[YT] 8.000.000 total upload views!

Man, it's raining blogposts at the end of November, isn't it? We've hit 8.000.000 total upload views earlier today! Whoohoo!

PS. Kirby's Return to Dreamland - All Mini/Main/EX Bosses has hit 600.000 views earlier this week.

[EMS] Lv 100 Charm & Level 6 Spirit of Freedom GET!

Hi guys! Very recently the Maple Ice & Burn update hit EMS! No wait... it's the Creation 12 update... Hold on -
wasn't the Pink Bean event class released after the Creation 12 update? Uhm...

Pretty much, EMS has received an update called Leap. The Leap update contains all three of these relatively large updates (Maple Ice & Burn, Creation 12 and the Pink Bean event class) at once. That means there's a lot to do!

You guys might remember I was working on my Mechanic during the Black Heaven update back in August.
The Spirit of Freedom Skill Link is a specialized link that consists of six levels combined through multiple different classes, similar to the Cygnus Blessing.

Spirit of Freedom gives 6 seconds of invincibility after respawning on maximum level (1 second per SP). Which is
very useful for bosses where I tend to respawn as a Hero often (such as Magnus, Lotus, Hekaton, Urus, Cygnus)
due to the frailty of my class - especially because when you respawn, you'll have to rebuff everything (and thus
6 seconds gives me time to breath, rebuff and plan my next attack). In combination with the Eunwol Level 2 link,
it does help me go through bosses a lot.

In order to get a Level 6 Spirit of Freedom, you'll need a Level 120 Mechanic, a Level 120 Wild Hunter and a
Level 120 Battle Mage. Level 70 gives a single point, Level 120 gives two. The reason why I haven't worked on a
Wild Hunter or Battle Mage was due to the maximum characters you can have on a single account. I only had three spots left, which all three were reserved for the Pink Bean event class, Beast Tamer and Kinesis. This blocked the opportunity to work on those... But the Leap update raised the maximum character limit by a large number - which gave me the opportunity to finally start these two characters.

I've intended to work on a Wild Hunter and Battle Mage eventually, due to the character card deck bonus of having three Archers (Final Attack's damage gets a slight boost) and the damage reduction from the Battle Mage card. Because the character limit has been raised, I also found the opportunity to work on a Marksman for extra
Critical Rate boost (which is part of the three Archer deck together with my Mercedes). Having that extra Critical Rate is in preparation for the Reboot and Heroes of Maple updates, so I can reduce the amount of Hyper SP investment required for Critical Rate and spend it somewhere else more useful.

Skill Links aside, I've reached Level 100 Charm! Man, I didn't expect Charm to be my next Level 100 Trait - I initially expected Insight to take that spot. Because I've been doing a lot of bosses such as Horntail and Zakum on a
daily basis since Black Heaven, I've gathered quite a lot equips that gave me Charm EXP.

Probably Insight will become my next Level 100 Trait somewhere in 2016, but keep in mind as I often mention,
I don't like to rush (those) things.

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

[YT] 8000 Subs!

Hi guys! Today we have finally reached 8000 Subs - thank you all for the great support!
Hopefully we'll reach the 10.000 mark next year!

Early next month, there's going to be a game changer (behind the scenes) that will open new opportunities for the
Rayque3 Staff in 2016 and beyond. I can honestly tell you that Lux does *not* know what it's about - but I'm sure
he'll look forward to it when he hears about it halfway December. That said, I can't wait for it!

You'll read more about it on this blog in the second half of December.
That's it for today! I'll see you guys again next post!

[Drawing] When two worlds collide

Perhaps you can also call this the "Rayque vs Rayque" drawing, because both my MapleStory character and my Rayquaza are named Rayque. If you haven't figured it out by now, my name Rayque is based on Rayquaza himself.

For a change, this drawing actually took five hours. Which is way more than my usual drawings (often below 3 hours). While I can draw my MapleStory character by memory, I still base all of my Rayquaza drawings on the official art
from Nintendo - I look closely to the proportions, and convert it into different poses than the source material (because the poses I seek to draw are rarely used on those).

I've tried to go back to black and white for this drawing, but I'm not really fond of the way I've written Rayque on
the top left - I'm still trying to figure out how to write it with just using markers, instead of pen/pencil or brushes.

It's drawn on A3 paper. I've only used a black pen and a few drawing markers.

By the way, I'm sorry for the inactivity on my blog. I only share things when there's something to share.
Not everything feels to be share-worthy - but I'm expecting at least two or three blogposts for December.
At least one huge game changing blogpost, so I hope you are as excited as I am!

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