Tuesday 21 September 2010

Prizes Arrive

I did the big monthly food shopping trip in the morning, so nothing happened on the Last Chaos front before lunch. After that, I had time to move most of the loot from the mid-level mad monster spawns yesterday across to the various merchant-type mages; RedRackham on Cariae even managed to use the five tool aids he had for a brief mining session, to replenish his stocks of quality stones a bit. He also received a little cash, and a few more quality stones, from my merchant there.

And then it was time to get into position for the two to three o'clock dungeon time hour. The Tomb of Theos on Cariae had improved its Condition from zero to 40% - but Auzura's Tomb was still set fair, at 100%, so MistressDomina and Kaerella hurried to the ancient grey mummies room, and started attacking its residents.

During the "power hour" MistressDomina added 23.37% in level 101, using 52 experience boosters, while Kaerella added 33.57% in level 98, using 63 boosters. We were there perhaps 15 minutes early, and stayed for about another 45 minutes after, unboosted; a titan warmaster called blackmanos had come in about ten minutes before the end of the dungeon time hour, and made life a bit difficult, as he wasn't content to fight the mummies one at a time, he liked to have four or five around him, which didn't leave much for MD and Kae, as naturally enough the mummies don't respawn until they have been killed. So we stayed around, not wanting to make life too easy for him. When we finally left, MistressDomina resisted the temptation to go up close to his mob and use Chaos Nova on them.

During the whole session, MistressDomina's experience gain was therefore slightly bigger, at 24.09%, while Kaerella's figure also rose slightly to 34.61%. They each added 32 skill points; MD's drake gained 1992 pet points, and Kae's added 48 more than that. I'm surprised that the additional experience was so low, but the experience per kill would only be a twelfth as much, and without the platinum adrenaline, crit and berserker potions, the mummies must take rather longer to dispose of.

MistressDomina and Kaerella were back just in time for the five to six dungeon time hour; the Condition of the Tomb had declined from 100% to 80% by then, so the hour just gave MD 21.12% from 48 boosters, and Kae 29.69% from 57 boosters. MD's drake got a further 1101 pet points, and Kae's, SirFrancis, got 70 more than that. They each added 20 skill points too.

Blackmanos was still there when we arrived, as was PoppaSmurf out in the corridor, so getting enough targets early on was a close-run thing. I could see that the pots and pssp blackmanos was using would run out at about a quarter past, though, so kept my fingers crossed that he would end his session when they finished - and luckily, he did, so from then on Kae and MD had plenty of ancient grey mummies to choose from.

My archer Kaerella reached level 99 about two-thirds of the way through her hour, so she is doing well, though she doesn't have the large reserve of skill points that MistressDomina has. Even MD will need to farm some more at level 103 - by my calculations, while she does have almost 14k of unused sp at the moment, to get to level 140 with her skills maxxed out she really will need almost 30k.

[GM]AwesomeSauce's "Attendance Event" ended yesterday, and, as MistressDomina had posted a screenshot showing the Secret Word almost every day, she had some rather nice prizes newly arrived in her in-game shop's Records section. "Upgrade Bonanza" had six lucky smelting stones, two extreme stones, four I-type and two II-type runes of protection, and five heaven stones; "Skill King" had 500 skill point boosters, which will be invaluable when MistressDomina reaches level 103, plus 5 each of the platinum super skill pills, HP stealers, platinum adrenaline, berserker, and power potions; and "Drop Drop Drop!" had 300 item drop boosters, two lucky spell books, twenty lucky scrolls, twenty tower boxes, and five tower boxes. And there was a 30-day armour set for an Ichi or Scra-Chi, too, and a lucky pet box... which, when downloaded and opened, gave me 25 different goodies - mainly different colours of pet crystal (19 assorted), but also potions of pet healing, a pink drake egg, and three blue pan's flutes.

After a chat with Ratel, I switched across to MistressSabina and RedRackham on Auzura-6. Now that Sabina has reached level 47, I'm not using a pssp, those will now be saved for MistressDomina when she reaches level 103. Instead, it's just a matter of having the Elizabeth's Enhancement buff, and her experience gain being "frozen" to 50% still.

MistressSabina found the beast flyers on the third floor free, and, once RedRackham had gone down to floor five and started fighting his death mask lancer, she started her fight. Unfortunately it wasn't very long before the archer inxaberdeenxuk arrived, and decided to share the area, which slowed things down a bit - it was lucky I wasn't using a pssp. In all I stayed 75 minutes, including some of the eight to nine dungeon time; MistressSabina went up by 10.55%, roughly twice as fast as before due to the Elizabuff, and gained 88 skill points, probably two-thirds of what she would have got with a pssp. Since our event for the day was now running, with double pet experience, her drake gained 2156 pet points.

RedRackham was doing nicely from the double pet experience, and continued on Auzura-6 after MistressSabina logged out - his drake reached level 44 a little later, nine levels above RedRackham, and the same level as the death mask lancer. I logged his namesake in on Cariae-6 too, and, sparring with the second death mask lancer, since a knight called FermierWato was already fighting the first one, he started to move his drake up through level 43.

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