Well I was trying to get rid of my worsening DotA (Defense of the Ancients) addiction and I thought of replacing it with a mobile game. I first tried Avabel. It was really fun and the gameplay is just what I wanted. Too bad my phone sucked and crap always got stuck on the loading screens so I deleted Avabel and tried Iruna cuz it was on the list of Asobimo games.
At first I thought about how Iruna sucks compared to Avabel, like 'tap Attack button twice to attack' and that's it •_•. But I'm glad the tutorial covered most of what I wanted to know to get started and didn't boost me to Lv15 XD. I saw which stat does what and after some thinking I went pure AGI. I followed the MQ and I got stuck with the 3 goblins, so I stopped MQ there. The next few days (around a week) all I did was redo the Mooth Culling quest, rant about why a high level is taking all of my prey, and discover everything on the Menu. This took me to Lv20 (yeah, I know @-@). Remember when we were asked to pick a weapon from a staff, a sword and a bow? I thought that at the time I was being asked about what class I wanted and that the weapon would determine that. So I chose the bow, thinking all along that I became an archer *facepalm* so I was actually an Adventurer with no skills until Lv20 for a week. Fun. I asked around about how I can get skills. They told me to change jobs to either Warrior or Mage, and I'm still thinking I'm an archer, so I refused to change jobs. Then I decided to go places. I reached Rokoko City and hot damm the place is packed. My crappy phone can't handle that so I stayed away from the city. When I reached the Rokoko Plains I started killing stuff. Then for the first time someone sent me a party invite. We killed some Baums and I noticed his damage is larger so I asked him how I can up my damage. He told me to get a ******* Sword (Bastard XD darn censors @-@) so we went to the cave and farmed one for me. I forgot what happened next, but that was the time someone named hell (not his real IGN) invited me to a guild randomly. I thought 'oh a guild. Info exchange place.' So I joined XD. The guild was WaRLoRDz (I forgot which letters are upper/lower case). This marked the start of my Iruna life.
This should be around 3 years ago. At the time I thought 'this will be just another MMO' but oh boy did Iruna change my life o.o. From this point on, it's up to you, the reader, if you want to proceed. The continuation of the story contains sensitive real life information that might also change your life (then again I might be lying about this and I'm just trying to make my boring Iruna life interesting. *cough* moving on). Click the spoiler below to continue. You have been warned *screech*
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My first char is MishYumi. An obviously feminine name. Why tho? The phone (iPhone) I was using was my girlfriend's. At the time, there was something wrong with my phone. Like I couldn't receive calls and messages and stuff. So she lent me her 'extra' phone. Anyway, I thought of using a nickname she once used online so that when I give her phone back she could play the game with a female char and name. This was a mistake.
Episode 1: WaRLoRDz Guild
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The WaRLoRDz (let's shorten it to WL) guild is where I grew up as an Irunian. Back then, it was a really new guild and hell (I call him hell) said I was the first member (I don't really remember XD). Hell was a wizard at the time. We started having different kinds of people in the guild like Knights and Hunters. Hell taught me how to change chat XD (I was on 'Say' chat all the time lmao). In WL is where I learned about classes too. I remember one time hell said 'ninjas are awesome for MQ.' So I started having interest in ninjas. Whenever we recruit in GC, there would be a lot of us in one GC and we would scream Ninja! if a ninja comes. Then when we had some ninjas in the guild, at some point I ended up in Drafbourg and I asked them how being a ninja was. They told me about the -90% HP thing which I really didn't understand and the 9 clones which I thought there would be 9 of me attacking all at once (I thought it was OP). Upon hearing that I already resolved myself to become a ninja.
Before long, the guild got really lively with different members online all the time. I somehow became the guild mascot. Probably because I never ignored anyone even if there were like 10 people chatting me, my char looked cute, and I type with smileys always. Everyone respected me and they go to me for advice and whenever they just feel like talking to someone. I was really popular especially when I started raiding. Also, I told them I was a girl. And I guess I was acting like one (mostly cuz I get free stuff).
WL's daily activities included 90% talking and 10% actual playing. No, I'm not kidding. We talked more than we play, which was really fun. We got like 60+ members, with 10-30 members always online and ready to talk. We'd be farming Dark Warriors or Sofya Kijimus while we talk, which really isn't a problem for me since I can autoattack while typing and I had evasion. Other stuff we do in WL is helping with MQ, SQ, and leveling. Around this time is when I got my first 100k (by scamming lower Lv nubs in WL with 35k Rose Rings). I told them they could resell em for 50k lol (the ring was my first rare drop BTW). The money I used to buy a Seahorse Bangle. It was the first item I worked hard for and is worth it.
Timeline check: around 1 month.
Episode 2: Halloween
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Yay! Halloween event
. This was my first event in Iruna. I farmed a ton of Treat Cookies during this time and I was able to hit 1m for the first time. I used the money to buy Ameno Uzume ns. I was so happy I can finally let go of the Wing Bow that hell gave me a while back. Before that, I also had a Kodachi which I traded for a Claw, Dark Headguard and some spina. The bow became my best weapon since. Oh and during the event, Asobimo held a boss defeating event. By reaching a certain amount of event boss kills, they would give everyone free avatar boxes per day for Idk how many days. This made me decide to get an alt.
Before the event, I made an alt on my crappy phone and decided it would be my main. That alt is LanGamer. He's gonna be a ninja as well, same as Mish, but AGI/CRT instead of pure AGI. I wanted him in WL, but Idk how I'll introduce him. So I told them "Lan is my boyfriend." And being the respectable figure I am, they believed me without batting an eye. Hell was acting a bit weird towards Lan, but not enough for me to be concerned about it. With two devices, I was able to farm enough spina for another Ameno. I made 3m+ during the event. Our levels back then were around 50.
During the event, I learned about the existence of pets, how useful they are and how having them is essential to a ninja. So I tried my best to get into every Mr. Jack party for a chance to get his egg. I can solo Mr. Jack, or with Lan, but I'll be eating a ton of Revita L and 50k was a lot to me. After a few days of trying, I got both my chars pet eggs and I started researching about pets. I found out that the pet I got is really hard to raise since he doesn't like anything at all. Hell told me then that an easy pet to get was by buying Blocks and waiting for a Kijimu or a Colon. I did just that and started raising my affinity to a Kijimu. At the time I thought that if I left the island, the Kijimu would run away if I didn't feed it and I'll have to wait for a day for it to come back again. It wasn't until a few months later that I found out how wrong I was XD.
Timeline check: around 2 months
Episode 3: Pao
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After the event, I had nothing else to do, and so I asked around about what good armor is there for ninjas. Two armors registered as awesome into my mind: Pao and Thief Garb. The latter was hard to get and is pretty expensive for me, so I went with Pao. So first I went to Lunite to check the materials which I always forget. I met there a girl who can make Pao without going to Lunite so I asked her if she can make me one. She told me she'll make me one if I send her like 20 Griffin Pelts, 30 White Feathers etc etc. back then I didn't know I was being scammed, but I was never able to bring her the materials cuz it took me a full week to make a Pao set. I was so happy that the Pao looked cute on my char. It definitely beats Damascan Armor XD. I was able to reach Lv70+ while farming.
While I was farming Pao sets, I met a guy. He was really kind and awesome to talk to. Sadly I forgot his name already, but it's always at the tip of my tongue whenever I try to remember. Let's call him S for now. He was a claw user but he was going Samurai. I told him 'I thought Samurais use swords?' And then he told me he would be a claw Samurai and told me that the minimum ASPD penalty on a samu only happens if you're using a sword. He was 20+ lvls above me and I looked up to him as a senpai. He knows a lot of stuff and he helped me get Griffin Pelts too. I can say we were really close.
He introduced me to his friend one time, let's call him M. We became close too at some point in time. I found out one day that they both belong to the same guild where S is the GM. I forgot the name, but the guild was a farming guild and M was usually in Rokoko Plains farming Broken Staff. It was really fun being with those two, but one problem is time. They're online when it's around 11 pm my time and we would play for hours. I would go to sleep at around 3 or 4 am and sometimes I'd pull all nighters. It's the first time this happened to me since my parents are really strict about sleeping early.
After getting my Pao, I thought of making more sets to sell for spina since each set back then costs 2-3m. S helped a lot with that when I ordered Griffin Pelts from him. He gave me the pelts for free tho. I would help M farm B.Staff when I needed a break. I was able to sell 2 sets for 4m. After that, I decided to upgrade my Pao until last up. A bit of research gave me answers and I paid people to farm me some of the items I needed. The rest I bought in Rokoko (I still lag whenever I go there) or farmed myself. It wasn't until a few months later that I completed my Pao last up (more about this later).
Timeline check: around 3 months.
Episode 4: Alliance
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One day hell called all active Officers and Veterans to Sofya S4 (S4 was our home server). We didn't know what would happen. I remember talking to a friend named Izlude (his name was in Japanese), which I call Iz. He was a hunter and trying to become a sniper. Iz was one of my closest friends back then. He was a Veteran and I was an officer when hell called us. Anyway, when we got to Sofya, I was surprised to see S and M there (gosh I just realized about S & M @-@). Hell was also surprised. He didn't know that I know those guys. It seems he called us out because WL guild and their guild is forming an alliance. Our guild had paying members and their guild had hard workers. It was perfect, but Iruna didn't have an alliance system. What they thought about is there will always be someone with a GC that's known only to both our guilds. Whenever we want to place an order, or if they have extra materials, that's where we go.
Things were fine at first, that is until something happened between S and hell and the alliance was broken off. I asked hell and S about what happened. It seems that hell and S were about to do something, I forgot what it was, but I think it's about farming or helping Idr. According to S, asked him to wait a bit, and that 'bit' lasted more than half an hour and he was pissed. Hell also told him what to do about something (and we know how some players don't like to be told what to do). According to hell, S and his guild trash talked him and that's when things got really out of hand. I tried to get them to be friends again, but I guess it's not happening. The alliance was gone, and so was their friendship. Their only connection now is me.
Their fight really affected me. What do you do when your close friends don't talk to each other anymore? This happened to me in real life. I tried ways to get them to be friends again, but when one is stubborn there's just no helping it. In the end the stubborn one gave in and they became friends again, but not until after more than a year of ignoring each other. I felt really useless as a friend. Why couldn't I do anything?
Timeline check: around 4 months
Episode 5: Christmas and New Year
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Christmas was my 2nd event in Iruna. From this event, I got Santa Piton eggs for both my chars and a 2s Toy Gloves. I also made a living out of selling New Year Deco. when the New Year event started. I saved some for myself and I was able to get a stray Roar, but I couldn't see it in my island. I realized it becomes somehow camouflaged when it's near the water. I logged in and out of my island a lot before I came to that realization XD. Around this time is when I made another char on my new iPhone (just 4s XD). It was HexSquad, a knight and pally-to-be. I got him a Sablem, Licht ns and a Katzbalger, together with S.Bangle. I focused on him a bit, so I missed a big chunk of the event.
During the event, one of my guildies told me she got a slotted Santa Gloves. I remember hearing about that spec selling for a lot, like 20m if slotted. I didn't understand why slot is important since xtals are crappy anyway (I only get MaxMP+5% xtals and other trash xtals so I thought all xtals are crap). Anyway, my guildie asked if I could help her sell the Santa Gloves. I agreed to help her, but I wasn't sure about the price, so I made the sale an auction in the GC. One guy came in and offered 2m. Another guy came in and offered 3m. They they fought for a while, increasing it bit by bit like sometimes even from 5m 100k to 5m 101k lmao it was really funny watching their offers go ridiculous. After a few minutes, one guy dropped out and the price was 7m. I think the price was still low, so I told them to wait a bit in case someone else gives a better offer. Then a girl came in and offered 18m *facepalm*. I could almost smell the look on their faces when I saw the offer.
This was the opportunity I was looking for, so after 2-3 minutes I called in my guildie and they went somewhere to trade. Then the buyer said 'lol is no slot' and that got me thinking. I never got the chance to look at my guildie's item. So I asked her if what the buyer said was true. She told me she could put an xtal in it. But the buyer still said it's ns and left. My guildie decided to sell it to the 7m guy, and the guy told us it's ns. It was a really embarrassing misunderstanding. It seems my guildie was confused about slots and stuff. I apologized after explaining it to the two guys in the GC, but they were okay with it and said they had a good time trying to raise offers and left. I talked a bit to my guildie and when she said 'I guess it's ns' I felt really sad. I could imagine a little girl who just realized that Santa Claus didn't exist. Again, I couldn't do anything u.u.
Timeline check: around 5 months
Episode 6: Raid
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One time I was farming up mats for Pao, I met a friendly gladiator who helped me a bit. He was nice to talk to. Then I asked him where to get a certain material and he said it was from Manticores. I told him Idk where that mob is so he showed me the way. We went to the Dark Castle and at the time my MQ was there. After he helped me farm Manticores I asked him if he could help me with the place's MQ since we're already there and all. He gladly helped me and advised me not to become a beggar. That was the last time I saw him.
After that, I did MQ until Halios. Friends and guildies helped me with it and I was able to do it in a few days. Somewhere along the way, probably in Sofya, I saw people wearing black Iron Armors. It looked really cool to me. I thought that if I upped my Iron Armor it would look like that, but since the up mats look hard to get, I gave up on it. After Halios, I wanted to up my Pao again. A guildie named MrGarrie (I think? I call him Garrie) told me he would help with the material then we met up in Sofya. The blacksmith there can make what I need, but the material for it is a rare drop from a mob in the Eternity Maze. I've never been there before, so Garrie helped me reach the floor where the mobs spawn. He told me to up my CRT since I couldn't hit anything. I couldn't care less at the time. They can't hit me either, so why should I care? XD Garrie was a very commanding person, and I hated his guts but he was really helpful and is probably the richest guy in our guild.
After that, I started raiding. My first raid was a guild raid. We did a few runs of Raid 100 then I joined Raid 140. It was so laggy that I would dc/fc from time to time. I still didn't know about the 'Party Only' function in the settings. Later on I found out that the main cause of my lags is SH. I learned to hate SH because of this. In the raid, I would attack like there's no tomorrow and die young, mainly cuz of Burnos. Bongea I could still dodge and take about 2-3 hits before dying. Here's where I learned about aggro/hate control and positioning. I also learned how cool Minstrels are when I got into a pt with one. HP/MP heals and awesome buffs *^*.
In raids I would frequently see S. One time he was selling a Lv5 Technique ability and asked him how much he was selling it since I needed the abi to compensate for my lack of CRT. He told me he was selling it for 15m I think? I was shocked. I didn't know abilities could be so expensive. He told me he failed a few times and used more than 16 Lv1 tech abis to get Lv5. From that point on, raiding became my main source of income, learning about trading and current market prices in the process. My first trade btw is when a guildie asked for a Rokoko tp and said he would pay me back. After teaching me how to send mail to guildies, he paid me back 10k and I was like whoa. I only paid 500 for a tp and I got a bunch of spina in return. Anyway, I raided for a reaaaally long time. Enough to get me two Ganeis and a slotted Malicia Bow. I think I also saved enough for a slotted Ameno and the excess I saved for Exelis and Magonza later on.
Timeline check: around 6 months
Episode 7: Ninja
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One time, Garrie asked me if I could sell his STR on sword. After selling it, he gave me a bit of spina for the trouble then he said that he still has tons of other stuff to sell. That's when I got an idea. I started something like a 'Sell Service' where I sell your stuff and I'll take a small percentage as fee XD. In a day we were able to clear his storage, and I sold more than 20m worth of items I think. My fee was 10% back then, but he gave me more for a job well done o.o/. Then I went back to raiding since he was the only one who trusts me to sell his stuff (or he's the only one with stuff to sell in WL lol).
After like two months of raiding, I still wasn't a ninja. My level was around 80-90. I even met an ex-guildie and asked me why my level was still low. I told him that I was focused on making spina. I'm pretty sure my gears were better than his that time XD. I also learned about the -90% HP thing and that clones don't actually attack (sad u.u). With help from WL I got a Ghost Ring and bought a Magical Ring. Then my focus switched to leveling, so I did MQ cuz I hate grinding. Whenever I got stuck, I would raid then come back and try again. I did this until I became Lv100, bought ninja sets and luckily got random help in killing Mio. Wohoo! New ninja in the house *^*.
So Roxzen's ninja guide was like my Bible at the time. Right after becoming a ninja, I killed a Megaroche like the guide said and realized how MP hungry ninjas are. It's a good thing I stocked up on Treat Cookies and it lasted a few weeks. I did a bit of MQ and I stopped around Lv110. I started helping guildies with MQ and raided/grinded Megas on my free time. I enjoyed grinding Megas cuz Ameno's damage is <3. This is when I learned about the Party Only setting *facepalm* half a year to learn about a setting? Really? Yeah. I'm sorry @-@. PT only became my default setting ever since.
Timeline check: around 7 months.
Episode 8: Break
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Around this time is when hell suddenly became inactive. He wouldn't login on any of his accounts. Everything seemed to he normal after a while, but clearly hell was the one holding the whole guild together, with me as one of the pillars. I tried thinking how he thinks and do what he does, but it was too hard for me. I learned how difficult it is to be a leader, but I still struggled to keep the guild alive. WL became quieter and quieter each day, and soon there's only a few of us online. Most of the others either transferred guilds or left the game completely. The noisy guild I love became a ghost town.
That's not all that happened within this time frame. S and M were acting weird. M became online less and less so I asked S about what happened to M. I think he said M was becoming busier in real life. One other thing he "hinted" to me I think was that M had fallen in love with me. I was shocked. I mean I'm a dude. Then again it's my fault for telling them I'm a girl. It looks like things went downward since I introduced Lan to 'them.' 'Them,' because later on, S "hinted" that he was also in love with me. I think one of the things he told me was "it would be unfair to Lan." Then I said something I can never take back. I told him (Idr the exact words) "your chances were 60/40." Why did I say that? What made me say that? Why those words and at that moment? Until now I still regret saying what I said. S and M became completely inactive after a while.
Other things that happened around this time was Garrie's fight with hell which made Garrie WL's enemy. Izlude's not as active as before, but still goes online frequently. Eventually, the game stressed me out instead of relieving me of stress. Every time I login my mind would be on WL's survival, S, M, Garrie and Izlude. Oh and did I mention I opened a shop in the forum? I sell/buy items there and do farm service. I couldn't keep up with the service since my level was pretty low. I started logging in less and less as well and before long, I deleted the game.
Timeline check: 8 months.
Episode 9: Restart
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Weeks passed and the stress I feel whenever I think about the game still lingers. When I finally got over the stress, I came back. WL was still quiet. S, M, and hell were still out. Garrie was nowhere to be found. But I'm glad Izlude was still there. Someone was waiting for me to come back. 'It's good to be back.' *cry* Izlude is a really nice friend. Back when I was still a hunter, we would go adventuring sometimes like farming mobs 20+ levels above us and journeying to places still unknown to us. Nothing much happened to the guild when hell and I were out. The guild's practically dead, but we decided to stay for a while and try our best to revive it.
So we started recruiting people and learning more about the game. In my case, I studied more about ninjas. The thing that triggered this was my discovery of Shuriken Mastery and other skills. I thought about why ninjas are not taking advantage of that weapon mastery and using the jutsus. After a while, I decided to make an alt. And he shall be known as EwPeople. Ew's first build was AGI VIT and DEX I think? I was supposed to be a hybrid ninja, but it didn't work out when I changed jobs at Lv100. I restarted Ew and made him a Wizard, Magic Ninja build.
Around this time is when one of the active officers told me that someone should take leadership. It seems that if the GM becomes inactive for a while, an officer can take his place. I wanted to be the GM, but I didn't do it. I was scared that I might not know enough about the game to lead a guild. In the end we decided that she (the officer who spoke to me) should take leadership. Tbh, I wasn't very close to her until after my break. She was a very smart person and she had a goal: to balance the guild's jobs to make it easier for us to form balanced parties. This person is manis, WL's 2nd generation guild master.
Timeline check: around 10 months.
Episode 10: New Beginning?
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The second generation WaRLoRDz guild was completely different from the first gen. We had very few members, but they were loyal to manis. They were also knowledgeable about the game mechanics and stuff. manis encouraged everyone to get stronger in order to help our nub members get stronger too. I remember getting pissed off when manis told me I was leveling too slowly. One day, I rushed MQ, until Lv125 because this is the same level as the darn stunners in Gheist Village. I wanted a slotted Thimble. So I farmed for a while and thought that it's gonna take a really long time to get one. I gave up eventually. manis again reminded me that I was leveling too slowly *grrr* so I went back to MQ after raiding a bit to catch up with current prices. Bead prices changed a bit during this time. I was able to hit like Lv162 I think and that's when I stopped MQ. Why? Because I realized I was only auto attacking. I forgot that we have skill quests *facepalm*. So I took the DoC quest and things became a loooot easier. Someone even asked why I'm doing DoC quest at Lv160. I can only tell them I forgot lol.
Then I met Belial when I was raiding. He's a really cool guy who knows cool stuff. He's a monk and he sells MQ service. At the time I only knew ninjas could sell MQ efficiently. My knowledge about the game was really minuscule and limited to ninjas. We would farm and do MQ together. He reminded me a lot about S, but he doesn't give off the same energy as S. We also did the Mermaid Event together where Lan got a Beach Luna egg and Ew and Mish got Mermaid Hair. Ew looked oh so ridiculous with his hair x.x. Because of the abundance of Rocks, I used them to up my prod as far as Rocks can take me. I also got all event weapons except the claw (Averse) which was a really hot thing at the time. On MQ I think we stopped at Giant Ape to farm al xtals (side note: manis congratulated me for leveling up •_•).
Despite all the good things happening to me, I still think about the people who became inactive. When I came back, I wanted to be more honest. But when I found out that there were people who knew the old me, I couldn't break free from the lies I told everyone, so I kept on lying. I told people I meet that Lan was my boyfriend and that HexSquad and EwPeople were his alts. I also told them I don't have alts cuz I'm using an iPhone. As WL took in more loyal members, it became harder for me to tell the truth. I can hardly call this a new beginning.
Timeline check: around 1 year.
Episode 11: EwPeople
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An episode for me XD. I took advantage of Belial and hired him for MQ service whenever I'm too lazy to walk two characters (Mish and Ew). I rushed MQ on Ew until around Lv160 when I got 200 DEX and changed to ninja. After trying out my skills, I concluded that magic ninjas suck. I had no AoE (Ew was a HW before changing) and I use too much MP. Back then I was using Fuma Shuriken no up slot, Shushiwa Armor no up slot, Grecia Helm slot/Magic Scroll ns, and Magical Ring. I also had no xtals. But even when I resented being a magic ninja, I couldn't help but feel awesome since I was unique. I decided to let Ew be Ew, the magic ninja that sucks, cuz whenever people say 'magic ninjas suck' I would reply with 'yeah @-@.'
While Ew was struggling, Mish became decently equipped. She had Ameno and Malicia both with Ganei, Exelis last up Magonza, Ghost Ring Ganei and Thimble ns. I was satisfied with my equipment, so I started focusing on Ew. First I got an upped Shushiwa, then a Gerust xtal. For the meantime, I got Barafu xtals on my armor and add. Delay became a huge problem, so I used Wisdom Ring (OMG the MP Cost OTL). One day I got Fuma up for a nice price and it came with Spell Boost. I raided for beads to make Empty to transfer Spell Boost. Extraction was successful and I transferred it TO SHUSHIWA (oh gosh why x.x). Later on I made two more Empty xtals so I can transfer Gerust and Spell Boost. Both failed in under 30 seconds...
So I was getting hopeless, but I raided and I was able to buy another Gerust and a Spell Boost along with an ns Mercure. I also upped all Mermaid Event weapons and sold them to buy a Moldus and a slotted Spirit Plume. I also traded spina, Magic Scroll and Shushiwa for a Hulam Nemes slot when this armor was released. I kept the Quick Cool on Throw I got when I did Gadave MQ on Ew and threw the Wisdom Ring. After getting MPC abi Lv5/4/3/2, Ew started to feel awesome and I didn't think that magic ninjas suck anymore. As I moved through MQ, I noticed how strong the barrier pierce of my skills are. This became my selling point. Now I can say something to people who condemn magic ninjas.
Timeline check: around 1 year and 3 months.
Episode 12: Hell's Return
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WL might not be the same, but it had become stable (with very few members tho). Mish and Ew were doing good and everything looks great. Then this happened: hell came back. Whenever I login, I have this ritual: first is to clone, then summon a pet, ignite (I only learned about ignition's EXP boost a few weeks ago @-@), then sort guild members by who's online. I skimmed through the list and I saw a familiar name. I was like "hell? That's you right?" He was relieved to see that I'm still active, but I guess he wasn't pleased that manis became WL's GM. The reason for his sudden disappearance was his crappy phone. He couldn't even login and we had no other means of communicating than via Iruna. We talked for a while and he came back on a new char which he turned into a Beast Knight (new class back then).
He then got boosted and asked manis to give the leadership back. manis refused, giving him two conditions: to reach Lv200+ and gain the respect of the current guild members. As an old player, hell was furious. How long would it take him to get to Lv200? I asked hell to comply with manis' conditions cuz she took care of the guild when he suddenly disappeared. That, and cuz getting to Lv200 via MQ would be pretty easy. He calmed down and agreed to comply. Within a week, hell became WL's third generation GM. manis (now I remember I think manis was spelled as ##manis) was a bit sad about letting go of her position, but hell really wanted his family back.
First thing hell did was recruit. I participated in that too as well as all other active officers and veterans. After gaining a stable amount of active members, he made a Facebook group. I didn't join the group as Mish. I told them I like to keep games and reality separated. I made a new account and joined as Mish's boyfriend. I became close to a few members in the group. Hell was trying his best to bring back the old WL, but one thing we couldn't bring back was Mish, the guild mascot. All the respect and popularity I had before was gone, and it's both a gain and a loss depending on how you look at it. With four core members, hell, me, manis and Iz, we started rebuilding WL.
Timeline check: around 1 year and 4 months.
Episode 13: Goodbye
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It was proving difficult to bring back WL's former glory, but we never gave up. Yet at some point, it just seemed pointless to try creating a guild like that. I still did my duties, but minus the enthusiasm. It became more of a chore to me. With every new member that comes in means less time playing with my old friends. I was too hung up about the past. Being with my old friends made me feel like WL was still the same and helping new members feel like they were only taking advantage of me. I guess I was being selfish. manis was probably not satisfied with 3rd gen WL as well as her loyal followers. It feels like a coup-de-tat (did I spell this right?) would happen any moment.
One day, manis told me she would leave WL soon and start her own guild. It would be her ideal guild with good balance of classes. She said her guild would be allies with WL (and our experience with alliances is not very good). She also invited Ew, which at the time 'may' have looked like a rare animal to manis. Adding a magic ninja to her guild 'might' have meant that her collection is one step closer to completion (these are assumptions o.o). Then it happened: manis and her friends left the guild. I asked hell if he was just gonna let them go. He didn't stop them. It seems hell didn't really like manis? I didn't care about anyone else's opinions. All I know is that I lost yet another close friend, along with a few other friends from 2nd gen. Of course we could always play together, but starting a new guild means she'll be pretty busy recruiting, helping members and organizing her guild. We also had no talks about the guilds' alliance.
A few weeks later, I said goodbye to the guild and my close friends not because I'm joining manis' guild, but because Mish is leaving Iruna. My girlfriend needed her phone back. I can't argue with her. I've had the phone for a very long time and I do not hold the right to keep it with me. I only had a day to say my goodbyes. I transferred all my stuff to Lan and all my spina to Ew. I was able to talk to iz after that. Then around an hour to my deadline, hell went online. We talked a bit about the sudden goodbye and then he confessed that he likes me. Awesome. Time for another lie I regret saying. I told him that I also liked him before, but those feelings were gone. I tried to justify myself by saying 'I didn't say I liked him as a lover, but rather as a friend. Yeah. That should work. It's a perfectly reasonable reasoning' (I am such a ****). I never got to tell him that Hex, Lan, Ew and Mish are one and the same and that I was a guy. I just can't bring myself to tell him and iz the truth, so it stayed that way until present day. But I was able to tell just one person: Belial. I think he was cool about it, and only told me 'nice acting' I think. It was embarrassing to admit, but it did relieve me from a ton of stress.
Timeline check: around 1 1/2 years
Episode 14: 4th Gen
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Hell and iz became less active after that, but still pretty active. I'd mostly talk with Belial, do MQ or raid. I focused a lot on making Ew stronger cuz I see the build's potential. I still help around the guild, in hopes of paying back for the lies I told. Then hell talked to me. He said he's about to leave Iruna soon He said he trusts me and that he thinks I'll make a fine GM. Whoa. Hell wants me to succeed him. I asked him why me when there's iz. He said iz wasn't as active as me. Then I asked why he's quitting the game. He said that there was no point in playing if Mish is not around. Ouch. Really. Ouch. A few days later I became WL's 4th generation GM. Hell stayed for a while then became completely inactive.
As 4th gen, it became my goal to recreate 1st gen. A lively, noisy guild where people could feel at home. First thing I did was to give officers and veterans weekly tasks to perform (this includes me). The first weekly task was to recruit 5 members. The week after that was the same and we kept going until we had a good number of active members. The following tasks were material collection for guild events. This happened monthly and it produced loyal members, but it sucks that only a few stayed. I tried to do mini games at random times (like hide and seek) so members would stay online longer, hoping that today I would start a mini game and earn prizes. My idea worked! But it backfired on me since I make so little spina by raiding.
Later on, my pocket couldn't keep up, and I felt like I was buying my members. In the end I felt useless as GM and found it pointless to continue struggling. With iz completely inactive, all core members excluding me are gone. This is a repeat of when hell suddenly left. The guild was torn apart and became a ghost town yet again. With no one to help, I decided to change to Minstrel and start leveling via Baum Warriors. I was able to reach Lv214 this way. But I couldn't bear the loneliness in the guild. I don't want to leave either cuz I love it too much. With stress built up in my mind, I decided to delete the game, again.
Timeline check: around 1 year and 9 months.
Episode 15: Legends of Ew
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When I finally cooled down, I returned to the game only to find out that someone else already took leadership. That was okay, but 5th gen wasn't able to save the guild either. Anyway, I decided to go back to being a ninja since I missed some MQs and I can't do them fast if I was a Minstrel. After a long day of just doing SQs, I rushed MQ and ended up at Lv219. This got me excited. 1 more level for Domination *^*. I leveled at Megas cuz of Raiton no Jutsu. After getting Domi, I tested it, and I was like damm o.o. That's when I realized I can sell MQ service. I mostly did Schlingel and up, until latest MQ boss whoever that was. After a while, an old guildie invited me to their guild. I feel like it's time to move on, so I did, and left WL. There I met awesome people: erza, LavaBloom, Namcaw, and xfaithx, shadow, Endstory. I also met awesome people randomly: mcserg, sefilyfii, Dragsbro, SumiRuki, XxPloyxX (I forgot which letters are upper case XD) and DocSam (will add more names when I remember. My mind hasn't been to Iruna for a long while)
In a short span of time I was able to get my current main set: Fuma 3 Gerust, Emido Moldus, S.Plume Ushilth and Cheltil. Mezzaluna wasn't very attractive to me, so I skipped that and used a lot of different ns specs, but my main was Argent Ring until Luster Ring got released. Then I had an idea: why don't I record my solo fights and show the world that magic ninja is a competent class? After a tough research on how to record on iOS, I recorded my first boss solo video. That video was my fight against ardent Sauro. That wasn't my first video however. My first video was my fight against a Megaroche back when I had an almost -100% MPC set.
As I fought more bosses by doing MQ service, my confidence grew. I searched youtube for magic ninja videos in english Iruna and crossed the bosses that they already defeated. From there I narrowed down my targets to a handful of anti-ninja bosses. My list includes Raton 2, Leviam, Almas, Morbeelzem and Ziddu, among others. So far, my most viewed video is my fight against Almas, the Father of the Gods. It took me a lot of runs before I could beat him in under 5 minutes. My only boss solo video so far that lasted longer than 5 mins was against Minela. My problem with her is that I lack damage and she had a ton of HP. (Selfish advertising incoming) If you're interested, check out my YouTube Channel
www.youtube.com/user/langamer407 XD.
Timeline check: around 2 years and 5 months.
Episode 16: Real Life
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With Ew being awesome enuf, I focused on making other chars. I made a Hybrid Enchanter named FT-Natsu. FT stands for Fairy Tail, the anime where Natsu is one of the characters. I named him this way because I made him look like Natsu (hairstyle, hair color, and outfit). I enjoy this class so much. There's just so much you can do. I also have a Bishop named MyNurse (Lv239 argh just one more level >_<). Her stats all go into raising MATK - enough VIT for Struggler, max INT and DEX and some blue line boost for MATK and Autoskill when I unlock my 2nd Apostolia page. I have a HW too named FrydChkn. I only wanted AoE, so I left her at Lv141 cuz my bishop is enough for now. I used the free Stefly back then and resetted Lan's stats from AGI CRT DEX to AGI CRT STR. I made a VIT ninja too. His stats are AGI VIT CRT. He was a fun one to play, but I lacked DPS and he was only good for farming Isurugi, so I turned him into a Minstrel. There's also my recently made CF Sniper named Irelia<3, Autoskill Claw Monk-to-be Lux<3, Resistance Pally-to-be WutRDose, and my Adventurer •Fu-chan.
The guild I went to also died, so I jumped 2 guilds before arriving at my dream guild: Imminent owo. But the dream was very short u.u. As you can see, I invested a lot of my time trying to make my characters awesome. Where does my real life fit into? Nowhere. I would skip classes to play Iruna, play Iruna in class, buy data to play Iruna, miss calls from my girlfriend abroad and my parents to play Iruna, stay up late and pull all nighters to play Iruna and I would use every single free time I have to play Iruna. I would even play Iruna whenever I take a dump. I didn't have time to study or hang out with my real life friends because I'm too focused on playing Iruna. As a result, my grades dropped drastically and I turned into somewhat an anti-social. I hated it, but I love the game. What do I do? I was trapped in my own world - a world where I'm awesome and people respect and recognize what I do.
My strongest and favorite subject is mathematics. When I got an almost failing grade at that in college, I thought to myself - this is the last straw. I have to buy more at the supermarket (lmao my bad. Lemme say that again). I have to get my sh*t back together. Iruna is fun, but I've got to face life sooner or later, and it'd be better if I'm prepared for it when I do. So I got a stern scolding from my dad, a ton of advices and encouragements from my mom, and a mix of both from my girlfriend. Of all the people in the world, the one person I didn't want to know about my academic failure was my sister. I want her to keep chasing after her awesome older brother and one day surpass me. But despite what happened, my sister still looks up to me. And so I was prepared to give up my phone just so I could revert to the person I once was, but my dad decided to just erase the game I got addicted to. I'm guessing that he wants me to learn how to control my desire to play again while trying to get my mind back to studying. Here's to hoping I can do it! I shall return when I find balance in real life (~•_•)~
To be continued...
You've reached the end of the line. Thanks for reading!
P.S. I spent 3 days trying to remember what happened, when it happened, and who were the people I met. If I missed anything or anyone, I'm sorry, my memory is really bad.
) Then, someone else asked if i wanted to join their guild. I accepted. I left Taiko behind. I don't really remember this guild. I remember having restarted several times due to boredom. Someone then gave me claws. It was the first time i saw it. Then i immediately restarted to a warrior for this. Atg was used by many many people for leveling. Everyone gave free P staffs and Odiums away due to the abundance of them. I remember a level 140 bishop and 136 hw were the masters of the guild. (This was 3 years ago) they introduced me to the Sitara quest and got me to level 50 ish. Then theymqed me all the way to schlingel. I ended up being level 70ish. Then, I left. I still dont have a reason as to why. I was a wizard at the time. Then a couple of weeks later, i found this person called Zacheus. He was level 164 when i joined his guild. I was in his guild for a full year. He brought me all the way to level 100 through mq. He introduced me to this item called Pork. It was essentially revita XL in the past. It heals 2k hp. He also introduced me to leather coat up. Basically iwent hw for a very long time. This led to me being bored of hw. Zacheus was level 182 when i left. I still hate myself for doing that. I see him as a teacher/master for me. He taught me so many things and gave me so many experiences, i actually miss being in that guild. Then, i turned into a pally. I was a vit int dex pally. I then met <Korn>. I went into the guild. I went through a similar experience. Many experiences, one full year in it, then leaving. There were several level 200 bishops in the guild. This time i didnt exactly leave. I got kicked for arguing with GM about heals and matk. We came up with a nickname for GM("Grand Minion" - Korn 2014). Days went past, i really wanted to be back in Korn's guild. I went guild hopping for awhile. Then, i had to restart due to changing devices to a newer one. On starting back out, i decided to try being a bishop. I eventually found the guild again, this time in another guild. I looked around in the guild and found something pretty big. Taiko was in the guild. Apparently the past few years he had been down with cancer, and i had no idea what happened to him since. Then i moved on. I then met this person called “Ulforce”. He invited me into the guild and told me about his main account and how someone falsely reported him for using speed hacks for not helping with their mq. His main account got banned. He started back out as a gladiator. I still find that this was extremely unfortunate and it shouldn’t have happened to him. Many people came. Tyrese, Devoura, NintyChn/NintySin/Ninty__(You get the idea),Etc. These were the people i remember most and still wish could be back. After a couple of months of lingering, Ulforce disappeared. The entire guild started breaking. A few weeks later, Ulforce came back for a few minutes. He told us that he had to focus on his university and studies. Of course, i relayed the message to the whole guild. The guild accepted the answer. The next day after that, the guild nearly disbanded. Tyrese, Devoura, Alhobret, Most of them left. They went to seek new guilds. So i followed suit. I left my final message for the remaining few people left in the guild and left. This guild was the place with the most memories to be honest. Now, i am in Greatab’s great guild and am happy with the progress i have made. Share your story. How did you feel throughout your journey in Iruna? 
