Welcome to my blog devoted to MMOs I had/have been playing or testing. Currently, I'm playing "full-time" Final Fanstasy XIV Realm Reborn since May 2014. And waiting for Moonlight Blade (currently playing Chinese OBT). I had been playing such MMOs as Aion (6 years), World of Warcraft (~3 years), Warhammer Online (9 months), Star Trek Online, Age of Wushu/Wulin, Neverwinter Online and tried: The Lord of the Rings Online, Allods Online, Rift, Guild Wars 2, Star Wars The Old Republic and Korean Tera and Blade and Soul.
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SSRs/Lanterns
The first round of West Moon consists of 4 SSRs, the only way to get the cards is by lighting up the lantern, which will generate a random SSR for the player. In order to collect all 4 SSRs, player will need to accumulate a total of 8000 activity points over the 3 months. For free to play players, if you grind hard and maximize the activity points daily, you can get up to 3 free SSRs. For pay to play players, you can get the 4 SSRs over the course of 3 months if you spend some diamonds or money every now and then, with a daily activity point of 87 to 89, at least. The points required for each SSR is as followed: 1st SSR = 1400, 2nd SSR = 3200, 3rd SSR = 5400, 4th SSR = 8000. [Do take note that the SSR is non repeatable]
Upon lighting up all the lanterns, player will get the following Title and Avatar Frame. [Refer to the following picture]
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Stamina
The stamina used in West Moon is a feather type stamina, which I will refer to as Feather Stam. [Refer to the following picture]
Upon depleting the Feather Stam, you can convert into it by using Heart Stamina (the one we usually use in normal story mode), a maximum of 5 times conversion. (If I remember correctly, you will need 60, 90, 180, 240, 240 Heart Stamina to convert to Feather Stam)
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West Moon started off with 3 West Moon Chapters and 3 West Moon Elite Stages, which will increase as Paper updates. Lore of West Moon can be found here.
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Card Rank
To clear West Moon, instead of the usual gameplay in Loveland, Paper has implemented a Battle Card system. The cards are being categorized into Attack, Defense and Support, each card has its own role and is defaulted by Paper. Player can choose up to 5 cards to set into the Battle Deck, which is used to clear Chapters and Elite Stages. (I will talk about this in the latter part.)
There is a total of 9 ranks to each card, player will need to hunt for materials dropped in both Chapters and Elite Stages to rank up the cards. (For me, Elite Stages dropped more for me as compared to Chapters) [Refer to the following picture]
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Chapters and Elite Stages
80 free tries are refreshed daily for player to clear West Moon Chapters and Elite Stages, thereafter, you will need to use gems to unlock for more tries if needed to. When clearing Elite Stages, there is a chance to drop a booklet, which is used to unlock West Moon Date for the four characters. [Refer to the following two pictures]
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West Moon Battle Gameplay
As mentioned earlier on, player need to set a deck of 5 cards to clear Chapters and Elite Stages onto the Battle Deck. The scissor like icon has the role of Attack, the shining icon has the role of Support, the shield like icon has the role of Defense. [Refer to the following picture]
By selecting the attribute (left blue) icon, you can check on their stats. Alternatively, player can check on individual card stats on the card page itself. [Refer to the following picture]
The card’s rank, the role, the HP and Damage Points of the very card is reflected on this page. By tapping on the More Info (bottom left blue) icon, it will show you the card’s attack skills and its relevant information. The red icon is to rank up your card.
(I did record a sample Battle Gameplay of West Moon, which you can find it here.)
By clearing West Moon Tasks, player can rack up Daily Activity Point. West Moon Tasks are split into two sections, namely Shrine Maiden Task and Long-Term Training. Shrine Maiden is more for Daily Activity Points, Long-Term Training is for the period of 3 months. (I will give examples of the tasks.)
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Shrine Maiden Task
· Consume 100 Feather Stam (maximum 20 times)
· Entering West Moon Event
· Levelling cards' level,
· Clearing Chapters or Elite Stage 30 times,
· Convert Heart Stamina to Feather Stam (5 times maximum),
· Purchasing of Feather Stam (using gems, maximum 15 times)
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Long-Term Training (during the 3 months Event period)
· Advancing cards to Rank 4
· Clearing each Event Chapter
· Entering West Moon Event for 10 days
· Accumulate a total of five Rank 1 card
· Accumulating a total of ten Rank 5 card
· Consuming 10k Stamina
· Obtaining 50k Experience Points
· Accumulate 5k victory
· Pull the Galaxy Wish Tree 10 times (Please take note that the Galaxy Wish Tree that's rooted in West Moon is not shared with Wish Tree rooted in LoveLand, despite them being the same wish tree. Your wish tree pull in West Moon doesn't accumulate to the existing wish tree in LoveLand)
I think that is about it. Just a side note, during the West Moon Event run, other Events can occur concurrently, meaning, double burn on your wallet. Have fun and best of luck.
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