So I had a bit of free time this weekend, and with the current ET event giving twice the amount of cubes, I decided to finally unlock Solmiki with a character. Found a good party, readied my characters (from best to worse, in case I didn’t make it the first time), and finally entered the lolo area again. And at the end of the afternoon, I left the area really frustrated… What was supposed to be fun turned into a living nightmare 
So here are the misadventures of our party…
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A couple months ago, I was already in a party for Solmiki unlock that was supposed to do a simple 16F-20F runs. The party leader talked about “symbol of Gosarius”, and I was like “but don’t you need a symbol of Turtai to start at 16F?” and he answered “yes, but we have none, so we’ll start at 11F instead”. I looked at my inventory, and I had a spare Turtai symbol so I noticed him about that and he said “ok you’ll use your symbol as party leader and we’ll start at 16F”. We entered, I talked to the kupole, used the option to give the symbol as party leader and we proceeded to 16F, although we were not succesful that time (not enough DPS).
With our current party, I asked the same question, because the party leader talked about starting at 1F, and I wasn’t really interested on redoing the first 10 floors, so I answered identically “I have a symbol of Gosarius, we can start at 11F if I give the symbol as party leader.” We entered the tower, I talked to the kupole and… no option to give the symbol whatsoever. I didn’t know you HAD to be the party leader to use a symbol.
So I was like… “ok, you need to transfer ownership to my character so I can use the symbol”. And… intro time expired, party was sent to 1F. 
Suggestion: allow everyone in the party to use a symbol to start on the desired floor. Another question: why the timer? -
Party is well prepared, we trololo every level up to 9F. I’m really optimistic about this party unlocking Solmiki today, even if we have to do a 1F-20F run in one go. Then the unthinkable happens… I get desynched and miscalculate the moment when I should log out, and instead of coming back during the 10F boss fight, I come back 15 seconds or so before the end of 9F timer. And energy starts to decrease, stopping at something infuriating like 199 when the timer reaches zero. And we didn’t think about stepping on a teleport circle to cheeze me back on the level…
Suggestion: unfortunately I have none here, how to allow disconnected players in ET to rejoin their team quickly without giving the opportunity to abuse that (unwanted disconnection vs disconnecting on purpose)? It’s infuriating to waste a run and your time due to a disconnection… but it’s even more infuriating to waste ALL YOUR PARTY MEMBERS’ runs and time!
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You probably already know what the following will be… so we decide to give ET one more try, this time we set party leader to someone with a symbol of Gosarius and we start at 11F. No problem… we even manage to complete 12F without anyone disconnecting (and you’re like bathed in mobs on that level!). Then we reach 13F… Theoretically, this level is easy: you kill a “green” monster, you get a 15s buff that allows you to damage the center egg, you repeat until the egg is destroyed. In practice though… First problem, there are so many mobs that the green one is often hard to spot… even more when you have to deal with Pag Clampers THAT ARE ALREADY GREEN! Second problem, you never know which party member gets the buff… you seem to have killed the green mob? too bad, it’s one of your teammates who got the kill and you die stupidly trying to harm the egg without the buff
. And when you get a clear message on 3F about who got the buff, you get none on 13F. That’s the third point: no visual clue when a player has the buff, no visual clue when it wears off (well that’s not really the case… since you DIE when the buff runs out 
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Suggestion: the floor is hard already, change the type of monster which gets the buff to something completely unique, like the ghost you get on 3F; give a message and a visual effect to the player who gets the buff; expand the buff duration (guide says 15s, but I’m pretty sure the duration is MUCH shorter than that)
And with that, I failed at unlocking Solmiki again . Please consider these suggestions, as it would turn your dear popos from 
to 
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PS: I just watched the “new Lolopanther area” video from the KtoS thread, and I don’t really see what the new changes are. Anyone could explain in more details what changes were made to improve ET on the Korean server?
