Completion time: 76 minutes
Recommended class(es): Assassin/Ninja with Wood Rush
Soloable: Yes
EXP, Drops, and Gold analysis

Overview: This is almost identical to the Four-Tower Build, except with one extra tower and slightly lower-level Freeze towers.

Wood rush (or shortened as Log) will completely stop monsters in their tracks if they are in range of a Freeze tower level 5 or greater. So to take advantage of this, a second freeze tower is placed. Level 5 is efficient enough for the Log effect to work, but higher level towers will target more monsters.

A down-side to this build is that Log will freeze the monsters fairly spread out, which takes longer for the Gaias to knock them out, but you will have plenty of TP to continue buffing them for as long as you need.

Hit the jump for detailed tactics.

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May 9, 2011

Completion time: 70 minutes
Recommended class(es): Warrior with level 5-10 Stun Hammer/Stumblebum, Wizard
Soloable: Yes

Overview: This is a very relaxing build, as the build only needs four towers in all; you can set up your main offense very quickly, leaving you to do whatever you want while you wait (be it AFK, or just mess around with the extra TP). It's also a stress-free build in terms of TP; you will not have to worry about not having enough TP to keep buffing your towers.

This build is also really good for collecting gold and drops, as all monsters will be killed in concentrated areas.

This build does not work very well with ninjas because their Wood Rush skill won't stop much with only one Freeze tower. A slightly modified version of this build works much better for ninjas (demo'd here).

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wrote at
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Apr 29, 2011
Rokko - Level 52-53 Priest, Level 54 Assassin
Total Time  71 Minutes
EXP Gain =  60.03% [House Buff, Channel, 2x Serverwide EXP, 40% EXP Pot]
Gold Gain =  44.6377 Gold
Soul Gain = 176
Armor Enchant Dust 120
Weapon Enchant Dust 35
2x10 Gaia, 2x8 Freezing, 1x8 Gaia
Time 01-10  8 minutes [4.57%,  0.6958 Gold]
Time 11-20  10 minutes [9.31%, 3.6464 Gold]
Time 21-30  10 minutes [10.67%,  5.9829 Gold] 
Time 31-40  13 minutes [13.67%,  11.9686 Gold]
Time 41-48  30 minutes [21.74%,  22.3335 Gold]


Thoughts:
Fast and Loots were compact. This build works well with Log and an assassin.

2nd run with Lightning instead of the level 8 Gaia came out much faster, checking times against exp rates. House buff was active until round 50
2x10 Gaia 1x7 Freezing 8x10 Lightning
45-46 2 minutes [2.34%]
46-47 2 minutes [2.14%]
47-48 3 minutes [2.36%]
48-49 3 minutes [2.20%]
49-50 5 minutes [1.88%] (House buff wore off sometime here.)

Thoughts: When house buff runs out just leave, time is better spent rebuilding for the next run once house buffs disappear. In this build it generally goes to level 49-50 with house buffs.

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wrote at
1:56 PM
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Apr 13, 2011
Rokko - Level 51 Priest
Total Time 61 Minutes
EXP Gain =  36.2% [House Buff, Resting EXP, Channel, 2x Serverwide EXP]
Gold Gain = 57.5719 Gold
Soul Gain = 189
Armor Enchant Dust 184
Weapon Enchant Dust 70


Time 01-10  13 minutes [3.94%, 0.637 Gold]
Time 11-20  9 minutes [6.76%, 4.5125 Gold]
Time 21-30  9 minutes [8.35%, 14.6883 Gold] *
Time 31-40  13 minutes [8.31%, 15.7522 Gold]*
Time 41-48  17 minutes [8.84%, 22.0219 Gold]

* I missed the 30 round and recorded at the beginning of 32 so Gold/EXP is off.

Thoughts:
- I only got to level 48 with this setup. I can't seem to figure out how to get to 50 with minimal freezing/stunning. Perhaps a hybrid between Gaia and Lightning would work? 48 is however pretty good for almost no freezing and stunning from my priest.
- Loot is scattered a lot more than in the Gaia runs so I lost a bunch of loot although, I did try hard to pick up all the dusts.

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wrote at
11:16 AM
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Apr 11, 2011
Arka - Level 60 Sorcerer, Level 61 Overlord
Total Time 88 minutes
EXP Gain = 41.18% [House Buff, Resting EXP, Channel, 2x Serverwide EXP]
Gold Gain = 54.1637 Gold (Approx 108.3274 with 2 characters)
Soul Gain = 205
Armor Enchant Dust 97 (Approx 194 with 2 characters)
Weapon Enchant Dust 23 (Approx 46 with 2 characters)

Time 01-10 14 minutes [2.48%, 0.764 Gold]
Time 11-20 8/9 minutes [7.87% 3.5256 Gold]*
Time 21-30 10 minutes [6.13% 9.624 5Gold]*
Time 31-40 19 minutes [10.55% 15.178 Gold]
Time 41-50 36 minutes [13.82% 23.4253 Gold]

 *Approximate I was AFK for the round 20 mark I counted the beginning of round 23 as 20 and guesstimated the first 3 rounds of 20 were around a minute each.

Thoughts:
- The Lower 3 towers were not doing much, however Tactical Point limitations lead to those numbers
- Gold was not picked up as religiously as in the case of Rokko F7. It is very possible that the gold count would be higher in this however because of how involving it was post round 40 picking up gold was simply too hard.
- If the last 10 rounds actually takes 36 minutes even with some optimization, it would be better to simply restart and do the first 30 levels again in the approximately same amount of time and sacrifice some Gold because the last 10 rounds are extremely involving for the player.

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wrote at
9:50 PM
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Apr 9, 2011
Rokko - Level 57 Warlock
Total Time 83 minutes
EXP Gain = 25.66% [House Buff, Resting EXP, Channel]
Gold Gain = 87.2340 Gold
Soul Gain = 204
Armor Enchant Dust 234
Weapon Enchant Dust 64

Time 01-10 21 minutes [1.74%, 1.4172 Gold]
Time 11-20 14 minutes [3.54% 5.4958 Gold]
Time 21-30 08 minutes [4.6% 12.6210 Gold]
Time 31-40 13 minutes [6.68% 24.6606 Gold]
Time 41-50 26 minutes [9.11% 43.0394 Gold]



The bottom 3 towers were put up first followed by the 3rd Level 8 or 9Earth tower and the 2nd level 6 Freezing tower with the 2 extra level 3-4 Freezing towers going up for stalling at the level 50.

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wrote at
9:06 AM
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Mar 28, 2011
My friends told me how to bypass the Gateway for Dragon Saga!

I discovered that my problems with installing Dragon Saga were not because of the DDOS but rather gateway related issues.

Gateway itself is a cool looking program with little functionality, much like the WarpPortal payment system. It's another sign of ignoring the basics of business; never make it harder for your potential customers to touch your product. Hopefully, gravity will fix the issues that the Gateway has or add their own bypass to it.

1) Create a new txt file in your C:\Program Files\Gravity\Dragon Saga
This will differ according to where you installed to but that's the general address

2) Edit it with notepad with "start Patcher.exe Gravityus" (without the quotes, case sensitive)

3) Save the txt file with any name. I chose "GatewayBypasser.txt"

4) Change the extension to ".bat"
You can view extensions under Tools/Folder Options/View/ and uncheck Hide extensions for known file types

5) Run "GatewayBypasser.bat"

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wrote at
8:35 AM
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Dec 4, 2010
In a stalking my friends who were finally fed up with Ragnarok, I started another Gravity game and I see Gravity failing again and this time with a game that could easily rival Maple Story or Wonder King. Dragon Saga. Frustrating!

I really hope they fix the DDOS problems and the Gateway problems. This game can easily become their next cashcow.

Dragon Saga is a sidescrolling/3D game which is adorable and the exact opposite of Ragnarok. It's massively quest based. So far it's been fun but it's lacking in the community effect that Ragnarok has always had even in its recent massive decline. Hopefully, once they fix the Gateway program that will change for the better.

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wrote at
8:49 AM
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Dec 3, 2010