Grandmaster

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  GRaNDmasTER 

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Justin: Ninjas and Samurais and Assassins.
Welcome to the land of the tactical mice.
You'll see crafting in a whole new level at Grandmaster. Trust me.

Furoma!

You should be comfortably well-off from your stint in the Moz.
However, expect to blow your stash of gold soon.
We need a Tactical Trap for the mice in Furoma! And many crafting ingredients.
You'll need about 615,000 gold. Which you have, right?

Preparing Yourself
You should know by now that preparation is crucial.
It will save you alot of time to buy things ahead, so that cost of travel later is minimized.


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  RONZA HUNTERS  
TAKE NOTE!
If you were fortunate enough to get the Giant Speakers or 2010 trap from Ronza,
you may choose to skip the construction of the Mutated Venus Mouse Trap AND the Ambush.
The GS and 2010 are both estimated to perform better.
  
You should use the GS, 2010, and Magma Base all throughout Furoma instead.

• GET YOUR NEW WEAPON    

Travel to Great Gnarled Tree via:

Mousoleum -> Great Gnarled Tree (2,857g)

Justin: You may or may not have been here. You may feel tempted to hunt for abit here.
Don't. We'll be back here later for quite abit with a better trap.
Your business now is to buy something and head out.

LOCATION: THE GREAT GNARLED TREE
Buy the Venus Mouse Trap (VMT) - 299,650g

Venus Mouse Trap
Power: 1,900
Power Type: Tactical

Why!?
It's not very powerful..
Relax. We're smashing it and crafting a better one.

Use the Hunter's Hammer (on your Crafting page),
and smash your VMT, giving you 1x Venus Mouse Trap Husk.

Venus Mouse Trap Husk
(obtained by smashing your Venus Mouse Trap)

Craft your new weapon, the Mutated Venus Mouse Trap (MVMT).
This Formula only requires two ingredients:
 

• 1X Venus Mouse Trap Husk        
• 20X Radioactive Sludge       

Mutated Venus Mouse Trap
Power: 2,300
Power Bonus: 15
Luck: 8

Wicked cool, right? Look what all that Sludge did to your weapon.
Return to ToG.

• STOCK UP ON CHEESE        

LOCATION: TOWN OF GNAWNIA
Buy about 500-650 Brie Cheese
(Don't worry about buying extra. You'll need it even at later levels. But watch your finances, don't go broke.)

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Part A: The Training Grounds

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Travel to Training Grounds in Furoma Region via:

ToG -> Meadow -> Training Grounds (2,603g)

NEW REGION: FUROMANEW AREA: TRAINING GROUNDS

Welcome to the land of the Tactical Mice.
A place of study, the students that train along the northern
shore of the Burroughs River are indeed a worthy foe.

LOCATION: TRAINING GROUNDS

Current Setup:

           Mutated VMT     Dehydration Base    Brie Cheese         

• HUNT IN TRAINING GROUNDS     

There are a whole new bunch of tactical mice here in the Training Grounds
that you've never seen before, such as the Archer, Monk, Samurai, and Kung Fu Mouse.
However, you'll also find all of them commonly in the Dojo,
so hunting for them here is not necessary.

Mice-Collectors, take note!
To all you avid collectors who want to catch every single mouse:
There are some rare mice you may want to look
out for here. They are the Worker and the Nibbler.

The Worker mouse can only be caught in the Training Grounds and in the Dojo.
If you're really really lucky they may even drop the Ambush Blueprints.

  

The Nibbler Mouse can be caught here, but also in the Town of Gnawnia, Harbour,
 Great Gnarled Tree, Lagoon, and Town of Digby

These mice can be caught in the Training Grounds using SuperBrie+.
Be warned, though! It WILL NOT be easy! You'll likely catch a WHOLE bunch
of other mice before netting one of these. So be ready to camp and waste a lot of SB+.
We only recommend this if you absolutely must have them on your hunting profile page.

Okay, back to business.

• GET CRAFTING INGREDIENTS       

Head over to the Training Grounds General Store, and pick up:

    

• 15X Burroughs Salmon = 2,250 gold
• 15X Nori = 75 gold
• 3X Rice Paper = 660 gold
• 20X Splintered Wood = 3,000 gold
• 250X Curds & Whey = 2,500 gold

You will need all these, they are completely necessary!
Total cost: 8,485 gold

• GET THE BAZAAR MAP PIECE     

The Bazaar is another area back in Burroughs.
You need to get access to it by obtaining a Ticket to the Burroughs Bazaar from
either an Archer Mouse, Assassin Mouse, or Kung Fu Mouse. 

  

As soon as you have it, rush over to the Bazaar back in Burroughs.
Time is of the essence.

Travel via this route:

Training Grounds -> Town of Gnawnia -> Meadow -> Bazaar (341g)

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Part B: The Bazaar

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NEW AREA: BAZAAR

The organizers of the Bazaar used to travel abroad with a merchant companion named Ronza.
During their visit to the Burroughs region, these quirky folk felt right at home,
so much so that they decided to stay!
Their newly constructed shops are now known across the Kingdom for their strange inventory..

Strange inventory indeed.
You'll find items here that you'll never see elsewhere.
The Bazaar is also the only place with a Cartographer.

LOCATION: BAZAAR

• REPAIR YOUR SHREDDED FUROMA MAP PIECE       

Hurry!
The moment you are at the Bazaar,go to the Cartographer (under 'Shops' tab)

Map Repair.
submit your order for the Shredded Furoma Map Piece to be repaired.
This will cost 90,000 gold, and you will have to wait for 24 hours (approx.)
during this time you will be unable to go anywhere in Furoma.

Wait.

• GET MORE CRAFTING INGREDIENTS      

Before leaving, visit the Bazaar General Store, and purchase:

  

• 15X Invisi-Glu = 750 gold
• 10X Ionized Salt = 4,500 gold
• 15X Paint-Brand Paint = 1,800 gold
• 15X Cheesy Fluffs = 1,200 gold
• 8X Droid Parts = 62,000 gold
  (The droid parts are expensive - You may choose to buy this later if you have insufficient funds)

Total cost: 70,250 gold

Killing some Time.

• HUNT SOMEWHERE FOR 24 HOURS       

Choose where you want to spend 24 hours hunting. You can either:
1) Head over to GGT to catch some more of those funky looking mice (and start collect Gnarled potions) OR

2) Head over to the Lab to collect more RB Pots (You'll need 'em in another area later)

Setup:

           MVMT  Dehydration   Brie             

Quicktip
You can check your cartographer map repair progress at any time in the Shops tab.

• COLLECT YOUR REPAIRED FUROMA MAP        

LOCATION: BAZAAR
Once the 24 hours is up and the map is repaired,
head back to the Bazaar and collect your Repaired Furoma Map.
Justin: Also pick up the crafting items here if you didn't get them earlier.

And then it's time to hunt in the Dojo.

Bazaar -> Dojo (1,190g)

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Part C: The Dojo

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Where it really begins

NEW AREA: DOJO

The ground floor of the Furoma Pagoda is where students most frequently train.
Be cautious of your trap setup when hunting here as students are resistant to basic attacks.

The Pagoda of Furoma has three levels:
The Dojo, The Meditation Room, and the Pinnacle Chamber.

LOCATION: DOJO
Trap setup remains the same:

      MVMT   Dehydration   Brie          

• WORK FOR YOUR NEW WEAPON     

Your primary goal now is to obtain the ingredients to craft the
really powerful tactical weapon: Ambush.
I'll warn you quickly. It's a long and overwhelming task.

Ambush

Its ingredients are:

• 1X Ambush Trap Blueprints         
• 1X Master's Seal       
• 3X Rice Paper    
• 5X Splintered Wood   
• 8X Droid Parts       

Sounds easy?
It's not. Our first task: getting the Master's Seal.

• CATCH STUDENT MICE     

Catching Students
Your first priority is to catch Student Mice.

  
Student Mice

There are 3 types of students, classed according to their respective schools:
The Cheese Claw, The Cheese Fang, & The Cheese Belt.

  Student Tokens

Each Student drops tokens of their own school.
thse tokens are then used to CRAFT special cheese
which will later attract their Masters in the Meditation Room.
The cheese are:

Susheese
- Attracts: Master of the Cheese Claw
- 3x Token of the Cheese Claw + 1x Burroughs Salmon + 1x Nori + 3x Curds & Whey = 3x Susheese

Combat
- Attracts: Master of the Cheese Fang
- 3x Token of the Cheese Fang + 1x Paint-Brand Paint + 1x Splintered Wood + 5x Curds & Whey = 3x Combat

Glutter
- Attracts: Master of the Cheese Belt
- 3x Token of the Cheese Belt + 1x Cheesy Fluffs + 1x Invisi-Glu + 7x Curds & Whey = 3x Glutter

Therefore.
Yes, so basically, the Students' tokens will be used to craft the cheese that
attracts their own Master. DUH!
DO NOT USE THESE THREE CHEESE ANYWHERE OTHER THAN THE MEDITATION ROOM. 

Cheese.Summary
Here's a really quick summary for those who still don't understand:
Brie to catch Students>who drop tokens that craft Susheese/Combat/Glutter to
catch Masters>who drop shards to (later) craft Rumble to catch Master of the Dojo.

!@#? Students are so TOUGH!?
Don't get too frustrated.
It does seem that one school is appears less than the other two.
THIS ISN'T TRUE! In the past, everyone claims to have trouble with one particular school.
Some say it's impossible to get Cheese Fangs and some others swear that Cheese Belts never come to their trap.
The truth is: they are all the same.
It is a game of chance. None of them are more difficult than the other.
It just seems that way sometimes. It's all in your head.
There is a way to attract more Students, though...

Maki
Introducing: Maki
Maki is a crafted cheese that increases the chance of attracting Student Mice to your trap.
Now, it doesn't mean it's easier to catch them. But it does mean more Students
will come to your trap than if you use Brie. However, the recipe doesn't come cheap!:
1X Nori + 3X Curds & Whey + 3X Magic Essence = 3X Maki
reminder: Magic Essence is obtained by Smashing SB+

That's an option for you. It's up to you! But all things considered, we did pretty okay with just Brie.
If you have SB+ to spare, and feel adventurous and feel like spending, then give it a try.

Yawwnnn..
We know the whole Student thing can be pretty repetitive,
so we suggest you collect 3 of each student and immediately begin crafting the cheese.
Actually, you can travel to and fro the Dojo and
Meditation Room and hunt for Masters as often as you like. (traveling is only 25g!)
You can even go with 3X cheese (e.g. Glutter) to try your luck. It's entirely up to you.

Mastering the Schools
If you're feeling adventurous have caught at least 3x of a Student, or craft 3x of a type of cheese-
then head to Meditation Room (MR) (25 gold), and try to catch ONE master from each school.

NEW AREA: MEDITATION ROOM

The second floor of the Pagoda is where the Masters of the three cheese schools meditate and study.
These Masters are far too wise to go for conventional bait.
Instead, a hunter will need to craft very specific bait in order attract each master.

• CATCH MASTER MICE      

LOCATION: MEDITATION ROOM
Switch to the Explosive Base. You no longer have to worry about the stale effect because
of the high attraction rate of the three Master cheese.
  Bait your trap with Glutter, Combat, or Susheese.


MVMT   Explosive     ???

If you have caught one Master from one certain school, immediately stop & switch cheese.
All you need is ONE Master of EACH school for now.
Conserve your cheese for later on, where we will have a better weapon with a better catch rate.
USING ANY CHEESE OTHER THAN GLUTTER, COMBAT, OR SUSHEESE HERE WILL ATTRACT ONLY HAPLESS MICE AND WORKER MICE.

Each Master will drop 1x Master Shard according to its school.

• REPEAT    

REPEAT the Student/Cheese/Master process
UNTIL you have 1X Master Shard from EACH of the 3 schools.
(1x Master Claw Shard, 1x Master Fang Shard, 1x Master Belt Shard)

• CRAFT ONE MASTER'S SEAL     

The Master's Seal

Combine 1X Master Claw Shard + 1X Master Fang Shard + 1X Master Belt Shard = 1X Master's Seal
DO THIS ONCE ONLY! YOU ONLY NEED ONE MASTER'S SEAL

The Master's Seal

And now you have your Master's Seal.
Pretty cool, eh?
Justin: I have a friend who got the Master's Seal by 15% Grandmaster. Pretty unbelievable.
And highly unlikely.

• GET THE AMBUSH BLUEPRINTS     

The Ambush Blueprints
Now to move on to the next ingredient we need for our Ambush weapon.
you will need to obtain the Ambush Blueprints.

They are dropped by:
1) Assassin Mice in the Dojo
(really tough)
=OR=
2) Hapless Mice in the Meditation Room & Pinnacle Chamber
(ONLY the Hapless mice caugt in the Meditation Room and Pinnacle Chamber drop blueprints)
=OR=
3) Worker Mice in Training Grounds & Dojo
(really really tough. ONLY catch-able by camping with SuperBrie+)

To get the blueprints fast, we would suggest heading over to
Pinnacle Chamber and camp there with Brie/SuperBrie+.
This seems to be the best way. A day or two should do the trick.

The Assassin
If you're lucky, you may have been able to net the Assassin mouse.

Assassin mouse

But they are pretty hard to catch.
Nothing's stopping you from trying, though.

• CRAFT THE AMBUSH. OR NOT.      

A Tough Decision!!

Once you have the all the ingredients, here comes a really difficult question: whether to craft the Ambush now, or not.
You see, the Ambush formula uses 5 of your crafting tabs, one of which is a red crafting tab,
so THERE IS A CHANCE TO FAIL & lose ALL of your ingredients if you try to craft it at Grandmaster.
Think about it. That's alot of ingredients. and a fair abit of gold.



The Rule.
Our rule of thumb is that IF you have all the required ingredients BEFORE 50% Grandmaster, try crafting it.
IF NOT, wait until Legendary, where you can combine 5 items safely.
it's not THAT far away.

WHY!?
This is because if you fail before 50%, it wouldn't be so bad.
You would still have time to recollect the ingredients and do it by Legendary rank.

Otherwise, you may find yourself at Legendary without the Ambush.
This would be a waste of time, as the Ambush is highly recommended before proceeding
to catch more Masters and the Master of the Dojo, who is one tough boss.

• COLLECT AS MANY STUDENT TOKENS AS YOU CAN      

Hunt Hunt Hunt
Whether you're already using Ambush or your trusty old MVMT,
Keep hunting & collecting tokens from students (& convert them into the respective cheese when you have 3).
You need them LATER to catch more Masters!

If you have the Ambush..
If you already have the Ambush, craft more Combat/Glutter/Susheese whenever you can
and head to the Meditation Room to catch more Masters.
Use the Explosive Base with your Ambush.I recommend that you have farm at least 3X of each Master Shard.
If you don't..
IMPORTANT: Do NOT go to the Meditation Room again for more masters UNLESS you have Ambush.
There is no point. Why not hunt later with a better weapon?

Another Map Repair
If you find yourself with 160,000 gold spare, you can choose to head
back to the Bazaar cartographer & submit your Tattered Mousoleum Map
for repair as this one requires 5 days before you can collect it. You don't have to
do it immediately- just as long as it's repaired by the time you reach Legendary rank.

Yawnn..
If you are really really bored with Furoma, you can travel over to the Great Gnarled Tree to hunt for Gnarled Cheese Curd Potions.
But i don't recommend it at this stage. Getting as many Student/Master Tokens will benefit you much more.

• HUNT UNTIL YOU LEVEL UP      

Level until Legendary.Patience is the key!

You can also try catching the Worker Mouse here in the Dojo with SB+ if you want.
(Don't worry about catching more Masters and the Master of the Dojo until you reach Legendary)
You need to craft a special cheese to catch the Master of the Dojo at Pinnacle Chamber. And this recipe requires you to be Legendary.