Jackpot: Shield Bash [I]

Result: 142+1 Book: Shield Bash [I]

Should I Buy A Home?

If you're wondering whether or not you should buy a MyHome in Atlantica, this post is for you. I remember having a hard time convincing my friend to buy a home, since he thought 500 million gold was too expensive for a purely decorative feature of the game. That's where he was wrong: your Atlantica MyHome has some interesting and useful functions besides making you feel like you're playing The Sims: Atlantica Edition.

Here is a screenshot that captures most of the useful features of MyHome. They are numbered in order of usefulness in my personal opinion. A short description of each point follows the picture, allowing you to get a better idea whether MyHome is worth it to you or not.

Click the image for a full version.



1. Feasts! Feasts come in handy when you are about to run some more difficult content such as TBS, raids and higher level ind. dungeons. I really enjoy this aspect of the game; it allows you to host a gourmet feast, sharing some powerful buffs with your friends, guild and nation. There are currently eight types of feasts: four common and four guild feasts, along with some occasional event feasts as well. Different types of feasts will stack (a guild feast stacks with a common feast for example).

You need an active Chef to be able to host a feast, as well as a dinner table such as the awesome Kiwi Dinner Table displayed in all its glory on the screenshot, or a plain table if that's your thing :). You can hold one common and one guild feast per day. You can also leech an unlimited amount of feasts from your nation mates, but they may not always be held at the most convenient times for you.

Feast	Duration	Atk %	Def %	Exp %	Guild Craft Workload %	Proc Effect
[Common] Afternoon Tea Party	60 min	15	5			Vital Force
[Common] Sushi Feast	80 min	20	5			Vital Force
[Common] Royal Supper Feast	60 min	30	5			Vital Force
[Common] Nouvelle Cuisine Feast	100 min	35	10			Vital Force
[Guild] Feast of Unity	60 min	20	10
[Guild] Feast with Friends	120 min		20
[Guild] Feast of Growth	120 min		15	30
[Guild] Feast of Craftsmanship	120 min				30

2. Statue. Statues are decorative items that you can put in your home, but they have a special function: they trigger aoe damage effects at a set rate (it's actually pretty high, I'd estimate around 30%). At low levels it pretty much one-shots everything, and still does with good buffs in some higher level skirmishes. Definitely awesome in TBS.

Remember that only one statue effect can proc at a time, and the rate is not increased by multiple statues. Temporary Minotaur King statues are cheap and as effective as the fancier (and expensive) Urd or Verdandi ones. The only inconvenience is having to replace them every 3, 10 or 30 days.

3. Rest Experience. Depending on the value of your home, you can get an additional experience buff twice a day as part of your diary assignments. The bonus experience rate is 1/50 of your home value. As an example, a home with a value of 2500 will grant you a 50% bonus experience for 60 minutes, up to twice a day. Perfect for grinding. All you need to do is sleep in your bed for a few seconds. I've heard of people with a 200% rest experience bonus!

4. Mercenary Yard. Store your extra mercs in your garden. If you want, you can even feed them elements and they gain experience based on the value of the items you gave them. They will ask for such a gift every two hours.

5. Mercenary Training Hall. Previously, this was an expedition room. They changed it in November 2014 with the addition of the Legion patch. However, its functionality as 9 (house) or 18 (mansion) extra free merc slots is still usable. As you can see on the screen shot, a mansion gets you two merc training hall rooms with nine slots each. You can use those to store mercs that you'd like to keep, don't want to bother leveling and can't bring yourself to fire. Its main purpose is to level your mercs, but the option is very expensive and slow.

6. Home Facilities. You can grow a garden or a farm, or have a mining or sawmill facility on your property. Regular houses can build one facility, mansions get up to two. The purpose of these facilities is to gather mats to use for feast and furniture crafting. If you don't craft either of these items, you can sell the mats on the market for some extra gold. Higher level facilities paired with a higher level skill yields more/better mats.

Ultimately, you don't NEED a home to do well in Atlantica. However, in my opinion, buying a home is definitely worth it, especially for the statue, rest experience, extra mercenary storage and the ability to host feasts yourself.

Dungeon Timer Display Error

This dungeon timer display error is one of the oldest bugs in Atlantica, and somehow it never got fixed. It is also not something new players are likely to realize until much later, or until they are told by a veteran. So here is a quick explanation of the visual bug so you can enjoy your dungeons more regularly, especially event dungeons.

It appears that the "true" dungeon timer will only be valid for the Pacific timezone (GMT -8) and each timezone ahead (to the East) will see an extra "fictional" hour added to their timer. In my case for example, this means that my ind timers always display 24h 00m remaining when I come out of a 20-hour cooldown dungeon - it basically "adds" 4 hours to the regular timer because I am located in the Atlantic (GMT -4) timezone, which is 4 hours ahead of GMT -8.

However, these extra hours are "fictional" in the sense that you can re-enter the dungeon after the true cooldown (20 hours for most ind dungeons). If I do a Honey Jar at 6pm, the next day I can still do my Honey Jar at 2pm despite the fact that there is still a cooldown of 4 hours showing on my dungeon timer. With the Hidden Repositorium event currently active, this chart can come in handy if your dungeon timer is displaying more hours than it should before you can re-enter.

The following chart shows how many hours are added to your true dungeon timer (time after which you can re-enter):

If you are in:	GMT	Fictional hours	Subtract this many hours from your displayed timer
Pacific time	GMT -8	0	0 hour
Mountain time	GMT -7	1	-1 hour
Central time	GMT -6	2	-2 hours
Eastern time	GMT -5	3	-3 hours
Atlantic time	GMT -4	4	-4 hours

*NOTE: Chart was created for North America, as I have not tested it elsewhere. It seems to be true for Europe also, since my guildy from France has even more hours added to her timer than I do.

The alternative is to change your computer's internal clock to the Pacific timezone, which I personnally find inconvenient.

Event: Legion Events

Event runs from November 20 to December 11, 2014.

Event highlights:

• Celebrates the introduction of the Shaolin Legion mercs
• Attendance event
• Hidden Repositorium
• New User event

Attendance Event

The event runs for three weeks, so if you log in every day you should be able to get three copies of each login reward. After two weeks, you will have received 2 Forgotten Heart, which you can combine with the Life of the Forgotten One you received in your inventory at the start of the event in order to summon Bai Xian, one of the new Shaolin mercs. Every day, make sure you click the Check button in the menu on the right of your screen to claim your daily reward, which will appear in your mailbox.

Login rewards:

• Day 1: Growth Vial (No Trade) - This is equivalent to a Growth Vial VI, usable by characters will less than 850 bonus stat points. I suggest saving it until you have all your Growth Vial V up to date.
• Day 2: Purified Enhance Stone
• Day 3: Merc Room License (7 Days/No Trade)
• Day 4: Purified Enchant Stone
• Day 5: Search Robot License Box (7 Days/No Trade) - Contains your choice of:
• Search Song-i License (7 Days/No Trade) - Loots behind enemy lines
• Research Raccoon License (7 Days/No Trade) - Increases your chance of receiving monster info
• Assault Search Soldier License (7 Days/No Trade) - Helps you fight enemies and loots
• Day 6: Blessing License (7 Day/No Trade)
• Day 7: Forgotten Heart (No Trade) - Use two of these with your Life of the Forgotten One to summon your Bai Xian

Hidden Repositorium

You can get up to 2 Hidden Repositorium Keys per day. The Hidden Repositorium is an instance dungeon and allows you to take 5 mercs with you. I recommend axe users, gunners and mercs that hit several targets at once. The goal is to kill as many treasure chests as you can in 10 minutes. You receive [Event] Treasure Chests according to your level for each chest that you successfully kill.

After you come out of the Hidden Repositorium, you need to wait 4 hours until you can enter again with your second key. Note that the timer in Character info has a display error. Mine said 8 hours once I came out but I was able to re-enter after 4 hours, even if the timer wasn't done.

[Event] Treasure Chest IV contents (that I know of):

Item	Amount	Notes
Atlas Outfit Stone	2
Blessing License (No Trade)	30 Days
Blessing License (No Trade)	7 Days
Blessing License (No Trade)	1 Day
Exp. Concentration License (No Trade)	1 Day
Scroll of the Hero Pack (No Trade)	1 Day	Equivalent to a Warrior Package
Scroll of Enchantment (No Trade)	1~3	Works like a Bewitching Scroll with some limitations
Restroom Set Box	1	Contains one random Bathroom decoration for your home
Announcement Ticket	1~5	Allows you to make 1 server-wide announcement (yellow letters)
Ancient Book of Knowledge	1~3	5 million experience
Supreme Evil Equipment Box	1
Heavenly Crystal	2
Growth Vial IV	1~10
Growth Vial V	1~10
Ambrosia (No Trade)	30
Water of Life (No Trade)	7~10
Van Gogh's Soul Stone	3
Enchant Stone V	1~10
Enchant Stone VI	1~10
Soul Crystal	1	Redemption, Dragon, Phoenix or Giant
Mysterious Vial	5	Valor, Wisdom or Death

I can't be sure about any of the other treasure chests, because I am currently in the 120-139 bracket. However, here's the info I have:

• I heard from a friend that his [Event] Treasure Chest V (level 140+) contained, among others: Miracle Potion x50 and (Common) Nouvelle Cuisine Feast x1.
• My level 96 alt gets [Event] Treasure Chest II, and the contents is pretty similar. Soul Crystals are replaced with 5 regular crystals of their respective kinds, Ancient Books of Knowledge are Ancient Skill Books (1 million experience). There are some Lucky Chain Letters in there too.

NOTE: Use up your Keys and Chests because they will be DELETED.

New User Event

All new accounts created while the event is active receive a free Heart of Gigas item, which summons the A-class cannon merc Gigas.

Event Dungeon: Honey Jar

Type of dungeon: Ind. dungeon, classic combat
Party size: 3 max
Number of mercs: 5 + Main
Minimum level: Not sure, probably 20
Objective: Kill as many mobs as you can in 30 minutes, max possible: 312 mobs
Why you want to run this: Excellent experience, mobs are easy, good rate of boxes from mobs, plenty of consumables such as ambrosia, Water of Life and enchant stones, lots of Atlantis coins

Key: Honey Jar Key

• Reward for logging in on Atlantica Day for at least 4 cumulative hours

Reward: Water of Life based on the number of kills (max: Water of Life (No Trade) x30 for 301+ kills)

Comments

The mobs are extremely easy, and they auto-scale to your main character's level. There really isn't much to say in terms of strategy; if you duo, each person can start on opposite sides and work their way towards the middle, unless you're trying to powerlevel. The cannon horses are probably the strongest mobs, so if your gear isn't great you can take them out first. The boss is weak, but his AoE can be a problem if you're undergeared. Make sure to be prepared for it.

Loot

Unlike other dungeons, the Honey Jar's loot scales with your level. Here is what I know about the loot pattern:

Level	Boxes	Crafting Mats	Atlantis Coin	Enchant Stone
90-99	Osiris', Volcano Valley, Conqueror's	None	Silver	III
100-109	Volcano Valley, Conqueror's, Freezing, Divine	???	Silver	IV
110-119	Conqueror's, Freezing, Divine, Phoenix's	Phoenix's Feather	Silver	IV
120-129	Freezing, Divine, Phoenix's, Dragon God's	Depraved Seed	Gold	V
130-139	Divine, Phoenix's, Dragon God's, Evil	Evil Imprint	Gold	V
140-149	???	???	Gold	VI
150-159	???	Pegasus Tear	Gold	VI

No matter what level you are, you can also ALWAYS drop, in addition to the level-specific loot:

• Water of Life (No Trade)
• Ambrosia (No Trade)

As far as I know, the boss always drops Atlantis gold coins, usually 1, 2 or 3 without item info depending on your level. 

Tips

• If you want to take full advantage of the Honey Jar dungeon, make sure to ask someone for all the item info of the monsters inside:
• Rebellious Cannon Horse
• Forgotten Horse Rider
• Patronizing Blue Mushroom
• Patronizing Raccoon
• Rebellious Song-i Hat
• Crazed Cannon Horse
• Patronizing Giant Raccoon
• Patronizing Giant Mushroom (Boss, can be hard to obtain its info)
• The Honey Jar is a great place to get powerleveled by a high level, it's very possible to go from level 30 to almost level 100 in half an hour by grouping with a lvl 160, especially if you run it on Atlantica Day
• Duoing is probably the best setup if your gear is average; you should be able to finish all the mobs with a few minutes left on the counter. If you three-man you will probably run out of mobs quickly, and if you solo you will waste a lot of mobs
• Avoid sniping the boss; you will lose the loot from his minions that run away. Just kill all the minions first then go for the boss
• Each player receives an equal amount of Water of Life (No Trade) when the timer expires based on the total number of kills
• The dungeon doesn't end when you kill all monsters; make sure to stay in until the timer expires to receive your Water of Life (No Trade) reward
• The only reliable way to receive Honey Jar keys is on Atlantica Day; however, they will sometimes give away extra keys as part of other events. Even if it is an event dungeon related to Atlantica Day, it is accessible at any time on a cooldown of 20 hours as long as you or a party member owns a key

Lucky Chain Letters

Lucky Chain Letters are non-tradeable items that you accumulate throughout your journey, whether by questing or as event rewards. The only reliable way to get them is by doing quests: you will have a total of 40 by the time you are done the Mysterious Saloon questline. They are usually given to you near the end of the main questlines that span levels 100 to 120:

• Dallas (5)
• Detroit (5)
• Aztec City (6)
• Lijang Women's Village (6)
• Bulguksa (6)
• Jiuzhaigou Ghost Town (6)
• Mysterious Saloon (6)

Lucky Chain Letters can be traded to an owl dude named Chain Letter Brody. He is located either at the Rome Gate or in Antillia. In exchange for your Lucky Chain Letters, he will give you items called Rebirth Tokens. Unlike Lucky Chain Letters, the Rebirth Tokens can be stored in your warehouse. There is absolutely zero reason not to convert your Chain Letters to Rebirth Tokens.

What are Rebirth Tokens for?

Chain Letter Brody will lend you some gear for a certain period of time in exchange for your rebirth tokens. "Brody gear" as it often referred to in-game is available for all gear tiers level 140 and below.

• [Event] Lv. X Armor Box: Contains a full set of +4 level-appropriate armor, including chest armor, pants, gloves, helmet and shoes. You can pick a Magic, Melee or Ranged set. Does NOT contain an offhand (shield, orb), so plan your budget accordingly.
• [Event] Lv. X Weapon Box: Contains a +7 level-appropriate weapon of your choice

Some notes about Brody Gear

• It lasts for 30 days from the date you first opened it, even if you do not equip it
• Each box costs 10 Rebirth Tokens regardless of level
• You cannot trade it, dismantle it, enchant or enhance it
• You can equip it on your mercs

Other stuff you can get with Rebirth Tokens

In the event that you do not want/need Brody gear, you have the option to pick for one token each:

• Water of Life [Event] (No Trade) x1
• Resurrection Scroll [Event] (No Trade) x1

My recommendations

Save your Brody tokens for level 120. They will be extremely useful when you do your upgrade quest, and they will also serve you well for the level 120 TBS missions. Since the level 120 upgrade quest is insanely expensive, Brody gear is a good way to outfit your main with pretty decent gear and save up your money for the upgrade quest. An armor set and a weapon will cost you 20 Rebirth Tokens. You can repeat the process once you get to 130, since Evil gear is quite costly.

Quest: New Mystery Acong

This "quest" is actually there to introduce you to the Item Mall. It has a minimum level of 80 and cannot be reset using Secrets of Time. However, I recommend doing at least the first two missions, as it will probably be the best value you'll get for your Item Mall money. If you're not sure what to expect, this post is here to take the Mystery out of it.

If you're not planning on purchasing any Item Mall currency, you can get enough NX to run this quest by doing surveys and offers. In my experience, surveys and offers don't always pay, and the rewards are abysmal when they do pay, but if you can manage to accumulate 1,100 NX to run the first two Mystery Acong missions you will probably find that it's worth it.

An Acong's Request

Mission #1: Use a Butter-Roasted Shrimp (100 NX, equivalent to about $0.10 in the Item Mall, no trade)

• Experience: 10,000
• Gold: 100,000
• Reward: Premium License Pack (7 days) x1 - This pack contains 7 days' worth of Warrior Package and Blessing License

Mission #2: Give Mystery Acong a Butter-Roasted Lobster (1,000 NX, equivalent to about $1.00 in the Item Mall, no trade)

• Experience: 20,000
• Gold: 200,000
• Reward: Mystery Box x1, which contains all of the following:
• 7-day Premium License Pack
• 30 Water of Life
• 14 days Extra Inventory License x2
• 14 days Merc Room License x2
• 10 Atlas Ore, worth between 600 and 700 million gold in-game as of 11/14. The money was a huge help to my lowbie level 80 self and well beyond any kind of money I was able to make in-game at the time.

Mission #3: Use a Butter-Roasted Lobster (1,000 NX, equivalent to about $1.00 in the Item Mall, no trade) NOTE: This is not the same Butter-Roasted Lobster that you gave the Acong in mission #2. He already ate it, and you'll need to get another one from the Item Mall.

• Experience: 30,000
• Gold: 300,000
• Reward: Ancient Skill Book (All) x1: This book gives 10 million experience to all the mercs currently in your formation. Not bad at level 80, but not really worth the 1,000 NX in my opinion. If you're tight on NX, you'll probably want to skip this one.

Ind. Dungeon: Hidden Chamber

Type of dungeon: Ind. dungeon, classic combat
Party size: 3 max
Number of mercs: 5 + Main
Minimum level: 120 (recommended: 140)
Objective: Kill 39 mobs in 40 minutes
Why you want to run this: Reward boxes include large amounts of platinum coins valued at 35 million gold each, decent experience, good rate of box drops from mobs

Key: Secret Diabolic Order

• Available on market, fixed price 300,000,000 gold
• Drops from Hall of Battle mobs at a very low rate
• Drops from Hall of Battle bosses at a very low rate
• Drops from Hall of Battle main boss Diabolic Battlefield High Priest at a medium rate
• Drops from Pristine Battlefield Artifact

Reward: 1x Hidden Crystal Ball per participant upon completion

Comments

At level 130 with normal gear (evil +2 to +4) it is still pretty hard to solo the mobs, especially if you happen to aggro a boss. If you're under the recommended level and want to solo your mobs, make sure you fight in less crowded areas of the room to avoid triple aggros.

Mobs are spear type, with a nasty AP drain attack. Holy guard type magic is very useful to prevent the AP drain. Boss is rather unimpressive, but the fight can be hard if you accidentally end up fighting him in a triple aggro. I highly recommend waiting for another member of your party before you engage the boss if you're under the recommended level.

Box Contents: Hidden Crystal Ball

Source: Hidden Chamber ind dungeon reward (completion)


Number opened: 15


7x Atlantis Platinum Coin: Low Amount (4~7)
4x Atlantis Platinum Coin: Medium Amount (18~27)
3x Evil Equipment Box
1x Pegasus Equipment Box

Box Contents: Pristine Battlefield Artifact

Source: Hall of Battle ind dungeon reward (400-999 kills)


Number opened: 12


1x Supreme Evil Equipment Box
3x Dragon God's Equipment Box
1x Evil Equipment Box
1x Atlantis Platinum Coin: Low Amount (4)
3x Atlantis Gold Coin: Medium Amount (39~63)
1x Atlantis Gold Coin: High Amount (147)
2x Secret Diabolic Order

What This Blog Is (And Isn't)

Welcome to Atlantica Journey, my brand-new blog about the MMORPG Atlantica Online.

In the past, several bloggers have created fantastic and useful websites with plenty of tips and useful information for newbies and veterans alike. However, it seems that those people have quit the game some time ago and their blogs are thus no longer being updated.

Atlantica, like all MMORPGs, is constantly evolving; new features are being added, new mercs have been released and events are dynamic. As such, I  will follow the tracks of my predecessors and create a blog that, I hope, will be full of useful information to help you in your journey through Atlantica.

This blog is now my place to record thoughts and information that I think could be of use to other players. I plan to include:

• the results of my experiments
• my opinion about various aspects of the game
• up-to-date event guides
• tips to make your life easier on Atlantica
• some stuff that you can't find on ao-database (like what's in those darn boxes)

What this blog isn't:

• a TBS guide (no seriously, some people have done a way better job at this than I ever could)
• a total newbie guide; you need at least some basic knowledge of Atlantica to understand what's going on - if you're still wondering how to recruit a shaman, this isn't the best place to find out
• a place to blame Nexon for everything that's wrong with the world, I think the forums are already covering that :-)

If you wish to request articles on specific topics, feel free to let me know and I will be happy to do my best to accommodate you. Hopefully, we can make this site a truly useful resource for our fellow players!