[YT] Fourth 500.000 viewed video!

Hi guys! Just recently, our Super Smash Bros Brawl - 100% Subspace Emissary video has hit 500.000 views!
That makes it our fourth video to have reached this milestone.

While most of our popular videos have been declining in views in the past couple of years, they still move forward in terms of views - just a little slower than they used to, that's all. Subspace Emissary was released on the 16th of August, 2013, which makes the video almost five years old. It has been one of the more important Single-Part-Videos to date, as it not only broke the record of longest Rayque3 video at the time of release (and thus, it set the tone for what had yet to come later on) - but it has also proven to be a successful video as well!

Anyway, speaking of Single-Part-Videos...

Surprisingly, our Pokémon Battle Revolution - All Masters Battles [HeartGold] video has been stable with its growth since it started to launch in terms of views. Despite being only just three years old, it has already ranked in the top 10 most viewed videos on our channel!

LEGO® CITY Undercover - Main Story is crawling up slowly since its release two years ago, and it is currently the fourth highest growing video of this year so far...

What has probably been the most unexpected to myself is "the return" of our Kirby 64 The Crystal Shards - All main bosses video, which is one of the first Single-Part-Videos released on our channel - all the way back in 2012. This video had quite a declining growth starting from 2013, which only kept going down until late 2017. However, it has already been our fifth most viewed video this year already, with just a mere hundred views advantage over Donkey Kong 64 - All main bosses and our Pokémon Battle Revolution video! I probably wouldn't have believed you if you told me about this a couple of years ago, as I considered the growth of Kirby 64 to be "dead" for a long while.

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

[EMS] Third Level 15 Arcane Symbol GET!

Sup guys! Today my Arcana's Symbol has reached Level 15, which makes it my third Arcane Symbol to have reached this milestone.

As most of you can remember, Level 15 was originally the maximum level for an Arcane Symbol, until they raised it to Level 20 not too long ago. But because the progress between Level 15 and 20 is a fair number of months, I thought Level 15 might be a good milestone to keep writing about my current Arcane Symbol progress. Plus, if Nexon would increase the maximum levels on a regular basis without adjusting the EXP formula for these things, it could take "forever" before you guys would read about my (more recent) progress.

Anyway, with the current progress on my Road of Vanishing, Lachlen and Arcana symbols:

• My Road of Vanishing's should reach Level 20 somewhere this Summer,
• My Lacheln's should reach Level 20 somewhere mid-2019,
• My Arcana's should reach Level 20 before the end of this year.

If I were to start on my Morass symbol this Summer when its daily quests arrive with the Ark update, it probably should be done in the second half of 2019. The dailies for Esfera have yet to surface in KMS, so I can't say for certain how fast that one will go - let alone I'm not even remotely close to Level 235 in the first place. Either way, this progress looks promising to me.

Speaking of Morass and Level 230: I did some calculations regarding my experience gain between this week and when the Ark update presumably arrives on the 20th of June. I've been stacking up coupons of 2x EXP (1 hour) for a couple of years now, and thus, I'm using some of these just to guarantee reaching Level 230 in time. So currently I'm at about 6% each day (30 min for daily bosses, 30 min grind in Arcana), which means Level 230 should be a cakewalk.

Honestly I'm only making this exception in terms of "grind" because the Ark update is that close (or, that the update just took forever to arrive in the first place), and I probably won't rush all the way to Level 235 before the Esfera dailies come out. I mean, Nexon keeps raising the bar with each update and I'm not feeling to grind endlessly just to "keep up with all of that". I've learned that lesson the hard way about eight years ago - plus, going too fast with my levels would also mean my gear will fall behind in terms of progress, and I don't want to rush out all of that just so that I could get something "earlier". It is really tempting to grind all the way to 235 though, that much I can tell you.

Anyway, my Lacheln's Symbol should reach Level 15 somewhere in July.

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

[EMS] Level 229!

Hi guys! As expected, I reached Level 229 in just a bit more than a month time.

Since the Ark update is more or less "confirmed" to hit EMS somewhere in late June, I'm actually going to hit Level 230 before the Ark update arrives. For shame. By the time Ark is here, we've had a total of six months worth of events, and more events, followed by even more events... with actual little amount of "content" in between. Eh well, it's not the first time this happened, and it won't be the last time either.

I mean, I have no issues with good events, but not when you do a half year worth of them. Events work well as side content, but should never be the largest beef of an update. But yeah, it's better than nothing I guess. One thing that sucks about fast updating is that eventually you'll run out of stuff to patch in your game. So around the time when Nova was done, the Ark update was also almost done in KMS - so in January I already felt like "wait a minute, are we really going to do another five months of events? Ugh... better have some coin shops for extra ICOGs, Nodestones and Honor EXP."

Anyway, with the amount of experience I gain each day in terms of daily stuff, Level 230 should almost be guaranteed. In worst case I should get very close to leveling up - and I might just manually grind the final %'s, simply because Arcana's experience gain is just way too high. And hey, I think it'll be worth to start with Morass dailies from day 1. And if not, well "boohoo" I'll have my Morass maxed out a couple of days later anyway. Even so, you can still always grind your symbols (or obtain some extra symbols from events), but it's not like I'm actually going to spend time farming for them if I already get eight of these a day. Doesn't and shouldn't change the end result, as I will have my symbols maxed out eventually.

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

[YT] 11.000 Subs!

Sup guys! Today we've reached 11.000 subscribers on our channel!

It has taken almost a year to go from ten thousand to eleven, partially because of our "inactivity" (or, lack of uploads) in the past one-and-a-half year. Rest assured, content is always on its way, and more content is always planned.

Youtube is just a hobby to us, and that also means that we always have our moments of "inactivity". For what it's worth: don't forget that we do regularly check our Youtube channel - we do read all of the comments that we receive.

When will my next Single-Part-Videos come out? I'm honestly not sure when I'll upload them. One still needs to be quality checked, and quality checking a six hour video is time consuming to say the least.

Having a couple of days of slow internet for uploading relatively large file sizes (i.e. uploading files over 20 GB with only 3 MB/s upload) is actually more troublesome than it might sound at first, especially if you're not the only person living in the same building. Just remember that they are on their way though! I just need to figure out how to solve this puzzle.

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

[EMS] 15 Star Force on all Sengoku equipment!

Hi guys! Just a small blogpost for today.

As mentioned with my previous post regarding the "Star Squad 13" events, I've poured some of my budget in getting my equipment to 15 Star Force each. At least, the equipment that can go up to 15, which are only my Amaterasu's and my Sengoku Hakase Badge.

Might not entirely be the best or efficient way to spend my mesos, but at least the Star Squad 13 event does give me some opportunity to make it worth my while. I mean, I had to do this 15 Star Forcing eventually, right?

So, yesterday, the maximum Galaxy Stars you could obtain was double the daily limit. It would take about 1 billion mesos worth of Star Forcing to reach the normal daily cap (which is 200), and because it took me 1 billion to get both my Amaterasu's Armor and Gloves to 15 each, I honestly didn't expect too much with only a projected budget of 2 billion for just 400 Galaxy Stars.

Funny enough, I actually got all of the remaining equipment to 15 with only 400 million mesos! No, I'm not kidding. I'm still surprised about that one. If I remember correctly, only my Amaterasu's Cape took a couple of attempts - everything else just went from 14 to 15 without failure. Like, wait what... how does that even work?

What happened with the other 1.6 billion mesos that I had left?

Well, I thought it might be a wise decision to just prepare some gear for mules, as I will eventually work on getting more characters to Level 200 for those Union cards. So I did prepare a shitload of Sengoku equipment, all of which went to 11 Star Force each because I don't really see the need in getting those stuff all the way to 15. This should definitely do the trick...

Anyway, I've spent more than enough mesos in Star Forcing for now, and I also don't have much items of interest left to purchase from the Star Squad 13 event store. Might as well do some Rail Rush for gaining the remaining Galaxy Stars, given some friends requested me to give it a try so they can compare their high scores with mine. I am looking forward to the next half of the Star Squad 13 events though, which should hit EMS later this month!

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

[EMS] Mark of Naricain - Finished scrolling!

 

Sup guys! Yesterday I finished scrolling my Mark of Naricain (MoN)!

It might not be on par with most of my other items though, because scrolling with ICOGs can either go very well or it can left to be desired. Not that I will complain with the upgrade, as it surely is still something and it'll do for now.

From what I currently wear on Rayque, my MoN is among the oldest equipment that I still use. While my BD3 came from a Pre-BB event back in 2009, I got this particular Mark of Naricain after the Big Bang update. As once mentioned on my "Ye good olde big updates" blogpost back in 2016, we had access to two different Mark of Naricain's which were almost identical by having slots (Pre-BB MoN's were under the GMS ID and Post-BB were under the MSEA ID), so they could be upgraded with scrolling, could be applied to the Potential system and such.

With the migration, the Pre-BB MoN's (under the GMS ID) lost their slots, and every upgrade except for Additional Options and under/above average stats were removed. All of the MSEA ones (like the one I'm currently using) were unchanged though, because the item changes only affected items that appeared in the GMS game files before the migration happened (and obviously, the MSEA MoN's weren't present in the GMS game files until after the migration, so no changes were made in EMS). Anyway, this MoN is already like 7 years old by now, which makes it the third oldest equip I currently still use.

About the scrolling: my Mark of Naricain actually started way "worse", with the first couple of scrolls giving +0 or +1 Attack each, so the fact that it still redeemed itself in the end, isn't so bad after all. Fortunately, regardless if I'm going to hit over 20~30 attack or not, it shouldn't matter too much in the end. Having that 10 Attack clean on my MoN does contribute a lot to the overall impact, as it acts kinda like a fail-safe against poor ICOG luck.

Is it just me, or has my luck with Incredible Chaos Scroll of Goodness been poor with the past few of my equipment?

At least I did get 1% All Stats Additional Options on most of my current lower level accessories before that system has been retired for the time being...

Speaking of upgrades! With the current "Star Squad 13" events I have found a legitimate excuse reason to burn my mesos in Star Forcing my Amaterasu equipment to 15 enhancements. So for now, my Amaterasu's Armor and Gloves are done with their enhancements!

I mean, I would've gone to 15 enhancements eventually anyway, even though it's such a huge meso sink (that is arguably better spent elsewhere). I just don't feel like playing mini-games against other players for just a couple of hundred coins so, I suppose doing these upgrades earlier than planned should suffice for now.

Now that my MoN is finished, the only two equipment that are left to scroll are my Ani Pendant and my Rex's Perfect Red Earrings. Both items have quite a number of slots, so don't expect them to be done any time soon though. Then,
I should be done with scrolling all of my current layout! Until I would go for a second round...

Anyway, that's it for now! I'll see you guys again next post, which should happen within a week.