Strange Dungeon of Gullfax

Another new mission at Coimbra Nimbridge.
You are warped to a map like Trinity Mission Lobby. Your task is to kill Gullfax but you can weaken him by killing 3 of his leaders. As im trigger happy I killed first leader without making screen but here are 2 other + Gullfax screen so you know if you can kill them easy or not.

After Gullfaxi is dead you get reward.

Entry Cost - Key [Strange Dungeon of Gullfax] - Acquired from Wandering Merchant in Bahama(r) Base Camp for 30 Explorer Memos.

Balanced Room, Nightmare Unicorn

New mission at Coimbra Nimbridge.
You will be warped into room that is same like Interchange Mission Lobby maps. It has 2 sides with 4 dead end roads. Your task is to make the weights in each side equal or at least that's what I understood. Pay attention to what it writes as notice when the mission starts, I was eating and didn't catch half of it so not all might be so accurate here. You have to make it all balanced as missions name is even Balanced Room. Each side has rocks, crates or barrles that make up the weight. In center area there is a machine that when you click on it will tell you the maximum and minimum weight of whole room. The Notices at start will tell you how much each thing weights so you can calculate how many crates, barrles or stones you must break to make it all even. I am not sure what would be the outcome if you destroyed all weight items so it would be 0 weight balance but during my mission i set goal to 1000 Units as the machine told me I had maximum of 2000 somewhere and minimum 1000 somewhere. So as notice told me the weight of each item in the room is 100 I counted how many crates or stones there are on each spot and left 10 up. In the end I managed to get whole room balanced on 1000 units and summoned the Nightmare Unicorn.

After you kill it you get your reward.

Entry Cost - Key [Balanced Room, Nightmare Unicorn] - Acquiring from Wandering Merchant in Bahama(r) Base Camp for 30 Explorer Memo

Mine Passage, Nest of Merman Eater

New mission at Coimbra Nimbridge NPC. This time it take us to map where you to to kill Merman Eaters. There are 3 bosses:

 Those should be easy to kill. After one boss dies in the same room a warp gate would appear, use it to warp in front of next boss room and so on. When all 3 are dead you will get your reward.

Entry Cost - Key [Mine Passage, Nest of Merman Eater] - Acquiring from the Wandering Merchant in Bahama(r) Base Camp for 30 Explorer Memos.

Tower of Ice Wizard, Leo Room

Another mission from Coimbra Nimbridge from the NPC Coimbra Mercenary.
You will be warped into small room with crystals. Clicking each crystal will turn them into broken crystal and also will take you one step closer to boss. Each click on crystal will release a monster from it, I saw 2 different monsters. They are not hard to kill. After all crystals have been clicked a Starving Elmorc appears in the middle of the map. You need to kill him to end the mission. Make sure you take quest to kill him from the same NPC so you can get Epic Grade Glazium (Vet Polisher) or 5x Veteran B EXP Cards (1.4mil EXP). Once Elmorc is dead a roulette box appears in the middle of the map and you can get your easy reward.

Entry Cost - Key [The Tower of Ice Wizard, Leo Room] - Acquired from Wandering Merchant in Bahama(r) Base Camp for 30 Explorer Boxes

Greed of Treasure Box

This mission is based on normal Bahama(r) Underground Cave map. Your task is to collect 34 boxes. Each box has different attribute that increases or decreases your chance depending on the selection of your characters.
Boxes are names as "STR Treasure Chest" and so on. The collection success rate depends on the Stat points of your character in command(lead). Best would be to take 3 different characters who have 2 high stats like for example Elementalist with INT and CHA, Brunie with AGI and DEX and Claude with STR and HP(CON). All +stat bonuses on belts, necklaces and earrings are counted so the higher the stats the better. Use respective character with highest stat to open certain box. As King of Wealth (i think more than 1) lurks there and I forgot to screen his stats, you can use red lollipop to run fast from box to box. If you want to kill the King of Wealth for quest that you can take from the same NPC at Coimbra Nimbridge (the Coimbria Mercenary), then collect 33 boxes out of 34 and make sure you know the last box location. As there are differences in ones capabilities to kill a boss it might take time and there isn't that much time to spend on killing. Treasure roulette appears once you have collected last box in the same location.

I got constellation box and some 69 Grade Exp cards from my first try. Mission is once per day.

Entry Cost - Key [Greedy Treasure Box] - Acquired from Wandering Merchant in Bahama(r) base camp for 30 Explorer Memo.

Lot of News

As many already know, Granado Espada Online has released 6 Update Previews and 2 Bonus Previews with 2 more Bonus ones coming before the game goes online again. I am sure eager people have already checked everything and know most of the updates that are part of the previews but there might still be few who aren't up-to-date with everything that has been posted. So here I have compiled an easy list of what we are going to get.

New Characters:

• Ludin - Leonele (new name of Lionel though it sounds girlish) little sister who has different color eyes (red and blue) and is great Fire Mage. Apparently the evil raid boss Sekhmet is the one that taught Ludin to be successful mage with her "Ifrit" stance.
• Veroniff - Alchemist from Viron City that we all know well already. She will be good ET user and with the new weapon type "Book" she can use her special stance "Hermesitsme". 
• Daria and Natalie - Sisters who are born in Illier. Both seem medicore characters who will probably be sitting in Quarters most of the time except for those fans who just play with them cause of their own reasons.
• Ion - Ice mage (sorry for the use of mage instead of elementalist, just feels shorter and sums it all up) who is noble and has something for Catherine Torsche.
• Beatrice - Sister of M'Boma and Lightning based mage. Will probably be the mostly used character in raids as she has great skills and is decant damage dealer. 
• Adriana - If you have done Castillia missions, that most of us have seen and done already, then you should know her. Now she is recruitable. She seems decant character but time will show if her stance is more useful in raiding or PvPing or she will be just another character in your quarters.
• Grandies - Clone of Grenmah, a younger clone that is. She is great Greatsword user and has strong PvP stance that will be hard to acquire. Will be widely used in raids and PvP.
• Vincent - No one likes him but I am sure some will still use him. Also a Book users like Veroniff and has some good support skills like Mass Destruction. Must wait and see how useful he will turn into being after people can get their hands on him.
• Elisa - Scout type character that people seem to desire and will probably use. Also known from Castillia quests and area.
• Cruise - Another NPC from Castillia that will become recruitable.

New Equipment:

• Strata Devil Armours  - Even though not everyone uses Cromas yet, there will be even more stronger version of armours available from raids. It will be yet another challenge and desired item(s) for those who just want to have everything.
• Evil Weapons - Quest based Evil Weapons that are 34AR and can have similar stats as Strata Devil weapons. You make 1 weapon at the time and it will probably take few weeks up to a month to gather all the materials via raid/missions. Those weapons can't be traded so all personal account based weapons that are good and strong.
• Strata Devil Accessories - New equipment that has great bonuses but they are rare and hard to craft so getting your hands on full set will take quite a while.

 New Areas/Zones/Raids:

• Lucifer Secret Garden - It will not be secret for long now. Lot of different monsters lurk there, one stronger than other and ready to kill you instantly if you step in their way. New fighting place for clans who want to get their hands on new loot that they haven't got yet.
• Bahia Missions - Now that Gigante Island has been renamed/turned into Bahia, this is where you can grind new missions to get loot. Those missions also give Sewing Kit that is used for the costume mixing machine.
• 2 New Clan missions - Autobaron clan mission that should be familiar to those who have seen Autobaron in Clock Tower raid. Supply Mission where your primary goal is to gather supplies rather than killing monsters as regular missions are.
• Secret Tower Revamp - As it says, they revamped the STo so it would be more appealing and interesting to do instead of the tedious key farming. This mission/raid has been in the forgotten list for a while and at least the main interest was lost when the summoning bug was fixed and people couldn't abuse it any longer.
• Circus Raid Revamp - No longer does it need 3 people to open the raid. You can now solo it if you are capable of doing so.
•  Lucifer Corridor - New open world area where high level mobs lurk and drop Strata accessory recipes with low chance. Also bosses lurk there so one more place where clans can show their dominance and strength of raiding.
• Lucifer Twisted SpaceTime Room - Current home of Montoro where he will see his end.
• 4 New weekly missions - Just like there are Griffon instance, Rafflesia and some other instances, you can now go to 4 new ones either with friends or solo.
• 3 New Bounty Hunter missions - Mostly for getting skill rings for new character stances but loot is loot that you get from there.
• New Nimrod Bridge Daily missions - As there are Team Arena, Barrier and some other missions that you could do daily, now there are way more raids in the list which you can pick from to keep you busy day and night.
• Torsche Mansion Annex Revamp - It will now become veteran area where you can acquire stance skill rings for Summoner Catherine.
• Castillia Temple - Premium area for levelling and farming alchemy item.

New Systems:

• Farm System - Grow your food and be the farmer of the year. Those who are frequent Facebook users and have played or still play Farmville or Farmville 2 would probably be happy about feature like this to be added into GE. It gives them same kind of challenge if not even more now in GE.
• Fishing System - Guessing that the principal is same like Farm system. You just got lot of new things to do so you don't get bored of grinding Bounty Hunter missions day by day.
• Pet Farm System - This should be more straightforward with capturing a monster and feeding it to get reward. This doesn't have levelling system like above 2 have where you gain ranks depending on your progress and effort.
• Pioneering Memorial System - Finally all the Memorials have been removed from the game. Yes you can't any longer gather your experience cards from those small posts to boost your levels, but you can now pick 1 Merchant out of 3 available who offer you different hunting missions where you can gather rewards and still buy the experience cards from their shop if you desire. As more you progress more interesting stuff will be in their shop so now you have lot of other options.
• New Start point - For those new brave pioneers who create new account can chill around in new start point.
• Costume Mixing Machine - You can make 2 useless costumes into 1 that you might or might not have. Also has rare weapon costumes in the list that you could get when you mix together your costumes.
• Character Promotion - Will be changed to only Shiny Crystal based and you no longer need the awakening scrolls as only the Shiny Crystal promotion will already give you the extra AR/DR, HP boots and Stat points.

This sums up for currently released information though one update will come today and another one tomorrow. Also today the transfer page will be opened so everyone can finally confirm their transfer and start playing as soon as servers open.

Introduction

Hello, I am AshLords family currently still in Illier server but that will all change after transfer. Some have asked why I have picked such odd family name for myself so here is an explanation - I had a character named SkyPhoenix in private MU Online server. When I started Sword of the New World I thought I should go with something similar or something that goes with Phoenix the creature. As Phoenixes turn into pile of ash after they die so they could reborn from it, it felt right to call them the Lords of Ashes aka to make it shorter I used AshLords as my family name. The SkyPhoenix name is currently used by my male Musk who was one of my first characters I created in this game.

Currently my family is level 52 with total of 57 characters. Leading a clan named Gaslight in Illier that was once great clan (until few months ago) but due various reasons it is like it is now and will cease to excist after transfer.

As Ashardalon the Great Blogger has been the guiding light and inspiration for us all, this blog will be updates about my progress, my point of view in raids and missions and also anything that goes about Granado Espada Online. I am not sure how often I can keep the blog updated but I will try my best and not let it die :)

Also as time passes I hope to make improvements on the layout and design so it doesn't look so generic as it is currently.