{"id":480,"date":"2010-07-03T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/?p=480"},"modified":"2014-05-09T12:10:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T18:10:23","slug":"day-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I start in Gludio and stand near Captain Bathis and call out for a kama for about 15 minutes but get no replies.\u00a0 There are some players in my grade milling about but no one messages me or anything. I see several people in A grade or better but they are not speaking either. I had luck on Bartz going to Ruins of Agony so I decide to head that way again. I make about 41% before I am bored out of my skull after calling out for a party or kama for about 45 mins.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/17euronoob.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2113 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/17euronoob-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"17euronoob\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/17euronoob-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/17euronoob-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/17euronoob.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I go to Dion and start shouting and pick up a level 20 elven wizard and we try the 23 kama but he runs out of MP in like 5 seconds and has to sit almost the entire time.\u00a0 I&#8217;m making zero progress on the mob and eventually, thanks to the stuns, die. He wishes me luck after safetly SOEing out (which I told him to do) and drops party.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/19euronoob.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2114 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/19euronoob-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"19euronoob\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/19euronoob-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/19euronoob-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/19euronoob.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/18euronoob.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2115 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/18euronoob-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"18euronoob\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/18euronoob-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/18euronoob-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/18euronoob.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now minus about 8% exp, countless shots and pots, I&#8217;m out on my butt and back to Dion. I start exping out there but die again when I grab too many mobs on accident.\u00a0 I&#8217;m in party with FatherDagon, after the other member (PriestOfZalgo) left, who tells me raids and kamas are good exp but the grind sucks. He says Priest will be back later. I hit 22.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20euronoob.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2116 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20euronoob-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"20euronoob\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20euronoob-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20euronoob-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20euronoob.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I tell this person I am new and the game seems hard (which let&#8217;s be honest, is an understatement).\u00a0 He says it isn&#8217;t really you just need to learn how to play.\u00a0 Says I should learn about instances, raids, and common weapons. Says if I join a clan I can teamspeak and meet all kinds of weirdos. Ha ha.<\/p>\n<p>And let me go off on a tangent here, but no one should be running around in common items in lower levels.\u00a0 Set bonuses aren&#8217;t that great in the first place and NG through C grade should be dropping from the skies or given away at class changes. \/rant<\/p>\n<p>I have not received any drops since my jewelry drops around level 5. I am at 185k. FatherDagon tells me I should get a top common weapon (D I&#8217;m assuming) from Giran. Instead I equip my shadow weapon and buy 2k DSS which is only 28k. The difference between a shadow NG item with shots and a D shadow with shots is like night and day, it would be ridiculous to keep using the NG.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway the raid is going nowhere and he says usually it&#8217;s better than this.\u00a0 One person joined party then left and Priest never came back. I die again on a bee around Cruma.<\/p>\n<p>I decide to find what my partner is doing, as I was chattering away and not receiving a response while he was exping in the area.\u00a0 He SOE&#8217;s out as I get close and goes back to Dion and remains not moving for a bit.\u00a0 I see only briefly that he&#8217;s an orc raider. (yes I know it shows in party too)<\/p>\n<p>He later comes back and says he &#8220;got carried away&#8221; (quite literally, SOE) and asks if I got my common weapon, I say I just bought shots for my shadow item. And here&#8217;s another thing I don&#8217;t get, here and in game people often say I just need to learn how to play.\u00a0 I really don&#8217;t think games should work like that.\u00a0 The game itself should be directing game play, not needing a character to tell you to spam shots, use common items, make a dwarf and farm and delevel to earn money. That&#8217;s just my two cents and I KNOW &#8220;how to play&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I ding 23. I head back to town and take a picture with my party pal but he logs out right after before I could thank him for the advice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/21euronoob.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2117 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/21euronoob-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"21euronoob\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/21euronoob-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/21euronoob-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/21euronoob.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hm.\u00a0 Left to my own devices again I try to get another kama group because soloing is BORING. I remember to pick up my shadow D jewelry. Now leaning back to the advice a friend from open beta once gave me, which is to always upgrade your weapon FIRST, I visit the weapon and armor shop. Top D common is not found here.<\/p>\n<p>I continue asking for a kama and pick up a dwarf named Ralin. I shout again for more and LadyBethany say she&#8217;d love too but only level 18. I appreciate the contact at any rate. Balin and I do the kama and he asks why I do not transform my weapon. I explain it&#8217;s shadow and I&#8217;ll have to get a common per Father&#8217;s advise earlier. Kamas, at least at this level, clearly go much better with melee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/22euronoob.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2119 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/22euronoob-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"22euronoob\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/22euronoob-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/22euronoob-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/22euronoob.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He says wizards are useless in low level kama and only go out of mana.\u00a0 Someone should look into that. I burn through 1k shots before the mobs is more than half dead but he kindly gives me 3,500! Nice \ud83d\ude42 We get to talking about dwarves and I offer to find the DSS rec for him.\u00a0 Well, knowing the drop rate, if I can.\u00a0 We kill this mob and I hit 25! It drops a Bronze Breastplate, which I get, 6 EAD&#8217;s, and 10 Piece Bone Breastplate Fragments.\u00a0 Yes, that&#8217;s NG drops from a D grade boss.\u00a0 Go figure.\u00a0 He gives me 3 of the scrolls and I ask if he wants the BP and he says no.\u00a0 I spend 80k in Giran getting an elven long sword then change it to an epee.\u00a0 I pick up my new skills.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/23euronoob.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2120 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/23euronoob-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"23euronoob\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/23euronoob-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/23euronoob-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/23euronoob.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I see another tagged player in RoD. We exchange &#8220;hi&#8217;s&#8221;. I decide to message Ralin and say the drop rate on that rec is pure insanity.\u00a0 He invites me to AC to train some mobs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/24euronoob.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2121 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/24euronoob-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"24euronoob\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/24euronoob-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/24euronoob-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ocyla.catchmehooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/24euronoob.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He has to go eat but I&#8217;ve now made a Friend!\u00a0 Leveling solo is bogus, let&#8217;s be real with each other, and I go back to Gludio to do another kama.\u00a0 I pick up a party quick enough and head in but since I already did one I can&#8217;t go in again today.\u00a0 Which.. is stupid.\u00a0\u00a0 Oh well.\u00a0 Both characters are tagged and one is in clan oath armor. I am not asking for clan in any of these tests.\u00a0 I take a break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I start in Gludio and stand near Captain Bathis and call out for a kama for about 15 minutes but get no replies.\u00a0 There are some players in my grade milling about but no one messages me or anything. I see several people in A grade or better but they are not speaking either. 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