All the servers apparently passed the test of the Mad Monster Spawn with added Worms, and that meant that, from about 5:00am this morning UK time I think, not only did we have 50% extra experience - but 50% extra skill exp too.
So, MrChuckNorris, the world's manliest titan, took advantage of the extra skill exp, and headed out for Prokion Temple of course. I just managed to fit two hours in before lunch, though the second hour was slightly interrupted by lunch preparations and a phone call. I decided to use the 15% bonus skill exp "training spells", and the first hour gave 360 skill points, while the second one added 307. It was strange, using one of those pills a few days ago with a double experience boost, on the basic 5500 skill exp for killing an orc of one's own level, just added 15% of the basic 5500, so 11825, but using one with this 50% boost gave 15% of the 150% (8250), or 9487 - so almost a whole skill point per kill.
The afternoon session was more of the same, with 351 sp followed by 341... so that the total for the morning and afternoon, including a few outside the 15% extra hours, reached 1369 skill points, plus 3721 pet points. Chuck is now officially ready to have his experience gain unfrozen, though he'll still be working in that favourite back room for a few sessions yet.
It was one of my half-length evening sessions with an early log-out, so I just treated Chuck to one more hour in Prokion Temple - gaining 352 skill points and another 963 pet points. Ratel didn't turn up, or I'd have taken Rage to the Sphinx Fighters, and we might well have met up with the others from yesterday, and maybe even headed for the Tomb of Theos... but without Ratel to rely on there, it seemed safer to keep a low profile. Ratty (and when I use that nickname I think of it in a "Wind in the Willows" type context) could have unlocked Chuck's experience, too... I hope he turns up tomorrow.
Chuck didn't do badly for Easter Eggs, though - ten just had 50 gold, but three had 500 and one had 25,000, while there was also 10 herb trunks twice, 10 quality stones twice, 10 gamma wave energies twice, 10 potions of haste, a green stone, two magic stones, and a pair of tool aids, followed at the end by an experience scroll and a Snowman, which gives double experience gain for 30 minutes, and can be traded.
For the last hour, I changed over to MistressSabina, for a more relaxing time, and got her up to level eight - it would be possible to level her a lot faster, but I am trying to get plenty of skill points as I go, which means going for green-named monsters, or even blue-named ones. She was pretty lucky, though, opening a Pandora's Box and getting five physical attack potions which, at level 12, are fairly valuable. A second Box unleashed a level 30 Blood Wolf style Pandora's Beast, so I briefly changed to SirPerivale, as he is a suitable level to fight such things; he killed it, but it only dropped a small amount of gold.
Sabina tried a third Box too, but that just disgorged a level 20 Sasquatch-style Beast - and I found out, by getting too close, that unlike a regular Sasquatch, it is aggressive! Still, I survived, and just avoided its immediate area while I continued to battle the various varieties of wolf.
I mentioned Sabina's luck, and that extended to the Easter Egg side of things: she got a second "greatest experience potion". It's a shame they can't be traded between accounts, but it's nice to have.
The "Cinco de Mayo" task today to earn another 24 hours of 50% extra experience and skill exp, plus this time pet experience too, was for all the servers between them to buy 2500 of a special "Shots" package from the Item Mall, either individually from the in-game store or in ten-packs from the web-based version. It doesn't seem all that useful a package to me, but let's hope that enough people are tempted, one could easily get used to all this bonus experience, et cetera.
No comments:
Post a Comment