Trump Series - El Mago

In version 3.4 The Masquerade, there are a set of newly added weapons which known as the 'Trump Series'. These set of weapons can be categorized as 'unique' as it cannot be chipped but it comes with the following fixed stats, that are 30% attack, 30% attack speed and 1 Attack Rating. The best equipment in the Trump Series is the La Templanza aka Trump Shield, with fixed stats of 10 defend, 30 block and 1 Defend Rating. Singapore Granado Espada players are lucky enough to have these great weapons as this is only server where trump weapons receive extra 10% attack speed, unlike other servers have only 20% attack speed. These weapons works great especially for AFKing purpose due the 30% attack speed stat. In order to these weapons, you need to have green,red or blue Arsene Ticket where you can get the recipi for these tickets from the raid mission 'Chateau de Bourgogne' by defeating those mini bosses. You can exchange the ticket with machine which situated in the Reboldoeux Queen’s Gate by just throwing the ticket into the machine.
Red ticket is used to exchange melee type weapons, Green ticket for magic weapons while Blue ticket for range weapons. I had bought one Green ticket recipe from the Market Manager for 4m on 3th of July 2009. I had exchanged the green ticket for El Mago, the Trump Series staff at 11.36pm.

Crafting Green Arsene Circus Ticket:



El Mago:

Ania

I finally gotten Ania's card on 20th June 2009, at 11.37 PM. Ania's recruiting quest can be said as short, which not really that time consuming compared to Selva's. However, it will take quite a long time to complete the quest if you're using not-that-great equipments, like me, took over an hour of time as my characters died over and over again. Anyway, I managed to complete that 'equipments-talk' quest on my third tries. This quest is quite similar to Arsene Circus Group main quest, just that you can bring in 3 characters and you will receive some 'assistance' from Nar and Ania throughout the quest, but that doesn't mean that you can let them become your 'meat shield'. Both of them aren't that strong and you ought to protect them from being 'kissing the floor'. The time duration for this quest is 1 hour. The main task is to kill Louise Arsene III. I experienced bad time of battling him as there was some skill animation bug for him. None of his skills have skill animations which made the matter worst. I got no idea whats the AoE of his skills, all I know was right after he done in casting spells, my characters straight R.I.P. That's how I got pawned off by him in my first attempt. On my second try, to my shock, his followers will pop up one by one when I'm in full-force in 'dropping his HP'. Celine, the highest damage dealer among the followers, succeed in 'scratching' Ania until she got K.O-ed. That's how I got ended on my second try, oh my god! Right after spending some in searching for solution to complete that headache quest, I managed to complete that quest without being annoyed by his clowns , bodyguards and slaves. What I did was I lured him out of his room and let the battle start in the corridor (thanks to the forumer for his/her wonderful solution). At last, I managed to finish him up, with the help of my Grace, Emilia and Jaina, even though it took quite some time as I got no strong weapons. After going through some long conversation between him and Ania, the quest came to an end right after you claimed Ania's card from Ania. Overall, she can be said a good RNPC with her 6 STR, 8 AGI, 6 DEX, 6 HP, 3 INT and 3 CHA. She is the second character that can use dual blunt weapon and the only character that can use tonfa along with her exclusive expert - Gorgeous (dual tonfa stance). She successfully leveled up til level100 on 13th December 2009, at 10.15 AM and she got promoted to veteran on 16th December 2009, 3.15 PM.

TheInts vs Louis Arsene III:


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Ending of the quest:


Ania's card:

Event Mission : Gold

In the version 3.2 Defense of the Zeia Expansion, there is one special feature which added more entertainment to us, Granado Espada players, instead of raiding boss everyday, AFK for the day or waiting the gate for Battle Colosseum, Poison Yard and Secret Temple until got 'rusted'. The feature that I meant is the 'Daily Event Missions'. Starting from 2 PM onwards, there will have an auto-generated event held where all players can participate in. Event Statues were added in outside of City of Auch, The Port of Coimbra and City De Reboldeux. Players can create their own room (with or without password) and others players can join the room, which is quite similar to the game-starting part of the Highway, Trinity, Spotlight and Intercharge Mission. There are a total of 8 mission per day, which are 'Joaquin Barrier' starting at 2PM, 'Gold' at 4PM, 'Team Arena' (MCC3) at 8PM, 'Invasion' at 10PM, 'Team Arena' (MCC1) at 11PM, 'Occupation' at 12 AM and lastly, 'Joaquin Barrier' at 2 AM. Different missions have different task and rewards. The hottest missions are both Team Arena (MCC1 & MCC3) as players can get many 'luxuries' such as symbols and Le Noir recipes which makes all the vis-hungry players to get crazy about it. On 11th April 2009, I managed to spare out some time to participate in the mission 'Gold' at 4PM. Of course, there was filled with all other players who just like me, wanna have some fun instead of grinding all their ways to be 'god'. I anyhow joined a room and eventually, everyone in the room shouted ''GAME START!!''. Seems like everyone is so anxious to add some color in their gaming experience (count me in!). Once the missions started, naturally, everyone buffed up their characters and let the game start!. We had divided into 2 groups, one was to defend our colony while the another group was to break the enemy's colony. I got no choice but to defend our colony due to my noob equipments. Waves of monsters were came to attack our colony endlessly. This was my first time of seeing a Swamp Merman Eater which was hard to be spotted in the outside world of Granado Espada! Of course, all of us tried our best to slain that huge dinosaur as it was the only boss that drop symbol of Capricorn for Arnis, expert dagger stance. Just one bite and all my characters died (as I expected). Resuscitating the died characters, that's the only thing that I can do. At the end, our colony destroyed and the dinosaur was still alive and kicking. All of us eventually got warped out to town as the missions failed. Overall, this mission is quite fun and need the spirit of teamwork too, in order to complete this tough-yet-fun mission. I will have my second try if only I have free time again.

Squad members:


Defending the Colony:


Swamp Merman Eater popped out:


Swamp Merman Eater's stat: