Berg's Pepega Chamber

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NLC Robot Juices 11 Sep 2020
Magic Seeds 25 Jun 2021​

Hello people, welcome to my version of a journal-esque thread where I'll share the results ( and a bit of the process too, why not ) of my stupid grinds for stupid things.

So to kick off the first post, let me share the results of my grind sessions of something relatively unknown to a decent amount of the ML community.

NLC Pots.

Nonononono wait dont leave yet; I'm not talking about the completely balanced HP/MP potions that everyone knows and loves. Instead let me show off something more interesting that comes from NLC.



More interested now? Well, now lets talk about how do you obtain these

On the far right of NLC, there's a futuristic humanoid vending machine


Going through ( or skipping past ) his extremely lengthy dialogue will eventually bring you to a dialogue menu that lets you craft one of these beauties at random. There are 7 potions in total, 3 WA potions and 4 MA ones, in ascending order of potency ( disregarding buff duration ) they are :

Scuffed Coke Pills, the dud from this "raffle"


Super Ciders


Superior Stoppers


Half-An-Apple


I ran out of comparisons so : MegaJuice


Supreme Cheese


and finally HowToWhiteAsBishop.png


BlastroJuice ( Superior Stoppers ) appears twice on the raffle list as well, so maybe there's supposed to be a 4th balanced WA Pot in the place of the 2nd BlastroJuice entry.

So right now you might be going "Huh, wait Berg some of these arent actually completely terrible. How come I haven't seen any of these before?". And the simple answer to that question is : Because its pretty ass to farm them.

Notice earlier how i said "craft one of these beauties at random", well this is the crafting materials needed to get ONE raffle pull



Jumper Cables and T-1 socket adapaters are the easiest to get, coming from Wolf Spiders, and since they only vendor for 1 meso each you can easily get WS Leech sellers to drop you a stack or 2 of them.

Boomer Cores are slightly more annoying to get, coming from Boomers on the outskirts of NLC. I grinded these out at "Jungle Valley", taking a total of 1 hour 50 minutes to get 2550 cores for 51 raffles. The meso gain from raw mesos + NPCing equipments comes out to roughly 350k per hour. The pain is very slightly softened by the 46 iceboxes, 17 steel ore, 18 mith ore and 39 dex crystal ores obtained at the same time.

Fuel Cells and Sparkplugs are the worst part of this grind, with the Fuel Cells dropping only from Electrophants, the bright side is Electrophants seem to drop Sparkplugs at roughly the same rate as Fuel Cells, meaning you dont have to go grind Killa Bees to get plugs barring being unlucky. Grinding out 51 Fuel Cells and 51 Sparkplugs took me 4 hours and 50 minutes, featuring an amazing 200k/h meso gain rate. Secondary drops once again were the (extremely scuffed) heroes stopping me from ending this journey, with 158 iceboxes, 23 mith ore , 48 dex ore and 40 power ores dropping during the 5 hour slog.

Adding up the 8 minutes it took me to raffle my 51 tries away, you're getting 1 random potion every 8 minutes, which doesnt sound too terrible until you actually do it.

Finally at the end of all this, I ended up with the following :

11 Scuffed Coke Pills
8 Super Ciders
11 Superior Stoppers

4 Half-An-Apples
5 MegaJuices
6 Supreme Cheeses
and 7/900 potions required to white everything in HT as a Bishop

(If you realised that the total number of potions added up to 52 instead of 51 : Why are you counting? But also its because I did 1 raffle as a test before i started tryna grind this )

Rated 2/10 will not do again. I hope you enjoyed this more than i did F3

 

Hi again everyone, its been nearly a year since my last post into this 'journal' so today its time to add a second chapter to this scuffed book.

Today I will be talking about Magic Seeds.

On the Western border of the Minar forest there lies an amazing transpotation device which compresses two annoying boat rides into one quick teleportation, allowing for easy travel between the Victoria and Greater Minar Forest Regions. However, to ultilize this device one must posess an item capable of containing great magical power. The Magic Seed.

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We the adventurers of Victoria lack the knowledge required to create such items, but thankfully some of the friendlier locals are able to help us out with that. In the center of the nearby town of Leafre stands Chief Tatamo, the key person in obtaining this power of teleportation.

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Being a new face in the town the Chief does not recognize us, but a quick conversation with him will reveal that he is able to sell us the item we need in order to ultilize the transportation device found in the forest. However, with the magic seeds being precious goods, we have to pay 30,000 mesos for each of them.



While 30k mesos is a fair price to pay for such an useful item, further conversation with the chief reveals that the town of Leafre could use some extra resources to make life more comfortable for its residents and in exchange for these resource, he will sell us magic seeds at a lowered price.



The chief accepts various items on behalf of the town of Leafre, with different items having a different contribution amount. After donating a certain amount, your friendship level rises with the Chief and the town, allowing you to view different dialogue and more importantly, purchase Magic Seeds at a cheaper rate.

It is important to note that the game automatically keeps track of how many 'points' you have with the Chief ( However there is no way for you view it ), so you do not have to donate all of the ETCs in a single trip. Meaning that all of the Kent Marrows that you were too lazy to loot while waiting for Manon to spawn have gone to waste.

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My personal choice of mob for this grind was the Black Kentaurus at The Area of Black Kentaurus which drops the Kentasaurus's Skull ETC worth 20 points each. Meaning that I would have to grind out 40,000 of them in order to get the cheapest tier of seeds.
The reason for picking this mob was firstly due to it having a decent drop table, having access to various high level weapons which have a good NPC value, as well as having the jackpot chance of scoring a good Red Craven. Red Pirate Top/Bottoms are also a possible drop from this enemy.
The second reason is that the Black Kent is a relatively weak mob with a weakness to Holy spells, which made 1 hitting on a poor Bishop relatively easy.
Lastly, the map layout was also decent for a mage to farm, only having to teleport left and right on the middle platform to cast genesis on the edges, then looting every ~2.5 or so minutes. With the map changes that were made, convinent teleporters are also now present on this map allowing for melee classes to farm as well due to the easy Warp > Jump down + Kill > Jump down + Kill > Warp loop to cycle through both sides of the map.

With my Bishop, I was able to farm 1850-2150 ETCs per hour, so after a quick 8 minutes in the forest, I walked out with 250 Skulls and handed them in to the Chief. Achieving 5,000 points and lowering the prices of my Magic Seeds to 27,000. He also started to have a faint memory of me at this point.


And while a 10% discount is nice, it wasn't enough for me. I had to keep going. Sensing that I could help out the town some more, the Chief sent me to collect more items to support their lives.



25 Minutes later, I emerged from the forest once more, 950 skulls in hand. I turned them in at the Chief once again for 19,000 points, bringing my total up to 24,000 points. And with that we became more comfortable around each other, allowing me to buy Magic Seeds at 24,000 mesos each.



A 20% Discount from the original price was great, but I could still go further. So I did. Happy with all the positive changes in Leafre, I ventured back into the forest once more.



( Note : I only started tracking meso gains at this point and I do not have a Meso Up mule )
36 Minutes later, I finally gathered the 1300 Skulls that I needed to advance my relationship with the Chief. I trudged back into town with 1,327,499 extra mesos to my name and 6 pieces of equipment that I manage to sell at the local store for 1,380,000 mesos. Finally, I met up with Tatamo in the middle of town and handed my skulls over for an extra 26,000 points, bringing my total up to 50,000 points. We chatted a while about the birth of a new dragon and having grown closer, he informed me that I could now purchase Magic Seeds at 18,000 mesos each.



Now for most of you, this would be a great place to stop farming. A whopping 40% discount off the original price of a Magic Seed for roughly an hours worth of work. But I saw 2 more hurdles to be jumped. After chatting with the rest of the townsfolk I ventured into the forest once more...



( Note : I started tracking the other stuff at this point )

After nearly 4 hours in the forest, I finally emerged once more. With my bags stuffed their breaking point, I brought the 7500 Skulls, 30 Luk Ore, 10,275,777 mesos and 39 pieces of equipment back into town. After picking out the items that held greater potential, I sold the rest of the equipment to the local store. Doing a quick bit of math to subtract my potion costs, I realised that I was 17,223,377 mesos richer. ( Total raw mesos + NPCing Equipments - pot costs. FM Luk Ore, perf top/bottoms and good Cravens not added )

Hastening my step towards the center of town the familar face of my friend Tatamo greeted me once again with a smile. I turned the 7500 Skulls in for 150,000 points, bringing my total up to 200,000. After a short chat about the dangerous 3 headed dragon that I am available to join runs on as a Bishop *wink wink* the subject of Magic Seeds came up, and Tatamo informed me that he could now sell them to me at 12,000 mesos a piece.



Finally we're sitting at the deep discount of 60%. However for me, there lies 1 last challenge to face. As the #1 Supporter of Leafre, I enjoyed a few parties in town before I packed my bags with potions and other useful supplies and headed back into the forest one final time.



Finally, after almost 15 hours I crawled out a broken man. An additional 30,000 Skulls, 139 Luk Ore, 39,413,678 mesos and 185 pieces of equipment added to my name, but at what cost? Desperate for a break, I headed to the Leafre Spa while someone did my finances for me. At the end of my relaxation treatment I was informed that I was currently 79,554,378 mesos richer. ( Once again, total raw mesos + NPCing equipments - pot costs. FM Luk Ore, perf top/bottoms and good Cravens not added )

Done with restoring my mental health, I headed over to meet my old buddy Tatamo, finally turning in the 30,000 Skulls, I gained 600,000 points for a grand total of 800,000 points. Finally as a true friend of the chief and Leafre I was allowed to purchase Magic Seeds at 8,000 mesos each. Placing us at a 73.33% discount from the original price.



And after all this time he finally bothered to learn my name.

Well, names.

I didn't track anything when I first did the farm for my Bishop, this data was all gathered from the journey to 8k seeds on my Bucc. ( I farmed with the Bishop though because bucc is level 77 and I dont hate myself that much )

Also it's probably best if no one asks him about what did he do with 80,000 skulls of the dead.

And now, some Info presented in a cleaner format to cap the post off.
Per hour I averaged around :

2.6m raw mesos WITHOUT MU
12 pieces of equipment - The mesos gained I had varied from 2m - 5m RAW. Bonus if you get good cravens or pirate top/bottoms
9 Luk Crystal Ore
1950 Kent Skulls
65 Power Elixirs
19.5m Exp WITH EVENT XP MULTIPLIERS

I also did this farm during Summer2020, Hween2020 and Anni2021 Events, so exp rates are affected by that. Also the drop rates of everything seemed more generous during Anni2021 based on my raw data, but ~10 hours during Summer/Hween and ~10 hours during Anni2021 probably isn't enough data to conclude anything. ( Map change/buff affected it maybe? ) I also made an extra ~80m off good cravens and perf pirate top/bottoms.

Rated 7/10 would probably farm again for a 3rd character of mine.
Thank you for reading the second entry of my 'journal'.
Now if you will excuse me, there is a patch of grass outside with my name on it waiting to be touched.

 

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Dont think I'll reach this many amazing journeys but reserved nontheless

 

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