[SP-F4+F5] Need to upgrade my items.<<Essence of steel>>-COMPLETE-

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Spoiler

<<The Essence of Steel>>

This quest takes place on Floor 4
This quest is repeatable
This RP will not count in the benchmark

Word from Information Brokers speaks of a mysterious Beast Skull found in the far north of the Frozen wasteland of Floor 4. A small party reported having struck the skull with a nearby bone, waking a huge beast in a nearby cave. This monster, identified as <>, was easily equal in health and strength to a Floor Boss, and is said to yield an incredibly rare drop upon death that will allow a player to enhance a single item, improving it's quality by one level.

Requirements:
-At least two [2] Pages (21 or more posts)
- The Snow Beast must be defeated

Snow Beast Information:
<Snow Beast> is a Field Boss and has the following statistics:
HP: 250
Damage per Attack: 40
Special Ability: Partial Phase- Snow Beast will always deal a minimum of 24 damage, even through Armor and Armor Abilities.

Rewards:

1. Essence of Steel: an incredibly rare monster drop that allows a player to enhance a weapon, armor, or accessory and improve it's quality by one level. (Example, an Uncommon Weapon becomes a Rare Weapon.) Enhanced Gear is eligible for new Item Enhancements and must be approved through the Crafting Item Evaluation Topic.
   Note: This item CANNOT change a weapon's Tier. (Example, a Tier 1 weapon becomes a Tier 2).
2. 1 Skill Point

Parties or Groups are encouraged, though only the player who takes this quest, and uses the Skull to awaken The Snow Beast will receive the <<Essence of Steel>> drop. That means ONLY ONE ESSENCE WILL DROP PER TOPIC.

Zandra was just back from visiting a shop not that fae away from hers. She had ordered two pieces of equipment. She thougth her rare items was outdated by now and was gonna update with a pair of perfect items. Thou she didnt bougth two perfect stright away. She wanted a reason to head out on a quest. So she took one rare that she was gonna upgrade with an essence of steel. That would also give her a skill point and some Col. Maybe she would combine it with some material hunting.

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She gathered together all her gear that she needed and headed out thru her door. She had been on this quest before, more then once actually. So the place wasnt that hard to find for her. While she walked she controlled she had all her equipment ready. The whip of the warrior. It have realy been great to have this tier two weapon, was increasign her damage by three times compared to her tier one whip, the holy Riata. Thou it came times when she kinda missed her old whip. There was a different feeling when she swung the two. But she steadily got more comfortable with this.

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After awhile she had reached the destination of where the quest was gonna start. She walked to the bone and lifted it. She walked towards the skull in the middle and striked it with the bone. She herd the growl of the snow beast and a few moments later she saw it coming running towards her. She charged up the strongest sword art she just recently learned by becoming grandmaster. When she activated it, the whip swung thru the air, twirling around his neck. Then she threw the beast in the ground, not once, but two times. The beast lost its oppotunity to attack.

ID: 47703
BD: 10 Crit +2 12+2=14x2x8=224-69=155 Damage
MD: 2 Miss

Zandra: 144/144 (20/36)
Snow beast: 121/250

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The beast pushed himself up and stared at Zandra. Then he let out another grawl that echoed thru to the mountains surrindung floor four. Zandra saw that she had almost reduced its health to zero. She smirked at it.''Hmppf, are you ready for another strike ey?'' she said and jumped forth, swinging her whip again. The tip spun around its neck again, and again she threw him in the ground twice. Its health dropped down until it reached zero, then he exploded into crystals and Zandra got quite a huge reward.

ID: 47704
BD: 4+2=6 Hit 12x2x8=192-69=123 Damage
MD: Dead before action
LD: 16 +1380 Col

Zandra: 144/144 (5/36)
Snow beast: 0/276 DEAD

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So, after only two attacks she was almost out of energy. Thou she had got more then thirteen hundred Col. And that from only one mob. She could only imagine how her and Jomeis Col farming would turn out. Then she was gonna have items that increased both her damage, and also her Col multiplier and increased chance to find loot. They would farm until they had enough money to buy that house they wanted. Thou they wanted to live on floor fourteen, hopefully it would be unlocked before long. Zandra wanted to keep advancing to the higher floors. Now she just had to wait for lower leveled players to be strong enough to take down the last darkned souls.

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She was having her give away, so as soon as enough players reached level twenty five, they would get a huge donation and then they would be able to take down those darkended souls pretty easy. And then after that awaited the floor fourteen boss fight. She got exited just thinking about it. Since she is the top healer of Aincrad, she also should be able to get her hands on an unique item. She looked forward to that as well. But mostly because she and Jomei would be able to get their own house. Since none of the floors above ten was any interesting to live in, so they just had to wait.

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And sicne they needed Col for the house, Zandra tohugth she could just go farming some on her way back. Probably it would make such a huge different compared to what they are gonna get during their farming. But something is more then nothing. She looked down at her whip again. This was her third enchanted weapon. The first was that dagger. Then she got the holy riata. And now she got the strongest of them all, the whip of the warrior. On the armour front, there was much more quantitys in her pssession back in her inventory. Thou the equipped now is the strongest, of course.

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Loot: 1 material and 1380 Col

Edited February 8, 2016 by Zandra Zvift

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Zandra started following not the way she arrived here from, now she was going deeper into the forest. On her way to find some strong mobs to kill for that precious col she was gonna be in great need in a soon future. She made sure she had her loot die lucky sharm ready as well as her accuracy lucky sharm. She couldnt imagine how much both of them had helped her during her adventures thru Aincrad. Thou it would be good to go get some perfect trinkets instead of these that only was off rare quality. Very well, consentrate on slaying mobs now, not think about other stuff.

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She searched the area, hoped to find an ice-elemental or some arctic animal. Aything that she could kill for Col. Didint took long for her wish to come true. Blocked her path did one of those ice elementals she had fought so many countless times. But never with her granmastered whip skill. She charged it up, stared into his eyes. Then when ready she released the attack, the whip grip around his neck and then she threw him on the ground twice. She saw his health dro down to yellow, then down to red, and lastly to zero. Then it exploded into crystals and rewarded Zandra with some Col and a pair of ingredients.

ID: 47712
BD: 7 Hit 12x2x8=192-38=154 Damage
MD: Dead before action
LD: 17+2=19 +760 Col +1 material

Zandra: 144/144 (20/36)
Ice elemental: 0/152 DEAD

Edited February 8, 2016 by Zandra Zvift

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Zandra closed the reward screen to keep on, heading for next prey. Maybe an even stronger ice-elemental. And she was right, that was exactly what was standing infront of her now. It seemed to be made of harder ice, if ice could be harder. Well, she activated her attack again and charged it with her whip, preparing to reduce its health to null. And with that she succeded as well. The long whip twirled around its neck, kept him in a steady grip, then Zandra threw him down on the ground, then up and down on the ground again. This reduced his health to zero and increased Zandras wallet volume.

ID: 47714
BD: 10 Crit +2 14x16=224-44=180 Damage
MD: Dead before action
LD: 9+2=11 +880 Col

Zandra: 144/144 (20/36)
Ice elemental: 0/176 DEAD

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She cheked the reward screen. The difference in loot was a slight increase of Col from the stronger one, but the weaker on the other hand had given her one extra material. One material was worth more then the Col increase. Very well, you cant get everything here in the world she thougth and shrugged her shoulder. Well, about materials, maybe she should start searching for those as well while regaining her energy. She had been cutting down on her time she spent in her shop lately, and that right after she reached the second highets rank.

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There was a huge advantage with reaching the second highest rank compared to the third highest. At second highest the chance of crafting perfect items was increased by hundred percent, or fifty for her that already had a buff from an item. That made her a twentyfive percent chance to make a perfect quality craft. And from having ten tries a day, that was pretty good odds. Actually she had passed them, and the first and only day after hitting the rank, she made four, yes four, perfect items. Thou after that she used the last materials to pay for some food buffs for his and Jomeis Col farming.

Edited February 8, 2016 by Zandra Zvift

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Very well, material farming was it right? Then maybe she should do that too and not just walk around, thinking about what gonna happen in the future and what have happened in the past. She saw her energy bar starting to refill at an increased speed. She guessed it was time to go hunt some mobs now instead. She brushed out some hair from her face. Thou it immediatly fell down infront of her left eye a second after. She let out a sigh. She have thougth about making an hair cut to get it out of her face. But she liked the style of this haircut. Probably it would take some time before she change it after all.

Total loot:
3020 Col
4 materials

Edited February 8, 2016 by Zandra Zvift

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Now there was no time on thinking about trivial stuffs as hair-styles. She had to focus since an ice-elemental spawned right infront of her. Its huge half-transparent body reflecting the faint sunlight that broke thru the clouds.''Well, I wonder how many of your kind I have killed by now.'' she said to the mob while charging up her sword art. Then she ativated it, the whip gripped around his neck and she threw him on the ground twice. Watching as his health got reduced to yellow, to red and finally to zero. It ecploded and she got rewarded with some col and the guaranteed ingredient.

ID: 47724
BD: 9 Crit +1 13x16=208-40=168 Damage
MD: Dead before action
LD: 11+2=13 +800 Col

Zandra: 144/144 (20/36)
Ice elemental: 0/160 DEAD

Edited February 8, 2016 by Zandra Zvift

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She moved on to engage another ice-elemental that she spotted a hundred meters up ahead. A smile on her face. It took much longer time now when she only had single target sword arts thats useful. But someday she was gonna invest skill points in martial art to unlock that average AOE she had access to if doing that. But now she just had to take them out one by one. She charged it up while walking, closer and closer to the mob that soon would pixelate. When she was in range she activated it, her whipp twirled around its neck and he flew thru the air two times, beeing slayed right away.

ID: 47726
BD: 5+2=7 Hit 12x2x8=192-38=154 Damage
MD: Dead before action
LD: 13 +760 Col

Zandra: 144/144 (5/36)
Ice elemental: 0/152 DEAD

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Zandra looked at the reward screen. Her amount of Col increased by every enemy slayed. She did started to get quite alot. She was more then half way to a hundred thousand. Even when she had spent them like a shop-oholic from time to time. But who cared. This was just a game. And for her it was pretty easy to gain more Col. Materials have been harder thou since she had to high health to one hit the enemies withs reached loot requirment with her single AOE. Just when she tohugth that she spotted a crystal node on the ground a few meters away from her. She mined it and got a glassclear crystal.

ID: 47727 LD: 17 +1 material

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The crystal she picked up was an exelent example. She held it against the sun and could look straigth thru it. A smile appeared on her face every time she found such an perfect example. She placed it in her supply bag that she had gotten from Ariel a long time ago. It was much better then placing the ingredients into her inventory, sinc ein the inventory it losed some of its quality and made them harder to work with. Thanks to the supply bag she didnt had to worry about that since it was specially desigend to keep items from losing the quality over time.

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Now that she had found one material, would she be able to find another one. She started to look around the area if there possiblitlyty was another crystalnode nearby. She walked around in the deep snow for quite some time. But there was not a single sign of another node. She guessed there was only one then. She scrugged her shoulders, again. She had been realy using alot of materials during her alchemist brewing. She would never have been able to make thru it if she didnt have been having other players donating materials to her and Ssendom that placed such a huge order.

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Zandra started to head back home when her energy hitted full again. She was gonna empty her energy bar one more time, then she would call it a day, or maybe went up to five to clear another dungeon. Well, she didnt had time to decide before another one of those ice-elementals appeared. She let out a deep sigh.''That you mobs never learn. But after all, youre not thinking, you just do as the program is telling you to do right?'' she said while charging up her strongest sword art, when it was ready she activated it, twirling around his neck and then slam him into the ground twice, making him lose all his health.

ID: 47730
BD: 7 Hit 12x2x8=192-38=154 Damage
MD: Dead before action
LD: 17+2=19 +760 Col +1 material

Zandra: 144/144 (20/36)
Ice elemental: 0/152 DEAD

Edited February 8, 2016 by Zandra Zvift

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After the fifth ice-elemental for the day was down, she decided to go up a floor to try to find a dungeon. She ran pass all ice-elementals she encountered on the way. Now when she hurried, it didnt took long until she was on the floor plaza of floor four. She entered it and teleported up to the desert floor. She headed out thru the gate and into the endless fields of yellow sand. She walked to the place where she found her last dungeon. And guess what, it actually was there this time as well. A huge smile appeared on her face while she entered the deep.

ID: 47732 LD: 18+2=20 Intermediate dungeon found
+1 energy. Total: 21

Edited February 8, 2016 by Zandra Zvift