How Bright Shadow experience division works

I decided to check out the Japanese BS wiki in regards to the whole experience dividing since over the weekend partying with someone 14 levels above me gave me 0 exp. See the table below:

Level Difference	Exp %	Notes
0	100%	◆Based on the highest level person, if everyone is within 3 levels of each other the exp earned doesn’t change
1
2
3
4	90%	Basically 5 level difference is the most you can go before it starts to get crappy.
5
6	80%
7	70%
8	60%	It’s possible to be within 8 levels and still be more efficient than soloing
9	50%	This is the absolute limit, after that don’t bother partying.
10	40%
11	30%
12	20%
13	10%
14	1	If you’re more than 14 levels apart, the highest person will get 1 exp and everyone else will get 0

So as you can see, ideally it’s good to be within 5 levels of each other. Anymore and it’s just a waste of time. I’m currently level 27 so any of you that are 22 and below or 33 and above are gonna have to either level up or wait for me to level up. At this point there’s a few people in the guild who are within my range and I’m sorry I haven’t been playing much. I’m trying to finish the otome game in the corner tonight as well as doing all the Pangya events. I was told that Bright Shadow is going to end open beta today and then officially reopen on the 11th. Hopefully that means no more level cap and new classes so at least it will motivate me to play more ^^;

FFFFFFFUUUUU I want those 3 days of my life back Gamepot.

This is a nice broom right? Kinda cute & all. It would be nicer if….I could use it other than just standing there with it hmm? That’s right, this broom doesn’t SKIN OVER my sword it completely replaces it. In addition it only gives melee attack +24. Great. My sword gives attack +192 btw. What the fuck did I waste all that time for getting the fucking candy, dying and having to undo my death penalty for again? Gamepot also didn’t fucking specify anywhere what the outfits look like and what the stats are and what they do. One of my friends informed me all the skull skins that are ugly as shit give 0 stats as well so completely a waste of time. Thank god I didn’t even bother going for those yet since now I’ve saved myself a weekend of grinding -_-;

Oh and if all this crap wasn’t bad enough…

Bright Shadow Halloween Event

So the BS Halloween event involves you talking to the pumpkin shota:

When you and all of your party speaks to him once, the party leader will then teleport everyone to the instance dungeon where you fight monsters ranging from level 8-20something. THey were so damn large I couldn’t see their HP bars or levels We got our butts kicked multiple times between levels 13-16 but just like with the seal tower the exp was really nice.

Bright Shadow Open Beta First Night

The above is just a brief video I took inside the cave. I had recorded one for Thunder Field but it kept screwing up in premiere so I tossed it So far things have been okay. Anyone who accidentally k/sed would always appologize (in English.) I didn’t see any of THAT foreign language spam either. A lot of people complained of lag but I really think it has to do with your video card. I have a 500mb GeForce9800GT and I’ve had pretty much 0 lag. The game ran as it always had. JP kept getting disconnected near the end of the night though, not sure why. I hope this doesn’t become a major issue and I start losing people again. I went into the seal tower and did a solo quest but I’d really like to do some party quests as well T_T;

The Nyatan (Meowtan lolol) hats and shoes and stuff are all still there so you can grab one before they (maybe?) go away. They are permanent skins and they give additional stats on top of your normal armor. The lottery guy is still there too. He gives 7 day items but they’re still pretty decent items considering you can do his lottery on a daily basis. Today I got some slutty shirt that reveals breasts but hey it gives me (somehow) more defense. Oh well isn’t that how it always is?

Additionally Gamepot has said that anyone who was either a) in a GM guild (I was in GM Lime fanclub) or b) submitted at least one bug report will be receiving closed beta prizes. Also I turned level 12 before 9PM EST so I should be getting the pumpkin pet. Finally all CB testers will be getting $5 in Gamepot cash (to use on mounts like I mentioned!!) All in all so far the game is looking promising, and I’m enjoying it a lot more than Pangya’s fucktarded box grindfest.

What did everyone else who played think?

Uninstalling Aisp@ce.

The thing behind me is one of the reasons for my quitting.

I couldn’t bring myself to do it but basically this week I’m hitting my 1 year anniversary..and I look back at the absolutely nothing that I’ve done with that game. The water shooting wasn’t enough to keep me around but the fact that their Halloween event once again falls during time when I’m sleeping or working….yea I’ve had enough ^^;. I think the initial concept was good but they can only really keep hard core otaku who love looking up 3D animu girls pantsu and will spend thousands of dollars to do so. Sorry, not my kind of bandwagon.

Some notes before the BS Open Beta

So looks like Bright Shadow’s official site has been opened on Saturday (??) There’s no longer the empty teaser page and they now have a better loading forum (although still primitive without any avatars and such.) They already give people the option to buy their cash currency. At the moment the prices are $5=500 pts, $10=1000 pts etc. I’m not really sure how much stuff is supposed to cost though. I’m pretty sure all closed beta testers will receive $5 in gamepot cash. All I can say is….if there’s a mount in the shop or gacha that’s what you use your money for. Forget stupid vanity clothes, pets, weapons whatever. All you ever need in this game is a freaking mount otherwise it’ll take you forever to get from place to place as there are not really any save points or teleporters.