C4 PTS News #5

When I logged onto PTS tonight my character was a level 76 Dark Wizard.

I talked to the PTS Helper Cat and changed to Spellhowler and ran off to the DE guild in Giran to add my sub class, Phantom Summoner. When I became a PS I receieved all skills upto and including level 40 skills.

The GM's left a nice pile of loot in our inventory.

• 15 Enchat Armor C
• 4 Enchant Weapon C
• 2 Red Soul crystals (5,7)
• 2 Green Soul Crystals (5,7)
• 2 Blue Soul Crystals (5,7)
• 5000 C grade Crystals (I didn't think of taking an exact count so this is an estimate)
• 15000 D grade Crystals (same as above, I don't recall the exact count)
• Karmian Gloves
• Demon's Gloves
• Theca Boots
• Mithril Boots
• Chain Hood
• Chain Shield
• Composite Helmet
• Composite Shield
• 60,000 C grade Soul Shots
• 20,000 C grade Blessed Spirit Shots

With all those goodies I was able to equip my PS with Theca set using the composite helmet, demon's gloves and composite shield. I had enough crystals to purchase top shop C jewelery and a top C weapon. I chose the Dark Screamer dagger.

My other 2 accounts of simularly equipped characters except the SE has Karmian set and Dual Stormbringers. My Warcryer has the same armor as the PS but is using a Silver Axe. Mostly for looks, I hate the look of the other mid C axe available at the shop. I also liked the haste SA although I haven't applied it yet.

After hot keys and gear were setup on the 3 characters, I met up with Zefra (a PS main/AW sub) and hit a necropolis for some XP and seal stones. We all reached level 42 between 35-50%. My PS has slightly less xp due to using the Soulless summon although it was quite good due to the C4 change where soulless only consums 10% xp at 40.

Some observations:

• Level 40 Soulless uses 2 pet SS per hit, 1 SPS per magic attack. Comes out to 48a per hit. On sieghardt CSS is about 17a each. For C grade, if you have a 2SS weapon, use your SS instead of pet SS for better use of money per hit.
• Level 40 Soulless uses 5 C crystals for it's lifetime. 1 to summon, 4 more after that at the typical intervuls. You gain 20% more xp then in C3, but it's quite a bit more expensive then the old D crystal cost.
• Level 40 party cubic costs 8 d crystals. The level 40 spark cubic costs 5 d crystals.

I only took one screen shot tonight. Most of the night was purchasing gear and setting up. You can see the Soulless' stats and my stats. The soulless has level 40 SE buffs and I have level 40 SE + level 40 Warcryer buffs.

Over the weekend I hope to get around to answering some of the questions I've receieved about summoner's in C4. There are some I can't answer until I'm higher level but I'll try to keep feeding some juicy bits as I level.