Of Latale and Life

Hey guys, long time no update. I’m aware the last time I updated was over 3 months ago and no, this post isn’t really going to be filled with screenshots (unfortunately). I simply don’t have the time to take a giant folder of screenshots I took over the course of 3 months and crop them one by one. Too many projects/assignments to do in life.

There are a couple of things I would want to talk about on this entry though (even though I’m pulling an-almost all nighter for an assignment of mine) regarding some of the current stuff. It might be some what of a long read, so I’ll just post a bullet point of each topic and hide the rest of the in-depth thoughts after cut.

1. Pokemon Black & White
2. Latale
3. Recent Earthquake in Japan

 

MMOsite x ogpLT give away

Hey guys, I just found out from varies topics on ggftw’s Latale section that there’s a MMOsite/OGPlanet give away for Latale players to celebrate Xenadia update we just had.

1. To begin, first make an account on MMOsite.

2. Get the activation email and activate your account.

3. Log in an and out (else it won’t recognize you as activated account)

4. Go to this page (logged in again) and click on submit to obtain your 10 digit/letter code

5. Visit this page to enter the code and redeem.

6. Wait up to a week for the prize to be deliverd, if not, helpdesk?

Hope this helps.

Edit: This has personally worked for me and other ggFTWers. So if it doesn’t work for you, wait a few more days and see!

 

2010 Memories

What better way to end the year than to post memories from the year before a new year approaches? Hurhurhur, time to take a trip down the memory lane and see some interesting stuff that happened throughout 2010 from my perspective!

Anyway, to start, follow the cut after this!

Hur, Shiki’s look before changing into a bard. Lol Berkhart set + ladybug earring stuff >: Well, back then it was either Berkhart or Mikoyan functional sets.

 

Mixed feelings

Hey guys, I’m still on holiday over in the windy city of Chicago and so far the weather has been pretty agreeable (unlike 2 years ago). I’m still trying to log on LT daily to chat and say hi even though the net here really sucks. I almost gave up on the second Giving Back to the Players event (found here) until my friend Nihta mentioned to me that this one ran way longer. In the last one, you only had 30 days to get those 27 days for the top prize + the tier below them. However for this one, you have 41 days to get those 27 days. Meaning, if you start logging in an hour each today starting from today, you could STILL get the entire tier.

In any case, I was pleasantly surprised when I was checking through my events tab on Shikigami while turning in my wolf tears from some expert runs.

Wow. I didn’t think I got my wish granted. Although they said 30% people who post their wishes would get em granted, I had no expectation about it. PLUS, I thought the wished items were going to be delivered to the gift box tab in the bank so when I saw I didn’t have them, I figured I’d try the second make a wish event for facebook users only.  What a surprise!

Had to double check the thread + my wish to believe. xD

And the first give back to the players event rewards came.

While I’m pretty happy about getting the rewards, I can’t say the same for other people. There were quite a bit of people on both OGPlanet + ggFTW post that they logged on the whole 27 days but didn’t get the tartarus set or anything at all. And some people who did not log on for an hour ever day for 27 days HAVE gotten the tartarus set. I’m appreciative of OGP doing these events that have such wonderful prizes. But I do think that if someone’s going to host an event, they should take some prep time to make sure the event was done right. I can only hope people who helpdesk OGP would get some sort of explanation about this event.

Also, as time passes by, more problems are discovered by players regarding the Xenadia update. Here‘s a topic that compiled a list of problems after the patch got released. I hope those all get fixed soon.

So yeah, I’m happy I got both my make a wish + log in 27 days prizes, but I can’t help but to feel that these things can’t outshine the problems created after the update + log in 27 days event. x:

 

A Christmas Tale

Mini comic about Christmas celebration with friends. Unfortunately under extreme time constraints, I only have part one done for now. Will get to part two when I either a) work on it during vacation or b) work on it when I come back to school

Anyway, click the cut and let the image load fully. It’s 500×10,000 image file, about 1.2mb.

 

Xenadia Update Review

Yo. I’m typing this up as I’m about to get back home for Christmas vacation. Too bad the net’s broken at home (apparently) so I’m not able to take my sweet time to get more screenshots at home like I thought I would! But, I still took decent amount of screenshots to show some areas of Xenadia and quests I did along the way to change into a minstrel.

You can get to this map by going to the beach map as if you’re going to Atlantis, but instead of taking the upper warp by Tonio, take the newly added lower warp and go all the way right and talk to NPC as you get near it.

Anyway, follow the cut for more Xenadia update related stuff!

 

All right: Xenadia update TONIGHT

Just a short notice that long waited Xenadia update (3rd jobs) will finally be out tonight. Expect a long review on the new content as soon as I get to hop on and play it.

Not sure if I’ll be able to complete my own 3rd job quest for Shikigami seeing how I have one more final to write on Friday and going home on Sunday. Well it can’t hurt to attempt to finish it!

Stay tuned!

 

Still alive

I’m still hopping on and off LT during weekdays and play during the evening 2x during the weekend.

There haven’t been much going on in terms of actual content so I was less inclined to take screenshots of fashion updates. The only /fashion/ update that’s worthy of talking about are the new Gaia and Tartarus Sets. They’re like Gabriel and Lucifer sets, being first place LaDeck prize, with the exception that upon equipping two pieces of the same piece, instead of RIDR that Gabriel and Lucifer give (correct me if I’m wrong, I believe they give ridr), Gaia and Tartarus gives IDR. Meaning, 2 pieces = 50% idr, stack another 2 piece from the opposite set and you got yourself constant 2x.

Speaking of IDR, I only just learned recently that IDR nostrums DO STACK together. I’ve used a 200% idr nostrum along with an 100% idr nostrum and both showed on my buff icons. Haha, I thought they were like experience potions that override each other.

Anyway, since this is just another short update post (I’ll write up a long post when 3rd jobs update gets here), I guess I’ll post some images regarding Shikigami.

 

Taking break from LaTale

It has been a while since my last update. I do still go on LT to check out the updates and etc, but mainly busy making more props for cosplays and what not. Also Nexon’s new mmo Vindictus has launched open beta with new updates… But yea… haven’t MMO for at least 2 weeks now… whoever is also playing Vindictus see you there sometime in the near future!

 

Wat

OGP Latale’s second anniversary is quite disappointing, really.

First off, NPC for the anniversary events is..kinda broken. Not sure if it was planned or not, but that NPC Jane in Belos disappears way to often for players to access the event maps needed. Like, she’ll randomly appear and disappear and I don’t think that’s how the NPC for the event should work.

Secondly, they removed super puzzles completely from LaDeck because apparently the prices are ‘permanent discount’ prices now and people wouldn’t need to ladeck them anymore. Come on OGP. You want players to fork over 30 astros PER 6~10 super puzzle, driving up the market to even more insane levels? I’m pretty sure players were complaining about super puzzle prices before, so what’s this half assed solution? Oh okay, OGP gave us a ‘permanent’ discount. But the hell with that. They used the excuse that the summer sale discounted the ‘permanently discounted’ super puzzles so that’s why they were 15 astros per during the back to school sale.

How are the players supposed to know there were two discounts applied? To be honest, I still consider them lying to us through the teeth. Goddamn, 15 astros per puzzles is a good fair price. But 30 astros? What a joke. The 6~10 super puzzles have been floating around 1.2~1.5mil before the retarded price raise + puzzles being taken out of ladeck. Now what? Them 6~10 puzzles go around for 3.5mil on average. I’m not sure why OGP wants to piss off the players and break the economy even more or what during their /celebration/ time.

And yes, while 3rd class is overhyped, you’d think with Aeria closing, they’d start the 2nd anniversary with a bang right? No. Not really. Everything’s all quiet and lame. There’s no real content updates. Just boring events with pretty lame prizes (which doesn’t include super puzzles) to make the players bored and upset.

Way to go OGP. At this rate, you’re taking a leaf right out of Aeria on their path to fail.