Hi guys! You might remember from
last June that I would write more about my Ribgol Sword once I managed to change some progress. Well, it eventually turned out to take all that time before I felt to write something about it.
In the words of Lux: "
Let's get to it".
W-wait?
Ribgol III? What is going on? Why is it numbered three?
"Ribgol I"
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| "Ribgol I" |
Frequent readers that have been supporting this blog for a while might remember that moment I managed to obtain my Ribgol Sword after three years back
in 2012. The Ribgol I purchased had
147 attack, as shown in
this image. Later on I managed to upgrade that sword through
Equip Enhancement Scrolls (EE for short) - I prefer to refer this as "
Ribgol I" (aka the first method of upgrading) - which increased the total attack
to 174. Ribgol I was also the most important progress of the ones I've went through, because this was also the moment when I upgraded it with my
Mu Gong Soul and
Additional Potential.
This Ribgol was upgraded through
Miracle Scrolls (100% chance to add 5 attack) - which is basically a
100% success rate for the older 10% weapon upgrade scrolls. Adding
7 Enhancements to it, was the way to reach 174 attack.
The way how I've enhanced my Ribgol Sword was through
Protection Scrolls that were given during an event. Back then, we had this
Event Shop which had an infamous list of pretty impressive items - including
+10 Attack with 50% Chance (if I remember correctly, if the scroll fails - the equip will be destroyed),
Protection Scrolls,
Clean Slates,
Miracle Positive Chaos Scrolls (aka Incredible Chaos Scroll of Goodness) and many more.
So, you could scroll weapons with +10 Attack back then - which most people end up doing, but I refused to spend those event coins in those - you'll need a high amount of coins for a combination of Protection Scroll with the actual scroll itself - and if you failed a slot, you would need to compensate it with Clean Slates - which required even more coins...
So I chose to use the Miracle Positive Chaos Scrolls instead, which I still not regret today because that event shop gave a huge progress on my character upgrading.
"Ribgol II"
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| "Ribgol II" |
Ribgol II is probably the shortest progress that I've went through, but I think it was an important attempt of upgrading it.
As MapleStory develops over the years, so does their upgrading system... With the introduction of things like
Innocence Scrolls (which reset the upgrades you've done and reverts the equip to its "clean" state) and more specialized event scrolls - we had a new event which added
pink 90% scrolls. These 90% scrolls would add
9 attack and 3 All Stats (STR/DEX/INT/LUK), which is incredibly high!
It may not be those 10 Attack Scrolls, but near the time of the pink 90% scrolls, there hasn't been any new event that reintroduced them. So I took the opportunity, just in case - and
reset the scrolls and enhancements from Ribgol I to rescroll it with 90%.
This upgraded the Ribgol Sword to "Ribgol II", using all nine available upgrade slots with 90% scrolls to give it a
total attack of 182. This high amount was without any enhancement upgrades, so that would also mean the result would be much better in the end.
Comparing this one with the previous Ribgol Sword was already quite a step in the right direction.
Shortly after, Nexon Europe reintroduced
Flame of Reincarnations (aka Rebirth Flames in several other versions), which was temporary closed for a few years in EMS. Our Flames system works different compared to other versions - I won't explain it thoroughly in this blogpost, though.
In order to get the maximum out of the enhancement system, I've used about thirty Eternal Flames of Reincarnation that were given through various events, trying to get an attack boost high as possible. However, that ended without success - and this part caused the delay on writing about my Ribgol progress, because it was not really what I wanted.
"Ribgol III"
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| "Ribgol III" |
So, you probably might have guessed by now if you read the first two chapters carefully.
I managed to rescroll my Ribgol Sword again -
but with 10 Attack Scrolls.
In a recent event, they reintroduced 10 Attack Scrolls in the game - however, comparing it to last year, these were actually more in my favour than those 50% ones did (with a ridiculous destruction upon failure).
These scrolls had a
100% chance to add 10 Attack and 3 All Stats to a weapon. However, in trade for that 100%, the scrolls were
fully untradeable. Well, since my Ribgol Sword has no trading restriction if you look at the current mainstream equipment - that "in trade for" is non-existent in my case.
However, because I was working on that same
Single-Part-Video I've been doing
since June, I had little time to spend in obtaining nine of those scrolls - plus I had a lot of bad luck (as usual) consider these scrolls was random loot for that event... But a good friend of mine aided me so we could gather nine of them (words can't express how grateful I am for his help). Having a weapon without trading restriction really bought me that opportunity...
Doing daily bosses for months to gain those
Honor EXP, I've managed to obtain a few hundred Lv 110 and Lv 120 flames; so as a temporary boost, I've managed to get another
11 Attack on my Ribgol Sword. Yay!
So for now,
Ribgol III will be my current Ribgol for a long while hopefully. I'm glad that I'm able to rescroll my Ribgol to keep it up to date. A bonus of
101 Attack on a
101 Attack is nothing to sneeze at, especially when it has zero enhancement upgrades...
That's it for today - I'll see you guys again next post!
