The one about Mighty Cruz (an in-depth look)

YAY! the day has finally arrived! I vet'd my IBS, bought her a E92 Polearm, the Scythe to be exact (Honestly I tought the weapon of a grim reaper would look a wee bit more intimidating, than that, but I'm not giving up on my hopes for a Black Robe costume muahahaah)

I ran past all those big dino's and ended up in the Bahama base camp. Went to the scholar, gave him the Memo's and 25MP and bought me a Mighty Cruz stance book. so first of all, you need to have Blandir Cruz stance on leve 25, and obtain a Stancebook for Mighty Cruz, and have a polearm (well duh!). The first thing noticing, when switching the stance is that the stance blesses you with a ~5% Attack bonus!!!(Puts the S in Sweet^^)

Overall hitting, and the stance posture looks exactly the same as in Blandir cruz. The character brandishes the polearm the same way as he/she did with Blandir cruz. (was a bit dissapointed here.) The stance grants you with 30% attack speed bonus, 12% critical bonus, and 10 Block, with previously mentioned ~5% attack bonus. In a way, Mighty Cruz compared to Blandir Cruz is like enchanting a weapon. (wee bit stronger).

Skills? Oh there's nothing little about them. they hit wide and they hit hard! Most of the skills reduce enemy'y armour, and some of them, grant a double damage bonus to Metal tank Armours.

This stance is definetly worth having if you're a Polearm user, and if you like to hit Heavy Armoured bosses.

My idge with 7 STR (I increased at Veteran level), has 835 attack, with a +4 E92 40% atk up Scythe 26 Block, and attack spd of around 95. Pretty intimidating don't you think?;) makes her a well balanced tank, that can survive the horrors of Katovic, Frozen Plain, and not to mention the bahamas swamp in afk mode :D (ofc equipped with E84 Plate 20Def up)

The one about the new Soldier's costume.

Well i'm still stuck with leveling my IBS (She's on 92 ATM), and I haven't started leveling her Mighty Cruz stance. So i'm just going to write about the new update.

So this week's update featured new costumes for the soldiers of Coimbra and Auch, which are available via the Cash Shop. Basically all the Costumes change the way they look (well duh it's a costume.), and give them 1 bonus point if AGI. Basically meaning the soldiers will now have 6 AGI. Except for the Reboldeux soldier stats, which im not sure, if there's a Quest that upgrades the Stats, and the Costume doesn't or, both do, or both don't i'll have to update this.

The costume makes an extravagant look on the soldiers like they were the Queens rolay guard or sth. (or just something dee-zigned by your Andre.) and Cost 6k something GP. kinda expensive, since i only saw one user of any soldier (Saw some guy experting his Coimbra trooper, to make a friggin' tank! his stats already include 7HP, and at expert lvl having a 9HP char, is nice. especially if he's got defender stance and provoke.) But I doubt he'll buy the dress, to give him 6 Agi.

Giving the costume to Auch trooper, will increase his AGI to 6, making him/her a copy of a Musketeer, w/o the vet, and pistol stances. so basically for 6k GP, you can make a Musk, without as many stances, but having the ability to wear Leather Armours. (Yes, the Auch Trooper has Concentration.)

Giving the Costume to Reboldeux trooper (or completing the quest), would match his base stats to those of a fighter. Straight 6-es. Again, spendins 6k GP, would make him a basic fighter without Provoke. Useless imo unless you have a 'thang' about those soldiers, and you want to 'step out' of the croud. I guess it matters on how much GP you have, and how unique you want to look.

Enough for now, I have to get back to lvling my IBS, she's nearly 93 now. After vetting her I'll write an in-depth look for Mighty cruz. (Then I just need to get a ATP to write a guide for Low guard, which I surprisingly saw only one player having it. Still think the Baron RNPC's should get Low Guard.)
Buh-bye;)

The one about history repeating itself.

so yes it happened again. got sent to jail, while only seeing those korean letters. I mean come on! I get it that it happens once, and you can call it a glitch/bug, but two times in a row? For Cryin' Out Loud! i'm having a feelin this is all a part of some major plan to sent Kasu to jail 4 evah!!!

Now i can't really write anything usefull, still leveing my Mighty Cruz stance, and if it wasn't for the interruptions like these (yes, hunting for Rat items, really isn't my thang.) you guys would already have a guide written.

so i'm back to hunting, hopefully tomorrow, i'll get the "guide" of Mighty Cruz done.

In the mean time, watch this one:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO6fZUAb2GM

I call dibbs on the blonde ^^

The one about Raid Assault (in-depth look)

So today there was this update, bringing us new veteran stances, and Idge The Battlesmith as a RNPC card, in the premium item mall. (Don't get too excited she costs 15,000 Gpoints).

All of the new veteran stances (Raid Assault, Mighty Cruz and Low Guard), are available in Bahama Base Camp, by talking to the scholar. He'll ask of you to give him 25x Expeditions Memo and 25x Mistery Powders. So today, I still haven't recieved my Gpoints, so i borrowed 25x Mpowders, and went to Base Camp. Talked to the Scholar, and Bought me Raid Assault Stancebook. Now in order to learn this vet stance, you need to have Corte Duplicado stance on level 25. After that just click on the book, to learn it.

The vet stance, makes Lisa Lynway stand a bit lower, with her feet, a bit further away from each other, in order to gain lower center of gravity. the whole Hit animaton was a bit dissapointing for me, because, she only turns her body from side, to side, making a wide sweeping motion with her daggers.

With leveling up her stance, she gets Attack speed bonus, Critical bonus, and Block!. But it's a low block, definitly can't be used for tanking raidbosses. At level 25 she gets the following bonuses: 25% speed, 25% critical, and +5 block. So adding a vet point in AGI, would increase her attack speed on around 10 with that stance, and increasing her block from 13-15.

Up: Lisa in all her glory.

Basically, if you are a speed freak (like myself), and giving Lisa daggers with high attack speed bonus (28-30%), and having a stun/poison on them, it's very useful to have her and the stance for raidbosses hence the use of "stun-lock".

I'll write again tomorrow, if i get lucky enough to get my Gpoints and buying the Mighty Cruz polearm stance.

buhbye ;)

The one about being sent to jails

So yes, yesterday I got reported by some lunatic, who had too much free time on his hands, and i got sent to jail. And no, I wasn't using any 3rd party programs because I dislike the idea of paying someone/sometinh to play games instead of me. Thats just plain stupid. Paying someone to play your games, while you just watch? Boo Boo to everyone who bots heh. So how I ended up in jail? well... thats another story really. As some of you may already know, usually when someone reports you as a botter (either someone playing BotCop, an actualy GM ingame (haha yeah right)or someone who's spot you've taken, and hes too lazy to move/switch channel.) a window pops up. like a little square window, kindly telling you that you've been reported using 3rd party programs. So you have 2 minutes and 3 attempts to put in the text that appears in the window. So usually it starts by seeing some weird asian letters/fonts (Edit: Found out they're Korean), and after a second or two, the image switches to normal, european letters. But, this time it didn't. It just kept showing me those letters. so i wated.. and waited.. the I was like: my gosh my 2 minutes are almost up. So 10 seconds before the time ran out, i just started pressing radnom letters, hoping it would fit those in Korean.





Epic Fail.





Got send to jail. Was pissed. Sent a Ticket to the Tech support. Expected a "screw you, we ain't gonna sent you out of jail. What were you doing there in ste first place??" kinda reply. I was surprised.





I got this:





Answer: Thank you for reporting this issue.This issue will be forwarded to our developers for a more in-depth investigations.Thank you for allowing us to be of service to you. Your ticket has been processed and is now closed.Should you encounter the same issue, please submit a new ticket through our Feedback and include GE-080819-0000002 as the case reference.We hope you continue to enjoy your adventure in Granado Espada.





Then i Realised something. I wasnt the first and only one. Seems like they have these kind of problems all the time. The bot report window isn't foolproof!!! Meaning: even innocent gamers can be sent to jails. Basically, you'll end up the same, if you use 3rd party programs, or not. One more reason for some poeple to either quit, or start using the GEcrazy program. Sweet. Screwed.





So I searcher the forum, and technical issues, and bug report section. Found out this thing happens very often.





As the user named tyro said:


This is what you get for playing v2.6:


Luckily You Are a Korean, Go type the text and hit SEND. If not, go to prison.

I just couldn't agree more.

The very first one (YAY!)

So here I am, starting a new Blog in the sea of blogs, hoping to bring me fame and fortune. Not. xD



since i have too much free time in my hands i started a blog about the game Granado Espada, and of my family in this game.

My family is currently made out of 18 characters (yay 2 full baracks woohoo), but mostly I play only a few of them.





My main team consists out of 3 Experts (Brunie/female Elementalist/male Scout).



now this blog is made purely as a tool to inform and educate the GE gamers of GE updates, and the ones copied from Mistress Hrins blog. (Oh yeah forgot to mention she's a nice lady, over there at the IAH games, who keeps the community happy, and tries to calm angry gamers about the ever-postponing crew of IAH developers (no offense here, nothing personal from my POV))



Last time there was a post in her blog, it was one who everyone should put in their Favorite folders, regarding the new updates of GE v2.6, and she announced that v2.9 will (Should) be out towards the end of September.



Here's a link to her blog: http://hrin.iahgames.com/



Personally i really can't wait for the upcoming update on this thursday, when the new Mighty Cruz, Low Guard, and Raid Assault stances will be released. I'm really psyched!

Hopefully i won't be dissapointed as I was with the musketeer stances, when they announced the v2.6 in march : /

I know, I know you guys will probably say: "Dude, chill, it's just a game!", but try to put yourself in my skin.
a)I come from europe, meaning that whatever bonuses you guys get over there in your cybercafes, I can never get, not to mention not being able to participate in some of the GE parties and festivals, and stuff like that. (and yes, I'd really like to meet my Factionmates in person too)
b) getting Gpoints, without owning a creditcard can be a long journey. Walking to the bank, waiting in line for 45 minutes, fillin' out the forms for the payment using Western Union Money Transfer, then waiting for another 35 minutes for the nice lady behind the counter to Fax the form of WU to WU HQ, then waiting for another 15 minutes for their reply, and walking back home, revitalising yourself with some cool H2O, mailing the MTCN of WU to the gameshop, and finally waiting for a week, for the Gpoints to arrive. And by that time, there is another update, requring more Gpoints. so basically I'm back to square one. Ha Ha.


Enough for now, i'll write again when i see the new stances yay :D