Is this The End?

Character #148 Silver Flash Lyn

Named her Kandia because she looks like Kanda Yuu from D.Gray-man.  :p

Yes, regular Lyn will be Yuuia.  :p

Family Level is currently 79-34% at 148 characters*, all at HM 10-100%

*One of each character currently released, with exception of 3 Asoka, 3 Kess, 3 Viki, 2 Cadet Lionel, and 2 JD.

No plans to add more at the moment until new characters arrive.

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And that's it...  I log on to do some dailies and then poof.  Since there's nobody left to level!  I'm too lazy and bored after all that Vesping... tired of looking at the black walls in SCR... turning into a mole... I don't feel like using the remaining spots to level stocks.  (Ten characters yet to be released would bring me up to 158, meaning four free spots.)

One of the long time veterans posted on the GE Forum that they are finally quitting.  They talked about goals that they kept revising, but finally they are done, no more.

I've kind of been thinking I *might* be at that point too.  My never ending goal was to max out all the/all my characters.  I've done that... I've collected all the currently available characters and even had some duplicates.  All of them have Expert stances leveled (the duplicate Kesses don't have Punisher and extra Vikis doesn't have ET; but they have Heavy Stinger and Trance Robo).  Even Bareknuckle.  LOL  (So obsessive about completing that stance.)

I used to have To Do lists of things I wanted to collect and things I needed to work on, but after revisiting them, they are quite outdated/long since completed.  I have a few Strata recipes that I want, but I'm not sure about working on Armonia.  Even if I did, everything would be at +5 because of this new upgrading system...

The only things left is maybe the costumes that I used to love to collect.  For the hell of it, I put all the costumes (that are currently available for sale in the Character Book) that I don't have under the Cut.  There are some I couldn't get and not for sale, like the Female Fighter Wedding Hair and Costume set.

Oh and get the Tigres medals, but I don't remember the last time I've been to that raid.  There's never enough people or the time is too late.  :<

Maybe I can take a look at what crystals I have for Evil Weapon.  I have unopened Paradox Spoil Boxes.  Maybe try my luck at Naraka Pieces for Strata Recipes.  Maybe get around to opening Bristia Boxes...

Blah, blah, blah...  Three months left in the year.

Costumes Wish List

Family Level 79

My family made it to Level 79 late last night (nearly 11:30PM)!!!

I was too tired to post this last night, so here it is now!  \(^_^)/

I completely forgot that Rosa and Snowflake Montoro weren't done.  There's still Anis, Van, and Cadet Lionel 2.  I even added a JD 2.  (Squishly named him Kirito to go with Asoka 3 who's named Asuna.  ^^;;;)  These six -might- get me 25% into Family Level 79, but the remaining percentages to Level 80 will just have to wait for Brianne, Sariel, Lynn, Evil Machina, and Leona (their counterparts too, if I can manage to get my hands on them).  That still leaves six characters slots open.  I wonder if they will come out with more characters or if this is the end?

Here's what my messy Quarters look like.

Post #650: Three Barrack Slots Robbery

We interrupt our regularly scheduled Character Files to lodge this complaint!

The 145th Character/17th Quarter costs you THREE BARRACK SLOTS.

I feel robbed.  It came without warning.  ;__;  My precious Barrack Slots!!!

I had a brief soapbox moment where I whined to my fearless leader.

AND HE TELLS ME THAT THE 18TH QUARTER COSTS YOU FOUR BARRACK SLOTS.

He's not the type to joke with me, so I have to take his word.  D:

WHY WHY WHY YOU GOTTA DO THAT?!

Oh my god, I'm currently at 146 characters +9 that are yet to be released means I will be breaking into that 18th Quarter.  Orz

This is what you get for being a bloated family...  (A clannie calls all families above 70, "bloated".)

Sigh.

Well, some screen capture spammage to ease my tension...

My chibi-est characters...  Cadet Lionel2 (no prizes for guessing where the name Leon.Scott comes from - I requested for him for my reward on the Crystal Hogger Event), Van, and Anis are Vets.  I currently have Asoka3 and Kess3 who are at HM 7.  Kess2 and Kess3 are still working on their Flintlock... don't know why I forgot to level those on them.

Deepest part of Hell.

Is Emi going to crown him or conk him on the head?

Not someone/thing you want to meet in a dark alley.

Illusion's and Emilia's costumes were obtained from the MM (Lyndon Box).

Natalie's Summer costume is from the Crystal Hoggers Event.

Her expression really doesn't change.

How I feel about the THREE BARRACK SLOTS robbery.

Random derpy moment with Spy Olivia and Snow Montoro.

An incognito female wizard hugging my precious Joey.  D:

Family 78

O_O  I didn't think it was going to be possible for me to reach this level, but here we are... arrived at this destination.

Post #600: Five Year Anniversary

Yay!!!  Reached Family Level 77 on my 5th Year Anniversary!

*huff*puff*

128 High Master 10-100%

Four characters still being vesped, currently HM1, HM2, HM6, and HM9

It's been an interesting five years to say the least...!

Race Against Time!

Six more days until June 19th, my five year anniversary of playing Granado Espada!

I don't think I'm going to be able to finish vesping the last two characters to High Master 10-100% and even less likely to reach Family 77.

There's no Bane on the MM for the past few days... and everyone on broad is selling at highway robbery prices...

Plus, I'm still missing Spy Olivia, Rosa, Snowflake Cherlyn, Selene, Rachel, Cutie Claire, Student President Ludin, Jane, Jin, and Snowflake Montoro.  :<

Here are the costumes I selected from the Charles Event:

I had 10 points left.  D:
If only I had stayed on 30 more hours!

Though, I don't know which hair I would picked: Soho, Heiran, Marchetti, or Mia.
I didn't really care for any of those, which is why I didn't choose them.

I have all the other costumes and hairs.

D-50 Countdown

Nineteen more days until the one month countdown to five year anniversary of playing this game.

I'm down to my last twenty five characters to level.  *huff*puff*
I will definitely make it to Family Level 76, but yet to see if I can make it to 77...  ;_;
Plans to add four more characters to the Barracks, so will see if that will help with reaching Family Level 77.

Our server got Armonia Episode 4 and Divine Hammer Bryan.
(Yes, we don't want Episode 5 to come so soon, but it sucks being behind the other servers.)
I haven't gotten around to starting creepy girl + bone head quest and the cash character is overpriced.

The last time I compiled the character icons was October 1st, 2014 (six months ago).  There were 126 characters at that time.
This image reflects 139, as there's no Bane Bernardo icon available yet on http://ge.jupath.me/
It also does not include jGE's additional Jin and Mifuyu (or rather Asoka with brown hair).

My title D-50 is my way of copying D-27 which supposedly is 27 days until kGE's release of the red clad blonde girl + Vespanola.

50 for me meaning 50 more days until my 5 year anniversary.

Post #595 Ferragamo Family Level 75 & Characters List

The goal of reaching Family Level 75 was reached a week early (originally set for April 19th), although not in time for this week's Clan War, it was helpful during the Legion War [ignoring the fact that it crashed yet again this week... /rage].

A rare look at my Quarters.

Naomi is jealous that Karen is one level higher than her.

Carlos feels caught in the middle of the twins (scary place to be).

Using the tags on this blog, here is the history of my family's leveling progress (I wasn't good about documenting it):

2/2/2012 Level 43
3/2/2012 Level 44
4/1/2012 Level 45
4/15/2012 Level 47
4/28/2012 Level 48-20%
7/15/2012 Level 51
11/2/2012 Level 53-0%
12/29/2012 Level 54-0%
8/11/2013 Level 59-0%
11/12/2013 Level 60-0%
3/16/2014 Level 64
4/8/2014 Level 65%
6/15/2014 Level 70%
4/3/2015 Level 73-74%
4/11/2015 Level 75-0%

Wow, I've come a long way in the three years!  \(^_^)/

It was a maddening eight days of vesping and carding to get from 73-74% to 75-0%, on top of spamming the crazy and laggy Bounty Hunter missions for the event.  m(x_x)m  *muerta!*

June 19th, 2015 will mark my fifth year playing Granado Espada.  My goal is to max out all of my characters by May 19th.

I currently have 123 characters, two which are doubles (Asoka and Viki), and I am short 13 cash shop characters:

Cherlyn, Spy Olivia, Friede, Rose, Rosa, Snowflake Cherlyn, Selene, Rachel, Cutie Claire, Student President Ludin, Jane, Jin, and Snowflake Montoro.

According to a former clannie, the 18 Barracks x 9 Characters = 162 characters all maxed out to High Master 10-100% gives you Family Level 80-71%.  [Note: After the 13th Quarter, character #109 will cost two Barrack Slots to open!!!  /scam!]

At my current number of characters, I would be satisfied if I can reach Family Level 77 so I can be Level 80 with the +3 from the clan.  Not sure if this is possible though.  Once I hit Level 74 each High Master was worth less than the previous level.  ._.

Some other Stats:

Favor Rates
562/2000 Hunter June
277/2000 Crow Forest Gatekeeper
7,630/100,000 Kielce Port Union
12,734/100,000 Kielce Merchant Union
23,410/100,000 Kielce Back Alley Poor *
4,230/100,000 Kielce Government General
2,529/100,000 Kielce Laboratory

*Going to cease working on this when I reach 25,000.  This was the goal when the original max was 25,000.

Reached Rank S on all three Pioneering Merchants some time ago.

Under the cut are the Character Lists.

There are 134 in total, 91 which are recruitable and 43 which are collectable.
I separated by GamerFirst era and T3Fun era and by city.

Brood & Steer

A few things... 109 characters at level 135 100% gives Family 70 15%.
Taking a bit of break before vesping again.
All that hard work and now 109 x 5 levels...  x_x

 Trevor: Oh, please, someone like me can't be bothered to level with filth.

Expert Stances are still two Elemental Jewels.

My Armonia experience so far...
It's very beautiful and I actually turn on background music when I'm in there.

A lot of running around in the Cathedral!

But questing has been no fun.
The Earring of Cepheus, which our server has to deal with but others don't, drops like never.
The Abyss Bear is camped by a certain set of clans.

June 18th I stopped at the first round of 100 Bears and Wolfs.
June 19th I stopped at the Earring.
Now stuck.  Just Stuck.  No Sirius for me.  (; . ;)

Made to eat plum as punishment

\(^.^)/  My goal of reaching Family Level 70 has been met.  \(^.^)/

Freyia joined the family!

Current leveling status: Last 7 characters to level to 135 100%
(Hoping to finish by June 19th, my four year anniversary of playing this game.)

Character count is at 109.  I can't believe we have to get two Barrack Slots to open up thirteenth Quarter.  Scam!!!

Got an Evil Lightening Bracelet, all those 600 Nephtys crystals went poof!  No racial mod on it... stupid Enchantment Lady...

Before I forget, I wonder if Expert Stances are cheaper in the Armonia patch, as in less than two Elemental Jewels...

New Blog Guardian for you to click!

Gummy Bears & Aloe Vera

I realized this post was siting in draft and never got posted...
This is old now, but here's the post anyway:

Family reached level 65 with the addition of the 105th character and vesp and vesp and vesping.  Still shooting for that goal of family level 70!  33 at Master 15, 47 at Master 10,  16 at Master 5, and 9 at Master 1.

Got the event costume for Grandies, working on the hair now!

Current post:

~Recruited Nena on the first day of the patch, but didn't create her until a week later.  I thought there might be some chance to get Barrack Slots other than paying a horrendous amount of vis, alas, things got worse this week (see paragraph below), so had to suck it up and pay with Feso.

Max: *eyes Nena* That ass is mine.

Laurent: *facepalm* Focus, please, we're on a mission.

Stella: *cringe* Why am I on this team?

~Reached 14,000 BAP favor rate, but haven't opened any Soldier Boxes since last November.  I have a sinking feeling that the exchange rate isn't going to be better since T3 is messing up everything.

~Still no 13th Moon Piece, Cain hates me.  :\

~10,000 Veteran B Exp cards collected (not on me though)

Complaint Box:

T3Fail blotched my ability to vesp last week by making CAA pk-able again.  I mean, really, we've been through this how many times?  You can't put this on your checklist to review before you roll out new patch?  And they still missed it this week.  Too busy thinking about the money they'll make from selling Growth Stones in the Cash Shop.  I mean, the most essential stuff like Barrack Slots (for more characters to raise your family level) and items used to upgrade and enchant gears got put in to Feso Shop.  Yet, the primary ability to get the Feso is by buying Growth Stones in the Cash Shop.  Win for T3, loss for non-Cash players.  I haven't been, or at least I tried not to be, vocal about stuff, but today's patch notes was the last straw for me.

Piece of rice on cheek

Family Level reached 64, four dozen (48) characters left to get to Master 10, then the process of getting them all to Master 15 (88)!

Here is my collection of stock male characters' Capitaine Costumes!

Models: (left to right) Benecio, Vincenzo, Etienne, Giorgio, Mercurcio

Happy two year anniversary!

Celebration of Milestones

A bit behind on updates, but it's mostly due to things not occurring during the seven day period, so I didn't feel like posting just to fill up space.  ^^;

The blog has reached 50,000 Views!  *_*

I didn't think it would reach this point, since I've started to write in longer spans of time and don't have too many facinating things or pretty screencaps to share.  But some how, it has reached this amount!

~*Thank you to all my Chronicles readers for helping reach this milestone!*~

Another bit of exciting news:

My Family Level reached 60!  \(^.^)/  Hooray!  \(^.^)/

It's like some rite of passage to reach this point.  *_*  I haven't Vesped in a long time.  (I wonder if this means I lose my FrankenFerret™ title?*)  I used some EXP cards, usually when a character is at the last 0.50% to next level and I get impatient.  For the most part, the leveling was done from regular maps (only did about two weeks worth of CAA).

*On the flip side, I created a monster, FrankenSB™ (you know who you are!).  2013 is The Year of the FrankenSB™.  XD

(Not to mention the other account is only 25% behind.  Maybe I work too hard...  Personally I think it's quite a feat for a parttime player like myself.  Or maybe I have to attribute it to planning too well.  Always identifying characters to be leveled during AFK.  Standing in town idling is a no-no for me.  :X  Only happens when there's an emergency in real life and I don't have time to set up afk.)

Recently got a wizard armor, because really need it, there's not enough wizard armors for when I'm WC'ing (weakly still working with ELBs).  One chip and it came out with a 3DR!  If it could be nicer with the weapons I'm chipping.  Still have Mecha weapons collecting dust needing to be rechipped.  D:

And lastly, the two projects mentioned in the previous post were completed!  Yippie!  ~*Ferret cartwheels*~  To date, seven have been completed.  p(*_*)q

I'm really proud, happy, and honored to be a part the effort on these projects.

(Yes, I realize, I don't openly say that these projects are.  I'm kind of peculiar, working on projects, but seldom clear about what it is I've been working on.  I like to keep some things to myself, at the same time I can't help being excited about them.  :p )

To wrap up the celebration of 50,000 Views, Family Level 60, and the two projects completed, here is a shiny screencap.  :3

Please continue to click on the Blog Guardians!  I change them every 300 clicks!  :o  Thank you!

Mouse Gone Wild

Montoro #26 Wow, been killing for half a year now!

Valkyria (Olivia) was promoted to Master.

Family Level went up to 59 when Cordelia (Catherine Summoner) went up a Master level.

Ferragamo Family's Sword2 Era Data

The "Lost Days" have been posted, if anyone would like to view from the main blog page.  I recommend reading from bottom up to read it in sequential date order*.  Also, thanks for the clicks on Hector Bunny, he's leveling up pretty fast!  :o

*As it turns out, on Blog Lists, if you back date, the post becomes the "latest post" and whatever date you use, places it back to "two days ago", for example.  Whereas, on Followers list, even though back dated, it shows up as latest post.

This post consists of screencaps of the last things, the last details of the Family.  Tomorrow I'll have some time (perhaps) to settle down (still busy with work and study) to write a more reflective post on the things I've done and the progress I've made in 2012 and what I hope and plan to do in 2013 in the new server.

Last Forum Post - I've been around for over two years, but such a lurker that I've only made 60 posts on the G1 forum.  XD

Family Stats - Somehow I managed to squeeze in 3% before the end!  Renton (Viki) and Lucrecia (Valleria) went up one Master level and Borus (Coimbra) was promoted to Master.
32 Masters (12 maxed - my Vespers) and 39 Experts for total of 71 characters o.o!

Medal Count - I think 45 of these are Castilla related and 35 are Alliance War related, the last one being the skull PVP (I don't pay much attention to medals, admittedly)

Alliance War Stats - ATK 9% going away!  T.T  Still crazy that I made it past 1 million points.

Last Gold Purchase - Because I'm a nerd, I had to end the game with zero Gold balance and this is what I decided to invest in.  Hopefully they were wise choices.  :x

Last Words - My last words in Clan Chat and the last PM when I signed of at 21:37SST.  I PM spammed everyone on Friends List who was still online and gave it five minutes for responses.  Altina became the last PM.  :)

One more post to go!  Tune in again!

Chilling Out

Today was the last Alliance War... I think we'll have to restart our points again.  :<

My Family Level reached 54 overnight while afking in CAA!  (Yes, those were timers for bosses... haha...)

I seldom take random screencaps of my team in town.  Laurent, Claudia, and Anastasia deserved a little break, here they are goofing off in Port after trying (unsuccessfully) to chip a Dragon Rifle.

Here is Emily on Illier opening up the Christmas Gift.  Not that there is anything from this Gift that I would need to have merged with my main account in Orpesia, but was still fun to have her open it.  :)

My main team after completing Thiefs mission.  Before the last maintenance, the mission was bugged and some accounts could spam it over and over.  The most I did was 50 spams (or more, I may have lost a count or two), it was exhausting...  x.x

Post #275: Happy Happy Ferret!

Three major things for this Friday evening!

#1 Received surprise present!

Brunie's Angelica costume!  *_*

This definitely, definitely brought joy to this incredibly difficult week.
Thank you so much!  \(^.^)/

#2 Finally finished the last project.

Because of the Alphabet event, I was able to get the promo characters that came out before I started the game: Emilia the Sage, Soho the Fighter, Adelina the Pirate, Iron Chef Panfilo, and Battlesmith Idge

Stella ~ "Watson" ~ Athena

Cilliano ~ Isabella

I got these two before Alphabet event

Geia ~ Salvatore

#3 Finally, after all the vesping, Watson maxed out, which edged my Family Level up to 53!

I took count of how many "High Masters" I have...  Twelve...
I never thought I'd ever see even one...

They are (in order of maxing out):
1) Nadia - Female Scout
2) Benecio - Male Elementalist
3) Valencia - Calypso
4) Albertocio - Male Scout
5) Anastasia - Emilia
6) Claudia - Helena
7) Geia - Asoka
8) Laurentcio - Lionel
9) Salvatorecio - Ralph
10) Freesia - Female Elementalist
11) Nicolaicio - Soho
12) "Watson" - Soho the Fighter

Can kind of tell, perhaps, that my forte seems to be elemental types and crossbow users... just now venturing in to the realm of dagger users...?

But my heart is always with the pistol users.  Laurent is star of the show, for now, but Katia and Etienne, my lovely muskies, will shine next patch!!!  pew~pew~pew!

Post #175: Shiny Pebbles in a Jar

Today was a busy day.  Spent about three hours vesping, but it was worth it.  I got the last four percent needed to get my Family Level to 51.  *_*

Alberto (M-Sco) maxed out, so we'll be seeing Renton (Viki) at raids.  Salvatore (Ralph) made it to Master 9, I'm keeping him there until next patch.  Patricia (Idge) is Master 3 and I even learned how to use Tronada Cruz.  Now I can say I know how to use one more melee stance, haha.  Nicolai (Soho) moved up to Expert 9 and Borus (Coimbra) moved to Expert 5.  The lovely Freesia (F-Ele) is Expert 2 (boohoo, I need two Pisces for her).  Pierre (M-Fig) joined the family at Master 1.  I have twelve more prevets to work on.

Now I have completed my collection of sixty-six characters: both genders of stocks/Reb/Auch, all four types of Catherine robot, all the UPCs, Asoka, and Ralph.

Flavia waiting for Pierre to join the family

I was given a wonderful piece of news today which relieved me about something that occurred a few months ago that was a big regret of mine.  Someone put an effort towards it and things have turned out the way it was intended (although in another fashion).  Thank you for helping put a closure on this pain.  I'm so happy I broke into tears.

Zip-A- Dee-Doo-Dah

*Castilla Mines ~ Took Laurent (Lionel), Claudia, and Ana.  (I have a preference of taking characters that can team buff.  Musks can't buff a team, so I left them in the Quarters.)  Made it to Blink Dog but got killed by Fanatics on my way to Chrysalis.

*Circus ~ Don't think I need to talk about this one anymore!  Claudia pwns 'nuf sed.  :o

*Vesping ~ Got Salazar (Jose) to Level 90, then spammed him to Expert.  Even though he's a late bloomer, I foresee him catching up or beating Dietric (Lorch) on finishing his Expert Stance.  Salazar is currently using a Frozen Swordfish Cannon and is hilarious to watch!  He's the last Expert I'll make.

*Family Level ~ Reached Level 48 and 20% today.  *_*

*Alliance War ~ The opposite of what I thought was going to happen, happened.  I was shooting for Rank #14 and Level 6 Buff, thinking that I would more likely get the latter.  As it turned out, I Ranked #13, but didn't get my Level 6 Buff.  I think next week I'll stay the same in ranking, but get my next level buff!

*Faction Fight ~ I entered with my Prison team (Geia, Claudia, and Ana) and was one of the first families in there...  I thought I would try to kill the East Gate Ancient Gerero, thinking someone would just finish him off before me and dash in the warp to Ancient Diablo.  Nobody followed and nobody entered...  So I got free 100 Chips all to myself.  And a Hero Seal!  :o  Maybe I'll try it again tomorrow, but a different gate.

*Prison ~ Went with senpai, Ash-san, and Alze-chan.  Ironically, when I feel like practicing ogre killing...  I don't end up having to kill any...  Ash-san was in the first cell I entered and he was already half way through, then I ended up in the red warp to doom as the second cell.  :o

Forgot to post from yesterday:

Mufasar

The only screencap I took at Cortez

Tuna Pizza

[I'm too brain dead as I make this post that I can't think of a title, but someone would know where this title came from.]

Perhaps I start off with what I didn't do today.  I failed to make it to Clan Raids on Illier.  Booooo me!

What I did do:
~Raised my Family Level to 47 with arrival of a new recruit

~Argus where I saw my previous clan leader and vice leader :o

~Circus with LaRo-kun.  I was greeted by Castleworks-kun and Castlefields-san in the Sewer.

~ToC which felt really different because there was no longer that pressure of, "OMG, am I going to get my quest drop today?!?! *stress*stress*"  I took Rosaria (Grace).  glic-san gave me another ring so I could use Level 12 Hound for everyone.  Thank you!!!  Eri-senpai lent me a very, very yummy constellation shotgun for the duration.  *_*  Rosa is nice to watch too.  I pretty much like anything that pew pew pew's!!!  XD  Our squad was short two, so I invited Novitis-san, who then invited ajoy-san.

~I got a Magic... umm... something recipe... it's now locked away in Leo and too lazy to check... from Queen roulette.  (Rei-kun wanted me dead, how mean!)

~Prison with the famous Pioneering Granado Espada blogger Ashardalon-san (one time clanmate, though we ran on different schedules, so I didn't get to interact with him often) and Eri-senpai

But... what's wrong with this picture?

Other than a n00b like me going with two super powered players...

I

GOT

LEFT

BEHIND

!!!

RAGE!!!

Curse you GE.exe!!!  >O

.

~*Le sigh.*~

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To find peace, I took my angel Geia for a screencap in Viron.

Featuring Rei-kun's GS.