The Eyes of Spirit

MistressDomina did pretty well selling overnight, though it seems that 175,000 gold for large attack potions, and 95,000 for large defence potions, was a bit too much of a step up from my previous selling prices of 125,000 and 75,000 - so some compromise will be needed next time.  Heaven stones sold nicely at 950,000 though, so it does look as if Auzura prices are moving up more in line with the other servers.

SirDarth started early, and spent most of the day levelling up Stavanic's horse, though it is just coming to the end of its time of just requiring 12 hunger points per hour.  Getting a horse to level 23 is easy enough for a level 22 knight, it's the higher levels, when the pet starts to get more and more hungry, that are the problem.  I did a few calculations based on the figures from the Wet Paint Last Chaos wiki, and, while 105 quality stones ought to be about enough to get you to level 23, to get to level 37 the total is more like 1500, while the total time taken is about 150 hours.

SirPerivale did a little work on my own horse too, but BasheR got in touch; he has decided that at level 70, with +15 armour (which gives a special bonus to magical defence), he is perfectly set to do some Kamira-hunting.   So, I sent Rage out to get the Poison Mists' location onto her memory scroll, and kill as many of them as she could as quickly as possible, with the idea of attracting Kamira, as she tends to spawn wherever in the Dratan map the most action is.  Kaerella certainly attracted Kamira often enough when she was farming there.

It took a while, but eventually at 11:30, UK time, I was able to message Bash that Kamira had arrived, and he came straight over - I partied with him so that he'd get the exact location, and he arrived very quickly.  I wasn't sure what a level 32 rogue could do to help, rogues have no useful buffs for other people and I didn't want to do anything that could mess up our chances of getting a rare drop, so I didn't attack Kamira at all, just the Poison Mists in the area that, being aggressive, were also attacking Bash, and the Death Goddesses that spawn during the fight.  The usual assortment of things dropped, such as a few health and mana pots, five lucky scrolls - and an Eyes of Spirit accessory, which, once identified, adds no less that 168 to long range physical hit rate, plus 78 to close range evasion, and 44 each to health and mana points.

I traded across the lucky scrolls to Bash, as they'll come in useful for future battles with Kamira - it's worth using one of those, and an item drop booster, to maximise the chance of getting good drops from her.  And, as an Eyes of Spirit is the perfect accessory for a bow or crossbow user, BasheR traded the "EoS" across to me.  Hopefully we can attract Kamira a few more times, and get other good stuff to share between us, as at the moment, as we had agreed to share the loot, I owe him for half its value.

Rage stayed out a little longer before lunch, so that she was able to reach level 33 - this meant she could start using the level 37 +13 crossbow.  Rage's total experience gain for the morning session was 50.91%, plus 32 skill points and 1165 pet points.  While she might have got a few more skill points from staying in Prokion Temple until she'd reached her new level, the benefits of making the move early certainly outweighed that.

We tried to attract Kamira again after lunch, but without any luck on my part.  BasheR did find her on a different sub-server, but didn't get any rare accessories dropped.  And then, after no more than an hour, Bash had to leave - and won't be back for a couple of days, he said.  By then, Rage had added just another 17.52%, 14 skill points, and 405 pet points.

As Rage wasn't using the level 29 +13 crossbow any longer, a general swapping-around session, and moving loot to MistressDomino, meant that the crossbow got moved across to MistressDomina, my level 27 mage, who immediately got Collector Ryu to transform it into the equivalent mage staff.  Changing from the +6 event weapon wand to the +13 staff increased her magic attack from 249 to 409, but as staffs are slower to use than wands, it reduced her hit rate from 318 to 257.

So, after getting some bloodseal gems to use on the newly-changed weapon, MD headed for Prokion Temple, and that upstairs back room; even with +7 armour (and +8 shirt) she did occasionally have to use a small health potion, but the blessed rewards helped things along, and by the end of the afternoon 209 skill points had been gained, and 1193 pet points.

During the food break SirDarth was as usual joined in the pet-levelling business by SirPerivale - but as I was dealing with emails and so on afterwards, not to mention doing a bit of blog-drafting (things get a bit difficult to remember in the right sequence if I leave everything until the end of the day), a notice came up that, due to a lot of people reporting problems logging in to the game, we were shortly going to have the servers taken down for about five minutes.  So I just left the pet levellers to it until the disconnection came...and it seemed to last a lot longer than they'd said, with as usual the shoutbox full of people complaining that they had been in the monster combo, or other expensive places, using expensive potions.

But at last the servers came back up, and SirDarth went back to his Berserker; and MrChuckNorris headed out to Prokion Temple's upstairs back room, since, well, it was his turn, yes?  Besides, as Chuck has a very impressively-glowing +15 titan sword, once he graduates to a higher-level weapon (perhaps not a transformed version of Rage's present level 37 crossbow, as a +15 weapon, I would say, is likely to be better than a +13 one even a couple of grades higher), then MistressDomina would get a chance to use it after Collector Ryu had done his work.

Even with just +4 armour, Chuck had no problems in that room, and in a pretty long session added 421 skill points, and 1707 pet points - before another mass disconnection at about 9:15 pm, UK time.  As the "Mad Monster Spawn" had been going on in Juno on Auzura-3 then, when I logged back in and respawned in Juno, [GM]Krash was just respawning too, and asking "ok did EVERYONE at the MMS get DC'ed?"  The answer was in the affirmative, I think.  In fact, a few minutes later there was another disconnection; Kae had just taken over from Darth to deal with a level 50 Pandora Beast he'd released, and, after killing it, and opening another Box and killing another one, without getting any drops, suddenly  found that shooting at the local Berserkers didn't have any effect.  When Darth logged back in, the GM message, presumably from Krash, was "Test, test one tew?  Ok I think we're back...let's get back to the MMS, and hope LC doesn't break again!"

Well, Chuck spent 149 of his skill points on perfect stone processing, level three - and now has got all his special skills maximised, so that he can now begin "sp farming" in earnest.  He's got 297 sp at the moment, all he needs to do is multiply that by, um, about fifty?  With Rage wanting to keep her levelling against the poison mists generally to times when BasheR is available to come and deal with Kamira, and Kaerella hoping to power-level with BasheR in the Tomb of Theos, that means more time for Chuck and MD, I suppose.

As for the horse situation, my own one, with Peri, is still very slightly ahead of Stavanic's, as it reached level 24 first; it will be overtaken tomorrow morning, though, and then both horses will start to get more hungry.  It looks as if I'm going to need to mine some more stones soon.  Luckily Stavanic has promised to supply some tool aids, I'll certainly need them.