A few weeks back I mentioned something about an English community growing. Yeah it did grow but life is short and now it’s like dead. Eh.. O.o I like to think of it as sleeping.. Let’s give it some hope lol. I suggested the WK section in AIJMS be closed since it had zero activity for days after the last 2X EXP weekend.

But my life goes on online… Wandering… Wondering. I still log-on whenever I can and whenever I feel like logging on. It’s usually during mornings to catch the majority of players. More players means finding a party (the meager Bonus EXP it gives helps). It isn’t hard to find a party because of the Party Finder feature, however explaining to them that I can’t speak Japanese and being unable to participate in their conversations can be bugging. Sometimes I do get partymates who know English and aren’t shy to speak it.

Waaah!! Now that I talk about that I remember one evening when I logged on and met a girl from the old Japanese guild that I was randomly recruited in. She speaks english fluently but humbly tells me she isn’t good at it. (like what most Japanese I meet say We had a nice conversation about random stuff– weather in Japan, countries we’ve been to and countries we would like to visit, her job, my studies. It was a worthwhile chat. Sadly I never saw her online again even until I left that guild and joined the English Guild Insomnia (which is now but a ghost guild T.T).

About my characters; I managed to get +Boy+ to level 54 & 65% today before going to class this morning. Ninjas seem to be fairly geared to killing single monsters at fast rate. You can dish 250%x6 damage every five seconds and do 190%x2 damage with 225%flame shuriken in between everytime. Then you could throw caltrops on the ground which right now at level 4 do 150%x4caltrops. Woot I should do 1st job change guides.

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I’m training in Helen now but I go back to Francis once in a while to Hunt for the Scorpion boss on the Southwest beach. I joined a random party and we did Francis Town Defense Party Mission. It was nice XP and I also made friends with the Knight and Magician. And I was happy I found out i can do 1k damage now. Atleast to the squid mobs lol. <see below>

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The other picture was while back. I was trying out the cash shop and fitting items on my two girly characters lol. Nice to fit outfit on chicks.. Lol I should play my male archer some time.. >.<

This Friday, the “Wonder Shop” was added in-game. This is were players could buy virtual items to decorate their characters and also stat resets and other various game enhancing items.

You buy Marble Points (MP) in their website using credit cards. Too bad I don;t have mine verified yet. Maybe I can do that this week.

Along with this patch was another 2x EXP weekend. yeah O.o Why wouldnt they just 2x EXP permanently? lol I hope I can play all weekend but no. I have a lots of things to do this weekend. ( -_-)

I gained another level with +Boy+..

I always forget to SS the important things.. >.<

The double XP event ended today. I got a total of 10 levels for +Boy+ and 6 levels for Mananap during the event..

It was a pretty nice event because a lot of people from AIJMS were encouraged to level happily. Hmm… I wonder how the removal of the Xp bonus will affect the enthusiasm that they have. I can imagine people being intruduced back to the world of grinding.

Yes grinding.. it’s the wheel that drives these kinds of games. It may not sound nice to some.. but to others it’s a respite from all the daily activities they have in real life. I remember a guildmate of mine back in Maplestory, who says that grinding his character is very relaxing for him. Even WoW doesn’t escape the claws of the MMORPG grind. even though you’re already at max level (level 70 atm) you still have to grind for reputation and such.

And so.. I am not fazed by the grind.. -_- I level slowly for all of you to know.. I call it nice and slow leveling. xD It is the way of life in MMORPGs.

BTW here are some high level armor pictures that i found online. Inspiring really lol xD

The Joker (Rogue/Dagger Thief 3rd Job class) has a very flamboyant hat..

I am happy that a lot of english-speaking people are playing Wonderking Japan right now. Since posting a thread about Wonderking Japan on October 18, 2007 in the AIJMS forums, in hopes of attracting a few players, the IGN list has grown to more than 20 characters. Add to that other players that might have joined after seeing advertisements I put on other forums lol. I posted at Mapletip, Sleepywood, OnRPG and Profil3 some teasers lol.

 Loyal Maple fans were quick to rip the game into pieces siting “Maple Rip-off!! Maple Rip-off!!”. Well yes, Maple is a very successful game and it’s hard to get out of its shadow but Wonderking is still a promising game nonetheless.

Others couldn’t be bothered to play a game that is not English..

  Level Updates:

+Boy+ reached 46 tonight.. too bad I got DCed when someone messed the connection at our house. It turns out they are fixing the home network. Lots of people at home during weekends.. xD

I also made this swordsman named Mananap. It’s nice.. though I think Ill focus on the Ninja at this moment.. so I can reach something in this game and see other content as I levek up.

Hello everyone.

I finally completed the Job Opps page for first job classes. The translations are not official by the way… they are just my interpretations. ^^ I removed the Japanese Blog links.

In-game News.
There’s an event going on. You need to craft a unique item (orange name) and post a screenshot in the game website. The reward is a special weapon.

+Boy+ reached level 33 but I haven’t posted for a while so i made a little slideshow of her doing the job change quest.

Yesterday a Japanese blogger got a scare when he found out lots of foreign IP’s are visiting his/her site. It appears that he/she was feeling uneasy and unpleasant about the recent surge of those visitors.

That’s when i realized I should have asked permission from them first before putting their blogs links. Internet etiquette everyone?? After all those blogs are their personal webspace. Although he/she expressed thanks for making his/her a site a bit popular^^ I think he/she doesn’t want the added attention. And so, I am removing their links, as of now, until I get their “yeses”.

I did leave the general Wonderking websites in the blogroll.

Anyway.. with this experience I am glad I was able to communicate with them. Lol even though both of us were using a translator.

Hello everyone! Thanks for visiting my humble site. I appreciate if you leave comments about things around here. ^^

Anyway for the update, I added Mage stuff on the Job Opps Page (see top navigation bar) and changed the skill tables into jpegs so that I can edit faster. Hopefully with these changes I can finish the Thief and Warrior information sooner.

Also because of the bad quality of screenshots in-game I decided to download a screen capture software. It’s not freeware though, just a trial version named Fastone Capture. Below is a test screenie. I think it looks better right?

 About my characters… got stalled at lvl 29 due to Netmarble website maintenance. -_-
And then another exam on Psychology II will keep me away from it for a while.

Yesterday was the scheduled maintenance of the Japanese version. And since i was expecting myself to play a few hours on my free time I decided to visit my Korean WK account instead. Well, they seem to have a wonderful Halloween event going on..

Here’s the picture from the WK Korea website:

Of course I can’t understand Korean, but I can read the them. (Not that good at reading though ^^). And ofcourse it’s free to interpret the pictures.
Well, here’s my interpretation of the pictures; to sum it up there are red and blue pumpkin candies/lollipops dropping from all monsters.

20 red  pumpkin candies can be exhanged for a +20 attack consumable.
20 blue pumpkin candies can be exchaged for a +20 accuracy consumable.
500 red and 500 blue candies gives you one of the halloween masks
And then 4 masks can be combined to form that special halloween mask

Now I don’t understand the lower part of the picture which was about accessories and those halloween monsters.

LEVEL UP!

I played Falkken my Trapper Scout and managed to get him to level 27.

BTW It is really slower to train as a Trapper Scout rather than go with the normal Double Shot build. I didn’t get any weapon skill at all. Didn’t take Fire shot cause I took Trap Amplification instead. So I always have to lure mobs towards my traps or place them in places where I know they’ll pass and the bad thing about that is it takes slightly more time compared to just shotting arrows all the time. It also means more time not getting XP when no one passes to your traps. The traps are strong though.

After playing on +Boy+ a few hours today I gained 3 levels.. I think the x2 EXP event was over so it was slower than the last few days.

I’m on the level 20’s range now which coincidentaly is the level range where Elgail NPC’s suddenly run out of quests to give you. A meager 2 quests when I reached level 24. lol Well I still have an unfinished quest. (was trying to figure out what it was all about. too bad you can’t copy and paste text from the quests).

I also got the “Double Star Throw” skill yesterday, and my mana consumption went up. No worries though coz I got a good supply of Honey Syrup and Apples for cooking Apple Pies (+100MP). After that I also got the “Cloak” skill so I can get past those pesky bees inside the Hive map.

For the past few days I’ve been trying to figure out how to activate my Japanes IME while inside the game so I can atleast type Japanese characters. No luck so far. ( -_-)

Finally I can say that at this pace I can be level 30 in a few more days and ofcourse that’s because I got school things to attend to. Maybe level 30 tonight if I don’t have an Anatomy II  and Spanish I Exam tomorrow. ^_^ (;´▽｀)

Evrytime you start a new character you’ll face the task of putting a name on it. To some this task seems so easy but to others it takes up a lot of thinking.

Well on WK, I was having problems turning on the Japanese input system so I resorted to romanji characters and a few bad names.. T.T Lol I named a female thief, +Boy+. How inventive?! 

The names I often give have something to do with my nickname or my native language (Filipino), like Mogules (derived from my last name), Falkken (from my first name), Mananap (means “beast” in my native tongue) and Talipandas (another Filipino word meaning “loose”). +Boy+ was out of nowhere and the two plus signs, which were added to make the name a little less common, clearly show a lack of inventiveness lol.  I’m starting to regret naming her that way. But well…

Did you ever regret some names you gave to your online characters..