A Day of Kae

SirDarth headed for the Butchers in Merac again this morning, but when his pony reached level 11, ten levels of the Armour Increase buff meant that his physical defence stat, with the defence-type accessories rather than the hit rate set, had reached 954 - which was just enough to let him venture down to the Berserkers instead, which do have the massive advantage of not dropping down dead after 20 to 30 minutes of bare-knuckle fighting.  Darth's health bar did still fluctuate, but it never got dangerously low.  Meanwhile, the previous horse, which reached level 37, is now in the custody of MistressDomino, and so in theory could be sold if the current price for mounts is tempting enough.

Kaerella managed to head out to the Elite Sphinx Speer Man and his cohorts later in the morning.  xXAcheronXx arrived after a while, he's level 35 now, and asked to come into the party for horse buffs, with the idea of moving outside the compass-map's range for his actual fighting, which seemed reasonable enough.  He did find soloing a Sphinx Fighter rather difficult, as one would expect at that level, and headed off for the Arena before too long.

Kae herself just added 4.63%, 9 skill points, and 305 pet points, before it was time to head back to Juno for some afk lunchtime mining.

Kaerella did the main afternoon session too, soloing the Elite and his friends again, and adding 9.40% more experience, 18 skill points, and 621 pet points.  Early on GreenHealer was there, and wanted to party, though at level 40 she would be "capped"...a difference of more than fifteen levels in a normal party means that, while the higher member still gets the reduced experience from there being another person in the party, the lower person gets only a small fraction of what would have been their share.  I did say I'd change to my level 42 rogue for a party, but when RAGE got there, GH had disappeared - I don't really think her English is too good. So, I changed back to Kae. The level 44 titan SyCoSiS was there for a while, and kindly gave me the buffs Fire Command (increases long range hit rate by 30 for five minutes) and Battle Roar (increases attack by 20 for fifteen minutes) - I did give him some healing in return.  It's a shame he was two levels too low for a party, titan Warmasters seem rather useful with their buffs and stuns.

I was a bit lazy over the food break, and just set Kaerella to mining on one of the low-rise bits, rather than having to dash back upstairs every ten minutes to restart her activities.  I know it's good exercise, but there are limits.  Buy a hammer, mine for a while, then use a tool aid to get 27 more quality stones, that's the idea.

And so Kaerella returned to the Sphinx types for the evening - and kept on going, with the Sphinx Speer Men and Fighters giving about 0.03% each, and their Elite Sphinx Speer Man giving 0.10%.  People did come and go; a titan called Rymcyr was there sometimes, and tended to want to monopolise the Elite at times.  Kae got a few Easter Eggs, and on opening them (as you can't pick up a new one if you've got an unused one in your inventory) got 500 gold, a "green stone" magic accessory (with again no properties), 50 gold, and a ten-minute experience scroll... so nothing particularly dramatic.  The place did get fairly busy at times - towards the end a level 28 healer arrived, and was pretty successful at "kiting" Fighters, hitting with her bow and running before they could reach her.  Risky stuff!  I did say she could "KS" me, ie attack my target, but she hardly ever took advantage of the offer.  

Over in Juno on the same sub-server, Auzura-3, the end-of-week "Mad Monster Spawn" had started - so it was perhaps no great surprise, as the same thing happened last week, when the sub-server crashed at 9:15, UK time... so that was the end of Kaerella's marathon session.  The evening had added 17.87%, 38 skill points, and 1321 pet points, so that in all today Kae had gained 31.90%, 65 skill points, and 2247 pet points.

SirDarth hurried back to his Berserker, but ten minutes later Auzura-3 had another mass disconnection - hopefully the Mad Monster Spawn had ended by then, or maybe the GM was trying to spawn some rewards for the successful warriors, and overloaded the server that way?  Still, SirDarth respawned back in Randol, and went back to levelling his horse, which grew up from a tubby little pony into a graceful young horse when it reached level 16.  With any luck he should reach level 17 by log-out time, if Auzura-3 doesn't suffer any more disconnections.

Norcaine guild member SsnowboardS has reached level 27, and wants his experience frozen so that he can farm his skill points - but unfortunately Ratel had taken back the Guild Master position, and he wasn't sighted today - or yesterday, come to that.  I hope he hasn't run out of his monthly bandwidth allocation already, that would be a problem.

Anyway, Kaerella had a short look around the shops in Auzura-1, and then MistressDomino set up as a merchant there for a while.  A hundred moonstone boxes went pretty quickly at 99,500 gold each, so that was a quick (almost) ten million to add to our funds, and a little later sixty of the regular moonstones sold too, at the same price.  She was trying to sell some Easter Eggs too, but they were in no hurry to sell.  It's strange, you can only pick one up off the ground if you don't have one in your inventory, but you can trade them between characters, so Kae, Darth, Chuck, and Rage were able to trade Eggs across to MistressDomino, so that she was able to put a number up for sale.

Well, hopefully Kaerella will be able to get the remaining 10% experience tomorrow that she needs to reach level 62; however, there aren't any new skills to learn then.  There will be a new level of Arrow of Silence to learn at level 63 (an increase in its power, and the chance of success goes up from 70% to 75%), but level 66 brings a new level of Slow Shot to learn, which doesn't just increase the power of the attack, it slows the target down a little more too, so that's something to look forward to.  The main thing about level 62 is that Kae will at last be able to wear the boots, and headgear, for the 65/67 armour set, and thus increase her armour rating usefully.  So, unless invitations to the Tomb of Theos flood in, it will be time to take Kae to Egeha for the first time, and farm some Bogles!