The Dreamer update is here, alongside the new 6th Job skills and High Mountain!
Dreamer improves the levelling speed yet again - it's only been a month since I've hit Level 283 and I'm already close to Level 284. Daily EXP has increased with the release of Sol Janus, and High Mountain adds another 4% (!) a week. That High Mountain 4x reward rate is nuts. At this rate, reaching Level 290 next year is definitely going to happen.
Although, that's what I'd like to have said, weren't it for trade restrictions. Since, y'know, Maple Points are required for High Mountain and that's only a problem for trade-restricted players. EMS is currently having the worst of three worlds with half-assed game updates, meaningless developer memos and tone-deaf community responses. I'm starting to run out of Maple Points soon, despite I saved up a decade's worth of Maple Points (hundred thousands). That's two levels less a year for the same amount of effort, for absolutely no good reason. This damn country won't stop being a pain.
For many months I've been trying to write at length about the current direction EMS is heading, and how it's starting to buckle under a multitude of bad decisions that's been piling up since the 2016 migration. However, each time I end up finding myself just discarding all of that. Today was no exception. Truth is,
writing about it makes me feel miserable. If I had to pinpoint my breaking point, it was
Inkwell's return and his first decision to cancel the Potential revamp, to
gloat about it and seeing players praise that snake feels like a dystopian nightmare. Doesn't bode well for future updates.
The decline of EMS at the hands of GMS is not a subject matter I really can avoid, but I prefer not to spend time on it because I already have enough on my plate as it is. To me, undying loyalty is
everything. That is what having autism means.
Expertise is your life,
your identity and your
only source of happiness. To be
more machine than man. But to see decades of that remain unfulfilled is incredibly unrewarding. To be denied results because it's entirely in the hands of others is inhumane, and to be berated in every step of the way makes it worse. That's the godforsaken environment my entire life is, and
nothing is exempt from that fact, not even those 202 months on Maple. Just let me cook, dammit.
That said, I'll do what I can. I've spent 18 billion mesos in Sol Fragments to secure Sol Janus Level 30, because I can't spend the mesos elsewhere (Guild Castle smuggling can only do so much). Maxing Sol Janus should be everyone's highest priority right now; it'd be foolish to do otherwise. Its return on investment is unmatched, as it makes every other progression faster, including 6th Job itself. Of course I've been thoroughly examining our 6th Job skills in preparation for that 6th Job blogpost. You'd be surprised to hear that Sol Janus Dawn is
absolute dogwater compared to Dusk.
And last but not least: lots of Additional Potential cubes from events, so there's been three rank-ups to Legendary. It's certainly going to help, but not by much. Aside from these events, the lack of Potential revamp just puts everything to a complete standstill. I just find it baffling how everyone accepted the pitiful five monthly non-black bpot cubes with open arms, whereas they should've asked their "lord and savior" why he didn't give us the Potential revamp instead. The joke about "taking a different route from KMS" is that it goes both ways. Or if
history taught us anything, only one way.
Anyway, I'll get back to work. I've finally managed to get
that mechanism to work, somewhat. The beginning, at least. It's not quite there yet and there are still a couple of things to figure out before I can truly consider it "functional".
But that's it for today - I'll see you guys again next post.
