SirDarth and SirPerivale had a full morning's work pet-levelling, so Peri's drake reached level 36, and Darth's horse reached level 29. Quite a few quality stones were consumed, but Darth passed a thousand of them over to Peri, who does tend to use more of them as he usually has the higher-level pet. We seem recently to have had less Pandora's Boxes around than usual, and the only one to need tackling during the morning gave 50,000 gold, which is more convenient than a level 50 Pandora's beast who may or may not drop as much as that when killed. A later one gave 20,000 gold.
As far as the afternoon goes, we did have a bit of a problem. When the stocks of Item Mall "platinum" items were in the in-game version of the store, Auzura had its own supply of such things, and as it is a bit less busy than the other servers, they tended not to run out - but now it's the web version that carries such things, so all the servers try to buy the same stock. Which means that the blue-and-white platinum skill pills are sold out, and as usual there isn't any package containing them.
And that means that MistressSabina is a bit stuck, as she needs a psp or two, to stack with the platinum super skill pills that she does have, so that she can go mad and use skill exp boosters on each Orc Sergeant she kills in the appropriate hour. The scheme isn't perfect, as she's a level above the Sergeants, but it's her best chance to get at least some reserve of skill points before becoming a witch.
Hopefully the "platinum" section will get restocked overnight to go with the weekly maintenance, and hopefully the pills won't sell out too quickly. They may even appear in a new package, but one needs to be careful as the 100%-extra super skill pills are sometimes referred to as platinum skill pills, too.
So, if MistressSabina had to wait, then MistressDomina got another chance to team in Prokion Temple with Cyborg. We went for Auzura-3, as one particular member of the German "DieElite" guild does seem to be spending a lot of time in the Auzura-4 version of my favourite room, and were lucky enough to have the room to ourselves.
They have both really slowed down now, and MD is only getting maybe 5800-6000 experience and 1300-1500 skill exp per Sergeant, and 800-900 of each per Axeman, so getting 79 (Cy, who again arrived a couple of minutes after MD) or 80 (MD) skill points was pretty good going. MistressDomina added 6.44%, while Cyborg added 16.00%, so that he is now a quarter of the way through level 31.
It will be useful when he reaches level 32, and can wear the whole of his +6 35/37 armour set. Before going to Prokion, I was looking through the items up for sale in Randol on Auzura-1, and about the only full armour set I saw for sale was an identical titan one, +6, for 200 million. The one thing I did buy was an Extreme Stone for 15 million; one usually sees them for 25 million or more, but 20 million is as much as I'd want to pay. It means I can upgrade some armour item from +12 to +13, which may well be useful; that would probably only add around 6 to SirDarth's physical defence, but might help Rage's set, or indeed Chuck's, a bit more.
The food break saw Darth and Peri back at work, with Peri passing the halfway mark in level 36 for his drake. At the end of the break, Stavanic got in touch, wanting to form a party with SirDarth, so that he could register as a "party recruiting members" - his cunning plan being that if somebody high-level joined, he could ask them to help him level up a bit.
Stavanic's plan did work, somebody level 84 called IceCat joined, and did let him join him in the Tomb of Theos. As Steve was well and truly capped he didn't get a huge amount of experience, I think he said about 65k per kill, but the system worked. He really ought to get some more skill points though, he admitted that his Concentration buff was only level three...and as far as Tomb parties are concerned, a good Concentration is a royal knight's biggest asset.
I spent most of the evening gently getting LadyAuzura up from level seven to level ten, on berserk wolves and jaguars, and towards the end on wandering zombies in Velpist Temple. When she was level nine I even took her out into Dratan Desert, and managed to get to Shuraine's oasis, and then on to Prokion Temple, so I added both those spots to her memory scroll.
The party did actually get up to the maximum size of eight members at one stage; Ratel joined it, and soon realised or remembered that LadyAuzura was me. He was out with the Goblin Commanders mainly, but had a disconnection eventually, and while he did get back to us, soon realised that his connection was starting to go down again. Stavanic had made Ratty the leader of the party when he had to go, but leadership soon devolved to Darth, and rejoined as another character of his, Forbbiden, for some mainly afk pet-levelling.
JadaMarie got in touch a bit later. The main reason she plays on the Auzura server, as well as on Sarissa, is to keep in touch with a friend from Portugal, as she had previously mentioned. While his main character is in a specifically Portuguese guild, he has more recently made a "Phoenix" character (which one can do when one character on the account has reached level 100 - they get a boost to their levelling, a special colour for their horse, and a special headgear cover to help mark them out), and this one is in a new guild - one that he was able to invite JM to join.
So, I had to log Kaerella, as a Norcaine guild adviser, in, and "kick" JadaMarie from Norcaine, which is a pity as she has been one of our most active members. "I did like this guild, and thank you all so very very much", she said...
Since LadyAuzura had added Prokion Temple to her memory scroll, it made sense to get my other level ten healer, in theory a cleric-to-be, Barbarienne, out there too - she has the advantage of having the appropriate armour set, while Lady A hadn't bought or upgraded anything. She had a slightly more eventful run, getting followed by a pack of "clever foxes of desert" briefly, but managed to get clear, and add Shuraine's oasis, and the entrance to the Temple, to her memory scroll too.
As Barbarienne was carrying some other bits of healer armour, she passed some older and spare items across to LadyAuzura, so at last Lady A has both an improved attack and defence. I must say that, before that, she did find the wandering zombies in Velpist Temple quite formidable opponents, easily capable of taking her down to less than half her health. Quite a different story to when SirGalahad, my level ten knight, was there, he hardly noticed their attacks. It shows that healers are at rather a disadvantage when soloing, these days, as Jacqueline and JadaMarie have mentioned. And getting a supply of skill points does tend to involve a lot of soloing... Still, LadyAuzura did at least manage to get her pony up to level two there.
Which leads us back neatly to my two expert pet-levellers, who as usual were both in action by the end of the evening. SirDarth's horse should be around halfway through level 30 by log-out time, and SirPerivale should have got his drake two-thirds of the way through level 36 by then. I need to work out which drakes to swap around to match them up best with their owners, once this new one enters the mix.
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