A merchant in Ninja castle (lv 150+) still sell Ginger Ale (75% HP and MP recovery)
Direction: Enter the castle through the broken window -> Press up on the first scroll with the Emperor Toad picture.
Use a return scroll or press up on the window to get out.
One strategy is to
1. Get a hyper tele rock from coin shop in outpost
2. Accept 5th job quest
3. Teleport to one of the three map at top
4. Hero will the potion lock status effect if the flying bird touches you, and run away from it
5. Kill the flying bird, it will not respawn for 5 minutes in that map
6. If the portal is not there, use a return scroll back to town
7. Forfeit the quest, and re-accept it
8. Go back to the same map where you killed the flying bird in hope the portal spawn on that map, repeat step 6 until it the flying bird respawn
Every squishy class can take 2-3 hits from the normal monster, they usually die from the potion lock effect from the anti-afk monster.
I'll just list the progression difference between the server (without burning a hole in your wallet and without events)
Regular Server
-Learning economy, the art of merchanting, what people like to buy and when is part of the game to progress faster
-You farm bosses for cube with multiple characters (time gated by bosses daily limit per character)
-Monster are weaker so training multiple character to lv 60/100/140/200 is much easier
-Training multiple character is easier as you can share/buy training gears
Reboot Server
-It is possible to progress in Reboot by just doing daily bosses and Ursus for meso, cube, and flame on multiple characters
-You farm regular monster for mesos to buy cube/flame (no limit to how much you can farm)
-Monster are 2-5x tankier in HP, so getting lv 60/100/140/200 on multiple character is more grindy due to inability to share equipment
-If you manage to get to one shot territory when training, it is faster to level due to the increase in exp (you'll probably be lv 230 by then)
For maximum enjoyment and satisfaction, try to fight a boss you never fought before as soon as possible to get an idea how far you from beating the boss. Then learn the strategy to survive through trial and error, improve you equipment just to the point you will barely defeat the boss in time.
In term of solo progression from zero to hero without interacting with the market (earning equip and scrolling/cubing/flaming them yourself), you can solo defeat bosses you never fought before sooner in Reboot, but building an army of characters for link skill and legion is easier in non-reboot.
I have the permanent reusable version of the coupon, but it doesn't work anymore so there is no way I (or anyone) can sell infinite copies of them (I tried, part of my soul died for the wasted coins) (probably intended to prevent this sort of thing or a side casualty of people abusing this to get the world record for most damage skin used a year ago, someone already made a bug report and nothing happened out of it).
