Solo Leveling: Arise, the first end, later, Jeju Island

 I’m nearing the end of the game, until the new content of Jeju Island is added anyway. I’m partway through Hidden Chapter 4. My character level is 87 and my Reputation level is 55. Just having passed half a year, that seems a lot.

 

I’ve also been through quite a bit on Hard mode and also on Reverse mode. It always seems a bit of a struggle but I continue to play. Part of the struggle are all the !@#$ delays. I noticed with the new outfit, the delays were worse, so I switched back to the summer outfit.

I’m not certain the reason that they have to animate everything. The Shop doesn’t need the stickers and the words animated, do they? We see them anyway.

Back to game play, I’ve been leveling up skills for Weapons and Hunters. I’ve been trying to get Legendary Runes but Heroic seem to be more easy to Fuse. I’ve got two or three Legendary Runes and one or two Legendary Blessing Stones. I’ve adjusted which are being used, to increase power.

I have six level 100 Sung Jinwoo weapons now and one level 100 weapon for Go Gunhee. Level 80 weapons with several Advances are good, but aren’t placed as high, for whatever reason.

I’m writing this just now because I need a break. It’s somewhat exhausting to play and then, to lose at the end of an episode. I’m running out of time and die occasionally. I’m sure we all try to do things differently or analyze the strategy too many times to fix things. Sometimes, that works wonders.

 

Last night, I went through the early Chapters in Hard mode and got more trophies completed, along with Custom Draw Tickets. If I get to the end before the new content arrives, I will have time to complete more.

 

Well, there is more to come.  I completed Hidden Chapter 4 and the side chapter.  Sung Jinwoo barely survived, but level 74 battles are a little rough some times.  I still have much to do to complete these episodes, but that will take higher skills, weapons at level 100, both for Hunters and Sung Jinwoo.

Next week for the new battles, or next month?

Update 2024.11.27: We're not going to Jeju Island yet.

Simulation mode seems a copy of Honkai: Star Rail's Simulated Universe.

They have reduced some of the requirements for meeting daily goals.

Tuesday, I moved up to Difficulty Level 31.  I'm a bit hesitant to take on S-ranked gates.  I've done them with ease tonight after their changes.  Red gates today were no problem.  We'll see about the red-eyed ice bear.  I should probably push it to Difficulty Level 32.

I finally messed with the Armory again, after wasting all my Essence Stones back when they were few, to open up slots.  There is an enhancement to each weapon, and seven levels of enhancement.

Before I used the coupon codes, I got Custom Draw Tickets--273 of them.  I got a few Advances on my level 100 weapons.  I still need a second Light oriented weapon.  After two sessions with the Guild Boss, I got more tokens toward that weapon.  I'm nowhere near 100, though.

Update 2024.11:30: I've moved the Difficulty Level to 32.  Reputation Level is up again to 56.  My position in the rankings is in the 60s.  I will move higher but not that much higher.  I've been using all those artifacts above level 70 to move those Hunters higher.  Getting enough artifact enhancement materials has been difficult, though.  I bought 100 of the second level enhancers for US$6.99 and the game tore through those 14-20 at a time for one level.  They didn't even last two minutes.

Still, at Difficulty Level 32, I'm finishing gates much more quickly.  Finally got Thetis' Grimoire to level 100.  Having two water oriented weapons that freeze is helpful.

Update 2024.12.01: Got my first Cores.  One for Sung Jinwoo, one for a Dark Hunter, and another for a Water Hunter.

 

Update 2024.12.02: Up to Difficulty Level 33.  Battle Tier is up to Level 31.  Army of Shadows is up to level 47.  Reputation Level is 57, and I'm at number 58 overall with 1948 trophies.  The Guild should be at Rank D1 on Wednesday when the reset occurs, which isn't bad considering that there are only three of us.

Update 2024.12.11: There are trailers for the game awards, showing the Jeju Island bits and the Ant King.  Why isn't it an Ant Queen?  Of course, Sung Jinwoo goes up against that one.  One of the videos mentioned version 3.0, but since we haven't gone to version 2.0 yet, I wonder if they're just throwing out numbers or planning something big.

I'm up to 2051 trophies and I've slid to number 62.  Reputation level is up to 58 and getting through Character level 89 somewhat quickly.  The Guild is up to Rank D1, which is awesome for three people making progress.  I need to fill the blanks and keep going.

I've created a couple of the SSR-ranked weapons for Hunters, so things are better.  Resources are somewhat better recently.  Army of Shadows is up to level 48 and some of the shadows are more powerful.  I can't decide about the Diffficulty level but I'm 90% certain that I need to increase it to level 34.

Update 2024.12.18: Another livestream event and there is a future.

 

More codes, more characters, more weapons have arrived.

 

Now, we know that there is much more planned, although things could change in the gaming industry.