Atlantica Online: How to level up new mercs FAST when you are high level?

I will break this article into 2 parts: The main leveling job + Improvements that help.


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The fastest way to level up a new merc is to have that merc in your formation but hidden and go to a lower level skirmish where you kill very fast. The result screen will show you that the new merc got zero experience, however you will see that it does get experience. As I am writing this my formation is killing in Lijiang village skirmish and my noob merc is getting 12k around exp per fight.

The experience that the new merc gets is capped, so no point killing the hardest you can kill. The more levels the new merc gets the more exp it will start to accept per fight.

Naturally if you have read my TBS grinding article, it is best to have an all range party with rang and pricess for the fastest killing in skirmish and this is especially true for low level grinding to waste as little time moving as possible. It is also quite nice to have this on auto battle as i have right now.

At a certain point (which I don't care to spend many hours to discover) the new merc can benefit more from a higher level skirmish. I suggest you stay in the lower level one as long as you can visually see the new merc rising all the time. Once you see her experience bar is not moving much then this is where you must go to higher skirmish level.


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Improvements that help
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There are a bunch of things you can do to speed that up even more.
(in random order)

1) If you kill super fast use a title like Kind for highest exp %. If you could kill faster then choose the highest attack title because the rate of killing is more important than the title exp %.

2) Get into an LDP with high level people who are grinding Village and above skirmishes. For each fight that they finish you will be getting around 100k experience (is what I see on my friend's level 60ish party which is LDP with me right now). This is actually a lot of experience and over hours is millions of experience. If you can get 2 such people to feed you on top of your grinding = super.

3) If you have a house, rest in your bed for whatever % exp bonus that you get from your house.

4) Shout out asking who is about to level. Add them to your friend's list and when they level you will get +10% experience bonus.

5) Creating a feast or participating in a feast will give you attack bonus which will make you kill faster which will make you earn exp faster.

6) Blessing licence of course is super to have and will give and 50% more attack and 50% more experience.

7) The weekend exp bonus of 150% or 200% of regular of course helps a lot too.

8) And do not forget to leave the new merc at home when you afk so that you can give gifts when you are not active (unless your nice LDP friends are pumping you).


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Leveling new mercs is one of the most fun things I find in AO. I have about 20 mercs I think and most top people if you ask you will see have also like 20 mercs. This is not just for fun but we use the correct mercs in the different situations to kill faster, easier, better.

And to finish up I did now 20 auto battles in Lijiang Villange while I wrote this article and my new merc is level 26 and my level 60 friend got 2.3 million exp from me.

Atlantica Online: G1cannon's FAST Grind Edition 2: TBS 131 Skirmish (for non-uber people)

Hi everyone. In this Edition 2 of FAST GRINDING I wanna share with you how I grind tbs skirmish using an all range party. Here you can see how to grind in TBS 131 skirmish.

This is FAST grinding, fights take just seconds most of the time. I have average armor, i think +4 is the highest (armor) and +0+1 other parts. I have 3 strong mercs (focused on them for TBS missions), which is the main, cannon and rang and all others are semi-naked / dark / freeze / whatever i had. Even before i used the bee gun when i was training the formation.

Most importantly what I am showing you can be done with just regular class D gunners/cannons. The main reason why it works is because of hwarang aura.

The ideal formation was the one i saw on youtube with 7 gunners, rang and princess, but the guy had +10 shotguns and other +10 items so that was uber. Since most of us are not uber, we can just aim in the uber direction. The good news for you is that a completely naked merc can do 2-3k damage just because of rang aura, so keep everyone within 2 squares of rang.

I also want to add that the point is not to replace your main party. The point is to have an efficient grinding formation for the highest reward in the game which is in tbs skirmish. It has the highest exp, workload, rewards than any other place in the game. So this "work horse" formation has only 1 purpose = to grind and sponsor your main formation with which you PvP, etc.

I also adapted - I am cannon main and already had high level cannoneer also as well as a PVE arty. I also wanted to level up my empress. So i used 3 cannons, 2 guns (janis which I already had level 120+), rang, empress, princess and oracle. The oracle I have found to be a must to have for anyone who is not uber. I literally can solo only because of oracle in many fights in TBS 131.
So adapt but try to be as close to the ideal formation as possible because any difference versus ideal reduces your efficiency.

Below I made 3 videos for you, kind of my best examples of my fast TBS 131 grinding. It does not always go as good as here. Other times 1-2 other mobs join in and it takes longer + oracle res. And some rare times i do die, which is totally ok in tbs skirmish because you dont lose anything - you actually gain for whatever you did manage to kill.

Lastly, once you become expert at this you will realize it matters exactly where in the formation each merc stands (cannons front) and if you are cannon heavy like me it makes sense to select cross formation mobs to attack (immediately 5 get hit) and also you may realize it matters a lot which merc is after which mercs in the order so to make you fight faster.

Enjoy and feel free to leave comments here (no registration required)

Atlantica Online: G1cannon's House Items Craft List: EDITION 4

Hey everyone, in this post I am sharing with you my own list for house items (furniture and decorations and floors) which require various materials from the house facilities as well as other items to manufacture.

The craft requirements and costs I have in a separate Excel sheet and here I only extract the total cost of crafting these items which you can see in the cost columns. Of course the prices which are behind each item are of my server's (DE) present prices (October 2010).

A lot of work has gone to make this list that I am just handing to you - hope its appreciated. Enjoy.

Please take into account level 5 hammer cost of 100k which I did not incorporate in the list, not to distort things.

Most likely you will not see the full picture, so click on the picture then zoom in!
If u find mistakes mail me (not whisper!) ingame or leave a comment here. Thanks.

Atlantica Online: 7 Goonzu runs

Here is what you can expect from 7 Goonzu runs (crazy BomberWill!)

Atlantica Online: G1cannon's FAST Grind Edition 1: Lijiang Village Non-TBS

This is an old video that I forgot to upload, but its valid nonetheless. Here you can see how to grind in Lijiang Village just the first area using the 2 count DOT magic strategy / build.

This is FAST grinding, fights take just few seconds, so it is perfect for anyone who is not walking around with +10 items. Here I have just regular level 60 spells (not level 70) without any charms and you do not need any special equipment, even just +0+1 is fine.

You do need the potion which protects you vs. their magic attacks and the cost of it is not significant compared to all the money you make from the grinding.

Also this is a fast way of burning lots of stamina for higher level players.

Also for those people who do not want to play so actively this is almost like autobattle : immediately skip turn, right click 4 times, loot.

Enjoy.

Atlantica Online: G1cannon's House Items Craft List: EDITION 3

Hey everyone, in this post I am sharing with you my own list for house items (furniture and decorations and floors) which require various materials from the house facilities as well as other items to manufacture.

The craft requirements and costs I have in a separate Excel sheet and here I only extract the total cost of crafting these items which you can see in the cost columns. Of course the prices which are behind each item are of my server's (DE) present prices (October 2010).

A lot of work has gone to make this list that I am just handing to you - hope its appreciated. Enjoy.

Please take into account level 5 hammer cost of 100k which I did not incorporate in the list, not to distort things.

Most likely you will not see the full picture, so click on the picture then zoom in!
If u find mistakes mail me (not whisper!) ingame or leave a comment here. Thanks.

Atlantica Online: G1cannon's House Items Craft List: EDITION 2

Hey everyone, in this post I am sharing with you my own list for house items (furniture and decorations and floors) which require various materials from the house facilities as well as other items to manufacture.

The craft requirements and costs I have in a separate Excel sheet and here I only extract the total cost of crafting these items which you can see in the cost columns. Of course the prices which are behind each item are of my server's (DE) present prices (October 2010).

A lot of work has gone to make this list that I am just handing to you - hope its appreciated. Enjoy.

Please take into account level 5 hammer cost of 100k which I did not incorporate in the list, not to distort things.

Most likely you will not see the full picture, so click on the picture then zoom in!
If u find mistakes mail me (not whisper!) ingame or leave a comment here. Thanks.

Atlantica Online: SpaceBall's Loki farming for Lucky Wood

SpaceBalls sent me this information ingame : he killed Loki 10 times
and received:

- 3 x Omikuji: Very Good
- 5 x Omikuji Divination Box
- 1 x Nickel
- 1 x Big slab of lumber

He got 1 lucky wood from the boxes.

This is a very very lucky run compared to my own experience and previously posted data:
Atlantica Online: Getting Lucky Wood from Loki ::: Edition 2

Atlantica Online: G1cannon's Level 2 Furniture & Decoration Crafting List

Hey everyone, in this post I am sharing with you my own list for Level 1 house items (furniture and decorations) which require regular level mats from the house facility.

A lot of work has gone to make this list that I am just handing to you - hope its appreciated. Enjoy.

Please take into account level 5 hammer cost of 100k which I did not incorporate in the list, not to distort things.

For those who need help on how to use it:
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REQ = insight level needed for using the item
FIXED COST = for those items which are available on the market at fixed cost how much that is
CRAFT COST = not available on market, this is cost of crafting it (with prices of that day when i made it)
COMFORT / CULTURE = the amount how much that item gives of those things
VALUE FOR MONEY = how much each comfort/culture point will cost in millions
PROFIT/LOSS = how much you will make or lose if you dismantle and sell soul stones
DISMANTLE AVERAGE = based on the data collected how many soul stones you can expect to receive


If you do not see full picture click on the picture then zoom in!
If u find mistakes mail me (not whisper!) ingame or leave a comment here. Thanks.

Atlantica Online: G1cannon's House Bunnies Army Division & General Giraffe & Co

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and a close up

Atlantica Online: ToXo's JP of Ancient book box of monks (level 100 main skill books)

ToXo sent me this information to share with you, where he got the Ancient book box of monks inside the JP window and then opened 3 ancient city maps, did ind 105, then ind 101 first floor, then GDC guild dungeon, then VOO guild dungeon in order to fill up the JP with boxes. He also got the nix feathers and divine boxes from Gient Beast of Madness.

His JP window included the following items in addition to the ancient book box of monks:


Item ------- Market Rate ------- Total value

2 nix feathers ------- 1.306m ------- 2.612m
3 divine boxes ------- 5.994m ------- 17.982m
3 freezing boxes ------- 2.617m ------- 7.851m
17 conqueror boxes ------- 1.423m ------- 24.191m
24 volcano vall boxes ------- 0.376m ------- 9.024m

all in all: 61.66m was the total worth of the items if he would sell it in the market at that time


Upon running the JP he received 194 Ancient book box of monks.
He then opened all these boxes and got the following items:


Book ------- lowest market price ------- Total sell value

22 Flame blow ------- 77k ------- 1.694m
33 destructive instinct ------- 2.5m -------82.5m
15 Arrow Cascade ------- 19k ------- 0.38m
25 Chaos Edge ------- 489k ------- 12.225m
20 scorching bullets ------- 32k ------- 0.64m
23 devastation shell ------- 150k ------- 3.45m
23 Flame Spear ------- 9k ------- 0.2m
8 warriors rage ------- 30k ------- 0.24m
25 Requiem ------- 2.2m ------- 55m

All in All 156.329m was the value of all the books that he put for sale on the market, so a 90m profit!

Here I must add that books are normally unpredictable to sell, sometimes they go fast, sometimes very very slow or not at all. But in this specific case ToXo managed to sell the majory of books with 1-2 days.

I also have to remind you that JP uses a random multiplier and we have not verified if ToXo simply got a high multiplier in this case. However, since the profit is so much higher than the cost, I think even with a smaller multiplier it could be a good way of making money.


Thanks again to ToXo for this information and we both hope this will be helpful to people reading this article.

Atlantica Online: G1cannon's Level 2 Furniture & Decoration Crafting List

Hey everyone, in this post I am sharing with you my own list for Level 2 house items (furniture and decorations) which require quality level mats from the house facility.

A lot of work has gone to make this list that I am just handing to you - hope its appreciated. Enjoy.

To see full picture click on the picture then zoom in!
If u find mistakes mail me (not whisper!) ingame or leave a comment here. Thanks.

Atlantica Online: Troy Warrior's Loot >> Warrior's Treasure Chest @ TBS 95 ::: Box Chances

This box Troy Warrior's Loot >> Warrior's Treasure Chest comes from the TBS MISSION of level 95.

This mission is soloable, but you must know the tricks of doing it. The lower the level the more traps are needed. I like net traps myself, but any will do. Upgrades are needed fully if soloing. Also you must play fast, not waste timer. The plan would be to fully upgrade, then attack right side, kill tent for +1 box and then go for boss. If all your mercs die you lose. If your LDP DCs or leaves party you lose.

Anyways, so from the reward (up to 10 boxes per go) you can select silver coins or the warrior treasure chest. This data shows what you would get from either choice, so knowing this make your accurate choice, i.e. Silver Coins at these market prices.

Take care cause market prices fluctuate a lot.

Atlantica Online: Experience earned by level 1 merc from quests

Short one:

Step 1: New merc level 1 - zero experience
Step 2: complete 1 Wanted Board quest (experience 900,000 reward)
Step 3: received only 155,000 experience for the level 1 - so 17.2% reward only

Atlantica Online: Atlas Ore Adventure

Atlas ore is a very expensive "pleasure" and is also the only way high level people can raise the power of their weapons.

For those who do not know, Atlas Ore is an Item Mail item costing about 10 USD for 100 atlas ore. Different level and enhancement items use different amounts. For example divine shield +5 uses 40 atlas ore to just try to raise it. Dragon God +5 is 120 atlas ore.

No success is guaranteed and the % chance nobody knows. Luck hugely varies. Some people get an item to +10 with maybe 500-1500 ore and others lose completely. My example here I suppose is somewhere in the middle.

So here is how I spent more than 8 billion.
The good thing is that I did not end up in the negative, but I must admit I was hoping for at least one +10 item.

As a note I did only 1 item quite a lot, most of the time up, down, up, down, and then when ore was finishing and it was getting nowhere I tried to improve other weapons same way.

Atlantica Online: Which Independent Mercs to choose ::: Edition 6

Here is the 6th Edition of the independent mercenary list I have managed to gather. Use it to decide which mercs to develop and make independent for maximum profit or specific item collection.

(Independent mercs are those you choose to release (and lose) after they reach level 100 or above. They then send you gifts every 6 days but they request presents every day to keep friendship at 100. The responsible NPC is Fugger, near Columbus)

As always mail me in game or post here below if you want to contribute to this or any other analyses for the good of all (e.g. mining, 18, multi hued crys., spear)

Update: there is in depth information on items but by profession on Atlantica Wiki. Go check it out here: atlantica.wikia.com/wiki/Independent_mercenary

Reminder: the profession is NOT what he is actually doing at the moment but the profession written on the message when he sends you a gift.

Atlantica Online: Getting Lucky Wood from Loki ::: Edition 2

Lucky Wood in Atlantica Online is a relatively rare item and it is used in some quests, such as title quests where you need 1 or even 5 lucky wood pieces.

I have seen their prices on the market anywhere from 10 million to 50 million and more, so it is safe to say there is no fair price.

So where do you get this item?
Loki drops it and below is the table of me killing Loki, trying to get the box and then trying to get the lucky wood from the box. Now you can judge how easy or difficult this is and therefore what the price of this item should be.

As always feel free to leave your comments - no registration is needed.

Atlantica Online: Imperial Treasure Box ::: Edition 2

Imperial Treasure chest is a box reward for completing squad dungeon Haunted Tatami Room. It contains chance to get items needed to recruit the mercenary Empress.

You can start the empress recruitment quest from NPC Sumi located inside of the squad dungeon, Haunted Tatami Room.

Please post here below or mail me in-game to support get more data for this box.

Atlantica Online: Imperial Treasure Box ::: Edition 1

Imperial Treasure chest is a box reward for completing squad dungeon Haunted Tatami Room. It contains chance to get items needed to recruit the mercenary Empress.

You can start the empress recruitment quest from NPC Sumi located inside of the squad dungeon, Haunted Tatami Room.

Please post here below or mail me in-game to support get more data for this box.

Atlantica Online: Gold Cat + Jules De Goncourt ::: Edition 2

Gold cat list + Jules De Goncourt list!
Please comment here or mail me in game if you have the missing values.

Atlantica Online: Lists of Patch March 24th ::: Edition 1

Gold cat list to start with:
EDIT: added also Jules De Goncourt list!
Please - this is work in progress - if errors please comment below (you don't have to register) and also to support comment below.

Atlantica Online: Getting Lucky Wood from Loki ::: Edition 1

Lucky Wood in Atlantica Online is a relatively rare item and it is used in some quests, such as title quests where you need 1 or even 5 lucky wood pieces.

I have seen their prices on the market anywhere from 10 million to 50 million and more, so it is safe to say there is no fair price.

So where do you get this item?
Loki drops it and below is the table of me killing Loki, trying to get the box and then trying to get the lucky wood from the box. Now you can judge how easy or difficult this is and therefore what the price of this item should be.

As always feel free to leave your comments - no registration is needed.

Atlantica Online: Estimate of chances from Boxes ::: Edition 1

In Atlantica Online, as we all know, most things are random, so I thought its quite interesting to gather up a big sample size of popular boxes and see how often different items drop.
This way we can estimate drop rates!!

So below you will find the table I made over a long time. Enjoy and remember, if you are interested in some of the ads you see around this blog, do not be afraid to click them and see what's that all about!

Edit: i noticed picture is cut off a little cause of screen size - click on it to see the whole thing.

Atlantica Online: Marksburg Castle Guild Dungeon Items

It is always interesting what you can expect to get from dungeons. Here, I show you the kind of items you can expect Marksburg Castle, which is a Guild Dungeon and can be completed with just a few high people.
Note that even at level 120 you still get some small exp there.

Name Marksburg Castle
Key Key of Lunacy
Time Limit 120 minutes
Cooldown 20 hours
Reward Crazy Lord's Seal x10 (around 650k gold at the moment)
Guild Points 1,200
Nation 20


















I JPed here the enhance stones and actually got only around 30, which was rather surprising. I think ndoors may have changed the value of stones.

Atlantica Online: Ornate Treasure Chests & Chances ::: Edition 2

a.k.a. How to make money - 400k+ every 5 minutes

Hi everyone, so this is the 2nd edition of the which post teaches about using ornate treasure chests for making money or getting what you need. Ornate Treasure chest maps can be gotten from the market or from old treasure boxes (market is easiest). Their price ranges on my server between 20k and 60k per map.

It is very much nice to have a teleport licence to use this method however with transport it is also possible, but this reduces the profit a lot unless you are more lucky to find the special items.

You open the map by right clicking on it which will show you where in the AO world is the treasure chest. You must go to that location within 5 minutes and attack the treasure chest to get the item from it. Below you can see what items you can get from it and how frequent.

I will keep updating this over time to have more sample so it is more accurate the data. Feel free to send me accurate information if you want to help either by posting here or by mailing me in the game.

Atlantica Online: Which Independent Mercs to choose ::: Edition 5

Here is the 5th Edition of the independent mercenary list I have managed to gather. Use it to decide which mercs to develop and make independent for maximum profit or specific item collection.

(Independent mercs are those you choose to release (and lose) after they reach level 100 or above. They then send you gifts every 6 days but they request presents every day to keep friendship at 100. The responsible NPC is Fugger, near Columbus)

As always mail me in game or post here below if you want to contribute to this or any other analyses for the good of all (e.g. mining, 18, multi hued crys., spear)

Update: there is in depth information on items but by profession on Atlantica Wiki. Go check it out here: atlantica.wikia.com/wiki/Independent_mercenary

Atlantica Online: Grinding Aztec Spiders - Good idea?

For high level players (110+) it is always a curious question where to grind. I tried today going for the Aztec Spiders on autobattle (90% of the time) and I was shocked at the loot I got (was expecting far more) so I thought to share this with everyone so you don't fall into the same mistake.

Update: the spiders are VERY weak versus magic so any AOE team should find it fun here (+ this is why they easy to scroll). Also they are VERY resistant to bows.

Atlantica Online: Everything about fishing

Fishing in Atlantica Online is a love it or hate it activity. However, following the latest fishing event more people have taken up fishing.

Basics in short:
To try fishing you need a rod and bait and fishing skill (in My Info > Expressions) corresponding to the rod and bait. Once you have this you can go to the only place in AO for fishing -> Hanai Island. To start fishing either right click your rod or click the shortcut V. The fish you collect you hand in to Albert NPC @ Hanai Island who gives you fishing points which you can spend at Pointry NPC @ Rome Bazaar.

And now introducing Everything Fishing:

Atlantica Online: Princess, Cannoneer and bombing campaign

Bombing campaign is a special combo attack made using princess and the cannoneer. It is very useful in various parts of the game which is why I recommend everyone to have these 2 mercs at least in the merc room if not in the main party.

Separately princess heals all ranged mercs, gives them defense and has skills to block or reduce damage of enemy ranged mercs.

The cannoneer is a cannon merc who can cast smoke bomb. This is a skill which reduces accuracy of all enemy mercs so quite often when they attack your mercs will just dodge.

On top of the above, these 2 mercs combine to produce the devastating bombing campaign. You can see an example and further explanation of it on the below picture story I have prepared for you:

Atlantica Online: Ornate Treasure Chests & Chances ::: Edition 1

a.k.a. How to make money - 400k+ every 5 minutes

Hi everyone, so this post teaches about using ornate treasure chests for making money or getting what you need. Ornate Treasure chest maps can be gotten from the market or from old treasure boxes (market is easiest). Their price ranges on my server between 20k and 60k per map.

It is very much nice to have a teleport licence to use this method however with transport it is also possible, but this reduces the profit a lot unless you are more lucky to find the special items.

You open the map by right clicking on it which will show you where in the AO world is the treasure chest. You must go to that location within 5 minutes and attack the treasure chest to get the item from it. Below you can see what items you can get from it and how frequent.

I will keep updating this over time to have more sample so it is more accurate the data. Feel free to send me accurate information if you want to help either by posting here or by mailing me in the game.