ostrich syndrom

Ok I've had blinkers on this week trying to get my Musk mastered, Which I finnally managed after 2 good days and laggy DC day in CSA, YEY! the first family master.
This left alot of unfinished task:

• Vet Thumper (Jose) done
• Vet Ponce (Andre) done
• Vet Cath(STR) 87 and counting
• Stance level Seige burst 18/25 Yuk!
• Get Enhanced tactics for Servant (Sco) done
• Get a Silver Rosario done
• Test the "Capybara Mine Passage" loot tables in progress

In other family related news The guilds first Master was not my Musk but was instead a STR built NAR, And the progress of Misc. Pioneer characters has increased the family total level to 26 (42%) so a nice increase in ATK and HP again.
Will go into more detail of the activities and the few notable equips in the next day or two.

The importance of bellem's boxes

Alot of players disregard the importance of bellem's boxes to the economy of our servers but this is usually because they are quick to forget they were once new themselves.

These simple items are the best training aid in the game, they show new players first hand the scale of the learning curve within the game, exposing them to:
Equipment:

• The levels
• Enchantments
• Racial Modification
• Unique abilities
• How to identify NPC foder/What to combine into enchantment chips

Lobbies:

• The basics of Instancing missions
• Co-ordination/Team work
• Colonies (Attack/Defence) basics
• Bossing
• The reward chests System

Consumables:

• The various Healing items (individual/MCC3)
• Basics of Buffs (Att/HP overwrites) 
• The Elemental bonuses (Buche de Noels)
• Penetration/Imunity (Stabilisers/Magic/Spiritul Shields)
• Teleport Scrolls (Basics of getting around)

Misc.

• Boss Keys
• Enchantment Chips
• Spinelles
• Crafting Materials (Mega/Pure)

Contained within these boxes is almost everything you need to get started in the game and yet many guilds who recruit new players never even mention these items.

And not to be forgotten, these items are still the best way without a heavy initial real cash donation to get them selves some viz, filling the MM with the much needed item's many established players don't have the time to farm for anymore.

Spinelles have dried up

Brista's getting pretty low on players doing Bellum's Boxes judging by the lack of resonable priced Spinelles available,
So todays First run was only 25 Vlad's and 25 Fallen Champions.
Loot:

• 50 Mega Talts
• 3,446,250 Viz from Junk
• 92u Rifle / 92u Fire Bracelet
• 5 L84 Chips
• Prison Key
• Junk Ring

First Home Run

Tonights Jaq Barrier seige marked a turning point in our guilds co-ordination and development,
With 8 minutes to go we decided to take on the Gulfax who is normally lured off and left un-damaged.
The Gulfax looted:

• 3 L100 Chips
• 1 L92 Chip
• 1 Pure Gold Bar

The families then went on to complete the raid for:

• 12 90H EXP cards
• 10 90H EXP cards
• 92u Eternal Knuckle (again i got the shaft)

A Small Thanks

Just passed our first 100 viewers letting me know people are actually reading it, so i would like to thank you all

Circus Failure

Made a run at Arsene, Looted:

• 2 Yellow Rough Stones
• Blue Rough Stone
• 1 L100 Chip

None of the mini bosses dropped anything, the 2nd spawn of Mario Dropped the L100 chip,
All the families were killed by the spawned puppets while on arsene
Try again tomorrow

Seige Warfare

3 of the Guilds expert families completed the joaquin barrier seige to loot:

• 5 90H exp cards (920k)
• 3 L92 chips
• 3 Teleport Scrolls (the shaft)

Guess there is always tomorrow

Musketeer Outfitting

Starting with my main DPS family member this will be the formatting for keeping track of how each of my main team are outfitted.

I will work on the formatting now i have the images attached to the site

A Hard Night's Spinelling

One of the families main incomes has always been spinelles,
With so many new players using bellems boxes to generate starter cash spinelles can be picked up relativly cheaply most weeks and over time I try to identify regular "boxers" and get bulk purchases without the taxation of using the market.

Anything over 65,000 viz is sold to the npc
Anything under 65,000 viz with enchantments is transformed in to chips

These were the result's for this week so far:

150 Vladamir's

• 150 mega talt
• level 92 helius (broke for a chip)
• 20 84chip's
• 9,125,000 viz
• 3 green rought stones
• 1 red rough stone
• 1 yellow rough stone
• 1 junk ring

2nd Run:

150 Vladamir's

• 150 mega Talt
• 8,200,000viz
• 1 88 chip
• 22 84 chips
• 1 green rough stone
• 1 apocalypse ring
• 3 Prison Key's

3rd Run

50 Vladimir's

• 50 mega talt
• 3,585,000
• 6 84 chips
• 1 green rough stone
• 1 blue rough stone
• 1 junk ring

 None of the stones yealded anything of note but the run's had paid for themselves and the ring would make a nice gift for my wife's Wiz.
 

The xVeratasx Family

Having tried the game first several years ago my original log in and "Veratas" family name were lost to the voids of the Internet so it was a fresh start.

Name	Class	Level
xSOCKxTOExARSEx	Musketeer(F)	E6
ColdFingers	Elementalist(M)	E3
Servant	Scout(M)	E3
Veteran
Selene	Brunie	V5
Grimshaw	Claud	V4
Romina	Romina	V1
xFENRISx	Nar	V1
Sehkmet	Ania	V1
Aeon	Grace	V10
Lorch	Lorch	V4
Misc_Pioneers
Sparkie	Idge	100
Ponce	Andre	100
Mia	Karj	100
xAngelx	Brunie	100
Thumper	Jose	98
Soho	Soho	97
Papa_Midnight	M'Boma	87
Morticia	Catherine(STR)	77
Gwendolen	Rescue_Knight	70
Vincent	Viki	69
Vladamir_Tepez	Kurt	63
Spider	Vincent	63
Jafar	Najib	57
Narv	Panfilo	50
Gogul	Gertrude	49
Lady	Wizard(F)	45
Stomper	Alejandro	44
TheSultan	Alejandro	44
MissTyrell	Catherine(CHR)	41
Kenshiro	Gracielo	40
Raff	Triburon	38
Squaw	Adelina	36
Leon	Musk(M)	35
TKxBaha	Yeganeh	35
Pinhead	Coimbra_Trooper	35
Jack	Jack	28
CozYouAreAPirate	Calypso	27
Charlotte	Lisa	24
Emilia	Emila	24
xPCxPlodx	Auch_Infantry	23
Puk	Ramiro	22
BeanPole	Rebeldeaux_Soldier	20

The Journey Begins

We join theVeratas family 4 month's into play on Swords 2 Brista Server, The Murder Inc. Guild leader is M.I.A and I have stepped up to guide the group through as many raids and acheivements as possible.
I will be detailing:

• Family Progress
• Raid's attended
• Drop's of note
• Goal's progress

I will work on a brief summary of these to date and outline the current status of the family as I progress.
I hope you enjoy following my progress and possibly pick up a few tip's along our journey together.