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So, Ninja is now live and AP is available to be earned and skills de-ranked.  Ninja comes with a little quest line with Anju and Hagi who hang around like bums around back of Caitin’s grocery store.   If you want to save yourself a bit of time come with 5 eggs and 5 bacon already in your inventory, they’ll be needed for those homeless wretches slacking NPCs.  The little quest line will provide 20 AP through 2 AP-5 potions and 1 AP-10 potion by the time you finish everything.  It may take about an hour to run through and it’s mostly the standard skill training shadow missions for new talents and two romps through Alby.  There are also a few items to fetch and a few NPCs to talk to so a little running around there as well.  Ninja also comes with 4 event quests for leveling a certain skill to Rank A and rewards a perfect skill reset capsule and an AP-20 potion.  That means you can do those quests, get that 20 AP, and de-rank to save that sweet, sweet AP for something else.

Ninja isn’t without a few faults.  There are reports that Mabi is CTDing on players around those using Ninja skills.  Also, the sound is messed up on skills and if someone in the loaded area is using a Ninja skill it will…PLAY AT 150% VOLUME LIKE THEY’RE STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO YOU REGARDLESS OF YOUR SOUND SETTINGS.  (All caps added for emphasis as to how annoying this is.)  I’m sure there are others but I haven’t gotten that far yet.  I guess there’s something about mobs spinning when hit by a skill.  Most people on the official forums seem to think Ninja is underwhelming but your mileage is likely to vary.  The basic Ninja attack does have the same downfall as guns as it doesn’t really stun the enemy you’re hitting until the 3rd strike so it plays up the ranged angle.

Also, Nexon’s re-released Week 5 Rewards and made a small addition of 100% Full Repair which means they either messed up and are correcting their error or acquiesced to general outrage that the previous 100% repair was for blacksmithing only.  So if you’re going to play next weekend you can, hopefully, look forward to a full 100% repair from all NPCs.  2x for pretty much all combat-related training will be coming as well as 2x Drop Rate and 3x Monster XP.

Dir, I know you may be off Mabi for the weekend so I’ll keep cooking and try my best to spam Fiodh Int for 1 to get AR 9 for you with what time I’ll have available on the weekend.  In doing this I may not mail off any Fiodh pass boxes to you but I’ll likely send everything else unless you request them on the forums or by mail/note.  I’ll also keep an eye open for Dex Enchant < 500k and any “cheap” AR 9 pages on housing.

In other news, I have a new cable modem so that should stop my connection/modem from rebooting on me every 5~60 minutes or whatever was going on.  Testing it out tonight and nothing bad happening so far but I’m typing this up now since Mabi CTDed on me.  I guess I’ll know in a few days if I’ll be good to grind for hours on end again and if Nexon will patch out the potential problems with Ninja.

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Selling off donated organs on the black market.

Since this is new information I’m guessing it’s worth a double post to at least inform Hishi.

So, it seems Nexon dropped the ball on Saturday’s hot time event.  A second reply about it can be found here at post #114.  Both Don and Hishi did properly log in during the hot time event and should be receiving items when Nexon gets this garbage sorted out.

So, the micro teaser site has been updated with the next 4 coming weekend hot time rewards and benefits.  Since my connection crapped out while I was trying to post this I’ll just write up the entire thing.

Week 4: 7/19 is a Commerce Reforge Tool, 7/20 is a 1x1 special gold box.
Weekend: 2x Commerce rewards (XP, Gold, other stuff maybe), 100% repair rate.
Weekly: Puppetry 2x Training

Week 5: 7/26 is 1 Fine and 1 Credne’s Reforge tools, 7/27 is 1 Enchant Expiration Removal Scroll.
Weekend: 3x Monster XP, 2x Combat-type buffs, 2x Drop Rate
Weekly: 2x Fighter Skill Training

Week 6: 8/2 is 1-10 point training seal, 8/3 is 1 Special Tendering Potion.
Weekend:  3x Monster XP
Weekly: 2x Magic Skill Training

Week 7: 8/9 is 1 Permanent Stat Increase Potion, 8/10 is 1 Credne’s Reforge tool.
Weekend: 3x Monster XP, 2x PTJ rewards, 2x Crafting-type buffs
Weekly: 2x Alchemy Skill Training

Dir, it may be better off holding onto those Fiodh boxes we get until 7/26 and 7/27 to make use of the 2x drop rate for AR 9 if you can wait for 2 weekends.  I’ll keep working on the food regardless of how often you’re going to run.  If you’re on a mission and determined to keep running please don’t burn yourself out.

Also, glowing statue pots.  I’ve been getting them from cooking up vegetable soup for the hot spring glutton monkeys.  If anyone has any interest in getting together to run/spam Karu glowing ruins for Exploration page 3 for Ice Spear or profit 7/26 and 7/27 would be the time to do it.  So far I have 4 pots total and if I can keep up at least 20 foods per day that should likely increase significantly by the time 7/26 and 7/27 roll around.

Edit-ish: I see Dir already informed everyone about it but since my stupid connection was out for 6 stupid hours I'm going to post it anyway.  No sense in having it go to waste.

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Actual Edit: It seems the Commerce Partner is back at 50% off and costing ~$9.00 for one week running from tomorrow, July 19th to July 25th.  Well, I guess Nexon is really trying to catch new players up to speed on P2W.

Obamacare in action.

Enacting a healthcare system that allows the rich to buy the poor to use for spare parts.

No Ninja update yet but Nexon is bringing back the Luxury Equipment Bag from now until July 29th.  Load your character down with worthless junk awesome stuff for just $4.90 each!