SirDarth made his usual early start, although when he arrived at the Berserker spot, there was a Pandora's Box there. Opening it released one of the level 50 Blood Frenzy type Pandora's Beasts, so Darth had to log out hurriedly, and allow Chuck to log in, ride down, and deal with it. After that, Darth was able to settle in, and concentrate on getting JamesP1's horse trained. It had reached level 21 by the time, at about a quarter to ten UK time, he asked how it was getting on, but he was happy to wait for it to reach 22.
SirPerivale started up a little later, and got through a few Butchers, until I decided that, helped by the temporary "school uniform" cover for his armour getting it to +4 rather than +3, and the fact that he now is getting all thirty levels of Increased Armour (dragon) as well as the first two levels of "HP Up", it might be possible for him to take on a Berserker, and thus not have to change targets, if he and Darth exchanged shields.
Using a +5 instead of a +13 shield (Defence 96 + 32 instead of + 135) didn't seem to worry Darth, as he too is getting a respectable Increased Armour buff, and, while Peri's health bar did fluctuate slightly, a total physical defence stat of 995 did seem to be just about enough. Darth still had 1093. So, some low-maintenance pet-levelling ensued.
I had been considering investigating the Auzura "Storm the Castle" event last night, even though its ten o'clock start, UK time, would mean it goes on rather late, but although it was listed on the Last Chaos website, I didn't see any in-game announcements for it, only one for the Katar server's one. Perhaps this was because I had moved Darth across to Auzura-4, on the feeling that like a "Mad Monster Spawn", storming the castle might cause a mass disconnection or four on Auzura-3, where it was being held, but I'd have thought that announcements would have gone out to the whole server. Oh well, some other time...
MistressSabina went out to Prokion Temple in search of 162 skill points, and got them safely (with one to spare), along with 1283 pet points and 489 guild points. She them made an unsuccessful first attempt on the third personal dungeon, Ajaka Canyon; the magic-wielding Beast Crawler was no problem, as Sabina concentrated on that when it appeared - and either it or one of the Beast Hunters that accompanied it dropped a heaven stone. I did reach Blood Mistress Kamira, but made the mistake of trying to kill off its leech-type companions first, allowing her magic attacks to overpower me. It is strange how little skill experience the monsters there give, about a third of what one would expect from things at that level, so that only 4 skill points were earned, along with 106 pet points and 16 guild points.
By the end of the lunch break, JamesP1's horse had reached level 22, and had got 495 points into the new level, so it was time to pass it back to its grateful owner. 88 quality stones had been used, plus 15 each of the imperfect stones and flawed stones - the equivalent of exactly a hundred quality stones, I see. As Darth had kept his level 18 drake in his inventory while levelling the other pet, its sympathy had declined to 69%, but that managed go up again to 100% over the course of the afternoon.
The afternoon session saw Kaerella out at the Sphinx types, with the place mainly to herself. Towards the end SugaRush arrived; I joked that, having been there for almost two hours, I'd started to worry that she'd been kidnapped, but apparently she had been there earlier, before moving to the (Arcane) Golems for a while. In all Kae added 12.07%, 38 skill points, and 1192 pet points, reaching level 64 fairly early on. When you're the same level as the Elite Sphinx Speer Man, he gives 636,593 experience and 1430 skill exp, though is farming him on the skill point side worthwhile at the moment, when any week now Aeria are going to rejig the skill experience of some, if not all, monsters?
SirDarth and another pet leveller got interrupted by a red-named rogue called "luispereira", who not only killed their Berserkers, for a while she killed each new one that Darth attacked, leading him to speculate aloud that perhaps she was too cowardly to attack her own monsters. She did go away eventually. Chuck did have to come down to deal with another Pandora's Beast, which dropped 50,400 gold, but before that Darth got five of the level 12 magical defence minerals from a Box. You never know what you're going to get from a Pandora's Box, which is, I suppose, the point.
The evening session was another marathon with the Sphinx types, with Rage and Chuck. TinySickNinja and SugaRush both put in appearances, though both hurried back to town when at about 7:20 UK time a short "upgrade event" was announced - ten minutes of a 200% chance of a heaven stone upgrading an item, followed by ten minutes of 150%. Suga returned soon after, reporting that she'd broken the boots she tried to upgrade, but had got her level 69 weapon up to +10 - Tiny didn't actually return until I was just ready to leave. She mentioned earlier that she was from Bulgaria, I'd never have guessed, her English seems perfect to me.
A level 46 titan called MADOC asked to party with me, which meant more attacks on the Elite Sphinx Speer Man. He did at one stage say he'd be afk for ten minutes, and went and sat right at the back, saying I could kick him if i wanted to. I've had enough experiences with people leaching experience to be slightly wary of such things, so to start with was mainly fighting out of range of where he was - and then after a few minutes I made Chuck the party leader and changed over to a Combat type of party, so that his presence was an asset, boosting my experience gain (and giving him a little too), rather than a liability.
We changed back to Equal when he did get back, after half an hour; when a heaven stone dropped and was allocated to him, he kindly traded it across to me, which was a nice gesture. He left suddenly in the middle of a battle with an Elite Sphinx Speer Man, involuntarily I'm sure. Well, it was good to have assistance, and someone to help pick the loot up; as often happens with melee types there he did tend to rush forward to the sphinx fighter I was firing at, even though it hadn't yet moved far enough away from the others around there, so that extra monsters got involved... he did die once through that, but hurried straight back.
So, by the end of the session Rage's current horse had added 1779 pet points, and so is getting in sight of level 35; Rage and Chuck got 10 skill points each, while Rage got 16.68% experience, and Chuck 34.59%, so a new level, for Chuck at least, is not far away.
After that it was time for SirDarth and SirPerivale to both head for the Berserkers. SirDarth's drake was homing in on level 20, while SirPerivale's has only recently started on level 34. When that one reaches level 37 it will get transformed into a dragon to ride about on, either by Darth or one of my mages, while Darth's one will probably end up as Rage's pet after her current horse reaches level 37.
Mass spawnings of Pandora's Beasts were announced at about ten o'clock, so, going by previous experience, Darth and Peri carefully moved back from the edge of the trees, to closer to the cliff, as those Beasts do tend to spawn in that particular clearing, and are rather aggressive. They arrived soon afterwards, looking suitably ethereal; if we ignore them, hopefully we are far enough away for them to ignore us...
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