Last SCR pass

Nar, Catherine of Intelligence and Hellena has reached Expert 10 100% whilst Gracielo and Emilia are still gaining levels. I doubt Gracielo will reach Master 10 100%, but it will be close. Since I used him against Sacred Vespanola Soldiers, he's proven his worth. Equipped with 20% attack speed Assassin Gloves, maximum evasion Assassin Boots, Elite Le Blanc Scout with evasion + 3DR, he easily reaches max attack speed and 50+ evasion. His weapons include a borrowed golden knuckles and a trump gaiter. Combined with his level 12 self-buff, Sacred Vespanola Soldiers aka Vespas are often inflicted with stun status and unable to react.

Nar, armed with two blunts also inflicted stun to pave the way for OS and MC users. Catherine of Intelligence and Hellena were both equipped with Atk + shock ziz bracelets during their time of leveling. Every now and then, i would use a pink lolipop and they would easily reach max attack speed in evocation lightning stance, which was very nice and very painful for Vespas as they got inflicted with shock status.

I am running out of characters to train due to lack of equipment for them, so I decided to leech during this last day of leveling. Earlier today Ania reached level 93 from level 80, and Najib reached level 100 from level 80. I still have a few more level 80 toons left to train, and I hope my squadmates don't mind that I bring one good master DPS and status inflicter (Gracielo), a buffer/resser (Emilia) and a lowbie toon. I'm planning to level Claire, Jose, Diego, Ramiro, Tiburon, Gavin and Lorch this way but it seems I would not have enough time.

Later during the day, Nanodecimator, SaviourVII, DivinityAngelic and Axbinder joined our vespa squad.

After my SCR pass expires (4am GMT+10) my first objective is to train my low level ST team (actively, to make sure they max out all stances)and finish leveling the remainder of my toons to 100.

..But my internet decided to hate, so I wasn't able to play for a few hours. Wasted a few hours on that last pass. Oh well, onward to my lowbie ST team.

A Tribute to my SCR leveling : items borrowed

I have been leveling for quite some time now in SCR, and i couldn't have trained a lot of characters because I did not even have armor for them! It is essential to have the right characters, stances and weapons in a squad to effectively kill Sacred Vespanola Soldiers, but I did not have them all. Fortunately, I had friends who helped me along the way.

Owner: Liberatrix
Used by : Emilia
Purpose : Survival

Owner : SiegeMaster
Used by : Nar
Purpose : Stun

Owner : SiegeMaster
Used by : Nar
Purpose : Stun

Owner : MrsStormRiders
Used by : All MA characters
Purpose : Stun Lock and DPS

Owner : McBee_4
Used by : All  MC users
Purpose : DPS

Owner : Seitai
Used by : All HG users
Purpose : DPS

After several weeks of training in SCR I finally reached family level 50. For those wondering, here are some stances and characters that I used to effectively train in this area:


Mighty Cruz - Claude and Idge Battle Smith
Hanging Guard - Grandice and Idge Battle Smith
Evocation Lightning (Shock) -  Elementalist, Rio, Hellena, Catherine of Intelligence
Martial Artists (Stun, Freeze, Burn) - Graciello, Bai Hu, Feng Ling, Jean Pierre, Irawan
Combatant (stun) - Nar
Rapida Espada (shock) - Selva

Experience Boost Week - Day 5 and Eminence Auction

Another day of leveling in SCR.  Current team has no more angel buffs (oh noes!), nor do any of us have Secret Guard Clients. The start of day 5 saw a decrease in manpower. We started with 5 people (me, Cruz, Axbinder, Speedtouch, Vugtis) but this morning i was glad 2 more faction members (SaviourVII, Zurdiczz) joined us. We no longer have a plasma buffer / burner inflicter but still have a decent amount of shockers, along with MC and HG users during the morning period. We also have Shining Ballade and Hound every now and then. By afternoon Tlabbar has joined the squad and Cruz changed to an elementalist so once again we had someone in Domination Fire Stance.

For the first time since I joined Eminence, i get to participate in the auction! The auction master has been on hiatus and the rest of the council members finally got up to organizing one. I managed to acquire 300+ raid points, and now i feel like a girl who has a credit card in a shopping mall. Due to the rules in bidding and to avoid monopolizing of loots, i am only able to bid for two items that i want. I'm currently interested in the Lightning Gun (Lightning pistol) and The Emerald Dragon (Ice Rifle). So far, i have no competitors in bidding, and this may be due to several reasons. One is that.. they don't have enough raid points. Yup, raids in EMN are not required, so it's raid at your own choice, earn RP at your own pace (a side note - Lloydworth is currently the top raider for EMN). The second reason is connected to the first.. maybe they don't want to bid against me because I have so much raid points (lol). Or maybe they have already what they need and are allowing us newer members get what we want. In any case, I have a strong feeling that I will soon have an Ice Rifle and Lightning Pistol - my first two items from EMN auction and my first two elemental (non-fire!) weapons!

Experience Boost Week

SGE is currently having an experience boost event (100% extra) that started on the 26th of August and will last until 02 September. Luckily, I have exactly 7 SCR passes left, so without much thinking, I spent / am spending / will spend my time here in SCR during this exp boost.

Family Level as of 30 August 2010

I doubt that I can increase my base family level to 51 by the end of the week. It has been increasingly hard to increase the percentage since I reached family level 50. I asked people who have reached 51 and above, they say that it gets excruciatingly painful and slow. There isn't much difference from the Family's Protection Buff past 50, it only adds defense until family level 63.

My SCR days are usually fruitful, adding considerably to my family level (I went SCR from 37 to 50). Today's rate has been quite slow. One of my squad mates, Punjetas, signed a secret guard contract with a 2-year hiatus player named MiBuJo. We were happy that MiBuJo had angel buffs which further boosted our experience gain and increased our damage output. I'm also quite satisfied with the members in the squad, who are equally pulling their weight in. We have buffers, debuffers and a decent amount of DPS characters.

Buffed Up Characters (Angel Buff, Level 11 Intensify and Acceleration, Pink Lolipop, Self-Buffs : Level 12 Violent Wind Attack, Level 12 Enchanted Arm..

..against Sacred Vespanola soldiers with Mortal Wound, Shock and Stun

By this morning, MiBuJo's fighter reached vet 10 100% and he promoted to expert, ending the secret guard contract. He still had a lot of hours left in his pass, so I let him inside the squad to serve as resser and buffer, so more people can bring dedicated DPS teams. Cruz wasn't happy with the leecher but reaching his goal of family lvl 50 quickly buried this issue.