Community and Staff, Hello everyone, I'm happy to say that I'm returning to royals. I've played pre and post wipe. To My surprise royals is now the #1 ranked server with over 1000 players online... Last time I played we had 60 on average and 120 max. The community has exploded since my leave. This is both strange and exciting for me. I left off my royals journey as a level 129 Hero IGN: Dean. Unfortunately I was a noob back then and didn't prepare for any form of HP/MP washing. Therefore, I would most likely be starting from scratch. I know HP washing isn't a necessity, but it is so easy to obtain 30k hp, especially on warriors. I guess it just bothers me that I didn't do it. With the MP my Hero has, I could wash out to about 14k HP, but that's still not good enough for me (OCD). Another issue is that I have no way to fund myself. Therefore, my conclusion is to start from scratch as a class that has better funding capabilities (mage). This is also the best choice for me because I don't even know what I want my main to be yet. My Questions: 1. Obviously I should start as a priest and get maxed HS immediately. The next part is where I am unsure. I don't know if it would be best for me to go full bishop or make a HS mule + Arch. Could anyone lay out the advantages of both? 2. I noticed the rates have changed. What is the difference/ what were the old rates? (I don't remember) 3. How is the community? I've read some pretty negative things about the royals community in various places. Just looking for an honest opinion! Only I can truly answer this question by checking it out for myself. As long as people talk with each other that's all I really care about. 4. What's the average amount of time it takes to hit 77/ 120 now of days? Thank you all for reading! Can't wait to meat you all in game. My ign will probably be "What". Saved it years ago lol. My main will be named "Dean"God after I delete my Hero. I will also be looking for a solid guild for omegaluls. Best Regards, Dean
1. Well if you go full bishop, i don't see the disadvantage vs. arch. You'll have more time to work on bishop while still being able to sell leech 2. Depends on where you leech. Usually people in ulu leech for 45:1. 3. Guild creation doesn't work right now, so the community isn't that efficient in meeting new players. In my opinion, I feel that the community is kind of standard. 4. I'm not sure about what you mean 77/120, but for me it took about 3 months to get to 120. I wasn't active, but I was somewhat funded. If you have HS, you can easily get leech from people who are training their friends/mules, so it will prob take less time for you to get to 120 These responses are from my point of view. I am not representing the whole royals community as a whole, so don't roast me <3 Add me! -Minutiae
1. Go AM if you want to use it for mesos generation only. Go bishop if you want to use it for boss run. Cost of AM is lower than the cost of bishop. FP in particular is really cheap to play. Very easy to reach end game for FP to one hit kill petri. IL cost significantly more on both skill book and weapon, but you can one hit kill the best leeching spot in the game, Oblivion 4 (strong against fire). I'd recommend going IL if you planning on leeching your character to high level (15x), FP if you just want to leech it to 135, and bishop if you want to do more than just leeching with your mage. 2. Rates? Exp rate is now x 3.2 not x 4 anymore. 3. The community is still good, friendly, and strong, but a lot less people afk/chilling in FM anymore due to removal of FM button (not trying to start that discussion here). 4. Depend which class and if you buy leech. Grinding wise the fastest job to reach 4th job will be FP. At ov 5x with max poison brace, you can train at Death Teddies (lv 85 monster). You can fly through 3rd job with 2 or 3 days of grinding. Spear/dk is IMO the 2nd fastest grinding class. Significantly slower than FP, but still grind and level a hell lot faster than all the other jobs. Thief class and pirate class are probably the slowest leveling class. If you leech it's all the same. I can probably grind DK from 70 to 120 in a week. Pm me or add me OvaryActing if you have question or need someone to talk to~~~
@Minutiae , I appreciate your opinion! Sucks that guilds aren't available. Hopefully that is fixed soon. @OverReact , You bring up a lot of good points. Sorry about the confusion on question 4. Basically meant what's the average amount of time to make a HS mule/ bishop. I want to fund my attacker and start playing it as soon as possible (fully washed), but then again I'm broke. I guess my really question is, what's faster to be able to fund an attacker 1. Bishop 2. Arch 3. Arch + HS mule (considering the amount of time it takes to make a HS mule. Also does the HS mule come before or after making the arch?) I'll definitely add you when I get things rolling. First i need to salvage my Hero. Thanks!
I'm in a process of making 4 HS mules. Took me about 4 ~ 5 days each to get from 1 to 81 playing casually. Can probably do it in 2 days if I focus on it 100% IMO, it will be faster to get a HS mule to 81, and a FP to 120, than grinding a priest to 120 because FP can fly through 5x to 120 in 2 or 3 days.
Another worth noting tip. If you can get 50~60 int with common int gear, you should be able to hit 30k hp with 4 base int. 50~60 shouldn't be too difficult since you mentioned you played before, so you should have some funding. Budget int gear pricing: 6 int lv 8 wand (5m if even) 10~15 int green Dana (30m~70m in FM) 5 int glove and earring (get a few int glove 70% and scroll a +5 yourself. Scrolls prices are really low atm, so you should be able to get a +5 into for under 50m or less depending on your luck). 10~20 int bathrobe (30m~300m in fm) Zhelm (optional if you have 15+ int dana and if you're leeching, a must if you grind and/or don't have an int dana) +5~15 int cape (prefer lv 25, but those can be pricy, lv 50 one are good too) D-star (very pricy 300m+), or you can gach in NLC for a none tradeable parent (forgot the name) If you get those item while you make your mage, you should have enough int gear to wash your hero to 30k hp with 4 base int if you wear them each time you level up. Won't hurt to raise your base int a little if you want to reach 30k earlier. I basically washed to 28k at around 14x, then just reach 30k without washing through normal level up hp gain.
@OverReact , Sweat thanks, I'm pretty familiar with washing by now. MP washing not so much but the concept is easy. How do you make a HS mule so fast? Self leech or grind? I have a feeling I can't poop one put in under a week lol. Also what makes F/P level so fast?
Lv 8~14: slime Lv 14~18: bubbling Lv 18~24: wild boars Lv 24~35: sand rats Lv 35~40 Jr. Wraith Lv 40~46 big wraith Lv 46 ~81 coolie, mp3, ghost ship, voodoo, jester I just grind on those. I have decent int equient, so I was able to go to higher lvl location at a lower lv. Fp can fly through level is because they can go extremely high lvl place at around lv 5x. Watch video below for reference
@OverReact , Nice. Didn't realize how powerful fp are. What level (how early) can you start self leeching? Any way I can use my level 129 Hero to an advantage as far as leeching goes? Idk if it can big foot yet. Looks like I'll be starting on my HS mule for my FP to fund/ leech an attacker... -.-
