[EMS] Fifth Level 20 Arcane Symbol GET!

 

Alright! My Arcane Symbol for Morass hit Level 20 today. That means five symbols done; one left to do. This will take a while though, but I'm getting close...

Anyway, for those event dailies I'm most likely going to stick around in Morass maps. I'm nowhere near close to one shotting mobs in Esfera, and some of the map layouts in Morass are much better either way. Not being to able one shot enemies does hinder the grind for event coins and such, so it's best to stay there until the Aranya/Aranea maps become a more desirable option for the sake of EXP/drops or until the level penalty in Morass starts to hit hard.

I can't wait to unlock Moonbridge at Level 245 though. Even if none of the regions in the Tenebris continent give new Arcane Symbols, I really do like the aesthetic design of the Mysterious Fog maps and the first two parts of the Labyrinth of Suffering.

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

[EMS] Sixth Level 15 Arcane Symbol GET!

Sup guys! Today my Arcane Symbol from Esfera hit Level 15. This also means I'm just a few months away from maxing out my Arcane Force gained through Arcane Symbols, as long as these remain capped at Level 20.

My Arcane Symbol from Morass reaches Level 20 in a couple of days, so all of my Arcane Symbol Selectors are now dumped into my Esfera symbol. Fortunately these selectors have become more common from events and are also given out in larger numbers, which should ultimately save up a few weeks of daily effort.

With the amount of symbols required to hit 20, I'm expecting my Esfera symbol to be done in August or September - but that completely depends on how often selectors are given out. Without these, it would take 189 days before I'm done.

That's it for today - I'll see you guys again later this week!

[EMS] Amaterasu's Gloves - 20 Enhancements!

 

Well, that took me a while - this is my first item that has 20 enhancements! I've been saving up mesos for several months now to have a solid chance of getting an item to a high Star Force count. Being well prepared with a budget of almost 20 billion mesos and a mule stacked with Amaterasu's Gloves for Equipment Traces did pay off, now didn't it?

Unfortunately the budget wasn't enough to get it close to 22 enhancements - but such is RNG. I'd rather keep the 20 enhancements on my Amaterasu's Glove than to boom it and be dropped back at 17, especially since I only have a quarter of my budget left. Perhaps I might have better luck with my next item.

So part of my plan in terms of enhancements is to get at least all of my items from 17 to 20 enhancements, and only then might I consider to get to 22 when that's all set - unless I get lucky with an item hitting 20 early on. But there lies the difficult decision making - of course I want to get my items to 22 as soon as possible, but getting everything to 20 first would be the better call. It would allow me to have a bit more buffer by dividing the efforts, because I'm expecting to boom items between enhancement 20 and 22. That 7% boom rate should not be underestimated with the low success rates.

The reason why I didn't wait for Star Force events is because I don't expect it to change the outcome too much at this point. Sure, it would save some mesos, but at the same time it might end up with a zero sum. The only way to get these improvements is to be well prepared, try your luck and repeat until success anyway.

But for now I'll be back at saving up mesos until I have enough to try another Amaterasu item. One step at a time. That also means I'd rather work on my enhancements first before I'll sink a lot of mesos in Auction House for Chaos Cubic Blades, by the way.

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

[EMS] Level 242!

Since I was going to level up through a Storm Growth Potion, I thought might as well try to make it look cool. Plus, there has been over five Shadowdance Hall 4 level up posts in recent memory (in addition to a few posts being disguised as a Bounty Hunter Portal level up that was entered from that map), so changing the location for once might not hurt.

I'm aware that there hasn't been much activity on my blog lately, and that is because I've been occupied with a couple of time demanding things, including a bottleneck in school stuff. I'm trying to take it easy to keep things together for now, and hopefully that pile of work should be dealt with by the end of this month.

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