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.
Ys 9: Monstrum Nox Music Part 3
I have continued on with Ys 9 this week. I managed to get all the party members and now I can go underground to access new places. I have to say that Infinite SP items and Raging Bull's skill that allows me to maintain height is coming in quite helpful. I don't have to worry about missing anything and I can get to places that I shouldn't normally. It has made exploring things a lot easier. I probably spent more time than I would have liked trying to kill a level 90 enemy when I wasn't even level 50. It just took a while so I didn't get as much done as I would like.
Whenever we get a desert track in a Ys game, I always think that the track is excellent. It's my favorite track for the week.
It's memorable because I was fighting the level 90 enemy. I was in that dungeon for longer than I would like due to it. I should have probably skipped it and fought it later in the game, but I went for it.
I should add a prison track. As much as I hate dealing with the traps, I can't seem to get it out of my head either. It would have been a better track if I didn't have to deal with all the traps with no abilities to use.
It's the current dungeon that I am in. I think I am closing in to the end so maybe another week or two before I finish the game.
Which OST do you like out of the ones that I listed?
Giveaway
The giveaway item is an instrument under the production music lessons. With 50 more luck, you have a chance of getting more drunk fans and it benefits you if you run production lessons. Even if you don't run production lessons, it can help you in the rankings or you can sell it away to someone who wants it for something you need.
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 the Last Giveaway
The winner is 
Thank you to the rest of the valid participants who did not win but might be interested in the next giveaway: Other participants: 
Current Status
My earnings were about 249k or so starbits again this week. I was playing more than usual this week because of the Halloween event. I opened 12 packs this week but there wasn't anything great from it.
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 up a lot from last week and it looks like I will be getting ranking rewards again. It looks like it's still quite a long road to stay up there 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.
- Take music lessons when possible to raise skill and reduce ego.
- Having lesson specific instruments helps in receiving more skill from that lesson.
- Have pizza box to store any pizza received during mission to reuse later.
- Buy cold pizza slice if possible. This gives 1 refill every 24hours. Comes very handy when you are low on energy.
- If you have enough of cold pizza slice and pizza box, you will never run out of energy.
- 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.
- 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.
Keep track of your achievements to unlock in game rewards- 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.
- 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.
- 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.