V4: Endgame Review

My goal with my final look at V4 was to hit level 70 and finish Chapter 7. That was the most recent content at the time – until last night, when they released another brand new selection of content that I’m definitely not equipped for: Chapter 8.
You gotta give credit to the devs behind V4 – they’re consistent in their updates, and they update their game pretty frequently. They just finished adding in the Archer class last month – which admittedly was a solid class to level. And mine turned out super cute.

So my journey to what I perceived was the endgame at the time was an interesting one.
Mrs Stix and I have been slowly grinding through this game for a month and a half? 2 months by this point on both PC and our phones. We made sure to log in every day so we could obtain daily and weekly items from the store, could redeem our login rewards, you know the deal.
This allowed us to get quite a ways ahead of players that rushed through content, as by Chapter 7 – which is where I’m up to right now, I was already over 260,000 CP. Significantly over the recommended CP value, but this made it easier for me to push through content.
And while the grind was definitely real – having to at times murder 3, 4 sets of 60+ enemies totaling hundreds of monsters to make it to the next part of the Episode, it wasn’t without its danger.
An example was when I was out grinding Chapter 7 Episode 5. There I was minding my own business when another player ran up to me and began to attack me. I noticed my screen was flashing red so I took notice right away and fended them off. But it was moments like this that made certain I was always at my PC while grinding.
I’ve been killed by other players a multitude of times while out in the world and that sense of danger, of other players potentially attacking you because they want your spawn is always present.

Now before I go any further I do want to note that we’re now capable of purchasing outfits for our characters. I saw that there were 2 available currently, the Banquet Luminary and Triumphant Officer and you guys know which one I went for.. this was too good to pass up.
And the fact that it gave a boost to XP and max bag capacity was refreshing. Outfits are important to Mrs Stix. Probably the most important part of every MMO – no, every game. So being able to.. purtify herself is of the utmost importance.
Me? I just like the view.

There’s quite a bit to learn on the way to level 70 and the final Chapter. On the one hand, you should always be keeping an eye on your stats. Each zone has recommended CP that will make engaging enemies within it decidedly more difficult if you’re not careful.
Then there’s Imprinting. You have a selection of different Demon Stones that you can upgrade and equip Stones into to upgrade your CP and obtain beneficial stats.
You have a wide selection of both active combat skills and passive skills. As you can tell there are some skills I haven’t even unlocked yet – these are something that take time and motivation to unlock fully.
Talents are essentially an additive to your statistics and abilities. I’d reset my Talents to showcase the various talents you can choose and how they alter either your base stats or how your abilities function.
You have the Potential tab that allows you to sacrifice gear or items to improve one of 4 different floating.. glowy things that raise your base stats as well. I never knew what those actually were. Mrs Stix and I just call them “the floating jars.”
There’s gear enhancement in the game. You can upgrade your gear using enhancement scrolls, you can unlock additional stats by using tomes and even abilities.
Soulstones are probably one of the most important ways of gaining CP in the game. Every stone starts off incredibly weak but the further you upgrade them the more powerful they become. In the end, I think the majority of my CP came exclusively from them.
Collecting mounts increases your overall CP and goes a ways to provide additional boosts to your character like attack speed, defense and parry. You’re also capable of combining mounts together to attempt to obtain newer more powerful creatures.
The same applies to pets, however in their case they don’t provide as many beneficial stats. You can still combine them together, though!
Companions are the third and final collectible form of increasing your CP and provide much what mounts and pets do. You can combine them as well, but they’re also capable of being sent out on various types of missions with some pretty sweet rewards upon their return.
There are gathering and crafting professions in-game but if you know me.. you’d know I typically tend to avoid these in games. I prefer to pay people to craft my stuff for me.
As you continue to fight monsters out within the world you’ll find that you can “research” the enemies in question and obtain CP the more you eliminate.
Then there’s the Abyss – which is pretty much where I went to farm all of my Soul Shards to upgrade my Soulstones. Well, that and tons of juicy Gold.
Admittedly, while I did do the Demon invasions a couple times that was more something that Mrs Stix did frequently. We fought a couple boss monsters as well, but always found ourselves logging in too late to really chase them down.
There’s Lunatra which is a large-scale PvPvE game mode – a lot goes on in there. It’s a scary place.

And.. if you make use of the Item Sets feature, you’ll find you’re increasing in CP pretty steadily.
I made use of every single feature I listed above to get all the way to where I am right now, which is almost 270,000 CP. The journey was long, the grind was more than difficult but I found it to definitely be rewarding enough.
Progressing through Chapter 7 was made substantially easier being at the CP we were at and I don’t think that would’ve been possible at the CP we were at when we started Chapter 7, which was maybe 110k CP. I died repeatedly. It really wasn’t a very flattering state for me to be in.

V4 is a long game. It’s not easy to get through but it shouldn’t be. Yes, I made it to level 71-ish by the time I finished and decided to create my final look on the game and yes I’ll definitely continue playing after this to try and clear Chapter 8.
I’ve invested this much time into the game, what’s a little more, right?
Grinding through all of these unique zones, all of the story, learning all of these new features and being a part of each update as they came out was definitely an experience.
It was fun watching my character grow into such a power house, and I’m glad I chose the class I chose. I still regret not going Mage, but what can ya do.