Saturday 22 August 2009

Business as Usual

My pair of pet-levellers got a suitably early start, so that CaptainScarlet was able to get his horse moving through level 35. SirPerivale got his drake into level 26 before too long, and kept going.

After coffee though they had to make way for JohnWellington, the level 26 sorcerer, and MistressBlaze, the level 37 wizard-type mage, who headed for Prokion Temple on Auzura-3, and spent very nearly two hours in my favourite back room, without any interruptions.

MistressBlaze just added 8.14%, and a useful 132 skill points, plus 263 guild points; John, however, added 46.56%, taking him into level 27, and 240 skill points, 180 of them during an hour during which he had the second of his five "beginner" platinum super skill pills active. The pssp was working properly today, so it added 108 more skill points than he would have gained without it. He added 198 guild points for the Discipline guild too.

Then it was time for the lunch break, and when Peri and Cap got to their usual spot in Merac, on Auzura-4, XXRoidRageXX was there in action. I'd not seen him for a day or two; it may be tempting fate, but we seem to have had less ks-ers around there lately, maybe word of an enraged level 140 titan from the Vendetta guild dashing around swearing to kill such people on sight has got around!

One thing I didn't mention yesterday was that GM Kali won the series of battles with GM Stratos, four servers to one, to general rejoicing, particularly by people who'd placed a bet on her. There was another relatively brief maintenance server shut-down last night, as they strove to get the server timings right before today's Castle Siege; it was after I'd gone to sleep, though, so didn't effect me at all.

Aeria have also introduced a new service where, for 3000 ap, the GMs will "unbreak" an item that a player has broken during an upgrade attempt recently. For that much money, around $30.00, you might have expected that the item would be returned to you with all its upgrade levels, including maybe the one you were attempting to reach when you broke it, but no, it will only be +0. For that much money one could buy quite a few runes of protection, or enough Item Mall items to get the gold needed to buy a replacement for most weapons or pieces of armour, with plenty of upgrade levels already.

For the afternoon, MistressDomina headed for the Sphinx types; after a while a rogue called MsNatashA turned up, but we kept separate, and both took frequent breaks. So, MD only went up by 10.27%, plus 4 skill points and 501 pet points. Then, after a brief browse around the merchants on Auzura-1, it was just about time for the usual early evening food break.

However, after SirPerivale had joined CaptainScarlet in Merac, a Pandora's Box appeared close to them - and close to XXRoidRageXX too. I considered logging Peri out and letting MistressDomina come down and open it, but in the end, as it might have vanished before MD arrived, Peri equipped his sword, gave himself the Divine Shield armour buff - and released a level 50 Pandora's Beast!

I had to lure it away from Cap and Roid, so attacked it - and in response a single slash took away more than half Peri's health, despite his current 1248 physical defence stat. So, I ran, and it followed, and once it was safely clear of the other pet-levellers, Peri logged out, so that MistressDomina could log in and ride down.

Using Curse and Terra Spear, MistressDomina soon disposed of the Beast, but it didn't drop any gold. So she logged out, and Peri logged back in, and it was definitely time for the break.

When MistressDomina had arrived in Merac, I'd noticed that there was a quest on offer, so after lunch MD headed back there, where the Archbishop asked her to get five "Rotten Flesh" from the Death Mask Soldiers and Lancers in Maargadum Jail, so a quick trip down to level five there was needed. It didn't take long to get what was needed, after which a quick teleport back to town was the simplest way to get back for the quest reward. The Archbishop then had a new quest, but thankfully that just entailed taking the "Rotten Flesh" on to Healer Yabo back in Randol.

After that, it was time for a slightly more serious Sphinx session - adding 17.53% experiece and 6 skill points, plus 861 pet points. There was then a useful skill to learn back in town for level 50, slightly belatedly, Magic Rod, which increases MistressDomina's defence by 50, and also increases her attack speed, apparently, by decreasing her "offence speed". All five levels cost 573 skill points, but it is worth it for the defence increase alone, I'd say.

VinDiesel did get in touch about a Tomb party, but wasn't able to get enough people together - maybe tomorrow. It was a shame that Ratel wasn't around, with him we might have got enough stunners to make it viable. A rogue called Frank5455 came by enquiring after Kamira, but I could honestly say that I'd not seen her today.

Stavanic was asking if I had a level 49 +15 weapon he could borrow, since he is now level 48, but I don't have one at that level - MistressDomina is still using a level 45 staff, with a level 57 one ready for use when she reaches level 53. He's also looking for the 50/52 armour set, but most people skip it as it's so rare. At least the 55/57 set is easy to get - except for the boots.

When Rage wore the 50/52 set I managed to get together, she looked very smart in a "lion tamer" sort of way, but I don't remember seeing any other rogues lately in that armour - and I don't think I've seen the mage 50/52 set that MistressDomina is wearing (except that she has now moved on to the level 55 gloves) on any other mage recently either.

SirDarth had a short session to finish the evening, starting with a quest to deliver something in Merac Caron, and moving on to Prokion Temple. I rather expected that back room to already be in use, but it wasn't, so Darth settled in for no more than forty minutes. He added 15.00% in all, along with 50 skill points and 504 pet points.

And then CaptainScarlet was joined by SirPerivale again. By then Cap's horse had reached level 36, while Peri's drake was now on level 22. The previous drake had reached level 25, and been given to MistressBlaze, who previously hadn't had a pet; this new one had been carried by Cap for a while, and, as it hadn't been equipped, its Sympathy was down to only about 20%, so it's lucky that Peri doesn't rely on the Armour Increase buff from his current pet now. I was thinking that this drake too will go up to around level 25, but perhaps when Cap has finished with his current horse, he can take it on. As he is nine levels higher than Peri, he can work on a higher-level pet without starting to use too many quality stones to keep it fed.

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