SirPerivale did indeed manage to get the pale blue horse up to level 33 last night, though he, and I, had to stay up to almost midnight to do it. He had a clear run today, and the horse reached level 34 soon after 6:30 in the evening. Kaerella had to mine another twenty hammers and tool aids' worth of quality stones, though, and visit him in Merac to pass over 500.
SirDarth got to do some levelling on our more generic horse too, which reached level 25. He also opened a Pandora's Box that appeared by the pair of them - and received a level 61 Zentian Sword, which was a nice drop to get.
BasheR invited Kaerella to the Sphinx Fighters, so I managed to join him there for a little under an hour before lunch - long enough to add 17.82% experience and a skill point. He did have to vanish for a while, and I found that I was perfectly able to solo the Sphinx Fighters now, using Slow Shot meant that they were almost out of health when they reached me, and while I then might take a hit or two, my health never got dangerously low. The Sphinx Speer Men, a level higher, were a little trickier, it was best to turn and run at about the halfway stage, and then use Slow Shot again.
The afternoon session was a long one, and varied. I started off soloing the Sphinx types again, but with a 30% potion, plus a platinum adrenaline to speed up my hit rate, and a berserker potion to add a bit of extra power, and all was going well, when BasheR again got in touch, this time to invite me into the Tomb again. I did play a little hard to get, and, going on past experience with now-forming parties, didn't quit fighting the Sphinxsters at once, but kept going until I knew there was a functioning party ready and waiting.
And a pretty good functioning party we did have, with a level 52 titan, and later on that rarity a true specialist healer, a cleric, as well as one or two others. To begin with I was the lurer, using Slow Shot, but on the guild chat I communicated my unhappiness about that to Bash after a while - nobody else was getting targeted by each Screaming Zombie, and my health got dreadfully low on a number of occasions, with 11 hit points being, well, a bit too close to death for comfort.
So we adopted a different strategy, with a level 52 titan rather than a level 45 archer as the tank, and things went a lot better, with plenty of experience from each kill, though as ever Zombie drops are not much good. The party ran its course, and we quit while we were ahead; I went back outside and used a memorising scroll to move back across to the Sphinx Fighters.
It wasn't long before a party formed, including at one time or another terry95 the level 37 titan, psilis, also a titan (and briefly towards the end his rogue psilis1, though level 19 is probably a bit low for that area), the level 35 rogues Xenia and CZLoarie, and more. The "Shots" package contest, to see which server gets a day's double everything, is still running, but there was a "mini Shots experience" contest to see which server bought most over an hour or so, and while Katar won, getting an hour of double experience, Auzura was so close that they kindly gave us 75% extra as well.
The bonus started just as I was about to log out for my food break at 4:20 UK time, so I stayed around - I'd already reached level 46, but by the time the "hour" ended 75 minutes later, in all I'd added 105.55% during the afternoon...and a single skill point!
It seems to be Auzura's turn to be the "recommended" server again, though Kae is too high level now for the "Blessed Rewards"; Peri got one when he had to kill a Berserker before opening a Pandora Box, and it was the one that increases its user's attack - luckily that doesn't seem to change one's bare-handed attack figure.
The evening session was therefore a bit shorter than usual, as it started later; I headed for the Sphinx Fighters again, on Auzura-3 so that I could "solo party" with SirPerivale. It wasn't long before a rogue called LCGenericName324, and an archer called MaximusGirl, asked to join me, they were both level 43 and in the guild Trio. I think people get given the "LCGenericName" tag if there is a problem with the name they have originally chosen, they'd have to buy a character rename card for 1999 ap if they wanted a new name of their own choosing.
We worked together pretty well, and took on the Elite Speer Man whenever he respawned; the party lasted quite a while, but eventually they left, and I had a final ten minutes soloing. In all, that session added another 34.23%, and 2 skill points, so that the day's total went up to 157.60%, which can't be bad - plus 4 skill points, and 2625 pet points, enough to get Kae's drake, SirFrancis, into level 30 at last.
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