Gaining Experience

MistressDomino wanted to try to sell her moon cake ingredients last night before she had to log out; her heaven stones, which had hardly sold at all overnight on her recent stint, all sold quickly, and then the ingredients did all sell, along with some green herbs I'd farmed - 1200 at 4,500 gold each came to 5.4 million. As it turned out, I needn't have bothered to sell the flour, lotus seeds and egg yolks, as the moon cake event wasn't ended by last night's maintenance patch; the "festival" continues into a second week.

The patch notes were again very minor. That list of bugs they mentioned last week has now been formally submitted to the developers, to discourage the rise in gold spammers Aeria is going to increase its efforts to ban gold buyers and sellers, and "There have been increasing reports from several Aeria games that lag has increased. We are doing everything we can do determine the source and get things back on track." As for any updates, well, "coming soon", they assure us.

Barbarienne and Cariae's Kaerella started the "attendance allowance" rota, followed by Auzura's Kae and Rage, who both did a little mining. MistressDomina and MistressSabina did some mining too, but then SirGalahad did some serious green herb farming, using two lots of 29 knight-type farming knives (as he only had 29 spare inventory spaces), and 58 tool aids. At 27 green herbs a time, that worked out at 1566 green herbs, so, including some of his existing stock, Gal was able to transfer 1600 across to MistressDomino, for her next selling session. As the last lot sold so quickly, I suppose we'll try for slightly more per leaf next time, though I do think the people asking 10,000 gold per leaf are pushing things a bit.

CaptainScarlet headed for Maargadum Jail for some pet-levelling, and supplied a solo party for SirGalahad to make a brief trip to Prokion Temple. The "dungeon time" hour began almost immediately, however, so I didn't stay long; Galahad needs to make at least 588 skill points to be able to learn the three level 25 skills, so he must earn more than that for any work during his current level to be worthwhile, as otherwise he'll end up earning sp for those skills during level 25, and dying in Ebony Mine to get back to the start of that level...

With the dungeon time, as well as the Elizabeth's Enhancement buff, SirGalahad was earning just 504 experience per ghoul (seven levels below him now), and 3630 skill exp, which is a pretty good ratio, though without dungeon time that ought to fall that experience per kill should fall significantly.

The Tomb of Theos was on 100% easy on Auzura, so MistressDomina and Kaerella were able to head in there a little before two o'clock, and take up their positions ready for dungeon time, from two to three, UK time. As MD isn't in sp-farming mode any longer, but ready to start levelling up again, my duo didn't turn left for the ancient grey mummies - they turned right, and headed for the anubis spear men, and their sphinx fighter companions. The main room was free, but I went on to the next corner of the corridor, and set things up there. When the dungeon time hour began, MD popped berserker, small crit and platinum adrenaline potions, plus a platinum blessed iris, and the first of 62 experience boosters... and during the hour managed to earn 29.58%, and 10 skill points. Once the hour was up, they moved across to the ancient grey mummies for an hour, so that in all during the afternoon MistressDomina added 30.42%, 27 skill points, and 2138 pet points, while Kaerella, who'd been targeting the sphinx fighters close to the corner while MD handled the spear men, got 2.92%, 25 skill points, and 1918 pet points.

The food break was taken a little early, so that I could be back in action for the next dungeon time hour, from five to six. This time the corridor corner was already taken, so MistressDomina and Kaerella set up in the main spear man room, on the far side. Again Kae handled the fighters, and MD concentrated on the anubis spear men.

Early in the hour there was a little bit of drama, when the mage xXDarkDreamXx ran into the room, and headed straight into a safe corner. What she hadn't counted on was two sphinx fighters she'd passed in the corridor following her, and attacking her while she stood motionless; Kaerella ran over to take them off her. The mage did return from afk-hood before the second one was killed. "Phew, you are back", Kae said. "Ya thanks - I have only lost 200 hp", she replied. She stayed around for a few minutes, mobbing sphinx fighters and sometimes an anubis spear man or two, but then left, and was soon replaced on the far side by the night shadow JekTheMagician, who was still in action when my duo left. That hour had gained MistressDomina 29.13% from the use of 60 experience boosters, along with 10 skill points and 1081 pet points, while Kaerella had gained 1.81%, 8 skill points, and 893 pet points.

At six o'clock the "Turbo" event was supposed to begin, but there didn't seem to be any immediate change to experience or skill exp. CaptainScarlet, at least, could head down to the death mask lancer for a little pet-levelling, and he provided a solo party for SirGalahad who, as an experiment, just killed the level 17 ghouls, ignoring the mummies entirely. With just the Elizabuff, and on the skill exp side the attendance bonus of 10%, each kill gave him just 336 experience and 3630 skill exp (so a basic figure of 168 and 1650), so he just added 2.09% while earning 56 skill points... a figure which, if kept up for rather a long time over the whole of level 24, would give about 2680 skill points.

It being Wednesday, an early exit from the game was necessary, so after SirGalahad's session, CaptainScarlet moved across to the newer computer. He mined 20 tool aids (and pick-axes) worth of quality stones, taking his stash to 1345 of them, and then headed back to the death mask lancer. I'd say that, by the end of the evening, his drake ought to be pretty close to halfway through level 47.