Esper

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Introduction

An Esper can first be obtained in Sunstream City from Esper Mystic Shera. For this quest you will end up killing 10 Mountain boars. Be sure to do this quest before you leave sunstream! To get this quest you have to first complete the Situation quest line, given by Tanis Ka.

After a short quest, players will receive their first Esper, the Trigram. However, players won’t be stuck with this one Esper; there will be many quests to unlock and obtain new ones. But players should keep in mind that the more powerful the Esper, the more difficult it will be to acquire. In addition, certain Espers will only be available to certain factions. The Esper Pandora’s Box is limited only to the Vim, for example.

Below is more advanced information, give it a read through then move onto Pets

Botting with an Esper

Espers are used mainly to bot in game, allowing the time requirement of high levels to exist without the frustration of the grind itself. Espers also add a dynamic to the game by making the esper itself like a second or third part of the character. The espers have different levels, just as the players characters does, except espers can only be leveled to 1/5 of the players current level. They also have various skills, which are a compliment to the players abilities, which also have different levels of effect. Thirdly, espers also allow the use of skyblades, giving you the ability to fly to avoid aggro.

To start botting with an esper, the esper energy (located at the top of the first esper skill bar [red bar]) must be atleast half way full. The first 2 slots on the first esper bar is for esper skills only. The third slot is the slot used to use health potions in the game whenever a players health fall below a certain level. The fourth slot is used to replenish spirits via spirit potions, and the fifth slot is used to replenish esper energy (mainly lunarshade stones). In the sixth slot you will find a double sided arrow. This is used to bring up the second esper skill bar. It is in this skill bar which you can place the skills you wish to use during botting. Lower numbered skills on the second esper skill bar take priority to higher numbered skills.

Also on the second esper skill bar, you will find an icon that looks like a open hand. Clicking on this will allow you to set the skills portion of botting. In this top portion of the panel, you can specifiy when you want potions to be used and a minimum time (seconds) in which to use potions consecutively. So if you set HP% to 50 and seconds to 5, it will use potions once the players HP falls below 50% and in the case that the characters HP doesn't raise fast enough, it will wait 5 seconds to use another potions. These are extremely critical. Trial and Error with each set of enemies is the best way to figure the optimum settings. The default settings work for most of the monsters in the early stages of the game.

In the middle portion of the panel, the setting for which drops to pick up during botting sessions can be specified. You will need to type in the names of the items that you want to pick up exculsively, or not pick up at all. The setting are pretty much self explanatory.

Further down, the bottom portion of the panel contains the skill timers (in seconds) for each of the skills that were placed on the 2nd esper skill bar. It is according to this time in which you will use the specified skills during the botting session. Obviously, the lower the time, the more the skills will be used. If you do not wish to use any skills at all, you can dot the "Disable Skills" box right above the the skill timers.

Once all the setting are set, you can click on the sword icon to start the "invigorate" mode, which will bot for you.

Leveling an Esper (Upgrading)

To level an esper, the player must use the esper skills, which will add 1 experience point to the esper itself. You can check the status of the esper by mousing over the orange bar under the esper skill bar. Once this bar reaches its full capacity, you can take the esper to esper mystics, to increase the level of it. Each new level will give added bonuses to the esper, which will also be added to you. Esper leveling can also be obtained by purchasing item in the CS to level the esper's "proficiency"(level Bar).

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