A More Restful Time

Stavanic took his horse after lunch today, after it had reached level 22. and passed over a pan flute to start a new one for his healer, plus 100,000 gold, which ought to pay for quite a few quality stones.  I also swapped ponies a bit later between SirDarth and SirPerivale, as the pet experience rate was increased at around four o'clock in the afternoon UK time (eight in the morning on the US west coast, someone was in the office early) to 175% - the upgrade success rate was also increased to 150%.  It seemed possible that Darth might be able to get his pony up to level 17 by the end of the evening, which might allow an overnight pet levelling session...though it was rather vague how long the boosted rate would last.

MistressDomino had a reasonably successful selling session overnight on the Auzura-1 sub-server, though she didn't have a great amount of stuff to sell - so just over ten million was a good result.  She does have quite a few Chaos Balls, but only sold two or three, it seems that 750,000 gold each is a bit high.  I was slightly surprised by how quickly large attack potions sold at 125,000, not that I had many - that's a lot more than they were fetching on Cariae a few weeks ago.  And the large defence potions sold at 75,000 too.

Normally my merchant takes up a position between the animal trainer and Bianca's warehouse chest, but for a change MistressDomino went to the group of sellers by the arena.  It does have the advantage of being out of range of the gold spammers!  Most merchants seem to sell mainly the various lucky draw boxes at present, because there are so many packages from the Item Mall that offer them, and the packages are promoted pretty aggressively, not just "buy one get one free", but "buy three get five free", or "buy seven and get a wonderful bonus package".  I don't know how long the market can absorb so much stuff like that, the pet lucky draw boxes have already made pet colouring crystals all too common.

Kaerella did take a trip out to the open-air Sphinx Fighters later in the morning; they are a lot easier to fight now, but give a lot less experience percentage-wise, so only 6.71% experience was gained, along with 14 skill points and 528 pet points.  BasheR was saying that we ought to get Kae high enough to use a level 69 bow, +15 of course, and then, using the party recall cards, take it in turns to power-level each other, so it really doesn't seem worth going out solo to get such small amounts on Kae,

So, in the afternoon MistressDomina ("MD" - note the subtle difference in name between my fighting mage and my merchant one) did a few quests, such as visiting Translator Edgar in the Dratan desert, and Shuraine at his oasis a little way east of there.  She stopped off at the oasis for a while to fight the sand golems, but the elite one didn't drop anything useful.  Five more quantities of "soft sand" were obtained though, which may come in handy for another character.

After using "pet return to village" while mounted to get back to town, MD bought some bloodseal gems, as her Vanishing set wasn't yet fully sealed, and then used a scroll to get to Prokion Temple.  The main aim was to get MD to level 27, and that was accomplished - 102.70% experience gain got her there, also adding 152 skill points and 1405 pet points.  

After the food break MD continued, now wearing the full Vanishing armour set, part +8 and part +7 so pretty good at keeping the Orcs from hurting her.  Another 35.72% experience got her halfway through the level, which is far enough to go - she now needs Ratel to freeze her experience gain again, and he hasn't been on today.  Another 74 skill points were enough to get the last level of that Anti-Magic passive skill, so she now has all her level 25 skills maximised, while 645 pet points helps her drake along towards level 21.

So, the rest of the evening belonged to MrChuckNorris, whose armour may only be +4, but he does have the use of the level 29 +15 weapon, so he really cuts his way through the Prokion Temple Orc Axemen and Orc Sergeants.  His experience gain is frozen, but 534 skill points got added, which means he is pretty close to having all the available special skills maximised now - as far as I can tell, it's just the third and final level of Flawless Stone Processing that he still needs to learn, he has 25 of the 149 sp needed for that.

MistressDomina had only ventured as far as the upstairs "gallery" around the central staircases in the Temple, generally, but Chuck went for the room off there with the statues, and its mixture of the Axemen and the Sergeants, and kept it pretty much under control, though his poor drake took a lot of damage along the way.  A knight called Malorian1 did try to "muscle in" at one stage, but that room really doesn't have enough Orcs spawning quickly enough for two fighters killing at Chuck's speed, so he moved along after a few minutes.  A sorcerer called Dumbledor was luckier, as he started to kill there just as it was approaching Chuck's log-out time.  Chuck's drake added 2449 pet points, so is more than halfway through level 25.

While Chuck was learning his special skills, BasheR reported that he was having a problem with his mouse - at least, he couldn't right-click and hold the ground to move the game's camera angle around.  A restart hadn't cured it; after discussing it, we decided that it would probably be a good idea to download the recently-updated LC client from FilePlanet, then uninstall the game (keeping the screenshots folder safe), perhaps do a bit of disk defragging, and then install the new client.  That is something it is a good idea to do sometimes anyway, let's hope it cures the problem, so that those trips into the Tomb of Theos for power-levelling can go ahead.  He can use the arrow keys to rotate the viewpoint, but that is a rather less intuitive way to do things, not ideal in dangerous places like the Tomb.