As usual, SirDarth started bright and early in the morning; the drake reached level 30 after an hour or so, by which time SirPerivale was also at work. And soon after that, the first Pandora's Box of the day appeared close to Darth, and released a level 50 Beast which immediately attacked him.
So, it was time for Darth to temporarily log out. This time, since MrChuckNorris is getting close to the Beast's level, it seemed like a good idea for him to ride down to the rescue, instead of Rage, and that's what he did. It was handy that one of Ratel's armour buffs from last night hadn't expired, with that and the horse buffs Chuck didn't have much difficulty, even if using Smite didn't work for some reason, and was soon 56,000 gold richer.
There were a couple of new quests on offer for Chuck in Merac Caron, both of them involving killing the inhabitants of the lower levels of Maargadum Jail, so Chuck accepted those, before Darth went back to his levelling.
I noticed Succubus2 in merchant mode in Randol as usual for that time of day, close to Roy and the fountain. Today's merchant-style sign over her head was "'ALWAYS cast res on people who have res scroll on' - Jack Cass", which seemed a sensible public service message to me.
After coffee Chuck was able to head for Maargadum Jail, and after applying his horse buffs, hurried down to level three, and went into one of the side rooms there to fight Beast Flyers and Beast Archers. It didn't take very long to get the thirty Beast Flyer heads that one of the quests required, as each Flyer killed donated one, but the ten Beast Hearts took a little longer, as they didn't drop very often.
After the horse buffs wore off Chuck did start to lose a significant amount of health, and used quite a few small health potions, which shows that his armour isn't as effective as one might hope. Also, that level six Smite skill may say in its description, both on the Last Chaos Wet Paint wiki and in-game, that the stun it gives lasts for 15 seconds, but it looked more like 5 seconds to me...
Chuck got his quest rewards in town and from Rau out at the pillar of magic to the northeast, and got a new quest too - the one Rage, and Kaerella over on the Cariae server, did recently, involving the Beast Crawlers. So, another ride to the Jail ensued, plus horse buffs, and a run down to level five, tiptoeing through the claustrophobic level four. A number of the aggressive Death Mask Soldiers were fought, though they didn't give any good drops, and the two Beast Crawlers at the far end dealt with a few times, until all three "Rings of the Beast Leaders" needed had been obtained. Then it was time to return to the local Archbishop, for the quest reward. There are a few other Merac quests still to do, but they do not become available until Chuck levels up again.
So, Chuck went up by 3.40%, and gained 14 skill points. After that there was time for Barbarienne to go out into Juno and reach level eight, after which she was able to do the "Necklace of Geres" quest a couple of times. She released a level twenty Pandora Beast, and nearly managed to kill it, by running, self-healing, and firing "shining arrow", but just when it looked as if one more shot would kill it, its health reset and it wandered off. As Barb had used almost all her mana, there was no point in starting again. Later she released a level thirty Beast, so, as she'd just got enough Jaguar Claws to satisfy Geres, she logged out and SirPerivale logged in.
At level 22, Peri was a bit below the Beast, but he managed to kill it - and all it dropped was 600 gold. Luckily on the way back to town another Box appeared, and this time it was a treat rather than a trick that was revealed, and Peri picked up 20,000 gold, before heading for Merac for some lunchtime pet-levelling, which ended with the horse safely on level 34.
MistressSabina headed for Prokion Temple for the afternoon session, and without any boosters managed to acquire 351 skill points over 2.5 hours, which works out at 140 skill points per hour. That was just the number of extra points Sabina needed to learn the three levels of Expert Weaponsmith, so that is another "special" skill done and dusted. 2399 pet points were earned as well, and 1061 guild points, so the Discipline guild will soon be able to get that Guild Message skill.
SirDarth got the drake up to level 31, and, over the early evening food break Sabina did some mining, to use up some of her supply of tool aids - and while Darth may have good stocks of stones, Peri's supplies are starting to dwindle. The break got extended a bit, but I was at least able to get Ratel into the solo party, while he was out with the Giant Larvae.
When I did get back, Rage and Chuck headed out to the Sphinx types, and invited Ratel to come and join us; we settled in for a nice long session, though after an hour or so Ratel was suggesting a trip to Egeha's Bogles. I didn't really see the point, they are only one level higher than the Sphinx Speer Men, and you don't get an Elite one to play with. They may be more generous with their drops, but it costs 800,000 gold to get there, and you're at the mercy of possible disconnections. Looking at the Wet Paint wiki for Last Chaos, Bogles and Speer Men give the same amount of experience, though Bogles have more hit points, and thus probably take longer to kill.
So, we continued where we were. A royal knight called X69X, a name I tended to read as "xbox", was, presumably, skill point farming there; he must have been a similar level to the Sphinx types, judging by the speed with which he cut through them. Strangely though he was using a Blessed Iris, for double experience, rather than anything to boost his skill point gain. Ratel had a little fun using his teleportation skill to whisk the Elite Sphinx Speer Man from close to X69X to us a few times, but he never said anything.
By the end Ratel, who is level 43 now, had gone up just about half a level, he reported; at level 47, Chuck went up by a slightly smaller percentage, 43.85%, while at level 57, Rage just added 16.02%. It's not trips to Egeha she needs, it's a few good Tomb parties... though that would probably mean that she'd get more than fifteen levels ahead of Chuck, so his easy levelling time would come to an end. They got 9 skill points each, while Rage's horse is actually getting fairly close to level 37 now, adding a further 1884 pet points. Another 525 points, and it will be time to move the horse Peri has been levelling across, to take over, which will mean only a slight cutback in the passive buffs Rage gets, since that one is already level 34.
Ratel did intend to go back to the Giant Larvae in Merac for a while, as he doesn't have to get up early tomorrow, and formed a solo party with SirDarth, but he logged out instead, perhaps due to a disconnection. Darth continued to level his drake, which by the time he logs out should be approaching halfway through level 31, at least. Apparently a mounted dragon is quite effective at level 33, though the higher you take it before mounting, the more skills you can learn. I'd definitely want to maximise the fiery area of effect attack skill Dragon Breath, and the passive skill Live Regen to increase the rate at which my health regenerated while mounted on the dragon, and get some levels of Dragon Poison too...so maybe, as with horses, level 37 would be the one to aim for.
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