry about gaining Vessel EXP. This isn't the "first" day in EMS where one could get Level 10 with a Dreadnought because I didn't start with Commerci on "Day 1", but, it's rather close I'd say. I did had some unlucky disconnects for a week last year because of technical difficulties, but at least I still managed to get to Level 10 in the end anyway.

Last but not least for today, I did also get some 3x EXP Coupons for my Blaster! I couldn't let this opportunity leave behind, because I decided earlier to save my Burning Event for a Captain, instead of remaking my Blaster.

That resulted in me speeding through Level 30 to Level 120 in just two-and-a-half hours. I did get some help from a friend though - I wouldn't be able to do it that quickly without his support.

That's it for today! I'll see you guys again next post!