GhostX Ultimate (Part Five)

Strengthen Stones
Last but not the least, I will need to talk about these peculiar items called "Strengthen Stones".

The purpose of these Strengthen Stones is to upgrade or rather boost certain stats of items, namely those stats which are highlighted in yellow on an item's description.

However, you will need to use the correct Strengthen Stone on the right item. As in, the stone's rarity must at least match or be better than the item's. If you use the wrong ones, the upgrade will simply not be processed. (Yes...just like Somas, Rings and Necklaces, these Strengthen Stones also have the same rarity structure.)

To perform such an upgrade, just visit "Rapper Rapper" outside "Luna Laboratory", place the item (to be upgraded) and the strengthen stone in their proper slots, select which stat you wish to improve and hit the "Strengthen" button. (Yup, you may only choose ONE specific stat to improve for every upgrade attempt.)

If you so desire, you may purchase "Catalysts" or "Lucky Charms" from the in-game cash shop (using GKash) to boost the strengthening process (instead of a fixed improvement, you will now get a min-max possible range) and/or chances to succeed.

Enhanced Count and Glare Number
Simply put, every time you successfully strengthen an item, its "Enhanced Count" and "Glare Number" would each increase by 1. If a "Catalyst" was used, the "Glare Number" would increase by 2 instead.

So what these two does is that the "Enhanced Count" keeps track of the number of times you've strengthened the said item vs the maximum number of times that you can strengthen it.

The "Glare Number", on the other hand, determines whether equipping the item would result in your character "glowing" or not. The number outside the brackets represents the "Total Glare" accumulated on the item while the number inside tells you the "Glare" attributed by catalyst usage. (Or you can simply treat it as the number of times catalysts were used...since each catalyst used would give it 1 additional Glare.)

At the end of the day, if you total up the Glare Numbers of everything you have equipped on your character (plus depending on the average level of the equips), you will then have your character gain some sort of aura glow as per according to the table shown.

Where To Get Strengthen Stones
From what I know, General and High Class ones can be looted off monsters, but their drop rates are pretty low in my opinion. I've only gotten two of these stones so far.

Ultimate Strengthen Stones can be bought from Genova for 20,000 gold each. And as for Rarity and Legend stones, they can be obtained via upgrading High Class and Ultimate stones respectively.

Upgrading Strengthen Stones
To upgrade any Strengthen Stone, you will need to assemble/gather the following stuff.

• A Strengthen Stone (well duh...^_^;)
  
• Three "Source Items" (Somas, Rings or Necklaces) of equivalent or better rarity than the stone's
  
• Ample Gold
  

Upon gathering the necessary items, just talk to Rapper Rapper and you can proceed with the stone upgrading like as shown.

Each time you perform this upgrading process, the stone will be enhanced to its next better rarity. However, depending on the rarity of the source items used, the purity of the resulting stone will be altered.

Whether it improves or deteriorates will be reflected in the information window...so feel free to try out source items of different rarities. But do remember that these source items will be consumed, so please do not use anything that you can't afford to lose.

As for what this purity rating does? Well, it merely affects the chances of strengthening an item, successfully, when you use the said strengthening stone in an upgrade attempt. The higher its purity, the better your chances of succeeding of course.

Now with that, I've come to the end of my introduction of GhostX Ultimate. Be sure to tune in next week as I begin the crash course on my next game.

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GhostX Ultimate (Part Four)

Fashion and Somas
Relatively speaking, if we were to relate the weapon of a character (in mmorpg terms) to the nanobots, then your defensive armors/equipments in GhostX Ultimate would be your fashion wear items.

Basically, there are altogether 10 slots found in your Character Equip Window. Out of these 10, 5 of them are designated as your "fashion wear" equips. These 5 affect your character's outward appearance and are named as "Head", "Tops", "Bottoms", "Gloves" and "Shoes".

3 are supposedly your "accessories" items. These are labelled as "Rings" and "Necklaces" and as far as I know, do not get reflected upon your character's visual outlook.

As for the last 2 slots, I'm not sure what they are for, but they seem pretty useless to me at the moment...since I still haven't seen any items that go into those slots.

Fashion Wear
Anyway, for these "fashion wear" equips, there are quite a few of them for you to choose actually. However, most of these needs to be acquired in a full set (Head, Tops, Bottoms, Gloves and Shoes of the same set) before they become meaningful, visually.

For example, with the proper full set, you can dress yourself as famous characters like Luffy (in One Piece), Naruto and Sakura (in Naruto) or even as Tifa (in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children).

But unfortunately though, these "special" costumes can only be obtained using real life money means (purchasable from in-game cash shop using GKash).

For the rest of us, there's only the "Clothing Store" fashion wear for us to choose from. And though not as visually striking, they are still pretty hip and fashionable...so much so that if you mix and match it up a bit, you are still able to find your own unique style within the game.

(Do note that these fashion wear have their own level requirements. Your character needs to be of the appropriate level before you can wear them.)

Somas
To accommodate for the fashion wear style that a player may choose to retain, there comes the need to separate the "stats" of your defensive equipment from your fashion wear (so as to keep your defenses up-to-date whilst still being able to maintain the look that you desire). As such, this gave rise to a special item called the "Somas"...

With these "Somas", what happens is that as you level up and find yourself faced with increasingly tougher monsters, all you need to do is merely to remove the outdated "Somas" within your "fashion wear" equips, put in the latest ones appropriate for your level and your all set, good to go.

However, as simple as it may sound, there are still a couple of things that you would need to know about them.

• Soma Type
  
  
  
  Somas are first of all divided into two types. The first type can only be fitted into "Tops" or "Bottoms" fashion wear. These are usually named as "XXX Soma's Truth" or something like that.
  
  The second type can only be fitted into "Head", "Gloves" and "Shoes" fashion wear. These are normally named as "XXX Soma's Charity" instead.
  
• Soma Level
  Next, Somas also have a "level" aspect to them. (Not that they can actually be leveled, of course.)
  
  The level of a Soma not only governs the magnitude of the defenses and stats that they have, but also forms the basis of its usage requirement. The higher the level of the Soma, the better the defenses and stats found on them. However, its level requirement (of your character) will also be correspondingly higher as well.
  
  (When slotting a Soma into a fashion wear, the level requirement will take on whichever value that is higher, the Soma's or the fashion wear's.)
  
• Soma Rarity
  Contrary to popular MMO games' color codes for rarity, the ones found in GhostX Ultimate is a bit peculiar in that green-colored items are actually higher and better than blue-colored ones in the rarity hierarchy. This same rule also applies to Soma rarity and thus we have the following hierarchy instead...
  
  
  
  Naturally, the usual rules for rarity applies. With increasingly better rarity, the Soma's stats will also improve as well. That much is certain.
  

Removing And Inserting Somas

So after talking so much, just how exactly do you remove and insert a Soma? Well...to do that, you will first need to approach an NPC called "X-1" right outside of the "Medical Center".

After talking to him, choose the "Soma Disassemble" option, put in the fashion wear containing the Soma you wish to extract and hit the "Refine" button. (You will need to pay him a certain amount of "Coins". These "Coins" can be easily obtained by selling useless junks and those crystal pieces, Piece of Wind/Fire/Darkness etc.)

As for inserting a Soma, just drag and drop the new Soma from your inventory into the now emptied fashion wear and that will do.

Accessories
Since accessories do not affect your character visually, Somas aren't needed for them and thus the Soma System do not apply here. However, the rarity rule does.

The more common (general) rings and necklaces can simply be purchased (with "Coins") from the Jewelry Store, but the rarer ones (high class and rarity) will need to be looted from monsters or earned from completing missions and clearing dungeons.

Apart from that, these can also be bought from the Jewelry Store NPC using "BPs" (a form of currency). However, these "BPs" can only be obtained when you participate in PVP matches and win.

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