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1> Don't know where the coal mines are. People need to help me here, but every time I ask questions about things like this in game I get ignored. If I can get an answer, people manage to get my a** killed repeatedly with shitty directions in uberly dangerous areas rather than taking five minutes from their race for max to aid me. I don't have hide or heal or protection spells.

2> Not an amazing amount of drops there that benefit me besides the coal, which really benefits the guild.

3> The best steel maps in the game are in the desert, fighting steel chons... most weapons worth forging mean having about 40-50 steel, and that's assuming I don't fail and lose ingredients. Would you like to spend hours doing that? That means that since tons of things drop iron and iron ore I should look into getting coal, since I can actually get xp while fighting Best coal drop in the game I know of is 2%. I need a lot of coal. That means extended periods of time. If I'm working my a** off to make s**t for everyone, I expect help. Why the ******** should I level like molasses to craft for everyone when others are busy powerleveling their advanced classes.

3.5> Still, almost everything that drops coal or steel reliably is s**t xp compared to what I could be doing.

4> Sometimes I could use a tank or healer. My only protection comes from decent agi and good vit. I could mammo the ******** out of everything, but heavy potion use and the huge layout for a good anvil mean bankruptcy on that route.

5> Remember that evening that me and Nabs powerleveled you for something to the tune of 4 or 5 hours? Thanks for getting my back. I really liked getting guided through Glastheim to certain death... twice. It was educational. I'd be more familiar with the zone if I got to see more than two maps of stuff able to kill me slowly enough to show that a healer or tank would certainly have netted me rapid advancement. At least the second time I died I had the satisfaction of seeing some nice loot next to my corpse and knowing I had some nice xp on my meter.

6> I have decent skills, but since many of my skill/stat points are for forging/battle hybrid rather than straight battle, combat mean money, lots. A fight gone bad for a smith means death or more zeny expenditure than any other non-merchant class in a week. Mammonite litterally means throwing money at monsters til they die. Many of the skills that I do have are field support skills, which mean s**t when your guild seems allergic to being on the same map as you.

7> I have assloads of the elemental stuff. It is one of the things that drops like a ******** when you buy the Ore Discovery skill, one of more than 20 build points spent to help the guild by supplying elemental weapons. It increases the drops of elemental geme, ore, iron, and steel somewhat.... however it does nothing for coal drops or making the harvesting xp worthwhile/entertaining.

Long story very short. People are gonna have to either make me want to smith for them, or supply their own s**t. I suggest them going to the coal mines should the second option become necessary. I'll probably be slaving away in the bottom floors of the clock tower, on my way to advanced and battlesmithdom, since support is worthless when people don't want to join you.

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Nope. You're on a different server. PM shoujo for the details.

Red blood use depends on your class. For a merchant you can use it to make fire hearts which can be used to make fire weapons. If you're a sage (and maybe wizzie) you need it for certains spells. Archers with the create arrow skill can use each to make 2000 eek fire arrows (pretty nice when you consider that red bloods weigh 10 units while arrows weigh 1 each)... Other classes might be able to use em, but I'm not sure.

As a sidenote, I'll be on but AFK for about 30 minutes. If you want to party after I finish doing some chores, PM me or tell me on guild talk.

EDIT:Back now.

I don't know. I think so. sweatdrop

Talking while fighting for my life eats precious time that could be used to drink potions. The other thing is that GH is weird. Most of my encounters in GH have involved me being attacked by poison spores/mysts on the way to the monastery and generally nothing on the way to the churchyard. I may have been following in someone's wake each time, given the GH is one of the favorite places to train acolytes or not. I don't know. I've never seen a sky petite in GH in my entire time online. sweatdrop


I'm still willing to back you up with my priest should you wish the assistance. If not, I'll be in Juno with my 'sin making my own trek.

if anyone would like to go kill hoppy things, and maybe some sohees, with me I'll be at the main entrance to the Payon Dungeon for about 15 mins. ^_^ On the main kRO server, of course... where all the cool kids play. xd