How Socketing Works, and Fesos

Socketing, I think this is how it works.

There is no risk of breaking your item until you get it to have it's first socket with a stat.

So let's say, you got a great jewel, also known as a rumin, and you bring it to Claire to socket your weapon. You can use use that jewel and still fail in getting your weapon's first socket, but you can try again. The only thing is, you just lost your rumin. So, you can try again and again until you get your weapon's first socket with a stat without fearing that your weapon will break. Now the problem is, of course you want the first stat to be one of the greatest stats available, but there's no guarantee of a successful socket, thus you might end up wasting a lot of great rumins just to get your weapon's first socket.

Now suppose you succeed. Your weapon now has it's first socket with a stat, and you want another one. You have to understand that since you are trying to get a second stat in your weapon, if the socketing fails, your weapon will break. We want to avoid that. Thankfully, you can put up to three jewels in the hopes that one of them succeeds. Well, actually, that may be a bane, because what you might do is put three great rumins in there and only one will succeed, and in effect, you just wasted two great rumins. But what if you're really unlucky and you just placed three rumins and you still failed. You just broke your weapon and lost three great rumins. IMC, in their infinite wisdom and shrewdness, has presented forth a solution to such predicament. Buy a flux. With the use of the Socket Processing Tranquilizer, if socketing fails, the item's first stat doesn't disappear and you get to keep the jewels you used. Great, isn't it.

Now suppose you are really lucky and you get two sockets in your weapon and you want a third one. You can gamble and try to socket it again, but if it fails and you use a flux, your weapon only keeps the first stat.

So far, by looking at what stats the different jewels give, it seems the one that gives Crit +7 is good. That's the Great Bloodstone. The Great Spodumene also looks good. It has a funny name, andn it gives Penetration +6. Both are from red ores. I still haven't figured out which monsters give the red ores.

On to other new things.

They have new tournaments in Sword of the New World. The categories are: 20-35, 36 to 50, 51 to 67, 68 to 83, 84 to 99, and 100 above. As you may have noticed, veterans and experts are pitted in the same category.

I think it's great because what I would do is train a trio of characters to level 35, 50, 67, 83 and 99 so that I have a team ready for all categories.

I'm not online all the time, and I may forget the schedule for the tournament, but by having teams on the ready, then I can participate more in the tournament ^_^ (The prize isn't very attractive though. It's one Andre's box. I don't really like costumes.)

In the feso shop, what's not included are enhancement boosters, lucifer wings and mystery powders, among others. What are included are return sheets (for Angie), hrin's potions, triumph fillers, hermes potions, soul crystals (so I guess you could also get Irawan) and...

Stance rings: do they give extra concentration or extra elemental blessing? What would you buy? A stance ring costs 300,000 fesos. But with that amount, you can buy more than one of the other items.

There are three stones that can be exchanged for Fesos.

These are the sunstone, moonstone and the earthstone.

The moonstone is the one that can be bought using G-Points.

In the US Sword of the New World, US$1 is equal to 100 gold, which is then equal to 100,00 fesos. So, let's look at the Game Value Card counterpart in SG Granado Espada. A 750 G-Points game value card costs roughly US $1.

So maybe the 750 GVC is equal to 100,000 fesos?

As for the sunstone and the monstone, I think the sunstone gives 10,000 fesos while the earthstone gives 100,000 fesos.

I gathered this information from AM-Neume. I really the GM in Sword of the New World. He's really active and communicates with the players. AM-Neume gives a sense of transparency with what's going on.

Also, I learned that Intel Capital, the investment arm of Intel, the makers of computer chips, had invested in K2, the ones who handles Sword of the New World in the States.

So maybe that's why they are organized and professional, because they report to a big company like Intel who invested in them.

Other notes: Calypso is out. Hmm, I thought she was Calyce. Pets too (just grabbermon I guess), and the apprentice system for squadding with lowbies. Bellem Boxes can now be bought from an NPC too.