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 5
I have continued on with Ys 9 this week. I was busy trying to complete the map and treasure chests in the other areas that I did not touch. Then I finished getting all my Nox raids S rank before going into the final stretch of the game. There were a few mobs that I was missing from the previous few chapters but I kind of gave up on it. It doesn't seem worth it and I can always try to get it on a new game plus run down the road if I want to play the game again. I think I might wait another week or two before I start up on Nayuta. Life has been quite busy but there is still the arranged songs in Ys 9 and another song that I think is quite interesting for my future posts.
The final boss themes for Ys tend to be great and I definitely liked the two themes that are in Ys 9. I definitely enjoyed my final boss fight but I liked the first stage more though.
Before the ending stretch and you get to see some old faces from older games. The only one that I recognized the voice for was Dana from Ys 8 though. I have an idea who the other gods were and I think they were from Ys 1, 2 and 7.
The ending track and the credits songs. It's been a long journey but I really did enjoy the game. It's just one part of Adol's long journey as an adventurer but I am kind of glad to see that everyone is moving forward with their lives.
Which OST do you like out of the ones that I listed?
Giveaway
The giveaway item is an instrument under the singing music lessons. With 50 more luck, you have a chance of getting more drunk fans and it benefits you if you run singing lessons. Even if you don't run singing 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 269k or so starbits again this week. I opened 12 packs this week and I got 2 epic cards.
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
I played more this week and I moved up over 20 spots. I am at least getting some daily rewards so it does pay off to make sure that I am doing missions when i can.
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.