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Wonder why close to zero information about Ikebukuro pops up on Aeria considering that public access to it has been enabled for 2 weeks. Guess all the “JP players” are busy farming ice.

Also wonder how many SMT “fans” are able to catch the reference in the title of this post.

Patch notes and other Imagine-related stuff are embedded in this post somewhere.

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Ikebukuro

- Two area, South Ikebukuro and East Ikebukuro

- Morning Spawns for South Ikebukuro
* Accomplished Cockatrice
* Ogre
* Oni
* Accomplished Oni
* Accomplish Forneus
* Orthus
* Ubelius
* Flood Causing Apsaras (Cannot be recruited)
* Flood Causing Isora (Cannot be recruited)
* Flood Causing Tanki (Cannot be recruited)
* Flood Causing Azumi (Cannot be recruited)
* Flood Causing Mizuchi (Cannot be recruited)

- Night Spawns for South Ikebukuro
* Accomplished Isora
* Accomplished Mizuchi
* Empusa
* Lilium
* Incubus
* Succubus
* Laughing Skull
* Flood Causing Kelpie (Cannot be recruited)
* Flood Causing Ganga (Cannot be recruited)
* Flood Causing Forneus (Cannot be recruited)

- Spawns for East Ikebukuro
* Used by Punk, Yomotsu-Ikusa (Cannot be recruited)
* Used by Punk, Oni (Cannot be recruited)
* Used by Punk, Vetala (Cannot be recruited)
* Used by Punk, Pischa (Cannot be recruited)
* Used by Punk, Gorgon (Cannot be recruited)
* Used by Punk, Taraka (Cannot be recruited)
* Used by Punk, Datsueba (Cannot be recruited)
* Used by Punk, Yomotsuikusa (Cannot be recruited)
* Cowardly Punk (Human, cannot be recruited)
* Punk (Human, cannot be recruited)
* Punk Leader (Human, cannot be recruited)
* Gathered Cowardly Punk (Human, cannot be recruited)
* Gathered Punk (Human, cannot be recruited)
* Gathered Punk Leader (Human, cannot be recruited)

- No maps when you first enter the area, i.e. like Shinagawa/Ueno. Map obtained via a quest. Will be explained later.

- There are a Jakyou, Yagiya, Casino, 2 Expert Dwarfs, a bunch of other NPCs and a Terminal in East Ikebukuro

- There are 2 punks near a barricade and a Terminal in South Ikebukuro

- South Ikebukuro is linked to Shinjuku Babal, and East Ikebukuro is in turn linked to South Ikebukuro.

- South Ikebukuro is accessed from the Northeastern gate in Shinjuku Babel

- You need to complete a “quest” to get pass the barricade and access the rest of Ikebukuro. Will be explained later.

- A new currency, Kreuv is used in Ikebukuro.

- Quest in there gives Kreuv as a reward instead of Makka, and Makka can also be exchanged for Kreuv at the Yagiya.
* 1 Kreuv : 3000 Makka

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Casino

- A quest is needed before access to the casino is granted. Will be explained later.

- You can buy casino coins with Kreuv at the casino. However a lockout is enforced after each purchase, and you can only purchase additional coins after the lockout has expired.
* 500 coins – 50 Kreuv (3 hrs lockout)
* 1000 coins – 99 Kreuv (6 hrs lockout)
* 2000 coins – 196 Kreuv (12 hrs lockout)
* 4000 coins – 388 Kreuv (24 hrs lockout)

- There is currently only 1 card game in the casino, and I’m too lazy to explain the rules.

- Possible casino rewards are as follow:
* Orb of Contract (Absolute) – 666,666,666 coins (Used in Devil Force to grant a passive that gives 100% to void all physical attacks)
* Seiryuu’s Plugin – 1,000,000 coins
* A random devil zodiac stone – 30,000 coins
* A random large rune stone – 2,600 coins
* Orb of Contract (Revolving) – 500 coins (+1 to benefit gauge for devil force)
* Blend Eternal Alpha – 300 coins (Raise the great success chance for an item mixing attempt to 100%)
* 5x random gold and 10x random silver item mixing ingredients – 120 coins
* Bloodstone of Raktavija – 100 coins (Used in Ikebukuro’s Jakyou, explained later)
* Ymir’s Soil – 25 coins (Used in Ikebukuro for Spirit Diffusion, explained later)
* 5x Orbs of Rapidity – 10 coins (The 1.2x, 5mins self ones)

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Expert Dwarfs/Spirit Diffusion

- Inb4 Spiritual Unmixing

- Need to complete a quest first before you can perform spirit diffusion. Will be explained later

- Able to split an item that is already spirit infused into the 2/3 items that were used to form the infused item.

- All slots are LOST, except items that have fixed amount of slots, i.e. CP items.
* Note that diffusion is currently bugged and it’ll sometimes eat the slots of non-CP, non-craftable items that have fixed amount of slots, e.g. Death Summoning Axe.

- All tarots/soul stones are LOST.

- All modifications are LOST.

- Failure still result in the item being split to 2/3 items, but the items will have drastically reduced max durability.

- Success rate calculation differs from normal spirit infusion.
* Exact calculation not figured out yet, and I’m not really bothered to spend time testing it, unless someone is willing to pay me to do that…
* Base success rate is ~26% and it seems to be affected solely by survival tech/dwarf summoned, unlike normal spirit infusion.
* A swordsmithing character that has 100% spirit infusion chance only has ~45% success rate for diffusion.

- Kreuv and Ymir’s Soil are needed to perform a diffusion.

- Base cost if all 3 items used are CP is 60 Kreuv and 600 Ymir’s Soil
* 600 x 25 => 15000 coins. 388/4000 = 0.097 Kreuv/coin. 0.097 * 15000 => 1455 Kreuv
* 60 + 1455 Kreuv => 1515 Kreuv
* 1515 * 3000 => 4,545,000 Makka, assuming no gambling involve.

- If a non-CP item is used, the follow calculation is used:
Kreuv = (Selling Price of 3 items)/5000
Ymir’s Soil = 10 x Kreuv

Much like Spirit Infusion, CP items are treated as 100k for their selling price.

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Ikebukuro’s Jakyou

- You are able to perform a solo Tri-Fusion in Ikebukuro
* Need a Bloodstone of Raktavija for each attempt
* Payment is in Kreuv instead of Makka
* Usual fusion rules applies
* Friendship level for all devils involved must be at max.

- You are also able to perform a special 2x Fusion in Ikebukuro
* Payment is in Kreuv instead of Makka
* Sucess rate is increased
* Usual fusion rules applies
* Friendship level must be good friends and above, i.e. same as normal tri-fuse.

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New Quest

There are 12 new quests total.

- A New World
Give 10 rubies or 5 scarlet stones (the red stones from Catacombs) to the punk at the barricade in South Ikebukuro C-Class DB License needed to activate the quest.

- Day to Reform Gold
Indirect Continuation of the Shinjuku field’s gambler/Ba Gua Dice quest and Alice Card Collector quest.

1) Gather 2000 gold for Gambler, Kino
2) You’ll gain access and additional rewards depending on whether you’ve complete the other two quest before.

Cannot be repeated. Additional rewards are key items from the previous two quest and/or 5-10 Kreuv.

- An Unreasonable World

1) Talk to a punk in East Ikebukuro
2) Run around East Ikebukuro like a lost sheep to find 3 punks and talk to them
3) Report back for the map

- Back to its Original Form

1) Find Ymir’s Soil for the Expert Dwarfs
2) The end

- A Pathetic World

1) Talk to Wen in East Ikebukuro
2) Kill punks for 5 bottles of Apple Beer
3) The end, you can now turn in a bottle of Apple Beer to warp between East/South Ikebukuro

The other quests are repeatable DHL style stuff.

i.e.

1) Talk to NPC
2) Kill xxx yyy number of times based on NPC list
3) Get 1 Kreuv or some memories in return.
4) Repeatable 6/20hrs depending on the quest.

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All in all, despite all the hype cooked up by Cave, Ikebukuro is disappointing.

It took me ~two hours to consume pretty much all of the content and new quest, and at least an hour or more was wasted in the quest for the map.

There’s still no new hunting ground other than Ichi/Cell/Sugi Gold for a level 90+ player.

The map is pretty buggy at some places too. It’s quite easy to fall under the world or get stuck, making traesto a necessary.

The next installment of CoC isn’t implemented even though Archbishop/Shinkawa yak on about how they have tons of acts planned and will update it frequently.

It’s already four months since the second installment of CoC and considering their release schedule for their Cornafest event doesn’t show any CoC stuff in August, earliest CoC3 might come in is in early September, i.e. half a year since CoC2,

Watch as CoC’s release speed slow down to match that of the main episode: a new one every few years…

Now for the boring patch notes…

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Patch Notes for the 29th of July

- Spirit Diffusion Implemented
- You can perform special fusions in the Jakyou in Ikebukuro
- Display sequence for devil force have been changed
- You are now able to get a 10% discount when you exchange stuff with Gambler Kino is you use the item Kreuv (Fake). (Fin: Note, it’s the CP item that was given in advance for casino use)
- Prizes that are random is nature are now indicated on Gambler Kino’s exchange list.
- A certain someone from CoC will now appear in Ikebukuro
- You can now turn in the broken Nanatsusaya-no-Tachi and its splinters to the Retired Man in Souhonzan
- Fixed a bug that prevented part of CoC from working (Fin: CoC was broken for a week or so after the 22nd of July patch)
- Some quest text changes
- Devil use damage increase cards can now be traded/sold in bazaar (Fin: Player version are as of now still cannot be traded)
- Fixed the display graphics of the following items: the 3 +2 mithra ring, and the 3 +2 booster rings.
- Ulysses, Ulysses +1 and Ulysses +2 will now add +xx% damage instead of +xx damage. (Fin: Rings were broken during the 22nd of July patch)
- Some icons on the Devil Force window has been changed.
- Fixed a bug where WILDCAT beta isn’t removed from players inventory when they are doing the quest, Siblings.

Patch Notes for the 5th of August

- Escape from 3rd Home Part V. Last until the 19th of December
- New event, Tears of Demon
- Some graphical files will now be compressed
- SP can now be exchanged for the following skills:
* Dream Eater (30,000 SP)
* Maha~dyne (35,000 SP)
* Megidola (50,000 SP)
* Brilliance of Magic (50,000 SP)

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Escape From 3rd Home

Escape from 3rd home this time is… dumb.

Saburou wants gems/5x cups this time instead of elements.

71+ requires 3 diamond or 5 rubies for 1 forged access card, or a 5x cup for 4 forged access card.

C route -> Clear ~10 jack frost (163 HP each), then kill the king frost (399 HP) that spawns.
B route -> Kill Kinki, Suiki and Fuuki, same version as Shinjuku Field (~20k HP each).

Then things go into the extreme end…

A route -> Kill Stop me and Ponder, Omoikane within 5 mins. Failure to do so will result in ~20 Snakeman’s Ultimate Weapon, Omoikane to spawn.

Stop me and Ponder, Omoikane takes 1 damage from everything except critical damage.

Has ~3m HP and has the usual Omoikane resistance, i.e. void all magic, weak to default melee attacks/handguns

Has no skills, but can be knocked back normally. Regen ~1k hp/tick.

Low crit/no LB = cannot be kill.

The ultimate weapons has the same amount of HP, but can be damaged normally. They however have an offensive skill: an AE suicide and due to their high HP, it’s an instant KO.

S on the other hand isn’t as stupid as A.

S Route, Wave 1: numerous Oni.

These Oni are pretty much the same as your regular ones, only have ~625 HP and the only offensive skill they have is punch, rampage and fire breath.

S Route, Wave 2: Kinki, Suiki and Fuuki

Same as B Route

S Route, Wave 3: Ongyouki x 2

Each of these Ongyouki have ~70k HP.

One has 50% chance to void all physical attacks, 100% chance to void slash/blunt/pierce/handgun/rifle/shotgun/mystical/mind/death and resist everything else, weak to expel.

The other has 50% chance to void all magical attacks, 100% chance to void fire/ice/electric/force/mystical/mind/death and resist everything else, weak to expel.

Both have the usual Ongyouki boss’ skill list.

Rewards (still incomplete):

C route
- XP: 20k XP
- Item:
* group xp ashes x3
* jack card

B route
- XP: 300k XP
- Item:
* group xp ashes x5
* queen card
* one of the G1 trial memory (except power’s)
* group 30mins 1.5x speed orbs (cannot be traded)
* +100% expert skill gain for 24hrs incense

A route
- XP: 600k XP
- Item
* group xp ashes x10 (Fin: No one wants to do A, hence known loot list is very limited)

S route
- XP: 1m XP
* group xp ashes x10
* queen card
* one of the G1 trial memory (including power’s)
* one of the Junkerman’s memory
* group 30mins 1.5x speed orbs (cannot be traded)
* +100% expert skill gain for 24hrs incense
* one of the death summoning weapon (normal version)
* Sugi Gold hacking program (forces treasure box floor to spawn 100% of the time)
* Trapezohedron x 10
* Trapezohedron x 20
* Security Card (Unknown)
* Relic Piece: She Mao
* group 30mins 1.5x speed orbs (cannot be traded)
* +100% expert skill gain for 24hrs incense
* Summoning orb
* Soul Stone: Ophiuchus

Completing any of the route will give an item, Saburou’s Bullet, which is used as a completion counter for Coronafest.

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Tears of Demon

You are tasked to loot a specific gem each week. You’ll get a prize based on how many days you have successfully looted the specific gem.

Week 1, 5th of August to 11th of August: Amethyst

1 Day: Balms of life (7 max)
3 Days: A rune stone ticket (1 max)
All 7 Days: Summoning Program (Heart Warmer) (Fin: Santa Lantern)

Best place to do this is Suginami Bronze

Week 2, 12th of August to 18th of August: Topaz

1 Day: Hack Chip – Mu (7 max)
3 Days: A rune stone ticket (1 max)
All 7 Days: Summoning Program (Proof of Unmeltable Friendship) (Fin: Santa Frost)

Best place to do this is Quartz Bronze

Week 3, 19th of August to 25th of August: Opal

1 Day: Aphrodisiac (7 max)
3 Days: A rune stone ticket (1 max)
All 7 Days: Memory Data Ticket (Fin: Santa Frost)

Best place to do this is Cell Bronze

Week 4, 26th of August to 1st of September: Opal

1 Day: Hack Chip – Alpha 2 (7 max)
3 Days: A rune stone ticket (1 max)
All 7 Days: Warehouse Rental Data Ticket (Fin: Santa Frost)

Best place to do this is Ichigaya Bronze

Note:A day is defines as 0:00 to 23:59

If you complete everything, everyday, you’ll get a secy data ticket as an additional prize. (Fin: exchange for one of the Eternal Partner/Rowdy Passion variants)

Note: All gifts cannot be traded
Note: No matter how many characters you have, each account only qualify once.
Note: It doesn’t matter which character was used to loot the gem. Your account is flagged as long as any character in your account loot the specified gem.
Note: Gem looted from chests, mobs, quest rewards or item mixing all qualifies