SirPerivale and SirDarth both started their horse-training duties before breakfast, and of course were able to get on with that while I was busy doing other things. However, just as I was thinking that it was time to leave the computers entirely and go in search of a mid-morning cup of coffee, BasheR got in touch, inviting me to join his party in the Tomb of Theos on Auzura-1. If that wasn't tempting enough, he'd also got himself a Recall card, so I'd not even need to pay to get in.
So SirDarth quickly logged off, and Kaerella logged on, and registered for the party. As well as BasheR, who has now reached level 51, the party included the cleric Ewli, the level 49 knight Optimusprime (who later mentioned that he has another three Transformers-named characters), the level 36 mage Pawanvarun, and, on and off, one or two others.
The Screaming Zombies as usual took quite a while to kill, but, with everyone piling hard against the wall if the current Zombie turned on them, we managed to deal with quite a few of them, until Bash had to leave us, and the party started to wind down. Optimusprime, Pawanvarun and I were the last remaining, and we did try to kill one last Zombie, but things were very slow, and in the end the monster managed to reset its health to 100% again. So we went outside and headed for the Sphinx Fighters instead.
I think it was Pawanvarun who had suggested the move, but in fact she didn't do anything when we arrived there, and soon left. Still, two people is entirely adequate for Sphinx Fighters - though poor Optimusprime does suffer from lag badly sometimes, and died a couple of times because of it. If he's standing right where the Elite Sphinx Speer Man respawns, gets attacked, and doesn't move then there's not a lot I can do about it.
We continued until it was almost time for lunch - and I'd just reached level 47. In all I'd gone up by 44.46% experience, so that was a pretty useful session. Back in Randol, I finally had enough stat points in Dexterity to get the level 44 skill Poison Arrow (its first five levels, 327 skill points, causing 380% damage and a health decline by 30 per second for 7 seconds), as well as the level 47 passive skill Vital Spot Blow 2 (its first level, 150 skill points, almost doubling Kae's chance of dealing a critical hit...well, adding 80% to the chance, anyway). So Kae ended the morning down 477 skill points, as she'd not actually gained a single one. 916 pet points had been gained, though.
After Kae logged out, SirDarth logged back in for some lunchtime pet levelling. SirPerivale got talking to his guild master in DeathBringers, Stavanic, and he invited Darth to join him for a little skill point farming in Prokion Temple, with the idea that Darth could go afk a bit and get some free points. So, Darth headed over there; Orc Sergeants may be seven levels above him, but after Berserkers (twelve levels higher than Darth or Peri), they seemed a pushover. His horse actually reached level 26 there - but moments after Darth went afk to leave Stavanic to do all the work, Steve had to leave for school. So, when I checked back a couple of minutes later, I just took Darth back to Merac, for the regular pet-levelling; he had gained a dozen skill points from the outing, though.
It was twenty past two when Peri got the pale blue horse up to level 35, and about half an hour later when Kae, after some shop-browsing, headed out to the Auzura-1 Sphinxsters, invited as so often by CZnaruto6, though he soon left the party he formed. A number of familiar names teamed up for a little while, including the level 35 rogue CZLoarie, though unfortunately she seemed to spend most of her time afk, hill-hugging, so I was relieved to get a call from BasheR, asking me to head for the Tomb of Theos again.
BasheR was teamed with a level 52 titan, Caroz, and we made a pretty good trio fighting the Screaming Zombies - and after Bash left, we made a pretty good duo, though it was a bit slower. By the time Caroz had to leave it was time for my food break - my afternoon's endeavours had in all added a further 46.01%, a skill point finally, and 624 pet points.
Kae stayed in the Tomb over my food break, in case there was a continuation of the party, or a new team-up, but Caroz left the party, and BasheR, enquiring if all had gone well, was only aiming to set up in merchant mode. One knight who came in did ask my level, but my 47 was much too low to team with him.
So, Kae went back to the Sphinx types for a while, and then I remembered that I had a quest in Merac to complete, and that led on to some other quests in Maargadum Jail, such as collecting ten Beast Hearts and killing thirty Beast Flyers, as well as visiting Owl Village again and an NPC called Rau, who now, I see, not only has an Elite Frenzied Berserker fairly close by him, he also has an actual Elite Berserker (the EFBs are the elite type of Highlander), and an elite Bandit - or "Bendit". I wonder if the elite Berserker would be handy for pet levelling...?
The Sphinx spot was a bit busy, so Kae didn't stay there for long after her time in Merac - so her evening session was a bit short, adding 9.96% more experience, 459 pet points, and 14 skill points. That made the day's total experience gain a very respectable 90.43%, along with 15 skill points to set against the 477 invested in those new skills, and 1999 pet points.
However, it was time for a change, and, with the Blessed Rewards dropping again, with Auzura once more the "Recommended" server, it seemed like a good idea to log in with one of my other characters, who have all been a bit neglected lately as Kae has been pushing up through the levels. So, my level 27, sp-hunting titan, MrChuckNorris, set out for my old hunting grounds, Prokion Temple.
The old place hadn't changed a bit; well, Darth had been there briefly just before lunch, true, but this was the first time for quite a while that one of my level 27 types headed upstairs, and sought out my favourite back room there, which, luckily, was free. Chuck didn't use any special potions or boosters, he just spent an hour or so owning the Orc Axemen and Orc Sergeants - his +4 30/32 armour set was quite good enough, he never had to even think about his health (just that of his drake), and his +15 level 29 sword was swift and terrible, if seen from an Orc's angle. His drake levelled up, reaching level 24, getting 1621 pet points, and 401 skill points were earned. 358 of those went to maximise mining, and get herb-farming up to its penultimate level; maxxing out the special skills can take a lot of skill points, for sure.
So, that made a change of pace. SirPerivale kept busy throughout, of course; I did use one platinum pet experience potion, so progress through level 35 for that pale blue horse has been pretty good, though level 36 won't come along until, probably, mid-morning tomorrow.
At the moment, then, I have a level 47 healer, Kaerella, on both the Cariae and Auzura servers. Cariae's cleric Kae already has her pale blue horse, and an excellent set of level 50/52 armour, her only problem is that she doesn't have enough skill points yet to go all the way up to high levels, which was why she was farming the Beast Flyers in the central area of Maargadum Jail's third level, day after day.
Auzura's new archer Kae has plenty of skill points, and ought to have her pale blue horse pretty soon now (she currently has an uncoloured, basic brown one)...her main problem is that I've not been able to find proper armour for her, she is wearing three pieces from the 45/47 set and two pieces from the 40/42 set, all only +4. If I could just find her a full 50/52 set of armour, I'd be very happy. As it is, that central area of level three would be a bit dangerous, she'd spend more time healing herself than fighting, to kill the thirty Beast Flyers for the quest she used a side room in which no more than four Beast Flyers spawn at a time.
Hmm, maybe the missing "Merchant House" system will be restored in tonight's post-maintenance update/patch - I didn't see any useful armour of the right level there before it was removed, to thwart a duplicating exploit, but who knows what will turn up next?
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