hey guys was thinking about coming back and restarting on sor

but are there still 1001 bots on every server? making it very difficult to enter?

and what is it like if you decide to not spend real money on it?

everyone bots on this game. there are even free bots if you cant pay for a good one

there hasnt been any server traffic for awhile. and if there was its auto login so you would just wait till you get on,

dont need to spend money on this game unless you want to. dosent help yeah much

ive been botting on this game non stop 24/7 with multiple characters for the last 6 years.

everyone uses a bot. and the people who dont ? quit sooner then later.


one of my wizards level 105 says 28days till next level ? 24hours a day .. thats why we bot.

Its not as bad as before.
Still has a lot of bots though, my recommendation is enter into a server that says Populated often, so you can get on whenever quickly.

Answering all your questions:
I play on Maya.
If you start from European side (Constatinople -> Samarkand) you wont notice any bots until you reach Hotan at lvl 45-50. Game is really enjoyable until lvl45 but when you 45+ completing quests is close to impossible at times.
If you start from Chinese side (Jangan -> Downhang), the bots are there all the way, right outside towns but still it is possible to play in-between them. No problems really - until you reach Hotan,

There is a funny issue I noticed: bots sell items in consignment (new auction house in game). They re-list their items (weapon elixirs) every few minutes so they are always on top. No idea why as nobody buys from them.
Unfortunately reporting bots makes no effect - joymax is not interested.

Entering server Maya is very easy (1-3 min) except for weekends when waiting time is 15-30 minutes but the new auto login works great.

Cash shop items are basically useless EXCEPT for loot pet which is a really helpful animal - picks all the drops but most important it has its own inventory! :-) - it cost some $10 per first 28 days and $5 each 28 days extension. Well worth the $. With it I bring 2 or 3 times more stuff from a hunt round what makes my rich :-) Sometimes I leave the pet running in town (Hotan) overnight so it picks all what people drop.

Also: revised quest exp reward rate makes lvling fast. Most quests will give 30-50% of exp needed for lvl but some will take you 2 lvls up.

I would recommend to give it a go!

hmm i might redownload and have a look at some bots. just because leveling was just so hard when i played got to like level 30!

Haha level 30 seems to be a great quitting level legitly XD

hmm are there any good overviews of the euro verses chinese characters?

i mean the issues i have thought about so far

is that apparently europe are stronger and do more damage but cannot use pots as often, however pots cost a fair bit do they not?

and i am not sure which level faster?

i have really only made chinese characters

and apparently chinese characters need to farm sp more
which was indeed the bane of my existence

This post was edited by ari2 on Feb 21 2011 11:55pm

my friend is playing euro Wizard lvl 57 (3 months from lvl 1 casual gaming). with sos staff she can 1 hit everything 3 lvls lower than herself including players :-)
that is great BUT potion delay on euro is 15 seconds or so therefore she dies often by giants or party mob. there is a way around it: using vigor pots (3 sec. delay) but they are expensive.

I was playing euro Warrior lvl 52 (2 months very casual gaming). with +5 sword had to hit everything 2-3 times to kill something 3 lvls lower than myself. defence really good never died until lvl 52. but when meet Spiders with poison damage was dying all the time even having 8000HP.

in my opinion pot delay of 15 sec. is a HUGE disadvantage of euro.
people mainly play Wizards (2h staff), Warriors (2h sword, sometimes 1h+shield) and Bards (harp) havent really seen other classes (on euro side) been utilised

hope that helps a bit

cleric at level 40 gets recovery devision which on a pure int character heals you every 3-5 seconds like a hp potion (lasts 5 minutes before recast)

cleric also at about level 29 gets healing cycle ... its the same as recovery devision .... but lasts 15 seconds before you have to recast it.....

so if you use recovery devision for normal monsters you wont die and when you want to kill a giant or party monster (cast both) you cannot die with both on works the same with str characters justs heals you a little less.

so make your subjob cleric .

hmm well which requires more of the boring grinding at a lvl 9 gap? that sort of thing