Monday 5 July 2010

MistressDomina Levels Up


There wasn't time for a morning session, but straight after lunch, it was my Auzura mage MistressDomina whose turn it was for a bit of levelling-up. At level 80 she was able to form a combat party with my archer Kaerella, who is level 87, so Kae met her at the entrance to the Tomb of Theos. One of this week's new bugs means that the "Condition" bars to show how hard or easy the Tomb is are not displaying, so it was a slight gamble, going in. MistressDomina applied the necessary platinum refining stones to her 70/72 armour set to get it all up to +15, and also added a +1 PRS to her staff to make it +16, which is the maximum one can get to using those.

I also bought MD the "widowmaker" western-style costume from the in-game item mall, for 75 aeria points. This is the first of the "C2" costumes, which doesn't need to be melded to armour, it just gets equipped in a new tab. It doesn't add any +1, as the old costume covers do if melded on with a bonus book of melding, but it gives an extra 100 health and mana per piece...and besides, the mage armours of that level are rather ugly, the 70/72 set, at least from behind, always reminds me of a beetle. And you can change the actual armour you are wearing, while still keeping the C2 cover.

So, MistressDomina was ready for action - she attacked her first screaming zombie, triggering the first crit and berserker potions, followed by one of the level-specific (61 to 90) platinum blessed irises...and all went well. I think the Tomb must have been just about on maximum easy, MD does have 10% suction of life, and very rarely during the day needed any healing from Kaerella.

There was time for three hours of work in the afternoon; 127.47% experience in the first hour got her almost to the top of level 81, using 75 experience boosters. A titan called thehungman was around for some of the time, and chatted a little - he made a couple of other visits during the day too. The second hour got MD another 110.33%, getting her into the start of level 83, using a further 69 experience boosters. For some of the time during this hour Kaerella was active too, though without boosters, killing screaming zombies, but I decided in the end that this was counter-productive, as it slowed down MD's killing speed. A level 65 assassin called Avatari was around, but joined a friend in going down deeper into the Tomb after a while. The archer Lylja made a first appearance too - we didn't talk until Kaerella took a second zombie she'd inadvertently attracted off her, which broke the ice.

The third and final hour of the afternoon session added another 103.36%, getting MistressDomino into level 84, using 73 more experience boosters...and then it was time for the break, so both Kae and MD retreated to stand near the teleporter, well out of harm's way.

After a shorter than average break, my duo returned to action - and MistressDomina reached level 85 before it ended, which meant that she could equip her level 85 staff - the +17 one, with the two master stones added. This greatly improved how hard she hit her zombies, with the critical hit figure rising from around 5460 to in the region of 8090. That was only for the last few minutes of this hour, though, so she added 94.22%, using 72 experience boosters. The new weapon really made its mark in the fifth hour, though - 105 boosters were used, and 127.81% experience added, moving MD well into level 86.

A specialist sorcerer from the Twisted guild, loboman, was around for a while, and I asked if he had seen Ratel, who is in that guild, recently, but he himself hadn't been able to be on much lately. So, just a "MD says hi" message was passed on...

The sixth and final "power hour", with boosters, crit pot and berserker potion, added another 114.60%, with 102 more boosters used. Lylja had asked if anyone had ten boosters spare that they would sell her for twenty million, so I sold her ten of mine, but we can't really count those as "used", at least not by MD. That got MistressDomina into level 87, and thus able to not only use the new staff, but the level 85 gloves and level 87 boosts and circlet. which was the object of the exercise... though actually I'd not brought the three armour pieces with me, so MD continued to use the PRS-augmented items.

There was time for another hour after that, so I changed MD and Kae's party into an equal one, and they both just used a platinum blessed iris - we continued a little over the hour, in fact, and MD added another 19.01%. She is about 10% ahead of Kaerella now, with them both in level 87.

In all, MistressDomina went up by 696.50% today; as she levelled up the screaming zombies started to give a little skill exp, as well as experience, so she gained 13 skill points - 3 in the afternoon, and 10 in the evening. Kaerella got 14.22% from the afternoon session, 7.33% from the first three hours of the evening, and 18.78% experience from that last hour or so, for a total of 40.33% today; she too added 13 skill points.

MistressDomina's drake added 2672 pet points in the afternoon, and 3560 in the evening, while SirFrancis, Kaerella's drake, just gained 656 from Kae's afternoon activities, and 736 more during that final hour or so.

For most of the final hour I had a lowish-level rogue called BRASIL ks-ing me, after she'd ask if she could; Lylja had a knight and a sorcerer "helping" her at one stage, I think, and was having to tell them not to use skills on the zombies, as that increased their strength. My only problem with BRASIL was that she always stood nearer to the zombies than was safe, and at least three times either MD or Kae had to act quickly to take a newly-spawned zombie's mind off attacking her...but she never moved very far, and I don't think her English was good enough for me to explain the danger. The rogue's platinum blessed iris must still have had about 20 minutes left when I had to leave, hopefully Lylja will have taken her under her wing.

Back in Randol, MistressDomina was able to learn an eighth level of Freeze Arrow for 500 skill points, and a ninth level of Flame Field for 550 sp, on the general skills side. On the passive skills side there was just a sixth level of Staff Mastery, for 300 skill points, increasing her magical attack power, when wielding a staff, from 2192 to 2202. MistressDomina was also able to trade some loot across to MistressDomino, my merchant character on Auzura, and finally take delivery of the three armour pieces. Equipping the new bits did raise MistressDomina's physical defence from 2679 to 2756, though it would be a bit more if the +13 item was temporarily raised to +15. And of course those pieces raise MD's evasion rather usefully, so if the Tomb is still relatively easy tomorrow morning, the screaming zombies should find MD even harder to land a hit on.

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