[EMS] Second Level 20 Arcane Symbol GET!

Alright! My Arcane Symbol for Road of Vanishing is Level 20! This puts me back on having both my Road of Vanishing and Chew Chew Island's maxed out again, given Nexon raised the maximum level of 15 to 20 not too long ago.

Level 25 Arcane Symbols will probably happen eventually, but for now I can say once more: two down, four left to go...

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

[EMS] Twelfth Legendary Potential GET!

Sup guys! Today I managed to rank up my Amaterasu's Cape Potential to Legendary! This marks my twelfth Legendary item that I use on my character.

Fortunately, my cape immediately started out with 9% All Stats when it ranked up. I used to keep it between 6~9% STR when it was Unique, so I pretty much have some gain here given I still run high DEX on my Hero.

You know what's even more ironic? I ran out of Chaos Cubic Blades two days ago, which means that this rank up happened with yet another Meister Cube found from Commerci...

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

[EMS] Eleventh Legendary Potential GET!

Hi guys! Yesterday I managed to cube my Emblem to Legendary! But wait, didn't I have a Legendary Emblem already? As mentioned in my "Tenth Legendary Potential GET" blogpost, I would explain the situation. Soooo...

To keep the explanation straightforward: I do consider weapon (Primary, Secondary, Emblem) potentials to be on a higher priority than most equipment. And thus, I aimed to get my Emblem to Legendary as soon as possible. However, I did not expect to gain a better Emblem in terms of base stats back then - shortly after I rolled that Gold Maple Leaf to Legendary, we had our first Maple Leaf High event in a long while. That event introduced the (at the time) new Honor Roll Emblem.

So pretty much I had some poor timing with a luck-based upgrade, with an unexpected opportunity that has arisen on a coincidental "inconvenient" timing with said upgrade, if you will.

So of course, I preferred to use the Honor Roll Emblem over the Gold Maple Leaf because of the stats and because I have an undeniable bias towards non-KMS stuff. But by doing so, I would have to slow down my progress on Legendary cubing - which I personally am fine with.

Anyway, this Legendary Honor Roll Emblem will not in use any time soon. Why so? Because my current Honor Roll Emblem with 15% Total Damage and 6%-STR will be pretty tough to beat with a Legendary emblem, and it's probably more important to roll some more % STR on my equipment - which requires those other Unique equipment to be ranked to Legendary first if I want to have a sufficient boost.

Yes, I actually do have more than one Honor Roll Emblem. The Maple Leaf High event is recurring enough to me to stack more coins than I can spend. One of the many perks of never quitting and being a pure main...

You know what's ironic? Even if I have been crafting over one hundred Meister cubes in the past week and my Chaos Cubic Blade supply is running out, none of these have ranked up any of my equipment yet. It's a Meister cube I found from Commerci that did the job. Sometimes I have the feeling that even crafting Meister cubes does not speed up my progress at all, and that I'm stuck with some sort of time wall that one might consider "fate". Oh well.

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

[EMS] Ani Pendant - Finished scrolling!

Sup guys! Today I've finished scrolling my Ani Pendant, which is the second last equipment on my Hero that I still had upgrade slots left on. It is interestingly the only upgradeable equipment of mine to have ever gotten to Legendary Potential before I had used any scrolls on it.

With the currently ongoing Star Squad 13 events, I've managed to find a couple of ICOG scrolls through the Petite Planet minigame, which ultimately was enough to finish all of my Ani Pendant's slots.

I'm really happy to see that 25 attack on my Ani Pendant, as it has been a while since I've managed to enhance an equipment's attack by more than twice the amount of slots it has. The "two attack for each slot" average is kinda the minimum goal that makes me feel satisfied with the result, as that should be more than reasonable to reach. As you probably know if you're a frequent reader; I didn't reach that average with my Mark of Naricain, Amaterasu's Helm, Shoes and Overall. Fortunately I did reach that average with all of my other equipment, though.

The final equipment left to upgrade in this first batch is my Rex's Perfect Red Earrings! It has eight slots, so it might take a while before I will finish this one.

I have also been working on cubing some of my equipment since I've reached Meister Blacksmithing a couple of days ago! I haven't had much success and I'm already past 70 cubing attempts... but I can tell you that I've managed to increase my Sengoku Hakase Badge's %-STR from 7% to 23%! Let's hope I can manage some more improvements than just that one...

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

[EMS] Level 230!

Well then, Level 229 has been a fairly short lived one now hasn't it? Anyway, that daily grind of a few extra % each day really helped speeding to Level 230. It's really an one off thing, as I don't intend to do the same "just to get to Level 235 quickly" - it's tempting to do the same daily effort again, though.

With the EXP curve changes each 10 levels, don't expect my journey to Level 235 to be a fast one. Under normal circumstances I do get more than one-and-a-half billion EXP each day worth of dailies, but given I need almost 250b EXP for the next level...

I eventually cannot avoid grinding forever anyway, and perhaps doing some occasional grind might not hurt too much. Daily grind would probably be too much for me to keep up for such a long stretch, though. But perhaps before I start something like that, getting some more %-STR might not be such a bad idea.

I'm running out of slots to ICOG in less than a year, and the next step would be working on my Potential. I mean, I'm only at about 115%-STR in an environment that expects you to have *way* more than that. With a lot of (Legendary) items only having 15%-STR or less, it shouldn't be too difficult to raise that number on a couple of my equipment...

I mean, pfffffffft. I've been preparing and sitting on thousands of Superior Item Crystals, Cube Fragments and hundreds of Rock of Times and Chaos Cubic Blades for years. I believe "easy" is an understatement here. But I can say that I've been considering to start crafting cubes for a couple of days now, given that daily Arcana grind to 230.

Even if I still gain Arcane Force, that alone won't do the job for defeating enemies in Arcana or Morass swiftly - as the ones in Morass still seem to require almost four Raging Blows (or three with Sobs) before they die. I don't even instant kill enemies in Chew Chew Island with my main attack, for what that's worth. Eh well, it could've been worse.

It's funny that my Arcane Force contributes for more than half of my range, but it's arguably an unfavorable situation despite the amusement. I have the damage to defeat Hell Gollux, Chaos Root Abyss and Princess No on my own nowadays, and yet I still lack the damage for actual reasonable grinding...

Either way: another symbol added to my inventory - one left to obtain.

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