Thursday 4 June 2009

"But the Spammer is Gone"

I was busy all day outside the World of Iris, but able to keep SirDarth and SirPerivale busy, at least.  Stavanic, or JudgeGhis, was happy to know, after lunch, that his drake was just reaching level 17, and reported that the drake I'd loaned to him was also getting close to levelling up, at 6481/6700.

There was, however, a mass disconnection on Auzura-3 at about 1:15, UK time; people logged back on, checking that they weren't the only disconnectee.  It was tubbie who looked on the bright side, saying "but the spammer is gone", though I suspect it wasn't very long before the gold spammer was back in action.

As I was checking up on Darth and Peri regularly, I was able to help Stavanic move his pet and his mount across to a different character of his, BringerofHell.  He seems to have decided to retire the Stavanic knight character entirely, as he is level 33 and hasn't got enough skill points farmed to be able to level up and learn all the skills along the way.  My advice in such situations is to keep the old character, and use him when there's an event, such as a Mad Monster Spawn, where there is a danger of dying.  If you don't have any unused skill points, then you can't lose any...

The evening session didn't start particularly early, but the timing was about right, as Ratel had just arrived in Randol when I logged in with Rage and MrChuckNorris.  Once he'd restocked on pots, he was able to join us out at the Sphinx Fighters.  As I remarked, it's a great luxury to have someone else taking care of the horse buffs, and of course as a temple knight he gives armour buffs, and can stun the Elite Sphinx Speer Man, which can be very handy, especially when my Snare doesn't work.

There was another mass disconnection at just after seven in the evening, UK time, but at least it was a "clean" one, we were able to log back in straight away without any "the account is already logged in" nonsense, and we were still in the party together.  As usual there had been a bit of a "rollback", Ratel commented that he'd lost a good 3% of his experience gain... which led me to quickly check that Chuck still had the heaven stone we'd picked up, which he did, and Ratel still had the level 53 titan sword that had been his main piece of loot thus far.  He did get a level 55 pair of +4 gloves dropped by the Elite Sphinx Speer Man, which will come in very handy when he has gained the necessary levels.

Just after respawning in Randol I'd noticed BatCow there and said hi, and she quickly joined our party at the Sphinx types.  She wasn't actually able to stay very long, but after leaving Dratan she stayed in the party for a while.  Ratel himself left at what seems to be his usual weekday time of around 8:15 pm, UK time (or an hour later in South Africa), and after that I slogged on, just Rage and Chuck, until my own usual end time.  

Well, maybe I went on for a few more minutes than my theoretical finishing time, but Rage was getting close to levelling up, so I kept going until I did indeed reach level 57.  In all Rage went up 19.68%, and got 2200 pet points; she and Chuck each got 10 skill points, while Chuck's experience gain was a more encouraging 55.45%, even though that week-long 30% booster potion has now run out..

Not long before I finished, the rogue MaskReturn, who I'd recently teamed with when she was level 53, messaged me to ask what my level was now, so I told her it was still 56.  She proudly told me that she was above level 70 now, she'd had a long power-levelling session with the Tomb of Theos's version of the Speer Men, similar no doubt to the time BasheR took Kae down there.  So that's someone who'll not be visiting the Sphinx Fighters again...

SugaRuSH had been fighting the local sphinxes alongside me for a while, though not teamed up, and another regular rogue, HeRsHeY from the "DamonBlut" guild made a visit, too.

There's another innovative way for Aeria Games to part us from our money, as of today, called the "LC Loot Wheel"; for 99 aeria points, you get to click the wheel to start, and when it stops revolving, you see what prize the pointer is indicating.  As an introduction, today one could have one go per account with a 100% rebate in a week or two... some prizes were quite nice, worth the 99 ap or maybe double that, but some were pretty minor too.  A single large attack potion isn't much of a prize... though a chaos smelting stone would have been good, or 50 or more skill or experience boosters.  

Chuck got a single chaos ball from the Wheel, which he took along to the Dratan City based non player character who gives out the prizes for handing one in - all he got was 10 great mana potions, however.

There was just time for a bit more pet-levelling after Chuck and Rage's session; SirPerivale's horse has now got more than a quarter of the way through level 33, while SirDarth's work on Stavanic's drake seems almost done.  The drake is well into level 18 now, which was all that was asked for, though he'll probably be in favour of getting another level or two.  Stavanic passed over the magnificent reward of five tool aids, which ought to cover the number of stones used on the levelling, anyway.

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