RedRackham managed to keep his gnoll lancer alive through the night. so that by morning, his drake had reached level 33. That particular spot was a bit crowded, with almost every gnoll lancer kept busy, since they now seem to be the only outdoor creature that a level 35 pet-leveller can, just, use for any length of time. The mage HoneyBun was the next one to me, though I'm not sure if the +10 30/32 mage armour set would give enough physical defence without further augmentation.
LordDarth logged back in at breakfast time, with just a little over two hours to go before his horse would reach level 37. The death mask lancer closest to the door was free, so Darth was able to settle in there, though it wasn't long before the lancer's health bar started to decrease.
There was a "Loot Wheel Free Spin Rebate" offer today, to cheer us up, though not for unlimited spins, just one per account, so that was useful to get a few minor items. It's strange the way the pointer "jumps" across the ostensibly equal-size chances of getting a jackpot or a jaguar collar, but one gets used to that after a while.
LordDarth finished getting his horse to level 37 at around 10:30am, UK time, and so was able to log out. I don't know if he'll ever need to do any more pet-levelling on Hatzring; it means that as well as Kaerella there having her pale blue horse, my local rogue RedRyder will now be able to have a mount. I don't really have any other character there who might need a mount.
RedRackham continued his work on the drake on Cariae-4, getting past the middle of level 33 by lunchtime. Over on the older computer, I logged in his Auzura namesake, and he too went down to the gnoll lancers. Initially he was hitting for 19 rather than 18, which did start to drive down the gnoll lancer's health - so he had to remove his gloves, which have a "4 physical prowess" bloodseal, to get the damage down to 18. So, he really was fighting bare-handed... His drake has reached the early stages of level 38 now, so gets hungry twice as fast.
The afternoon session started rather late, due to an unexpected delivery of stuff I needed to sort out, but RedRydeR headed for the beast flyers on the third level of Maargadum Jail, followed by SirKit. I didn't bother to give SirKit horse buffs before he went in, and when he stopped to pick up some abandoned gold on the ground floor, he actually lost quite a bit of health - I guess a royal knight doesn't have as good a defence rating as a templar.
I wasn't there much over an hour, just long enough to get RedRydeR into level 44; the level 44 knight uffo1 turned up towards the end, and, since he had been a recent addition to Red's friends list, after selling me a heaven stone, pbi and pssp remarkably cheaply, I invited him into the combat party. Which made his "no ks" remark a few minutes later a bit strange, particularly as his health was suffering when the beast flyers mobbed him. I replied that ks-ing was hard to avoid there, and we were in the same party anyway... and the next thing I knew he had vanished from the party, and the room. I did ask him a few minutes later if he'd had a disconnection, but got no reply.
Well, there weren't enough beast flyers for two of us anyway. By the end of the session, RedRydeR had gone up by 30.37%, 58 skill points, and 989 pet points, which took her hatchling into level 15, while SirKit had gained 8.72%, 47 skill points, and 86 guild points.
Reaching level 44 meant that Red could learn the first five levels of Hide Shot, a powerful attack that can only be made while invisible, for 327 skill points. Its "power" of 300% sounds good, but, as using the skill ends a rogue's invisibility, it can only be used once per fight. Level 47 is when a new level of Detect Weakness becomes available, increasing Red's hit rate by 65 for a cost of 200 more skill points.
For the evening, RedRackham and his drake, now in level 34, moved across to Cariae-5, and gave SirKit a solo party, for his trip to Prokion Temple. I saw egyptman, the sorcerer, as I was heading towards the back room, but he was disconnecting at the time. The back room was in use, so I had to settle for the corridor room. Egyptman did get back to the Temple, and talked about teaming up, but didn't manage to describe where he was. When I spoke briefly to a mage, numbNuts, he was in range to "hear" me - and I found that he was by then in the back room. I could have teamed up with him there, but the knight BladesMasters was also in there, and while two might have been company, three would definitely have been a crowd.
By the time SirKit logged out, at around 8:40pm, he had gone up by 24.64%, and added 431 more skill points, as well as earning another 241 guild points for Discipline - so his stash of unused skill points is in danger of becoming marginally respectable.
There was a "Dratan Run" scheduled for nine o'clock UK time, but I'd given myself a little gap to let MistressDomino on Auzura trade across the armour pieces she had recently bought to Kaerella and Rage - so Rage received her blue-named, five-bloodsealed evasion-type Antistune Chaser Jacket +13... which means that now she just needs a good pair of gloves for the complete set. At the moment her physical defence is 2946 and her physical evasion is 920, with her magic evasion at 446, so she's not doing badly.
Nothing, however, was happening in Dratan on Auzura-5 as nine approached - and checking the website, I reloaded the events page and found that the timings for the Run on the various servers had been magically put back by half an hour.
That gave MistressDomino more time for browsing Roy's merchant mart - and she found the last two parts of Kaerella's 85/87 healer armour, the gloves and the shirt, which HealerVic was selling for 650 and 450 million respectively. It does look as if the gloves are the hardest items to get, from these sets. So, Kaerella now has the full 85/87 b5e +13 armour set - she just doesn't have a level 85 +15 bow to go with it! She can only wear the gloves so far, so a little more work will be needed...when she gets that bow. And MistressDomino, I decided, needed to do some more selling.
As 9:30 UK time approached, or 1:30 PDT, an in-game announcement came up briefly:
"Dratan Run has been cancelled today, enjoy 150% exp and sp gain until 6pm PDT!" The extended "Teatime" is fine for people on US time, but pretty much useless for me. The GM office does seem a bit accident-prone lately, sigh...
So, while RedRackham continued to level his drake on Cariae-4, over on Auzura-5 MistressDomino was doing some window-shopping to compare prices in Randol. She then went into merchant mode, close to the arena, in the hope of getting enough gold to make it possible to buy the needed rogue gloves or healer bow, if they become available - though probably not both. Her heaven stones sold pretty quickly, so it seems that the prices on them on Cariae are still a bit higher than usual.
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