Yes, so there's gonna be a patch tmr! Sad? thing is… I'm away on holiday tmr till sat night! Going to bintan with a friend so yup… no mapling for me haha

Anyway, patch tmr is supposed to be from 7am till 3am. They've been quite punctual with the patches lately, so i don't think tmr they'll drag if by much, if at all… it might even end early for all we may know… (either way, i'll be leaving the house just before 8am so… :P doesn’t affect me XD )

Ok! Patch notes is out already so let's take a look at it… looks quite interesting alright… well some of it anyway.

The Enchanted Forest Patch Notes!

Dear Maplers,

The following events will be activated from 6th September 2012 onwards to celebrate the launch of The Enchanted Forest Patch!

Ok, as usual, let's look at the events one by one...

1. [EXCLUSIVE CONTENT] The Enchanted Forest : Prologue

 The important part about this whole para of text is the following points.

• You can exchange Rose for Maple Points or any other items in the Rose shop that run in the same way as Legend shop.

• The only difference is that you will be using Rose to buy the items instead of Legend Coins.

• Maplers will be able to earn Rose upon completing the exclusive quests and Events in The Enchanted Forest.

Rose can be exchange for great items and even Maple Points(Similar as Maple Cash!) via Bunny Merchant!

So… there's a new rose currency thing…. and the picture shows that we need 40k and 60k roses to exchange for fairy's pendant… they also let us buy maple points with the roses, but no clues on the exchange rate… and the say we'll be allowed to use maple points and maple cash to buy items… from the SS it seems to indicate that we can select how much maple points to use and how much @cash to use...

hmm… i hope its not too ridiculously hard to get the maple points… i used up the last of my 3k @cash buying 5 wheel for cygnus… but ended up not being able to stand staying awake till 4:30am for the batch and quit the following week :X so yeah… waste of wheels… well the wheels will last like 3 months but like my pala? use wheels? kinda rare right… unless i get in another cyg batch but… nah :X

2. [EXCLUSIVE CONTENT] The Enchanted Forest : Protecting Merlion (Merlion Defense) [Daily Event]

Basically, monster rush quest to get roses… like you have to survive 20 waves of mobs, and after each wave u get 100 rose, with a 500 rose bonus if u survive till the end. Opps, not u survive, but the merlon survive haha. You can only do this once a day… there's also some point system thing that u can use to buy buffs. Unused points will also add to the amt of roses u can get at the end… i wonder how hard the mobs will be… like can my hero and pala clear all 20 rounds with my noob noob eq? :X The guy in charge of conserver blog is out of town… no extractions :( aw… patch links not out yet but i believe the patch itself is already uploaded and yeah… u can find the links by just changing the url :P

There's also 2 quests that require u to get 100 quest item drop from mobs… not sure about the quest rewards tho.

3. [EXCLUSIVE CONTENT] The Enchanted Forest : Endless Tower [Daily Event]

Hmm this one… you climb up a tower and kill mobs on ur way up. each kill = 4 rose. No idea what's the highest floor possible… you can go in the tower as many times in a day as you like, but u can only collect the rose accumulated in a single run ONCE a day… Time limit of 20mins per run.

4. [EXCLUSIVE CONTENT] The Enchanted Forest : The King of Rock Paper Scissors [Daily Event]

Usual scissor papers stone thing… but this time u can only play once a day, and will win rose if u win 2 out of 3 rounds. How much rose? No idea.

5. [EXCLUSIVE CONTENT] The Enchanted Forest : The Hat [Daily Event]

Basically, afk in maple for 30 mins and get some rose.
6. [EXCLUSIVE CONTENT] The Enchanted Forest [GM Event] : Flip the Coin

Its like the X/O event… just that its heads or tails and the answer is totally random, just like flipping a coin. So it all depends on luck… the luckier you are, the more rose you'll win. There's a total of 10 rounds and you can win a max of 50k rose… if you're super duper lucky. It seems like you can go as many times in a day as you want. Invitation is like the miwok boys and ahi raid - via a letter abv your head… and just like those, you won't get the invite if you're in some pt area, or the free market or ardent mill maps. No mention of when the event is… once every hour maybe? o.o

7. [System Event] Maple High School Event(Event Date: 03/10/12 2359hrs[GMT+8] – 31/10/12 0859hrs[GMT+8])

From 3rd to 31st Oct… 

How to Play
• Requirement: Your character must be Lv.10 or above. The dungeon is solo-based only.
• NPC Boss Kumi will be in Event Map. Talk to her to go to her homeroom class.
• You can venture deeper into the school for free once per day. Subsequent entries each day will require the use of a Maple High School Key, available only in the Cash Shop. Each key will be consumed after one use.
• The goal is to get as far into the school as you can before time runs out!
• After completing each room’s challenge, you will be awarded Friendship points.
• You’ll be able to choose which of the Four Pillars of Heaven you want to apply earned Friendship Points toward.

No idea how much friendship points you'll get from each entry...

Rewards?

Looks great! Perm badges with wa… supreme badges have 6wa at that! COOL right? Until you see the cost. 888m meso……… zzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!! like WTF???? Not a prob for those peeps with a million cyg runs… but me? no $. k thx bye.

Heck even the badge with 1wa costs 188m….. i think at most i'll get is the 8m badge that gives 4 stats.

8. [System Event] Capture the Alien Event (Event Date: 06/09/12 – 03/10/12)

Repeat event. Here comes the star over a tree chair all over again. Same as last time… catch the aliens… well if you're hard working tho, u can farm puds with this event. That's assuming the rewards from the capsule are identical as last time (but it most probably will be). What are puds? Power Up Drink. +25wa for 30mins… or did they change the stats? Useful now? Nope, not at all with rage adding 30wa...

9. [System Event] Triple-Tri-Trio Event! (Event Date: 06/09/12 – 03/10/12)

Same old thing. AFK for 5 hours to get 150% bonus exp for every 3rd mob killed. AKA 1.5x exp. Good thing if you're grinding and have a good comp. You can leave it on overnight to charge the hours and have permanent 1.5x exp. For me? Nah… i can't even be bothered to go drpq on my pala nowadays :X opps.
10. [System Event] Eliminate Eregos (Event Date: 06/09/12 – 03/10/12)

Same as the last event which i missed. Rewards from the boxes are… the same i think?

• Pet Equipment ATT/Magic ATT Scroll 60%
• Special Potential Scroll
• Weapon ATT/Magic ATT 60%
• Accessory Attack/Magic Attack Scroll 15%
• Accessory Stat 60% Scroll
• Chaos Scroll 60%
• Random level based weapon
• Random level based armors
• Trait Consumption Items
• Reindeer Milk
• Sunrise Dew

11. [System Event] Random Beauty Coupon Event (Event Date: 19/09/12 – 03/10/12)

Same old event… not sure if i'll be bothered to hunt the tix….

12. [System Event] Welcome New Maplers! (Event Date: 19/09/12 – 03/10/12)

Giving out some rewards… for new chars in entirely new accounts only. Not affect here.

13. [System Event] Cassandra’s Spring Flower Festival (Event Date: 03/10/12 – 17/10/12)

Gives some buff… i think the last time they gave like… 1.5x meso drop and 1.x5 drop rate buff? not bad for hunting papu i guess?

14. [System Event] Lost Miwok Artifacts! (Event Date: 03/10/12 – 17/10/12)

NPC Kopee Relicseeker needs help searching for the Lost Miwok Artifact!
Complete the quest In Search of the Miwok Artifact and you will be rewarded with 3 new rewarding quests!

• The Legendary Tribal Ring: Circle of Ancient Thought (repeatable after 5 minutes)
• The Legendary Tribal Ring: Circle of Ancient Strength (repeatable after 5 minutes)
• Soft and Cozy Chief’s Chair (repeatable)

Ah… so the two rings are back… not sure about the chair tho… i rem the last time we needed like cash items or something to get the chair… this time idk.

15. [System Event] Help a Snipe (Event Date: 03/10/12 2359hrs[GMT+8] – 31/10/12 0859hrs[GMT+8])

Same quest is back...

Notable rewards: 

Elixir, PE, ACP, Enhancement scroll, palm tree beach chair

You also get the same chicly face beak with 5wa and 5ma and lasts for 30 days. 

I say ACP, elixir and PE cos those are the ones that i'll actually use and not throw out right after receiving them :X

16. [System Event] Halloween Event (Event Date: 03/10/12 2359hrs[GMT+8] – 31/10/12 0859hrs[GMT+8])

Ahhhhhhh halloween event is back… i was hoping the chair will remain rare/exclusive… i'll probably try and get the chair on my… pala and other new chars? maybe. Not sure if you still need to pt up with like 2 other peeps to get the chair and all. They show the witch belt in the header too, but no idea with THE legendary witch belt with wa and free chaos scrolls are really gonna be back. Some unknown thing to the right side of the chair as well… 

17. [Bugs Fixed] Bugs Fixed!

Missing npcs are back… at least so they say. I sure hope the mirror in ludi is back. PG and PR bugs are obviously not mentioned, and I'm 99.9999% sure that they won't be fixed.

Marriage system is back… watever for :X

18. [Download] : The Enchanted Forest Patch

links still not out yet so...

YUP! That's all for the patch! A bunch of new daily quests to do for the rose and maple points… and there's the maple high school and halloween event in October...

Ok! that's all for today XD

Location:Tanah Merah Ferry Rd,,Singapore

Yes… so yesterday we got an enchanted forest update!

Been wanting to post all the SSes i took in enchanted forest but… i was lazy… and now they updated the enchanted forest so that it'll give more rose reward! The rose rewards used to be really really bad… but now its quite worth it to do I'd say… Unless you are filthy rich and swimming in @cash already… then that's a different story. One thing to note is that you don't get any exp from enchanted forest at all… well the mobs in protect merlon give like 1 or 2 exp each but… you get the point.

Lets look at the update notice 1st:

1. Increase in the amount of Rose rewards for different quests available inside the Enchanted Forest Map

The following quests rewards found inside the Enchanted Forest Map will be increased.

Beside these changes, the amount of Rose awarded from the Merlion Defense and Endless Tower Challenge will also be increased!

Note:
▪ Please be informed the quest NPC quest box will display an incorrect amount of Rose reward after completing the quest. However, player are not to be alarmed as the amount of Rose rewarded will be same as the above mentioned NEW Reward.

2. Return of the GM Event: Flip the Coin Event

GM Event: Flip the Coin is back! This time round, everyone will have the chance to participate in this GM Event.

Previously, we have received feedback from players that some of them are unable to participate in this event due to an issue with entering into the event map. However, all these issue have been looked into by our developers and we are please to resume back the Flip the Coin Event.

Look out for the random activation of this event throughout the day and stand a chance to win bonus Rose from the Flip the Coin Event!

Note:
▪ GM Event: Flip the Coin will be activated randomly throughout the day.
▪ All characters level 15 and above are eligible to enter into the Event Map as long as they have not participate in any of the Flip the Coin Event for the day.

We hope that with all these enhancement made to the Enchanted Forest Map and the quests available through it, players will have more chances to obtain and exchange their Rose for the prize which they desire from the Bunny Merchant.

Have a good week ahead Maplers!

Happy Mapling!

-MapleSEA Administrator

Ok… so the flip the coin event is here to stay… but you don't know when it'll happen… good news for those actively playing maple no doubt. For me, i probably won't get a chance to take part in the event unless i go back to playing maple more.

Increased rose rewards from the quest is great news, but the best thing is the increase in rose rewards from the endless tower and protect the merlion. I have yet to log in after the change, but information from my guild mates say that surviving up to wave 19 of protect the merlon gives 11k+ rose, and finishing the entire 20 waves gives 13k+ rose…! That's like… 4x of the old rose rewards! In line with the 4x better quest rose rewards as well.

Ok, its screenshots spamming time. NOTE THAT ALL SCREENSHOTS WERE TAKEN BEFORE THE CHANGE, HENCE THE ROSE REWARDS REFLECTED ARE THE OLD, OUTDATED REWARDS! I'll take some SSes after i get around to logging into maple :X

Ah yes, we finally got the SP and AP reset scroll rewards :P Finally fixed my pala sp… also reset my evan to pure int :X

Capture the alien is back… but now its kinda troublesome cos the npc is in the event map so you have to spent more time clicking/moving :X

i tried a few times but only got crappy rewards -.-'''

Ok… so this is the new enchanted forest map, accessed from the mirror of dimension. But i bet you've been there a million times already...

Now you'll get 4k points for the quest completion instead of 1k...

Same as the gaga event… just that there's absolutely no way to cheat now...

Here's what you can use the rose for… 40k rose for a 3 day fairy's pendant, 60k for a 7 day pendant.

If you screw up your SP… you now have a way to reset it!

Can get a cute little chair from here...

And lastly… the most important thing… maple points! Now with the new exp rewards, if you just do the afk 30mins quest + protect merlon everyday, in 3 days you'll get enough rose to earn 500 maple points. Yup, i don't need to buy acash to revive my pet anymore! XD

Ok! so the protect merlon quest… basically the mobs you'll get is fixed… and quest gets quite boring till the final wave when poseidon comes out. Poseidon is a hefty lvl 200, so low lvls will have trouble with accuracy. That thing also has mammoth hp, plus you have limited time to kill him! My noob hero has was unable to kill him :X Forgot to on enrage earlier on tho… and didn’t start killing him the moment he appear… maybe i'll let some mobs thru the next time and see if i can try and clear wave 20 instead :X AND remember to on enrage at the start. I was left with like… 20-25% of his hp though so… that's a bit… hard :X haiz. damage too noob wat to do?

Oh yes, you can't jump in this map. Skills like slipstream works tho… so tele, chaos lock etc shd work as well tho i've not tried any of them yet.

Since you can't jump, you can't jump down and have to use the tele spots to move up/down. (or you can fall through the gap in the middle… or just chaos lock/ evan's dragon blink)

Tablets are as per the patch notes description… missed out on SSing the 3rd one tho :X Nvr used the tablets before… cos I'd rather save up the points as they will get converted into rose at the end.

As you can see… its quite a boring affair… just more mobs spawning from a few portals at the same time at later waves...

Wave 20 sees mobs spawning from all the 4 portals… with poseidon spawning from > bottom at the end.

its game over once poseidon touches merlion...

He is ridiculously hard to kill tho… see my pala didn’t even scratch him -.-''' And yes, he walks quite fast...

Now the rose rewards are much much better. Thankfully.

So endless tower...

Basically, round and more rounds of tower maps that you have to clear. Portals at the top (some have it near the middle) lead to the next lvl, bottom portal brings you out.

There are a few types of water maps… such as this one with the scuba pepes… there's also one with risell squids. I think there's a shark map as well? 

Kill all the mobs to move to the next map! Speed is the key here… so chars like mercedes or DS would do well here. Damage is important as well of cos. The mobs get progressively harder as you climb… but IMO speed is more important than damage… cos the mobs in the tower are all rather noob. At lvl 5X my pala starts having some trouble killing the mobs. Trouble meaning that my noob guy needs 2 charge blows to kill a mob… taking more time. But not THAT much more… if you miss a rope/miss out some mobs etc you'll waste  more time moving around.

Ah didn’t get any SSes of the ice tower maps… but yes… there's a sizeable number of maps with slippery floors. Either get used to skidding or wear snow shoes. And ride your mount for faster moving speed whenever possible (well, for adv warriors at least). Also note that to start moving in a particular direction, you should jump to move faster rather then hold down your direction key...

I heard that now you get 10 rose per monster kill instead… not sure exactly how much rose i'll end up getting in a single tower run… i'll have to try and see… and nope, the mobs in the towers don't give a single exp.

My 2nd attempt at the tower gave me slightly better results… mainly cos i knew where the tele spots were already and was more used to the slippery conditions… and made lesser falling down mistakes :X

Another random SS from 2nd merlion attempt...

Ah yes. I got bored and went to play in muling tower… my noob pala is just… too noob...

Eventually i gave up cos… i didn’t have enough mp -.-''' i ended up having to WAIT in between levels or worst still, during levels for my mp to regenerate. Hp wise… what hp? all the mobs were dealing me like… 1 damage? Idk. I didn’t see my hp bar drop at all :X This time round the boss don't drop any pots at all so my mp was really suffering… 

In the end while afk-ing to gain mp halfway, i dc-ed. LOL. End of adventure haha!

Okays! that's all for now! XD

So yes...

A very exclusive new class that's just unlike ChinaMS… with skills so unlike pirates and an EXCLUSIVE link skill that costs @cash in every step. I'm SO impressed.

Well the character card system is coming up too… bleah… my pala is still lvl 17x. Been so long since i last bothered to train it. Or any of my characters for that matter.

Only been logging on for the sole purpose of CWKPQ batches...

Anyway… phantom will arrive on the 14th of Nov. Looking forward to that, but it also means i need to clear a char slot for it… as for dragon warrior? I'll probably just make it for fun in my sub account… if at all… with the link skills requiring @cash… i really don't see any incentive for making yet another class which will be abandoned.

Phantom on the other hand, is interesting. Being able to copy skills is an interesting concept, but once again, eq wise is… zzzzzzz. I aint gonna spend no more @cash on the game, none of my chars will get an eq upgrade anymore… unless say after the cygnus batches resume AND they open up more CCs for bossing and my guilds go cygnus at some more decent timing. Meh… 

I do feel like giving my hero better eqs tho, instead of pala… IF i ever get cyg runs. Cos i have a perfectly nice 34k BASE hp (ok, with eqs, not completely base hp)… which is like ridiculously hard to get now, with that change in mp gain and what not… such a waste… all that $$$ put into hp washing… bleah… meh… been playing trickster a lot more lately tho...

sighz. nothing much better to say… maybe i'll spam some old SSes instead.

Old stuff like i said. The merlion pet package… i think the merlion looks kinda… ugly… :X well the main thing is that even with this perm pets you still have to spend loads of $$$ on the perm skills… so I'd just stick to my alien pet thank you very much.

i guess this is the best run i got to soo far, 8.25k points from endless tower...

So… i rarely ever post about trickster… but since I'm on my mac now with a wonderful blogging tool called marsedit… i might as well post something :P

*digs around for some SSes*

Whee some old lvl up screenies...

Yes, so i saved up some points a while back… and now i've finally decided what to do with it… well it seems like either way there isn't too much of a choice. I'm aiming for the AoE skill ghostly whisper… BUT to get that i'll need a whole bunch of OTHER skills… scythe, rust… and the thing is that i don't like scythe that much, cos i have enough 1 hitting skills that take 1.5 secs to cast already… so yeah… in the end i decided to pick up SoA 1st, just as pretty much all the guides i've read suggests. Got enough SP to master SoA now, but i don't have the 4 tooth flower cards yet… :(

Ah yes, also decided to master cure. Whatever for? Just… wanted to get it mastered i guess. Heals that little bit more hp for hopefully that little bit more survivibility

Ah yes… tried to kill the 3rd boss in chaos tower. No luck… that guy heals way too much for me to kill within 5 mins :( i can kill him eventually, but i think i take like… 10mins or something? Sad… no box 3 for me. Now anyway… gotta lvl up some. Well since i finally got my guardian matured, I'm aiming for lvl 180 to hatch my guardian anyways :)

And ah…! i finally decided to go hit captain skull… whatever for? cos i was bored. And cos that stupid count blood absorbs magic and absorbs dark… i'll have to wait till I'm higher lvled AND have some elemental sword to bash him up with. No dark elements though.

I took SOOOO LONG to drill up the dang quests to fight him… all he dropped was some useless ultis… ah wells… 

at last i got 1 more boss seal… see my pathetic collection of boss seals there :P

*digs back for even older SSes*

yeah yeah… i fast tracked all my other chars… why? hmm… so that they'll make better shops i guess? higher lvl = more weight! LOL. Don't think i'll ever train the rest of the chars… i'll stick to my dark lord thank you. I did make a fortune selling off all the random questies and eqs and other extra stuff i've accumulated tho. Earned like… 15-20m maybe? XD

ah yes… me trying to mature my soul seed...

the painfully lengthy pot spamming process

and the finally matured soul seed, with just exactly the stats i want. (now kinda regretting if i shd have gone 6 power instead of magic tho, cos of erm… could blood :X)

Well i guess that's all i have now...

Been doing card ID the past few days i was logged in… managed to get quite a lot of SCs… meh.. forgot how many more i need… but i did get a lot of repeats… which I'd probably sell for $$$ :P i did remember breaking the halfway mark though. 

Okays… that's all for now :)

Been so long since i last posted here...

Well mainly cos its been that long since i last maple or trickstered.

Yes, so i went cygnus last night! Since maple closed and re-opened cygnus… that place is now FFA and has no time table anymore. So my guild has decided to move cygnus to like 12am on sat/sun! Well we missed one round yesterday, but ant managed to grab in the second time (amazing if you'd ask me) and we entered around… 1:30am or so. An infinite times better than 4am if you'd ask me.

So that marks the 2nd time i entered cygnus! Commander ant dc-ed halfway and since we were all rusty we didn’t down queen… More like… they were rusty, i was just plain clueless. Not completely clueless since i did go once before… but that was MONTHS ago plus at the ungodly hour of 4am so yeah, my memory of that learning session is very very vague now. Still kinda clueless on what to do and all, and yesterday the reflect timing for the SM instructor wasn’t done properly and i died twice T.T also while i was guarding the boss in one corner my luck almost ran out with a series of attacking coming though with the boss (no guard/blocking activation T.T) and i pathetically ending up running to the other side trying to save my skin with just 2k hp left after using both the pot plus the hp recovery skill :X

Also really wish this pala  had the hp of my hero. 34k w/o hb and 50+k with hb will be absolutely awesome. my noob 22k hp was barely enough to rush the SM instructor properly when the dk died and hb ran out. And well of cos i was noob and had practically no experience and that just made it a lot worst. Wouldn’t have died though if we got the reflect timing right… but 3 weeks w/o cygnus and it seems like they were rusty. Plus the loss of commander ant haha… that's probably the worst part. Glad my comp can tank cyg at least. Even tho it failed me time and again in cht. Also pathetic was the fact that i've not used my pala in months… since recently i've only been logging in for cwk with my hero, i got used to the hero keys and kept pressing my stance button on hero… Stance and MM are the major difference between the keyboard shortcuts for my chars so i kept mixing that up last night -.-''' ansi kept wishing for MM. Which i obviously did not have. And i forgot to threaten the SM boss at the start meh. Fail i know T.T

Still, i think i've gotten just a little bit more experienced with cygnus… hopefully the next run will be better!

Was quite a chaotic night for me yest… had to scramble to delete apps and stuff just so that i can patch maple. Somehow maple expanded to take up almost 6gb of space again sighs. No more dota and zoo tycoon 2 on my xp. No more open office as well. Now left with just 2+gb of space. Bad bad bad. Really nothing much left for me to delete either… At this rate I'd never be able to play the chinese paladin game my friend lent me. sighs.

1 reflect to kill them all! Hey at least it shows that i wasn’t slacking ok! i was hitting the boss! Oh wells. Net loss of 1.1% exp. Ok lah… now like lazy to train in maple also…  and what, phantom and zen warrior coming right? I think i shan't bother with zen warrior on my main account. Gotta clear up a character slot for phantom though :X 

Also since i've not logged in for so long,  the water of life i bought long ago during the offer persil expired T.T now i gotta top up acash to revive my pet since i've not bothered to log in xp to go enchanted forest for maple points either… but then since I'm not mapling now, i don't need a pet either. Don't need one for cwk, and don't need one for cyg either with the pot cd. Oh wells. I guess i shall just leave my alien as a doll for now. Hmm i wonder when my wheels expire :X bought 5 wheels that time and still have 5 left… wonder if I'd get to use them before they expire… though honestly I'd rather not :P at least i have 1.5k maple points to buy 2 wheel :P

K that's all for now! Ciao!

Not been active on maple much. As you can see from this blog… i've got nothing much to say. I did log in to maple the other day, and also re-dl the whole maple program, so my wizen file is now 3gb large. HALF the 6gb is got to previously. For a 40GB large XP partition, 3 GB is almost 10% of the space (not to forgot that XP itself takes up space!).

Waiting for phantom to arrive, i think it'll be fun. Unless they increase the max number of slot though (which i really hope they would), I'd need to delete one char before i can make my phantom :(. Max 15 slots reached already T.T. I'll have to xfer like my recipes over or something. No space!!!!! T.T

Anyway I heard enchanted forest rose rewards got nerved back to the old one again, though they did add in the jackpot spin thing… i wanted to try it the other day, but halfway through protect the merlion, my maple hanged -.-'''… and so yeah… i gave up :P

So random SSes though… yeah. Just cos i've nothing better to post or say.

The justice shop and part-time job reward NPC in quick move menu...

New character selection page. Pretty, but I'm not used to it yet (not surprising tho since i've hardly logged in). Takes me a while to find my chars. Also the part time job thing, max a job can last is like 6 hours. For ppl like me with so many chars, just send those chars you won't be logging in to work (though i keep forgetting). Once you start the job, you cannot log in unless you cancel the job. I tried to cancel the job right away once and realised that you have to wait an hour before you can restart the job. Not a problem with my 15 chars though… :X Also for ppl like me with so many chars, they helpfully put a gift box on top of the char's head to remind you to log in and collect your part time job reward from the npc. Helpful cos i can't even rem which storage char i sent to work :X. I wish they had a 'return to char selection screen' thing though. To just collect 3 part time job rewards you have to log in 3 times! Very troublesome leh! Need to type the capcha some more T.T

Oh right. I only have this 2 SSes. Eh? I tot i tok one halfway during merlion? bleah. whatever. not like its very interesting anyway ><

Ks… that's all for now… nothing much to say :P

Trained my phantom test… till lvl 64 only. Much slower than previous times, but then i was quite busy yesterday and ended up not spending a lot of time training. But yeah, phantom is fun… very fun. Skill stealing is really fun. You have so many skills to steal and you have to be familiar with practically all the adventurer classes… esp after the revamps skills got changed and stuff. Of cos, being in a guild with phantoms a plenty means that you can always ask around to see what skills other people have stolen :)

Screen shot spamming time. Enjoy :)

The new character creation page. Its weird that the rate of growth of zen is 2 and 1 for phantom… when all my friends who played zen says its hard to lvl up. I guess i'll go try out zen sometime later myself but… I'd say that its not hard to lvl phantom at all! Took longer then say merc or DS, but i think the fact that all PQs have changed to start from lvl 50 has something to do with it. Ok, I'm not sure if it actually took longer. It felt longer cos its been 1 and a half days, but yesterday i actually didn’t get to train much since i was doing a lot of other things (i.e. housework).

You get to pick your gender (in the previous screen, no SS) for phantom too. And there's 2 hair styles and 2 face to choose from. And hair colour! I picked my favourite blue. 

Well to start off they force you to watch a video again… then you end up in your flying ship...

So there's some kind of conference in Erev, there's someone claiming to be the real heir to the throne instead of cygnus… and you are going to rescue them!

1st though, you have to infiltrate the place...

You get two skills to play with, ghost walk and chump change… both are only for the tutorial though… and actually, i didn’t use the skills to clear it at all. YOu just have to time things right and stuff. If the guards touch you, you have to restart.

trying out the chump change skill… only 1 stack of notes at any one time.

And in we go!

The fake heir...

Some talk… the fake tries to convince ppl she's the real one… and then phantom finally decides to step in.

Basically, cut scene video again.

Pretty pretty… (later it's revealed that it was all a light show, cos you are…)

Yeah, it was all a show… Cos you're just a lvl 10 phantom! Putting up the light show somehow made you go from lvl 1 to 10!

So, time to look around!

The usual… newbie training ground!

After finishing that mushroom killing quest, you are given an exp potion...

That lets you lvl to lvl 18. Not too shabby...

Not bad, they actually tell you which is your primary and secondary stat. Definitely useful for newbies… provided you actually read all the convo lol.

There's a storage onboard! Woots! Convenience++!

Flashy skills, as with all new jobs

Ah maple events! The cassandra coconut event! Collect 50 coconuts - dropped by any mob, except those in sg/msia (maybe zipangu too but i didn’t try)

that stuff heals 2k hp a pop. Great for my phantom, useless for my pala. Not like I'm gonna be training my pala though. 

There's also this traveling pouch thing that all mobs occasionally drop (no dropped in sg/my again). Gives stuff like gaga transformation potion, grey, ribbon pig, and orange mushroom transformation use item, also gives those monster park trait use items. Occasionally gives 60% armour luk/dex/str (that's all i've gotten so far anyway). Untradeable though.

Yay! Free canes are <3

Then you go to ask your intelligence collectors what they have… 

Woots, you don't have to pay for the black wings hat! Its free!

Talk to the captain on board your aircraft to move the ship! 

3 mins to anywhere! Nice right?

The to the skies skill lets you return the the flying ship. No cd. So if you need to say, sell off your etc, you can come to your ship, sell the items, then exit. You'll end up in the exact same map! Repotting wise… the merchant only sells noob pots… i didn’t even see pure waters there. There's the storage though so you can make use of that… like store all your pots in there first and take it out later when training :)

I didn’t ask the captain to drive anywhere and ended up in henesys...

3mins!

Ah, the quest that you have to wait 30mins. you can keep repeating it for more ice candy. Which also heals 2k hp each.

This quest, also wait for 30 mins. gives a buff that add hp, wa… and some other stuff. Depending on your level you get different buffs. Below lvl 30 its only 10w a, but lvl 30 - ? gives 20wa. Probably lvl 30-70 but I'm not there yet.

AH i did take a screen of the buff after all. Oh, adds hp, wa and ma, and speed. 30mins, just nice when the 30 mins is up, the next buff should be coming really soon.

Same old black wing henchman stuff...

Oh they sell all the town scrolls in there… so if you need any of them, its convenient. With the taxis costing 1k each and stuff, i don't think there's really a need for all these town scrolls anymore though...

lvl 25 cane from the quest… and that's gonna last me till… idk when. Hopefully my guild mate will pass me the lvl 70 cane that he no longer needs… :P else… gonna collect 50 coins on my phantom and change for the weapon from the justice shop. that'll have to do for a long time :P

This time its another series of quests, you have to go to pith harbour to take the quest from tru, who then teleports you to find the puppeteer. 

there's some talk and you have to kill that guy twice -.-

phantom's 'teleport'

Yes. Its much much easier now phantom. You didn’t remember wrong.

You have to go to orbits to job adv :X

Ah finally, swiping skills! 

You can only steal from adventurers. Merc, mech, DS, KoC - all don't work! There's also only a few skills that can be stolen from each job… basically all the passive skills like advanced combo can't be stolen.

Oh you get a notification after using the to the skies skill so that you won't accidentally go back to your ship.

Very pretty animation :)

Ah, the monster mop up event rewards...

Time to job adv!

I just entered the portal right away… only later did i realise that you are supposed to whack the lock to clear the quest… >< had to come back later to finish the quest lol!

So after clicking on the desk, you job advance and get a new medal!

then i went back to hunt the golem cores. 

Very flashy mob pushing attack - Mille Cartes. Nice range too.

Calling card. Your attack skill from 30 to 70, unless you decide to steal skills and use of cos. Thunderbolt and heal are great choices ;)

Ah wait, so I'm using a lvl 30 weapon now? not bad. I though the lvl 25 was the last weapon :P

*finally realised i have to kill the lock :P* Stupid. Why let me enter w/o breaking the lock then?

After that there's the qest that brings you to rien.

No more quest after that though, at least till lvl 64. 

The phantom teleport skill leaves a nice trail of cards behind. I love the animation, but it took some getting use to. Its great for moving between platforms, but i miss the mage tele when i just want to move 1 tele distance away. Here i have to press the skill, arrow key, then press the skill to come out of the 'tele mode'. I wish pressing any attack key would get you out of this mode. You are in dark sight when teleing though, and by holding the direction key you can tele great distances really fast. Also since you can move up (and down) platforms that are quite far apart, it makes it much easier to train in maps w/o tele spots. Also great for things like ice knight and rex pq.

I decided to try the flip the coin event. but my maple hanged once it started. -.-'''

Now monster park is only for specific levels… YES that's why i levelled slower too!

Go bored of dark drakes and skipped to MY to hunt coconuts and rehabs for the fame quest. 

yup. stupid rose change back to the old amount liao. 500 roses for collecting the 100 powers and hearts

At lvl 50 i went to PQ. Cos i was bored of whacking stuff...

10 rounds of hene pq --> 50-52

10 rounds of kph --> 52-54

10 rounds of ice knight --> 54-57

After that i went mp1 to whack...

Ah yes, the card prices. Not sure if they come with hidden pot… but probably not? But like the magic arrows you can keep buying and potting till you get a nice stat carte. 

After lvl 59 i got bored of mp1 and killed 100 pac pinky for the quest before settling down in gs2. Heal ftw! Stand right smack in the middle and all you have to do is hold the heal button and eat some mp pots. Still have yet to tried the revamped pyramid quest on any char… i'll try it out someday :P

Eh… what was this SS for? Oh so did i leave my char at 63 or 64 last night? i thought i lvled up to 64 sia. Whatever….

Yay. So that's all for the SSes!

Some notes...

our 'FJ' is available from 1st job yay, its simply double space… WH jag jump style. Pretty animation :) Cos of that same skill, our max speed is also increased to 160%. So you DO need haste or speed eq. 

the 'teleport' takes some getting use to. i didn’t use it at all in the beginning till i started doing pqs. Ice knight in particular… after that I'm now much more comfortable with it.

You can switch between the stolen skills, but if it’s a buff, the buff will be cancelled if you switch it out. Yes, even party member's buff will get cancelled. So you can't use phantom as the ultimate (though troublesome) buff mule anymore (i rem pt members skills weren't cancelled in kms).  There'll be a message in chat saying that you or someone can't use that skill anymore and the effect is cancelled. (it should be somewhere there in my SS spam…) 

Skills to steal…?

For 1st job i got myself magic guard, iron body, haste, and dark sight. Dark sight is just for fun. Totally useless… iron body… for the def… magic guard is good. more survivability during boss battles and all. haste is what I'd be using most of the time though, unless i have max speed and jump w/o it next time… then maybe i'll use iron body. Boss battles, i might use magic guard. Dark sight? Just cos i have no other skill to take. Some ppl took lucky 7 and didn’t use that 1st job attack skill at all… i prefer the 1st job attack skill though, cos it hits more mobs! Plus i 1hko everything i whacked anyway...

2nd job… hyper body. heal. dark clarity. meso guard. Dark clarity is a viper skill, adds 30 wa and some acc… what about rage? also adds 30 wa… the diff between the two, is that dark clarity can stack with wa pots, but rage can't (according to my guild mates at least. After so many revamps I'm not sure about rage anymore, it never could stack with wa pots though… and recently, i never had an occasion when i needed to eat any wa pot). The good thing about rage though, its that it’s a party skill, whereas dark clarity is for yourself only. Take your pick. Heal is well… ur hp pot replacement. Hyper body… i don't have to say more right? meso guard is once again for defence. Coupled with magic guard and our high avoid, we'll be pretty much invincible at 4th job. I recommend using thunderstorm for training though, and get meso guard when you don't need thunderbolt anymore. Calling card is good, but only hits 3 mobs and in a straight line. For training, thunderbolt does a better job. 

3rd job… I'm not there yet… and not you can only steal 2 skills at any one time. HS is a must for solo training. combo would be great (ah my 1st job, crusaders!)… and magic crash would be helpful for bossing… that's what I'm thinking for now anyway. 

4th job there's so many interesting skills to steal but only 2 slots. SE is like a must… the other slot? idk. So many fun skills to play with… like all the full screen attacks. There's also advanced blessing and you can even steal ress! Basically it'll be like… steal what you like, have fun, change according to the situation. Like if you're going bossing it might be a good idea to steal ress to rv ur teammates. (of cos, it depends on what boss you go… and with who.) 

at first i didn’t assign a key to load out… eventually i did and make it fairly accessible… so that i can switch between heal and dark clarity when I'm free (say during pqs) so that i don't have to eat hp pots. 

Yup… that's all for now i guess…!

Hmmm where was i the last time round? Ah yes… my phantom. I did leave him at lvl 63 the other day after all… plenty of SSes from my phantom coming up. And the hell ride? After i spam all the y SSes from my phantom i guess.

Ah yes this… from the hot time event… nice little facial expressions...

Yes the aurora ring too, from the hot time event.

So back to training at gs2 and lvling up… i realised (a bit slow, i know) that standing on the 6th platform can also hit the mobs on both lanes.

Finally! the self service job advancement… 

You have to make your own way to the place… but luckily you have to flying ship to send you to ariant in 3 minutes!

Apparently some dust dwarfs have invaded ur safe...

Just kill them and be on your way!

Woots that… A LOT of talk :X

Then you're finally a 3rd job!

I tried my new attacking skill - rapier wit on some mobs… 

i tried to kill the security camera… but gave up. damage too low, mob hp too high :X

Back to training at gs2… 

Ah yes, new skill! Blason i don't like this attack so much tho, cos it’s a short range skill… you don't have enough sp to max it anyway… you'll only leave it at 11. Still, the power is much higher then calling card, so as reluctant as i was, i eventually replaced the calling card key with blazon… at about lvl 8x i think? when i no longer had accuracy problems killing the gs mobs. Before that i prefer to use calling card to lure the mobs. However as my accuracy got higher, 3 heals was enough to kill the mobs plus i missed less, so i can kill the mobs within like… 4 or 5 hits… and then luring became a waste of time… it was faster to just kill the mobs on the spot then.

HS is a wonder. This idiot didn’t realise that you only need to steal a skill once. Even if you impeccable memory skill is not maxed yet… as long as the target you stole the skill from has maxed their skill already, the stolen skill's lvl will also increase as you max the impeccable memory skill.

HS uses up a healthy chunk of MP though...

it was like… super late at night (3am? or even later) when i passed by mp3 and found it… empty! COOL! Lvled up like no tmr there… super fast lvling. 

went to sleep after hitting lvl 85… so some other day, its back to gs2 to train :(

I got bored tho, and decided to whack capt lantanica… no hs? nah… combo 1st, change to hs before down :)

blason is a strong attack but… range too small leh!

i didn’t know the boss hits how much, so i turned on MG for safety purposes. Turns on he hits like high 700s to 8xx nia. I'd rather not on mg… see the mp bar keep go down like that haha… or I'd rather on meso guard… 

yay! from 38% to 72%! 34% exp? Pretty nice IMO. Of cos, don't forget to on ur hs.

and finishing the quest gave me another 10%. not bad.

I like hunting at gs6. u just stand at the top to heal both top and bot lane mobs. Of cos if u want to like… check ur phone while training, w/o having to worry about dying if u accidentally got too caught up with ur phone and forgot to pot MP in time (and u don't wanna buy a pet), you can stand on the 6th step. Any other step and u'd get hit by the mobs.

yay, lvled while bossing this time

Oh… so the new enchanted forest thing system. sighs. 40k rose for a spin. But with the reduced rose rate… i'll nor get 40k rose. totally give up on this liao… only go there to turn in the stones and the sand when i collect a 100 of each.

rjpq time! great for lvling as always. esp with the self supplied HS XD i was doing 1 lvl per round, and we only camped till 8mins.

i went opq also… 

all 3 pt members lvled up in the same round haha

Yay so that's all the happy phantom SSes that i have.

Sighz. The hell ride? It’s the cwkpq batch. Really terrible now. Batch members all mia. Some explain that they have exams, go on holiday etc… yup that's fine. But the rest? Just MIA w/o a word! And well… 

Last sat… i wasn’t paying enough attention… or more like… i was just going to type to ask the members to rush the boss out. Then… 1,1 and u know the rest. The great thing about being lvl 200 is that i can die as i like. The only consequence being the missed out bonus round… but anyway… 1 spins was really cute...

he gave me a pig head offering! XD i bet he also took the opportunity to take a million SSes. Haha. i made a note to be more careful next time… but then i died again the other day when trying to type - to tell the spons that the mon in the middle is ready for collection. Not i suck ok! I was typing! bleah. Next time i'll have to move away to type. i really miss my achilles sia. Maybe i shd go do the keystone quest on my pala. but i need to mine the gold ores 1st… f3. then i also have to care about which charge to use. dang. Like now cwk boss time i just pin the bosses one side and anyhow whack. My damage not that great anyway. I have to care more about stuff like neck order (sometimes i switch entirely to fb page to check, it’s a wonder i didn’t die more) and such… but now like… they kill too fast and we always end up with one whole pile of 3 necks at the corner -.-''' heng so far no mishaps. I shan't say more and give ppl ideas. f3.

So yeah… cos now phantom and everyone's excited… there's a lot of spons available. So what do i do? I make more batches, to make more money. So i tried on wedn to do a weekday batch, with just 1 regular batch member and the rest being my guild ppl. End up no one bring a warrior to bot AND everyone was like super reluctant to relog (cos of the 30mins justice coin thing zzzzzz!) to bring a warrior. Like wtf? Someone just bring a warrior? I org and already booting 2 chars on top of bring my hero in? Like someone please move? In the end jp brought a warrior up. So yeah. Wedn start late. Then since so many spons, we decided to org on thurs also. But then cos none of us had gone to cwkpq so often, we didn’t know the timer resets every 24hrs rather than at 12mn. ZZZzzzzzzzzzz. We had to wait till like 11pm to start. On top of that some spons MIA so me and ivy had to go fm and find spons. One spons for the 2nd batch even left while we were doing the 1st round, so i used my mum's comp to look for someone to fill up the gap… then 2nd batch 3rd stage? Our only pirate died and tot it was like arka can re-enter pq. Of cos it wasn’t. He left the pq area and we gg liao loh. And we had a BS in the batch some more zzzzzzz. Like totally… Needless to say the spons were pissed. All i can say is… heng we found those spons in fm de. Else they come kpkb in forum thread will be even more zzz. 

And so… batch later. I hope we can start on time. Very sian organising this thing. Ppl withdraw last min, or worst still mia… or like suddenly want more slots but we full long ago liao. Yeah… cos of phantom + hols bah. So many ppl want slot… not just a lot of ppl buying, they also want a lot of slots at once. Like 2, 3 or even 4 slots at one go. So yeah, still organising weekday batches on Tuesday and Thursday. And still finding batch members for those days… I need at least 5 batch members per run… each person do one job. Well i DO have a bam and a nw to enter the pq for now… but I'd rather not. my mum's lappy de keyboard is like shyt! Cannot press the keys properly one loh! Makes me so tempted to install xp on my dad's macbook pro as well just so that i can maple. Plus the key config and all will be what I'm already used to. sighs. The thing is all my chars are on the same acct tho. My nw and bam not only have pathetic damage, they are only 9x. And they have pathetic damage. 3k range on my nw for e.g.? I think cos all my eqs aren't there… i think even my old wgg is on some other char. still… it won't be much of a help. Amazing this is that i actually did the keystone quest on my nw. I'm amazed myself lol. Hmm if that's the case maybe i did it on my SM too? o.o maybe i shd check it out… since pala haven do i need jump up… very mafan and slow. Of cos… MIA spons is frustrating.. but MIA members? That's even worst. Every week I'm just struggling to find members. Its like now i really give up liao. Just org, go there then see lack simi, i bring n bot. For Tuesday and Thursday… think i'll need to log in even earlier on my pala and shout to who who in my alliance want to help and make a bit of $...

haiz two more weeks till the old org back. I just asked her to give me forum access. I want to change the stuff in the thread sia… and since this service has been around for ages, I'd rather not make a new thread. 

Haiz. Ok lah… time to post this (slowly wait for the pics to upload!) so that i can reboot my comp for the cwkpq later. *crosses fingers* i hope it goes smoothly sia.

Todays cwkpq was… first, spons went mia. So i had to do the log in to fm on one computer to look for spons while the other is doing the pq thing again. At least this time it didn’t  take TOO long to get all the members. One of the members who promised to come went mia tho -.- So yeah… i ended up botting my evan again. And mech. And NW. I went to check and found that i actually did have the keystone on my NW. Oh i said that in the previous post didn’t i? So yeah. I realised that Phantom doesn’t count as a their for CWKPQ. So i had to bot with my nw -.-. I tried jumping my bam up on my mum's lappy. I couldn’t even get to the jq part. I really can't use her lappy. The keyboard sucks! Esp the enter key… its literally dying. The rest of the keys aren't too much better either -.-'''

2nd round too super long to start. Cos one of the spons couldn’t do the jq properly and took like 30 or 40mins to jump up. Next time if spons go mia, i think i won't even want to bother looking for replacement spons anymore. And those spons found in the FM. Super high rate of them going MIA lah. So zzzz! Or those not mia de, they just buy service earlier and didn’t even bother to pm to say they bought liao. Sianz sia.

In the end my NW got a MoN. 2 MoNs actually, cos 1 phantom happily want to whack but end up tio DC by gm for hacking. LOL. Phantom also got bugged skill that will trigger the hacking message? That guy say he'll come on thurs tho. Good no need refund him $ :P. Else $ wasted in the tax also… He trade me 30m, i only receive 28.5m I give him back 28.5m, idk how much he'll end up getting.

Oh yes… i was always wondering… cos at 1st some ppl said after getting the mark of heroism you don't die when touching pillar. Yeah right. Was guiding two spons up the mountain before the batch and i died after kissing pillar. I love being lvl 200. Die as you wish. Lol.

I'm pleased to say that today I didn’t die in the boss run. Mx died again tho… heng ish boss stage then die. Well actually, he didn’t even do stage 3… well ok, i didn’t do either, flame n law n rep were doing it. But i was collecting $$$ mah… 

Went to play phantom a bit after that… lvled once. Oh i finally took out my crit ring fro storage and gave it to my phantom. like 75% crit now. saw a 19k for a single hit of blason - with combo, lune and dark clarity. Not bad sia… i think it shd constant 1hko at slimy with dark clarity le. Always almost kill when i had heal on the 2nd job skill slot. If the card throwing thing activates then it'll be 1hko… and it does activate quite often with blason and 75% crit rate. Hmm will be 95% crit rate with SE… not bad. 

So… after like what? 18 months in the making? It finally came out! Yes, Bloons TD 5 for the iPhone! 

Yup… i was so excited i bought it the moment i saw the email. There just isn't a reason to wait when it comes to Bloons TD series. It just keeps getting better and better. Yes, I think its totally worth the 3USD.

Been playing it a lot since i got it like… 2 weeks ago? Unlocked all the upgrade already, now working to complete more maps and missions to slowly save up monkey money for the speciality buildings...

Well as usual… I'll do the spam screen shots, and maybe comment a bit thing.

And so, a new profile begins, and its time to rank up and unlock all the upgrades once more!

its easy to rank up at the beginning...

like in the online game, when you play the game for the 1st time, they'll introduce you to all the new balloons and stuff...

so… bronze medal for completing on easy, monkey money, and a token. Wait? A token? What's that? Well i'll explain in a while...

meh, i wanted to take a SS of the loading screen, but i was too slow. Its had the words BTD5 in wood and it looks really really elegant.

Hoho… what's this? It’s the heli pilot! A tower exclusive to BTD5iOS! 

The heli pilot in game! Basically when you put it down, you are only putting down a heli landing pad. The heli is free to fly any where on the map. It was a few flying modes. Touch - where it'll fly wherever you touch. Lock in place. Patrol - move between two points. And the last mode - pursuit. It’s a tier two upgrade on the top (aka left) path. Yes top, since here in the portable btd5, the upgrade panel slides out from either the left or the right side of the screen, depending on where your tower is located. A better use of screen space rather then squeezing it all at the bottom i guess… Pursuit mode is good, it'll follow the first bloon around the track. Which is much better then touch mode cos… here like in btd5o (online), you have to tap the bananas to collect them. Which means that the heli pilot would fly to where your banana farm is… the banana farm is also kind of problematic if you intend to use that and the darting gun… :X

upgrade heli is black in colour :)

250 missions for you to complete...

the menu where you look at the special agents and other stuff… the golden monkey on the left side is the play option… but when you are looking at the other buildings, bloons will appear at the bottom right of the screen so you don't have to scroll all the way back to start the game. Love all the attention they paid to such details. They definitely built a great interface. They said the game was built from bottom up. Everything was done specifically for the iPhone (a HD version coming out soon? or is it out yet? for the iPad. An android version coming too). I can tell that a lot of thought went into making things work and look great just for the phone. It wasn’t like a simple port over from the online game. No… they redid the entire thing here… even the maps were redrawn so there are some subtle differences between otherwise identical looking maps. 

Yup, a BTD5iOS specific special agent! Radadactyl! I've not tried it yet though… :X saving up my monkey money for the buildings 1st...

There's also the store… where things cost real money. The super combo pack costs $18.98 SGD and gives you healthy bananas, bigger beacons, max rank towers, 30 tokens, 20 monkey storms, and 500 monkey money. Unlike in btd4, where you can unlock all the double money and stuff for free, this time round there's in app purchases for perks like double money. Healthy bananas and bigger beacons for 99cents USD each, but double cash mode costs almost 13 SGD. Yeah i love the game, i love ninja kiwi - i paid for double money in btd4 in kong, and bought ALL the extra upgrades in btd5o, and paid for btd5d too… but i think I'm gonna pass on the double cash mode for now. A bit too expensive for me right now. But i think its also good… the challenge and all… playing with double money has made me really slack. Like i can just do anything and w/o banana farms cos i have enough money. Too much money in fact. Things are a lot more challenging (and fun, frustrating maybe, but challenging is good) w/o double money. And yes… although i do find it a bit pricy, i fully understand that these guys have to make a living and need to get paid. PLUS it’s a really good app they made… and its not like you need the double money upgrade to play (only for wusses and slackers like me?) so yeah… i guess i can't complain.

Buildings! yeah, they are here in the portable version as well… and i noticed some stuff that used to cost real $$$ (or at least nk currency) to unlock at now tier 4 building upgrade skills. Like the boomerang monkeys throwing 2 booms at once. Or like the wizard's tornadoes splitting into 3… and there's totally new abilities in the 4th tier upgrades too. LIke motars being able to aim and shoot like a regular tower anyone? man that sounds really cool. I gotta farm more monkey money!

New thing: Monkey lab!Increase piping power anyone? That costs 2 tokens for the 1st popping power upgrade. Yeah! SO that's what tokens are used for! There's other upgrades like increase starting monkey money, increasing your total no. of lives etc...

There's no more monkey tycoon now. Instead, there's a sell price upgrade in the labs that lets you sell off the towers at 95% of the purchase cost - when the skill is at max level that is.

Oh the daily free monkey money chest is there, just like in the online n deluxe versions.

Maps! there's a couple of new maps exclusive to the portable version...

(Oh yes, i love the details they put into things, like how the medals swing when you swipe from map to map)

Old map, new life. Switch pipes are purple instead of the metallic grey...

In the gameplay area, agents and abilities at called out from the star on the bottom right. i wish the abilities were just show outside tho… it makes it harder to use the abilities imo :( but then again, if you stuff too many buttons outside, u end up with less space to place towers so… ><

Tower called out from the button on the bottom left.

One of the complains i had about btd5o was the inability to check out the tower index during the game. Here in the portable, the question mark when the tower placing menus is out allows you to check out the tower index when playing a game. Great when you forgot which patch leads to which upgrade, or at the beginning when you want to check which tower to use so that you can get more tower exp to unlock the next tower upgrade.

When the tower is selected, the question mark button will show you the otherwise hidden description of each upgrade. A great way to make use of the space (or lack thereof) imo.

An easy way to complete the moab madness mission when you don't have a very high rank yet - spam all the money on 2/4 tack shooters, and spam the ability. Easy $150. That mission is great for levelling up too. You need to unlock the tack shooter's 4th tier upgrade though. 2 helis and a monkey village works too… but you need a 4/1 heli and it takes longer to unlock tier 4 heli upgrades.

Hmm yay… that's all the SSes i have now. In short… i love this game, its worth every cent of the 3 USD it asks for. If you love tower defence games, you really need to get this game. Bloons td is really THE BEST td game i've come across thus far. I strongly recommend you to check out this app :)

So my phantom was happily lvling up once again.

i ask lolli to help me scar and targa… 

but turned out to have utterly useless pot lines, but the 19 dex and 19 luk scar helm was nice :) also, that means that i have 160 speed and 122 jump w/o haste… dang that 1 jump more! Bleah… when i get my MoN… XD Either way i've already changed my 1st job stolen skill from haste to iron body. Not that it helps much though. On a side note… I'm wondering if i shd change dark clarity with rage… cos its seems like there's quite a lot of ppl asking for rage when i do PQs. oh wells.

At lvl 100 we get a mount! Yay mount!

sibuay long sia… the npc convo. I didn’t read most of it lol. Did see that we have to go to magatia to get the car though...

Dang. I was hoping i wouldn’t need to pay. 10m mesos sia. Plus its going to be totally useless… like the elven unicorn ride. Who the heck will ride a mount when you can double jump, teleport etc...

I paid up again, just for the sake for owning the dam car.

yes. 150 speed, 120 jump. Are they retards or something? When i WALK at 160 speed and 122 jump w/o haste. Seriously…. -.-''' 

The average looking car that's screaming 'I spent 10m on this worthless ride'...

oh right. I realised… that i was stupidly waiting in the wrong map the other day. Luckily i went to check it out -.-''' I guess you shdnt maple when you are too tired… :X

hmm what's this? ah… some lvl 35 quest that i didn’t do long time ago :P no wonder i didn’t get my lvl 35 cane. LOL!

Went to whack at LHC just cos i was bored.

then i decided to check out ellin forest. First time going there after the revamp.

The wold boar was no kick at all...

ok my damage did get nerved quite a bit, but still down it with no trouble...

chionging lvls at rjpq with mx and jp XD

ah this. The stupid ellin forest butterfly. It’s a terrible boss to fight. My damage got nerved like shit. Like seriously! The highest i saw was like 7k+ (single hit) when crit. Compared to like 28k, 29k max per hit on the mobs the boss spawns. That's like 4x lower sia! 

Plus the attacks… the boss can poison you, doing 200 damage per tick, then there's this weird stun skill thing that causes your char to fly up as abv. You can pot, but you can't do anything else…. o.o

the first time i tried, i downed the boss with less than 1 min to spare (total time given 15mins). ok lay, at first i was scrambling to change all my skills, like HS to combo, haste to MG and all… but still… -.- totally caught me by surprise. And i used so many pots! LIke 80+ 2.5k mp pots! Cos i on mg lah… but then the boss got SD sia! If not for my avoid and mg, i could have died a few times already...

ah the ellin forest medal… 1st time getting this medal and its totally worth it. +4 to all stats and 1wa/ma sia! and 7 speed… really good imo.

I tried to hunt the butterfly again for the ring...

see! 27k on the mobs spawned! damage tio nerfed like shit sia!

this time i went in prepared with all the skills and such… still… look at the pot usage -.-'''

heng it dropped the ring sia. 

well i don't actually know why i bothered to get the ring though… just for collection i guess… cos actually i already have all 4 ring slots full liao lol...

also went zak with a guy i met while pqing… went a few rounds with him liao.

down zak faster then i expected haha… and i don't like how 1,1 really leaves me with 1hp 1mp now -.-''' last time got achilles, PG… pala also still have achilles… stupid PR dc bug still there… sianz. 

Went scar/targa last night also… was gonna solo a 2nd round on my pala, but then shortly after starting i dc-ed. ZZZzzz. so went straight to sleep liao… haven move my pala back to leafre and haven xfer eq back to hero. sian. shd have done keystone quest on my pala long time ago, but i was lazy + no gold ore + even more lazy to mine. Now the quest like bugged and can't be started -.-'''. Oh wells. So its been a long time since i last used pala… didn’t even know blast became 4 hits till yesterday when whacking targa f3. Only left me and evan that time, so can see my own damage… else all hitting i don't even know which numbers are mine… 

Oh wells. Next cwkpq on Tuesday. Everyone's finally coming back, cos exams over le… oh wells. Everything shd be smooth from now on… at least the original batch owner+org will be back. Must say that it wasn’t bad doing with my guild mates at all though. Esp sat, all just auto show up on time… those missing were the batch members f3

Gotta find sometime to do a couple of batch runs… everyone's phantom/zen/new char needs MoNs haha. Bad thing is - phantom doesn’t count as a thief or any job when notting, and all my chars are on the same account f3. 

Ok, so the new patch notes are out… apart from Azwan itself (which is strangely NOT mentioned at all in the notes?) 

Let's take a look at the patch notes...

Dear Maplers,

The following events will be activated on 5th December 2012, 0900hrs to celebrate the launch of the Justice Patch

1. [System Event] Ice Box Event (Event Date: 5/12/12, 0000hrs – 16/01/13, 2359hrs (GMT +8))
Transform into this cute little penguins with the transformation potions and even transform into Jr Ice. Spirit and enjoy this winter! Also stand a chance to obtain a Purple Surfing Board!

hmm ok. More transformation potions which are basically useless stuff… PSB is nice though… not sure how the drop rate will be (obviously it'll be really low) but if you play dk or aran and don't have a good weapon, you should take this chance to get your PSB...

2. [System Event] Christmas Event (Event Date: 5/12/12, 0000hrs – 16/01/13, 2359hrs (GMT +8))

like the gaga maple tree event once more. Rewards… nothing much? can get xmas charging chair but the last time i checked fm it was like… 10m in aquila… a bit… worthless sia. If you really love collecting chairs, i guess you'd have it long ago already… can get some mounts and the winter exp/drop rate increase buffs also… i guess the buff will be worth $$$ though.

3. [System Event] Happy New Year 2013 (Event Date: 5/12/12, 0000hrs – 16/01/13, 2359hrs (GMT +8))

Collect the happy new year letters game is back! 

Well the new year event actually consists of two events. One is the collecting the letters thing where you'll end up with a devil's dice… no idea what the dice will give when opened though.

The other one is the snowdrop coins thing

In Maple World, there are many different towns and each town have their own way of preparing for the cold winter. The residents are looking for people to help them with their preparations and in return they will reward those who helped out with Snowdrop Coins

There are a total of 17 different quests catered to different levels.

Note:

-You can only accept 1 quest at a time..
-You can repeat the quests, but can only get up to 20 Snowdrop Coins in a day.

What they failed to say though, is what the snowdrop coins can be changed for -.-'''

The last one is the warm thermometer thing. Collect drops from monster and use it to fill up the thermometer. Once it is full you can turn in the quest for a belt and 20 snowdrop coins. 

The belt lasts for 3 days and its stats are as follows:

Hmm… ok lah. I guess its some free wa for chars like my phantom who doesn’t have a belt yet. I'd rather they just have a single 2 to att stats belt with 2wa and 2ma on it… -.-''' like that… thieves lose out on the 2 luck leh!

4. [System Event] Make A Wish Event (Event Date: 5/12/12, 0000hrs – 16/01/13, 2359hrs (GMT +8))

Ever wished that you could choose the rewards that you want from an event?

This Christmas, we will be having a Make A Wish event where you can choose the rewards you want!

During the event period, Fake Santa will be spawned in random maps.

This Fake Santa will drop A Wish Card.

After obtaining A Wish Card, you can proceed to any of the major towns to look for a Christmas Tree.

After submitting A Wish Card to the Christmas Tree, you will be given a chance to choose which items you want from the list provided. After choosing the item, the Christmas Tree will show your current count of items you have voted!

Tip: The more you vote on a particular item, the higher your chance of getting the item you want!

Below are the items that you can choose from!

5. [Gachapon] Gachapon Update

6. [Gachapon] Gachapon Jackpot

7.[Factsheet] Justice Interactive Factsheet

8. [Download] Justice Patch v1.25

So finally eh? Perm red rudolph nose. I think that's the most best thing in this event. That and the bandages aka scrolls of course. 7wa if you can pass it all. IF lah. But if your face acc got some nice % stat already, then...

The mount and chair would be nice to have as well.

And that's ALL!

The rest are gacha updates and other random stuff. Anything exciting? Not really… upon closer inspection the rudolph's nose doesn’t look very exciting as well… Ah yes… cos i have the bunny mask already. No wa but 6% hp is nice… well i didn’t cube mine so the red nose will be better if i can scroll a nice one but… for my pala especially, I'd rather have 6% hp.

And that leaves us with… nothing exciting for the patch… o.o… ok there's the Azwan and honour system and inner abilities… all that confusing crap that i've yet to read up properly on… oh wells.