Fiesta VS Terra

Nothing much happened this week, so instead I'm going to do a blogpost on a question I get asked alot: Which is better, Fiesta or Terra?

First let me list out all the differences: Fiesta's level cap is level 110, Terra is level 130. You might think it's super hard to level all they way to there, and I agree, though I think the real levelling challenge comes at level 115, when most people pretty much finishes all their Kingdom Quest quests.

Second, the experience points (EXP) gained on Fiesta is quite minimal, while on Terra, during the low levels, you can kill a slime and get 2 levels' worth of EXP. Personally, I took about 2 days to reach level 60, including my time spent on making money. My cleric's master told me that he reached level 115 in a single day, but then I told him he has no life :P

Third, making money. On Fiesta, you either work on your Production Skills, or you buy and resell to make money. Personally, I sold materials to vendors. It isn't that good of a way of making money, but I don't like working on Production Skills, and I'm terrible at prices. However on Terra, almost everyone uses the same way to make money: decompositioning. Saps sold to NPCs fetch a ridiculously high price, with every Low Quality (LQ) sap selling at 5s each. Mushrooms and toadstools sell for the same price. What most people do is that they farm for High Quality saps, or buy them, and they decomp it down to LQ saps, which sell for more, and they sell it to the NPCs, so usually there's always a crowd around Nina. Of course, that drives up most of the prices for other items, like weapons and armour.

Fourth, what NPCs sell. On Fiesta, if you want something from the SparkCash store, you have to make sure you have real money to pay it up. However on Terra, everyone has at least one SparkCash item because the NPCs sell it in Roumen. This is one of the biggest advantage of Terra over Fiesta. On Fiesta, the only permanent SparkCash item I have is a Red Wedding Outfit on my cleric Pearlglimmer, while on Terra, I have Permanent Pink Valentines Outfit, Angel Wings, Candy Cat (mini-pet) and Platinum Crown, with plans of getting a permanent Cat Tail. Weapon Skins on Terra also are permanent, except for the Teva Skins, which are 30 days. On Fiesta, Weapon Skins have a durability on them, like 3k, or 25k. If you want to use it for a long time, you need to constantly repair it. On Terra, I have a Le Papillon Staff Skin for my Wizard.

Fifth, Kingdom Quests. While on Fiesta Kingdom quests (KQ) starts on level 7 with King Slime KQ, on Terra it starts at level 90. Just as well, I don't want to grind my 90s out. King Slime KQ also gives ridiculously high EXP, so after 2 KQs and 1 turn-in for a quest, you can hit level 95 already. On Fiesta? Henneath KQ gives 1% EXP at level 92, and it also doesn't have quests.

There are actually alot more differences, but for the sake of keeping it short, that are the main differences. Now coming to the point: is Fiesta better than Terra?

It depends on you, but personally I still prefer Fiesta, because all of my friends are there. Sure, I found some friends in Terra as well, but it doesn't beat the social circle that I have on Fiesta. Guilds are pretty much inactive on Terra except for raids, while when I was on Fiesta, DaBarKadz and Meteor_Shower can spam up my whole chat box with green letters.

However if you're more of a soloer, I'd say that Terra may fit you, because the stuff you get there are really good, especially if you can't afford SparkCash.

That's my conclusion for Fiesta and Terra. How you view it, it's really up to you.

Story Update

Since Terra server is down for emergency maintenance, I might as well do my Story Update now. I've been levelling my cleric Celesta to level 60, as well as still on the lookout for more friends that I knew. And I really did find 2 this week.

Enjoy!

I had my scariest Kingdom Quest EVER this week! I had joined a Lost Mini Dragon Kingdom quest, and the whole KQ was pretty much filled with clerics. There were only a few mages and one fighter, I think. When we were running past the mobs, I saw that nobody was luring the Werebear miniboss, so I decided to lure it on the assumption that the fighter will wrestle the aggro out of me later. Guess what I ended up with?

Tanking -.- However I had a really good cleric in the party so I was kept alive despite my meagre 4.8k defence. Shout out to Juny for all the awesome heals! I had to go a little while after thanking though, and I think they failed the KQ.

Levelling my cleric was not that fun, since I was a cleric on Fiesta and it just seems like repeating old patterns. But I figured that my cleric deserved a level 60. However I was also after the new animations since I was so used to the old animations that I don't know what the new animations represent! Okay I figured most out, but I still need to check.
The new animations are pretty though :P Apparently when I finally painstakingly hit level 60 for her, the promo went and glitched again...
No mobs. I guess this kind of promo is the best for clerics though. Also, if you look in the chat I'm actually talking to one of my old friends from Bijou. He was also a old guildy from Shuzoku.

Okay, that pretty much sums up this week. Since final year exams are just round the corner, I will not be posting that much for these few weeks, just the Story Updates. See ya!

Story Update

Another week has passed, so it's time for my story update! I've been mainly working on my archer, Opalsparkle, though I also managed to get married on my Wizard as well for the buffs.

Hope you enjoy my stories for the week!

I was hanging around in Elderine when I saw a notice from KylerB on Party Registration that said "LF wife". I didn't think much of it at that time and I sent him a whisper saying "LF>hubby", just for fun. It got us talking and I realized that I actually KNEW this guy from Bijou! He was one of my old guildmates from Shuzoku on Bijou. We got married soon after.
He was only level 60 at that time, but it didn't really matter, and I also offered to help him in powerlevelling to make his life easier. It felt really good to be reconnecting with my old friends.

I finally decided to do the level 20 promo for Opal proper, but I hit a problem: nobody giving a buff. There WAS a cleric who offered to buff me, but when she asked "are you german", I said no, and she just ran off. Heck, why do you have to buff people according to where they're from?

This promo went quite easily because when you see my stat window after a few levels...

That was my damage :P I cheated though, had a Harm Scroll on.

I was levelling Opal in Collapsed Prison when a level 36 mage asked whether he could be in my party. Normally I don't trust people like that to NOT mess up, but he did a pretty good job of helping me to slow down the mobs and dealing damage. He then offered to level me up to level 60, and I gladly accepted. Turns out he had a level 112 Ranger and we had a enjoyable powerlevelling session.

In return, I offered to level up his mage to level 60.

A few days ago I was in Roumen when I heard someone chatting to another. What caught my attention was WHO was talking. It was DumbPandaCow, journeyrocks/MooieLeugen (did I spell that correct?) on Bijou. He was a guildie from DaBarKadz. When I whispered him "hi journey", his reaction was something like this:

Sorry about the bad quality, might take you some time to read. After that we were basically catching up with each other, chatting about friends on Fiesta, stuff like that. It feels really good to be hanging out with people I actually knew instead of people whom I just knew on Terra.

That concludes my update. See you soon!

Mission Accomplished: Truth Set

I'm sure alot of us on Terra have gone into the same phase: checking out shops everyday, putting up notices in Party Registration, and STILL you can't get that last little piece of a 115 blue. For me, the culprit is my Truth Pants.
I've looked for it up and down, turned the world upside down in hopes that everything will fall out, and still I couldn't find one that I want. Okay, I have seen Truth Pants alot of times in shops, but they were either +9ed already, or have such godly stats on it (or so overpriced) that I can't afford it anymore. Sure, I know most people go into decomping saps mode when it comes to money, but it just bores me to death, and it isn't really my style of making money.
BUT....I finally found the whole set!

Ah, finally a small break with some good armour in hand. My armour isn't that godly, most of them just have decent INT or DEX stats on them. However, it is also a mage's best defence, apart from END. If you do damage well, you can kill monsters before they can get to you, and if your Evasion is high, then you increase your chances of mobs missing on you. To me, it's even more important than END stats. I was a END fanatic back when I was on Fiesta, but that's just because my main was a cleric and END is especially important to a cleric. On mages? Not so much.

My next aim is to probably hit level 120 on Aquina. It's going to be a lonnngggg grind...

One Year Anniversary

Wow, one year had passed since I started playing Fiesta! I remember how I started off on Fiesta: whacking the slimes over the head with my staff until I found out about the spells, how I messed up the stats on my first character (she was a mage), and eventually I just stopped playing her and made my cleric instead.

My cleric was the character which I really developed. I was basically a healbot, slowly mastering the loops on healing effectively and keeping myself alive. My previous failed character helped me to know the strengths and weaknesses of other classes, and this helped me in healing. My first opinion about Fiesta was that I was probably going to play it for like three months until something like level 40 before getting bored of it and quitting. Apparently this wasn't the case. I played all the way until level 60, my first target. Passing promo on the first time with only a +0 green hammer, I was elated. Then I worked on to level 80, then level 92, where I stop, for now, until my computer is fixed (yes, my computer is broken).

I also had alot of help from the friends that I made in Fiesta. HackSlashKill was my questing partner from 4x all the way until level 54. She helped me to level up almost everyday. IchigoKurosaki was one of the kindest people when it comes to SparkCash. He practically got everything I dreamed of, some of which I never told him and he still did, on celebrations like Christmas. Phoenix_Blaze is the mage tank, a bit of a SparkCash junkie, but very helpful. He got me to level 60 grinding on Archons and in 5x abyss. These are just a few examples of all the awesome people who helped me. There are so many people that it would probably take up alot of space, so yeah, not going to list all.

One thing I missed about Fiesta while playing Terra was my social circle back on Fiesta. Even though my current guild in Fiesta is Meteor_Shower, I still have a soft spot for my former guild and home, DaBarKadz. I stayed in DBK for the longest, about 3 months I think, and I really enjoyed staying in one of the strongest guilds on Bijou. I really want to go back, especially since HottyMyls, the guild master, started reviving it again and they attracted some old members back. But until my computer gets fixed, it's not going to be possible.

Did you have old memories of playing Fiesta? Put up a comment or just drop a note in my chatbox.

Ta ta for now!

Story Update

About a week had gone, and so it's time for my update! This week, apart from trying to level and generally trying to outdo others, I was also doing new things, and I finally got my level 115 mage top to +9! Anyway, here are my stories for the week.

The other day I was wandering around Roumen when I saw a pretty shocking surprise...

Wow, seems like Ryekarayn is hopping onto the bandwagon of "changing servers" as well. Rye used to be a guild on Bijou server, so yeah, I don't know why they came to Terra.

I had also finally decided to get my archer to level 20, but when I went in for the promo, I just realized I had 15 HP stones and NO potions >.< But being the survivor that I am, I decided to just give myself a little challenge.
I failed :(

A few days ago, I got into my first grinding party. It may sound weird since I'm level 116 and I never partied anyone, but I was more of a soloer, grinding mobs and doing quests by myself. The place that my party grinded was Flurry Summit. It was my first time there and I was a little shocked that it looked exactly like Gold Hill Kingdom quest, but it was beautiful there.

I died ALOT of times there due to my own squishiness, but the exp is good, and it is also a great place to farm potions (I got like 3 stacks of T4 and T5 HP potions in an hour). I also picked up some nice jewellery, and I sold one while replacing my SERIOUSLY outdated jewellery (my necklace was level 10)

Today I was in Mini Dragon Kingdom quest when I stumbled on another glitch...

No, don't go and whine on how come I had 10k HP. I actually only had half that amount. Still, I'd love to have that kind of HP :P

That concludes my update. See you soon!

Rant: How Clerics Are Treated

I vomited yesterday evening :( I was having a pretty bad stomach ache then...yeah you get the idea. Which brings it to my topic today: how clerics are treated. I'm sure all of us fellow clerics had experienced something bad before while healing. So I'm going to tell a story. It was one of my WORST, most HORRENDOUS healing experience ever, which totally made me want to vomit.

The day started normal enough. I was asking for a Dragon's Tomb party and someone partied me. There were two tanks in the party: a fighter and a trickster. The rest of the party was made up of mages. Everything was fine until we reached Cornelius, where things really started going wrong. Cornelius had feared the fighter, and spawned some Fire Titans at the same time. The Fire Titans started going after me, but when the fighter got un-feared, instead of helping me get rid of the mobs, he started an aggro battle with the trickster! I was okay when the mages didn't come and help because I knew their defence sucks. But oh my god, the fighter should be able to see that the cleric is in trouble! I was tryin to heal 3 people at the same time (including myself) and so I had to use alot of my HP potions (yes, even clerics need those). I'm glad I brought them! In the end, when the fighter had aggro, the trickster came to help me get rid of the Fire Titans. He was nice enough to apologize for the inconvenince, but the fighter didn't apologize. I mean, come on, he was the one who started it!

My point here is: keep an eye out for your fellow clerics. Just because we are clerics doesn't mean that we are heal bots. Clerics are human, you know. There's a person behind the computer screen. Give us some attention and care, and we can do our job better. When you blame the cleric for doing something wrong, reflect yourself: am I doing the right thing, or did I do something that the cleric couldn't manage? I know there are some very bad clerics out there, but still, give them some respect.