Sabina Levels Up

RedRackham hurried back to Maargadum Jail in Merac on Auzura-4 just after breakfast, to continue working on levelling Kaerella's pet drake SirFrancis. It's always about a fifty-fifty chance whether or not the death mask soldier is so close to the entrance that it attacks; today Red did have to fight it, which takes a while with his low physical attack, even with a +10 sword equipped, but it did drop a hand of bravery when it eventually died.

Again the new week's patch notes are a disappointment. " No new updates this week. Expect new content to [be] delivered soon" just about says it all, though we are told that "Testing of new content continues, as well as exploit investigation." "New content will arrive in October", Xuse2005 reassures us. " Expect to see future bug fixes after the content release. We appreciate your patience and are working as hard as we can!" Nice to know that the future bugs will be fixed, anyway... though the launch of the new things is getting perilously close to the Halloween event period, which in many ways is usually the main special event of the year, with ghosts and pumpkins, and candy and pumpkin-head helms.

RedRackham over on Cariae-4 joined in with the pet-levelling in Maargadum Jail a little later. The two knights may look identical, but Cariae-Red is the guild master of the ForceWithin guild, while Auzura-Red is just a regular member of Discipline, whose GM is MistressSabina...she holds the position so that she can easily unfreeze or freeze her experience gain.

Auzura's RedRackham can't make a solo party with MistressDomina, as both characters are on the same account. However, SirPerivale is on a different account; he is only level 22, so can't work with a high-level pet, but he has pretty good armour, so I experimentally took him along to Maargadum Jail, and found that he could, just, survive while pet-levelling on a spike canine, despite them being level 40. By the end of the early evening food break his relatively new hatchling had moved up from level 1 to 7.

MistressDomina managed to fit in three full-out power hours during the afternoon. They added 0.73%, 0.78%, and 0.60% experience, which shows that the second one had slightly more of the two to three o'clock dungeon time hour in it than the second, while the third was free of any such boost. MistressDomina added 333 skill points from 60 skill point boosters, and then 326 from 59, and 322 from 58. The room was generally fairly quiet, though an archer called kikimora, who from her armour must have been at least level 106, came and went and did a little fighting, and the archer Swenja was busy as usual in the corridor.

After the food break MistressDomina tried another hour, but now the place was crowded - I tried fighting in the corridor just beyond the main room, but I was slowed down a little by having to move around, and (slightly) aggressive infected grey mummies had to be avoided. Still, MD did get through another 57 boosters, adding 316 more skill points, as well as 0.60% experience. It was tempting to try another hour, but there's only one of the 15% training skill books left, so it seemed best to save it for a more flat-out, full speed hour. Though, with the busy weekend approaching, I'm not quite sure when that will be.

The four hours between them added 2.71% experience, 1297 skill points, and 3922 pet points, so move MistressDomina and her drake along usefully, but she is still really only a tenth of the way through this skill point farming stint.

Next, MistressSabina and RedRackham teamed up on Auzura-6, and headed for Maargadum jail - but the beast flyers on floor three were being used, so they both logged out from there, and tried Auzura-5, the only other subserver where Sabina can get the double experience and skill exp buff, Elizabeth's Enhancement. Unfortunately there was someone called riky97 already fighting the beast flyers there, but RedRackham went on down to the fifth floor, and started pet-levelling SirFrancis anyway. Sabina went into one of the side rooms and fought the few beast flyers and beast archers there for a few minutes - but then when she checked, riky97 had stopped fighting, and was just standing at the side, so she went down and took over the fighting - and after a few minutes riky97 left.

So, that was a bit of luck; MistressSabina had the beast flyers to herself for the rest of her session, except for a brief visit from the titan Mostarda, but he just attacked a few of the flyers she was fighting, and then headed on down the stairs. RedRackham did see him fight a few death mask soldiers, but he didn't interfere with the death mask lancer Red was fighting, to my relief.

MistressSabina kept going until she finally reached level 48, adding 17.71%, 146 skill points, and 1530 pet points. That is the end of an era for Sabina, practically, since now the amount of skill exp the beast flyers give is reduced, and the beast archers, on level 42, are now blue-named for her, so won't give any pet experience. After her two levels with the beast flyers, I've now "unfrozen" her experience gain; almost 3.8k skill points were gained, giving her a more respectable total to take with her on the way to level ninety and beyond.

RedRackham continued his pet-levelling afterwards for a while, getting SirFrancis past the halfway mark in level 43. His Cariae counterpart was able to log in for an hour or so; his drake had just reached level 44, so was able to start to make a little progress through that level.