Questions that need answered. Hopefully not from robots.

[Carala]

Hey guys, I just want to say thanks for replying and answering my questions. The information certainly helped for the mean time. I feel I was extremely lucky, as after seeing your posts I happened to be on yesterday for a short time and saw someone shouting for Razed Ruin atma, and got in the party for it. First atma obtained. I do understand that I need to do some quests to obtain more Lunar Abyssites, in order to equip more atma.

As far as the skill up stuff goes, I definitely wasn't whiffing as much as I was before with Razed Ruin on. However, skill ups seem to be coming slow. What is your take on the skill up food from any personal experience?

I've experimented some, but haven't parsed logs. Right now, I'm still under 300 for gkatana and I've tried Saltena, Elshena, and Montagna. None of these seem to really be doing much of anything. Occasionally I will see a .5 in there but that's very seldom. Any thoughts?

Also, I did purchase the Emp armor set, but it seems the feet portion come from a chest. Mine happens to be in Vunk. I've been to the zone frequently solo, and I do see parties through /sea but I never see anyone looking to make a party for there, nor have I received in invite when flag was up or asking for one through shout. Is this a zone where it's primarily used to farm nm's & not really exp or do much else in?

[Belmonts]

Skill ups seem to be coming slow. What is your take on the skill up food from any personal experience?
I've experimented some, but haven't parsed logs. Right now, I'm still under 300 for gkatana and I've tried Saltena, Elshena, and Montagna. None of these seem to really be doing much of anything. Occasionally I will see a .5 in there but that's very seldom. Any thoughts?

Your choices of food are correct, there is also a ring called "Prouesse Ring" that gives you skill ups. As other ppl told ya, skill ups can suck overall but you have to persevere because we all suffered getting our weapons from 300 to cap. You can do it !

Also, I did purchase the Emp armor set, but it seems the feet portion come from a chest. Mine happens to be in Vunk. I've been to the zone frequently solo, and I do see parties through /sea but I never see anyone looking to make a party for there, nor have I received in invite when flag was up or asking for one through shout. Is this a zone where it's primarily used to farm nm's & not really exp or do much else in?

There are shouts to get your boots because solo them is gonna be a pain since you have to get the proper amber light to spawn gold chests blah blah... you will have to be very patient because many ppl don't farm boots anymore, but there are shouts time to time, or a trio of friends can pull that off.

The most common aby zones to exp are: La theine Plateau (worms), Uleguerand Range (Bluffalos) and Altepa (dolls) (at least on fenrir). You can try going to pt zones and put your flag up, although you risk to waste your time and stones there (since this is not valkrum anymore lol) but it has worked for me time to time.

Good luck ^^

[Psxpert2011]

Alright, so I'm a returning player from 03' & early 04'. The game is completely different to me and I have to say, for the most part I like the changes I've seen.

However, there is so much content that I just can't wrap my mind around it. I have limited time to play, and even more limited time to research. The LS I'm ultimately sticking with are in the same boat, however I've just happened to level up a bit more quickly than them and I'm waiting for them to catch up.
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'03/ '04? Your basically a 'noob' again, whare the heck have you been? :P

Word of advice do you don't go crazy pulling out your hair. Ignore all this talk about Abysea, find like-minded ppl who like party/ low-man book burns and farm a lot. Like new players, it's important not to worry too much about end-game because there's still nostalgia within the community and veterans come back to play old-school: Doing ZMs, Sky and Sea stuff(maybe ToAU stuff too).

Ever since Abysea came out, it's been abused with the fact there's high level mobs and exp gaining tactics. Mobs con EP to everyone lv.95~99, so it's practically the edge of end-game but the community is expecting more to come still. It's back to the "noob-train" again for everyone!

If you going to play to have fun, then have fun. If you enjoy the game for the sake of content, playability and community... take your time. I didn't rush and I been playing since '04. If you have friends in end-game, they should be able to give you a boost through the leveling grind but for the love of Altana, at-least complete your expansions first, Abysea isn't "all that and a bag of chips"! People are still stressed over getting through the content.

[SpankWustler]

As far as the skill up stuff goes, I definitely wasn't whiffing as much as I was before with Razed Ruin on. However, skill ups seem to be coming slow. What is your take on the skill up food from any personal experience?

With skill a bit below 300, fighting stuff you normally encounter rather than stuff specifically to skill up, using sushi to cape your hit rate might be a better bet than using food specifically for skill-ups. Every missed hit is a missed chance at a skill up.

Plus, the sushi is cheaper and helps your performance more than the skill-up food. This only applies if your accuracy is still uncapped even with Razed Ruin and Cruor DEX buffs, of course.