A bit of warning not all the books are available yet some are only available to top investors now so here’s a guide to complete the casting guide also prepared by Star ^_^

Cannons are the most sought after item for soldiers and pirates alike.
A good set of cannons will tear blade soul gold through enemies and players alike, and a master Cannon smith is a profession every guild needs.
However crafting Cannons is a labor intensive job. Most of the high-end Cannons require a lot of raw material, which can only be obtained from a handful of Ports.
These Ports, (Hamburg and Barcelona become well known as Cannon exporting Ports, and players from all over the world travel to these Ports to purchase freshly made Cannons from players.
This guide will provide a complete list of all possible player-made Cannons in the game, arranged by the Recipe books in which they come under.
The location of the Recipe books and methods of obtaining them are also listed, as well as the basic stats of all the Cannons.

Required Skills
Mineral Trading (mineral trader)
Industrial Goods Trading (mineral trader)
Firearms Trading (arms trader)
Weapon Trading (arms trader)
Casting (mineral trading, arms trader)

Types of Cannon Ammunition
There are 6 types of Cannon Ammunition, each has a different effect. They are:

Standard Shell
Dualshot Shell
Grapeshot Shell
Chainshot Shell
Flameshot Shell
Smokescreen Shell

Standard Shell[
No special effects

Dualshot Shell
Does extra damage to ship equipment

Grapeshot Shell
Targets ship crew. Critical hits drain enemy vigor

Chainshot Shell
Damages ship equipment

Flameshot Shell
Causes fire

Smokescreen Shell
Reduces enemy accuracy

Notes on the Raw Materials for Cannon Crafting

Cannons are usually crafted by combining 2 or 3 different raw materials
The 1st ingredient is either Cannons or Ammunition
The 2nd ingredient is either Ammunition or Bronze
The 3rd ingredient is either Iron or Steel, or in the case of Bow and Stern Cannons, Lumber

The following paragraph details where each of the ingredients can be obtained.

Cannons
Purchased from London, Seville, Barcelona (require investment)
Crafted from 4 x Coal + 4 x Iron using the Firearms Production Technique Book [casting level 11] (Barcelona, Ceuta, 20,000D)

Ammunition
Purchase from Lisbon, Barcelona
Crafted from 2 x Coal + 2 x Iron using the Firearms Production Technique Book [casting level 5] (Barcelona, Ceuta, 20,000D).

Bronze
Purchased from London, Plymouth
Crafted from Copper Ore + Tin Ore [casting level 7] using the Book of Alloy Smelting (Dublin, reward after 300,000D in investment)

Iron
Purchased from London (require investment), Dublin (require investment), Amsterdam
Crafted from Iron Ore [casting level 5] using the Book of Refining Metal (Lubeck, 120,000D)

Steel
Purchased from Barcelona, Beirute, Jaffa
Crafted from Iron Ore + Graphite [casting level 6] from the Book of Refining Metal (Lubeck, 120,000D)

Lumber
Purchased from Oslo, Helsinki

Notes on Ports for Crafting Ship Cannons
Because of the restrictions on the materials required for crafting Ship Cannons, there are only two viable Ports that is suited for crafting Cannons. They are Barcelona and Hamburg.

Barcelona
Barcelona is the ideal location for crafting Cannons blade and soul gold because the Port exports Cannons, Ammunition and Steel. Only Spanish players will have the option to purchase Cannons from Barcelona, therefore making Barcelona a Cannon Port exclusively to Spanish players.
Another advantage of Barcelona is that it sells the rare item of Steel, which is needed to craft high end Cannons.
For the recipes that require Iron instead of Steel, Barcelona is a short trip away from Algiers, that stock Iron Ore that can turn into Iron with the Book of Refining Metal.
The disadvantage of Barcelona is that you can’t craft Ship Cannons that require Bronze there.

Hamburg
For Cannonsmiths of other nations, Hamburg is the next best Port. However, crafting Cannons in Hamburg takes longer than in Barcelona, because most of the raw materials need to be crafted first.
Cannons and Ammunitions can be crafted from Coal and Iron with the [COLOR="purple"]Firearms Production Technique Book[/COLOR.] (Barcelona, Ceuta, 20,000D)
Coal is available in Hamburg.
Iron can be made from the Iron Ore in Hamburg with the Book of Metal Refining (Lubeck, 12,000D).
Finally Bronze can be smelted by combining Copper Ore with Tin Ore in Hamburg using the Book of Alloy Smelting (Dublin, reward after 300,000D in investment)/
Whilst most of the items for crafting Ship Cannons are available in Hamburg, it does not have Steel. It takes too long to craft Steel from around Hamburg, therefore its recommended to make Ship Cannons that use Iron instead.

Notes of Crafting Cannons
Unlike crafting other materials, when there is a ‘big success’ you don’t receive an extra Ship Cannon.
Each time you can only produce 1 Ship Cannon from the materials.
However, when you do get a ‘big success’ you will receive additional stats to your crafted Ship Cannon.
A ‘big success’ cannon will have the following additional properties:

Durability — +10
Penetration — x1.04 ~ 1.10
Range — +1
Reload Time — +1

Notes on Ship Cannons that sell

In late game, the most preferred Ship Cannons are 14-Gate Carronades. These Cannons do the most damage.
Other popular choices are [B14-Gate Perrier[/B] for increased range and 14-Gate Haiperie.
A cheap alternative is either the 14-Gate Demi-Cannon or 16-Gate Demi-Cannon
[B14-Gate Perrier[/B], 14-Gate Carronades and 16-Gate Demi-Cannon are made from Strengthening of Regular Cannons (all six Capitals, 800,000D after investment) book, and 14-Gate Demi-Cannon and 14-Gate Haiperie are made from the Book of Large Cannon Casting (all six Capitals, 200,000D after investment).

For melee players, Grapeshot and Chain Cannons are preferred because Grapeshot can kill enemy crew, and Chain Cannons rip through enemy sails. The preferred Grapeshot Cannon is 16-Gate Speed Cannon and the preferred Chainshot Cannon is the 16-Gate Angel.
Both of these Ship Cannons are crafted from the Strengthening of Special Cannon recipe book (Calicut, 200,000D after investment).

Finally, some players like to use Flameshot Cannons, because at high level, they can guarantee burning, causing massive damage overtime against enemies.
The Flameshot Cannon of choice is the 16-Gate Draconis or 16-Gate Anne Fehr, both are crafted using the Strengthening of Special Cannon recipe book (Calicut, 200,000D after investment).

For those of you who were fans of the original Tribes game, Tribes ascend plays a lot like the original Tribes but has the added bonus of being free to play. There are jet packs which still allow you to fly and now you can “Ski” across any surface if you hold down a key, but this is affected by slopes. Currently the game has capture the flag and rappelz rupees rabbit game types with 3 maps in CTF so far and yes it is still a first person shooter, except with jetpacks and fast paced movement. Jet packs and skiing really make Tribes different from a normal FPS. While skiing, you move pretty fast so if you can get a good distance between yourself and someone who isn’t skiing, they won’t be able to catch or kill you. The jetpack that everyone gets also makes it more difficult to hit someone with slower moving explosive weapons, but auto-fire weapons are good against someone who’s spamming their jetpack.

There are also classes now which utilize the heavy, medium or light armor sets and have their own unique weapons and abilities. Unfortunately, if you plan on not spending any money you will have to play for weeks to unlock just one class. You do start off with two decent medium armor class “Load outs” though. Also you cannot select which weapons you take with you, your class or load-out determines this.

The fact that it is free to play is sort of a problem though, as there needs to be an incentive for players to buy the game and those incentives are load-outs (Classes), exp/token boosters and the ability to buy the load-outs. Is it buy to win? Somewhat, as you realistically wouldn’t be able to buy ONE class without playing a week or so for multiple hours a day and since you earn EXP for skills, the boosts you can buy help you get stronger faster. Additionally, there are free servers and VIP servers (Which are in the works). The free servers have limited map rotations, while the VIP servers will have all the available maps. To be a VIP you will need to buy cash shop cash or a exp boost, and if you buy during closed beta you get lifetime VIP status. I sort of think separating the servers will thin the population and limiting the map is another way to kind of coerce the players into spending something.

If you really wanted to play now, you could buy rappelz gold your way into beta for $30, which also gets you $30 worth of cash shop credit (Gold) a exp booster, VIP status (Extra exp and access to all maps), and access to the beta. Though if you wait until open beta or get accepted for the closed beta test, you won’t need to. Personally, I think this game is great for a F2P FPS, the graphics are of superb quality and it’ll keep you entertained for hours and there are still many more maps and features to be added. If you plan to play without paying you will have to work quite a bit to get the class you want though.

Alright Nexon. You’re in the 5th top spot for the richest gaming companies now… In the WORLD! Yet you still can’t seem to afford to hire some guys that actually know how to fix poor Mabinogi which is broken… Again.

It seems like everytime rs gold you fix a problem, Nexon, you create a new one. There’s a pattern going on here. Don’t you think you could shell out a couple bucks to fix your broken games? It’s not as if you’re needy for money.

I know for a fact you’re not needy for money. Not with all the rich whores (excuse my language here) spamming a 100 gachas each week. God if I had that kind of money I’d be buying myself a new car and throwing that old piece of clunker I got far, far away.

Hey though, I see how you think Nexon. I can see into your evil mind. Why the hell do you need to fix anything when people aren’t even willing to quit your games even though some of them are so broken I’ve found myself pondering if there’s a monkey in charge up runescape gold in headquarters.

If I could do a half-assed job and get paid millions AND get away with it… Hell I’d do it in a minute. You guys got yourself a great gig going don’t you?

The troubling news for TERA in Korea and Japan seems to continue despite winning the Presidential prize (or Game of the Year Award) at this year’s G*Star. In Japan TERA has announced that the big scale server merge will commence on January 25th 2012, Acheter des Kamas early next year. How big scale is this, you ask? Well, 10 servers merging into 3 kind of says that there’s a probelm doesn’t it? The Japan server is apparently infested with 3rd party bot programs as well, something which the Korean server is having difficulty to control.

Charra, Caia and Cillian will merge into the one and only PK server, Charra; Arun, Belleek and Selen to form into 1 of the PvE servers, Belleek; finally, Elrinu, Jurase, Mistelle and Balder into the 2nd PvE server, Elrinu.

In order to stay fresh, attract new players and maintain the current player base, some dungeons’ cool-down timing will be reduced by half, with drop rates doubled as well. This event will begin today and last till January 18th 2012.

The saddest part to me is that TERA got off to a great start in Japan with a reported number of 48,624 players just in Open Beta which was a record for Hangame Japan. With emergency servers needed hopes were very high for TERA in Japan. With TERA having Achat dofus Kamas had server merges in Korea as well, I’m starting to think maybe this game isn’t as great as it’s been made out to be. I might be wrong though and I’ll find out once it hits the NA (if it ever does).

This will be my first post on the DarkEden MMORPG’s blog! Its very nice to finally join you all in this majestic world of terror and bloodshed. Wow, that sounds so evil. Haha.

I’m be joining you all in Helea from now on dofus kamas and I hope to have lots of fun with you all. Remember, its ok to have fun but please be fair and just.

With my entrance to Helea, we bring forth to you a Valentine’s Day event as well! I hope the lucky recepients of my Valentine’s Day card are happy with its contents!

For you new residents of Helea, don’t forget to get your free Premium 7 Day Card! It will definitely help you along your journey in Helea.

A lot has happend in Helea the past month… and Acheter des Kamas I mean lots! But we were able to work hard to keep moving forward in our world. Despite the hardships that you, the residents of Helea, have experienced; you were able to look up and move forward. For that I would like to thank you all.

A bit of good news though, even though we were a little late (Sorry everyone!), the winners of the youtube/guide/review were announced and all the rewards have been sent! Good job everyone!!! Not picking favorites but Wow! Rofukus and Kronos~ Your guides were awesome!

Like countless players out there I have been eagerly waiting for the press beta NDA to be lifted to feast my eyes on more Guild Wars 2 Goodness since diablo 3 gold like so many other I still have to get my hands on the game. Part of me was afraid, so far all the information we got came from developers but now we’re going to get some impartial impressions from the various Press beta testers, Will Guild Wars live up to our expectations or will it fail?

From what I seen so far it seems to live up to our expectations quite well. None of the reporters I have seen or read said that they were let down by any part of the game which is good especially since just a few days ago one other game I was also eager to try had such a trashing by multiple reviewers.

But enough with the introductions, There is so much to see I had a hard time to decide what content to experience first. One thing that has me very exited but barely seen anything about was the World Vs World PVP mechanic. I am generally not a PVP person, but diablo iii gold reading about what ArenaNet are trying to achieve with World Vs World I cannot help but rouse my interest. I mean a huge PVP map designed for 1500+ players to battle in a persistent battle that lasts for 2 whole weeks with siege engines, multiple capture-able points and dynamic events sounds like its own unique game and not just a small part of a bigger game, it is just mind blowing. Not many videos on the subject but IGN have made an really good video on WvW which I believe shows the World Vs World mechanic in all its glory (or well it would if more players were taking part, but being a press beta limited numbers is something to expect. It really seems all I have been hoping for and will definitely check it out once I get the game. The IGN video can be seen at this link: World vs World

Next thing I checked was a couple of videos of the main cities. We were told that cities would have amazing art and be grandiose in scale. Did the beta live up to the expectation in that regard? After watching these two video by MikeB I can definitely say a confident YES!

Lets start with the Charr, watch the video below

The Black Citadel

The Charr’s Black Citadel is just amazing. Constructed all in metal it is really great how metal shines as you walk by and change camera Angle. The architecture is very steam punk and looks absolutely stunning.

The black Citadel was really great but the Norn’s Hoelbrak is indescribable. It is HUGE, and really feels like you’d imagine a Norn settlement would feel! But lets go back to the scale, the first lodge MikeB visits in the video below is just huge! It is so big that on its own I think its bigger then most major cities in other MMOs and not just that but the architecture, the sounds and the huge amount of chatter one can experience while walking by all come together and take immersion to the next level. Watch MikeB’s amazing video tour of the settlement and I am sure you’ll agree: Norn’s Hoelbrak

Since MikeB is doing such a good job to show us what Guild wars 2 is all About and since this blog post is getting huge lets have him explain to us, the Character Creation Process, Dynamic Events, Combat, Dungeons as well as his impression on PVP. Just watch the video below:

MikeB’s report on the Guild Wars 2 Beta

Its a bit of a large video but then again each one of the subjects is huge on its own. Overall my impression of what he says and what we see align to what I was expecting. Instancing and NPC giving quests are mostly restricted to the personal story. PvE content is delivered via dynamic events, everyone can pitch in, dynamic events vary from feeding cows to killing powerful bosses, NPC recognize your efforts in helping them out, classes are versatile and work well together and all that good stuff.

Basically I am just envious these guys got lucky enough to get to try this game first hand but at the same time I am really grateful they’re giving us this great coverage and confirming Guild Wars 2 is indeed the game we hope it turns out to be.

Also worth mentioning is Gamespot who have an interesting video that showcases the game’s first impression by 3 reviewers who aren’t into Guild Wars with two of them not particularly in MMOs either. It is interesting to hear their perspective and impressions: Gamespot’s Opinions

In conclusion Not only am I definitely not less excited to try Guild Wars 2 but after seeing all these marvelous videos I just can’t wait to the try the game for myself. I want to leave you with an excellent video montage by the team at massively: Massively’s Beta Montage.

This video shows most of the highlights that make me so excited for this game. From the detailed animation of the wildlife to the intricate design of the statues to the amazingly beautiful armors. The game has artistic beauty and amazing music. This is without a shadow of a doubt a very beautiful game that I just cannot wait to play.

With the release date due on June 19th, 2012, horrorible MMORPG The Secret World gets higher and higher attention. A new stock prospect for Funcom at MCV claimed that The Secret World’s success could “double or triple” its stock value. knight noah
According to MCV, Funcom stock price has risen from 5,20 NOK last summer to 20,30 NOK in March 2012. And the growth will continue as The Secret World launch date draws nearer

Since listed on the Norwegian Stock Exchange (Oslo Børs) in 2005, Funcom has experienced great fluctuations in its stock price. swtor credits The release of Age of Conan in 2008 had made it from peak to trough. While analysts claim “Funcom could end up as one of the big winners on Oslo Børs this year”.

“Funcom is one of the stocks that could double or triple in value. If Funcom’s next game is a success, they will definitely end up as the stock of the year,” analyst Espen Torgersen from Carnegie said.