Returning player after 10 years - Some questions!

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Hi

I remember playing Tales of Pirates (Pirateking alternative back in 2008).

I remember that:
A) It was super hard to level up after reaching lvl 50+
B) People usually were farming gold and then buying PLVL to 41
C) Crusaders were overpowered, slashes that one-hit people. I created a hunter character now and I'm thinking about making it purely FC character - It would suck to get one-shotted by a crusader that just escaped invisibility and instantly slashed me.
D) The game has some pathing and rubberbanding problems, sometimes models of characters are not displaying for me. I'm from central Europe - wondering if the servers are far away from me..?
E) Do you have any advice for a returning player that never reached level 60 back in the day? I just remember that the game requires you to buy items from the item mall shop, otherwise its super hard. Is it possible to not pay for the game and still be competetive?

Cheers,
Mistpiercer

 

[Gewas]

Hello,

Sorry for the delayed reply, but here's some answers to your questions.

D: The characters not always rendering on screen is a engine problem when it has issues rendering all the players on screen at all time. To "fix" this can be simply going back to character selection and in again. It often occurs when many effects or characters pop in-out on screen, such as at Bar events when alot of people return from the arena, and vice versa.

E: The item mall is optional, some people use it, some dont. You could find various useful items there. The most popular ones being the exp fruits, the drop rate aplifiers, and fairy fruits, fairy rations. You can also find cracked/broken gems which could help you on your gemming journey until you get better gems such as UG's.

 

[Diextria]

I think i can reply to your statement A), B) and E)

A) I agree with you it is hard to level in PKO, in a way PKO cap the maximum level one can get to level 90.

Back in TOP you can get to level 100+ (Lv 120 i think),
I only manage to get to lv95 until the game ended.

Achieving that i think i had use the normal amplifier of strive( in TOP can be use above lv 65),
I use lv40+ Mordo Jr poss (Crit rate + Exp bonus)
And also level during weekly exp event, (4x event)
On weekly saturday, event last 6 - 8 hours, and the same on sunday.
I was hardworking and level for 6 hours straight.
So, in PKO it is harder because exp event is not weekly, the duration is short and it is only 2 exp.

On top of that, in TOP, fairy ration can be easily obtain from the Award center. (credit reward for Plving under lv41)
and TOP Club (need to apply club, get credit and rewards for reaching lv45, lv55 and lv65)
Basically getting fairy ration is cheap and easy compare in TOP to PKO.
So you can easily spam fairy poss.

B) I think it is not worth it plving in pko under lv41, because people tend to overcharge the price,
it is better to get a main account and level your alt yourself.

E) Join fc, farm refs or locke's map, but it is a bit competitive and people can pk each other.
But the rewards are good. Even for me, in pko i stop leveling my char until level 60,
and focus in getting money from FC. When FC is occupied, i use other ways to farm money.