When Adelina loses her touch

I guess it was the 14th of July the Hron's Treasure Trove has been introduce to our fellow pioneers through this Official News Article. Upon reading this article, I really find it awkward and I'm sure there is something wrong with this one.

Then I read the forums and I found this interesting thread but first it was the usual thread. You know IAH announces then give a discussion link related to the news. But it turns out to be a negative feedback from most of the players who read the article.

In this cut, it turns out to be that Adelina's Booty Search will eventually die or will be re-invented for the reason that it was "in-effective" as quoted from our IAH team. But I guess it is more heavier for player to waste some points just to throw their luck on this items that has no outmost definition of "at least enjoying the game content".

For now its a head to head combat for Adelina's Booty Search and Hron's Treasure Trove. But I do hope Adelina's Booty Search will still emerge victorious so even though most of the players cannot be the best in their game at least they will enjoy the patch content. Til again I'll keep you posted pioneers.

Masquerade! Lights! Camera! Action!

After the server was up, I was held up in-game because of exploring some new features of the game. And part of that was getting familiar with instanced raids and of course getting my own Hellena and Ania for my family.

(Welcome Hellena and Ania to Fiksdotter Family!)

I find the quest easy to access though in mission its kinda off because the stats of the lords inside Chateau Raid was insanely tough. Adverse to it, the lords in the Hellena quest was different because they have 59 AR/DR so it is more easier to take down. Fortunately I surpass the quest with ease. Thanks to Hrin potion, Triumph Fillers, Soul Crystals and Lucifer Wings I made it thru. That only thing that will satisfy my taste on this patch is when I manage to get my own Trump weapon and I guess its enough for me.

Oh by the way Ferrucio Espada was rumored to be alived! Want to know more about the story line? Finish the Arsene and Ania Recruitment quest to know this juicy information. Til again I'll keep you posted pioneers!

Marching to Masquerade: Day 4

In the eve of the new patch "the Masquerade", the ABS (Adelina Booty Search) loot table was updated with new line of costumes and some weapons. It was one of the major changes today though we are going to expect long hours of server maintenance tomorrow. But we could not prejudice it because there are chances that the server maintenance will be shortened so just hold your excitement for the mean time.

For the pioneers out there start sending your sms answer for our web site event to avail free permanent wing. So pioneers have a breather while you wait for the new expansion and til again I'll keep you posted pioneers!









Source: SEA Granado Esapad News Archive

Marching to Masquerade: Day 3

I can't wait to see the new expansion because the Masquerade theme was pretty appealing to me. And the official website of SEA Granado Espada release another breaking news, and it was a somewhat help feature for the pioneers who is in dire need of hunting Frog Fish and Amber Bee!

It was called the Hunter's Association. What I understood with this feature was you are going to talk with some NPC's settled in Bahama Base Camp then they will give you the opportunity to have a Frog Fish and Amber Bee with a price of course. And in return to this favor, it will be easier to our pioneers to finish this part of the quest line. Pretty nifty right? At least its easier for pioneers to continue the quest and made it to Zeia Quest line more faster. Til again I'll keep you posted pioneers!






For more information visit SEA Granado Espada Official News Archive!

Marching to Masquerade: Day 2

(Thanks for the Cake)

Before anything else I want to thank all the players and friends who greeted me in my birthday today. And of course am not going to tell how old I am now because its a secret. Haha! Anyway the march to Masquerade continues as another news sprung up from the official news article of the official site.

Ania the warrior from Zeia will be available also in the Masquerade patch. So it means we have the advantage of getting two new RNPCs after the server maintenance. By the way if you already figured out the answer for Hellena's Tarot Cards web event save your answer and sms it on June 18, 2009. Til again I'll keep you posted pioneers!








Image Source: sGE Gallery
News Source: Official SEA Granado Espada News Archive

Vend and move?

Today I just confirmed that my character is bug or something? It was the fifth time that a player told me that my shop is open while walking! Okay that sounds insane but to make this situation visible one of my faction mate took a screen shot in-game to prove this weird bug.

In this image you can see that my Musketeer is on the move while the vend window is still open. Weird huh? And yes what you see is true. I don't know if this is an isolated case but I hope this bug will be removed. Til again I'll keep you posted pioneers!

Operation "N"

After some week of intriguing advertisement at the official web site of SEA Granado Espada, the quoted Operation "N" has been revealed and it seems that most of the pioneers loved it.

Operation "N" gives reward to those pioneers who made it to the tier of level 20 and 25 on their family level. The reward enclosed for level 20 family are; 1 Hrin Liquor, 10 Triumph Filler, 10 Mystic Ampule, 10 Soul Crystals, 50 Progressive Health-Fillers, 50 Progressive Soul-Fillers, 1 Ancient Shelter Pass, 1 Field Survival Manual Master(1 day), 1 Combat Manual Expert (1 day), 1 Tactics Manual Expert (1 day), 3 Noble's Court - Knight (permanent back costume), and you are granted a rank of Knight. Then if your family attained 25 family level you can get 3 Noble's Court - Righteous Knight (flag that increases DEF rating by 1 in 30 days) and granted a rank of Righteous Knight.

In my case my family level is at 25 with 3 additional family level due to faction. So first I claim the Knight rank rewards which is level 20 family reward. And lastly I claim the Righteous Knight rewards through the noble officers located in each key cities. So it means if you met the family level 20 and beyond you get the rewards for this Operation "N" event. And its confirmed for example if your family level is 17 then you have additional 3 levels from your faction that will give you a total of level 20 family level, you are entitled to get the family level 20 reward. So pioneers race your family level and earn the rewards as Knights. Til again I'll keep you posted pioneers!

sGE current state - Continue?

By far best Granado Espada is one of the most impressive MMORPG and there are good and bad points of the game. There are certain issues in-game and there are forseeable crisis on the game aspect and culture. I'll give you some issues and most points are from collective statements of players of Granado Espada SEA.


Third Party Program/Bots
Congratulations to IAH and IMC for successfully dumping the bot population for almost three weeks. Unfortunately there are some who are not in favor about it and some minority of non-botter alas for it. In my personal opinion the GEC (GE Crazy) is not completely getting rid off. Macro users says its unfair because this script saves them real money instead of spending it for GEC. If you will see the climate of players, its more of if you want to keep on phase of the game use GEC. This issue is very sensitive to every MMORPG thus there should be a system that must be implemented which favors every type of user.


In-game Items
It was a blessing that everyone gets the advantage of acquiring elite 92 armor recipe through ABS (Adelina Booty Search). But there are things that spoils the game, Dragon Heart Recipe (DHR) start spawning the ABS turning King of Greed useless. Even the latest ingredient Ti/Te and other runes only found in Zeia are now loots from ABS. Better yet they throw Serpent and Chess series instead rather that hurting the economy badly. Its like more of "I have tons of money no need to explore the game". Well for some opinions thrown by the so-called "All-knowing" forum lurkers, they say it opens opportunity to those who can't explore the game. I say its wrong, motivation of spoon feeding is more I likely to hear. They always say dominant faction always get the good stuff. Again its a wrong statement, because they raid for it with efforts of catching up time with numerous Boss. The forum lurkers of Granado Espada actually haven't tried camping Boss for a straight week, so reading to their "All-knowing" post is completely non-sense and irrelevant to those players who knows how to raid. Unfortunately the tide of trade in my server is more of Premium Item equal to a certain in-game item well that includes G-Points code.


Dimnishing number of Players
Contributory factory of the game was the two points above mentioned. Another one that crack the balls of GE supporters are lack of effort from local distributors in terms of advertisement. Many times this issue has been raised for almost two years and there are no visible efforts from the local distributors. In the case of Philippine community, most common answer to this is they cannot further keep the phase of the game. Spending become essential to the game, unlike other MMORPG they can still keep up the phase with optional spending. For example everyone can get a certain item that is reputable in-game through means of raiding and farming. Then premium items only count because of further enhancement. Well in my personal opinion this idea is good, unfortunately IMC nerfed some important drops that is essential for crafting. In my experience Snail skins and Chess pieces were like in the whole 12 hours of playing I only acquire 1-2 pieces. Take note that is not everyday, it always drop to luck and you need 30 pieces of it to create a reputable weapon in-game. In short this will take you a life time, and to cut this life time you spend more to get these in Adelina Booty Search. The game is fast phased and at least IMC should reconsider un-nerf drop rates of items necessary for crafting. And players became tasteless to this system in-game which really force players to shed away.


Fortunately sGE has not that much to rant about but the fact that the most essential parts of every MMORPG was strafed; In-game items, botting, players, and premium items. I still believe in SEA Granado Espada and the management that holds it. I hope they should see these point because the things they thought was good sometimes cause backfire to the game itself. The second year of Granado Espada SEA is near hope things will turn up a lot better. Til again I'll keep you posted pioneers.

Of the Hearts

February, a month were people who have a relationship consider this month a very special day for them. Well it goes with dating primarily and its obvious due to tradition. But then again it does not mean playing Granado Espada alone kills your relationship because they say its only another digital dimension. Sorry guys but in Granado Espada there are lovers inside the new found world. So this is my entry for FAA in a form of poster.

Well in the finale week of FAA I will try to produce a 30 second ad for Linksys category. So better watch how will I execute on this one. Til again I keep you posted pioneers!

Welcome to New Civilization

Yesterday the new civilization Zeia has revealed itself to the pioneers of the new found world. For now the updates are visible through their official website.

(Upon browsing in the official site, this magnificent page will prompt you)


(The new Zeia inspired layout for the official SEAGE website)

And the sought after update is when Selva can be included in your barracks so be prepared to get her. But make sure you have the necessary quest to gain access of getting this lovely RNPC. The only thing that most pioneers are held up of not accessing the server is the problem of getting their client updated maybe due to high traffic. So see you around pioneers and I'll keep you posted pioneers.








Original Source: Official News Article SEAGE

Back in Action!

(Product of boredom during yesterday's lag fest)

After days of lag and intermittent disconnection issues, IAH's technical team redeemed themselves today. When they resume their connection, the lag spikes in the server are gone. But for now, the issue is the lost of G-Points in their premium item inventory. For now IAH is in the process of resolving the issue and least the pioneers will enjoy tomorrow's colony wars. Then again I'll keep you posted pioneers.

GE Christmas tidbits

December is one of the much awaited month to most pioneers of the new found world. And this month there are things to be noted and I hope you participate on it.

Now you can have this two Christmas items from Leonardo Expresso himself; the Santa hat and Rudolph hat that can be wear by stock characters. Thanks from team GE for sharing this wonderful Christmas hats!

The next one was the forum event called "Show your Love" wherein you can send your wishes through a form of poem, song, blog entry, video, or anyway you like it special. And not only that, the top winner will have a chance to extend the warmth of Christmas through World Vision by choosing a child to be adopted by GE team and support the child by sponsorship. For more information about this, you can visit here.

Well pioneers hope you will enjoy the month of December, so again I'll keep you posted pioneers!











Article Source: Granado Espada Official Website

Spoiler: version 3.0

As the story continues the pioneers of the new found world will be stumbled upon the Aztec inspired region called Errac. Well Errac was named in kGE so there are chances that sGE will change it's name. For the mean time there are confirmation already spread through many forums, websites, and blogs about how to acquire equipment made of constellation signs.

1. Sign of Aries - Chimera
2. Sign of Taurus - Treasure Golem
3. Sign of Gemini - Dr. Fran Morthein
4. Sign of Cancer - Necromancer's Heart (?)
5. Sign of Leo - Elmorc
6. Sign of Virgo - Muerto's Chief
7. Sign of Libra - Dream Blade
8. Sign of Scorpio - Swamp Fish Angler
9. Sign of Sagittarius - (?)
10. Sign of Capricorn - Merman Eater
11. Sign of Aquarius - Gerero
12. Sign of Pisces - Dilos Latemn

New RNPC are expected in this expansion, well we are talking about Selva and Nar who are anticipated in the new civilization. There are more teasers that I will share to you guys. For now all we have are visible evidences of latest updates but changes may vary due to localization. I'll keep you posted pioneers!






Image and Article source: SOTNW official forums

Name the 3rd Server

After scanning through the suggestive names from our fellow pioneers, I found out that most of them just drop names for them to be luckily pick. And I see the mere fact that aligning a suggestive server name can be applaud if it reflects on its real name as defined by history and the contest is getting "you just post without researching".

When you say baroque, it is not a word that only define a time frame but it gives highlight about the past that gives shape to beauty; architecture, classicism, painting, etc. that contributes history. Am not giving lecture here pioneers but suggesting a good name for a third server and is PK should have a nicer name.

All I can hope is a sincere poster will win this particular contest of naming the 3rd server coming this December. Eventually if the winner comes from a poster who just list down names, I might strongly say that poster does not care to research and I pity those who gives information about their suggestive server name entry.

To all the pioneers good luck on this contest, hope the well deserve win.




Related Article: Name the New World

Claire Quest: Prepare for Lolita Justice!

This is the information gathered and confirmed about Claire's Quest and am already half-way to finish it.

How to trigger the Quest:
Meet the NPC Claire at the City of Auch with Claude Baudez as your leader in squad. Do take note that there is no specific level of what Claude Baudez you bring.

Quest Proper:
* After talking with Claire for the quest trigger, remove Claude Baudez in your team.
* Claire will give you a letter to be send for Claude, look for him at Cite Reboldoeux.
* Claude will give back a letter addressed to Claire, look for her again.
* The quest will describe Claude's test for Claire, so you will now move to Jose Cortazar at the Port of Coimbra.
* When you found Jose Cortazar, he will ask for some avocado sandwich which are sold at Lisa also at the Port of Coimbra.
* After you hand over the avocado sandwich, Jose will ask for 50,000 vis and 50 family reputation.
* Jose will now send you to an instance mission of eliminating 3 Escudo Pecher.
*After accomplishing this mission, you will now buy an Elemental Jewel that costs 10,000,000 vis that can be bought at item dealers in different towns.
* When you hand over to Claire the jewel and the quest item from Jose Cortazar, you are about to meet; Reboldoeux Investigating Team (H7 Cite Reboldoeux), Coimbra Emilia (J7 Port of Coimbra), and Enhancement Merchant Rio (H6 City of Auch). They will respectively give you; large age watch, headband, and rucksack quest items.
* Meet Claire again, and this time the quest will ask for a hunt.
* The quest will require 2 Unknown ores that can be found at Bona Vista River. You must kill some or more Elite Storm Cockatrice to get the quest drop Unknown ores.
* After acquiring 2 Unkown ores, move to Claude Baudez and this time he let Claire to join with you.
* Congratulations you have Claire on your family.


On my personal note, the quest was easy on lurking around the cities looking for NPC's. But the major problem was hunting the Elite Storm Cockatrice. Be reminded that if you could put your family to "Keep Mode" at Bona Vista River, use Musketeer type for fast kill and go to sleep if the Unknown ore is not lucky to slip on your quest counter. The quest above are now modified for sGE and previous changes was made from original kGE quests. Enjoy and more patience to you pioneers!


Reference: Epicsoft Forum

Are you ready for Rembrandt!?

Well as mentioned at the official Granado Espada forums, the world migration will be finished on the 16th at around 18:00 (GMT +8). As you can see the official forums has updated most of the threads with the new server names' Bach and Rembrandt.

As for me, I did some renovation on my blog site so the old Carracci feeling will be gone at least by sight. So I hope you guys appreciate the new modification on my blog site. I want to recognize the efforts made by Casafuego of Templars Faction (from Pachelbel server) by creating this wonderful banner of my favorite line up in Granado Espada. Well pioneers you won't even end your amazement on his great works because he has a deviant site which you can visit here at http://kamoteqt.deviantart.com

Well pioneers of former Carracci and Pachelbel, see you at Rembrandt. And Cheers to the pioneers of Bach server!

Network Blitz

Yesterday and early this morning was one of the horrible day the pioneers got from Granado Espada because there are intermittent connection from the server itself. But alas to the IAH team and the tech team they manage to redeemed themselves from this horrible day and now servers are stable.

And in addittion, the admins are giving away 1 Ancient Territory Pass and 1 Forgotten Territory pass a sign of good will due to this server disconnection. For more info about the new you can VISIT THIS LINK.

And next update, it is confirmed that on the 27th of this month Granado Espada Philippines will be having this 1st year celebration at SM Mall of Asia, SMX convention center in partner with Globe Telecommunications. So pinoy players of Granado Espada please do come and support the event. Without your support, it'll be put down to waste.

So pioneers have a blissful day and I'll keep you posted.

Novia vs Fiksdotter

After a while of doing the long quests just to acquire Gavin for my family, at last I got him. So this is how I do it.

Family Used: Vet Fighter, Vet Wizard, Vet Elementalist

Equipments used:

Fighter

Level 84 +4 Elite Plate Male +3DR
Level 92 +4 Elite Dragon Tooth +70% Human
Level 92 +4 Elite Castor Shield
Level 40 10% aspd Idge's Gauntlet
Level 40 5 eva 5% Hp up Idge's Boots

Wizard

Level 84 +5 Elite Staff of Simurgh
Level 100 +4 Claro Mago

Elementalist

Level 100 +4 Bracelet of Ziz
Level 92 +5 Elite Skullic Bracelet +3AR
Level 84 +4 Elite Robe of Uranus +3DR
Wise Man's Necklace *Quest Item +3AR/DR*
1 pc Chain Lightning Ring
1 pc Lightning Ring

Misc Consumables
1 Offensive Fillers
1 Triumph Fillers
1 Defensive Fillers
1 Mystic Ampule

Here is the process on how Novia was pawned in my case. Fighter moves some steps forward till +5AR/DR buff (Will of the Veteran) activates at the same time let my Wizard and Elementalist move as far as they can before the mission starts. After the conversation, Fighter buffed with +5AR/DR will provoke the three guards along Montoro. Then move to a safe place that Novia can't damage you with her AOE (Area of Effect) and attention span will not trigger against your team. If so, activate Misc Consumables as quickly as possible, in this scenario electric charge buff and magic barrier was cast and then I do the damage on the provoked with lightning skill. Repeat the process of casting lightning to the provoked until they die and Novia was the one left. Remember when facing Novia, make sure you are on foot at 5AR/DR buff or else she might smite you effortlessly. Do the same thing, provoke Novia and cast lightning. Remember maintain buff, provoke, lightning skill, and spam heal type potion. And a piece of advice, among the five only Monotoro can detect invisible units so use invisible potion only when situation asks for it.

Well if you think that it is impossible for you to finish this quest. The safest way to do this is when you reach the expert level to avoid misuse of premium consumables.

Today am happy because this is yet another accomplishment for my family and at least I am one of the people who can prove Veteran Families can finish this quest. Special thanks to AlphaOmega of Destiny Faction for the quest run through, Sovincine of Destiny Faction for free Katovic Soup, Reclusion of Destiny Faction, Yogen of All Stars Faction, and Xei of Takhisis Faction.


Reference: keegwen of sGE official forums

Fiksdotter's Blog Moved

It was of huge delay for me that I couldn't blog that well in my former blog host due to a bug. So I've decided to move my previous posts here so that I can continue my blog life for Granado Espada.

So I really wanted to extend my appreciation to those who visited my blog reading through my articles. Though I was bit annoyed because my former blog host already reached 21,691 hits.

Thank you guys and more power to the community of Granado Espada sGE.

Expert Smited Exp Rate

Hello Granado Espada Community of sGE! It was really a long time since my last post. I couldn't manage to update my blog due to some updates in my personal life. But now am back I have something to share with you all.

Lately, when I got back in the game, there are things I've observed about the latest patch 2.6.4 Requiem. Less expecting much of the updates thus there is one thing that caught my attention and that is the flow of experience rate from Veteran status to Expert Status. I consider myself as a resident of the Bahamas Marsh and Swamp of Darkness because there are chances that you might get .0002-.0003 experience points in most kills. But presently there is only .0001 experience point in regardless of monster level. I don't know, is the experience rate nerfed or something? Well I guess IAH and the developers might give as an answer about this. But for now, I advise the players to move at maps that they can easily kill mobs such as Albertal, Skullic Dungeon, and Via Fluvial. This is for the purpose of less costs in pots and other consumables but acquiring same experience points from higher level maps. For now lets wait what will happen. Good day again pioneers!