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Siege Aftermath

We finished the siege with an agit in Luina. Congratulations everyone. Im thinking of new ways on breaching defenses especially in narrow areas. I cant siege this next week so it would have to wait :D

Inevitable

I read in Waukeen's blog that he caught bot novices in the Monster Arena Race. Just as I thought. Prizes are really tempting so there is a high possibility that people would really try to bot in that place. If there's a will, there's a way. Someone created lots of trial novices, bet in the Monster Race and transfered all the winning medals to his/her original account. The medals are not suppose to be tradable but apparently, it was. Im not sure, but I think they removed the exchanging NPC's for this medals. Great move LUG :)

This happened in Fenrir server.

Hugel

I havent had the time to visit Hugel yet. Except of course in Sakray when i made my fansite entry(I still dont have my promised Angeling Hat. ) Im just lazy to do Ragnarok quests. The last one I tried to do - Lovers Quest in Eibroch is unfinished because of a game bug. The word Clitzer is considered as a foul word. I already filed a ticket to LUG but havent checked yet if they have already fixed it. I read in Ragnaboards that some people have filed a ticket earlier than me. Here are some of the Hugel Quest I would really love to do.

Medicine Quest :
Item Requirements: 1 White Potion
This quest is easy. You just have to find and talk to the NPCs. I dont think that this is a quest worth of your time because of the Quest Rewards. Like I said, this quest is easy
Quest Rewards: ~50,000 Base EXP, 1 Old Blue Box

Rebellion Quest
Looking at the Quest rewards make this Rebellion Quest useful to us. Besides, Im leveling in Lighthalzen so I would have lots of Handcuffs. Btw, I would be using my High Priest there from now on. I wont take it anymore if I spend more zeny. The catch? It has Quest prerequisites: Completed Biolabs Entrance Quest, Completed President Quest, Completed Cursed Spirit Quest, Completed Odin's Temple Excavation Quest. Too many, huh?! And you have to go from one map to another. So I suggest bring lots of fly wings or a teleclip, authorative badge or speed pots(if you're rich) or hasty shoes(the better.) Use a high leveled character because some monsters in hugel fields are really strong.

Hide n' Seek Quest
Item Requirements: 1 Steamed Crab Nippers (Vit +1 Food)
Quest Rewards: ~50,000 Base EXP, 3 Green Salads (Dex +5)
Err, dont bother to do this quest, But if you got nothing to do and bored at all. You just have to talk to NPCs, move from one map to another and voila. 3 Green Salads coming right up :D

Hugel Cow Milking Food Quest
Item Requirements: Rapier [2] x 1, Concentration Potions in multiples of 3.
First Quest Reward: ~ 100,000 Base EXP, Fruit Mix (Dex +3)
Reward After Completing Once: ~ A random giving of one of the following items: 5 Milks, 3 Honeys, 5 Orange Potions, 1 Yellow Potion, 1 Bundle of Food

Maybe this quest would be fun. Maybe it would feel like Simple Life Season 1, living in a barnyard, And what is bundle of food btw?

Kiel Hyre Quest
Level Requirements: Base Level 70+
Item Requirements: 2 Cheese, 7 Milk, 5 Cacao, 10 Raw Fish
Quest Reward: 2,000,000 Base EXP (Split 500k/1.5m for the two parts of the quest), 1 Taming Gift Set, 1 Old Card Album.
I don't know if I'll bother to do this quest because this would take some time to accomplish ><

Odin's Temple Excavation Quest
Level Requirements: Base Level Requirement Unknown. Item Requirements: 5 Runes of Darkness
Quest Reward: ~ 700,000 Base EXP, 1 Old Blue Box.
I still have some Runes of Darkness in my storage. Maybe I'll do this quest after all. But not now.

~Excuse me for the link sites are not that visually pleasant. I did my fansite for two days before the deadline. Beat that!

Lighthalzen Party

At last after several weeks, I finally got my Saturday and Sunday free from work, which gave me an ample time to level my biochemist. So I partied in Lighthalzen and leveled my way from 95 to 97. I gained 2 levels in 2 days. But the catch is, i spend almost 8OM for the 2 days that I played. My co-party members are so lucky. I didn't ask for some fire bottles and acid bottles donation from them. But I got 3 ygg seeds, 2 ygg fruit that the knight has voluntarily given me(I partied with him until he's 99). Then a High Wizard gave me 5Million Zeny which I returned afterwards, I just couldnt accept it. I just got the loots, mostly Composite Bows[4], Cross Bows[3], 2 Clips[1], tons of Rod[4] and Arc Wand[3], OBBs, Poison Bottles and etc (thanks guys!)

In Sunday, 3 of my co-party members reached 99. A knight, a priest and an alchemist. Im just happy to be of helped. Leveling in Lighthalzen is really fun. Feels like the old beta days, where characters are really manned my real players.

Lighthalzen monsters are not that difficult to defeat, except for the High Wizard. Since Acid Bomb is a MATK. We need to freeze first the wizard so we could kill her (yes, a she.) Then there's the MVPs which can summon his family as a mob. They are so strong that you couldnt react that instantly.

I hope that there would be another mod exp from LUG so I can go back to Lighthalzen. But realizing how much zeny that Ive spent, ack! Might as well leeched my way to 99.

Garm Card

Remember my post about my fascination of the Garm Card, I said that I have no plans on buying me, but the Auto Cast of Storm Gust caught my attention. It costs a whooping sum of 2 Billion Zeny. Now where would I get that?

And Dark Lord card costs 2.5B?

If I really am serious to get those cards, maybe after 6-9months? I'll just buy myself a Solar God Helm and Orc Hero Sunglasses first. Then I'll buy the Garm Card or Dark Lord Card. Hmm... I think Dark Lord suits me more ^^

Haha! I just hope this wont be just another dream .. Or in pRO's lingo - AsA!

Duping, Map Disconnections and Accusations

Last month, there was a tremendous issue regarding duping of Ragnarok game items. Although, I myself have never duped nor tried and didnt gain anything from it, here's my opinion. The duping of some Ragnarok players is not one else's fault but of the systems owner. Before releasing a software, they should have a team testing of all the possible game bugs and abuses that might occur. So if a player have discovered this bug and told the world how to do it, dont hate him. Is it you hate him because he could dupe and you cannot? I asked you, if given a chance to gain lots of godly items and you know that the duping bug do exists, would you at least try to do it. My answer? Yes. Hey, there's a free duplicating item generator supplied by the software itself, why not use it. It is still part of the system.Their attempt to clean the item database turned into fiasco. Their script that suppose to clean the database crashed the database which had Thor and some beta players affected. Including myself. Heck, I lost all my siege equipments because of it. My ticket is still under processed. So dont blame me if I'll curse LUG in my upcoming post.

Now that the duping has been fixed or so they say, the next issue is the map disconnections. I read somewhere that map disconnections is relevant to duping items. There's this one post mentioning packet sniffers which I really have no idea what its effect to duping or map disconnections. If a person or people could breach Lug's network, either LUG has to change its network security or hire the person that could breach it.

Accusations. I dont know if it is because of the Filipino's malicious nature on blaming people when bad things happen. They just love to pinpoint without first thinking if that person is really responsible or to blame. He is already considered guilty. Yeah, forget the innocence until proven guilty in our Philippine Constitution. If he is really guilty, let it go, but some people just couldnt. They really want to take him way down under.

Just my two cents ..