Kaerella Gets Around

MistressDomino went into merchant mode after breakfast on Auzura-5, since her gold reserves have taken a bit of a beating recently, but only sold four boxes and a rogue's July 4th type top hat. She really needs to do an overnight selling stint, I decided.

MistressDomina and Kaerella went along to the Tomb of Theos in good time for the dungeon time hour. I would have chosen the spot on the first bend after the spear man room, but someone was using that, so I backtracked to the room itself, where the level 101 titan warmaster SaMs3Ng was already busy on the far side. When I said that MD and Kae had a 96 and 91 combat party, he registered and joined us - so the set-up was perfect.

Things got a bit complicated soon after the eleven to twelve dungeon time hour began, though. The assassin rogue xXNikoSXx, also level 91, started off just fighting the sphinx fighters, and joined the combat party, while the level 96 titan KRISTO arrived and targeted spear men from the start, ignoring MD's requests that he should move further into the Tomb. I wasn't going to let him into the combat party, but xXNikoSXx asked to be made leader briefly, and recruited him before returning the leadership to MD.

So, there weren't always enough anubis spear men to go around. Kaerella, unboosted, was just killing the sphinx fighters, but MD did sometimes have to wait for a respawn, or kill a sphinx fighter while waiting. Luckily SaMs3Ng reached level 102 before long; my opinion would be that if someone levelling up "stretches" a combat party beyond ten levels that's fine, as it started off correctly, but he decided to leave us - he probably wanted to get his level 102 skill anyway. KRISTOS was concentrating on the spear men, while xXNikoSXx went mainly for the fighters, adding a spear man when she could.

I suppose it only subtracted one or two spear men from MD's hour, but it did make things a bit fraught. Still, 39 experience boosters were used - and MistressDomina did manage to reach level 97, if only just. Her total experience gain for the session was 34.30%, plus 1255 pet points, while Kaerella gained 8.90%, and 1134 pet points. They each added 4 skill points as well.

Kaerella and MistressDomina stood in the corner for a few minutes after the hour was up, to give and receive the combat party boost, but the rogue left fairly soon, and the titan went before 12:15, UK time...so MD's total includes 0.01% from that, and Kae's includes 0.3%, while Kaerella's polar bear cub got 1.13% of the way into its new level. Once KRISTOS had left, we logged out for the lunch break.

For the after lunch dungeon time hour, my intention was to take Kaerella and MrChuckNorris to the ancient grey mummies on Auzura-4 for a joint power hour, and I took time to browse through the accessories that Roy's merchant mart had on offer first, to try and boost Kae's talents. In the end I spent 105 million on an accessory that gave more hit points, 10% suction of life, and 93 hit rate - it was that last seal that made it that expensive. Kae and Chuck teamed up, and teleported to the entrance to the Tomb - but the Condition had deteriorated to 60%, which I felt would make killing rather too slow.

Luckily, there was just enough time left for me to switch across to the Cariae server, where Kaerella, who is a cleric there, teamed up with SirKit instead. The Tomb setting was around 80%, which was a useful improvement, so Kae and Kit went in, on Cariae-4, and headed for the ancient grey mummies room.

As on the last occasion, the knight PrinceOfHell was in a corner near to a corridor entrance, being attacked by a screaming zombie. I suppose he had started off by pet-levelling, as he didn't have a weapon equipped - though he had no shield on either. His original zombie had died, and a new one had spawned, which probably wasn't doing him much harm, though it could have easily switched its attentions to his drake. I killed the zombie - and I had to kill two others during the hour, as well.

I told the night shadow there, MysteryDevil, that we were both level 92 in a combat party, but I guessed he was probably sp-farming on level 103. He confirmed that was the case. Once I saw that he wasn't actually using boosters, Kaerella made sure to include him when she renewed the Encourage buff for herself and Kit, and indeed another knight just along one corridor, giving him its magic-type equivalent, Charm. Kae has to switch from the bow to the wand to do that, so luckily both buffs last a full twenty minutes.

During the power hour SirKit used a crit potion and platinum adrenaline, plus a pbi and boosters, while Kaerella added a power potion and a berserker one as well. SirKit added 70.31%, and Kaerella added 58.94%, reaching level 93 about a third of the way in. Level 93 is a third longer than level 92, I noticed. They each used 44 experience boosters.

Kae and SirKit continued for about 35 minutes after the pots ran out, so that by the end Kaerella had gone up by 60.16%, with her drake SirFrancis adding 1692 pet points. SirKit had earned 71.53%, with his drake up by 1741 pet points. They each gained 12 skill points.

Back on the Auzura server, after the food break, Kaerella checked the Condition of the Tomb of Theos again when the next dungeon time hour was approaching...and found it was back up to 80%. So, MrChuckNorris quickly logged in and joined her there. They formed the usual combat-type party, and headed for the ancient grey mummies room again, and luckily it wasn't crowded, there was just one night shadow there who didn't respond to the announcement that we were a level 91 plus 93 combat party, and left before long. I guess if you are farming skill points in that area, the 50% boost to experience gain that the dungeon time hour brings, one hour in three, is not very attractive.

Chuck and Kae both used the berserker, crit, and platinum adrenaline potions, plus the pbi and experience boosters, and just stayed there for the hour. Before it was halfway over Chuck was able to amend Kae's announcement, which had been repeated for a knight called Majorpaine who'd arrived, and say that we were a level 92 plus 94 party, as Kae had levelled up before the halfway point, and Chuck followed ten minutes later.

Kaerella ended up having earned 88.52% from 46 experience boosters, with her drake ahead by 1163 pet points, while MrChuckNorris, two level ahead, earned 45.49% from 40 boosters, with his drake getting 1167 pet points. They each added 10 skill points. They won't level up quite as quickly as my other main characters, as their weapons are both only +14, without the extra attack, and a bonus, for having a +15 weapon.

The evening session was advertised as having, from six o'clock UK time, 100% extra experience and skill exp for four hours, which ruled out any attempt to get MistressSabina further through her sp-farming level. In the end I decided that Kaerella on Katar would make the best use of any extra experience and skill exp, so she went off to Maargadum Jail on Katar-5, accompanied by ColonelScarlet, who went on down to the fifth floor to do a little levelling on his drake, a level 39 pink one which Kae may well soon inherit, swapping her current one for it. The Colonel provided the solo party; he did get his death mask lancer killed a couple of times by CZKNIgHT, but he soon gave up when he discovered that the Colonel wasn't afk.

Kaerella concentrated on the two-headed canines, plus dire spike canines, beast scythes, and spike canines, and kept busy through the rest of evening. The actual "happy hour" boost turned out to be just 50% extra experience and skill exp, but added on to the Elizabeth's Enhancement buff that meant that the two-headed canines gave 2750 skill exp each. By the end of the evening, Kaerella had added 38.94%, plus 168 skill points and 1175 pet points; her drake had managed to reach level 28. So, while Kaerella on Auzura had reached level 92 today, and Kaerella on Cariae had reached 93, Kaerella on the Katar server hadn't done too badly either, even if she's not yet quite two-thirds of the way through level 43. She's not quite ready to use a pbi and experience boosters yet...