Wednesday 18 March 2009

A New Week Begins

As usual on a Wednesday, I had to log out early, but SirDarth had a busy time working on the blue horse for Kaerella, which levelled up fairly early in the morning to 26, and later reached level 27.  By the end of the evening, in fact, the horse had actually reached level 28, so things are moving along pretty well there.

Although the actual Saint Patrick's Day was yesterday, the new week's theme, for the Item mall, is "St Patty", for packages of experience boosters, skill exp boosters, moonstones, resurrection scrolls, item drop boosters, lucky draw boxes, heaven stones, "2fers" on the Runes of Protection I and II, pet boxes, and more - there is even, as usual, one that would cost about $150's worth of aeria points, with 30 lucky smelting stones and a lot more, though it seems a bit mean to only include one chaos smelting stone.

The cheap (99 ap) "St Patty: Shots!" package just includes one berserker potion and two power potions, so is quite good value - the idea is that the server that buys the most of that package gets a whole 24 hours of double experience, skill exp and pet experience on Saturday 28th.  I doubt if Auzura has a chance of winning, but if Cariae does I guess I'll be over on that server for the appropriate time.

Kaerella did some mining today while Darth was pet-levelling, though just before lunch Stavanic was in touch, asking if SirPerivale could put in an appearance, as he wanted to move a pet between two of his characters.  He also needed to promote Peri to Guild Advisor in his DeathBringers guild, so that his new rogue could join the guild.  As it was just about lunchtime by then, I didn't have time to switch back to Kae, so Peri did some pet-levelling on his horse over lunch.  I got rid of the bloodseals from his gloves after the third one had been added, using a purification gem - but then with the next set, again one of the seals added to Peri's strength, so that again his bare-handed hitting went up from 26 to 28.

After lunch Kaerella returned, and went out to the Giants again; I moved the spot she teleports to a bit further west, so that she can also easily reach the Akane Giants, which are just one level higher, but the idea of farming some armour there just doesn't work for me, all they ever drop is gold, or maybe a moonstone box.  So I moved across to the Elite Frenzied Berserkers in Merac.

I'd opened the last ten Experience Boxes that Kae had in storage, but none of them gave me a platinum blessed iris, or even a non-platinum one - instead it was mainly small and medium elixirs and potions.  They all add 30% to the experience gain, which is hardly as dramatic as the 200% a "pbi" adds, but it helps a bit; I used a one-hour one with the EFBs, which helped along the afternoon's experience gain a bit.  The descriptions of the time these things last isn't always clear, as 72 hours of "game time" is the equivalent of 3 hours by my watch, and I don't know how well they "stack" with other things, or whether, like the pbi, they keep on counting their time down even when the character is offline.  It doesn't seem possible to sell them, anyway, so I may as well experiment.

An NPC in Merac's village, Armour Trader Clain, gave me a quest to collect five Spiked Canine Skins, so a trip to Maagadum Jail was necessary.  I used the horse buffs to get me through level one and down to level two, and got the skins from the first room there before too long, from Spiked Canines and Dire Spiked Canines, and killed some Beast Archers and Beast Scythes as well, but didn't stay all that long. I returned to Merac Caron by a scroll of recall, and got my reward of 550,000 experience and five moonstones, before heading back to the EFBs once more.

There is a special co-offer with FilePlanet at the moment, which is worded rather as if one has to make a new FilePlanet and/or Last Chaos account, but in fact all one needs to do is go to the page recommended in the "events" section, while logged in at FilePlanet, get a key code there, and enter it back at the Last Chaos site, specifying which server your package should be sent to.  The package arrived almost instantly - 20 each of the experience and skill exp boosters, 30 item drop boosters, a platinum super skill pill, a platinum adrenaline, and a "Great HP + MP Boost" (which increases one's maximum health and mana by 30% for a day, starting from when the item is moved into one's inventory probably) is a nice bonus to get for so little effort.

The evening session was a bit short, but did involve the Elite Frenzied Berserkers again, though the day's total experience gain was only 20.16%, plus 49 skill points and 1472 pet points.  Still, it gets us a quarter of the way through level 42.  Now, we just need BasheR to make a good Tomb or Demon party, with room for Kaerella, before he gets too many levels ahead.


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