Magic the gathering: Reminds me of my days at highschool

I still remember the days where i spend money and time playing this game with my classmates. If i do remember correctly, few friends of mine who played this game with me are Ewan, Alvin Lim, Hyon Le, Hian Quan and many more. We spend almost the whole day together playing this game.

Well for myself, i have prepared many decks and I always loved my black deck. You see i love seeing my classmates getting frustrated when i terror their creatures and how i resurrect my dead creature from the graveyard.

When i play black, my objective is to finish the game fast because black needs lots of sacrifice. before i lose all my creatures, its better that i kill them fast.

All my decks are made in a standard format where i have 20 lands in every deck. if i am combining more than one colour, i will have a maximum of 2 colours.

I also loved to see my friends when i play my white deck. Man it was great. You guys heard of the card worship? well its an enchantment card where as long as i have creatures in play my life will never go less than 1. Putting this with a combo of a enchant creature card which prevents all damages done to the creature and then add "Mask of Law and Grace" which protects the creature from black and red spells. the moment this combo is out, the eyes of my classmates will fall especially if they are playing black or red. Just to be on the safe side, i have 2 worship, the prevent damage card (i think its invincible) 4 and Mask of law and grace 2. this way i seriously wont die

I also have a combo of Red and green where i have 4 disintegrate cards, and other cards that deals damage directly to the player. the motive of this combination is to allow green to boost mana and red to deal direct damage. This deck is made with lots of elves with low casting costs and these elves could be tapped for mana. combine this with a green land card (gaea's Cradle)which gives you 1 mana for each creature you own in play. then combine with red creatures which are not effected by summoning sickness to attack fast.

Of all colours i just cant play blue. i am not good at planning counters. well my younger brother Hock Seong loved this colour. he really get me mad with all the counters and returning creatures and enchantments to owner's hands. Hyon Le is also another brat who loves counter.

Among my friends, i have decks of all the other four colours (except blue because i gave all the blue cards to my bro), Ewan have all colours which he modifies all the time, Alvin loves to play red and loves to anger people by destroying lands.

Man those were the days. Yesterday while i was tidying my house i found my decks back and i really wanted to play the game again. i have been searching high and low for a game of magic so that i can play them whenever i have free time. i spent mush time looking for this game (software) to play but in vain.

There is also this collegue of mine (new BDE) who also plays this game. Hope i can really find this game so that i can duel AI. i remember vendors used to sell a Magic game but i forgotten its name

Miner's Lord Knight Build (Spear Knight) Str Dex Knight

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Introduction
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Why create Spear Lord knight?Spear Knights have high HPs and they have a balanced between offensive and defensive path. They might not be a killer like Assassins nor a meatball like Paladin. Knights are more like a combination of both.

Usually Knights works as a frontliner. They are the ones that ride to the combats first. Though Knights are the first to receive damages but with the right equipments, they can take tons of punishments. This way, Mages and others can storm in later to do their jobs.

Personal note: Try not to make Spear Knight as your first character because they need lots of zeny to be strong. Make yourself a second character to support knight’s high consumption of zeny or else you might be broke in no time

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Swordman Skills
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Increase HP Recovery
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Greatly speeds up your HP's natural recovery.
Type: Passive
Requirements: None
Skill points Max: 10
Comment: Max this because it increases your HP recovery and also increases the potential of potions

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Sword Mastery
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Increases damage power of one handed swords.
Type: Passive
Requirements: None
Skill points Max: 10
Comment: You can get some of this just to ease levelling when you are a swordie

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Two Handed Sword Mastery
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Increases damage power of two handed swords.
Type: Passive
Requirements: 1 Sword Mastery
Skill points Max: 10
Comment: My Knight have 0 at this skill

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Bash
________________________________ A powerful attack.
Type: ActiveRequirements: None
Skill points Max: 10
Comment: I maxed this. Combined with the quest skill Fatal Blow, Bash could cause stun status. Besides, I think this is the best skill a swordie has.

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Magnum Break
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A wide ranged splash attack with fire property.
Type: Active
Requirements: 5 Bash
Skill points Max: 10
Comment: I invested 1 point of this just in case I need to push the mobs away from me.

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Provoke
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Irritate the enemy and makes them charge at you. It also decrease their defence and increases their attack. Doesn’t work on undead
Type: ActiveRequirements: None
Skill points max: 10
Comment: I have 8 of this. Though many says you can save you skill points for other benefits but if any lower it reduces the success rate.

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Endure
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Prevents flinching and allows you to move freely while receiving damage from enemies.
Type: Active
Requirements: 5 Provoke
Skill points max: 10
Comment: Very useful. I maxed this. While mobbing, and if you get hit, you wont stop for a moment. Imagine when you are mobbing 20 mobs and one hit you all other 19 will also hit you and you cant escape. With this skill activated, you wont let it happen


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Lord Knight Skills
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Forget about the sword skills. If you follow my build you wont get the sword skills because you do not have sufficient skill points for them.

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Spear Mastery
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Increases damage of spear class weapons
Type: Passive
Requirements: Knight class
Skill points max: 10
Comment: Max this. This is the reason why you are reading my guide as a SPEAR KNIGHT

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Pierce
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A move that deals larger damage at larger an enemies
Small – 1 hit
Medium – 2 hits
Large – 3hits
Type: Active
Requirements: 1 Spear Mastery
Skill points max: 10
Comment: This works like bash but consumes less SP. Useful when PVM and levelling. Side note: Spears does 100% damage on Large monsters and only 75% on other sizes. So when levelling choose large monsters. I get 8

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Spear Boomerang
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A long ranged spear attack.
Type: Active
Requirements: 3 Pierce
Skill points Max: 5
Comment: It works when WOE to kill from a distant. Use this to prey on mages when they try to cast a spell just to ensure their spell fail. I maxed this

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Spear Stab
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Skill that knocks back an enemy and causes splash damage.
Type: Active
Requirements: 5 Pierce
Skill points max: 10
Comment: I don’t think this is useful. I got 5 on this to get clashing spiral

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Brandish Spear
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The most powerful mob killer a spear knight can have.
Type: Active
Requirements: 3 Spear Stab
Skill points max: 10
Comment:I maxed this skill. Useful in 2 situations. Levelling and when WOE to send status ailments (caused by weapons) to more victims. EG (Farmiliar Card to blind, Magnolia Card to curse)


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Counter Attack
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A defensive skill that prevents the knight from receiving damage while dealing damage at the same time.
Type: Active
Requirements: 1 Two Hand Mastery
Skill points max: 5
Comment: None. I did not get any of this because I totally forget about the sword branch.

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Peco Ride
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Allows the knight to ride a tamed Pecopeco.
Type: Passive
Requirements: 1 Endure
Skill points max: 1
Comment: 1. Get a peco. Looks better riding a peco and increases spear attacks when riding one

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Cavalier Mastery
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Regains your normal attack speed while on a Pecopeco.
Requirements: 1 Peco Ride
Skill points max: 5
Comment: Max to avoid any riding penalty on ASPD

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Aura Blade
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Increase damage by adding an aura to your weapon
Requirements: Two-Handed Sword Mastery Level 5, Bash Level 5, Magnum Break Level 5
Skill points max: 5
Comment: I get 0. Not enough skill Points

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Concentration
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Increase hit and atk but lowers def. gives endure effect
Requirements: Increase HP Recovery Level 1, Spear Mastery Level 5, Riding Level 1
Skill points max: 5
Comment: I get 5

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Tension Relax
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3 times hp recovery. Stops immediately when stand
Requirements: Increase HP Recovery Level 10, Provoke Level 5, Endure Level 3
Skill points max: 1
Comment: I get 1

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Frenzy (Berzerk)
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Triple HP & full HP & ASPD +30 & 2x Damage & Increase Movement Speed stackes with peco peco Flee reduced by half and DEF & MDEF = 0. Cannot use any skills potions or do anything else except to kill.
Requirements: Increase HP Recovery Level 10, Provoke Level 5, Endure Level 3
Skill points max: 1
Comment: I get 1

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Spiral Pierce
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Extend your spear, and spin it in a spiral fashion to increase overall damage and ability to pierce. A more powerful version of Pierce which ignores DEF and VIT DEF and also stun-locks your opponent for 3 sec. Damage is 100%+50*SkillLV% ATK. The attack is 5 hits with the damage divided evenly between the hits. However you can increase damage further by increasing the weight of your weapon (upgrades count too! LV 1 weapons +10/upgrade, LV 2 weapons +15/upgrade, LV 3 weapons +25/upgrade). Although damage will increase with better skill level, so will the Cast Time / Cool Down. Aura Blade does not add damage to this skill. Recent tests revealed the following (rather complex) formula: [(80% of weapons weight times (100%+level*50%) + (round.down(STR/10^2) + Upgrade Damage) * size modifier (small 125%, medium 100%, large 75%)) * card factors (+20% and such) * element factors ]* 5 hits

Requirements: Spear Mastery Level 10, Pierce Level 5, Spear Stab Level 5, Riding Level 1
Skill points max: 5
Comment: I get 5. It’s a very good skill if you have heavy spears such as Pole Axe or Hunting Spear.

In Short about whatever that its said above is the damage is affected by STR, ATK, Spear Weight, Size and almost anything

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Head Crush
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Whack the enemy’s head so hard that it continues bleeding. Does not work on undead and demon
Requirements: Spear Mastery Level 9, Riding Level 1
Skill points max: 5
Comment: I get 3.

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Joint Beat
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You will strike at the joints of the enemy's body, causing various harmful status ailments as well as damage. Higher level increases the damage and chance to cause status ailment to the enemy. As always VIT DEF protects against the status alignments.
Possible ailments:
1. Ankle Break: MoveSpeed reduced by 50%.
2. Wrist Break: ASPD reduced by 25%.
3. Knee Break: MoveSpeed reduced by 30%, ASPD reduced by 10%.
4. Shoulder Break: DEF reduced by 50%.
5. Waist Break: DEF reduced by 25%, ATK reduced by 25%.
6. Neck Break: Increase your damage by 2x, CRIT effect, and 30 second forced 'bleeding' status ailment
Requirements: Spear Mastery Level 9, Cavalry Mastery Level 3, Head Crush Level 3
Skill points max: 10
Comment: I get 10.

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Other Knight Skills (Which You Don't Need)
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Two Hand Quicken - Increases ASPD of Two Hand Sword Class for a certain duration
Bowling Bash - Mob control skill that knock backs enemies
Parrying – Block with 2 hand swords. Spear knights can forget this


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My Skills Build.
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Job 50 Swordman
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10 HP Recovery
10 Swordmastery
10 Bash
8 Provoke
1 Magnum Break
10 Endure
0 Two Hand Mastery

*Change to Lord Knight*
1 Peco Ride
5 Cavalier Mastery
10 Spear Mastery
8 Pierce
5 Spear Stab
10 Brandish Spear
5 Spear Boomerang
1 Tension Relax
1 Concentration
5 Spear Dynamo
5 Clashing Spiral
3 Traumatic Blow
10 Joint Beat


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Stats Build
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Str +8
Vit +10
Agi +2
Int +0
Dex +6
Luk +4
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Lord Knight Job Bonuses
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Str +15
Vit +8
Agi +8
Int +2
Dex +9
Luk +3

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Miner’s Lord Knight (Str/Dex/Vit)
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Benefit: Good Damage if you hold proper equipment
Drawbacks: Slow Attack Speed. Could be better if you use Berserk Potion. 158 ASPD with spear class (according to my build)

Note that all Stats are as per when naked.
My Build (at lvl 99 job 70)Str=98+15=113
Vit=71+8=79
Agi=5+8=13
Int=1+2=3
Dex=71+9=80
Luk=1+3=4

Max HP = 17849
Max SP = 394
Hit = 179
Flee = 112
Perfect Dodge = 1.4
Critical = 2.2
HP Regen = 104
SP regen = 4


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Equipment
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Weapons
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One Hand Spear
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Pole Axe
Hunting Spear
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Defence Equipment
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Headgears
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Top
-Bone Helm
-Helm
-Marionette Doll
-Anything fashionable
- Goibne's Helm

Middle
-Fin Helm-Masquerade
-Anything fashionable

Lower
-Iron Cain
-Anything fashionable

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Shields
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Slotted Shield
Slotted Mirror Shield
Platinum Shield
Valkyrja's Shield
Stone Buckler

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Body Armor
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Full Plate
Chain Mail
Odin’s Blessing
Diabolus Armor
Glittering Jacket
Meteor Plate
Silk Robe
Valkyrie's Armor
Goibne's Armor

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Garment
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Manteau
Wool Scarf
Crest of the Rider
Diabolus Manteau
Goibne's Spaulders
Mithril Magic Manteau
Muffler
Pauldron
Skin of Ventus
Vali's Manteau
Undershirt
Valkyrie's Manteau

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Footwear
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Black Leather Boots
Boots
Diabolus Boots
Goibne's Greaves
Greaves
Shoes
Tidal Shoes
Valkyrie's Shoes
Variant Shoes
Vidar's Boots

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Accessory
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Safety Ring
Ring
Necklace
Diabolus Ring
Earring
Glove
Horn of the Buffalo
Morrigane's Pendant
Ring of Flame Lord
Ring of Minor Spirits
Spiritual Ring
Vesper Core 02
Vesper Core 04


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Levelling Up
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Personal Recommendation
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When we are at Knight before reborn, I recommend that you first become an 2 handed Sword agility knight. This is because it would be easier to level.

With high ASPD and Big Strength, Agility knights could kill faster and with their dodging, Agi Knights could kill mobs of higher levels.

To be honest I was also an Agi Knight. Agi Knights is a good stepping stone before reborn. I will be writing about agi knights soon so just stay tuned.

Ragnarok alchemist advise

Building an Alchemist Brewing/Homunculus/Acid Terror

For this type of Alchemist, the merchant stage is the most troublesome. You see usually merchants will have STR/DEX/AGI but in order to produce the above mentioned alchemist, you will need lots of intelligence.

The intelligence that you get is to increase the damage of Acid terror. While you are an alchemist, maybe you would like to stay with a battle alchemist in order to speed up your leveling speed. While being an alchemist, you do not have Acid demonstration and therefore you seldom use the skills.

My personal advice is to create a battle alchemist first. When you are at transcended class (Creator) then you create the acid Demo alchemist.

My personal experience is as below:- (DEX/INT alchemist)
My alchemist stats (without equip)

STR - 34+5
AGI - 1+6
VIT - 23+3
INT - 93+7
DEX - 91+9
LUK - 5+0

The Beginning…
If there is anything that will cause anyone to give up on using an alchemist it must be when they are still at merchant stage. You see when you are at the merchat stage, yu have no other skills other than mammonite and Cart revolt to assist killing mobs. To make matter worse, you are developing an DEX/INT merchant.


At this stage, my only advise is to leech leveling. without leech leveling basically you cant do anything. Leech with a mage and things will be alot different.


How to level?

If you have fire blend, use firebolt on mobs who are afraid of fire such as wolf, skeleton, SS, GEO. since i am an INT/DEX char, my casting is fast and damage is ok. Try this strategy


If you have ice falcon, then kill fire element creatures which is more difficult to find. try creatures like zerom

if you have Light Epsilon then you can also try to heal bomb undead.

While i was a merchant, i spend most of my time leeching. when i start, i kill spore with a wind dagger. during that stage i pump more dex because it increases damages. until a certain level, i started kill wolf. then i created another mage and uses the mage to leech me at the wolf map.

When my mage is at level 30-40+ we started to leech at geographer. using fire bolt, this are easier. GEO gives lots of job exp and you will be able to turn to alchemist in no time. i did waited until job lvl 50 before i change class.

to be faster, change job at level 40. the moment you have a homunculus leveling is like a piece of cake.

My Own Ragnarok GC Crusader Guide

I am currently playing a paladin. Although its not a superb character and it dont standout much, but i believe it could give you some idea about what a crusader could do.

When i was a Crusader, I made it into a Grand Cross Heal Crusader. this means that is a Int/Dex/Vit Crusader. It was very difficult in the begining especially when you are a Swordie. The reason it is difficult is because swordie's skills required Str which you have it very low.

The added strength in my build is to carry more pots and also to help Swordie leveling. When You have grand Cross, You need lots of intel for the damage. When i was a Swordie, I pump only 30 str and the rest goes to Intel and Dex

Dex helps to increase the speed of Casting GC and Intel increases Damage, SP regeneration and increase heal amount.

This is my final Stats when before reborn
STR - 43 + 7
Int - 99 + 6
Agi - 8 + 2
Dex - 47 + 3
Vit - 65 + 7
Luk - 1 + 5

This is my Final Skills at job lvl 50
Sword Mastery - 10
HP Recovery - 10
Provoke - 5
Endure - 4
Bash - 10
Magnum Break - 10 <--- For mobbing Wolf when Swordie. Helps a lot in my leveling but Job Exp very low Faith - 10 Cure - 1 Divine Protection - 3 Demon Bane - 5 Heal - 10 Holy Cross - 10 Grand cross - 10 Equips
Haedongum (elemental)
Goibne's Set (armor, shoes, spaulers and Helm) - Helps to increase Vit and Def
Shield from Hell (Khalitzburg card)
Cranial Shield (Thara Frog card)
Sacred Mission
Isis card garment
Orc Zombie card garment
Archdam card - Change to holy armor
Permeter card - 15% resistance to Shadow and Undead <-- which is your prime enemy Freezer Card - not much contribution Heather Card - perfect dodge + 3 , Critical + 3 Archdam, Permeter, Freezer & Heater Card Combo Zipper Bear card + Flamberge Silk robe Mobs i kill (Swordie):-
Spore - Using wind Hoedonggum. Bash all the way
Wolf - Fire Haedongum. Mob and MB
Soldier Skeleton - Bash all the way. Fire Haedongum
Archer Skeleton - Fire, Bash
Isis - Tank with potion, Ice, Bash

Mobs that helps in KS
Anubis- one Heal Bomb and teleport. Wait for TU Priest to kill them

Mobs i kill (Cruz):-
Geographer - Bash and tank with whites. Fire Haedongum
Munak - Mob with GC at low level
Geffen dungeon 2&3 (nightmare, Deviruchi) - GC and tank with Whites. Good loot. Vent infil to support high Whites consumption
Raydric, Khalitzburg - GC and Tank with Whites, Good Loot

When i was a crusader, i often mob at Geffen dungeon because it is very near and easy to replenish the whites. I will use my DC MErchant to buy the whites and place them in the storage. Whenever i run out of them, i will BW back to Geffen and restart the circle. This way, i will get more exp per second. Fast and Easy

Why GC Cruz?
Well for me i was thinking that Cruz is just a stepping stone to become a Paladin. therefore, i Build a PVM build so that i could level up faster and turn to a Paladin at the shortest time.

When i have time, i will post a blog on my Paladin Build. Well it is a Devotion/shield Paladin which requires Vit/Str/Dex. All these are just my own build but of course it is not the best. it is just the best as i want it

Ragnarok Online

This is a game which started to get famous several years ago (well, during my days in school). Last time i was so engrossed with this game and during that time, money had been spent like water for the game.

Anyway i am back in this game now. I found this private server Eternity RO and i love them. You see, unlike other private servers, their experience is very low. only about 7 times the normal rate.

Not only that, their drop rate is also low which make the game as challenging as the original RO. Of course like all other private servers, they make money through donations but their donation items have no special effect.

I short i can only say 1 thing! The game is very fair. I had been with them even before their last reset. Now, there are more than 1800 players online anytime i log in. During WOE? more than 2300.

Join them today. i am sure you will be pleased.

here is their link: http://www.eternityro.net/index.php