Rising Star Weekly Giveaway #129 and Ys 9 (Part 2)

Here is my weekly status and giveaway. As usual, I am just doing some missions at night because I am busy during the day. I was able to do some missions during the day during the week but not as often as I would like. Work has been keeping me busy lately. Please make sure to read the rules to qualify for the giveaway. The Halloween mission started up this week and it's been a while since the last one.

Ys 9: Monstrum Nox Music Part 2

I have continued on with Ys 9 this week. I was stuck in the city for so long so I am glad to actually get out to the plains this week. I am still enjoying the game and I got two more members added to my party. Doll is quite nice to play but Raging Bull is pretty good because of the skill that doesn't make you lose height. It makes traversing to places a bit easier. The only thing that I don't really like as much would be the requirements to get Nox before accessing areas or progressing the stories. It feels like they forced sidequests on you and I don't really like the prison sidequests even though they lead to some useful members.

This OST is the best one out of the ones that I listened to this week would be Marionette, Marionette. The Jazzy vibe and the sax is just great. I forgot about Cloaca Maxima last week but it was also a great track. I went back to the dungeon just to listen to it but I would have to say Cloaca Maxima is probably my favorite track from the game so far.

This OST stood out to me because it's the first time I was able to get out of the city. It was what I missed from the previous Ys games as I am out in the open world. It was quite interesting to use all the abilities that I was using in the city out on the open world.

This boss theme was quite nice and the giant dinosaur bosses remind me of Ys 8. The only thing about this track was that I felt that it was a bit too short.

Which OST do you like out of the ones that I listed?

Giveaway

The giveaway item is the seasonal musician and it has 150 fans, 100 skill, 3 luck, and 3 income modifier. All musicians help quite a bit and it will help the people start unlocking more missions. You can also do the Halloween mission for the instruments.

Rules

In order to participate:

• Leave a comment with the name of the card
• Include your username in your comment

This time if you do not leave your username, I will not include you in the draw. I want to reward the people who follow the rules. This giveaway is weekly so there is one week's worth of time for you to enter.

Results of Last Giveaway

The winner is @ladymisa. There were two other winners before this but they did not follow the rules. Should I have a pity reward if someone doesn't follow the rules or keep rolling until I find someone who does win? I also had to use a different app to pick the winner this time around since the other one was down.

Thank you to the rest of the valid participants who did not win but might be interested in the next giveaway: Other participants: @rtonline, @elduderino420a, @vaynard86, @blitzzzz, @subidu, @rayius, @bitandi, @ladymisa, @henruc, @kryptof, @smallcircle, @diochen, @circlebubble, @geneeverett

Current Status

My earnings were about 174k or so starbits again this week. I opened some extra packs this week due to the Halloween event and I got 2 of the seasonal cards plus an epic card.

Current Stats

I got my stats and estimated collection value using the discord bot. I also saw a nice little bot to see my current collection value in Rising Star. Unfortunately, the bot seems to be down right now so I can't get my stats this week.

Current Ranking

My rank is downfrom last week. I am nowhere close to being near the top 100 but it looks like they have dropped rewards to more accounts now. Maybe I need to start playing longer and get up further in the rankings.

If you want to join Rising star, feel free to use my referral link.

Tips (source)

I think the tips are something every new player should know about. It will help people progress in the game and it hasn't really been shared since surya1adiga stopped his giveaways.

1. Take music lessons when possible to raise skill and reduce ego.
2. Having lesson specific instruments helps in receiving more skill from that lesson.
3. Have pizza box to store any pizza received during mission to reuse later.
4. Buy cold pizza slice if possible. This gives 1 refill every 24hours. Comes very handy when you are low on energy.
5. If you have enough of cold pizza slice and pizza box, you will never run out of energy.
6. If you have more fans than skill and you won't reduce the ego , you can use a storage trailer to store unnecessary cards. Or you can list the card in market for an unreasonably high price.
7. Ego received for a particular mission increases every time you play it. The ego is reset to base level the next day. So, try to play different missions to control the ego gained.
8. Keep track of your achievements to unlock in game rewards
9. Buy storage trailer (only if necessary) to keep the cards that might have a negative effect. Like a card with high fan count resulting in ego.
10. When earning skill points through music lessons, you can earn more points per lesson if you hold more of specific instrument cards. There seems to be base skill which is rewarded irrespective of the card count and then the skill increases depending on the number of the lesson specific card one has.
11. Try taking up many smaller missions to fill up pizza boxes and have extra energy to play more rewarding missions. But you need to have pizza boxes for this to work.

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