Last night's server maintenance break didn't bring any new patch, as the return of the merchant House Agent, Roy, to even the test server has been delayed, apparently due to the Korean equivalent of Thanksgiving. We are promised that our annual Halloween celebrations will start in a fortnight, however, so hopefully there'll be pumpkin-type headgear, and the hunting, or indeed farming, of ghostly pumpkins. I remember that last year Karella was just about the right level for that, and this year she's pretty much the same, while her Auzura equivalent RedRider could try a bit of that too.
RedRackham and CaptainScarlet reported for pet-levelling duties at breakfast time; Red's horse was level 35 now, while Cap's drake reached level 31 before coffee. Aftre coffee, though, I hopped across to the Cariae server, and as an experiment teamed up Kaerella and XxGALAHADxX, and took them to Merac.
Galahad had a quest or two popping up there, so after running a message or two across town he began by killing ten each of the Pilferers and the Bandits, before running on to the entrance to Maargadum Jail, and waiting for Kaerella to ride down and join him. She supplied the horse buffs, and he was easily able to run down to the third level of the Jail, and stand in the central area, ignored by the local Beast Flyers and Beast Archers.
Kaerella, 15 levels above him, ran down and joined him, and began to fight the Flyers, as she has done for quite a while solo. They are two levels below her now, but still white-named, so she ought to be able to continue there through her current level; it's a good place to level one's pet, though the amount of mobbing that goes on would mean that it wouldn't be much good for serious afk pet-levelling; SirFrancis is level 46, so can give her pretty good buffs.
While the Beast Flyers do die quickly, unfortunately they didn't seem to give Galahad as much experience per kill as he can get from Orc Sergeants in Prokion Temple, at least when he has a Combat-type party arrangement with Karella or some other character at a suitable level, and a heck of a lot less skill exp, so it doesn't look as if he will need to go there again. But as an outing it made a change! Gal added 5.71% experience, 1.62% of it in quest rewards, plus just 10 skill points and 71 guild points - Kaerella got rather less experience, though the same skill points, and of course a few pet points for SirFrancis.
After that rather short outing, it was time to go back to the Auzura-based pet-levellers for the lunch break. Once I was back, the new project was to make another knight on the Cariae server, in one of two spaces I made a couple of days ago by deleting a pair of old characters. With the current "player appreciation event" supplying new characters with beginner-type resurrection scrolls, platinum blessed irises and platinum super skill pills, I'm sure that it is easier to get a brand-new level 1 character to 31 than to try with an existing character at about level 20 - and of course this way I get the chance to go through the Guardian system again, to get a new event weapon and another 10 Reputation points for Keerella.
I got the new Cariae version of RedRackham to level six killing mainly foxes, plus enough wolves and deer to complete the Healer Yabo quests involving them. There was a Pandora's Box, which Red opened - it released a level 30 Beast so I kept well clear of that, but the boxes themselves must be "bosses" of some sort, they are labelled as level 1 but I'm sure he got around 30% experience from "killing" that one.
Once Red was set up, it was time for Galahad to go back to Prokion Temple, teamed with Karella, who is now wearing the +10 gloves, shirt and leggings, passed over from SirLancelittle and changed into rogue-type armour by Collector Ryu, though she needs to reach level 27 before she can wear the hood and boots. Gal started fighting there, and Karella teleported from Dratan City to join him... I then noticed that there was a mage already in the room, perhaps she had been by the far wall, but she didn't stay, she fled at top speed for the corridor, pursued by a mob of angry Orcs - I am not entirely sure whether or not she managed to make it to safety.
It seemed like a good idea to "unfreeze" Galahad's experience gain, so I did that after a few minutes, after he had gained a final 11 guild points. He ought to get enough skill points for the skills he needs, and then some, if he goes all the way through levels 33 and 34 in Prokion Temple at the regular speed, or even using his "beginner" pbis along the way.
By the time I switched to the pet-levellers again for the food break, Galahad was up by 27.84%, and had gained 74 skill points, so he can afford the final level of Divine Shield now. Karella had gone up by 8.85%, the same 74 skill points, and 36 guild points.
Although tonight was one of my "early finish" LC evenings, I reckoned that there ought to be just enough time for Barbarienne to level RedRackham up to 31 in the Tomb of Theos - and so it proved. The very first Screaming Zombie that Barb killed got him from level 6 to level 9, and that was before I started the first pbi, to add 150% extra experience for an hour. The levels do get substantially longer as one goes along, so reaching level 20 took no more than 20 minutes, by the end of the first hour's pbi Red was halfway through level 27, an hour later he'd moved on to 21% of the way into level 30 - and getting the rest of that level took another 25 minutes. So even using a pbi or three, trying the same system to get Galahad through his final level or so on the way to level 35 would be intolerably slow.
When I started, I had the Tomb of Theos to myself, or at least the first area with its Screaming Zombies. However, things did get busier after that, and I acquired the usual dedicated band of helpers - or "ks-ers", if you will, though generally they did ask before attacking the Zombies I targeted. xxASSASSINxx and rougemom were both sensible rogues, and good company, but another rogue, cashdestroyer1, was only level 26, and tended to "ks" other people too, I think one titan there got so annoyed that he contacted her guild master about it. xxASSASSINxx levelled up towards the end, as did a knight called xXKillingSpreeXx.
Barbarienne did stay on a little while after RedRackham reached level 31, and got his shiny new armour set, shield, and weapons, though Red left the area immediately, since he'll need to slog his way through level 31 in Prokion Temple to get the skill points for the skills he'll need - the idea is to make him a level 32 pet-leveller, so that he can get to work before Galahad, who is aiming for level 35. As my logging-out time was approaching, there wasn't time to do anything else. Red logged out after a few minutes - and his Auzura equivalent logged in for a little pet-levelling. By the time Barb logged out, she had gone up in experience by 1.01%, after about three hours of zombie-slaying - level 100 is a long one! 2723 pet points were also gained for her pet reindeer, and 14 skill points, while, hosted by Red, SkrappY is moving through level 51 quite well.
Back on Auzura, RedRackham continues to move his horse through level 35; if he stays on overnight, the horse should be usefully into level 36 by the morning, but that depends on various outside factors of course.
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