More Experienced Pets

MistressSabina and RedRackham headed for Maargadum Jail on Auzura-4 just before nine o'clock this morning in an equal party, and luckily the third floor was free, so RedRackham headed down to floor five, and began his pet-levelling. That much was the same as yesterday. The double pet experience was still running, so they were both able to make good use of that.

As usual, it was a very hectic hour for MistressSabina, while her platinum super skill pill, giving triple skill exp, lasted. She went up by 4.83%, and added 146 skill points, as well as 1952 pet points. After about forty minutes, Sabina levelled up, to reach 47, which decreases the amount of skill exp per kill by 10%...and around three minutes later her drake levelled up too, reaching level 43. Sabina gained in all 2888 skill points during 21 pssp-using hours fighting the beast flyers, which has rather improved her skill point stash. I guess she ought to continue there for another level, but using the Elizabeth's Enhancement buff instead of expensive pssps, to move along twice as quickly, and without being limited to exact hour-long sessions.

RedRackham's drake reached level 43 as well about an hour later, shortly before he had to log out. Keerella had checked the Tomb's Condition on Cariae, and found it at maximum hard, zero percent, but on Auzura it was right at the friendlier end of the scale, so MistressDomina and Kaerella headed for the ancient grey mummies again. I did ask on the Twisted guild chat if I'd missed out on a castle siege last night, but apparently there was some sort of glitch which meant that, although Twisted had registered for it, they weren't able to take part.

The ancient grey mummies room was quiet when MD and Kae arrived, though another archer, cybele, arrived before long. There were enough mummies for the three of us; one of the night shadows from yesterday, xDARKSIDEx, did arrive about halfway through the hour, but moved on before long, rather to my relief. In all, MD used 53 experience boosters and earned 24.06% in level 100, while Kae used 64, and added 38.97%, almost all of it in her new level, 97. MD's drake added 2206 pet points, and Kae's managed 70 more than that; they each gained 21 skill points. As they level up towards the ancient grey mummies' own level, 103, the skill exp they gain increases.

I just had time to log RedRackham on Cariae-4 in before lunch, and get him into action pet-levelling in Maargadum Jail. SirMoe was already sparring with the first death mask lancer, having lured it a comparatively long way along the far side of the lava pit, so Red moved along to the second one. By the end of the lunch break, that particular drake was approaching the top of level 41.

When I checked at about 1:30pm, UK time, at last the Cariae Tomb of Theos had been reset, and was on 100% easy - so Keerella was joined at the entrance by RedRydeR, my phoenix ranger, the combat party was made, and in they went - though they didn't head for the ancient grey mummies, they turned right and went to the anubis spear men instead, and set up on the first corner of the corridor after the spear man room.

So, it was only Keerella who did a "power hour" when the dungeon time began at two o'clock - and she used just 36 experience boosters over the hour, while going up 21.35% in level 99. It's difficult to compare that with what MistressDomina gets on Auzura, as Kee's mage staff isn't as powerful, and of course the Condition can vary, but it's safe to say that she was getting more "bang for her buck", since spear men give on average 18% more experience per kill than mummies. But the downside is that RedRydeR wasn't able to have a power hour herself, and so only went up by 5.10% in level 93. The skill point gain was lower too, at 5 each. Kee's drake Greedo added 2450 pet points, and Red's drake added 2314, as she did sometimes have to wait between kills while I got Kee targeted on her next spear man.

After the hour was over, and RedRydeR had logged out, Keerella moved across to the mummy side, and killed the five ancient screaming zombies that one of her quests requires, adding another 0.11%, 2 skill points, and 332 pet points. She also explored the corridor beyond the mummy room, which had a similar set-up to the spear man side, with a few more bits of corridor leading onto a wider columned section, and then a final short corridor opening out onto the Tomb's "swimming pool" area. There are definitely a few more places for ancient grey mummy fighting along there, with the passive ancient screaming zombies next to them - but also some aggressive screaming zombies and infected grey mummies to avoid.

RedRackham then logged in for a little drake-levelling on the sixth subserver, in duplicate; on Cariae his drake fairly soon reached level 42, while on Auzura his drake was just starting out on level 43. When one has double pet experience left running, one should make the most of it, yes?

After the food break, which again was a bit earlier than usual, MistressDomina and Kaerella headed back to the ancient grey mummies, on Auzura-6 in the hope of not finding too many night shadows there. The place was indeed not too busy, so that both characters were able to settle in, and begin their potions and pbis for a power hour when the dungeon time began at five o'clock, UK time. Including the fairly brief lead-up time, MistressDomina added 22.26% from 50 experience boosters in level 100, while Kaerella added 35.81% in level 97 from 59 boosters, which suggests that the Condition had declined slightly since their earlier session. MD's drake gained another 2250 pet points, Kae's drake gained 2340 - and they both earned 20 skill points.

After that, the best thing to do seemed to be, as yesterday, a non-party collaboration between MistressDomina and MistressBlaze, so Kaerella logged out, and MB ran down to join MD. There was just enough time for MB to use two of her mid-level platinum blessed irises...and I tried something I'd not done yesterday, which was to have MistressBlaze using terra spear on the ancient grey mummies. I had thought that, if she hurt them more than MistressDomina did, they might turn their attentions to her, but that wasn't the case, so MB was able to earn a higher percentage of the experience from each kill, since she was doing more damage now.

MistressDomina just added 1.11% from a couple of hours or so of that, but she did gain 18 more skill points, and 4540 pet points. MistressBlaze went up from level 64 to level 66, adding 190.24%. She didn't get any skill points, again, but her drake levelled up too, reaching level 42, adding 3896 pet points. She just needs to get to level 67, to be able to wear the full 70/72 armour set...then she'll be ready to put on some levels herself, solo. Not that there is any hurry about it.

The final "Attendance Event" was a bit delayed. The secret word was meant to be flashed up on our screens between 6:30 and 7:30pm, UK time, but when I remarked in the forum shoutbox at about 7:45 that I'd not noticed the word today, I was told that it had been broadcast, and that people had posted in the thread. I investigated, and commented that it was weird that only three people had posted, two of them mentioning that they were on Hatzring - perhaps the announcement had only been made there? And either irene_tas passed the message along, or a GM must have been watching, because within minutes the announcement came up "since there appears to have been an error with the secret word broadcast we will redo it NOW", followed by "Today's secret word is: Prehistoric."

I still don't know if you have to get your screenshot while the Word is flashed up, or if having it in your chat window counts - with what I was doing I didn't notice it appear, but I scrolled back through the guild chat, took a screenshot with it visible, and MistressDomina posted it. Whether any prizes head for her account, well, we must wait and see. The best screenshot was posted by Vimto, who was fighting the Grand Gold Dragon in Egeha at the time...

Once MistressBlaze's second pbi ended, it was time to log both her and MistressDomino out... so that MistressDomino, my merchant, and Kaerella could log in on Auzura-2, and head for the quiz room. The place seemed a little busier than usual, perhaps people are deciding to spread out more to the less populated subservers, but everything went smoothly for us, although the shoutbox afterwards did mention problems on Katar. Kaerella traded across her prizes, and other recent loot, to MistressDomino, and then they both logged out.

Since the double pet experience was still running, it seemed that, rather than just log Katar's Kaerella in for half an hour, I ought to go back to RedRackham for the rest of the evening, so I logged him in on Auzura-6 and Cariae-6, and got him down to his favourite sparring partner, the death mask lancer, in duplicate. Both drakes should be around a quarter of the way through their levels by the time they log out tonight.