[EMS] Glory - 5th Job's sixth wave!

It's a bit late, but as I've mentioned earlier on my blog, I had no other choice but to park this article until at least February 2020. Gotta admit, this blogpost took way longer to prepare than expected (almost 400 GB worth of video footage to get these GIFs done) and I have experienced finding motivation for finishing this thing after December to be difficult... Anyway, it's here!

With our previous traditional 5th Job wave being (over) a year ago, the Adventure update only introduced us to Pathfinder's 5th Job, so it's been a while since we actually had new stuff to play with. That said, the Glory update gives us a couple of 5th Job skills that are shared among various classes, and as usual I will only focus at the (only) one Hero receives; the skill Maple World Goddess' Blessing. Hero has also received its Skill Link: Invincible Belief.

However, most of this blogpost will actually be about the recent skill changes that happened between Black and Glory. And well... Hero got a bunch of them - so there's a lot to talk about. There are even ones that have yet to arrive in EMS as of the time of writing, but I'll save those for the next "skill wave blogpost". Let's start with the skill changes first.

[EMS] Level 249! Amaterasu's Belt - 20 Enhancements!

The Glory update is wrapping up in less than two weeks, and most of its final rewards are currently given out. I was rewarded two (!) Typhoon Storm Growth Potions for the effort (one from the second Maple Relay, another from the coin shop), which was more than enough to do another level up shortly after my last.

Looks like I should hit Level 250 before the Summer, huh...

But that's not all today!

Because there was a discount on the Glory coin shop, I've decided to give enhancing a go on my Amaterasu's Belt. The final rank on the shop allowed me to purchase a 17 Enhancement Scroll, which I could potentially use as an immediate backup in case I would boom my belt. Basically, it was a good opportunity to give it a shot: worst case, I could retain the status quo by sending my belt back to 17 Enhancements and avoid losing stats.

Looks like my attempt paid off this time. The enhancing went smooth, my belt survived all the way to 20 Enhancements, and I was able to wisely invest that backup scroll in something else.

So far, I have three items on 20 Star Force, and the estimated total cost sits at 70 billion mesos. I think I should keep track on this... Anyway, I'm now starting to run low on various resources, so I think I'll take it easy for the time being in order to replenish some of it.

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

[EMS] Level 248!

It seems like I had bought way too many 3x EXP Coupons from the New Year shop last night.

Instead of letting them expire tomorrow, I've decided to use them while I still could. Adding a Fury Totem Coupon and a Prepared Spirit Pendant that I still had lying around from last month's dailies, I was reminded again why I prefer to grind without any modifiers.

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

[2019] What happened this year to Rayque?

It's that time of the year again! It's time for another summary!
This marks the 9th summary on this blog. Next year will be our tenth!

As always: the Rayque3 Staff wishes you a great 2020!

2019 to me was a year where the ups were fair but the downs were rough. For instance, this year marked the end of my time as a student as I've graduated from school. However, doing so was not an easy thing to do, and neither was graduating without consequences. From what I'm aware of, I now tick all the necessary boxes to apply for the job I've been working my entire life towards. But that of itself has become a difficult situation of its own.

Basically, I'm stuck in a limbo for the time being until I can apply for the job. Despite that I'm now ready for the job from an objective point of view, working abroad for the remainder of my life on my own requires more than just being a potential candidate for that Product Designer life. How long this "limbo" will take, I don't know. But what I do know is that it'll be time to finish my Hailfire Droid next year and hopefully be done with the Constructor in (early?) 2021!

Let's get to those statistics of 2019.

[Lego] So, I just got this Sealed Box of #8924...

Behold, one of the best Bionicle sets of all time! At least, that is the general consensus about this particular model.

Maxilos is one of the very few Bionicle sets to have both shoulder and waist articulation. You'd be surprised to hear that from the hundreds of constraction figures and combiner models that LEGO® has produced in two decades, only a couple of them have shoulder articulation and less than thirty have waist articulation (the majority of these being CCBS, which came out after gen 1 Bionicle).

I had to wait about a year before I could snag a sealed box from Bricklink. Most of these (larger, boxed) Bionicle sets are always in a continuous cycle of ebb and flow on the aftermarket. Sometimes there are plenty of them available, sometimes there can be years of none. That said, the 2007 lineup is truly among my favorite in the line.

That's it for today - I'll see you guys again tomorrow, with our annual tradition of the Year Summary!