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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

The quest for Empress’ Strengthening

The search for the Empress’ Strengthening skill has begun!
Every Adventurer Lv. 70 or higher will get a new quest from the job instructor.

I accepted this quest from Kyrin, and she says I have to collect 20 leaves.

The Desert rabbits in Ariant drop this leaf and you need 20. Easy, right?
Well…The drop rate is really LOW. Someone got one leaf in 5 hours for this damn quest.
When you complete this quest, you get the Empress’ Strengthening skill.

Then, when you have completed the Empress’ Strengthening quest, you can visit one of the Knight instructors of Ereb to accept a new quest.
The Knight instructor will ask you to collect 10 of this specific item.

The colors represent the KoC job. I don’t know which monster drops this.
I haven’t started this quest yet, because I don’t have the damn 20 leaves for the strengthening skill. The drop rate is horrible, you must have a lot of free time available for the leaves just to get a skill that allows you to wear items 10 levels earlier.
I bet collecting those items will be a pain in the ass too.

Anyway, complete that quest of the Knight instructor and you will be rewarded with a special Cygnus skill.
The Cygnus skill depends on what kind of Adventurer you are.

Warrior: Soul Driver
Magician: Flame Gear
Archer: Wind Piercing
Thief: Vampire
Pirate: Shark Wave

Both quests are available at Lv. 70. You can learn a skill point for your Cygnus skill by completing a quest. You obtain a new quest for every 10 levels you gain. You will have to level 50 times in order to master the Cygnus skill.

When you are Lv. 80, you must visit the Knight instructor and collect again 10 of those items to gain another skill point. When you’re done, you gain another skill point which makes your special Cygnus skill level 2. Rinse and repeat until the master level is 5.

High-leveled Adventurers will maybe have to face a problem with mastering the Cygnus skill. Because you can only gain 1 SP per 10 levels. If you have skill Lv. 1 at Lv. 160 then you need to be Lv. 200 to

So yeah… the skills are not exclusive to Ultimate Adventurer. It’s just an Adventurer with a few perks:

  • You start at Lv. 50.
  • You have the Empress’ Strengthening and Cygnus skill available in your skillbook upon creation. Also, you won’t have to do any quests to raise the skill level. Unlike the existing Adventurers, they will have to complete a hard quest every 10 levels to get 1 SP.
  • You get a new medal and a full Lv. 60 Empress set at Lv. 50 and full Lv. 80 Empress set at Lv. 70.
  • You will have Lv. 24 Empress’ Blessing because your Knights of Cygnus character is 120.

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