XVII: Resting at Level 39

As much as I want to race my character till level 40, I decided to stop playing and stop at 39 (I am still very upset with the update).

It's also hard to grind and fill the XP cells when there's very limited quests. Since being a Spellweaver is expensive, I'll probably be online occasionally or when I feel like playing

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I really feel bad about the R051 update which according to them is predominantly a "revision of the Spellweaver" (WHY THE HELL DID YOU NEED TO DO THAT?!).

Before I can grind solo in Dragon's Cavern without breaking a sweat. Now, I need a bodyguard (thank you very much, Jonas) or else I'll be dead most of the time. My character feels helpless whenever I grind solo. When I'm surrounded by monsters I can't perform chain attacks because of the stupid mana cap.

So, after that update, I ran out of interest in playing.

Maybe one of the game developers got his heart broken by an ex-GF who used to play Drakensang as a Spellweaver and decided to get even by de-powering the Spellweaver class.

Banner of War + Mighty Wild Swing = AWESOMENESS!

Gerry Alanguilan (in-game name: Komikero) talked about some new techniques he developed some days ago (click here to read it) for the Dragon Knight and I tried out one of them: the Banner of War plus Mighty Wild Swing combo.

It is made of pure awesome!

The Banner of War allows you to use your skills without the need for Rage for about 10 seconds or so. Plus it deals some damage to your enemies caught within the circle of fire (provided you've leveled up to 40 and chose to imbue that talent, of course). This basically means you can use Mighty Wild Swing again and again (which normally needs a big amount of Rage to use) for the duration of the Banner of War.

It's especially exciting to use when you're totally surrounded by a HUGE amount of enemies. Start using the combo after building up the prerequisite amount of Rage to use Banner of War and watch them all go down one by one. It doesn't even matter if they're beyond arm's reach because, as long as they're within the circle of fire, they're going to get hit.

When the fire burns out and the dust settles, all that's left are the cold dead bodies of your enemies.

Komikero: Kingshill Vacation For Two

The quiet idyllic life at Grimford has been really good for me.

It's been rather relaxing and comforting after all those months of furious battles with such ungodly creatures far in the north east. But once in a while wanderlust just strikes, not for battle, but for other places to visit.

The last time I was at Kingshill, I was a little too engrossed in the numerous world threatening missions that I had to accomplish that I failed to notice what a fair city it was. Fair and huge. Far larger and more expansive than quaint little Grimford.

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I set about on a trip, being careful to leave my armor behind because the warring life is really not for me anymore. These old bones want nothing more than to enjoy the little pleasures in life.

And in Kingshill, this little pleasure meant appreciating the vast historical structures, pondering upon their beauty and their history. Of course, I've always had my eye on dusky Nordic goddess Runa Freygard. Fearless am I in facing dragons but I got tongue tied in the presence of such extraordinary sexy beauty.

But it was she who noticed me. Our eyes met and well, the rest is history.

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Runa, inspite of her formidable appearance, is much more sweeter and gentler than that magnificently ornery ice queen, Mina the Essence Trader at Grimford. I got nowhere with her. I don't think she likes men, to be honest. Or maybe rather it's just me but no matter. Runa and I are happy together and, once this vacation is over, I plan on bringing her home back to Grimford.

Wish me luck!

Komikero: Back at Grimford...maybe for Good?

When at least 15 new missions were announced with Release 53 for Levels 36-38 at the Resistance Command Center, I was forced out of retirement and I had to leave dear sweet nasty Mina behind at my retirement home, Grimford.

I blasted through all the new missions rather quickly, eager as I am to go back home. If you've seen Lord of the Rings, Grimford is the closest thing one has to Hobbiton in this place.

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It's just a very nice place to settle down.

I got disappointed though. As much as I like getting some Andermants for completing the missions, the total XP rewards of all new missions (which amounts to upwards 75K) were not added to my XP at all.

My XP bar did not move, nor did the numerical value of my experience points rise even one point.

Now I know that there is no more Level 41, so why look for XP at this point? I would like, at the very least, for the XP bar to move from the very beginning of Level 40 (or the left most point of the bar) to start moving towards the end (the right most point of the bar). If the XP bar reaches that point and goes no further, then that would make more sense. Because right now there's just a gaping XP void at the bottom of my screen and it drives me nuts that I can't fill it.

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I figure Drakensang owes me those XP points.

It makes taking on future quests rather pointless if I'm not going to get any XP for them at all. As much as I was anticipating the new Level 40 quests, I think I'll stay in retirement this time until such time as when XP points shall be rewarded to Level 40 players again.

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New Quests in the Resistance Command Center

Release 053 finds Prince Aldred summoning heroes from all over Duria willing to face the fiery fiends from the darkest corners of the Anderworld (Levels 36-38) in 8 new series of quests (15 total individual quests).

There's also some minor bug fixes (nothing on the Spellweaver Mana cap I'm afraid) introduced with this release.

Check out the full details here.

Bromance

Jonasdiego: Level 40 Dragon Knight

After a mad dash to level-up I am now a Level 40 Dragon Knight!

I've yet to kill Sigrisimarr Frostclaw and the Herald of the Anderworld however (frankly, I don't have the motivation right now). Even at my current level I'd be hard-pressed to dispatch Frostclaw in a group, what more single-handedly (and let's not even talk about the Herald of the Anderwold).

I'm not sure what I'm going to do now. I definitely don't want to go on grinding, that's for sure.

I know that Gerry Alanguilan (in-game name: Komikero) has retired to Grimford (click here to read the details) and Ysa Arce (in-game name: Xvii) has declined to play the game further because of the Mana cap issue.

I'm probably going to stick around a bit and wait for the new stuff promised for the Level 40 players and see if they're going to be any good. I'll be checking in from time to time but I'm going to be playing less definitely.

Should evil rear its ugly head however, you can probably expect to see us around.

Fight on, heroes of Duria!

Komikero: Grimford is the Place to be

After reaching level 40, I decided to retire to what I believe is the most beautiful, most relaxing, and (in my opinion) safest place in the world: GRIMFORD.

Ever since leaving this place many months ago, and seeing all those horrifying and dreadful places out in the world, I always dreamed of coming back.

I've killed my share of monsters, endured my share of wounds and crippling blows, almost died many times, and in fact died many times.

I thought it was time to hang my hat, put my armor in the closet, and enjoy a well earned retirement.

As far as anyone is concerned in Grimford, I'm just an ordinary farmer, going about his business as peacefully as he can. There are many would be warriors in town now and many would go on to fight for this world and achieve many things.

I have no doubt we are all in safe hands.

As for me, I'd rather hang out with the town babe, Mina. She's kinda ornery but that's just the way I like it!

I'll melt this woman's frozen heart soon enough!

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See you at the tavern guys! Happy fighting!

Komikero: 40!

I finally reached Level 40! Whew!

Thanks to a few quests that I didn't notice before on Shorefolk and the Burning Coast, aided and abetted by a technique I discovered a few days ago, I blasted through Level 39 up to 40 in just a few days.

The question is... what now?

I look back on the months I played this game and I have to say that I've thoroughly enjoyed it, although there have been a few things that were rather frustrating about it (it's all on this blog). I just tried my best to work around the problems and kept on playing.

The developers have promised Level 40 quests to come soon but I won't be sitting in front of my desk waiting for it, not with Diablo 3 rearing its lovely ugly head in just a little over a week.

Whatever Drakensang's got in store for the future, it better be damned awesome for me to go back to it in a big way.