Brave fighter RPG.

Oct 152015

Was bored and decided to play some hack and slash RPG. Except some annoying bugs and the lousy translation, the game turned out quite addictive until end-game. Then it is repetitive and boring, unless you pay to buy gems.

The worst two bugs as of the moment of writing this article are:

While scrolling right when moving, sometimes the controls freeze and you can’t attack and use skills but your enemies can. You often get stun by hellknights. Quite annoying.
Dryad bosses and the final boss tend to go to the edge of the map and force you to follow them. It happens a Dryad walking left until the beginning of the map.

Funded players (those who pay real money to buy gems) will have it easier and faster. You can buy some really cool things with gems. Fast HP regeneration, additional mercenary slots in early game, better drop rate, faster skill recharge. Fortunatelly – you can still end the game without gems. It’s just not that easy.

Be sure to play 12 days in a row, so you get the 2 good mercenaries and some spare money, potions, gems and scrolls:

Play 12 days in a row!

Passive skills are valid for the whole account, so you can max them up by playing another game slot and buy some of them there. In the beginning, the game is generous on gems.

Delete the second account and start another game. Repeat until you have all passive skills. If you do this, you can probably buy any of the premium mercenaries, so they help you in the end-game fight.

So, let’s start. You get few things from the intro-tutorial:

Your father “signor” Glenelg rushes to die to protect the realm.
The realm is attacked by a demon named Beld.
You are named Arthur.
You rush to help your father.
You have the same skills as your father.
You can’t play different class than sword fighter.

Area 1: Imperial city.

Nothing much to do here. Follow tutorial, save Lydia and upgrade her. She is useful healer. Until you get Irina.
Beat the (@#$*) out of the first bosses and take them as a pets.
Get all possible stars from the area. Rewards are not very good but will sell for money and you need them quite a lot.
If you are funded – Get 15 stars and enter the dungeon. Best area items are there.
If you are not funded – keep the gems for later. You need a lot of spare gems to get all good passive bonuses.

DO NOT enter dungeon. Rewards are useless and you will soon get better stuff.

Get all bosses down and march to …

Area 2: Alcala land.

Replace your monster with the obsessed knight Cougar. He is way better tank but costs a lot more to upgrade.
Get Irina. She is weaker healer than Lydia but she buffs defense and her main attack is vampiric.
Up to you to decide whom you will use as a main healer. Irina will keep healing you every 10-12 seconds. Even off-battle. Quite useful when you want to max your health before boss-fights.
Work your main char to level 20 and get 3 slots for formation. Lot easier to complete the area after this.
If you are not funded – Ignore the dungeon. Keep the gems for later.

Area 3: Crimson area.

This is where the easy romantic part ends.
Play for 5 days in a row to get the demon knight mercenary Breeze as reward. He is way better DD than you and has shockwave.
If you listened to my advice to keep all gems and if you are not funded, you can probably afford a passive skill by now. Get the party expansion x 2.
Now you can have 2 healers and 3 tanks. Plus additional ranged damage dealer on the back. Seth is very weak but does good damage. You can get Seth the timid mini-dragon from map 3-4.
Kill the last boss Gu-Vano 5 times. Stella sword is not bad at all. If you are lucky, he will drop a 4-star Muramasa which is a bit worse than 4-star Stella and also Altai stone with +15% damage.
The only really hard thing in this area is to get 3-stars result on map 3-7. Every other group comes from behind and you have to get back to kill them or your healers die. You need timing less than 2:40 minutes. Take your time. Not necessary, no reward but you need money for upgrades after all.

Area 4: Frozen land.

Arm with patience on this map.
Level up everyone you can.
Level up your items.
Last map needs 15000 party power and you will barely make it there with just 15k.
If you have been listening so far about no gem spending on dungeons – you probably collected more gems. Get rapid skill cooldown. You will use a lot of skills.
Now the fun part 🙂
You have to kill Deal-Murdo 6 times for the reward of 4-star “Leonhreat”. Best armor you can find if you are not funded. He also drops a 3-star Casely-ann sword and 2-star “Lord dangler” shield. Be sure to check them out if you don’t have better. If you are not funded – you probably don’t. Keep killing him until 2-star “Lord stone” amulet drops. It has 15% chance of instant skill recovery. Very useful and goes to 21% for the first few cheaper item upgrades. Don’t overpay you will get the 4-star version in the last area. No need to over-upgrade any item until you are in the last map 5-8.

Area 5: Lava valley.

This place is deadly. Literally.

If you are not funded:

Get back to lower levels and blaze 10000 kills for 20 gems.
Collect some more from daily rewards and buy HP regeneration. Very useful passive skill. Even with all your mercenaries dead – you still have a chance to complete map or duel someone.
Grind yourself to level 50 for some more gems and buy “Drap” rate increase (if you can collect that many gems).

Funded or not, Level up everyone and everything. Level 20 party goes down from one slash of the first mobs.

Make Gu-vano raids. 3 minutes. 4-5 mini bosses. 2k+ gold. 40 kills. Some items.
Map 3-8. 4 runs are worth 10k gold.
If you feel strong enough (20000+ party power), grind map 5-2. 3 bosses. ~3500 gold per run. Some potions and some very useless items will drop on each run. Experience is good though. Sell the items and repeat.
Later, if bored – grind 5-5. Good drop rate from the barrels.
And of course 5-8 which is full of mini-bosses all over the place.

In all cases, you can’t end the game with less than 25000 party power, so you need to level up items, skills and party members quite a lot.
If you are not funded – this involves much grinding for money.

You can try to get premium mercenaries. The authors decided to raise the price of everything, but if you can spend the gems (or listened to my advice to play another char and get the passive skills there):

The boar king is an excellent tank. Was 30 gems, now 80.
The dryad is weak but can mass attack and ensnare. Was 40 gems, now 100.
And the golem, who can mass attack and tank well. Was 50 gems, now 120.

My personal choice is the boar. Cheap and sturdy.
And option 2 of course – spend the gems for the last map dungeon. Best items drop there. 21 gems per entry. Beld drops them too, but if you are in a hurry 😉 …

Last fight with Beld/Bled

Last fight.

Many copies of all bosses and mini bosses.
Beld is weakling.
Don`t know why you have to be with 25000 party power to enter last map.
He only has one special attack which will probably wipe your party but you will stand (if you have all passives).
By now Arthur is probably level 60, with almost 100k hitpoints. Not really a hard solo fight.
My first attempt was with 25008 party power and I only had to gulp 3 potions to finish him.
Cutscene with your father fading away.

The end.

Brave Fighter End Game

Now get back and kill him 7 more times for the achievement and the 4-star “Lord stone”. 30% chance of instant skill recovery. 60% when max-upgraded. Beats the premium passive skill, but still good to have both. With this Lord Stone upgraded to level 10 you can spam-kill everything.
You may also try to make 24 stars on area 5 (quite useless, no hidden achievement). You need to kill Beld in less than 4:10 minutes for this.

Game already ended. But…

End-game fight with Beld’s kill will always count as a newly finished map. With bonus in the end. You can use this to make 2 additional gems every day. This is probably a bug which will be fixed by the game developers sooner or later, so use it to unlock everything else while it is still there. 2 stars per day + some stars every other day, just for logging in.

You can also buy a 4-star Casely Ann for 22000 gold as spoils of the last battle. So, be sure to have the money.
The only item you can’t find with unfunded game is the 4-star “Lord dangler”. No-one drops it and nowhere to buy it. Probably only accessible as a part of the premium full armor set, but I decided not to pay EUR 20 for the necessary gems 😉

Have fun!

Stone of Life EX (S.O.L. Ex) map and hints.

Android RPGs 64 Responses »

Dec 022014

This is where the Ancient Armor is hidden

Stone of life Ex (S.O.L. Ex) is an Android RPG game similar to Aurum Blade. Actually the PREQUEL of the Aurum Blade, where the Villain is still a child seeking the stone of life.

This is a dungeon map walkthrough in case you missed some area or can’t find a dungeon.

I have included the secret location of the Ancient armor (see the picture) in case you can’t find one or the shop does not sell it.

Also in the picture, you will see the best ingame spells.

No need to invest (at all) in any of the other spells. They are useless or WAY too slow to cast in bad situations.

So don’t hesitate but download the game from Android Market and start slashing that weapon.

Enjoy!

I did 😉

Package 1

Treasure of grave robbers – Deep place of Canis forest.
Traces of the spirit of ruins – Canis forest.
Investigation of spirit dungeon – Outskirts of Canis forest.
Destroy the cursed sword – South of Ravenwood.
Record of the spirits – South of Ravenwood.
Clear den of slaver – Ravenwood.
Clear assassin’s guild – North of Ravenwood.
Clear laboratory of Necrosis – East of Ravenwood.
Alchemists’s plan – Northeast of Ravenwood.
Secret records – Southeast of Ravenwood.
Testing ground of weapons – North of Ravenwood.
Security of Herbhill – West of Ravenwood.
Clear abandoned mansion – West of Ravenwood.

Package 2

Moving sword – East of Greystone.
Secret weapon of Necrosis – Southeast of Greystone.
Find the wizard’s treasure – Northeast of Greystone.
Kill wyvern demon – Outskirts of Greystone.
The devil’s labyrinth – Trail of Retineo.
Ancient undead – East of Retineo.
Defend treasure – Retineo Mountains.
Siren’s cave – Tunnel of Greystone.
Clear top floor of Ice tower – East of ancient abbey.
Haunted mansion – West of Ancient Abbey.
Defend the cursed pendant – Outskirts of Ancient Abbey.
Archives of Monastery – Ancient Abbey.
Kill Ifrit – Northeast of Ancient Abbey.
Kill Deathknight – Northwest of Ancient Abbey.
Holy land in the golem’s cave – South of Retineo.

Stone of life Dungeons (South)

Package 3

Defend a guardian stone – Entrance of Halten mountains.
Kill eyes of fear – South of Halten mountains.
Barbarians in old mine – Halten mountains.
Leader of the Yeti – West of Halten mountains.
Destroy altar of Necrosis – Signo valley.
Kill priest Marcus – North of Signo valley.
Kill executive 0f Necrosis – South of Signo valley.
Information of Betrayer – East of Signo valley.
Thieves hideout – North of Catacomb.
Rebel’s secret warehouse – Northern tunnel of Catacomb.
Secret summon – East of Halten mountains.
Conspiracy of smuggler – Southern tunnel of Catacomb.
Emperor of Catacomb – Catacomb.
The great merchant’s treasure – South of Oldtown.
Find the crystal of the spirits – West of Catacomb.
Defend the moon fragment – East of Catacomb.
Boss of dark organization – West of Catacomb.

Package 4

Curse of the werewolf – South of Curseland.
Yeti’s treasure – Northwest of Curseland.
Kill skeleton king – Northeast of Curseland.
Impact of broken seal – West of Curseland.
Lullaby of the spirits – North of Curseland.
Anger of the spirits – East of Curseland.
Sleeping ancient spirit – Northwest of Curseland.
Dimension seal – Northeast of Curseland.
The ruins of hidden seal – Curseland.
Kill Minotauros king – East of Curseland.
Defend a stone of Anima – South of Curseland.
Clear remnants of Necrosis – North of Curseland.

Package 5

Result of failure in the evolution – Cruise mountain southern.
Laboratory of evil religious orders – Cruise mountain southern.
Experiment of those who sacrificed – Cruise mountain.
The chart of evolution – Cruise mountain western.
Camp of religious orders – Cruise trail.
Result of fast evolution – Passion plain.
Zealot and bomb – Passion plain southern.
Result of success in the evolution – Passion tunnel.
Soul of fallen god – Crinsia ruin.

Stone of life Dungeons (North)

Package 6

Kill mutant orcs – Passion plain southern.
Destroy status – Crinsia ruin northern.
Escape from corridor of otherworld – Crinsia ruin northern.
Remove a bomb in the air maze – Abydos northern.
Stop explosion – King’s garden.
Reinvasion of the otherworld – King’s garden western.

Package 7

Specimens in abandoned villa hall – Abydos northern.
Forgotten treasure in warehouse – King’s garden.
Kill specimens in arsenal – King’s garden eastern.
Revived magical monsters in the library – King’s garden eastern.
Battle specimens EX-108 – King’s garden western.
Sweep the camp of specimen – King’s garden northern.
Resurrected experiment executor – King’s garden northern.
Murlock’s successor – King’s villa.
Kill magical specimens Ex-88 – King’s garden northern.
Cursed specimens – Abydos.

Package 8

(This Room is accessible via the shiny portal in each town)

Dungeon of life rune – Room of ancient treasure.
Dungeon of spirit rune – Room of ancient treasure.
Dungeon of gold rune – Room of ancient treasure.
Dungeon of heroes – Room of ancient treasure.
Ancient Dungeon – Room of ancient treasure.
Dungeon of hunters – Room of ancient treasure.
Dungeon of sages – Room of ancient treasure.

Package 9

Ancient magical sword in mine – Western of Ruina cave.
Evil’s attack – Western of Ruina cave.
Resurrected Evil’s nest – Central of Ruina cave.
Piece of life – Northern of Ruina cave.
Piece of mind – Southern of Ruina cave.
Sealed ancient stone – Northern of Ruina cave.
Ancient golems – Southern of Ruina cave.
Discover base of ruins – Eastern of Ruina cave.
Mad grave robbers – Eastern of Ruina cave.
Broken gap of other world – Abyss of Ruina cave.
Collapsed refuge – Central of Ruina cave.
Repair gap of dimension – Abyss of Ruina cave.

Aurum blade farming guide (with maps).

Android RPGs 8 Responses »

May 262014

This is what you can farm as materials in the different levels of the tower. I did not include the bosses that can be killed only once, because you only get 1-3 drops from them … once.

If you like the game, don’t forget to also install the prequel, where your enemy is still a child. It’s called S.o.L. EX (Stone of Life EX).

Pure salt crystals:

Floor 1 – Place of the beginning 1-3.Skeletons.
Floor 2 – Place of power 1-4. Skeletons.
Floor 3 – Place of record 1-4. Skeletons.
Floor 17 – Valley of screams 1-5. Sharkmen.
Floor 19 – Place of traps 1-5. Sharkmen.

Natural sulphur powder:

Floor 4 – Miniature garden 1-3. Golems.
Floor 22 – Forest of truth 1-7. Blood golems.

Fragment of mother earth:

Floor 4 – Miniature garden 1-3. Wooden Forester. MG-2.
Floor 7 – Nest of Gorgon. Gorgon.

Truffle:

Floor 4 – Passage & Room of the gardener. Boarmen.
Floor 5 – Forest of life 1-6. Boarmen.
Floor18 – Ancient forge. Lionmen.
Floor 22 – Room of test 1-3 & Room of truth. Boarmen.
Floor 23 – Place of destruction 1-4. Lionmen.
Floor 24 – Twisted space. Lionmen.

Scale of dragon:

Floor 4 – Passage & Room of the gardener. Lizardmen.
Floor 6 – Place of dazzlement 1-3. Lizardmen.
Floor 7 – Metallic space 1-3. Lizardmen.
Floor 15 – Refuge of the flame 1-6. Lizardmen.
Floor 22 – Infinite maze of dead 1-7. Lizardmen.

Golden fruit seed:

Floor 8 – Goblin area 1-2. Goblins.
Floor 9 – Gold workroom 1-6. Goblins.

Petal of edelweiss:

Floor 8 – Dwarf area 1-2. Dwarves.
Floor 9 – Gold workroom 1-6. Dwarves.

Piece of rune stone:

Floor 8 – Wild hammer @ Conflict area.
Floor 10 – Way to the quarry 1-3. Urukhai.
Floor 19 – Place of traps 1-5. Megalodon.

Seed of the tree spirit:

Floor 10 – Way to the quarry 1-3. Orcs.
Floor 11 – Rest area of wind 1-3. Orcs.
Floor 12 – Place of ordeal 1-3. Gnolls & Forgotten tomb of the orcs 1-8. Orcs.
Floor 14 – Inextinguishable blast furnace 1-6. Orcs.
Floor 22 – Lucian’s summoning place 1-5. Werewolves.

Wet moss:

Floor 10 – Quarry of dwarves 1-3 & Room of the dwarf miner. Gavial & Iron chin.
Floor 23 – Place of destruction 1-4.Aligators.

Aromatic herb leaf:

Floor 13 – Tower reactor 1-3. Control room. Ogres.
Floor 21 – Place of truth 1-4. Ogres.
Floor 25 – Space of immortality 1-6. Ogres.

Scale of fish:

Floor 16 – Water temple 1-3. Fishmen. Octopussies.
Floor 19 – Place of traps 1-5. Fishmen.
Floor 20 – Room of the cure 1-5. Fishmen.

Root piece of Yggdrasil:

Floor 17 – Valley of screams 1-5. Golems.
Floor 20 – Room of the cure 1-5. Golems.

Crystal of flame:

Floor 22 – Room of test 2. Crazy cannon.

Marble of life:

Floor 3 – Place of record 4. Thriller.

In general, the quest line in this game is very simple. You may miss some of the quests, but the main quest line cannot be messed up. You can’t progress to upper levels if you don’t follow it.

I noticed that if you get back to tower level 1 and proceed up again – you may meet some side quests that don’t show up in the first time, so do it at least once (or twice) – just to check if you don’t miss something.

Do all levels of all Blade types and do power dungeons every day and you will level your character much faster than the experience given by quests and side quests.

That’s why – I decided not to write complete quest walkthrough like other android games.

Floor 1 Place of the beginning 1-3. Skeletons. Pure salt crystals.	Aurum blade, floor 1
Floor 2 Place of power 1-4. Skeletons. Pure salt crystals.	Aurum blade, floor 2
Floor 3 Place of record 1-4. Skeletons. Pure salt crystals. Thriller. Boss. POR-4. Marble of life.	Aurum blade, floor 3
Floor 4 Miniature garden 1-3. Golems. Natural sulphur powder. Wooden Forester. MG-2. Fragment of mother earth. MG3 -> Passage of the gardener. -> Room of the gardener. Boarmen. Truffle. Lizardmen. Scale of dragon.	Aurum blade, floor 4 Aurum blade, floor 4 – Room of the gardener.
Floor 5 Forest of life 1-6. Boarmen. Truffle.	Aurum blade, floor 5
Floor 6 Place of dazzlement 1-3. Lizardmen. Scale of dragon.	Aurum blade, floor 6
Floor 7 Metallic space 1-3 & Nest of Gorgon. Lizardmen. Scale of dragon. Gorgon. Fragment of mother earth.	Aurum blade, floor 7
Floor 8 Goblin area 1-2 Dwarf area 1-2 Conflict area. Goblins. Golden fruit seed. Dwarves. Petal of edelweiss. Wild hammer @ Conflict area. Piece of rune stone.	Aurum blade, floor 8
Floor 9 Gold workroom 1-6. Goblins. Golden fruit seed. Dwarves. Petal of edelweiss.	Aurum blade, floor 9
Floor 10 Way to the quarry 1-3: Orc. Seed of the tree spirit. Urukhai. Piece of rune stone. Quarry of dwarves 1-3 & Room of the dwarf miner. Gavial, Iron chin. Wet moss.	Aurum blade, floor 10 Aurum blade, floor 4, Quarry of dwarves
Floor 11 Rest area of wind 1-3. Orcs. Seed of the tree spirit. 2 different approaches to the next level, chosen from RAOF-1. Use the right hand rule to find everything on this level.	Aurum blade, floor 11
Floor 12 Place of ordeal 1-3. Gnoll. Seed of the tree spirit. Blue portal in POD-1 leads to the area Forgotten tomb of the orcs. Red portal leads to a golden column where an endgame alchemist recipe is hidden (see below) Forgotten tomb of the orcs 1-8. Orcs. Seed of the tree spirit.	Aurum blade, floor 12 Aurum blade, floor 12, Forgotten tomb of the orcs.
Floor 13 Tower reactor 1-3 & Control room. Ogres. Aromatic herb leaf. There are 4 globes which are to be pressed in specific order, according to the color. Before the last patch, you needed to guess just one. Now you need to guess correct order. Each error teleports you back, but it’s not that hard. You get enough experience from kills.	Aurum blade, floor 13
Floor 14 Inextinguishable blast furnace 1-6. Orcs. Seed of the tree spirit.	Aurum blade, floor 14
Floor 15 Refuge of the flame 1-6. Lizardmen. Scale of dragon.	Aurum blade, floor 15
Floor 16 Water temple 1-3. Fishmen. Scale of fish. Kraken’s nest 1-6 & Kraken room Octopussies. Scale of fish. In kraken room, read the books for ancient knowledge of 3 stat points. See below for exact place.	Aurum blade, floor 16 Aurum blade, floor 16, Kraken
Floor 17 Valley of screams 1-5. Golems. Root piece of Yggdrasil. Sharkmen. Pure salt crystals.	Aurum blade, floor 17
Floor 18 Ancient Ruins 1-6. Ancient armor forge. Ancient weapon forge. Lionmen. Truffle.	Aurum blade, floor 18
Floor 19 Place of traps 1-5. Sharkmen. Pure salt crystals. Fishmen. Scale of fish. Megalodon. Piece of runestone. POT-4.	Aurum blade, floor 19
Floor 20 Room of the cure 1-5. Fishmen. Scale of fish. Golems. Root piece of Yggdrasil.	Aurum blade, floor 20
Floor 21 Place of truth 1-4. Ogres. Aromatic herb leaf.	Aurum blade, floor 21
Floor 22 Room of test 1-3. Boarmen. Truffle. Crazy cannon. ROT-2. Crystal of flame. Lucian’s summoning place 1-5. Werewolves. Seed of the tree spirit. Infinite maze of dead 1-7. Lizardmen. Scale of dragon. Farm at least 65-70 scrolls from the boarmen outside if you want to visit all rooms of the maze. Except the test, there are 2 ancient books. One knowledge and one recipe. Forest of truth 1-7 & Room of truth. Boarmen. Truffle. Blood golems. Natural sulphur powder.	Aurum blade, floor 22 Aurum blade, floor 22, Lucian’s summoning place. Aurum blade, floor 22, Infinite maze of dead. Aurum blade, floor 22, Forest of truth.
Floor 23 Place of destruction 1-4. Aligators. Wet moss. Lionmen. Truffle.	Aurum blade, floor 23
Floor 24 Twisted space (only 1 map here) Lionmen. Truffle.	Aurum blade, floor 24
Floor 25 Space of immortality 1-6. Ogres. Aromatic herb leaf.	Aurum blade, floor 25