Latest revision as of 20:48, 19 December 2008

Biography

rrr2go
Joined:	2008-09-07
Name:	rrr2go
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Guild:	Solo Players
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The character of rrr2go was created by me on 2008-09-07. This is a first-time character and it might be necessary to note that this character is beeing played with a first-time-right strategy in mind. No secondary helping (additional auction and backpack slots and money deposits) character or guild is used... which might be a conservative idea for some.

Interesting milestones so far:

• 2008-09-07: Solo player until about Level 12.
• 2008-09-12: Accepted invitation from Fjodr to join Lost knight Guild (ID 30978) in order to try out what the FallenSword Guild system is like. The decision to join them instead of any other dozens of Guilds send out invitations, was merely based on a thorough comparison of their Guild structure statistics.
• 2008-09-14: Equipped legendary guild-tagged 3 part Raggghzas Set out of Guild store and immensly enhanced character's monster slaying capabilities.
• 2008-09-17: Even though beeing in a guild, decision was made to play from now on without guild-tagged legendary (and mostly fully forged or otherwise enhanced) Item Sets in order to determine FallenSword's difficulty degree. As my character has not participated yet in a Legendary Event and money/FSP-wise can't afford to buy these sets within the next 100 levels or so, it would be -under the given circumstances- an oxymoron to wear such items. What you can't afford, you should not get. Just like in real life.
• 2008-09-20: Managed to solve first 25 quests with standard equipment and was awarded with Adventurer's Bronze medal. Also joined FallenSword's Wiki in order to enhance content.
• 2008-09-21: Left Lost knight.
• 2008-10-03: It was a nightmare to buy FSPs ever since as obviously some super-dedicated people always snagged away all FSPs right away from the Marketplace... too quick in my opinion (say usage of AutoBuyer Bots). Now finally it got so much more easier to buy FSPs as this second Update was implemented by Hunted Cow Studios as of today. I was actually just trying to get more than a dozen of FSPs for about 20 frustating minutes when suddenly a Security Code was additionally needed. Immediately i was able to slowly select from a variety of FSP offers, enter the 5-digit Security Code, put in 16 as amount of wanted FSPs and hit the submit button. I got them. Thanks HCS. And sorry for you guys complaining about it... What a milestone!
• 2008-10-08: Loyalty Bronze Award and First Bounty Kill accomplished
• 2008-10-16: Level 61 and now averaging for the first time over 100 XP per slay. All done without fully forged guild-tagged legendary equipment, Relic bonuses or Guild Structure enhancements for the character.
• 2008-10-29: Participated on todays Legendary Event and received a Ghostly Corset drop after first kill of Zaria the Vengeful (Legendary). No further drops after 21 more kills.
• 2008-11-06: Biggest mistake (yes that's a milestone as well) so far: sold a BlackDeath potion for 3 gold instead of 3 FSP. Well done after 6 failed Jademare extractions to make that potion...
• 2008-11-13: Ranked within the first 20.000 players now for the first time. After 2 month easy playing and with a minor investment of $15, no guild, no guild equipment, no relic bonuses and not asking other players for free buffs, that's a pretty neat achievement.
• 2008-12-09: Reached Level 100 after 3 months. All on my own for at least 85 levels, without doubler and without making this game a real-world money sink :)
• 2008-12-19: Loyalty Silver Award

More details if they arise.

Character Investment (TCO)

Playing a good desgined game is always fun. It's even more fun if it's free and meanwhile still offers a relatively well-balanced gaming experience. 2 donations within a justifiable scope to support the further development of FallenSword were placed:

• 2008-09-xx: $5
• 2008-09-xx: $10

Killing two birds with one stone this $15 investment (equals 72 FSPs) also enhanced the gameplay and made it much more smoother by adding:

• 2 backpack slots
• 2 auction slots
• 100 stamina

The spare FSPs (as i donated on the "20%-additional-FSP-day") were saved to have a future buffer in case money runs low.

• 2008-10-11: Added 1 additional Backpack slot (15 FSPs) and 150 Stamina (30 FSPs) from generated money.
  
• 2008-11-06: Added 50 Stamina (10 FSPs) from generated money.
  

Progress

Character CashFlow

Currently ~500.000 gold on bank account and a stash of 14 precious FSPs.

Leveling

Applying only the skills available at rrr2go's current level, down to the present day Experience Points (XPs) were collected merely old-school style... without using the Doubler skill, paying for other player's skills (3rd party "Level Package" buffing), or even spending "Upgrade" FSPs to gain XPs. During my 10-day-tryout-Guild-time though, i received buffs about 6 times from fellow guild members, which were appreciated.
Solving Quests, slaying creatures with the Elite Hunter enhancement enabled (through affordable Item Sets), and after reaching Level 25 applying my own Adept Learner skill plus the default standard gain of 2 XP per hour added up to 9.814.091 XPs which equals Level 100.

As the Adept Learner skill can only be learned at Level 25 and higher, wisely 100 Skill Points were saved upfront in order to max it out and take advantage of the enhanced XP gain the minute Level 25 was reached. This immediately ensured the highest possible amount of XP gained per creature slay without beeing dependant on any other player or guild.
The only skills used for leveling are Treasure Hunter and Adept Learner (both currently Level 105) and lately also AL potions in order to safe stamina. Beeing over Level 75 -but still saving skill points for future skills- the need for the Librarian and Blood Fist skill potions arised in order to level up once a day and to prevent 2-hit fights with the Skull Horrors (current hunt for Level 82 to 85).

More details if they arise.