I risked leaving SirDarth levelling his hatchling overnight, and all went well - the hatchling reached level 16 by mid-morning, and turned into the larger, and slightly less cute, drake stage. MistressDomino was busy in merchant mode overnight too; she sold 33 heaven stones at 1.85 million each within minutes of opening her store, and then sold the other 18 that I got out of MistressDomino's storage chest, at 1.95 million, more gradually over the course of the night. I'd cut the price of Wendy Bear pieces to 19,500 each, and sold out of six of the nine, selling 132 of them in all. So, the cash situation is looking good.
Kaerella logged in just to get some heaven stones out of storage, so that they could be transferred across to MistressDomino - only to get messaged by BasheR, and invited to a Monster Combo party on Auzura-1. So I moved across to that subserver, registered for a precedence-type party, paid just under 1.5 million to get in, and joined BasheR and six others, who were just past the halfway point in the MC. Presumably a previous member, probably a healer, had had to leave.
At level 63 I was by far the lowest-level party member; BasheR is level 92 now, and the others were all over level 80. Still, a party like that needs a healer, and it didn't matter that my experience gain would be small, as having people more than 15 levels above me "capped" Kae - I'd stilll get a share of the Master Coins at the end.
So, I concentrated on Party Heal, using some small and medium mana potions, with occasional use of the one-person Heal as well, plus firing my bow at the current Wight Slasher when I could, and all went much the way it used to go on the Cariae server. What did seem to have changed was the number of coins dropped, at the end 14 each seemed rather lower than we used to get, but they are worth at least a million each now, BasheR assured me. Kae went up 0.63% on the experience side, by the end; I didn't remember to equip my pet until fairly late on, so just added 34 pet points.
After that, and moving the heaven stones across to MistressDomino along with the 14 master coins, it was time for MistressSabina to head for Prokion Temple, and that favourite back room; for a change her drake took hardly any damage, but Sabina managed to add 107 skill points, which were just what she needed for the final level of green herb processing, plus the first two levels of energy processing. Her drake gained 682 pet points, and the Discipline guild gained 321 guild points.
Over lunch, SirDarth, who had been continuing his drake-levelling almost all of the morning, was joined by SirPerivale. Peri's responsibilities in the DeathBringers guild mean he got tapped to level up the pony of JamesP1, a level 21 rogue in that guild, so getting that moved across took a little time. Peri can't level up such a low-level pet, so Darth has put aside his drake, recently started on level 18, moving his mount across to Peri to make room, and switched to levelling up the pony, starting from just 5/654 into level one and, as James was concentrating on levelling a drake, with rather low Sympathy.
Kaerella went out to the Sphinx types, and in particular the Elite Sphinx Speer Man, for the rather abbreviated afternoon session, and added 7.90%, 730 pet points, and 24 skill points. Then, back in town, she browsed the merchant house and spent thirty million on a Necklace of Fire (put up for sale by tugaspartan) with 5% suction of life, 58 hit points, 5 defence, and 6 "increases all types of physical defence". Whether she uses it, or it gets passed to MrChuckNorris, only time will tell.
For the evening, Chuck went out to level five of Maargadum Jail, to fight the Death Mask Soldiers again, since they are his level, in the hopes of getting some useful loot - and he did get one good item, a level 41 rogue Shadow Robe +4, but that was all. Progress there was awfully slow, but he stayed just long enough to reach level 48 at last. That may only have been 3.65% experience gain, but it added 31 skill points, and 647 pet points.
After that, Chuck switched over to the older computer, giving SirDarth some time off, and Rage logged on; the pair of them headed for the Sphinx types, naturally enough, with Ratel also volunteering for duty - and Ghostt, Norcaine's level 56 specialist sorcerer, took time off from putting gold into the fountain in Randol to join us briefly too. This got Ratty thinking of a trip to the Tomb of Theos, if another stun-giver could be found, but Ghostt soon had to leave, so we just settled down to handle the Sphinx types. SugaRush was there too, occasionally stopping to type in slightly risky areas, so we had to keep an eye on her.
Ratel had to leave at a little after his normal weekday log-out time, so Rage and Chuck continued after that, semi-solo, you might say. By the end, Chuck had added another 17.95%, while Rage had added 7.30%, and 834 pet points; they'd also gained 4 skill points each. There weren't any great problems with lag, thankfully, though sometimes text typed in was a bit slow to appear.
SirDarth went back to levelling JamesP1's pony, heading for level 8, and SirPerivale went back to work on our drake, while should get halfway through level 32 by the time the computer gets switched off tonight. There was a brief break when a Pandora's Box released a level 50 Pandie, which Chuck dealt with using Smite to stun it, picking up 70,400 gold for his trouble, but Peri soon returned. For some reason Aeria are having a maintenance downtime today at 5:00pm Pacific time, which ought to make them a bit unpopular with Stateside players - that's on top of the regularly scheduled one tomorrow, I assume.
According to the patch notes, as well as possible crash fixes and getting rid of a couple of recent bugs (I thought the "scrolls of recall" were acting a bit strangely), "100% EXP donation to guild will no longer be 100%" - which sounds a bit ominous, does that mean people will no longer be able to freeze their experience gain entirely to farm skill points in Prokion Temple? That may well mess up MistressDomina's plans to, once she gets her armour back from MistressSabina, get absolute masses of sp at level 27, sigh...but at least Rage, Chuck, and Kae won't be affected by that.
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