More Levelling-Up

MistressDomino stayed in merchant mode overnight, until at some point she got a disconnection. She did at least manage to boost her gold reserves a bit, but we are still well below the kind of price a +17 master stone would go for, or indeed a +15 level 85 sword for MrChuckNorris. We seem to be making progress, however.

The temptation to get up early again for an eight until nine dungeon time "power hour" this morning was resisted rather easily, but instead I managed to get MistressSabina her hour of skill point farming with the beast flyers, from just after nine, with RedRackham again a couple of floors lower in Maargadum Jail to do some pet-levelling.

Things proceeded without any interruptions, and by the end of the hour MistressSabina had added 5.03%, and 148 skill points, which must be her best ever score for a one-hour session there. Her drake got 985 pet points, so is making good progress through level 42.

I was able to make use of the eleven until twelve dungeon time hour. Cariae's Tomb of Theos was on a Condition rating of 80%, but Auzura beat that with a 90% rating, so MistressDomina and Kaerella went out to the Tomb on Auzura-4. I wasn't sure until the last moment whether to head for the anubis spear men and sphinx fighters, or the ancient grey mummies, since the spear men give more experience per kill, but the mummies allow both characters to have a power hour. In the end I turned left for the ancient grey mummies, and found a night shadow called xDareDevilx the only player there. He left almost immediately, so I had the room to myself, though the archer Swenja soon took up a position in the corridor, at the last bend before reaching the room.

When the hour began, both my characters started their platinum blessed irises and potions, and worked flat out - though, as the ancient grey mummies take a while to kill, controlling both MD and Kae was a lot easier than having MistressSabina fighting the beast flyers. Both MistressDomina and Kaerella levelled up, to 99 and 95 respectively; MD added 25.88% in the hour from 48 experience boosters, or 26.00% in all, plus 1165 pet points, and Kae added 48.76% from 54 boosters, or 48.99% in all, plus one more pet point than MD. They each gained 17 skill points.

After lunch, the Auzura Tomb had slipped to 60%, while the Cariae Tomb was on 80%, so that seemed a good reason not to do a repeat of the previous dungeon time hour - though on Cariae-4 things were pretty similar, as we still featured the ancient grey mummies room, a level 99 wizard, and this time a level 93 bow-using ranger-type rogue instead of a level 95 archer. Keerella and RedRydeR were the characters in question, getting to the same room with a few minutes to spare, and using a similar selection of potions over the hour. Keerella added 19.60% from 39 experience boosters - the lower number of kills, and experience boosters, would be mainly from the fact that her staff isn't as high-powered, and of course most of MD's hour was at the previous level, which would have allowed her to gain a greater percentage. RedRydeR's crossbow isn't as highly-plussed as Kae's bow, but she managed to use the same number of boosters, 54, and, as she is a level or so lower, that gave her 65.06% experience. Kee's drake, Greedo, added 1088 pet points, while Red's got a hundred more than that, which just got it into level 42.

After that there was just a little moving around of loot, and a quick search through Roy's merchant mart on Cariae, to see if any +17 master stones were at a reasonable price. While the "Other" category did show up some higher-level master stones, there weren't any +17 ones about, and no better jackets or leggings for RedRydeR either. Over on Auzura, Kaerella had some items to move across to MistressDomino... and then it was time to log out for the food break.

I'd cunningly taken the food break a little early, so that I was back in time for the five to six o'clock, UK time, dungeon time. As Auzura's Tomb of Theos was back up to maximum easy, MistressDomina and Kaerella were able to return to the ancient grey mummies. They had the room to themselves, with ddstone in the corridor nearby, and MistressDomina managed to use 51 experience boosters in the power hour, going up by 25.21% in level 99; Kaerella used 61 boosters, and added 49.11% in level 95. MD's drake added 1156 pet points, and Kae's managed 7 more than that. They each earned 19 skill points.

After that, MistressDomina hopped across from Auzura-4 to Auzura-5, and went back to the Tomb along with MistressBlaze, who I thought had the Elizabeth's Enhancement buff for the last time, though when I looked, she was only getting 1 skill exp per kill. The two wizards are too far apart to form a party, so MB was just "ks-ing", hitting MD's target and getting some of the experience from the kill. There were plenty of other people around, including a few familiar names - one mage was level 85 now, and able to hold her own soloing the screaming zombies.

MistressDomina just added 1.72% from this main evening session, along with 18 skill points, and, thanks to double pet experience being our "event" of the day, 5014 pet points, which were enough to get her drake into level 45. MistressBlaze went up by 70.21, with her drake adding 3304 pet points.

MistressBlaze reached level 61 during the dungeon time hour from eight to nine, and was able to equip her new shirt and leggings, though the outfit does look a little strange with the bell-bottom type boots from the previous set. She also equipped her new staff, so was able to start hitting rather harder, though not even half as hard as MistressDomina hits. Oh well, one day she will inherit MD's staff, I guess. The levelling for MistressBlaze was a bit slow, really, I think if I want her to get up to a level at which she can take over soloing the screaming zombies, further ks-ing sessions will have to be held in a rather quieter subserver, with MB using some of the level 61-90 special cheap platinum blessed irises. It would perhaps be easier to do it with the ancient grey mummies, if MistressBlaze could get to that room safely.

Back in Dratan City afterwards, MistressDomina did something she hasn't done recently, she checked the map for any new quests - and found two. One of them requires her to kill some ancient grey mummies, and the other one is for screaming zombies, and their boss-type ancient screaming zombies, so those quests won't take MD far from where she'd be going anyway. I then switched across to the Cariae server, and logged Keerella in - as she too is level 99, she was able to get the same pair of quests.

RedRackham then logged in on Cariae-4, and took his level 41 drake down to the fifth floor of Maargadum Jail. The knight Looon was busy sparring with my usual death mask lancer, so Red had to move along to the next one. I noticed that Looon had lured the lancer around to a rather safer position than I use, but the danger with doing that is that, if you miss with your strike a few times, there is a chance that your target will "ping" back into his usual spot, and forget all about you. RedRackham was able to stay there for an hour or so, taking his drake to around three-quarters of the way through its level.