Tuesday 17 March 2009

Tuesday Continuations

I didn't have as much playing time today, as I'd decided to go and see the new Watchmen movie - very impressive!  That took the place of my afternoon session.entirely, seeing that it is rather long.

Before that, however, the first thing to report was that MistressDomino had a successful night selling stuff, and indeed sold out of everything she was carrying except for Myst Eyes, where only two of the twenty I'd put up sold.  Half a million seemed to me to be their usual price, as people need them for one of the quests to make a "new" pet, but at 450,000 only the two went.

I didn't really have huge numbers of most things, so it wasn't the biggest ever overnight total, but 33 heaven stones at 645,000 each was a solid basis.  So Kaerella ought now to be able to afford some 45/47 armour, if I can actually find some.  I suppose an alternative would be to find someone selling lucky smelting stones at a slightly below average price, and buy enough to upgrade her 40/42 set from +4 to +6, it might well work out cheaper, and would probably out-perform a new +4 set.

SirDarth did some useful levelling of the blue horse, starting suitably early in the morning; there was one dodgy moment though, when I looked over to that secondary screen to see around three Blood Frenzies also attacking, aggressive types that they are - someone had taken the trouble to lure them from where they are, around the corner.  As it happens they attacked the horse rather than SirDarth, and pets do lose health when attacked only by one point at a time, so I was able to run for it, and unequip the horse, so that they lost interest.  The horse had lost 15% of his health.

That health loss was made up when the horse later levelled to 25.  A few minutes later I saw a red-named knight, Bucephalus I think his name was, run up and attack Darth's Berserker, to try and sabotage his pet-levelling, though he ran off when he saw I was alert.  Given the timing, I assume that he was the one who lured the Blood Frenzies.

Darth also lost a little time when the Berserker he was fighting went so far up the steep roadside that Darth couldn't follow, which was strange, but it was probably less than a minute before I noticed, and transferred Darth's attentions to a different target.  Darth had the afternoon off as well, as I was going to be away from the computer for just a little bit too long.  After four hours and twenty minutes the horse would have starved, his degree of sympathy would have started to fall, the armour buff Darth relies on would also have started to fall, and Darth could well have died.  Once I was home though, the levelling restarted, and the horse was a good way into level 25 by the end of the day.

I'd been meaning to get restocked on critical potions, which increase the chance of a critical hit, and make an archer a pretty deadly fighter, particularly if combined with adrenaline for extra speed.  If anyone sells them in merchant mode, they seem to be at least 2.5 million each; a pack of five "large crits" costs 170 aeria points.  For an hour this evening there was a special offer, so that if one spent 599 ap on a "Party Cube Slayer" package, which included 5 large crits, plus 5 platinum adrenalines, 5 berserker potions, and 5 health stealers, one would be given free a "Guild Cube Slayer" package, normally 999 ap, with 10 of each of those, plus 35 chaos balls - so that, given the value of the crits, everything else was practically free...well, 89 ap anyway.  So, I spent my points, and got my reward.

Today was St Patrick's Day; last year, Last Chaos did use that as a bit of a theme for the week, with a special cheap package of items including a green pet colouring crystal, and a mass rally of people with green pets - that was when, over on the Cariae server, Keerella's drake, Greedo, got his green colour!  This year the only mention of the day was an hour-long chance to buy one green pet colouring crystal and get a second one free...

Well, Kaerella did manage to fit in some quality time with the Elite Frenzied Berserkers in the morning, adding 18.47% and 43 skill points; in the evening, Kae went there again, as well as visiting level two of Maargadum Jail for a while.  I can't claim that it was a very long or intense session, but it got Kae up to level 42, which, while it left her one point short on the Constitution she needs for her next passive skill, meant she could at least learn the second levels of Master Armoursmith and Master Weaponsmith, for 345 skill points each.  So those points have now been invested.  

By the end of the evening, the total experience gain for the day was 39.15%, plus 97 skill points - or, with that 690 used, minus 593 I suppose.  Kae's drake SirFrancis had indeed reached level 28 before lunch, as expected.  With 24 levels of Increased Armour he now adds 190 to Kae's defence - and 8 to her attack, from 4 levels of Increased Power.  Well, it all helps.

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