Another overnight pet-levelling session worked well, so that at around 8:20 this morning, UK time, Lylja's horse, under RedRackham's tutelage, reached level 37; I immediately switched over to the level 25 drake that Red was also carrying. CaptainScarlet had rejoined him at the Berserkers in Merac before breakfast, and the horse he is working on for Samael had gone up to level 30 about a minute before that.
Both pet-levellers lost half an hour or so to a disconnection not long after that, but then continued until after coffee, when my level 32 sorcerer JohnWellington headed for Prokion Temple for a session, followed by my level 24 rogue RedRider, in a Combat party. The back room was available, so John set to work, using his ability to transform into a small-headed floating knight. John's basic physical defence stat is 721 with his +10 armour set, but adding an Armour Increase buff from his pet, his self-buff Stone Skin, and the extra armour of the "earth invocation" knight form gets him up as high as 1430 - so why he still tends to lose a little health I have no idea. The Stone Skin buff has to be added before he turns into the knight, and only lasts ten minutes; it seems that one can't self-buff while in the knight form. The knight form itself lasts thirty minutes, though can be turned off before then, and can't be used again until five more minutes have elapsed.
JohnWellington added 28.69%, which was just enough to get him into level 33, plus 87 skill points, while RedRider, arriving slightly later and as usual using a small health potion along the way, added 22.73% and 83 skill points. John also got, apparently, a mere 261 pet points for his drake, which was only equipped for part of the time - and won't be equipped on future forays there, since after he levelled up the Axemen are now blue-named, and thus won't give any pet experience.
CaptainScarlet and RedRackham did some more work over lunch; I then briefly logged in as SirPerivale, but nobody else in the DeathBringers guild was online. So, MistressDomina took over the main computer, accompanied, in an equal party, by MistressBlaze, and headed out to the Sphinx types, for a productive afternoon session.
None of my visitors stayed very long, I must report. A mage called DarkMag3, a self-confessed "noob" who can't have been more than level 30, asked for buffs, though she wasn't very specific about which ones - I occasionally remember to give myself Haste and Chakra Shield (the second of those, of course, is the one that improves a person's movement speed), so gave her those. But when she attacked a Sphinx Fighter it moved towards her rather too quickly, so I added Curse to slow it down and helped kill it. I suggested that she should target the Sphinx types I was fighting, but she left just before my second arrival of the afternoon.
The third visitor was the knight Alingrecu90, whose "plz attacka" I assumed to be a request to be allowed to "ks", or do what I'd suggested DarkMag3 do. I said "fine", and lured in the next Elite Sphinx Speer Man, not using Terra Spear (hmm, very nearly spelt that "Speer" then), to give him more time, and he used his shield stun, and hopefully did get useful experience. The next target, a Sphinx Fighter, did turn on him, though, at least I saw him hazed in red as he used a health potion, and perhaps that made him remember an important appointment somewhere safer, as he then left.
In between, though, as you may have guessed from today's title, Grand Devilroad Kamira arrived - so MistressBlaze headed for a safe corner, and MistressDomina logged out, to allow my level 72 rogue Rage (or RAGE, to be exact) to come out and fight Kammy. She still had the second half of the previous lucky scroll to use, so I added horse buffs, and a level 12 magical defence mineral - looking back I'm pretty sure I forgot to use an item drop booster, however.
Kamira was nicely positioned near enough to me that none of the Sphinx Fighters or Speer Men got involved, so the fight went according to plan. A few health potions, and a mana potion or two, got used, but before too long Kamira crashed to the ground, and I could see, partly obscured by other items, a yellow bit of text, indicating that a rare accessory had been dropped. I had to kill a few Sphinx types to pick everything up, but when everything was safely gathered in, as well as the usual moonstones, medal of honour, lucky scrolls, and so on, in Rage's inventory I'd got a Pierce of Wind, a Chain of Tiger - and an Eyes of Spirit, the second most valuable accessory of all, after the Tears of Knight. A "EoS" is ideal for a bow-user, Rage already uses two plus a Stone of Shadow - it adds 168 to the long range physical hit rate, 78 to close range evasion, and 44 each to health and mana points. So, it looked as if Kaerella was liable to get that, unless Memree wants to borrow it for when she uses a bow rather than a scepter. To add compliment to assistance, if that makes a reasonable opposite to "to add insult to injury", Kamira also dropped Rage a heaven stone...
By the end of the afternoon session MistressDomina had added 13.93%, along with 1046 pet points, while MistressBlaze had gone up by 60.81%, and just reached level 47, enabling her to put on the last two parts of the 50/52 armour set. They had each gained 9 skill points, as well.
Over the early evening food break the pet-levellers were back in action, joined for a while by a sorcerer called YourUnlce of the eXtreamePlaYers guild, in a cowboy outfit, though I assumed that he wasn't entirely afk, as he was using frequent small health potions. Red gave him a Divine Shield buff a few times, which the first time made his Berserker turn its attention to Red for a few hits. It puzzled me that he didn't use Stone Skin as a self-buff, since that would have increased his defence a lot. It's a skill any sorcerer can learn at level 20, and he must have been above that, or he'd hardly have headed off to fight level 34 Berserkers bare-handed. He did eventually reply to my query saying he did have it, but was afk - possibly he has a system to use a small health potion automatically when needed.
RedRackham did get his drake up to level 26 during that hour or so - but for the evening, the plan was to do a little work on CaptainScarlet, and so instead of taking him to Merac, he went to Dratan, and to Prokion Temple. Since his red name means that he doesn't hit very hard at all, which is good for pet levelling but bad for levelling himself, he was on the older computer, teamed in an equal party with Galahad. As Gal is level 34 and Cap is level 32, they didn't get a whole lot of experience from the Orc Sergeants and Orc Axemen, but it was skill exp we wanted, as Cap hadn't had enough skill points, earlier, to get the fifth level of Wall of Belief, the passive skill, which would add another 50 to his physical defence, on top of the 105 that the first four levels had given him.
It was quite a long session, but it only gave Galahad 7.45% experience; he got 121 skill points, though, while Cap, who arrived a minute or two after him, added 120, which was enough to get him up to the 216 skill points he needed for that fifth level, with 8 to spare. The only other skill he is liable to need to learn is Canid Fencing 2, if we can get him, like RedRackham, to level 35. Luckily that only needs 60 skill points, so a slightly shorter session some time should manage that. And then MistressBlaze will attempt to level him up at the Sphinx types, I suppose.
Some general exchanging of items followed, before the pet-levellers took over; Kaerella got the Eyes of Spirit, Memree got the Pierce of Wind, and Galahad got the Chain of Tiger - and also a second Chain of Tiger, which RedRackham had been using while he was levelling, but now no longer needs. Various loot drops were transferred to MistressDomino, my merchant character, who, since she hasn't attempted to sell anything for some weeks now, is carrying rather a lot of stuff; she has also taken charge of the level 14 magical attack and defence minerals from the package I bought a few days ago. Rage seems fine with the level 12 defence ones, which add 150 to magical defence, but Kaerella, who one day ought to take over the Kamira-fighting job, has had her stock of the level 12 type replaced by the level 14 ones, which add 178. SirPerivale did log in again briefly, but again no DeathBringers members were online.
By the end of the evening, RedRackham should see his drake get about halfway through level 26; the only plan with this one is to get it high enough to work as a substitute for another character's drake while that one is worked on. Red should thus get a chance to do some work on Kaerella's drake, SirFrancis, which is currently only level 34, and perhaps also a little further work on MistressDomina's level 38 pink one, since the session with that one did come to a slightly early end. By log-out time CaptainScarlet's horse, for Samael, ought to be around 90 minutes away from level 31.
Three rare and very useful accessories, and a heaven stone? It makes one wonder what would have happened if I hadn't forgotten to use an item drop booster!
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