Thursday 4 November 2010

A Busy Evening

I didn't have much free time today before the evening, but I managed to move some loot across to my Cariae and Auzura merchant mages; I was surprised how many empty baskets RedRydeR had managed to save up, but they're all across with MistressDomina now, and need to be sold this week. I wasn't sure if the newly-arrived magic attack scrolls could be traded, as I don't remember seeing them in people's shops, so I "gifted" the first ten from Barbarienne to Kaerella, and then attempted to trade one back - which I could do. So the second pack of ten were just downloaded into Barb's inventory, and then all eleven traded across to Kae. Barbarienne also "gifted" one of the two big skill pills to Kaerella, for 72 hours of 15% more skill exp gain, and Kae received supplies of skill point boosters and platinum super skill pills from my merchant, for when she reaches level 103.

Once all that was sorted out, I sent RedRackham and SirGalahad to Maargadum Jail on Auzura-4. Red waited to see if Gal would need any help on the ground floor, in getting rid of any dire spike canines, but Gal was able to lure a spike canine without attracting the attention of any dires, and was soon pet-levelling his horse in the space behind the teleporter. Red then hurried down to the fifth floor, and set to work sparring with his death mask lancer - I calculated that it would take about three hours for the drake to reach level 44.

Barbarienne's involvement in the Mad Monster Spawn last night, by the way, gained her 0.08% experience, and 1 skill point...or at least enough skill exp to tip the balance and increase her rather meagre total by one. She didn't equip her pet yesterday, as the MMS location, since the changes to Juno, has rather a lot of low-level pet-eating monsters, which generally can be ignored while Barb is fighting a sphinx commander, but would tend to leave her with a dead drake, if it had been flying at her shoulder.

RedRackham's drake did indeed reach level 44 just before noon, and by that time SirGalahad's horse had moved on to level 25. SirGalahad continued on through the lunch break, but as his horse was now two levels above him, it was starting to get hungrier, so, before the horse was halfway through 25, I decided to switch over to allowing MistressDomino to do some selling.

By the time I was able to start actively playing, after the early evening food break, MistressDomino had managed to take in almost 280k, boosting the gold reserves suitably, though I'll need rather more if she is to get a good set of 105/107 armour, when she starts levelling up again.

For the evening session, the question was, what Condition was the Tomb of Theos in? A quick check showed that both the Cariae and Auzura servers had it at 90%, so the choice was between Kaerella and RedRydeR on Cariae going to the ancient grey mummies, or MistressDomina going there on Auzura. The evening's double pet experience event was just starting, so if CaptainScarlet had been back to pet-levelling, then he could have given MistressDomina a solo party, and worked on his drake or horse in Maargadum - but he isn't high enough level yet to do that. So, given that with both Kaerella and RedRyder in action, both their drakes would benefit, I decided on the Cariae option.

While there were two or three people fighting along my route to the AGM room, the room itself was empty, so my duo settled in there. A level 101 temple knight called FAROUK joined the combat party, warning that he wouldn't stay very long; he did stay for a reasonable time, but left ten minutes earlier than he'd planned, as he got a disconnection, and neither Kae nor Red has got a party recall to bring people back in. I didn't have any problems, luckily, and kept going through the evening.

With the summer/winter time difference, the dungeon time hour was from seven to eight...and Kaerella pulled out all the stops for that, using platinum adrenaline, large crit, berserker, and power potions, as well as the platinum blessed iris and the individual experience boosters - and one of her new scrolls of magic attack. With her +15 level 85 Judgement Rainbow Wand, Kae's magic attack stat is 1319, though her Charm buff increases that to 1389. The power potion and magic attack scroll get that up to 1619, which does speed things up a bit. With a level three ignition run, Kae managed to get through 49 boosters in her dungeon time "power hour", earning 24.05%, along with 15 skill points.

The whole session was rather longer than that; in all Kaerella added 26.42% in level 99, 58 skill points, and 9,312 pet points. With the time at the end where only Red was fighting, Kae's polar bear cub was able to reach level 16, too. RedRydeR gained 9.21%, 68 skill points (helped along by a level 4 Ignition run), and 11,413 pet points - which were enough to get her drake into level 47.

There was just time for RedRackham to head for Maargadum Jail again, and fit in an hour's pet-levelling, using a platinum pet experience potion, so that just over 6,000 pet points would be gained. MistressDomino went back into merchant mode, too, and soon made a couple of sales.

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