Shaolin Temple

One of my biggest pet peeves about Zu, is its lack of real system based Events.  I'm not talking about the stupid daily mini-events for exp, or the lame GM events.  I'm talking about festival catagory events.  Like the 1st years xmas event, and, and the halloween "event".

This is a game based on Chinese mythology, and we dont even get a New years event -,-  I want an event with a bit of substance.  Ultimately, its the big events that really keep my interest.  Its a big difference from the norm, and gives a reason to the boring old grind.  I still go back to games I played 10 years ago, just to do the big events.

What does zu get?  Marine chessman for the 10th time this year? -,-  please, dont bother me with that.

Well, its been awhile since I made a post.  Mostly because we took a vacation from Zu - I ve played witout fail since the first day of Alpha testing.  Through the dissappointments, updates, merges, etc, I finally just had to get away from it all.  I went back to school to update some of my certifications and am preparing significant changes irl.

However, I doubt blue_guy/Disco ever returns due to lag.... and his laptop is currently blown up anyways...

I have started to ponder returning in some capacity, a little bit when I have time perhaps.  Im hoping that we get a Chinese New Years this year.

I would like to get get Toka to a more useful lvl, I wont be grinding thank you, but 210 would be nice for starters...and I can finally decide If im gonna stay with full epic 4 gear, or lose the bonuses for 3 suit 7 pieces....

In any case, have fun.

~ Toka

I must say I'm a bit shocked at the compensation.  I truly expected nothing more than a few cs.  Not enough to make 1+ pieces of Suit.  You only get 9 CS6 for the lve 193+, but thats still enough that I will be able to make 2 mores pieces of Suit 7b for Toka.

Jasmine wasnt so lucky, lol.  she was only 191 when the merge took place, so she only gets CS5 =/  But Jas is full epic, so I dont guess she really cares anyway...

I'm pretty confused about what to do with Toka though... She has 5 pieces Epic 4, 3 of Epic 5, and 1 Suit 7.  I currently dont use the Suit 7 cause then I lose the HP bonus from five Epic4 when I wear it.  Also need to lvl 2 more levels so I can rank Suit 7 again so that the stats are better than Epic 4  (yes, Rank 0 Suit7 is no better than R6 Epic4 -,-).  It would be great to replace epic 4 with Suit7, but unfortunately, Most of the items that can be made with suit, is Epic5, not epic4. -,-  So i get to work that out...I'll be able to replace the epic 4 bracers, and then ill have to figure out if I make a 3rd Suit7 piece or not...

Alita will get to make another Suit7 as well.  But she has bad luck with gear making T_T

Well (as expected), the merge has not proven interesting.  If it has accomplished anything, it has made zu all the more boring.  Hex is lag world (completely crashing during the weekend), every1 freezing during AO, the always present rubberbands. 

With the merge of the old/dieing Holy with the young/active Ghost has somehow lead to less raids. Raids were common in ghost, it hasnt been that way thus far in Hex, the lvl differences are too great and the lag to impairing.

 Shaolin hopes the update is something brilliant, otherwise we will probably give up on this game =/  There is just nothing to do here except pvp, and pvp is nerfed + lag = zZzZzzzZz

~Toka

So the death of Holy and Ghost servers... =,=*

Its very dissappointing, but not surprising...zu has a very short play life, its easy to level, and you get left with nothing but pvp.  So people get bored and leave.  Same as what happened before with Holy and Desert servers.  Cept Desert was pretty much as deserted as Holy, which isnt the case with Ghost (by far the more populated and fun server).

So they are ruining the whole dynamic of why Ghost was more fun (and why so many left Holy for Ghost)... a big part being that Ghost did not have much wait before cap lvl increases...so there is an even spread of levels across the server (unlike holy where 90%+  was 180 before the previous update with 240 cap).

I dunno, ive played zu, mostly faithfully (I quit once before the cap raise, and got bored of it a few times), since the alpha testing.  I have Era 0 characters on both servers.  But to be honest...this may be the annoyance that i just cant deal with.  We'll just have to hope that it works better than I expect it to...

Boo merge.

~ Toka

Its election Day in the US, it will either be the first African-American President or the first Female Vice President. Interesting day.

I'd also like to Congratulate a few Shaolin members for their achievements during the Halloween Event:

1. Toka : 200+
2. Disco: 190+
3. JasmineTea: 180+