Over the weekend I was invited to level on both Essence and Eternity (I decided to refer to servers by their names).
On Saturday, one of my friends, who I shall refer to as GMBF, decided to level our champion and scholars to level 160, which was 10 levels away from the maximum level and therefore we would be able to leech the rest of the experience from MvPs during Endless Tower and/or other events that included MvPs. The leveling went by pretty well; it was full of laughs and "oh there's a crusader there, let's go the other way". By the time level 160 came around, I felt like we should have leveled more but it would have been a waste of time. The continuation of the leveling will end up being after WoE on Saturday, during an Endless Tower run. But I'll describe that later when it actually happens.
Later on, on Sunday, Josh invited me to go leveling once more with Jeff. Although I usually was not going to level on RO, I decided that I should at least try to level on Eternity (because I really wasn't interested in leveling on Essence since I just finished getting to level 160 on a champion). After logging onto Vent, Josh helped me level my wizard to the 80s by leveling off of Skeggigolds (sp?), which, unfortunately, did not give any job exp so I would have to get it on my own time. But after a while we decided to stop mainly because a guild member from Josh's guild decided to take all of our mobs. (Wonderful.) So I logged off after a while and decided to just sit in town.
Josh and I started talking about what would be a potential member that would be easy for me to get invited into Josh's WoE guild, and he noted that they were lacking soul linkers. Since it was a support class (that I even leveled in Essence to a nice level of 120 without any gears but then again Essence and Eternity are completely different) I said that I wouldn't mind trying a soul linker or even maxing it. So I started a new character in the basis of my Chinese name, got it to a Taekwon moments before the server was taken down for maintenance, and I haven't touched it since.
Nothing much happened since then other than I logged back onto Eternity after being invited by Josh on Monday and Wednesday to help him and Jeff level their characters. Not like I minded, either. Hearing them talk over Vent is pretty hilarious considering what they say. (And sometimes I pick up small hints on how to not suck at RO.)
In any case, Thursday rolled around and I decided that I should try to level on my own with grinding (as boring as it is). And so I asked Josh if I could borrow some gear so that I could level properly without dying every other minute. Josh and Jeff both lent me gears (and they will ninja it from my account eventually when the time comes) and I started leveling off of Siromas.
Oh goody. Siromas. Little fuzzers that end up giving your orc face if you don't kill them in one hit. Not to mention the random Gazettis and other mobs that aren't killable in one-hit. That means your cast gets broken. That means they will own your face if you can't escape in time.
So it's safe to say that I spent most of my time being really cautious of everything. Gazettis didn't turn up for majority of my grinding but they ended up poking me a couple of times before I was able to attain my next level. Oh, how I hate thee, Gazetti.
During the whole grinding process I was talking to Josh via Skype. I think he might not like talking to me. I mean, silence usually makes up our conversations and I really don't know why other than the fact that both of us are the "silent types" (I would say "strong, silent types" but we all know that I am not particularly "strong"). I think he might just be listening to me type. That would be a little strange. I should type slower/quieter.
And so I am... This is intensely hard to type.
I'll revert back to original typing speed. Something scared me. Loud noises from Josh's side. BUT THE PIANO STOPPED I JUST NOTICED.
Getting away from the Josh topic, GMBF and I are starting to get on each others nerves. He started to bug me over Final Sacrifice's IRC about how we're not friends anymore. And I really was not in the mood to take the drama so I told him that I would accept the fact that I was a jerk and then I would move on.
(AND THIS IS TOTALLY RELATED TO RO I WILL SET THE CONNECTION EVENTUALLY)
And later GMBF texted me saying that we needed a heart-to-heart conversation and later an apology of how he behaved. I still haven't contacted him since.
Too much dramallama.
This ties into my RO life because GMBF shares my accounts on Essence and also was the only person that was keeping me on Essence other than Final Sacrifice and my friend Lein.
Great times.
AND OH GEEZ JOSH THE MESSY DESKER IS GOING TO READ MY POSTS.
That's right, Josh, you are a messy desker.
I'll end this now.
P.S; I will steal your computer.
P.S.S; You're a mean person.
The other day I was talking to Josh over Skype, as I usually do, and suddenly he said: "Tiffany. Let's play RO."
My first impression was to laugh. The tone that I got was very serious since it felt like Josh wasn't even giving me a choice. But I agreed nonetheless and logged onto Eternity for the second time in the week.
Setting up my headset and headphones, I called Josh via Skype while he ran over to Geffen's tower to help me pass the wizard job quest. He buffed me, handed me blue gems for the Safety Wall skill, and let me go on my way to becoming a Wizard.
It took me three times. First time I got attacked by the last wave of mobs. Sadly, the last wave of mobs were stationary mobs. It was pretty sad.
Second time, the second to last wave of mobs surrounded me and killed me within moments after my Safety Wall disappeared. It was also pretty sad.
After my second time, Josh and I hung up over Skype and went to Ventrilo/Vent because Jeff had gotten on. I decided to be more talkative this time around. He stayed around before I decided to try for the third time around.
Third time around, I became highly vigilant of the third wave of mobs and spammed Safety Wall so that it would stay up. In the end, I passed it and Josh gave me a congratulatory "congrats" in chat and we warped away back to town.
Now finally being a wizard, Josh and Jeff immediate set up the party with Jeff's gypsy and Josh's linker, bard, and priest. We went back at goats and started to farm and level off the goats.
During the leveling we were talking about the most random of topics (well, I didn't particularily participate, but it was hilarious to listen to them insult each other jokingly). Before I left, we got to level 79 or so for a base level. Also Josh was very distressed when he thought I use blue herbs (thankfully I was just using blue potions that I obtained from the job change quest) and he got a bunch of other herbs as well.
Jeff once said that red and yellow herbs aren't worth anything when I kept getting overweight. Josh was following me and picking all of them up saying that they were. Rofl. They're a very funny pair to level with.
Later on, after I logged off of Eternity, Josh told me that he finally finished the Lighthalzen Dungeon quest and said that he would be including me in a long-old joke of Priest Bootcamp.
I asked why all of a sudden he wanted me to play priest and whether I would be making my own priest. He said that I would be using his priest in the meanwhile and said that we would be heading to the last level of the dungeon to get an MvP that was available there. I then asked why we were going there.
At first I thought it was for leeching purposes but it was soon found out that he, Jeff, and I were going to try to get some of the 15% drops there, which were the Ice Pick and the Combat Knife. When we did get one of each, we were planning on selling for millions.
This brought up a reason why Josh brought me to Eternity. I mean, I was wondering about it earlier but I wasn't quite sure on why he was so nice and invited only me to Eternity. Why not Tak? Why not any of the other guildmembers on Essence?
Apparently Josh and Jeff were not able to dual-client and farm those specific MvPs on that map and needed a third person to help use priest. I guess it would make sense that Josh would invite me considering that I prefer playing full-support priest and at least know the basics to playing it. Not to mention that I was already getting bored of Essence. The opportunity opened up for him to invite me over and be able to get a third person into farming that specific MvP.
However, my schedule knocks everything out of whack considering that the times that I am able to come online are unstable. Sometimes I am able to get on and sometimes I am not. With the approaching tests coming up for my classes, I think my time will slowly and slowly become limited (though I do not think I will be taking some of the tests that I am not needing to take in order to pass the class).
But I suppose that since I have already spent much of my time in Eternity, I am a stable person who Josh and Jeff could rely on. Josh knows how much of the priest class I have played (and he's friends with Tak, the leader of the guild that I play in on Essence) and if he thinks that I can help with taking down MvPs I am honored to know that is so.
Talking about WoE, I was playing it on Wednesday; a rare event considering that I usually only play on Saturday. I decided to log on and was boinked to the second party, which I didn't mind as much as usual because I only had five others in my party, including myself. Keeping buffs up and heals were easier than usual because I didn't have the max amount that a party should be having, which is twelve. Maximum number of players were around nineteen, including some idlers or dual-clienters who didn't have parties.
While I logged onto Essence (and inevitably WoE) Josh was messaging me over Skype. I told him that I was WoEing and apologized that it took me a while to respond. He ended up logging into Essence (a rare event!) and playing with us during the time.
After WoE, I logged off to attend dinner. Josh complimented me saying that he didn't even need to ask for buffs during the 45 minutes that he was playing in WoE. I said that I was just obsessively buffing him. (Because everyone knows that Josh can play classes fairly well and that he, if anyone, would be heading the Priest Bootcamp that we all joked about.) I wanted to show Josh of what I was capable of in WoE, which meant keeping buffs constant throughout the WoE. And since I only had a party of five, this was perfect.
Also, Jeff randomly logged onto my guild's Vent channel. Before I left, I made sure that I spoke so that Jeff would somehow link me to Final Sacrifice and knowing Tak. And I did. But Tak thought I was Parfait. That was not good.
Back to Eternity, I am very happy to know that Josh had recommended me to play the priest class for the MvPing. Just think~ I'm able to be relied on in a low-rate server! And with serious and epic veterans of the game, as well! It's such a big compliment, I must say.
I think Josh and Jeff would laugh at me to see how happy I am to think that I will be participating in their party. Who knows, maybe they just needed a third player and they know I have nothing else to do in Eternity but play with them so they invited me. Or perhaps they didn't want to share the profits (and since they already share their gear with me, I already profit from their profiting) with other people who were outside of their partying.
I'm not sure if I will be seriously playing Eternity in the long-run. Serious WoE times are unfortunate for myself considering that their WoE times are during my lunch during the weekends. However, perhaps... One day. After I can get a pretty high-leveled character (if not maxed) to help with someone's needs.
After the leveling party, I forgot to note that I apologized to Jeff about how I did not thank him for helping me the first time around. I said it was because I was intimidated by him. He asked why. And I said that I get intimidated by people all the time when I first meet them and that Jeff could talk to Josh about it. So we started talking about why I get nervous around people who have power because I was thinking that they might be a totalitarian and kick me out of the guild that I was currently under just because they didn't like me.
And later on, Jeff said in-game in public chat something about kicking me out of guild. Playfully. (I hope.) I laughed.
P.S; I think it was a good idea to choose a high wizard as my first job class. They are good farmers and I haven't seen a lot of them wandering around (does this mean high-demand?!) but then again I haven't been in towns a lot. But I can always use her to farm. And once I get my own set of gears for my wizard, I can't wait to see how it will turn out!
Went leveling for the first time after making my mage. I was pretty stoked for it but I really sobered up by the time 9:45pm rolled around (which was around the time Josh was saying that he could help me go leveling).
Anyhow, we started with me dualing a soul linker to buff the bard who would be giving me Bragi. I was also given two Nile Roses carded with Siroma cards to buff my Ice Bolt. We realized that I wasn't strong enough to handle Goats, however.
So a repeatable-exp quest later, I was back at the Goats. By this time I had logged into Josh's and Jeff's vent channel and was speaking to them. However I was feeling uneasy for some reason so I did not talk that much. Jeff boinked me out of the soul linker's account. Account switching later, Jeff was on a gypsy, Josh was on his priest, bard, and linker, and I was playing my mage again.
Jeff used Marionette Control on my mage to boost her INT and DEX. Josh would link his bard which would use Bragi on my mage, and he mainly played his priest to help me level. After a while, the experience gained from the Goats started to dwindle down (and Josh had to leave soon), so Jeff handed me 1,200 Anolian Skins to trade off for exp.
Then Jeff logged off quickly. I never got to say good-bye and thanks. I FEEL HORRIBLE FOR THIS.
So Josh walked me through the other repeatable exp quest until I was able to get to job 50. He then logged out to hang out with his friends as I decided to start the quest to become a wizard.
I answered all the questions, got 9/10 right. Then I was thinking, "What if I decided I totally want to do the next part of the test which is apparently really hard?" But then I changed my mind at the last moment and was then kicked out of the building that I was in (and I was at the top floor too)!
But then I logged out and decided to leave for the night.
So later I was thinking about the whole adventure time that I had with Josh and Jeff when the thought occurred to me about why Josh had invited me to ERO to begin with. I mean it's not like I was regretting joining ERO; it was quite the opposite! But seeing how well I was being compatible (for partying and conversation practices only!) with Jeff and Josh, I was sort of wondering myself why Josh would invite me.
And it's not like I want to ask him either because he'll probably think I don't want to play ERO and that is hardly the case!
I guess I'll just wait and see how long they'll welcome me into ERO~ >w
(i.e; UGHHHGHGHGHHHHH)
While downloading the client, I was asking Josh all these questions concerning the new server. It wouldn't veer me away from trying the server but I wanted to know basic information on it. What custom content was there? When was WoE? For PST?
Gathering all these different types of info, I started up ERO for the first time, clicking through the usual business of the walk-in introduction.
At this time Josh told me that I would need to proceed through the official job quest.
My reaction..?
"WOAH REALLY?"
I suppose I shouldn't have been so excited to have to do a quest in order to change job classes, but I decided that this is nearly as close to official server that I would be able to get. All the other Mass Multi-Player Online Games I had ever participated in have always been on the official server; RO was the black sheep.
And so I was very excited to think that I will get attaining something similar to the real deal. The whole shebang. The big moolah. You get the drift.
So Josh helped me with how ERO worked. It's Warper NPC that only warps you to the main cities and how you have to walk to all of your fields and dungeons now.
He mentioned loads of info that I have done (in aRO or even dRO) but I haven't really been doing since I joined eRO and it's mega easy way to access all the maps in the whole server.
Not to say that I didn't like that; it's fun when you just want to go loleveling with your friends.
But ERO. Man, it'll be an adventure. I'LL BE PLAYING RO THE WAY IT SHOULD BE PLAYED.
Thus, I am pretty excited for the whole deal. +0+
Josh also helped me level from novice to mage, which is amaaaazinggggg. >W<
Then we logged out. Good times.
Since Ragnarok Online is not under the drop-down menu, I'll be using "RPG" in lieu of it.
These posts were originally from my other gamer blog titled "Don't Need No High Rate!" so I'll be moving some posts from there.
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An introduction. I came from a low-rate server initially, called animaRO (now deceased), whose rates were 3x3x7. My first class, ever, was the dancer class (since I wanted a challenge and heard from walk-throughs that dancers were the hardest class).
I ventured into the world of aRO in the summer of 2006, weeks before I would be traveling to Japan. While in Japan, I had become an archer and had to leave, and Ragnarok Online (RO) was always on my mind.
Researching, I found likable builds, stat-point-wise and skill-wise. I implemented these into my playing.
I also found my first long-distance ex there and was married to him a little while later. However, being a level 6x dancer, my sister, who had invited me to RO to begin with, my ex, and I decided that aRO was getting a bit too laggy for our tastes. We decided to change servers.
We found deliveranceRO (dRO) who wasn't as laggy as aRO was. It's rates were 50x50x30, higher than aRO. I first made my priest, changing from my dancer. I supported my sister during this time, and my ex with my priest. However, all three of us decided to move on. My ex went to bootcamp after graduating, my sister was bored of the gameplay, and I was getting bored from being alone.
I quit RO.
For a little while, anyway. Later, I came back and sat in Alberta, staring at the ship that never quite made it out of port... ever.
There was a broadcast, though, asking for a gypsy. Jumping onto my gypsy in haste, I went over there and made my first friends in RO. They were part of my first guild that I would ever join, as well, Eternal Wings. At this point, I had broken up with my previous ex.
And I met my -other ex-. In any case, after going through three boyfriends, I max-leveled my priest as well as a baby knight.
I attended the War of Emperium (WoE) there. I had an Angeling card which I exploited by aspersio'ing anyone who decided to try to kill me. I even made my tactic there, where I would walk through the emperium and ruwach in the middle of it so I could see anyone who would be cloaking and aspersio them from there.
However dRO was starting to get very imbalanced, as people who donated $100 to the server obtained "god-items" like Mjolnir or other sorts of equipments that gave other players an advantage. I decided to leave, even though I loved the WoE there.
So I left. After so many breaks from dRO, I finally decided to leave. It was giving me a headache with the drama that was going there. But, I didn't know where else to go.
My friend, Lein, saw my plight and decided to give me a helping hand at my dilemma. He referred me to essenceRO (eRO), and I was more than eager to try it out.
eRO has loads and loads of custom content ranging from sprite edits (hairstyles) to unrevealed hats!
I started with a level-sync with Lein immediately, leveling my priest with his assassin cross. Later on, my ex at the time decided he wanted to join. Then, a tad later, one of my admirers decided to join as well! We had a party of four, which was starting to get a bit tiring to level all at once. However, my admirer dropped out of the race soon after he married my sniper at the time. My ex quit the party (after I broke up with him) after reaching the maximum level, 170, and went on his merry way.
Lein and I, however, decided to stay together as a party and started participating in "Survival Arena" where 20 players party together to defeat around five or six rounds of monsters with increasing difficulty. He and I started to get into this "SA" business before I said that I wanted to try WoE once more. I really did miss the group effort and working together. Lein said that I was free to do so and that he would join me in whatever guild I would end up joining.
Browsing the forums, I found so many different guilds that ranged from a powerhouse guild Shatterpoint all the way down to smaller, private guilds. Not knowing where to start, I decided that I would try selling some of my valkyrie helms in the meanwhile.
As I was BCing, one of my friends from dRO decided to message me asking if I was the same person from dRO. I said yes, and I rejoined with one of my older friends from my RO career. She invited me into her WoE guild, Final Sacrifice. After posting a request to join the forums and passing a simple interview, I was soon invited into the guild, and thus became my WoE career.
Lein, however, was not interested in WoE, and we started to drift farther and farther apart as I started to attend WoE and not attend SA that often. He and I still kept touch, however, even though we had conflicting interests.
Lein would be one of my best friends over RO, seeing how our friendship has lasted way longer than any other friendship we have made over RO. He would always keep in touch with me, PMing me in the most random of times and asking me how my day was, even if we hadn't seen each other in weeks. He's a part of my RO career that I would never replace--and a reason why I would never want to quit eRO.
One of my friends, in-real-life, named Justin heard that I played RO and had a good grasp on how WoE worked. He invited me onto BlackoutRO (bRO), a very high rate server of 5000x9000x100. I said that I was dedicated to my guild on eRO, but would not mind trying another server. bRO ended up becoming my first high rate server. Justin max leveled me and his scholar and was attempting to give me gear. But upon reaching the max level, 500, was I truly happy with how bRO was run? I felt like no work was needed to reach that level. Would I really have learned how to play my class by the time I had reached end-game level? Not quite.
bRO was my first high-rate server, and it was also the server that I played the least amount of time on in all of my servers. I played on it for one weekend and decided it wasn't for me. I told Justin this and he shrugged, thanking me for at least trying it out.
In any case, I started leveling more characters on eRO, max-leveling (maxing) my secondary priest and getting a dancer to 169 (for SA purposes, but I never quite got to that stage of required equipment).
However, I was starting to tire of eRO. Upon reaching max level, I realized there really wasn't much to eRO other than the WoEing (and even that was getting a bit tiring).
I had become friends with an ex-FS member (though he still logs in, randomly) named Josh, who then told me of his main server, named EternityRO (ERO). Shrugging, I decided that I would give it a shot. After all, I had played a lower rate server than ERO whose rates were 10x10x7.
