Thursday 30 July 2009

More Levels for CaptainScarlet

SirPerivale finished the job of getting his horse to level 37 before breakfast, and, after returning to Randol and getting its skills reset, was able to log out. SirDarth continued his work though, moving the pale blue horse along through level 29. Pale blue horses are a bit special, any other colour can be obtained just by using a colouring crystal, but with them you have to raise your pet from a blue pan flute. Kaerella's mount is pale blue (both here on the Auzura server, and over on Cariae), I'm not sure who willl get this new one.

With one computer space free, MistressDomina was able to log on, and, after getting some tool aids out of storage, and buying 25 mage-type mining hammers from Geres, headed out to do some serious replenishing of our quality stone stocks, stopping occasionally to do ten minutes of "random" mining to pick up a few imperfect stones and flawed stones too. And then, seeing that, after keeping a few for herself, MD would only have around 500 stones to pass over to the pet-levellers, a further 30 tool aids were removed from Storekeeper Bianca's chest, and 30 more hammers bought from Geres, and the mining continued.

After that I was able to pass 1400 quality stones across to SirDarth, plus some imperfect and flawed ones too. So, while I continued to be busy downstairs, Darth and Peri were able to concentrate on some pet-levelling. Unfortunately, I did get a number of disconnections during the day...so it was lucky I wasn't doing anything dangerous, important or expensive. Things did settle down before the evening, luckily, after I restarted the modem.

My knight Galahad was given the level 37 horse, which he immediately converted into a mount; he then traded his level five dragon hatchling over to Darth, for a bit of levelling. As it was able to give four levels of Armour Increase, and had reached 100% Sympathy, Darth was able to plunge straight in with his usual Berserker, and by the time that I was able to start playing actively, he'd got the hatchling up to level ten. With a level thirty horse, giving 29 levels of Armour Increase, and using his hit rate type accessories rather than the defence-orientated ones, Peri's physical defence weighs in at 981, which seems just about enough to keep him healthy.

Well, after all the pet levelling, it was good to do some more active work in the evening, involving, as expected, CaptainScarlet and my recently-created, and now level 33, junior wizard MistressBlaze. As she is now a guild adviser in Discipline, she was able to recruit Cap, which may come in handy if he needs his experience half-frozen when he tries pet-levelling.

In the first hour, using a "beginner" pbi, Captain Scarlet went up from level 24 to 27, a total of 255.69%; I did use a second pbi after that, but Ratel's level 23 mage, Athema, came along and joined us, and was in favour of making it a "Combat" party halfway through the hour, so, as Cap was just there in a supporting role, his experience gain fell to 102.91%. I did change the party back to "Equal" a bit later, feeling that both he and Athema would get more experience that way, while MistressBlaze isn't really focussed on wanting to level up all that much. Cap's third period, then, without a pbi, added another 58.50%. As for skill points, well, it was 102 in the first hour, 87 in the second, and 129 after that, so Cap was able later to add quite a few new skill levels.

MistressBlaze didn't do badly either, adding 89.36%, taking her into level 34, plus 317 skill points, so that she too was able to round out her skills a bit. There are a number of attack skills that there just aren't room for on one's skill bar, so she won't be "maxxing out" everything, but it is good to be able to make her relatively effective.

At level 23, Athema is really taking a bit of a risk in fighting in the back room at Prokion Temple; if she doesn't have the skill points she needs yet, then she would have done better to fight the level 23 variety of Orc in a solo party style... but that's Ratel, he does like to level first and worry about skill exp later. And he has a +13 weapon he can use at level 25, while of course there's the promise of that +10 armour if he can get if Athema gets to 31 before the event ends... Athema was getting through a lot of health potions, and did die once, right at the end. Still, with any luck a good few skill points had been gained, as well as the experience.

When SirDarth was logging back in, for a bit more pet-levelling, he was hailed by a titan called "hercules2" - who turned out to be Stavanic, starting a new character alongside a local friend of his. He borrowed some cash, and also seems to think it would be a good idea if I levelled up pets for him and his friend, holding out the promise of ten tool aids for my trouble. Once he manages to get aeria points again, though, I think I'm in line for one of the pet packages in the item mall.

Luckily it looks as if lilwonderer's mount problems are solved, with the loan of a level 38 black horse from lil's father, until SirRenDippety can finish levelling up one specifically for lil...who very kindly traded across to me a tool aid, an item drop booster, a blue pan flute, and a platinum pet pill, having opened a number of the pet draw boxes. So it's likely that a third pale blue horse may get to join my ever-growing stable, before too long.

By the end of the evening, the current horse of that hue should be about two-thirds of the way through level 30, I think, for Peri, while the drake that Darth is boosting for Galahad ought to have reached level 11 by then. There should be plenty more pet levelling tomorrow, but I'll hope to be heading for the Temple by mid-afternoon, at least.

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