Doddler's RO Journal
Intro to Renewal 1- 2
By Doddler on August 8, 2009 in category 'kRO Sakray RE'
The continuation of the first video is up. Hope its sort of interesting!
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Renewal Experience Videos
By Doddler on August 4, 2009 in category 'kRO Sakray RE'
Recently, inspired by some foreign videos about renewal, I decided I would give more of an in depth look at the Renewal update. After a while of consideration I ended up making a commentary to go along with regular gameplay, to describe the changes, how its different, etc. Each video is broken up into 10 minute segments (so it can fit on youtube), which I'll post hopefully 2-3 times a week. I know the videos aren't very exciting, but I'll try to make them interesting to keep peoples attention.
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The Endless Tower
By Doddler on July 3, 2009 in category 'MVP'
Continuing with my trend of posting things weeks after they actually happened, I decided I'd share with you our latest attempt at clearing the Endless Tower. The whole thing was an impressive experience. We lucked out pretty good and managed to organize a team of very skillful players (people who try to organize guild events might know you don't always get the best). It's the first time I've been above floor 85, and definitely the first time I've seen the dungeon through to its conclusion. We successfully cleared the tower entirely, though we cut it fairly close, ending with only 30 seconds remaining.
Recording wise, the whole thing was recorded at 1024x768 at 30fps (but usually a bit lower fps wise). Video editing was done with Sony Vegas 8. This isn't the only video I made, I created an unabridged 'feature length' version, which contains all the footage. It was pretty time consuming to make a video of that length, especially one that involved captions for each of the bosses, song titles, and somehow fitting 2 and a half hours of music.
The video above is the shortened version, though it's not really very short at all at 40 something minutes. You can find a direct link to both versions below. The short version cuts out all the regular floors and has all bosses below floor 80 sped up 3x. The short version also cuts out a good chuck of the entweihen fight and some of naght seiger because they're mostly redundant. The long version contains every floor, bosses at regular speed, regular floors at 2x speed, and first half of entweihen fight at 1.4x. Note that both the streaming and downloads are the exact same, and the short version is identical to the one shown in this post.
Endless Tower Short Version - 49 min (Download / Streaming)
Endless Tower Long Version - 2h 29 min (Download / Streaming)
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Catchup
By Doddler on June 19, 2009 in category 'General'
Busy Doddler is busy! Busy with work, busy with renewal, busy just doing stuff. I've had the images ready for an update sitting on the server for nearly two weeks but haven't gotten a chance to write a post. I figured I'd do the valk post, and I might do a renewal one later.
Welcome to Bossnia! Actually not really, its east prontera field. Gotta love bloody branches.
You don't see that every day.
Two tanks works quite well for beelzebub. If you do it right, if one gets exiled, he'll stay on the other until they get back.
GM's summoned this guy in prontera for some odd reason. Apparently no one else wants to tank it.
Actually I get the feeling no one else CAN tank it. 
My first time soloing thanatos. Even if it was just a bloody branched one, it was pretty easy. He's really annoying with the teleport though.
I decided to spend a bit of time to level a sage. It's not a serious character, but it is kind of fun. Its odd that no one levels in moscovia, it seems like an incredibly popular zone on other RO servers. The money is good and the experience is fast, can't complain about that.
Not the smartest thing I've tried doing.
Seems one of my guildmates is incredibly lucky! Maybe one day I'll be that lucky.
iRO over the last few months have been putting in these monster spawn events, where select maps become overpopulated with angry monsters waiting for you to kill. During the bailand event I went down there for a hunting quest, and got this card.
And then I got another! What are the chances?
Check those timestamps... pretty lucky!
The second spawn event was clocktower. Bathory hunting certainly is much better during the event!
The blank cards are an interesting idea they came up with, but I'm not really fond of their system for rewards.
The third spawn event was Glast Heim. I decided I would take it for all its worth and spend a lot of time there trying to get rares. It also happened to be an item drop event, so things were in my favor.
Mobs of Abysmal Knights seem unusually common during the event. Can't complain though!
First card! 
Talk about lucky! Of course, I spent hours there, and may have used a bubblegum or two, but I think it paid off.
The item tally. I also have about 400 elunium and 100 oridecon. A shame those aren't that useful on Valkyrie.
Slot enchanting! I found a couple elemental books from the ridewords, it turns out that I'm also pretty lucky slotting them.
And a Gae Bolg for good measure. 
Once the GH spawn event ended, boredom set in again, and I lacked something creatively stupid to do. So I decided to load up on whites and head to Odin Temple.
Surprisingly it's not that bad... when you have a meginjard and asprika anyways.
I wasn't sure how well soloing valkyries would work out, but it wasn't that bad. Took about 100 whites, but I consider that more or less acceptable considering the value of the drops.
Yay.
It might have been a drop event but those things dropped quite frequently. The Valhala Flowers will come in handy later, as they're important for making the Brynhild god item.
Satan Morroc is a pretty angry guy. We admittedly used a bit of a cheap trick to get past the quest spawn to get to fight Wounded Satan Morroc. He's pretty easy... he's got the same attack power as Ifrit, except without the power up skill, and the fact that he's demon makes it so much easier to gain resistance to his attacks.
Satan Morroc's Angel minion in the process of killing itself. I'm not sure exactly why they do it sometimes, it seems that they manage to hit themselves with grand cross somehow, and decide that they are a thread and go at it. It's quite amusing to watch, it saves us the trouble of dealing with it!
We've done Okolnir a couple more times since last time, and we're starting to get the whole thing down to an art. 42 minutes is our current best time. 8 mins 22 seconds to get out of the maze. 
And there is our guild, making our second Meginjard! The Shinogogogogibi guild name is a bit of a running joke within our guild. The Japanese chess-like boardgame 'Shogi' had captured the time of several of our members for a period of time, and someone unsure of what it was called referenced it as 'Shinogogogogibi'. I guess it stuck since then.
And that's it for now! For a last picture, when RO graphics go terribly wrong.
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