[MSEA] Lion King Von Leon events

There have been a plethora of events ever since the inception of the Lion King Von Leon patch v1.07! For the entire content of the patch, refer here! I'll just be going through a couple of cute events.

1. View of the Rainbow and Gaga's crayons quest
After visiting Cassandra and starting the "View of the Rainbow" quest, go visit Gaga to obtain a pot of flower! Stay online for 30 minutes, the flower will bloom he'll award you with a Crayon! The colour of the crayon changes every day from 17/8 to 31/8, so its kind of necessary for you to come online everyday to obtain the 7 different colours of the rainbow.

Cassandra, the completed Rainbow painting, Gaga

You have a one day exception though: "Missed out one day and short of 1 color crayon? Not to worry! Gaga will give you the crayon of color that you want at the end of the event!"

In return, tada! The stats are alright I guess, unless you scroll it to be a really awesome overall. There's the +2 WA/MA anyway.

2. Ani raid!
For characters level 70 and up, at the start of every hour from 10am-10pm server time, an invitation will be sent for you to join the raid against this fearsome monster! If you accept, you'll be transported to a waiting room, then subsequently grouped into groups of 15 and transported to the map where Ani resides in~

So.. you just head straight towards it and kill.

There is a catch though, there is a limit on the pot you can take when you're inside the map. Time limit, if I'm not wrong. So far twice I've been in, Ani has been relatively easy to kill that I feel sad for it! Well, after its dead, you get a certain amount of exp based on how much your damage was, head over to the NPC on the left, get transported into another map and claim your reward: Ani's box

Double click it and there you have your reward~ I got a GFA 60% on the first try, must be way lucky, especially cause the price is like rocket-high right now.  Here's a list of drops: (from HiddenStreet)

Rewards:

Purification Totem x 5 (10.3400000%)

Purification Totem x 10 (10.3400000%)

Elixir x 50 (13.7900000%)

Elixir x 100 (10.3400000%)

Secret Mastery Book x 1 (0.3400000%)

Advanced Potential Scroll x 1 (0.6900000%)

Potential Scroll x 1 (1.0300000%)

Advanced Equip Enhancement Scroll x 1 (0.3400000%)

Equip Enhancement Scroll x 1 (1.0300000%)

Scroll for Cape for STR 100% x 1 (1.7200000%)

Scroll for Cape for STR 60% x 1 (1.0300000%)

Scroll for Cape for INT 100% x 1 (1.7200000%)

Scroll for Cape for INT 60% x 1 (1.0300000%)

Scroll for Cape for DEX 100% x 1 (1.7200000%)

Scroll for Cape for DEX 60% x 1 (1.0300000%)

Scroll for Cape for LUK 100% x 1 (1.7200000%)

Scroll for Cape for LUK 60% x 1 (1.0300000%)

Scroll for Gloves for DEX 100% x 1 (1.7200000%)

Scroll for Gloves for DEX 60% x 1 (1.0300000%)

Scroll for Gloves for ATT 100% x 1 (1.7200000%)

Scroll for Gloves for ATT 60% x 1 (1.0300000%)

Scroll for Earring for INT 100% x 1 (1.7200000%)

Scroll for Earring for INT 60% x 1 (1.0300000%)

Scroll for Earring for DEX 100% x 1 (1.7200000%)

Scroll for Earring for DEX 60% x 1 (1.0300000%)

Scroll for Earring for LUK 100% x 1 (1.7200000%)

Scroll for Earring for LUK 60% x 1 (1.0300000%)

Scroll for Earring for HP 100% x 1 (1.7200000%)

Scroll for Earring for HP 60% x 1 (1.0300000%)

Yippee. Right now, the prices of potential scrolls and all scrolls, really, are inflating so much! Probably a boom period before the bust period comes.

My examinations are like tomorrow. Wish me well & happy mapling!

[MSEA] Lion King Von Leon patch

It says it all! 17th August, here I come! And those of you who want to try out UE (Ultimate Explorer), go max your KOC level to 120 now!

[MSEA] Happy National Day, Singapore!



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So what's on that we can look out for in MapleSEA?
(Nuuuu blogger erased my entire post so I have to rewrite everything! T.T)

1. Singapore's 46th National Day 1.5X EXP and drop rate event!
1.5X EXP: 1500 to 1530, 1600 to 1630, 2030 to 2100, 2130 to 2200
1.5X Drop rate: 1430 to 1500, 1530 to 1600, 2000 to 2030, 2100 to 2130

Why not 2X though? Is 2X reserved for reimbursement of rollbacks and unexpected downtime? Just last week there were 2 rollbacks, and 1 not too long before. It was pretty tragic, for those who lost items / meso and had their levels decrease. The server is still rather unstable right now, so do take note!

2. Independence Day event from 1st August to 2nd September! (Repeatable every 6 hours)
Only characters with a minimum level of 20 can take part.
Meet NPC Joyce at the Event map (Event map can be accessed via the Mirror or Dimension Versatile Portal at each town) and she will present you with a quiz of 5 questions related to which country you choose!

The answer is 16 1/2 years old!

Answer them all correctly (don't worry you get to keep retrying if you get them wrong) and stand to win various prizes, including a random SG or MY in-game equipment including Eye Mask, Sunglass, and Independence Weapon. The best being the Sunglass though, I must say.

I kept trying on 6 different character and they kept getting random weapons that are not for their class which was starting to bug me off and 1 of the character had to get the SG Flag Sunglass 4 consecutive times, with a total of 5 now. What are the odds?! Sadly, this is my friend's character, none of the rest of my characters got it.

Well, don't give up, there's still quite a while before this quest is over!

3. Sales of I ♥ SG/MY tops in Cash shop

These cute tops  and  go for 3,000 each. Non-permanent though, I wouldn't mind buying if it was permanent!

The rest of the National Day events are not in-game ("MapleSEA Independence Day Celebration 2011" Forum Event) or require cash (Independence Day Shout-Out 2011 GM Event). Click if you want to read up on them! On a side note, there hasn't been a creative Megaphoned wish for Singapore so far. I'm tempted to join so I can stand a chance to win.....

On another note, there's Temporary Blocking of Aran, Dual Blade, and Evan Characters Creation after 17th August with the inception of Lion King Von Leon patch! In preparation for Chaos patch coming into MapleSEA, for they get new skills etc.

Happy national day Singapore!

[MSA] Review of MapleStory Adventures

Well its finally up!
So here's a short review of what it is like!

I chose a mage because I wasn't sure I would like melee style fighting. Since you probably can't change jobs in the game, better be safe than sorry!

First, quests lead you on in the game. There are a few main ones, which will be displayed at the left side of the screen. There are quests from NPCs at every map too, and they are mostly map specific. Like "Hunt 30 slimes" or "Collect 15 Seals" or something like that. They are relatively easy to complete, and you mostly get money as rewards! $.$

If you're not interested in completing these quests, you can just hunt slimes to level up or something. But bear in mind that some quests allow you to level your skill up and learn crafting and things like that! I'm not sure if you can proceed on to the next map to higher level monsters and so on. I'll check again!

As for skills, complete certain quests and you can unlock the various levels in each skills. As you upgrade it higher, you'll need skill permits. Here's how the social game part comes in. You can either use Facebook credit to buy, or you could have a chance to get it every 5 consequetive days you log in, or you could ask your friends to send these permits to you.

The art of crafting! It reminds me of the profession skills that are going to come out in Chaos patch. So once you buy the recipe, you can start crafting inside your cauldron. The red rock you see is the magic stone, which drops out of every mob you kill.

 There you go, the magic stone!

The game interface feels very much like a mini-MapleStory, except with the usual Facebook game elements. One rather annoying thing is that your energy keeps running out. Each day, you have 2 free refills of 70 energy, so make full use of that! You have to train till you have no more energy and there will be a pop-up allowing you to collect the pizza (70 energy).

One major difference would be the map! To get around places, you click the World Map and you click on the destination you want to get to. Fast and efficient, I must say, but I wouldn't mind a nearest town scroll please!

The music playing is the background song in Henesys town, which further adds on to the feel of the authentic MapleStory! All in all, its a rather nice game to pass time for MapleStory fanatics waiting for the server check to be over. Go try it out!