Dungeon Crawler Quest(Original Fantasy)

There's probably something like a red-mage and a blue-mage job inbetween there.

Im very interested to learn them.

 

Red mage is an all rounder (melee, white, black, with dual cast feature) with no good mastery, so I think that is an uncommon job, instead of a result from Fusion.

Blue mage... A rare one. Also less likely from Fusion.


EDIT: Mostly assumptions.

EDITEDIT: Alice can't wear Cleric body gear, I think.

 

Actually in most games with the red mage... he starts as an alrounder without any capability to do high end spells... but when he completes his job he has access to ALL spells.

 

That doesn't sound right. I thought Red Mages can cast most spells, but lose access to end level spells?
Maybe... Low Mana capacity or something?

 

Depends how Red Mage and the Job Crystal system stacks.

 

“Alright, yeah, I’ll take the race mod and the job crystal. I figure we’ll split up the consumables like we usually do?” you decide.

“That sounds about right,” Maya responds cheerfully.

“Hmm, Sera, I think we should probably keep the bat cloak as a party item, kinda generally useful. I’ll buy you an Ether or some Amrita’s to make up for it, if you like?” you add after a moment, you feel a little bad, cutting Sera out of the loot, but it really is better as a swap item, “Oh, what happened to those boots anyway, the ones that block floor damage?”

“I sold those awhile ago,” Maya admits, “I wasn’t sure if we would be sticking together then.”

“I…um, don’t really mind, I was probably not going to use it anyway.” Sera responds as well, “A few items would be all I got out of it anyway.”

“Cool, so what do you guys wanna do now? I was thinking we could stop back in town so I could do some equipping, and then we hit up Goblin Glade, do it as two parties. Maya can go with a three to the D version, and two us can hit the E while we still can.”

“That would allow us to gain greater experience more quickly,” Shimah speaks up, “I believe our gear is fine, our problem lies in a lack of health and SP as well as gear and skill slots.”

“Mm… that is probably true, I suppose Goblin Glade, even on D rank shouldn’t be too hard with three of us,” Maya muses.

“E should be easy as hell for whoever does it,” Anshelm points out. “I should probably go to the D just in case, so who’re we going send on the two mission.”

“I believe Al and myself would do fine in this role. Al often draws much threat regardless and can keep the enemies slowed, and I can keep her healed easily enough.” Shimah speaks up, Sera looks kind of put out.

“I… suppose that’s true,” Sera reluctantly admits.

“Huh, suppose so. Guess I’m the secondary meatshield, huh Anshelm,” you say, with amusement.

“Don’t quit your day job, you’re a little twiggy for it, especially after you equip that mod,” He shoots back good naturedly.

You all begin to move off toward the city, not wanting to burn day light. Goblin Glade is the absolute closest dungeon, and Wailing Cavern isn’t very far out either, so you should make it in good time. Everyone who can equips their new gear. Anshelm’s new spear is bone white, and topped with a curved tooth the size of a short sword, nasty looking thing. Shimah’s new vestment… well at least she isn’t making gravity cry anymore, the material is sparkly, black and super clingy though so… distracting. It also has a ridiculous cleavage window that leaves her almost entirely exposed. Your eyebrow might have twitched a little at that one.

You go just far enough into the city to equip your new things. First the Job crystal. Not because you're like… nervous or anything, you just want to see the water magic first! You equip the crystal and are overcome with a feeling of warmth, and then a feeling of being too dry. Weird, the tips of your hair shifted to more of a sea green too.

You take a moment to look at your new skill.

Water Magic: E (0/40)
-Wave weaver: You are unhindered when moving in the water, and may breath normally underwater.
-Acid dart: Medium damage to up to three targets. 3SP 8 damage
-Aqua prison: Traps a single target in a sphere of water. Target may only escape the sphere if Strength is higher than casters Power. Lasts four ticks. 5SP

The hell is a tick? Besides a nasty bug, you guess it must be some measurement of time, going by the context. Seems to be the spell the kraken used on you, pretty useful, especially for, well, exactly what it did, disabling casters.

You look up from your menu pane, to find Maya and Sera staring at you. “What?”

“We want to see the new mod of course, what changes will the new Al undergo, Sera is curious!” Maya says, with far too much cheer.

Sera doesn’t deny it, just shifting uncomfortably, “It’s… um, we should be hurrying a little after all,” she hedges.

Ugh… she’s not wrong, here goes nothing. “Fine, here we go,”you mumble as you reach into your inventory and activate the race mod. Vertigo overcomes you for a second, and for the briefest instant you can see an infinite expanse of blinding white lines of… numbers? What? It’s gone so fast, you feel like you imagined it. You feel…. Really dried out, like you could really go for a swim right, now. You glance down at your hands to see that they’ve gained a blue-green tint… is that a little bit of webbing between your fingers? That feels so weird.

You look up, Sera is staring at you curiously, you glance over into the window pane of a shop, your face hasn’t changed much, but… there are these weird, super thin slits on your neck, you can barely see them, but they’re definitely there. Also your ears are pointed and poke out of your hair, so that’s a thing. Also… scales? Really fine patches of scales on your cheeks, really? “Freaky,” you mutter.

“U-um, you look fine,” Sera hastily assures you, which only brings a chuckle from Maya and an exasperated sigh from you.

“I’m not worried about that,” you grumble, “Let’s get going.”

“Yeah, we do need to get moving, though yeah, the fish girl thing is kinda weird,” Anshelm admits. Your eyebrow twitches, some tact would be nice Anshelm.

You re-equip your Ice elementalist crystal and store the Water one for now, the familiar mantle of cold settling around you… well you trail little clouds of condensation now… so that’s a thing. Also you can’t help but notice that your health dropped ten points, ouch.

Getting to Goblin Glade doesn’t take long, and soon enough you split the party. After the split, Anshelm, Maya, and Sera activate D, while you and Shimah do E.

As you and Shimah fade into the empty entrance of the glade you nod to the tall Cleric, pointedly not staring at her new boob window. “Well, I’ll be counting on you to keep me healthy,”you say, with only a bit of forced cheer.

“I will not fail, I will be counting on you to slay our enemies. I do not forsee this being a problem,” she says in response. Man Shimah is so stiff.

You move to the first room,and its much as you remember, four goblin’s, labelled ‘grunts’ to your eye. And two wargs, which are… only level two. Wow, this is kinda pathetic, the goblins have less health than the spiders in the E rank Lake did. Even as they charge forward wooping and grunting in goblin, you hold out your staff and unleash a frost spray… All four instantly drop to zero and die. Huh. Then there are Wargs snapping and biting at you.

They hit, but they only do a few damage each. A couple uses of your new acid darts, glimmering green projectiles that hiss and burn on impact, and the wargs go down too. Shimah drops a single heal on you and you're good as new. You blink, “That was… pathetic,” you say after a moment.

“As I said, I did not foresee this being a problem,” Shimah states blandly.

“Right,” you shake your head, “Off we go then.”

The next room is much the same, save for the addition of a goblin warrior. The grunts drop in a single frost spray and darts and ice kill the rest in short order, before you can be hit more than a few times, for pitiable damage. After that comes the third room, which is interesting only in that you get to test your new Aqua Prison on the Goblin Shaman. It works like a charm, leaving the thing burbling and drowning in the sphere until well after you’ve killed the grunts and guards. You actually finish it off by clubbing it with the Bawws stick when it comes tumbling out.

Fourth room is wargs, which to be fair is harder, there’s a couple of level three wargs that buff the other ones, but Shimah break out a couple of attack debuffs and everything else goes smoothly. No bonus boss this time. That’s… good?

The Boss is a pain in the ass though. His minions die real quick, and you imprison his shaman right away, but his cleaver blows actually hurt, and the stunning… farts from ‘Mogo the Goblin Chef’ are disgusting. With Shimah healing and debuffing there’s never really any serious danger though, even the one warrior who does get by to poke at Shimah only hurts her a little before you put it down.

Then comes victory.

Congratulations
80 XP
10 Job Points
85 Gilder

The Party has looted!
2 Potions
1 Amrita
[Goblin Sword] Rusty lump of metal on a stick. Value 60 Cannot equip
[Goblin Chainmail] Patchwork Chainmail scavenged from Savages, Provides a small Health Bonus when Equipped. Value 70 Cannot Equip
[Warg Cloak] Fluffy and warm, stylish too. Adds to Defense
[Merchant’s Bag] Three extra slots. A merchants rucksack, always seems to have Gilder in it.
[Mogo’s Boots] Stolen from a dead merchant. Increases Gilder Dropped for the wearer


Well then, you both leveled up, nice. Only interesting stuff in loot is the two greens…

“I would like the boots, increased Gilder would be useful, I would also prefer at least one of the white items for sale. Your opinion?” Shimah asks.

Well what do you want to do?

[]Loot split

Evening activities.

[]Study time!
[]Hang out with buddies
[]visit home
[]something else?

Al Lv4
Ice Elementalist D
Health 57/57
SP 25/67

Shimah Lv4
Hexer Cleric D
Health 72/79
SP 18/86

 

[X] Al:
-[X] [Merchant’s Bag] Three extra slots. A merchants rucksack, always seems to have Gilder in it.
--[X] Equip it
-[X] 1 Amrita
-[X] 1 Potions
[X] Shimah
-[X] [Mogo’s Boots] Stolen from a dead merchant. Increases Gilder Dropped for the wearer
-[X] 1 Potions
[X] Wait for the rest to pop out of the dungeon. No need to split up before you reach the city.
[X] Sell the rest, and split the gold evenly.


[X]something else?
-[X] Ask around about other nearby dungeons. Something more suitable to your larger party would be nice.
-[X] Ask around about Job Class Drops like Archery and Lightning
-[X] Ask around about good places to get equipment for your various classes.
-[X] Sell your Warg Spine to someone who could use it.

 

Sera's reaction was as adorable as ever.
[X] Al: 1 potion, Merchant's Bag
[X] Shimah: 1 potion, 1 Amrita, Mogo's Boots
[X] Sell the rest and split the gold evenly.
[X] Equip Merchant's Bag

[X] Action: Go around the inn, or any other E-D ranked inns, asking for more info on local dungeons, difficulty, challenges, tricks, drops, etc adventurers have found in the low level dungeons. Update your guide.

The goblin's chainmail is equippable. It might be a level thing or a typo or a unique feature of the drop. I doubt the defence, or lost SP is worth it though.


Also wow that risk. That danger, How could we possibly try that? What were we thinking to consider such a seriously risky dungeon? We didn't even use a potion, did we? Glad we equipped water elementalist though. It probably made an easy dungeon even easier. Shame no bonus, I'd have liked to hit 15-20JP.

Wave Weaver might be worth a skill slot on its own for some dungeons. It's the kind of thing that I imagine would have high ranked adventurers all grabbing some bit of water magic. On the other hand, when it's not god-tier (for an E ranked job skill) it's next to useless.

Seriously <3 Aqua Prison.

Not sure on evening actions.

Kinda tempted to get up early tomorrow and solo E rank for that nifty 20 JP. We'd probably need to pot a few times, but that's 2-4 (depending on bonus boss) dungeons with a full team. De-equipping Cat's Curiosity would be a must of course.

I bet acid darts become DoT at higher levels, suggesting that our basic elements are (with each having a few exceptions):

Fire: Multi Targeted DPS
Ice: AoE Debuff/roots
Water: Single target debuff/roots
Lightning: (Single target DPS?)
Wind: ???

 

Ah crap. you can't equip the sword or chainmail. I just forgot to add the 'cannot equip when I copy pasted out of my item document. My bad

 

Yeah, Water is a nice addition to Ice. I can see us getting a lot of use outta it.

@yrsillar can we equip two bags? Or do we need to unequip the one we have? I noticed the equipment tutorial has two bag slots so we might be able to keep both.

 

Yeah, you have two bag slots.

 

Thanks, modified my vote.

 

Uuuu...~? There was no difference in the Displacer’s Hide that we got and the one Maya's wearing?

 

Nah, you rolled the exact same drop on the boss. Bad luck. Maya was sad.

 

Yay, nifty.


Also drat, level 4, so we can't solo a bunch of goblins and we're locked out of ogre's D rank.


Once we hit 5-6, we should do the same with the D rank version, depending on how our 3 person party did. Evening actions should probably include waiting around till they finish D rank and making sure they're okay....

If we're going info gathering, we should probably ask more than just dungeons (What gear's good for the classes in our party, where to get lightning mage, etc, etc)


Hmm, Yrs, if a group thought they'd end up stuck overnight or finishing a dungeon too late, could they safely sleep in a cleared room, finish the dungeon in the morning and head back to town when it was light?

 

Nah, if you dither around for more than ~20 minutes after the last enemy dies the dungeon boots you to the next room/out. In the case of the last room, it'll just dump all of your loot in a big pile where you land.

 

Phew. Was holding my breath.
Looks like the buffs from the various items and mods really helped the damages.

Okay, how about splitting actions for each Dungeon-delving days?
Morning action to attack a harder Dungeon, evening action to tackle easier Dungeons as separate teams?

Loot:
[X] Al: 1 potion, Merchant's Bag
-[X] Equip Merchant's Bag
[X] Shimah: 1 potion, 1 Amrita, Mogo's Boots, Warg Cloak
-[X] Suggest she keep the Cloak for fifth level, if nothing better comes around
[X] Sell the Sword and Chainmail

Actions:
[X] Check Mission Board

 

I'd suggest morning>Easier

Evening>Harder.

Given that we won't want to reequip, sell stuff or buy pots between trips, and that more XP makes the harder part easier (and leveling too much locks out the easy ones) it makes sense to try the easier ones first as a warm-up. Likewise, if someone gets hurt on a harder dungeon we'll only lose an evening then.

Besides, it's nicer to end the day with everyone rather than see people only in the morning.



Regarding job fusion, since it might not actually be that far away, taking two B ranked jobs and fusing them to get one D ranked job vs taking two C ranked jobs to get an E, assuming we don't bother with the original jobs again, it's easier to go from E>D than it is to go from C>B, so it makes sense to fuse as early as possible, particularly when we're fusing from low ranking job crystals that we may/may not use again and are easily replaced. (On the other hand, in the long run, leveling a 'core' E ranked job that fuses a lot of ways to an A would let us skip E and D rank on every fusion, unless it just keys off the lowest, in which case there's little point.)



If we're asking about things, the easiest fire themed dungeons might be a good topic. Sera probably can't use lunar rabbit, since it would take her to 0 strength, and something like lesser salamander would be nifty there.

 

[X] redaeth.

 

Is water magic slotted? It isn't on the character sheet.

 

Fixed. Thanks for pointing it out

 

What if people kept one enemy rooted/tied up/incapacitated all night?

 

Could work in theory. Give it a try?

 

So, huh, does Shimah have any special bag for increasing slot numbers?

If not, maybe we should give her our old one while we equip the better one.

 

She has one. The Ogre Bag. She had it when you met her.

 

[X] Al: 1 potion, Merchant's Bag
[X] Shimah: 1 potion, 1 Amrita, Mogo's Boots
[X] Equip Merchant's Bag
[X] Wait for the rest to pop out of the dungeon. No need to split up before you reach the city.
[X] Sell the rest and split the gold evenly.

Actions:
[X]Hang out with buddies
-[X]We didn't see most of the group all of yesterday as we were busy flirting being with Sera, so make sure everyone's having fun, pay extra attention to Shimah feeling good. Talk about today's experience of splitting the party, see how they took it. Mention the Halberd Knight job to Anshelm.

 

Adding night action vote:

[X] Action: Go around the inn, asking for more info on local dungeons, difficulty, challenges, tricks, etc adventurers have found in the low level dungeons. Update your guide.

I'd like to stay on top of this, and this gives us a good excuse to check out a wider sample of adventurers, while incidentally accomplishing what the other ask around vote does as well.

 

Right, changing to:
[X] Al: 1 potion, Merchant's Bag
[X] Shimah: 1 potion, 1 Amrita, Mogo's Boots
[X] Equip Merchant's Bag
[X] Wait for the rest to pop out of the dungeon. No need to split up before you reach the city.
[X] Sell the rest and split the gold evenly.

[X] Action: Go around the inn, asking for more info on local dungeons, difficulty, challenges, tricks, etc adventurers have found in the low level dungeons. Update your guide.

EDIT:
So, we now have a power of 8. If "+water" is the equivalent of adding 1 power for water spell (unknown), we have an effective power of 10 for water spells. 11 if we had the Naiad Shawl (we might want to get a second one or some such when we get to level 5). This means currently our Aqua Prison is going to hold enemies that have up to 11 STR, and maybe soon 12. Not too shabby.

While I wouldn't try it solo yet, there is good chance it can actually work against the E-rank Ogres.

Also, when we next do Wailing Cavern we might want to try and explore the lake a bit. Breathing underwater and all that.