The Return of Kae

It was a relief to get back to normal this morning, with SirDarth out fairly early to finish the job of getting the current horse to level 37.  For a change I didn't use any of the "triple pet experience for an hour" platinum pet experience potions, so it wasn't until after six in the evening that we finally got there.

Wouldn't you know it, Stavanic has discovered that he has another character that could really do with a mid-level pet, but I had to tell him that, with the monsters hitting harder, really I can't afk-level a pet all the way from the start, it has to be able to supply some Armour Increase buff.  And anyway, he had already arranged for his friend Bladesrus to take up a few pet-levelling days later this week...

After lunch, MrChuckNorris went out to Prokion Temple, you will be unsurprised to hear, and headed for that upstairs back room.  As there are no "blessed rewards" or bonus events, it was time for him to actually use a platinum super skill pill for triple skill exp, and also a platinum skill pill (otherwise known as "the blue and white capsule") for an additional 50%, so that the Orc Axemen didnt just give 5,500 skill exp, they gave 3.5 times that, or 19,250 - almost two skill points per kill!  The Orc Sergeants, being two levels higher, gave 17,325 skill exp.  The first hour brought in 657 skill points, and the second hour added a further 670.  

By my calculations, assuming that the Axemen and Sergeants spawn in equal quantities, that means just over 360 kills per hour, or one every ten seconds.  Not as quick as an archer like Kaerella, I think (or like Barbarienne over on the Cariae server), but pretty speedy, considering that no platinum adrenaline, crit potions, or power potions were being used.  My theory was that if I had used an extra like that, Chuck would probably have been killing faster than the orcs could respawn.

As usual on such occasions, I did continue for a few minutes after the end of the second pair of pills, so that Chucks's total skill point gain for the day reached 1350 - and 2066 pet points got added as well.  He must be approaching the halfway mark in his Prokion sp farming now.

After the food break, SirPerivale went out to the Treants for a little while, and found that their mobbing habits are a bit more dangerous now than they used to be; his level three pony got a few pet points, but, just as I was logging SirDarth back in, to swap over their pets, Zenderfly got in touch, as she wanted to borrow one of my Cariae-based mage armour sets,  At first she thought it was the level 65/67 set, so I logged MistressFelicia in on Cariae-3 - but that wasn't the one she wanted, and I had to switch across to EnchantrA, as she was carrying the 60/62 set, and trade that costume across instead.  It isn't for its defensive properties that Zen wants it, I see that she is level 109 at the moment, ranked twelfth highest mage on the Cariae server and a member of just about the top guild there, Evolution... she just reckons that it is the best-looking mage set.

Once that was sorted out, Darth and Peri exchanged pets, so that Peri has taken temporary ownership of the new level 37 (as yet unmounted) horse, and Darth now has the pony.  When he took it over, including the two levels of Armour Increase Darth's physical defence was 856; after adding three more levels, and increasing the pony's sympathy a bit, it reached 893, and later, when the sympathy rating finally reached 100%, 895.  That is with a +13  level 25 shield, and the 25/27 knight armour set bumped up by one more each now, so that it is a minimum of +7, with the plate mail and leggings +8.  It's not quite enough for him to fight Berserkers without losing health yet, but it's fine for Butchers, though as ever they do tend to die after a while.

The main evening session, however, went to Kaerella for a change - and it certainly did make a change to go to the Sphinx Fighters, Sphinx Speer Men, and Elite Sphinx Speer Man, as almost their equal, only two or three levels lower than them, and be able to take them on one-on-one without any great risk of anything fatal happening.  Slow Shot may not be as dramatic as a rogue's Snare skill, but it works all the time, not just 70% of the time.  The down side is that the experience gain is rather slower, and Kae only managed to add 14.58% to her experience tally - but three more sessions like that would get her up to level 62.  30 skill points and 1012 pet points also got acquired.

There was a GM-spam in-game announcement of another special "1 ap" trial offer in the Web Item Mall, so, moving Kae to a safer bit of grass, I went to the website's relevant page, and found that the offer was for the "Web M: Skill Box"... well, for a single aeria point I couldn't go far wrong, so as there were still around 19 left I bought one.  The instructions said that it would only appear once Kae had logged out and back in again, but it was in the "Records" section when I checked a bit later, so I arranged for it to be gifted to MistressDomina, since she is more interested in skill point items than Kae is.

When MistressDomina clicked it open, however, it wasn't one of the "best skill items in game", such as a pssp, just one of the ten-minute +50% "effort scrolls"...but even that has got to be worth more than a single cent, right?

SirDarth continued to move the pony on through the early levels, which are rather shorter than the later ones.  Unless I throw more Chaos Smelting Stones at the problem, the pony will need at least another day's levelling before he can supply enough Armour Increase to keep Darth healthy with Berserkers, I suppose.

Stavanic needed Peri's assistance to transfer his level 23 horse back across from his titan, Devilboy, to his knight, as the lack of the passive buffs had made a big difference.  No wonder he's hoping for an extra pet from me, but he'll have to stand in line, his friend Bladesrus is ahead of him there.  Maybe he'll end up with the pony Darth is currently working on, if some bribery is involved....though he has promised to help Darth level up later, which will be useful, eventually.